Part 6 Chapter 34 Walking in the Front

A far-sighted leader always makes his subordinates feel awe. However, as a subordinate of Chen Congyun, even a senior official at the core of national rights such as Tang Shaoyi and Aftershock, his mentality towards Chen Congyun is not just as simple as awe.

As the elites of this era, these core members of the rights of the state are undoubtedly contemporary elites. Their understanding of this era is ahead of the Chinese people, but when they stand in front of Shen Congyun, they feel that the leader's judgment of the future has almost never deviated. Some of the preparations made more than ten years ago seemed nothing great at the time, but now they have played a terrifying role.

As policy executors, it feels good to walk ahead of the world every step, but as an elite who takes the national rights, when every step is in the leader's design, every step is extremely correct. When I was alone at home in the middle of the night, I thought of these things and sleeping with nightmares. I could not have any resistance to the leader Chen Congyun.

Aftershock's mood is a bit complicated now. As a firm follower of Chen Congyun, although Chen Congyun gave him the most in power, many times everything he did was in the mastery of Shen Congyun. This mastery is not in specific things, but in the general direction. This direction of the development of the army is exactly like this. Chen Congyun drew a contour, and aftershock and others did specific things. Among them, the army that was beyond the times, such as the garrison troops, which had been independent of the cavalry division, was the result of Chen Congyun's direct intervention.

All these aftershocks were still a bit difficult to understand at first. At least in the military concept of the aftershocks, a fully mechanized army was still unimaginable. However, now facing the red flag marked on the map, the aftershocks felt a sense of shock and fear again.

With the First Independent Cavalry Division and the First Garrison Division as the main trunk, and the advancement speed of the rapid army composed of the First Army of the Northern Military Region, it advances towards Ekaterin Arbor at a speed of 150 kilometers per day. This speed is unimaginable if it is the traditional infantry.

The Russian army continued to resist small scale along the way, but it could not stop the speed of the rapid army's advancement speed, and it was not even considered delayed. On the way from Omsk to Yekaterin Arbor, they encountered three blockings of Russian troops in divisions. However, the two mechanized arrows of the First Independent Cavalry Division and the First Garrison Division advanced together and echoed north and south, and along the way, the Russian army could not form an effective slow blocking in front of the attacks of hundreds of tanks. Four days, four days before and after, the tanks of the First Garrison Division drove into the right flank of Yekaterin Arborbor. The iron hoof of the First Independent Cavalry Division appeared at the back gate of Chelyabinsk. When the two mechanized divisions met at the city of Ufa, the first army that followed also came up. Behind the First Army was a train and a car, following the powerful support of the Northern Army.

The 200,000 Russian Far East Army group urgently pieced together by the Provisional Government, made dumplings in just one week. The only way out was to turn around and fight a bloody road to escape westward, so as to avoid the result of annihilation of the entire army.

At this time, aftershock was thinking that although there were only two mechanized divisions now, ten heavy-duty garbage dump plants in the three northeastern provinces were working day and night, and two more mechanized divisions could be armed in at most half a year. Although it was still a bit unsatisfactory, being able to do this was already the limit of China's heavy military industry.

"According to the current progress speed, if the Russian Far East Army can be completely eliminated within one week and then continue to advance, it will be as slow as two months and as fast as 45 days, and the fast army will appear under the city of Moscow. At that time, the Russian problem will be basically solved." Duan Qirui, in a good mood, said with a smile on the side. Aftershock nodded slightly after hearing this: "After sorting out the battle report ahead, we will quickly report this good news to the president."

The two were packing up their things and going out to go upstairs. When they were heading to Chen Congyun's special office in the headquarters, the door was already pushed away with a bang. Two guards stood at the door with submachine guns, and Chen Congyun then stepped in.

"You are all here, just as I have news here to inform you. The Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Baltic Fleet have announced an uprising under the agitation of the Bolshevik Party. Petrograd also repelled three attacks from the Provisional Government. In the short term, Petrograd is not in danger. The two armies retreated from the German front have been resting in Bryansk and notified the front to make preparations for response."

As soon as Chen Congyun finished speaking, Aftershock asked carefully: "Sir, is the information of the Military Control Commission reliable? Why didn't the military's intelligence agencies receive this news?"

