At the end of the regular military meeting, the brothers stood up and saluted in imitation of the Russian army's system before turning away and going about their own business.

After everyone else left, Song Biao also got up and hugged his fists with Guo Changfeng and the others who were sitting next to him in a daze: "Fourth Master Guo, I am reprimanding these brothers, and I am not polite to you, please forgive me." ”

Guo Changfeng felt that Song Biao was holding a Hongmen banquet to show him, and he was uneasy, so he got up with a smile and hugged his fists and said: "Master Biao is polite, from now on, we will be a family." This family doesn't speak two words, it has been said well since ancient times, there are no rules, there is no circle, the little ones make mistakes, then they have to be reprimanded as strictly as you, and the family law is strict. ”

Song Biao invited Guo Changfeng and the others to sit down without the slightest expression, and then beckoned Li Fugui and the others to come in, transported the conference table back again, and poured tea for these brothers in the Red Clay Cliff, and Guo Changfeng introduced all his brothers to Song Biao.

After a polite exchange, Song Biao and Guo Changfeng asked, "Fourth Master, are you here to do it with me now, or do you have something else?" ”

Guo Changfeng laughed loudly: "Master Biao, now you have a strong reputation and a rich family background, there are no more of us, and there are many of us less, but our brothers still want to follow you to do a great cause." If you eat meat, you can give our brothers a bowl of soup, and our brothers are grateful! ”

Song Biao didn't have much expression and bowed slightly, remembering that he happened to have a pack of Russian cigarettes with him, so he took out this pack of cigarettes and distributed it to everyone, and then suggested to Guo Changfeng: "Fourth master, my person has always spoken simply and directly, making a beard is not a long-term solution, you take your brothers to follow me, I promise to be my own people, on the condition that you have to listen to my discipline." I don't want to train as hard as other brothers, dare to fight, guard a lot and be a local tyrant, and I want to treat everyone equally in the future, I think this may not be a big surname. If you just want to hang up with me, and you don't really want to follow me as a soldier for the time being, then hang a signboard of the Red Clay Cliff Security Brigade alone, and I won't embarrass you. ”

Guo Changfeng hurriedly said: "Master Biao, what you said is really out of sight, the brothers really want to follow you, you just broke up our brothers in the village and assigned them to various troops, I don't have any complaints, because I believe in you, I believe that you will not give our brothers a loss." As the old saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie, you are Junjie, and I am the one who knows the times! ”

Song Biao smiled faintly, thinking that Guo Siye understood this very interestingly, and said: "Okay, you also know that there is really a shortage of manpower on my side." My idea is to divide your team into two, one part will stay at the Red Soil Cliff to form a patrol team and continue to take care of the affairs on the Red Soil Cliff, and the other part will be transferred out and organized as a separate reconnaissance company, which will be under the direct command of my division headquarters. The so-called reconnaissance company is what we call the spy eyeline, which is responsible for watching the wind and guarding the outside and collecting intelligence on the enemy. For example, Xiao Yue sent troops to our side to play swings, we have to know in advance, and prepare in advance to catch him off guard. The team will first form a company, and you will take the position of the battalion commander and the salary, and report to me directly if you have something. ”

Guo Siye immediately got up and hugged his fists and said, "Master Biao, with your words, it will be done, and it is your words that I, Guo Si, are waiting for." I won't tell you the truth, in fact, I also came to you with my family background, of course, our family background is far from being comparable to you, but these three hundred brothers must also have a sincerity, our brothers together, everyone is not separated by a brother, and a big ocean is not divided, all carrying the family background to follow you to do great things. To paraphrase a foreign language, we have donated all these family funds to your grandfather. ”

Song Biao got up and thanked Guo Siye and several other leaders of the Red Clay Cliff Village: "Thank you for your trust, I, Song Biao, am here to give the big guys, as long as I let Song Biao do great things in this life, rest assured, I will not treat you badly." My rules are stricter, but the brothers are not here to be bandits with me, they want to do great things, to do something to glorify the ancestors, to do something that can make the ancestors' graves smoke rise, let's be stricter, so that we can do all these things. ”

