This was the first battle after the reorganization, and it was also a test of the military quality of the new army, which was attached great importance to it from top to bottom. According to Hu Rui's statement at the pre-departure mobilization meeting, "tofu should also be beaten as steel"! Therefore, this time it can be regarded as a battle of elite soldiers and strong generals, and almost half of the combat backbone of the entire mixed association has been organized. The infantry standard led by Hu Rui is the first unit to fully complete the refitting according to the outline, and it can be regarded as a luxury configuration in terms of equipment. The latest 60 mm and 82 mm mortars produced by the Anqing Manufacturing Bureau, the Stern submachine gun, the 92 Modified Infantry Run, and the ZB30 light machine gun just shipped from Germany. An infantry squad of 14 men was equipped with 2 submachine guns, 2 Mauser pistols, and 12 Mauser 98 rifles, and an infantry company of 150 men was equipped with 2 60 mortars and a Maxim 1908 with shields and wheels. Encountering such a force armed to the teeth, the mob and bandits had already wailed with a sad face: "Don't bring such a bully! "Bandits were a promising profession in those days, and the court's consistent response was to fight with one hand and win over with the other. The official army has failed to clean up a few times, no matter how many brothers there are in your village, how are the guys, as long as you don't grab the yellow bar, don't hook up with the revolutionary party, and shoot a master to talk about the conditions, you can be recruited. changed his skin, and became an official soldier. But to be honest, except for the bearded horses in the northeast, the bandit brothers in other places are still alive before liberation. You have a hundred and ten brothers in your hands, so congratulations, then you are a giant bandit, if you can have a few fast guns, you will be a terrible bandit.

"Wang Tianda!"

Hu Rui put down the Zeiss telescope in his hand, shook his somewhat stiff wrist and yelled. "Yes, sir, you command!" Wang Tianda, the commander of the guard company behind him, who was chatting with several veterans and farting, hurriedly spit out the cigarette in his mouth, and trotted over to stand up and salute. This guy is a wonder in the first phase of the training camp, compared to other young students who are less than 20 years old, this product was already 24 when he came in. Jilin Kuandian people, born in a family of dart masters, 16 years old, where both parents died under the enemy's knife, food and clothing were forced to throw themselves under the command of Nie Shicheng's military guards, just in time for the catastrophe in the year of Gengzi. After Nie Shicheng was killed, the goods were pulled out of the pile of dead people by the corpse collector and rescued, and he had been bandits, thrown into Beiyang, and Zuihou miraculously mixed into the teaching camp. "Do you see the roof of the house across from you?" Hu Rui is too lazy to worry about this strange guard company commander, this kung fu is not ordinarily good, it is just a day and night, and everyone is serious. "Yo, it seems that there are also masters on the other side. Gather all the sample guns in your hand and put them on the second floor to shoot a row of guns, this is sure that the elevation angle of our 37 small guns is not enough! Sir, what do you command? Wang Tianda took the Zeiss telescope and looked at it hehe, as if he had found some fun. Send all the 5 sniper teams you brought, give me all the guns except them, and the troops are ready to attack! "Hu Rui doesn't talk nonsense, the eyes of this strange guard company commander are not ordinary thieves.

Referring to the model of the two-man sniper team of later generations, Hu Rui combined a sniper and an observer. In the two-person team, the observer was armed with a Stern submachine gun, a 54 pistol (subject to the production of the Anqing Manufacturing Bureau, this new light pistol was distributed to officers above the battalion) and a six-fold telescope of German origin Zeiss to indicate targets for snipers. The sniper is armed with a Mauser 98 rifle with a scope, and also has a 54 pistol for self-defense. Wang Tianda, who couldn't stay idle, shouted and beckoned the other brothers of the guard company to protect Hu Rui, and he happily waited for the five sniper teams to go up.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Five gunshots rang out in a row, and the bandits on the second floor of the post house outside the city fell in response, and all five corpses were shot in the eyebrows. The powerful 7.92 pointed single almost opened his head, and Bai Huahua's brain mixed with red blood splashed on the wall behind him, and many timid people were directly frightened into their pants.

