Wan Yaohuang also talked about the great success of the "scouts" "There is also the training of scouts, which is very important. The scouts are equivalent to ancient scouts, the eyes and noses of the army. It can even be said that the strength of the scouts determines the victory or defeat of the entire battle to a large extent. On the battlefield in Hubei, the scouts in the six towns of Beiyang were significantly better than our army, otherwise we would not even know that it was as important as the Boai Academy was equipped with heavy machine guns. It is precisely because they were blocked in this position that they sacrificed so much at the Yudai Gate."

Wang Zhenyu agrees very much with this. His grandfather later in life was a deputy platoon leader of the 47th Army: "What qualities do that excellent scout need?"

Wan Yaohuang had long studied this, so he naturally replied without thinking: "Brave, loyal, witty, good at disguise, good at analysis and judgment, and good individual qualities. These are all necessary for a qualified scout...."

Wang Zhenyu gained a lot from his conversation with Wan Yaohuang. The only thing that surprised him was why such a talent did not leave his name in the history of the Republic of China?

In fact, what Wang Zhenyu didn't know was that Wan Yaohuang was just a famous person in history textbooks. He was also a figure in history. During the truce in Wuchang, Li Yuanhong had already escaped from Wuchang. At that time, it was this little adviser Wan Yaohuang who made a quick decision and chased for forty miles at night. He took the general seal from Li Yuanhong to stamp the truce. This person's courage and decisiveness can be seen from this. As for his obscurity, it was not until Jiang Lang had finished his talents, but because he was not at the right time and could not find his master. It roughly proved the sentence: "There are always horses in a thousand miles, but the Bole is not always there."

Because this 70-ton small passenger ship goes down the river, it can reach 16 knots, which is 28 kilometers per hour. Therefore, it only took a little more than a day to reach Xiaguan Wharf, Nanjing.

After Wang Zhenyu, Wan Yaohuang, Ma Xicheng, Zhao Dongsheng and others got off the ship, they met the personnel responsible for reception of the Nanjing Army Department. The 9th Brigade was arranged to a garrison and immediately allocated a piece of supplies, but there was no salary. Although Wang Zhenyu, who was not short of money, did not care about this, he also inferred how nervous the financial resources of Nanjing were.

When he arrived in Nanjing, the entire army was busy with cleaning and hygiene. Wang Zhenyu was not summoned by Huang Xing immediately, but he just called him in the Army Department.

It was already mid-February 1912, and a huge good news came from Beijing. The wise and powerful Emperor Xuantong officially announced his abdication, and the north and south finally became a republic. Suddenly, firecrackers and gongs were loud, and the whole city of Nanjing became extremely lively. Hundreds of thousands of civilian troops and Nanjing citizens chose to temporarily forget their recent hard life. Everyone was celebrating the good news from the bottom of their hearts. (It was indeed good news. If the emperor collapsed, everyone would not be considered a rioter, and their lives would be guaranteed) In the eyes of most people

All the sufferings in this country come from the damn Qing Empire. Now that the emperor has abdicated, there should be a good life next. At the 9th Brigade station, Wang Zhenyu was watching his subordinates who were celebrating on the playground coldly. Although he, from later generations, knew that the abdication of the Qing emperor was not the end of the suffering, but the beginning of a new round of suffering, he was not so stupid that he came out to pour cold water on everyone at this time. On the contrary, he had just ordered the cooking steward to add food to everyone to celebrate this huge victory.

Since the emperor was gone, the plan for the Northern Expedition was naturally cancelled. Wang Zhenyu immediately became idle. He happily paid attention to the situation in Hunan Province.

Strictly speaking, the situation in Hunan that Tan Yankai faced after becoming the governor of Hunan is very complicated, and all kinds of forces are eager to try. What is very fatal in this situation is that Tan Yankai himself does not have the power to master. To put it simply, it lacks reliable protection from force.

But it was precisely in such an extremely unfavorable situation that Tan Yankai's extraordinary ability was revealed.

Although Grandma Tan is only in her early thirties, she is very skillful and cunning, and is really rare in the country. First, she gained mutual understanding with the Tongmenghui and sent someone to pay tribute to the families of the two governors Jiao and Chen. At the same time, she thanked Mei Xin, who supported her superiors, and appointed him as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army, and the commander of the Changbao Guardian. Tan Yankai naturally had a way to deal with the troops left by Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin. First, in the name of aiding the Hubei revolution, these troops were transferred to the Hubei front line one after another. Before leaving, she also instructed all units to sacrifice for the revolution and not to look back.

In layman's terms, you're all dead in Hubei, so don't come back.

Regarding the dissidents who remained in the province, Tan Yankai even used his strength to instruct Mei Xin's troops to start a massacre. Through secretly luring and public suppression, he took a two-pronged approach to quickly settle local forces such as the Baoqing Military and Political Branch.

As for Wang Longzhong bringing his men back to settle the accounts, it was even better. Tan Yankai first took advantage of Wang Longzhong's power to scare away Mei Xin, who was in Changsha and controlled himself. Then he appointed Huang Luanming, the former 49th troop who was not in Changsha during the revolution because of participating in Qiu Cao, became the military director of the military government. Huang Luanming ran to Wang Longzhong to summon his old subordinates with his former prestige and asked for a while, and said that everyone dared not act rashly anymore, and Wang Longzhong eventually lost the opportunity to win the prestige.

