Chapter 327: Huai Army 1st Tank Division
Chapter 327: Huai Army First Tank Division
"I, Liu Yongfu, pay my respects to the Marshal."
"Get up, don't be so polite. Brother Tian's friends are my friends."
Liu Yongfu came with Tian Xing. Shao Quanzhong looked at the famous general in his memory. Wow, his braids were combed shiny and shiny, it didn't look fake. Didn't you say you were from the Tiandihui?
This - Liu Yongfu started the rebellion together with his brothers in the Tiandihui, but it was not considered a rebellion. They just recruited local militia to protect themselves in places on the border where the imperial court was weak.
However, he actually has other ways to deal with the braid problem.
The Nguyen Dynasty of Annan wanted to use his power to suppress bandits, so they appointed him as a centurion.
Nguyen Chao always wore Ming Dynasty clothes. When he met Nguyen officials, he untied his braids and put them into a bun on top of his head to cover his forehead. That - I am from the Tiandihui, and I miss the Ming Dynasty just like Nguyen Chao.
Feng Zicai had often led his troops into Annan territory to hunt down fleeing bandits, but he ignored Liu Yongfu. This was because Feng was also from the Tiandihui and had a close relationship with the sect.
He often helped Feng Zicai to suppress bandits. When he met the Qing army, he braided his pigtails again and was very good at beating people. His bottom line flexibility was comparable to Shao Quanzhong. He had no intention of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. He just wanted to be a warlord.
Of course, he would never be polite to foreigners and would never be a traitor. In this respect, he was quite similar to Shao Quanzhong.
Even if Shao Quanzhong refused to surrender, historically speaking, Feng Zicai would have come over the next year if he had just waved his hand. I want to be a loyal minister of the court like Old Feng!
Therefore, Tian Xing went to recruit people just for the sake of convenience. After all, he knew them, and if others went, he would probably go too.
Shao Quanzhong felt that this experience was very similar to his own. He felt like a close friend of the famous general who maintained his dignity when facing foreigners. They were brothers who had worked their way up from the bottom.
"Since you are here, I will not treat you unfairly. I will grant you a fourth-rank blue feather medal and allow you to set up a checkpoint in Baosheng to collect taxes. I will collect 50,000 taels per year for military expenses."
"Your troops will be added to the Huai Army's non-staff ranks, and you will be awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. Your troops will be expanded to two reinforced battalions with 3,000 men, forming an independent regiment of the Black Flag Army."
"All members of the Black Flag Army are equipped with breech-loading rifles. I will equip you with a machine gun company, a rapid-fire cannon company, explosive packs, barbed wire, grenade throwers, and grenades. You should train well in Baosheng and fight bandits to gain practical experience. When I need you, as long as you have made military achievements, I will definitely promote you."
"Thank you for your cultivation, Marshal. I will definitely be loyal to you."
Shao Quanzhong sent Tian Xing to recruit him, because he understood the thoughts of the powerful official. I have absolutely no psychological barriers to being loyal to the Marshal and establishing a new dynasty, because I am a member of the Tiandihui, right?
The logistics staff led Liu Yongfu to lead the munitions. It was easy to recruit Liu Yongfu, but Tian Xing was a little worried. "I don't think Xiao Liu, a fence-sitter, can be reused."
"It doesn't matter. As long as he can fight the foreigners without any weakness, he can be used. We don't need him to be absolutely loyal. As long as we remain strong, his loyalty will not change, just like Zhang Zhidong."
"Brother, you've rested enough, come back and help me. I want to form a new tank division. This is one of our most important trump cards. I don't trust others to do it."
"Second brother, I can't drive a tank either."
"Tanks were the first ones we made, but no one knows how to drive them. I know a little bit about it, so I'll train you in person. We can work together."
"Look, our tank division will be equipped with two armored brigades, each with two tank battalions and one infantry battalion. One infantry brigade, each with one tank battalion and two infantry battalions. These three brigades are the main combat units."
"A light field artillery brigade, a rapid-fire artillery and armored vehicle brigade, which provide fire support." "An engineer brigade to pave roads and build bridges, a scout battalion with horses and hot air balloons, a direct support battalion, and three forward support battalions, responsible for driving steam tractors for logistics, repairing tanks and transporting tractors and armored vehicles, pulling artillery shells, and transporting tanks before combat."
"Add the staff, the military band, and the medical corps, and it's just the right number for a town, less than 14,000 people."
Tian Xing's eyes widened. "Didn't Song Qing's armored brigade cooperate with the main force in Central Asia? Why does this tank division have so many types of troops?"
"The tank division must be able to fight independently. It is the fist force I plan to send to Paris. It does not need to participate in the war in French Indochina this time. When the time comes, Brother Tian, you should be ready to make a splash and become the first world-famous general to lead a tank division into Paris."
"Then aren't we overstaffed? Qing Yao's side——"
"How can there be an over-strength? I am planning to train a town of Guangdong New Army into a tank division. The number of people is just right. We must conduct closed training outside the city and must not let the foreigners detect any disturbance."
"In addition, I plan to organize the new army of Jiangning Provincial Government into a heavy artillery brigade. After all, it is half a province, so we only need to organize a brigade. The new army of Guangxi and Anhui will be a standard mixed infantry division."
"Brother, your tank division is too complicated. We need to practice more, such as infantry-tank coordination and barrage of bullets. We can't let it down."
Shao Quanzhong smiled and said, "I calculated that we still have one year to train a tank division. Let's go and find a suitable barracks first."
When others heard Shao Quanzhong talk about fortune telling with fingers, they all thought it was a joke, but Tian Xing was the only one who really believed it completely.
When Shao Quanzhong arrived in Guangzhou, he just met Liu Yongfu, drank a glass of water, and then rode out with Tian Xing to select a site for the tank division.
What? Government affairs? What government affairs does the Governor-General have to deal with? Isn't that something that Qing Feng, the Grand Governor of Guangdong, is busy with?
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Ming Yue Building, Soho Square, London.
Unlike ordinary entertainment clubs, this place has a basement. More than twenty copper pipes pass through the private rooms upstairs and converge here, where they are monitored by intelligence officers from the Huai Army Intelligence Department.
These intelligence agents all came from Jiangyan and were the most reliable insiders of the Huai Army.
Don't get me wrong, these people are not professional porn appraisers. The private rooms that truly involve personal privacy do not have eavesdropping devices, and those top stars themselves are spies.
This isn't a professional place selling sex, this is a high-end club where the big guys come to watch dancing, listen to music, and casually discuss business and conspiracies.
Now Jiang Chunlin was called by his subordinates and was personally eavesdropping on a secret conversation in which the dancers were dismissed.
The identities of the people meeting inside were very different. One of them was called Isaac Butt, a Protestant lawyer, leader of the Irish Home Rule Party in the British Parliament, a member of the House of Commons, and a noble gentleman.
The other person who invited the guests was a poor man named James Stephens, a red-haired martial arts master. He was in charge of a gang, the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Ahem, he was a gangster boss who was not much different from the leader of the Tiandihui.
(End of this chapter)