"Bang!" The fragments were scattered on the floor. At the emergency military meeting convened by the Presidential Palace, Yuan Shikai saw the emergency telegram from the Beiyang Army and was so angry that he dropped his cup.
"President, don't be angry. In the past few years since you retired to seclusion, the people in Beiyang have been arrogant and extravagant, and military discipline has been lax. They are no longer what they used to be!" Chen Huan, the deputy chief of staff of the Army, advised from the side.
Duan Qirui was sitting at the conference table with a livid face and said nothing.
"You are always complaining that the imperial court prioritized military cadets and squeezed out old Beiyang people. What are the facts? I brought this Lu Yongxiang out single-handedly. What is the result? You really disappoint me!" Lao Yuan slapped the table and said angrily, He raised the telegram in his hand and said, "The battle was even worse than that of Yijun. Is it because the weapons are incompetent or the people are incompetent?"
It makes sense for Yuan Shikai to be angry.
In early spring, Lin Shuo led the First Division of the Border Guard Army into the Northeast via the Customs Railway, preparing to recapture Hulunbuir. In early summer, more than 10,000 Mongolian rebels from the Kulun side invaded south from the Geji Temple and Daligang Cliff areas and stationed in Chahar. The Beiyang Army in Northeast China and Rehe suffered successive defeats in battles, and the situation in the entire Xilingol League, Duolun and northern Rehe was critical.
Meng Xiaozeng's Chahar Mixed Brigade was besieged by the rebels in the Abahanar Zuo Banner. The situation was critical. The Beiyang Army's Fifth Mixed Brigade, commanded by Lu Yongxiang to provide support, failed to fight effectively and suffered successive defeats in battles with the Mongolian army. Meng Xiaozeng's grain department After running out of ammunition, they had no choice but to abandon Alhabana and disperse to Linxi, where they waited for reinforcements together with Yijun Mi Zhenbiao's troops.
Chabei's defeat in battle made Yuan Shikai furious. What saddened him the most was that the Beiyang Army's nearly 15,000 men actually suffered consecutive defeats when fighting against less than 10,000 Mongolian troops. You must know that Lin Shuo's Dongjun once had a cavalryman. The regiment defeated nearly 10,000 rebels. Taonan garrison envoy Wu Junsheng's troops almost wiped out more than 6,000 rebels under Wu Tai's command with less than 3,000 men.
The combat effectiveness of the Mongolian rebels is really not worth mentioning. Can it still be considered an army if it can defeat such rebels?
Yuan Shikai seemed to have seen Li Hongzhang's helplessness during the Sino-Japanese War.
"The new commander-in-chief of Chahar, Zhang Shaozeng, has dispatched Kong Geng's troops from the 1st Shanxi Division for reinforcements. In addition, the Ministry of War has also ordered Wang Huaiqing's 4th Division to station in Rehe. The war situation in Mengdi will be stabilized soon!" Chen Huan continued He said that now that Army Deputy Chief Xu Shuzheng had followed Lin Shuo to the Northeast, he had to temporarily replace him.
"Where is Anwar?" Yuan Shikai asked. Among all the generals under his command, Lin Shuo was the only one who did not worry him much. After calming down the situation in Simon, he personally led troops into the Northeast to recapture the entire Hulunbuir. Although the Russians were neutral on the surface , but has been secretly supporting the Cullen authorities and prohibiting the Chinese troops from using the China Eastern Railway. The border guards had to advance on foot starting from Siping Street, and logistics support became the biggest problem.
"The Linzhen Border Envoy Headquarters has entered Taonan and has joined Wu Junsheng's brigade, and will march north in a few days." Chen Huan said. A man who has been buried in horse hides has been buried in a wolf. Everyone wants to take this opportunity to make contributions. Even the Ministry of War The deputy chief, Xu Shuzheng, couldn't help but join in the fun, which made him jealous.
In fact, Lin Shuo had already arrived in Qiqihar at this time and was discussing with Song Xiaolian, the governor of Heilongjiang, how to carry out immigration development to ensure the stability and development of the border. He basically didn't pay much attention to the war in Hulunbuir.
In order to control the entire Heilongjiang and Hulunbuir, he dispatched the First Northwest Frontier Division, which he had built his career on, more than 21,000 troops with the best equipment in the northwest, plus a cavalry brigade of Wu Junsheng, the Wang Bolong Regiment of the Heilongjiang Provincial Army and the Ba
Wouldn't it be a joke if Ying'e, Yingshun and the two cavalry regiments were unable to deal with Hulunbuir, which had less than 4,000 rebels?
If Lin Shuo is willing, this army is guaranteed to conquer the entire Khalkha grassland.
The problem is that now he has no intention of provoking a dispute with the Russians. The problem now is that making money is the first priority, and he cannot spare any time yet.
Groups of refugees flocked to Tianjin Wei along the North Canal.
Since the beginning of spring, there has not been a single rain from southern Hebei to northwest Shandong, and the dry land is full of holes more than a palm wide. Since the late Qing Dynasty, such small-scale droughts have occurred in the North China Plain almost every year, and a large number of
The victims in the Zhilu area will be forced to flee their hometowns in order to survive and live outside the customs or make a living outside the country.
