A brigade in Yan Lisan's hands had a scale of 6,000 people at this time, and expanded an artillery battalion of 1,000 people. Therefore, he had two artillery battalions and four infantry battalions. Since the previous training was carried out in small groups, the regiment headquarters had been cancelled and the brigade headquarters directly commanded the four battalions.

This organization is different from the three-three system. Li Tiancheng considered that after the Wuchang Uprising, the situation stabilized, and then integrated various troops and implemented a new organization.

"The rest of the places began to mobilize combat, step up combat preparations, excavate fortifications around industrial zones, and do a good job in defense."

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Li Tiancheng began specific military deployment work.

At this time, the Qing soldiers in Jiangsu had already begun to mobilize. Since the Qing government implemented the division of Suning in Jiangsu, that is, the division of Suzhou and Nanjing, the Governor's yamen was established in Nanjing, and the Governor's yamen was established in Suzhou, so Suzhou, where the Governor's yamen was located, was also the focus of the Qing soldiers' garrison. In addition to the city defense force composed of 2,000 people from the old army patrol battalion, the 3,000 new troops stationed in Suzhou began to gather in the direction of Songjiang. In addition, the 3,000 new troops stationed in Wuxi and Changzhou, the new troops mobilized this time formed a mixed alliance, infantry, artillery, horses, and baggage troops, with a total of about 6,000 people. Their actions were not a secret to Li Tiancheng. Li Tiancheng's scouts were everywhere, and they opened up relations everywhere to find out the news of the mobilization of the Qing soldiers. Soon he knew the specific location of the Qing soldiers.

The old patrol troops left to guard Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, still had four or five thousand troops. The combat effectiveness of these troops was lower than that of the new army, because the quality of their soldiers and the ability of the army commanders were not as good as that of the new army.

In addition, there is a patrol battalion in Songjiang City that is responsible for guarding the city with more than 100 guards in one government office, which is a total of more than 600 people.

The Qing government ordered the Qing soldiers to gradually form a siege against Li Tiancheng's industrial zone, and then encircle and annihilate it. The report obtained by the Qing government showed that Li Tiancheng secretly trained a civilian team of more than 5,000 people in the name of recruiting factory guards and protecting local public security to recruit rural braves. The combat effectiveness was unknown. Therefore, in order to ensure victory with an advantage, some new troops and patrol troops stationed in Zhejiang also received notices to encircle Songjiang and Shanghai.

Currently, there are 20,000 Qing troops stationed in Zhejiang, 10,000 old troops patrol teams, and 10,000 are new troops. The new troops are much more qualified and have strong combat effectiveness than the old troops. Among them, young people with culture account for a large proportion. They are easily influenced by new ideas. Many revolutionaries joined the new troops and covered and spread revolutionary ideas in the name of "scientific tutoring centers" in the army, but were suppressed and banned by the Qing government. In addition, the Beiyang Army is the most powerful force in the new army, but under Yuan Shikai's high-pressure policies, the revolutionaries found it difficult to control the Beiyang Army. They gained a certain amount of control in the new army in the south.

Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, another large-scale military operation of the Qing Dynasty is about to be launched. In the eyes of the Qing government, this operation will be to maintain strong oppression against the enemy with its own absolute advantage. The enemy will surely defeat itself without attacking and be prepared to deal with all Li Tiancheng's forces within half a month, no more than two months at most.

The Qing soldiers of various provinces accelerated their gathering towards Li Tiancheng's sphere of influence, and they were basically in place. The nearest industrial zone is only fifty miles away from Li Tiancheng's Songjiang, and the farthest is less than three hundred miles away. It has gradually formed a siege against Li Tiancheng.

After the Qing army began to be mobilized, Li Tiancheng immediately held a military meeting. In addition to the three members of the Military Commission, Tan Jianye and generals at the level of brigade commanders attended the meeting.

"Everyone stands up!" When Li Tiancheng walked into the conference room of the military building located in the center of the industrial zone, all the waiting generals stood up. The Military Commission is now relatively formal. This building is a just-built office building. The meetings held by Li Tiancheng were usually held in the factory headquarters office.

"Everyone sit down!" Li Tiancheng sat at one end of the long table and waved to everyone. He felt a little awkward. He had never been a serious military officer and attended such serious meetings. He thought he was not a time traveler, and he had the help of the super education system. If he was in the future, it would be difficult for him to become the chairman of this not-so-formal military organization for his eighth lifetime and to lead such a group of great people to fight for territory for him.

Li Tiancheng was in a complicated mood at this time, and he was excited and nervous. After all, he was only twenty-three years old now and was about to start fighting with heroes such as Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek in this violent and turbulent world. This is not to play virtual war games in later generations, but to fight a real military struggle. If you are not careful, you will lose your head.

Li Tiancheng sat in two rows of generals on both sides. The first person on the left was Tan Jianye. He was not a member of the military organization, but he participated in all military meetings. Li Tiancheng regarded it as his right-hand man, and almost all matters were transparent to him. The first person on the right was Yan Lisan, and the rest were lined up in turn. In addition, Chen Junsheng, the clerk sitting next to Tan Jianye, and Wang Shijie, the logistics minister, attended the meeting. Chen Junsheng was responsible for recording the content of the meeting and archiving it.

