Early the next morning, Chen Qimei made a phone call to Boss Zhu and Boss Yu respectively, and made an appointment to meet at the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Qimei was busy all morning and afternoon, and he was also like Xiao Zhenlei along the west gate of the county town to the west to the third patrol battalion station, and in any case, he mixed in the Tokyo Police Superintendent School in Japan for a year, and later in the Dongbin Army School for a year, and he knew a little bit about military affairs.

After a busy day, he rushed to the Ningshang General Association at three o'clock in the afternoon, and Boss Zhu and Boss Yu also rushed over soon after. After the three of them met, Chen Qimei said: "Two brothers, I have found a good manpower, there are not many people, only a hundred people, but all of them are brave people, in addition, I found a way to buy guns and ammunition through the relationship on the road, but the number is not much, only 30 guns, including 20 long guns, each asking for 110 foreign dollars, 10 short guns, each asking for 80 foreign oceans, a total of 2,000 rounds of bullets, a total of 3,000 foreign oceans, the price is 20% more expensive than before, you can get the goods tonight with the money!" ”

Zhu Baosan frowned when he heard this: "Let's not talk about the price, as long as you can buy it, is there a little less in terms of the number of people?" And there are also a little less guns and ammunition? You must know that Enahai can mobilize more than 400 people from a patrol battalion, plus the musket team he brought from Nanjing, there are more than 200 people with guns alone, and we only have 100 people, and there are only 30 guns, can we beat it? ”

Boss Yu also felt when he heard it; Feeling that this matter was a bit suspenseful, he said: "Yes, they are four or five times more than us in terms of numbers, and they are much more powerful than us in terms of weapons, I think this matter is too risky!" ”

Chen Qimei expressed understandable concerns about these two brothers. In his opinion, these two old men did not study military affairs. I don't know about military affairs, and I don't know that fighting a war cannot be won by relying on a large number of people and good weapons. He smiled and said: "Don't worry, two old brothers, from a military point of view, it is true that the number of enemies is five times that of us, and there are more and stronger weapons than us, but the decisive factors for the victory or defeat of the battle are not only these, in history there are many victories with less, and the defeat of the strong with the weak, as long as the planning is good and the command is appropriate, it is not impossible to defeat the majority of the enemy with a small number of troops, besides." It is impossible for Enahai to send all the troops of a battalion to escort our brothers, he has to arrange some manpower on the side of the execution ground, and he has to stay at the station, I estimate that he can send a team of troops to escort it is very good, my plan is to set up an ambush on the way to escort them, as long as they enter our ambush circle, I have eighty percent certainty of success! ”

"Oh, I forgot that Ince was a top student studying military affairs in Japan!" Boss Zhu seemed to remember after hearing Chen Qimei's words, and patted his thigh and said, "Since Ince is so sure." I think it's so decided, and Ince is responsible for directing the rescue operation! ”

After Boss Zhu finished speaking, he looked at Boss Yu, Chen Qimei was a little relieved and looked at Boss Yu's attitude, and Boss Yu asked when he heard this: "Ince." Where are you going to ambush the escorted Qing army? ”

Chen Qimei immediately took out a simple map from her pocket and spread it out, pointed to the location of the cross on the map and said, "Two old brothers, look, this is the topographic map I drew from the West City Gate to the Third Patrol Battalion in Huxi. I went to check this morning and afternoon, and I found that the most suitable place for ambush is Yangjiawan. There is a large dense forest here, and the road from Huxi to Xichengmen passes through it. And there are a lot of people to hide in this wood! When the time comes, we will lie in ambush in the woods on both sides of the road, as long as the Qing army escorts the team to pass, we will flank the left and right, first fight with muskets for a while, and then let the brothers with knives and guns rush up and slash and kill, I don't believe that we can't defeat them! ”

Boss Yu listened to Chen Qimei's deployment, turned his head to look at Boss Zhu and asked, "Third Brother Bao, what do you think?" ”

Boss Zhu shook his head and said, "I don't understand military affairs, but I don't think there's anything wrong with Ince's deployment!" ”

Boss Yu nodded and said, "Okay, then it's decided!" As he spoke, he took out a checkbook from his sleeve and wrote a check for three thousand oceans, tore it off and handed it to Chen Qimei.

Chen Qimei took it and put it carefully in her pocket, and said: "Since the third brother Bao and Brother Ade have agreed, then the younger brother will go and buy the weapons and ammunition back tonight, so that the brothers can familiarize themselves with the firearms, so as not to mess up the fight in two days!" ”

"Okay, be careful!"

Late at night, Chen Qimei bought 30 guns with 2,000 rounds of ammunition with Liu Fubiao's help. Generally speaking, when buying weapons from foreign companies, especially short guns such as box guns, foreign companies will package and sell them together with 500 rounds of ammunition, after all, there are very few places in China that can produce bullets and guns at this time, as if only Hanyang Arsenal can manufacture them on a large scale except for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but many of the guns and bullets made in these two places are not qualified, and the bullets made in these two places can only be used with matching guns.

Buying weapons on the black market is completely different, first of all, black market merchants will not sell too many bullets to customers, because they don't have any, secondly, the guns sold by black market merchants are basically not brand new, but there are original goods, but unfortunately most of them are old, and there are many guns whose rifling is almost worn out, but as long as it is a gun, Chen Qimei and others can't care so much, they can fire and kill people.

