Chapter 297 Attack Jinan

In order to cooperate with the issuance of patriotic bonds, Zhao Dongyun specially integrated his banking system. He merged Fengtian Bank and Beiyang Bank under him, and then established the Bank of China

The predecessor of Fengtian Bank is Fengtian Official Bank, while the predecessor of Beiyang Bank is relatively complex. Its predecessor is Tianjin Official Bank and Household Bank. Last year, Queen Wang Yingkai and these two official banks merged to form Beiyang Bank, trying to imitate Zhao Dongyun in Northeast China to issue banknotes and establish a central bank system. However, this merger also takes time. As soon as the merger was completed in June, Zhao Dongyun entered the customs before the paper coins could be issued.

And this Beiyang Bank naturally fell into the hands of Zhao Dongyun, but this bank is actually an empty shelf and does not have much capital. At the same time, Zhao Dongyun has previously issued Fengyuan with Fengtian Bank. This Fengtian Bank has actually become the central bank of the Soviet system. Now Zhao Dongyun says that this The merger of the two banks is not as good as letting Fengtian Bank annex Beiyang Bank.

Due to time constraints, one of the two banks was in the eastern three provinces and the other was in Zhili, and there was not too much business intersection, so the merger was just a simple union, and the personnel transfer was completed.

Subsequently, the Bank of China began to issue new paper coins and silver dollars. The new bank did not print the word, but engraved Zhao Dongyun's head and silver coins engraved with the words issued by the Bank of China. The new version of the banknote was also printed with the words Bank of China, which also officially ended the Fengyuan era.

With the issuance of new silver coins and new paper coins by the Republican government, the Ministry of Finance also launched the announcement that the official monetary unit after the "circle" is not the original "two".

The overall impact of the issuance of new silver coins and new paper coins is not great, because Fengyuan has been used as a foundation before, and basically various types of silver dollars have become popular in the late Qing Dynasty, and people have been used to using copper dollars and silver dollars. In terms of paper coins, they basically use the instant exchange policy, that is to say, people can go to the bank to exchange silver coins at any time. Although this has led to the reduction of paper coin issuance, it also relatively stabilizes the credit of paper money. As long as people know that they can exchange silver coins with paper money at any time, then they will not They will go to exchange silver coins every day, and then hold paper coins, so that they can really complete the paper coins.

Compared with the issuance of paper coins, the issuance of patriotic bonds caused more sensations. The reason is very simple. On the one hand, the government has carried out large-scale publicity and raised the purchase of patriotic bonds to the level of patrioticism.

It's just like some messages in the QQ group in later generations that you are not Chinese, and the government's publicity in the newspaper is that you are not Chinese if you don't buy patriotic bonds...

This kind of publicity has led to the enthusiastic purchase of a large number of ordinary people, especially those newly educated young people, and even many students have taken to the streets to promote patriotic bonds.

In addition, the first batch of patriotic bonds issued are short-term bonds, ranging from half-year, one-year and three-year, and the interest rate is relatively high, so they have attracted many speculators to buy them. After all, even if people think that Zhao Dongyun will fall in the future, there should be no problem to support for a year and a half. The bonds have been recouponed.

The main force for buying bonds is not actually ordinary people, but all kinds of banks, banks and other financial institutions. They have a large amount of depositor funds in their hands, and these funds are to be invested to earn interest. Otherwise, how can these banks make money?

Dingsheng Bank, which is jointly operated by Hong Xuwei and many northern capitalists, is the largest private bank in the north in recent years. They control a large number of depositors' funds and buy three million one-year patriotic bonds at one time, and then dozens of small and medium-sized private banks in Yingkou, Tianjin Huludao and other places may buy tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands, which add up to six million.

Not only the capital of the north, but also those capitalists in the south, especially in Shanghai, have been moved by the news. Many banks and banks have more or less purchased a lot of patriotic bonds. Among them, there is a relatively special bank, that is Fulong Bank co-founded by Fuyuan Company and Jia Bingyun's family. The bank is also based in the surrounding areas of Shanghai and has not much capital but has also purchased 200,000 patriotic bonds.

