Chapter 496: The Great Gift
A country cannot allow any separatists to make trouble, which is something that is resolutely not allowed in Liu Jun's eyes. Therefore, knowing that this will make the military power of your opponent strong, but for the sake of the country, everything is worth it.
Aba City, Sichuan, Aba is in Sichuan, can only be regarded as a small county, the entire county, the population is less than five,
Among them, there are nearly three minutes of the population, which belong to the Yi and Tibetan peoples.
After the imperial court moved here, it ordered the strong men to be drawn from Aba and more than a dozen surrounding prefectures and counties to form a town's troops. That is, the ninth town. The total strength of the ninth town is 12,300 people, and the town headquarters is set up in Aba, where the imperial court originally set up a town, not to defend Liaodong, but Tibet, and now, this team has finally come in handy.
This time, the imperial court attached great importance to the Tibetan rebellion, and actually mobilized two associations from Chongqing again, and transferred a target army from Guizhou, gathered in Aba, and prepared to enter Tibet to crusade against the **** who dared to rebel and the 30,000 Tibetan troops under him.
The county office, the gloomy weather overwhelmed people. In the study, Zhao Erfeng, who had already arrived at Aba, walked back and forth in the room alone, and from the day he received the holy decree, he handed over the great seal of the governor of Sichuan to the new governor of Sichuan, Song Pan, and he led a dozen guards to Aba early the next morning.
When he arrived at Aba, the troops from Chongqing and Guizhou did not arrive, so he could only order to wait, and just yesterday, two armies of more than 7,000 people who had been waiting for five days finally entered Aba in the afternoon.
However, Zhao Erfeng, who was originally confident that he would be able to quell the rebellion, suddenly felt a half chill in his heart after seeing that Chongqing had already been in Guizhou Zunyi Prefecture.
The ninth town, more than 10,000 people, only 5,000 guns, without any artillery, I thought that the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou was close to Vietnam, and the equipment of the troops could be better, but to Zhao Erfeng's disappointment, the 2,000 people transferred from Zunyi Mansion did not have a single gun. Some of them were shotguns, and he really didn't know what he was going to do with the Tibetan soldiers armed with Mauser rifles.
Hey, a sigh came from the study, I wanted to wait for the army to arrive, but now, Zhao Erfeng can't give an order, and enter Tibet with his current strength, which is no different from looking for death.
The day before yesterday, he had sent a telegram to the imperial court, hoping to draw some arms from the first town, and the imperial court also agreed, although there were only five hundred guns and one field artillery, but it was better than nothing.
With a creak, the door of the study was opened, and Zhao Erfeng, who turned around, looked back and saw that it was actually his housekeeper who walked in.
"Master, is someone looking for you outside the door?"
At this time, who is looking for him, Zhao Erfeng pondered twice in his heart, and then motioned for the housekeeper to bring people to the living room.
After seeing the housekeeper go out, Zhao Erfeng tidied up his clothes, temporarily put down the depression in his heart, and turned around and walked out.
As soon as he arrived in the hall, Zhao Erfeng saw two people about thirty-one or twelve years old, wearing white robes, sitting there quietly, and in their hands, obviously carrying a black leather bag.
"Dare I ask you who are?" Zhao Erfeng was sure that he didn't know these two people, and he was polite, so he sat down in his seat and asked.
Of course, Zhao Erfeng didn't know these two people, the one sitting on the chair was Wei Changfeng, the head of the Sichuan Intelligence Station, and the one standing there next to him was indeed Cheng Hao, the head of the Aba Sub-station in Sichuan.
After Wei Changfeng received Zhong Lin's telegram, he immediately rushed from Chengdu to Aba, and after discussing with Cheng Hao for a while, the two decided to come to see Zhao Erfeng in person and tell the matter of Liaodong's donation.
"Lord Zhao, in Xia Wei Changfeng, this is my assistant Cheng Hao, I can't hide it. We were sent by Liaodong. Wei Changfeng didn't have any nonsense, and directly said his identity.
Liaodong, as soon as Zhao Erfeng heard these two words, he immediately understood that these two people were Liu Jun's subordinates in Liaodong.
"Someone." Zhao Erfeng, whose face was pale, shouted loudly.
In an uproar, several soldiers holding waist knives appeared in front of Zhao Erfeng at once. Wait for orders.
Before he finished speaking, the butler next to him stretched out his hand and shouted: "Slow." ”
"Master, let's listen to what they mean, right?" The housekeeper on the side saw that Zhao Erfeng was pressing and arresting this person, and hurriedly stepped forward, after all, the housekeeper can not be responsible for the imperial court, but he must be responsible for Zhao Erfeng, once these two people are arrested, then they will completely block their retreat.
Zhao Erfeng saw that the housekeeper who didn't talk much on weekdays stopped him at this time, he knew in his heart that this was the housekeeper for his own good, and hoped that he wouldn't do things badly, after all, Liaodong was not so easy to mess with, and Pan Xiaosu in front of him was a good example.
Nodding slightly, Zhao Erfeng motioned for the guards to go down, then stood up and walked in front of the two of them and asked coldly: "The old man has never had anything to do with Liaodong. What are you doing here? ”
"Lord Zhao, our marshal has learned that Lord Zhao is about to lead a large army into the Tibetan region to quell the rebellion, so we have a gift for Your Excellency." Wei Changfeng stood up, took the document from Cheng Hao's hand, took out a piece of paper from it and handed it to Zhao Erfeng.
Gift, Zhao Erfeng looked at the two people who had already stood up suspiciously, and didn't understand what the gift they were talking about.
"My lord, our commander is well aware of the shortage of firearms in your army, so we have specially allocated 3,000 rifles, 20 machine guns, 10 field guns, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and 10,000 shells to equip your army."
What the? Zhao Erfeng shook his head, he really doubted whether he had heard it wrong, the Liaodong Army actually transferred so many arms from him. Ten field guns and twenty machine guns, what kind of concept is this, the first town is now the elite of the imperial court, and the best equipment is only six machine guns and less than five artillery. And Liaodong transferred so much to himself at once, which made Zhao Erfeng a little unacceptable.
"Lord Zhao, now that this batch of materials has been shipped from Nanjing and arrived in Wuhan, I hope that Lord Zhao can immediately open a customs clearance road, so that this batch of materials can pass through and arrive here as soon as possible."
"Okay, I'll open the customs clearance road immediately," although there is a certain dislike for Liaodong, but for arms, Zhao Erfeng is not rejected, if this batch of materials arrives, he is confident that he will take the **** in one fell swoop. Let Tibet return to calm again.
Brushing and writing a note in a few clicks, Zhao Erfeng immediately handed it to his housekeeper and said, "Send it out immediately." ”
Wei Changfeng saw that Zhao Erfeng handed over the written note to the housekeeper, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that Lushun's task had been successfully completed, and as for the rest, it was the matter of the Ministry of Commerce.