Chapter 69 The Great Suppression of Bandits in Guangdong

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About 100 gunmen bent forward, covering with a crackling gun from a hundred meters, and 100 men on each side went around. The bullets hit the wooden wall and the sawdust splashed, Xianjiang was so pressed that he couldn't raise his head, the green tendons on his hands burst out, and he looked left and right, his companions were not professional soldiers after all, and they began to panic a little in the face of the bandits' fire suppression.

"Lord Overseer, the bandits are crawling in from both sides!" One of the team members shouted sharply.

The number of people was too small, and the camp was too big to stop the siege of the bandits, and the overseer was more worried about the safety of those workers, so he did not hesitate to order a retreat, and he had to shrink the defense line and organize a defense in the center of the camp.

The bandits on both sides climbed over the wooden wall and prepared to outflank the camp gate, and Xianjiang and the others had already mounted their bicycles and ran towards the center. There were many temporary sheds in the camp, twisting and turning, and the bandits could not catch up with them, so they could only watch them go away. In the center of the camp was a large canteen, with thousands of workers crammed into it, and the convoy immediately organized its defense around it when it arrived. The cafeteria has only one main entrance, flanked by windows more than one person high, and a small kitchen opening at the back, which are all areas that need to be defended. The bandits did not rush in from the time they entered, but only sent a hundred and ten bandits to surround the place, and the rest rummaged through the camp, looking for belongings, which was their purpose.

There were sixty members of the escort team, the number of defense was sufficient, but they did not have the ability to fight head-on, and they were originally equipped with not many bullets, and now they had an average of ten bullets left per person, as well as ten grenades, barely protecting themselves.

There was not much to be found in the shed, but it was only the wages of the workers, which did not add up to more than seven thousand silver dollars. The rest of the tools, building materials, trucks, etc. are not their targets, and now Mao Wu and Liu Dascar are leading people to gather outside the door of the financial room, waiting for duang/duang to smash the door, this is the big head, I heard that the inside line said that there is a monthly salary of more than 50,000 people nearby! The iron door of the financial room could not stop the frantic impact, and it was quickly broken, and the workers who were hundreds of meters away could even hear the cheers of the bandits. Zhou Hai, the captain of the escort team, was about to rush out with his rifle in his hand, but was grabbed by the overseer: "It's okay if the money is gone, the government will compensate for it, and if the people are gone, they will never come back!" Xianjiang also went up to stop him, the safety of workers and property is the responsibility of the escort team, and now that the property has been robbed, he will definitely not be able to run away when the responsibility is investigated, so he is in a hurry like that.

"Brother Zhou, the bandits are powerful, we can't stop them at all, you saved everyone's lives, that's the most important thing. If you pursue it afterwards, everyone will testify for you! After Xianjiang finished speaking, everyone echoed, and Zhou Hai slowly calmed down. Suddenly, everyone heard the panicked shouts of the bandits, and it was too far away to hear clearly, but they could see the bandits running out in a panic around the cafeteria. At the same time, a dense burst of gunfire came from the direction of the camp gate, it was our people! Recognizable by the sound of gunfire, the B1900 rifle! A few seconds later, the workers were even more excited, it was the sound of machine gun clattering, and only the revolutionary army in China and even the world had this kind of weapon!

"Brothers, kill me, and don't let a bandit run away!" Zhou Hai couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed out with the escorts with a shout. The overseer hurried to stop the eager workers, who only had rudimentary cold weapons in their hands, and if there was an injury, it would cause more trouble.

"Throw him old wood, what's the matter?"

"Boss Mao, I don't know where the rebellious army came from, more than a dozen carts and hundreds of soldiers, and machine guns, let's run!" One of his subordinates ran over in embarrassment and shouted, I'm X, what are you waiting for, brothers, withdraw! The bandits' sense of escape was at an elite level, and they scattered and crawled out of the wooden wall, and the bandits were constantly hit by flying bullets.

I have to say that it was a coincidence that more than 600 recruits from the 1st Brigade and 1st Battalion of the 2nd Division who went to Shaoguan took a truck, and originally wanted to camp in this camp, but they didn't expect to encounter robbers and robbers. The superiority of the regular army was evident, and even the new recruits, led by their commanders, were able to exert their greatest power in the face of fleeing bandits in panic. A platoon rushed into the camp in the middle, the rest of the soldiers scattered to surround the perimeter, and the bandits who had climbed out of the wooden wall were knocked to the ground by a barrage of bullets before they could take a few steps. None of the more than 600 bandits escaped the net, Mao Wu and Liu Dascar saw that the situation was not good, and took nearly 100 gunmen to hide in a big room and resist stubbornly. The battalion commander did not compete with them fairly, four machine guns were set up and aimed at the house, several thirty-round magazines were ready, and then the battalion commander took a bullhorn and shouted a few words, meaning to surrender quickly, otherwise the bullets will speak! There was no response, the battalion commander was also an anxious man, and with a wave of his big hand, the machine gunner immediately pulled the trigger, and the dense rain of bullets swept over, penetrating the wooden shed, and he didn't need to look at it to know the bloody rain inside. Xianjiang couldn't bear it, turned his head, and some of his fellow workers were even more unbearable, squatting on the ground and vomiting. Since then, this battalion commander has become famous, and everyone knows that his name is Lu Meng, and he is nicknamed "Lu Tuzi".

