The New First Army and the New Third Army were advancing along their respective search areas in divisions and regiments.

In a scissor-like manner, the two armies plunged straight into the Hezhou area, destroying all the bandits' dens or villages and temples they encountered on the way, and did not accept surrender or prisoners.

The New First Army was along the line of Yuzhong, Yongjing, and Dongxiang; The New Third Army is along the Lintao, Kangle, and Guanghe fronts. The two armies completely surrounded the Hezhou area with two wings.

When the encirclement was closed, Zhang Dudu waved his pen again and sent troops to the counties, towns and villages to post notices from the governor's palace.

The second master deliberately blurred the notice and raised his head.

Where are you the Overseer? You are a Xinjiang overseer, can you manage Gansu Province?

So this thing deliberately only writes the Overseer's Letterhead. Anyway, in the early days of the Republic of China, the northwest region was in official chaos.

For non-Chinese-speaking areas, management is fundamentally weak, and there are almost no government agencies in non-Chinese-speaking areas. Therefore, the second master is not afraid of being exposed here, and his identity as an overseer of Gansu is not revealed.

Overseer's Court Notice:

From June 1 to June 20 in the fourth year of the Republic of China.

If a person who has participated in or has participated in the financing of horse bandits voluntarily surrenders within the prescribed 20 days, the Overseer's Office will not hold their family members and neighbors responsible for harboring and funding bandits.

Anyone who refuses to confess and hides and finances the family members, neighbors, religious monasteries, social institutions, etc., of the bandits, once verified, will be guilty of the same crime.

I hope that all villagers will tell each other and take the initiative to turn themselves in.

All villagers and neighbors are welcome to actively report, and those who report a horse bandit will be verified and rewarded with 50 oceans.

Notice

May 28, the fourth year of the Republic of China.

On the second day after the notice was posted, Governor Zhang ordered the liquidation to begin.

Why did you start the action in two days? Isn't there a 20-day reporting period?

You stupid! The second master is not stupid! He knew that it would be impossible for someone to report it in the Rivers State area.

Because every family here is a den of bandits, either voluntarily or coerced, every family has a family member who is a horse bandit.

Therefore, the second master posted the notice just a gesture, he Zhang Yan is not "punished without complaining", you don't know the image, but you can't complain about his ruthlessness!

As a result, the sound of gunfire resounded throughout the Rivers State area. 120,000 wolf-like soldiers searched from house to house, village by village. Under the supervision of the law enforcement officer of the Governor's Mansion Garrison Regiment, it was simply like a grate, and the Hezhou area was suddenly ten rooms and nine empty, and there was wolf smoke everywhere~~~

The leader of the horse bandits who disbanded the bandits and went home, which one regretted it! Fuck, how can these officers and soldiers be more bandits than bandits.

How are these officers and soldiers different from the previous ones? How dare they slaughter the whole village and the whole town! How dare they? That's the real murder of corpses all over the field, and rivers of blood!

This horse bandit leader also thought about breaking through and escaping. But he found that he had no way to escape, and he was like a louse on a bald man's head when he lost the cover of his fellow villagers.

What's even more odious is that while these officers and troops were cleared, the outer encirclement was not revoked, and it was still like an iron bucket around it.

This is to be killed! If I knew this, it would be better to fight with them, if I can't beat them, I can still escape on horseback, how can I be slaughtered like a turtle in an urn now!

When the leader of the horse bandits was thinking about how to break through, the door was suddenly slammed open, and he saw his cousin in a cloak, and he threw himself on the ground in embarrassment and cried:

"Big brother! Our village was burned to the ground by the official army! No one in the village was spared! Eldest brother! We're going to get revenge! ”

"What? Are you telling the truth? What about my two sons? ”

"Big brother! No one is spared! Woo woo~~~ The two nephews were also beheaded, and together with the heads of the old folks in the village, they were built into a Jingguan! Woo woo~~~~~~ my youngest son is only 12 years old! They didn't even let go of women and children, and all the family members in our team were all killed together! Not a single one left! Woo woo woo ~ ~~ "

"Don't cry! How could the officers and soldiers know about our village? ”

"It was Liu Gensheng's youngest son who denounced it."

