Liang Maocai left, he walked very manly, very single, and he didn't even look back, but his heart was like a mess of numbness, and it was a faint sigh of Hongyu over and over.

There are sixty miles of road from Nantai County to Daqingshan, and strong men have to walk for several hours, not to mention that Liang Maocai is still injured, he staggered, walked very slowly, there was a light rain in the morning, the ground was slippery, and a series of deep footprints were left on the road behind him.

Five minutes later, a man came to the side of the road where Liang Maocai had walked, visually measured the amplitude and depth of the footprints, and couldn't help sneering: "What an iron man, he was injured and walked so quickly." ”

Daqing Mountain is undulating, surrounded by mountains, the "white wolf" bandits have been repeatedly suppressed, it is by relying on this steep terrain, the dragon does not see the head and tail, every time it is bitten by the officers and soldiers, there is a mountain peak from the mouth of the tiger, the big village of Gailongquan is rooted here, the grain, grass and ammunition have been hoarded a lot, and the soldiers are only to attack the county town again, and avenge the arrow.

In the past few days, the lord of Dazhai Gai Longquan was restless, sitting on the white tiger skin chair as if sitting on pins and needles, because his subordinate Liang Maocai went down the mountain privately to find and kill Chen Zikun, and did not return for several days, and the brother who was sent to inquire about the intelligence said that the four gates of Nantai County were closed, and the assassins were being hunted down, which made everyone sweat.

was anxious, and suddenly the sentry came to report that the tenth master was back, and Gai Longquan was overjoyed: "Let him come in." ”

Liang Mao was carried in, the wounds on his body burst out, and the blood flowed all over, if it weren't for this kid who was as strong as a calf, he would definitely die halfway through.

Gai Longquan felt most distressed about Lao Shi, and said: "Lao Shi, you are disobedient, have you eaten lunch, come on, quickly take eggs and steamed buns to suppress my brother's hunger." ”

Liang Maocai said: "Big brother, I don't have the ability, I didn't kill Chen Zikun, you punish me." ”

Gai Longquan said with a wry smile: "The military advisor said, the surname Chen is Wuqu Xing, we mortals can't kill him, it's good that you can come back alive." ”

As he was talking, Lao Ba Lao Jiu and the military advisor came in, and Lao Jiu Xue Bin walked a little hard, which was the consequence of his disrespect for the mountain rules and three knives and six holes last time.

When the military advisor Su Qingyan saw Liang Maocai, he immediately exclaimed: "Tenth Master, how did you get here?" ”

Liang Maocai said: "I walked halfway and grabbed a little black donkey and rode here. ”

Su Qingyan said: "I didn't ask you that, I meant that the county town was wantonly arrested, how did you get out of it?" ”

Liang Maocai's eyes were in a trance, and he recounted how his assassination failed, how Hongyu rescued him, and how he put on makeup to send him out of the city.

Gai Longquan praised: "This Xiaoni is a strange woman. ”

Su Qingyan said: "It's not good, it's a trick!" ”

The crowd was shocked.

……

At this time, a battalion of troops was spreading out in the foothills, shining bayonets were faintly visible in the shadows of the trees, two German Grushen mountain guns raised their barrels, aimed at the "White Wolf" cottage in the shade of green trees, and two Maxim heavy machine guns also entered the battle position, blocking the only way down the mountain.

The bandit suppression force followed Liang Maocai's footsteps, Chen Zikun is an expert in tracing and looking for traces, this trick is called putting a long line to catch a big fish, and he did not miss, but the brothers carried heavy weapons all the way up the mountain.

