Chapter 33 Wanton Banditry

Xu Guoren bravely rescued Guo Shiyin in the county seat before, and the deeds of beating Japanese samurai spread throughout the city, at this time, he became the new defender of Pingyang City, issued a recruitment notice, and the people responded enthusiastically. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In just one day, more than 100 recruits rushed to the police station to sign up for the army, almost leveling the threshold of the police station.

After a banditry disaster, although most of the people did not suffer, it also left a psychological shadow, and an armed force was urgently needed to protect the county, which was also a reason why the people responded to Xu Guoren's recruitment.

Seeing the endless stream of young adults who came to enlist in the army, Xu Guoren was so happy that he asked his sixth son to invite Chen Zhiyuan over and help him register and make a book.

Three days later, Xu Guoren's security team recruited more than 280 people, bringing the total number to more than 400.

It is three or four times larger than the original police force.

With people and money, Xu Guoren got a batch of grain from several landlords and old wealthy families in the city.

So Xu Guoren began to find a way to buy guns to arm the expanded security team as soon as possible.

Not long after Xu Guoren released the news, a guy who claimed to be in the black market secretly found Xu Guoren.

After some conversation, Xu Guoren learned that the other party not only sold rifles and pistols, but also could provide light machine guns and even small artillery, grenades and other arms, and the price was not too expensive, so he immediately opened a large list.

A total of 300 rifles, 50 pistols, 3 base ammunition, plus 10 light machine guns, 200 grenades, and 4 mortars were purchased.

The two parties agreed on a time and place for the transaction, and the man left.

A week later, the two sides started a deal ten miles away from Pingyang, and Xu Guoren rushed with the elite of the security team, that is, the original 50 people.

And the other side also has forty or fifty people, and all of them are equipped with weapons and equipment.

Xu Guoren looked at the other party and found that the people from the black market were all burly, and their demeanor did not look like ordinary black market thugs, but more like they were born in the army.

Xu Guoren guessed that the other party was likely to come from a certain army, and after thinking about it carefully, in today's North China, it seems that the only person who can resell military supplies is Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army.

After all, everyone knows that the Northwest Army is relatively poor, and Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army is very poor in equipment and treatment, ranking among the best warlords in the country at that time.

The Jin Sui Army and the Northeast Army were the few warlords who had their own arsenals.

In fact, these self-proclaimed black market guys are indeed a certain logistics department of the Jin Sui Army, and the Central Plains War is in full swing, and some black sheep in the Jin Sui Army can also take the opportunity to resell military supplies and make a lot of war money.

They and Xu Guoren took what they needed, so the deal was quickly and smoothly completed.

Because he still wanted to cooperate with the other party in the future, Xu Guoren did not eat black, and after the successful transaction, he took the soldiers to bring all the weapons and equipment he bought back to Pingyang, officially installed the troops, and then started formal military training.

Guo Hu, Guo Danian, and Liuzi already have experience, and Xu Guoren doesn't have to worry about daily training.

Half a month later, the training of the troops has achieved great results, and the recruits have made great progress under the leadership of the veterans, and Xu Guoren began to plan the next action plan.

That is to suppress bandits, and the suppression of bandits is relatively low in actual combat difficulty for their newly expanded troops, which can not only train troops in actual combat, but also eliminate banditry and win the reputation of the people, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

Therefore, Xu Guoren began to ask Liuzi to take the expanded reconnaissance platoon to investigate and secretly search for the traces of bandits and robbers within a radius of hundreds of miles.

It is worth mentioning that after the weapons were available, Xu Guoren also made relative changes to the structure of the security team, and the original three platoons were expanded into three companies, with more than 100 people in each company under the jurisdiction of three platoons and nine squads, and the reconnaissance squad and guard squad were expanded into platoons respectively.

Each platoon has about 50 people, and there are three to four squads under its jurisdiction.

After another half a month, the reconnaissance platoon had already detected the traces of three or four bandits, and at this time, after a month of running-in training for the security team, the recruits had basically learned shooting and various simple tactical movements.

What is lacking is only real combat experience.

After listening to Guo Xiaoliu's report, Xu Guoren immediately decided to start suppressing the bandits.

First of all, Xu Guoren selected a group of bandits located 130 miles northeast of Pingyang, who were entrenched in a mountain forest called Erlong Mountain, occupied the mountain as the king, often blocked the road and robbed, killed the common people of the passing merchants, and harmed the people at the junction of the three counties for several years, and the local people hated them deeply.

The name of this gang of bandits is Tianying Village, and the leader of the bandits is nicknamed Long Ying, and he is a notorious bandit.

Xu Guoren decided to use him to make an example of the monkey in order to increase the prestige of himself and the security team.

The decision has been decided, Xu Guoren left Guo Hu to lead the second company to stay in the county seat, just in case, he and Guo Danian, Niu Dagen, Guo Xiaoliu, with a reconnaissance platoon, a guard platoon, an infantry company, and the third company quietly went out of the city at night, marched quickly overnight, and rushed to Erlongshan overnight.

At that time, the sky had just brightened, Xu Guoren and others arrived at the foot of the Tianying Village of Erlong Mountain, and looked up, the mountains were undulating, and there were faint clouds and mist lingering in the high places.

Guo Danian had five or six machine gun magazines full of bullets in his waist, and a Jin-made Czech light machine gun in both hands, standing in front of Xu Guoren and said, "Brother Guoren, let's attack, shall we?" ”

Xu Guoren nodded and said, "The bandits should have just woken up, and their vigilance is not high, so let the brothers pay attention to concealment, rest on the spot for a while, and listen to my orders to attack later." After a night of driving, Xu Guoren himself was also very tired and needed to rest, not to mention the soldiers with more equipment and ammunition.

As Niu Dagen, Liuzi and others passed on the order, more than 300 soldiers began to rest on the spot.

In the Eagle Village of Erlong Mountain, most of the bandits are still asleep, and a few bandits who are on duty and standing guard are also tired because they have been on duty all night, and they are all yawning and tired, and their vigilance belongs to the most exhausting time.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Guoren ordered to stop resting, took out his pistol, and personally took the lead and began to go up the mountain, followed by Guo Danian with a machine gun leading more than 300 soldiers of the security team.

Soon, they came to the mountain road outside the walled gate, with the help of the bend of the mountain road and the lush grass and trees, Xu Guoren stretched out his head to observe, and found that the walled gate of the Tianying Village was built quite high, three or four meters, and there were defensive facilities such as arrow towers and battlements similar to the city wall.

There were seven or eight bandits, armed with knives and carrying guns, standing guard on it.

Xu Guoren picked a few riflemen with good marksmanship and gave them orders, and then with an order, several riflemen fired at the same time, and the eight bandits standing guard were all shot and died.

As soon as the shots rang out, it was the beginning of the offensive.

Guo Danian immediately shouted with a machine gun: "Brothers, follow me!" Then he was the first to rush forward.

With a wave of Xu Guoren's hand, more than 300 soldiers swarmed up like a tide, taking the opportunity to charge towards Tianying Village.