Yi Kuang lived in the three eastern provinces for some days, and Song Biao personally accompanied him to Liaozhong. There, Song Biao's Northeastern New Army was dividing into multiple groups to encircle and suppress the bandits. There happened to be a wave of bandits surrounded on the mountain. Song Biao Yi Kuang was specially invited to visit the operation.

Song Biao was not worried about exposing his own strength. On the contrary, strength was the key to his becoming the governor of the three eastern provinces, followed by Russia's recommendation and the acquiescence of other countries.

Song Biao obviously did not take the Manchu and Qing court seriously and did not support him in carrying out the New Deal. He still wanted to carry out the New Deal.

After sending Prince Yi Kuang of Qing Dynasty out of Liaozhong, Song Biao returned to Shenyang to deploy the New Deal. He purchased land opposite Fengtian Palace, which was later Marshal Zhang's Mansion, and nearby locations to build the Governor's Palace of the three eastern provinces and the Fengtian Provincial Government Office. , this is for the long-term plan, and is now collectively called the Governor's Office of Dongdius Province.

In addition, he concentrated on purchasing land in a section of the south side of the Hun River, that is, from Hunhe Fort to Yangguantun. According to his plan, he is preparing to establish a new industrial zone in this area, attract investment, and attract factories to enter.

Using the capital advantage at hand, he asked him to return to Rongxingqiao in Guandong to negotiate with British foreign companies to purchase the wharf and surrounding areas of Yingkou Trade Port, and also prepared to set up a new industrial zone. As a condition of the transaction, he promised to support the development of Yingkou. and the right of British merchants to trade here.

Song Biao hoarded enough grain in his hands, which was enough for him to stabilize the public sentiment in Fengtian area in a short time. Using the transportation group, militia brigade and the caravan he contacted, he transported the grain to Each county and town established villages on the spot and borrowed grain from villages.

In the hardest-hit areas of Shenyang, Liaoyang, and Liaozhong, he also opened porridge restaurants to provide relief to the victims.

If he could ask for it from the Qing Dynasty, he would never be soft-hearted. Without saying a word, he asked the Manchu Qing Dynasty for 100,000 dans of grain for further relief of the victims, and assigned the matter to Zhao Erxun, who had a very bad relationship with him.

Zhao Erxun is the Yin of Fengtian Prefecture, and this matter is the civil affairs that he should be responsible for.

Song Biao personally negotiated various terms with Grand Duke Mikhail and Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin. As he predicted, the Russian army was eager to withdraw immediately to suppress the riot movement.

Whether it was Grand Duke Mikhail, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, or Colonel Seyenisky who had confirmed that he would stay in the Liaodong Peninsula concession area as governor of Kantung Prefecture, everyone had great trust in Song Biao and believed that Song Biao would be effective. to protect Russia's interests in the three eastern provinces and secretly resist the penetration of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in the three eastern provinces.

The two sides quickly signed multiple agreements, some overt and some covert. Overtly it was a formal withdrawal clause, and implicitly it was the four clauses promised by Russia. Even more secretly, there was no agreement on paper that Russia would seize Japanese military supplies. It was already difficult to do so. The excess military supplies shipped back to the country were sold to Song Biao's Northeastern New Army at low prices.

Russia will still retain a cavalry brigade and an infantry regiment in Shenyang, existing in the name of Song Biao's Northeastern New Army, with Brigadier General Brusilov as the direct commander, and in principle they will still be deployed by Song Biao.

Maybe it's just a matter of principle, after all, you have to keep it a secret.

Song Biao didn't care about this small problem. Even if Russia left two hands, he would have a way to deal with it.

The year 1905 was about to become a part of history. In early December, Song Biao made all preparations. The troops returning from the bandit suppression in Liaozhong County detained more than 4,000 bandits and could enter the city at any time.

On the morning of December 12, Song Biao asked Zhao Tingzhu and others to lead the troops across the entire Shenyang City and then return to the Dongling Guard Camp. On this day, Jiang Fangzhen returned to Shenyang City from Japan, got off the station and hurried to the office. Reported to Song Biao.

