As the so-called machine gun sounds, there are 10,000 taels of gold, and Song Biao has 50 machine guns in his hand, which is comparable to 50 money printing machines in such a troubled era.

Song Biao only set up 20 machine guns on the mountain streams on the north and south sides of the Dadu Mountains, fired seven boxes of bullets, killed more than 3,000 bandits, and reaped more than 3 million taels of silver.

The joy of the warlord's life is fully revealed at this moment.

It took almost a whole day, and in the evening, the brothers of the infantry regiment cleaned up the battlefield, and under the escort of Xue Changqing's transport brigade, they went all the way to Tonghua County, and the bodies of the three thousand beards were also transported, and the beards who were captured alive were tied together in strings and paraded through the streets.

Song Biao rode a rare silver-gray French Anglo-Arab horse captured from the Yue army, which is said to be the mount of Akiyama Yoshiko, the commander of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Yue Army, wearing the navy blue high-ranking officer uniform of the Tsarist Russian Empire, wearing the rank collar badge of an infantry colonel and the gold star of St. George's first class, and holding a Chashik saber inlaid with gold ornaments and diamonds.

On both sides of Song Biao's side, in front of him, and behind him were cavalry troops, and the Poltava Cavalry Regiment was in front of the road, and the Third Infantry Regiment of the Russian Far East was at the bottom of the back, so he entered Tonghua County with such a strong lineup and the wartime supreme commander of the Tonghua region.

In fact, there are not many people in Tonghua County, bandits have been wreaking havoc here for two months, all those who can run have run away, and there are countless rich gentry who have been killed and looted, if not, where does the large amount of wealth carried out by bandits from Tonghua County come from?

The only county townspeople were particularly ecstatic, regardless of whether he was a Russian or a Kwantung man's own troops, as long as he could chop off the beards, it was a good army, the county citizens lit dozens of big firecrackers on both sides of the street, beat gongs and drums to welcome Song Biao's troops into the county seat, and the only remaining local squires and celebrities were even more tearful in front of the county yamen to greet Song Biao.

Seeing that Song Biao was actually his own person, this was a great surprise to the squires and celebrities, and they stepped forward to greet each other, and they also had to reward the three armies, which is of course an inevitable custom, otherwise these soldiers will not have enough to eat, and they will always have to find someone to extort a sum of money.

Song Biao accepted the greetings of the celebrities and squires, as well as a few sons and an alternate magistrate, and did not eat their meal of thank-you banquets, but sent Hu Dalin and Major Kornilov as representatives, and he lived in the county government with his brothers.

That night, Song Biao continued to have people prepare a table of wine and food to entertain Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo, and Lao Jintou, Hu Dalin and Xue Changqing accompanied him to drink, Song Biao and they ate very lively, and Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo was extremely embarrassed.

Song Biao deliberately caught Hu Dalin, an old beard who didn't understand the wind and snow, to be an escort, so as to save Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo from continuing to take the opportunity to show off his sinology skills with him, and Song Biao also deliberately made a gesture of not treating Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo as an outsider, and talked with Hu Dalin about the arrangements behind, in short, he didn't go to the Russian battlefield to fight hard, and he wanted to make real money in the future.

Song Biao's body was really uncomfortable during this time, and he had a little low-grade fever, so Yang Sangui stewed old ginger chicken soup and sent it to him.

This occasion is basically the same as having dinner at home, the old golden head immediately served a big bowl to Song Biao and Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo, and told Song Biao: "Big boss, don't look at your body is good, but you can't hold this old snow day in Kanto." This big bowl of old ginger chicken soup is specially prepared for you by me with Sanguizi, and you must eat it. ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "This thing is good, Aoki Daisa, don't be polite, eat a little more to keep out the cold!" ”

Aoki Dazuo got up very politely, took the bowl of soup from the old golden head with both hands, bowed and thanked: "Thank you Colonel Song and Mr. Jin for your kindness, as a prisoner of war, I am grateful to you for such care!" ”

"Hey......!"

