At the meeting held in the evening, Wu Ming told the brothers the original story and gave a brief account of the relationship between Xiong Shihui, the provincial chairman, and the local forces in Jiangxi, as well as Sun Ke's relationship with the business, military, and political circles in Guangdong.

After hearing this, the brothers were furious, and either scolded or demanded that Wu Ming allow the troops to raise their own grain according to the old rules of the army, and threatened not to give up until all the local rich gentry's stocks were looted.

Two hours later, a democratic meeting of the new 2nd Division made a decision:

1. Starting tomorrow, the food of the prisoners of the Cantonese army will be changed from two meals a day to one meal of gruel a day, and the engineer battalion and the baggage battalion responsible for guarding must explain to all the prisoners, the headquarters of the Cantonese army is still unwilling to start negotiations on the issue of prisoners, and the local government and the wealthy merchants and landlords are also unwilling to provide a grain of rice for military rations. Under the supervision of our brothers, we can take turns to go out of the camp to the post and telecommunications office opposite the county government compound to write letters or send telegrams to relatives and friends to ask for money, as long as everyone has money, we can completely purchase and process on behalf of us, and never deduct from it, and if anyone is not convinced, they can also write a letter and telegram to Nanjing to sue us.

2. On the basis of strict vigilance, the troops immediately stopped attacking and harassing the Second Independent Division of the Guangdong Army, and the first regiment and one battalion withdrew from Jiuduwei and returned to the rear to be stationed in Zhengping Town, opening up the main road so that the Guangdong army could concentrate its efforts on attacking Dayu, and the newly formed First Division of the Central Army, which was originally Xiong Shihui's descendant of the security brigade, was still directly led by Xiong Shihui, who was also the deputy commander-in-chief of the West Road Battlefield.

3. Starting tomorrow, the 1st Regiment stationed in Zhengping Town in the west and the 2nd Regiment stationed in Datangbu Town in the south will set up cards to collect taxes, firmly blocking all the main roads from Xinfeng to Nanxiong and from Xinfeng to Longnan.

Fourth, starting tomorrow, all sections of the division headquarters will dispatch officers and men from all sections of the division headquarters to launch a massive anti-narcotics and anti-gun operation in the entire city of Xinfeng, and those who resist will be killed, and as long as the people and stolen goods are present, they will immediately escort the division headquarters, and the specific action will be under the unified command of Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning.

The brothers at the meeting left excitedly, and Wu Ming deliberately left behind the commander of the engineer battalion and the commander of the baggage battalion, who were responsible for leading the troops to guard the prisoners, and sternly admonished them

"After the two of you go back, you must strengthen your vigilance, you must not let a prisoner escape, on the surface try to be as kind to the prisoners as possible, but any prisoners who do not obey the discipline must be severely punished, and a very small number of prisoners who are extremely arrogant or even gather to riot can be executed in public by beating a military stick, beaten to death, and I am responsible."

"We are relieved to have a teacher's seat."

The two battalion commanders saluted and left in high spirits, and the most troublesome thing for them was that the prisoners frequently made trouble in various ways, not only the ten or eight prisoners insulted the officers and men guarding them in public, but also the prisoners who were well fed and drunk became more and more dishonest, and after eating, they threw bowls, urinated everywhere, sneered at the guards and soldiers, and gathered together to demand better treatment, and so on, and the trend has become more and more intense in the past two days.

The brothers of the two battalions responsible for guarding the prisoners were constrained by strict military discipline, and they did not dare to fight in the face of the more and more arrogant and domineering prisoners, and they scolded and did not understand, and they really couldn't help but just divide the troublemakers into separate custody, and some took the opportunity to quietly punch a few times, and now with Wu Ming's words, the brothers of the two battalions can finally vent their evil anger.

Looking at the figures of the two battalion commanders beating their horses away, Long Shaogang, the new deputy division commander with a generous personality, was very nervous, and handed Wu Ming a cigarette to express his worries:

"If you say a word, I'm afraid you'll get a few lives lawsuit...... What if Shangfeng really organizes an investigation team to come down to investigate? There is also the city's anti-drug and gun operation, although it seems reasonable and legal, but it will definitely make a lot of trouble in the city, and we will completely offend the local gentry...... Do you think it will be implemented until Kang Ze comes back from Ganzhou and has a good discussion? ”

"It doesn't matter"

Wu Ming waved his hand disapprovingly, comforting: "Kang Ze has been going to Ganzhou for two days, and he has not come back at this time, which shows that the commissioner of Ganzhou and those big landlords and big businessmen are unwilling to pay for the thousands of Cantonese prisoners to pay for food, these people have Xiong Shihui behind the big backer, even Kang Ze does not dare to say cruel words, it is estimated that we will have to rely on us to get food from Shangrao or Quzhou military station." ”

"As for the investigation team, I don't have to worry about it, with Director Xu helping to stand up, no matter how we investigate, we will be fine, and we still have a lot of evidence in our hands, if we don't get the Ganzhou commissioner and the local officials, we will cause big trouble for ourselves......"

