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It was dark. . .

The [-]-mile-long Yuanjiang River has reached the lower reaches of the Yuanzhou territory. The water area starting here is wider than the upper reaches, so the rushing river has become gentler.

All the way to the north, the Yuanjiang River suddenly turned a corner and flowed eastward at a place called Yangjiawan. From here, it is the territory of Changde.

This bay is the actual demarcation line between the two major forces, Xiangxi Guarding Mission and Lizhou Guarding Mission.

Although Wang Zhengya is a literati leading troops, he is well aware of the art of war, and he attaches great importance to these key points of communication.Although it is not possible to station heavy troops on defense, he is clear about the reason for setting up the police.

From Yangjiawan to Taoyuan, in this section of Baili waterway, the waterway patrol battalion directly under the Lizhou town guard is in charge of the police.Due to the shortage of troops, Wang Zhengya gave priority to expanding the combat troops, so the construction of this waterway patrol battalion was seriously lagging behind.

The first is the soldiers, a total of less than 300 people, most of which are Tang Xun soldiers from the former Qing Dynasty.The biggest characteristic of these Tang Xun soldiers is that they are quite old, their income is quite low, and they are seriously malnourished.What's more serious is that the government inherited from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties has a serious vacancy. It is said that there are 300 people in the system, but the actual number is less than [-] people.

After the officer Wang Zhengya sent to lead the team took office, he also took great pains to clean up this corrupt team, relying on imposing fines on passing merchant ships to make up for the lack of funds, and expanded the entire battalion to more than 0 people.Moreover, a police station is set up every five miles, and a five-member police squad is stationed at each point, and each squad is equipped with a fast boat, which is convenient for message transmission.

It can be said that such an approach is conscientious, but unfortunately, this situation has long been investigated by He Jian's military personnel.Moreover, the practice of imposing fines on passing merchant ships to generate income also led to an unexpected result, which is to drive private ship gangs to a dead end except for the freighters of the Yuanjiang Shipping Company flying the British flag.The bosses of these ship gangs had no other choice but to join Yuanjiang Shipping, and some of the unemployed even became opponents of Wang Zhengya.However, under the instigation of He Shidao and Gu Hu, the two big salt lords in western Hunan, these people actually became popular, pulled up a team, and openly raised the rebellion flag in the area under the jurisdiction of Lizhou's guarding envoy, which caused Wang Zhengya a lot of headaches.

As for the neighbors to the south, since the two sides hadn't had any conflicts since the Yuan Dynasty, even the officers and soldiers of the Waterway Patrol Battalion at the forefront became mentally relaxed, let alone Wang Zhengya, who was two hundred miles away.

The first police station in Yangjiawan was completely dark at the moment, and a 40-year-old veteran wearing a scout uniform vest came out of the house with a lantern, and scolded as he walked: "Geez, what a damsel! It’s late, where will there be merchant ships that don’t fly the foreign flag passing through the border, and the mosquitoes outside will bite people to death, so they will bully me to come to stand guard, and I’m sorry for my mother..."

Since Hu Lichun led the engineering regiment to bomb the hidden reef for a year, the safety of cruise ships in the middle and upper reaches of the Yuan River has been greatly improved, and more boats have gone by.But most of the ships sailing at night are the ships of the Yuanjiang Shipping Company flying the British flag. Even if the money for these ships is exchanged for the guardian envoy himself, he would not dare to accept it.After a long time, these police scouts also found the pattern, there is no money to fish at night, so no one is willing to do the night duty, and usually it will be pushed to the most unlucky person in the class.

The middle-aged scoutman had only walked a dozen steps, had just hung up the lantern, and was taking off his trousers, ready to pee.Suddenly a tall black figure appeared behind him, and then he was hit hard on the head, and he was immediately dizzy.

Li Dachao, the company commander of the first mountain brigade's special reconnaissance company, came over, sniffed his nose, immediately covered his nose and said in a low voice: "Huang Dehu, you lack virtue, you can't wait for someone to pee before smashing him, look at him Sassy."

Huang Dehu looked at the company commander in surprise, he didn't know what to say, and then he got kicked: "Why are you in a daze, tie me up, there are four people in the room, try not to shoot , are all soldiers and eat food, so don’t kill people if you can.”

Afterwards, the squad leader who was in charge of responding to Yangjiawan Police No. [-] kicked open the door with his six soldiers and rushed in.The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the four sleepy-eyed scouts, and the smiling Li Dachao said in a Henan accent: "Brothers, I'm sorry, I will tie you up for one night, and you will be free tomorrow, won't you? Seeing that you all like Kazakhstan, then tie them all up for me..."

The same scene was played out successively at the twenty police points on the Baili River, and Wang Zhengya's waterway patrol camp was easily solved.

803 Recruit Huang Dehu assigned from the Feishan recruiting base in Jingzhou was holding a lantern and standing on a wooden tower by the river, swinging it regularly according to the squad leader's request. The whistle sounded, and then a huge fleet appeared around the bend. . .

When Li Zongren's feet landed on the pier of Taoyuan, he was very satisfied with his subordinates' ability to complete the long-distance waterway raid mission so efficiently and quickly.He even shook hands enthusiastically with the officer who greeted him at the pier in public, flattering the other party.

Just in the early hours of this morning, when the officers and soldiers of the First Xiangxi Mountain Brigade flying the white tiger flag jumped off the side of the boat, a squad of Changde soldiers who were patrolling the night at the pier were dumbfounded on the spot.

Are your eyes dazzled?I read that right, who are these people?enemy?Do you want to shoot?

