Chapter 233 Final Battle in Advance

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[223] Early decisive battle

On October 1, 1876, the assembly and land reform of the revolutionary army on the front line of the Yangtze River were basically completed, and the whole army waited for telegram instructions from Beijing.

The Western Army controlled the whole area of Shanxi and outside the mouth, began to carry out land reform on the Mongolian grassland, confiscated the pastures and livestock of the Mongolian princes and nobles on the grassland, and divided them to the poor herdsmen.

In order to integrate into the local area, this work requires a large number of Mongolian soldiers, and the socialist transformation of Beijing has also provided a group of language talents for this work.

Beijing has always been said to be rich in the north and south. In the north of the Forbidden City, there are yellow flags, yellow flags and white flags, white flags, red flags and red flags live in the east and west. The Zhenglan, inlaid blue, Mongolian flag and Han flags living in Nancheng are relatively poor. In addition, there are a large number of cloth slaves living in Nancheng, and the handicraft workshops are relatively developed. There are more than 40 leather workshops alone. The smell of tanning and smokers is so bad that rich people are unwilling to live in Nancheng and move to the east and west cities. If the dilapidated households in the east and west cities are poor enough to sell their houses, they have to move into the south city.

In the round after round of screening in Beijing, a large number of Manchu and Mongolian proletes defected to the Chinese Socialist Labor Party government. After the education of rapid socialist democratic training courses, after complaining and three investigations, a group of ethnic minority cadres were enriched to the West Road Army and the North Road Army to bear the responsibility Work as a translator and guide.

In the past 40 days, the North Road Army has made rapid progress after leaving the customs. After defeating General Ninguta and General Heilongjiang, it successfully completed the control of the whole northeast with fatigue and excitement. On this desolate black land, the land reform work was going very smoothly. Yao Fan instructed the North Road Army to immediately build winter camps and training playgrounds to prepare for Russian provocations that may come at any time.

In the People's Revolutionary Military Commission in Beijing, Yao Fan was planning the next step of the plan to liberate the country. Suddenly, he received a message sent by German minister Baland that the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Russia and Japan may take action in October, but Germany did not hear the details of the specific military operation.

After discussion, Yao Fan's general staff believes that the coalition is likely to adopt four different plans. The first plan is relatively conservative, that is, to gather directly in Shanghai and attack the front lines of Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou from land, trying to find out the reality of the revolutionary army's combat effectiveness and provide a reliable analysis basis for the next action. This style of play is more in line with the tactics of the French Army in the late 19th century.

The second plan is to take a ship north and land between northern Jiangsu and Shandong, disrupting the logistics supply lines of the revolutionary army going south. The problem with this tactic is that the five-nation coalition soldiers are not familiar with the land. After landing, they have not interrupted the revolutionary army's logistics line, and even their own maritime supply line and even landfall to the army. On the contrary, there is something wrong with the land supply line.

The third plan is to forcibly land in Weihai and even Qingdao to encircle and destroy the Shandong base area. Yao Fan believes that the British have always believed that his industrial base is in Shandong and rushing into Yao Fan's Shandong nest is undoubtedly a great destruction. But the British's eyes are above their heads, and they are the world's largest industrial power. They probably disdain to divide their troops in Shandong just to destroy some factories that they don't know where they are built. Besides, Shandong is too far away to slowly occupy and attack, which is completely in line with the strategic purpose of the British. After all, Britain does not have enough population to annex China, and not even a province.

The last fourth plan is undoubtedly to land in Tianjin on a familiar road. According to the route of burning the Yuanmingyuan at the beginning, it will walk again and enter Beijing at the shortest geographical distance to save the royal family of the Qing Dynasty and establish a puppet regime. If it really doesn't work, it can still return to southern China. , divided and founded the country in the name of the Qing Dynasty.

On October 6, less than a week after Yao Fan got the news, the British army finally took action. As a result, the British military was the first plan to gather heavy troops in Shanghai. The five-nation coalition forces landed in Shanghai one after another under the transportation of the British Royal Navy and merchant ships on the sea.

The British army sent 5,000 troops, 300 troops from the United States, 10,000 Japanese artillery, 2,000 Indochina colonial infantry from France, only 2,000 troops from Russia south to Shanghai, and the rest of the Russian troops stationed in Vladivostok will be transported again in the next landing battle. This Shanghai campaign Then don't participate.

The commander-in-chief of the five-nation coalition is Baron Robert Naiper, the first-class commander-in-chief of the British commander-in-chief in India. Compared with Count Erkin, the governor-general of Canada in 1860, Naiper's title is full of achievements. He started as an engineering soldier and went step by step to the commander-in-chief of the British army in India. On his throne, Napiel, who was born in a family of British artillery officers in Sri Lanka, has a rich military experience. In the second * war, he commanded a division to break into Beijing. At the beginning, he invaded China side by side with Count Erkin. After the death of Erkin, the then governor of India, he also acted as the governor of India for half a year. Digit.

