Great rivers and mountains, who is the master of ups and downs? Count the heroes, and look at the present!

Following the trajectory of history, the Qing Dynasty, a lonely boat full of holes and crumbling, officially walked to 1911 in the storm.

Xuancheng, east of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, close to Shanghai and Hangzhou, is the southeast gateway of Anhui. At the beginning of March, just after the New Year. Before Zhu Jiabao could recover from the atmosphere of the New Year, there was movement on Xuancheng's side. Xuancheng County ordered an emergency report, and a large number of bandits suddenly appeared in Jiulian Mountain. Within a week, it was claimed that all the landlords and squires in the suburbs had been murdered and all looted. Before a single house was captured, all the dart masters and family members who participated in the resistance were executed in public, and then all the previous items such as land deeds, antiques, gold, silver and jewelry were robbed, and even rice and cloth were not left behind. The bandits were well-armed, and it was effortless to take down the mansion with a wall several feet high, which made the local squires panic for a while.

Wang Wenli and Li Tianxiang, as graduates of the first phase of the training camp, the chief instructor Hu Rui has always been a god-like existence in their hearts. This time, he came out wearing the big hat of "rejuvenating China" and worked extremely hard to carry out his tasks. Due to Hu Rui's absolute control of the new army and the patrol battalion, until the Xuancheng magistrate made an emergency report, he did not know that the two patrol battalion management bands in Xuancheng and more than 20 grassroots officials were no longer in the camp. The two patrol battalions of Xuancheng clashed with the bandits several times, and both sides were "killed and wounded", although the crisis in Xuancheng was temporarily lifted, but the patrol battalion suffered heavy casualties, and the two battalions were killed in battle (the deaths were all fake, and the few people on the death list quietly changed their clothes and went to make trouble with the bandits).

After receiving the urgent report of the Xuancheng County Order, Zhu Jiabao was furious. The five counties around Wuhu were all organized and trained by Hu Rui, and all the officers and assistants at all levels came from the training camps of the New Army. The combat effectiveness must be there, and in this way, the two battalion heads of 500 people actually suffered "heavy casualties" against the bandits, and two pipe bands died. Zhu Jiabao can't sit still anymore, he knows the people below, if you want to talk about the ability to make money, everyone is a good hand, and no one can count on it when it comes to employing people! It has been three days since the incident was sent, and there is no casualty figure for the patrol battalion, only the sentence "heavy casualties" in the Spring and Autumn period. Zhu Jiabao estimated that the two patrol battalions should be almost gone.

Both distressed and panicked, seeing that the patrol battalion could not fight again, Zhu Jiabao urgently ordered Hu Rui in Wuhu to lead the new army into a mixed alliance to fight and completely exterminate the bandits in Xuancheng!

There were a few points of Zhu Jiabao on the table, and Hu Rui smiled gloomily. It seems that Zhu Jiabao is really in a hurry, and he is not less pressured than the local squires who have suffered losses.

"Uncle Shan, take a look. After the facts, it's time to move your hands and feet, Wang Wenli and Li Tianxiang, the two bastards, are getting more and more troublesome! ”

Laughing and scolding, he handed the telegram to Uncle Shan next to him, and Hu Rui immediately ordered the 34th mixed new army to coordinate the allocation of the first standard of infantry, the 1st battalion of the patrol battalion and the 1st battalion of the artillery battalion, a total of four battalions of soldiers and horses to open Xuancheng to suppress bandits! At the same time, he sent a dynamic telegram from the New Army to Zhu Jiabao, and asked Zhu Jiabao to properly handle the aftermath.

Zhu Jiabao, who was in a hurry to get angry, urged the new army not to underestimate the enemy, and to bring more troops and horses. On the one hand, he ordered an allocation of funds to compensate the two patrol battalion management bands and all the officers and soldiers who died in the "martyrdom". On the day the new army started, Zhu Jiabao hurriedly dispatched a team of the Anqing patrol battalion to escort the silver dollars for the dead officers and soldiers all the way to the Wuhu New Army camp, and promised that everyone in the new army would be rewarded after quelling the bandits!

