Back to the Republic of China as a commander

On the night of June [-]th in the second year of the Republic of China, He Jian entered Zhu's mansion alone without any entourage.Following the steward, he didn't know how many times he went in and out, and how many corners he turned. Although the decoration in the courtyard could not be seen clearly because of the darkness, the grand scale of Zhu's mansion still made He Jian admire Hong Shang's wealth.

Finally arrived at a brightly lit main room, Zhu Zhida and Liu Qishan were already present, He Jian politely bowed to them.

Zhu Zhida first said: "Mr. He, you have been in Hongjiang for more than two months. Zhu is really in poor health and has not come to visit. I hope you don't take offense."

He Jian said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu is a senior, so there is no reason to visit me as a junior. I also heard that you are always taking care of your health, so I have never dared to come and disturb you."

With a few words, the previous embarrassment was resolved.

Zhu Zhida was in such a happy mood that he glanced at Liu Qishan. Liu Qishan was actually very unhappy with Zhu Zhida's prostitution, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Mr. He, please come today. There is indeed something important to discuss.”

He Jian smiled and said, "Boss Liu, but it's okay to say."

Boss Liu?How come Zhu Zhida is Mr. Zhu, but when I, Liu Qishan, become Boss Liu?Liu Qishan was a little dissatisfied with this title, but he could only hold back his breath, and asked softly: "We heard some of your plans mentioned by the steward, and Liu was a little confused. How about blaming it from the other side of the city?"

As soon as He Jian heard it, he knew that he was suspicious of his own forces at this time. It was also if the Hong merchants supported their side to take Hongjiang, and then the provincial government intervened, it would be easy for these people to pat their buttocks. It would be troublesome to pursue it.He Jian laughed without hesitation: "It seems that Xiangxi is still a little closed. Hasn't Boss Liu heard about the military riots in Changsha and the execution of Mei Xin of the Fifth Division?"

Liu Qishan asked in surprise: "I've heard about this, but I don't know the inside story, is it?"

He Jian stood up and said loudly: "This is what my general did. You can think about it, even the dignified teacher Mei Xin was killed by my general, and Dudu Tan dared not blame him. Little What is the commander of the fifth garrison area? Do you think so!"

Liu Qishan glanced back at Zhu Zhida, wanting to exchange opinions, but the other party closed his eyes and rested his mind. He could only curse the old fox in his heart, and continued: "I see, I didn't expect you to be so brave in Changsha. I admire, admire. It's just For me and other small businessmen, the risk is too great once the war breaks out. We can definitely collect a huge sum of money and send it to the provincial capital to replace the chief of this place. Why take the risk to support your side in a war?" Expecting such a remark, he smiled slightly mockingly: "Boss Liu is also a tycoon-level figure. I didn't expect to be so secretive about the world. Is it really just Zhou Zefan's personal reason? I think this businessman has been oppressed by officials since ancient times. The target of the prefect. In the past three years, the magistrate has received a hundred thousand snowflake silver. Where did this one hundred thousand snowflake silver come from? Could it be that it was stolen from the fields? You can spend money to replace this garrison commander, but Zhou Zefan is gone, and there are Li Zefan, Zhang Zefan, when will such a day be the end?" He Jian's tone completely angered Liu Qishan, Liu Qishan snorted coldly: "Joke, Then if we invite you in, you won’t oppress us, and you won’t apportion it? What’s the difference, Mr. He, it’s better not to pretend to be a sage, but to talk big.”

He Jian didn't rush to answer, but just sighed softly: "He is just a talker, if Boss Liu is angry because of He's words, there is no need to."

Then he said: "I believe that you have received the recent letter from Chairman Chen of Jingzhou Prefecture, so why should you turn a blind eye to what happened in Jingzhou Prefecture? My commander is very different from other families. In the eyes of other families, businessmen are just waiting to be slaughtered." Fat pig, he is a cooperative partner at my commander's office. How many people like this are there in the world?"

Liu Qishan was about to retort, but Zhu Zhida, who had kept his eyes closed all the time, spoke up: "If your commander wins Hongjiang, can he reform politics like Jingzhou and return civil administration to the local government?"

