Episode 58 Ming Xiu plank road, dark crossing Chencang
Episode 58: Build the plank road in the open, cross the Chencang secretly
On the evening of the 29th, the Nanjing High Command sent a telegram to the Ming army in Shanxi to suspend their march and set up defenses on the spot.
In fact, even if there is no order from the Nanjing Headquarters, the Ming army in Shanxi should "stop marching and set up defenses in place" at this time. Because it is very simple, it is dark and they have to camp for the night. Logically speaking, mechanized troops and motorized troops
, has the ability to travel day and night. But that refers to the general
It is a very dangerous thing for a mechanized corps to advance in an enemy-occupied area at night. The roar of the engine and the long string of car lights will make the march the best at night.
target. And once attacked in the dark, it is difficult to fight back.
Although the Ming army now "immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing", there was a time lag, which was equivalent to "wasting" a night's time.
Now, it is time for the Ming army to keep a close eye on the Qing side and force the Qing side to fulfill its promise.
The Qing side also knew very well that the reason why the Ming side halted its troops first was not because it trusted the Qing side, but because it was supposed to stop and spend the night. So instead, Beijing began to dilly-dally.
Nanjing Wuwang Villa, that night, Xiang Xiaoqiang and a few people were making tea and drinking coffee. He did not intend to sleep, nor did he let Yonggui sleep. He stared at him in the conference room and told him not to stop.
He sent electricity to Beijing to urge him.
Yonggui drank a lot of wine at dinner. He was dizzy and yawning profusely. He put his elbows on the table and his head fell down time and time again, struggling to hold on.
"Master Yong!" Xiang Xiaoqiang slapped the table in front of him and shouted, "Wake up! Wake up! Has the noble army in Qinling and Hanzhong surrendered?"
Yonggui raised his head with a grimace on his face, leaned back in his chair, and sighed:
"Sir Xiang... I am also a negotiator after all. What kind of hospitality do you have!... Please arrange a room for me immediately. When I woke up, the Qing army in Qinling surrendered..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang slammed the table again, startling him, and then shouted:
"Come on, make another cup of coffee for Mr. Yong! I think Mr. Yong still hasn't woken up!"
"Master Xiang..." Yonggui yawned, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Don't worry, our court will not be idle this night. If we don't do anything, we have to arrange for the Qing army in Qinling and Hanzhong to surrender... Sigh.
, Sir, although there are not many soldiers,
, there are also tens of thousands of people scattered in so many places, some places have radio stations, and some places don’t even have radio stations, and they have to rely on messengers... It wasn’t just a telegram from Beijing, but tens of thousands of people surrendered in unison...
…My Lord Xiang!”
"Ah? You can't surrender with just a telegram?" Xiang Xiaoqiang glared and said, "Oh, you are starting to say this now. Why didn't you say this during the negotiations during the day?"
Yonggui was now forced to live and die, so he begged:
"My Lord Xiang...do I need to say this specifically? Think about it, there are only tens of thousands of people, and they are so scattered, it's like a big mountain...You can even imagine it if you think about it! It's not that fast! Xiang
Sir, please let me, Yonggui, beg you, okay? Just let me go to bed, otherwise we won’t be able to negotiate tomorrow! It will delay more important things!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that he was drowsy again, and slammed the table again, startling him to wake up, and shouted:
"Can't negotiate? If you can't negotiate, you can't negotiate! I don't care what we talk about tomorrow, I want Qinling and Hanzhong now, and I want it tonight! Go all out and don't negotiate tomorrow, and I want Qinling and Hanzhong tonight too! Mr. Yong, I want it with you
He said, "We can't get Qinling and Hanzhong tonight, so don't even think about sleeping! If we can't get it tomorrow morning, don't sleep tomorrow morning either! When we get it, you should go to bed!"
Yonggui didn't seem to hear it. He tilted his head to one side and fell asleep.
"Huh?" Xiang Xiaoqiang got angry, grabbed his shoulders, shook him hard, and shouted, "Wake up! Wake up! Send me a telegram to Beijing! Hey!... I tell you, if we can't take Qinling tomorrow,
Hanzhong, I will order the army to advance as usual. It only takes one more day to reach Taiyuan! See if your master can spare you.
?...If the Qinling Mountains and Hanzhong do not surrender tomorrow, we will launch violent bombings against the Qing army in the Central Plains, killing tens of thousands of people first! Wake up! Wake up!...We will bomb the Yellow River Bridge tomorrow. As long as the bridge is blown up, two people will be killed.
The Million Central Plains Corps was told to be south of the Yellow River! If you are still sleeping, you can have a long sleep when you go back!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that Yonggui was still the same as before, half-dead. Anger arose in his heart, and evil grew in his guts. He gritted his teeth and said:
"Damn it, are you kidding me?"
He turned towards the door and shouted:
"Come on!"
Xiuxiu came in and advised:
"Sir, it's already past one o'clock. You can go to bed. I'll just stay here and keep an eye on you."
Waved to Xiaoqiang:
"No, I'm not sleepy! Then, go to the kitchen and find something to refresh Mr. Yong! Chili, onion, garlic, pepper, the more powerful the better!"
Xiuxiu looked at Yonggui's appearance, nodded, and went out.
After a while, Xiuxiu came in with a small bottle. She took a cup of coffee on the table, opened the small bottle, poked a spoonful of the paste from the inside and threw it into the coffee, and then stirred it evenly.
A pungent smell gradually filled the room.
Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the small bottle, looked at the label, and understood. He nodded, very satisfied with what Xiu Xiu found.
"Come on, Master Yong," he grabbed Yong Gui's shoulders, straightened him up, and shook his head, "have a cup of coffee to refresh yourself!"
