"Reporting to the leader, Zhang Zuolin, the 8th Field Army, and the commander of the 191st Regiment of the 19th Division, was ordered to report."

Chen Jingang nodded, looked at the small officer in front of him, and said, "You are Zhang Zuolin!"

Zhang Zuolin was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said, "Yes, I am Zhang Zuolin." In fact, Zhang Zuolin was also very strange. Almost every new leader who saw him would ask this question after he had reported his number, position, and name. Someone asked his son if he was named Zhang Xueliang, which made Zhang Zuolin feel a little puzzled. He also found an opportunity to ask his boss Ouyang Longxing. As a result, Ouyang Longxing told Zhang Zuolin that he was the first local forces in the Northeast to defect to East China, and he performed well, becoming a typical representative, and was very famous in the People's Army, so other leaders wanted to see him. Zhang Zuolin was quite happy when he heard this, and he didn't think it was strange in the future.

Chen Jingang said: "The train is about to reach Chifeng in one hour. Are the camps ready?"

Zhang Zuolin said: "Report to the Chief, everything is ready as required. Please rest assured, Chief."

Chen Jingang said: "Well! I have met your Commander Ouyang in Jinzhou. I heard that you are very reassuring to do things. I know that Commander Ouyang's vision is important, but this time it is important and there is no need to be careless at all, so you can take me to the camp to take a look first."

Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "Yes, please come with me, not far from the train station."

As he said that, several soldiers led a few horses and boarded the horses together. Under Zhang Zuolin's leadership, they left the railway station. After about 10 minutes, they arrived at the military base of the People's Army stationed in Chifeng.

Chifeng is now an important garrison for the East China ** in Mongolia. Although there is only one regiment station here, the base is at the division level. The main road entering the base is paved with cinders and is very flat, extending from the train station to the inside of the base. The outer edge of the base is made of wooden fences and barbed wire. It is about 4 meters high and is covered with vines, which can completely block the view. There is also a 4-5-meter-wide trench on the outside. A tower is built every 20-30 meters, and soldiers are stationed on it and look very tightly. Chen Jingang nodded, at least it looks satisfactory from the outside.

Everyone completed the entry procedures at the entrance of the base, and then entered the base with Zhang Zuolin. Zhang Zuolin pointed to the base main road, separated the area with a 2-meter-high iron net and tied several rows of dark green tents, and said, "Chief, it's here."

Chen Jingang looked immediately and saw that the open space was about the size of a football field, with an exit on each side, and several rows of tents were tied on both sides, leaving a piece of open space about 40 meters wide in the middle.

Zhang Zuolin said: "This open space is the largest reserved land closest to the door. After receiving the order from Commander Ouyang, I ordered the encirclement of the place and set up a tent."

Everyone entered the iron net enclosure and got off the open space in the middle. Chen Jingang stepped on the ground with great force, obviously hardening. He went into several tents and looked at them, gestured at the door of the tent, measured the size of the door, nodded, and said, "Very good." He looked at Zhang Zuolin again and said, "Captain Zhang, you did a good job, I will tell your Commander Ouyang."

Zhang Zuolin hurriedly said, "There are all things I should do."

Chen Jingang took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and said, "Okay, the train is about to arrive. Let's go to the train station to pick it up."

Everyone left the camp and returned to the railway station. At this time, there were soldiers guarding the People's Army at the entrance of the railway station, and several soldiers seemed to be looking around. When they saw Chen Jingang and others, an officer rushed over immediately, saluted Chen Jingang, and said, "Hello, Chief."

Zhang Zuolin carefully observed his epaulette and saw that it was a company commander. Chen Jingang nodded and said, "Company Commander Zhao, has the train arrived?"

Chief Zhao said: "Report to the Chief, it's been 10 minutes since we arrived, and we're waiting for the Chief to give orders."

Chen Jingang said, "Okay, go in and have a look first." As he said that, he took the lead in entering the train station, and Zhang Zuolin, Company Commander Zhao and others followed him closely.

Zhang Zuolin followed Chen Jingang to the platform and saw that a train was parked on the platform at this time. Each carriage had no roof and surrounding walls, but just a base plate. There was nothing on the base plate. It was covered with canvas bags and tied with ropes. On the edge of the carriage, there were many soldiers gathered in groups of three or three.

Seeing Chen Jingang bringing people over, a soldier came over and said, "Old Chen, didn't you arrive first? You ran there."

Chen Jingang said: "I went to the camp to take a look before I rushed back from the camp."

The man said, "Okay, okay, can you unload the truck now?"

Chen Jingang said: "Okay, I've visited the camp and prepared well. Now I'm unloading the car and going to the camp."

The man said, "Okay!" and immediately shouted to the others: "Unload the truck, unload the truck."

After hearing this, the others also took action, unbuttoned the rope, pulled off the canvas, and exposed the things inside.

