? Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"The American Army wants to fight for territory with us?" Zhou Jinguo asked in a very suspicious tone. Not long ago, Zhou Jinguo was sent by the division headquarters to negotiate with the American Army. According to Zhou Jinguo's observation, the American Army did not have the ability to fight against the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army did not want to expand the front needlessly, so they did not want to do anything to the American Army. But the American Army and the Liberation Army were obviously thinking differently.
The division commander sneered. "I've already reported to the military, suggesting that we should wipe out the local armed forces in the near future. The Xiang Army is resisting stubbornly, and even a unit like the American Army dares to provoke us. If we don't use force, they won't know that I have three eyes. "
"… I'll wait for the division commander's order," Zhou Jinguo replied. He originally wanted to ask what the military would think. But on second thought, even if the military gave the order, the regiment would have to go through the division commander, so it was better to wait for the order. Whether the regiment's officers would be invited to attend the meeting was also the matter of the military.
The division commander only grunted but did not say anything more on the matter. Zhou Jinguo returned to the unit with the division commander's order. He waited for two days in the unit, but the reinforcements did not come, but the division commander's new order came. "The central government has ordered the formation of the Hunan provincial government and the Hunan military. At this time, the troops are not to be mobilized."
This news stunned the troops. The battle preparations had been completed, and they were only waiting for the order to immediately take Yongxing. As soon as the news of the formation of the Hunan provincial government and the Hunan military arrived, all military operations were frozen. The previous preparations could not be moved.
At the party committee meeting, the comrades expressed their confusion, and some said in a strange tone, "Yongxing's Xiang Army is too lucky."
As the political commissar, Zhou Jinguo could only explain. "My home is north of Yongxing. I can go home after we take Yongxing. Comrades, if you say you are in a hurry to take Yongxing, I have been waiting for it for more than half a year. But we are soldiers, and it is our duty to obey orders. Besides, establishing a government is also a good thing. Economic warfare should be handled by the government. In the past, before the government was established, our troops had no choice but to take on many of the responsibilities of the government. Once the government is established, we can focus on the war! "
Zhou Jinguo was trying his best to convince everyone, and his content was quite convincing. Everyone agreed with him. However, he felt that if they continued waiting like this, the morale of the troops would be affected. The regimental commander suggested, "Political Commissar, let's just apply to the military headquarters. As long as they send us another battalion of reinforcements, even without artillery and balloon troops, we can still take down Yongxing."
Chief of Staff Qian Liqun's opinion was more conservative. "I think we should wait a little longer. After all, this is a siege. With the reinforcements from the artillery battalion and the balloon troops, we'll have fewer casualties. "
The day after the meeting, the Second Regiment received new orders to send troops to reinforce the artillery battalion, the balloon troops, and an infantry battalion of the Third Regiment to help the Second Regiment defend the camp.
"Are you f * cking kidding us?" The regimental commander was furious.
Zhou Jinguo looked at his angry comrades and could only try his best to appease them. After the Party Committee comrades who felt that the division headquarters were messing around cursed, the regimental commander suddenly laughed. "Political Commissar, look at you. I think it's good to have a political commissar around. If the General Staff Headquarters is messing around like this, I won't be able to take it. "
Zhou Jinguo did not know if this was a compliment or a sarcasm. He could only laugh. "I think you are complimenting me."
On May 29th, exactly one month after the Xiang Army ambushed a platoon of the Liberation Army, the Liberation Army began to attack Yongxing. This battle was very nonsensical.
After the artillery battalion's balloon troops rose up, they quickly sent out a message. This was not to guide the artillery battalion, but to inform the Liberation Army infantry troops that the Xiang Army in the city had begun to flee. Yongxing was a mountain city, and the troops were stationed in the east of the city. When they heard that the Xiang Army had begun to flee, the troops could not directly pursue them. They could only start to attack the city. In the end, the whole battle became a pursuit.
The troops wanted to attack the city, occupy the city, and eliminate the enemy. They also wanted to capture the more than 800 Xiang Army soldiers who were left in the city. The Xiang Army was also used to walking in the mountains. They spread their legs and fled first. The Liberation Army did not have enough troops. After dealing with the matter in Yongxing, they chased after them. They only caught one or two hundred Xiang Army soldiers who were left behind. The main force of more than 2,000 Xiang Army soldiers actually ran away.
There were two battalions of the Xiang Army left in the city as scapegoats. When the battalion officers saw that things were not going well, they obediently surrendered. When Zhou Jinguo interrogated the two, when they heard Zhou Jinguo's familiar Hunan accent, their emotions immediately dissipated. They first shouted at the top of their lungs at the head of the Xiang Army, Zhou Yongan, who had escaped. Then they looked pitifully at their fellow Hunan, Zhou Jinguo, and said, "Master, doesn't the Liberation Army give preferential treatment to captives and not kill them?"
Seeing the two of them acting like a two-man show, Zhou Jinguo was so angry that he laughed. He replied, "Don't worry, we don't kill captives."
"Thank you, Master, for not killing us," the two battalion officers kneeled on the ground and said happily.
At the side, Regimental Commander Yu Tiesheng was dumbfounded as he watched this farce. As an officer of the Liberation Army, Yu Tiesheng could not understand how soldiers could be so shameless.
Zhou Jinguo said to the two battalion officers, "We don't kill captives, but when we ask you questions, you have to answer honestly."
