Chapter 19 On Jiuli Mountain (Second update! Please give me a monthly ticket!)

"How many soldiers in Xiang Yu started his career back then?"

Li Zicheng asked the people around him with a smile. From the telegram he had pulled Yuan Shikai, he had been discussing for a day or two in Liuhe Company. Now the newspaper has announced that his "Huaihai Strategic Envoy" is fully responsible for the "Dingwu Army's aftermath" matters, and even temporarily gave the command of the Third Division of the Jiangsu Army to the Strategic Envoy.

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

"Eight thousand sons of the King of Western Chu come to Jiangdong"

When he laughed and said this, Li Zicheng was quite concerned about this matter. As a man, he always had some "power obsession". He had never been an official in his previous life, but now he suddenly became a "strategic envoy who can receive several savings", so of course he would care about it.

"There are more eight kids than four or five kids!"

Mu Xiangyue muttered quite dissatisfiedly.

"Zhiyuan, do you think this is a good errand? If it is a good errand, I don't know how many people will steal the bad errands. Why didn't Yuan Shikai use Feng Guozhang, why didn't Ni Ni Si Chong, but instead use you, the Huaihai Strategist who has no soldiers and no power in his hands."

As soon as he mentioned this "Huaihai Strategic Envoy", Mu Xiangyue frowned. In China, other Strategic Envoys all had soldiers in their hands, governing warlords in several counties and half provinces. Even if they were granted the "Strategy Envoy", they would be a fixed jurisdiction such as northern Sichuan. To put it nicely, he was the Strategic Envoy of Huaihai Strategic Envoy, but in fact.

Not only is it nameless, but even the word "Huaihai" is not far from a general word, it is just a candied date given by Yuan Shikai.

"Can,"

Smiling, Li Zicheng looked at Mu Xiangyue.

"I got a teacher and it's justified."

Because "power obsession" cares about this matter, it is nonsense, and I am considering the future.

"If I can handle this matter quickly this time, I can open the government and set up a curtain call in Lianyungang. Of course, what I want is not the right, but..."

Li Zicheng smiled and looked at Han Wutian who was silent.

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

Compared with Mu Xiangyue, Han Wutian, as the captain of the Armed Police Corps, saw another opportunity, which was an opportunity to expand the armed police and also an opportunity to gain control of the Jiangsu Army.

"Look"

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 now. Now Yuan Shikai gave him a chance.

"Can,"

How could Mu Xiangyue not understand the interests of going to Yangzhou? It was because he understood that he was a little worried.

"But what if it fails?"

"fail"

At first he was stunned, then Li Zicheng leaned on his chin and thought for a moment.

"Tian Ren, do you want to go to Xuzhou?"

"Chairman, what you mean is..."

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

"Tian Ren, just follow your plan."

After becoming the commander of the Third Division, Fang Yanjing often worried about his few soldiers. After the "Xuzhou Military Advice", Zhang Zongchang, the former Cavalry Regiment, led the Third Cavalry Regiment to surrender to Feng Guozhang. Suddenly, the third division had only four infantry regiments left.

Now there are only more than 4,000 people left in the third division. Longhai Railway Company did not shorten his military pay, and the monthly military pay of 50,000 yuan was a lot of money. But in his heart, he wanted to expand his army, but he had no weapons and supplies. He wanted to collect local armed forces, but the local armed forces either surrendered to Zhang Xun or Feng Guozhang.

But his third division is now only one airs left, but after receiving the telegram from the Army Department that "the Third Division assisted the Huaihai Strategic Envoy to the Yangzhou Dingwu Army", Fang Yanjing knew that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to expand the army. For this reason, after Li Zhiyuan, chairman of the Huaihai Strategic Envoy, and chairman of the Longhai Railway Company, came to Xuzhou, he not only welcomed him with great fanfare, but even made a special trip to accompany him, but also made a special trip to expand the army.

However, Fang Yanjing, who had the wishful thinking, has never been able to talk about expanding 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 for a dispute", Li Zicheng would always change the topic, but today Li Zicheng invited him out of the city and then climbed a small hill.

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

"call……"

When he climbed up the mountain, Fang Yanjing had already sweated and his military uniform was soaked in sweat, and the commanders of the Third Division beside him were all like this.

"This strategy is really a hot day..."

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

"What mountain is this?"

Fang Yanjing laughed at this.

"When it comes to this hill, it's so famous!"

"Can you be more famous than Jiulishan?"

After visiting Xuzhou these days, after a while, Li Zicheng knew a lot about Xuzhou's famous places and historical sites. Xuzhou was a place that had always been a must-fight for military strategists, and Jiuli Mountain was the screen of Xuzhou. In history, when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang joined forces with 560,000 troops from Han, Wei and other princes to attack Chu in the east and occupy Pengcheng. After hearing the news, Xiang Yu personally led 30,000 elite troops to fight back, 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 left halfway.

"Big, much!"