Song Biao was waiting for news about Zhao Tingzhu and the others in the office. Suddenly he saw Jiang Fangzhen coming back. He was in a good mood and felt that it was a double happiness.

Jiang Fangzhen habitually walked to the door, stood at attention and saluted: "Military seat, staff adjutant Jiang Fangzhen has returned from completing his mission."

Song Biao looked up at Jiang Fangzhen and said with a smile: "You came back just in time. Come and sit down."

Saying this, Song Biao also asked everyone else to go out temporarily, and even Shu Fangde did not stay.

When others left the office, Jiang Fangzhen took out a newspaper clipping and a stack of letters from the brown leather Russian-style map bag he carried with him and handed them to Song Biao. Then he sat down and said: "The people I contacted in Japan this time Many people, including some very radical revolutionaries, as well as many representatives of overseas students, also met with some Japanese dignitaries. Today, there is a craze in Japan to study you. Newspapers often report on you, almost without details. Forget it, I specially cut out some representative reports for you to read. Japan is generally very afraid of you. Even the Japanese army is not shy about saying that they may suffer from the disease of fear of you in the future. I heard that I am you. The main staff adjutants around me and some Japanese political figures also enthusiastically invited me to participate in various meetings. Generally speaking, they support you as the governor of the three northeastern provinces, and are willing to turn conflicts into friendship and establish closer cooperation with you. Including Japan's newly appointed governor. Prime Minister Konobo Saionji Temple also took time to build it alone. The Japanese army sent General Oshima Yoshimasa to continue negotiating with me. General Oshima Yoshimasa and Cabinet Minister Nakagan Hara Kei have specially written letters for you, and some revolutionaries in Japan The party members also asked me to convey many letters to you, especially the letter from Mr. Sun Yat-sen. However, when I talked with him, I felt that Mr. Sun seemed to have placed too much expectations on you, and hoped to have face-to-face talks and persuasion. You support the anti-Qing revolution."

"oh!"

Song Biao asked Jiang Fangzhen again: "What did Chen Tianhua say?"

Jiang Fangzhen replied: "Because the Qing government negotiated with Japan, it hoped that Japan would implement stricter management of Chinese students studying in Japan and prohibit foreign students from engaging in revolutionary movements against the Qing government. Japan has now promulgated new regulations to restrict Chinese students from studying in Japan. Ben's actions and the situation seemed to be very chaotic, and Chen Tianhua also seemed very depressed, even pessimistic, but I still persuaded him to work with us, and he has agreed and is looking for suitable candidates among international students to run the newspaper together."

Song Biao nodded slightly and said: "Send an open telegram to the Japanese students in my name as soon as possible, suggesting that they unite their opinions and insist on continuing to study abroad. They must first learn modern knowledge. Only in this way can they return to China and build a new society. Modern China.”

Jiang Fang nodded, but reminded: "Military, to be honest, your reputation among foreign students is not very good."

Song Biao laughed loudly and said: "No matter what, it is best to publish it directly in Japanese newspapers. They are all adults. They have to think and defend themselves whether it is good or bad."

Jiang Fangzhen nodded slightly and said: "While I was in Japan, I also explained a lot about why we wanted to resist the Japanese army. After all, they are still relatively radical Chinese people and their ideas are not very rational, but they can still listen to our ideas."

Song Biao didn't really care whether these international students could understand his thoughts. He first took out the letters, picked them out, took out Mr. Sun's letters, and read them carefully.

Sure enough, as Jiang Fangzhen said, he basically encouraged Song Biao to rebel and revolution nakedly, claiming that if Song Biao was willing to start a revolution, he would become the father of the Chinese revolution, start the great tide of the Chinese revolution, and be admired by everyone...

After looking back and forth, Song Biao found almost no words that were too nutritious. As for the national and civil rights spirit advocated by Mr. Sun, if you listen to it too much, you will get tired of it. After all, for so many years in the Republic of China, these are just bullshit banners.

That's all.

He could only sigh and put the letter aside.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "This gentleman really made a lot of promises and asked you to be the military commander of revolutionary China."

Song Biao said: "Let him go, and the roads will go to different sides. Since he has written a letter, you still have to write a reply for me. Don't say it too harshly, just say that I think construction is more important than destruction."

Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently.

Song Biao re-selected the letters from Oshima Yoshimasa and others and had Jiang Fangzhen translate and read them. It was nothing more than the same things as before. Jiang Fangzhen had already negotiated with Japan and asked Japan to stop all illegal arms trade in the three northeastern provinces.

, shall not support bandit armed forces in the region.

Japan has agreed, at least on the surface, and is willing to continue supplying ammunition and weapons to the New Northeast Army at relatively low prices, but has also proposed to purchase dozens of mortars.

Japan's intelligence work has always been very detailed, and it is already known that the Russian army transferred the Changling Arsenal to Song Biao at a low price.

Song Biao had no idea of ​​selling this mortar to Japan. Let the Japanese think about it slowly. Many things seem simple, but it will take several years of exploration to actually build them.

As for the letters written by the representatives of the foreign students from the old Japan, they are generally not much different from those of you, Mr. Song. They all tried their best to encourage Song Biao to implement the revolution. Although after reading them, I felt that these people were only half-experienced, and they thought they understood everything if they knew something.

Biao still planned to reply to the letters one by one, suggesting that they learn more knowledge, think more deeply, and not just analyze the problem on the surface.

Since the situation for Japanese students studying abroad was also complicated, and his identity had been exposed, Jiang Fangzhen was not eager to establish organizations such as the Xinhua Society and the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Japan. He only temporarily joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary organization and Guangfu

We have a lot of contacts at the club and have developed several downlines as communication channels.

The Guangfuhui's ideas were basically consistent with the ideas of Song Biao's Chinese Revolutionary Association. This must be contacted. Jiang Fangzhen also knew the importance of this. During his stay in Japan, he had a lot of contacts with Zhang Binglin, Cai Yuanpei and others, and he also sent them back to Japan.

I wrote a letter to Song Biao.

Song Biao was talking about these things with Jiang Fangzhen, and Shu Fangde also hurried in. He seemed very happy to see Jiang Fangzhen, and reported to Song Biao: "Military seat, we have four infantry regiments, a cavalry regiment, and an artillery regiment.

And the transportation brigade has already

We have officially entered the city, and more than 4,000 bearded people are parading through the streets. Shenyang City is now very lively, with about 50,000 people watching. We directly show our strength with clear guns and knives, horses and cannons.

Zhao Erxun must be very frightened."

Song Biao laughed loudly. Shu Fangde was responsible for and organized the parade. All the soldiers changed into new military uniforms outside the city. They specially practiced the formation on the spot in Liaozhong County. They must strictly follow Song Biao's requirements.

Enter the city in an orderly manner.

Song Biao's custom-made new army uniform in France has not arrived. Otherwise, he would also plan to participate in this demonstration and give Zhao Erxun some color. Don't take the porcelain job without diamonds. He wants to go head-to-head with Song Biao.

, let’s go home and work on some more troops.

It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the governors of various regions were already separatist. Song Biao was definitely the most separatist in the three eastern provinces. The Manchu Qing court basically lost the ability to actually control the three eastern provinces and expected to send Zhao Erxun a co-organizer of the university.

Just trying to contain Song Biao with the title of scholar is simply asking for humiliation.

After listening to Shu Fangde's report, Song Biao sat in his chair and thought for a moment, and then said to the two staff adjutants: "This is not enough. I think I will find a good opportunity and a good reason next year to seize the opportunity."

Live in Zhao Erxun's first branch

The team had a fierce fight and was defeated directly. Kill the chicken to show the monkey and let those ignorant people see clearly. There is no future in following the garrison generals like Zhao Erxun. If you work with them, you will get in trouble with me. If you get in trouble with me, you will get in trouble.

It’s going to kill someone.”

Shu Fangde thought for a moment and asked: "Military seat, isn't it a little too much?"

Song Biao said: "Find enough reasons. If it doesn't work, just make arrangements. Prepare slowly and don't rush."

Shu Fangde agreed immediately and said: "Okay, I will make arrangements bit by bit from now on and give them some color when the opportunity is right."

Song Biao smiled evilly and continued to ponder this matter in his mind.

