Chapter 201 It’s raining

“It’s so fast!”

He sighed, his tone was indescribable regret.

"Master..."

After seeing off Liu Weiyuan, Zhang Meisheng's face became more anxious. He was obviously worried about the Dongting Xi family, who made the famous Xiangshang Zhang Zhidong, who was only three points afraid of the world-famous Xiangshang. The Xi family monopolized the position of several major compradors of HSBC foreign companies, and joined forces with the Shen family, the comprador of Sassoon foreign companies, who had blood relationships. Over the past decades, they almost swallowed half of the imperial debts borrowed from foreigners and made good friends with foreigners coming to China. I heard that even the most powerful British ambassador Zhu Erdian, who is now the head of the Xi family, is familiar with Xi Ligong, and often has letters.

"I know what you want to say, don't worry, the military government will focus all its energy on the north to deal with the Qing army going south for some time. He wants to give him the salt in the most prosperous area of ​​Hubei to him. I promise that there is not much salt produced every day, and I should bear the lack of people in the five governments, so how can I still have the energy to compete for eastern Hubei!"

Li Han waved his hand and didn't care. Since the beginning, the military government has no plans to enter several places.

However, the Dongting Gang was so domineering that he sneered in his heart. After he set out to deal with the Qing army heading south, there were opportunities to turn around and argue with them!

"I'm a little curious, what does Li Zongmei mean!"

He raised the letter in his hand, then tore apart, his face suddenly changed, and he let out a long time before he let out, "Okay... okay... okay, this Li Zongmei is not an ordinary person, but this favor is now insufficient!"

Seeing Zhang Meisheng's face curious, he handed over the letter. Sure enough, Zhang Meisheng's face changed color several times after seeing it, and nodded and responded: "If this person had not reminded me, our military government would really suffer a huge loss. He is full of sincerity. The military government will not have any extra energy to pay attention to the salt affairs of the province in the future. According to the students' opinions, it would be better to entrust the salt affairs of our five governments to him!"

No wonder the two of them changed their faces and felt that they had a great deal of favor.

This letter was not long, but Li Zongmei, a salt merchant in Yi County, dared to take a gamble and sent him the Qing army intelligence letter he found in the letter. First, he might have had some good intentions in his heart, and second, he had seen the forces that are very snobbish in the world and the revolutionary forces. He wanted to learn from his early predecessor Hu Xueyan and take the opportunity to climb the high branches of the revolutionary party in it!

"On the 26th, Liu Wei commanded 5,000 Henan Qing troops to Nanyang, and on the night of the 27th, Zhang Heli commanded 4,000 Zhili Qing troops to Nanyang. On the morning of the 28th, Wang Mingzheng commanded 4,005 Shandong Qing troops to Nanyang gathered, and then passed through Dengzhou to go south and attacked Xiangyang. It was indeed Yuan Gongbao's method. It seems that the capital was really planning to compromise. As a result, the ten towns in the world have been captured by the whole city. The two towns of "Jingzhou" have no choice but to ask Yuan Gongbao!"

After Li Han took a look at the information, he was sure that this was definitely not a means that Mengchang could think of. Tens of thousands of troops gathered in Xinyang but did not release it for a long time. Even Li Han's own attention was focused on Xinyang. He didn't expect to almost fall into the trap and was exploited by the Qing army. Xiangyang, whose ward is now weak, has been a breakthrough!

He pondered for a while, then suddenly turned his head and asked, "What's the situation in Xiangyang now? Has Dangyang County been taken down?"

"Returning to the Grand Marshal, Chief of Staff Ma personally led the Fifth Ballon army to the south, but now he has taken Dangyang County. He Shuai personally took charge of Xiangyang and recruited 5,000 new recruits for training. Yesterday, the Sixth Ballon was fifty miles northwest of Jushui, but yesterday's return had begun to encounter Tujia Miao people, which caused disputes. The Sixth Ballon had stopped the offensive south and turned to the southwest. Now it has been pushed to the border of Badong, and Sichuan is further west! Now they have rested on the spot!"

Zhang Meisheng has been helping him handle more and more government affairs in the past few days, so he knows very well about these things.

"Where is the other side of Jingzhou?"

"Zhang Shuai has already sent a telegram and has taken Songzi County and Zhijiang County. However, the Qing army is very tenacious in resistance. The second bid has no power to advance west for the time being, so we need to rest on the spot! Also, Zhang Shuai met many revolutionaries from the Communist Party of China in Jingzhou City. The leader was Wang Jinxin. However, they were not as hostile as Hubei, but they admired the general's ability to manage the army. Zhang Shuai sent a telegram to ask for instructions. Now that Jingzhou is Xinding, the situation is unstable, and Wang Jinxin and others are local people. Can they recruit our military government and give them certain powers!"

