What is Matsuyama? Once the Russian army or the Japanese army fights, the city of Jinzhou east of the Xiaoling River can be lost, the Cuiyan and Laohugou in the north of Jinzhou can be lost, and even the daughter township can not be defended when necessary, but if the Russian army crosses the river from the southern plain of Jinzhou and attacks in a roundabout way, before the main force of the third mixed association withdraws from the daughter township, Songshan must not be lost.

Because before the withdrawal of the Third Mixed Association, once Matsuyama is lost, then it means that the main force of the Third Mixed Association located in Daughter Township and the troops in the Cuiyan area will cut off the back road, and the only way waiting for the Third Mixed Association is the annihilation of the whole army.

In such a place, the southern strategic support point of the Jinzhou defense line, the Songshan defense line is naturally highly valued by Zhao Dongyun, who sent heavy troops to garrison it some time ago, and at the same time hired a large number of people to build fortifications, and it was Meng Enyuan who presided over the Songshan defense line.

Now that Meng Enyuan has been transferred to the north to suppress bandits, Songshan Town naturally can't be left alone, originally Chen Guangyuan thought that Pei Lianying, the gang leader of the tenth standard, would replace Meng Enyuan in Songshan Town, but he didn't expect Zhao Dongyun to transfer himself over.

"I don't need to talk to you about the importance of Songshan, you have worked hard in the past and arranged the defense of Songshan!" Speaking of this, Zhao Dongyun glanced at Chen Guangyuan with a hint of expectation: "In time, our third mixed association will become the third town, and we can't let outsiders come over to sit in those two commanders, even if it is for the future, you have to work hard!" ”

Zhao Dongyun's words almost showed that after the third mixed into the third town, one of the two co-unifiers was ready to give him Chen Guangyuan, and now it is Chen Guangyuan who has to look at your own table.

Chen Guangyuan's face couldn't help but become excited: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely make Songshan leaky, as long as I Chen Guangyuan is in Songshan for a day, we will not let the third mixed association have no way out!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his hand to let him out, this Chen Guangyuan has been quite good recently, although sometimes he can't put it down, but it is estimated that he also realized the reality and began to switch to Zhao Dongyun's side, after all, with the Third Mixed Association and Chen Guangyuan, Zhao Dongyun's many situations, Chen Guangyuan's future has basically been controlled by Zhao Dongyun, if he doesn't take refuge in Zhao Dongyun, he won't say anything, but don't think about being promoted in the next three or five years.

Therefore, in the face of Chen Guangyuan, who has already switched to himself, Zhao Dongyun naturally will not put on the face of an old enemy, but makes a posture of sincere acceptance, and gives a future reward for the leader of the association, so the intention is simple, it is nothing more than to tell Chen Guangyuan and other people who want to take refuge in Zhao Dongyun: I, Zhao Dongyun, am looking forward to you coming to take refuge.

Not to mention Chen Guangyuan, who went out with a happy face, Zhao Dongyun continued to look at the official document in his hand, the briefing in his hand was a secret briefing sent by Zhao Dongping, which described in detail the many gains of the northward detachment of the bandits in the past few days, but only exterminated three small bandits, not to mention the harvest of guns and horses, the cash income alone has reached more than 10,000 taels of silver, and there are more and more other messy goods, and it is estimated that they can be sold for thousands of taels of silver.

Just this amount of silver, can make up for the cost of pulling out and ammunition in this anti-bandit operation, Zhao Dongyun is only 20,000 taels of silver approved for this one-month anti-bandit operation, that is to say, the additional cost of suppressing bandits is only about 10,000 taels, and if it is returned now, then the next harvest will be profit.

The three bandits in front of them are all small miscellaneous fish, and Zhao Dongping said at the briefing that he will soon launch an encirclement and suppression of the 'Lu Shuanggun', and it is expected that he will get at least 50,000 taels of goods.

In mid-September, Meng Enyuan's troops had already pointed directly at the 'Lu Shuanggun' department in Hongjiatun, 70 kilometers north of Jinzhou, and the leader of the bandits, nicknamed 'Lu Shuanggun', was said to have used two revolvers without permission, and when the two pistols crackled against the enemy, the enemy basically became a hornet's nest.

His subordinates have more than 300 bandits, and what is even more valuable is that the 300 bandits under his subordinates are all mounted bandits, and they have at least 100 new guns.

A few years ago, he liked to pick up Russian trains just like Feng Delin, and this person was a ruthless character who dared to fight hard with Russian soldiers.

The Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand was not bought, but stolen

During the Gengzi year, due to the large number of Russians increasing troops in the northeast, and launched a large-scale slaughter of the Lu Shuanggun Department that was originally entrenched in the west of Jilin, although the Lu Shuanggun Department had the courage to fight, but in the end it was just a nest of bandits, and the Russian army suffered heavy losses, and finally Lu Shuanggun only took dozens of remnants of the bandits to flee all the way west.

