Throughout the Russo-Japanese War, Brigadier General Madenidov and Aoki Nobumi Osa and Hanada Nakanosuke Shosa have always been the most tenacious competitors, but his enemies are not only the Japanese army, but also the entire Russian army itself is corrupt, arrogant and corrupt, they are wreaking havoc in the northeast, blindly destroying and plundering everything.

On the other hand, the Yue army was doing its best to advertise that it was fighting to protect China's territorial integrity and rights, and strictly forbade the kind of massacres and privateering acts in China during the First Sino-Japanese War.

Since the beginning of the war in Russia, the Russian Far Eastern railway system has been plunged into an unprecedented state of chaos, with workers' strikes and revolutionary uprisings continuing, and the situation on the Northeast Railway is simply worse, with bandits engaged in all kinds of sabotage, robbery and ambush work every day.

In order to solve the serious shortage of railway transportation capacity, the Russian army was forced to use a large number of traditional horse fleet transportation, but on this long transportation line, from Harbin to Shenyang, from Vladivostok to Lushun, there were Northeast bandits and spies everywhere, and new transport troops were looted every day.

Brigadier General Madenidov, who was the senior staff officer of the Far East Army of the Tsarist Russian Empire and was directly in charge of the recruitment of bandits, had a headache about this, and it was rare for a powerful team of Northeast bandits to take the initiative to come to take refuge, and he was eager to immediately write a thick big check.

Brigadier General Madenidov did not want Song Biao to go to the front line, there were inexhaustible bandit troops in the rear battlefields such as Fushun, Mudanjiang, Changchun and Tonghua, and his plan was to send multiple cavalry companies to cooperate with Song Biao's bandit troops to jointly eliminate those bandits.

If Song Biao's troops were unexpectedly destroyed by the Yue army on the front line, it would have been a painful blow to Brigadier General Madenidoff's plans.

Bandits fight bandits, that's a dozen and one accurate, both sides know the roots, whose stockade is where, where the nest is, you can know it by touching it, and the Russian army is simply useless in this regard, there is no bandit unit to help guide the way and collect intelligence, they are a group of blind people in the continuous mountains of the eastern part of the country, not only can not find the enemy, but also often get lost, it is easy to enter the ravine, and it is difficult to get out of the ravine.

It's better to come early than to come sooner.

Song Biao's trip was really a very coincidental one, not one day earlier, not one day late.

Because the time is very urgent, all preparations must be made to go to the front line in the next few days, and after reaching an agreement with Brigadier General Madneydorf, Song Biao immediately took a dozen brothers to take the first step and rode to the headquarters of the Tsarist Far Eastern Army with Brigadier General Madnidorf.

In order to save time as much as possible, Zhao Tingzhu rushed to Shenyang with a team of horses at night, as long as the Russian army's subsidy materials were sent, they would be consigned back on the same day, if they had to wait for the logistics department of the Russian army to deploy transportation, it would take half a month, and they couldn't wait.

Zhang Yahu, Hu Dalin, and Xue Changqing began to recruit new recruits in the Fushun area on the spot, recruiting as many as possible to fill the establishment of 3,000 people, especially recruiting more people with experience in horse gangs, as well as miners from local coal mines, because their main task on the front line this time was to build fortifications and logistics and transportation.

Lao Jintou also had to take the first step, and after following Song Biao to Shenyang, he would handle the passes for entering and leaving Shenyang, Fushun and other places on the spot, and then he could open another business and find an opportunity to transport grain and rice into Shenyang City.

It is not difficult to transport diesel, salt and vinegar and other commodities into the city of Shenyang, the difficult thing is gold, silver and grain, the Russian army can rob you of a fine light, if you bring a beautiful porcelain vase, it is basically a part of the looting, there is no difference between the middle and lower Russian [***] officers and soldiers and bandits, the inventory and all the treasures of the Manchu royal family in Fengtianfu have long been looted by the upper officers, and even Tanglin has been dug up.

If you want to go into the city to sell food, you have to think of some way.

There is a 30-kilometer distance from Wujiatun to the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army of Tsarist Russia, Song Biao and Brigadier General Madenidov rode away together, and rushed for two hours quickly, and arrived at Wangjiabao where the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army is located in the evening. It was blown up four times in the 50 years since it was built.

After the end of the Battle of Arthur, the Tsarist Far Eastern Army requisitioned this place as the general headquarters, and the local residents, merchants and refugees living here have long been expelled.

After arriving at the General Headquarters, Brigadier General Madenidov personally went to report the matter to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, while Major Tuvaniel and his party took Song Biao and his party to find a temporarily useless courtyard in Wangjiabao and let them rest here.

Later, when the establishment of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment was officially issued, there was a Russian-language "Manchurian Infantry Regiment Liaison Office" hanging on the gate of the courtyard, and Song Biao could arrange for some people to live here permanently.

This yard has not been inhabited in the past few months, the owner's family is in a hurry, pots and pans and bedding are ready-made, and you can stay here permanently after a little tidying, and the living conditions are also very good.

