Dozens of military trucks drove up the desolate Gobi Desert, starting with a jeep, and behind the convoy, hundreds of war horses were galloping. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The person driving the jeep was none other than Li Han, the commander of the 4th Battalion. Of course, Li Han was asked to drive, not because there were not enough soldiers in the fourth battalion who could drive. It's purely that Li Daying himself wants to live a car addiction, and by the way, adjust the dull atmosphere of this road.

He used to take the driver's license test when he went to college, but since he got his driver's license, he has never touched the steering wheel again.

"Battalion commander, you drive slowly!"

When he first got on the road, the car kept shaking, scaring Jin Long, who was sitting in the passenger seat, into a cold sweat, for fear that Li Han would accidentally drive the car into the ditch.

It's not that he's worried about what will happen to him, and with his skills, it's definitely no problem to jump out of the car before it rolls over. The key is that he is the battalion commander's personal bodyguard and guard platoon commander, and if something happens to the battalion commander, it will be a dereliction of duty.

Fortunately, after the car shook for about ten minutes, it finally began to drive normally. Moreover, during the Republic of China, there were no highways, large fields in the wilderness, no traffic lights, and no forward and reverse driving, which required Li Han's driving skills to be much lower.

After being equipped with a large number of cars and horses, the mobility of the fourth battalion was dozens of times faster than before, and in less than an afternoon, more than 800 people of the fourth battalion arrived outside Guyuan County, Chahar.

The officers and men who had just experienced a battle looked at this completely unfamiliar land, and their hearts became extremely heavy.

Speaking of which, this is the second time they have lost the battle, the last time was from Shanhaiguan to Rehe, after three months, history repeats itself again.

Although Li Han and his officers and soldiers inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army in these two battles, they lost the battle after all, and the mood of the soldiers was not very high.

In addition, the Northeast Army has been defeated again and again in the past two years, not only did it not recover its hometown in the Northeast, but it became farther and farther away from the Northeast. By now, many soldiers have lost any hope of recovering the Northeast.

What is the purpose of being a soldier, the officers can pat their chests and boast that it is for: "Defend the country and resist foreign humiliation!" "For the rise of the nation!" And so on and so forth.

But for the big-headed soldiers, these are a little far away from them, they just want to take food to eat, and when they are discharged from the army, they can accompany their wives and children to warm the kang, so this is their lifelong pursuit.

But now, although the slogan of recovering the hometown is shouted every day, it is getting farther and farther away from home, and how can the morale of the soldiers be high.

Fortunately, the soldiers also knew very well in their hearts that after the little devil came, they began to go into exile and became homeless, so the soldiers' hatred for the little devil is indescribable.

Li Han saw these situations in the army in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. If this problem cannot be solved as soon as possible, it is easy to have a large number of deserters and ruffians.

However, if the dissatisfaction and hatred of the soldiers can be transferred to the devils according to the situation, it can greatly improve the morale of the troops. Li Han understood that the time had come to test his abilities as a commander.

Although he has arrived in Chahar, he is now in an insecure situation and may be attacked by other local warlords at any time.

The current Chahar Province is not a stable place, and the situation in the province is extremely complicated.

In terms of the army, because Chahar Province did not have Chiang Kai-shek's descendant army, the province was full of countless local miscellaneous troops, and there was no strong leader, which led to Chahar being in a state of chaos and disorder.

People from all walks of life in the province gathered, including Feng Yuxiang's old Northwest Army, Fang Zhenwu's troops, Zhang Lisheng's Chahar Self-Defense Army, Mongolian and Suiyuan militia groups, a large number of bandit armies, etc., plus a large number of righteous brave troops who recently retreated from the northeast, all of them added up to more than 100,000.

You must know that the entire Chahar province has less than 3 million people, and it is located in a remote area, and there is little or no business activity of all kinds.

In order to gain more territory, warlords and warlords often wage annexation wars against each other, which displaces the people of Chahar Province and makes their lives miserable.

After the main force of the fourth battalion entered the territory of Guyuan, Gao Jian of the advance team also brought a company of soldiers to meet Li Han.

Due to the retreat of a large number of troops on the Rehe side, the city of Guyuan was very chaotic, full of hungry people and routs, and some landlords and squires who fled from Rehe.

Although there are also some militia soldiers patrolling the streets in groups of three or five, they all look listless, blind to the chaos in front of them, or they can't do anything!

Li Han stood on a hill in the west of the city, looking at the endless grassland in the west, recalling the scene he saw in the city, his mood was extremely heavy, Guyuan is the epitome of the current Republic of China society.

Frequent wars have turned all the people into frightened birds, and they no longer trust any army! These small people living at the bottom of the society don't care about their feelings at all, and they are also insensitive to the changing flags at the head of the city!

"Report!"

