Guo Songling glanced at the watch in his hand. This was a gift from Chang Ruiqing to him before he left Fuzhou. It was a Swiss watch. It was already 4 a.m. on July 8, 1918. It was summer now, and it was early in the northeast. At this time, the sky in the east was slightly white. With this light, the high and low hills around Mudanjiang Railway Station could be lurking in his eyes. Behind him were more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, numbered Red Brigade, waiting for the order to attack! They set off from Chunyang Town the afternoon before yesterday and marched for hundreds of miles to lurking around Mudanjiang Railway Station. The officers and soldiers were eating raw rice and drinking cold water, and had been lurking for nearly 24 hours. They were waiting for the arrival of the Russian ** train.

Mudanjiang Railway Station was already controlled by Zhao Sanmei's people at this time, and all the Russian staff on the station went to meet their Orthodox God! The Chinese employees were worried and maintained the operation of the station under the surveillance of the female devil, making everything look the same as usual. However, on the railway tracks entering the station, dozens of kilograms of engineers brought from Fujian had been placed by Guo Songling from Fujian, and the railway could be blown off at any time! More than a thousand soldiers from the Red Brigade and thousands of patriots from the Dahan Restoration Association would use the explosion as a signal to launch a charge and take down the Russians' arms train in one fell swoop! If everything goes well, there will be another train with Western expatriates from the other direction****? At that time, the trajectory of Chinese history will probably change as a result!

Guanyin Mountain in Guangzhou, the military committee of the National Government.

A black sedan stopped at the gate of the Military Commission. Around the open gate, a group of officers had long been waiting for the arrival of the car, and Chang Ruiqing was also among them. He strode forward and opened the door of the sedan. Sitting inside was a man in a suit and lace, with a stern face with a beard. He was the chairman of the Guangzhou National Government and the chairman of the Military Commission. During this period, he had been inspecting the progress of land improvement in various parts of Guangdong.

The Kuomintang's pressure on Guangdong's local gentry was far inferior to Chang Ruiqing's thundering methods in Fujian. Therefore, the implementation of Guangdong's "Forever Tenancy and Eternal Rest Law" is not as smooth as that of Fujian. In many places, there were even "group **" of armed resistance to the local government of the National Government, and Sun Yat-sen had to personally deal with it in the name of inspection. In the end, the National Government and local gentry gave in, and the State Government used the method of paying more "forever reimbursement coupons" in exchange for concessions from the landlords. Although Guangdong's land reform could be barely implemented, the cost increased greatly.

Today, Sun Yat-sen just returned from inspection in Huizhou. He came to Guangzhou City without returning to the Chairman's Mansion (the original Grand Marshal's Mansion), but went directly to the Military Commission at the foot of Guanyin Mountain. Because he received a telegram from the Military Commission to launch the Western Expedition in Huizhou! This Western Expedition will be the first war since the establishment of the National Government, and the victory or defeat of this battle will be directly related to the prestige of Chairman Sun!

As soon as Sun Yat-sen got out of the car, he waved his hand before Chang Ruiqing was waiting for the marching salute and said in a somewhat tired tone: "Spend it, Yaoru, are the plan to send troops ready? How many people are going to send to attack Guangxi?"

Chang Ruiqing still saluted Sun Yat-sen, and then whispered: "Sir. We plan to dispatch three armies, a total of 100,000 troops!"

Sun Yat-sen ignored the other officers who were greeting him, and just walked into the Military Commission compound with Chang Ruiqing, asking as he walked: "Does there be 100,000 people in the three armies? I remember that one of our army had only 100,000 people."

Chang Ruiqing smiled and explained: "Before this time we are dispatched, we plan to implement a general mobilization in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, mobilizing 100,000 reserve officers and soldiers to join the army. This is also an opportunity to test our national mobilization system. According to the plan, the mobilization will be completed within two weeks, followed by another two months of training. By the end of September, our total force will reach 240,000, and six armies will be fully fully equipped."

