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After Duan Qirui said goodbye to Wang Bin's house, two telegrams also arrived at Wang Bin's hands one after another, and the contents of the telegrams were very simple, they were sent by Ma Longbiao, the commander of the first town of the standing army stationed in Jilin Province, and Xu Dajun, the commander of the second town of the standing army stationed in Heilongjiang Province.

The telegram clearly stated that the two towns had arrived at the garrison one after another, and were carrying out the plan set by Wang Bin to suppress the bandits, since the last time Wang Bin and Xu Dajun Ma Longbiao had instructed the method of suppressing bandits, Ma Longbiao and Xu Dajun returned to the barracks as soon as they left Wang Bin's mansion and began to reorganize the army.

After the two returned to the camp, they first asked all the officers to restrain their non-commissioned officers and prepare to pull out the camp, and then sent people to replenish ammunition and prepare to leave for Jilin Province (Heilongjiang Province), when Wang Bin won over Duan Qirui, Xu Dajun and Ma Longbiao's troops finally reached their destination, and sent this telegram to Wang Bin.

Now Xu Dajun and Ma Longbiao arrived at the station, and immediately began to announce that their group had come to suppress the bandits in accordance with Wang Bin's order, and deliberately made the momentum very huge, as if they were afraid that others would not know that their group had come to suppress the bandits this time, and after arriving at the station, the information of the bandits spread throughout Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province for the first time.

But as a result, these officers and soldiers were not circled after entering the woods, and in the end, these bandits were bold, and even dared to openly exchange fire with the officers and soldiers of the official family, and every exchange of fire ended in the victory of the bandits, only a few times because the reinforcements of the officers and soldiers came too quickly to cause failure, but even so, these bandits still hit these officers and soldiers hard, so the bandits in these two places have always looked down on the officers and soldiers, because the officers and soldiers are too easy to bully, In particular, there are either Japanese or Russians standing behind several of these giant bandits, and these external forces naturally ask for money and guns for these valuable bandits.

In this way, coupled with the natural temperament of these bandits, the reason why these bandits have a strong temperament is also very simple, as the saying goes, "people are in a hurry to be bandits, and dogs are in a hurry to bite."

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Northeast has been ravaged by the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russian invasion and the Russo-Japanese War, resulting in a flood of guns and bandits in the local area. Basically, most of them are debtors, gamblers, wanted criminals and bankrupt farmers.

These people who have lost hope in life can not have a strong temperament?

The ancestor of these bandits was an outlaw among the Shandong and Hebei refugees who broke into the eastern part of the Guandong during the Xianfeng period, because the Qing court transferred the Northeast Eight Banners Army into the pass to encircle and suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so the troops outside the pass were empty, and the bandits, that is, "beards", took advantage of the weakness.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, a large number of Huai Army, Hunan Army, and Northeast Garrison Army were defeated in Korea and the Liaodong Peninsula, which also led to many defeated troops wandering everywhere in the Kwantung region.

Especially after the First Sino-Japanese War, the number of "beards" in the northeast increased greatly, with a minimum of thousands and tens of thousands of beards per share.

Therefore, just relying on the combat effectiveness of the patrol battalion under the local government, it is simply wishful thinking to deal with these vicious bandits.

Moreover, although there are more bandits in this era, it is not a simple matter to become a bandit, because the bandit leader is afraid of mixing in with the spies, or other bandits will come here to abduct guns and horses, so it is stipulated that when a new person joins the gang, he must be sponsored by a sponsor.

Secondly, there is an interview, which is "passing the hall".

The main reason for the "passing through the hall" is that the bandit leaders want to see if the interviewer has the guts.

The first test is to have the interviewee follow the interviewee to find a robbery target, to find out the news alone without being given a weapon, to step on the predetermined crime scene, and so on.

The second test is to put a gourd on the head, and the bandit leader suddenly raises a gun and shoots the gourd to see if the interviewee is scared to pee his pants.

The interview is passed, it is the formal induction ceremony, the bandits should be "worshipped", the new recruits in front of everyone to insert incense and swear to the sky, the content of the oath roughly includes: to be with everyone with one heart, do not betray friends, do not rebel, do not leak the rumors, if you violate the law then a thousand knives and so on, after the oath is completed, you have to visit the bandit gang "four beams and eight pillars" leaders one by one, accept the training, these people who have just become bandits, at first were all called cubs.

The gang usually only takes care of the cubs' food and shelter, and does not pay salaries, and the wages are not paid until the end of the year, but this salary is not easy to get.

The newly joined cubs have no guns or horses, and every time they go out to fight and rob, they just use a wooden gun wrapped in red cloth to scare people.

Once you have a real gun, you have to work hard, such as charging in front and retreating in the back. The cubs marched during the day every day, and at night they had to take turns standing guard and feeding the horses, and they had no time to sleep at all, which was more tiring than doing long work.

So the bandit industry seems to be very easy to get started, but it is not easy to do.

Since the news that Xu Dajun and Ma Longbiao came to suppress the bandits came out with great fanfare this time, the people of these two provinces hope from the bottom of their hearts that these officials and soldiers can wipe out the bandits, but because of the futility of the officials and troops in the past and the brutality of the bandits, most of these ordinary people still have no hope for the suppression of bandits, thinking that these officers and soldiers are nothing more than a repetition of the previous situation: they are afraid of being beaten by bandits, and then they don't do anything.

For a long time, the bandits' behavior outside the customs is very brutal, from time to time there will be some burning, killing and looting, sometimes there will even be rumors of slaughtering villages, only some villages because there are large households to pay to form a guard to protect the village can have the ability to protect the village, but most of the villages do not have such ability.

After Xu Dajun and Ma Longbiao learned of this situation, they immediately began to suppress the bandits, according to Wang Bin's plan, Xu Dajun and Ma Longbiao first spread the news of the bandits, and then went to exterminate those small bandits, and when they exterminated these small bandits, they also dispatched absolute forces to crush these beards, one is to let more soldiers temper them, and the other is to use absolute strength to suppress bandits, so that those giant bandits think that their side can only dare to suppress bandits under the condition of absolute strength. Let the beards think that these officers and soldiers are purely bullying people with more people, but in fact they have no combat effectiveness. (To be continued.) )