Chapter 13 Cannons
The more tragic the Liefeng Army fought on the Pinghan line, the greater the casualties, and the safer Liu Jingxiao was on the Jinpu Road. Therefore, he specially sent Commander Zhang Yilong as his envoy to recruit these erotic troops. Zhang Yilong said calmly: "It was in a hurry, and Commander Liu didn't give me much stuff!"
"The military pay is 50,000 yuan, military rations 1,000 stone, rifle bullets 200,000 rounds, various artillery shells, and fifty boxes of various medicinal materials such as penicillin." Zhang Yilong did not bring much, but Shan Ping was overjoyed. He snatched the voice: "Major General Zhang, we have all the food and military funds here, and we have to prepare to withdraw our troops. If General Liu can provide assistance, it will not be a problem for us to fight for another half a year."
Thirty or forty thousand people gathered together, and the daily consumption alone was not a small amount. Although there were many people in Hebei who destroyed their families and relieved their difficulties, the autumn harvest had not arrived, and this military food was a big problem. Suddenly, such a big financial supporter came, and everyone was very happy, especially Lu Ziyun, who simply said: "Ziyun has nothing to ask for, but only General Liu gave Ziyun a name!"
Although he was the leader of the rebel army, it was difficult to order various rebel army. He could only persuade him with righteousness and not attack Baoding, and his position as leader would naturally be eliminated.
Liu Jingxiaoxiong was in seven provinces and had the support of the Shen family at sea. This time, Zhang Yilong was sent to contact him, so he naturally hoped to incorporate all the rebels on Pinghan Road to his own strength. Anyway, he had little capital, so he naturally did not care. Even if he handed over all his troops to Liu Jingxiao to adapt, he might as well be able to make a fortune.
Zhang Yilong immediately clapped his hands and said, "That's what our division commander means! I want to ask Ziyunqu to take the position of the Lieutenant General of the Hebei Anti-Enemy Volunteer Alliance! All division commanders are willing to use it!"
All the rebels are mixed with fish and dragons, and there are several who have been given the rank of generals. However, Liu Jingxiao's lieutenant general and major general are real things. A major Liu army may not be much more valuable than these pheasant generals. Therefore, when everyone heard this, everyone was moved by it. Lu Ziyun immediately asked the key point: "Thank you General Liu, Major General Zhang's kindness! This time, the division commander Liu came to help us brothers a lot, and the brothers are really grateful! To be honest, the military pay here is about to come to the bottom. The brothers fought hard for so long, but they owe two months of military pay. If General Liu had not kindly helped him, he would probably have to run out of food and ammunition tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Not to mention the injured brothers here, they would have unfortunately sacrificed nearly a hundred people every day due to shortage of medicinal materials. With this batch of medicinal materials, at least they could save the lives of thousands of brothers."
He slowed down and said, "If we are appointed by General Liu, we should be controlled by General Liu. I wonder how General Liu can help us!"
Zhang Yi said confidently with breast augmentation: "As long as you say, the money will come immediately!"
The officers looked at him, but it turned out to be a check of 300,000 yuan. Zhang Yilong continued: "Our division commander had already purchased 500,000 insurgent and bullets and 10,000 artillery shells at the Hanyang Arsenal in Hubei Province. All of them were stored in Shimen. In addition, there were 5,000 stones of military rations, 1,000 boxes of medicines, and tens of thousands of sets of military uniforms in Shimen! As long as you say a word, you can immediately drive to Baoding to help Commander-in-Chief Lu!"
Liu Jingxiao has seven Southeastern provinces with extremely rich wealth. These military funds and military salaries are only a small expense. However, for these officers who have been fighting for a long time, they are really rich from the sky: "Not only that, the division commander can subsidize military salaries of 50,000 yuan per month, and ammunition will be supplied as appropriate. In addition, the division commander and the Shimen General Chamber of Commerce agreed that Commander Lu made contributions to the bloody battle in the front, and the rear naturally tried his best to help!"
Lu Ziyun was happy. He raised military pay everywhere in Baoding, but there were not many traditional Shimen lands in Shimen, but the Shimen General Chamber of Commerce has only donated 5,000 yuan. The Pinghan Railway has a lot of water, but he is only willing to donate 8,000 yuan. As for the departments, they set up their own defense zones to raise their own funds. He, the leader of the alliance, could not intervene. He has only raised 160,000 yuan so far after he went out of the army in Mancheng. He was also in great difficulty and could not help but blurt out: "Okay! OK! OK!"
"Our division commander and various departments agreed that the Pinghan Railway will pay 30,000 yuan a month, the Shimen General Chamber of Commerce will pay 50,000 yuan a month, the coal mine will pay 20,000 yuan a month, and the Jinzhou Province will pay 10,000 yuan a month! If you win a battle, you will raise rewards from various departments!"
