Chapter 19 Jiuli Mountain (Second update! Please vote for me!)

"How many soldiers did Xiang Yu start from?"

Li Zicheng smiled and asked the people around him. From the time he got the telegram to Yuan Shikai, he had been discussing it in Liuhe Company for a day or two. Now it has been announced in the newspaper that he, the "Huaihai Economic Envoy", is solely responsible for "Dingwu".

In the matter of "military follow-up", the command authority of the Jiangsu Army's Third Division was even temporarily transferred to the general manager.

But now, everyone in the company still hopes that he will not go to Yangzhou and has postponed this job. Yuan Shikai can't say anything, and no one in the country can say anything.

"Eight thousand descendants of the Overlord of Western Chu rise from Jiangdong"

When he said this with a smile, Li Zicheng was quite concerned about this matter. As a man, he always has some "power addiction". He had never been an official in his previous life, and now he suddenly became this "economic envoy with the ability to earn several provinces".

"Of course I will.

"Eight gan is more than 4 or 5 gan!"

Mu Xiangyue muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Zhiyuan, do you think this is a good job? If it were a good job, I don't know how many people would kill you. Why didn't Yuan Shikai use Feng Guozhang? Why didn't he use Ni Ni Sichong? Instead, he used you, the Huaihai economic envoy, who has no soldiers and no power."

Mu Xiangyue frowned whenever he mentioned the "Huaihai Economic and Strategic Envoy". In China, other economic and strategic envoys are warlords who have soldiers in their hands and govern several counties or half a province.

"Envoy" is also a fixed jurisdiction such as northern Sichuan. He, the Huaihai Economic Envoy, sounds like he is the Huaihai Economic Envoy, but in fact.

Not only is it in name only, even the word "Huaihai" is not far from a general term, it is just a bright-looking candied date given by Yuan Shikai.

"Can,"

With a chuckle, Li Zicheng looked at Mu Xiangyue.

"I got a teacher and it's justifiable"

Because "power addicts" are concerned about this matter, it is nonsense, and they are thinking about the future.

"If I can handle this matter quickly this time, I can directly open a government in Lianyungang. Of course, what I want is not power, but..."

Smiling, Li Zicheng looked at Han Wutian, who was silent on the side.

"Chairman, the armed police can be the police or the Third Division of the Jiangsu Army"

Compared to Mu Xiangyue, Han Wutian, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Police Corps, saw another opportunity, an opportunity to expand the armed police force, and at the same time, an opportunity to control the Jiangsu Army.

"Let's see"

Li Zicheng looked at Mu Xiangyue who was a little dissatisfied and shook his head with a smile. There were some things that he couldn't understand, at least he couldn't understand them now. Now Yuan Shikai gave him a chance.

"Can,"

How could Mu Xiangyue not understand the stakes in going to Yangzhou? It was precisely because he understood it that he was a little worried.

"But, what if it fails?"

"fail"

He was stunned for a moment, then Li Zicheng held his chin and thought for a moment.

"Tianren, do you want to go around Xuzhou?"

"Chairman, what do you mean..."

The chairman's words only made Han Wu happy. He understood the meaning of the chairman's words, which was...

"Tian Ren, just follow your plan."

Ever since he became the commander of the Third Division, Fang Yanjing has often been worried about the lack of troops and horses. After the "Xuzhou Soldier Remonstrance", Zhang Zongchang of the former Cavalry Regiment led the Third Cavalry Regiment to defect to Feng Guozhang. Suddenly, the Third Division

There were only four under-strength infantry regiments left.

Now there are only more than 4,000 people in the third division. The Longhai Railway Company has not reduced his military salary. The military salary of 50,000 yuan a month is a lot, but in his heart he wants to expand the army, but he has no way.

Ordnance and no supplies, he wanted to gather local armed forces, but the local armed forces either defected to Zhang Xun or Feng Guozhang.

As for his Third Division, now there is only a shelf left. But after receiving the telegram from the Ministry of War that "the Third Division assists the Huaihai Economic Envoy to deal with the aftermath of the Yangzhou Dingwu Army", Fang Yanjing knew that this was an opportunity.

An opportunity to expand the army. For this reason, when Li Zhiyuan, the Huaihai Economic Envoy, Chairman of Liuhe Company, and Chairman of Longhai Railway Company, came to Xuzhou, he not only welcomed it with great fanfare, but even made a special trip to accompany the Third Division to expand its army.

This was done in one fell swoop.

It's just that Fang Yanjing, who had his own wishful thinking, has never talked about the expansion of the army in the past few days. Whenever he mentioned that "the Dingwu Army has a large number of troops and the officers and soldiers dare not go out to attack," Li Zicheng would always change the subject.

, but today Li Zicheng invited him out of the city and then climbed up a hill.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Li Zicheng raised his head and looked around, and saw that it was vast and empty.

