Zhao Shouhong took office immediately without any hesitation, and began to exercise his power drastically. Soon he had a few more capable subordinates in his hands.

In the past few days, Zhou Daogang and other six good friends walked around the place under Zhao Shouhong's rule, and they were all impressed by Zhao Shouhong.After Pan Wenhua vaguely revealed to them the Vanguard Party's idea of ​​saving the country, these passionate young people expressed their willingness to join. After passing the lie detector test at the space hospital, they soon joined the Hualan Vanguard Party.

Zhou Daogang and the other three are still serving in the new army. In addition, Xu Haiqing, who worked in the Army Primary School, was also transferred to the No.30 Sanxie as the standard commander.Hu Jingyi added the Army Elementary School, which he was the general manager of, to Zhongchuan Army University as its elementary school to train reserve talents.Hu Jingyi himself was also appointed as the office of the Zhongchuan Army University. Together with Jiang Fangzhen, he was responsible for the daily work of the school, and was mainly responsible for the overall arrangement of the non-commissioned officer branch school.

Zhang Yi was a rigorous and watertight person, and he was taciturn and had a keen sense of observation. Zhao Shouhong was also a good person, and he was appointed as the general office of the Patrol Bureau, which was considered to be responsible for the daily work of his nominal general office.

Chapter 178

Half a month later, the Patrol Bureau was established in Shudu, and the first patrol team soon appeared on the streets of Chengdu.Zhao Shouhong fully delegated the power of the Patrol Bureau to Zhang Yi, and asked him to expand the staff as much as possible to stabilize the law and order of the entire Zhongchuan. With the support of the Brothers and Elders Association, I believe their work will be very easy.

The personnel changes of the new army were quickly reported after discussion by several senior officials.Sensing the critical situation in Zhongchuan, the Empress Dowager quickly responded, and all their proposals were passed.Among them, Zhou Daogang was transferred to the position of the 33rd Association, and Pan Wenhua was transferred back to the 34th Association to serve as the Association. Wu Ziyu was appointed as the new No.17 town new army commander because of his meritorious service in suppressing bandits.

The supervisors of the patrol battalion were directly appointed by the Shangguan, and Zhao Shouhong was not polite about this, and soon his list of supervisors of the patrol battalion came out.To everyone's surprise, this list is full of people who have just graduated from the military training school, including Zhu Daizhen, Wang Bailing, Li Jishen, Yu Feipeng, Gao Yuhan and Xiong Chengji, and their troops are also in the guard team. The veterans of the Independent Regiment were filled in. As for the former officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion, he directly sent money to dismiss them.

Zhao Shouhong knew in his heart that although these patrol battalions were small in size, they were the most important weapon for him to hide his power in the future, so he naturally needed someone close to him to take charge.The six newly appointed leaders are all members of the Vanguard Party, and they are all passionate young people who grew up under his ideological education, and their loyalty to him can be guaranteed.

The establishment of the patrol battalion is very small. According to the post-Golden military system, the patrol battalion is divided into cavalry and infantry. Among them, the cavalry battalion has a total of 189 officials, soldiers, soldiers and husbands, and 135 horses. Three whistles to the right.There are 301 officers, officials, and husbands in the whole battalion, and each battalion is also divided into three posts: middle, left, and right.

Such a small establishment does not conform to the tactical principle at all, and once it goes to the battlefield, it will naturally be embarrassing and useless.Regarding this establishment, Zhao Shouhong completely broke it. Anyway, Zhongchuan Tiangao Emperor is far away, and his immediate boss, the governor, is his second grandfather. Therefore, Zhao Shouhong became bolder, and he began to reform the military system drastically.

The patrol battalion was staffed by Zhao Shouhong in accordance with the establishment of an independent brigade. The infantry platoon was composed of three infantry squads and one machine gun squad, with 12 soldiers in each infantry squad, all equipped with 12mm Phil rifles, that is, the official One of the Type [-] rifles compiled was a health soldier.Each machine gun squad consists of [-] people, equipped with a Mark heavy machine gun and two [-]mm mortars.

