Chapter 309 One of them is indispensable!
In the afterglow, the Tianjin small station training school, which was fully taken over, was busy. Twenty huge airships rose and fell under the fight of the soldiers. After an hour of continuous shelling, the Dagukou Fort, which was regarded as a barrier of the capital by the Qing Dynasty, was finally opened. More than a dozen shallow water carriers that had been prepared for a long time, were in several martial arts. With the help of a speedboat, he is going straight to Yanjing along the Haihe River.
More troop carriers began to lean on the dock. The deep-water wharf, which was previously built under the guise of Zhao Cheng, finally has a place to be used. The ocean-going ships of the naval transport team can easily unload directly from the port.
A cannon was quickly lifted out of the cabin, and a pair of soldiers began to gather. The whole harbor was full of army and marine soldiers in military uniforms.
Sporadic gunfire can still be heard in Tianjin City in the distance, but there was no large-scale battle. Without Yuan Shikai's new Beiyang Army, thousands of Zhili soldiers could not stop the first division like wolves and tigers at all, especially the scene of the ruthless destruction and shelling of the Dagu Fort, which dealt a heavy blow to the Qing army's confidence in defense. So much so that when the first division landed from Dagukou, Baishui and Hangu at the same time, they did not even encounter an exchange of fire. Only after entering Tianjin City were they resisted by a small Qing army.
The main battle ended in two hours. Tianjin, one of the earliest open doors in the Qing Dynasty, and the most important city on the northern coast finally fell into the hands of Master Li!
In fact, from the beginning, Li Mo was most worried that Yuan Shikai would resist to the end. Although he later decided to flee Shanxi, he still left more than 3,000 soldiers in Tianjin, who were his most afraid of.
It doesn't mean that more than 3,000 new troops can resist himself. The main reason is that he can't spend so much time in Tianjin, because Tianjin is only more than 100 kilometers away from Yanjing. Although the telephone line and other facilities were cut off according to the plan before the start of the war, the news can be sent back in two hours at most, so if there is no accident at this moment. Yanjing City has received the news that it has landed in Tianjin!
Yanjing, Tianjin!
This is the two most important cities in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also the fattest place. Even if you kidnap the whole Shanxi merchants, the wealth is less than half of that of these two cities. The only place that can compete is Jiangnan and other places.
More importantly, the wealth here is different from that of the south of the Yangtze River, and the Qing Dynasty is not allowed to be infiltrated by foreigners. At least in Zhili, 80% of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the nobles of the royal palace. Among them, the royal family of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and many princes Baylor are the richest. Of course, there is the Li Grandpa!
Unlike Sheng Huaixuan, Jin Changyuan and Tian Shunxiang, a famous rich man in the late Qing Dynasty, these people are the real crocodile. They are rated as the real richest man in the late Qing Dynasty by later generations. Prince Qing, who has deposited millions of taels in the HSBC family alone, and Li Lianying, a big eunuch who competes for favor but does not compete for power. He is low-key, but has good at collecting money. These are all big guys with tens of millions of family resources!
Take Li Lianying as an example. Before his death, he got millions of taels of silver to his stepson and nephews, not including the millions of taels that he left in the palace before leaving the palace, plus luxury houses, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc. The Intelligence Department estimated that there would always be 50,000 to be 50,000 to 60 million. At this time, the treasury silver is still relatively valuable. If the money is counted as a pound, it is more than seven or eight million!
This is just him. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Intelligence, if the wealth obtained by riding on the country and the people in the two places is concentrated, it will be at least 30 million pounds!
If you do it well, there will definitely be 350 million taels of silver. According to the exchange of about ten taels of silver for one pound, it will be the wealth of nearly tens of millions of pounds! What's more, this money is all searched for people's fat and people's cream, and they are confiscated without reason!
What a wealth this is!
But the biggest problem is that there is no highway these days. In case of being surrounded by people who can't implement it quickly and escape with a huge amount of money, I'm afraid anyone will regret it for the rest of their lives!
So Li Mo was willing to take risks and personally came to arrest Yuan Shikai and force him to surrender and hand over the new army, just in order to occupy Tianjin as soon as possible and then wave troops in Yanjing to block these people there!
Now Tianjin is under its own control. Most of the targets here have been ordered to stay at home and not go out. The rest is Yanjing!
In order to achieve the purpose of quickly encirclement and not letting these people escape, this time the general reference has adhered to a fast word from the beginning of the battle plan! The surprise attack on the mountain customs, let the cavalry division go south quickly without entanglement, shelled Dagukou, and quickly went north along the Haihe River with a fast boat. Even spreading leaflets was to cause panic, which made Manqing mistakenly think that the army had been killed, and locked the nine doors that were closed because of the capture of the Weixin Party more tightly. In this way, Yanjing became a real The stuffy gourd!
But this speed is not enough!
The old woman in the Forbidden City has a tradition of escaping, so how to attack the periphery of Yanjing City faster and make the people inside mistakenly think that she has been surrounded has become the top priority!
So I always thought of the airship.
"Listen, don't smoke after going up, don't have an open fire, get closer, don't be afraid when you shake, just hold on to the armrest! If anyone is not feeling well, just spit in this bag. Don't let the birds of the Air Force say that we have stained the airship!"
