Beiyang reactionaries

"Yes, Commander. I have already understood the matter. Duan Xun's cavalry had already controlled Manzhouli as early as the night of the 28th. Then the troops rushed to Hailar and occupied Hailar in just three days."

"Three days?"

Zhang Zuolin frowned and said, "How could it be three days? The distance from Manzhouli to Hailar is nearly [-] miles. Even if you go fast, you can't come to Hailar in three days. They took the train? Impossible. Recently, because of Semenov Always robbing trains, Britain, France, the United States and Japan are negotiating, so the train has not been running during this time."

Zhang Zuolin didn't believe it.

From Manzhouli to Hailar, it is a full four hundred miles.How could it be possible to get there in three days for a distance of four hundred miles.Originally, there was the Middle East Railway here. If you take the railway, you can reach Hailar from Manzhouli within half a day.

But because Semyonov always robbed trains, he also robbed the supplies supported by Britain, France and the United States to Kolchak.Therefore, Britain, France and the United States negotiated with Japan.Ask Japan to restrain Semyonov, or send troops to encircle Semyonov.Semyonov was supported by Japan in the Far East.

During the negotiations, the British, French and American countries interrupted train traffic.

So instead of taking the train, instead of taking the train, how did they travel four hundred miles in three days.Especially now that winter is more difficult than summer.

"Commander, I don't know the details. However, the troops that captured Hailar were cavalry troops. I think it is possible that they have one man with two horses, or one man with three horses. Only in this way can they run four hundred miles in three days .”

"kindness."

Cavalry raids are limited.

A horse carries a person on its back for several hours, and after running for thirty or forty miles, it needs to rest.If you continue to run, the horse may be exhausted.Even war horses are the same.So in some long-distance raids, maybe the cavalry is not as useful as the infantry.

And the cavalry raided more than 100 miles a day, and they definitely needed to change horses.

Therefore, many cavalry in ancient times ran hundreds of kilometers within a few days, all with one man and two horses, or one man with three horses.You have to take turns riding a horse to complete the mission of running.But Zhang Zuolin was just curious that Duan Xun's troops would attack four hundred miles within three days.

After finishing his curiosity, Zhang Zuolin said with an ugly face, "How many troops did Duan Xun have entered Hulunbeier?"

"Marshal, we don't have any information on this at the moment. You also know that Hulunbeier is not under our Heilongjiang management. And it is just a nice thing to say that it is directly managed by the Beijing government. Hulunbeier has always been a semi-independent place. We are also there There is not much information. However, according to what Xu Yongchang, chief of staff of Duan Xun, said before, they encircled Enqin’s Asian cavalry division, including Li Yunlong’s cavalry division and Tian Yujie’s infantry brigade. From the time and location of the war Analysis, I want to enter Hulunbuir's army is this army. So I think Duan Xun has a cavalry division and an infantry brigade in Hulunbeier. Duan Xun's infantry brigade generally has 4000 to 500 people, while The establishment of the cavalry division is a bit random. So we don’t know exactly how many Duan Xun has in Hulunbuir. But I think at least more than [-] people.”

Yang Yuting gave Zhang Zuolin an analysis.

In fact, Yang Yuting really didn't have any definite information.But Yang Yuting is not an ordinary person, relying on Duan Xun's published content to analyze Hulunbuir's troops and numbers.And the analysis is very close to ten.Zhang Zuolin's face became more and more serious when he heard this.

Damn.

More than 1 people, this is no longer a small-scale force.

I have only about 3 people in Heilongjiang. Although the number is larger than Duan Xun's troops, there is not much advantage.Because Zhang Zuolin had many places to guard against in Heilongjiang, very few troops could really be mobilized.

So Zhang Zuolin said: "Linge, do you think we need to transfer some mixed brigade troops to the north?"

pressure.

Zhang Zuolin really felt the pressure.Duan Xun is very powerful, Zhang Zuolin knows this.But Zhang Zuolin and Duan Xun had no contact at all, so Zhang Zuolin never felt the most direct threat from Duan Xun.

But this time is different.

Duan Xun's troops took control of Hulunbeier, which was a very direct threat to Zhang Zuolin.Hulunbeier was occupied by Duan Xun, and Qiqihar in Heilongjiang was directly under Duan Xun's soldiers.Therefore, Zhang Zuolin's first consideration was to increase troops to Heilongjiang and send several mixed brigades into Heilongjiang to guard against Duan Xun's threat.

"Marshal, how many people do you want to transfer?"

"How about the three mixed brigades?"

"Marshal, it stands to reason that we should strengthen our defenses in Heilongjiang. But Marshal, where do we transfer so many troops from the three mixed brigades? Our current distribution of troops is quite reasonable. Marshal, our The future direction is Rehe and Zhili, definitely not Heilongjiang."

Zhang Zuolin is ambitious.

