Chapter 321: An Unquiet Night

When Nanyuan Airport once again ushered in a large-scale aircraft take-off and landing, night had fallen. The newly arrived soldiers of the more than 2,000 vanguard troops rushed to Beiping and completed the final blow of the battle in Beiping.

The stubbornly resisting devil soldiers were unable to organize an effective attack under the rain of fighters and MG-42 machine guns, and the courage of the expatriates could not stop Suomy's bullets. The madness they demonstrated was piles of corpses on the ground.

The puppet army has long disappeared in the sound of explosions, and only those who are loyal to the mansions and offices of a few big Han soldiers are stubbornly resisting.

In this regard, the vanguard army was not in a hurry, and sealed the doors one by one and slowly cleaned up. There were too many places to occupy in Beiping City, and thousands of vanguard soldiers were scattered into it, and there was not much splash to be seen.

The fires in various places are particularly conspicuous in the dark night, and there are people everywhere who take advantage of the chaos to burn, kill, loot, and rob while the fire is burning.

"Dare to take advantage of the chaos to rob, kill!" Meng Xiang heard about it and was unceremonious about it. All kinds of crimes under the war will be deducted to the head of the vanguard army at that time, and the troubled times will use heavy punishments, and the vanguard soldiers will be short of manpower at this time, so they can only stop killing by killing.

The soldiers of the vanguard army also issued a ban when they blocked the streets and alleys. Regardless of the reason for the people who are active on the streets, they should be arrested first, and there is no reason to talk about it in this time of war.

For some key buildings and facilities, special personnel are also needed to protect them.

"This is where the emperor used to live?" A platoon of soldiers, led by Luo Bo, rushed across the Jinshui Bridge and stormed the Forbidden City. When they saw the tall red wall and the majestic city gate, dozens of soldiers exclaimed in unison.

"The place where this emperor lives is more spacious than the rich man Liu's house in our village, so many houses!" A soldier climbed the tower, staring blankly at the golden glazed houses in front of him, reflecting in the distant firelight.

"Half a room, it's exactly 10,000!" Luo Bo said with a smile, since he was a child, his father who studied history wandered around, and he was very familiar with this place.

"There are so many houses, how can he live alone?" The sluggish Liu Zhenhan sighed, "He has three thousand wives, one wife, at least one mother-in-law, plus a cub, isn't it full!" A soldier next to him joked.

"Three thousand wives? He is not afraid of three thousand green hats? Liu Zhenhan sneered. He still knows this common sense, and the literacy class of the Pioneer Army is not only about literacy, but also about some things in history. The idea of patriotism has been constantly advocated, but the idea of loyalty to the monarch has been changed to loyalty to the motherland and the Chinese nation.

"The world is created by the masses, and it belongs to the masses after all."

"Huaxia belongs to every one of our citizens."

…… It was this indoctrination of the idea of equality that made the soldiers of the vanguard army lose the reverence of the emperor in the mouths of their young elders.

At this time, the Forbidden City not only has the royal nobility of the past, but also the weeds and garbage everywhere are also telling the decline of imperial power.

"Block these gates and wait for the arrival of the team of experts for the protection of cultural relics!" Luo Bo waved his hand and said, the soldiers of the vanguard army only guarded the palace gates and did not enter, and the vanguard army also took into account the disposal of these cultural relics and monuments under Meng Xiang's proposal in this operation. When the army captures, there will be damage, and under the guns, the soldiers do not know how to automatically protect those cultural relics and monuments. For this purpose, a special expert group was set up, and a list of key protection items was drawn up before the start of the war.

After hearing that the flames of war had ignited in Beiping, some experts strongly demanded that they go to Beiping City to protect the cultural relics and historic sites in Beiping. But there is a war going on there, and if these masters make a mistake, wouldn't it be a big loss? Meng Xiang resolutely refused, and blocked the request of these experts on the grounds that during the war, all planes needed to transport supplies and soldiers. At the same time, he agreed to send troops to protect those cultural relics and monuments, and persuaded the stubborn masters away.

"The Vanguard Army found a large pile of copper products in the warehouse of the Forbidden City!" He Siyuan said indignantly, "Those were all those that the Forbidden City didn't have time to move out at that time, but they were scraped by me and prepared to be smelted to make bullets." It's a terrible thing! "Most of the cultural relics in the Forbidden City have been moved, but there are inevitably some large items that are not suitable for moving. said that many of them are Huaxia Tong. I am very familiar with the culture of China, and after their round search, the Forbidden City is even more empty.

