Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Wan Yaohuang also talked a lot about it, "There is also the cultivation of scouts, which is very important. Today's scouts are equivalent to ancient scouts, they are the eyes and nose of the army, and it can even be said that the strength of scouts is largely It determines the victory or defeat of the entire battle. On the battlefield in Hubei, the scouts in the six towns of Beiyang were obviously superior to our army. Otherwise, we would not even know such an important thing as the heavy machine guns installed in the Bo'ai Academy. It is exactly Because he was blocked in this position for too long, he sacrificed so much at the Jade Belt Gate."

Wang Zhenyu agrees with this very much. In later generations, his grandfather was a deputy platoon leader of the 47th Army's reconnaissance platoon: "What qualities does an excellent scout need?"

Wan Yaohuang has studied this for a long time, so he naturally replied without thinking: "Brave, loyal, witty, good at disguising, good at analyzing and judging, and having good individual qualities, these are all qualities that a qualified scout must possess... ..."

Wang Zhenyu gained a lot from the conversation with Wan Yaohuang. The only thing that surprised him was why didn't such a talent leave his name in the history of the Republic of China?

In fact, what Wang Zhenyu didn't know was that Wan Yaohuang was just unknown in history textbooks.It can be regarded as a person in history. When the Wuchang armistice, Li Yuanhong had already escaped from Wuchang.At that time, it was this little staff officer, Wan Yaohuang, who made a decisive decision. After chasing for forty miles in Xingye, he took the commander's seal from Li Yuanhong and stamped the armistice letter. This shows his courage and determination.As for the later obscurity, it wasn't that Jiang Lang's talent was exhausted, but that it was not at the right time and he had no master.It roughly corresponds to the sentence: "Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often exist."

Because this small passenger ship of 16 tons is going down the river, its speed can reach [-] knots, that is, (kilometers per hour), so it only takes a little more than a day to arrive at Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf including the docking supplies.

After Wang Zhenyu, Wan Yaohuang, Ma Xicheng, Zhao Dongsheng and others disembarked, they met the personnel in charge of the Nanjing Army Department.The Ninth Brigade was stationed and immediately allocated a supply, but there was no payment.Although Wang Zhenyu, who is not short of money, doesn't care about this, he can deduce from this how financially tight Nanjing is.

When we arrived in Nanjing, the whole army moved into the garrison, and the cleaning and sanitation was extremely busy.However, Wang Zhenyu was not immediately summoned by Huang Xing, but only registered with the Ministry of War.

In the blink of an eye, it was already mid-February in 1912. Great news came from Beijing. The wise and mighty Emperor Xuantong officially announced his abdication, and the North and South were finally reconciled.Immediately, the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums rang out, and the whole city of Nanjing became extremely lively. Hundreds of thousands of militiamen and Nanjing citizens chose to temporarily forget the recent difficult life, and everyone was celebrating this good news from the bottom of their hearts. (It is indeed good news. The emperor has fallen, and everyone is no longer a chaotic party, and their lives are guaranteed)

In the eyes of most people, all the sufferings in this country come from the damned Qing Empire. Now that the emperor has abdicated, he should have a better life in the future.At the Ninth Brigade's resident, Wang Zhenyu was on the balcony looking coldly at his subordinates who were having a carnival on the playground.Although I know that the abdication of the Qing emperor is not the end of the suffering, but the beginning of a new round of suffering, but he is not stupid enough to come out at this time to pour cold water on everyone. Dinner to celebrate this huge victory.

Now that the emperor was gone, the plan of the Northern Expedition was also cancelled. Wang Zhenyu immediately became idle, and he was happy to pay attention to the situation in Hunan province.

Strictly speaking, the situation in Hunan faced by Tan Yankai after he became the governor of Hunan is very complicated, and various forces are eager to try. In this situation where fish and dragons are always mixed, the most fatal point is that Tan Yankai himself does not have armed force. To put it simply It is the lack of reliable armed protection.

But it was in such an extremely unfavorable situation that Tan Yankai's extraordinary ability was revealed.

Don't look at Granny Tan who is only in her early 30s, she has a skillful wrist and a deep city, which is really rare in China.He first reached a mutual understanding with the Tongmenghui, and sent people to comfort the families of the two governors, Jiao and Chen, who were killed.At the same time, he also thanked Mei Xin for supporting his superior, and appointed him as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army and the guardian of Changbao.Tan Yankai naturally has ways to deal with the troops left by Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin.First of all, in the name of aiding the revolution in Hubei, these troops were successively transferred to the front line in Hubei.Before leaving, he also asked the ministries to sacrifice for the revolution without looking back.

In layman's terms, you should all die in Hubei, and don't come back.

For the dissidents who stayed in the province, Tan Yankai even used his strength to instigate Mei Xin's troops to kill them.Through secret deception and public suppression, a two-pronged approach quickly settled down local forces such as the Baoqing military government branch.

As for Wang Longzhong returning with his troops to settle accounts, that would be even better.Tan Yankai first took advantage of Wang Longzhong's power to scare away Mei Xin who was entrenched in Changsha and controlled him.Then he appointed Huang Luanming, the old chief of No. 49, who was not in Changsha during the revolution, as the director of military affairs of the military government because he participated in the autumn exercises.After Huang Luanming ran to Wang Longzhong relying on his former prestige to convene the old department for a while, he said that everyone dared not act rashly again, and Wang Longzhong finally lost the chance to become the governor.