He Jing stood proudly: "Of course, and as long as all the merchants can wholeheartedly support my commander, the future income will definitely be greater than today's." Zhu Zhida took a deep breath and said to Liu Qishan: "Brother Liu, you have caught up with a Good time."

Before Liu Qishan understood, Zhu Zhida turned his head to He Jian and said, "Tell your commander about Hong Jiang, please leave him..."

Chapter 087 Hongjiang Raiders (seven)

"Commander, Commander, Hongjiang urgent letter, with three chicken feathers!"

Before dawn, Wang Zhenyu heard Song Haomin calling himself outside.

It's funny to say that this chicken feather letter is a product plagiarized by Wang Zhenyu from later generations. Considering that most of the personnel in charge of delivery are illiterate, one chicken feather means urgent, two chicken feathers mean urgent, and three chicken feathers mean urgent.

In order to prevent the gang of fools under his command from using it indiscriminately, Wang Zhenyu also specially stipulated that those who use two or three sticks indiscriminately will be fined one hundred yuan at a time.

As soon as Wang Zhenyu was about to get up, he found that he was surrounded by a delicate jade arm around his chest, and there was also a sexy snow-white thigh attached to his stomach.Thinking of the absurdity of last night, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help sighing, although this sister Ye was only seventeen, she was very capable of tossing around, and she didn't fall asleep until the cock crowed.

Gently moving away his jade arms and snowy legs, Wang Zhenyu felt a soreness in his back as soon as he sat up straight; alas, he was only in his early twenties, and he couldn't take it anymore. It seemed that he didn't exercise too much.Wang Zhenyu secretly made up his mind that he would go out to exercise with the soldiers in the near future to exercise his body well, otherwise when Ye Ziwen was like a wolf at thirty and a tiger at forty, there would definitely be a lot of conflicts at home.

Putting on the clothes, Wang Zhenyu covered Ye Ziwen with a quilt again, but seeing the smooth bare back, she couldn't help but lightly scrub it, and the half-asleep Ye Ziwen hummed, turned over and continued to sleep, she looked cute Extremely.

Wang Zhenyu walked out of the house in a good mood and closed the door.Then he took the chicken feather letter from Song Haomin, opened it and read it carefully, and said to Song Haomin: "Notify all the officers of the brigade above the major to go to the headquarters for a meeting. In addition, the commander of the secret service company and the reconnaissance company will attend the meeting. Go..."

Jingzhou Prefecture, Quyang City, the Garrison Headquarters and the Ninth Brigade Headquarters of the Hunan Army, several chief officers of the Ninth Brigade are arguing fiercely. . .

"Brigade Commander, it is extremely risky to send troops to Hongjiang at this moment. Zhou Zefan is the commander of the fifth garrison area appointed by the provincial government. If we fight like this, we will have no name and no points. Even if we take Hongjiang, we will not be able to stand! I suggest or First ask for instructions from the Guardian Envoy." Chief of Staff Yang Wangui walked into the brigade headquarters and immediately expressed his opposition when he heard that he was going to attack Hongjiang.

Wang Zhenyu didn't make a sound. He held the letter he had just read in his hand. The letter was written by He Jian, and strongly advocated sending troops to expel Zhou as soon as possible.Wang Zhenyu is also a little tempted, but now he plans to listen to other people's opinions.

Xu Yuanquan is considered to be the most culturally and militaryly capable of the four colonels in the entire brigade. Under everyone's push, he had no choice but to bravely stand up: "Brigade Commander, judging from the strength of both sides, Zhou Zefan's subordinates are not a mob. The backbone of the army is more than 2000 people reorganized from the old army, plus regiment training, nearly [-] people, and these people are different from the fifth division, they are all local snakes, and they are very familiar with the location. In this way, they may not be our ninth brigade Eat as much as you say."

Wang Zhenyu's eyelids drooped, but he still didn't express his opinion.

Wan Yaohuang was very dissatisfied when he saw that these people opposed sending troops: "I don't agree with this statement, brigade commander. Our Ninth Brigade is definitely better than Zhou Zefan's army in terms of training and equipment. More importantly, we know very well Their strength, but they don't know anything about us, we will win this battle. As for Chief of Staff Yang's concern, I don't think it's a problem, no matter how big it is, can it be bigger than the military chaos in Changsha? Since the company is in chaos They don’t dare to do anything to us, but what do you think Dudu Tan can do if he wins Hongjiang?”