Even foreign banks have bought part of it, although not many, there are more than one million.

The above-mentioned financial institutions have purchased more than 12 million patriotic bonds, and in addition, there are more than 4 million small patriotic bonds purchased by ordinary people.

The issuance of patriotic bonds sold by the Bank of China can be said to have exceeded Zhou Xuexi's expectations. The total amount of several bonds issued by Fengtian Bank in the eastern three eastern provinces was only more than 6 million, but now it is more than twice the amount issued before, and with the holding of bonds If you continue to issue, you must be able to raise more funds, which can greatly relieve the current great financial pressure on the Soviet Union, and at least you don't have to worry about not paying military pay in the next few months.

In addition to patriotic publicity, the relatively successful sales of patriotic bonds are also related to the relatively short term of these bonds and the relatively high interest rates. Many people, especially various financial institutions, buy patriotic bonds for the sole purpose of making a short-term investment.

Zhao Dongyun is happy with the successful issuance of patriotic bonds, but Zhou Xuexi, who is responsible for this matter, is worried about the issuance of more and more patriotic bonds. The earliest batch of patriotic bonds will be due after half a year. What will the Ministry of Finance pay for it?

Unless tens of millions of dollars fall from the sky, the financial situation will not be optimistic next year!

When Zhao Dongyun, Zhou Xuexi and others were struggling to support the central government and the frontline war in order to raise funds, the soldiers on the front line could not feel the pressure of the civilian group in the rear.

Because these war generals have no cannons and shells, they ask the rear Ordnance Department and the Munitions Department, and the commander's Department has no money to ask Zhao Dongyun and Zhou Xuexi. They don't care how the officials of the financial system raise money.

At the end of August, the first army led by Meng Enyuan captured Anyang, Henan Province, and then entered Henan Province. Then in just half a month, it conquered many prefectures and counties in northern Henan Province, and then killed all the way to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the soldiers went straight to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Wang Ruxian was defeated again and again, and the soldiers chose to shrink all their troops to defend Zhengzhou, and even gave up the ancient city of Kaifeng without even defending it.

Wang Shizhen also couldn't take care of the war in Hubei at this time, so she quickly sent another division to the north to reinforce.

On the Shandong front, in mid-August, the third division of the Second Army of the Feng Army surrounded and annihilated the second mixed brigade of the Shandong Army under Zhang Huaizhi in the south of Guashan Town and Zhangxia Town in southern China. After half of the deaths and injuries, some of the brigade fled to the Taishan Mountains on both sides, and more than 2,000 people were forced to surrender. Interestingly, more than 2,000 people surrender. The surrendered Lu soldiers were soon dispersed and added to the 3rd and 10th Divisions to supplement the previous personnel losses of the Second Army.

However, the defenders in the direction of Jinan are more stubborn than Xu Bangjie imagined. In it, the 10th Brigade of Zhang Huaizhi's direct line of the 5th Division and the first mixed brigade of the Shandong Army. In addition, they thought they could defend by relying on the strong city, so the battle of Jinan was still relatively difficult.

The Second Army launched three general attacks, and finally conquered Jinan on September 6, and in order to conquer Jinan, the 10th Division suffered great losses.

Shiyanglin read the battle report to Zhao Dongyun with a blank face: "As of this war report, the losses of the Second Army in the Jinan Campaign were as follows. 227 soldiers of the Third Division were killed, 480 were injured, and nine lieutenants were killed in the battle. In addition, Major Gao Yunqu, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Regiment, was killed in the Battle of Lashan. Twenty-nine other officers were injured. 570 soldiers of the 10th Division were killed, 926 were injured, 17 lieutenants were killed in the battle, Colonel Qu Yiquan of the 18th Regiment was killed, Major Zhong Anlin, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 18th Regiment, Major Zhao Longbing, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 18th Regiment, was seriously injured, and Colonel Kan Quanyong of the 19th Regiment was injured. The remaining 37 officers were injured"