"call……"

Climbing up the mountain, Fang Yanjing was already sweating, and his uniform was soaked with sweat, as were all the officers of the Third Division beside him.

"This manager is really good, on a hot day..."

Standing on the mountain, Li Zicheng, who was in a good mood, listened to the muttering behind him, and just smiled inwardly, and then asked Fang Yanjing next to him, he was the commander of the third division that he recommended, but this person...

"What kind of mountain is this?"

Fang Yanjing laughed after hearing this.

"Speaking of this hill, it is very famous!"

"Can it be more famous than Jiuli Mountain?"

After coming to Xuzhou in the past few days, Li Zicheng learned a lot about Xuzhou's scenic spots and historical sites. Xuzhou has always been a battleground for military strategists, and Jiuli Mountain is the screen of Xuzhou. In history, Chu

When the Han Dynasty was fighting, Liu Bang united with 560,000 troops from Han, Wei and other princes to attack Chu eastward and occupied Pengcheng. After hearing the news, Xiang Yu personally led 30,000 elite troops to fight back south, defeated the Han army in front of Jiuli Mountain and recaptured Pengcheng.

When Liu Bang abandoned his armor and fled, only dozens of soldiers followed him. Even his old father was abandoned halfway.

"Big, big!"

"oh?"

"Sir, have you ever heard of the story of "Besieged on all sides"?"

Li Zicheng was no stranger to being besieged on all sides, so he nodded.

"Have all Han already conquered Chu? Why are there so many people in Chu?"

In the past two years, the benefits of reading ancient books have become apparent.

"right."

Fang Yanjing said quickly.

"Sir, where we are standing now is the mountain where Zhang Liang died, called Zifang Mountain."

Then he said quickly.

"Of course this name was given by later generations. Because Zhang Liang had a nickname, Zifang, so this mountain is called Zifang Mountain."

"You can also win the war? I don't believe it. I'm afraid it's just some literati who are just talking and making it up?"

At this moment, Wang Yicun, commander of the fifth brigade, muttered next to him.

"No, it is indeed recorded in the history books."

"History books are not fabricated?"

"..."

Listening to their arguments, Li Zicheng just smiled. He came to Zifangshan today because he specially chose the place, and in Zifangshan, he wanted to bury a nail in their hearts.

"Besieged on all sides, everything we achieve is based on military spirit."

Li Zicheng said with a smile to interrupt their argument.

"This military morale...military morale...military morale is weakened. Even if it is as strong as the overlord of Western Chu, it will be defeated in a war."

The so-called embarrassment on all sides is actually psychological warfare. The psychological warfare staged in later countries cannot destroy an army. It can destroy a country.

"What Mr. said is absolutely true"

Fang Yanjing and others listened to this and nodded quickly. Even Wang Yicun, hearing the word "military morale", also thought about it in his heart. He calculated the many battles, large and small, fought in the past few years, and there were wins and losses. Ask yourself.

, this military spirit really has some effect: when the morale is high, it can overcome any strong force; but the bad soldiers will raise the white flag when they can't hear the sound of the gun! At this moment, he actually believed that Xiang Yu's soldiers could be defeated.

"Sir, I understand, morale works just like guns."

"Sometimes it is more powerful than guns. Think about it for yourselves and see if this is true."

With that said, Li Zicheng walked down the mountain.

"Let's go to Jiuli Mountain tomorrow"

The next day, Li Zicheng took the senior officers of the Third Division to the famous Jiuli Mountain in the northern suburbs of Xuzhou.

Jiuli Mountain winds from east to west and is nine miles long, so it is named. This mountain became famous because of wars: during the Chu-Han dispute, the Han general Han Xin set up an "ambush" on all sides, eating up Xiang Yu's main force in one fell swoop.

The hero, "The mountain is so breathtaking", cried goodbye to his beloved concubine Yu Ji and threw herself into the Wujiang River to her death.

In addition to its fame, Jiuli Mountain is also a beautiful mountain. It has famous peaks such as Xiang, Tuan, and Bao, as well as branches such as Big and Small Gu Mountains, Guishan Mountain, Kanhua Mountain, and Yangjiashan Mountain; it has rolling hills and green mountains.

Standing on the mountain, you can clearly see the barracks of the 3rd Division in the distance. The barracks of the 3rd Division are located on the shore of Ma Check Report Lake. When the Chu army was trapped in Jiuli Mountain, they ran out of food and supplies. They were especially short of water and suffered from unbearable hunger and thirst.

Just when he was helpless, Xiang Yu's black-collared horse suddenly jumped up and ran into the circle, followed closely by the horses. Under the horse's hooves, a clear spring came out, and the spring surged into a small lake, and Xiang Yu was relieved.
To be continued...