"Blow the trumpet of the charge, all attack! Artillery fire cover! "The time has come for Hu Rui to give an order. The trumpet sounded, and the new officers and soldiers who had been holding back for a long time rushed out of the county fortifications. There was no expected crowd tactics, and the new officers and soldiers who launched the charge scattered and formed countless small detachments of 60~80 people, and then the cover of the 37 guns bent over and opened the way with light machine guns, and began to infiltrate the bandits' generation of post stations outside the city (referring to the combat mode of the famous storm assault regiment of the German army during World War I, with small units equipped with light machine guns and flamethrowers infiltrating the enemy positions under the cover of artillery fire), the snipers hidden in the perimeter were also observing, as long as they saw someone with a gun, they did not hesitate to shoot the head! The splashing brains made those bandits and party members see the situation clearly, and they threw down the only dozens of foreign guns in their hands, regardless of the leader's shouting, and began to dodge the gunshots for their lives. The battle soon turned into a one-sided pursuit, and the instigated outcasts regained their original colors under the sound of gunfire, wailing and throwing away their clubs and crouching to the side and begging for mercy. Hunger deprives these simple peasants of their nature and brings out the ugliest side of human nature.

An hour later, the gunfire was interrupted, and the almost joking battle was over. All but a few escaped. Forced by the cold and glittering bayonets behind him to divide into three areas: the elderly, women and children, and the young and middle-aged, Wang Tianda, who was still unsatisfied, took a cigarette in his mouth and led a platoon of soldiers to shuttle back and forth in the three piles of people, kicking out the suspicious elements of the party and bandits. On the other hand, the patrol battalion is also helping to clean up the battlefield, in fact, there is nothing to clean, the bandits in these years are too poor, and there is no haode equipment. If you dare to carry the homeless people to attack the county seat, you must have brought all your belongings, but when you look around, you will find more than 30 guns, and Hanyang has not made one. The Mauser 1874 of black powder, the 1863 carbine of the American Civil War, and the singles that were eliminated before the first day of the Huai Army, there are all kinds of everything. Seeing these equipment, the faces of the two patrol battalion commanders who were born in the first phase of the training battalion became more and more ugly. With a black face, a low head and his soldiers to help collect the corpses, the victims were buried in thin coffins, and those members and bandits were directly buried in a roll of straw mats into the mass grave.

Wang Tianda, who has the most experience in his life, directly removed the position of the commander of the guard company, ran to be a jailer, and dragged the patrol battalion to help interrogate the prisoners. All the snipers sent out before were also rebuilt, and the new army solved the problem unscathed, and finally recovered a point for the patrol battalion. As soon as the battle ended, Zhu Jiabao's telegram came after him. He urged Hu Rui to lead troops to quell the riots in the five counties around Wuhu, and the perpetrators must be severely punished. Hu Rui pursed his lips and threw the telegram to Uncle Shan to deal with, turned around and went out.

On the surface, a large number of displaced people were instigated by the party and bandits to gather to smash and loot, but the root behind it was still on the land. In recent years, the Qing Dynasty has become more and more turbulent. The successive deaths of Guangxu and Cixi further deteriorated the Qing court's ability to control various local officials, and Japan also stepped up the encroachment of more and more China, and more and more Japanese products such as veils began to be dumped into China, making the already difficult national industry more and more difficult. The turmoil at the top caused a series of chain reactions, and the huge Qing Dynasty was in a situation of internal and external troubles. Land annexation is becoming more and more serious, the polarization between the rich and the poor, and the increasingly high taxes and land rents have caused more and more peasants to go bankrupt, and the peasants who have lost their land have no means to make a living but to drag their families and families to flee the famine. As a backward agrarian country, the land issue is related to the foundation of the country. Now the landlord class represented by the gentry occupies the dominant power, they encompass a large part of the wealth of society, and directly control the trend of public opinion. The number of tenants who have lost heaven and earth is increasing day by day, and as long as there is a slight flicker, it will be a huge people's war. In this regard, a certain party of later generations has profound experience. Fortunately, the vast majority of them are still under feudal oppression, and their consciousness is far from that high. Otherwise, there is no need to wait for the Xinhai year, and the whole Anhui will be in chaos. According to Hu Rui's concept, Anqing, Wuhu and the five counties around Wuhu, and even the whole of Anhui are important bases in the future. No matter how you fight outside, the family must be peaceful, and development is the last word. What to use to feed the army without a base? As for the resolute and resolute approach of a certain party in later generations, he did not think about it. The policy can be implemented immediately, and the effect is immediate. However, this hotbed of revolution has not yet been born, and most of the literate and hyphenated people are from the families of the gentry class, and the first to mess up is the new army in their hands. At least now is not the time, only to gradually promote industrialization, to attract the participation of the gentry with high returns, in exchange for their concessions on the land issue, and gradually ease the contradictions. "Looks like we're going to do something." Hu Rui frowned. Without waiting for him to think about it, Wang Tianda, who was sweating profusely, hurriedly rushed in with a stack of papers, shouting as he walked: "Sir, sir, we are in trouble!" ”