When Zhao Dongyun heard about the casualties of soldiers, he felt that it was acceptable. More than 700 people were killed in the second army, more than 1,500 were injured, and the casualty rate was less than 10%, and this casualty rate was enough for a tough battle. As for the heavy casualties of the middle and senior officers of the 10th Division, this is purely a matter of luck. Major General Ren Cun Gao, the brigade commander of the 19th Brigade on the front line, was found by the artillery observers of the opposite Lu army while patrolling the front line with a group of officers, and then suffered a fierce shelling, which resulted in the level of officers of the 19th Brigade. The intermediate officers suffered heavy casualties. Colonel Qu Yiquan, the commander of the 18th Regiment, and Major Zhong Anlin, the commander of the 1st Battalion, were killed on the spot. In addition, many officers of the 19th Brigade were seriously injured, and more were slightly injured.

"In addition, the Second Army lost 37 light machine guns, 9 heavy machine guns, 12 mortars, 4 75mm artillery pieces, and 3,000 depleted rifles!"

After the war report, naturally has to talk about the results of the war. Shi Yanglin continued: "Since our army launched the Jinan Campaign, it has been found that the enemy has invested in the first mixed brigade, the second mixed brigade, the 10th brigade of the 5th division and several local troops of the Shandong Army, with a total of about 17,000. Our army and Kushan Town In the battle, the enemy's second mixed brigade was completely annihilated, and the enemy's first mixed brigade and 10th brigade were severely damaged in the siege of Jinan. Except for less than 3,000 people who fled, the rest of the enemy troops were annihilated. It is expected that about 4,000 enemy troops were killed and injured, and 10,000 people were captured. In addition, 12,000 Type 88 seven-nine horse rifles made by Fuzuo, Dezuo and Jiangnan were seized, four 57 mm mountain-overguns, 13 75mm tube retreat guns and mountain guns, as well as nine old-fashioned miscellaneous guns. A batch of bullets and shells.

The casualty exchange ratio between the two sides still sounds more gratifying to Zhao Dongyun. The exchange ratio between the two sides is about two to one, and this is still under the circumstance that Fengjun launched an active battle. To be honest, it is quite good to make it like this. You should know that Zhang Huaizhi in the Jinan Campaign In addition to the first mixed brigade of the Shandong Army, the other two brigades are the old Beiyang troops under Zhang Huaizhi, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to ordinary miscellaneous brands.

However, the exchange of ordinary soldiers is not bad, but the loss of officers still makes Zhao Dongyun more heartbroken, especially Qu Yiquan, who is one of the early trainees. I still remember that the man is tall and quiet young officer who is usually silent but with extremely superb tactical literacy. This is his own The self-tarded direct officer is the real direct line in which he will control the army in the future. After this war, it should be no problem to regenerate a brigade commander with his qualifications, which means that his direct officers and trainees have officially stepped into the group of senior generals, which is an important group to control the army in the future.

But now he has folded into the battle of Jinan, which makes Zhao Dongyun regret it. However, the soldiers have already had the determination to die in the battlefield, and they don't have to feel much sadness for him, but after his family lost this backbone, I'm afraid it will not be easy in the future.

After Zhao Dongyun was silent, he then said, "Follow up the rank of Major General Qu Yiquan, four Xun, and the three-star White Lion Medal. The family should be appeased!"

After hearing this, Shi Yanglin was slightly silent for a while, and then said in a heavy tone, "I think Brother Qu can feel relieved to know it!"

According to the tradition of Fengjun in recent years, officers are often posthumously awarded a higher rank after their death in battle, but unlike the direct addition of the rank of lieutenant generals, in order to control the generals, even the number of dead generals, they are generally posthumously awarded at the colonel level, not directly posthumously the major generals. Now Zhao Dongyun directly posthumously awarded the major general to Qu Yiquan, which can be regarded as the posthumously awarded two levels, which can be regarded as a grand treatment.

Speaking of this, Zhao Dongyun looked up at Shi Yanglin: "In the past few years, there have been a lot of people missing among you!"

Zhao Dongyun said while meditating. From the sporadic parts of the early years to the 1905, 1906 and 1907 students he just graduated this year, the total number is about 200, but at least 20 more than 20 students have died in battle since entering the customs.

Shi Yanglin said, "Among the 27 colleagues of my class, there are only 23 left!"