But for Yuan Su, it doesn't matter if the 14th Division comes out now to get a share of the pie. Anyway, the war is coming to an end. Zhang Zhenfang knows how to report it. Even if the 14th Division wants to take credit, he still has to see who is taking it from him.
who.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, the fighting in Shangqiu was coming to an end. All that was left was Wang Ze leading a small number of militiamen to flee in all directions, but there were only a few dozen people left. Yuan Su left at noon
Together with the headquarters of the first regiment, we drove down to Shangqiu and met with the second regiment on the north bank of the Sui River.
He first held an internal military meeting of the Third Brigade and formulated the next arrangements for the aftermath of Shangqiu. On the one hand, they must not disturb the people, and on the other hand, they must quickly establish aid stations inside and outside the city. The army will come forward to summon the original Shangqiu people.
As for those bureaucrats who escaped, they were directly dismissed from their posts. If they were absent, some local prominent families, elders, and gentry were invited to come out and form temporary civil affairs agencies.
The newly born civil affairs agency immediately went to work. At this stage, it is mainly responsible for appeasing the people throughout the territory and the detailed distribution of government relief supplies.
A batch of relief supplies previously sent from Kaifeng is currently staying in Ningling County. Due to the emergency that occurred last night, the team transporting supplies was mobilized back to Kaifeng, so it was not delivered to Shangqiu in time. Yuan Su sent Sun You Tai
He led the cavalry team to Ningling County to mobilize supplies and store them in the Shangqiu Minzhengfu official warehouse. After the specific rescue plan was finalized, it was distributed to various rescue stations according to the plan.
Yuan Su required that the temporarily established civil affairs agency must formulate a detailed rescue plan within one day. Fortunately, the Civil Affairs Office still kept the local household registration information. The temporary bureaucrats only needed to mobilize manpower to compare the household registration information to formulate corresponding relief and rescue measures.
After arranging and taking care of this series of things, Yuan Su asked Jiang Baili and the Second Cavalry Regiment to stay in Shangqiu, and Jiang Baili served as the actual highest decision-maker in Shangqiu, and then led the first and third regiments to Kaifeng.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Yuan Su and the first group arrived in Ningling County first. Because it was already late, they had to rest here for one night and wait until early tomorrow morning before continuing on the road. Not long after arriving in Ningling County,
The county telegraph office received a telegram forwarded from Shangqiu. The original telegram was from Kaifeng, and the content was exactly about the latest situation in Kaifeng.
Just as Yuan Su expected, the civilian army that launched the sneak attack on Kaifeng acted hastily. They only used artillery to create momentum outside the city. They did not attempt to launch an siege until three o'clock in the night. However, due to the weather,
It was too dark, and the city of Kaifeng was too big. The civilian army troops circled around the city and failed to find the correct path. Not only did they fail to launch an attack on the Dudu Mansion, several troops even got separated in the dark.
The reinforcements from the 17th Division arrived in the suburbs of Kaifeng around ten o'clock in the morning. However, at this time, there was no exchange of fire in Kaifeng City. Although the Governor's Mansion is still on alert, the enemy has not been found after staying up all night.
The guards didn't even fire a shot.
At noon, the returning reinforcements met up with the Dudufu Guards, and Zhang Zhenfang ordered his troops to immediately rush to Beicheng to search for the enemy.
Who knew that all the members of the returning group were so lazy that they drove all night long and were already exhausted, so they waited until the afternoon before arriving outside Beicheng. No one knew whether they had really thought about it carefully, but the group reported back
The news is that the civilian army has already disappeared without a trace.
After reading this telegram, Yuan Su immediately sent another telegram to Kaifeng, telling him that since nothing happened in Kaifeng, he would no longer return aid to Kaifeng and would devote himself wholeheartedly to the post-war reconstruction and reconstruction of Shangqiu from tomorrow on.
The aftermath work. It didn’t take long to receive a call back from Zhang Zhenfang. Although Zhang Zhenfang was very angry that Yuan Su refused to respond before, fortunately, the matter did not become a big deal, and it was indeed Yuan Su who made the decision after analysis.