Chen Zikun used a telescope to observe the enemy camp on the top of the mountain, and said confidently: "With your back to the cliff, you will be dead, and this time you will definitely be able to completely annihilate Longquan." ”

Chen Shou was overjoyed: "Dashuai, I'll take the lead later." ”

Chen Zikun said with a smile: "The mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so let Grusen take the lead." ”

In the cottage, the brothers looked at Su Qingyan blankly, and only listened to him: "That night Shanghai was the kiln opened by Chen Zikun, and it was his family's people, and since ancient times, there have been cloud bitches who are ruthless and unrighteous, how can the red jade put the tenth master back safely, this must be the strategy of the official army, the cottage is about to be lost, everyone leave quickly." ”

Liang Maocai said: "Strategist, if you scold me, I can turn my face with you if you scold Hongyu!" As he spoke, he was about to do it, but was persuaded by Xue Bin: "Old ten, the military advisor is also for the good of the cottage." ”

was shouting, suddenly a scream came, everyone didn't understand what the sound was, when they looked at each other, the explosion sounded, it turned out that the scream was the whistle before the shell landed, this time everyone believed the words of the military advisor, Gai Longquan immediately decided: "Go!" ”

The officers and soldiers poured all the shells into the cottage, a secret camp was bombed miserably, followed by the machine gun also sounded, the Makqin water machine gun slipped for half an hour, Chen Zikun cherished the soldiers, first ploughed the cottage with strong firepower, and then sent Chen Shou to lead the brothers to attack.

Chen Shou took thirty death squads, equipped with Berkman portable machine guns and box guns, and carefully attacked the cottage along the sheep intestine path, but found that the cottage was empty, and searched around, but did not see the trace of Gai Longquan and his nine King Kongs.

Chen Zikun got the report, led the team to take a look at the mountain immediately, sure enough, the cottage was blown up in all directions, but the chair of Gailongquan was safe and sound, the white tiger skin on it did not even have a bullet hole, Chen Zikun ordered people to collect the tiger skin, and came to the cliff to check, only to see the abyss, green smoke curling.

"That's it, don't chase after the poor." Chan said.

Although there was no annihilation of the bandits' vital force, but the seizure of a large number of grain and grass equipment, gold and silver, the bandits' accumulated belongings for many years were swept away, but it was not worth the trip, Chen Zikun ordered the gold, silver and guns to be taken away, the grain and grass houses were burned, and then the mountain was withdrawn.

Long after the officers and soldiers left, a thin bandit climbed up from under the cliff along the vines, looked around, and only learned a few bird calls after confirming that it was safe, and the bandits climbed up from the secret hole in the cliff one after another, looking at the cottage that had been burned to the white ground and gritting their teeth.

Twice attacked the county town and lost troops, and after several encirclements and suppressions, the pole of thousands of people is now only a poor hundred and ten people, the cottage was burned by a fire, the food is gone, and more importantly, the gold and silver accumulated for many years are all lost, Gai Longquan can't help but cry: "Day his mother!" ”

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The strength of the "white wolf" bandits entrenched in the area of killing Hukou has been greatly reduced, and they are no longer able to compete with the official army, and the traffic artery to kill Hukou was guarded by Chen Zikun, and the financial resources of Gailongquan were also cut off.

Chen Zikun borrowed a battalion of soldiers and horses from Luoyang can finally go back, and he wants to leave this battalion of soldiers to call, but Brother 500 eats and drinks Lazar at least 5,000 oceans a month, and the financial situation of the Protector Office is stretched, and he really can't afford to support so many soldiers.

A battalion of the army embarked on the way home, with Chen Zikun's gift to Wu Peifu, which was a white tiger skin pulled from the chair of Gailongquan, and Chen Zikun gave them an extra month's military salary, and personally sent them outside the city, watching the five hundred tiger ben disappear at the end of the wilderness, Chen Zikun couldn't help but sigh: "When can I train such a soldier." ”

It is not difficult to train soldiers, there are honest farmers in Nantai County, as long as the recruitment flag is erected, there will be people who eat food, but Chen Zikun has no money and no guns, what can he do to feed so many soldiers, the only opium that can make money is still sprouting in the ground, and the only thing he can do now is to wait.

When the opium blossoms and bears fruit, it is the time when his wealth is rolling.

Under the guidance of Master Long, Li Ju's hundreds of acres of land were planted with poppies, which were much finer than growing wheat, and the soil had to be ploughed several times, and it was not enough to crush the soil, but also to mix fine sand in the seeds, and cover the ground with a thin layer of fine soil, otherwise the delicate poppy seeds would be suffocated in the soil.