With the participation of the 4th Battalion of the Mixed Infantry Artillery, the "battle situation" of the Jiulian Mountain to suppress bandits changed abruptly. The new army was coordinated with infantry and artillery, and they rushed and attacked the besieging bandits in one fell swoop, and Hu Rui telegraphed that "more than 1,000 beheaded, and the bandits were pursued and killed for dozens of miles, and the army could not be defeated."

Zhu Jiabao, who received the letter, was overjoyed and personally read aloud the battle report sent by the new army in front of the large and small officials sitting in the hall. When I read: "Beheaded more than 1,000 people, relieved the siege of the city, pursued and killed the bandits for dozens of miles, and the army was defeated" specially added an accent. After finishing speaking, he put down the telegram and stroked his palm

"Good, good, good! You can take charge of the three armies on the horse, and you can run an industry when you get off the horse. Hu Xiaolian is really a model for my Anhui athletes! Very comforting! Come on, this government wants to play a meritorious role for the new army! ”

All of you here are local officials from the following states and counties, who is not a person who can mix officialdom in these years? Who doesn't know that Hu Rui, the current assistant commander of the New Army, is a cronie of Zhu Jiabao, the lord of Futai, who picked it up with one hand, no matter what he thinks in his heart, he immediately got up and saluted and praised it

"God bless me in the Qing Dynasty, the Lord of Futai knows how to make good use of people, it is really Bole at that time!"

Zhu Jiabao was silent.

Just when Zhu Jiabao went to the imperial court and asked for merit for the new army while brushing up his political achievements, the "battle situation" of Xuancheng Jiulian Mountain to suppress bandits changed again. Unable to stop the new rapid guns and rapid-fire guns of the new army, the various bandit units began to break into pieces after suffering heavy casualties, and each began to move separately along the Jiulian Mountain. The 4th Horse Artillery Battalion of the New Army, which had just relieved the siege of Xuancheng, quickly threw itself into the operation of clearing out the remnants of the bandits without taking care of resting and recuperating. 4 battalions of 2,000 people, when you gather together, it must be a fist, but when you spread out, it is a finger. As a result, the bandit units that had been chased by the artillery of the new army began to ambush and harass the new army participating in the war in an organized manner. For a time, the battle was fierce, and the number of "killed" of the new army increased sharply.

Faced with Hu Rui's telegram pouring bitter water, Zhu Jiabao was in trouble again. To say that the combat effectiveness of the new army is not good, it is pure nonsense! Didn't you see the good news before? But if you can't stand other bandits and don't confront you head-on, they will be broken into pieces and will be cold guns and hide and seek with you all over the mountains, and no one can stand it. Zhu Jiabao had no choice but to draw up a telegram with a bitter face, expressing his condolences to all the units of the New Army and Hu Rui himself, and at the same time urging the Wuhu battalion to continue to increase its troops, and on the other hand, sending a telegram to reprimand the Hefei patrol battalion, which had been unable to move forward after going south, Ji Guangen's troops rushed to the aid to participate in the clean-up, and it was necessary that the bandits must not harm the locality.

Holding the telegram sent by Zhu Jiabao, Ji Guangen, the commander of the Hefei patrol battalion, also had a bitter face. This order is very difficult! Before, he had moved his mind to preserve his strength, and this year was as chaotic as it was. If you have a gun, you are the king of grass, who will take you seriously without the team in your hand?! He knew that the two patrol battalions in Xuancheng were all 500 people. It was organized and trained by Hu Rui, a close confidant of the Futai Lord and the commander of the New Army. In terms of funding, there is nothing to say, 6 yuan of silver per month, and the two battalions are all original German imported Committee 1888 rifles, and they are also equipped with expensive and deadly electric guns (Maxim). Equipping haode is not a star and a half, just like this, a team of about 1,000 people can only rely on the city wall fortifications can only be "hard fighting, heavy casualties", it can be seen that the combat effectiveness of this bandit is very good. So after being ordered to go south, Ji Guangen has been playing soy sauce. Anyway, the new army is stationed in Anqing, and the desperate task of breaking the siege should be left to the new army. But in the face of the telegram drafted by Zhu Jiabao in his hand, Ji Guangen couldn't sit still anymore, Zhu Jiabao's wording in the telegram was harsh, and every word was heart-wrenching, and Ji Guangen, who read it, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He knew that if he didn't do something, even if he finished suppressing the bandits, he would be the commander of the Hefei patrol battalion when he turned back. It is said that some people below have already begun to write a letter to angrily scold and impeach him for his inaction according to Zhu Jiabao's instructions.

