Kong Yubei is very aware of the task of his trip to Xinminfu, fighting bandits is only incidental, the first task is to recapture the ordnance and ammunition worth 100,000 taels of silver, you must know that it is more than 2,000 rounds of three-inch shells and 400,000 rounds of 7.92 mm machine gun bullets and other bits and pieces, maybe this is nothing for the Japanese and Russian army, and the ammunition consumed in a small battle is more than this number.

But for the third town with a small family and a small business, the goods of 100,000 taels of silver are already worth Zhao Dongyun's madness and direct dispatch of thousands of troops, if you don't grab it back, it will be equivalent to doing it for nothing, not to mention, and it will also affect the follow-up arms trade with Russia, if the two ends are robbed in these three days, then Zhao Dongyun's desire to make war money is disappointed, not to mention, but also let Zhao Dongyun's strategy of muddying the water also be destroyed, if the water of the Russo-Japanese War is not muddy, how can he touch the fish?

Therefore, recovering the stolen goods is an important political task, of course, at the same time, he also has another important task is to completely control the Xinmin Mansion, this move is not to control how much territory or anything like that, because Zhao Dongyun cannot collect taxes in the jurisdiction like Zhang Zuolin, he wants to control the Xinmin Mansion in order to ensure that the subsequent arms trade with the Russians will not have problems.

Although in history, the Japanese would conquer Mukden, but seeing that the Battle of Liaoyang had been fought for a month, there was no result, but the Japanese army still suffered heavy casualties, Zhao Dongyun felt that it was not so easy for the Japanese to take Mukden, and it would have to be fought for more than half a year.

Half a year and the arms trade of the Russians was enough for him to earn a million taels of silver.

Recovering the stolen goods and controlling the Xinmin Mansion is Kong Weibei's current task, and as for exterminating local bandits and the like, it can only be regarded as a by-product.

"There are so many goods that have been robbed, it is impossible to transport them away in a short time with their means, and our spies have not found that a large number of goods have been transported out of Xinmin Mansion recently, so these ordnance should still be in Xinmin Mansion, but it will be troublesome to find out!" Lu Shuanggun said at this time: "Some time ago, I also sent my brother to secretly investigate, but I didn't get much news!" ”

"Hmph, what are you afraid of, Xinminfu is so big, and there are no steep mountains, they can still hide there, our 3,000 army pushes over, as long as the people are caught, I don't believe that the ordnance can be found!" It was Shi Congbin who spoke.

This person is the second battalion of the ninth standard, this person was better with Feng Guozhang in his early years, and he was able to become the original pipe band or relied on Feng Guozhang's efforts, but although the establishment of the third town Zhao Dongyun gradually became stronger, even Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan all took refuge in Zhao Dongyun in one fell swoop, Shi Congbin and several other people faction people for their own sake of their own past, but also very simply switched to Zhao Dongyun's disciples, but he and many of Zhao Dongyun's original descendants of the officers are still not close, but with Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan and others have close contacts.

From the perspective of the internal faction of the third town, Shi Congbin belongs to Chen Guangyuan's faction, and he is not from the old machine gun battalion like Kong Weibei and Hua Zhenji, who studied abroad.

When Zhao Dongyun decided to send troops to Xinminfu, a group of subordinates naturally wanted to compete for the opportunity to fight, Lin Yongquan, Kong Guanbei, Pei Lianying and even Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan, and Meng Enyuan competed for the position of the leader, but Zhao Dongyun still felt that Chen Guangyuan's position was high enough, and there was no need to compete with the juniors for any opportunity to fight, and Wang Zhanyuan was not his own person, and he had been giving him small shoes to wear for half a year, so he naturally would not give him the opportunity to fight, and Meng Enyuan had already led two bandit suppression battles, Although he is the best candidate for any of them this time, I am afraid that a large group of his subordinates will have to have an opinion if they continue to use his words.

As for Lin Yongquan, he wanted to go himself, but to be honest, Zhao Dongyun didn't trust his actual combat command level, he was more suitable for staff work, training recruits, researching new establishments, etc., so he chose among the four infantry commanders under his command, and this choice was naturally contested by his subordinates, and finally Kong Guanbei was chosen.

