In the early morning of May 27, a train of the Huainan Coal Mine Railway was moving from south to north, the sky was gloomy, as if with a kind of ominous, on both sides of the Huainan Railway, you could see the blue, yellow and red tricolor flags and banners celebrating the liberation of Anhui everywhere, in the past two days and one night, in addition to the student army of more than a dozen Huangpu schools such as the Anhui Wanjiang School and the uprising of the local party, the backbone force was the Guangfu Army composed of nearly 30,000 coal mines and construction workers in Huainan.

In just two nights and one day, nearly 100,000 troops swept through not only along the railway to control the cities on both sides of the railway, but also used coal and cement ships to take advantage of water conservancy to recover Fuyang to the north, Bengbu, Huaibei and Xuzhou to the east.

The carriages swayed gently, the clanging of the wheels made one sleepy, the yellow light of the headlights shone on half of the seats, and the soldiers in the carriages were mostly curled up in the stuffy tanker cars, listening to the clanging of the wheels in various tones: you know, every turn of the wheels, every time the locomotive rushes forward, the closer it is to leave the front.

They clearly knew that the place they were going to was the front line, either they were going north or they were stopping the Qing army from moving south before the Huai River, for the officers and men of the first division and the first regiment, they were just waiting in the carriages, waiting for the upcoming battle, thinking of the bloody battlefield, some of them only felt that their whole body felt a heat and dryness.

In Jiangning, when they stabbed their bayonets into the bodies of those Qing soldiers, it was an unprecedented vent, and when they saw blood, many of them even carried a kind of ecstasy.

It's time to kill again!

Many soldiers thought so in their hearts, their expressions were calm and unusual, and in their countless trainings, there was only one thing carved into his bones, and that was blood!

With a long whistle, the train stopped at Huainan Station, which was not the end of the Huainan Road Mine Railway, but the end point was Hekou Station, which was the station where coal was loaded.

"Long live the Liberation Army!"

"Welcome to the Liberation Army!"

…… As soon as the car entered the station, the people crowded on the platform began to cheer, most of these people are the families of miners, their families are also in the Liberation Army, no one is more eager for victory than them, the reason why she welcomed these Liberation Army from the south so ceremoniously, there are some selfish intentions, they are coming, naturally their families may not have to go to the front line.

"Toot ......"

When the whistle blew, the train cars opened, and the heavily armed soldiers jumped out of the carriages, forming a line of spontaneous accord without the shouts of the officers, far more trained than the improvised coal mine and construction workers.

As the command sounded, the soldiers of the brigade turned around and walked towards the outside of the station with their boots clattering, and the people on the roadside looked at the army, and their eyes seemed to really see the hope of recovery, and some foreign missionaries, mine clerks, and newspaper reporters took pictures of this precious scene with their cameras.

Suddenly, the soldiers raised their fists and shouted as they strode towards the pier on the banks of the Huai River amid the welcome of the people.

"If you don't triumph, you will die!"

A thunderous roar sounded on the smooth asphalt road of the Huainan Coal Mine, only the wind and clouds of the earthquake changed, and the people's hearts were stunned. Suddenly some people knelt down, and then everyone on the side of the road knelt down.

Kneeling down to send these recovered officers and soldiers who shouted "If you don't triumph, you will die", no matter what selfish intentions they had before, they were stunned by the oath of these soldiers at this time.

It was not difficult for them, even the foreign employees and missionaries of the surrounding coal mines, to change their eyes as they looked at this army, which numbered only a few thousand men, and bowed to these officers and soldiers as they passed in front of them with their boots as they were about to pass by, and for them it was the first time that they had bowed to the [***] people in the center from the heart.

When the roar of "If you don't triumph, you will die" echoed in Huainan City, a tall officer appeared on the riverside on the south bank of Huainan, wearing a new military uniform, and the copper buckle on the military uniform shimmered in the sun. And along the Huai River, groups of shirtless coolies are ramming wooden stakes with shovels or hammers, and several unfinished barbed wire fences stretch out on the banks of the Huai River.

