After Wei Daofeng collected accurate information, he immediately reported it to Wang Yongtai, who sent people to investigate, and after making preparations, Wang Yongtai personally led the army to attack the bandit village. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He used the method of night raid to break two important cottages of the Eighteen Bandit Alliance.

After breaking the two villages in a row, Wei Daofeng proposed that the Eighteen Bandit Alliance must be prepared in the future, and it may be difficult for us to use a sneak attack again, so it is better to let them attack Mengcheng County.

Wang Yongtai asked his subordinates how to lure them to attack Mengcheng County, and Wei Daofeng said: "The bandits, whether old or young, men and women, do not leave any of them, and provoke them. ”

The rest of the generals looked at him in horror, thinking that this kid was really addicted to murder.

"Over to you!" Wang Yongtai said.

Na Wei Daofeng then ordered that the two villages, including men, old people, women, teenagers, and young children, be killed, and no chickens and dogs should be left. When Wang Yongtai led the army back to Mengcheng County, he was surprised to learn that Fang Xianwu and Wei Wenkang had arrived in Mengcheng with more than 800 people escorted by arms and supplies, and handed over the army and weapons supplies to Wang Yongtai to help him.

When Wang Yongtai saw this gift, he was full of emotion in his heart and couldn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, Wang Yongtai sighed and said: "I am blindfolded, after killing the bandits this time, I will resign as the co-commander and Jingyun will be in charge." But before I can do that, I have to kill all the eighteen bandits, and if it weren't for them, I wouldn't have ended up like this. ”

Wang Yongtai sent people to spread the news that he would fight with the 18 bandits and the whirlpool river on July 14 (August 18, 1910 in the Gregorian calendar).

The news soon spread throughout the northern Anhui region, as the big boss in the northern Anhui region, Chang Guichen was the most taboo for others to speak by his real name, especially everything that the Twenty-four Mixed Association did in the younger generation, more bandits than bandits, more demons than demons. As the leader of the eighteen copycat alliances, Chang Guichen, the leader of the eighteen bandits, was furious and responded to fight with this group of "clear dogs from other places".

The word "outsiders" has aroused the common hatred and hatred of bandits from large and small cottages in northern Anhui, and even bandits in eastern and southern Henan have also gone south to eliminate this new army of Qinggou. The older and older the people who echoed Chang Da's family, even many ordinary people secretly ran away to become bandits, the purpose was to kill this group of outsiders, who let them bully the people of Anhui Province.

The people of Mengcheng ostensibly supported the official army, but in fact, they wanted Chang Guichen and others to kill the Qing soldiers of the 24th Mixed Association as soon as possible, during this period of time in Mengcheng, the military discipline was acceptable at first, but after the defeat, it was not very good for the people, and it was extremely common to harass the people to buy and sell, and the reputation of the 24th Mixed Association became even more stinky.

Although there are a few small locks of the flagship who regret not wanting to participate in the war, but according to rough statistics, there are more than 50,000 people who support Chang Da's family.

At this time, the revolutionary party also mixed in, waiting for an opportunity to clamor to Chang Da Boss that the whole country supported Chang Da Boss, and as long as Chang Da Boss held high the banner of righteousness, he would definitely be supported by the people of the world, and even took out overseas funds to dedicate to Chang Guichen.

Chang Guichen's military adviser saw that the people supported it and the whole country supported it, so he secretly clamored that he could oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty, saying that there was no rebel surnamed Chang as an emperor in history, and when the official army was killed, the big boss could lead the Han people in the world to rebel against the emperor and establish Chang Han. A seat of words flickered Chang Guichen, who had no knowledge, to death, only feeling that he waved his hand, and the Han people would kneel in front of him all day, so he rectified and went to Xiaojian.

Xiaojian is a river bay of the Whirlpool River, located between Mengcheng County and Wuyang County, the terrain is flat, although there is Qi Mountain in the east, but it is far away from the decisive battle site Xiaojian Beach, and the eighteen bandits are not afraid of ambushes.

Before the war, Chang Guichen's eighteen bandits gathered 25,000 men and horses, the original 50,000 troops, they did not all arrive in the end, some were excused by the long distance, some were falsely reported the number of people before, and some were dissatisfied with Chang Guichen's rebellion - why are you the emperor, I will be the emperor, and some people are afraid of rebellion but want to go to the court early to retaliate fiercely, everyone is just to be bandits, rebellion is for enjoyment, not the same day, ambition is not so big and timid, They have chosen to quit the Eighteen Bandits.

In terms of firepower configuration, the eighteen bandits have a cavalry lock, this group of people is from eastern Henan, the leader is called Song Erhezi, and the starting family is only fifty horses, which can be regarded as a big lock. However, due to the rebellion of the people against the big households, Song Erheizi took the opportunity to capture several Zhuangzi, robbed a large number of horses, and later plundered everywhere, provoking the Qing army in Henan Province to encircle and suppress, so he went south to northern Henan and joined the eighteen bandits. In order to participate in the strangulation of the official army this time, Chang Guichen specially concentrated all the war horses to Song Erhezi, and appointed Song Erhezi as his own forward general, with a total of 1,000 cavalry, which can be described as a strong army. The other eighteen bandits have more than 10,000 long and short guns, countless knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, and forks, and it is said that there is also a group of warrior monks and monks holding long sticks, which makes many people think of Tang Taizong Li Shimin's eighteen monks and soldiers, and suddenly there are countless horses, saying that Chang Guichen has the appearance of an emperor. Earlier, they captured two heavy machine guns and four 75-caliber Krupp field guns, which were also placed in front of them, after all, they had no shells, let alone artillery.

As for Wang Yongtai, after being supplemented by Fang Xianwu, the number barely reached 2,500 people, of which 300 wounded soldiers were also brought to Xiaojian Beach. At this time, the ratio of forces between the two sides was close to 10:1, as the saying goes, the soldiers are full of 10,000, boundless, in the eyes of the 24 mixed soldiers, the enemy on the opposite side is boundless.

In terms of firepower configuration, it was supported by Wang Yongan, with ten Makqin heavy machine guns, the whole battalion was equipped with Hanyang-made rifles with one million rounds of ammunition, and a one-meter-high low wall was built as a defense. Everyone understands that today is the attack of the Eighteen Bandits, as long as everyone holds the low wall, they will not be defeated, once the Eighteen Bandits break through the low wall, more than 20,000 people will be explained here. In order to boost morale, before the war, Wang Yongtai gave everyone a settling-in allowance of 20 taels of silver, saying that if he won the battle, he would take it back, and if he lost 20 taels of silver, he would be on the other side. The soldiers gritted their teeth and swore that they would overcome their opponents - for their own sake and for their money.

Wang Yongtai endured the pain in his body and asked Yue Wenzheng to prescribe some painkillers for himself, Yue Wenzheng had no choice but to say: "Unless you eat opium, but this thing ......"

"Prepare me to come out, as long as the battle is over, I will definitely quit." Wang Yongtai said.

Yue Wenzheng warned: "General, you are exchanging your life for time. ”

"My life, death will be exchanged for the lives of 10,000 bandits." Wang Yongtai's eyes revealed a thick murderous aura, which frightened Yue Wenzheng and took a few steps back. (To be continued.) )