As soon as he heard this, Guo Siye and the other brothers in charge immediately replied: "Master Biao, our brothers are going to defect to you to do some big things, kill Xiao Yueben, or kill Russian Maozi, it's all a matter of your words." ”

After everyone finished speaking, Guo Siye continued: "Master Biao, let's say one more big word on behalf of the brothers, you are going to rebel, and our brothers will follow you. Let's have a quarrel with the brothers, you have to give a thumbs up when you talk about it, I think Li Hongzhang didn't do Xiao Yuben back then, and now the governor of Zhili is surnamed Yuan, he is said to have been rolled all over the ground by Xiao Yuben back then? You good guy, tens of thousands of kills, that's happy enough, don't look at Xiao Yueben also sent some guns and bullets to our masters, but we are really unhappy that he has been in his heart for several lifetimes, and he has long wanted to ram his fucking stick, but he is afraid that he will not be able to kill them. ”

Song Biao slapped his hands quite happily and said: "Kill foreign devils with me, there are many opportunities, the fourth master and the brothers can rest assured, okay, from now on, your brothers from the Red Clay Cliff are my subordinates." The red clay cliff is under the control of me Song Biao from now on, and I will set up wine tonight and drink it without getting drunk. ”

"Thank you for your appreciation!"

Guo Changfeng and the others were excited, they knew that from now on they would be a member of the Manchurian Infantry Division, and Xiao Yue would have to make a detour when he met them, not to mention that the Great Qing Kingdom was thinking about Zhao'an at the moment, even if he didn't recruit An, just the goods of the Eight Banners Battalion and the Green Battalion, which of the troops of the Great Qing State would dare to provoke the Manchurian Infantry Division.

The brothers know it in their hearts!

After Song Biao and Guo Changfeng reached an agreement, this asked people to prepare a banquet in Niujiabao and officially hold a wine for the brothers in the Red Clay Cliff, and Song Biao sent Zhao Tingzhu to the Red Clay Cliff to do it together.

Taking advantage of this interval in the afternoon, Song Biao personally took Guo Changfeng and these leading brothers of Hongtu Cliff to watch the training of Yang Tiesheng's department, from queue training to tactical training, a complete set of training observations, Guo Changfeng and others were secretly smacking their tongues and admiring.

Really set foot in the interior of the Manchurian infantry division, they can feel how big the gap between Song Biao's troops and the bandits is, Song Biao's side has arranged more than a dozen Russian non-commissioned officers as instructors, from top to bottom, even if there is no need for Song Biao to make detailed adjustments, the regular training of the troops is also orderly, completely using Western-style classics.

With the help of Russian instructors, the Beidian artillery training camp on the north side of Niujiabao has been established, and more than 20 rapid-fire guns of the 31-year-old army are used as training guns for normal training.

The cavalry training camp of the Manchurian Infantry Division is located between Nandian Tunzi and Niujiabao, and the horse shed base is set up here, and now there are still more than 1,000 war horses for training, all of which are senior officers selected from the Cossack cavalry as instructors.

Guo Changfeng and others looked at it carefully, it was really envious.

After waiting for two days, Guo Changfeng's group of people were properly placed, and Song Biao personally issued them a batch of officer uniforms, dressed up in human appearances, equipped with revolvers, and then they all rode the Oriental horses stolen from the Yue army, and went all the way to the Red Clay Cliff for formal reception work.

Laterite cliff is named because the mountains in the territory are mostly red soil, according to the jurisdiction belongs to Tonghua County, but it still belongs to the Hunjiang region in a broad sense, Guo Changfeng's village is located in a position called seventy-two ditches, there is a gold mine here, Guo Changfeng guards this gold mine over the day.

Because of the gold mine, the beards on Guo Changfeng's side rarely go down to rob, but like other powerful beard teams, they generally rely on local protection fees to get by, but unlike Liu Tongcang, Guo Changfeng did not hoard land locally.

