More than 170 bandits were tied up in the open space outside the village. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info There are more than ten corpses, including the bandit leader Zhang Mingjiu, who were dragged and laid out, Zhou Hexuan didn't feel anything when he killed people, but now he can't bear to see the corpses.

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The villagers who won the victory did not have much joy, crying and grabbing the ground while hugging their dead or injured relatives.

Zhou Hexuan walked over: "How about the casualties?" ”

Huang Ziming sighed: "We have 21 dead, and 6 are seriously injured, and the minor injuries are close to 100 people. ”

Although the villagers were fortified and more than three times as many as the bandits, they had more deaths than the bandits. Whether it is a red tassel gun, a hoe, or a flat pole, people are often injured but not killed, but bandits' rifles can kill with one blow.

"What are your plans for the future?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"When the Red Gun Society was founded, it originally wanted to fight against the government," Huang Ziming said, "and now that the government is gone, there are more and more bandits." There is also a group of bandits in the northeast, numbering more than 2,000, although there are no muskets, but they still have to be guarded. As for these captured bandits, they could only be sent to Tai'an Province, where the provincial capital of the Nationalist Government was located. ”

"I also learned a few days ago," Zhou Hexuan squatted down and drew a simple map, pointing and saying, "This is Jinan, and the surrounding counties such as Huaiyin, Changqing, Qihe, Licheng, Jiyang, Zouping, and Zhangqiu have no troops to handle now." These places were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing government, but their county magistrates were appointed by Beiyang. Now that it is a famine, the number of displaced people is extremely large, and ambitious people like Zhang Mingjiu have emerged without paying attention, causing a series of bandits. ”

Huang Ziming said: "I can't help it, the Red Gun Club I formed with Brother Ma is less than a thousand people. I only care about the villages and towns near Zhangqiu, and I can't manage it no matter how far away. ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "I just asked the captured bandits, they just captured Qidong County two days ago. However, due to the lack of manpower, they did not dare to defend the county seat, and the old nest was set up in a village on the outskirts of the county. There are still a lot of meat tickets over there, all of which are kidnapped children of wealthy businessmen in Qidong County, and only more than a dozen people are left to guard them. You hurry up and take people to capture the village and rescue those meat tickets, just so that you can have a good relationship with the rich gentry in Qidong County. ”

"Okay, I'll take someone right away." Huang Ziming said immediately.

Zhou Hexuan suddenly smiled and said, "Brother Huang, do you want to be a handsome?" ”

Huang Ziming was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head and said, "How can I have that ability, don't be delusional." ”

"Listening to you, you are also a well-read person, at least stronger than Zhang Zongchang, the demon king of the mixed world," Zhou Hexuan analyzed, "Before the Nanjing government and the Japanese negotiated a solution to the Jinan incident, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not dare to send troops into the surrounding counties." For at least half a year, these places will fall into anarchy, and a strong force will be needed to maintain order. I think you're a good candidate. ”

Huang Ziming was a little moved, but he was not blinded by ambition and lost his mind, he said: "I don't have enough manpower, if I want to expand the army, I have to have money and food." But I don't want to rob it, whether it's robbing big households or robbing people, I can't do this kind of thing. ”

Historically, Zhang Mingjiu took advantage of this chaos and developed from more than a dozen routs to 200 bandits. After capturing several county towns in succession, the reputation was greatly enhanced, and the nearby bandit gangs competed to vote, and the number of people grew to 2,000 in less than half a year. In order to raise soldiers, he robbed and kidnapped all kinds of people, and even directly raided the home of the rich gentry, and finally got hundreds of guns, became a tyrant around Jinan, and was adopted by Sun Dianying as a brigade commander.

"If you can say such a thing, I'm more relieved," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "So I asked you to rescue the meat ticket and make a good relationship with the rich gentry." These wealthy merchants and landlords also hope to have a reliable military leader, so as not to suffer from further bandits. You go to Haosheng to contact the feelings, and I will help you go to the provincial chairman Sun Liangcheng to get a certificate for the formation of a security regiment, and then the rich gentry of the counties will pay for the soldiers. ”

The security regiment was a legal local armed force in the early years of the Republic of China, which was equivalent to a derivative of the armor protection system, and was also somewhat similar to the regimental training troops of the late Qing Dynasty.

Huang Ziming said happily: "If this thing can really be done, it will naturally be good." If I have a security regiment, I will kill all the bandits in the surrounding counties! ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "When the Northern Expeditionary Army takes the time to come back and occupy Jinan City, it will be almost half a year or a year later." At that time, your security regiment should be of some size, whether to dismantle the army or accept the integration of the regular army, you choose. ”

"Of course, it's better to be a regular army." Huang Ziming said happily. His family used to be a rich peasant and a small landowner, and he had studied in private schools and primary schools, and he also had vision and pursuit.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Then it's decided." After lunch, you take someone to the outskirts of Qidong County to save meat tickets, and then assign some people to me to escort these bandits to the provincial capital. ”

The villagers of Caozhuang are already burying pots to cook, the victims are being claimed by their relatives and sent home, and the wounded are being sent to the county seat to find Langzhong for treatment.

As for the injured bandits, then one can only say sorry. Now that there is a shortage of materials, I can't take care of humanitarianism, and I can survive the fortune-telling, and I deserve to die if I can't survive.

After lunch, head out for the day.

Huang Ziming took more than 200 members of the Red Gun Society to the outskirts of Qidong County to rescue people and kill bandits. Zhou Hexuan took 50 people and escorted more than 100 bandits to Tai'an, and they each shared half of the rifles captured in the battle just now.

By the time we arrived in Tai'an, it was already the next morning, and it was the result of an overnight journey. On the way, two bandits were seriously injured and died, and Zhou Hexuan asked people to dig a pit and bury them, and did not let them be violent corpses in the wilderness, which was already considered benevolent and righteous.

There was a regiment of the Northern Expeditionary Army guarding Tai'an City, and when he saw Zhou Hexuan coming with more than 200 people (including Red Gun members), he immediately became vigilant and even set up machine guns.

"Who?" The city guards shouted.

Zhou Hexuan asked everyone to stop advancing, walked to the city gate and said: "I am Zhou Hexuan of the Tianjin Jimin Association, and I have come to Shandong for disaster relief. I met bandits halfway, but fortunately there were local red guns to help, and there were more than 100 bandit prisoners behind me, and I asked the chief of Tai'an to receive them! ”

Soon, a young officer came out, looking heroic, he saluted Zhou Hexuan and said: "Hello Mr. Zhou, I am Zhao Yunxiang, the head of the Special Service Group of the 1st Front Army of the Second Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and I am responsible for garrisoning Tai'an!" ”

"Hello Head Zhao," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "I want to see Chairman Sun, is he free?" ”

"I can give you a briefing." Zhao Yunxiang had obviously heard of Zhou Hexuan and knew that this was a celebrity university scholar.

Zhao Yunxiang is very young, just turned 23 years old, born in a poor peasant family, and his grandfather was a martial artist in the Guangxu period. With a background like him, he became a colonel at a young age, and it was only possible in the years of war, step by step from a small soldier.

At this time, Sun Liangcheng, chairman of Shandong Province, and Zhao Yunxiang, the head of the special mission in front of him, were all Feng Yuxiang's old subordinates. They now belong to the more progressive soldiers, but unfortunately they became puppet troops during the anti-Japanese period, but during the War of Liberation, they revolted and joined our party.