Back to the Republic of China as a commander

While Wang Zhenyu was busy appeasing Liu Guxiang and others in Liuzhou City, and further communicating with the local gentry.

On September 9th, in Guangxi Governor's Mansion in Nanning (anyone who supports Yuan Shikai will be renamed Governor. Due to the complicated situation in Guangxi, the titles of Governor and Governor are used in confusion, but they all refer to Lu Rongting), although there is no clear instruction from the Beijing government. A military meeting was still held against the northern Guangxi region.

Because Lu Rongting played the banner of defending Guangxi and expelling the Hunan Army, the meeting this time was unprecedentedly enthusiastic.

Attending the meeting were: Chen Bingkun, commander of the first division under Lu Rongting's command, Tan Haoming, commander of the second division, and Huang Bangbiao, commander of the mixed brigade.And the patrol team, that is, the main leaders of the local armed forces, including Wei Rongchang, the commander of the First Army, Lin Junting, the commander of the Second Army, Long Jinguang, the commander of the Third Army, Song Anshu, the commander of the Fourth Army, Chen Chaozheng, the commander of the Sixth Army, and Wuzhou Governor Mo Rongxin.

Lu Rongting, as the governor of Guangxi or the governor of Guangxi and the initiator of this meeting, was naturally the first to speak: "Everyone, as we all know, Liu Guxiang, the former commander of the Fifth Army, colluded with Sun Wen's rebellious party and intended to cause chaos in Guangxi, but was killed by his righteous men. Shen Hongying broke the rebellion. Naturally, the rebellion was resolved without bloodshed. Originally, this was also a good thing, but Liu Guxiang was so stubborn that he secretly colluded with Wang Zhenyu and others from the Hunan rebellious party to attract foreigners to Guangxi and annex us. Tell me about it , Are there really no men in Guangxi? Is Guangxi really a place where those Hunan guys come whenever they want?"

Everyone shouted immediately: "Of course not, Lord Overseer, beat those Hunan guys hard, let them know how powerful our Gui army is..." In short, there were all kinds of shouts, some of them who had not read the book even shouted "killing!" Guang Zeng Guofan's disciples and grandsons came to avenge Hong Tianwang. Fortunately, this is not the former Qing Dynasty, otherwise it would be the capital crime of exterminating the family.

When Song Anshu, the commander of the Fourth Army, was mature and prudent, he asked his own question: "My lord, how many troops are there in the Hunan Army entering Guangxi?"

Lu Rongting actually sent a spies to investigate, but when the spies finished their investigations, the first Xiangxi garrison division had not yet arrived in Liuzhou, and the second brigade was stationed on the outskirts and had not entered the city, so the reported number of Hunan troops was only 5000.

When Song Anshu heard that there were no more than 5000 people, he felt relieved. Not only him, but almost everyone present was extremely confident in the fighting power of the Gui army.Since the victory of Zhennanguan in the Sino-French War, the Gui army has been almost invincible. In the eyes of the Gui army, the world is invincible.Calculating carefully, the total number of people in these families is almost [-], and Lu Rongting's subordinates are the veterans of the Guangxi New Army. With so many people, they will all be drowned, so the problem of winning is naturally not a big deal.

Song Anshu thought of another question: "My lord, I don't know what rules President Yuan Da in Beijing has for us to send troops to northern Guangxi?"

At the moment, Lu Rongting was sitting in the first seat like a big horse with a golden knife, his upturned thick eyebrows matched with a serious expression, full of murderous looks: "Old Song, don't worry too much, Yuan Gongbao is suppressing the rebellious party this time, our Guangxi Gui army is out Great effort. If we hadn't been in charge of the Hunan Army and the Guangdong Army for him, would his Beiyang Army have successfully captured Nanchang? Since we have worked hard and made great achievements, we still have to pay for this little reward. So I think If you want to go, we don't have to wait for Beijing's order. Before the reinforcements from the Hunan Army arrive, we will rely on the force in our hands to expel them in one go. Guangxi can only be ours Guangxi of Guangxi people, Hunan guys get out..."

The crowd shouted again, "Hunan guy, get out!" . .

Lu Rongting's arrogance is emboldened. Let alone the 60 elite infantrymen under his command, there are more than [-] mountain cannons produced by the Hanyang Arsenal alone, with more than [-] shells. Lu Rongting in the war seems naturally not a big problem.

And with the improvement of his strength and status, Lu Rongting's ambitions are also growing further.In this era when soldiers are kings of grass, Lu Rongting's thoughts are also alive.Now he is searching desperately in Guangxi, resorting to military force, and doing everything he can to expand his force.He even has a clearer expansion plan than Wang Zhenyu. The first step is to use Liuzhou to unify all forces in Guangxi and realize the integration of military and government in Guangxi;

The second step is to bring Guangxi's elite into Guangdong and make yourself the master of Guangdong and Guangxi;

The third step is to seize Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and let the Lu family's flag be planted all over the south of the Yangtze River;

The fourth step is. . . . . .

In the end, it is to win the world, and Yuan Datou sits in the position of the great president. Why can't I, Lu Rongting, sit?

So this time, Lu Rongting is ambitious and confident in attacking Liuzhou together.Don't look at the meeting, in fact, many people who participated in the crusade have already set off towards the guests. The so-called meeting is nothing more than building momentum and unifying ideas.