Lu Ziyun had no foundation, and Liu Jingxiao was in charge of the seven provinces. He said 10,000 words to Lu Ziyun. Lu Ziyun thought to himself: "What a good guy! I have worked so hard for only 160,000 yuan. I have more than 30,000 people, 200,000 taels a month is barely enough!"
He immediately asked, "Brothers are not talented, I have been loved by Teacher Liu! I wonder if the teacher has any advice?"
He also imitated Zhang Yilong to call him "Teacher Commander". Zhang Yilong said: "The commander said that autumn harvest is approaching, and the food in Hebei must not be controlled by the enemy!"
The granary of Northern China is roughly the area in central Hebei and southern Hebei, so the area around Baoding Daming is the essence of Northern China. This year's weather is responsible for the bumper harvests in various parts of North China. Lu Ziyun naturally does not want to let military rations be given to the enemy. He smiled and said, "I understand!"
All the rebels have some free people, but everyone is willing to be incorporated by Liu Jingxiao. After all, there is such a supporter, and the future is too obvious. Zhang Yilong immediately issued an inclusion order: "The commander-in-chief of the Hebei Anti-Enemy Volunteer Alliance has temporarily organized two armies, six divisions, and one independent division, and six independent regiments! They are all organized in the three-three system, and the specific personnel will be arranged by Commander-in-Chief Lu Ziyun!"
There are more than a thousand people in these rebels who claim to be the first division. Liu Jingxiao's policies are incorporated according to their strength, but they are much more relaxed than regular troops. Liu Jingxiao's infantry army can reach about 30,000, but Lu Ziyun's army can fight only 20,000 troops, but Liu Jingxiao gave the number of twenty-eight regiments. Not only that, Lu Ziyun also received a heavy gift: Zhang Yilong continued: "The division commander decided that the county government of the 36 counties in the war zone in the central and western Hebei region shall be fully responsible for the county government, and the taxes shall be handled by General Lu!"
Lu Ziyun was naturally very satisfied. He shouted: "Brothers! Let's continue to besiege Baoding!"
The Liefeng Army in the mainland of Baoding was completely unaware of the changes outside the city. There were nearly 20,000 generals and soldiers in the city, and there were still continuous reinforcements on the Pinghan Road. Although the supply of the Sixth Front Army in Cangzhou occupied the first place, after the Tielites sent troops, the North China Front Army naturally had extra troops.
After all, Baoding is the outpost of Beijing. If Baoding loses Beijing, it is difficult to protect it. It is still possible to use three independent mixed brigades on this secondary front. In fact, the Tieles are unwilling to fight a tough battle in Cangzhou. The North China Front Army has already planned to use all 50,000 Tieles to use the secondary battlefield in Baoding.
The 6th Independent Mixed Brigade who arrived in Baoding had not seen Lu Ziyun's power. After a short rest, he dispatched an independent infantry brigade, an artillery squadron, and a cavalry squadron to sweep the whole city. This is the famous "Second Victory in the whole city".
"Don't be near Baoding, don't attack at the scale of an infantry brigade." This is a bloody lesson from the Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade, but today it will be back on the Sixth Independent Mixed Brigade.
As soon as the 1,400 Liefeng Army arrived at the border of the city, they had been besieged by a large number of troops who had been replaced with new military uniforms. When the Liefeng Army was on the rise, they did not pay attention. However, the number of troops was increasing and the morale was high, so they immediately attacked the reinforcement brigade.
Liu Jingxiao gave Lu Ziyun's troops a lot of assistance. All the officers and soldiers wore uniforms and added thousands of rifles. They had enough food and ammunition. Liu Jingxiao even transferred two twelve-pound mountain howitzer battalions. After Liu Jingxiao's appointment, Lu Ziyun found that he was very convenient and cooperated very well in the local area. There were even more than a thousand teams coming to join him. In the name of a battalion commander.
In a short period of time, the Hebei Volunteer Alliance expanded to more than 40,000 people. In this case, this independent infantry brigade became a victim of Lu Ziyun. First, after a dense rain of bullets, the vanguard squadron had already been blown by the strong wind, with half of the casualties, and the main force of the brigade attacked rashly. As a result, the coalition forces assembled a large number of artillery bombardment, and a large number of shells were smashed down, causing huge casualties and injuries in the formation of the Fiery Feng people.
Next was called "the most terrifying volleyball volleyball in history". When the two infantry squadrons of the Liefeng people rushed past the artillery, the coalition forces had been ambushing for a long time suddenly opened fire, and about three thousand rifles were fired at the same time. The two infantry squadrons had nowhere to escape in the rain of bullets, and were killed almost all the entire army.
When Captain Shanqi was in charge of the troops, there were only 587 Liefeng Army left by his side, which even included the wounded. The periphery was a Volunteer Alliance of Two Divisions. It was just that the Volunteer Alliance was not good at organizing village attacks, which gave the Liefeng Army a chance to escape, but it was just a matter of knowing.