Because Tai'an, Liaozhong, Panshan, Xinmin and other places in western Liaoning have been entrenched by Zhang Zuolin, Feng Delin, Du Lisan and others.

Therefore, even if Lu Shuanggun had a brilliant early life, he was naturally unwilling to provoke Feng Delin, Du Lisan and others when he was down, so he bypassed the Liaohe area, and did not go to Feng Delin, Du Lisan, Zhang Zuolin and others to grab food, but ran to the north of Jinzhou to mix.

And I have to say that this person really has a set of bandits, in the early years in the western part of Jilin, he even dared to fight hard with the Russian soldiers, and the momentum was once so big that Russia sent a large army to encircle and suppress, and after arriving in the north of Jinzhou, it didn't take two years of hard work, he just recovered his vitality.

At the beginning of his arrival in the northern part of Jinzhou, he only had more than 50 remnants, but he soon regathered more than 300 bandits, and the bandits did not have many old and weak women and children like many copycat bandits, and his more than 300 subordinates were all young and strong, and they were all bandits with horses and guns.

This person's behavior was different from that of Du Lisan, Feng Delin and others, although he had many subordinates and was also entrenched in the area near Hongjiatun, but he did not vigorously manage the base area and regularize the armament of his subordinates. He still relies on the traditional bandit methods of robbing homes and kidnapping tickets as his main source of income.

Because of the large number of his subordinates, in order to obtain a large amount of income, it also forced the ministry to have an extremely wide range of activities, and in the past two years, the northern part of Jinzhou, the western Liaoning corridor, the northwest of Xinmin, Zhangwu, and even Inner Mongolia have all been his scope of activities.

Although there are not many people killed everywhere he goes, he will not go to the rich landlords to rob them, but rob them everywhere he goes, whether they are rich landlords or poor people, anyway, he will rob them when he sees them, this money is so, and even more so for beautiful women. Those ladies are rarely ruined, basically asking for a large amount of ransom, if no one comes to redeem them, except for being left as a lady of the village, most of them are sold to various places.

Therefore, in the eyes of many colleagues who are also bandits in the Northeast, this person's behavior is not despicable, even if he kidnaps and tears up tickets, he also engages in the business of selling women, and more importantly, he is engaged in the method of fishing in the dry water, and even rations will not be left behind.

Looking at this person's information, Zhao Dongyun frowned slightly, is this Lu Shuanggun ruthless, or is it unambitious and uninformed? Generally speaking, with the strength of 300 elite cavalry bandits, and also controlling such a large area, they will generally evolve into a more regular armed force, just like Du Lisan and Feng Delin, they gradually reduce direct looting and kidnapping, turn to operating base areas, collecting local taxes and tolls for commercial travel ships, etc., and their armed forces will not infringe on the people in the jurisdiction, but also provide them with protection.

For example, if Lu Shuanggun ran to Du Lisan's territory to rob the kidnapping ticket, then Du Lisan would definitely go crazy and lead his troops to fight over.

However, Lu Shuanggun still maintained the traditional bandit model, wasting the three hundred elite cavalry bandits in vain, and how much money did he get every year to raise these three hundred elite cavalry bandits? And for this money, how many homes do they have to rob and kidnap how many meat tickets every year?

What's more important is that this person has no strength, but he doesn't know how to operate, so there will definitely not be too much floating wealth in his hands.

But then again, even if the wealth in Lu Shuanggun's lair is not as much as Du Lisan and Feng Delin, it will definitely be more than those small bandit nests, at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

In the early morning of 14 September, on a certain hill outside Hongjiatun, which was originally barren and uninhabited, there was a surge of people, and some of the officers of the Third Beiyang Mixed Association wearing gray military uniforms were talking in low voices, and some were holding binoculars to observe Hongjiatun not far away.

"My lord, now the front and rear teams of the first battalion of the cavalry of Huaguan's belt have been stationed in Dongbagou, as long as they hold Dongbagou, it is enough to cut off Lu Shuanggun's northward retreat, and the third battalion of the cavalry led by Wang Guanjiao has also been outflanked from Lijia Village, as long as we launch a frontal attack to contain their attention, the third battalion of Wang Guan's cavalry will be able to launch a surprise attack from the left flank, and then sweep Hongjiatun!" The one who spoke was Liu Fufu, the pipe band of the first battalion of the ninth standard of the third mixed team.

Meng Enyuan also put down the telescope at this time, and said with doubts in his mouth: "Although Hongjiatun has been surrounded by us, if you want to attack it, I am afraid that there will be too many casualties!" ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of what Zhao Dongyun said to him before he set off: This trip should be mainly based on military training, and in addition to seeking victory when arranging the army, we should also try to protect our brothers.

In order to completely encircle them, Meng Enyuan mobilized most of the troops of the entire northward detachment to suppress bandits, and also brought mortars and machine guns.

In order to mobilize so many troops, Meng Enyuan even had to shrink the width of the net that went north to suppress the bandits.