Chapter 107: Du Lisan's Death
The reason why he was ready to sell a batch of heavy machine guns to Russia.
And for a Chinese who has crossed over from later generations, if he can meet his own interests and at the same time cause heavy casualties to the Japanese army, then he will definitely wake up with a smile from his dreams.
Based on this mentality, Zhao Dongyun ordered hundreds of MG01 heavy machine guns from Germany in the name of Fuyuan Arsenal last year, and even after this batch of orders, Fuyuan Machinery Factory obtained the patent authorization of MG01 heavy machine guns, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
However, the Fuyuan Machine Factory thought that these hundreds of heavy machine guns were going to be sold to the Beiyang New Army and other domestic armies, but they didn't expect that Zhao Dongyun was preparing them for the Russians.
After Andrei heard that Zhao Dongyun had a large number of German-made Makqin machine guns in his hands, he immediately reported it, and now the Russian army in the northeast is eager to transport countless arms from Europe, but due to the long distance, and the Far East Railway has not yet been completed, it is very difficult for the Russian army to obtain a large amount of arms from Europe.
The Russian army can care why Zhao Dongyun is a traitor, and immediately replied to Zhao Dongyun, saying that they will have as many machine guns as there are, and also vaguely said that other heavy weapons, such as artillery and consumable bullets and shells, are there any, if there are any, and they can be paid directly with precious metals such as gold and silver, and the price is also as you like!
However, providing machine guns to the Russians is already Zhao Dongyun's private adventure, and if this matter is made public, it is estimated that he Zhao Dongyun will immediately have to be infamous as a traitor to the enemy.
Besides, he doesn't have artillery and other heavy weapons to sell, and this machine gun was prepared by him in advance, otherwise there wouldn't be!
Bullets are easy to do, Fuyuan machine qì factory after continuous expansion, in addition to the Fuzao 88 rifle production line, in fact, the most is the bullet production line and shell production line, the original Fuyuan machine qì factory bullet production line is not large, but since the acquisition of the original Beiyang machine qì manufacturing bureau of many equipment, the Beiyang system has not even a government-run arsenal, the bullets and shells are extremely dependent on the Fuyuan machine factory, so Yuan Shikai is the focus of Zhao Dongyun, It is required that the ammunition output of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory must be increased, at least to meet the amount of Beiyang's own needs.
After continuous expansion, only 7.92 mm Mauser round head bullets, the daily output has expanded to 80,000 pieces per day, in addition to 8 mm Manlixia rifle rifle cartridges, 6.5 mm Japanese bullets have also been set up one after another, otherwise it is impossible to supply almost the entire Beiyang New Army needed bullets.
In addition, the old style of rifle cartridges was also produced, mainly for the use of the old army in the northern provinces, after all, only the new army is equipped with all kinds of new guns in China, and a large number of old armies still use the old single-loading rifles, and for North China, this part of the bullet task was previously undertaken by the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and now the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau has turned into a historical bubble, and the Fuyuan Machinery Factory naturally needs to undertake the production tasks that originally belonged to the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.
And the bullets used in those MG01 heavy machine guns are also 7.92 round-headed bullets, and after Zhao Dongyun ordered them from the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, they could directly sell them to the Russians, and they couldn't let them buy machine guns without bullets.
At this time, it can be seen how important it was for Zhao Dongyun to come up with a Fuyuan machine factory!
With the expansion of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the scale has doubled continuously in less than two years since its establishment, and various weapons products have doubled continuously.
Yuan Shikai even regarded this Fuyuan machine factory as his political achievement project to preside over the new policy, and used it to promote his industrial and commercial reform policy.
There is such a Fuyuan machine factory, and it is not a big problem for Zhao Dongyun to get some bullets and shells to sell to the Russians!
As for how much damage this batch of machine guns, bullets and shells can bring to the Japanese army, and how many women have lost their husbands and sons, it is not a question that Zhao Dongyun needs to consider.
Zhao Dongyun, who had betrayed his national interests for the sake of a few hundred thousand yuan, quickly gained the favor of the Russians.
Specifically, the Russians not only did not object to Zhao Dongyun's eastward entry into the Liaohe River area to suppress bandits, but even sent several small-scale cavalry units to help encircle and suppress them, and provided Zhao Dongyun with a lot of information about the bandits in the Liaohe River area, so that the bandit suppression war in the third town went very smoothly.
This time, the eastward detachment of the bandits was different from the northward detachment and the westward detachment that were temporarily formed last year, that is, this time it did not send infantry to fight, but all cavalry.
The detachment has the first and third battalions under the third standard of the cavalry, in addition to a cavalry mortar team and a cavalry machine gun team, which are the main forces dispatched by the third town.
In addition to the above 1,000 main cavalry troops, there are also more than 400 cavalry teams in the Jinzhou patrol battalion that cooperate with the operation, that is, the two cavalry teams that are integrated from several bandit units such as Lu Shuanggun, the bandit Lu Shuanggun is the leader of the first team, and the giant bandit Shi Yang is the leader of the second team. Then there were more than 500 horse-foot guerrillas of Zhang Zuolin's Fengtian patrol battalion.
The three divisions add up to nearly 2,000 cavalry, regardless of the mix of new troops, bandits, and patrol battalions, but just looking at this scale, this is the scale of a cavalry brigade.