And the reason why Hua Zhenji was able to serve as the forward commander was because of Zhao Dongyun's need to train cavalry officers, there were a lot of cavalry under him, but there were too few qualified cavalry officers available, and there was only Meng Enyuan alone, and the others were half a bucket of water.

For such talents, Zhao Dongyun will naturally continue to give opportunities to let him grow up quickly.

As for Shi Congbin's ability to lead his troops to participate in the war, this is not Zhao Dongyun's personal designation, but the result of Chen Guangyuan's vigorous promotion, although the third town is an independent faction in the entire Beiyang system, but there are still factional disputes within the third town, seeing that Kong Guanbei and Hua Zhenji both led their troops to fight, although Chen Guangyuan could not personally go out, but he also sent his proud subordinate Shi Congbin to fight, and he couldn't let Kong Guanbei, Hua Zhenji and others take out the limelight.

Shi Congbin is also an old qualification in the third town, when the third association was established at the beginning of his battalion management band, two years have passed his qualifications in a group of battalion officers are already relatively old, according to the ranking of seniors in the third town, and when the next batch of positions with the leadership is vacated, then it should be his turn.

So in the face of Kong Weibei and Hua Zhenji, he didn't cower too much, but spoke extremely loudly: "Although Zhang Zuolin's horse team is stronger than ordinary horse bandits, in the final analysis, it is still horse bandits, and it shouldn't be a problem for me to stop them from Brother Hua!" ”

Hearing Shi Congbin's words, Hua Zhenji's thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, he was quite dissatisfied with Shi Congbin's sudden words, because the subtext of these words was that if his cavalry failed to stop Zhang Zuolin, it would be to put all the responsibility for the failure on his head, but he was in the position of the forward commander at a young age, and he was also arrogant, so he naturally would not fall into words: "If you can catch him, it will naturally not be a problem to stop these horse bandits!" ”

Zhang Zuolin is not a fool, he won't run away when he sees thousands of troops coming over, and now what Kong Guanbei's Liaoxi bandit detachment hopes for is a surprise attack, and go straight to Xinmin Mansion as quickly as possible, and intercept them directly after Zhang Zuolin and Wang Xiaobraid and others reacted.

Kong Weibei pretended not to hear Hua Zhenji and Shi Congbin's words, as an old man in the era of the new machine gun battalion, he, Pei Lianying, and Gu Lanyu were natural allies, and the so-called machine gun battalion faction dominated by the three of them was also the most powerful force in the third town, and the four infantry led them to account for three.

Moreover, Hua Zhenji is not only very close to several other officers who have returned from studying abroad, but also close to Meng Enyuan, and has no friendship with Kong Weibei and others.

Not to mention Shi Congbin, the two sides have been fighting since the era of the Third Association!

So he pretended not to see the secret quarrel between these two people, and instead set his eyes on Lu Shuanggun: "Brother Lu, what do you think, are you sure to catch them before they reflect it?" ”

Lu Shuanggun was born as a bandit, and he has always been incompatible with a large group of officers from professional classes present, even if he also wore the uniform of the Beiyang New Army, wore long riding boots, and hung a long standard saber around his waist, but he was still obviously different from everyone present.

Lu Shuanggun looked at the people around him, and he could easily find that many people were looking at him with contempt, shame and other expressions.

Don't think that you will only look at diplomas and backgrounds in the civilian system, in fact, the Beiyang New Army cares more about diplomas and backgrounds, most of the officers of the Beiyang New Army, and most of the officers above the tube band were born in the Tianjin Military Academy, and some were born in the Wuwei Right Army Camp School, and a few are those who have no academic experience but are from the old Huai Army, and have joined the new army in the era of the small station.

As for those officers who were not invested in the new army from the beginning, and who were not from professional classes, there are really not a few, and as for those who were born as bandits and became the leaders of a battalion after being appeased, there is not a single one in the four towns of Beiyang. Although Lu Shuanggun is also a pipe belt, the Jinzhou patrol battalion is at most a peripheral force of Beiyang, not a descendant of Beiyang.

So no matter from which point of view, he Lu Shuanggun was incompatible with the other officers present, but Lu Shuanggun didn't care about this, in his words to his subordinates: "Lao Tzu is working for Zhao Dashuai, they are a fart!" ”

So he faced a little disdainful gaze, just snorted coldly in his heart, and then said: "My battalion came relatively quickly, and now the Shiyang Department of the second team of our battalion has bypassed to the southeast, with the more than 300 troops of the Shiyang brothers, unless Zhang Zuolin is alone, it is impossible for him to escape to the south with his men and horses!"