Song Biao waved his hand and emphasized again: "Aoki Dazuo, you are too stubborn. Didn't I say it, how can you be considered a prisoner of war here, I am inviting you to be a guest, fighting is war, making money is making money, friendship is friendship, these are three different things! ”

Aoki Xuanchun sighed: "What Colonel Song said is very true, then I will thank you for your hospitality." ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." ”

At this moment, Zhao Tingzhu hurriedly walked in again, holding a stack of land deeds and land deeds in his hands, and Song Biao said with a smile: "Big boss, let's finally make it clear, the land deed is three thousand seven hundred and forty days, and the land deed and the house deed together occupy three streets in Tonghua County." ”

Song Biao took the stack of land deeds and looked through them, asked Zhao Tingzhu to sit down to eat together, and casually asked Hu Dalin: "What did the bandits do when they robbed these land deeds?" ”

Hu Dalin said: "Hey, robbed the land deed and sold it back, put the person on it, and if there is no money, the land deed will be pledged over to change the person, and then the silver will be exchanged. ”

Song Biao sighed, and carefully looked through these land deeds, the locations are still very good, basically concentrated around the county and Xidian, Jinchang area, especially Xidianzi, which is the largest granary in Tonghua County, and the new urban area is located there in 70 years.

After a little thought, he and Hu Dalin asked, "What do you say we should do if we take these land deeds?" ”

Hu Dalin said: "It's easy to do, big boss, you give me all these bad things to deal with, I am familiar with the way, don't say anything, whose land deed continues to be redeemed with silver, and if it can't be redeemed, then we will sell it directly." It's just that the current land price is too cheap, and it is not cost-effective to sell the land at this time, so the surname Suo will rent it to the farmers to plant it first, and then sell it next year, otherwise it will always stay in our hands to collect rent. In the land of 3,700 days, there are tens of thousands of loads of grain every year just for collecting rent. ”

Song Biao pondered for a moment, and then instructed Hu Dalin: "This matter will be handed over to you." Tomorrow, you will post a notice in front of the county government and the city gate, saying that Tonghua City is now taken over by our Manchurian infantry division, and that more than 6,000 bandits have been exterminated by our army. As for the land deed looted by the bandits, because there is no certificate to check, it is said that the lease will be rented separately, and the tenant can get the land deed after five years of cultivation. ”

Hu Dalin was surprised and asked: "Big boss, isn't it too cheap for you to do this, everyone, how much rent can you collect in five years, it is better to sell it at once!" ”

Song Biao smiled and replied with confidence: "You have been with me for a while, when did you see your grandfather Biao do a loss-making business." ”

Hu Dalin smiled: "That's right, okay, I'll do what you said tomorrow." ”

Zhao Tingzhu asked Song Biao: "What about those land deeds?" ”

Song Biao thought about it for a while and said: "The title deed is returned to the original owner, if the original owner is unknown, or there is no evidence, it will be rent-free and continued to be used by the original shop tenants, and then disposed of again after a period of time." ”

Zhao Tingzhu nodded.

Song Biao pondered in his heart for a moment, and instructed Zhao Tingzhu and Hu Dalin: "You use a little bit of heart during this time to find out where the bandits robbed these silver and land deeds, and the small households should be happy, if it is a local large household squire, then you can get a card, and if you can confiscate it, don't be polite to them." I see them greeting us at the door so enthusiastically, I'm afraid they want to ask us for silver. ”

Zhao Tingzhu said: "This is normal, but I'm afraid they themselves find it difficult to come back, right?" There are too many bandits, large and small households are probably robbed together, and they will rob whatever they encounter, and there are many small households, so it is easy to calm down the anger of the public by paying off some first, as for those local big squires, I think they will admit that they are unlucky, when will our Manchurian infantry division be good again? ”

Song Biao didn't answer, but he still agreed in his heart, not that he didn't want to make a false name, but the price of this false name was too great.

With 3,700 acres of land, tens of thousands of loads of grain can be rented just a year.

