In the gray-blue sky, the sun rose red like a drunkard's face from the treetops, so as not to bring a trace of warmth to the mountains and forests, the ground was already covered with hoarfrost, dry and hard, the leaves on the trees had fallen seventy or eighty, bare the branches of the tree poles and branches, and the remaining leaves also withered in the cold wind of deep winter, and every time a cold wind blew through, the frosted leaves suddenly broke away from the branches, like a flock of birds, flying in the wind.

Chen Yiquan's hands were on a big tree, panting heavily, only to feel that his legs were sore, painful and painful, and his chest seemed to be suffocating as if it was burning. After a long while, Chen Yiquan was relieved, and when he looked at his side, there were only a dozen people left, and all of them were in tattered clothes, full of exhaustion, some were holding on to the tree poles, panting, or retching, and some were lying on the overgrown ground, motionless.

At this time, Chen Yiquan's heart couldn't help but give birth to a bleak mood of the end of the road. Just 3 or 4 months ago, he was still the number one person in the green forest of Shandong, with 3 or 400 brothers under his hands, robbing homes and houses, quite beautiful, even if he fought a few battles with the official army, he did not fall behind, but he has never been so embarrassed and miserable as now.

And all this started from the Green Forest Conference more than 4 months ago, Chen Yiquan also participated in the Green Forest Conference, and joined the alliance against overseas Chinese, after returning to his own cottage, Chen Yiquan also followed Wang Kefu's suggestion, selected the strength of the cottage, formed two teams of 50-60 people, and raided the villages around the cottage.

At the beginning, Chen Yiquan's action was still very smooth, breaking two villages in a row, to grab a lot of supplies, but when attacking the third village, there was an accident, it turned out that after breaking through the village, because the bandits were greedy, they wanted to grab more supplies, but they were delayed a lot of time, and the nearby People's Army arrived, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the bandits lost more than 30 people and fled back to the cottage.

It turned out that the People's Army knew the location of the cottage from the prisoners, and immediately dispatched a company of troops to attack the cottage.

Naturally, the bandits couldn't hold the cottage, but fortunately, Chen Yiquan still had some decisive ability, gave up the cottage, and fled into the mountains. After hiding for a few days, Chen Yiquan inquired about the situation of other cottages and prepared to find a partner. But only then did I find that the situation in other cottages was not much better, and several bandits who had a good relationship with him were all destroyed by the People's Army.

Chen Yiquan had no choice but to continue to hide in the mountains and forests with his team, and joined up with the remnants of the other cottages, so that there were more than 150 people, and there were even 11 rifles. It turned out that some bandits bought it through Wang Kefu, and originally thought that with a musket they could deal with the People's Army, but it was only after the fight that they found out that even if they had a musket, they were also not opponents, after all, the number of rifles in the hands of the bandits was too small, the more than 5 or 60, and the few were only a dozen, of course, it could not be compared with a rifle in the hands of the People's Army, and the bandits' muskets were all single-shot guns, which could only be loaded with one bullet at a time, and the People's Army used repeating guns,* The most important thing is that modern warfare is not about firing random shots with a gun, but about finding cover, covering each other, judging the opponent's firepower point, concentrating firepower to suppress it, and so on.

This group of people did not have a cottage, they hid in the mountains and forests for a few days, and the little food they brought with them was also eaten, and several people led by them discussed, thinking that there was a people's army in Shandong, and there was basically no way to live in the green forest, so they could not stay in Shandong any longer, and decided to fight two villages, grab some food and money, and then transfer to Henan or Zhili Province to develop.

But when everyone went out of the mountain again, they found that the world outside the mountain had changed, and many villages had built earthen enclosures and organized militias. Although the Tuweizi is not high, only more than one zhang, it is an insurmountable obstacle for these bandits, not to mention that there are militia stationed on the Tuweizi, so the bandits attacked two villages in a row, but they failed to break it, and they lost more than 20 brothers, and when they attacked the second village, they were attacked by the People's Army, and as a result, the personnel were scattered and went their separate ways.

Chen Yiquan fled into the mountains and forests with some people, but was bitten by a team of people's army, and the two sides chased in the mountains and forests for a day and a night, although they were not caught up, but there were fewer and fewer bandits around Chen Yiquan, and they never got rid of the people's army, until the remaining dozen people ran exhausted.

After panting a little, Chen Yiquan looked left and right, in fact, he was very unfamiliar with this piece of mountain forest, and he didn't know where he was, but after all, he was experienced in the mountains, and he could roughly estimate his location.

At this time, a bandit came to Chen Yiquan's side, and gasped: "Big boss, what should we do now?"

Chen Yiquan thought for a while and said, "First find a place to hide for a few days and find something to eat......