After all, this is a brand new local unit. When Baoding Independent Mixed Brigade learned that Mancheng was in a tough battle, he immediately sent an infantry brigade to contact him. As a result, the contact task was completed smoothly: a small team leader of this brigade rushed into the encirclement with two soldiers and said to Yamamoto Captain: "My brigade is completely destroyed, and only three of us are here to contact friendly forces."
Yamazaki would never forget this squadron leader in his life, but there was actually about a squadron coming to the rescue brigade to meet with the third brigade that came out to respond, and then was surrounded by Lu Ziyun again 20 kilometers west of Baoding City. After losing three infantry brigades, Baoding's Liefeng Army finally organized three brigades to come for rescue. From then on, Baoding Liefeng Army never dared to act as a single infantry brigade.
After fourteen days of rest, the Liefeng Army in Cangzhou finally showed signs of attack. Fighting contacts between the two sides occurred frequently on the front line. Liefeng domestic factories urgently built a large number of artillery shells and transported them to the front and back. At the same time, the North China Army and the South Manchu Army supported a large amount of ammunition. In this case, the number of ammunition possessed by the Sixth Front Army, with the Eleventh Army as the backbone, exceeded the total consumption of the last general offensive, and could be further replenished.
But at this time, Liu Jingxiao was frowning at another question. He asked Director Xiong on the side: "This information is accurate? I must have the exact information."
Director Xiong simply said: "It's true and true! There is no falsehood!"
Liu Jingxiao shook her head and said, "I really chose a good opportunity! I fought with the Liefeng people in Cangzhou. He is going to take this opportunity to give me a knife, what's the matter!"
Ding Ning said simply: "Teacher, you come and take charge! I'll just take three teachers!"
Liu Jingxiao smiled bitterly and said, "Where did the three teachers come from? If there were really three extra teachers, I would have slept soundly!"
Since the launch of troops in Hebei, the consumption of the Liu army has reached an amazing point. In two months, the total casualties exceeded 50,000, of which more than 20,000 were killed or killed. Most of the elite troops of the coalition forces were transferred to the front line of Cangzhou, and even provincial military advisors who could fight were transferred. The backbone and complete forces within each province have relied on a group of newly established provincial military advisors.
Now on the front line of Cangzhou, the total strength of the 11th Army has increased to 220,000, while the total strength of the Sixth Front Army exceeds 300,000. In addition, there is the Xuzhou Seventh Division that threatens Cangzhou from the flanks. The total strength of the Liu Army has exceeded 200,000.
"The biggest battle in the history of the Republic!" This is a recognized fact. If Liu Jingxiao has three infantry divisions that can fight, he would not have to sleep. He continued: "We are too big, and we must retain some troops to maintain public order in each province, and we must also keep one or two reserve units in Cangzhou! After all, it would be nice to draw two infantry regiments!"
Ding Ning smiled: "Teacher! This is not the time to return to Yanglou Department!"
Liu Jingxiao slapped and said, "Well, what are you afraid of! How many troops did the Xiang army in the Yanglou Si have? We only have four infantry battalions. We fought for seven days and seven nights. If he dared to offend the world's worst, we would also take out four infantry battalions to deal with him!"
Ding Ning praised repeatedly: "The teacher's heroic spirit remains unchanged, which is really gratifying!"
Liu Jingxiao smiled and said, "What are you afraid of! I am a person who started from scratch. At most, I will work hard again. I still have time!"
As he was speaking, he heard the violent rumbling sound of cannons, which stirred up huge waves of sound. The violent shock wave shattered the glass of the headquarters. Liu Jingxiao smiled and said, "Let's deal with the Liefeng people first, and then bring four infantry battalions to deal with him!"
Ding Ning said: "The Liefeng people have started to attack! I'll go inspect!"
Liu Jingxiao nodded and said, "No hurry! No hurry! Liefeng people are very conscious. I think they are launching shelling on the left wing, but their offensive focus may not be on the left wing!"
Ding Ning nodded, and Liu Jingxiao said again: "I'll have lunch first! I may have a chance to have lunch tea!"
After the first general attack experience, the Liefeng people had no chance to win a fortress with a strong attack, so they could only use corpses and gunpowder to blast the fortress. In order to attack, the Liefeng people drew a large number of combat engineers.
Sure enough, the left-wing artillery battle has not stopped yet. At twelve noon, the Liefengren suddenly launched artillery fire preparations on the right wing. Liu Jingxiao said suddenly: "Not right."
Ding Ning listened carefully to the howling sound of cannons and said, "It's really wrong."
Director Xiong is an officer from the intelligence department and has sharp ears. He immediately asked, "What kind of cannon is this?"
Chapter completed!