After this massacre-like public execution, not only did the bandits become frightened birds, but the local bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods also restrained a lot, for fear that these gray-skinned military masters would not pay attention to the rules, and if they did not go well, they would pull themselves out to shoot targets in the name of a bandit bully. Even the 27th Division of the Feng Army and the 2nd Mixed Association of the Hubei Army, which were coalition forces, were also silent, and they often saw a non-commissioned officer of the National Defense Forces on duty with a white armband on the street. As for the ordinary soldiers, they saluted when they saw the weeded uniforms of the Wehrmacht, and from time to time they saw a bearded small officer saluting this doll-like Wehrmacht (private), and the Wehrmacht soldiers also returned the salute blankly, as if they were very surprised to salute the other party who was several levels higher than their own.

The 27th Division of the Feng Army brought by Zhang Zuoxiang was mainly stationed in Xi'an and Weinan areas, and the Feng Army, which had some bad habits, did not disturb the place, and Zhang Zuoxiang was not too restrained, and was frightened by the butcher's knife of the National Defense Force.

This is especially true of the Hubei army, the nine-headed birds realize that they are not cats, and they don't have nine lives for the Wehrmacht to shoot, so the rules are good. In the end, even Yang Kaijia, the co-commander of the 2nd Mixed Association, was depressed to find that his repeated soldiers and ruffians had become extremely well-behaved overnight, and he didn't even dare to do the trivial matter of eating an overlord's meal again.

Banditry and civil war were the most serious problems that undermined the people's livelihood and national security during the reign of the Beiyang government at the same time in history, and they were also two sides of the same coin, influencing each other and interdependent. The recruitment of troops and horses by various military departments and the struggle for cities and countries were the main causes of the civil war; The outbreak of the civil war, the rout of the army mutiny, the scattering of soldiers, and the spread of guns, increased the momentum of banditry. The people had no way to make a living because of the war and banditry, and becoming a soldier or a bandit became the two major ways out for young people. The military system regarded the collection of bandits into an army as a common thing, and the bandits also regarded "appeasement" as a shortcut to promotion, and the Huanghuai River Valley was the main area for producing soldiers and bandits. Most of the national defense forces of the Beiyang government (Zhiwan and other departments) come from this area. But the famous bandits: Wang Tianzong, Bai Lang, "old foreigners" Zhang Qing, Sun Meiyao also have a fortune in this area. Zhang Zuolin is also a famous bandit in the Northeast, who was appeased by the late Qing Dynasty, and in more than ten years, he not only became the "King of the Northeast", but also opened Beijing as a generalissimo.

However, when the forest is big, all birds come out, and the bandits in Shaanxi are not all afraid of the power of the coalition army, and there are still people who dare to commit crimes against the wind, for example, Meng Sanchun, a tyrant in Shanyang County, Shangluo Prefecture, relied on his geographical advantage of being located in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and ignored the urging orders of the coalition army, and still went his own way to claim the king and hegemony in the mountainous area of Shanyang.

Speaking of this Meng Sanchun, there is actually a little difference between him and Hang Abduction, he is not a bad seed from the beginning, and Meng Sanchun, who grew up in a peasant family in the mountains, is also a bitter child. Meng Sanchun became a family when he was 20 years old, and his wife, Yang, was a peasant woman who was honest and responsible. Meng Sanchun didn't think about anything else at this time, just planning to eat a full meal. But at that time, the world was the way of the jungle, tigers and wolves were in charge, where was there room for orphans and widows like them to survive. Soon, he fought with the patriarch Wang Zonglin over the fields and mountains and trees. Wang Zonglin can be literate and martial, with a honey-bellied sword, as the head of a clan, and a bully, extortion, tyranny, and production, no one dares to say half a word, Meng Sanchun doesn't eat this set, puffs up his chest, and openly scolds and fights with Wang Zonglin, raises his knife and uses force. Someone asked him: "Why don't you go to the government to sue!" Meng Sanchun said: "In this world, instead of seeking officials, it is better to ask myself to be ruthless." ”

Not long after, he left with Wang Ruyou, a clothier. Before leaving, he set fire to one of Wang Zonglin's thatched houses, puffed out a pair of red eyes the size of copper bells while burning, and said: "This is arson, Lao Tzu will kill people when he comes back in ten years!" He said that he fled to Nanzheng County, worked as a long-term worker in the Tangjiaya Mountains of Huijunba, and recruited him as his son-in-law for a week. A local tyrant surnamed Chen seized his wife, and Meng waited for an opportunity to take revenge. Once, Meng Sanchun seized a rifle in the mountains of Lianghekou, robbed the Mujiaba Chamber of Commerce at night, returned to Bazhong Qingjiangdu, invited the poor people, recruited stragglers, hooligans and ruffians, fought the rich and eliminated the evil, and specifically opposed the local tyrants and inferior gentry and local officials.

