Chapter 17: Interview with the Bandits
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the frequent wars in the provinces of the Republic of China, rich landlords in various villages and villages in Shanxi recruited troops and purchased weapons in order to protect themselves, and set up their own village protection teams and village associations. Not far from Yanmen Pass, there is a Sanchagou village that has also set up a village protection team, and the captain of the village protection team is this Liu Xingkui.
Liu Xingkui used to be the king of the mountain on Wutai Mountain for a period of time, and made a fortune by beating white wolves with stuffy sticks and robbing passing pedestrians and merchants, and at the most glorious time, his subordinates once gathered more than 500 thieves.
Later, as Chief Yan often went to Wutai Mountain for sightseeing, and also built a leisure resort on the mountain, the heroes in the mountains and forests were all classified into the ranks of the crackdown. Seeing that the shape was not good, the owner of Liu Zhai had no choice but to give up the cottage industry and go down the mountain to work for others.
The devil is coming! When the village guards heard the news, they all strengthened their vigilance. Commander-in-Chief Fu led his tiger and wolf division into Yanmen, intending to open a battlefield in front of Yanmen Pass and fight to the death with the Japanese invaders! The soldiers of the national army are arrogant, but the villagers near Yanmen Pass are panicked, and they don't know when shells will fall in their yards.
Liu Shanren, the village chief of Sanchagou, packed up the gold and silver, and fled to Taiyuan with his wife, old and young, and took refuge, and Liu Xingkui and his village protection team became unemployed again. With Commander-in-Chief Fu sitting in Yanmen Pass, unemployed young adults like Liu Xingkui no longer dare to do anything wrong like before.
In order to have enough to eat, these guys, who don't know how to farm, but are strong and used to bullying the weak, think of the good thing of joining the national army to eat food and become soldiers. However, most of the leaders of their gang have criminal records in the local area, and they want to be soldiers but are afraid that people will track down their past crimes. Wouldn't it be a miscalculation if he entered the barracks and became a self-defeating snare?
When the gang was hesitating, the scouts sent out by Hu Fei happened to pass by their territory. Some people came into contact with these scouts who stepped on the plate with the mentality of trying it out, but they were pleasantly surprised to find that they were very good at talking to these national troops!
After the scouts went back to report Hu Fei, Hu Fei was naturally overjoyed! In the past, he wanted to recruit a group of bandits, and he always coerced and lured them to do their best, but now someone actually took the initiative to send them to the door, how could he let go of such a good thing? After Hu Fei sent Gou Tianxiao to contact the leaders of these large and small armed forces respectively, today he personally came to the mountain temple to interview these heroes!
There are too many people to come in at once, and the small mountain temple can't stand so many people. Hu Fei asked the heroes outside the temple to enter the temple in batches according to the gang and the mountain, and he wanted to meet them separately!
Liu Xingkui came the earliest, and he came to the first place. The more than 50 people of the Sanchagou Guardian Team all came, but the national army responsible for maintaining order at the gate only let three people in each gang, and Liu Xingkui brought two of the most clever and outstanding pistol skills into the temple to meet Chief Hu.
On one side is the interviewer, and on the other side is the interviewee. On this occasion, no matter how horizontal Liu Xingkui used to be, he has to listen to others here!
Hu Fei is an expert, and he knows everything about the black words of the rivers and lakes and the incision of cottages. Speaking of doing bandits, he is much more experienced than Liu Xingkui.
Life? Age? How many people are in the family? When did you enter the line? What's the biggest case you've ever done? How many lives are there under your hands? After asking these questions, Liu Xingkui's head was sweating, and the two followers next to him glanced straight at the door, and they had already made plans to turn around and flee when they saw that the situation was not good.
"Liu Xingkui, since you plan to join our army, then I have to explain to you in advance some rules that must be followed. If you can do it, you must pay attention to it in the future. If you can't, you can leave with your people now. ”
Hu Fei sat there upright, wearing a brand-new colonel's military uniform, looking like a decent officer of the national army. But Liu Xingkui stood opposite Hu Fei and always felt a kind of pressure, this is not the kind of pressure that robbers meet officials, but a very dangerous feeling, just like the feeling of a little white rabbit facing a big bad wolf!
"Sir, please."
"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. If you join our army, you will obey my orders. If I ask you to kill, you will kill, I will not let you move, even if others slap your big mouth, you will not resist in the slightest. That's the first one, can you do it? ”
"Yes!" Isn't it just obedient, follow you, if you don't listen to you, who will give me food? Liu Xingkui agreed to this very happily.
"The second rule is that the people shall not be harmed at any time! Theft, robbery, rape, homicide, kidnapping for ransom. These must not be repeated! I don't care what you've done before, from today onwards, if you commit it again, you will be severely punished if I find out! Do you understand? ”
"Understood!" Liu Xingkui agreed more happily. If you join the national army, you are a soldier of the country, how can you do evil like before?
"Third ,......"
Hu Fei said ten points in one breath, and Liu Xingkui agreed to each one. Regardless of whether these people can do it in the future, anyway, Hu Fei must be explained in advance. After explaining, Hu Fei took out a piece of paper, and there were the ten articles he just talked about. Let Liu Xingkui sign his name and press his fingerprint, and today's interview will be considered passed.
Liu Xingkui wiped his sweat and walked out of the mountain temple, and there were familiar leaders of other gangs outside who came to inquire about the situation, Liu Xingkui just smiled and shook his head, he didn't reveal a word about the situation in the mountain temple. There is a clause prohibiting the leakage of military secrets on the top ten military regulations, and Liu Xingkui remembered it.
Liu Xingkui went out, and Hu Fei took over the interview. Interviews went on like this. There are also those who retreat after listening to the ten military regulations, and Hu Fei naturally can't let go of this kind of person!
You want to go, don't you? OK! Let's close the case you committed in the past! If there is a murderer, pay for his life! There are robberies, and the number of killings is over! If there is a pit and abduction, as long as it crosses the line, it will also be killed! As for those numbers and the so-called boundaries, isn't it Hu Fei's final say? I said that you robbed a huge amount, that is, it is huge! Even if you only grab a copper plate, it's a huge amount!
Of course, who of these people like this one today will only grab a copper plate? Among the people who came, especially those who were in charge, which one of them did not commit a lot of crimes and have committed a lot of crimes? Picking out a few random items and sentencing them to decades in prison is light. In Hu Fei's place, any one of the heavier sentences is the death penalty!
Slaughter the head of the army, and the rest of the minions are directly scattered to each unit, isn't that an increase in strength! With Ji Jinbiao and Xiong Wei in town, Hu Fei believes that it won't be long before these newly recruited minions will become part of his cavalry brigade!
Gangs merge and forcibly recruit bandits, Hu Fei doesn't know how many times Hu Fei has done this kind of thing, he is simply too familiar with the number of roads here. Don't look like there are dozens of gangs that have taken refuge, and by noon, Hu Fei will have dealt with more than half of them!
Just when Hu Fei was about to take a breath and eat some food in the afternoon, the signal soldier came to report: The group army headquarters has sent a telegram!