Each infantry company has three infantry platoons, a machine gun platoon and a 30-man train.Among them, the machine gun platoon has 40 people, with three Mark heavy machine guns and three 900mm mortars.The infantry battalion is prepared for 160 people, including three infantry companies, one machine gun company and one direct company.The machine gun company has 57 people and is equipped with six Mark heavy machine guns and three 110mm Krusen infantry guns.There are 35 people directly under the company, including a dressing station of 40 people, a special agent platoon of 35 people, and a reconnaissance platoon of [-] people.

The infantry regiment has three infantry battalions under its jurisdiction, and there is also a direct team, including a communications company, an engineering company, two supply companies, a reconnaissance and guard company, and a small field hospital.There is also an artillery battalion equipped with eight 76mm Krupp mountain guns, with a total of about 4000 people.Each independent brigade has two infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, reaching a establishment of more than 8000 people, which is similar to the new army in a town.

Of course, in order to prevent the imperial court from focusing its attention on Zhongchuan, the patrol battalion had the same structure on the surface, and most of the personnel were divided into various villages and towns as armed work teams, training the militia while conducting various trainings of their own.Even so, it was the first time that Zhao Shouhong had mastered a new type of army that was entirely his own, and this became his trump card in the future.

The expansion of underground forces is also in full swing. With the support of Zhao Shouhong and the new army, Hou Baozhai quickly annexed the underground forces in Shunqing Mansion.With the support of Zhao Shouhong, the police station will open the way for everything, and whoever dares to stop it is under the big hat of suppressing bandits and cleaning up the chaotic party.Even She Ying could only shrink her men, firmly guarding her own territory, not daring to make the slightest move.

While Zhao Shouhong was busy building a new patrol battalion, carrying out fully formalized training for it, and expanding his power from all aspects, Sun Wenhai was also intensively arranging various affairs for the uprising in Annan.As early as the beginning of the year, Sun Wenhai and Huang Bin arrived in Hanoi successively in order to plan the Zhennanguan armed uprising nearby.After much lobbying by Sun Wenhai, Huang Mingtang, the guerrilla leader who was active near Zhennan Pass and Namo, announced that he would accept Sun Wenhai's command, and he himself soon joined the Gongxinghui.

With Huang Mingtang and Guan Renfu holding hundreds of brave men, the uprising personnel will be settled.In order to make the uprising more secure, Sun Wenhai gathered all the donations from overseas Chinese in his hands, and the Gauls in Annan bought arms to prepare for the uprising. At this time, Sun Wenhai received another letter.

"Brother Huang, Hanmin, come and take a look, that Mr. Zhao has written again." Sun Yat-sen waved a letter in his hand, and said excitedly to Huang Xing and Hu Hanmin.

"Oh? Last time Zhang Taiyan criticized him like that in the newspaper, he was able to hold his breath and didn't come out to refute. Who would have thought that when we were about to start an uprising, he would write another letter?" Huang Bin became very interested. As for this Mr. Zhao, he and Sun Wenhai had made countless guesses, but they still couldn't figure it out.

"This is really a strange person. He actually knew that we were going to raise righteousness in Zhennanguan. He told me in the letter that we should pay attention to those officers of the new army who agreed to the uprising. He also said that once the imperial court puts pressure on the Gaul government, the Indochina colonial government will definitely intercept our weapons and ammunition, so all weapons and ammunition should be secretly transported to the border area in advance. He said as if he knew our overall plan, It's really funny."

Sun Wenhai laughed out loud, but Huang Bin couldn't laugh: "It doesn't seem right. The issues he said were indeed things I hadn't thought of before, and his deployment really coincided with ours."

The three of them looked at each other, Hu Hanmin said: "Could it be that this Mr. Zhao is beside us, and he also said that there is Mr. Zhao's person beside us?"

Sun Wenhai took out a piece of paper from the letter and waved it: "Look, this is a check for [-] Gallic francs, which can be cashed in Hanoi. Even if this Mr. Zhao is watching us, there is nothing wrong with it." malicious."

Chapter 179 The Zhennanguan Uprising

Huang Bin nodded and said: "He is indeed helping us, but what is his motive is beyond our ability to measure. If he uses our Gongxinghui as a bargaining chip to support the bandits, wouldn't we be marrying for others?" Clothes."

"You mean, this Mr. Zhao is Yuan Kui?" Hu Hanmin exclaimed.

