108908 Far Eastern Maniac Chapter 33 Cavalry

The dry wind blew from the east, gently blowing through the wilderness, and Yanto drifted lightly to the south-west mountain, and swirled under the obstruction of the mountain, making the foot of the mountain look gray.

Cross the mountain, go to the southwest and walk a few more miles, which is the border of Shangcai County.

Shangcai is located in the northeast corner of Runing Mansion in Henan. A few miles to the northwest is Xuzhou Mansion, and a few miles to the northeast is Chenzhou Mansion.

However, since the opening of the Jinghan Railway. The status of Shangcai's thoroughfare was replaced by Xiping County in the northwest, the reason is very simple, because the Jinghan Railway does not pass from Shangcai, only from Xiping, modern means of transportation have replaced outdated means of transportation, and the decline of Shangcai is also helpless.

Xiping is a prosperous town, and now with the construction of the railway and become more prosperous, the people of Shangcai can not help but have a sense of loss, this strange words are inevitable, the people of Shangcai all said that when the Jinghan Railway was built, the chamber of commerce in Xiping made silver, bought the foreign devils who drew the map, and the railway that should have passed through Shangcai County was straightened, as a result, the railway did not go from Shangcai, and the people of Shangcai complained about the profiteers in Xiping at the same time, and did not forget to count the businessmen who were not active enough in the county Chamber of Commerce. It seems that if Shang Cai also buys off foreign devil designers, this Jinghan line will definitely be able to pass from Shang Cai.

But after all, this is just the speculation of the people, the Jinghan Railway does not go from Shangcai, the real reason is of course not that the profiteers of the Xiping Chamber of Commerce are obstructed from it, but in order to save money, the railway goes from Xiping, that goes in a straight line, and from Shangcai you have to go in a circle, just to build a roadbed and lay railroad tracks will cost a lot more. Another reason is the terrain, compared with Xiping, the congenital conditions of the Shangcai construction railway are not good enough, which will also increase the cost of road construction.

Most people don't understand this truth, but the businessmen of the Shangcai Chamber of Commerce understand, but they do not distinguish this matter, businessmen always pay the most attention to practical interests, seeing that the decline of Shangcai County is inevitable, all the businessmen of the Chamber of Commerce have wisely chosen a new camp, and did not hesitate to defect to the Xiping Chamber of Commerce, so the Shangcai Chamber of Commerce was dissolved. After the revolution, the county lord saw that this day was going to change, so he said goodbye, rolled up the silver of the county treasury, fled to the concession with his wife and concubines, and even took away the official seal, leaving only these spacious tile houses, which later became the barracks of the Endeavor Society, and lived in a company, and then later, the confrontation between the north and the south developed into an armed conflict between the north and the south, and the company of the Endeavor was ordered to pull out and went to Xinyang, so these tiled houses were empty again, It was forcibly occupied by a few splashy partners in the town, intending to take advantage of the chaos to make a revolutionary fortune.

Just yesterday a cavalry unit of the revolutionary army marched into Shangcai County, and the number of troops entering the city exceeded 2,000 people. Homeowners who have a deed or title deed can get their ancestors. The owners who did not have the deed and the title deed had to find their neighbors and governors as guarantors, and the gang wanted to take a forged house deed with a radish seal to fool the past, but they were found out by the revolutionary army and were all dragged to squat in the military justice department, so the public houses left by the Shangcai Chamber of Commerce were once again surnamed "Gong" and became the headquarters of the cavalry unit of the revolutionary army.

To be precise, these current tiled houses are the "brigade headquarters." "The brigade headquarters of the Independent Cavalry Brigade of the Hubei Republican Army, theoretically speaking, this unit is now also a unit of the United Front.

