Most of the soldiers in Nanjing were from the southeastern provinces of China, while most of the people from the southwestern provinces were in Wuhan. Therefore, the personnel here in Nanjing are very complicated, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and even Hunan, and more people from the Liangjiang area.

At this time, around Nanjing, including the city of Nanjing, countless stragglers collided with no owner. A company, a regiment, and even three or five people surrounded the major government departments all day long and shouted for money.

I don't blame them, from last year to now, except for starvation, they haven't been paid a month's military salary. Now Sun Wen and the others have money and send it to the troops on the front line, otherwise the troops on the front line will be unstable, and Yuan Shikai will pounce.

As for those who remained in the rear and those who retreated, they can only be delayed again and again until now.

Suddenly, Yang Shuai stopped, and Yang Hua was stunned: "Young master, don't you go for anything, didn't you say that you would recruit troops, Nanjing is full of streets." ”

Yang Shuai: "To recruit soldiers, we have to have weapons and guns, and only thirty percent of the stragglers on the street have guns." Let's go, find Mr. Huang to go. So Yang Shuai turned around and went to the headquarters.

Huang Xing saw that Yang Shuai was coming, put down the things in his hand, rubbed his brows, and looked very tired: "Yo, Zhaoyun, you are familiar with the things here, Yu Wentai didn't rely on the old and sell the old, right?" ”

Yang Shuai saw that Huang Xing was really doing his best, and he couldn't bear it in his heart. Seeing Huang Xing speak, he immediately put down the matter of asking Huang Xing for a gun, forget it, let's give Huang Xing less trouble.

But Yang Shuai is not a loser, and he can take advantage of the cheapness. said: "Mr. Huang, it's like this. You see, our office, although it says that there is a battalion establishment, but-hehe, I mean, can you directly extract the equipment of a battalion from the purchased guns and use it to arm our people, this needs to be signed by General Commander Huang. ”

When Huang Xing saw it, he was very excited, this may be an hour, but Yang Shuai's attitude moved Huang Xing very much.

Since Wuchang Huang Xing was defeated several times, many people have not been very polite to Huang Xing. Yang Shuai's attitude made Huang Xing very useful, and directly regarded Yang Shuai as a cronie.

"Okay, this is easy to do, oops, I can't give you a complete battalion for the establishment, it's hard for you." Huang Xingzhi said, Yu Wentai must have no problem, this person was originally the deputy commander of the garrison, but Yang Shuai was a kid, and he was unknown.

With Huang Xing's consent, Yang Shuai asked people to get the official documents when he turned around, and the official business had to be done.

Unexpectedly, there are only a few people in the entire office, and it seems that Zhang Wu and Li Tian are in charge of document exchanges, that is, they sit in the office. The others are only Yu Wentai's people, collecting guns and guns, of course, they will not be in the War Department building, and there are only two people in the office at this time, Zhang Wu and Li Tian.

As soon as they saw Yang Shuai and Yang Hua coming in the next day, the two hurriedly greeted: "Hello Deputy Director Yang, early Deputy Director Yang." ”

Yang Shuai smiled: "You guys are also early, what news is there from the director of this acquisition?" ”

Li Tian stood up: "Report to Deputy Director Yang, Director Yu has ordered people to go to Jiangning and Lai'an together, yesterday was the first day, and there is no specific report." However, Director Yu has already cashed out all the 200,000 yuan, and said that he hopes that Deputy Director Yang's future payment will arrive as soon as possible. ”

After speaking, Li Tian: "Oh yes, this is the document I got back from Chief Huang yesterday, the guns of a battalion have been approved by Chief Huang and will be transferred directly from the purchased guns, four hundred rifles." ”

"Chief Huang was also worried that the purchased guns would not have bullets, so he specially approved a slip and provided us with 20 rounds of ammunition for each gun."

Yang Shuai was stunned, it seems that this Huang Xing is good to himself.

After listening to this, Yang Shuai thought about it, and then said: "Okay, Zhang Wu, you draw up a notice, we want to recruit troops, just say that we will recruit 200 people, starting tomorrow, now post the notice first." ”

Zhang Wu agreed, in the eyes of Zhang Wu and Li Tian, Yang Shuai was actually quite pitiful. The bald commander doesn't say it, and Yang Shuai is still gentle and approachable, and the two are not Yu Wentai's cronies, so they are also very cooperative with Yang Shuai.

Fortunately, Yu Wentai left a few errands in the office, and an hour later, Zhang Wu posted more than 30 notices in Nanjing, all of which had big seals, and Yang Shuai didn't know.