Napiel took his elite troops from India all the way to Hong Kong by boat and finally arrived in Shanghai. As soon as the army arrived in China, Naiper went to the army ***, which is known as a relaxation activity after a long sea trip. Among the victims, there were many gentry who fled to the surrounding areas of the concession.

With the arrival of the Japanese army, Russian army and French army, 20,000 foreign troops have gathered in Shanghai, which can be said to be smoky and social security has disappeared.

In this regard, Yu Shaofu and Li Yunhe, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, all closed their eyes. At the same time, they also blackmailed the Jiang and Zhejiang gentry to take out military pay and food and provide them to the five-nation coalition forces. They only hoped that the five-nation coalition forces would quickly help them guard Zhejiang, and then go north to Tianjin to retake the rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty.

In the view of Shaofu and Li Yunhe, as long as the Qing Dynasty can be restored, there is no doubt that they are the important ministers who have recreated the Qing Dynasty, the pillars of the country, the pillars of the imperial court, and the shade of their wives.

Xinmin Evening News has continuously reported a series of * murders in the concession. The latest one is particularly bad. More than 20 French soldiers and officers of French colonial infantry rushed into a private house, * a total of eight women in the family, stole all the gold and silver jewelry, and strangled two men in the family.

Yao Fan originally arranged to set up a defense along the front line of Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou, and other British people leaving Shanghai to annihilate in the field. However, when he got the telegram from Qingdao and saw the crimes of foreign troops in Shanghai published in the latest issue of Xinmin Evening News, he couldn't help it.

On October 8, the Central Military Commission issued an offensive order to the 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th Army Groups, requiring the brave Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers to give thorough measures to the foreign aggressors in Shanghai and Jiaxing and all their counter-revolutionary armed forces at all costs with fearless sacrifice. Annihilation.

Yao Fan clearly pointed out in the telegram: "...These foreign invaders have betrayed their class. They are outright villains and robbers. Don't forgive them, completely carry out physical destruction, and don't want any prisoners!"

Considering that the situation on the front battlefield is complex and the telegram may be delayed, Yao Fan urgently ordered the central government to issue personnel appointments. Hu Guangting, Wang Guangxing, Zhang Erbao and Yang Weiyi, the commanders of the 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th Army Group, together with the military political committee, formed the General Committee of the East China Theater to coordinate. , command this battle with full authority and report the direction of the central campaign at any time.

For a while, a large-scale interspersing began on the East China Plain. Under the dispatch of the General Committee, various troops formed a large-kilometer wide attack. Later military scholars evaluated the battle, saying that this battle was the first time in the world's military history to adopt such a wide comprehensive attack, and four army groups mobilized nine divisions. 27 regiments, 12 artillery battalions, and about 50,000 troops continue to spread from Changshu and Suzhou. The north road is bounded by the Yangtze River, and the south road takes Jiaxing and Huzhou. The whole Yangtze River Delta area is covered by the revolutionary army's march.

For a while, the five-nation coalition headquarters in Nanxiang Town, Jiading received countless urgent fast horse biographies.

"The revolutionary army has arrived in Taicang!"

"The revolutionary army has arrived in Kunshan!"

"The revolutionary army is rushing to Anting!"

"The revolutionary army attacked Zhao Shibao!"

"The revolutionary army attacked Bai Zhenjiang!"

"The revolutionary army attacked Qingpu!"

"The revolutionary army attacked Dongjiasha!"

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Napier, the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, was almost stunned and the war was coming. Why did these troops from the north, who claimed to be revolutionary, not know how to concentrate their forces during the decisive battle, but madly attacked in all directions? What kind of tactic is this? Shouldn't the two sides concentrate their forces in one place?

Napeel looked at the map in the tent calmly, and Major General Rafye, the commander-in-chief of the French army beside him, raised his chin and said, "Baron, I think the only thing we should do when the enemy comes to us is to pull out the command knife instead of staring at the map."

Napier took a disgusted look at the remnants of the Bourbon who had been in exile in London for a long time. Before he could figure out how to answer the frivolous man who self-apised to be a count's family, Viscount Ternianko, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, stood up and said, "I agree with Count Napier. The bayonet is much more useful than a map!"

Naiper sighed slightly and had to turn his head to the translator beside him and order: "Tell General # of Yamagata that the 1,000-person cavalry team in Japan is divided into four strands and 4,000 infantry to go to Malu Town with four infantry columns to block the revolutionary army in the direction of Taicang in Malu, leaving 3,000 infantry and three artillery brigades."

Napiel said that Shan County is called Shan County Youpeng. As the #general of the army, he is the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army this time.

A friend in Shanxian County heard that he was going to start by himself, but he was not cowardly. He indifferently stroked his beard modeled to the Western instructor, thought about it, and tilted his head and whispered a few words to the translator.

After listening to the translation, he conveyed to Naiper, "Chief Commander, the general of Shan County said that he was very embarrassed without artillery."

At this time, Naiper had looked at the map for a while. He thought that the attack of the revolutionary army was a loose method of play, and this large-scale dispersion approach would only be harvested like a sickle by the neat and dense coalition forces in the field.