When Song Biao returned to the Erwolf Cave, the brothers were anxiously waiting for him, and most of the things he ordered were also in place, just waiting for him to give an order to leave for Nandianzi to show off his might, just made a beard and was looked down upon by other old beards, thinking about Biao Ye's family background and ability, everyone was not convinced!

The brothers all changed into uniforms, and even the Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles that everyone was equipped with were wiped several times, and in order to look more heroic and terrifying, everyone inserted their bayonets directly, and the bright bayonets looked particularly dazzling and blind in the sunlight.

Seeing that the big boss finally came back, Zhao Tingzhu, Yang Tiesheng and others immediately stepped forward and hugged their fists with Song Biao and said: "The big boss, the brothers are ready, just wait for your order!" ”

Song Biao asked, "What about the Russians?" ”

Zhao Tingzhu replied: "I have talked to them, I will not embarrass them, they also agreed to cooperate with us, and when the time comes, they will use a sleigh to drag the six of them to Nandianzi with Dayun and Lao Guotou to continue to recuperate." ”

Song Biao nodded, and glanced at the sleds slightly, because the horsepower was seriously insufficient, and they had to rely on the sleds, and the people in the horse gang were all masters of making sleds, but they lacked carpenter tools at the moment, so they could only make them stupid and thick, at least it looked square.

The brothers made five large sleighs, one drawn by four horses, and each sleigh was estimated to carry more than 1,000 pounds of goods, which was about 10 horsepower.

Song Biao waved his hand and said, "Line up!" ”

After a few days of training, the brothers are still like a little bit, Zhao Tingzhu and Yang Tiesheng each brought a team to line up, Zhang Yahu was not there, Song Biao asked Li Dahan to be the captain temporarily, and Lao Jintou brought another miscellaneous team to take care of logistics and take care of the wounded and other things, and the thirty-four brothers lined up in a neat line.

Except for the old golden man, who continued to wear his dogskin jacket, everyone else changed into a very neat Russian military uniform, a black cashmere hat, a gray tweed army coat, black canvas trousers, and black military boots, all of which were polished, and each of them had a bayonet-mounted Mosin Nagant rifle, each carrying thirty rounds of ammunition and two grenades, and those who could be equipped with Nagant revolvers were also equipped.

This new momentum is indeed very amazing, and there are really a few Russian hairy people in the team, if ordinary bandits dare to make a move when they encounter them, it will be really hell.

The goods and silver in the cave had already been loaded onto the sleigh, and the snowproof tents and blue-black marching quilts that he had left behind were neatly tied and placed on the sleds, so that everyone could go into battle at any time.

After looking around, Song Biao felt very satisfied, and then said: "Make a fire to cook, eat and drink enough, and go to Nandianzi." ”

Everyone was excited when they heard this, they have so many family backgrounds, of course it seems aggrieved to live in this kind of cave, if they go to Nandianzi, they will have something to eat.

The brothers immediately started the fire and cooked rice, stewed all the remaining frozen horse meat, and each of them ate a large bowl of fresh broth to soak in white rice, and then set off for Nandianzi in a majestic manner.

There is only four miles from the Er Wolf Cave to Nandianzi, in the words of Niujiabao Hu Erye, whether you are a horse gang or a mountain master, you don't know if you are camping and making a fire so close to us, it is really unsophisticated.

Nandianzi, which has only more than 400 households, has more than 2,000 acres of land, and each household has to plant an average of 50 acres of land, so there must be a surplus of grain.

Winter wheat is not planted in this place in the Northeast, and the land is empty in winter, and Song Biao and his party can see the endless fields when they walk to Nandianzi, and they can vaguely see some uncut corn stalks.

The old golden head went one step ahead and greeted the mountain masters of Niujiabao who were guarding Nandianzi first.

After the ban was opened in the eastern part of the country, as a large number of people from North China and Shandong entered the Northeast, Shandong's Xiangma culture flowed into the Northeast, coupled with the special geographical environment of the Northeast, the bandit culture in the Northeast developed rapidly.

