Chapter 176 Star River Shadow Shakes the Three Armies 5
[176] Xingheying shakes the three armies (5)
The blizzard stopped early, but the temperature in the capital has always been unusually cold. Half a month after the Spring Festival, there are frozen ice under the eaves everywhere. The cold wind from the north has never stopped, raging on the land of North China, making pedestrians on the streets of the capital unable to reach out their necks or reach out.
The front door, the big fence, the 49th city, and the Temple of Heaven, beggars hidden under the snow can be seen everywhere in the capital of this ancient country. The corpse truck escorted by the officials transports these lifeless ice sculptures out of the city like collecting garbage every day.
The 400-li urgent express letter was sent to Li Hongzhang, to the military aircraft office, and to Cixi.
The fire in the West Warm Pavilion of Yangxin Hall was very prosperous, but Cixi did not feel warm at all. Although she was a face-scarious person, she couldn't help but be frightened in the face of this second military lesson. While quietly waiting for the ministers to enter the palace, Cixi was as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
This West Warm Pavilion is the place where the emperor usually reads and reads the medals. The room is simple and elegant. There is a horizontal plaque of "Diligent government and love for the people" hanging on the back wall of the kang, and a pair of banners on both sides "Only one person lives in the world, how can it be worshipped by one person in the world."
Cixi sat on the kang under the horizontal plaque of diligence and love for the people, neatly dressed. Li Lianying combed her with many gorgeous and precious hairpins on the Danfeng Chaoyang hairstyle.
"I'll invite you here today to discuss how to deal with that rubber thief."
Cixi's voice echoed coldly in the hall, undisguisedly showing her dissatisfaction.
All the important ministers in this big empire have come. At this moment, they stand on the floor of the West Warm Pavilion like a group of grass chickens, without any of them.
"Why don't you talk? I review the folds every day, and I see that you can all speak. Why don't you say anything today? Cixi was so angry that her chest fluctuated.
Li Hongzhang's face was withered, and the blow to him this defeat was like a thunderbolt, and his whole body was burnt.
He stood up and lowered his head and said, "Since the suppression of long hair and twisted bandits, the court soldiers and horses have been flat for a long time, and their daily practice is sparse. I am responsible for this and willing to be punished by the court."
Li Hongzhang said this well. After putting out his past contributions, he took the initiative to admit his mistake and embarrassed Cixi.
Cixi is not a fool. How can she be punished as the leader of the Huai system at this time?
"But Lao Li can't appease himself as soon as he admits his mistake, can he?" She lowered her eyelids and looked down at the ground in front of her, with a faint expression and no words.
Prince Gong took a step forward, bowed slightly and bowed his hand to make a salutation, and said, "According to my opinion, this defeat is because the rubber thief has run out of food, just like a hibernating snake coming out of the hole to find food. The so-called hungry rat devours cats. Under a desperate battle, he has a strong desire to grab food for food and life, plus the thief is powerful. It's big. You can't fight against the enemy head-on. It's time to stick to it. This is the fainting of Zhou Sheng, the leader of the army.
This battle of Zhou Shengchuan is very similar to the previous battle of Wang Zhengqi. It is a defeat caused by abandoning the city to meet the enemy, which has nothing to do with Lord Li.
Cixi's face softened and nodded, "I called you here to discuss countermeasures, not to plead guilty.
You are all important ministers of the military and the pillars of the Qing Dynasty. What's the painstaking plan for the emperor for the court? When Changmao was in chaos, Zeng Guofan lost at first and jumped into the river, but with the support of the court, after repeated defeats and battles, didn't he destroy Changmao?
You can only talk about countermeasures with me. You don't have to blame yourself. I know that victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers. You just say how to fight next. Lord Li has been loyal to the country for many years. How many things have you done for the court and the royal family? How could I punish him for the loss of World War I?
Li Hongzhang shook his horse's hoof sleeves with a grateful face and knelt down and said, "Thank you, the empress dowager."
Cixi said, "Get up. In the final analysis, it's up to you, Lord Li, to calm down. Tell me, what's the right thing to do now?"
Li Hongzhang stood up and said, "At present, the rubber thieves have won a new victory, their morale is booming, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have suffered too much damage. There is no other way but to train and defense, we have no choice but to recruit regiments as soon as possible, and at the same time guard the gates of cities and cities in various places. After the army is trained, we will surround and annihilate them with the pressure of slow progressing oppression. "
Cixi looked up sadly at Li Hongzhang and said, "Then the land of Jiaodong is caused by them now?"
Li Hongzhang's head drooped lower: "At present, we can only guard the front line of Jinan, so that the glue thieves can't spread to Beijing. The peninsula area east of Jinan can no longer be taken care of. As for Lunan and Jiangsu, the imperial court also has a heavy army gathered, and the rubber thieves absolutely can't get through.
In the following group discussion, the ministers also agreed with Li Hongzhang's view. Everyone believed that more than 40 battalions of the Ming Army, Wuyi Army and Qing Army were gathering in the south. On the contrary, the Zhili in the north was emptied. At this time, they should defend Jinan, and at the same time speed up the north assembly speed of the south road battalions to put pressure on the rubber thieves so that he could not Dare to leave the nest and march north.
Then Cixi ordered to speed up the previous strategy of printing money and quickly raise money to train the new army.
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When the court was panicked, Yao Fan was not idle. While cleaning the battlefield, the revolutionary army found Zhou Shengchuan's body in Qingzhou.
