Chapter 61: Bandits are Bandits

In February 4602 of the Yanhuang calendar, after the outbreak of the Russo-Russian War, in addition to fighting on the battlefield, the two countries invariably set their sights on the bandits active in the northeast.

Senior Colonel Madmaddorf, a senior staff officer of the Russian [***] team, believes that intelligence gathering is a big problem for Tsarist Russia to fight on its territory, and in order to facilitate the army's operations, it is necessary to form a special task force composed of locals led by the Russian army. His ideas attracted the attention of the headquarters of the Russian Far Eastern Army, so he was assigned to recruit bandits in the northeast to assist the Russian army in the war. In order to unify management and coordination, all recruited bandits tied white towels on their shoulders or arms, and the common people privately called them "flower arm teams".

Correspondingly, the Yue army also began to buy the Northeast bandits in full swing. Specifically, the implementation of this action was carried out by Hanada Nakanosuke, Qiao Tiemu and others. Hanada Nakanosuke is the junior assistant of the General Staff Department, and this person disguised himself as a wandering monk long before the Russo-Russian War, and spying on intelligence in Northeast China. He learned to speak fluent Northeast dialect and became familiar with bandits from all over the country, and the bandits called him "Lord Hua".

After the start of the war between Russia and Russia, Hanada immediately lobbied the top of the military department to recruit and train local bandits to fight the Russian army, which was supported by Kodama Gentaro, chief of staff of the Japanese army. So, with a huge amount of military spending, this Lord Hua pulled up the banner with red letters on a white background in Phoenix, wrote "Manchurian Righteous Army", and began to recruit troops.

On a forest path leading to Anton, hundreds of people were riding along the horses in the direction of Anton, the horse team kicked up a puff of dust in the forest, and the riders on horseback were either wearing military uniforms or civilian clothes, all of them were dressed in a messy manner, even those wearing military uniforms were wearing various military uniforms of the two armies of the Russian and Russian armies, but their weapons were all Murata-style rifles.

Such a team has also been common in the past year, carrying the weapons on their backs are naturally the local beards of the Northeast recruited by the Yue army in the Northeast, and many lands in the Northeast region for various reasons choose to cooperate with the Yue himself rather than the Russians, they search for intelligence for the Yue army, and even cooperate with the Yue army to carry out countermeasures behind enemy lines, and the reward is money and weapons.

After the rise of the Anti-Russian Volunteer Army last year, some bandits were reorganized by the Volunteer Army, but there are still a large number of bandits serving the army, after the conflict between China and the People's Republic of China, only a very small number of people are still serving the army, except for the sabotage team behind the enemy line directly managed by the army such as the Yongshao Advance Team, there are also some remnants of the armed forces, and among these people, of course, there are some bandits, Zhang Zuolin is one of them, whether it is the rise of the anti-Russian army or the early stage of the conflict, he has not joined the anti-Russian army before, and then he is not like other bandits, chose to return to the mountains and forests to do his old job.

Last year, in his opinion, the risk of resisting the Russian army was too great, and now, if he still does his old job, he is afraid that he will be exterminated by the official army in the end. The reason why he continued to serve the Yue army was that Zhang Zuolin had actually been waiting for an opportunity, a suitable opportunity.

"Since ancient times, rebelling against Zhao'an is a shortcut to the end of the south to get promoted, and there is no big profit in the dry green forest, and in the end, the crockpot will not be broken from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle, either by the government or by the black hands of the same way, and the two will be one of them."

Zhang Zuolin on horseback muttered such a sentence repeatedly in his heart, the opportunity he was waiting for was the opportunity to be recruited, knowing that he missed the opportunity to resist the Russian army and become an officer and officer, while feeling annoyed in his heart, he was looking for a second opportunity, and now, he is working hard for this opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zuolin cast his eyes on Zhao Yuchen beside him, he was an officer sent by the First Army to contact him, as long as he captured the Anton Railway Bridge, his horse team could be reorganized into a battalion, the commander of the Major Battalion of the Imperial Guard, which would make him admire his foresight in his heart, when those people fled to the mountains, he recognized a little, sooner or later the country will use himself, on the side of the road and bridge, he often goes, almost once a month, he has to go at least once a month, and he has already been familiar with those who say that he is, There was only one squadron guarding the bridge.

