"Is there any end to it?"

Wang Daohan couldn't pull out his strength even though he tried his best, so he had to compromise: "I can only reward five thousand oceans, which is the highest reward in recent years." ”

Wu Ming asked unhappily: "Then why did the notice promise 10,000?" Isn't this deceiving the common people? If you talk like this, it doesn't count, who will help the government to suppress bandits in the future? ”

Wang Daohan was annoyed and reprimanded: "Didn't you say just now that more than a thousand Communist guerrillas had escaped? Most of them are not wiped out, right? So I have to give a discount, give five thousand, I'm already very generous! ”

Wu Ming was stunned: "What's the matter, this is also counted?" ”

"Nephew, have you left anyone on the Guanyin Rock?" Wang Daohan didn't care what Wu Ming thought, so he changed the topic.

Wu Ming nodded: "I left a team to set up an ambush there, if any of the heroes on the mountain don't have long eyes and dare to investigate, I can catch a few more by the way." ”

"Good! It's so thoughtful, and it really has the demeanor of a famous general! ”

Wang Daohan was overjoyed, approached Wu Ming and said: "You have to send a few people to lead my men and horses up the mountain immediately, the two reporters of the "Republic of China Daily" who stayed in Shangrao City have rushed to Yushan County, and they will arrive early tomorrow morning, I am afraid that we will have to take pictures, so we must be prepared." ”

Wu Ming was completely convinced: "You are amazing!" Okay, we don't come forward, the reputation will be given to you, you can publicize it as much as you like, it is completely said that you can fight it yourself, just give me the promised benefits and it's over! ”

Wang Daohan smiled: "The virtuous nephew is really refreshing!" It's no worse than your old man! ”

"Stop! Stop! I'm going to turn my face again! ”

"Good! Listen to you, listen to you, I will let the magistrate of Yushan County get ready, and you will lead your troops into Yushan early tomorrow morning to station. Wang Daohan can be said to be willing to pay for his blood.

Wu Ming immediately refused: "Excuse me, we will stay here for a few days, tomorrow we will all hide in the house to rest, it will not hinder you, don't worry." ”

Wang Daohan really couldn't understand: "If you don't have anything to do, let's go, what are you doing in this ravine?" ”

Wu Ming replied truthfully: "It is estimated that within three days, the news of the annihilation of Zhou Laoliu's army will spread all over a radius of 100 miles, and the bandits in the cottages will not be able to go down the mountain to accept my recruitment, unless they run to southern Anhui or southern Jiangsu further north, otherwise I will beat them." ”

Wang Daohan was taken aback: "You really dare to recruit An?" ”

"What can I do? If it weren't for the shortage of soldiers, I wouldn't have slept in the barracks? Do you think it's comfortable for me to run into this mountain and work hard? Wu Ming pushed back angrily.

At this time, Wang Daohan was completely convinced, and after a few words of soft advice, he pulled Wu Ming and strode towards the village together.

The officers of the Shangrao security forces immediately rushed up, the torches were blazing, the morale was high, and they were also very imposing.

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The next afternoon, Wu Ming, who was finally able to sleep for a long time, was pushed awake by Dai Ziran, sat up, rubbed his sour eyes, and asked casually, "It's over?" ”

Dai Ziran sat on the edge of the bed, finished smoking with Wu Ming, and took a few puffs and said:

"Early in the morning, reporters from two central newspapers came, and when I saw that I had nothing to do, I also went to Guanyin Rock to have a look, and when I got there, I was shocked, more than 300 corpses on the ground had all been moved, nearly half of the corpses had been replaced with tattered gray military uniforms, and many of the corpses had octagonal hats sewn with red stars on their heads, and the old hats with sickles and hammers painted with paint were thrown everywhere......"