"Liu Gensheng? Who is he? ”

"Big brother! It's the rich man of the village who slaughtered his whole family three years ago! At that time, I asked you to kill this little cub together, and you said that you wanted to leave a translator who knew Chinese, and it was this little cub who sneaked out to denounce us. ”

"Fuck! ~~~ Okay, don't cry! How many brothers are there in this poplar ditch? ”

The leader of the horse bandits gritted his teeth and regretted that he had left a hidden danger at that time.

Yangshugou is a large ravine on the Loess Plateau where there is no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, and it is a temporary hiding place for horse bandits.

"There are only more than 50 people left."

"What? How is it so little? What about our people? ”

"The Tibetans and Han people have all fled, and only our family brothers are left, and even these people are also a little unstable, and they all want to go back to their respective hometowns to see if their families are safe!"

The leader of the horse bandits was silent for a while, and the trees in Chinese were scattered, but he still knew. He knew that was the case with him.

"Tell the brothers that if you go back, you will be sent to death! We've got to find a way to sneak out. As long as the life is left, we will always get this revenge back! ”

"Big brother! We only have enough food for three days. How to break through? ”

"Kill horses to make jerky, the goal of riding horses is too big, tell the brothers that after preparing the rations, disperse and break through on foot, and are not allowed to take the main road."

"Big brother! There are only two of us left in our village! Where are we going? ”

The cousin wanted to cry without tears, and looked at his big chief's cousin hopelessly.

"Let's go to Qinghai, there is still our team there."

Let's not talk about the end of the road for the Gansu horse bandits, and they want to defect (Qingma).

said that the second master was dumbfounded in the face of the piles of seizures.

There are more than 100 million oceans, but not much, but there are more than 5 tons of gold. The Beiyang government doesn't have so much gold in its coffers, okay! How many merchants did you kill?

The second master looked at these jars and jars dug out of the soil, each of which was filled with the ocean and 10 taels of small gold bars.

It seems that the bandits used the ocean to expand their troops and buy weapons and ammunition, so there are not many. And gold was hidden as hard currency by them.

All kinds of grain, beef and mutton were pulled to the military headquarters by the Zhang San Garrison Regiment. Because he knows that these seizures are so many that they can't be taken away, only the second master can magically take them away.

Zhang San was busy for 8 days before he finished pulling the goods he had collected three feet from the ground. What he said was, the people are gone, should these materials be left to the rat scourge!

After completing the clearance task, the second master looked at a red cross on the roster of horse bandit leaders, smacked his lips with satisfaction, and said to Zhang Muzhi:

"What a pity! Ran away with two bandit leaders! ”

"It's just two, it doesn't hurt!"

This time, Zhang Muzhi didn't think so.

How did he know that the second master regretted that the religious people did not come forward this time, so that the second master had no idea what to do with these people, and it had to be said that it was a big regret in the second master's heart!

After the troops were closed, the second master's mind turned ~ and he published a teacher recruitment advertisement in the newspaper.

At the same time, the second master in the vast rural villages and towns in Gansu Province, a large number of construction projects, set up schools all over.

This will be in the next generation, and the second master will lose his life, and he will not be able to build so many rural schools. But now it's the Republic of China! Migrant workers will do the work for you, and there is no such thing as a dilapidated house in this era.

Just find an open space to fence off the yard and build a few adobe houses, and a country primary school will be built!

Moreover, the second master ordered the township governments to forcibly implement a school persuasion order.

All school-age children over the age of 7 must be enrolled in school to learn Chinese characters. Any family that is unwilling to do so will have their land confiscated, their homestead confiscated, and their belongings packed up and sent you out.

The Governor's Office respects the freedom of belief of all ethnic groups, but all religious schools and religious institutes must use the doctrinal scriptures translated into Chinese characters and must use Chinese as the instruction.

If you can't, I'm sorry, pack your things and send you out.

What do you mean in the territory of my ancestors that you speak your language, use your own script, and occupy the territory of my ancestors to take refuge? Want to create a "country within a country"?

If you want to proselytize, I have no objection, I respect your freedom of belief and I respect your teachings. But they want to split the motherland in the name of missionary work.

I'm sorry! It won't work here in the second master! If you want to preach your teachings in the land of my ancestors, you must follow my rules, or you will go wherever you like! I'm always okay to send you out, right?

As soon as the teacher's recruitment advertisement was published, all over the country, students who wanted to devote themselves to the cause of education flocked to it.

What the second master didn't know was that the governor of Gansu Province reported to the central government in Beijing that Zhang Dadu, who had not yet taken office, in Xinjiang.