At this time, Song Biaocai and Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo beside him said tentatively: "Dazuo, how do you see my current business?" ”

Aoki Xuanchun sighed helplessly: "No matter how good, Colonel Song is a rare and clever person in Manchuria, and the last time we met, I couldn't negotiate a cooperation agreement with Your Excellency, which is really the biggest regret in my life." ”

Song Biao smiled and said: "Dazuo doesn't have to blame himself, life is like a roller coaster, sometimes high and sometimes low, no one can predict it." The reason why I didn't want to join your army in the first place was because there were too many big bandits in your hands, and the Liaozhong bandits with thousands of people like Feng Linge also followed you, what benefits could I get? As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive, the ancients said that charcoal in the snow is worth a thousand gold, I said that selling charcoal in the snow is a good business, so I went to the Russians to promote myself, at that time I really didn't dare to say that I had just killed a Russian convoy, and deliberately negotiated with the Russian army in the name of the Huichun horse gang. The Russian army really offered me a high price, and promised to contribute money to build a Manchurian infantry regiment for me, and the guns and ammunition were all covered by the Russian army, and there was a military salary of 250,000 rubles every month. The original intention was to put me in charge of clearing out the bandits, and as a proviso, they allowed me to sell grain in Shenyang, and introduced me to many Russian friends, agreeing to sell me all kinds of supplies they didn't want at low prices. You said that this business is more profitable, but I didn't expect that I first came into contact with General Mishuchenko's Kuban Cossack cavalry, they were just going to the front line, they had to transport a lot of supplies, and they also needed some labor that could dig fortifications, just caught me, and I could only follow them to the front line, originally, I was also responsible for digging a trench and transporting some supplies, but I am a bandit army, we are all locals, it is very convenient to investigate your front, I went to the front of the Shendanbao position to take a look, Only then did I know that General Akiyama Yoshigu had prepared a large machine-gun array to deal with General Mishuchenko's cavalry, so I made a suggestion to General Mishuchenko, suggesting that he take a detour to Heigoutai and not wade into the troubled waters of Shendanbao, General Mishuchenko is also a human, and when he saw so many machine guns, his head was also very painful, so Suo went to Heigoutai according to my proposal, and it was completely chaotic in the back, and finally even my troops rushed up. ”

Hearing Song Biao say this, Aoki Xuanchun suddenly realized that he had only arrived in Tonghua County in person last week, trying to find a few main forces worth cultivating among the 6,000 bandits in Tonghua, and also tossed out a Manchurian rebel army to compete with the Manchurian infantry regiment of the Russians, so he brought a large amount of money and ammunition...... As a result, his fate was not good, so he gave Song Biao the equipment and ammunition of a regiment in vain, as well as the millions of yuan tickets and more than a dozen boxes of foreign yuan.

Aoki Xuanchun was still very interested in Song Biao's experience in the Battle of Heigoutai, and it just so happened that he had also detected some intelligence, so he asked Song Biao: "My intelligence knows, you are using Be'ao in the Russian army. Vladimir. Song's pseudonym, the Russian army is currently promoting a standard tactic called Be'o tactics for popularization, the Russians commonly call it butcher tactics, which are precisely in response to our army's night offensive, and it is said that the prototype of this standardized tactic was created by you, is there such a thing? ”

Song Biao pointed to the St. George's first-class gold star on his chest, and replied with a straight face: "There is indeed such a thing." Your Excellency should remember that I once ambushed a squadron of your army in Qiandongling, and that night, I actually won by luck, and afterwards my heart palpitated for a long time, and I have been wondering why the officers and men of your army are so fearless of death. For a long time, I've been thinking about this and how to crack your night offensive. I thought that a lot of things came for a reason, on the Heigoutai front, I have been observing and learning the structure of the Russian army's fortifications, just when we are responsible for digging fortifications, I have been at the forefront of the front, while learning and thinking, it is also luck, I just have a batch of shotguns in my hand, plus the Cossack cavalry has a very special spear, the combination of the two, I thought of the prototype of the butcher tactics, and later tested on the battlefield, the effect is really good. ”

Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo sighed for a while, and said: "Colonel Song is worthy of being a brilliant man in Kanto, with a very high surname and a natural famous general, but you really hurt us." Your Excellency is so talented, it is really my sin that our army cannot use it. ”

Song Biao laughed, personally poured wine for Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo, and clinked glasses with him and said: "Dazuo doesn't have to blame himself so much, it's bustling, it's all for profit, I'm so desperate, deliberately going to the Russian army to try my luck is also to make money." After the test of war in the past few months, I have come to understand that war only serves the economy, and the economy is the foundation of a nation's survival. To put it bluntly, we are all fighting for money, but your army is fighting for the survival and development of your own nation, and the Russian army is fighting for more windfalls in the Far East and China, and your will is stronger, so the soldiers are not afraid of death. ”

Aoki Xuanchun raised his glass with both hands and said, "Your Excellency, in a word, Aoki admires!" ”

After saying this, he and Song Biao drank this cup of bitter and spicy soju at the same time.