The independent cavalry brigade was driven to Shangcai yesterday morning, but it did not come to the whole brigade, the whole brigade was a three-pound small cavalry regiment and a heavy battalion, and there were only two cavalry regiments that entered Shangcai, and the commander who led the team was the brigade commander himself, named Yang Banghan, a native of Anhui, who used to be a cavalry platoon commander of the Anhui New Army, and performed well in the revolution, rising from platoon commander to brigade commander, and the speed of promotion was jaw-dropping.

Yesterday, when the revolutionary army marched into Shangcai City, the people of the whole city went to see the excitement, they had never seen such a neat cavalry unit before, not only the military uniforms and military hats were new, but even the rifles on their backs were particularly eye-catching, and the guns were very short. But it's about three feet long, and it's called a "carbin." "For cavalry, in addition to rifles, there was also a strange short gun, which the soldiers called "submachine guns", but no one had ever seen them fight, so the people did not know how this gun charged, and this kind of gun was very small in number, and the workmanship was rough, far less striking than the carbine.

Yesterday morning a cavalry regiment came in, and in the afternoon another pound came in. The cavalry regiment, which had already declined, was very noisy, as lively as the festival, but it quickly returned to calm, and the military discipline of the republican army was indeed strict, and it was not comparable to the Endeavor Society.

The people thought that the team of 2,000 people was enough to guard Shangcai County, but they didn't expect it. This morning, another contingent of the revolutionary army drove over from the south, which was also a unit of the independent cavalry brigade, that is, the heavy battalion, and the officer who led the team was named Zhang Guoping, and the rank was brigadier general, one level higher than Yang Banghan's colonel rank.

What makes the people even more incomprehensible is that Shangcai County is not connected to the railway, and it is not a place where the north and the south must fight. Why did the revolutionary army send so many cavalry here? At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people stationed here.

Soon, the good deeds heard the news from the lieutenant commander, and it turned out that this Shangcai County would soon become the garrison of a newly formed independent cavalry division. So many cavalry troops drove to Shangcai, this is called "assembly" that Brigadier General Zhang Guoping is the commander of this independent cavalry division that has not yet been formed, and now, the good horses purchased from Hexi and Qinghai are rushing to Shangcai, and thousands of military horses are in full swing. Rushed from Shangzhou in southern Shaanxi to Henan, it is said that now it has arrived in Wuyang County, Nanyang Prefecture, and soon entered Runing Mansion, this time Zhang Guoping led the stunned battalion over, which is specially to transport fodder, and so on those military horses arrived, this Shangcai County will be more lively, when the revolutionary army will inevitably recruit some new soldiers and people in the local area, some poor families have begun to inquire about the matter of eating food and getting paid.

In the future, this Shangcai County is the station of the independent cavalry division, there are plains and hills, which is indeed very suitable for cavalry training, and it is close to the railway line, and the troop movement is also convenient.

The people were inquiring about the salary of the soldiers, and Brigadier General Zhang Guoping was also inquiring about things, but he inquired about Yang Banghan's whereabouts, since he entered the city. Zhang Guoping didn't see the shadow of Brigade Commander Yang Banghan, and kept inquiring about the brigade headquarters, and only then did he learn from a staff officer that in the morning, a plane of the United Front flew over Shangcai County, and threw a small bamboo tube near a flagpole with an iron-blooded republican flag, which contained a note, and the soldier showed the note to Yang Banghan, who read the note, and without saying a word, led a cavalry regiment out of the city and galloped westward.

The note was now in Zhang Guoping's hand, which allowed him to understand why Yang Banghan left the city.

According to the reconnaissance of the aircraft of the United Front Air Force units. In a village dozens of miles west of Shangcai, the pilot found a Beiyang Army unit, numbering about 1,000 people, apparently retreated from the Xinyang front, in order to quickly annihilate this Beiyang Army, the pilot looked for the nearest RUF troops that could be contacted, and when the plane swept over Shangcai, it found the cavalry of the UNITED Front troops, so the pilot immediately wrote a note, put it in a bamboo tube and threw it near the flagpole, Yang Banghan received the note. He was eager to make meritorious contributions, so he led a regiment to attack.