"There are wolves in front and tigers in the back, grandma's fight! The No. 2,000 people of the six patrol battalions of labor and management can't do it, but they can't do it! Anyway, there are four battalions of new army infantry artillery in front of the patrol city, just be careful! ”

Ji Guangen scolded, and immediately transferred troops and horses to continue southward, preparing to join the fourth battalion of the new army infantry artillery that went north to pursue and suppress the bandits. As everyone knows, Zhu Jiabao's telegram invisibly brought Ji Guangen and his patrol battalion, No. 2000, on a nightmarish death march.

There were many troubles along the way, and these bandits really became elites. Arrange the patrol battalion to the front to explore the scouts, and then occupy the favorable terrain and begin a frantic ambush of the marching patrol battalion. There are a lot of fast guns in this gang of bandits, not to mention more than 300 guns, and it is very fatal to concentrate on the condescending platoon guns, and there are special marksmen who carry the pipe bands, team officers and sheds in the team. That's not all, rolling stones, pits, firecrackers, buried bamboo knives, bows and arrows, and even earthen cannons, take turns to fight, constantly causing casualties. The team that left behind to escort the grain, grass and baggage was even more unlucky, and as soon as the gunfire rang out in front, there were preparations behind the haode bandits began to greet these unlucky people who dragged the baggage and couldn't go fast and couldn't escape, and after a while, all the baggage brought by them when they went south was basically lost.

The 12-character guerrilla mantra of "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is tired and disturbs me, and the enemy retreats and I fight" has been carried forward to the greatest extent in this gang of bandits. After a lot of fun during the day, you should almost stop for a while at night, right? Nima, no! Waiting for Ji Guangen to take the rest of the unlucky eggs to starve and rush to death, ready to camp and rest at night. The bandits who were active during the day are here again. Due to the loss of baggage, there was no food, no tents, and no bullets and clothing. The rest of the entire patrol battalion could only be forced to sleep in the wilderness, and the firehead army looked at the empty hands, and was kicked out by the commander with a bitter face to hunt wild food all over the mountains. It's strange to say, I don't know how to do it, Ji Guangen's gang but they didn't camp on the hill and turned over and over again, but they couldn't find a little wild fruit that could satisfy their stomachs, and even the hares and pheasants seemed to be extinct, and they sat on the ground hungry and miserable. If you don't have anything to eat, you won't have anything to eat, this hill is so big, how did Nima send out the firehead army to find food and not come back one by one? The people who had been sent out to look for people also disappeared with them. At night, the big living people with guns and knives disappeared one after another, not to mention how scary it was. Ji Guangen decisively ordered, no, all Bigu! If you're hungry, you're hungry, get up early tomorrow morning, and you're afraid of not having anything to eat? More things are better than less things, and the few that are gone will be talked about tomorrow. You might have caught some game and hid there to eat it. Sleep sleep ~

There was no food on the hill, but there was still water. A small stream runs through the camp, the water is clear, and strangely there are no fish. Including Ji Guangen, the remaining unlucky bastards fought to divide the few white flour cakes left in the camp, and then were driven away under the whips of the commanders. If you don't have food, it's okay to fill it with water, so a large group of low-status big-headed soldiers and sheds (squad leaders) buried their heads in the water one by one, and poured a belly of cold water like an old cow. People are alive, and they are not better than Pixiu. After drinking so much water, I always have to urinate, and in the middle of the night, when the unlucky guys are looking for a convenient place, strange things happen. Every time the guy who went out came back, it all disappeared without a trace!

Ji Guangen, who had just fallen asleep after eating half of the cake, was woken up by his subordinates, and after hearing the situation, he couldn't help but feel creepy and knew that something bad was wrong. I didn't care about the dawn, so I gathered the rest of the people and horses and hurriedly ran away overnight.