At this time, Xue Changqing, Zhao Tingzhu, and Zhang Yahu were leading their troops to march across the entire Shenyang City with great force. As Shu Fangde said, it was a true intimidation of Zhao Erxun and the entire Shenyang City with open guns and clear knives.

Everyone can see clearly and let everyone understand what kind of army Song Biao's Northeast New Army is.

After two months of preparation, more than 100 machine guns, 200 artillery pieces, and 6,000 Japanese horses were deployed in front. Four thousand Don River draft horses were all in uniform. All the soldiers were put on new military uniforms and military boots.

The bottoms are all covered with an iron palm one centimeter thick, and the rifles are wiped and polished in strict accordance with the requirements. All rifles are Mosin-Nagant standard rifles, and all have bayonets.

Song Biao paid 1.2 million foreign dollars for this, because it was urgently ordered from Russia. The average price of each set of military uniforms was more than 20 foreign dollars. The most expensive cavalry uniform was 60 foreign dollars per set. In addition,

There are also a lot of other expenses.

When such a troop passed through the main road of Fengtian City, the bang-bang sound of the neat iron palms hitting the ground was as shocking as thunder, completely frightening Zhao Erxun and the citizens of Fengtian City.

The person leading the troops at the front was Zhao Tingzhu, wearing a blue-black senior general's uniform, riding a pure white Anglo-Arabian horse, holding the Chasik saber erect in his hand, looking straight ahead with a stern expression.

Behind him was a cavalry team of 6,000 people, all sitting with sabers in hand and rifles on their backs. They all rode Anglo-Normandy Japanese horses captured from the Japanese army. In order to make this cavalry team more dazzling, Song Biao also specially selected

I bought a black cavalry helmet with a spear point, it was so bright.

Before, I had just heard that the Northeastern New Army was very powerful. It killed and injured hundreds of thousands of Japanese along the way. But I didn't know what it was really like. But now I have seen it. Zhao Erxun's legs and feet felt weak when he saw it outside the General's Yamen in Shengjing.

After the army circled half a circle and then crossed across, returning to the Dongling Guards Camp, Song Biao personally presided over the celebration of the triumphal return of the army, and also held six banquets in the office to welcome the victorious soldiers.

There were too many bandits in Liaozhong. The Northeastern New Army directly adopted a three-sided encirclement formation to surround the main bandit areas, forcing the bandits to retreat unilaterally, and then used cavalry to pursue them. For those who took advantage of the mountainous terrain to stubbornly confront the New Army, they used mountainous terrain to

The way of fighting is to attack by storm, which is exactly the way to practice the combat ability of the troops.

After three months of fighting, 62 groups of bandits were wiped out, more than 2,400 bandits were killed, and more than 6,000 people were captured. The more elite group was taken out for training on the spot, and the remaining more than 4,000 people were

Arrangements were made for parades through the streets, and they were immediately put into labor service.

Bandits like Du Lisan and Long Tuozi are large troops with hundreds of people. They use Japanese rifles and Russian rifles. They are very fierce in frontal fighting. Although they also caused a lot of damage to Song Biao's Northeastern New Army.

Casualties and the role of training troops and generals are equally obvious.

This is where Song Biao is happiest.

Later, he would wipe out the bandits in Xinminfu, Heishan, and Fuxin, then go south to Jinzhou, then Anshan, and Benxi, and gradually sweep away the large bandit areas in the entire Northeast in three years.

Before further dispatching troops, the most important thing is of course to continue to recruit troops, continue to collect bandits and geographical intelligence from various places, and prepare for a large-scale suppression campaign. At the same time, we must also encourage the masses to participate, mobilize the power of the people, and use the experience of suppressing bandits in the three northeastern provinces.

Opportunities to build contacts and grassroots organizations in various locations.

However, Song Biao didn't expect that this time he would stir up a hornet's nest. He originally tried to scare Zhao Erxun in a military style, but he didn't even go there himself. He made so much money during the Russo-Japanese War, and he did it all at once.

A military parade is nothing, so I'll save some money later.

He is just that kind of young soldier who is reckless and playful, and he doesn't take it too seriously.!~!
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