Chapter 208: Emergency March

"How far is it to Xiaogan County?"

Standing on the head of a stone arch bridge, Li Han wiped the rain that had already stained his eyes, frowned and asked.

He was wearing a rubber raincoat, a bamboo hat, and a pair of rubber shoes on his legs. In order to hurry, he personally carried a box of bullets. He was motionless like a sculpture, quietly watching the team that looked not neat at all crossing the unknown branch of the Han River in front of him to Xiaogan.

The organization that was crossing the river was the eighth standard. After more than two thousand people marched in the rain for more than two hours, they were now exhausted, especially they were all recruits. Due to insufficient preparation, the military government was unable to purchase enough raincoats temporarily. Therefore, some people in the eighth standard were wearing straw raincoats, some people holding oil paper umbrellas, and a few raincoats were concentrated and wrapped outside the gunpowder. In this cloudy rainy day, gunpowder is the most prone to moisture!

"Returning to the Grand Marshal, it will take at least another half an hour to go according to the situation!"

An adjutant next to him took out the map and checked it. After he had a clear idea in his heart, he answered.

"Master, let me rest! We have arrived at 9 a.m. to the present, and we have never eaten anything along the way. We are all exhausted!"

There was a new face around Li Han, who was almost the same age as him. His name was Ji Yulin and his courtesy name was Liangxuan. Now he is the eighth standard agent!

Li Han nodded and placed a bullet box that was almost half-empty on his shoulder on the ground. He relaxed slightly, his right shoulder, which was a little sore, and then took out his telescope and looked at him.

"There is a forest in the northeast direction. Boyong, immediately send someone from Hedong to inform the first and seventh signs that have crossed the river in front, so that they can concentrate on the forest in the northeast direction as soon as possible, and we will rest there for a while!"

"Yes, Grandmaster!"

Chen Tianxiang was originally left in Jingshan to take charge, but now as the date of the Qing army heading south approached, Li Han had no choice but to transfer the task he had in his hand to his deputy, and went east with him to rest and rest, and then faced the troops of the Sixth Town of the Beiyang Army that was about to go south.

Ji Yulin and several staff officers stood behind Li Han. Among them, Ji Yulin and Chen Tianxiang got a raincoat, and the rest had to barely wear a straw raincoat and a straw hat to deal with it. Although the weather was not very cold this day, they were beaten by cold rain for several hours, and their teeth were trembling with cold teeth and their lips were frozen purple!

"How is it, Xiao Chen, is it okay?"

The lips were so cold that the counselor Li Han knew him. A few days ago, he often came to help deliver official documents, so he could also call him a name.

"Report to the Grandmaster, the bid is OK!"

Although Staff Officer Chen was trembling when he spoke, he still answered him decisively and did not admit that he was cold.

"Wear this one of my! The military government is not prepared enough, and this time I was unable to purchase enough rain gear!"

As he spoke, he was about to take off his raincoat and give him to Staff Chen!

"Master, please give it to him!"

Chen Tianxiang immediately stopped him when he saw him taking off his raincoat. Ji Yulin, who was standing beside him, obviously had this idea.

As for Staff Chen, he had been so cold that he couldn't speak neatly. His mouth was trembling, and he was trembling and couldn't explain clearly if he wanted to say it.

"Okay, don't argue with me, go. It seems that the rain will not last long!"

Li Han waved his hand impatiently, stopped a few subordinates who still wanted to shirke each other, and handed the raincoat to Staff Chen without saying a word.

"Master"

"Okay, give me the straw raincoat!"

"yes!"

After Li Han changed into the straw raincoat, his body was already wet. Fortunately, the rain had been significantly lighter by day yesterday, and it was obviously much lighter today. It was really not the time to fall from yesterday afternoon to today. Although it was just a drizzle, it affected their journey. Moreover, the heavier the rain went north, and it actually stretched for half a province.

Due to the lack of enough rain gear, many soldiers were reduced along the way, which in turn delayed the army's journey. Fortunately, I received a telegram from Guangshui this morning, saying that it was raining north, but it was exposed in the past few days. The intelligence personnel in Xinyang had already lurked, and no news was sent back for several days!

Xinyang! Xinyang!

Only the words Xinyang came to mind at this moment!

He really didn't know whether he should thank Lao Yuan or Mengchang for his timidity.

After the outbreak of the "Wuchang Uprising in Xinhai", the Qing court dispatched the army of six towns in Beiyang and the new army of each province to form the first and second army. The army minister Mengchang was dispatched in the middle and went south along the Beijing-Han line, preparing to attack the "soldier chaos". Hubei, a major 'bandit trouble', did not let the chaos in Hubei sweep across the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, stabilize the Qing court's rule over the Central Plains Shenzhou.

However, the First Army had just arrived in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the Second Army had not yet arrived in Xinyang from all over the place. Li Han, who did not know this history, thought that Wuchang was dangerous and planned to plan Hubei as soon as possible was the best strategy. He raised thousands of troops and went north along the Han River... and successively captured several places in Hubei, which were only a few battalions. What made Mengchang even more worried was that Li Han's Hubei military government successfully took over Xiaogan, the important Jianghan town, and took most of the power of the Beijing-Han Railway in the province. The Qing army forced to go south through Anhui and walked a few more days in vain.

