Chapter 22 The Rogues are flying all over the sky
The retreat of the most powerful volunteers in the coalition army gave the crusade led by Sheng Shicai the effect of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle. The rest of the troops could not withstand Ma Zhongying's fierce offensive and retreated, which eventually turned into a major rout.
The fact that the volunteers withdrew to Dihua without saying hello and caused the defeat of the coalition army made Sheng Shicai's suspicion and resentment towards Zheng Runcheng deeper and deeper, and it had reached a point where it could not be resolved at all.
On November 23, the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Sheng Shicai convened a military meeting. In the same way as dealing with Chen Zhong, Tao Mingyue, and Li Xiaotian, more than ten major generals of the anti-Japanese volunteer army, including Zheng Runcheng, Yang Yaojun, Ying Zhanbin, and Su Guo, were arrested on the spot, and the main generals of the planning army, Antonov and Bapingut, were arrested at the same time. All those arrested were held in a special prison on the premises of the Superintendent's Office.
At the end of the same year, Ma Zhongying besieged Dihua City. Sheng Shicai killed Zheng Runcheng in prison in January of the following year in order to eliminate hidden dangers, abandoning his body in the wilderness, and his bones were difficult to find.
So far, this heroic unit of the Volunteer Army, which withdrew from the Soviet Union despite all difficulties and has always looked forward to entering the customs to resist Japan, and another White Russian naturalized army, which was once well-known at home and abroad, have been completely annihilated in the long river of history.
In December, Sheng Shicai again placed Xinjiang Provincial Interim Chairman Liu Wenlong and his family under house arrest on suspicion of treason, forcing him to hand over all his rights. Liu Wenlong was then shot to death, and an elderly and sick old bureaucrat Zhu Ruiqi was appointed as the provincial chairman. In March of the following year, Zhu Ruiqi fell ill and died. At this point, Sheng Shicai completely grasped the military and political power of Xinjiang Province and began his eleven-year-long warlord rule in Xinjiang, known as the "King of Xinjiang".
When Sheng Shicai used intrigues and tricks to eliminate dissidents and ascend to the highest throne of the ruler of Xinjiang, there was a person who always had a shadow in his heart, and that was Hu Fei. Others didn't know, but Sheng Shicai had long known that Hu Fei led the special forces to leave the volunteers. For this reason, Sheng Shicai has secretly sent people to various parts of Xinjiang to find traces of the volunteers many times.
Although the number of Hu Fei's special forces is small, Hu Fei has a deep impression on Sheng Shicai. Sheng Shicai has been calculating others all his life, and the only time he was calculated was the time when he was blocked by Hu Fei to the Xicheng Hotel. Sheng Shicai faintly felt in his heart that Hu Fei would definitely be his henchman in the future, and he would never be relieved if he didn't get rid of him as soon as possible.
In fact, Sheng Shicai is completely overwhelmed. For such a powerful and scheming person, Hu Fei is too late to hide, will he have nothing to do to trouble the king of Xinjiang?
After leading his troops to leave from the Volunteers, Hu Fei went deep into the interior of Xinjiang, and even wandered near the national border for a time. After a period of psychological struggle, Hu Fei finally stayed in China. In order to avoid the eyes and ears of Zheng Runcheng and Sheng Shicai, Hu Fei completely reorganized the Einsatzgruppen!
The volunteers stopped screaming, and the Einsatzgruppen flags were burned. Hu Fei remade a flag for his cavalry troops, on which were three dragons flying and phoenixes dancing in black characters "flying all over the sky". In the interior of Xinjiang, there is a new rogue armed force "flying all over the sky", and the special forces of the volunteer army have completely disappeared between heaven and earth.
Without the name of the Einsatzgruppen, Hu Fei is not called Hu Fei, he has changed his name to Mantianfei, where can Zheng Runcheng and Sheng Shicai find it?