Decide.
Therefore, in the call back, Zhang Zhenfang not only did not hold Yuan Su accountable, but also said some words of praise, and emphasized that he must do a good job in dealing with the aftermath of Shangqiu. If he had any material needs, just ask for them in the message. Although he won a
Shangqiu does not mean that all the problems of civil unrest in Henan have been solved, but at least this is one of the few things that the Zhengfu Army can publicize to the outside world in the past year. Even if it is very small, he will use all means to exaggerate it in order to gain advantage.
It can relieve some of the pressure from fu.
Yuan Su was not polite to Zhang Zhenfang at all, and immediately sent a message to Zhang Zhenfang asking for 100,000 yuan in relief funds and 20,000 shi of government relief food. He also specifically reminded Zhang Zhenfang to quickly find a group of reporters from the provincial capital, Zhengzhou and other places.
, the government conducted detailed reports and publicity on Shangqiu’s aftermath and relief efforts. This was not only for his personal fame and reputation, but also to use the Shangqiu case to spread a message to the entire Henan Province, that is, the Zhongyang Army was different from other local armies.
Completely different from other Beiyang bureaucrats.
As long as the common people can restore their hope in the government, it will not only help him personally occupy a place in Henan, but also greatly soften the sharp conflicts between the civilian army and the government army.
Just after sending this telegram, Wen Qin, the adjutant of Dai Fengxiang, the deputy commander of the Third Brigade, hurried into the temporary camp hall.
As an officer who stayed at the enemy's command post in the rear, Wen Qin withdrew from the suburbs into the city when the Shangqiu war was coming to an end. This time when Yuan Su returned to Kaifeng, he waited in Kaifeng city to greet him. Now he is beside Yuan Su
Main staff officer.
When he came to Yuan Su's study, Wen Qin's face was a little depressed. He adjusted his expression and then said: "Captain, there was an accident at the granary?"
Yuan Su was reviewing the damage caused by the war in Shangqiu City. When he heard Wen Qin mention the official warehouse, he looked up with a puzzled expression and asked: "Where is the official warehouse? Is it the official warehouse of the Shangqiu Civil Affairs Bureau?"
Wen Qin shook his head and sighed: "It's the official warehouse of Ningling County."
Yuan Su said: "What does the official warehouse in Ningling County have to do with us? What happened?"
Wen Qin quickly said: "The day before yesterday, Governor Zhang sent a batch of supplies from Kaifeng to assist Governor Yuan in carrying out rescue work in Shangqiu. The supplies were just put into the warehouse yesterday, and this morning the Second Regiment sent people to receive them.
But something went wrong with this supply, and about one-third of it was missing."
Yuan Su frowned and asked coldly: "What? How did this happen? Are you sure you didn't record it wrong?"
Wen Qin said firmly: "I also sent people to follow up when we put it into the warehouse. There were a thousand shi of grain, 8,000 taels of silver, and about 300 shi of various crops. But now there is a shortage of 400 shi of grain.
The money was short by more than three thousand taels. The team sent by the Second Regiment just now to receive it reconciled the accounts with ours. The missing supplies cannot be recorded for the time being. The Second Regiment has already taken away the remaining supplies."
Yuan Su thought for a moment, and he knew that it was impossible for the Third Brigade to do such a thing, not to mention that there were no troops from the Third Brigade in Ningling County at that time. Some people from Wen Qin's temporary headquarters,
Even if these people include the Guards, it is impossible for them to steal so many things. Since it can be ruled out that the third brigade did it, the only possibility is that the people of the 17th Division did it.
The headquarters of the Seventeenth Division was previously in Ningling County. He could believe that the senior officials of the division would not dare to touch this batch of supplies, because these supplies were directly sent by Zhang Zhenfang to the Third Brigade to relieve Shangqiu. The Seventeenth Division
They have not achieved any good results this year. Now that Shangqiu is recovered, it is also a dream for them. They hope to get a share of Shangqiu as soon as possible. Of course, it is impossible to make such a move at this juncture.dd