Chapter 227 Change hands business
The two sides continued to shoot for several hours. Although Shengshicai's troops took advantage of the exchange, they still couldn't attack this small Hami City.
At the beginning of the siege, the Hami Rebel Army closed the four city gates and blocked the city gates with sandbags and other objects. The Shengshicai Department first thought that a few shots outside the city would cause the rebel army to conceal the city, so it did not build siege ladders and other objects. The Shengshicai Department said that it just wanted to build the construction without tools and materials.
As a result, the Shengshicai army was expected. The Hami Rebels were indeed pressed by the Shengshicai army in the shooting, but they did not collapse. Instead, they hid behind the battlements of the city walls, waiting for the Shengshicai army to get close to fire or throw grenades.
"It's a pity that the group of arms in Hami City existed must have been found by the people in the city. Could it be that they can only rely on siege?" Another voice in Sheng Shicai's heart said: "No, the Tsarist Russians are in Dihua. The planes can arrive every night. They can't be dragged for such a long time. Although Sun **zi's arms are quite expensive, it doesn't cost much to open Hami City."
"I'm passing the order, and now I'll besiege the 2345th Brigade, and the 1st Brigade takes money to the Qinghai border to exchange arms, grenades, **, guns and bullets, as much as possible. It's best to have artillery." Sheng Shicai judged that he could not take over the Hami City with his current firepower for a short time, and immediately ordered to buy arms.
The prosperous times of Hami City must be taken. If he doesn't steam buns, he has to fight for his breath. If the rebellion in Hami City is so blatant, he has no reaction at all, and everyone will use the prosperous times to make dough knead.
This time the transaction was much faster. Five days later, the Brigade returned to Hami City with 10,000 grenades, 50 kilograms of yellow**, 2,000 rifles, 30 Czech light machine guns, 200,000 rifle bullets, 100 flower mechanisms, 20 box cannons, 30,000 pistol bullets, as well as three sixty-mm mortars and six boxes of shells.
With this batch of arms, Shengshicai's troops suddenly became bolder. The Shengshicai siege troops under Hami City were originally in a situation where there were too many people and few guns. Now at least two people have a rifle to use. Moreover, artillery and cluster grenades are powerful weapons for siege. As long as a slope is blown up on the city wall made of loess, it is no problem to capture this small Hami City.
The battle began to become extremely intense since the sixth day. The battle in the first five days made the rebels in Hami City think that Shengshicai was just like this. Except for the first day when everyone didn't know how to hide and suffered a little more casualties, the remaining days were scrambling the guns and throwing grenades, which smashed the attacks of Shengshicai's troops.
If the radio station in Hami City had not been broken, three or five great victories could be created this day and there would be power on the whole country - isn't that the power-on commander Wu Peifu so famous?
On the sixth day, there was a strange noise on the south city wall. One round of shells fell from the air to the city or the city top. A group of mobs from the Hami rebel army had only been picking up their guns for a few days. They had never seen this scene. The southern city wall suddenly became chaotic. Taking advantage of the chaos of the defenders at the city top, Sheng Shicai's generals ** and cluster grenades were arranged under the city wall. With a few loud noises, Hami's city wall collapsed and more than ten meters to form a large slope.
The Hami Rebels here were either buried or shocked to the point of dizziness. Before they could end up in this state, Sheng Shicai's troops came in from the part that had collapsed in the city wall. They slaughtered all the Hami Rebels in the south of the city that had not yet recovered their minds. The command system of the Hami Rebels in the city itself was very chaotic, and the Nancheng was destroyed even more chaotic.
Fortunately, everyone still remembers the bold words of the commander of Shengshicai Division that day, and although the Nancheng was destroyed, he still fought to the death. After the Shengshicai Division arrived in the city, the combat effectiveness of Shengshicai Division increased by three points. Any resistance was a harassment of their holidays, which was absolutely not allowed.
For a moment, the crying of children, gunshots, grenade explosions, the cry of animals, the heart-wrenching screams of women, and the laughter of soldiers from Shengshicai's troops were connected in Hami City.
Three days later, the men in Hami City were almost slaughtered, and none of the women were spared from the age of five to fifty. As for the beautiful women with outstanding appearance, they were even more suspicious.
At this time, most of the wealth in Hami City was concentrated in Shengshicai's army. Seeing the accumulated gold and silver Shengshicai's heart was still bleeding. In the few days outside the city, only dozens of people were injured or killed, but in the three days of the massacre, hundreds of officers and soldiers of Shengshicai's troops died or were seriously injured. In this place where there was no medical treatment or medicine, serious injury was equivalent to death.
Many people died on the belly of Hami women. Some Hami women had grenades hidden on their bodies and died together with Shengshicai's subordinates. Some were hiding scissors and other objects to take advantage of the fact that the officers and soldiers of Shengshicai were very angry and suddenly cut off the little DD of the officers and soldiers of Shengshicai. You should know that men only have such a few things to be considered a man, and those things are cut are not considered a man - Besides, it is difficult to get injured and riding a horse there.
