Wang Feng could only stay in Suzhou for one night, although the women were reluctant, they could understand, and they took out a hundred times the tenderness to serve him, but Wang Feng's dream of sleeping with beauty did not come true, because Hong Xuanjiao and the Fu sisters wanted to leave the opportunity to be alone with Wang Feng to Alice.

And they think that being happy with a man is a very private thing, with a third person present, they always can't get over that hurdle psychologically, including the most bold Hong Xuanjiao, she can help Wang Feng solve it in front of Zhou Xiuying, but it is still difficult to accept it if she goes into battle by herself.

Early the next morning, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, that is, on the fifth day of the second month of the Gregorian calendar, Wang Feng refused the women's request to send him off, and only hurried to the barracks with Yang Shuijiao, and left Suzhou after meeting with the soldiers.

According to the principle of the three-three system, the standard strength of one division is 8,100 men, and the number of personnel is about 8,500 with the addition of logistical support and auxiliary civilian personnel.

The Second Army, led by Wang Feng, is 5,000 people per division, plus 400 special combat personnel, including 200 men and women, 500 women's medical teams, and 100 military personnel from the Ordnance Bureau, with a total strength of 11,000 people.

In addition to a mini gun, a spare barrel, two cannons, and ~100 vehicles, loaded with tires, gun spare parts, shells, gunpowder, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, tools and other expedition necessities and some dry food.

The soldiers carried the other part of the dry food with them, and the sleeping bags were also carried by each of them.

At present, Wang Fengjunzhong has applied pneumatic rubber tires. This application was ahead of the armies of Western powers such as Britain and France, although pneumatic tires first appeared in Britain in 1845. and obtained a patent from the British government, but the British at that time. Too much attention to the traditional gentrification, in order to protect the carriage, so the development of the steam car was restricted, the car was limited to a speed of 3.2 kilometers per hour in the urban area, 6.4 kilometers in the suburbs, slower than a human walk, the epoch-making invention lost the market, slowly forgotten, the current tires in the British and French and other Western armies. Still solid rubber tires.

The key to the tire lies in the cord, that is, the rubber adhesion layer, generally using canvas, according to the historical development process are crossed lines, oblique lines and meridians, although the meridian is the mainstream civilian tires in the world today, but considering the process limitations, production costs and application processes, the tires used by the Democratic Alliance are still bias tires, but even so, the cost is also incredibly high. The cost of each tire and inner tube is twenty taels of silver, not counting the cost of the cast iron bearing ring and the modification of the carriage!

This made the Suzhou bosses give up the idea of investing in a tire factory, and the capital was profit-seeking, nearly a hundred times the cost of wood convergence wheels. Before the promotion of automobiles, there was almost no future for pneumatic tires, and although they all praised the stability and comfort of pneumatic tires, no one paid for them.

But Wang Feng is not short of money. He founded the first military-run enterprise, the tire manufacturing plant of the China Democratic Alliance. And in accordance with the old habit of the People's Liberation Army, it uses disorganized numbers to make people confused. It was named the 8543rd Factory of the Democratic Alliance.

There are 130 horse-drawn carriages in the whole army, each car is equipped with four tires and four spare tires, the tires of the cannon are specially made, which are twice as large as ordinary vehicles, and the cost is 80 taels of silver, each gun has four tires for a single axle, twelve horses are horse-pulled, and the total cost of two guns and spare tires is eight, and the total cost of tires is 21,440 taels of silver, all of which are blood!

Yang Shuijiao sat on the gang of the carriage, with her feet checked, and couldn't help but praise: "Rubber tires are a little more expensive, but they are very comfortable, not bumpy, as if the road is flat, and there is no crunch of wooden wheels, I tell you, I usually hate making cars the most, but now I find that riding a car is also quite comfortable." ”

Wang Feng was reluctant to sit in the car, and walked with the soldiers next to the car, at this time, he sighed distressedly: "Yang Shuijiao, come down, twenty taels of silver each, will you pay for blowing up the tire?" ”

"Humph!" Yang Shuijiao snorted lightly: "I'm only weighed, and I'm not a hundred pounds, right?" You can load a few thousand catties in a car, and you are still a hundred catties short of me? You just can't see me sitting, you walking, stingy! ”

Since going out with Wang Feng in the early morning, Yang Shuijiao's mood has been very happy, because she sees this expedition as an opportunity to be alone with Wang Feng.

"You ask me how much I love you, how much I love you" Yang Shuijiao couldn't help humming a little song!

Yang Shuijiao at this moment can only be described as beautiful and delicious, Wang Feng naturally didn't want to spoil the fun, and turned around and beckoned: "Girls, let's get in the car and sit!" ”

Among the female soldiers, there was an instant burst of cheers like silver bells, and they all learned Yang Shuijiao to jump on the car and sit down, who wants to walk if they can sit?

More than 200 miles from Suzhou to Baoshan, the whole army arrived at the Baoshan Wharf on the morning of 7 February, and immediately plunged into a busy crossing of the river, with hundreds of boats crossing the river in batches and in batches, and all of them did not cross until the evening.

Jiangbei and Jiangnan are completely two worlds, a large area of saline-alkali land in Jiangbei, uninhabited, can only see a few waterfowl circling and foraging, Su Sanniang's crossing the river is in Yangzhou, the landing site of the Democratic Alliance is in Haimen Hall, for the time being, Wang Feng has no intention of attacking northern Jiangsu, so he directly bypasses the city, goes north to Tongzhou, and then travels all the way, into Huai'an, through Haizhou, through Xuzhou into Shandong, starting from Huai'an, are sparsely populated, polders are numerous, almost every village has polders, It is completely a scene of villagers settling in the dock to protect themselves during the period of chaos and chaos.

On this day was 15 February, the whole army had just left Xuzhou and entered Yanzhou, Shandong, although the sky was already dark, but the sky was drifting with sleet, the ground was muddy and slippery, there was no place to spread out the sleeping bag to rest, so they had to march all night.

The soldiers were dressed in robes, pushing the vehicle hard to brave the rain and snow, Lu Dayou finally couldn't help but say: "Commander-in-chief, since we crossed Zhenjiang, there are roads connecting the villages in southern Jiangsu, and there are dense people, and there are pavilions on the roadside for people to rest, but what about northern Jiangsu?" Xuzhou is known as the thoroughfare of five provinces, Jianghuai water and land to rush, but dilapidated to this, to be honest, I am a native of Nanjing, this is the first time to cross the river, northern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu, only a river is separated by two heavens! ”

"Hey~~" Wang Feng sighed, and said helplessly: "Xu Huai has always been a place where soldiers must fight, the so-called defense of the river must defend Huai, the battle between the north and the south is easy to form a long-term tug of war in this area, and then the water and land have to rush, the economy has just developed, a war is enough to destroy a qiē, think about it, how many battles have occurred in Xu Huai in history?" I'm afraid I can't count them.

The first was the Liang Dynasty Houjing Rebellion, the second was the Mongol destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the third time was the Qing army going down to the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, there are climatic factors, there are two major floods of the Huai River and the Yellow River in northern Jiangsu, due to the low terrain, once the summer rainstorm becomes a disaster, it will inevitably become a thousand miles of Ze country, all the property is washed away by the water, therefore, from all aspects, there is a profound reason why northern Jiangsu is not as good as southern Jiangsu.

If you want to develop northern Jiangsu and even northern Anhui, in addition to a stable environment, the first thing is to control the water, and at the same time man-made disasters can not be ignored, there are two major troubles in northern Jiangsu and southern Lunan, one is bandits, the other is landlords, this way to the dense polders to see? All are the landlords in order to guard against the twist of the civil armed forces, must be cleared, the focus of which is the landlord, the landlord, the bandits will be eliminated naturally, if this time to rescue the three Niang sister Shun lì, when we return to the division we will take the whole territory of northern Jiangsu, liberate the people of northern Jiangsu! ”

Yang Shuijiao was puzzled: "Why do the landlords and bandits be eliminated naturally?" Hasn't the government always focused on suppressing bandits? Could it be that the bandits were raised by landlords? ”

Wang Feng smiled: "Why are there bandits?" Aren't it ordinary people who can't survive to gather as bandits? From this point of view, whether it is the Taiping Army or the twisters who are active in Huaibei, they all belong to the category of bandits, and the government represents the interests of the landlords, so they treat the headache and the foot pain, and we are the people's government, and there are sufficient reasons to solve the problem of bandits from the source. ”

Even the New Fourth Army sent a telegram to the central government saying that the people's feelings in northern Jiangsu were completely different from those in southern Jiangsu, but after liberation, the bandits disappeared overnight, and the only secret was to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, and the common people had land, who would still be bandits?

You must know that being a bandit is a high-risk, low-return business, and being caught is death, and the landlords are armed, and it is not easy to break through the landlord's polder.

"Oh~~" Yang Shuijiao nodded as if she didn't understand, but she seemed to think of something, and hurriedly added: "I transferred from Jintian to Nanjing, and I never felt uncomfortable for thousands of miles, but after crossing the river, there was always a strange feeling, as if I had come to a strange country, and I couldn't tell the details. ”

"Yes, yes, I have it too!" Wang Feng's soldiers are roughly divided into four parts, one is the original Nanjing Green Battalion, mainly Nanjing people, the second is the captured Hunan soldiers, the third is the locals of southern Jiangsu, and the fourth is the bigfoot girls from Guangxi.

Wang Feng thought for a while, and said: "Although I don't want to admit it, I have to admit that your feelings come from cultural differences, the southern culture was inherited from the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the tradition of ancient China to pass on poetry and books was retained to the greatest extent, and the idealism and humanism were relatively strong, I will take an analogy, take the Ming and Qing dynasties as an example, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the production bases of Jinshi, Yang Shuijiao, you are Hakka, Hakka retains many cultural traditions of the Tang and Song dynasties, think about it yourself, your habits are no different from us in the subtleties? (To be continued......) R1292