"Smack-"

"Da-da-"

The gunshots rang out suddenly, and all the broadsword team that entered the ambush area of the river bay were stunned at once, and the leaders on horseback and standing on the bow of the ship were shot and fell down one after another, and the two thousand people on the shore and the hundreds of people on the water were all disordered, and the big boss on the big ship rushed out of the cabin, ran to the tall bow of the ship and hurriedly shouted back, but before he could shout two more words, a bullet was shot into his mouth, and drilled out of the back vertebrae. And the big sword with tall ambition will be planted headlong into the river and never float again.

The whole fleet of more than 70 large and small ships collided with each other, and it was difficult to turn the bow of the ship for a while, and a few small boats tried to escape, but they were also splashed with sawdust by the bullets sprayed by heavy machine guns, and several mortar shells were followed by a sharp whistling, and the water column several feet high exploded on the water behind the fleet, and the fierce fire completely cut off the idea of the fleet to flee downstream.

"Didi ......"

The trumpet sounded, the officers and men of the Reading Division on both sides of the river roared in unison, rushed to the panicked broadsword club, the light machine gunners rushed to the river bank in pairs, quickly set up machine guns and aimed at the boats on the water, the heavy machine guns on the hill and dozens of snipers aimed at the stubborn people in the corner, and hit mercilessly, in less than ten minutes, almost all the members of the Broadsword Society threw down their weapons and fell to their knees, and the few tough people or people who were frightened stupid on the stand were beaten into blood gourds in the blink of an eye, and an ambush battle with a huge disparity in strength and weakness ended.

Wu Liheng, deputy of the Third Regiment, led his brothers to quickly identify the 27 surviving leaders among the captives, and all of them were escorted to the low-lying places on the shore to be shot, and the remaining many frightened captives were escorted to the mouth of the new river with bundles of large knives and shuttle darts that had been collected.

Xia Jian, the commander of a regiment on the north bank, ordered the commander of a battalion under his command to be responsible for escorting all the boats to the mouth of the new river upstream, and rode back to the regimental headquarters of Nian Zhuang with a curse.

At the same time, at the mouth of the Luoma Lake downstream, the elite soldiers led by Ding Zhicheng easily killed dozens of bandits who stayed behind to watch their homes, and found more than 30,000 yuan of Xian Dayang and countless gold and silver jewelry hidden in the main hall of the Pixian Dadao Society.

A few brave villagers spied through the windows and through the cracks in the doors for a long time, but in the end they didn't know what kind of fairy this group of "ringing horses" with their faces covered in black cloth and wearing civilian clothes came and went like the wind.

From this day on, more than 2,000 prisoners of the Dadao Society began to live a life of hard labor at gunpoint, and were divided into four parts by the officers and soldiers of the three regiments stationed there, taking turns to receive ideological education, taking turns to go out to cut down trees to build pontoon bridges, and repair the road leading to Daxu Town.

Five days later, a small number of honest peasants among the captives who repented and found the officers and men of the Third Regiment to confess the wrong things they had done were each given two oceans and released early.

More than 150 bandits in Fengguan Mountain, five kilometers away from Xinhekou, were annihilated by the Second Regiment of the Reading Division, dozens of wooden houses and grass houses built in the mountain col were burned down, and the bandit leader who had been rampaging in Xuzhou for many years and was called "Yan Jiuye" by the heroes on the adjacent three provincial roads was cut off and hung on a big tree at the foot of the mountain to show the public; More than 1,500 members of the "Cao Gang", who were entrenched in the Grand Canal in the north and bought and sold all year round, and relied on trafficking materials and collecting money to buy roads, were completely wiped out on a stormy night, and more than 50 gang leaders were publicly tried and executed by the Reading Power Regiment; The 700 members of the "Red Gun Society" that dominated the mouth of the canal in the west for more than ten years were all captured by the Reading Division, and the stronghold of the Dawangmiao built with the huge amount of money they had built over the years was wiped out, and dozens of gang leaders were raided and executed...... The fast and efficient ruthless attack of the reader made the underworld in the neighboring provinces change and be terrified, and the entire gang in Huaibei and northern Jiangsu seemed to disappear overnight, and the "notoriety" of An Yi's reading force master has since left an indelible deep impression on the underworld and gangs in various provinces.

I don't know if it's the news that An Yi deliberately released, or the rumors caused by the private speculation of the thousands of gangs who were captured in the clean-up operations, black and white have since known An Yi's reading division in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and knows that the reading teacher never disturbs the people, and helps the local people to repair bridges and pave roads everywhere, gives free medicine and farm tools, and is welcomed and supported by the local people everywhere he goes, and even the captured soldiers under the command of Sun Dashuai and Zhang Dashuai can never be killed in vain, and they also generously give the two oceans of travel expenses to let them stay.

