Chapter 303 Maritime Supply

No matter what era, there are always many women who can be crowned as beautiful women. Although there are few women who can be crowned as talented women, there are occasionally, but there are very few women who can wear both at the same time.

Compared with the Yu Wanling in front of us, the four beauties of the Republic of China in the hearts of future generations are completely incomparable. Those who are more beautiful than her do not have her talent, and those who have her talent do not have her appearance. Even if they are both beauty and talent, there is no her prominent background.

This woman is the third daughter of Yugeng. Not to mention that her father is a first-class senior official, and this woman has also been awarded the title of princess by Cixi. Although Qianqing is finished, at least she is also a woman who has been a princess. If later generations come up with slavery, they will probably call Princess Wanling.

When birth, appearance and talent are combined to create this special woman who is active in contemporary Chinese diplomacy.

And Zhao Dongyun is also slightly curious about this woman. He has been in this world for many years. Usually, he can't see such a special woman. Most of Zhao Dongyun's cognition of women in this era comes from the women around him, such as Fang Ruolian and Li Wan, but he also knows that Fang Ruolian and Li Wan Such reasonable women are actually rare, and most women still follow the traditional 'no talent is virtue', at least he saw that most of the wives and daughters of other uncles and brothers in the Zhao family are like this.

However, Fang Ruolian and Li Wan are already relatively enlightened women in this era, but they are still the same set of traditional Chinese women.

And the Yu Wanling in front of us is very different!

After this gossip, Yu Wanling also let go a little. Although she looked a little reserved, she still accompanied Zhao Dongyun to talk. After a moment, Zhao Dongyun heard the footsteps from upstairs. Looking back, she saw that Fang Ruolian had changed her clothes and was going downstairs. Zhao Dongyun immediately said, "She came, I will Don't delay your ladies' activities!"

Then he turned his head and said, "Today's meeting is a little too much, so I won't accompany you for dinner!"

Fang Ruolian nodded: "Well, if it's a banquet for my subordinates, I'll ask the kitchen to deliver the food at that time!"

Zhao Dongyun laughed and went out, and Yu Wanling looked at the way Zhao Dongyun and Fang Ruolian got along with each other. Although she had seen it many times, she still felt a little strange.

Although Zhao Dongyun is the president, many people actually regard Zhao Dongyun directly as the emperor, especially many people of the old constitutionalists. At the beginning, many people wanted to persuade Zhao Dongyun to become emperor, but after thinking about it, reason also told them that they are now playing the emperor in China, especially in Beiyang. It's tragic to play the imperial system 100% in the faction, so no matter what they think, no one really dares to do it.

However, Zhao Dongyun's special status in China is realistic. No matter whether it is the president or the emperor, you live in the former royal garden. Do you still want outsiders to think that you are selfless for the people?

In any case, Zhao Dongyun and his wife are the first family in contemporary China, but today, in Yu Wanling's view, they get along much more plainly, do not pay attention to any etiquette, and speak very casually, which makes Yu Wanling, who has been constrained by various etiquette for many years in the palace, a little unaccustomed to Of.

Pressing down the messy ideas in her heart, Yu Wanling accompanied Fang Ruolian to the side hall to prepare for a small tea party to entertain the wife of the British Minister Zhu Erdian and the wife of the French Minister to China.

He did not mention Fang Ruolian's wife's diplomatic activities, but said that after Zhao Dongyun arrived at the office, he began to indicate a large number of documents as usual, and then met with Zhou Xuexi of the Ministry of Finance to discuss the issuance plan of the second phase of patriotic bonds, and then met with Liu Guanxiong of the Admiralty Department of the Command and talked about it. It is mainly about the reconstruction of the navy and the mission to be sent by the Ministry of the Navy to European and American countries.

After meeting the two people, Zhao Dongyun then held a regular weekly military meeting. Originally, the meeting should have been held in the morning, but Zhao Dongyun was a little busy in the morning, and the family lunch time that had been booked for a long time was not easy to change, so it was delayed until the afternoon.

According to the management, the regular military meetings are the generals of the command department, including Fang Biyong of the General Staff, Shi Yanglin of the Operations Office, and the intelligence department. In addition, Zhao Dongping of the Ordnance Department, Hong Putao of the Quartermaster Department, and Cheng Biguang, director of the Naval Department, will also come.

The naval department of the command department is different from the naval department of the cabinet. According to the current Soviet military system, the army department and the naval department of the cabinet belong to the administrative department, and the army department is completely empty and false. The words of the naval department is better, but there is only administrative power, and the navy The power of war command belongs to the naval department of the command.

After a group of generals sat down, according to the usual practice, Shi Yanglin first introduced the current war in the south, and the recent war in the south is relatively calm. Since the Feng army captured Zhengzhou, the Feng army is in a period of large-scale strategic mobilization in the short term. Although there have been wars recently, the scale is very small, mainly mainly The battle between the Second Army of the Feng army went south to the south of Shandong and the remnants of the Lu army. In addition, it was a small-scale battle that broke out when the First Army and the Third Army of the Feng Army eliminated the remnants of Henan.