A report interrupted Li Han's thoughts, he turned around and saw Gao Jian standing in front of him sweating profusely and said, "Battalion commander, you are finally here!" ”

"What? Look at it like this, your situation here in Guyuan is not very good? ”

"Hey! Battalion commander, you don't know! Chahar is really chaotic here, there are troops stationed in the towns with a little oil and water, do we have the above order, whether it is the county government or the provincial government, no one cares about us at all. In order to avoid clashes with other troops, our troops were stationed in Shili Village, not far from Guo Town. ”

Gao Jian replied with a wry smile, the group of people who came first also had hundreds, plus the families of the soldiers, close to a thousand, all shrunk in one village, okay!

"Then let's go to Shili Village first."

Looking at the chaotic Guyuan City, it is not difficult to imagine the security situation in other places. Shaking his head, Li Han didn't think much about it anymore, and motioned for Gao Jian to lead the way.

Shili Village is a small village with only more than 600 people, but in Chahar, it is already a famous village within a radius of ten miles.

The people brought by Gao Jian had already filled the village, which made the original villagers in the village very unhappy, if it weren't for Gao Jian's hands on the guys, it was estimated that they would have been rude.

Now there are more than 800 military men at once, and the entire ten-mile village is full of chickens and dogs, and the miasma is smoky, and those who don't know think that bandits have entered the village.

Li Han and the three main companies set up tents directly outside the village, but fortunately, although there were few people in Shili Village, the territory was large enough, and the village could not live in it, so Li Han had no choice but to settle outside the village.

"Lao Gao, what's the situation with that Guo Zhen."

Li Han knew that it would not work like this, and Gao Jian's situation in Chahar was too far from what Li Han expected. If nothing else, if the more than 1,000 brothers did not have a fixed station, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

"Battalion commander, there is a security team in Guo Town, and there are more than 300 people, and the leader is called Zhang Biao." Gao Jiandao immediately asked: "Battalion commander, are you planning to take down Guo Zhen?" ”

"That's right! There is no way for us to continue like this, the troops have no fixed garrison and supplies, and it is easy to collapse, and besides, Chahar is not a good place, so we must complete the repair as soon as possible and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. ”

"I thought so before, so I went to Guozhen and the county seat to negotiate with them, and wanted them to help arrange the station, but I didn't expect these officials to insist that we didn't have an order, that is, to rout and desert, not only did not let us enter the city, but also threatened to exterminate us!"

Gao Jian said sadly, no one expected that it would be this treatment to come to Chahar, but they were also troops who had fought with devils on the front line.

"Damn, they turned against the heavens and dared to treat us like this."

Listening to Gao Jian's words, Li Han's anger burned up all of a sudden, he fought with the devil in Rehe, retreated to Chahar and was ignored, not to mention, and he had to kill himself, which was okay.

Li Han didn't say much, leaving Gao Jian to guard this temporary station, and he took four companies of troops and went straight to Guozhen.

Guo Zhen's security team is actually the former security brigade of Guyuan County, and the captain is called Zhang Biao, who is a large landowner in Guyuan.

Of course, he was able to become the captain, mainly because he had a younger brother who was the commander of the Northwest Army.

However, due to the influx of a large number of Northeast volunteers, Guyuan County has now become the base camp of the volunteers, and has successfully performed a good scene of doves occupying magpies' nests.

At first, Zhang Biao wanted to use his brother's reputation to drive out the volunteers, but later he saw that there were more and more volunteers. Therefore, in line with the principle of 'heroes do not suffer immediate losses', they decisively moved to Guozhen with a serious shortage of security teams.

When Li Han came to Guozhen with more than 800 people from four companies, Zhang Biao was happy with his newly recruited concubine.

"Captain, it's a big deal, there are a lot of officers and soldiers outside, all with guys, and they have surrounded Guo Zhen." The guards shouted at Zhang Biao's door in panic.

Zhang Biao was about to pick up his gun and get on the horse at this time, when the guards shouted, the little brother was so frightened that he instantly turned into a turtle with a shrunken head, and almost stopped lifting.

"You're fucking looking for death! Don't you know that Lao Tzu is doing business? Panic, it must have retreated from the Rehe side again, the waste of the Northeast Army, their own territory can't hold on, and it is a first-class power to seize other people's territory. ”

Obviously, Zhang Biao is still angry about the Northeast Volunteers occupying his own Guyuan County.

Looking at the sluggish baby, Zhang Biao scolded angrily. But in his heart, he said: "My brother! Don't be scared! ”

Of course, he got up quickly, got dressed and went out of the room.

"Yes, yes, yes! Team... Captain, what now, there are soldiers everywhere outside. ”

The guards knew that they were in trouble, and they were so frightened that they began to stutter when they spoke.

"Rubbish, you're afraid of a ball! The sky is falling, and Lao Tzu is on top of it. The main forces of the Northeast Volunteer Army are all in the county, and those who come here must be some stragglers, those crooked melons and cracked dates, what is there to be afraid of. If you really dare to do it, we hundreds of people don't know how to be vegetarians, and if you forget what your second young master does, forgive them and don't dare to touch me. ”

Zhang Biao said with disdain on his face, the Northeast Army is gone, these volunteers who are not even as good as their stepmothers can have anything to fear, if they are not afraid of the large number of them, Guyuan County will not let them out.