"You little scholar, what do you know? What if you can't eat it?"

"That's right, what if the army is mobilized at this time, what if the provincial government is really angered and a large army is sent to conquer? We are several divisions in Changsha, how can we confuse it with the current situation!"

"Brigade Commander, let's secure the territory of the four counties of Jingzhou Prefecture first, and then let him think about it!" The officers glanced at each other, obviously hoping that Wang Zhenyu would give up this completely whimsical battle plan in their opinion.

Wang Zhenyu didn't speak, but felt an inexplicable disappointment in his heart. Seeing everyone's attitude, he found that these military chiefs under him were very satisfied with the status quo, and they didn't have such ambitions as himself!Could it be that he came back to this era just to hang out in Jingzhou for a few years, and then either be killed, or go to Shanghai to work as an apartment?

Including Xu Yuanquan, the four colonel-level officers of the Ninth Brigade lack sufficient strategic vision. On the issue of Hongjiang alone, their judgments are not as accurate as He Jian, who was born in a small policeman!

Even He Jian can see that as long as Hongjiang and Li County are occupied, it is tantamount to controlling the whole territory of Xiangxi, which is tantamount to controlling [-]% of Hunan's financial revenue.With territory and money, the source of troops is not a problem, and naturally he has a solid foundation for fighting for hegemony.

So this Hongjiang must be taken down by himself, and not only Hongjiang, but the whole of Xiangxi, including Changde, must be taken down by himself.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu coughed deliberately, but everyone who was still arguing stopped talking.

"All of you have to remember one thing. We didn't come to Jingzhou Mansion to separate one side and become the king of the mountain. We came for the country, for our own little family, and for people we know or don't know." Wang Zhenyu Feeling that saying this is a bit advanced, and it may not be enough to persuade the opposing voices, he continued with his hands behind his back: "We will definitely win this battle. Now the four major families in Hongjiang and the eight major business gangs all support us. Not only did they secretly He sent us 50 yuan for the launch, and promised to make some moves at critical times. As for the sofa, Grandma Tan is not as powerful as you think, and the troops he can command are also very limited. And this Zhou Zefan is not his His direct descendants, his backer is actually his classmate Cheng Qian, we really took Hong Jiang, I guess he just sent a telegram to reprimand us, and he even sent someone to win us over. As for now, he also has no money, transfer troops? What tune? Paper money?"

Wang Zhenyu glanced at Xu Yuanquan, Yang Wangui and others again: "Today I put my words here to make it clear that I, Mr. Wang, have no interest in the local emperor in this small place in Jingzhou Prefecture. My ambition is not in such a small place." The future of the Tiger Brigade should not be like this brother or brother. What I want is more and bigger, and as long as I continue to follow my footsteps, we guarantee that everyone here will develop, and if you can’t or don’t want to If you can’t keep up with me, be more conscious, write your resignation letter now, and get the hell out! Hongjiang, I, Wang Zhenyu, are going to make a decision. If anyone of you dares to show no strength, then it’s not my subordinate, but mine. Enemies, choose yourselves."

At the end of the speech, Wang Zhenyu pretended to be angry and walked out, leaving only a large group of officers to look at each other on the ground;

Seeing Wang Zhenyu's disappearing back, Xu Yuanquan threw the pencil in his hand on the table helplessly: "Well, don't argue with anyone, let's work together and think about how to play?"

Everyone also shook their heads, honestly looking around the military map on the table to recruit.Among them, Li Zongren had the loudest voice: "I think, this battle should be fought like this..."

In fact, how to beat Wang Zhenyu has already been thought about, and there is still a need for this group of people to recruit.The key is that you have to let these people contribute, you can't just charge forward every time, right?There are nothing more than two results of all-encompassing, one is to raise a bunch of waste, and the other is to tire yourself into the second Zhuge Liang, and then die.