Most of the construction was carried out by company workers and men recruited from all over the river for two dollars a month, and under the command of sappers and officers, they built fortifications along the river, and the embankment was dotted with scattered artillery forts and machine-gun forts.

"It's just a psychological effect!"

Li Feiyang, who was patrolling the riverbank fortifications along the embankment, shook his head and sighed, the headquarters only allocated a total of several hundred thousand yuan for the fortifications along the river, what is this money enough for?

Not to mention building a "Great Wall of the Huai River" along the Huai River, it is not realistic to build a fortification along Huainan, and the money given is too little, as the director of the engineering department of the headquarters, the only thing he can do is to use all the money to Huainan, which supplies the coal needed in Ma'anshan and Shanghai, without coal, there is no steel, no electricity, without these two, it is equivalent to no weapons.

If the factories in Ma'anshan and Shanghai could not produce weapons, would it still be possible to win the War of Liberation? Apparently there is no possibility!

Looking at the fleet of boats going east along the river, the boats were full of Guangfu officers and soldiers, and Li Feiyang knew that these were the elite who drove from Ma'anshan...... The officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Liberation Army, they were the troops that went north to defend against the enemy.

"I hope you can defeat the enemy in Henan!"

This Li Feiyang can only pin all his hopes on the elite of the Liberation Army in the north, and suddenly there will be a roar in the air, looking up at the sky, I saw more than a dozen "Qingtian" planes in the air flying north, the appearance of the plane, only let Li Feiyang's eyes open, how to ...... Could it be that the plane is also sent to the north.

Huai River North, in the fields outside Fuyang City, a hot scene, groups of soldiers and people in green uniforms are struggling to tamp the land in the field with big stones, no one knows why to tamp this land, to the soldiers, they just obey the order, but the people are for a day of 1 dime silver dollar reward.

Not far away, a group of soldiers were surrounding a barracks with wooden bamboos, and thousands of tents were neatly propped up in the camp, which was also built in the fields. But in the sound of neat footsteps, there was a discordant scream.

At the edge of the camp, nearly 400 soldiers were practicing military law according to 186 soldiers, 186 soldiers wielding military sticks and following the orders of non-commissioned officers.

The only difference is that some of the officers howled miserably, while some of the officers and sergeants gritted their teeth and snorted, and such a spectacular execution attracted some people to watch from outside the camp, and some people could hardly bear to look up at this "spectacular" scene.

Finally, after the sergeant shouted "thirty", a dozen sergeants leaned over and examined the buttocks of the officers and soldiers one by one, and if one of them showed favoritism, both the torturer and the executioner had to be doubled, and after the examination, one sergeant ran into the distance.

Yu Wenyuan, who was blue-faced, listened to the miserable howls of his subordinates, and looked up at the division commander standing there with a saber in his hand.

"Sir, running on the ground like this is not close to people, but it is just a little complaint, even if it is thirty military sticks, the military discipline is too strict!"

Tang Zaili raised his eyes slightly, looked at the former leader of "Shouzhou Delitang", and just groaned.

"You are suspicious of my military orders!"

"Don't dare!"

Yu Wenyuan replied coldly.

"The military also knows people's feelings,......"

"In the Liberation Army, only military law is recognized!"

"The commander is so strict, isn't he afraid that the soldiers will complain about him, and the officers will be annoyed!"

Yu Wenyuan, who was waved face, had no scruples when this came, in his opinion, this division commander's place was like this, and he was simply holding chicken feathers as an arrow and killing chickens to show monkeys.

With a sneer, Tang Zaili stared at Yu Wenyuan in front of him, and the dozen or so battalion company commanders behind him, like him, were all from the Hui Party.

"Complain and be angry with his officials!"

With a glaring eye, Tang Zaili stared at Yu Wenyuan in front of him, and shouted loudly, which only made the hearts of everyone behind Yu Wenyuan tremble, and they became a little overwhelmed.

"Don't dare to mark it, although you haven't joined the army, you are also an elder officer, you need to love soldiers like children, how can you be like an adult, only recognize military law and ......"