It is precisely because of this special inheritance relationship that the rules of the road of the Kanto beard are basically derived from the Xiangma culture of Shandong, and the difference between the Xiangma culture and the bandits, horse thieves and bandits in other parts of China is precisely the word "li", which is a kind of community etiquette that is close to the underworld.

These days, through chatting with people like Lao Jintou, Song Biao's understanding of the Kwantung bandits has gradually become clearer.

The Kwantung bandits can be roughly divided into two categories, the first type is the most common small bandits, this group of bandits are all robbers, robbing houses, kidnapping tickets for extortion, robbing caravans, doing everything, some will also do things to rob the rich and help the poor, the harm of this kind of bandits is too great, the Qing court will occasionally crack down, so, the most taboo thing for these bandits is to leak their names and identities, they have a whole set of black words to hide all kinds of information.

The second type is the relatively rare big bandits, usually there are more than 100 people, occupy the mountain as the king, collect protection money nearby for a living, passing caravans have to give a sum of money to buy the road, in the territory of the big bandits, the small bandits are afraid to move, if there are horse thieves and the like passing by, they have to say hello to the big bandits.

Unlike small bandits, big bandits generally have names, some are nicknames, and some are directly reported with their names and surnames, but this name is basically a pseudonym.

There are more special among the big bandits, such as Liu Tongcang, you say he is a bandit, he is more like a bully, this person has forcibly occupied more than a thousand rings of land in his own territory, and also occupies a copper mine, and his bandit team is called Niujiabao Insurance Team.

The name of the insurance team is very common in the Northeast at this time, and Feng Linge, the great bandit in the Kanto region, is the precedent of creating this trend, and Zhang Zuolin is also from the bandit to run the insurance team before embarking on the road to making a fortune. The insurance team is a big bandit, just those who are more disciplined among the big bandits, and Liu Tongpao's insurance team is absolutely unruly, and there is no shortage of things to bully the market and force buying and selling, Feng Linge is actually doing the same, otherwise where did the ten thousand family wealth come from.

When Liu Tongpao bought land nearby, he first sent a brother to send a plate of slips to your home, which means that if you don't sell it, I will cut off your tongue. In his own territory, Liu Tongpao is definitely very arrogant, and he sends silver to the magistrate and Daotai every year, and continues to operate his insurance team under the banner of protecting the territory and the people, and other bandits don't want to get involved in his territory, dare to be a criminal here, he will definitely send someone to chase you down for eighty miles.

Big bandits in the form of bullies like Liu Tongpao, the Manchu court generally didn't ask questions, first of all, they might not be able to beat them; secondly, if you really want to send troops to destroy them, maybe there will be even bigger trouble; Finally, there was a deep collusion between the gentry and them.

The meaning of the brothers in the Ma Gang is very uniform, Song Biao has hundreds of foreign guns in his hands, as well as machine guns, everyone wants to follow him to do a big bandit like Liu Tongcang, find a place to eat and drink spicy, and not do the kind of that robs houses.

The brothers really wanted to directly grab Liu Tongcang's territory, but they were short of manpower, and they didn't have the bottom in their hearts.

After the old golden head went to report, Hu Er, the head of Niujiabao who was guarding Nandianzi, immediately stood on the big earthen building at the entrance of the village with more than 30 brothers, and pushed the two earthen cannons up, showing the swarthy muzzles.

They proudly wanted to give the Song Horse Gang a dismount, and wanted the Song Horse Gang to know what a beard is, what a mountain master in Kanto, and what a Niujiabao insurance team is.

Hu Er's family wore a big wolf jacket with white fur, a bearskin hat on his head, a horsewhip in his hand, and sat on the roof of the tulou with his toes proud, and more than 30 brothers stood behind him with swords and guns, which was really majestic!

It's just that when they saw Yang Tiesheng's vanguard small army, their faces were a little embarrassed, and when Song Biao arrived at the Tulou with a team of more than 40 people, Hu Er's face turned pale with fright, and he couldn't wait to shout: "Go and inform the big boss, there is actually a batch of Russian hairy dogs!" ”

Nandianzi is the territory of Niujiabao, without Liu Shanye's consent, Song Shanye and his brothers naturally can't go in, since Hu Er's family is temporarily unwilling to come out to greet him, Song Biao can only wait.