Chen Congyun showed a vicious expression and said, "The Military Administration spends 10 million yuan a year, and the number of personnel has grown from thousands to more than 100,000 people today. If you even get this information wrong, Zhao Xinglong should not do it. Just slap yourself and apologize."

Even aftershocks and others cannot know the detailed scale of the Military Control Bureau. This is the first time I heard Chen Congyun say it personally, and aftershocks and others may not believe it. However, after hearing that the scale of more than 100,000 people, Aftershocks and Duan Qirui were also slightly shocked. At present, the country calculated based on the silver standard of Long Yuan, the annual GDP is only 1.2 billion, and the annual expenditure of the Military Control Bureau is 10 million, which is also very scary.

After listening to Aftershock and Duan Qirui's report on the civil war situation in Russia, Chen Congyun expressed the custom of not interfering in specific commands, the adjutant outside the door knocked in and reported that Tang Shaoyi had something urgent to ask for a visit.

Chen Congyun had no choice but to smile at the two military bosses: "I am born to be hard-working." He said that, and hurriedly left and went to his own office.

Tang Shaoyi, who was waiting in the reception room, has lost weight in the past six months. Chen Congyun smiled and said with concern: "Brother Shaochuan, be careful and take care of your body. I think you are very thin."

Faced with Chen Congyun's care, Tang Shaoyi was not as pretentious as half of the officials, nor did he show off his face. Instead, he smiled faintly: "Sir, don't you tell me, don't you lose weight by yourself? The eyes are all black."

Chen Congyun looked at the earliest group of close friends who followed him to do things, and couldn't help but sigh: "We brothers should stop talking about these things. The difference between fifty and one hundred steps. Let's talk about serious things, why are you so anxious to see me?"

Tang Shaoyi sat upright and said seriously: "Two things, let's talk about the first thing first. More than 1,000 private banks in Liangjiang, Guangdong, and Huguang recently formed a financial association and offered to purchase 500 million treasury bonds. I think there is a weirdness in this matter. Why did these vampires suddenly find their conscience? I don't think they are so patriotic?"

When Chen Congyun heard this, his mind started to spin quickly and recalled an article I had seen before. It seemed that from 1800 to 1839, Britain imported a total of 460,000 boxes of opium imported from China, worth 350 million taels of silver; from the First and Second Opium War to the late Qing Dynasty, there were more than 2.9 million boxes of opium imported from China, worth more than 2.19 million taels of silver; from the Opium War reparations in the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty to the Boxer Indemnity of the Xinchou Treaty, and the Shimonoseki Treaty in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895,000 taels of silver; from the Opium War reparations in the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty, to the Sino-Chou Treaty indemnity of the Shimonoseki Treaty, and only five major treaty reparations, with principal and interest totaling more than 1.6 billion taels of silver.

These compensations far exceeded China's fiscal revenue, so the Qing government had to borrow money from the West at high interest rates, and even mortgaged customs and fiscal tax rights to foreign countries. According to relevant historical data, from 1895 to 1911, China suffered tariff losses of more than 6.9 billion taels of silver, and from 1917 to 1927, the loss of tariff revenue reached more than 10.9 billion silver dollars.

Based on the above content, it is not difficult to see a fact that without the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 and the Boxer Indemnity, after regaining the customs rights after the Sino-Russian War, after Shen Congyun took extremely violent means to ban opium at the beginning of his administration, the consumption of national strength was far less than that of real history. This means that in the past 20 years, with the support of Shen Congyun's various preferential policies, the amount of wealth hidden by the Chinese people has reached an astonishing number.

Private banks jumped out at this critical moment and wanted to buy 500 million treasury bonds in one go. On the surface, it seemed like a patriotic feat, but in fact it was a worry that after the country was involved in the war, private banks would be involved in it and suffered losses, so they had to take the initiative to bargain with the country. Tang Shaoyi probably saw the tricks in it, so he expressed his concern and vaguely had the idea of ​​dealing with these domestic bankers who were under the banner of patriotism and were actually negotiating with the country.

Thinking about this, Chen Congyun couldn't help but smile: "These guys are a little worried that the country will attack them. This is also the traditional idea left over from the low political status of the merchants in the Qing Dynasty. What I mean is not to attack them. You can adopt a guiding method, and you cannot do anything to kill chickens and retrieve eggs."