Tianjin is the first stop for these refugees to go out to make a living. In this era, Tianjin is the largest city in the north. People call going to Tianjin to make a living "going to Tianjin". Some people will find jobs in Tianjin, while most of the refugees will move from Tianjin.
Go outside the customs or take the train to Mongolia to make a living.
"Dang...dang!" Heilongjiang Reclamation Bureau and the Northwest Chamber of Commerce jointly recruited workers, five yuan a month plus a bag of white flour." From De County to the docks of Bo Town, notices recruiting workers were posted everywhere, and some employed
The Ya people beat the gongs and shouted loudly on the streets, and from time to time they talked to the groups of homeless people.
"Sir, please give me a name for my brother, otherwise he will starve to death if he is left at home alone!" Zhang Yonghe and his second brother Zhang Yongtai knelt on the ground and kept asking those who were doing the registration.
The waiter kept pleading, and behind them stood a child of twelve or three years old.
"It's not that I won't register your brother. It's because you're going to the Northeast to work. It's freezing. How can you take care of such a small child?" The young man kept explaining to them. Although he said he was going to the Northeast to work as a coolie, everyone instinctively
I feel scared from the bottom of my heart, but ten oceans a month plus a bag of white flour is a great temptation for these refugees who have lost their livelihood.
"What's going on?" Seeing some commotion in the registration team here, Yao Hongqi came over and asked.
"Shopkeeper Yao, these young people insist on taking that child with them." The waiter quickly stood up and replied.
Yao Hongqi looked at the two ragged young men kneeling on the ground. There were fifteen or six refugees standing around them, with concern in their eyes. It seemed that they were all fellow countrymen who had fled from the same place. Two
Behind the young man stood a skinny boy, but his eyes were wide open, looking at him with an expression of begging and longing.
Yao Hongqi breathed a sigh of relief. The appearance of the young man reminded him of the situation when he went to live outside the country in his early Qing Dynasty. He couldn't help but sigh and told the boy: "Keep them all. The children who are not old enough have gone to the Northeast."
I will stay in the main office as an apprentice and try my best to settle him in the city."
At the Jingzhou Canal Wharf, Feng Guoliang spent a lot of effort and finally managed to squeeze in front of the registration counter at Hongtai Cloth Village. People who went to work abroad gathered here and then took a boat to Tianjin.
"Sir, my name is Feng Guoliang, I am from Wu Family Camp, and the guarantor is Wu Laishun. Please register me."
"Wu Laishun..., oh, here's your name, put your fingerprint here." The gentleman with a pair of glasses on his nose, who looked like a court official in the pawnshop, took a roster and only turned one page.
I found out Feng Guoliang's name, pointed to the bottom of the name and asked him to press his fingerprints.
After completing the formalities, Feng Guoliang followed the others to the pier and started taking the boat. From time to time he saw his parents seeing him off, and his wife and children crying bitterly on the pier, as if they were saying goodbye.
We were traveling to Heilongjiang, a place far away, thousands of miles away, and full of bitter cold and barren land. No one was sure whether we would be able to return to our hometown alive.
Feng Guoliang ran away from home secretly.
There are seven or eight people in his family, but they only have more than three acres of land, which is not enough to support the whole family. As the eldest son of the family, he started traveling to Tianjin with the local car gang when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, traveling to Tianjin.
Driving is very hard, but I can only earn two or three oceans a month, which is just enough to sustain my livelihood.
After hearing that he could get five yuan and a bag of flour as settlement allowance by working in the Northeast, Feng Guoliang threw down his whip and signed up without saying a word, and begged a fellow villager to be his guarantor. At least these settlement allowances would be paid.
Fei can keep his parents and younger siblings from going hungry for half a year.
Heilongjiang is in the far north. Feng Guoliang heard this from someone when he traveled to Tianjin. He only knew that there were many old men there, but he didn't know exactly what they were like. But since so many people can live there,
He is confident that he can survive there.
In order to survive, he has seen too many people leave their hometowns. In his heart, he seems to have some hope that one day he can make a fortune and return home in fine clothes like those wealthy businessmen.
Feng Guoliang and his party stayed in Tianjin for two days before boarding a train specially transporting workers to the Northeast. This was his first time taking a train. There were more than 1,500 workers in more than a dozen carriages, some of which were
People looked excitedly at the scenery outside the car, while some people sat silently in their seats, worried about their future.
The First Division of the Border Guard easily captured Hulunnaoer. On the way to pursue the rebels, the rebel leaders Shengfu and Chehezha were captured alive. The commander of the First Brigade, Jiang Chengyue, actually ordered Shengfu and Chehezha to be captured.
The two men and their family members, more than 260 men, women and children, were all slaughtered to death. The method was so cruel that it was outrageous.
He wants to kill people to establish his authority.
Once this incident was exposed, domestic public opinion was in an uproar, and they unanimously denounced "Chiang butcher".
"Damn it! This is my order. This is the fate of traitors. If you don't believe it, just give it a try. I will still kill your whole family and slaughter your entire clan! What a fool!" Lin
Shuo was protecting the calf, but he still spoke plausibly and seemed confident in front of a bunch of reporters.
Song Xiaolian couldn't help but shake his head as he listened. He was full of foul language, which was so polite. Just now, he thought this man was a modest gentleman. How could he turn into a murderous demon in the blink of an eye? Which one is real?