Sun Wenhai shook his head: "Although this Mr. Zhao is mysterious, he has a detailed analysis of the constitutionalists and our revolutionaries. Yuan Wei does not have such ability. If he has such a wise man with insight, I am afraid that today's constitutionalists would have already It’s not like this situation of being suppressed by the empress dowager, so I think this Mr. Zhao is someone else.”

"Anyway, his suggestions are very useful, and I must deploy them immediately to avoid mistakes." Huang Bin got up and left immediately after speaking, and Hu Hanmin also left with him.

Looking at the letter in his hand and the check for [-] francs, a smile appeared on the corner of Sun Wenhai's mouth: "No matter who you are, no matter what your purpose is, at least you have made outstanding contributions to Hualan's revolutionary cause. When the revolution succeeds, I really want to see who you really are. I don’t agree with your point of view, but I will defend to the death your right to speak, this Mr. Zhao is still an interesting person.”

Because of this unexpected huge donation, Sun Wenhai was able to buy more guns and ammunition, and Huang Mingtang also expanded the recruitment of Xiangyong, and the army quickly increased to more than 600 people. On December [-]st, Huang Mingtang and Guan Renfu led [-] township warriors, equipped with the best quick guns, and headed secretly towards Zhennan Pass.

In the early morning of the [-]nd, Huang Mingtang got in touch with the Hou Jin army guarding the fort, and then they used ropes from the cliff to enter the Zhennan Fort.The more than a hundred post-gold troops guarding the fort were not equipped with many weapons except artillery. When they saw the opponent approaching aggressively, coupled with the agitation of the internal response, they raised their hands and surrendered after a little resistance.

Soon the Zhenzhong and Zhenbei fortresses also fell into the hands of the sneak attacking Xiangyong, and the rebel army took full control of the forts around Zhennanguan.After receiving the news that the fort had been occupied, hundreds of Xiangyong hidden in the border immediately started to act. They quickly transported the stored ammunition to the fort with a pole trolley to prepare for the ensuing attack of the Jin army.

I heard that the Revolutionary Party occupied the fort, and many nearby farmers and stragglers came to seek refuge. The Revolutionary Army soon expanded to a size of more than a thousand people.At this time, Sun Wenhai and others also got the news. He, Hu Hanmin, Huang Bin and others rode quickly to Zhennan Pass.

The Jin Army finally reacted the next day, and they quickly mobilized thousands of people to besiege the three major forts.Facing the attack of the Houjin army, the revolutionary army coped calmly, cheered by dozens of cannons on three forts, and the attack of the Houjin army was immediately frustrated.When the battle was at its most intense, Sun Wenhai even fired the cannon himself, and with the assistance of the artillery commander, every cannon was sure to hit. After the bombing, the Jin army retreated again and again.

"I have opposed the Houjin government for more than [-] years, and today I have to personally bombard the Houjin army." Sun Wenhai sighed after firing the cannon.It was the first time he visited the battlefield of the uprising in person, and Sun Wenhai felt that he had inexhaustible strength in his body.Not only did he personally bombard the Houjin Army, but he also used the medical knowledge he had learned before to rescue the wounded everywhere on the battlefield, which greatly inspired the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army.

The news of the fall of the Zhennanguan Fort quickly spread to the imperial capital through telegrams. The important ministers who had just been summoned because of the uprising of the Zhongchuan Revolutionary Party were gathered together again, but this time the Empress Dowager did not show up. The meeting was hosted by Prince Qing. host.

Zaifeng Tieliang's party members ate and waited to die as usual, and couldn't come up with a good strategy at all, so Yikuang could only ask Yuan Kai again for advice.Yuan Kai said with a smile: "Last time I said that I would strengthen the new national army, but now it is far away from the water and the near thirst is not quenched. Now Zhao Shouhong guards Zhongchuan to protect the innocent, but Zhennanguan is a bit different. This time the Revolutionary Party The number of rioters should not be large, otherwise they would not attack and enter the pass after occupying the fort, after all, they only had hundreds of Lu Rongting's men in front of them."

