"Camp Commander He, no!" Wu Jintang shouted!

The snowy saber fell in a graceful arc in the air, and Wu Jintang closed his eyes in pain. The speaker locked his neck in fright and hugged his head and waited for death, Lao He's wrist flipped in the air, and it was not the sharp blade that fell, but the blade of the knife slapped heavily on the speaker's shoulder.

"It's not a joke, it's really funny!" He Tianshou smiled disdainfully, inserted the saber into the scabbard, and then shouted at everyone: "You go on, I'm just here to see the fun." ”

The parliamentarians looked at each other, and the scene just now made them frightened, so they had to silently recite an old saying in their hearts: Xiucai meets soldiers, and it is unreasonable to explain!

He Tianshou smiled and said, "Go on, aren't you voting?" ”

The speaker trembled and ordered the ballots to be re-issued, and Lao He said to the soldiers: "Go, help you lords vote the written ballots into the box A group of foodies, without any eyesight, how can you let the lords do it themselves?" ”

The soldiers smirked and walked up to the middle of the councillors, stood up and saluted, and then stared at one by one, watching the muzzles of the guns in the hands of the councillors writing ballots and dangling them intentionally or unintentionally towards the chest and head of the councillors.

As a result, there was no surprise, the impeachment case was unanimously vetoed, and Lao He stepped down from the rostrum and looked at the ballots filled out by the parliamentarians one by one.

When he walked to Wu Jintang's side, Wu Jintang lowered his voice and said, "Camp Commander He, you have done it!" This is going to cause trouble! ”

He Tianshou smiled indifferently: "When the sky falls, I am alone, it has nothing to do with you, some truths are not clear with your mouth, you have to use a gun to say it!" ”

Seeing the voting results come out, He Tianshou waved his hand with satisfaction: "Everyone works hard, we are indispensable for the carriage and horse expenses, and you will have fifty yuan per person to write a note, this is good to be knowledgeable, and the red people of Changsantang can't earn so much hard work, brother is gone!" With that, he clenched his fists and walked away.

When the speaker saw him walking away, he jumped to his feet and scolded: "Reckless, insulting Sven!" Then he also arched his hand and said: "Rank, this speaker brother has no face, so I quit my errand and went home to study and recuperate, and say goodbye!" ”

Seeing that the speaker was gone, the parliamentarians who advocated the impeachment of Chai Dongliang were suddenly excited, and one of them raised their arms and everyone obeyed.

"This councilor, Lao Tzu is gone! I'm going to write a protest to Nanjing! ”

"Yes, you must bring down this Chai Dongliang, look at his soldiers, it's just too presumptuous!"

He Tianshou walked out of the gate of the Legislative Affairs Bureau, laughed loudly, and his soldiers were also very happy.

"Look at their cowardice, they dare to impeach our governors, but they are against them!"

"Or the battalion commander has a set, and when I go down, I see that the speaker's pants are wet."

He Tianshou waved his hand and said: "Okay, the troublemakers have been solved, withdraw all the sentry posts at the city gate, find a few words to write and post a notice to Zhang Bang Anmin, the people of Anqing have also been tossed by us in the past few days, and the brothers have added a meat dish tonight, a big bowl of meat and a big bowl of wine, so that you little rabbits can also fight tooth sacrifices." ”

The soldiers cheered and jumped high towards the camp

Dividing line

On the cruiser Haichen at Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, Chai Dongliang, Yu Qiaqing, and Yang Bangzi drank and talked happily. After three rounds of drinking, Yang Bangzi's long face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he stood up with a wine glass and said, "Don't worry, this case can't be solved within three days, so I'll twist your head and give you a night pot." ”

Chai Dongliang raised his glass and said, "There is Director Lao Yang, brother toasts you." ”

Yang Bangzi tilted his neck and went down, Yu Qiaqing made a color at him, Yang Bangzi said knowingly: "Governor, without further ado, brother will arrange for someone to conduct a secret investigation, and I will definitely give you permission within three days, and my brother will retire." ”

Chai Dongliang personally sent him to the door of the captain's room, and Yang Bangzi got off the warship and boarded the dock in a speedboat.

Yu Qiaqing took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Governor, it's almost time for the people to arrive." Brother, your business, but it took a lot of trouble. This big deal, my brother finally helped you do it, and it lived up to its mission! ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Boss Yu didn't suffer a loss, in a few days, as soon as the Jiangnan Persuasion Industry Association opened, you brought merchants from Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Russia to Wuhu to visit, and guaranteed that they would place orders immediately." Isn't that a gold fight? ”

Yu Qiaqing laughed and said: "That's natural, the governor will have good things next time, don't forget to take care of your brother." ”

There was a whistle in the distance, Yu Qiaqing leaned on the porthole and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Here, here!" ”

A small steamer came with billowing smoke and cleaving the waves, and the Haichen also sounded its whistle. After the small steamer anchored in the middle of the river, the Haichen put down more than a dozen sampans, and the sailors shouted the trumpet to row, and after a short time, they got on the small steamer, and then picked up the people and rowed back to the Haichen. A dozen sampans made five trips, and finally picked up all the people.