"Bury him in Qingzhou. But don't mix with our martyrs' cemetery. Yao Fan told him.
In the previous battle, Yao Fan's troops were sacrificed for the first time. In the pursuit after the victory, although Shouguang, Qingzhou, Linqu and Linzi were captured, the revolutionary army also sacrificed 17 soldiers. Most of them were killed in Li Hainiu's annihilation of the Huai army that fled back to Qingzhou City. There were also some soldiers. It was sacrificed in the siege against Linzi.
Yao Fan personally selected 17 of the best longevity materials from the coffin shop and presided over the memorial service and the burial ceremony of the martyrs' cemetery.
17 The rifle sounded to the sky three times in a row, comforting the spirits of the soldiers in heaven. Yao Fan stood solemnly in place, struggling in his heart, but soon he made up his mind.
Liu Jinbao's three regiments are stationed in Qingzhou, Linzi, Guangrao and Shouguang.
Zhang Erbao, deputy commander of the Fifth Regiment, led a battalion to the east and attacked Laizhou, Zhaoyuan, Longkou and Penglai in turn. Yang Ping, the battalion commander, led the second battalion and the third battalion, attacked Qixia and Laiyang after capturing Laizhou, and then directly attacked Yantai.
After taking Yantai and Penglai, the Fifth Regiment continued to go east and attacked Weihaiwei, Wendeng and Rongcheng until they took the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.
Now the Fourth Regiment of Zhou, which is stationed on Gaomi, Suburban County and Jimo, sent a battalion to take Haiyang.
In this way, our army completely captured the whole Shandong region east of Qingdao, Weifang and Zibo.
The other two battalions of the 4th Regiment were deployed in the suburbs, Gaomi and Anqiu, to defend against the Qing army's invasion on the South Road.
The first regiment and the second regiment were stationed in Wei County and began to train new troops at the same time of land reform. Except that the new troops are no longer equipped with machine guns, the rest of the equipment is the same as the original troops.
The new army is composed of ten regiments!"
Yao Fan reported his idea in one breath and looked at the cadres under him and said, "Do you have confidence?"
The cadres said with one voice in front of Yao Fan's war plan: "Yes!"
Yao Fan finally felt that the expansion of the army and the war should be carried out simultaneously. In some places, since the Qing army clearly abandoned the defense, it would be unreasonable if he did not take it down, and it would be more convenient for him to recruit talents after the base was expanded.
Yao Fan nodded and turned to Yang Ping, the commander of the 5th Regiment, and Zhang Erbao, the deputy commander, and said, "In this combat plan, it is a test for your 5th Regiment. I will allocate a company of the newly established recoilless artillery battalion in Qingdao to you, a total of nine recoilless guns to assist you attack. After taking Penglai, Yantai and Weihai, the nine artillery squads equipped with these nine recoilless guns, together with the garrison troops, were responsible for the defense of the three ports.
Yang Ping was the first group of old people to follow Yao Fan. At the beginning, Yao Fan picked him out from the company to practice cycling. At that time, the young man was not very exposed, but with the deepening of military work, Yao Fan found that he was more militaryly talented than the regiment leader He Shicheng, and was more active in training and ideological work.
"Chairman, don't worry, I will take the east road smoothly and will not add burden to the brother troops in the west and south." Yang Ping said firmly.
Yao Fan said, "He Shicheng, the head of the transportation regiment, is the old leader of your five regiments. This time, he is responsible for resupplying your five regiments all the way in the rear. You should coordinate well."
He Shicheng smiled and said, "Chairman, don't worry, I will equip each of their battalion with 50 carriages."
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After this meeting, the Shandong commune began to move, and all the base camps originally located in Jimo were also relocated to Weifang.
The busy time passed quickly. By early March 1876, the eastward troops had completed the established strategic plan and captured the whole Dengzhou. As a result, the Jiaozhou Peninsula was all under Yao Fan's control.
Due to the strict discipline of the revolutionary army and strictly abided by the three * laws and eight precautions, it did not commit any crime wherever it went, and it got along with poor farmers. Agricultural associations were established in various regions, and grass-roots organizations were quickly established. In the process of land reform, a large number of grass-roots cadres emerged, which greatly supplemented Yao Fan's administrative cadres.
Yao Fan adopted a combination of military management and civilian management in the management of each county. After executing the officials of the imperial court one by one according to corruption, he established county revolutionary committees in each county. Each county revolution committee adopts a three-head system, that is, a military cadre, a young cadre trained by a morning sail cadre training class, and several representatives of farmers' associations in various townships under the county to manage the county in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism. The top priority of daily work is land reform.
Seeing Yao Fan's growing power, all kinds of gents in the base areas of Jiaodong Peninsula are ready to move and come one after another, but due to the extremely strict class division of Shandong Commune, they can't find a way out to become officials in Shandong Commune. In desperation, they can only The young children at home were sent to the Zaofan Youth Cadre Training Class in Weifang, which was the only way arranged by Yao Fan for them.
At present, there are more than 300 young cadres in the training class of Zaofan, and many of the first batch of graduates have served as instructors. Golden Ying and Huang Yuntian from the Huang family in Jimo are the backbone members.
Now there are even foreign teachers in the Zaofan young cadre training class. Marx recruited a group of mathematics, physics and engineers for Yao Fan from Europe. These internationalist fighters with communist beliefs were warmly welcomed by Yao Fan and assigned to various positions by Yao Fan. Meri Shi Yangxing also recruited and trained a group of German and English translators in Shanghai, and a total of 27 people were sent to Weifang.