"A big win in the first game." When the news of the victory reached Fengtai County, all the civil affairs cadres who remained in the old base area immediately fell into a state of excitement. The combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army was undoubtedly feared by the People's Party, and as the leader of the Manchu New Army, the Beiyang Army was actually the representative image of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army won many battles and indeed accumulated a reputation for being brave and good at fighting. However, "foreign monks can recite scriptures" is also a traditional view in China, and before this battle, the civil affairs cadres in the base areas naturally had no bottom in their hearts. The good news was transmitted back to the base area, and more than 1,100 Beiyang troops were completely annihilated in one day. The cadres all felt that the big stone in their hearts had been completely put down. This joyful atmosphere soon spread to Chen Ke through various channels.

Chen Ke did not go to the front line to command, as in previous wars, but stayed in the base area. His reason for doing this is very simple, the war must always be handed over to these military cadres to complete, and if Chen Ke personally commands every time, it will not be conducive to the growth of military cadres. Moreover, Chen Ke is sitting in the base area, even if the front line is in trouble, Chen Ke will go to the front line at that time, which can at least play a role in boosting morale. If Chen Ke was on the front line, the troops would have suffered setbacks, and the psychological impact on the base areas would have been enormous.

But in everything there is a pros and a cons. The fact that He Ying is pregnant is well known to the cadres in the base area, and it has only been two years since the base area, and even the cadres do not have the confidence of victory like steel. Some cadres who lack psychological tolerance even secretly question whether Chen Ke "cares too much about his wife" in private. Of course, this kind of bastard talk was immediately severely criticized by other cadres. Chen Ke originally didn't expect that someone among the cadres would say such gossip, but when he found out, he really made him depressed for a while. Fortunately, after a great victory in the first battle, Chen Ke felt that those timid cadres could at least stop for a while.

After He Ying became pregnant, although Chen Ke could not accompany him often, he would go home for dinner whenever possible. After getting the news of the victory, Chen Ke naturally went home for dinner with confidence. Chen Ke and his wife are not very talkative, after entering the door, Chen Ke began to make a fire without saying a word, and the Fengtai County base has begun to use honeycomb coal on a large scale, and the difficulty of cooking has been reduced a lot. He Ying is washing vegetables and washing rice. The guards ate on time and on time, and they had already eaten at this time. With the cleverness of the guards, naturally they will not interfere too much in Chen Ke's private life, just guard the door well.

As soon as the husband and wife finished cooking, the two picked up the chopsticks, and the guards came in to report that Yan Fu and Feng Xu came to visit. Chen Ke couldn't guess what was going on with these two people, just do official business in the office, and if it was private, the base area is really a bit ancient now, "Out of the door, enter the public gate; Out of the public door, to his family, no selfish affairs. "We don't have a lot of private contact with each other. With the courtesy of hospitality, Chen Ke invited the two of them in.

The two of them were not ordinary people, they thought that Chen Ke would have prepared the meal when he went home, but they probably estimated the time to come. But he didn't expect that just in time for Chen Ke to eat, Chen Ke invited the two to eat together, and they didn't refuse. He Ying brought the dishes and chopsticks, and the four of them began to eat without saying a word.

Yan Fu's temperament was a little impatient, and after eating a few bites, he suddenly asked, "This dish was fried by Chairman Chen, right?" ”

If someone else asks this, Chen Ke will think that this person is likely to inquire about his private affairs. However, Yan Fu would never do such a thing to inquire about privacy, Chen Ke couldn't help but ask, "How did Minister Yan eat it?" ”

"The stir-fry technique doesn't seem to be made by a woman, and the pot is too hot when the vegetables are put into the pot." Yan Fu said as he stuffed a large piece of jet-black vegetable leaves that had been scalded out of the hot pan into his mouth.

"I'm at this level, Minister Yan, you can just order it." Chen Ke said with a smile.

Feng Xu listened to Chen Ke's self-confessed cooking with a smile, and his face couldn't help but change. In the era of the late Qing Dynasty, men were not in the house, let alone cooked. This is the first time Feng Xu has been to Chen Ke's house, in addition to being clean and tidy, the furniture is simple, and the dishes are only at the normal level of the canteen in the field. His chopsticks couldn't help but pause.

"Brother Feng, eat quickly. After eating, let's talk about things. Yan Fu said immediately.

Everyone ate the food cleanly, Chen Ke took it for granted to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and took them to the kitchen to wash them up. He Ying wiped the table and swept the floor. poured white water for the two visiting people, and after Chen Ke came back, He Ying took the clothes out to wash.