I heard that the reason why the thunderbolt was used to deal with the green forest and the underworld this time was completely due to the lawlessness of the local gang and the fact that he shot and killed an old platoon commander with outstanding achievements in public and shot and wounded a number of soldiers, which provoked the world-famous and loving soldier An Yi, a victorious general who loved soldiers like a son, to be angry and killed the killer, plus the newspapers of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang in Nanjing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places The major media praised the reading division for its anti-bandit action, and the merchants and people who have suffered from the scourge of bandits for several years also praised it. An Yi and his reader have once again become the object of the nation's talk, and almost all public opinion is supportive of An Yi's thunderbolt method.

An Yi, who was at the center of public opinion, did not react to the comments of the outside world, but sighed at the seizures obtained by destroying more than a dozen gangs in a series of battles. Many gangs that have existed for many years to dominate one side have far more wealth than An Yi and his generals estimate.

It was not until An Yi and his subordinate generals were confronted with a huge seizure of more than 1.5 million yuan that they suddenly discovered that the exploitation and harm of these gangs had already exceeded the understanding of the outside world. There was no other way but to choose to go along and survive, so that when the soldiers of the Reading Force surrounded and annihilated these gangs and shot a large number of leaders, no one stood up to intercede for them, and as soon as the soldiers of the revolutionary army who burned all the contracts of the gangs were withdrawn, the local people lost control of their emotions, and they all rushed into the homes of those leaders, looting all their belongings, and even the deputy dishes were not left.

For example, in the process of encircling and destroying the "Red Gun Society" water thieves who retreated to the island in the lake, they received strong support from the local people, and after 12 mortars fired ten rounds in salvo, thousands of local fishermen rowed their own boats, loaded with revolutionary soldiers and rushed to the island, and killed all the remaining water thieves on the island with wooden sticks, machetes, flat poles, etc., leaving no one alive. This shows how deep the resentment and hatred are in the hearts of the people.

As a party representative, Liu Shoujiang had the opportunity to participate in the "spoils sharing meeting" between An Yi and his generals for the first time, and he was extremely shocked in the face of the huge seizure, and finally vaguely understood the source of the preferential treatment that the soldiers of the Reading Division had over other troops.

Before Liu Shoujiang could finish sighing, An Yi gave him another arduous but trusting task:

"I propose that the party representatives set up three working groups to go to the mouth of Luoma Lake, Dawangmiao and the mouth of the canal in the north of Tashan Town, organize the local people to liquidate the properties and land of the three big gangs, let the people elect their own representatives to participate in the distribution of real estate and land, and help the local people to establish a militia to protect themselves as appropriate, and before the arrival of the officials appointed by the central political axe of Nanjing, the militia will manage the local government affairs on its own, otherwise it is likely that the people will be panicked and uneasy, and they will once again be used by people with good intentions to embark on the road of confronting the people.

Second, we will allocate 200,000 yuan from the proceeds of the previous anti-bandit operations and put them at the disposal of the party representatives to purchase farm tools and ploughing cattle for the people of the above three townships and distribute them free of charge, and all the more than 500 large and small boats seized will be distributed to the local people.

Only in this way can the people restore their livelihood in a short period of time, and we can be regarded as doing our best for the local people, what do you think about this? ”

"I agree!"

Yin Jinan was the first to express his position, and the brothers also spoke in support of An Yi's opinion.

An Yi turned his head and said with a smile to Liu Shoujiang: "Party representative, you have to work hard in this matter, and all regiments will actively cooperate with your work, asking people to give people and guns to guns." In addition, the big knife shuttle darts that are uniformly piled up at the mouth of the new river can be transported to Xuzhou City, and they can be exchanged for farm tools with the blacksmith shop, and they only need to release a large number of news of buying cultivated cattle when they buy ploughing cattle in Xuzhou City, and it is estimated that many dealers will automatically send a large number of ploughing cattle to Daxu Town within three days, and then let the newly established militia villagers come to take them away, which can save a lot of effort. ”

"No problem! This matter is not difficult, I will definitely do it properly, and it is enough to have the participation of two companies of political work and logistics. I'm trying to get all the work done within five days, otherwise we won't have time to do it once the order to pull out is given. Liu Shoujiang gladly accepted the task.

After the commanders of each regiment received a cash reward of 50,000 yuan, the meeting ended and everyone consciously dispersed. An Yi discussed with Yin Jinan, Hu Jialin, Ding Zhicheng and others for a while, and ordered the herald to call Lieutenant Colonel Shi Lejun, the quartermaster.

An Yi asked Shi Lejun to sit down and handed him a difficult task: "Lejun, just now a few of us briefly discussed the issue of how to deal with the current provident fund and seized documents, and agreed that during the war, we should not march with so much money at all, especially the provident fund that has been as high as 3.1 million, and it is all dead money in our hands, in case there is a good or depreciated coin, it will be too late for us to cry."

Therefore, after discussion, we decided that you should return to Lao Nanchang with the provident fund passbook and the bank passbook on the three division commanders, as well as the total 2.2 million yuan in cash and all the gold and silver jewelry seized in the previous two times and this time, and hand over all the money and passbook to Lieutenant Colonel Lao Shoudao, our base director.