"I said that I am short of copper, and I have recently started to fight our copper round idea. Some items in the Special Economic Zone began to circulate, and they kept exchanging some products for copper yuan, but they felt that our copper yuan was the most realistic. Zhou Bai said disapprerovantly beside him.

Recently, Zhou Bai has not only been busy with various productions during the military administration, but he has also been planning the future economic blueprint before the war has even begun.

"Our economic development plan must develop those industries that we have advantages and strive to win over their markets! Backlog of living space for their products. Meng Xiang said in a deep voice, he must beat them in the projects that he has advantages, so that their products cannot be sold and fall into a deeper economic crisis in China. When the time comes, he will lose the resources and markets in North China to see how long they can survive.

"In addition, the copper circle is also properly controlled. Gold and silver are forbidden to circulate externally, and circulation is restricted internally! Meng Xiang instructed again.

At present, the issuance of copper circles is increasing with the expansion of the territory of the Special Economic Zone, and every time there is a big war, there are a large number of recycled bullet casings. After a period of precipitation, the circulation of copper circles in the Special Economic Zone has stabilized. But the next Beijing-Tianjin area is a big gold-absorbing field, and it is not possible to gain a foothold by occupying the territory.

The economic and financial war is kicking off, and the opponent in front of Meng Xiang is not just himself. At this time, in the mint, a large number of large and small copper circles were being pressed out continuously, and the crisp sound of copper circles rolling down echoed in the piled up full copper round warehouse.

"I'll kill you with copper balls!" Meng Xiang sneered secretly.

The arms trade, including several battleship transactions, has amassed a large amount of gold and silver foreign exchange, and the sales of medicines and nylon stockings are also booming. Nylon stockings ignited a popular frenzy in Europe and the United States, who would have imagined that with such a small stockings, Meng Xiang would earn more than 50 million US dollars. This is also obtained when the production of nylon stockings is insufficient.

Now it is still the only business of the vanguard, and the hot-eyed DuPont continues to accelerate the progress of research, but it can only earn next year's share.

The latest issue of the Vanguard Army's war bonds is 100 million. But as well there are a large number of buyers. The Pioneers' six-month and three-month war bonds had been cashed out as scheduled, and although many of them had expired and did not come to accept them, the money was still kept for them, paid at the interest rate on the long-term Taiping Bank deposits, until everyone came to claim them.

As a result of these two operations, the vanguard army's war bond credit increased greatly, and some people even used these large-denomination war bonds as currency in circulation.

It was the high credibility of the Pioneer Army's war bonds, and after hearing that the Vanguard Army attacked Beijing and Tianjin, Chen Jiageng and his team once again claimed 10 million war bonds. Even HSBC and Citibank bought a lot of the Vanguard's war bonds after the Vanguard paid off their loans. After all, the interest rate on war bonds is higher than the interest on bank deposits.

With so many strong reserves and the actual value of Tongyuan itself, Meng Xiang is absolutely sure to occupy the economic dominance of the Beijing-Tianjin region and let the economic development run according to the baton he wields.

"I order, sub-base to build on the spot!" Meng Xiang said coldly.

After nightfall, the base car ashore at the mouth of the Luanhe River kept moving towards the destination under the cover of night. In Bai Yueli, Meng Xiang impulsively wanted to take a risk and act early several times, but in the end he still endured it. The base is his foundation, and perhaps some unspeakable things after the adventure end up in myths and legends, but they always show some horses' feet.

It is not a big mistake to be cautious, Meng Xiang patiently waited until the nightfall, under the cover of night, the legend of myths and ghosts is more reasonable, at that time, the countryside was full of black holes and holes as soon as it was night, plus the army crossed, not many people ran to watch curiously. The patrolling clone warriors blocked the way forward, and the night also blocked the possibility of distant viewing, and behind them, at most, mysterious legends were left.

In this way, the canvas-covered base reached the vicinity of Luan County. In a wild forest near the Luan River, the sub-base began to unfold.

In order to save time, barracks, power plants, mining plants, and tank factories were built within a kilometer of the center of the base.