Yan Fu didn't care about Feng Xu's complicated eyes after seeing this, he said straight to the point: "Chairman Chen, I want to recommend Mr. Feng to work this time, if this kind of thing is discussed in an office meeting, it will involve too much." I thought it would be better to talk about it privately. ”

Yan Fu is right, if it is discussed in an office meeting, this is a question of the use of the old Manchu people. The senior cadres of the People's Party know one thing more or less: once the second anti-encirclement campaign is over, it is very likely that a large-scale anti-rebellion campaign will be launched. Not to mention others, in terms of the handling of Anhui Governor Enming, once the People's Party expands its control area to Huoshan, and Enming once massacres the anti-foreign people in Huoshan, Chen Ke will send Enming to Huoshan Ming for canonical punishment. If he waited until then, it would be absolutely impossible for Feng Xu to be appointed.

"Mr. Feng has done an excellent job in the editing of Xinhua Dictionary, and he has really worked hard." Chen Ke said with a smile. He doesn't hate Feng Xu, he is also a Confucian, Feng Xu has a lot of practical work opportunities, so his work performance is much stronger than Shen Zengzhi. "Minister Yan, you yourself have the authority to appoint, if you use civil servants in accordance with the regulations, the Organization Department can't say anything, right?"

"Civil servants need political review, Chairman Chen, if you don't come forward, the Organization Department will not dare to let Mr. Feng take the exam." Yan Fu replied very decently.

Feng Xu didn't fully understand the conversation between the two, but Feng Xu could see that Chen Ke's expression was much more relaxed. Chen Ke did not object to people like Feng Xu becoming state civil servants, he just did not want to set a precedent for leading cadres to appoint civil servants. Moreover, Chen Ke was very worried about whether Feng Xu, a former high-ranking Confucian, would be willing to participate in the low-level civil service examination. The civil service examination is not simple, as the threshold of the bureaucratic system, the role of the civil service examination is to test the "degree of mastery of the level of education", even an organization like the People's Party cannot make a group of outright illiterate bureaucrats.

The reason why the People's Party started compiling the "Xinhua Dictionary" is to promote cultural education. On the basis of this modern Chinese language education, revolutionary ideological education should be carried out. Finally, a new government bureaucracy with "affairs officers" as the main body was formed. With Feng Xu's level of education, it is not difficult to pass the exam. It is rare that Feng Xu has to start climbing the steps of this bureaucracy as the lowest clerk. For civil servants from ordinary people, this is the path to a great future. For Feng Xu, who had been a political envoy in Anhui, this was more like an insult.

Even if Yan Fu made a guarantee, Chen Ke still couldn't believe that Feng Xu's mind was so open-minded that he could accept this kind of starting from scratch. "Mr. Feng, even if you took the civil service exam. You can also only get the treatment of a junior clerk. Let's put the ugly things at the head, this level, these teenage female students in school can get it after graduation. ”

"Minister Yan has told me about this many times." Feng Xu said with a smile.

"And Mr. Feng, our bureaucratic system is a system of administrative officials, and being a civil servant is not a political official. These are the jobs that the little officials do. Of course, in the base area, engaging in this kind of work is not a kind of lowly labor. But in this system, promotion is based on the results of the work and the attitude towards the revolutionary cause. This is the same for every civil servant. It's not that if you are old and have high knowledge, you can rise to a higher status. Mr. Feng, you are now our consultant, and your salary level is not worse than that of grassroots civil servants. ”

Hearing Chen Ke frankly admit that "the treatment is not worse than that of grassroots civil servants", Feng Xu and Yan Fu couldn't help but smile. The treatment of these cadres of the People's Party is really not bad, and in the country's distribution system, the cadres can have enough to eat, and their food, clothing, shelter and transportation are much better than before the floods. As long as you don't want to distance yourself from the lives of ordinary people, there is no problem of excessive scarcity in this kind of life except for hard work. But Feng Xu's life was far richer than the current days. This comparison is really a bit nondescript.