As for the authenticity of the information, Yang Banghan and Zhang Guoping were relatively relieved, not only did they not have a flight team in the army, but they also wrote in a high-level cipher that the pilots were written on thousands of slips of paper, and it was unlikely that the Beiyang Army would forge them.

Judging from the number, this pilot belongs to the "Tianniu Detachment" Since the outbreak of the battle in southern Henan, this "Tianniu detachment" has been particularly active, and has made great contributions to defeating the Second Army of Beiyang's southward advance, and this post-war praise is indispensable.

But so far, the cavalry of the United Front troops has not made great achievements, although they rushed to Chenzhou Mansion and occupied Yuan Shikai's hometown Xiangcheng, but since leaving Xiangcheng, the cavalry troops have not encountered any decent battles, and even a large force of Beiyang rout has not been seen, no wonder Yang Banghan heard that there is an enemy situation in the west, so he can't wait to lead the cavalry regiment to attack.

Although the battle in Xinyang has now ended, along the Jinghan line, the two sides still exchange fire. For the Southern Army, this is called "cleaning the battlefield", and for the Northern Army, this is "rushing to the road", so this Shangcai County is actually still a battlefield. It's just that the position is a little off, and if the Southern Army troops here want to make meritorious contributions, they can only take the initiative.

Before Zhang Guoping arrived in Shangcai, he had taken a wireless telegram to Yang Banghan and asked him to wait for the heavy camp in Shangcai, but now, Yang Banghan obviously did not obey the order, which made Zhang Guoping a little annoyed, but considering that Yang Banghan did send a telegram to Xinyang to ask for instructions before the attack, Zhang Guoping's anger had nowhere to vent, because he was on the road at that time. It was impossible to receive the telegram, and he only learned about Yang Banghan's small actions through the manuscript of the telegram left in the Shangcai Brigade Headquarters.

That's right, in Zhang Guoping's view, knowing that he was on his way, Yang Banghan deliberately sent a telegram to Xinyang to ask for instructions, this is a small action, this action went to the former enemy commander-in-chief Lan Tianwei to do, and Lan Tianwei did bypass Zhang Guoping and directly approved the request for attack, if Zhang Guoping planned to fight a lawsuit with Yang Duhan in front of his superiors, he would not be able to win, after all, the military situation is changing rapidly. And Lan Tianwei is extremely eager to achieve a decisive victory in order to further consolidate his position, and an important symbol of "decisive victory" is the number of enemies destroyed.

As for why Yang Banghan did this, Zhang Guoping didn't think deeply, maybe Yang Banghan was really meritorious, but it may not mean to show Zhang Guoping's face, the commander-in-chief formed an independent cavalry division, and Yang Banghan didn't need it, but parachuted a Zhang Guoping over, this approach is indeed easy to make Yang Banghan's heart unbalanced, although he was also promoted to deputy division commander, and he also served as a brigade commander, which cannot be regarded as being overhead.

Zhang Guoping had not met Yang Banghan before. I am not familiar with his character, and my understanding of this catty villain is only limited to hearsay, the last time the commander-in-chief Zhao Bei asked him for his opinion on the choice of commander of the cavalry division. Zhang Guoping was the first to recommend Yang Banghan, and he was completely out of respect.

Now, although Zhang Guoping has not yet seen Yang Banghan's face, but he has a little understanding of this person's character, this person is a man who does things vigorously and resolutely, and is more suitable for serving as the commander of the combat unit, but it seems that he is not very suitable for serving as a senior officer, which is probably one of the reasons why the commander-in-chief did not choose him as the commander of the independent cavalry division.

After making an evaluation of this subordinate who had not yet met him, Zhang Guoping convened a meeting of the remaining senior officers and staff officers in the brigade headquarters to discuss the strategy of Yang Banghan's attack. And discuss the schedule for the formation of separate cavalry divisions.