Just when the Changde soldiers in charge of night patrol were still hesitating and confused about the situation, the soldiers of the mountain brigade unceremoniously put down their weapons.Then, according to the combat plan formulated by the staff office based on the map of Taoyuan provided by the military intelligence office, the assembly was completed in an orderly manner, and then they flew towards their respective goals.

In this way, without firing a shot, the entire Taoyuan fell into Li Zongren's hands easily, and the entire long-distance waterway raid plan was successfully completed.

Li Zongren then loudly confessed to his adjutant: "Immediately report to the staff office that my first brigade successfully captured the enemy's important town of Taoyuan without any casualties..."

At 7 o'clock in the morning on July', Wang Zhengya got up on time, and then did Tai Chi for a while, which was his habit for many years.As soon as he sat down to enjoy breakfast, he watched his adjutant rush in with this telegram: "My lord, something has happened..."

Wang Zhengya was different from Wang Zhenyu, although he was a guardian envoy, he always remembered that he was a scholar, so he was not allowed to be called Dashuai, but continued to use the title of the former Qing Dynasty, my lord.

Seeing the adjutant's appearance, Wang Zhengya frowned subconsciously: "What are you panicking, the sky won't fall, what is it, read it."

The adjutant paused in embarrassment, and then read according to the order. The content turned out to be that Wang Zhenyu, the guardian of Xiangxi, announced that in order to defend the dignity of the Republic of China Constitution, he would publicly attack Wang Zhengya, the guardian of Lizhou who followed the Beijing puppet central government.

Wang Zhengya's mind froze: "This defense of the dignity of the Republic of China Constitution has something to do with the crusade against Lao Tzu."

Wang Zhengya took the telegram and looked it over carefully, then suddenly slapped the table and said, "Damn, this is clearly trying to grab the territory. The Xiangxi Commander Zhang Xueji appointed by Sun Dapao didn't even have the signature of Zhang Xueji, so he dared to call for Yuan. They want to eat people, hurry up, send an order immediately, all the ministries relying on the direction of Xiangxi will immediately enter the fighting state, let Wang Yuyin immediately raise troops and prepare for the battle..."

Wang Zhengya said that Zhang Xueji, the commander of the Yuan army in western Hunan, was a native of Zhijiang, Qianyang Prefecture. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), he was recommended by Xiong Xiling to go east to Japan and entered the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy to study the army. During this period, he met Sun Yat-sen and joined the army in 1905. league.After returning to China, he served as the director of Guangdong Salt Bureau, and organized Guangyi Bookstore in Shanghai as a secret revolutionary agency.Also set up "Dajiang Daily" in Hankou.Participated in the revolutionary activities led by Sun Yat-sen. During the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, Hu Ying served as the governor of Shandong, and he served as the chief of staff and the commander of the first mixed brigade.After the Revolution of [-], he served as the prosecutor of Hunan, but was dismissed by Yuan Shikai.

After the outbreak of the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen occasionally paid attention to the Xiangxi area, which was beyond the control of Hunan governor Tan Yankai, in order to integrate the resources of this area.Sun Yat-sen, whose understanding of western Hunan still remained on the map, appointed Zhang Xueji, a native of Xiangxi, as the commander of the army fighting against Yuan in western Hunan, and restrained all the armed forces in western Hunan to fight against Yuan.

Therefore, bureaucracy kills people. Xiangxi is not the time when there are many factions in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.Zhang Xueji came here at the beginning of the year on behalf of Song Jiaoren, and was very surprised at the change in the situation, but it was because it was a short-term stay, and because the Anjiang Model City had not yet formed at that time, he didn't pay much attention to this change.And I didn't see Wang Zhenyu, I just had a meal with Tian Yingzhao, the deputy guard of Xiangxi, so I left a Kuomintang membership card for Wang Zhenyu and left.

Only after this time did Zhang Xueji know how far Wang Zhenyu's power had grown. In the entire Xiangxi territory, apart from Wang Zhenyu, there was no second armed force.In this way, the vertical and horizontal strategies will not be used, but how to complete the tasks assigned by Sun Yat-sen?

But there is no need to think too much, Wang Zhenyu directly ordered him to be placed under house arrest, and he was provided with delicious food and drink, but he was not allowed to communicate with the outside world.Zhang Xueji was not stupid either, he immediately knew what this Marshal Wang was up to, and settled down with a sigh.

On the other hand, because Wang Zhengya didn't see Zhang Xueji's signature, he felt that there was nothing wrong with him. There was nothing terrible about a Xiangxi guard at the same level as him attacking him.Besides, the Changde area he controls is much richer than Xiangxi, so he analyzed that Wang Zhenyu's power should be limited.

When he was trying to comfort himself, he saw his son Wang Yuyin running in in a panic: "Father, something is wrong..."

Wang Zhengya was getting annoyed, and said in a bad tone: "You bastard, why are you panicking?"

Wang Yuyin tried his best to let out a sigh of relief: "Taoyuan, it is Taoyuan, and it was captured by Wang Zhenyu's troops, the guard of Xiangxi. Just received the news that one of our battalion Qianbahao brothers stationed in Taoyuan was disarmed..."

Wang Zhengya looked at her son angrily, as if she wanted to eat someone.Wang Yuyin was too frightened to speak anymore, Wang Zhengya suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and lay down on his back.

Wang Yuyin and the adjutant were so frightened that they scrambled to support their father. After a while, Wang Zhengya finally regained his composure, and only said one sentence: "Extremely shameless..."