But Lu Rongting didn't notice that a strange smile suddenly flashed on the face of a young officer less than 15 meters away from him.In high spirits, he was still promoting his attack plan: "Chen Bingkun, you go back to Guilin immediately, and the team led by veteran Mo (Mo Rongxin) in the first division round will attack Liuzhou from the side and rear, and Tan Haoming will lead the second division to rendezvous The mixed brigade marked by Huang Biao, together with Brother Song’s troops, will attack from the front. The other four armies will attack from the two sides. I request that each department arrive at the attacking position within ten days at the most and launch the offensive. I will wait for my adjutant to discuss the specific plan. Send it to everyone. Everyone must work hard in this battle, and we must fight the majesty of our Guangxi army."

Don't be surprised, the most unprofessional in China in this era is the army. When the boss yells a few words, the younger brothers will have to run away.

And for the battle plan, everyone is not very interested, because now the officers are more confident than Lu Dujun or Lu Dudu.Compared with victory, they care more about the benefits of sending troops.

Chen Chaozheng was the first to say with a mournful face: "It is my blessing, Chen Chaozheng, to release the horse for the Lord Overseer, but I think you, the old man, also know the difficulties we have here. Now the gang of soldiers and ruffians under me don't see any benefits. Just don't work, if I'm a little bit in a hurry, they will make a fuss and mutiny. Governor, I'm in trouble!"

Everyone agreed one after another, and each of them condemned those soldiers and ruffians under him in front of Lu Rongting.And they also said that when this battle is over, they will borrow troops from Lu Junmen to go back and kill all the soldiers and ruffians under him.

Lu Rongting watched these people's performance with a sneer, soldier ruffian?I'm afraid you are talking about yourself!

Fortunately, he was well prepared, Lu Rongting waved his hand, and his son came up with a group of guards carrying a gift tray covered with red cloth.Everyone stopped the performance immediately, and stared at the ceremony plates without saying a word.

Lu Rongting chuckled: "There are eight gift trays here, each worth [-] oceans. Everyone knows that we are a poor province and can't offer too many bargaining chips, so I can only guarantee two points: First, win Liuzhou first, A reward of [-] yuan from Dayang; second, after capturing Liuzhou, I will take everyone to fight in Guangzhou. Do you know about Guangzhou? If you win there, you can have as much money as you want!"

Amidst the applause of the crowd, there seemed to be a gleam of light in the eyes of the officer who had a strange smile on his face just now.

This officer is He Yunzu, a native of Hunan. He is an adjutant of Lu Rongting's adjutant. He has been with Lu Rongting for more than a year. Because of his calmness and ability, he is trusted by Lu Rongting.

However, although He Yunzu's name is fake, his identity is very complicated, because he was a waiter in a teahouse in Hongjiang more than a year ago.It was just a very accidental opportunity that Gong Peng, the head of the Liuzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department, discovered him, and then became a glorious spy, and it has been out of control ever since.

Due to the original plan, Wang Zhenyu only wanted the northern Guangxi area, and mainly the coal and iron mines in Laibin and Liuzhou.Therefore, the focus of Gong Peng's work at that time fell on Liuzhou, and there was only one thing in Nanning's work, which was to let He Yunzu spend three thousand oceans to buy the director of Lu Rongting's adjutant office and sneak into Lu's residence.

At that time, it was a side game, and due to dialect and other reasons, Gong Peng was unable to start the situation in Liuzhou, and what he did was to collect some military intelligence. In the end, Gong Peng was transferred to Changde Station to lurk.

As a result, eight months later, when Gong Peng was promoted to be the colonel of the Guangxi station and came to Nanning, he found that the little chess piece he had placed had actually entered a very central, very critical position.So around this point, Gong Peng established an information transmission channel, and the Gui army has no more secrets at all.

This time was no exception, all the plans formulated by Lu Rongting and the others, who lacked a sense of secrecy, were completely sent to Gong Peng.

Gong Peng suddenly felt that everything was very boring, because in this situation of knowing oneself and the enemy, the only thing the commander-in-chief's army could do was win.

After a brief analysis, and after checking the authenticity of the information according to the work regulations of the Intelligence Department, all the information was sent out verbatim by a dispatcher stationed in the Nanning Telegraph Bureau by the Military Intelligence Department. . .

Wang Zhenyu has been annoyed recently. Three days after entering Liuzhou, he had planned to continue to promote the Xiangxi set in Liuzhou, and he suddenly found something was wrong.

The situation in Guangxi is really different from that in Xiangxi. The commerce here is not as developed as in Xiangxi. As long as you establish an interest relationship with the merchant class, many things will be easy to handle.Almost all places in Guangxi are controlled by the landlord class.It doesn't matter, the county people rule the county, whoever governs is not governed?Anyway, in terms of civil affairs, I don't have enough talents in my hands, so I can only pay close attention to guns and money bags.But the problem is that these landlords not only have militia groups in their hands, but also have close ties with the bandits in Shiwan Dashan and Liuwan Dashan.Among other things, Shen Hongying, who fled into the mountains, recently led an attack on the transportation unit of the First Division. Eleven brave soldiers died and 18 were injured.

If he is still promoting county rule by people here, then a bunch of small warlords will really emerge.

On September 9, the weather was not bad. Wang Zhenyu took his fifth brother, Wang Hu and other guards to climb the Goose Mountain outside Liuzhou City.

The adjutant at the adjutant's office who accompanied the army got the information transferred from the Liuzhou branch of the Military Intelligence Department almost at the same time. After seeing the content, he immediately chased up the mountain. Wang Zhenyu had already reached the top of the mountain.

After listening to the adjutant's report, Wang Zhenyu stood with his hands behind his back on the top of Eshan Mountain in Liuzhou at an altitude of 1408 meters, quietly looking at the clear Liujiang River at his feet, and said: "It seems that our army governor also thinks that the huge Guangxi cannot accommodate two generals." Well, then don't blame me for being unkind..."