Chapter 20 Arms Sales

Strategically, he can't affect the overall situation, so Li Han doesn't have time to worry about that, what he cares about now is how to use a battalion of hundreds of soldiers in his hands to kill more small Japan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The Japanese have not done a single good thing in China except for burning, killing and looting, so Li Han has always believed that as long as he kills one more devil in China, the common people will suffer less disaster.

Because they took prisoners and a large amount of booty, Li Han and his men did not return to Jianping County until dark, but when they passed through Jianping County, the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion were warmly welcomed by thousands of ordinary people in Jianping County.

It turned out that the gunfire of this day sounded near Qingfeng Village for a whole day, and the bold villagers secretly came to take a look, only to know that there was a regular army encircling and suppressing Qingfeng Village.

For a whole day, in addition to seeing a few scattered Mongolian bandits escaping like lost dogs, they only saw hundreds of Mongolian bandit captives escorted back by Wang Dazhu, and the results naturally needless to say.

Now that I heard that the large army of officers and soldiers who had exterminated the gang of bandits was coming back, I naturally wanted to see the demeanor of this team.

Although after a day of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the fourth battalion still put themselves in good spirits to meet the review of the villagers, the team was still neat and complete, marching forward with solid and neat steps, dozens of war horses were full of trophies, and they were very majestic.

Many old people and women were excited to leave tears when they saw this scene, and even knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed to Li Han and them a few times, Li Han was taken a big start, many of these people can be his grandfather, let them kowtow to themselves, isn't this a loss of their own life.

Li Han did not know that this gang of Mongolian bandits had existed for several years, and the local people in Jianping County and Chaoyang County had been harmed a lot, and even a family of dozens of people in the most serious villages had died at the hands of this group of Mongolian bandits, but the local government turned a blind eye.

If it weren't for the fact that last year, these Mongolian bandits didn't know what kind of madness they had, and they actually started attacking the county seat, annoying the big figures in the local Northeast Army, so they dispatched a large force to beat the Mongolian bandits and embarrassed.

The life of the people in the two counties began to be a little better, but unfortunately less than half a year later, these bandits revived, and continued to plague them.

Although Li Han's battalion did not have as many soldiers as the last time, they wiped out the black second and even burned down the nest, and the big guy felt that he had finally survived.

"Battalion Chief Li, on behalf of more than 200,000 people in Jianping County and Chaoyang County, thank you!" Shi Dingzhong, the magistrate of Jianping County, greeted him with a smile and said.

"County Magistrate Shi is serious, Li Han is ashamed to be ashamed! Protecting the territory and the people is the duty of my generation of soldiers, and I have just done my duty. ”

Li Han was flattered and said, Li Han still respects Shi Dingzhong, in the environment of the Republic of China, Shi Dingzhong is definitely a good official.

"Battalion Commander Li, don't be modest, I also know that the second black man is one of the best bandit leaders in the entire Rehe, with nearly a thousand people under his command, but he was beaten by the soldiers of one of your battalions, and was almost completely wiped out, even Qingfeng Village was lost, and he almost lost his life. It can be seen that Battalion Commander Li's training skills are not ordinary! Shi Dingzhong made no secret of his affection for Li Han.

To be honest, Li Han was also very happy to be affirmed by everyone, after all, the main thing that soldiers care about is honor, Li Han has been in the army for half a year, and he has fought a lot of battles.

has gradually faded away from the immaturity of students, and their bodies have become stronger, more and more like a soldier, and they also take the honor of soldiers very seriously, no wonder some people say that the barracks are the place where men grow the fastest.

In the end, under the leadership of Shi Dingzhong, the Jianping County Government and the squires in the county pooled 5,000 oceans to Li Han as the military expenses for this military trip, and Li Han certainly would not refuse such a good thing. The current expenses of the troops are still very large, and it would be good if they could have enough to eat if they relied on that little military salary alone.

Of course, Li Han didn't take this money for nothing, in front of the county magistrate and his fathers and fellow villagers, Li Han leaned on his chest and said loudly: "In the future, the security and defense of the entire Jianping County will all fall on my head." ”

If this was said before today, it is estimated that everyone would have treated Li Han as a fart, after all, everyone knows what kind of goods the Northeast Army is, in addition to being able to play tricks, the only thing left is to ask them for money.

But after seeing Li Han's true strength, everyone has a different opinion of Li Han's Northeast Army, they are not like the soldiers under the 'bandit province' governor Tang Yulin, who are not much different from the bandits, but a group of young but mighty hot-blooded soldiers.

In the past, they did not ask a few bigwigs of the Northeast Army to exterminate this gang of Mongolian bandits, but they always had to pay a fee of tens of thousands of oceans first, which was nothing, after all, it was a lot of money to send troops, and it didn't matter if they shared it.

The main thing is that even if they collect money, few of these guys are willing to do anything, and basically every time the troops come back before they leave the county, saying that the bandits have been beaten away.

It's strange if you don't run, every time you send out troops, you have to go for more than a month, and you start to hype it up before you set off, for fear that the bandits don't know, and when you really send out the troops, you will have to walk for half a month in less than a hundred miles, not to mention the bandits, and I'm afraid that even the rabbits will run out on the mountain.

However, Li Hanhe and the first battalion did not even know about the county government when they went on the expedition, and did not ask the county government and the squires for a penny, and as soon as they made a move, they cleanly eliminated the largest group of Mongolian bandits.

Since the elimination of the second black child, the state of law and order in this part of Chaoyang Road has been fundamentally changed, and the bandits who used to rob homes or rob the road have long disappeared.