The next day, Yang Shuai personally carried a large table and went to a building a hundred meters away from the gate of the War Department, and even Zhang Wu and Li Tian had no trouble. Yang Shuai said in his heart that he was idle anyway, so he simply started with Yang Hua himself.

There are a lot of recruitment notices, and there are also people who are in twos and threes. Yang Shuai looked at it, these seemed to be stragglers, and there were no big groups and teams.

I saw a bearded man carrying a gun, with a northwest accent: "Young man, you Army Affairs Office recruit guards really have twenty-five yuan a month?" ”

Yang Shuai saw that this person was Lao Qiu Ba, which meant that he was a veteran, and he knew the Tao at a glance.

Yang Shuai: "Yes, those who sign up and are selected will be given twenty-five yuan immediately." As he spoke, he turned around and asked Yang Huai to pick up the sack, and it was all silver.

Yang Shuai knew what these people were worried about, and they were not afraid.

At this time, when he saw the real money, this big man was overjoyed and believed a little.

Yang Shuai: "I see that you are also a veteran, come on, I will ask you if you want." ”

Dahan suddenly threw out the rifle on his back, Yang Hua behind him was shocked, and quickly pulled out the Mauser pistol and blocked Yang Shuai with one hand: "What are you going to do?" ”

The big man was also shocked, Yang Shuai saw the big man's eyes, and hurriedly said to Yang Hua, "It's okay, it's okay." The big man was shocked, afraid of the spear: "What about this, I heard that the government now says that those who are willing to hand over the gun have money, so I will sign up for you as a guard, how can this gun be counted?" ”

Yang Shuai was stunned, but he didn't think about this problem. Yes, it was easy to do without Yang Shuai collecting guns before, but now guns are money.

In a blink of an eye, Yang Shuai immediately said: "It's the same, your gun is the same money, the matter of collecting the gun is handled by our Army Affairs Office, and your gun license will give you money, and the advance condition is that you are a soldier within the scope of disarmament demarcated by the government, and if you are an active soldier, you will be shot if you do so." ”

As soon as the big man heard that he was really giving money, he shouted: "Really? I'm not not, I'm not going home, and my troops are gone. ”

It turned out to be an orphan, this kind of good, there is no chance to form a gang. Yang Shuai: "What is the name, which unit is it from, and where is it from?" "Here, just three questions are asked.

"My name is Zhang Dabiao, Shaanxi Shangluo, it turned out to be from Hubei Shouxiangyang, what is the name of the 27th Association, nondescript, I hate the official, so I voted for the revolution."

Yang Shuai was stunned, damn, this is really a person, hehe, I like it.

As soon as Yang Shuai wrote the pen, he turned back to Yang Hua: "Twenty-five yuan first, steel gun, you are, eighty yuan, a total of one hundred and five yuan for you." ”

"My mother, really give, I've never seen so much money in my life, Xiaohuo, your chief is a good person."

Yang Hua puffed: "This is our Deputy Director Yang Shuai of the Army Affairs Office, the money for collecting the gun this time is from our young master, and you will be under the leadership of our young master in the future." ”

Yang Shuai hurried: "Yang Hua, what is my money, your money, this is government funds." ”

Zhang Dabiao stared at him with big eyes, as if he couldn't believe that Yang Shuai was so young, and he still couldn't believe that Yang Shuai was so rich. Don't look at Zhang Dabiao, he understands the conversation between the two just now.

Zhang Dabiao's chest straightened and saluted: "Hello, sir." "Coins rattle in your pockets.

Yang Shuai smiled: "In the garrison battalion of our Army Affairs Office, I am the deputy battalion commander, and the battalion commander is Commander Yu, but you are directly under me, and you are the first soldier of the third company." ”

"Yes, sir." Then Zhang Dabiao took the original gun: "Sir, this—"

Yang Shuai smiled and shouted: "Zhang Dabiao, a soldier of the third company of the guard battalion. ”

"Yes"

Yang Shuai's face was serious: "The chief is named, you have to respond." "Zhang Dabiao, a soldier of the third company of the guard battalion."

"Here."

Yang Shuai is very satisfied in his heart, a veteran is a veteran.

Yang Shuai grabbed the steel gun, officially clenched his hands, and handed it to Zhang Dabiao: "This is your gun, now I order you to carry out the on-site security work of recruitment." ”

Zhang Dabiao was stunned, the gun is still his own? And then suddenly "yes." ”

At this time, Zhang Dabiao was already very curious about this chief, and at the same time he had a little bit of a good impression.

Zhang Dabiao, Yang Shuai's first soldier.