However, in the process of robbing the house, Meng Sanchun's banditry was also triggered step by step, and he gradually became cruel and murderous. One day, Meng Sanchun had a flag beaten by Wang Puyi, the commander of the guard company, suddenly fell, and according to the rules of bandits, if the flag is lowered, it will kill people. So Meng Sanchun ordered his subordinates to grab a random fellow in the village and kill him on the spot, and then raise the flag.

Another time, Meng Sanchun drank with the local gentry Wang Puyi for fun, Meng Sanchun said, "There are guessing boxing and drinking, eating vegetables and drinking, have you ever seen murder and drinking?" Wang Puyi said: "I haven't seen it." Meng Sanchun said, "I asked you to meet." So he ordered a peasant who had gone into the city to sell grain and slashed him in front of the wine table, and the king was so frightened that his face turned pale, but Meng laughed and continued to drink and persuade the food, without remorse.

He was not polite to the gentry and landlords who wantonly killed the poor people, and once Meng Sanchun grabbed the daughter of Chen Million, a big family in Danfeng County, and asked Chen Million to do 500 guns, 3,000 silver dollars, and 1,500 sets of military uniforms to ransom his daughter. When Chen Million came to collect people, Chen's daughter had been buried in Guanshan for a long time, and Meng ordered someone to return the bones to Chen Million.

Another time, he grabbed Liu Caidong's daughter in Shanyang County and asked her to sleep with him. A month later, Liu Nu joked: "You 'awesome dicks' are just unreasonable!" When the king heard this, he slew Liu with a sword, and then he rode away.

Meng Sanchun is irritable and harsh, rigid and easy to kill. During the period of sitting on the ground to eat food in Danfeng County, a starling he raised was eaten by a cat, Meng Sanchun was furious, and ordered his subordinates to load guns and ammunition to search for all domestic cats inside and outside the city, and disembowelment one by one to collect evidence and punish the cat owner. At the same time, the gun was fired: Whoever hides a cat in the family, the whole family will be guilty. This is true for cats, but it is known to people.

When he was in Shanyang, he showed no mercy to other bandits. He came up with a punishment for "curing" bandits, called "sitting on the tsubaki". It was to fold a small upright tree at the waist, cut the tree to a sharp point, and then strip the bandits naked, aim the sharp dirt at the anus, and insert it into the internal organs of the person. In Shanyang and several nearby counties, except for his Meng Sanchun's bandit armies, no one dared to bring a gun to the street, and he, Meng Sanchun, became the emperor of the land within a radius of 100 miles.

The terrain of the Qinling Mountains is dangerous, and the Hubei army also took the line of Shangnan Lu's Lingbao before entering Shaanxi from Tongguan without passing through the Qinling Mountains. This time, Meng Sanchun vainly tried to rely on the mountainous terrain to fight against the coalition army, how could Lan Tianwei tolerate him. The arrival of the 10th Mountain Division coincided with this battle against bandits.

"Report to the regiment commander, the 2nd Company of Mountain Infantry entered Shangguanfang Township and found a company of bandits, three earthen cannons, no other heavy weapons, and an unknown number of rifles. The other side has not yet discovered the movement of our army, please instruct. "A report came over the radio from Kim Nam-yong, the company commander of the 2nd Mountain Company.

The head of the regiment, Li Weitang, looked at his watch, it was already half past three in the afternoon, and there were still three hours before the sun set. After exchanging views with his chief of staff, Li Weitang picked up the microphone in his hand and ordered, "Company Commander Jin, lead the 2nd Company to make a covert detour, no matter what, you must go around to the south of Shangguanfang Township, guard all the intersections, and prevent the bandit army from escaping south, and you must hide and wait tonight, tomorrow morning the main force of the regiment will launch a general attack at half past five, and your department is responsible for blocking the enemy's southward escape, and never let go of any bandits, understand?" ”

"Yes, sir. Our department resolutely completed the task. "Jin Nanyong is actually not from Shandong, not even Chinese, he is a member of the South Korean Restoration Army, but he could not stay in South Korea and had to flee overseas, came to Weihai, Shandong to survive, joined the Wuyi New Army in Shandong, and later became a platoon commander of the mountain division, and was promoted to the company commander of the 2nd Mountain Company after entering the Zaolin Military Academy for half a year after entering the short training last year.