Feng Xu said to Chen Ke: "Chairman Chen, I have been an official in Anhui, and I can't even think of what Chairman Chen did in Anhui. Not to mention anything else, just the fact that these hundreds of thousands of children can study in a new-style school, there is no second place in the world that can do it. This expenditure does not disturb the people, does not raise taxes, if it is a way of government, it is already shocking. I have discussed with Minister Yan about the employment of my children after graduation, and Chairman Chen has also made arrangements. I was originally a prisoner, and even if I wrote the Xinhua Dictionary, I would have survived elsewhere. Here in the base area, my name can be listed at the top of the compilation, if I swear to be a prisoner of Chu, it is just a person who sells fame and reputation. This low-level civil servant is sufficient. Just be able to actually do something. ”

Feng Xu said seriously, and Chen Ke also replied seriously: "Being a civil servant of the People's Party is not just a matter of work. The idea of revolution cannot be different. Mr. Feng said that I let my children go to school without raising taxes, which seems to be the case. It's not that simple. There is only so much food and materials that can be produced in the base areas, and I can't do it if I don't liberate the labor force. Women come out to work, who takes care of the children? I can't do it if I don't run a school. It's not like I'm going to run an industry, I have to let everyone live well, right? ”

It's not a bad thing to have people like Feng Xu join the government, but if Feng Xu promotes some wrong ideas in the government, this is not something that Chen Ke can accept. The enlightened or revolutionary parties of the late Qing Dynasty had no idea how to build an industrial country. Even the best people among them see only superficial things. It's just some kind of strong ship and cannon, or factory mine or something. There is no concept of the social system and the supporting social system needed to build these things. The goal is wrong, the method is wrong, if there can be the right result, it is a big joke.

Yan Fu watched Feng Xu listen very carefully to the young Chen Ke talking about some basic social concepts, and he was also very emotional in his heart. At that time, he felt that Chen Ke could point out many problems and sort out the characteristics of Chinese culture, and he already appreciated Chen Ke. Seeing that Chen Ke was able to build an army, he felt that Chen Ke was a talent. But the more he worked with Chen Ke, the more Yan Fu realized that these ideas were actually wrong. The reason why Chen Ke is different is not what he can do, but Chen Ke's view of the world is inherently different. To put it to an extreme, even if it is "exploitation", Chen Ke knows how to exploit better than others. The Manchu government had a "zero-sum relationship" with the people, and if the government took more, the people would naturally take less. Chen Ke is to develop more productive forces and produce more things, even if Chen Ke takes 90% of them, the people can get 10% more. What's more, what Chen Ke took was not used by himself or the People's Party, but continued to be used to develop productive forces.

Take it from the people, use it for the people. These words have been shouted for thousands of years, and Yan Fu has seen with his own eyes that this place in the base area has become a reality. Feng Xu's request to join the civil service system in the base area was not surprising to Yan Fu at all.

Feng Xu is such a smart person and has experience in local administration, so he naturally understands what Chen Ke said very clearly. In theory, economic policies that "distort supply and demand" in base areas are not at all unusual. There are not many people who have done this in Chinese history, and the question is what to do next after doing this, and how to develop it, which has never been solved in Chinese history. When confronted with the problems of people's lives, any radical change will end in vain. Before meeting Chen Ke, Feng Xu could only rely on historical experience to become an official, and try to solve problems in traditional ways. It is only here that there is a big government that really promotes the development of the local people on a large scale.

If from a historical point of view, Chen Ke's approach is destined to be short-lived, and if he did not participate in the editing of the "Xinhua Dictionary", Feng Xu would not have been willing to wade into this troubled water. "A book with a name for eternity", not to mention a dictionary that is the foundation of national culture. After compiling the "Xinhua Dictionary", Feng Xu had clearly figured out one thing, if he really wanted the name "Feng Xu" marked on this dictionary to go down in history, then the only way to let Chen Ke seize the world. So after learning the news that the People's Party had hit the Beiyang Army hard, Feng Xu urged Yan Fu to help him introduce him.

After listening to some programmatic questions briefly introduced by Chen Ke, Feng Xu replied: "Since I have joined the civil service, I naturally will not make my own opinions. ”

Chen Ke didn't have a choice at this time, Feng Xu said so, Chen Ke turned his head to Yan Fu and said: "The political trial needs someone to guarantee, Mr. Yan, you can vouch for Mr. Feng." You first go through the application documents and guarantee documents, and according to the current regulations, you will be replied within 14 working days. If it passes, there is no problem, and if it does not, you can ask for arbitration. That's when I had the opportunity to intervene. ”

After hearing this, Yan Fu nodded. He is more aware of the process of this bureaucratic system. Compared with the internal organization of the People's Party, the system of government departments in all aspects is more imperfect, and the system operation is less experienced. Party committees can discuss issues through Party committee meetings. However, government departments cannot, so senior cadres in the base areas have special power to participate in the "arbitration power meeting". Originally, these powers should have belonged to the "people's congress," but now that the "people's congress" is still an ornament, the cadres have both this power. If one of the cadres present at the meeting can force himself to take responsibility, he will be able to pass some of the more low-level administrative matters. If these matters are still not passed, even if some cadres are willing to take responsibility, the arbitration meeting will adopt a voting method, and a simple majority of votes can be passed.