"Hmph, we were too polite to these rich gentry who were unkind to the rich before, if I had known that these grandsons would stab us in the back, I would have cleaned them up a long time ago, why wait until today? You just wait and see, as long as we behave toughly, these grandsons who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard will have to obediently restrain their hands, otherwise they will be even more uncomfortable"

Long Shaogang was still not at ease: "In case the Guangdong army really attacks Dayu without any concerns, the command is afraid that we will let us attack the second independent division of the Guangdong army on the opposite side, will you fight or not at that time?" ”

"How can you not fight? It's just that the enemy's firepower is too fierce, and strong fortifications and bunkers have been built, what can I do if I can't defeat them? Don't worry, if that's the case, I'll send five telegrams a day, asking the deputy commander-in-chief Xiong Shihui to send reinforcements. ”

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he gently patted his old partner's shoulder, took out a wrapped cigarette and stuffed it into his hand, and then walked towards the main hall with square steps

In the early morning of the next day, more than 500 officers and men of the newly formed Second Division suddenly attacked without warning, surrounded the security officers and men guarding the four gates of Xinfeng City, the barracks of the security regiment in the north of the city, and the county police station, disarmed all the more than 400 security officers and men and detained them in a centralized manner, and forced the policemen of the county police station to lead heavily armed soldiers into two tobacco houses and more than 20 wealthy gentry homes in and out of the city, and in one morning alone, they found more than 400 hidden military guns, more than 2,700 imported shotguns, and homemade bird guns, and seized more than 3,500 taels of opium and tobacco. and a batch of bullets and grenades, in which seven recalcitrant resistors were killed mercilessly, and the entire city of Xinfeng was stirred into darkness.

This was not the end, Wu Ming ordered that all the elements involved in the case of more than 800 people be escorted to the prisoner camp in the city and imprisoned, and there was only a rope between them and the thousands of prisoners who had been starving for most of the day.

After the Cantonese captives had come out to see the excitement, a tall young lieutenant rode his horse and jumped onto the large square table in the middle without seeing him move.

The second lieutenant looked around with sparkling eyes, loudly explained to the prisoners who gathered around the purpose of the anti-gun and anti-drug operation, so that the prisoners should not panic, and then pointed to more than 800 local rich gentry and family members who were trembling, tore open their loud voices, and shouted angrily in official language:

"Brothers in the Yuejun, it's not that we don't give you a full meal, you should have seen it for so many days, you eat whatever our brothers eat, there is no difference...... But until now, these landlords and merchants dressed like dogs have been unwilling to provide you with a grain of grain from beginning to end, and we, as a dignified central army, have to take out enough ocean to buy rice from them in a low voice, but after thousands of more mouths from you, our food is almost exhausted, so from today onwards, everyone has to drink porridge......

"If you have a grudge in your heart, don't be angry with us soldiers who can't eat a full meal on the battlefield, hate them if you want to hate them, hate this group of dog mongrels who are rich and unkind and put the safety of their brothers at risk for their own interests, and the most unreasonable thing is that our brothers are fighting hungry to protect the lives and property of this group of bitches."

The second lieutenant was so excited that his face turned red, he paused for a moment, and shouted loudly with his head held high again: "Oh, I'm angry, I don't want to say anything, I'm afraid I can't help but shoot and kill people if I talk too much, Brother Yuejun, to make it clear, I don't care what you think Lao Tzu, but before our superiors and your superiors discuss how to deal with you, you still have to continue to be hungry......"

"However, I would like to remind you that everyone is a soldier, and you are still a soldier who has been defeated and captured, you must know how to advance and retreat and defend military discipline, do not try to make trouble, do not lie to our brothers when you are angry, and do not run away, otherwise our brothers will kill people, and if you are not afraid of death, you can try it."

After the second lieutenant finished speaking, he jumped off the table, trotted two steps, jumped on the horse's back with an incredible flying maneuver, the tall and majestic black war horse neighed, the man stood up, and after turning in a circle, he rushed out of the camp gate with the majestic young ensign.

The Cantonese prisoners on the playground immediately began to talk loudly, and many officers and soldiers who were rumbling with hunger pointed to the local 800 rich gentry and their families who were only separated by a long rope and cursed, which frightened many rich gentry who were usually pampered and pampered so much that they peed their pants on the spot and were extremely embarrassed.

The communication room on the inside of the camp gate was lively, and Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning looked at the noisy prisoners in front of him, and sighed heartily to the battalion and company commanders around him:

"I was a little worried that the boss asked Chengyuan to shout before, I was worried that he was inexperienced and didn't know how to speak, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to suppress the scene, but I didn't expect Chengyuan to be so able to speak, he said it better than me, and he was full of momentum and majesty, and he immediately calmed the audience, and it seems that he has got the true inheritance of the boss."

The brothers laughed, this said that Chengyuan's culture was originally high, and the other said that Chengyuan was more and more like a teacher, and his witty discussions caused bursts of cheerful laughter.