Before he finished speaking, Tang Zaili drank it.

"This is called building an army, and the offender will be beheaded! You think I don't dare kill you! Gendarme! ”

This heavy shout surprised Yu Wenyuan, who was originally righteous and awe-inspiring, and when several gendarmes with submachine guns on their shoulders walked out from behind the division commander, Yu Wenyuan hurriedly shouted out.

"The surname is Zhang, you are unloading the mill and killing the donkey, brothers, you have all seen ......"

Before he could finish yelling, a gendarme who came out raised his submachine gun and pulled the butt of a rifle at his chin, and his shouting suddenly became dumb, but even so, his shout still made the battalion and company commanders look at each other, and also attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers.

Looking at Yu Wenyuan, who was knocked unconscious, these officers couldn't help but feel some sympathy, they gritted their teeth and bowed at the same time.

"Please also ask the commander to read the battalion commander's righteous deeds and spare the battalion commander's life!"

Staring at these pleading officers and soldiers, Tang Zaili sneered, and then nodded.

"Good, good!"

sneered, but Tang Zaili spit out a sentence that made people's hearts tremble.

"You all know that the military law of the Guangfu Army is strict, and everyone gathers to force the chief, it is for the rebel army, kill it!"

His cold snort made the bowed officers break out in a cold sweat, and before they could say anything, more than a dozen gendarmes pointed their submachine guns at them, and at the same time, the machine guns on the barracks outposts were aimed at the barracks.

Ten minutes later, more than 16,000 officers and men stood in the open field, machine guns on the sentry posts on the camp wall were aimed at the officers and men in the camp through the reed wall, and officers and men of the military police battalion stood at the four corners of the barracks with submachine guns and rifles with bayonets.

"Sir, will it be ...... to kill them all?"

Zhang Huitao looked at the nineteen people, seventy percent of them were their apprentices and grandchildren in this military camp, although on the day of the uprising, it had been ordered that "there would be no party in the army", and they had no relationship since they entered the Guangfu army, but that was just lip service, in case ...... "Commander Zhang, the military discipline is ruthless!" ”

Tang said in his salute mouth, and walked towards the stage in a military uniform.

"Stand upright!"

In this unit, except for two companies of the Guangfu Army and one company, thirty percent of them are workers in the Huainan coal mine, and the other seventy percent are from the Hui Party.

"Yu Wenyuan, against the military order, according to military law - death penalty ......"

One death sentence after another only stunned the soldiers, some of whom looked at the table, their arms clasped behind their backs, and they were speechless but speechless, apparently with something stuffed in their mouths.

"All the brothers are the officers and soldiers of the Liberation Army, from the time they put on this military uniform, they are no longer the disciples of the Liberation, the Sect of All Beings, and the Qing Gang. Today, the officers and men of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 13th Regiment were punished for their training, and the sergeants and officers were all punished for being reinstated! If you violate the ban, you will be responsible, Tang Zaili, and you will be punished with fifty military sticks according to military law! ”

As soon as the voice fell, Tang Zaili put his hands and legs on the ground, and a sergeant behind him swung his military stick at his buttocks, [***] easily muffled just to make the officers and soldiers in the camp widen their eyes, he didn't expect that the division commander would be punished first, the crackling sound of the stick to the flesh sounded in the ears of the people, and the people who were originally struggling would not struggle, but just stood there with their heads down, letting the gendarmes behind them buckle back.

After the execution, Tang Zaili, who didn't snort and was sweating in pain, struggled to stand up, "These nineteen people are all disobeying military orders and persecuting the commander, and they all need military justice!" ”

Then he walked up to the nineteen men with great difficulty, looked at their expressions, and motioned to the gendarmes behind him to take out the wooden balls from their mouths.

"Now, what else do you have to say!"

"I have something to say!"

The one who shouted out was the helmsman of the first pier of the Qing Gang, Cao Da, the battalion commander of the ninth battalion.

"Say!"

was let go of his arm, Cao Da just gave a military salute first, and looked at the division commander with blood on his military pants, if he was dissatisfied before, he would have obeyed.