Every once in a while, there is a routine "arbitration meeting", and Chen Ke undoubtedly has the greatest influence. Of course, if this power were to be used in the arbitration conference, it would be a great political cost. Even among the senior cadres of the BJP, no one wants to do this lightly.

Feng Xu didn't know the operating model of these internal systems. He only knew that the People's Party had been established for less than two years, and Chen Ke's words made it clear that the People's Party government system could be built to the point where a person in charge could be found in charge of everything, which really surprised outsiders like Feng Xu.

After Yan Fu and Feng Xu left, Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief. As the holder of the greatest power in the party, he must assume the greatest responsibility. The cadres at the top carry the black pot, and many times they carry it like this. And the matter of carrying the black pot, instead of secretly backing it, it is better to back it so publicly. Fairness, impartiality and openness are of course great restrictions on those in power, but at the same time, they are also great protections for those in power. Rather than allowing the black material to accumulate too much and being released at one time at the key, it is better to define it through this kind of arbitration conference. The arbitration conference is certainly imperfect, but it is acceptable to all parties. Thinking of this, Chen Ke couldn't help but shake his head, this is not to go down the evil path of the US Congress.

Now that he has gone home, Chen Ke is also willing to think about something quietly. Leaving Feng Xu behind, Chen Ke began to think about strategy. After the Beiyang Army suffered such a heavy blow, what was the reaction. This is something that many people in the base area are concerned about, but Chen Ke feels that this matter is not particularly remarkable. As an emerging regime, the problem Chen Ke faced was that he "could not afford to lose". He originally didn't expect this matter, but the stronger the strength in his hand, the clearer Chen Ke saw this fact.

Because Chen Ke had embroiled such a base in the revolution, any defeat would trigger an unforeseen internal upheaval. In fact, this is the case with many emerging regimes, which seem to win all the way and end up with one defeat. Chen Ke had only done this based on his knowledge of history, and it was only now that he realized how lucky he was. Take the first Anqing Battle as an example, Chen Ke was theoretically incapable of defending Anqing, so he let Anqing be mastered by King Yue. If Chen Ke himself hadn't been able to make a decision on the spot, but had taken the trouble to forcibly occupy Anqing, the base area would have perished long ago.

At that time, the gap between the strength of the enemy and us was huge, and the comrades were well aware of it. Therefore, Chen Ke's views were easily supported by his comrades. After the victory of the second anti-encirclement and suppression, Chen Ke may not be able to persuade his comrades to give up the low-hanging ground in front of him so easily.

And politics is a fun thing, and sometimes it's necessary to pick up a few substitutes. Yue Wanghui was the first substitute for the dead ghost, and after the second anti-encirclement and suppression, a new substitute ghost must be established. If the Manchus had only one enemy, the People's Party, then they would have died. If there were several enemies, and the others seemed to be better to defeat, the Manchus would have made it easier and then more difficult, giving the People's Party time to develop. The Restoration Society is undoubtedly such a new substitute for the dead. Chen Ke has no ill feelings towards the Restoration Society, and has enough respect for Chen Ke, the forerunners of these revolutions, but when it is time to let the Restoration Society die, Chen Ke does not feel the slightest uneasiness. The only question is how widely the matter will be discussed within the BJP.

In the propaganda of party members, it is naturally impossible to speak out so openly about strategic issues. To tell the truth, it can only be said "partially". Of course, the Politburo has to tell the truth, but now that even in the Politburo, there are unqualified revolutionaries. This made Chen Ke feel very scratching his head. Needless to say, Yuwen Badu can be completely excluded. Hua Xiongmao is as ruthless as winter when facing the enemy, but in the face of his own relatives, can Hua Xiongmao do this behind his back? If Hua Xiongmao had no compassion for his relatives, Chen Ke would be afraid. But will this compassion make Hua Xiongmao make some "self-inflicted" actions? For example, I don't explain it positively, but I help with the side knocking. This practice is absolutely not allowed. Thinking of this, Chen Ke let out a long sigh.

A glass of white water was placed in front of Chen Ke, and when he raised his head, Chen Ke saw his wife He Ying sitting down next to him a little uneasy. "What's wrong?" Chen Ke asked.