These small-scale wars have little impact, so they were only mentioned slightly at today's meeting, and then there is no follow-up.

Next, we will mainly talk about the Ordnance Department and the Quartermaster Department, especially the logistics and transportation, which is highly valued by Zhao Dongyun. Now his nearly 100,000 troops are about to gather on the front line of northern Jiangsu. He doesn't want these troops to have no shells and bullets at that time.

"Today, the logistics transportation of our army mainly relies on the Beijing-Feng Railway, the Jinghan Railway, and the Beijing-Han Grand Canal. Among them, the troops fighting in Henan mainly rely on the railway supplies of the Jinghan Railway, and the supplies needed by the combat troops in Shandong and later in northern Jiangsu and Anhui will depend on the Jinghan Grand Canal."

Hong Putao of the Munitions Department said: "In order to use the Grand Canal to transport troops to Shandong and other directions, we have specially established the Inland River Transport Bureau and set up eight inland river transport battalions in various places. However, since the transportation of grain by sea, the Grand Canal has not been repaired on a large scale for many years, and the navigation capacity in many places is insufficient, which has now caused some problems in the process of our army's logistics to the south. Therefore, our military supply department has specially set up a number of land transport battalions in the canal section with insufficient navigation capacity.

In the absence of railway, Fengjun's ordnance, ammunition and other supplies set out from Tangshan Arsenal, transported to Tianjin after passing through the Beijing-Feng Railway, and then loaded into the canal ships to go south. Limited by the limited navigation capacity of the canal, the ship stopped when it could not sail and organized The personnel carried the ammunition ashore, transported it from land for a distance, and then transferred it to inland ships, so that after many transshipments, the ammunition can be delivered to the Feng army on the front line.

"Based on the great trouble of canal transportation, the Quartermaster's Department and colleagues of the Admiralty have put forward maritime transportation proposals after many considerations!" When Hong Putao said, Zhao Dongyun listened carefully and then asked at the right time, "Oh, let's talk about how to ship!"

Hong Putao immediately said, "According to the current progress of our army and subsequent combat plans, we will fight with the enemy in Xuzhou and other northern Jiangsu in the future. If we can control a coastal port in northern Jiangsu, then our supplies can be transported directly to the port by ship and close to the supply!"

At this time, Cheng Biguang of the navy also said, "Although our navy is weak at present, the navy can absolutely ensure the safety of maritime transportation without the interference of foreign ships!"

Cheng Biguang's reason for the safety of the navy is relatively complicated, and the most important is to expand the influence of the navy. At present, the naval presence in the power system of the Northern Republic is very weak, because Duan Qirui in the south and the Southern Federation do not have decent maritime power. Therefore, naturally, the senior officials of the Soviet Union did not pay much attention to the navy. Although they talked about the reconstruction of the navy, they even planned to send a delegation to Europe and the United States.

But many people know that today's Soviets can't afford to develop the navy.

The navy people are naturally unwilling to make a plan to transport supplies by sea is their proposition, in order to highlight the role of the navy.

At this time, Hong Putao said again: "If our front-line troops can take Haizhou (now Lianyungang), then our supply ships can unload goods here, and this place is only 120 kilometers away from Suqian, only 160 kilometers away from Xuzhou, and less than 100 miles away from Qingjiangpu. If Haizhou is an important supply transfer point for our army to fight south, it will greatly reverse the trouble of our army's logistical supplies in the battle in northern Jiangsu.

Zhao Dongyun felt a little interesting when he heard Hong Putao's words, but it was difficult for him to decide directly. Instead, he turned his head and asked Shi Yanglin, "What's the situation in Haizhou now? Can our army take it down?"

Shi Yanglin said, "Although Haizhou has a certain enemy deployment, the number is small, and our army has enough spare capacity to take it down!"

This logistics supply was transported by sea, which was actually mentioned by Shi Yanglin at the beginning. When the combat office planned the battle in northern Jiangsu, it considered the difficulties of subsequent supply transportation. In order to solve this problem, the people of the combat office put forward various paper suggestions. The use of maritime transportation is only one of them, and there is also direct repair. What about the plan to build a temporary military railway?

Seeing that these subordinates are supporting the transportation of supplies by sea, Zhao Dongyun also knew in his heart that they should have communicated in private, otherwise they would not have taken it out today, so he just nodded: "Since everyone thinks it's okay, then confirm it and follow-up battle. The department will formulate relevant operational plans, take over coastal ports such as Haizhou, and open maritime supply transit stations. In addition, the Transportation Department of the Staff Department and the Quartermaster Department should coordinate to prepare ships by sea, and the Navy Department should prepare for future escort work.

The matter of maritime supplies has come to an end, but the meeting is still continuing. Later, they discussed the cooperation between the First Army and the Second Army. With the main force of the First Army crossing Shangqiu, Henan Province, it is less than 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou.

After the Second Army gradually went south in Shandong, the main force has also arrived in Yanzhou County, only more than 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou. With the main force of the Feng army gathered in Xuzhou, the cooperation between such a large-scale battle is very important.