The first regiment of the 10th Mountain Division under the command of Li Weitang marched 80 miles of mountainous terrain day and night, and then launched a surprise attack at more than five o'clock when the sky was just dark, and took Shangguanfang Township without accidentAfter entering the courtyard, the riflemen guarded the commanding heights and the gates, and shot the bandits who dared to return fire at any time. These bandits, who usually slept until three poles in the morning, obviously had no chance to turn the tables again, except for a few clever guys who hid in the corner and raised their hands to surrender, these bandits were all killed in the yard and in the house, although many people had already picked up their rifles, but few had a chance to fire their first bullet, and of course even if it was fired, it was their last shot.

Looking at the disheveled bandits with guns in their hands in the courtyard, Li Weitang was quite satisfied with the results of clearing out more than 70 armed bandits in four and a half minutes, especially on his own side, except for consuming 1,800 rounds of ammunition and dozens of grenades, he did not even suffer a single minor injury, and the other 30 bandits stationed in a private house heard the gunshots, not only did they not come to reinforcements, but also ran south, but unfortunately the 2nd Company of the Mountain Land waited all night in the mountains for a night of hunger and cold, of course they would not let them live. At a pass, a burst of light machine gun and grenadier fire was fired, and then the rifle roll call was made, and none of the thirty-eight bandits escaped the net, and all of them confessed to this section of the mountain road.

The weapons of the 1st Mountain Regiment are specially designed, the weight is far lighter than that of ordinary troops, even the butts of the rifles are bent of steel, the "plumber" submachine gun, 50 mm grenadier canisters and Madsen light machine guns have become their main equipment, of course, the precision Qin crossbow rifle with the standard optical four-fold scope is also equipped with the platoon, this rifle with accurate shooting within 800 meters can often suppress the opponent's small cannon, and even the opponent's mountain artillery can not play a role if used well. This soon became apparent.

"Report to the regiment commander" An artillery platoon commander reported to Commander Li Weitang, "Our mortar has a range of less than 4,000 meters, and the enemy's Krupp 75 mountain artillery has a range of more than 6,000, and we cannot suppress the enemy's artillery fire in this section." ”

It turns out that this Meng Sanchun is not a reckless man, the money he looted is used to buy arms in addition to pleasure and buying people's hearts, and a lot of good things are made from the original Sichuan New Army and Hubei New Army, such as these two Krupp 75 mountain guns, which are not equipped in the Shaanxi New Army, and it is precisely because of Meng Sanchun's strong arms that the bandits around him can't provoke him. In particular, several gunners he invited from the Yunnan Jiangwutang gave his artillery the capital to be proud of the Qinling Mountains. This mountain division, which was not a regular army, did not carry artillery because of the long-distance attack, and the range of 60 troops alone could not reach the opponent's artillery position. The Wehrmacht, which pays attention to asymmetrical warfare, actually suffered the loss of bandits in firepower this time, which really made Commander Li Weitang a little embarrassed, but he did not dare to use his troops to push up, you must know that since the Zaolin Military Academy, the Wehrmacht has strictly forbidden the generals to use this method of relying on the flesh and blood of soldiers in exchange for victory. You must know that the Wehrmacht's consideration of the results of the war has always been to look at its own casualties before calculating the results, such as a quasi-war like the suppression of bandits, if the casualty ratio exceeds 1:10, Li Weitang has the possibility of going to a military court.

In desperation, an operational staff officer suddenly thought of the mountain sniper platoon that had just been incorporated into the mountain troops. So this Su platoon commander, who was born in Orion in the Yimeng Mountains, was invited to the regiment to command, and after reading the map, he groaned for a while. "Commander, do we need to capture the opponent's artillery?"

"Well, it's not necessary, of course it's better to take prisoners." Li Weitang didn't expect the other party's first sentence to be this, and he seemed to be confident about the task.

"Oh, that's good." The platoon commander of Su straightened his chest, "Please rest assured, sniper platoon, the sniper platoon will resolutely complete the task." ”

"Yes, Captain Sue. You set off immediately, as long as you can suppress the opponent's artillery for ten minutes, our army will be able to complete the task. "Commander Li actually didn't bet all the treasure on the sniper platoon, this unit originally belonged to the special forces base under He Dazhuang, but now a sniper school has been opened to train snipers in batches, so in addition to the original sharpshooters, the units have also begun to receive snipers in formation. However, Regiment Commander Li, who had never cooperated with them, still pinned his hopes on his artillery to suppress the opponent after entering the firing range, after all, there were only two mountain guns, and his eight mortars were enough to nail the opponent as long as they entered four thousand meters.

However, the development of events greatly exceeded his expectations, and this inconspicuous small battle became the first battle in the world's military history in which professional snipers were put into operation, and also became the first time that snipers and artillery faced each other head-on.