"Look, these guys are as black as charcoal-burners, aren't they Kunlun slaves in ancient books?"

"you, I've seen Kunlun Nu in Shanghai, blacker than them, all cows are tall and big, not like these are dwarfs."

"Look at the other knives in their waists, how do they look like dog's legs?"

"Is this a foreign soldier or a Chinese? Look at the eyebrows and eyes are exactly the same as our Chinese, that is, black! is also short, if you play Wu Dalang, you don't wear makeup. The sailors pointed on the deck, looking curiously at the men who had been picked up from the little steamer. These people are generally less than 1.6 meters tall, dark-skinned, short and stout, with blue cloth wraps and black military uniforms decorated with red ribbons. Carrying Lee. Enfield repeating rifle with a long scimitar worn at the waist.

The men did not speak, and the long journey made them look very tired, and their eyes were bloodshot, but when they got on the warship, they immediately formed four horizontal columns, and their bodies stood as straight as knives and axes.

Chai Dongliang walked out of the captain's room and looked at these people curiously, the number was about four hundred, and it was an infantry battalion.

An elderly man with a gray beard shouted a password in English, and the soldiers saluted according to the order, and their movements were uniform, like a person, and after Chai Dongliang returned the salute, the officer ordered them to sit down and rest. Everyone sat on the deck at the same time, still silent.

Trained! Chai Dongliang had a preliminary evaluation of them in his heart.

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "Four hundred people, all of them have just retired for a year or two, and all of them are good young men who can fight for battles. ”

This is the famous Gurkha soldier? Chai Dongliang was very interested in the scimitar at their waists, and walked over and reached out to grab the hilt of a soldier's knife.

The soldier grabbed Chai Dongliang's wrist, and his bloodshot eyes immediately released a terrifying cold light!

Chai Dongliang felt like he was clamped by a steel tong, he couldn't move a hand, and he couldn't pull it out, the soldier in front of him was only one meter six tall at best, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle falcon, Chai Dongliang felt that he was looking at a tiger.

The white-bearded officer reprimanded the soldier in Gurkha, and the soldier immediately let go of Chai Dongliang's hand, knelt down on one knee and respectfully raised his saber above his head.

The officer apologized in English: "Honorable lord, he did not know that you are our master and offended you!" ”

Yu Qiaqing explained to Chai Dongliang with a smile: "Their rules, a man's knife is not allowed to be touched by others, except for his own master. ”

Chai Dongliang felt as if his wrist was about to be broken, and when he looked down, there was a red mark on it.

These guys aren't tall, but they're really strong!

Chai Dongliang pulled the dogleg-shaped scimitar from the cowhide scabbard, and couldn't help but feel a little excited. As a pseudo-military fan, Chai Dongliang was once very fascinated by the "Gogoli scimitar" of the Gurkhas. I've always wanted to have one, but I can't always realize my dream, and today is the first time I've seen it up close.

The back of the knife is thick and blunt, but the blade is sharp enough to shave, and the handle of the knife is made of Tibetan silver inlaid with turquoise.

Chai Dongliang has been friends with the Gurkha people for a long time. He was not a serious military fan, but the reputation of the Gurgle troops in the British army was so great that it was difficult to read a few military magazines and not know them. These people are natural experts in mountain warfare, and their surnames are quiet, but when they go to the battlefield, "die or win" is their only credo.

These people were originally descendants of the Mongols and later settled in Nepal. In 1814, Nepal fought a war with the British, and in the battle of Karenga, 600 Gurgor warriors, armed only with bows and arrows, Gogoli scimitars and a very small number of old arquebuses, cost the British, who had the most advanced weapons in the world at the time, 31 officers and 750 soldiers. The Gurgat people, who had only more than 10,000 soldiers in total, gave more than 30,000 British troops a headache. More than 20 years later, during the Daoguang period, thousands of British troops defeated the Qing Dynasty, which had a million-strong army, and could not find the north.

This shows how terrible these short people, who are generally less than 1.6 meters tall, are.

The British fought several battles with them, and were impressed by the bravery of these Gurgor warriors, so they hired them with high salaries. These Gurgles are quiet and very obedient, and if the chief says that they are not allowed to eat to-day, they can sit there for a day without saying anything, and until there is an order that they can eat, they will go to eat again with great pleasure, and there will be no complaints. And on the battlefield, even in the most unfavorable situation, they will be in the mood to joke and regard life and death as an ordinary thing.

Chai Dongliang once read a report that a seriously wounded Gurgle soldier on the battlefield had his arm blown off by a cannonball, and when he was in a semi-coma, the words in his mouth actually were: "I am a Gurgour person, I can't call it pain." ”

Not only were these men brave and good at fighting, but they were also inconceivably loyal to their mercenaries. A few decades ago, many Gurks had already married natives because they had been stationed in India for a long time, and the Gurks also believed in Hinduism. But when the Hindus revolted in Delhi, they naively thought that the Gurkor soldiers would join them because of their faith and family. When the king of Delhi cried out, "Come, Gurkor people, join us!" The Gurgur replied, "Yes, here we are!" Then he rushed into the Indian army and tore them apart. Eight thousand Indian soldiers repeatedly attacked, and four hundred and ninety Gurkor suffered three hundred and twenty-seven casualties, but they could not shake their position. An average unit with one-third of the casualties can be regarded as a loss of combat effectiveness, but they are already suffering more than half of the casualties, and they can still continue to fight, and their combat effectiveness has not decreased.