Seeing Zhou Jinguo's expression of 'death can be spared, but punishment cannot be forgiven', the officer immediately replied, "Please instruct me, Master."
"Did anyone tell you that we're going to attack the city?" Zhou Jinguo asked. This was what he was most worried about.
The battalion officer's eyes were brimming with tears, and he looked like a weeping beauty. "No one tipped us off. A month ago, Zhou Yongan sent troops to attack Master's men. Two thousand people went out, and not many of them made it back. At that time, everyone knew that they couldn't defeat Master no matter what, so they wanted to leave. But Zhou Yongan lied to us, saying that he could defend the city, and Master didn't dare to come to Yongxing. I didn't expect him to run the fastest! If someone tipped us off, I would have run long ago. "
After the interrogation, Zhou Jinguo asked Regimental Commander Yu Tiesheng, "What do you think of these two people?"
Yu Tiesheng sneered, "Two cowards who are afraid of death."
Zhou Jinguo did not look down on them. "Not necessarily. I think these two people are full of lies, and we can't believe them. How did you feel when you attacked the city with these two people defending the city? "
"Hmm …" The regimental commander thought for a moment, and his eyes narrowed slightly. "It didn't look like they would collapse at the first touch. If it wasn't for the balloon troops guiding them, they would have been able to hold on for a while after the artillery scattered them. "
After saying that, Yu Tiesheng asked Zhou Jinguo with a little surprise, "How did you know?"
Zhou Jinguo slowly replied, "What they said doesn't make sense. If I were the head of the Xiang Army, I would really want to run, and the troops left on the city wall would be those who can fight. If there were people left on the city wall who could run faster than me, and the enemy chased me from behind, I wouldn't be able to run. Now that we've captured so many people, whether these two battalion officers are telling the truth or not, we'll know after interrogating them. "
After interrogating the captured junior officers and ordinary soldiers, the two cunning battalion officers immediately revealed their true colors. It turned out that these two people were figures in the Xiang Army who had a tough attitude towards the Liberation Army, so they were sent to the city wall to be responsible for the defense.
For the diehard members of the Xiang Army, the Liberation Army didn't stand on ceremony. With the shackles on their feet, these two were thrown into a cell and closely guarded. The regimental commander admired Zhou Jinguo's eyesight, but he said something else. "Political Commissar, we've taken down Yongxing. Take the troops to the Shangwan area to wipe out the remaining Xiang Army."
"Oh …" Zhou Jinguo's home was in the Shangwan area. The so-called wiping out the remaining Xiang Army was just an excuse. In fact, the regimental commander wanted Zhou Jinguo to go home to have a look. According to the news from Lü Shangyang, Zhou Jinguo's family had fled their hometown a few years ago and hadn't returned until now. Zhou Jinguo had always wanted to go home to have a look, but when there was really a chance, he didn't want to go home.
What could he see when he went home? Dilapidated walls? Or someone else had already moved into the old house of Zhou Jinguo's family? Just thinking about this made Zhou Jinguo's heart ache. It wasn't easy for him to recover from this uncomfortable state of mind. Zhou Jinguo smiled bitterly and said, "Send the other comrades over there. We have too many things to do in Yongxing. "
"Political Commissar …" The regimental commander didn't expect Zhou Jinguo to have such a "revolutionary consciousness" and still wanted to persuade him.
Zhou Jinguo waved his hand. "Let's not talk about this first. Yongxing is by the river. If we can make good use of this channel, we can save a lot of effort. Now quickly measure the channel and see if the steamships can sail in the river. "
The river next to Yongxing City was called River Lei in this section of Yongxing. River Lei went straight to Hengyang. If the inland river steamships of the Liberation Army could sail in River Lei, the difficulty of attacking Hengyang would be greatly reduced. The Liberation Army had long known the threat of controlling Yongxing to Hengyang, so they had endured Yongxing for so long. Now that they had conquered Yongxing, they naturally had to start considering the needs of future battles.
Without waiting for the arrangements to be made, the military headquarters asked the Regimental Commissar to go to the military headquarters for a meeting. Zhou Jinguo didn't waste any time. He sat on a bamboo raft and went up the river towards Chenzhou.
The river from Yongxing to here wasn't completely navigable, but the advantage of the bamboo raft was that it could be easily carried. Zhou Jinguo and the military's cartographers took notes along the way and roughly recorded all the places along the way that couldn't be navigable. Although it took a little longer, they finally had a preliminary record.
The meeting in Chenzhou was convened by the new governor, former Minister of Commerce Levis, Lei Hu, who had been promoted from the commander of the Fourth Army to the commander of the Hunan Military Region, and the acting Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee, Shen Xin. The meeting convened by the leaders of the party, government, and military was very authoritative.
At the meeting, the government officially took over civil affairs, including the economic war. The military was finally freed from the situation where they had to shoulder all the responsibilities. At the meeting, the acting Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee, Shen Xin, conveyed Vézé's instructions. "In the process of liberating Hunan, our sequence is to first use the military to clean up the local area, then use commercial personnel to bring the local economy under our control, and then send political personnel to carry out our political propaganda."
Everyone listened carefully to Military Governor Vaize's instructions, and there were questions from time to time.
Because they hadn't read the 20th century works on "colonial history", they didn't know that Vézé had plagiarized some things after much deliberation. "First the military, then the merchants, and finally the missionaries." Everyone was sincerely impressed by Military Governor Vaize's interlocking arrangements.
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