As he said this, he winked at Xiuxiu. One of them pinched Yonggui's nose, and the other held the coffee. Without any explanation, they forced Yonggui to drink half of the cup.
Yonggui jumped up as if he had been shocked by an electric shock, choking on the coffee in his nose and on his chin, but he didn't even bother to cough, he just howled and squatted on the ground like a gorilla and jumped in place.
, waving his hands up and down, slapping the ground desperately, his face flushed, tears and snot flowing out a lot, and his screams became more and more pitiful, like killing a pig.
Seeing Yonggui in such miserable condition, Xiang Xiaoqiang felt a little unsure. He approached Xiuxiu and asked in a low voice:
"Hey, you just put in a spoonful, why did you get such a big reaction?"
Xiuxiu was also a little nervous. She picked up the bottle again, looked at it and said:
"Well, it's... it's extra strong."
"Extra strong? Okay, I want this effect!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Yonggui who was on the ground, unable to survive, and gritted his teeth and said:
"Telling you to play tricks on me, damn..."
After a while, Yonggui got up with tears on his face, a cup of tea on the table and drank it. After he finished drinking, he threw away the tea cup, then rushed to the other end of the table, picked up another cup of tea and drank it.
After downing two cups of tea, Yonggui finally managed to catch his breath. Tears and runny nose ran down his face. He coughed and shouted to Xiaoqiang:
"What did you give me to drink!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang said coldly:
"What I'm giving you is not coffee, but mustard."
"What? Loneliness?"
"Yes, it's also called loneliness." Xiang Xiaoqiang gestured to Xiuxiu to take away the mustard, and then said, "Now let me wake up and send me a report to Beijing immediately! If you don't know how to behave, you won't just drink
Coffee makes you lonely. I let you smoke, drink tea, and eat instant noodles, which will make you lonely!"
…
All night long, Xiang Xiaoqiang, Xiuxiu, and Stomachache fought with Yonggui's car, but they didn't let him get a full night's sleep, forcing him to keep sending reports to Beijing to inquire and urge, in short, he must
Let all the Qing troops in Qinling and Hanzhong surrender before dawn.
In the telegram, Xiang Xiaoqiang kept repeating the "ultimatum" to Guangwu: at dawn on the 30th at six o'clock in the morning, the Ming army would send troops to take over Hanzhong and Qinling at the same time. If there was any resistance, the Ming army would announce this
If the agreement is invalid, Shanxi's army will be ordered to advance as usual.
The purpose of the Guangwu peace talks was to gain time, so naturally he had to seize every opportunity to delay it. He had originally decided not to worry about it tonight, but to delay it first, and wait until tomorrow morning to start gradually giving up Hanzhong. Giving up Hanzhong.
Definitely have to drag one or two
God, it will take another day or two to give up the Qinling Mountains. The essence of it is: it is not that I will not give up, but that there is a gradual process. In this way, the Ming army in Shanxi will not advance, and it will not advance.
No, in the process of wrangling like this, time will come out.
But no one expected that the top brass of the Ming army would be so serious. Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't even sleep and forced Yonggui to send telegrams all night long. He also wanted to take over the entire Qinling Mountains and Hanzhong before dawn. Yonggui had already written in the telegram
Beijing sent out a cry for help, saying that the emperor must be awakened, otherwise the slave will not survive tomorrow...
Seeing that Lord Yonggui had spoken to this extent, the officer on duty at the Beijing Headquarters had no choice but to wake up Guangwu.
Guangwu was called up at three o'clock in the morning and was furious. After reading several telegrams from Yonggui, he understood the seriousness of the matter. After weighing it for a long time, he finally felt that the Ming army was not joking.
get something practical
, will really make the Shanxi army continue to advance. In that case, your plan to stop the Ming army first, and then use negotiations to delay the time, will be aborted. At that time, it will be difficult to stop the Ming army. The Ming army has to
We can't do that until we occupy most of Shanxi.
He weighed it again, looked at the map under the desk lamp, and immediately issued an order: Send an order to Hanzhong, asking the Qing army there to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army at dawn. As for the Qing army in Qinling, he planned to hold it back for the time being.
Don't let them surrender
At dawn, the Ming army can take Hanzhong, which can temporarily fill their mouths. Just taking over the Hanzhong Basin is enough for the Ming army to spend two days. During this period, they will not fall out again and let Shanxi's
The Ming army continued to advance.
At the same time, Guangwu asked again:
"Where are our troops?"
The staff officer next to him certainly understood which army the emperor was asking about. He replied in a low voice:
"Back to the emperor, we have already entered Shanxi... We will arrive in Datong tomorrow night..."
"Yes," Guangwu nodded, "it is acceptable to march at a slower pace at night, but it must be kept secret so that no one in the towns along the way can notice it."
"嗻."
"During the day, the troops must pay attention to concealment. They must all withdraw from the road and camp in the nearby mountains and forests... We must not let the Ming army's aircraft detect a single soldier."
"嗻."
"Okay, step back. If you have something important, call me again."
Guangwu rubbed his face, yawned, dismissed the staff officer, lay back on the bed, and turned off the lamp. He was thinking:
This is called building a plank road in the open and crossing Chencang secretly... You Southern Ming Dynasties are unkind, don't blame me, the Qing Dynasty, for being unjust. As long as your Ming army's motorized infantry divisions cannot march all night, my Qing Dynasty's infantry divisions can march secretly at night and camp during the day... Although
The speed is slow, but as long as the negotiations last ten or eight days, when your Shanxi Ming army wakes up, our Qing army has occupied all the places opposite you...