Tan Yankai took advantage of the relationship between all parties and resolved a huge crisis invisibly. Then Tan Yankai called Chen Qiang, the former leader of the 49th Counter, who also participated in Qiu Cao, and appointed him as the commander of the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division of the Hunan Army, and took over half of Wang Longzhong's troops.

Tan Yankai is still building relationships everywhere, looking for acquaintances, and preparing to form a more reliable army...

These were all told by Lu Diping in letters to himself. Lu Diping was a character and told him bluntly that he also accepted Tan Yankai's favor, and most of the officers under Commander Wang had been favored.

Damn, this Grandma Tan is really good at making connections! After reading the letter, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but sigh.

There is a saying in later generations that is very consistent with national conditions, that is, how high a person can achieve has little to do with his ability. The most important thing is to depend on what level of people you can recognize.

Isn’t it just to have a relationship, so can I.

Wang Zhenyu had this idea and immediately asked Ma Xicheng, Zhao Dongsheng and others to send greetings everywhere. Now he is a major general of the army after all, and he still has the face to invite people to dinner.

Of course, there will be someone to eat when someone invites you. In addition, Wang Zhenyu is generous and speaks appropriately, which makes people happy and like it. Naturally, there are more people who support you.

There are two people who often come here, who are familiar with Wang Zhenyu.

One was Wang Zhixiang, the commander of the Third Army, from Zhili, and in his fifties. Before the revolution, he was the governor of Guangxi, who controlled the sixth battalion in Guilin. Later, he was persuaded by his brother-in-law Liu Renjun from Hunan and joined the revolution and became the deputy governor of Guangxi. However, he was disagreeing with another deputy governor Lu Rongting, and had to take his own troops to Nanjing to prepare for the Northern Expedition. Unexpectedly, the Qing emperor abdicated, the Northern Expedition was abolished again. Now he was not allowed to return to Guangxi, and stayed in Nanjing, and the left-behind mansion could not pay a penny of military pay. Facing the ten thousand mouths under his command who wanted to eat, Wang Zhixiang felt at a loss now. He drank with Wang Zhenyu every day.

The other is Tian Yingzhao, the commander of the 20th Brigade, and Wang Zhenyu's Hunan fellow villager, 35 years old. Speaking of which, he is a general. Everyone may know about the bandits in western Hunan, but in fact, these people were not bandits at the beginning. Their formation was due to historical reasons. When suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tian Xingshu, a phoenix native in western Hunan, was the father of Tian Yingzhao. He pulled the team into the Hunan Army, and then followed Zuo Zongtang to Xinjiang to fight the Russians. After the battle, the officials sat in the Guizhou Governor. Just like Feng Zicai, there were Cui Army under him, Tian Xingshu had Gan Army under him, and these troops were not under the court.

It was disbanded, but continued to exist as a brave man. It then became an armed group in the local area. The famous Gansu Ma Family Army (not a track and field team) was also formed by this model. Therefore, the origin of the bandit armed forces in Xiangxi was not a bandit, but a brave man from the Ganjun (a temporary worker without a member) left by the Qing Dynasty. It was just that because after liberation, resisted the rough adaptation of cadres going south, he embarked on the "wrong path" of opposing the people's government, so naturally he became a bandit who ate human flesh and drank human blood according to his political orientation and propaganda needs. By the way, the Ganjun also produced a great scholar named Shen Congwen, but I won't mention it here.

This Tian Yingzhao is the third child. He likes to have a beard with a beard and nicknamed Tian Huzi. He died a few years after he was born. His mother was doting on him. He was a man who was not good at learning since childhood. Later, he entered the Hunan Army Academy with connections, but he beat a foreign instructor and was expelled from school. He had no recruitment and had to go abroad to study in Japan. As a result, he was assimilated by the revolutionary party. After returning to China, Tian Yingzhao actually served as Wang Zhenyu's teacher and was the chief executive in the Army Primary School. However, Wang Zhenyu didn't remember having such a teacher. Anyway, the two have become friends with wine and meat.

When attacking Yuhuatai in Nanjing, Tian San Shao asked to be a suicide squad and made his first contribution. For Huang Xing's appreciation, he appointed him as the brigade commander of the 20th Brigade.

Tian Yingzhao liked Wang Zhenyu, a generous and cheerful fellow villager, and even enthusiastically invited Wang Zhenyu to smoke big cigarettes with him, saying that it was the best Yunnan antelope, which was so rare. Wang Zhenyu was so scared that he was stunned. This revolutionary was also taking drugs?

But thinking about it makes me feel relieved. Just like the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich and other people who like to take drugs and seek excitement, the powerful and powerful people in the late Qing Dynasty used to smoke big smoke. After all, only powerful people dared to play with such high consumption of drugs and could afford it. The more famous one is Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang. This adult was a tiger general when he was young, but he was a cigarette fan when he was old. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he was ordered to command 60,000 Hunan troops to fight against Japan in the Northeast, but he was addicted to smoking and arrived in one day.
Chapter completed!