The quartermaster department only needs to leave 50,000 yuan in cash for turnover, not to mention that the quartermaster of General Li Delin will send the purchase money of several batches of goods we sent to us in the next two days, and the amount will not be less than 250,000 yuan, so there is no need to worry about the lack of money for the officers and men of the whole division, and the work of the quartermaster and logistics department will be temporarily managed by Deputy Division Commander Yin on your behalf. ”

"Got it! Master, the amount of money and materials is too large, who will assist his subordinates in carrying out this task together? Shi Lejun, who is becoming more and more mature and confident, asked.

Ding Zhicheng laughed: "I'll accompany you back!" All the brothers in the guard battalion sent us to Wuhe County, and then I led a company to accompany you, and we also need to go to Lao Nanchang to bring back a batch of special equipment. You can rest assured, this road is our troops stationed, to Wuhe County there are three trucks waiting for us, only seven hours to reach Pukou, and then take the steamboat from the old Nanchang base, directly to the old Nanchang. ”

Shi Lejun smiled happily: "Haha, with Battalion Commander Ding personally escorting him, his subordinates are completely relieved!" ”

"Lejun, after finishing this matter, you can take the time to go home and take a look, now you are the section chief of the lieutenant colonel of the revolutionary army, you didn't embarrass your parents, take advantage of this rare opportunity to go back and get married, your old historian can count on your generation to flourish." An Yi said with a smile.

Yin Jinan also persuaded: "The division headquarters has decided to give you a month off, if you don't have enough time, then you can send a telegram directly to Director Lao, and it is better to take your daughter-in-law and children to live in Lao Nanchang, there is a house for you in the officer's residential area, and in the future, our group of people will live in that community when they get married, and it will be convenient for your brothers to get together." ”

Shi Lejun nodded gratefully, and hurriedly saluted and left before tears flowed.

Hu Jialin let out a long sigh and whispered to An Yi: "Seriously, Lao Tzu is quite afraid of your hunch now, walking here from Guangzhou, every time you feel that there is a problem, we will run into trouble, I hope we can successfully get through it this time." ”

An Yi smiled bitterly: "I don't know why, I feel very uncomfortable during this time, seeing that the friendly troops are fighting so hard in Lunan, but the general headquarters does not send our main division, I feel that it is likely that something is wrong in Wuhan, or something else will happen."

In the past two days, Wang Jingwei, Tang Shengzhi and others were in Zhengzhou to carry out secret discussions with Feng Yuxiang, and Wuhan was also quietly preparing materials for the eastward expedition to Nanjing. If before this, Wuhan Political Axe and Feng Yuxiang reached an alliance first, the problem would be big, we have to take precautions in advance, in case of a fight, only the good old man General Zhu Peide guarded Nanchang, Jiujiang and Shanghai concessions are safer, so we have to take precautions! ”

Yin Jinan nodded with relief: "I don't know how Uncle Lao sent someone to the French Concession in Shanghai to buy real estate?" We really need a safe and stable rear, at least to ensure that the property that the brothers have worked so hard to return to have a safe place to store it, otherwise the future development will be a problem.

Just like the eldest brother said, if there is really a good one, it will be difficult to turn over when the time comes. ”

An Yi waved his hand and said loudly and proudly: "Okay! Don't be discouraged, everyone, I'm not just in case? Feng Yuxiang will not make up his mind so easily, he still has to persuade General Yan Xishan to act together, otherwise if General Yan Xishan unites with us, Feng Yuxiang's lair will be unstable, if our whole army is forced to retreat to defend Nanjing, the pressure on the Feng army will be greatly reduced, and the capricious Feng Yuxiang will definitely be the first to attack, and then Feng Yuxiang will even have a problem with self-preservation, where can he dare to go south with confidence?

What I am worried about now is that our troops under the banner of the central political axe in Nanjing will split, which is the most difficult to guard against and the most unwilling to see, in case of sudden internal chaos or even fighting, we will have to follow the divisions of the First Army to move together, or move in great strides, or cooperate with the main divisions of the military headquarters.

It is based on this consideration that I have to propose to prepare in advance, otherwise when the situation develops to the point that it is uncontrollable, we will have no time to protect our family property, rather than divide our troops to protect a large number of money and materials at that time, it is better to take advantage of this rare time to recuperate and deal with it in advance, so that we can easily face all challenges.

Of course, this is just a worry in my heart, maybe I am too careful, such a thing may not happen, maybe an order will come in a few days, our entire division will have to rush to the Lunan front, these are not accurate, you should not think too much. ”

Yin Jinan smiled and shook his head: "Can you make us not want to?" I followed you all day long to ponder the various armies and the current battle situation, more or less of us have a certain understanding of the current forces of various ministries, take the internal division you are worried about, from the Northern Expedition to the present, there has been less cannibalism? It's normal for any mutation to occur in this troubled world. ”

Hu Jialin also nodded in agreement, and was about to say a few words, when he saw a familiar figure in a flash, he hurriedly stood up to say hello, An Yi turned his head a few times, and was pleasantly surprised to see Shen Fengdao, who had been absent for a long time, standing at the entrance of the division department with a smile.

(To be continued)