Immediately, Aoki Xuanjun Dazuo asked again: "I heard that it was the successful night attack of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment on the Akiyama Kokobu that led to the rout of our army's 1st Cavalry Brigade, is there such a thing?" ”

Song Biao bowed his head slightly, and said: "You, the ancient general of Akiyama, are a little flawed in the arrangement of troops, he ignores an old woodland that our locals call the barren forest, there are many cemeteries in that place, and the locals in the area of Shendanbao also call it the barren grave, and there are many local villagers from Shendanbao in our army, they lead the way, and we pass through the barren forest to the small fort where the headquarters of the Qiushan Haogu Brigade is located." Speaking of which, this general's life is not good, we are a bandit army, I am all born here, and I am an expert in robbing houses, we have hundreds of people in the past, sneaked into the wall of your brigade headquarters, and you are still sleeping, just like our bandits robbing big households, they are all familiar with the way on the wall, and there is no sound at all. ”

Aoki Xuanjun Osa asked very suspiciously, "Could it be that General Akiyama Yoshiko didn't send enough sentinels?" ”

Song Biao said: "Probably ignored it, or maybe I didn't expect the Russian army to come to raid his battalion headquarters, we used a few crossbows here, and silently killed a few sentries, it was dark and cold, and many patrols were hiding in the battlements, who would come out and take a turn?" ”

Aoki Xuanjun Dazuo exclaimed: "If it were me, I probably wouldn't have imagined that there would be troops so brave and dare to attack my brigade headquarters at night alone, General Akiyama did not make a big mistake in principle, but his luck was really bad." However, our army knows that the name of the general still originates from the battle of Jiangjiayao, at first our army thought that the Russian army temporarily moved the front forward to Jiangjiayao, there must be many deficiencies, so General Dashanyan personally ordered the attack on Jiangjiayao, whether it can outflank the Russian army that encircled and annihilated Heigoutai is secondary, the key is to force the Russian army to take the initiative to abandon Heigoutai, recapture the Heigoutai position with the smallest sacrifice, and besiege the Russian army in Shendanbao again. I just didn't expect that you played an extremely crucial role in this battle, and your bravery and skill in fighting amazed our department. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and replied: "This battle is rather strange, I have just been received by the commander-in-chief of the Tsarist Far East Army Kuropatkin, and I have already negotiated for me to form a Manchurian infantry division, the Russian army will provide all the necessary materials, and give another 1.75 million rubles per month military salary, so that I can vigorously recruit heroic and warlike Kwantung locals, responsible for clearing all bandit forces on this transportation line from Huichun to Fushun, maintaining local security, and ensuring the smooth transportation of materials." Before I went to the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army, I had talked with General Mishuchenko, and at that time a common concern was that I was afraid of the retreat of the Russian Third Army. As soon as I negotiated the terms with Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, and I was ready to withdraw my troops, you surrounded my troops, which frightened me, and hurried back to meet the battle, my great future is at hand, don't you want to destroy me, I can only fight with your army. In other words, you are also unlucky, I grabbed a large amount of materials from the Shendanbao defense line, including a large number of machine guns, plus I myself have a large transport team of 2,000 horsepower, with the highest order of Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, directly bypassing the Russian logistics system from the Fushun garrison and other left-wing reserves to draw supplies, Brigadier General Madenidov was on my front at that time, and comprehensively helped me deploy, and the main infantry regiments of the Russian army that cooperated with me in defense were all in cooperation with me. ”

It was only at this time that Song Biao answered all the doubts of Aoki Xuanchun and Yue Jun.

"I see!"

Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo let out a long sigh, and suddenly felt that the ascension of the hidden dragon was unstoppable, how could Song Biao, the lying abyss dragon, be a thing in the pool, if he wanted to gain power, other people's lives could not be stopped.