Song Biao took a general look around each room, and was very satisfied with the invitation of Major Tu Vaniele to sit down in the main hall, and lit a cigarette for him with a smile, and said: "Oh, we can have this treatment thanks to the major's kind words and recommendations." ”

Major Tuvaniel laughed very interestingly, after a hard day's work, he finally had a moment to rest, took the opportunity to dust off the sea blue tweed military uniform and high military boots, and sighed: "I didn't help you much, the key is that you came by too coincidence, the brigadier general is the time when he needs manpower the most, our brigadier general is a close confidant of Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, in charge of intelligence and logistics, but unfortunately this work has been difficult since the start of the war." As long as you are willing to follow the brigadier general and follow his orders, there will definitely be benefits for you in the future. ”

Song Biao smiled, beckoned Li Fugui to come over, took out the bag of gold bars from the bag Li Fugui was carrying, and directly gave it to Major Tuvaniel: "There is an ancient Chinese saying, called 'prosperous antiques, troubled gold in troubled times'. In times of peace and prosperity, antiques are the most valuable, and in troubled times, gold is the best thing. These gold bars were snatched from us from Xiaoben, and they can be regarded as a little bit of my heart, and I hope that the major will take care of them in the future. ”

Major Tuvaniel was greatly surprised, twelve yellow gold bars were placed in front of him, who was not dazzled, calculated into rubles, these twelve gold bars were basically equivalent to his salary for five years.

He accepted the bag of gold bars without thinking about it, and praised Song Biao with great enthusiasm: "Mr. Song, you are really the most bold friend, you can rest assured, as long as I can help you do it, I will definitely help you handle it properly." ”

Song Biao said: "Major, you are the adjutant of Brigadier General Madenidoff, and I also follow Commodore General, even if we are partners in the same boat." I really need more attention to a lot of things here, first of all, I want to first transfer some Russian military officer uniforms, preferably a higher grade, you think, I sent dozens of brothers in Shenyang to be responsible for recruiting locals and surrounding displaced people, they are all wearing high-grade officer uniforms, others know at a glance that we have a background and strength, and there are a lot of defectors. ”

Major Tuvaniel nodded and said, "Yes, you are quite right. In fact, even if the establishment of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment is approved, it is a bit difficult to get a sufficient number of military uniforms, and our supplies in this area are a little difficult to keep up, and it is even more difficult for officer uniforms. Fortunately, we are the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army, as long as the brigadier general nods, it is definitely not a problem. However, these clothes definitely have no military rank, and even if you have an establishment, you still belong to the local mercenaries in Manchuria, and that's it, and you will not officially declare it to the Imperial War Department. ”

Song Biao replied: "This is not a problem, as long as you have a military uniform." In addition to military uniforms, in terms of specific allocation of materials, I think we should make a list in advance, get it early, and go back early to arrange other work. ”

Tuvaniel said: "There is no problem with this, we can roughly calculate it now." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, calculated in his heart, took out paper and a pencil from the table, and said while writing: "We are recruiting people for a regimental establishment here, in order to facilitate the understanding and acceptance of the soldiers below, I plan to set up six brigades, three combat brigades, an engineer brigade, a transport brigade and a logistics support brigade in the way of the army, each brigade is equivalent to a battalion, with a total of about 3,000 people. Let's calculate according to this establishment scale, first of all, 4,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, of which 1,000 are used as reserves, each gun is equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition, 120 Nagant revolvers, and it is better if there are German-made Mauser pistols, and 8,000 German-style wooden-handled grenades and 12 heavy machine guns, each machine gun is equipped with 50 boxes of canvas bullet chains, each box is 4,000 rounds, and the transport brigade and the logistics support brigade are to be separately equipped with 100 horses and 40 carriages. The engineer brigade was to be equipped with shovels, pickaxes, and shovels of 500 men, and at least forty sets of carpenter's tools, including planers, saws, ink lines, etc., which were important for this purpose, and measuring instruments were also necessary. In addition, there are relatively more officer uniforms, and I will always keep more people to recruit troops in various parts of Fengtianfu, because I expect that the scale of my loss of troops on the frontline battlefield will be relatively large. ”

He estimated in his heart that these equipment were normal applications, and there would not be any major problems, and the only difficult points were machine guns and Mauser pistols.

Tu Vanieer has been nodding his head again and again, and he doesn't seem to think that these things are difficult to do, and only after Song Biao finished speaking in one breath did he say: "Except for the problem of heavy machine guns and grenades, which are more difficult to handle, everything else is not a problem, I will try my best to equip you within five days." Heavy machine guns are very difficult to handle, grenades are not so easy to distribute, there are artillery, we have captured more than a dozen Trinity field guns, the current plan of the General Staff is to form four field artillery companies, but there are still a lot of arguments, because the 7.5 mm shells used in this kind of artillery are not available to us, and the only few hundred shells are all captured materials. If you want, I might be able to get you some of it and send you some artillery. ”

Song Biao said: "Of course, it is very good, more than a dozen artillery pieces only have a few hundred shells, which is obviously not enough, my suggestion is to temporarily mothball the other artillery, and only send out four guns to form an artillery company for us." You can send a few gunners and loaders over, and we will do the work of hauling and carrying the goods ourselves, and it will be easy to organize an artillery company. ”

Tu Vaniere said: "Okay, that's it, after your establishment is down, I will try my best to fight for you in the General Staff!" ”

Song Biao's requirements are definitely not low, but Tu Vanier is very sure to do it, first because he is in charge of logistics, and secondly, as long as the establishment of the Manchurian infantry regiment is personally approved by the commander-in-chief, Song Biao's side is not an ordinary bought bandit army, but a mercenary in the official establishment of the Russian army, which is not different in principle from the Cossack cavalry.

In addition, even if you want to show other Northeast bandits, the amount of investment on Song Biao's side should be exaggerated, so as to play a sufficient role model.

Therefore, Tu Vanier is quite sure to help Song Biao get these supplies, and may even deploy a few Makqin heavy machine guns to Song Biao.