At this moment, only to hear the "bang" gunshots, the bandit's head tilted, fell to the ground, and then the gunshots continued, and dozens of gray-green figures burst out of the bushes.

Chen Yiquan was also not shocked, the People's Army had been chasing them all the way here, so they didn't get tired when it was so difficult? The bandits often moved in the mountains and forests, and they all practiced good foot strength and had extremely strong athletic ability in the mountains and forests, so when Chen Yiquan fought with the Chun army in the past, even if he was defeated, as long as he fled into the mountains and forests, he could basically ensure safety, and the Qing army generally did not pursue, and even if they did, they could not catch up with the bandits.

But the KPA not only pursued, but was able to chase closely, even stronger, and on several occasions the bandits thought that they had shaken off the pursuit of the KPA and could stop and rest, but as soon as they took a breath, they found that the KPA had chased after them from behind, just like now the bandits had run exhausted, and the KPA soldiers not only caught up, but also had the physical strength to attack the bandits.

In fact, the endurance of the KPA soldiers is indeed stronger than that of the bandits, but the bandits are more accustomed to mountain sports, and the overall situation is similar, but the KPA is the pursuing party, and the bandits are the fleeing side, and the two sides are completely different in mentality. Anyone trained in long-distance running knows that it's easier to run behind others than to lead the way in long-distance running.

In addition, in this kind of long-distance pursuit, the rational distribution of physical strength is also very important, after all, the People's Army is professionally trained, and pays great attention to maintaining the rhythm of movement in the pursuit, and does not pursue visual pursuit, but according to the clues left by the bandits, maintain the rhythm of the pursuit, and do not exert force easily, so when the bandits have exhausted themselves, the People's Army still has enough physical strength to launch an attack.

This time, the bandits really couldn't run, so even if the People's Army caught up, they couldn't run, so they could only wait on the ground to die, but there were still 3 or 4 bandits who didn't give up, so they got up from the ground again and fled into the forest.

Chen Yiquan didn't lie down in the first place, so when he saw that the People's Army was chasing after him again, he was shocked, so he didn't want to bite it, opened his legs, and ran towards the mountains and forests. But after running 4 or 5 steps, a distance pain suddenly came from the vest, and his feet suddenly softened, and the whole person fell to the ground. Due to the rugged mountain road, it took 5 or 6 laps to hit a big tree.

Chen Yiquan opened his eyes in a daze, only to see a clear blue sky and white clouds in front of him, which was his last consciousness.

On the next day, Luo Yue received a report, after confirmation, Chen Yiquan was killed, and the rest were all wiped out, which was the ninth bandit force annihilated by Luo Yue after the full-scale operation to eliminate bandits, killing more than 700 bandits and capturing more than 1,200 people. Among the combat units in regimental units, it was the largest number of captured bandits that were annihilated.

However, after annihilating Chen Yiquan's bandit force, Luo Yue also received a notice from the division headquarters that the 5th Division would replace the 1st Division and garrison the Jinan area, so he handed over to the taking troops as soon as possible, returned to Jinan to join the division headquarters, and returned to Qingdao to station.

The 5th Division was a newly formed unit, and they were stationed in Jinan mainly to gain experience. Although the suppression of bandits has now come to an end, after all, it is stationed in the border area, and there is still a certain value in actual combat training. And the 1st Division also had another important task.

Although the KPA has been organized into five divisions, the artillery units of all divisions have never been fully equipped, and some companies have only one artillery piece for training, and some even two companies can only be assigned one artillery.

At present, the Qingdao Arsenal has produced a batch of artillery, except for the 155 mm caliber heavy * gun, the rest of the artillery can basically equip a division of troops. However, although the soldiers are no strangers to the artillery tactics and infantry artillery cooperation tactics of this era, they are basically limited to theoretical knowledge, after all, in the old time and space, they are not professional armies, but marines, and they do not use artillery much, and the artillery tactics of the old time and space are also very different from this era, that is, the theoretical knowledge of understanding is also relatively shallow, after all, in the old time and space, unless it is a small number of researchers, the average soldier will not study the artillery tactics more than 100 years ago in detail.

In the previous battles with the Eight-Nation Alliance, although artillery was also used, mortars were mostly used, and there were not many times when artillery was actually used, and the accumulated experience was not enough, so it was necessary to explore and test the use of artillery and the tactical details of artillery, confirm the theoretical knowledge they knew, and gradually accumulate experience.

The 1st Division is the ace unit of the KPA Army, with the largest number of veterans and the most abundant combat experience, and has a small amount of experience in artillery warfare in the KPA, and has accumulated a certain amount of experience in the use of mortars in the operation of clearing out bandits, so it is the most suitable unit for them to test artillery tactics.