After ten days of sowing the seeds, small green seedlings finally emerged in the soil, as delicate as rape seedlings, and Master Long had a cart of wheat straw pulled and scattered in the ground, covering the seedlings with a warm quilt.

"This medicinal herb is really expensive, I don't know how much it can be sold for." The farmers sighed.

In mid-October, news came from Beijing that Cao Kun and Cao Laoshuai had bought a big president for 5,000 oceans per vote, and it was a joke for a while, and all newspapers in Beijing and Shanghai were ridiculing and insulting the election bribery scandal.

There is also a very interesting piece of news, in addition to Cao Kun's election with a high vote, Sun Wen, Tang Jiyao, Cen Chunxuan, Duan Qirui and others also received a number of votes, which is not surprising, what is surprising is that Sun Meiyao, the brigade commander of the Shandong New Brigade who was born as a bandit, and Chen Zikun, the new army major general of the Jiangbei Protector Army, each received one vote.

Autumn to winter, Nantai County ushered in the first snow, overnight, the earth is covered in silver, the snow is two feet thick, the farmers are happy to bloom, the agricultural proverb has a saying: winter wheat cover three layers of quilt, the next year pillow steamed buns to sleep. Chen Zikun is also very happy, the wind and rain are smooth, and there will be a bumper harvest of opium next year.

Suddenly, the warning came, the white wolf went down the mountain again, swept several villages in a row, swept a batch of clothes and quilts to eat and go, the regiment couldn't catch up, but was ambushed by them, losing more than ten guns.

Chen Zikun was furious and decided to personally lead the troops to encircle and suppress, the sky was sprinkled with goose feathers and heavy snow, and the soldiers wore wool shoes made of mud and straw rope, and carried rifles to embark on the journey.

Chief of Staff Yan once advised Chen Zikun, saying that it was snowing heavily in the sky and not using soldiers, but Chen Zikun said that this snow was a light snow in the northeast, and that we were working hard, and the bandits were even more difficult, and now was the best time to complete the battle.

Chen Zikun is right, the heavy snow covers the mountain, the Gailongquan pole on the Daqing Mountain has reached the point of exhaustion, lack of guns and ammunition, no food and drink, even salt can not guarantee the supply, had to take the risk to go down the mountain to rob, but the life of the common people is not easy these years, Gailongquan also claimed to be the way of heaven, never started with the poor people, robbed a few landlords, only got a dozen quilts, a few old cotton jackets, three pigs, two cows, five sheep, hundreds of catties of wheat only, for hundreds of people's poles is just a drop in the bucket.

With pigs, cattle and sheep, the road is not fast, Gai Longquan and a group of people were bitten to the death by the first battalion led by Chen Zikun, and exchanged fire in the heavy snow in two times, you come and I fight so lively, but most of the bandits are short guns, officers and soldiers are mainly spears, and there is a Makqin machine gun to help, the firepower is far superior to the bandits, so that they can't raise their heads.

It is said that it is difficult to carry heavy weapons on heavy snowy days, but this is difficult for Chen Zikun, for which he has already arranged, found a carpenter to play a sled, put a machine gun on it, and trained a few country big yellow dogs to pull, super maneuverability.

The bandits were surrounded by officers and soldiers in a mountain col, the stolen livestock were killed by stray bullets, they were half-buried in the snow and frozen, and the brothers lacked clothes and little clothing, and they were so hungry that their hearts were close to their backs, and their fingers were frozen into small carrots.

Gai Longquan looked sad and asked Su Qingyan: "Strategist, what do you think?" ”

Su Qingyan was wrapped in a quilt, still shivering from the cold, and his snot flowed, he said: "Big scoop handle, the firepower of the official army is too fierce, we can't resist, we can only stay up until it gets dark and then leave." ”

Liang Maocai was holding a few yellow-orange bullets in his hand and pressing them into the gun, and when he heard Su Qingyan's words, he couldn't help grinning bitterly and said, "What are you going to eat when you go back to the mountains?" If you want me to say, let's fight with the dog, kill one is enough, kill two to earn one. ”