Although he knew that he would not have any precautions against himself, when he returned to look at the more than 100 officers and soldiers mixed in the team, Zhang Zuolin still frowned, and lightly rode his horse, Zhang Zuolin approached Zhao Yuchen next to him.

"Chief Zhao, your morale is too heavy, can you ......?"

With a smile on his face, Zhang Zuolin spat out lightly.

"Let the brothers think about women and tickets when they meet me later! Don't think about what's on the side! ”

Zhang Zuolin, who has been an official soldier and a bandit, naturally knows the difference between soldiers and bandits, even if they are Qing soldiers who are not much different from bandits in the past, they look different from bandits.

"Big boss, don't worry, although the brothers are officers and soldiers, they are also men!"

When Zhao Yuchen replied, his face suddenly appeared that he used to break into the rivers and lakes to walk the dart Cullen when the dart head of the look, the dart head of Zhao Xuchen, for more than ten years to dart in the area of Kulun without a flash famous, Cullen's recovery, after the Zhangku Avenue was built by the sappers, the military stations set up every forty miles along the line made him lose his livelihood, coinciding with the expansion of the Liberation Army, and after being introduced, he entered the search battalion directly under the North China Command of the Liberation Army.

This time, he led 63 sharp soldiers of the search battalion of the North China Command to cooperate with Zhang Zuolin's horse team to seize the Andong Railway Bridge, and most of the dozens of them he brought were veterans of deep behind enemy lines and explosives and special attacks, and the most important thing was that most of these top soldiers were born as dart masters, and they were far easier to hide among the horse team bandits than ordinary top soldiers.

The Yalu River is a boundary river located between China and North Korea. In ancient times, it was called Hunshui, the Han Dynasty called Mazi Water, and the Tang Dynasty began to call the Yalu River (the Sui and Tang dynasties called the Datong River), because its river water is clear and resembles a duck's head, and it is called the "Yalu River".

As the competition between Russia and Russia for interests in Northeast China intensified, a dog-eat-dog war finally broke out on Chinese soil in 1904. Before the war, the two imperialist countries deployed troops on both sides of the Yalu River. The Russian army garrisoned the area of Jiulian City with 20,000 troops; The army was stationed in the vicinity of Uiju in Korea with 30,000 troops. The two sides confronted each other across the river. On April 18, 1904, the army began to cross the river, and the first battle of the land war of the Russo-Japanese War - the Battle of Jiuliancheng was launched. In May, in order to transport military supplies, he built a hand-pressed military light railway between Andong and Phoenix without authorization. In July, it was rebuilt into a narrow-gauge military light railway for small rolling stock, and extended to Mukden.

During the war, in order to supply military supplies, he established a commercial rice factory in Andong and opened a military lumber factory. Although the strategic location here is relatively important, perhaps because in the past nearly a year, the army has always had an advantage in the Liaodong battlefield, and the front line needs troops, which makes this relatively important road and bridge, except for leaving a squadron of bridge guards, and not leaving more troops, but after the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese conflict, In order to prevent the riots of the Chinese people in Anton, he recruited more than 100 overseas Chinese in the city to form a volunteer team to guard against the Chinese people in the city.

Under the cover of Zhang Zuolin and his entourage, Zhao Yuchen and others, who were carrying the banner of the "Manchurian Loyal and Righteous Army", smoothly passed through several whistle posts on the way to Dandong, without any concealment, and completely swaggered on the official road on horseback and walked with guns on their backs.

"Grandma's bear! Lao Tzu is in front of you to help this group of very short files fight the official army, and the dog said that he went into the city to find a bitch, and he was damn pushing! ”

Zhao Yuchen on horseback scolded while riding towards the wooden bridge with everyone.

Lieutenant Yoshimura, who was guarding the bridge, saw the "loyal army" with a bloody towel tied on his body and an embarrassed appearance, so he smiled in his heart, and it must have been the Manchurian bandits who were blasted out of the city by Noda Shaoza, and recently Andong City has not allowed these bandits to enter again, but these people have run a hundred and ten miles to get here, just to relax and relax.