Li Ergou immediately found the bearskin chair from the sleigh and sent it forward, so that the Song family could sit down with great dignity, and the other brothers were standing behind, row by row, column by column.

Song Biao's formation is not known how many times stronger and more majestic than the other side, it can be called a bright helmet and bright armor, and it is murderous.

After about a few minutes, Hu Er led the brothers out of the tulou, and after a dozen steps away, he hugged his fists with Song Biao and laughed: "It turned out to be the head of the Song Gang, the head of the gang has such a great formation and strength, and the horse gang can bring out so many people and horses, I Hu Dalin admires it!" ”

Song Biao got up and hugged his fists and said: "It turned out to be Er Ye Hu of Niujiabao, who has admired his name for a long time, I heard that Second Master Hu is righteous and hospitable, and I invite my group of errand coolies to rest in Nandianzi, I can't wait to bring people over." If you cause trouble to Second Master Hu, please bear with me and help me more, it is not easy for us to go out! ”

"Huh...... Hehe! Hu Erye smiled very embarrassedly, and replied reluctantly: "Everyone is a brother in the rivers and lakes and green forests, and they are all particular about people, don't be polite to Song Dangjia!" ”

Song Biao looked at this Second Master Hu lukewarmly, his eyes were direct, neither smirking nor cold.

Hu Erye, who was in front of Song Biao, was about forty years old, dressed very carefully, and it was the kind of attention paid to bandits and bandits, the big bear skin hat was very exaggerated, the thick braid was wrapped around the neck, and the big white wolf jacket was very rare, but it was a real good thing.

Hu Erye was also observing Song Biao, he was very scared and surprised, he had never heard of such a person as "Song Biao" in the Hunjiang area, and only after asking from Lao Jintou and Zhang Yahu did he know that it came out of nowhere, and now he has replaced Lao Jintou and Lao Guo Tou to become the leader of the horse gang, but looking at this posture, where is this horse gang, it is simply an army hired by the Russians.

Nima's, Han Annihilation!

Hu Erye scolded with hatred in his heart, and he didn't know how envious he was, looking at dozens of other people's big military uniforms, carrying foreign guns, and dozens of horses hauling supplies, it was as magical as it was.

According to reason, Hu Erye really can't let these people enter Nandianzi, but what he says is the water that has been spilled, and it is impossible to take it back, not to mention that he still has other people's men and horses in his hands.

After thinking about it for a while, Hu Erye immediately turned around and invited: "Master Biao, please rest inside, I have already arranged for people, just waiting for you to come!" ”

Of course, Song Biao had nothing to be afraid of, so he raised his hand and said, "Let's invite together, Second Master Hu!" ”

After saying this, Song Biao didn't care what kind of precautions Hu Dalin had, and immediately took the brothers into Nandianzi, which was larger than the surrounding villages, and there was a lot of land, and more than 400 families lived, half of which were gathered in Nandian Tunzi.

According to Lao Jintou, a lot of the land here is occupied by the bandits of Niujiabao, and most of the people who farm here are outsiders or Shandong people who go to the east of the country, and the locals are relatively comfortable, with an average of three or four acres of land per household.

The northeast is sparsely populated, and a family that can have three or four hectares of land can only be regarded as a rich peasant, not a landlord at all.

Hu Dalin originally wanted to scare the so-called new gang leader and let him know who was the boss of this territory, but he was frightened by Song Biao instead, but fortunately, the inn was ready, and the forty people would definitely be able to stay, so Song Biao and the others would be sent to the inn first.

The shopkeeper in the inn was also stunned, and hurriedly asked people to clean up the store.