In addition to the eradication of bandits in Jianping County and Chaoyang County, there are many caravans to and from Chaoyang Road, which promotes the development of the local economy, and the lives of the people in the two places are getting better and better, and their faces also show a long-lost smile.

Since Li Han returned to his garrison in Jianping County, he began to reorganize his troops, and his four battalions were seriously short of personnel; according to the establishment of the Northeast Army at that time, a regular battalion should have about 600 to 700 people, while the fourth battalion was only a little more than 300, only half of the full strength.

Through the suppression of bandits, Li Han's gains were huge, there were no problems with manpower and weapons and equipment, and the funds were greatly relaxed.

And because of the extermination of the bandits of the second black man, the people of Jianping County returned to their hearts, and the conscription operation was very smooth, and more than 200 people were recruited in just ten days, which was the result of Li Han's careful selection. With the addition of the captured bandits, Li Han already had four or five hundred recruits.

After the reorganization, Li Han's fourth battalion had three infantry companies, each with 200 men, a total of 600 men, a cavalry company of 150 men, a fully manned reconnaissance platoon, a battalion headquarters guard platoon, and confidential personnel, a total of 856 men.

Among them, Wang Dazhu was transferred from the guard platoon to the cavalry company as the company commander, and Wang Wei served as the guard platoon commander. Others continue to do their jobs. The army was expanded, and Li Han did not forget to transfer Wang Wei from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

Wang Wei is one of the few scholars under Li Han, and he also applied for the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall at the beginning, but unfortunately he was not admitted, and then he directly enlisted in the army as a big soldier.

But Wang Wei is a cultural person after all, even if he is a big-headed soldier, Wang Wei's salary is higher than that of ordinary soldiers, because he is a valuable artilleryman. After Wang Wei was favored by Li Han, he was asked by Li Han to leave from the head of the regiment, and then followed him all the way around to fight, and was one of Li Han's hardcore henchmen.

It's a pity that because Li Han was only a company commander before, his rights were very limited, so he had to let Wang Wei be his big butler, and he had been responsible for managing logistics and baggage.

Because of Shi Dingzhong's help, the county magistrate of Chaoyang County also asked Li Han to help them clean up the bandits, so since the expansion of the army. Li Han's fourth battalion began a large-scale crackdown on bandits in two counties with companies as units.

On the one hand, it was used for military training, and there were too many recruits in the fourth battalion, and Li Han was not at ease if he didn't pull them out for training. On the one hand, they can also get a lot of extra money by taking out bandits.

These bandits are all very rich, but because of their identities, Li Han will not feel a little guilty when he moves.

Of course, these things are all done by several company commanders under his command, but Li Han is thinking about another thing, yesterday there was news from the regiment commander, Japan seems to be planning to do something in Rehe, he asked Li Han to be careful, Rehe is now like a powder keg, it may explode at any time.

Li Han also knew that it was certain that the Japanese would attack Rehe, because taking Rehe would be equivalent to truly controlling the entire Northeast region, ensuring the security of the core of the puppet Manchukuo they had established, and at the same time cutting off the assistance of the Northeast Volunteers outside the Guanwai, making the Northeast Volunteers outside the Guanwai a lone army.

So Li Han has been preparing for the battle, these days, due to the continuous suppression of bandits by the fourth battalion, the bandits near Chaoyang Road are almost extinct, and at the same time, Li Han has also harvested more than 100,000 oceans again. And because these bandits were more or less connected with the Japanese, they seized a lot of Type 38 rifles.

In addition, Li Han originally had a lot of 38-type rifles, in order to facilitate supplies, Li Han simply replaced the rifles of the whole battalion with 38 big covers, and the other rifles were sold by Li Han to the guards of the big landlords and the local militia.

If you don't look at the military uniform, you don't know that you think this is a Japanese army, and the rifles are all Japanese-style rifles, Japanese-style grenadiers, and even the cavalry's sabers are Japanese-made.

When the local militia groups and landlords heard that Li Han was going to sell rifles, they flocked to the land of the Republic of China, and bandits were everywhere, so many wealthy people would form some vigilante groups to protect their lives and property.

Although because of the appearance of Li Han, the bandits in Chaoyang Road are extinct, but Li Han is a guest army after all, and he may be transferred away at any time, and Rehe has been full of gunpowder recently, and the war seems to be about to break out at any time, and having a gun in his hand can also make these big families feel more at ease.

However, the number of guns sold by Li Han this time was huge, and there were 400 guns, of which 200 were Liao-made 13-type rifles made by the Northeast Army, and more than 200 other Hanyang-made, old sleeve, and Shuilianzhu rifles combined.

In order to get a good price for this batch of weapons, Li Han also organized a special auction to put every twenty rifles together for auction. Not to mention, after an auction, Li Han actually harvested 15,000 yuan. Now he has as much as 500,000 in his hands on the ocean alone, and before he knows it, he has become a super rich.

"County Magistrate Shi, I'm bothered."

The day after the auction, Li Han took Wang Wei and several soldiers from the guard platoon to visit the county magistrate Shi Dingzhong.

"It's Camp Commander Li! I wonder what happened to Camp Commander Li's visit to the Humble House? ”

Shi Dingzhong has always had a good feeling about Li Han, but some time ago, Li Han wantonly resold arms, which made the county magistrate Shi, who had always had high hopes for Li Han, a little disappointed.

Now is not a peaceful period, the Japanese army is pressing the border, he thinks that the most important thing for Li Han to do at this time is to reorganize the army for war, but he didn't expect Li Han to resell arms on a large scale, isn't this self-severing his arm!