Yuan Kai's analysis was sensible and reasonable, and everyone present nodded their heads.Seeing that everyone agreed with his opinion, Yuan Kai felt more confident, and he continued: "I think there are two things that must be done at present. The revolutionary party rioted, and its arms and ammunition must be supplied from Hanoi. We must first note that Gaul, let it intercept the ammunition of the Revolutionary Party, so that it can cut off its aid. In addition, a strict order must be given to the generals in Guangshan, so that they must suppress the riot within ten days, otherwise they will be dismissed and sent to the imperial capital for questioning. In this way, they can To be able to press forward and quell this riot as soon as possible.”

"Okay, okay, Mr. Yuan is really good at handling things. It seems that as long as this is done, the revolutionary party will not be able to accomplish anything." Prince Qing smiled and clapped his hands in praise. Waiting for a group of people to turn pale, they don't know what they are thinking.

If in the original historical time and space, these two proposals of Yuan Kai would have played a role in drawing salary from the bottom of the pot, making the Zhennanguan Uprising fail as a result.It's a pity that in this time and space, Zhao Shouhong already knew the strategy he proposed and informed Sun Wenhai in advance, so that he could prepare in advance, and this Zhennanguan uprising will surely achieve greater results.

After receiving the strict order from the imperial court, officials of all sizes in Guangshan Province were in a hurry. Soon the governor of Guangshan Zhang Mingqi went to the front line of Zhennan Pass in person, and ordered the border guard supervisor Long Jiguang, commander Lu Rongting and others to drive thousands of post-Jin troops to attack the fort.Facing the advantage of the Houjin army's siege, the rebels had no fear. Relying on the fort, they bravely resisted the attack of the Houjin army.Only on the first day, the Houjin Army repelled seven charges, causing it to suffer heavy losses.

Because there were only ten days, Zhang Mingqi did not dare to be negligent, and he immediately sent a telegram to order the post-gold troops from all over the country to gather at Zhennanguan to listen.Soon Chen Bingkun, Huang Futing, Zeng Shaohui and others who belonged to Guangshan came to support with the Houjin Army from the headquarters, and the Houjin Army gathered nearby had reached more than 20 battalions.

The Hou Jin army had a large number of people, and they quickly blocked the roads to Longzhou, Ningming, Pingxiang and other places, cutting off the way for the rebel army to transfer, and then the army stepped up the siege of Youfushan Fort.Since the revolutionary army had far more people than in history, and the ammunition was extremely sufficient, the battle was extremely fierce, and the casualties of the later Jin army began to rise steadily.

After two consecutive days of attack, the Hou Jin army occupied the nearby hilltops of Mosha, Kafeng, Quli and other villages at the cost of heavy casualties, but they were still unable to capture any fort.

Chapter 1: Forced to retreat

The rebel army was well aware of the importance of these hills. Under the leadership of Huang Bin, they used the cover of the cannons in the pass to fight fiercely with the Hou Jin army on various hills.Several important hills changed hands several times, and the battle was very fierce. However, the rebel army was small after all, and had to choose to retreat to the fort after suffering huge casualties.

Lu Rongting was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. The Jin army under his command suffered heavy casualties before he could keep his position, but it was already very difficult to attack the fort.Facing the difficult situation, Lu Rongting had to brave the enemy's artillery fire and distribute his own artillery reinforcements to the tops of Fengwei Mountain, Daqing Mountain, Xiaoqing Mountain, Ma'an Mountain, etc., and use the superior artillery to start shooting against the forts of the rebel army.

The other part of the rear Jin army was led by Huang Futing in the front team, and Chen Bingkun led the rear team. The rear Jin army of the brigade came from all over the mountains and plains like a tide, besieging the fort desperately.After the artillery fire was suppressed by Lu Rongting's troops, it became much more difficult to hold on to the fort, but the soldiers still withstood the opponent's shelling and fired desperately at the Hou Jin army. The battle between the two sides was very fierce.

The Hou Jin army did not make an inch after attacking for five consecutive days, and it was because Sun Wenhai's friend, the Gaul military officer You Shi, personally fired cannons and bombarded the Hou Jin army camp several times. As a result, hundreds of people were killed and injured in the camp fire. Zhang Mingqi, who was supervising the battle in the camp, also almost died.After this incident, Zhang Mingqi and other officials were so frightened that they withdrew from Shili Xiazhai, fearing that they would be bombarded to death within the range of the cannon.The officials ran back and the soldiers fought even harder. As a result, the attack power of the Jin army became weaker and weaker.