Zhang Zuolin looked carefully and saw that the thing looked very strange. It was the size of a carriage, made of steel, with a large body and a small roof. There were 5 solid iron wheels on each side, but there was still a circle of iron belts on the wheel, and a cannon was installed at the front of the top cover, but the caliber was only 5 or 60 mm. Zhang Zuolin had also seen many cannons, but the caliber of this cannon was completely disproportionate to its body.

After pulling off the canvas and untiing the tied steel cable, other soldiers got into the car, either uncovered the lid from the roof or the body of the car, and got in.

Zhang Zuolin saw it for some reason and asked Chen Jingang: "Chief, this is...what is this?"

Chen Jingang laughed and said, "This is our new weapon. This time we attack Mongolia, it all depends on them."

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It turned out that the East China ** planned to launch a limited attack on Mongolia in early 1908, with the goal of including all the areas from Chifeng to Manzhouli in the control of East China **. On the one hand, it was to expand the influence of East China ** on the Mongolian region, and on the other hand, it was to ensure the safety of the Binman Line of the Middle East Railway.

For this war, East China ** began to prepare in 1907. The establishment of a military base in Chifeng was part of the preparations. It was also planned to establish a cavalry base in East China in Mongolia after the completion of this war.

But just after the mission of the East China National University of Germany set off, the situation in Mongolia also changed drastically. It turned out that with the support of Russia, the Mongolian aristocratic forces headed by Tserzundamba VIII decided to be an enemy of the East China National University of China and planned to implement Mongolia's independence.

Although the East China *** in the Mongolian-controlled area was not large and the population was not large, its influence was very huge and far-reaching. Because the East China ** liberated the herdsmen and punished a group of nobles who had committed many evil and were extremely angry, and dispersed their livestock and property to the herdsmen. Although most of the livestock and property of the nobles who had few evils were still retained, their pastoral areas were taken back to state and distributed evenly to the herdsmen.

In this way, the herdsmen have their own livestock and property, and there are pastoral areas to grazed. At the same time, the East China National Congress organized caravans to trade with the herdsmen on the grasslands, so they could be completely independent in economic terms and no longer rely on noble heads. Although the noble heads still have livestock and property, they did not have herders to serve them. Some people could only hire people to work at a high price, while others took the livestock and property and fled the controlled areas of East China National Congress. In short, although the East China National Congress did not enter the Mongolian region for a long time, what they did was to overturn the tradition of the Mongolian grasslands for nearly a thousand years.

The Mongolian nobles naturally hated the behavior of the East China Supreme, but ordinary Mongolian herders who knew all this were full of expectations for the East China Supreme. Some of the brave ones mainly fled to the controlled areas of the East China Supreme, while those who did not dare to escape were hoping that the East China Supreme could fight to rescue them. But some of the nobles ran to Kulun and complained to Zhebuzundanba VIII, hoping that Zhebuzundanba VIII could organize an army, defeat the East China Supreme, and restore their previous life.

Although Tserzundamba VIII was also very annoyed, he was the current supreme ruler of Mongolia after all, and he still had some understanding of the world trend. Even world-class powers like Russia and Japan were defeated by East China, which was definitely not an opponent that Mongolia could deal with. Moreover, the area controlled by East China was still far from Kulun. The upper Mongolians did not feel the personal threat, so they did not intend to be completely hostile to East China. On the contrary, they were more inclined to negotiate with East China, and they did not even rule out the possibility of surrendering to East China. As long as East China, like the Qing court, adopts Mongolian autonomy or co-governance policies, this can ensure the wealthy life and power of the Mongolian high-level officials.

Although Zhebuzundanba VIII hopes that Mongolia can escape from the Qing court and establish itself as a country, I also know that if you want to truly establish a country, you must wait for the opportunity. Before the time comes, you can only endure it and get along with all the major forces. You can use the strength to use the strength. When you should be hard, you must also weaken your posture, and sometimes you can even endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens.

However, after Tao Ke Taohu, who was defeated by the People's Army in the Jinzhou Battle, fled to Kulun and met with Zhebuzundanba VIII, the attitude of the upper-class people in Mongolia changed. The news that Tao Ke Taohu brought to Kulun was that the purpose of East China was to rule the entire inner and outer Mongolian region, and to use their system to turn ordinary herders over and suppress the nobles and heads of the nobles, and to completely change the social system of Mongolia for hundreds of years. Therefore, Mongolia could only be tough on East China to the end, compromise and surrender were all dead. Tao Ke Taohu was the person in Mongolia who took the lead in fighting the Qing court's land reclamation policy. There were many people in Mongolia, because they were people who wanted to split Mongolia from the Qing court, and they even regarded Tao Ke Taohu as a banner of ****. His words also had a certain amount in Kulun.
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