"I don't know where the group of grandsons got more than 200 tattered long and short guns, a large number of spears and pikes, and two French Hatch Chase light machine guns with burnt butts, and an old Maxim heavy machine gun that was blown up, neatly arranged and dazzling, it's really fucking like that! In just half a night, the fraud has reached this state, Lao Tzu really convinced them! ”

Wu Ming smiled dumbly, and shook his head helplessly:

"The way of the world is like that, just take the results of the Central Army boasted in the newspapers for more than a year, and roughly calculate that more than 100,000 people of the Vermilion Red Army have been wiped out, do you think this is possible? There is a way to go up and down, no matter the military officialdom, it is about to rot to the roots, what can you and I do? We can only do things with a conscience, obtain funds as much as possible to develop quickly, and prepare as much as possible for the future Sino-Japanese war. ”

Dai Ziran nodded with relief: "Big brother, how much have we captured in this battle?" ”

"Now the ocean and gold and silver jewelry total about 70,000, dozens of antiques, more than 3,000 copper ingots, more than 1,000 sacks of grain can only be transported back to Maoliangwu for storage, plus the Shangrao Administration rewards and subsidies of 150,000, this trip is an unprecedented harvest. Among the more than 60 long and short guns seized, more than 30 of them were made in Hanyang and were very useful, and I promised to leave them to the Maoliangwu militia, and the remaining 10 were selected and sent to the local villagers, and the rest were transported back to Quzhou for recuperation. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Ming asked, "Do you need money?" If you need it urgently, just say it. ”

"Nope!"

Dai Ziran shook his head gratefully: "The monthly military salary is not used up, where is the lack of money?" It's just that at noon, I saw more than 100 bandits and their families who came to surrender, and I felt strange in my heart. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, just leave it to Brother Lu and Third Brother, we just need to pick out some young and basic men from them." Wu Ming explained.

Dai Ziran nodded: "Kui Yuan is doing this, and he has picked fourteen of them, but there are not a few young people in the local area who want to join our army...... According to your instructions, Kui Yuan carefully selected in accordance with the principle of voluntariness, and gathered more than 70 young people, and it is estimated that there will be people from the villages and towns on the border to apply tomorrow. ”

"Huh!? So much? Wu Ming was very surprised and blurted out.

Dai Ziran replied with a smile: "Yes, the people who accept it are very good, and there are many of them who know martial arts, if it weren't for the standards we set too strictly, I'm afraid we could double it." ”

Wu Ming got up excitedly, put on his military uniform and came to the backyard to wash up, and when he came back, he quickly put on Dai Ziran and walked to the east of the town.

Within the week that followed, Wu Ming recruited 250 sturdy and simple young men from villages and towns within a radius of 50 miles, and carefully selected 280 elite soldiers under the age of 25 from among the more than 1,200 members of the seven bandit gangs who had gone down the mountain to surrender to Cheng, and handed them over to Long Shaogang, deputy regiment commander, who had sent military uniforms, shoes and hats, and other officers to take back to the Quzhou barracks.

There are also four large-scale stubborn bandits who have no news, and it is estimated that they have moved north as a whole, and with Wu Ming's current strength, there is really no way to clean them up in the short term.

Nearly half of the bandits in the seven cottages fended for themselves, and these more than 400 people were lucky enough to keep their savings for many years, and with the certificate issued by Wu Ming, they led the old and young to settle down in Changshan County, Changshan Zhaoxian Town, and even Quzhou, where the environment was relaxed, and more than 370 people were left with nothing, and followed Lu Zhengde and Li Kun back to Maoliangwu and settled down, most of them were women and children, and the bandits within a radius of 100 miles of Huaiyu Mountain have since disappeared.

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On 16 July, Wu Ming led Lu Kuiyuan's spy platoon to leave this small mountain town where he had been stationed for 10 days and arrived at the north gate of Yushan County at noon.

After entering the city for a sumptuous lunch, Wu Ming talked alone with the young county magistrate Zhang for more than an hour, reaching a private agreement on trade and trade issues.

On the way back to Changshan on horseback, Wu Ming opened the "Central Daily" and "Republic of China Daily" presented by County Magistrate Zhang, and couldn't help but be amazed when he saw half of them:

Shangrao Commissioner Wang Daohan and the generals of the Security Headquarters of the Administration Department worked hard and repeatedly planned to jointly command more than 3,000 brave soldiers and men to march quietly day and night, and suddenly launched a fierce attack after the last day, which caught the Red Army by surprise, defeated the main force of the Red Army left behind in the Huaiyushan base area, and achieved an unprecedented victory in destroying more than 700 enemies and defeating more than 1,500 enemies.