108 preparation for collection

After receiving a telegram from Wuchang, Lin Tiechang immediately sent someone to investigate and understand the situation of entering Tibet from Qinghai and Xinjiang. As a result, it was very difficult to enter Tibet from Qinghai and Xinjiang, which was difficult to overcome.

In fact, there are also internal reasons. The current situation in Xinjiang is very unstable.

In northern Xinjiang, with the discovery of gold, coal, salt and other mineral deposits in the Wulianghai area, the old Maozi, who is famous for his greed, flocked in with the smell of bloody flies. Under the auspices of the Lao Maozi military, various "exploration teams" and "explores" came one after another. In the turmoil of the Xinhai Revolution, Lao Maozi privately destroyed the boundary card and refused the newly established Xinjiang Governor's government to survey the boundary line and re-establish the boundary card.

The old Russian Maozi has extended the claws of aggression to the Altai region. This area includes the Altai Wulianghai, New Tuerhute, and Xinhe Shuote.

After the old Maozi planned the ignorant and ignorant blind Buddha declaring "independence" in Kulun, he also sent the foreign Mongolian puppet army into the Wulianghai area, forcing the local flags to follow the "independence" of the Cullen authorities, and was repulsed by the local garrison.

For this reason, Lao Maozi personally mobilized more than 1,300 cannons, steps and cavalry, forcibly occupied Chenghua Temple and other places, coerced the Altai officer to sign the Temporary Armistice Treaty with the Outer Mongolian army, and transferred a large amount of Altai land to the Cullen authorities.

In southern Xinjiang, Lao Maozi also does not stop. The Russian army marched and nearly a thousand cavalry marched into Kashgar in the southern Xinjiang, but was resolutely resisted by the revolutionary army and retreated. It also provoked a sensational "Tsele Village Incident" in Hetan.

Celle Village is an important town in Hetan, and Lao Maozi's forces have already penetrated into this place. After the Revolution of 1911, the old Maozi merchants in the area and the ruffian traitors who privately joined the nationality of Lao Maozi took the opportunity to make rumors and induced the residents of the place to join the nationality of Lao Maozi. When they gathered incitement to clash with the residents, they actually shot and killed two residents and injured them. Therefore, the people were angry. In the conflict, an old Maozi businessman and 27 traitors who illegally joined the nationality of Lao Maozi were killed (traitors are always more hateful than the enemy - according to the author).

Lao Maozi took this opportunity to expand the situation and put forward many unreasonable demands such as the death of 180 Chinese people and compensation of 880,000 taels of silver.

Since the establishment of the Governor's Office of Xinjiang, especially after the Anxi Army entered Xinjiang, Russia has continued to stir up trouble in Xinjiang.

Lin Tiechang is arranging the defense of the southern Xinjiang, preparing to fight with Lao Maozi in the northern Xinjiang and recover the Chenghua Temple.

Therefore, Lin Tiechang believes that if you want to enter Tibet from Xinjiang and Qinghai, it will take two years to complete the preparation for Tibet.

In view of the geographical conditions and military needs of Xinjiang and Tibet, Lin Tiechang suggested to Li Xiang: "The New Tibet, across the Kunlun Plateau, is more than 6,4,600 meters high. It is not appropriate to send a large number of troops to advance to Ali. We should first send a company of troops into Tibet first to undertake reconnaissance, stationing and other tasks."

Seeing Lin Tiechang's telegram, Li Xiping couldn't help saying, "Marshal, according to Lao Li's method, when can you calm down?"

"It's not difficult to enter Tibet," Li Xiang said, "It's not enough to operate the Western Regions and Tibet for ten years."

"Ten years?" Zeng Gao next to him was also shocked, "That's..."

Although he didn't say anything, Li Xiang also knew how much it would cost? He smiled and said, "The expedition to the west is a long-term plan for long-term stability. Just like economic construction, you can't be eager for profit; but once it works, you will know that my plan is good.

"Yes!"

Zeng Gao and Li Xiping lowered their heads and meditated.

"What are you thinking about?"