Chen Qimei and Liu Fubiao beckoned the brothers to move the three boxes on the carriage to the room, the room is relatively large, there are already thirty strong men waiting here, these people are Chen Qimei and Liu Fubiao specially selected people who can shoot, saying that they can shoot only because they have touched the gun before and can shoot, not that they are accurate in marksmanship, in fact, these people are just a rabble, but they are much better than those who have never touched a gun, at least they can shoot, and others can't shoot yet.

"Okay, now each brother comes and gets one, and the other twenty rounds of ammunition, remember that the brother with the spear should get the spear bullets, and the brother with the short spear gets the short gun bullets!"

Under Chen Qimei's arrangement, each brother in the room got a gun and a matching twenty rounds of ammunition, and those who could play with guns lowered the bolt and cleaned the barrel with strips of cloth, and those who were not very familiar with it began to familiarize themselves with guns. Some people have already loaded the bullet into the magazine and loaded it, and this kind of person is familiar with multiple guns. Otherwise, I wouldn't have loaded the bullet so quickly, you know, this thing is a deadly thing.

After everyone got their guns and bullets. Chen Qimei said again: "You all got guns, right?" Brothers, don't go back tonight, stay here to get familiar with it, after all, the day after tomorrow will start fighting, don't be inaccurate when the time comes, tomorrow Brother Liu will take you to the field to practice shooting, everyone will run out of the twenty bullets, after the shooting, the guns will be put away, scattered back to gather here, and then we will go to fight with Qinggou in the morning. Of course, the brother who is afraid of death can not go, bring it up now, I immediately agreed to let you go, is there a brother who is afraid of death? ”

These are all mixed outside, everyone loves face, and no one wants to admit that they are afraid of death, otherwise how will they eat outside in the future? Therefore, after Chen Qimei asked, no one answered.

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On the afternoon before the execution, Xiao Zhenlei and Wang Yaqiao still met in the old place, and the two were talking while drinking tea and knocking melon seeds.

Wang Yaqiao introduced the news he had gotten: "The actions of Chen Qimei and others on the revolutionary party side have been figured out. They gathered a hundred people, these people are all ruthless characters of the Green Gang, they are the people under Fan Gaotou, and Chen Qimei is the mastermind. Led by him and Liu Fubiao, they prepared to ambush tomorrow morning in the woods of Yangjiawan, the only way for the Qing court's escort procession, and 30 of them had guns. Seventy more with broadswords and spears! ”

Xiao Zhenlei drank tea and asked, "What about the situation in the Ena Sea?" ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "Enahai controlled the third patrol battalion, and Yao Shiqing, the commander of this battalion, was caught by Enahai because he secretly released Chen Qimei's assistant Li Haiqiu. Yao Shiqing could only follow his orders in order to save his life, and the news came from our brothers in the 3rd Patrol Battalion. Enahai has already given an order, tomorrow morning the second team is responsible for escorting those prisoners to the north of the county to Caishikou, the second team has 118 people, there should have been 154 people, Yao Shiqing ate 36 people's empty salary, these 118 people have a musket platoon of 36 people, and the other two platoons have a total of 72 people are spears and broadswords, as for the other two teams have not received the task of Enahai for the time being! What are we going to do? Do you ambush the escort team with Chen Qimei and them in Yangjiawan, or wait and see? ”

Xiao Zhenlei touched his chin and thought about it, and said: "If there is only one team to escort, with Chen Qimei's strength, the two sides are basically equal, but Chen Qimei They have the advantage of geographical advantage, and it is an ambush, surprise, the chance of winning should be more than sixty percent, not to mention that the escorted Qing army has to deal with the ambush people, but also to guard against those prisoners around them, the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced!" In my opinion, we might as well wait and see what happens, but we also have to be prepared, let the brothers disassemble the guns into parts, load them with baggage, bring enough ammunition, and wait near Wujia Village behind Yangjiawan tomorrow, and I will go when the time comes, what do you think? ”

Wang Yaqiao nodded and said, "Okay, let's go together!" ”

After the two talked, they went their separate ways.

Late that night, Xiao Zhenlei was awakened by the ringing of the phone in his sleep, and picked up the phone and said, "Hey? ”

"Brother Huanyu, it's me! Something is not right, the first team of the 3rd Patrol Battalion does not know where to go, the inner line we inserted there is in the first team, and now we have lost contact, and the musket team brought by the Ena Sea is gone! ”

"There's a conspiracy here!" Xiao Zhenlei was shocked in his heart, and his mind was running at high speed, what kind of conspiracy was Enahai planning? He suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately said: "Immediately send someone to the north of the county to inquire and see if anyone is ambushed there!" ”

"Now the gates of the county seat are closed, but we still have brothers in the city, and I'm sure there will be news soon!"

After an hour, Wang Yaqiao called again: "Found the team of musketeers brought by Enahai, our brother found an abnormal situation in Caishikou, all the shops and houses on the east and west sides of Caishikou were all occupied by the Qing army, it is estimated that the owners of those shops and houses were all controlled by the Qing army, but until now, we have not found the missing first team of the Third Patrol Battalion!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and ordered: "Don't worry, send someone to continue to investigate, tomorrow morning we will meet in Wujia Village according to the previous plan, and if we find the first team, notify me immediately."

"Understood!". (To be continued......) R1292