In fact, Li Han, a time traveler, did have a great advantage here. If Mengchang had not been timid and dared not fight with the "disaster army" commanded by the revolutionary party who was promoted by the Qing Dynasty. In addition, Yuan Shikai in the north was fighting with the Qing court in order to make a comeback, and the six towns in Beiyang were faintly commanded by him. In addition, his circle of power showed his power at the same time, the generals of the army went south tried to slow down the south with various excuses. Seeing that Xiaogan, the important hub of the Beijing-Han Railway, fell, was occupied by only two thousand chaos troops. The generals of the Beiyang tribes were naturally happy and wrote to Yuan Shikai. After receiving his hint, they even wrote a letter saying that even if they captured Wusheng Pass, which was chaotic at that time, it would be difficult to clear the bandits along the Beijing-Han Railway in a short time. It would be better to go south from Anhui instead.

Mengchang was unwilling to go to Hubei's front line to command in person, and he was a good friend of Yuan Shikai earlier, and even after he lost power in recent years, he often had letters. He sold his face and sent a letter to the court, ordering the First Army to move south from Anhui to force the three towns of Wuchang.

It was precisely because of the filth between the two major forces in the north that Li Hanke took the opportunity to take the important land in Hubei, and held most of the Jinghan Railway to the Guangshui section tightly, and took the opportunity to become a force that the Qing army has to face up to the south.

"Master, let's go there too!"

It was Ji Yulin who saw Li Han suddenly paused, and then saw that his eighth-mark soldiers on the bridge had already crossed the river, so he spoke up to remind him.

Li Han was stunned and immediately came back to his senses. He glanced at Ji Yulin, who was basically the same age as him, and nodded and responded: "Yes, yes, everyone should hurry up. I just got distracted and thought about something, let's go!"

Ji Yulin was the second historical celebrity he recruited. He knew a little about him. He was from Jingmen, Hubei. After the national humiliation of the Gengzi, he joined the army and joined the Hubei New Army as the sentry chief. Later, he was admitted to the General Academy to study military affairs. After graduation, he served as the supervisor of the 31st Biao Battalion of the 16th Association of the Eighth Town. Later, he was arrested for participating in the response to the Pingliuli Uprising and was severely interrogated in prison. In 1907, he was released from prison by Li Yuanhong, the General Secretary of the Association, and was released from prison. After being released from prison, he left Hubei and ran around Hebei, Sichuan, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and other places to engage in revolutionary activities.

After the Wuchang Uprising, he was contacting revolutionary comrades in Xinyang, Henan, and immediately decided to go south to support Hubei. However, as soon as he reached Xiaogan, Li Han commanded the first bid to capture the central Hubei region. At that time, he saw the conscription order posted by Li Han. He thought that it was a revolution in Wuchang anyway, and it was a revolution in Hubei, so he stayed and became a new recruit in the revolutionary military branch of the Hubei Central Hubei Central Hubei.

Li Han didn't know him at the beginning, but when the instructors were counting the educational level of the recruits, he learned that he had worked as a supervisor in the Hubei New Army. Many soldiers of the instructors even heard of his deeds, so they reported it to the military government. Only then did Li Han realize that the recruitment had actually recruited a little god, so he included him in the instructors and sent Xiantao to help train the recruits!

Ji Yulin is a talented person, and he is probably not much worse than He Jin's command. He is even better at what he learned. He performed well in the process of snatching the new dike south, which has left a deep impression on Li Han. Although he is still temporarily in the position of the Eighth Prize, Li Han has been intentionally turning him into a regular position. However, he has been unable to see whether Ji Yulin is more interested in the Hubei military government or the Hubei branch military government.

At least the weight of his breakthrough into Li Han's heart was even heavier than that of Ma Rongcheng and others, and it was only slightly worse than that of Li Donglai, who had the power of detectives and intelligence in his hands. He really hoped to be under his command of this general of the Republic of China who had made a lot of money in history but died young, so he was extraordinarily tolerant of him.

"Let's go!"

After he said that, he had to carry the box of bullets, but the few staff officers next to him could allow him to carry them all the time, so he had to go forward and carry them away.

"Master, you have been carrying a long journey. Let's do it!"

"Yeah yeah"

This time, even Ji Yulin stood up, hoping to help him move for a while.

"Okay, OK, Boyong, you and Liangxuan have raincoats, so you two should come!"

Seeing that the group of staff under him were arguing, he had moved for a long time and was really tired, Li Han nodded and agreed to let them move.

The road to the east was muddy and difficult to deal with after two days of the battle. The soil on the Han River Plain was already soft, so it was not very convenient to pull up a ox cart. Moreover, there were dozens of heavy artillery guns that followed him north this time, so he had to ask some strong soldiers to help carry some supplies that were not afraid of the tide.

Simply, a lot of materials could be transported directly to Xiaogan through the Jinghan Railway controlled by the military government in the province. Otherwise, their vocation would have to be delayed for at least a few more days.

"Everyone speed up, you can rest not far after crossing the bridge!"

Li Han wiped the rain from his face and said.

"yes!"
Chapter completed!