"Where are you going?"

As they approached, Lieutenant Yoshimura shouted in stiff Chinese, and most of the soldiers guarding the bridge looked at the group of bandits with greedy faces.

"Taijun, go to Yiju and say bitch!"

Zhang Zuolin, who had a white cloth wrapped around his forehead, shouted, Anton didn't let him in, but Yizhou always let him in. As he spoke, he threw a black cloth bag over.

"The gentlemen have worked hard, it's a little meaning, it's not a tribute, and I ask the Taijun to make it convenient!"

"Whoa......

With a shake, Yoshimura estimated that there were more than 50 oceans, which was more than his salary in the first half of his service, and when he saw the money, he looked at the horse team of more than 100 people in front of him, let them go, there seemed to be more people.

"That...... There are ...... people."

"Big boss, you take the three masters with you, I and a few old brothers who have been shot here to breathe a sigh of relief, damn, the silver earned with your head, damn with injuries North Korean girls, it's not in vain to cheap those hoove-scratching gangs! Hold the silver and stuff the hole, and say a white one! ”

As soon as Zhao Yuchen said this, there were immediately more than 20 "beards" with white cloths shouting loudly, the smell of scratching in the nonsense, the thick Yoshimura couldn't help frowning, and the soldiers guarding the bridge were even more with admiration on their faces.

"Wow"

Another small bag of silver dollars was thrown to Yoshimura, and Zhang Zuolin clenched his fists.

"Taijun, the brothers were injured in the front, it's not easy, please arrange it for Taijun to get a big meat or something......"

With silver, it is naturally easy to speak, and Zhang Zuolin has already touched the door to this group of birdmen, these little people look like a loyal minister on the surface, but in their bones they are just a group of mongrels who are greedy for money and lustful.

"Certainly, certainly......"

Yoshimura, who took the silver dollar, would refuse, guarding the bridge, which was the way he made his fortune, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, Yoshimura called a military officer.

"Yamaguchi, go arrange food for them!"

Instructed Yoshimura to take out a few silver dollars from his money bag with some reluctance, silver dollars are both Chinese and original, for Yoshimura, these silver dollars are the foundation of his fortune after the end of the war.

"Give the captain 100 yuan a month, and then give ......"

When Zhao Yuchen and his party went to eat under the guidance of a soldier, Yoshimura was counting how much money he could earn by the end of the war, and maybe others would pay for their lives in this war, but Yoshimura, who was born as a merchant in Osaka, saw an opportunity in this war, an opportunity to make a fortune.

"Slow down, slow down, don't rush, take it easy!"

As he walked along the wooden railway bridge toward the other side of the Yalu River, Zhang Zuolin reminded his brothers from time to time that he saw that most of the officers and soldiers with short guns pinned to their waists had untied their pistol holsters.

"Chief Liang, there are probably two squads on the other side of the river, and there was only one squad in the past......

After Zhang Zuolin reminded him, Liang Shan had quietly loaded the magazine for the submachine gun, his eyes were staring at the soldier at the end of the bridge, and the original expression on his face was a little grim.

Lying on the edge of a tree, looking at those busy soldiers, Zhao Yuchen only felt a little strange, these soldiers were completely different from the ones he had come into contact with, except for the old soldiers who were mostly thirty or forty years old, their every move was not like the army, like this, they were busy preparing meals for them for a few oceans, these people were too greedy for money. They didn't even notice that most of the people who remained on the other side of the bridge were scattered around them, and they could be dealt with a single breath of an order.

"Captain, they're still thirty meters away!"

Taking advantage of the stall where the tea was delivered, the soldier carrying the teapot whispered in the ear of Zhao Yuchen.

"Let the big guys get ready, follow the training, and pounce one by one......"

Zhao Yuchen gave an order, and then walked towards Naji Village with a sheepskin wine bag.

"Taijun takes two sips!"

Looking at Yoshimura, who was listening to the silver dollar, Zhao Yuchen raised the sheepskin bag in his hand.

"This is the rice wine I got from a turtle's son, Guanjun, in the south! It's faint and doesn't smell like a bird! ”

"Rice wine!"