"Cao Da followed the brothers to restore military discipline to me, and the crime is unforgivable! Cao Da confessed! ”

After that, Cao Da said with an awe-inspiring face.

"Division commander, please tell my father and mother that Cao Dafei died in military law and died on the battlefield! Cao Dadang was grateful. ”

Tang Licai saw it in his eyes, and glanced at the soldiers in the audience with his spare eyes.

"It's a man! I will give an account to your parents, but you are not exempt from capital crimes! ”

Looking at the audience except for a few of the closest brothers with sadness on their faces, the others lowered their heads slightly, this scene only made Xu Wenyuan smile bitterly, in the past, in the gang, all of them were bitter, but now the big guys are all nine yuan a month. What is more attractive to people than a heavy sum of silver, even if there are a few faithful ones, who rush up for the word of righteousness...... I sighed in my heart.

"Sir!"

Xu Wenyuan, who knew that he was going to die, shouted.

"What do you have to say!"

"Ask Yuan not to follow military law, so that eighteen brothers will be tortured with Wen Yuan, and Wen Yuan will feel guilty,"

He roared again.

"Brothers, that is, in the army, when you know the military order, I Xu Wenyuan is a lesson, I don't hate the strict military law, I only hate not being able to take the sword, if the brothers he said to go to the battlefield, kill two Tartars for Wenyuan, and ask Yuanquan to thank his brother!"

Tang Li nodded.

"Of course! Anything else to say? ”

Everyone shook their heads, and Tang Licai asked people to come over with a stack of bowls, and each person poured a bowl of wine.

"Brothers, kill the Tartars and restore the Great Han!"

After everyone finished drinking, they smashed their bowls and roared loudly, and as soon as his voice fell, the gendarmes standing behind the nineteen people raised their pistols and pulled the trigger on the back of these people's heads, and the sound of gunfire echoed over the barracks!

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Tang Licai did not salute, but looked at the soldiers who showed some difficult colors in the face of the audience.

"Officers and men of the Sixth Division!"

A roar, accompanied by a neat sound of standing upright.

"Today, Xu Wenyuan and Cao Da and a group of nineteen people were ambushed here for violating military law! Please also ask all brothers to take this as a warning, as a soldier of the Liberation Army, you must follow military law! Otherwise, military law will not be tolerated! ”

Sometimes the deterrence of the military stick is far more fearful than the head, although when the corpse is carried into the carriage, many people have a sad look on their faces, but when the officers and soldiers blow the whistle, they immediately plunge into the previous training, this scene seems to have no effect on them, but it has been imprinted in their hearts.

"Commander, how do you know they won't ......?"

"Won't there be chaos?"

Tang Licai looked at Zhang Huitao with a smile, his head was still too young in the end.

"You are from Shouzhou, you tell me, in the past, like those associations, how much money could they earn a month?"

"Two or three taels of silver at most!"

"And now?"

"The recovery salary is nine yuan, and the field allowance is three yuan per month!"

"Twelve dollars a month's salary! A pension of 300 yuan for the war dead! After the restoration of the country, there are another thirty acres of Xuntian, Meng Jie, how many people do you think are willing to send them to death for those dragon heads, helmsmen, and hall masters! ”

The pain in his buttocks made Tang Licai's smile look a little weird, and he grinned and gasped.

"What the soldiers are worried about is nothing more than injustice in the army, but the division commander was punished in the front, fifty military sticks, and blood was seen after the punishment, which made those individuals see fairness, on the one hand, generous pay and fairness, on the other hand...... You know better than I do, don't you? ”

Tang Licai, who had a difficult step, did not let people support him, but continued to stand on the training ground and looked at the soldiers who were steadfast in the camp, and the queue was no longer messy before.

"This sixth division, in the end, has become the sixth division of the Liberation Army!"

When he was happy, there was a roar overhead, and seeing the faintly visible plane, Tang Li knew that he didn't have much time to train soldiers, as soon as the plane arrived, the plane would be dispatched to search for the enemy, and then the Sixth Division was afraid that it would be on the battlefield.

(To be continued)