"Wen Qing, I heard that there is a person named Sun Yongsheng in Beiyang who came this time?" He Ying's words were very subtle.

"There is indeed this man." Chen Ke replied.

"This person ......" He Ying didn't know how to continue, choosing words, He Ying said slowly: "We can definitely win." ”

"The Beiyang Army is dead." Chen Ke answered his wife's question categorically.

"That's good." He Ying finally didn't say anything.

Chen Ke also wanted to pretend that he didn't hear this, but after all, it was his wife who spoke, and in this world, He Ying was Chen Ke's closest person. Although Chen Ke didn't want to listen to his wife cursing Sun Yongsheng, if He Ying really scolded Sun Yongsheng, Chen Ke would be really happy. But He Ying didn't say a word in the end, and Chen Ke always couldn't help but suspect that He Ying would be worried that if Sun Yongsheng died in battle, He Ying would not be able to see her aunt He Qian. And Chen Ke knew that this kind of thinking was simply certain.

In such an era, the state is not something that the people can rely on. In Chen Ke's time, no matter how much you scolded the state, the state system provided enough social services. Moreover, although the great cause created by New China has not been enjoyed by the people to the greatest extent, the people have also enjoyed the majority of it. Above all, the idea of political correctness that the people should enjoy the full fruits of their labor was established. By the time Chen Ke crossed over, at least no one dared to completely overturn this theory.

In the era of 1907, there was no such thing at all. Winner takes all, winner takes all. In fact, in a sense, the People's Party is also practicing the ideas of this era. The hundreds of enclosures in the base areas have a history of several decades or even hundreds of years, and the people have broken all of them under the leadership of the People's Party in order to survive for themselves. Those invincible owners and family members, as long as they were not killed on the spot, were all locked up. The fate of these thousands of people was to wait for the second encirclement and suppression, and then they were all executed.

When they died, they were not even "martyrs of the old era", and the People's Internal Affairs Committee had long been collecting all kinds of evidence of their crimes of oppressing the people, plus some other people who were concerned, and tens of thousands of people had to die in this great purge. They will be sinners when they die, and the person who executes them is not Chen Ke, it is the people who demand their execution. Chen Ke didn't know 10,000 people in his time, and now he made a strategy that decided the lives of tens of thousands. If we add the predictable destruction of Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, in 1907 alone, Chen Ke was able to kill at least 40,000 people without his own hands. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people will die because of Chen Ke nationwide.

These people have their own relatives and friends, and each of them is connected to several times or even a dozen times the social relationship. The members of the BJP will not have nothing to do with these people. Historically, before the party's Long March arrived in Shaanxi, there was an official in charge of the anti-rebellion parachuted into the base area in northern Shaanxi, and with only the identity of the anti-rebellion cadre, he was able to lock up Liu Zhidan and others. The Red Army in northern Shaanxi no longer understood, and there was not the slightest mutiny. This is party discipline. It was by virtue of this steel-like discipline that the party's unprecedented great cause was accomplished.

When Chen Ke was young, he also thought that the suppression of the rebellion in the Jiangxi Soviet District was too brutal, and he thought about how discipline would have been established if there had been no rebellion. From this point of view, it is not necessarily the "bad guys" who are killed by the anti-rebellion, but those who cannot abide by discipline within the party and cannot unconditionally adhere to the party's command. "A good dog protects the three neighbors, and a good man protects the three villages." Who doesn't have their own plans? Who doesn't have friends and relatives of their own?

After thinking about it, Chen Ke suddenly felt that his murderous aura was too strong. The question of the party organization actually thought of the butcher's knife, and this leap in thinking was too big. However, this is also a very troublesome logical problem, with tens of thousands of determined old Red Army soldiers who have experienced the purge and the Long March, they can not be killed in the future purge and rectification.

Finding that he was finally distracted by the supervisor's conjectures, Chen Ke banished all these things from his mind. If this kind of thing really happens, the current problem is to quickly find a way to make the Liberation Society take the initiative to jump out. Whether Hua Xiongmao can achieve the principles that party members should abide by is also a test for Hua Xiongmao. If Hua Xiongmao fails to hold on, then he can only educate first. If Hua Xiongmao can't educate him, then he can only be dismissed. This kind of thing can only go one step at a time.

Thinking about this, Chen Ke felt that his wife He Ying's little thoughts were nothing at all. A little Sun Yongsheng, if he is killed on the battlefield, it is his life. If you are not killed, but captured, then you should be treated as a prisoner. That's all Chen can do.