"I think very far." Zeng Gao replied.

Li Xiping said, "I also think of ten or eight years later."

"Wing!" Li wanted to clap his hands happily, "Your meaning coincides with me; we should make a good plan... Let's study the characteristics of the Tibetan army first."

"General," Zeng Gao asked, "Da Lai entered Tibet with the support of the Governor-General of British India. Should we be ready for the British army to enter Tibet?"

"You don't understand this." Li wants to say.

Zeng Gao blushed, but said sincerely, "Yes! I really don't understand. Please make it clear.

"If the Indian British army enters Tibet, Lao Maozi will be the first to go to India to find the British. Britain's ambition for Tibet and Xinjiang is to get a buffer zone to defend Lao Maozi from going south. After talking about the obscene secrets between Britain and Russia, Lixiang turned to the topic: " According to our algorithm, there were about ten regiments of the Tibetan puppet army. The governor of British India encouraged Zang Da Lai to enter Tibet, helped the Tibetan puppet army expand its army, and sold weapons to it to fight against the Han army stationed in Tibet. The Tibetan puppet army probably expanded a large new regiment, increasing the total to 16 regiments. The independence of the Tibetan leader Da Lai to learn the Mongolian living Buddha is obvious.

"Five of Da Lai's Tibetan puppet army fought with the Han troops stationed in Lhasa, Shigatse, Shannan Zedang and northern Tibet." Li Xiping opened the map and said, "Only one regiment is configured on the fixed day near the Tibetan border defense line; but the Jinsha River line and the Changdu area near Sichuan are called "border defense", and nearly seven regiments of the main force of the Tibetan puppet army and one of the powerful "militia" are placed in the Changdu area; another half regiments were on the way to Changdu, but most of them The soldiers deserted and fled, and only a few arrived. The Tibetan puppet army and "militia" in the Changdu area are under the command of the head of the Changdu government. The general management of the Dali government in Shannan, northern Tibet, Houzang, Ali and other regions is a four-grade official, but the general manager of the "border defense" area in Changdu has been strengthened as a three-grade official. The specific deployment of the Tibetan puppet army and "militia" in the Changdu area is as: the 10th Regiment is located on the Jiangda to Gangtuo line; the 9th Regiment is located in Mangkang and Yanjing; the 5th Regiment of the Mouxiadai headquarters of the 3rd Regiment and a company of the 6th Artillery Regiment are located in the West Dengke area centered on Shengda; the 500 people of the 3rd Regiment are located in Kasongdu; the 7th The regiment is located in Enlai, Wuqi, Jiasangka and other places; the fourth regiment is located in Dingqing and the west of Seza; the eighth regiment and the second regiment are located in Changdu; the main force of the "militia" "Shuoda Haisong" department, 500 people act with the headquarters of the third regiment Mouxiadai; and more than 2,000 "militia" people are scattered in Yanjing, doormen, Bomi and other places. The characteristics of the Tibetan army are: south light and north heavy, front light and back heavy, ladder configuration, partition deployment. The Tibetan army guarded the key road, trying to rely on the natural dangers of the Jinsha River, the Lancang River and the Hengduan Mountains, in an attempt to prevent any Han army from advancing westward.

"That's right!" Li wanted to say, "The regimental commander, battalion commander and company commander of the Tibetan puppet army are called Daiben, Ruben and Jiaben respectively. The substitutes are all aristocrats. Although they have received simple military training from British instructors, they have little actual combat experience and poor command ability. Soldiers serve poorly. They are old and have a lot of family work. The Tibetan puppet army has a strict internal hierarchy, the relationship between officers and soldiers is tense, disturbing and oppressing the people, and the military-civilian relations are bad. It is a very feudal and decadent army. Most of its equipment are guns eliminated by the Indian and British army. The firepower is not strong, the means of communication are backward, and there are only two radio stations in the whole Changdu area. However, the Tibetan puppet army has good shooting skills, is good at fighting alone, adapts to the plateau environment, has a simple life, has fast mobility, and has more horses, which can play an attacking role when dispersing guerrillas.