Hearing the number 240,000, Sun Yat-sen frowned slightly: "Where is the salary? We may not be able to afford so many troops, right?"

Chang Ruiqing glanced at Sun Yat-sen's somewhat worried face and smiled bitterly: "Please give revolutionary wages. Soldiers are five yuan a month. Officers are divided into two levels. Lower-level officers get 15 yuan. Middle and senior officers have families, so they get 50 yuan. In this way, there is no problem in the finances of Fujian and Guangdong provinces to support 300,000 soldiers. If they expand, they will lose their deficit, but the holes will not be too big. It will not be a problem when there is too much territory."

Hearing Chang Ruiqing's words, hundreds of thousands of troops were heard, Sun Yat-sen smiled helplessly: "Don't military strategy say that military affairs are good, don't you do much? Why is the opposite when you come to your place?"

Chang Ruiqing shook his head and explained: "Sir, look at the current European war. Tens of millions of people in countries with tens of millions of people in military uniforms! Teenagers and old men in decades have all gone to the battlefield, and Russia has sent women to the front line. How could such a source of troops be elite soldiers? And what is the greatest military advantage of our country? It is that it is a large population! Our country is the most populous country in the world, and most of it is young and middle-aged. If we follow the European mobilization standards, tens of millions of soldiers can be mobilized! No matter what the enemy,

They were piled up with numbers and piled up to death! Therefore, our idea of ​​building a military should not be elite soldiers, but quantity! We must pursue absolute quantity advantages! For this reason, the current national mobilization system of Fujian and Guangdong provinces should be implemented across the country in the future, and the people of the whole country should be organized like Fujian and Guangdong, and then a set of the most basic military production system will be added. We will not be afraid of any great powers! As long as we are not afraid of the great powers, we will naturally tear down all unequal treaties and make full use of our labor and resource advantages to build our country."

His words scared Sun Yat-sen around him, and "millions of soldiers" sounded so terrible! About one-tenth of the mobilization was made, and no one dared to bully China, right? If this could be done, I would never have to worry about the British coming to settle the score with him in the future. ****? These days I have such nightmares. Sometimes I dreamed of the country destruction, and I started crying in the dream, which scared Soong Ching-ling too! If it spread, the face of this great leader would be lost.

However, Chang Ruiqing didn't know that Sun Yat-sen had been immersed in his mind, and he was still talking there: "Actually, it would not take 100,000 troops to defeat the Gui army, half of which is enough ****? But after all, we fight with the Gui army, it is a civil war! It is best to defeat the soldiers without fighting. Just like Mr. Sun seized Guangzhou last year, it would be best if Lu Rongting and the others could be scared away. So the subordinates wanted to bring more people to strengthen their momentum and scare the Gui army, the Yunnan army and the Guizhou army. According to the subordinates' wishes, it is best to take down the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou without bloodshed!"

Chang Ruiqing's last sentence pulled Sun Yat-sen out of his thoughts, and he stopped and looked at Chang Ruiqing: "Yaoru, what do you mean is that this time you will not only conquer Guangxi, but also take down Yunnan and Guizhou provinces as well?"

"That's right!" Chang Ruiqing focused heavily, took a breath, and said, "If possible, it's better to seize Sichuan together! And we should fight less wars and die less!"

Sun Yat-sen turned his head and looked at Jiang jshi on the other side: "JShi, is this your idea too?"

Jiang JShi scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I plan so much. But the difficulty is probably not small! After all, Gui, Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou have Beiyang support behind them, so we don't buy our accounts. This time, the people we sent to lobby the generals of Guangxi were driven back."

Sun Yat-sen turned around and looked at Chang Ruiqing: "What are you going to deal with Beiyang? They probably won't watch us take the southwest, right?"

Chang Ruiqing raised his wrist and looked at the time. A hint of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Sir, don't worry, Beiyang and the others will soon have no energy to take care of the Southwest affairs!"