Both Zhang Zuolin and Yang Yuting knew that Feng Jun's future way out was to enter the customs.The way out is to win Rehe, or enter the Gyeonggi area. Only in this way can Zhang Zuolin have a chance to compete in the Central Plains.If you can't forget to go here, then Zhang Zuolin will be his Northeast King in the Northeast for the rest of his life.When a certain force unifies the Central Plains, it will inevitably clean up the Northeast.Therefore, Zhang Zuolin must enter the customs and must enter the Gyeonggi area.

This is a contradiction.

Although the Zhifeng and Fenglin departments are currently cooperating because of the existence of the Anhui department, they will never be able to truly cooperate, and this is the reason.Therefore, Zhang Zuolin's large forces are in Fengtian and Jilin, and the purpose is to attack Rehe and Tianjin.

It is not appropriate to transfer troops to Heilongjiang at this time.Especially three mixed brigades, 6000 troops.

"What if we don't deploy troops?"

"Commander, what I mean is that we focus on deploying defenses in Qiqihar, Murgen, and Heihe. Anyway, these are the most important places in Heilongjiang at present. We transfer a mixed brigade from Jilin to Qiqihar, I think it will be fine."

"That's right. We and Duan Xun won't be able to fight for a while. And we have a railway, and we can quickly deploy troops."

"Yes."

"However, you can't look at it like this. To generate electricity for Cao Kun, the two of us discussed why Hulunbuir is controlled by Duan Xun. It should be controlled by us, or by the Beijing government."

278 Hulunbeier 3

"Mr. Youmei, our people are being rude."

January 1920, 1, night.

Li Yunlong, Huang Chengtuxu, and Tian Yujie came to a place in a hurry, and Li Yunlong apologized to the person in front of him.This person is about 60 years old, with a beard half a foot long.

It is certainly not an ordinary person who can make Li Yunlong and the others rush over to apologize in such a hurry.

Song Xiaolian, known as the "Three Heroes of Jilin".

This person has been an official in Heilongjiang for more than 30 years. He has become more and more famous since he started as a document for the Mohe Gold Mine and then served as the supervisor of the Mohe Gold Mine.Later, he was favored by the vice capital of Qiqihar, that is, Cheng Dequan, the later governor of Jiangsu, and his official position continued to rise within a few years.Later, he also served as the deputy governor of Hulunbeier and the civil affairs department of Heilongjiang.After the Revolution of [-], he served as the governor of Heilongjiang and concurrently as the chief of civil affairs in Heilongjiang.

It's just that Song Xiaolian has a very bad relationship with Russia.

Because Song Xiaolian has a big temper.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Mohe Gold Mine was once occupied by Russia. Song Xiaolian, as a negotiator, insisted on taking back the Mohe Gold Mine from the Russian businessman.And when he served as a representative of the Middle East Railway, he overturned the contract signed between Russia and the previous Chinese representative.In the previous contract, it was stipulated that Russia could mine coal mines along the Middle East Railway, log and other rights, and almost all the rights and interests along the Middle East Railway were taken away by Russia.But Song Xiaolian talked with the Russian delegation for two full years, and he insisted on overturning the Old Testament, canceling these Russian rights, and keeping the mining rights and forestry rights along the Middle East Railway.

This is not counting.

When Song Xiaolian served as the deputy governor of Hulunbuir, he conducted border negotiations with Russia.Russia wanted to include Manchuria into the Russian territory, but Song Xiaolian pushed it back.

It is precisely because the relationship between Song Xiaolian and Russia is very bad, and there will be conflicts at every turn.Moreover, Song Xiaolian punished Russians who broke the law many times in Heilongjiang, so he didn't give Russia any face at all.Therefore, in a fit of anger, Russia told the Beijing government that it would remove Song Xiaolian from the post of governor of Heilongjiang.

But how could the Beiyang government agree, so it rejected Russia's request.Russia immediately dispatched more than 3000 troops to the border to put pressure on the Beijing government.Tell the Beijing government that if they don't agree to their demands then everyone will fight.

Yuan Shikai saw that this was not going to work, so he could only agree to Russia's conditions and dismiss Song Xiaolian from his post.

Song Xiaolian is a wit, capable of both literature and martial arts.I have many literati friends, so after being dismissed, I can only drink and talk about poetry with those literati.However, the Russian Civil War broke out, and the Russian Far East was also in chaos.In particular, Russia has no time to pay attention to the Middle East Railway, and the salaries of railway workers cannot be paid.Railway workers went on strike, demanding that the Chinese government take over the Middle East Railway.

The Beijing government does not dare to offend Russia too much, but it is very greedy for the Middle East Railway.After all, in addition to the South Manchuria Railway occupied by Japan, the Middle East Railway in the north is also a very busy line.

So reactivate Song Xiaolian.

Let Song Xiaolian be the supervisor of the Middle East Railway, and let him come over to see the current situation of the Middle East Railway.If Russia really can't control the Middle East Railway, then the Beijing government wants to take back the Middle East Railway.

However, when Song Xiaolian was inspecting the Middle East Railway, he was detained by Li Yunlong's troops in Hailar.

At that time, Li Yunlong's troops were taking over the Hailar Railway Station in Hulunbuir, so they detained Song Xiaolian and the Russian staff.At that time, Li Yunlong's troops didn't know who you were.