Thinking of this, Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo also had to believe in the Chinese theory of numbers, in addition, he couldn't find any other answers, and he pondered for a long time before he and Song Biao sighed: "This is the number of days, I can only do my best, and the rest still have to watch the number of days." ”

Song Biao nodded silently and said: "What Da Zuo said is very true, now it's okay, I finally escaped from the main battlefield of your two armies, and now the road from Fushun to Huichun is my territory." After the battle of Heigoutai, the main force of your army suffered more damage, even if the third army of your army General Ximu Naidian was transferred to the front line, the total strength was only about 220,000, and the Russian army not only had 350,000, and the follow-up reinforcements were still increasing. So, I hope Dazuo will give him a face, even if we don't know each other, so far, I'm living on this line to do my business, and your army is just out of sight and not upset. ”

Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo was noncommittal, quietly weighed it in his heart, and said after a while: "This matter will not be confirmed until I return to the Manchurian Army General Staff." ”

Song Biao said: "I have another business here to discuss with Dazuo, I have captured a lot of equipment and materials for your army on the battlefield, including 23,000 30-year-old rifles, 44 31-year-old rapid-fire field guns, and more than 20 Hatch Chase machine guns. As far as I know, your army does not have enough rifles of the 30-year-old type, the production of rear is limited, and it is not yet able to fully arm the front-line troops, so that the army has to equip two rifles at the same time, and it is difficult to supply logistics. Let's set up a trading station in Tonghua County, I will exchange these equipment and materials of your army for the Russian army materials and equipment in your hands, I know many friends in the Russian army, and there are many channels, I can buy all the materials of your army that they don't use in their hands and sell them to you cheaply. This way, you'll have a lot less pressure on supplies. ”

Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo's heart was hot, and he naturally knew the advantages of this deal, and immediately said: "Our army has captured a lot of Russian trophies and materials, and the battle of Lushun alone is enough to arm another 60,000 troops, and now what I am worried about is the difficulty of logistics and supply, as well as the lack of ammunition." It would certainly be a great thing if you exchanged the equipment that our army had captured for the same value. With such a deal, I think there is absolutely no need for our army to attack your precinct. ”

Song Biao smiled: "Then it's settled, Dazuo, the old account between us is over in the end, and I hope you will give General Dashanyan a greeting for me, I really have no intention of clashing with the army and making money." Your army is fighting for my own national economy, I am for myself, it is all the same truth, I come and go for money, all for survival, and I hope that General Dashanyan can understand me. In addition, I personally take the liberty of nonsense, in my opinion, the war between Ben and Tsarist Russia has been fought to this point, both sides are very losing, from the perspective of the situation, the limit of the army's offensive is only Shenyang, if the Russian army fights with the strength of the whole country, the limit is to recover Lushun, if you really want to fight this situation, Russia basically loses more than it loses, your army wants to cross Shenyang, and further occupy Changchun, it is tantamount to slapping the face of the Russian emperor again, and then it will really tear your face to the death. Therefore, I personally think that it is better for Russia and Russia to hurry up the peace talks, that the army should hold the line of the Shenyang front as the best policy, and that the Russian army should not retreat as the best policy and continue to fight. You don't have to care about the weak people of the Qing political axe, but if you want to have a foothold in the Kanto region in the future, you still have to cherish the hearts of the people of the Kanto region such as us. ”

Aoki Xuanjun Dazuo high-fived happily: "Your Excellency, there is no place to pretend to be the commander-in-chief of our army, and I will definitely convey these words." Your Excellency is a wise and warlike person, with a very high military awareness, if our army really wants to send troops back to attack Tonghua, first, the gains outweigh the losses; second, it is harmful to the people of Kanto; Third, I am afraid that we may not be able to defeat you, as you can see, our army has sent one infantry division here, and your Excellency may not lose, so you will send two infantry divisions...... I'm afraid our army won't be able to send it out. It is also my luck to be able to reach such a consensus with Your Excellency today, as the old Chinese saying goes, Saiong loses his horse, and he knows whether he is blessed or not, and this kind of thing is just right for me. ”

Song Biao laughed, and sighed in his heart, the last time he met with Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo, the other party still had a high profile that was not ashamed to make friends with small people, and now he is already a hero with heavy troops, and he is a hero in Tonghua, the two are on an equal footing, and even he is a step higher.

The world is changing.

As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, which is roughly the truth!