"oh?"

"Sir, have you ever heard of the story of "embracing around"?"

He was familiar with Li Zicheng, who was surrounded by enemies, so he nodded.

"Hans have already obtained Chu? Why are there so many people in Chu?"

In the past two years, the benefits of reading ancient books have been revealed.

"right."

Fang Yanjing said hurriedly.

"Sir, we are standing in the place now. It is the mountain that Zhang Liang had lasted back then, called Zifang Mountain."

Then he hurriedly said.

"This name was of course given by later generations. Because Zhang Liang has a name called Zifang, this mountain is called Zifang Mountain."

"You can win a battle even if you don't believe it. I'm afraid that some literati are gossiping and making up for it?"

At this time, Wang Yicun, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, muttered to the side.

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

"Is history books fabricated?"

“…”

Listening to their argument, Li Zicheng just smiled. Today he came to Zifang Mountain, which was his purposely chosen place, and on Zifang Mountain, he wanted to lay a nail in their hearts.

"The enemy is surrounded by enemies, and everything is achieved is the morale of the army."

Li Zicheng said with a smile and interrupted their argument.

"This morale of the army...the morale of the army...the morale of the army has been disintegrated. Even if it is as strong as the king of Western Chu, he will still be defeated when fighting."

The so-called enemies are actually psychological warfare. The psychological warfare staged in later countries cannot destroy a force, it can destroy a country.

"What the sir said is very true"

Fang Yanjing and others heard this and nodded quickly. Even Wang Yicun, listening to the word "meaning of military morale", was thinking in his mind, and he had fought many battles in the past few years, with both wins and losses. Ask yourself, this military morale really has some effect: if the morale is strong, you can defeat anything; if the bad soldiers cannot hear the gunshot, they raise the white flag! At this moment, he believed that ** could defeat Xiang Yu's soldiers.

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

"Sometimes it is more effective than guns and cannons. You can think about it yourself to see if it is the reason."

As he said that, Li Zicheng walked down the mountain.

"Let's go to Jiulishan tomorrow"

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

Jiuli Mountain is a place where the east and west, and the length of nine miles is nine miles, so it is named. This mountain became famous for its war: in the dispute between Chu and Han, Han general Han Xin made an "ambush on all sides" and ate Xiang Yu's main force in one fell swoop. A hero who "strives to the mountains and is extremely powerful" competed to bid farewell to his beloved concubine Yu Ji and died after she cried.

In addition to fame, Jiuli Mountain is also a beautiful mountain. It has famous peaks such as Xiang, Tuan, Bao, and branches such as Xiaogushan, Guishan, Kanhuashan, Yangjiashan and other branches; it is rolling and winding inlaid.

Standing on the mountain, you can clearly see the Third Division's barracks in the distance. The barracks of the Third Division are located on the shore of the Horse Acceptance Report Lake. When the Chu army was trapped in Jiuli Mountain, the food was gone, especially the lack of water and the hunger and thirst were unbearable. It was when we were helpless that Xiang Yu's black horse suddenly rose up and ran to smooth the field. The horses followed closely. Below the horse's hooves, a clear sweet spring was stepping out, and the springs were surging, gathering into a small lake, quenching Xiang Yu's thirst. Therefore, this area is conveniently called Machang Lake.

The Third Division stationed troops here may have something to do with the thoughts of Leng Yuqiu and others. They think that it is a place where one can survive. You can also see the Longhai Railway passing by near Machang Lake. The railway has now been built to Xuzhou, and the branch line extending to northern Anhui is extending towards Lieshan.

When going up the mountain, Li Zicheng and his party went up the mountain from the shore of the Duanmachang Lake in Jiuli Shandong.

"Jingsui."

After reaching the top of the mountain, Li Zicheng turned around and looked at Fang Yanjing behind him, and then spoke.

"Do you know why I pulled you up to Jiuli Mountain?"

Blinking in surprise, Fang Yanjing asked in a daze.

"Sir, there is still a deep meaning?"

He was really confused now. He looked like he was having fun these days. Could it be...

"Walking in the battlefield in front of Jiuli Mountain, the shepherd boy picked up old swords and guns. He blew the water of the Wujiang River with the wind, just like Yu Ji's farewell to the overlord."

Listening to this poem, Fang Yanjing was a little stunned. He seemed to have heard someone read this poem, which seemed to be... from the Water Margin. But... he looked at Li Zicheng standing there, and looked into the distance according to his sight. He only saw a train parked on the railway. The train was spitting smoke and parked there, and around the train seemed...thousands of people were getting off the train.

"First, sir..."

Fang Yanjing's eyes trembled. He looked at Li Zicheng with his back to him. In an instant, he understood why he took him to "travel around" these days, and why everyone was so hot with Li Zicheng, it was not because he had money in his hand, and he was not the only one who wanted to expand his army.

Turning around, Li Zicheng looked at Fang Yanjing fiercely.
To be continued...