Tang Shaoyi thought about it and said a little dissatisfied: "You can't just indulge them like this. Since the founding of the Republic, you have vigorously advocated the development of industry and commerce, and gave them enough room for improvement in your political status. These troublemakers not only do not want to give back, but instead want to bargain with the government on the premise that the country urgently needs funds. I mean, you should give us instructions to the Central Bank of China and introduce some policies to hit this bastard."

Chen Congyun couldn't help but smiled bitterly. Tang Shaoyi's old thoughts were still very serious, and he often regarded himself as the emperor.

"I think this is better. You come forward to find Zhang Jian and suggest that the local rich people in the financial industry should look farther. If the country is better, they will be better. If the country is defeated in this battle, how many money can be left in their banks? In addition, let the newspapers expose this matter and let the world comment on it. The climate in public opinion matures, let the central bank ban the federation and express the government's attitude. Let the local rich people understand that they have not yet bargained with the country. In terms of specific operations, keep a low profile."

As soon as Chen Congyun said this, Tang Shaoyi was immediately happy. The Financial Federation was still a secret organization. The purpose of its establishment at this time was to be revealed in the newspaper and then give a slight hint. It is estimated that these private banks would arouse public anger. In the current climate, there will be a storm of bank runs. Naturally, different voices will appear within the Financial Federation, and it will soon split from the inside. After using this method to hit these local rich people, the country will come forward to protect them, and things will really be bright. That is, the issue of war bond issuance has also solved the problem of the issuance of war bonds, and these local rich people will be grateful and collapsed the financial federation while chatting and laughing.

"Gao, it's really high!" Chen Congyun spit out a mouthful of tea, a sip of tea. I'm not a Japanese devil, and Tang Shaoyi is not the commander of the puppet army.

After solving the first thing, Tang Shaoyi was in a good mood and took out a document and said: "Early early this morning, the United States sent a secret telegram, and the US government appointed Rou Keyi as the plenipotentiary representative, and negotiated whether China could announce its withdrawal from the war alone after the resolution of the Russian issue."

When Chen Congyun heard this, he was immediately happy and smiled and said, "What are the conditions offered by Americans?"

"A billion dollar interest-free loan, absolute support for the Russian issue, and the guarantee of the Allies after the war," Tang Shaoyi said with ridiculous expressions of these conditions, Chen Congyun also smiled sarcastically when he heard this.

"Just, the eleven dollar loan will still have to be paid after all. The United States and the Allied Powers have nothing to say, right? Negotiations are OK, and it is also good to delay time. My requirements are not high. The United States and the Allied Powers withdrew from Asia and also gave the Suez Canal to China. I promised these conditions and I ordered a truce."

Chen Congyun's lion spoke very much and was very fond of Tang Shaoyi's appetite. The two of them laughed at each other, and they were fighting to death. Isn't it just because they had negotiated a spoils with Germany? These benefits can be obtained without fighting, so of course they are unlucky. However, let alone the Allies withdrew from Asia, just India, the British would probably not agree to let go. Chen Congyun and Tang Shaoyi knew that if they opened such a price list, the British would probably have to jump three meters high, so everyone should continue to fight.

"Recently, some domestic people have been playing the old tune again, saying that the warlike people are forgot about Guo Heng. Humph, the world is safe, and forgetting war will lead to danger. They don't think about whether the recovery of national rights and interests since the founding of the Republic was not recaptured by war. The Qing Dynasty did not want to fight, and they always regarded harmony as the most important thing. What's the result? The little Japanese dared to come to the door. After all, these people are a group of corrupt scholars!" Tang Shaoyi said angrily, picking up a can of tea on the coffee table and put it in his pocket without hesitation.

Chen Congyun saw it and couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Shaochuan, your hands are too dark, right? The hairy tip produced on the top of the Lotus Peak in Huangshan is less than half a catty every year, but you'll get half of it once a day."

Tang Shaoyi smiled with no embarrassment and said, "Why are you polite to you? Where did you put the wild Dahongpao in Wuyi Mountain? Give me half a pound."