Sun Yongsheng's life was not easy. More than seventy percent of the cavalry units were killed by the machine gun position, and Sun Yongsheng finally escaped with his life. If he hadn't lost the battle himself, Duan Qirui would have almost killed Sun Yongsheng on the spot. The Beiyang Army could not rush overnight, so it had to camp on the spot. The terrifying night befell Duan Qirui.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army brought the "enemy stationing and disturbing us" to the limit. In the Cold Gun Campaign, the BJP even used special harassment rockets. Rocket artillery is primarily a matter of design philosophy. If this thing wants to be accurate on the battlefield, it will naturally be extremely difficult to use the strength of the base area. However, it is much easier to make the rocket artillery explode within a large area of the enemy's camp. Even the lethality of the blasting department does not need to be too sufficient, the key is to be loud enough.

The thing with the long tail flew over a distance of several miles into the camping area, and then exploded with a thud. That's a lot of gunpowder. The BJP also did not have so much gunpowder to make such a mess. Therefore, Duan Qirui's troops only suffered five artillery shots all night. As a result, the Beiyang Army stayed up all night.

Finally staying up until dawn, the cavalry began to search the main road in fear, only to find that their communication line had not been cut off at all, and the main road was unimpeded. Duan Qirui couldn't let the Beiyang Army sleep during the day, and then be harassed at night. He could only order someone to contact Wang Shizhen on the one hand, and on the other hand order the troops to continue the march, so as to enter Huaiyuan County. With the walls to back on, harassing enemies is always not easy to get.

The Beiyang army began to advance in a private complaint, and when they finally arrived in Huaiyuan County, they found that Huaiyuan County had become a real empty city. This is a blessing thanks to Sun Yongsheng. After entering Huaiyuan County yesterday, Sun Yongsheng followed the tradition of "checking the chaotic party and torturing the traitors" in the county seat. "Where are there any traitors who can stay in the county, they are all people who support the Manchus. After Sun Yongsheng's actions, these people also completely despaired of the official army. In addition, the People's Party killed 600 Beiyang cavalry, and returned some obviously looted property to the residents of the county. Under the persuasion of the People's Party, all the people in the county judged the situation and made the decision to flee en masse. Therefore, many houses are still hot, but the residents do not see any of them.

Occupying such an empty city, Duan Qirui felt extremely depressed. But there were enough houses to live in the empty city, so the Beiyang Army smashed open all the doors and found a place to live. I didn't sleep for two days and one night, and the Beiyang Army was really tired.

The People's Party didn't care about the connection between the Beiyang Army, and Wang Shizhen got Duan Qirui's notice very smoothly. As a senior Beiyang soldier, Wang Shizhen understood that Duan Qirui was in great trouble. Wang Shizhen didn't have many options, either he waited for Duan Qirui to withdraw to Suzhou, and then returned to Xuzhou together. This was tantamount to the end of their military careers. Either stand still and watch Duan Qirui fall. Wang Shizhen can't do such a thing. The remaining option is for Wang Shizhen to personally lead the troops south, join forces with Duan Qirui, and then go straight to Fengtai County with superior forces. There were thousands of dissatisfactions in his heart, but Wang Shizhen still sent troops.

The People's Party did not harass Wang Shizhen, and coupled with Wang Shizhen's excellent staff skills, the time it took for him to arrive in Huaiyuan County with grain and grass was two days shorter than Duan Qirui's marching time. When Wang Shizhen entered Huaiyuan County, he was immediately startled by everything he saw. The morale of the Beiyang Army was low, and the number of wounded soldiers greatly exceeded Wang Shizhen's imagination.

Duan Qirui didn't dare to tell the truth to Wang Shizhen, he didn't sit back and wait for Wang Shizhen's support. The day after entering Huaiyuan County, Duan Qirui released his own sentry. These sentinels directly ran into the BJP's reconnaissance battalion. After the sentinels on the main road fell into an ambush, they were able to find the body. Those who walk the path never come and go, and they don't see anyone alive or dead.

During this period, Duan Qirui also launched several searches with hundreds of people, and there was no one in Huaiyuan County, so there should be someone in the countryside. Once the search party disappeared from view of the city, it was a long time before several wounded soldiers, covered in blood, helped each other back. The others have all been killed. When asked about the battle, the wounded soldiers who were frightened all said that the enemy who was under black pressure suddenly besieged them, and everyone fought bloodily to repel the enemy army, and then ran back. This nonsense can't deceive Duan Qirui, if that's really the case, why are these people empty-handed. Where did their guns go?