There are a lot of coal mines nearby, and the famous Kailuan coal mine is not very far away, but it is still under the control of the British at this time. Even Yu himself drooled and didn't move. Behind the Pingluan Coal Mine is not only the British, but also many domestic forces have intervened here, and the intricate relationship has temporarily withheld Meng Xiang before he has a firm foothold in Beijing and Tianjin.

Even if the British controlled, it would not affect Mengxiang mining.

The concealed mining method of the base, no one would have thought that it was mining. The mining vehicle looked more like a giant armored vehicle, and with the guards of the soldiers next to it, it lay there motionless, and in the end it was nothing unusual except for a wellhead. Sometimes wellheads are landfilled, which is even more unexpected.

But the base building also needs a day at the earliest, for example, the tank factory needs three days, and it needs to be upgraded again, so the base can't help much for the time being, and the soldiers of the vanguard army are still needed to hold on to the front during this period.

At Shanhaiguan, a regiment of the Marine Brigade had landed near Qinhuangdao. Part of it directly supported Shanhaiguan, and part of it attacked Qinhuangdao. At this time, Qinhuangdao was not a big city like in later generations.

With the long shadow of dusk, the marines rushed into Qinhuangdao, and at this time, the soldiers of the battalion from Luan County in the west had already occupied the station. Attacked from both sides, Qinhuangdao, which was guarded by more than 500 devils, was attacked and taken down.

Sure enough, Chen Jiahui led a battalion of marines to attack Tangshan Station at night.

When the devil got the news, when he blocked the train outside the station, two companies came out of the city and attacked from the city, and they quickly drove the devil out of the station. But then the devil's counterattack caused the battalion led by Chen Jiahui to suffer a little loss.

The madness of the devil seems to have turned into a wolf in the night, and he rushes up desperately. The frenzy of directly blocking the gun's eye with his body caught Chen Jiahui and others a little off guard.

But the equipment of the Marine Corps is not paratroopers, and the establishment of a battalion is a standard of more than 800 people. Large-caliber M2 machine guns, M1 howitzers, 80-mm mortars are all fully equipped. Six T-40A also followed, although there were only 20 mm small guns, but with the use of mobile surnames, they still directly relied on the armor to assault the devil's fortifications and strafe them.

"Boom" a devil with a grenade wrapped all over his body and pounced on a T-40A tank, although he vomited blood and was knocked out by the speeding tank, but at least five or six broken ribs he still lay on the ground and played the strings. This sound caused a chain reaction, and more than a dozen devils launched a continuous meat bullet attack. The momentum of the T-40A's wild run was curbed, and after two vehicles were blown up by the devils, they were withdrawn by Chen Jiahui. What is needed now is to hold the station and wait for the follow-up troops to come.

"This Chen Jiahui has momentum." Zhao Junmai was overjoyed when he heard that Tangshan Station had been conquered. This time, the actions of the Marine Brigade were far less shocking than the appearance of the paratroopers. At this time, the only gain was to capture Luan County, and the rescue mission was also delayed due to the blocking of the devil's plane.

Zhao Junmai was also unconvinced in his heart, and when he heard that Tangshan Station was in hand, he could take advantage of the situation to attack Tangshan. If Tangshan, a large industrial city, starts, it will be regarded as the first appearance of the Marine Corps.

"Luan County dispatched a company to support first, Shanhaiguan left a battalion, Qinhuangdao left a battalion, and the others rushed to Tangshan together." Zhao Junmai had full command of the Marine Corps and immediately set about making adjustments according to the actual situation.

Shanhaiguan had stabilized, and after the vanguard planes forced back the 16th Wing, they rushed directly outside the pass, blowing up more than a dozen railways and a train before flying back to the Canglong.

The 16th Wing, which suffered heavy casualties, could only wait for reinforcements to slowly come in. The attention of the Kwantung Army was once again attracted by Soviet Russia, and it was unable to organize a large-scale offensive in a short period of time.

Taking advantage of the fact that the devil's reinforcements were still far away on the road, Zhao Junmai just wanted to make a time difference, and arranged for personnel to rush to Tangshan by train overnight, which was only defended by half of the wing.

At the same time, Shouichi Terauchi, who heard that the Tangshan Railway Station was lost, was also arranging a brigade of devils to help defend Tangshan.