Chen Congyun burst out laughing, lowered his head and opened the drawer, took out a prepared paper bag from it, put it on the table and said, "I knew you would do this, so I have prepared it for you. By the way, your niece Tang Jing, what are you busy with recently? Mrs. Ziyu also told me yesterday that this girl had just called to greet her recently and hadn't come to her house for half a month."

"Haha, that girl is busy preparing her luggage. She plans to go to the front line with a medical team recently."

"Is that so? Haha, this girl... Forget it, they are all adults, just let her do whatever she wants."

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A touch of white appeared at dawn, and a slight and dense trembling sound came from the ground in the distance. The artillery fire preparations before the Russian army broke through, turning the first-line position built by the infantry into a sea of ​​fire, causing no damage to the armored forces hidden on the second-line position on the right.

Chen Liyao leaned his head outside the tank, holding a telescope and staring ahead. There were countless Cossack cavalry that had already set up charge formations. In order to break through the fast-track defense line of the fast-track army, the Russian army gathered four cavalry divisions on the right side, intending to break through in one fell swoop. These cavalry who had once glorious were destined to be unable to write glory this time.

In response to the Russian army's arrangement, Yang Zhi and Yang Army, the two families, jointly formulated a combat plan with Shen Yiyang, with two infantry troops on the middle line to defend, and two mechanized divisions on both wings. The front line formed a front line with infantry, and the rear line with tanks as assault force. While the Russian army launched an attack, the tank troops suddenly launched a counterattack. The Armored Brigade of the First Garrison Division where Chen Liyao was located happened to be the main force of the counterattack on the right.

"The Russians' artillery fire concentration is really not very good!" Chen Congyun said silently in his heart, staring at the dense sound of horse hooves faintly coming from behind the faint morning mist in the distance.

The heavy artillery troops of the army began to suppress firepower. For mobility reasons, the number of heavy artillery was not much better than that of the Russian army, but it was enough to filter the Russian cavalry several times.

"The Cossack cavalry began to accelerate and attack!" Chen Liyao, who received the order from the regiment commander, roared excitedly, hid in the tanks in the woods, and rushed out with a rub.

This is a battle that Chen Congyun will never forget. When the iron stream composed of tanks rushed out of the hiding woods and rushed over to the screaming Cossack cavalry, the brave cavalry braved the fire of artillery and machine guns, waved their sabers and rode their horses closer, and then slashed around the tank, and finally fell under the tank's tracks.

The armored brigade advanced rapidly like a sharp dagger, quickly rushing the Cossack cavalry's storm-former formation, and the artillery and machine gun configuration were harvesting life frantically. Then the infantry followed up quickly jumped down from wheeled and tracked chariots, and expanded the results of the armored brigade in an orderly manner.

Less than three hours before, the Russian cavalry's breakthrough was completely defeated. Chen Liyao's mind was always filled with the tinging bullets hitting the tank, and the sound of Dangdang's saber slashing on the tank. All of this seemed to be the last masterpiece interpreted by the Cossack cavalry with flesh and blood.

The four Cossack cavalry divisions that took the initiative to attack were wiped out, and the armored brigade also brought several Russian artillery positions. Of course, under the Russian artillery fire, more than a dozen tanks were injured.

When Chen Liyao received the order to stop the attack, he learned from the regiment headquarters that the Armored Brigade was advancing too fast and the infantry behind him had fallen ten kilometers away.

After receiving the order to stop the attack, everything that happened on the battlefield just now appeared in Chen Liyao's mind. After the final tenacity of the Russian soldiers was quickly destroyed, the fear and numbness in their eyes were deeply imprinted in Chen Liyao's mind. As a soldier, Chen Liyao, who was determined to follow his father's footsteps, was thinking about a question at the first time. Will this battle mode completely change the pattern of the entire world's ground war in the future?

Chen Yiyang was also thinking about the same problem. In just three hours of battle, Chen Congyun, the leader of the Republic's army, once again highlighted the forward-looking nature of Chen Congyun's understanding. Concentrating the use of tanks as assault forces is the focus of the new tactics that Chen Congyun repeatedly emphasized? At present, the First Garrison Division has only one armored brigade, what will happen in the future? If the entire First Garrison Division is fully tanked, it will be equipped with two infantry divisions with infantry fighting vehicles as the main transportation force, and adopt a rapid advancement large-scale assault strategy? What impact will it have on the development of tactical theory in the whole world?
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