Yoshimura was overjoyed when he heard it, and he was not used to drinking Manchurian spirits at all.

"Yes, it's right for you, you taste it!"

The sheepskin bag was thrown towards Yoshimura, as soon as Yoshimura took the wine bag, and when he was about to drink, he felt a sharp pain in his throat, and he lost consciousness as soon as it was dark in front of him, when Zhao Yuchen twisted Yoshimura's throat with his fingers, the gunshots rang out at both ends of the river, and the gunshots did not last long, everything was like the past training, and the submachine gun with the butt was removed from the half-open clothes, and shot at the nearest soldier to him.

The short battle was not fierce at all, and even the vast majority of the soldiers were killed before they could quickly remove the rifles they were carrying on their shoulders.

"Quick! Change clothes! ”

As soon as the battle ended, Zhao Yuchen shouted as he ran towards his war horse, took out a package from behind the saddle, and spread out the package, which was a somewhat worn military uniform.

"Damn, fucking castrate these turtle grandchildren for Lao Tzu!"

On the other side of the river, after the battle was easily resolved, Zhang Zuolin, who had been shot in the arm, looked at the dozen or so soldiers who were tied up by the official army, and gave an order to Tang Erhu.

Last year, Xiaochuan was coaxed by the dog to the Raoyanghe military camp, met Hashimoto Daisa, and watched the soldiers in the barracks. Hashimoto Daisa, please watch the show, the first program, is the training formation, it is indeed very exciting, much more exciting than when he was a soldier. The second one, which began to change its taste, was to pull more than 100 bandits from Feng Lin Pavilion to the field and practice bayonets! All of them were picked to death by the soldiers on the field and pulled out to feed the wolf dogs. The third is to pull the eight leaders of Feng Linge to the field, and Xiao Chuan practiced cutting off their heads, cutting off eight heads in one breath and hanging them on the flagpole.

At that time, Zhang Zuolin was so angry that he kept scolding in his heart: Oriental little nose, I your eight-generation ancestors! However, Zhang Zuolin dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, but now it is different, at the beginning, he pressed the finger print, and finally saved a small life from the Raoyanghe military camp and escaped back, but this time he was a fish and a knife, and he naturally wanted to get back all the anger he had suffered at the beginning.

"Big boss, this is not very good!"

Tang Erhu glanced at Liang Shan, who was changing into his military uniform, and reminded softly that there were too many rules for those officers and soldiers, and if they violated their rules, the future of the big boss would be over.

"It's okay, the officers and soldiers are more ruthless than us to this group of little noses, and besides, ......"

Zhang Zuolin's eyes were horizontal.

"Lao Tzu is still a bandit, not an official army, of course he has to follow the rules of the green forest road in everything!"

When he shouted this, Zhang Zuolin also paid attention to the look of the chief Liang, who didn't seem to listen to him, but just ordered everyone to change their military uniforms.

"Platoon commander, are we really not going to stop them?"

After changing into a military uniform, the soldier looked at the soldier who was dragged into the forest by the group of bandits, walked to Liangshan and asked.

"Stop?"

Liang Shan's eyes widened, "What are you stopping, it's all a group of fucking bandits, let's talk about fucking rules of engagement, no prisoners are allowed, but they are bandits, not to mention that they are castrated, they are scraped by this group of dogs, and it has nothing to do with us!" ”

As he spoke, Liang Shan waved his hand again and shouted at Zhang Zuolin.

"Zhang Da is in charge, you guys are sharp, hurry up and clean up, maybe you will have to cross the train later!"

"Howler!"

When Zhang Zuolin answered, the screams over there had already sounded, it was the man's desperate roar, listening to the miserable shouts, Liang Shan, who had changed into the uniform of a second lieutenant in the army, just smiled, in his opinion, the simplest and most effective way to treat any invading enemy is to be more ruthless than them, only so ruthless that they themselves feel frightened, so that they can not have the idea of daring to fight again.

"Okay, wait another three hours, as long as we wait for three hours, the first cavalry division will arrive!"

There was a signal flare on the Yalu River sticking to the surface of the river, which made Zhao Yuchen breathe a sigh of relief, the bridge was captured, and the rest depends on the big army!

(To be continued)