After this incident, Wang Zhenyu felt that he must promote a group of young officers who were as ambitious, motivated and capable as himself as soon as possible.Although Yang Wangui and other old subordinates are only around thirty, Wang Zhenyu feels that these people are not very useful.In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Zhenyu made the following decision after listening to reports from Yang Wangui and Xu Yuanquan:

The first is to upgrade the spy company and reconnaissance company, from company to team, and Zhang Xuguang and others are promoted to majors;

Second, He Jian was formally appointed as the director of the Military Intelligence Department with the rank of major.As a result, the Ninth Brigade now has four colonels Xu Yuanquan, Yang Wangui, Song Xianfu, and Hao Bing, four lieutenant colonels Wan Yaohuang, Liu Xing, Zhou Lan, and Ma Xicheng, as well as Zhao Dongsheng, Li Zongren, Song Haomin, He Jian, Tao Zhiyue and other fifteen majors.

Third, in this expedition, the first regiment stayed in Jingzhou, Yang Wangui acted as the commander of the garrison, and Xu Yuanquan assisted.

Fourth, the Song Xianfu Department of the Second Regiment and the Hao Bing Department of the Third Regiment were the main force for the crusade, and Wan Yaohuang served as the chief of staff of this route, responsible for coordination and supervision.

Fifth, a total of 600 people from the brigade's teaching team, secret service team, and reconnaissance team, and 300 people from the Tao Zhiyue Department of the First Battalion of the First Regiment were mixed as an advance team. They followed themselves and entered the Hongjiang River first.

When they got here, Xu Yuanquan and Yang Wangui immediately understood Wang Zhenyu's plan.That is, Wan Yaohuang, Song Xianfu, and Hao Bing went all the way to a decisive battle with Zhou Zefan's Hong army's main force, while he himself avoided the truth and led the advance team across the mountains and ridges, heading straight for the Hongjiang River.This is an old routine in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is often that someone returns to the city after being defeated, only to find that the city has been swindled by the enemy.But it was a romance after all, although the two of them did not object to playing defrauding the city, they did not agree with Wang Zhenyu personally leading the task force to defrauding the city.

Wang Zhenyu waved his hand, it was decided, and there was no more words, so everyone reluctantly remained silent.

On June 25th, Wang Zhenyu sent a telegram to Zhou Zefan, commander of Hongjiang's fifth garrison area: "I heard that Zhou, the commander of the Hongjiang garrison, extorted violently and abused the people, and all the business people complained. Looking at his behavior, he is no different from bandits, and now he is even more angry. It is outrageous. Wang is not talented. He was entrusted by the people of Hongjiang to punish greedy and cruel officials as a teacher of justice, to protect the law of the country, and to rectify the country. I hope that someone in Zhou will realize himself, resign and make amends, and leave on his own, so as not to lose his life. Create great evil again."

Zhou Zefan took the crusade telegram sent by Wang Zhenyu, and after reading it for a long time, he asked his chief of staff, Yang Yusheng, "Who is this bastard named Wang Zhenyu, and where did he come from?"

The battle for hegemony in western Hunan is about to break out. . .

Chapter 088 Hongjiang Raiders (eight)

Zhou Zefan quickly got in touch with his backer, his classmate Cheng Qian who is currently in the provincial capital who wants to get wind and rain.And through Cheng Qian, he found out who Wang Zhenyu was, and he was quite surprised at the time. It turned out that it was this person who wiped out the Fifth Division in Changsha.

After the military chaos in Changsha subsided, Cheng Qian had been doing well in the provincial military government recently. In the eyes of outsiders, he was Tan Yankai's second general who lived side by side with Zhao Hengti.But in fact, Cheng Qian almost controlled the Hunan Army. Not long ago, he succeeded Zhang Xiaozhun as the director of the Provincial Military Department because of the veterans' disturbance.The limelight in the provincial capital was the same for a while, and even Tan Yankai had to give way in many things.But as soon as the Zhou Zhou telegram came out, Cheng Qian was dumbfounded. This matter was too difficult. Even if he sent a telegram to stop the war as the director of the Military Department, he probably wouldn't pay attention to this daring Wang Zhenyu.He had to pull the banner of the governor, so he immediately ran to Tan Yankai and angrily accused Wang Longzhong of the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army for provoking war for no reason, secretly instigating his troops to attack friendly troops, robbing the territory, and destroying the good situation of stability and unity in Hunan.