Compared with the casualties, Hami's harvest was beyond Shengshicai's expectations. The plundered gold, silver and other items were roughly estimated to be worth more than three million oceans. This is not the privately hidden by the officers and soldiers of the Shengshicai Department, but it is definitely twice as many as this number. This is not the camels, horses, cattle, sheep, food and other belongings in Hami City.
This is also the credit for Shengshicai's indiscriminate issuance of paper money. In terms of market rules, bad coins have always driven out good coins. Shengshicai's forced new coins allowed everyone to collect ocean gold and other things - Hami is closest to Gansu, and the camel caravans there did not recognize this Xinjiang ticket with Shengshicai's avatar. Either barter or convert gold and silver.
"No matter what, I finally made a comeback." Sheng Shicai concluded after the war: "It's just that although Hami is the farthest from Dihua, the Tsarist Russian planes have been here once. It seems that this is not a place to stay for a long time. After a few days of rest, we will still march into Gansu. But before we grab food from the Ma family army, our weapons and ammunition are still a problem."
Although Captain Ma Chao was slightly injured on the first day, he was still the first commander to rush into Hami. Ma Chao found confidence that he was a man on the body of Hami women. Now there are still six Hami women in Captain Ma's tent, all of which are under thirty. The military discussions were a little impatient when they heard this and said, "Now we have money. Just continue to buy goods from Sun **zi."
This was recognized by most of the military chiefs of Shengshicai Department. Without Sun Dianying's group of arms, even if they could defeat Hami's casualties, they would definitely be much higher than they are now. Maybe it would take time and effort to build a ladder to attack the city.
Although Sheng Shicai was unwilling to admit it, he could only say: "Although buying arms is not a long-term solution, it is the only way now. We cannot produce them, and only Sun Dianying is willing to sell us arms along the way. I am going to take out half of the money here and buy more guns, cannons and ammunition. Gansu is the territory of Ma Buqing Ma Bufang, and the strength of these two horses is also above us for the time being."
However, where did Sun Dianying get so much excess arms in his hands? It’s okay to have more than 100,000 or 100,000 and a few small fuss, but if there are more, it’s not something Sun Dianying can afford - you just say that the bullets are falsely reported for training, but now the regulations are very strict, at least you have to hand over the shell. The artillery report for training is scrapped, it’s very good. Take back the scrapped gun barrel and replace it with a new one.
The problem is that Sun Dianying couldn't go to Hami to pick up bullet casings and gun barrels. After receiving a telegram from Shengshicai's department that he wanted to buy a large amount of arms, he was happy and worried. Where did the millions of arms come from? Reporting to Nanjing is the stupidest way. Maybe the principal will send someone to monopolize the arms deal with Shengshicai.
After thinking about it, Sun Dianying put this idea on Jin Batian's head. No one dared to say that this master must have a lot of arms in his hands. If he contacted this person, not only could he eat Sheng Shicai's orders, but even the orders of the toasts could be eaten.
Although the British English had already begun to infiltrate and even support a group of British spokespersons, the English was too big and chaotic. There were still a large number of anti-English forces in the toasts and temples in various places, but the distance was only Sichuan and Qinghai, which was slightly closer to them. Sun Dianying and Liu Wenhui were just close to the water and towers, and they maintained good relations with many of the toast forces. If the relationship was not good, the opposition who supported him would destroy him. These two occasionally exchanged bullets and guns for some gold and silver.
Jin Batian, who unexpectedly received a telegram from Sun Dianying, admired this person's luck and actually started an arms business. Although he had a little fight with Nanjing Central, his overall idea was good.
Not to mention anything else, light weapons such as guns and ammunition can be sold to various places at will in China. In order to get this power, Batian really spent a lot of money and materials to open up all joints in Nanjing and maintain good relationships.
Since the establishment of two gun factories and two gun factories, they have been produced at full capacity. The guns, ammunition and other arms stored in underground warehouses are enough to arm dozens of reorganized divisions.
Sun Dianying's request seemed to him to be an amazing big order, but in Jin Batian's view, the order of one hundred thousand is just a small order of arms. The number of goods collected by Nanjing Central is several times that of Sun Dianying's order.
After calling Sun Dianying back, Jin Batian made two cars through the Bank of Communications to load the arms that Sun Dianying needed and transported them to Xining. The arms were loaded with more parts, and finally wrote in the telegram to Sun Dianying: Keep up the effort.
Of course, Sun Dianying would not give these goods directly to the Shengshicai of Hami. Besides, no matter how fast the train in Peking is, it will take seven or eight days to get to Xining. It will take more than half a month to transport from Xining to Hami. Shengshicai can't afford to wait.
So after receiving the telegram, Sun Dianying immediately handed over the most unusable guns and cannons in his hand to Shengshicai Department for use. It was said that it was the most unusable, but it was much better than the sealed equipment sold to Shengshicai Department the previous two times.
Chapter completed!