Yang Banghan is eager for meritorious service, and so is Zhang Guoping, a soldier who always longs for victory and battle. However, Yang Banghan focused on the current victory, while Zhang Guoping focused on the future battle, so after a little discussion about the strategy against Yang Banghan, Zhang Guoping quickly turned the topic to the formation of the cavalry division, after all, now the second army of Beiyang southward has been newly defeated, and the morale and morale of the army are very problematic, but Yang Banghan's cavalry is full of morale, and the strength of the two sides is very close, this battle can be said to be full of confidence.

The formation of independent cavalry divisions is still the most important, cavalry is no more difficult than infantry, and it is more difficult to train. The issue of recruits is currently the most difficult issue. The south is no more than the north, and there are very few people on horseback. Therefore, it is best to recruit this recruit from Henan. The people here are the same as the people of Zhili and Shandong, they have the habit of raising mules and donkeys, even if they have not ridden horses, these mules and donkeys have always ridden, although riding these animals is very different from riding horses, but it is better than those southern soldiers who have only ridden wooden boats.

The better source of soldiers is outside the mouth, in the grassland and the black soil in the northeast, but now Zhang Guoping can only look at the grassland and sigh, cavalry, it is best to train on the grassland.

It all depends on how the commander-in-chief plans, when he will march into the grassland, and when Zhang Guoping will be able to realize his dream of training troops on the grassland, but for now, let's take a closer look.

Everyone discussed in the conference room for a while, and before the schedule could be drawn up, they heard a commotion outside the conference room, and a staff officer on duty hurried into the conference room. Salute Zhang Guoping.

"Report sir! Brigade Commander Yang sent someone back to report that he wanted to pull the Second Cavalry Regiment to the west. ”

"Why? Not enough for a regiment? Zhang Guoping stood up and walked towards the door of the conference room.

"The pilot made a mistake in reconnaissance, and the Beiyang unit was not more than 1,000 people, but more than 2,000 people, the size of two infantry regiments. Brigade Commander Yang planned to annihilate them all, so he decided to transfer the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to support. ”

The staff officer followed Zhang Guoping out, and the others in the conference room also walked out.

Zhang Guoping stood at the brigade headquarters, watching the company commanders and battalion commanders gather in front of the main gate of the brigade headquarters with their troops one after another, and they all looked at him, waiting for him to give the order to attack. Looking at their eyes, if Brigadier General Zhang was not in the city now, they would definitely go out of the city directly and rush to meet Yang Banghan.

The discipline of the troops is still very good, and this is conducive to a good system and hard training, and the trust between officers and men is not based on personal feelings, but on the organizational structure; although this unit is under the command of Yang Banghan, it is not his private army, and the commander-in-chief said that if a division commander is parachuted, a division commander will be parachuted, and this is how the authority is established.

"Lead my warhorse."

Zhang Guoping ordered an adjutant to bring over a white horse, although it was a Mongolian horse. But it is a real horse, the whole body is snow-white, there is almost no miscellaneous hair, only some black hair on the tips of the four hooves, so the name is "Xueliwu" This war horse has a very good history, it was originally the mount of the Manchu Jingzhou general Encun. It was captured by Yang Wangpeng's troops during the Battle of Jingzhou, and was later given to Zhao Bei as a gift by Yang Wangpeng, and now, Zhao Bei has transferred the completed horse to Zhang Guoping, who rode it from Xinyang.

Riding on the "Snow Tree", Zhang Guoping glanced at the sky to the west.

"Herald! The troops went out of the city in turn in order and advanced in two columns! ”

Zhang Guoping personally led the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to attack, which surprised the officers who stayed behind in Shangcai, but they quickly understood Zhang Guoping's intentions.

Although Zhang Guoping is the division commander parachuted in by the commander-in-chief, with the support of the commander-in-chief, the division commander's height is basically stable, but if he wants to truly subdue the hearts of the army, he still needs to make achievements, and now, reinforcing Yang Banghan is undoubtedly the best way to make achievements.

Soldiers, admire only those true warriors.