Song Biao's primary goal of this trip was to bring Zhang Yahu's seven brothers out, followed by raising horses and buying supplies in Nandianzi on the spot, and sat down in the inn hall, without waiting for the shopkeeper's Zhang Luo wine and food to greet them, he said to Hu Dalin: "Second Master Hu, I heard that the old golden head said that my brothers offended you in Nandianzi, and the words were a little offended, I will accompany you here, and I hope that you will let people go regardless of the villain, if there is anything wrong, you tell me." ”

When Hu Dalin heard this, he laughed and said: "It's not easy to talk about this matter, but I'm too worried, I really haven't heard of any horse gang brothers still carrying six or seven foreign guns, thinking that they are bandits who came to rob the door, so they arrested them." Since the head of the Song Gang came to the door in person, then this is all a misunderstanding, since it is a misunderstanding, it is not easy to say. Don't worry, Song Gang Leader, I'll let them go now! ”

Song Biao hugged his fists very much and said: "Then thank you Second Master Hu, the little ones have offended, please bear with me!" ”

Hu Dalin didn't seem to mind and waved his hand with a smile, and said, "The head of the Song Gang is really too polite, but Hu doesn't understand a little, your team really doesn't look like a horse gang, right?" ”

Song Biao had already thought about this problem before this trip, and he also unified his tone with the other brothers, and immediately replied: "We are currently specially transporting military supplies for the Russians, and signed a contract in Vladivostok, they will pay for and provide equipment according to the standards of the Russians, train our people to shoot and fight, if the goods transported are more important, they will also send people to protect us, if the goods transported are not very important, then we will help ourselves to be responsible." ”

"Oh......!"

Hu Dalin was skeptical, but he also felt that this statement did not seem like a lie, and he couldn't help but sigh with envy: "The horse gang of the head of the Song Gang has the support of the Russians, and then it will be rampant in the Kanto region unhindered, not to mention that ordinary little bandits dare not provoke you, even we can't afford to provoke it, haha!" ”

Song Biao said with a smile: "Second Master Hu's words are really too high-minded, how dare you say that it is rampant in Kanto, we were just attacked by Xiao Yuben a few days ago, and we lost a lot of brothers and horses, and even several Russian [***] officers who accompanied us were injured, and more than a dozen Russian soldiers were not left, but fortunately, they were the queen, and we escaped." It's really scary to think about it now, so these days, we've been hiding and not daring to come out. The old golden head said that he has a relationship with you and wants to rest here for a while, I have never dealt with you, I am afraid of causing trouble for you, so I don't want to come, I just want to hide for a few more days to see the wind, since you and Liu Da are so enthusiastic, then I am really embarrassed to refuse! ”

"So......?"

The teacup in Hu Dalin's hand shook quietly, looking surprised, but said: "Since this is the case, then I will immediately go to the village to ask the big boss to send more people, Song Bangtou, you can rest assured that you live in our inn, I will take a step to say goodbye!" ”

Song Biao felt that Hu Dalin's reaction was a little strange, so he got up quietly and said, "Then I won't disturb you to do business!" ”

"Okay, easy to say!"

Hu Dalin forcibly hid the panic in his heart, hurriedly said goodbye to Song Biao, and did not forget to say goodbye to the old Jintou, Zhao Tingzhu and other "horse gang" brothers: "Then I'm sorry, brothers, Hu Dalin will take a step to say goodbye!" ”

Everyone got up to send each other off.

After sending Hu Dalin away, the brothers of the Ma Gang couldn't hold back their laughter, thinking that Hu Dalin was scared away by Song Biao.

Song Biao calmly continued to sit in the shop, took the teacup and scraped it, took a sip, thought for a moment before asking Lao Jintou, "Lao Jin, our rhetoric is not bad, right?" ”

The old golden head cocked his thumb and said, "Master, you are really too tall, Sai Zhuge ah!" ”

Song Biao didn't think so, his words were just a lie, not intended to scare Hu Dalin, but Hu Dalin's reaction to him was quite special, faintly a little wrong.

Considering that most of the bandits in the Kanto region were in collusion with Yue Ben, Song Biao felt that he still had to be more cautious, although he was not afraid of any more conflicts with the small Yue army.

Thinking of this, he turned to Zhao Tingzhu and Yang Tiesheng and instructed: "Tiezi, you go outside to pick up Erhuzi, pay attention to every move outside, Zhuzi is responsible for things in the inn, Ergou, you take two people to change their clothes and go out quietly, and inquire more outside." ”

"Yes!"

Everyone agreed.;