Li Han nodded, "Let's talk about it later. Go to my office, it's not convenient here!"

"yes!"

The two of them walked a few steps to Li Han's office. Li Han took off his military cap and put it on the table next to him. He went directly to the very detailed area in the house, and began to think.

"If the Qing army in Nanyang wants to go south, it must pass through Dengzhou, and there are only two most suitable roads for the army to advance through Dengzhou. It is through Laohekou and Guanghua County to enter Hubei. The second one is to go directly from Dengzhou to go directly to Xiangyang!"

He murmured for a while, walking around in front of the map, thinking non-stop!

"Sir, if you are the commander of the Qing army, which road should you take?"

There was almost one day's journey between Guanghua County where Laohekou was located and Xiangyang. If you guessed wrongly, it would inevitably lead to a situation where the Qing army would be attacked and the defense was insufficient. No wonder he was so cautious!

"this……"

Zhang Meisheng pondered for a while, "Master, it is best to stick to Xiangyang according to the students' opinions! The Qing army went south to about 1,000,000. No matter which way forward, it will eventually endanger the Xiangyang city defense. Therefore, according to the students' opinions, it would not be possible to abandon the defense of Guanghua County, withdraw all the troops along the way, and concentrate them on Xiangyang to defend!"

Li Han nodded. Judging from the current situation, this seems to be a good idea, but the military government cannot do this.

After all, the counties in Xiangyang Prefecture have just been recovered, and it is still unknown how many people are truly dependent on them. Moreover, once the troops are evacuated along the line, it is inevitable that the Qing army will be promoted along the way to harm the village. At that time, it will damage the prestige of the military government, but it will not be able to do this.

"Let me think about it...think carefully!"

"If Ma Rongcheng's fifth tier is pushed to Badong's sixth tier and transferred back to Xiangyang to defend, Yunyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture and even other cities will be vacant in defense. Yuan Shikai will soon come out of the mountain to command himself. With his wisdom and means, he will inevitably choose to surround Xiangyang instead of attacking, and then send troops to surround Xiangyang, and then order people to siege four miles to completely cut off the supply and support in the city. At that time, as long as the time is long, the hearts of the people in the province will inevitably change. It is still unknown whether Xiangyang can defend it!"

After he walked back and forth in the room for a long time, he decided to turn his head and said to Zhang Meisheng: "I'll bother to record it for me!"

Zhang Meisheng naturally would not refuse, and took the paper and pen with a smile.

"Order Ma Rongcheng to stop the offensive, Dangyang only keeps the second battalion alert, and the other third battalions of the fifth battalion head north to support; the sixth battalion is commanded by Qi Changming? He ordered Qi Changming to continue to take up the position of the sixth battalion. Ma Rongcheng temporarily served as the fourth coordinator, and cooperated with the fifth coordinator, and rushed to Xiangyang to cooperate with the defense immediately! He Jin was promoted to the third coordinator, and cooperated with the third coordinator, so that he could draw three thousand brave men from the newly recruited recruits to supplement the third coordinator, and then form another group To build a tenth trophy, the Biaotong asked him to pick one from his subordinates for the time being, and then change it after the military government has a suitable candidate. Ask him to list a list of weapons required, and send someone to come tomorrow! Promote the former second trophy Zhang Binggan to the Second Association and give him a 11th trophy organization. The Biaotong asked him to send someone to take charge and recruit troops from Jingzhou Prefecture on the spot. As for Wang Jinxin and others, he told him that he could use it, but he should pay attention to it in private."

"Yes, Grandmaster. Students will write it down now!"

Zhang Meisheng picked up his pen and wrote quickly, but he was no longer much slower than he said.

"Wait, order Zhang Binggan to stop the offensive, Yu Songzi goes to Zhijiang County to deploy defenses, and do not ask the Qing army of Yidu to invade!"

He looked at the map with his muscles twitching, "In the next half month, no, maybe in a month, the strategy to go south and west will be temporarily slow, and the situation in the north will not wait for anyone!"

"What the Grand Marshal said is very true, you must..."

Zhang Meisheng was about to speak when there was a noise outside the room, and Li Han frowned slightly. Just as he was about to ask, the door of his office was hurriedly pushed open, and a soldier supported Li Donglai, who was ashen looking, and walked in!

"What's wrong? Donglai, come so hurrying..."

"Master General... Something happened in Wuchang. The nine people we left there were arrested, one was seriously injured and the other was shot dead on the spot!"
Chapter completed!