In addition, the remaining two teams of our battalion are being restocked, and I will lead my troops to continue eastward in a later period to cut off the connection between Xinmin and Mukden. In this way, the bandits in Xinmin Mansion can only flee to the north, even if they flee to the north, but at most they are scattered and fleeing, and it is absolutely impossible for them to escape with their baggage under the pursuit of our army, even if it is impossible to gather a large-scale horse team! ”

To tell the truth, if Zhang Zuolin and other bandit leaders abandon their family business and take a large amount to escape alone, Kong Weibei and others really have no way to take them, but what if they escape alone, these bandit leaders who lose their guns are bald commanders, so there is no need to worry. And Zhao Dongyun's strategy for Kong Guanbei is only to seize back the ordnance and control the Xinmin Mansion, and it is not so important to kill Zhang Zuolin or not.

Kong Weibei looked at Hua Zhenji at this time, after all, Hua Zhenji, the forward commander, was the actual commander of the cavalry, and even Lu Shuanggun had to listen to his command, at this time, he nodded and said: "Brother Lu is right, if it is just a scattered rout, we can't stop it, but if they dare to escape with baggage or a large army, they will definitely not be able to escape!" ”

Kong Weibei said: "In this way, I have to ask Brother Hua and Brother Lu a lot!" After that, he looked around at the officers: "No matter how many bandits are exterminated this time, as long as the ordnance is taken back, it will be a great achievement, and I will personally ask the commander for you at that time!" ”

With the end of this temporary military meeting, soon the commanders of each department rode their horses and horses, and rushed to their respective troops with their own escorts, while Hua Zhenji and Lu Shuanggun crossed most of them with their respective escorts and galloped directly to the northeast, and their cavalry troops were still more than dozens of miles ahead!

And they didn't know that at this time, thirty miles away from them, a group of more than 50 Beiyang cavalry troops wearing earthy gray military uniforms were slowly advancing with horses, but the former leader of the team suddenly discovered something, only to see that he took out the binoculars on his chest and looked east, there seemed to be nothing in the distance, but vaguely heard the sound of horses' hooves approaching.

He lightly raised his right hand to signal the troops to pause their advance, and at the same time continued to search the field in the distance with his binoculars, and after a few breaths, he had already seen through the telescope that there were more than two hundred horsemen coming slowly from nearly a thousand meters away, they were dressed in disorder, and there was no neat cavalry formation, and at a glance he knew that they were bandits.

The young military colonel's face was already showing nervousness, but he still turned on his horse and straightened up, and with a resolute face, he shouted: "All of them, get on the horse and fight!" ”

In a few moments, he had already made the decision to abandon foot combat and choose immediate melee combat, and as his order fell, the cavalry behind him quickly climbed onto their horses.

"Slow on!" The young cavalry officer could already hear the rumbling hooves of the bandit cavalry in the distance, but it was too early for them to charge with all their might!

As the whole group slowly advanced, the young cavalry officer once again gave the order: "Draw your sword!" ”

The sound of brushing came, and a dazzling saber with a bright handle was pulled out one after another, and then it was directly resisted by the cavalry on the shoulder!

"Trot forward!" The young officer's calm but trembling voice came, and as the distance got closer, they seemed to be able to hear the strange cries of hundreds of bandits in the distance!

The tall war horse began to trot, and the knight on the horse either showed a nervous and frightened look, or showed a look of excitement and anticipation, or prayed something, but the young officer at the front did not have the nervous look he had before, but kept estimating the speed and distance of the charge of the two sides, when he trotted for a while, he suddenly pointed the saber that had been resisting his right shoulder and pointed it forward, and at the same time shouted: "Kill!" ”

Before his words fell, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and immediately the war horse changed from the trotting state to the final charging state, and at the same time, the more than 50 horsemen behind him also shouted 'kill' and 'rush', each of them put the front finger of the saber and urged the war horse under the crotch to gallop at the maximum speed.

For a while, the originally silent cavalry team instantly burst out with the loudest shout, and rushed towards the bandit horse team hundreds of meters away from the opposite side with the momentum of the water of the Yellow River's broken embankment!