The commander of the Second Brigade, Hu Junyi, clerk Chen Junsheng, and logistics minister Wang Shijie, are both outstanding students who graduated from the first phase of Zhenhua Technical School. Hu Junyi and Wang Shijie graduated from the military class, and Chen Junsheng graduated from the political class.

Hu Junyi has a standard face with a thick national character, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is 25 years old. He is from Suzhou, Jiangsu, and his parents are ordinary workers. Chen Junsheng is 23 years old. He looks obviously scholarly. He wears a pair of thick black-framed glasses and is slightly weak in body. He is from Wuhu, Anhui, and his parents are both farmers. Wang Shijie is from Haining, Zhejiang, and is 24 years old. He is combed with a popular middle-parted hair, and his hair is shiny, giving people a feeling of paying great attention to appearance and details. Like most other students who graduated from Zhenhua, they are all from ordinary working-peasant families.

"This is the first more formal military meeting I hosted. No need to be restrained. We are not as well-known as the official organization of Tongmenghui, and it doesn't matter at all." Li Tiancheng saw that everyone was actually just young people in their early twenties, only Tan Jianye was 28 years old, and he was still a young man, so he didn't have to act too seriously. He liked the feeling of laughing and no scruples before.

"Everyone speaks freely about the current military situation and the fierce Qing soldiers. If you have any countermeasures, you can try to propose them." Li Tiancheng had actually had a combat plan in his mind, and he, Yan Lisan and Ma Chaoyun, had already passed the fun. The purpose of this meeting was to put the plan on the table and see if they had any supplements or reminders.

Everyone is still unfamiliar with such meetings and seems a little restrained. No one has spoken for a while because they all know that Li Tiancheng has his own ideas and the final decision is still in his hands. Although the current organization of the Li family army is not perfect, there are also basic rules. According to the rules of the Military Commission, all members of the Military Commission must be centered on Li Tian and obey his leadership. Subordinate officers must obey the leadership of the Military Commission, that is, everyone must obey Li Tian's leadership. This is also a temporary organizational structure in the war. As for whether they will be further democratized in the future and expand the voice of the Military Commission members and their voices, that is, they will not be considered until later.

In the chaotic times, an organization is too democratized, which will cause disagreement among members, many differences, and delay many things. Sun Yat-sen, while deeply understanding it, adopted Chen Qimei's suggestion and used the gang regulations of the Shanghai Qing Gang to restrain the members of the Tongmenghui. In fact, it was a dictatorial policy that promoted the consensus of the party. It was once strongly resisted by Huang Xing and others. Later, Sun Yat-sen gradually abolished some regulations and restrictions.

At present, Li Tiancheng has no plan to democratize power, and leadership must be held tightly in his palms.

"What I mean is that we cannot wait until the Qing soldiers are assembled and form a siege against us, and then take relevant actions. Instead, we must take the initiative to attack now, capture Songjiang, Qingpu and Shanghai, and attack them suddenly, draw swords to the other side, show our powerful force, and then make a concerted effort to capture Suzhou and Wuxi, expand our territory, and then go south to advance to Zhejiang, open up a new battlefield, and continue to expand the sphere of influence." Li Tiancheng took a sip of tea, and then said straight to the point.

"I agree with Lao Li's suggestion. The situation is very clear at this time. There is no doubt about whether to fight or not. There is only the question of when to fight and how to fight. But I am worried that Shanghai is mixed with fish and dragons. Not only is there a powerful force from foreign powers, but a large number of revolutionaries and their subordinate forces gathered here. There are also gang organizations such as the Qing Gang. It is still difficult to judge whether our actions will cause conflicts among these people?" Tan Jianye also knew Li Tiancheng's plan to take the initiative, but he was a relatively familiar with the city and people's conditions in Shanghai. He knew that in addition to the development of trade and industry and commerce, Shanghai was also the center of the revolutionaries' activity. How to treat these revolutionaries afterwards and deal with their relationship with them would become a thorny problem.

Li Tiancheng knew that after the Wuchang Uprising in later generations, Shanghai was controlled by Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai Army. Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the regiment under Chen Qimei. The revolutionary Tao Chengzhang was later instructed by Chen Qimei to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai.

Chen Qimei is from Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. She was born in 1878. She is a representative figure of the Qing Gang and a member of the Tongmenghui. During the Revolution of 1911, she was one of Sun Yat-sen's right-hand men and Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Chiang Kai-shek was recommended to Sun Yat-sen in Japan. Chen was assassinated by Yuan Shikai in 1916.

If the time is delayed for another three months, Shanghai has declared independence and military and political power will fall into Chen Qimei. At this time, Chen Qimei was still the Minister of the General Affairs Department of the Tongmenghui in Shanghai, responsible for promoting the revolutionary movement in the Yangtze River Basin. In 1909, Chen Qimei planned the Zhejiang Uprising, but failed because of the indictment.

Of course, Li Tiancheng would not let history be re-staged and Chen Qimei succeeded in becoming the governor of the Shanghai Army. He must take action first and seize the territory of Shanghai and Zhejiang, which was originally occupied by the revolutionaries. How to deal with the relationship with revolutionaries such as Chen Qimei has become a crucial issue and must be discussed on the table.
Chapter completed!