Chapter 483: Mercenaries Go North (Third Watch)
On the 21st of July, Gohinga declared war on Russia, and Asano received an order to transfer five of their wings northward, and when he brought this order back to the troops, all the mercenaries cheered. The mercenaries were all samurai and ronin before, and there was not a single common man, and their ancestors had lived by fighting for eighteen generations, so their genes were full of blood.
These guys are so belligerent that they have a close relationship with the environment in which they grew up. The main reason why the mercenaries left their homeland and came to Dalian to eat mixed rice was because of the problems with the Japanese system. There are two things that Japan has not learned in a comprehensive study of China, one is the eunuch, and the other is the imperial examination. There are no eunuchs who can still be replaced by female officials, which is fatal without the imperial examination, because of the lack of a system, everything in Japan is hereditary. In the era of peace and prosperity, the samurai never had the possibility of promotion, and everyone lost the room to rise. Therefore, when the samurai did not have enough to eat, they looked forward to fighting, and only when the war began, they could get the opportunity to be promoted. The ronin also look forward to fighting when they don't have enough to eat, and only when the war starts can they find a job.
Habit became natural, and although there was no longer a system to restrain them in Northern Manchuria, they still looked forward to war every day. If they can make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, maybe Goxinga will give them a salary increase, and maybe even give them Manchurian nationality. The Japanese have wanted to get out of that small island for thousands of years, but they have never had the chance. The samurai have always wanted to conquer anyone, but if they can only be conquered, they can actually accept it, at least if they come out.
"Commander, when are we leaving? I heard that the north side is fighting, and if we don't go, we won't have a chance! Although he received an order to prepare to go north, he waited for several days and did not officially give the order to open, and Asano Munehide waited more and more urgently, so he could only come to Mojitar every day.
"That's how you want to leave me! Am I bad for you? Tal was not in a hurry at all, and casually made a joke about Sohide Asano.
"Commander, you are very kind to the lowly rank, how dare the lowly rank have such thoughts. It's just that the war in the north has started, and if you can go north as soon as possible, you can make contributions to the general and show your face for the commander! "Sohide Asano is already very proficient in Chinese.
"Your little mouth is also a horn now, learn from those boys in the secretariat! There's still a lot of work to be done! You! Don't worry, just wait for the order! "Tal has been mixing with Asano Sohide in the past few years, and he still has some feelings.
"The heart of making contributions to the general, how can you not be in a hurry!" Asano bowed down to obey orders, but he still talked about his eagerness.
"You!" Tal smiled helplessly and shook his head.
"At present, the recruits on the coast have just completed their formation, and they have not yet completed their preliminary training, and if you leave, the coast will only be guarded by the police, so my army here is not finished, so you don't want to move." Tal wanted to give Asano Munehide a hope.
"Isn't it going to take a few months?" Asano's heart is cold, and after a few months, I'm afraid the battle will be over.
"That is, in a few days, the recruits this time are all drawn directly from the reserve and militia, and they have all received complete military training before, so it is enough to familiarize them with the formation." Tal was amused by Asano's tangled face.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Asano Munehide increased the amount with his hand and rejoiced again and again.
"Don't hope for good things every day, have time to calm down and think about what to do when you get to the front. Your five wings are the weakest in terms of training and equipment, and although transferring you up will definitely let you do things like guarding the rear, you must also be fully prepared in the event of an emergency. Don't get the credit for not getting it, but you have a major casualty yourself, how can anyone laugh at me! "No matter how you say it, it's also a unit brought out by yourself, and no matter how discriminatory the mercenaries are, Tal has to explain two sentences.
"Hay!" Asano received the order with a very formal bow.
"For now, after you go north, you will be under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army Group. Cheng Tai, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army Group, is my eldest brother, and I have already written to them to watch over you, but you also have to be able to behave! Not only can you not have friction with others, but you must also be modest, the spoils of war must be taken by the main force first, the Yanma must be ridden by the people of the main force first, and the dirty work must be done in a hurry. The general is in charge of the Fourth Army Group, and if the people in the Fourth Army Group praise you for being sensible, the general will promote you, you know! "Tal is a warm-hearted man, the treatment of mercenaries has always been poor, and he also wants to seek some benefits for his subordinates.
"Hello, thank you Commander! It's a shame that you can't be on the front line and command us in battle! Asano was very sorry that Tal could not go to the front line to make meritorious contributions.
"You can't think of everyone going to the front line to grab credit! Someone has to stay and watch the house. The general knows everything in his heart, and he won't treat me badly, so don't worry about me! Tal laughed, he had already been ventilated with him, this time he just needed to stabilize the rear, and when the battle was over, he would be the lieutenant general in chief of the Marine Corps.
On the first day of the eighth month of the sixth year of Tongzhi, Asano Munehide officially received an order from the mercenary corps to go north, and they will go to Hailanpao, which is officially part of the battle sequence of the Fourth Army Group. The train departed from Dalian and headed straight north, stopping only briefly in Dehui on the way, to replenish coal and water, and to make way for military trains transporting supplies. The Dehui government also organized local residents to send off the troops who went north to participate in the war.
"Where did this army come from? Why are they all Wu Dalang, short enough! After the train left, Dehuizhi County asked the stationmaster very impolitely about the origin of the troops.
"I don't know the number, the car is from Dalian, the southerners are short!" The stationmaster was also puzzled, he had sent a lot of troops to participate in the war, and it was common for individual people to be not high, but it was the first time he had seen a whole army so short.
", what kind of south is Dalian! I'll tell you! I guess they used to sell eggs, and they liked to get the little ones together. "The magistrate has started the mode.
"It's not all small to sell eggs, so you have to put a few big ones as a disguise!" The stationmaster was too sincere and forgot to follow the leader.
"This stubble egg is not good, it's not big! Hahaha...... "The magistrate said a bad joke, and he happened to be cooperated by the stationmaster."
The mercenaries in the car naturally didn't know that others were making fun of them, and they sat in the car stupidly and giggled one by one, they had never been taken so seriously. The old lady stuffed eggs and meat buns into their arms, the beautiful girl threw flowers at them, and the wine and canned food were put in half a carriage. A few people who like to think about beautiful things have begun to fantasize that they can be like Takizawa Takumi, who was caught by a beautiful Manchurian aristocratic girl, and then ascended to the sky in one step.
After arriving at Aihui, the mercenaries had to get out of the car and walk to the other side through the pontoon bridge. But the railway didn't seem to have come to an end, and they still saw the rails on the road, all the way to the rolling Heilongjiang River, and then they saw the Kuajiang Bridge under construction. Yu Wendao, the grandmaster of construction in North Manchuria, personally commanded the engineers of the two divisions to erect a majestic bridge over the Heilongjiang River, connecting the once lost land with the motherland again.