Whether it is Sheng Shicai, Ma Zhongying, including Ganiyaz, they are all aiming to capture the city and occupy the territory. Hu Fei was different, his "flying all over the sky" cavalry did not have the slightest awareness of occupying the city. Not to mention a big city, even if it is a small county town, it has not been occupied, at best, it has only occupied individual towns and villages for a short time.
Anyway, Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, and as long as you go to any mountain, as long as you bring enough food and drinking water, no one will be able to find out even if you stay in it for a year and a half.
Hu Fei didn't have to hide in the mountains where no one was there for the rest of his life when he left the Volunteers, he had to keep abreast of the outside information at all times, so as to look for favorable opportunities to move. Even if he is a rogue, doesn't he have to rob and trade to live? Nearly 200 people did not follow him to hide in Tibet and suffer poverty and starvation, Hu Fei had to find a way to improve everyone's material life and spiritual world.
To this end, Hu Fei sent out a large number of spies to operate among the large and medium-sized towns in Xinjiang in the name of businessmen.
Due to the lack of communication equipment, carrier pigeons are generally used to communicate between the spies and the large army. Although this method of communication was simple and primitive, it was the most convenient and effective method under the circumstances.
The news that Sheng Shicai framed Zheng Runcheng and other volunteer generals was known to Hu Fei in the second month after the incident. When he got the news, Zheng Runcheng and others had actually been killed. Sheng Shicai occupies the provincial capital and has strong soldiers, and Hu Fei is powerless even if he wants to take revenge. The only thing he could do was to light a few sticks of incense in the direction of Dihua City and burn a few pieces of yellow paper.
The Volunteers have military regulations, and Hu Fei has military law. Although he has become a rogue again, Hu Fei still adheres to the bottom line in his heart. The poor people do not rob, the widows and lonely do not rob, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are relieved, and the filial sons and chastews are comforted. Those who were robbed by "flying all over the sky" were either local tyrants and bullies, or traitor spies related to devils.
With flexible tactics and relatively sophisticated weapons, and sometimes relying on his own strong martial arts to win, Hu Fei managed to incorporate several local bandit forces during this period. The "Flying in the Sky" gang has continued to grow steadily, and its total number has exceeded 300 people.
On this day, Hu Fei was playing with his ghost head knife, and there was a "flutter" sound, and a white carrier pigeon fell from the sky. The pigeon on his leg helped the secret letter, which said: There is a caravan from Hami to Shanshan, with 70 men and 50 camels, and it will pass through the Loess Slope in three days.
Done! If you don't rob the people, it doesn't mean that you won't even rob the caravan, and if you don't do anything, you will starve to death if you don't do anything!
Hu Fei wrote a few letters, took out the pigeons from the cage, tied the letters one by one, and released them! Seeing that the carrier pigeon flew higher and higher, Hu Fei ordered the troops to assemble!
The 300 people who are "flying all over the sky" are not all together. Usually 300 people are divided into several groups, and each group is led by a general. Usually there is a small job, just do their own work, come to the big business and then gather together to do it together!
Hu Fei leads less than a hundred people every day, and there may be seventy caravan personnel on the other side, and it is a little difficult for him, a small hundred people, to eat alone. Gotta get 300 people together and do it together! The letter written by Hu Fei was an assembly order, ordering the generals to lead their troops to the Loess Slope two days later!
There was still some distance from the loess slope, and Hu Fei ordered the troops to set off immediately after they were ready. I haven't done business for half a month, and everyone from Hu Fei to the soldiers is a little excited. This time, if you can grab valuable things, you can go to the city to drink and gamble for money to find a woman!
Hungry for wine, food, and beautiful women, they rode on horseback on the gravel ground. In addition to the weathered stone hills, there are stone slabs in this vicinity, and I dare not run fast when riding a horse, for fear of breaking the horse's hooves. There are still two hours to go from the loess slope, and suddenly a string of bells came from the air, "Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell".