Wang Guorui has always believed that traitors are actually more hateful than aggressors. China has been invaded by foreign countries since ancient times, but in fact, the most influential ones are traitors, and the invaders are secondary. If there had not been a large number of traitors and literati who had taken refuge in China during the Wuhu Rebellion, those barbarians would not have been able to effectively rule northern China. And those traitor literati did not hesitate to kill a large number of compatriots in order to curry favor with those Hu people, and then obtained enough status for themselves. And the second time, the Jurchen invasion, the Mongol invasion, and the Manchu invasion again, there were a large number of traitors who took refuge in foreigners, which was the most important condition for foreigners to sit firmly.

If there were no refuge of a large number of traitors and literati, even foreigners would not be able to do it in the Central Plains. Because the foreigners do not know the Central Plains, they do not understand the habits of the Central Plains. It was the traitorous literati who told the foreigners that they could formulate the most suitable policy for ruling the Central Plains in time. And the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, with the help of traitor literati. The Manchus also relied on traitor literati to transform them, so that they made policy changes in line with the Central Plains.

Even later, when the Japanese invaded, they also used a large number of traitors to enable them to rule China. Without the support of those traitorous literati, how could those foreigners be able to gain a foothold in the Central Plains? They are the real culprits, and even more hateful.

The strongest fortresses are also mostly breached from within, and the destructive power of one traitor is far greater than ten or even a hundred frontal enemies. If a traitor is at the top, the destructive power is even more incomparable, and it can cause immeasurable losses. Even, from a personal point of view, Wang Guorui hates those moles even more. Because if it is a foreign invader, they stand on the side of their own people. Actually, there is nothing wrong with that. Just like the invasion of foreign armies, their ordinary soldiers may not be willing to invade foreign countries in their own hearts, they are just ordered by their superiors. Even, Wang Guorui can understand to a certain extent that they are also fighting for the interests of their own nation. War as a soldier does not matter whether it is right or wrong. In fact, they did not have any personal hatred when they fought on the battlefield, they were all forced by orders from their superiors or for various reasons, and those ordinary soldiers were actually one of the victims of the war.

But those traitors and traitors are different, they are not like those ordinary enemy soldiers, they are forced to come. These traitors slaughter a large number of compatriots of their own nation for the sake of their own glory and wealth, and this is the most hateful. Even if you are not reused in your own country, you have nothing to blame for going to a foreign country. But if for the sake of glory and wealth, help foreigners to slaughter their own people. Betraying the interests of one's own nation is the most hateful.

"What is the origin of these Huayong battalions?" Wang Guorui asked.

Li Zhanfeng, the director of the chamberlain, immediately ordered to investigate the file, and then soon found a file in the Manchu military aircraft department, which was about the British's Huayong battalion.

"Huayong Camp is from the British Concession in Tianjin. Since the British had established a concession in Britain many years earlier, they had sent soldiers from the mainland to protect it. But then, when the Boer War broke out two years earlier, the British began to be overstretched. The British had already committed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Boer War. Their army in the Far East is thousands, although only in the thousands. But the cost is not low. Their troops in the Far East had to pay all sorts of extra costs, since it was certainly not appropriate to transport all the supplies they needed directly from the distant British mainland to the Far East in a non-war situation. In a word, it means that the cost is not proportional to the effect achieved. “

"In this case, the British first believed that in Chinese mainland, the strength of the army in Chinese mainland was very weak. It's not vulnerable at all. So they don't see the need to deploy too many regular troops. Even if you take a step back, no matter how many regular troops are deployed, it will be a fart to take off your pants. Even if a regular army of 10,000 people was deployed, if the Manchu Qing really wanted to fight hard, they could completely incite hundreds of thousands of civilians to come and besiege them. So from that point of view, deploy more troops. That's not much use. The British army here was far more symbolic than practical, and was only meant to represent the conquest of China. So for the sake of such flashy things, a lot of money is spent, and capitalists like the British will certainly not do it. ”

"They borrowed from India and recruited soldiers in the colonies. Local soldiers don't need too many benefits and requirements, and they can recruit enough soldiers at the lowest cost. Even, the cost they spend is about one-fifth of the soldiers sent from home. In the beginning, because they were foreigners, and there has always been a saying in China that good men should not be soldiers, so their recruitment rate is very low. However, they later spent higher salaries than China's own soldiers, coupled with their strict military discipline and refusal to deduct arrears of military salaries, but won the favor of many retired officers and soldiers of the Chinese Green Battalion. Those or various retired soldiers joined the Huayong battalion of the British. ”

Wang Guorui frowned, he didn't expect that the Huayong Battalion was still established. You must know that the Huayong Battalion was originally established in Yantai, Shandong, and was in the city of the British Concession in Yantai. After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, various countries demanded the establishment of new concessions. The British gained a part of Yantai, Shandong, but the British were overstretched, so they recruited local people as soldiers, that is, the Huayong battalion. However, in the current time and space, Wang Guorui defeated the Japanese, which greatly improved the "international status" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Because of the existence of Taiwan, and Taiwan is still attached to the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all countries are also a lot more honest. Originally, after the First Sino-Japanese War, various countries began to desperately carve up China, but because of the existence of Taiwan, these foreign devils have reined in a lot, and the wave of partition in history has not been launched.

However, because of the Boer War, the British did not want to maintain so many troops in the Manchu Tianjin Concession, so the Huayong Battalion in Yantai, Shandong Province was also moved to Tianjin in such a big way. Those Huayong battalions in Tianjin have also been established in this way, this is an out-and-out puppet army!

"These puppet soldiers really spare no effort to work for foreigners!" Wang Guorui scolded.

"Yes! Lord Wang, these puppet soldiers are actually all veterans of the mainland. They came from old armies like the Green Battalion, and after being seriously trained by the British, they were kind of reborn. As a matter of fact, the weakness of the Chinese armed forces is not due to the quality of the soldiers themselves, but to the problems of the management system and tactics, ideology, and weapons, and these three conditions are indispensable. The same people, when they come to us, immediately become elite soldiers. And let the British manage and train it, and it immediately changed, so it was entirely a matter of the Manchu management system and tactical thinking. ”

According to the archives of the Manchu Military Aircraft Department, those retired soldiers received military training in the Huayong Battalion, and never owed any military salaries, but the British gave them good care, and even the British officers had some superficial respect for them. This made them very grateful, and they have since become lackeys of the British. They repeatedly helped suppress those anti-British forces, and when they were in Tianjin, they often went undercover in various gangs, and then when those gangs gathered, they also provided information to the British, and then Huayong Battalion came to arrest them. The Huayong battalion repeatedly undermined various anti-British forces, and then became a 'hero' that the British attached great importance to. ”

Of course, Wang Guorui knows that these Huayong battalions are all hardcore traitors. Even later, these British people still selected more than a dozen people to go to Britain to receive the British king's medal as a reward for their meritorious service during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance. This is the first time that the British have awarded a medal to a Chinese, but it is so ironic.

Later, even after these Huayong battalions were abolished, they all followed the British, and some of them even went to the British colonies to work as policemen. For example, they all went to Hong Kong to work as police officers, and the British arranged a job for them. There are even some soldiers of the Huayong Battalion who went to live in Britain after the disbandment of the Huayong Battalion, and their descendants have also become British.

"These Huayong battalions, they have no need to redeem them, they seem to be a hardcore traitor." Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui knew that the soldiers of the Huayong battalion had obtained a lot of things from the British that could not be obtained in China, and they must say that military salaries, as well as the so-called "dignity", they would not return to the Chinese. However, if they don't help the British invade China, Wang Guorui can still be regarded as letting them get out of the way and won't kill them. But they just helped the British invade the motherland, so there was no need for Wang Guorui to let them go. To be a soldier for others, to be a mercenary under a foreigner, this Wang Guorui will not think that there is anything wrong with it. However, if you help foreigners to fight their own motherland, then the sin is not small, and it is definitely a must-kill.

"Immediately order, this time we must completely annihilate this group of Huayong battalions, I want to tell those traitors that there will be no good end when you are traitors! This time, take good care of them, no need to save shells, you must completely annihilate this Huayong battalion. Wang Guorui said.

"Yes!" A captain communications staff officer immediately went down to send a telegram. (To be continued.) )