****??

The train full of arms was now appearing in front of Guo Songlin and the others on the hillside! Guo Songling felt that time seemed to have slowed down a lot at this moment. The train that was originally a lightning speed was now just slowly crawling towards Mudanjiang Railway Station. Guo Songling took a deep breath and shouted the order to "detonate"!

A huge explosion rose in the valley east of Mudanjiang Railway Station. The orange-yellow fire shone the surrounding hillsides into fiery red, and the explosion waves swept across hundreds of meters in a radius. The huge oscillation completely distorted and deformed a section of railway tracks worth dozens of meters.

It was probably the effect of inertia, or it might be that the train driver was completely frightened by the scene in front of him. After the explosion, the train carrying arms did not stop in time, but plunged into the direction of the fire. As a result, the entire train derailed naturally. Almost all the carriages and fronts fell on the open space on both sides of the railway tracks! There were a few carriages that didn't know what was installed inside, but a raging fire was even ignited!

Guo Songling and his more than a thousand Red Brigade officers and soldiers who were waiting on the hill not far away were all shocked by the scene in front of them. They forgot to launch an attack for a while. After a while, they heard Guo Songling shouting in a loud voice: "Roar! Rush! Why are you still standing stupidly? Rush!" The roar at the top of their lungs repeated countless times. The officers and soldiers below reacted, raised their bayonet rifles, and shouted and launched a charge. At the same time, the patriots who were ambushing on another hill also rushed down the hill with the slogan "Long Live the Republic of Korea"!

The battle went very smoothly. Half of the battalions of Belarus soldiers on the arms train were shocked or injured when the train derailed. Most of the remaining ones didn't know what happened, and they thought the arms carrying exploded! When they realized that more than 2,000 men on the hills on both sides had rushed to the front, so what were they still resisting? They simply raised their hands to surrender.

The Red Brigade did not make any embarrassment for these Belarusian prisoners. Except for a few officials who were targeted, almost all the remaining ones were "incorporated"! It turned out that this Belarusian soldiers were not originally stationed on the Middle East Road, but came from the Vladivostok Fortress. The "engineering Soviet" was established before, but they were destroyed by the "counter-revolutionaries" of the pro-Menshwivities and the Social Revolutionary Party a while ago. However, in the troops below, there were some lurking red elements. When they saw the red flag of the Red Brigade, they knew that the other party was a Chinese comrade, so they took the lead in rebellion. Uh, they should have taken the lead in supporting the world revolution! And the remaining Belarusian soldiers were done for a while by their ideological work and agreed to participate in the Chinese revolution ****??

But that's all a story. The Red Brigade soldiers and the North Korean comrades who came to help were divided into two teams under the command of Guo Songling and Jin Zuo Town. One team was alert, and the other team was busy carrying arms and placing ** at the same time! The 1,200 tons of ammunition could not be moved away by these people no matter what.

On the other end, Wu Shi, standing on the roof of the waiting room of Mudanjiang Railway Station, also saw a slowly moving black smoke from the telescope - this is a passenger train from Chita to Vladivostok, and it is also one of the goals of this "China Eastern Road Robbery"!

****??

"Old Zhi!Old Zhi! Wake up quickly!" Duan Qirui's sweet sleep was awakened by this rapid and stiff noise. This actually controller of the Beiyang system has been quite happy these days. Since Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing jointly established the National Government and completely abandoned the legal system of the Republic of China, many forces that followed Sun Yat-sen and the Beiyang government to do the right have turned to Beiyang! Although they are not sincerely obedient, on the surface, the territory controlled by the Beiyang government has increased significantly, and the two provinces in China, that is, Guangdong, and Fujian are still holding anti-flags.