Duan Qirui once sent a target unit to set up an ambush in order to expose the bandits of the People's Party, but the bandits were not fooled at all. This target unit did not see anyone at all during the day, and at night, the bandits suddenly attacked the sleepy Beiyang Army. Under the counterattack of the Beiyang Army, it rushed into the minefield preset by the chaotic party. The thunderbolt that was sprayed into the air by gunpowder exploded mercilessly, killing and injuring the Beiyang Army in a large area in a circle. The bandits were nowhere to be found. Losing nearly 200 people, this standard returned to Huaiyuan County. From then on, the Third Town no longer dared to attack in a unit of standards. Not daring to attack with the standard as a unit, and unable to attack with the whole army, Duan Qirui was trapped in an empty city, and he looked like he was exhausted.

This time, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not cut off the communication line of the Beiyang Army at all, and this can be regarded as a kind of psychological warfare. If the communication is really cut off, it will make the Beiyang Army make up its mind to fight. If the communication line can be unblocked, it will not be easy for the Beiyang Army to jump off the wall in a hurry. Living in a city is a huge drain on the will of the troops. The sense of security that the city walls give people is something subtle. The People's Party now needs to use the city wall to dissipate the psychology of the Beiyang Army.

"Chairman Chen, I think we can fight Beiyang head-on." At the meeting of the Military Commission, Xiong Mingyang, political commissar of the Second Regiment, said.

Chen Ke arrived at the front on the same day that Wang Shizhen entered Huaiyuan County. He brought two pieces of news, the first was that Zhang Yu's surprise attack on Wuhu was successful, and the new army in Jiangnan had hurriedly crossed the Yangtze River and returned to Jiangnan. Zhang Yu didn't fall in love either, but just moved the silver taels of the government and withdrew from Wuhu. It has now been safely evacuated to Tongling. The second news is that a group has begun to go north and go straight to Xuzhou. If nothing goes wrong, Xuzhou, which is empty of troops, will not be able to resist the attack of a regiment at all.

Stimulated by these two news, the front-line troops' sense of seeking war was also ignited. First Xiong Mingyang, then Pu Guanshui and others also said that under the attack of the three regiments, the Beiyang Army in Huaiyuan County was absolutely vulnerable.

"Comrades, it's not that you can't fight like this. We're going to lose out on beating us like this. Chen Ke said with a smile.

The crowd laughed. Due to the superiority in forces and the lack of disparity in weapons, the People's Party's guerrilla warfare casualties were minimal. Six or seven hundred of Duan Qirui's troops were killed and wounded, and the casualties of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were less than fifty. Most of the casualties were wounded by stray bullets. If you fight head-on, the number of casualties will increase dramatically.

"But our troops are staying in the wilderness, and everyone's physical exertion is quite large." Hua Xiongmao made a very valuable point. The BJP's field superiority did not fall from the sky, and every day the troops were camping and were ready to fight at any time. Despite the fact that the sanitary situation was very attentive and there were no outbreaks of large-scale diseases, the physical exertion was extremely noticeable.

"It's okay now, if it rains, we won't be able to live in the wilderness." Pu Guanshui followed. In the past few days, the clouds in the sky have gradually thickened, and it is not an empty imagination that it suddenly rains. The autumn rain is continuous, and I don't know how long it will take to stop after it rains.

"It's not too worrying. Anyway, I suspect that we will have a war in the next few days. Chen Ke then encouraged everyone.

"Is it a question of firewood?" Pu Guanshui asked. The front-line troops were not idle, and there was constant discussion about where there might be a fight. The Beiyang Army had sent small units to prepare for cutting firewood several times, but they were all killed by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Everyone has been thinking about whether to focus on setting up an ambush in the direction of the woods. When persuading the people to leave Huaiyuan County, the army specially checked the amount of firewood and grass in the city. That's not enough to last long.

"Are you well prepared, comrades?" Chen Ke was very satisfied. In fact, fighting a war is by no means a simple knife to gun, horses can eat raw, people are not forced to the point of last resort, always have to eat cooked food. This is no different from the People's Party and the Beiyang Army. The BJP has easy access to fuel in the wilderness. The Beiyang Army was in a lot of difficulties in the city. Not to mention that the weather is cold now, and the demand for firewood is also increasing.