There are more than 1,000 acres of land along the Red Clay Cliff River, because it is a frontier area, there are few people and the land is barren, most of the areas are flat forests, and after the trees are cut down, they can be the most fertile large fertile fields.

Song Biao took a team of people and horses, and together with Guo Changfeng's team, rode to the village of Seventy-two Ditch, and looked at the past along the way, he estimated that the entire laterite cliff could be reclaimed at least 7,000 hectares of land.

What a place.

Surrounded by mountains, it is also relatively easy to guard.

The road to the village is very rugged, the last few miles can only lead the horse, and when it is halfway up the mountain, Guo Changfeng, who has changed into a navy blue officer uniform, pointed to a river ditch at the foot of the mountain in front of him with a horsewhip, and Song Biao reminded: "Master Biao, there is the gold mine controlled by our village." This mine is good, there is a harvest of five or six hundred taels of gold every year, and it is precisely because we occupy this mine that in previous years, we basically did not go down the mountain to fight the squires and rich households. Our large forest is full of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many people in the village who are born in the medicine, everyone picks medicine every year and sells it to the medicinal herb shop in the county, and the land with dozens of rings is planted in the area of Nanping Dagangou, and some bud rice is also planted on the mountain, which is considered to have food and drink. If you want to say this, our brothers are not bad, you say that Feng Linge, Jin Shoushan those bearded people, those brothers under their hands may not be more comfortable than us, our village and Dagangou Nanpingzi side alone the old ladies are more than 100, even me, half of the brothers are married, and even a few babies in the family. We are really not bad, but that little man is not idle, they sent us some foreign guns, but they also have the idea of our gold mine, and have sent several groups of people to investigate our gold mine. Don't look at us who haven't read a book, and we don't know a few big characters, but we know in our hearts that Xiao Yue didn't have a good heart, and now he is recruiting us to do things for him, so he naturally doesn't move us, maybe one day he won't need us, and he can immediately drive away all our brothers, and just find an excuse to occupy our gold pit. ”

Song Biao stopped and looked at the gold pit from a distance, this is a gold mine with both rock and ditch mines, and the output must be not small.

There are many gold mines in Hunjiang, and they can also rank among the top three in a large gold province like Jilin, and this gold mine in Seventy-two Daogou is relatively famous.

He looked at it for a while, and then said to Guo Changfeng: "Since I'm here, there's nothing to do with Xiao Yueben." You reassure the brothers, since most of us are still local villagers, I will say that as long as I guard this gold mine, I will use all the gold produced in it to build canals, roads, and private schools, which are all places where money can be spent, and we don't expect to feed us with gold. We still have to count on the livelihood in the field, and if this place is well managed, it must have six or seven thousand hectares of land, and how much grain will be harvested in a year. When the time comes, let's let the babies in the Red Clay Cliff go to private schools to study, and in the future, we will also open a military school like Xiao Yueben, and the babies of our brothers' families will go to the military school early, start reading from a young age, and go out to be officers in the future. The old ones farm at home, and the young ones fight outside to protect the safety of the water and soil, which is the long-term solution. ”

Guo Changfeng said with a smile: "So let's say that we still have a chance to follow Biao Ye." ”

Song Biao lifted the horsewhip and pointed to the stockade in front of him, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the stockade, it's tiring enough to walk on this road, go to the stockade to have a good rest." ”

"Okay, the brothers must be in a hurry!"

Guo Changfeng laughed, patted his new military uniform again, and said to Song Biao: "Master Biao, look at how I look, let's make a living, the brothers must be very greedy when they see it." ”

Song Biao smiled faintly.

He didn't have too much to worry about, the reason why he had to wait for two more days in Niujiabao was to wait for Zhao Tingzhu's team to stabilize here, at this time, there were also a squadron of the Manchurian Infantry Division in Guo Changfeng's 72 ditches, and he brought Li Dayun's guard company here, so theoretically there would be no chaos.