Moreover, the latest plan to attack Fujian and Guangdong is ready. We decided to use all the participating troops, and Lu Rongting's Yunnan Army will attack Guangdong! This way, there is no need to spend too much military pay. Of course, the loan negotiations with the British are still continuing. Minister Eston was also very helpful and had convinced the representatives of McGalley Bank. Although HSBC has not yet let go, tens of millions of dollars can always be paid off! In this way, three Beiyang Army divisions can be mobilized to monitor Fujian. Duan Qirui was in a good mood and invited the representatives attending the Army Governor's Conference to play mahjong overnight last night, and it was just a night of sleep. Now it was a sweet and dreamy pillow, and he was woken up so anxiously!

Duan Qirui sat up from the bed while yawning. After dozens of seconds, he felt a little more awake. He rubbed his eyes and saw his confidant Xu Shuzheng and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Cao Rulin standing in front of his couch. Xu Shuzheng's face was already blue, and Cao Rulin stood there trembling slightly. It seemed that something big happened to diplomacy! Duan Qirui rubbed his temples with a little dissatisfaction: "Runtian, now I am the Chief of the Army. I should discuss diplomatic matters with Premier Wang Pinqing. By the way, what is the matter?"

Cao Rulin gritted his teeth and said hard: "Old Zhi! I came from Mr. Wang Pin's mansion ****? Mr. Pin has fainted now, and it seems that he can't take charge of the situation!"

Duan Qirui stood up from the bed and stared at Cao Rulin with his eyes: "What happened?"

Cao Rulin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a sad face: "The new Russian minister just ran to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest, saying that a major robbery occurred on Zhongdong Road this morning! A section of railway near Mudanjiang Station on Zhongdong Road was blown up, and an arms train and a passenger train were robbed! The arms train was loaded with weapons and ammunition worth tens of millions of yuan, and all were lost. The train was also blown up! There were hundreds of Chinese and foreign passengers on the bus, including more than 30 British, American and French expatriates who had withdrawn from Siberia, were kidnapped! According to the Russian minister, the Red Brigade was the one who committed the crime this time!"

Duan Qirui sat back on the bed with a pounce, and his voice trembled: "It's over, it's over****? Now it's all over! Not only did he rob the arms, but he also kidnapped hostages! The following powers will definitely not let us go, they will definitely send troops to China. I heard that the European war is almost over, and China is really going to die now. "

Xu Shuzheng stomped his feet on the side and persuaded: "Old Zhi! The Red Brigade was the Red Brigade! Now all of China think that the Zuomin of the Red Brigade is Sun Yat-sen! Foreigners are also trying to send troops to attack Guangdong. Maybe we can take the opportunity to eliminate this disaster!"

Duan Qirui glanced at Xu Shuzheng and interrupted him: "Are you fools who are foreigners? The Red Brigade is in trouble in the northeast, and they send troops to attack Guangdong? Besides, we say that Sun Yat-sen is Zuomin, and Sun Yat-sen and the Red Brigade deny it both ends! Do you think the foreigners are so easy to fool?" As he said that, he stood up again, clenched his fists and said firmly: "No! We can't let China be done like this. We must completely wipe out those red elements and rescue the foreign hostages safely! Youzheng, hurry up and prepare your plan to send troops to encircle the Red Brigade in the northeast!"

Xu Shuzheng did not move, and took out a telegram from his pocket and stuffed it to Duan Qirui: "Old Zhi, this is the news that Fujian and Guangdong are implementing the National Mobilization. Their National Government has ordered that 200,000 young and middle-aged people be mobilized to join the army within two weeks (actually 100,000, but it was doubled when it was announced). Sun Yat-sen is already determined to fight us to the end!"

Duan Qirui received the telegram and tortured it to pieces, and glared at Xu Shuzheng again: "You believe what kind of message they send? Mobilize 200,000 soldiers in two weeks? If Sun Yat-sen has this ability, why should I be the chief of the army? I might as well abdicate and give in to the wise! Youzheng, go and send a telegram to the division commander below and ask who is willing to go out of seclusion to fight the Red Brigade? By the way, hurry up and invite Zhang Yuting to Beijing, Heilongjiang is his territory!" (To be continued...)

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