Beijing. Army Department.

Che Zhen urged down and asked, "What is the situation in Lin Xi? Ask the Ministry of Transportation, is the telegram line to Lin Xi still connected?"

The officials were busy and wanted to see the situation!

The cabinets were temporarily moved to the Ministry of Army, Prime Minister Cheng Yunpeng personally suppressed the battle, and the Minister of Transportation also personally urged the General Postal Service to step up contact with Lin Xi.

Finally, there was news: "The General Postal Administration reported that the telegram route to Linxi is still open, but it must be forwarded through Chenyang."

When everyone heard this, they calmed down, as long as they could get through, after all, all the telegraph lines across the country are in the hands of the General Postal Service.

You should know that at this time, the postal and telecommunications business was all under the responsibility of the General Administration of the Ministry of Transport. Although the north and the south were divided during the 1980s and 1990 years of the Republic, the General Administration was able to control the postal and telecommunications business across the country. The postal directors of the postal bureaus in various provinces in the north and south were directly appointed by the General Administration of Postal Affairs.

On the one hand, the entire postal system has a very strong Westernization color. It mostly believes in the creed of "I am my country", adheres to the concept of serving the country with technology, and has transformed the traditional post station system according to the West, making this system from the original cost of millions of yuan each year into a unit with a profit of millions of yuan. All provinces also appreciate the convenience brought by this unit very much.

On the other hand, the north has first established a postal network throughout the country, while the south has only an experimental postal network. Even Guangdong, which claims to be the most developed postal network in the south, can only cover one-third of the counties and cities in the province. Therefore, it has to seek help from the north. After receiving the postal network in the south, the General Postal Administration further expanded its postal network. Therefore, some people praised at that time, "Just three minutes of the ocean, send a letter to any place in the mainland of the Republic."

It is quite ironic to say that whether it is modern postal, telegraph or railway network, the original experimental network is on the Southern Network.

After the telegraph objects flowed into China in the West, the General Postal Administration saw the potential of this object after obtaining scriptures from the south, so it transformed the original postal network into a telegraph network, which has amazing value both commercially and militaryally.

However, the favorite thing about the Telegram Network is all kinds of politicians. They can send out a message to the world in one day with just a little money. They are most happy about this. Chen Yunjie, a brigade commander of the Third Division of the Zhijun Army. He sends out a telegram from time to time to express his political opinions, scolding the central government for all kinds of inappropriate things.

However, Rouran people did not know the importance of the telegram line. In the entire Linxi offensive and defensive battle, the telegram line was always unobstructed, but another reason caused the hindrance in the contact.

Linxi Postal Bureau. Telegram Office.

The accompanying "Die Da" sounds and noisy sounds.

"I am the representative of Northeast Industrial Bank, I will send it to me for the head office!"

"It is a report to receive the country!"

"Send me the Shanghai News Agency! I'll pay twice the extra money!"

"I'll give me 20 cents with one word, and I'll send Chengde..."

Someone in the crowd simply knelt down and cried and begged: "This sister, I beg you... send me Boss He, Chifeng!"

However, Lin Xi’s telegram line was only laid two months ago. If it were not the Swiss Army Command and was a key national defense site, it would probably not have the opportunity to lay such a huge line in more than ten years.

However, there are not many telegrams a day, so a female student who has just graduated for two months is responsible for the complete set of procedures for generating, collecting and translating power. Her technology is quite unfamiliar and she is too busy at this time. She is busy dealing with customers' posts most of the time. In addition, a large number of telegrams to comfort the defenders like Xu Zhen and Liu Jingxiao came from outside. In this way, Liu Jingxiao didn't know at all that the attacking Rouran army actually had up to nine divisions of troops.

At this time, Liu Jingxiao was busy dealing with the attack of the Rouran cavalry. The group of cavalry came quickly, mixed with gunfire and cannon sounds, and burst straight towards the third company's position. Soon, it had entered the range of the rifle, but the soldiers on the front line could only shoot blindly, but it was almost useless.

However, after suddenly reaching about twenty meters away from the frontier position, the simple obstacles made by the Dingbian Army finally came into play. After tripping two horses one after another, the horses could only stop. The Rouran cavalry and the Dingbian Army could only shoot against each other through the obstacles. The cavalrymen were on the horse's scale, which was the best target. The Dingbian Army opened fire on the Rouran Army in all directions.

At this time, the cavalry turned over and dismounted, leaving only a few people standing there, holding two reins in their hands to stop the military horse from running around, which is commonly known as the "horse stake". The rest of the cavalry continued to assault with their rifles.

Liu Jingxiao quickly shouted: "Architecture! Horse-killing stakes!"

The three two-pound guns of the Dingbian Army were occasionally suppressed by the Rouran Army artillery. Although the artillery was still alive, nearly half of the gunners had been injured and several horses were injured. They had to transfer their firing positions from time to time. Therefore, at this point the war started, less than twenty shells were fired.

It should be noted that the artillery was different from the current tube annealing gun at that time. It was an annealing gun. The huge recoil during firing drove the gun rack to jump violently backwards, ranging from two to three meters short and five to six meters long. Then, human power was used to push back and clean the barrel with a wool push rod, and fire again. Therefore, the rate of fire was extremely slow, and even if it was not disturbed, the rate of fire was only one shot or one minute.

However, Liu Jingxiao was very lucky. When the messenger arrived at the artillery position, an artillery was ready to be fired. With Liu Jingxiao's order, a shell knocked down a war horse among the horses and injured two war horses. The war horses were shocked and yelled and jumped wildly. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Third Company pointed their guns at the right point of the tall military horses. Some simply greeted them with grenades. Eight or nine of the military horses were killed and injured, and some simply started to attack and kicked the horse stakes away.

The cavalry who temporarily changed his post to infantry stopped seeing this scene. Finally, they loved horses and ran back one after another to ride on the army and retreated.

Liu Jingxiao then breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, someone patted his shoulder and turned around to see that the postman who came to deliver the telegram had handed him a signing form and said, "Sir! Please sign your name."

Liu Jingxiao signed and said, "Thank you!"

Wanyan Yuzhuo asked, "When will the money on this telegram be available?"

The postman smiled and said, "I have to wait, I guess tomorrow!"

Liu Jingxiao also knew that remittances were different from telegrams, and they could not arrive so quickly. No matter how telegrams were, they were only a dime. The remittances carried over through the General Postal Service sometimes reached tens of thousands of oceans. If the wrong number was made, they would be a loss of thousands or hundreds of dollars.

As for how big this number is, we can see from some statistics from the eighty-two years of the Republic that a skilled worker's daily income is generally in the Ocean Triangle, which means that his monthly income is only 9 yuan, and he must use this money to support a family of three.

Therefore, the General Postal Administration re-verifies the telegram transfer and repeatedly verifies it, for fear that a large amount of money will be lost if one makes a mistake.

The twenty yuan sent by Xu Zhen was almost the legal income of Liu Jingxiao for two months, "buying new clothes". That's right, in a small town like Linxi, Wanyan Yuzhuo can buy dozens of new clothes.
Chapter completed!