The leaders of the later Jin army knew very well that if they did not attack desperately, they would have to be asked for a way. At the critical moment, these people turned red eyes and attacked forward.With his arms bare, Zeng Shaohui personally supervised the attack of the Jin army after leading the brigade, and finally successfully bypassed the fort, captured the Nongyao Tun guarded by the revolutionary army, and cut off the rear of the fort defenders.I heard that Sun Wenhai, Huang Bin and others were all supervising the battle on the fort. These post-Gold Army commanders felt that the opportunity to make meritorious deeds had come, and they dispatched troops and generals to use all their available strength.On the second day, all the Houjin troops gathered at Zhennan Pass and besieged the fort occupied by the revolutionary army from all sides.

The battle went on until the night of the eighth day. Due to the high-intensity battle, the consumption of ammunition was too great, and the defenders finally ran out of ammunition and food.Knowing that there was nothing to be done, after consulting Sun Wenhai and Huang Bin, Huang Mingtang had no choice but to take the rest of the revolutionary army along the mountain path in the dark.

The next day, when the Hou Jin army attacked the empty fort, the commanders finally breathed a sigh of relief.It seems that it will not be possible to be questioned, but due to the high intensity of the attack, the Jin army lost more than [-] soldiers, which is ten times the loss in history.

Sun Wenhai and others took the remnants of the revolutionary army back to Annan. They quickly held a meeting to discuss the reasons for the failure of the uprising.In the end, everyone agreed that although the uprising failed, it dealt a heavy blow to the Guangshan Houjin army. They suffered heavy losses and could not recover in a short time. The future focus of the revolution will remain unchanged and must continue to be strengthened.Since the colonial authorities of the Gaul Kingdom issued an ultimatum to Sun Wenhai to leave Annan as soon as possible, Sun Wenhai had to choose to go to other parts of Southeast Asia after the meeting.

Before leaving, Sun Wenhai handed over all the money in his hands to Huang Bin, and asked him to lead the rest of the revolutionary army to secretly transfer to Qinlian and Lianzhou, where they continued to launch the uprising.

Just when the Zhennanguan Uprising failed, the Saar army's rule in Maine had reached its final moment.After a year of persistent struggle, the Kokang Self-Defense Forces have grown stronger, while the Burmese Army has continued to shrink.Wu Yuzhang and Yang Sen used nationalism and independence from colonial rule as their propaganda, motivating the lower-level Bamar people to rebel, and the Kokang Self-Defense Force soon expanded to more than 3 people.

Yang Sen and Wu Yuzhang cooperated tacitly, and cleverly attracted the main force of the Burmese army in central Maine by means of luring troops, and encircled and suppressed them in the wild.Then they took advantage of the chaos to attack Mandalay, an important city in central Maine, and seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition in the arsenal in the city.This war became a turning point in the Maine War. So far, the Kokang Self-Defense Forces had sufficient guns and ammunition, and their strength began to overtake the Burmese Army.

The Saars completely concentrated their energies on Zhaini, and even the fleet stopped in Mumbai to maintain local stability, and there were no extra troops on the Maine battlefield.Taking advantage of the Sar people's lack of time to separate themselves, Wu Yuzhang and Yang Sen split into two groups and cooperated with the slave army to encircle and suppress the colonial government. As a result, the Burmese army retreated steadily and quickly fled to the coastal areas.Seeing that victory was in sight, the two joined forces again and surrounded Yangon, the seat of the colonial government, in one fell swoop.The Kokang Self-Defense Forces fought more and more bravely, and there was a tendency to attack the Yangon area and drive the Saar people into the sea.

The Saar people are really in a hurry, but now it is a critical moment to suppress the Zhaini uprising. If the troops are drawn back, they will fight in Maine.Leaving aside the losses caused by the Saar army's unfamiliarity with the terrain, it is enough for the rebels in Zhaini to recover their strength due to the reduction in pressure, which is enough for them to have a headache.

Compared with Zhaini, known as the jewel in the crown of Queen Saar, Maine is just a tasteless taste.After weighing it over and over again, the governor of Saar Kingdom decided to abandon Maine and hand over all the defense of Yangon to the Burmese army, leaving them to their fate.

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