With such a large-scale cavalry battle, it is naturally impossible for others to come, and Meng Enyuan, a senior cavalry general, must personally lead Zhao Dongyun to rest assured.
Meng Enyuan led this more than 2,000 cavalry bandit troops quickly swept away the bandits in Tai'an, Xinmin, Panshan and other places, although Du Lisan is very famous in history, but the bandits are bandits in the end, when more than 2,000 troops crushed him, although Du Lisan pulled up more than 1,000 bandits to try to fight, but it took less than half a month to be strangled clean, and the leader Du Lisan was captured.
This person is also stubborn, he didn't surrender to the death, and in the end, Meng Enyuan was not polite, and after capturing him, he didn't care what kind of giant bandit he was, and handed him over directly to Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Zuolin had long been eager to swallow Du Lisansheng, and it is said that Du Lisan was killed by five horses after falling into his hands!
Most of the more than 1,000 bandits under Du Lisan were also temporarily gathered, and they had already collapsed and fled after several killings, and there were not many people who were directly killed and wounded, but a lot of prisoners were captured, and Meng Enyuan divided these captured or surrendered bandits to Lu Shuanggun and Shi Yang and Zhang Zuolin according to Zhao Dongyun's previous instructions, and Lu Shuanggun and Shi Yang got more, which made Zhang Zuolin complain a lot about this.
There is no interest in capturing Meng Enyuan, those bandits sound like what kind of bandits, all of them have superb riding skills and marksmanship, as if they are awesome, but in the eyes of a regular cavalry officer like Meng Enyuan, even the peasant army is stronger than these bandits, at least those peasants can still launch a death attack one after another after being bewitched, but those bandits immediately turned around and ran away when they saw the opportunity.
Among so many bandits, not everyone is like Lu Shuanggun, who can have such a great personality charm and lead his subordinates to fight to the death with the officials and soldiers, otherwise Zhao Dongyun would not accept his surrender.
Du Lisan disappeared in just half a month, and in the face of Meng Enyuan's army of bandits continuing to move south, Feng Delin couldn't sit still, and immediately found Zhang Zuolin, saying that he could accept the appeasement.
But to be honest, Zhao Dongyun is not interested in this at all, he came to Liaohe to suppress bandits, not to really suppress bandits, to be honest, he doesn't care at all whether these bandits live or die, he only cares about seizures.
In the past half a month, Du Lisan has been beaten, although it has also consumed a lot of ammunition and funds, but the harvest is greater, after Du Lisan's lair is ended, the logistics office in the eastward detachment of the bandits sent people to count all kinds of seized property, Zhao Dongyun was very excited.
After exterminating Du Lisan, the eastward detachment seized more than 100 new Russian-style guns, 200 new Japanese-style guns, and more than 500 miscellaneous old guns. More than 1,000 horses were seized, of which more than 400 were mounted and used for battle, and the remaining more than 600 could also be used for transport.
In addition to these, there are all kinds of floating goods today, although the value is less than the more than 200,000 yuan guaranteed by Zhang Zuolin before, but there are about 1780,000 yuan.
Now Zhao Dongyun has fallen into the eyes of money, how can it be so simple for Feng Delin to accept the appeasement, if Feng Delin accepts the appeasement, it will not be good for him Zhao Dongyun!
He wants money, it's that simple!
I have to say that Feng Delin is also a courageous person, and when he heard that Meng Enyuan's bandit suppression detachment was here for seizure, he hurriedly sent a foreigner's bank cashier's check worth up to 50,000 taels of silver to Jinzhou, and said that after a few days of delay, he would be able to scrape together another 50,000 taels of silver and send it to Jinzhou.
If you can earn 100,000 taels of silver without fighting, Zhao Dongyun thinks it's still a good deal, as for Zhang Zuolin's follow-up turf competition with Feng Delin and others, it's his business!
He went to the eastern part of Jinzhou to suppress bandits, and the reason was very simple from beginning to end, that is, for money!
Not to mention the various seizures in the anti-bandit operation, Zhang Zuolin alone paid a price of as high as 40,000 taels of silver in order to let Zhao Dongyun send troops to exterminate Du Lisan, and in addition to the prisoners and territory, all kinds of guns, horses and property will not be distributed to Zhang Zuolin at all.
Now that Feng Delin took the initiative to send the money over, he didn't plan to let his cavalry brothers risk their lives to make money, so under an order, Meng Enyuan took the bandits east to the detachment and returned to the west.
Left behind a Zhang Zuolin who kept cursing!
Zhang Zuolin's plan was to borrow Zhao Dongyun's troops to destroy Du Lisan and Feng Delin, so that they could control a large area of territory from Xinmin all the way to Yingkou without much effort, and then rely on these territories to operate for a few years, who dares to say that he can't pull up a force of several thousand people.
However, now after Zhao Dongyun killed Du Lisan, he took Feng Delin's 100,000 taels of silver and turned around and went home, which made Zhang Zuolin extremely passive.
Zhao Dongyun knew with his toes that as soon as Meng Enyuan's troops went away, Feng Delin and Zhang Zuolin would definitely have to fight, not to mention who lost and who won, anyway, the bandit forces in the Liaohe area basically didn't have much influence.