"Marshal," Zeng Gao said, "I don't have plateau combat experience, and I don't know what to do when I'm ready to march?"

"Yes. Let's start with the plateau special operations training. Li wanted to reply, "At the same time, the traffic is difficult, the army is inconvenient to move, and the supply is also more troublesome, which is one of the problems of the restoration of Tibet by the Anxi army. Preparation for the march, including plateau training, ideological mobilization, highway construction, material supply, etc.

"Where does the training start?"

In this era, there may not be a feeling of fighting on the plateau.

Li wants to think of the experience of hiking in Qinghai-Tibet.

Walking on the plateau empty-handed is equivalent to carrying 20 kilograms of weight in the mainland. With the plateau reaction, you have to breathe after walking three steps. In the past, you can set up a tent in five minutes, which is difficult to complete in 20 minutes! When they first arrived, even if they were well prepared and took anti-altitude reaction drugs, 90% of their classmates still had headaches, cracked mouths, vomiting, insomnia and other symptoms to varying degrees. They took a lot of effort to make the first meal, but due to the low air pressure, the water could not boil, and the rice was cooked in a pressure cooker. However, the dishes were not fragrant at all. No matter how the meat was stir-fried, there was a fishy smell. Many students had to put bowls and chopsticks after eating a few bites.

Very bad memories.

"I think," Li wants to put away his memories. "On the top of the snowy mountain, it is mainly to temper the ability to walk, fight, eat, live and hide."

Li Xiping asked the second question, "Don't worry about thinking, but road construction is a big project?"

"No matter how big the project is, it needs to be done," Li thought. "The construction of highways is an important part of the march. Six engineering regiments were transferred from Wuchang and put into construction. The road repair troops should be prepared to overcome the difficulties of mountain hypoxia and extremely poor construction conditions. It took four months to borrow to Sichuan to build a bridge from the Dadu River, opening up Erlang Mountain with an altitude of more than 3,600 meters and Zheduo Mountain at an altitude of more than 4,200 meters. It must be opened to Ganzi before the arrival of this summer.

At the same time, the Anxi Army of Xinjiang sent an independent cavalry division and a camel regiment to build me 200 kilometers of road from Yutian Jingpuluo to Tibet at an altitude of 4,500 meters. It must be completed before the summer troops enter Tibet. The First Qinghai Army built nearly 500 kilometers of highways from Xining to the Yellow River. It must also be completed before the summer troops enter Tibet.

"Also, if you don't eat places to march into Tibet, you have to find a way to protect the materials needed to march into Tibet." Zeng Gaodao.

"Then there must be at least 800 cars, 3,000 mules and horses, and form four automobile regiments and four agate regiments to relay and transport them on the Sichuan-Tibet line." Li Xiping said, "Mas are ready-made, and there are many in Gansu, Xinjiang. How much can a car produce?

"Overtime, it can still be completed. Otherwise, buy another production line. Li wanted to say. Finally, there is the problem of the route to Tibet.

Lin Tiechang has denied the two-day route between northern Tibet and Qinghai, and the rest is to take advantage of Sichuan and enter Tibet through Kang.

Zeng Gao pointed out: "There are usually three routes to enter Tibet through Kang:

First, the arrow furnace passes through Ganzi, Dege, Changdu and Jiali to Lhasa. This is the old road for Zhao Erfeng to enter Tibet in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a post station. However, there are many mountains and steep. There are two snowy mountains between Changdu and Jiali, both of which are more than 5,000 to 6,000 meters above sea level. It is snowed all year round, which is the most difficult to walk.

The second is to go northwest from Changdu to Enda, through Wuqi, Deqing, Salsondo, Sokzong to Heihe, and then turn to Lhasa.

The third is from Ganzi to Yushu to the west, through Bumura, up the Gerji River, to Tanggula and Heihe River. This road is the backbone of the plateau.

Zeng Gao pointed out on the map and said, "In the end, we need to further study which way to choose. But no matter which road you take, you need to use Ganzi as a supply station.