A generation of bandits Mao Wu and Liu Dascar died in a work shed, and after interrogation, it was learned that they were the remnants of the bandit brigade organized by the Qing army. Lu Meng was given credit and demerit by his superiors because of this incident, and the iron-blooded side of the provisional government began to be known to the world. Lu Meng doesn't care, he is a genetic officer, he doesn't care about military merits and punishments, he only has orders and obedience in his heart, or he won't give the order to fire without hesitation.

The attack on the workshop made Lu Liang realize that he could no longer condone the situation of bandits in Guangdong to continue, because the government was just established, all aspects were not perfect, the number of troops was too small, and he had to control all the important places in the province, so he could not get out. At present, 30,000 recruits of the Second Division of the Revolutionary Army have completed their initial training and have a certain degree of actual combat ability, and the suppression of bandits is the best opportunity for actual combat training. As soon as the central authorities gave an order, the vigorous campaign to suppress bandits in Guangdong was immediately launched.

The revolutionary army was organized into two armies, with a total of 130,000 men. Among them, the First Division of the First Army is the unit with the longest training and actual combat experience, with the strongest combat effectiveness and the best equipment, and is equipped with more than 500 trucks, and is currently the main combat unit. The Huizhou Military Factory is trying to develop 105-mm howitzers and 122-mm howitzers, and when these heavy artillery are equipped with troops, their firepower and strike capabilities will be raised to a higher level. The Second Division of the First Army has just completed its preliminary training, and the genetic officers and veterans drawn from the First Division form their backbone, and the ratio of veterans to recruits is about 1:15, and the artillery is insufficient, and it still needs to be trained, but they already have combat capability, and they are the main force in this anti-bandit operation. The Third Division of the First Army has been formed and is being trained, but the number of genetics and veterans is insufficient, so the training speed is not fast. The situation was similar to that of the Second Army, the Third Army, and the Third Division of the First Army of the Revolutionary Army.

To suppress bandits, it is necessary to completely eliminate them, not only those armed gangs, but also to eradicate the soil produced by bandits. There are many reasons for the rampant bandits in Guangdong, such as the large number of people and the lack of land, the collusion of officials and bandits, the fierce customs of the people, and the proliferation of guns. The contradiction of more people and less land has been initially resolved, and a large number of laborers have been enriched into factories and construction sites, and the service industry also needs a large number of people, which has greatly alleviated the problem of land contradiction in the rural areas. In addition, high-yield rice seeds have also made the materials abundant, and the farmers can eat enough, who will take the risk to become a bandit? The problem of collusion between officials and bandits was solved when the provisional government took control of Guangdong and sent a large number of administrative staff and policemen, and even if there were a large number of ordinary people among these officials and police, the problem of corruption was minimized by a strict system and a supervision department composed of genetic personnel.

The battle was handed over to the army and the police, and after Lu Liang arranged for the logistics department to do a good job of supplying, he began to work on the solution of the two problems. The people of Guangdong are fierce, but it does not mean that they are fierce and unreasonable, what they need is reasonable organization and guidance. Lu Liang's method is to carry out a national physical fitness campaign, which uses martial arts halls, martial arts schools, and military training as carriers, formulates strict regulations to make sports reasonable and legal, and encourages people to practice martial arts and strengthen the country.

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chinese martial arts reached a peak period, and masters emerged in an endless stream, but some of them cherished the country, served the country and the people, and adhered to traditional morality, which can be called the masters of the times, such as Wong Fei Hung, Huo Yuanjia, Yim Wing Chun, Ip Man and so on. Some use their own kung fu for personal gain, but this kind of person has the ability but is spurned.

With the slogan of "promoting culture, strengthening the country and strengthening the body", the activity called the martial arts movement of the strong country has attracted a large number of martial arts halls and martial arts practitioners to join. Lu Liang specially went to Foshan, Guangdong Province to invite patriotic martial artist Huang Feihong to preside over the sport. Martial arts, which had never been valued by the imperial court, were regarded by the revolutionary party as a carrier of a strong country, which made Huang Feihong very excited, and at the age of 45, he even took the initiative to invite Ryazan and Chen Huashun and other Guangdong martial arts masters to participate in this sport. In order to better manage the Guangdong martial arts industry, the provisional government established the Guangdong Wushu Association to provide financial and material support. The momentum of the powerful martial arts movement has even attracted many martial arts masters from all over the country to Guangdong, all kinds of martial arts competitions, exchanges so that the traditional martial arts glow with a strong force, the provisional government will be homeopathic martial arts and patriotic education combined, did not expect to have an unexpected impact. The Sino-foreign martial arts exchange competition held in Guangzhou attracted masters from more than 30 countries, with more than 100,000 spectators watching, and finally, Huo Yuanjia, a 34-year-old descendant of Lost Trace Boxing from Tianjin, won the championship and became famous in Guangdong, which was seven years earlier than he became famous in Shanghai and founded the Jingwu Sports Association!