Tan Yankai took advantage of the relationship with all parties to resolve a huge crisis invisible.Later, Tan Yankai brought in the supervisor of the second battalion of the original 49th bid who also participated in the autumn exercises, that is, Chen Qiang, Wang Zhenyu's predecessor.He was appointed as the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army, and took over half of Wang Longzhong's forces.

Tan Yankai is still looking for contacts, looking for acquaintances, and preparing to form a more reliable army. . .

All these were written by Lu Diping to tell himself. Lu Diping was quite a character, and he told himself very straightforwardly that he also accepted Tan Yankai's solicitation, and most of the officers under Master Wang had already been solicited.

Damn, this Granny Tan is really good at building relationships!After reading the letter, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help sighing.

There is a saying in later generations that is very in line with the national conditions, that is, how high a person can achieve has little to do with ability, the most important thing is to see what level of people you can recognize.

Isn't it just for relationship, and I will do it too.

With this in mind, Wang Zhenyu immediately asked Ma Xicheng and Zhao Dongsheng to send invitations everywhere. Now that he is a major general in the army anyway, he still has the face of inviting people to dinner.

If someone invites someone, someone will eat it. In addition, Wang Zhenyu is generous in his actions and speaks decently.

There are two people who come here often, and they are very familiar with Wang Zhenyu.

One is Wang Zhixiang, commander of the Third Army, from Zhili, in his 50s.Before the revolution, he was the chief political envoy of Guangxi, and he was in charge of the Six Battalions in Guilin. After being persuaded by his brother-in-law Liu Renjun from Hunan, he joined the revolution and became the deputy governor of Guangxi.However, he had a quarrel with another deputy governor, Lu Rongting, and had to take his own troops to Nanjing to prepare for the Northern Expedition. He didn't want the Qing Emperor to abdicate, and the Northern Expedition was cancelled.Now Lu Rongting refuses to let him go back to Guangxi, and stays in Nanjing, and the Liushou Mansion will not give him a penny of military pay.Facing the [-] mouths that want to eat under his hands, Wang Zhixiang feels helpless now, no, he drinks with Wang Zhenyu here every day.

The other is Tian Yingzhao, the brigade commander of the 35th Brigade, Wang Zhenyu's fellow Hunanese, [-] years old, and he is a general.Speaking of the bandits in western Hunan, everyone may know, but in fact these people were not bandits at first. They were formed for historical reasons. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was suppressed, Tian Xingshu, a Phoenix man in western Hunan, was the father of Tian Yingzhao.He led the team into the Hunan Army, and then followed Zuo Zongtang to Xinjiang to fight the Russians.After fighting all the way, he became the governor of Guizhou.Just like Feng Zicai had the Cui army, Tian Xingshu had the army under his command. These troops were not disbanded by the court, but continued to exist as volunteers.It then became a local armed group.The famous Gansu Majiajun (not the track and field team) was also formed in such a model.Therefore, the origin of the banditry in Xiangxi is not bandits, but the volunteers (temporary workers without establishment) left over from the Qing Dynasty.Just because they resisted the rough reorganization of cadres who went south after liberation, they embarked on the "wrong path" against the people's government. Naturally, according to their political orientation and propaganda needs, they became bandits who ate human flesh and drank human blood.By the way, there was also a great literati named Shen Congwen in Ganjun, but I won't mention it here.

This Tian Yingzhao is the third eldest child. He likes to wear a mustache and is nicknamed Tian Huzi.Lao Tzu died within a few years of his birth, spoiled by his mother and daughter, and belonged to a master who had never learned well since childhood.Later, he entrusted his connections to enter the Hunan Army Academy, but was expelled from the school for beating foreign instructors. He failed to recruit and had to go abroad to study in Japan, but was assimilated by the Revolutionary Party.After returning to China, Tian Yingzhao actually served as Wang Zhenyu's teacher and was the general manager of the Army Primary School. However, Wang Zhenyu didn't remember that he had such a teacher. Anyway, the two have become friends now.

When attacking Yuhuatai in Nanjing, Tian Sanshao asked himself to be a death squad and made his first contribution. Huang Xing appreciated it and appointed him as the commander of the [-]th Brigade.

Tian Yingzhao liked Wang Zhenyu, a generous and straightforward little fellow, and even warmly invited Wang Zhenyu to smoke opium with him, saying that it was the finest Yunnan tobacco, which was so rare.Wang Zhenyu was so scared that he was taken aback for a while, this revolutionary is also taking drugs?

But thinking about it makes me feel relieved, just like the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people like to take drugs to seek excitement. In the late Qing Dynasty, the rich and powerful class smoked opium. afford.The more famous one is Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang. This adult was a tiger general when he was young, but he was a smoker when he was old.During the First Sino-Japanese War, he was ordered to command [-] Hunan troops to the Northeast to fight against Japan, but he was addicted to cigarettes, and he was drunk all day long, and the time he could sit up and do business was only a few hours.This is really a lion who was once the leader of a lion and later became a pig. He came to command the Hunan Army. The result can be imagined.With such an old man on the stall, the Hunan Army naturally showed no aggressive performance in the battle of Liaodong.In the end, Liaodong fell, and the Hunanese had no choice but to cry bitterly and regret that the Hunanese had wronged the country.