In the distance, a company commander of a reconnaissance company distributed a large paper bag while talking about the precautions. The airship next to it had opened the pod door. Several air force soldiers were laughing at the corners of the army, betting that how many people would pee their pants after they got on the day.
A hippo-class airship can carry six tons. Even after the ammunition tank is temporarily dismantled, the space is still small. The reconnaissance company of 100 people needs to use two and a half airships, and it has to be crowded to stand. Fortunately, it only takes 40 minutes from Tianjin to Yanjing, and it will be over.
Li Mo, dressed in a military uniform, was accompanied by Chen Ping to see off every reconnaissance company who attacked on an airship. Although it had been used on a small scale in previous exercises, it was the first time to invest 20 airships at a time and take such a large-scale air transportation with nearly a thousand light scouts, so he was a little nervous. .
When the command's red light turned green, the ground crew loosened the cable of the first airship, and the huge airship rushed into the sky like a reinted wild horse.
One, two, three...
The weapons were temporarily confiscated. The Beiyang New Army and Yuan Shikai, who were detained in the barracks, were indescribably shocked. Although they learned from various channels that there was a flying ship in Li Mo's hand, they knew how pale that description was compared with the picture in front of them!
Yuan Shikai's face was even more like dirt, and there was still a trace of luck before. When the new army came back one after another, he might be able to struggle again. He could not afford a ripple in front of such a huge thing.
When the last airship slowly rose into the air under the gaze of Li Mo and the soldiers, a huge airship formation had formed in the air, and he looked up and could not even see the sky at all!
"Young master...!"
Master Li didn't have time to express his admiration for making such a spectacular scene. He shouted loudly and made him suddenly shiver. He looked down and saw that the airship left the opposite of the empty school ground. Li Enfu had already taken Tang Shaoyi and other officials of the State Council and rushed over angrily.
"Why is he here?"
Master Li naturally knew what made Li Enfu so excited. He quickly turned his head to ask Chen Ping for help, but at the critical moment, he lost his righteousness. He squeezed his eyes and hurried away: "Young master, I'm going to arrange the army, and I'll be back in a moment."
"Yan!"
Master Li's middle finger has not been compared yet, and Li Enfu has been "erod" in front of him.
"Young master, don't you understand the truth that the son of the daughter can't sit down?"
"Now you are alone in the safety of the world. If there is a mistake, what about us?"
"Beside of it, it's just tens of thousands of Beiyang new troops. I, Li Enfu, am not an unreasonable person. If you really want to expand the army, I can grit my teeth and allocate tens of thousands of special funds!"
"And you!"
After counting, Li Enfu found that he could not really vent his anger on Li Mo's head. He turned his head and pointed to Du Dazhuang, who was holding a smile next to him, and shouted, "As the commander of the guard, how can you let the young master take risks!"
" By the way, and Li Qiang? And the captain of the Typhoon, right, right, where's Chen Ping? What about the Chief of Staff?! Where are you hiding? I saw him just now! These people are all under his control, and you must give me an explanation!"
In the face of the rage, Li Enfu, who will become the first prime minister in a few days, Master Li has to spit on his face and feel sad in his heart. Of course, it is good to have such a prime minister who thinks for himself, but I'm afraid that freedom is getting farther and farther away from him.
But he was still grateful. He didn't expect that Li Enfu would come to the front line to chase him with bullets. He couldn't blame the other party for his chatter. However, this nagging was really stinky and long. He couldn't help but turn his eyes and quickly changed the topic and said, "Mr. Li, listen to me. I'm also I have no choice, you know? The intelligence department gave me a statistic that we can get at least 30 million pounds in Tianjin and Yanjing this time! That's why I came to risk blocking them. I can't let these guys escape!"
"What! 30 million pounds!"
Li Enfu's eyes were suddenly straight. Although the State Council has finally been lifted out of poverty, the two largest financial bases in Northeast China and Luzon are still net investment. In addition, Zhili and even Shandong and other places that can be obtained will undoubtedly increase investment, which is still a little nervous, so when I heard so much money, my eyes suddenly snowed. Bright and snowy.
Li Mo lowered his eyebrows and asked him to take out the information of the intelligence department and handed it to Li Enfu. The latter glanced twice and jumped up with a roar: "Damn it, where's Chen Ping? Where is Zhao Long? Get out of here. What are you doing here? Hurry up, let's go, let's all go, surround Yanjing for me!"
"No one is missing!"
The Prime Minister's roar was terrible. Who let him control the army's money bag? Chief of Staff Chen did not hesitate to transfer his anger to Commander Zhao. Zhao Long immediately ordered the troops that had landed to collect all available means of transportation on the spot. Two hours later, he packed the first batch of 3,000 people to catch up with Yanjing. According to his words, several gates of Yanjing City must be blocked before Zishi, otherwise they will all be locked up!
In addition to these fast troops, the second batch of two regiments that have just landed were also directly arranged to drop heavy equipment first and go north lightly. Be sure to surround Yanjing before dawn, and never let those fat sheep run away! ......
(to be continued)