This battalion is the myth of the Gurkhas, the invincible Semur battalion.

These stories once made Chai Dongliang's blood gush in college, these Gurgor people are really born warriors! When the Qing Dynasty was in its heyday, the Gurkor people invaded Tibetan Province, and even the Tashilhunpo Monastery where the Panchen Lama was stationed in Xi was sacked by them. As a result, Qianlong was furious, and sent the general Fukangan and the famous general Hailancha to command the Eight Banners Forbidden Army and the green battalions of Sichuan and Shaanxi, almost defeated them with the strength of the country, and then pursued across the border, and the troops pointed directly at Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. However, the king of Nepal also understood that it would definitely not be possible to compete with the Qing Dynasty for a long time with his national strength, so he sued for peace through victory and became a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, thus achieving one of Qianlong's top ten martial arts.

In another time and space, in World War II, the Gurkha soldiers terrified the German army, which was known for its toughness, and in the 70s, during the Anglo-Argentine War, the Argentine soldiers fled when they heard the name of the Gurkha Brigade.

Until the 21st century, these Gurgat soldiers, who still wore dog-legged grigmitars on their waists like their ancestors, were still the most elite British army, the absolute mountain trump cards.

Among the Gurkhas, mercenary service was the most glorious profession, and once every two years they were allowed to return home to visit their relatives and return to the tribe, where they were welcomed like princes. The beauties of the tribe are even more chosen by them.

The reason is simple, the salary paid by mercenaries is more than twenty times higher than the local income. After a few years of service, they are all rich in the clan!

Brave and extremely disciplined, this nation is a natural warrior! Fortunately, the number of Gurkha tribes is too small, otherwise, the surrounding countries would be in trouble!

The oldest of these soldiers in front of him was about thirty years old, the younger one was twenty-four or five, the shortest had served for five years, the longest was fifteen years, and the white-bearded officer looked to be in his fifties, and he couldn't figure out how many years he had served!

The old man gave a British-style military salute like Chai Dongliang, and then said in fluent English: "The seventh battalion commander of the great Semul Battalion, the lieutenant colonel of the British Gurkha Brigade, Suopan salutes the honorable lord!" ”

The Gurkha is the elite of the British army, and the Semur battalion is the elite of the elite, this old man actually served as the battalion commander of the Semur battalion?

The Gurkha were the mountain aces of the British army, but the British only allowed them to be soldiers and junior officers, and it would be good to be a battalion commander at most, and it was a miracle that the old man of Sopan actually did the regiment commander.

Chai Dongliang asked in English, "How old are you?" How long is it in service? ”

Suopan replied respectfully: "Fifty-two years old, thirty-two years of service, retired the year before last." ”

Chai Dongliang nodded, and asked with a smile: "If I hand over Chinese soldiers to you for training, are you sure that you will train them into elites just like you train your compatriots?" ”

Suopan smiled and said, "I may not be sure about the soldiers of other countries, but I have enough confidence in the Chinese soldiers." ”

Chai Dongliang frowned and said, "Oh, why? ”

Suopan smiled: "I have been to China once and have seen with my own eyes the best Chinese [***] people, and their combat effectiveness is almost comparable to that of our Semul Battalion. ”

Chai Dongliang was stunned at that time, gasped and said, "Are you talking about the Beiyang Army?" ”

Suo Pan shook his head and said, "Beiyang Army? I haven't heard of it, I'm talking about the Huayong Battalion in Weihaiwei. ”

Chai Dongliang coughed at that time, waved his hand and said, "Don't mention this." ”

Huayong Battalion? That's a bunch of Han annihilation! The vanguard of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the one who captured Tianjin City for the British army, was the Huayong Battalion!

It is estimated that this old guy Suopan was also a member of the eight-nation alliance invasion team back then, and God knows how much Chinese blood this old thing had on his hands!

Chai Dongliang entrusted Yu Qiaqing to recruit a battalion of retired soldiers from the Gurkha in the name of the foreign merchant group, with a monthly salary of fifty oceans a month, which was higher than that of the British army. After all, the British army recruits all new recruits, and Chai Dongliang recruits experienced veterans. The purpose of recruiting them was to let the soldiers of the First Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army see what the real elite was, and let them know what the armies of the great powers were like.

Recently, there has been a sense of complacency in the new army in Anhui, and Chai Dongliang really can't figure out how effective his men are. More importantly, Chai Dongliang planned to mix the grassroots officers into the Gurkha battalion and rapidly improve the quality of the officers according to their training methods, so as to prepare for the future expansion of the army.

Chai Dongliang looked at these dusty Gurkha soldiers, and had some questions, there are actually many things that are difficult to deserve under the fame, I don't know if these guys are really capable, or are they blown out?

It's a mule or a horse, you have to let them pull it out for a walk!

(To be continued)