As if to confirm the idea of the revolutionary army, that night, a large force of the Beiyang Army secretly left the city and prepared to enter the woods. It was attacked by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which had been set up in ambush for a long time, but the Beiyang Army did not retreat this time, but stubbornly waged a night battle with the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in ambush was small in number and had to retreat finally after a fierce exchange of fire. The troops suffered more than thirty casualties at once. Chen Ke didn't say a word, and directly ordered the harassment rocket artillery to be dispatched, and after the three rockets flew into Huaiyuan County, the Beiyang Army finally did not continue to attack on a large scale.

Although it was noisy all night at night, during the day, a large number of firewood cutting troops of the Beiyang Army were dispatched. At this time, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army knew that Beiyang was now on firewood and grass, and was willing to let go of this opportunity. A brutal positional battle unfolded in the forest.

"My brother was right." Duan Qirui was finally able to confront the People's Party on a large scale. He even had some feelings of excitement at this time.

Wang Shizhen smiled bitterly in his heart, from the information provided by Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen probably understood the battle of the People's Party. However, the People's Party was able to carry out the tactics of harassment to this extent, and Wang Shizhen was also a little surprised. The BJP's approach is also too ruthless. Originally, the firewood and grass in the city had been exhausted, but now after Wang Shizhen's more than 6,000 people arrived, there was no firewood available at all. Wang Shizhen actually guessed it out of habit, but he didn't expect to be able to guess it.

"Brother, in that case, let's have a good fight with these bandits." Wang Shizhen said.

The cruelty of the war was far beyond the imagination of Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army faced the Fourth Regiment. This is the youngest unit in the 104th Division, and it is also the most generally equipped unit. If it weren't for Duan Qirui's loss of more than 1,000 people before and after, the Fourth Regiment wouldn't even be able to handle a rifle per man. Even so, the Beiyang Army still did not have the slightest upper hand.

Directly at the forefront was the first battalion. In yesterday's night battle, although the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army encountered the problem of a small number of people, and the original military plan also called for "the situation is not good, run immediately." "But this was also the first battle in so long when the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was beaten away. Battalion commander Chen Guansheng never expected that this "honor" would actually fall on the head of his own battalion. During the daytime battles, he insisted on taking the lead.

In fact, it was not easy to dig fortifications in the woods, so Chen Guansheng personally carried a shovel into battle to urge the troops to dig fortifications. Chen Ke was afraid that the first battalion would be red-eyed, and he specifically asked the troops to emphasize combat discipline. The enemy must not open fire until he is close enough to a certain extent. The Beiyang Army inherited many of the Huai Army's combat methods, that is, it could release a row of guns and shoot in waves. Even in a battle where you are lined up to be shot, you may not really be able to fall behind. The BJP does not have so many bullets to consume. That's why it's a big deal about "every bullet that kills an enemy." "If you want to achieve this effect, you have to get the enemy closer. Therefore, the position is in the woods, and it is difficult to organize the formation in the woods. It is not conducive to the Beiyang Army to give full play to its advantages.

So Beiyang first poured bullets into the woods, and then began to attack. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army used infantry squad and platoon tactics. The equipment of Chen Ke's troops was not much worse than that of the one that crossed the Yalu River with great vigour. The troops did not have machine guns, but grenades were plentiful. After the Beiyang army entered the woods, they were hit hard at close range. When he boarded, he turned on his back and fell down.

To the surprise of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, even so, there were still Beiyang troops who dared to brave the rain of bullets, straightened up and began to charge. This attitude of "winning with courage" frightened the fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The platoon leaders of the "throwing grenades" squad shouted loudly and took the lead in setting an example. After a rumbling explosion, those "heroic" Beiyang troops fell. Next, the Beiyang Army behind no longer had the courage to do so, they turned around and ran away like this. The woods provided shelter to both sides fairly, and the bullets pursued by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in the woods were intercepted by the woods. The Beiyang Army was able to escape.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was almost attacked by Beiyang, began to reformulate specific tactics according to what was taught in the military academy. The squad leaders said to the fighters: "See, if the Beiyang Army rushes to that pine tree, they will start throwing grenades." ”

"You save a little money, there aren't that many grenades." The platoon commanders ordered people to collect the enemy's guns, and at the same time said to the squad leader while patrolling the position.

"Platoon commander, hurry up and dig trenches and anti-artillery holes, and be careful of enemy shelling." The correspondent sent by the company commander explained to the platoon commander.

"The center of the second company gave me a retreat of ten meters, so that I could organize the fire more effectively. It's more balanced. "The battalion commander Chen Guansheng personally ran to the front line, and after looking at the division of the enemy's dead and wounded soldiers, he ordered.

"You bunch of shit." Duan Qirui pointed to the commander in charge of the first wave of attacks and cursed.