The Japanese are not monolithic, some of them support the use of shili such as the Jongsha Party, and some advocate the bribery of local powerful factions such as Zhang Zuolin. It's just that Lao Zhang's independence is getting stronger and stronger, and he also introduces European and American shili to balance Japan, which makes the Japanese feel instinctive panic, and Shili headed by the military department began to decide to support the Zongshe Party and the Revolutionary Party, and with the help of Yuan Shikai's accession to the throne, he took the entire Liaodong Peninsula in one fell swoop, and even split Fengtian out.

It turned out that the Japanese wanted to walk on two legs together, on the one hand, let the revolutionary party raise the banner of the national protection army against Yuan Shikai, and on the other hand, the Zongshe Party raised the banner of Manchurian and Mongolian independence to restore Manchukuo. What's even worse is that Fengjun took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshuffle Shili in Fengtian's rural areas.

Japan is also a country that is about to complete industrialization, and it is very clear about the meaning behind the drastic changes in the rural areas of Mukden, and if the Fengjun army is allowed to continue in this way, they will have a firm foothold and even have the ability to industrialize.

Where are they willing to have a strong Feng army under their noses, so Honjo Shigeru is resolutely opposed to delaying the operation, on the contrary, they must speed up their preparations, gather more shili, and have more powerful combat power.

"He Sang, your mission now is to gather more soldiers, the Mukden government is destroying the landlords, their armament must be won over, and the remnants of the Zongshe Party, Liliang, must also be pulled over, to form a strong alliance."

"Mr. Advisor, we should follow your instructions, but if we want to integrate troops on a large scale, we need guns and ammunition, and we need more military spending, and if we can't solve it, no one will listen to us."

He Tianjiong spread his hands. The request was very simple, that is, to let the Japanese pay for the weapons, but Honjo Shigeru was very difficult, the main supporter of this operation was the military department, but the government expressed opposition, so he could not get financial support, Honjo Shigeru turned around the ground a few times.

"Ho-san, you contact Mr. Kihachiro Okura and ask him to provide two million yen for funding, and I will contact the Kwantung Army. Let them provide a batch of equipment. ”

This Okura Kihachiro is the founder of the Japanese Okura zaibatsu, and with the support of the Japanese army, he seized the mining rights in China, and his financial resources are very strong, and he is also the vanguard of the invasion of China. The more Japan expanded in China, the greater the benefits he received.

He Tianjiong has also met Kihachiro Okura a few times. I know that Okura is very generous. So readily agreed. Shigeru Honjo also had to contact the Kwantung Army, hoping to take out some of the Kwantung Army's arsenal, or even some of the equipment on active duty, and who made the Kwantung Army strongly support this operation.

The intense preparations of the Japanese and the revolutionary party were noticed by the investigators sent by Zhang Tinglan, and the number of people gathered around the Zhuanghe River exceeded two or three thousand. And it is still increasing rapidly, especially recently some landlord armies have been disbanded, and the lazy people who were originally idle have nowhere to go, so they all defect to Zhuanghe. As a result, the number of revolutionaries snowballed.

Moreover, the revolutionary party has always had a very haode tradition, that is, it has close contacts with gangsters and hooligans, and the elders of the Qinghong gang are regarded as the main force of the revolution.

"Humble words, can you still calm down now, why don't you send troops to Zhuanghe as soon as possible?" Yang Yuting asked with some doubts: "Let those miscellaneous pieces gather together and eradicate them in one fell swoop, I also agree, but now the situation is a little out of control, they are more and more numerous, and there is Japanese support behind them, after all, we only have one regiment of men, I'm afraid it will be out of control." ”

"I'm scared too!" Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "It's terrible and useless, they didn't make a big fuss, we rushed to send troops, if these people escaped to Luda, it would be difficult for us to eliminate them, so I thought of a way to fight poison with poison, didn't they recruit people everywhere, I will let them recruit more smoothly." ”

Yang Yuting didn't understand what Zhang Tinglan meant for a while, he frowned and said, "Don't play dumb riddles, I'm really scared." ”

"Neighbors, it's easy to say, He Tianjiong They don't choose to eat when they're hungry, they want anyone, so we just send some people, pretend to be bandits, and join in. Think about it, a gang of rabble, there are still internal problems, do you think they can become a climate? ”

Yang Yuting understood Zhang Tinglan's plan at this moment, he couldn't help but put his thumb up, and said: "Humble words, your trick is really high, even if they can recruit more people, as long as the internal chaos is chaotic, they will not break themselves, and it is useless to have any people." ”

Sending traitors is a very common method on the battlefield, and in order to expand Shili, He Tianjiong and others have a demand for personnel to the point of starvation, and everyone wants it, which hides a huge loophole, which just gives Zhang Tinglan an opportunity.

"Humble words, who did you send over?"

"It was the new Zhang Henian, I changed his name to Zhang Haitian, and selected more than 20 shrewd soldiers, disguised as a group of bandits, and went to join the revolutionary party."

"That kid is a bandit, he was born to be a bandit, I think it's very suitable, but it's a bit thin to send a group, let's send a little more people over."

When Zhang Tinglan and Yang Yuting were discussing, Zhang Henian had already entered the territory of Zhuanghe with dozens of soldiers, and before he had gone far, he met a group of people, who happened to rush over from another fork in the road, and the two sides collided together.

The gang was dressed in fancy clothes, some wore old sheepskin jackets, some wore tattered cotton clothes, and two people were the worst, wrapped in quilts and tied with hemp rope, and they looked like they still had a hint of kimono.

Dressed in a variety of ways, the weapons in their hands are also strange, some are holding earthen guns, some are holding machetes, red tassel guns and the like, which look like juggling and look like bandits.

The leading kid was in his thirties, thin and withered, with two yellow eyes dripping around, and they also noticed Zhang Henian and these people early, they were neatly dressed, they all held rifles in their hands, each in their twenties, and they looked very athletic, and this kid started to think carefully.

"Dude, are you going to Zhuanghe to make a fortune, you will be nicknamed Yellow Wolf in the next person, and there is also a number one in southern Liaoning, this time you will take your brothers to participate in the grand event, how about we go together?"

Zhang Henian didn't want to run into each other blindly, he could act with other bandits, and he could also hide their identities. Therefore, he said: "Brother Yellow Wolf, in Xia Zhang Haitian, it is fate to meet, and we can take care of each other." ”

The two groups of people merged in one place, and the team more than doubled, and the yellow wolf saw that Zhang Henian and these people were different from ordinary bandits, so he asked, "Brother Haitian, what are you doing originally?" ”

"To tell you the truth, we actually guarded Xiuyan's jade mine for Qing Wangye Yikuang, but as a result, the Feng army confiscated all the jade mines. The brothers had nowhere to go, and when they heard that Zhuanghe was recruiting, they came to take refuge. ”

When the yellow wolf heard this, he nodded hurriedly, no wonder this group of people was so fierce. It turned out to be for the prince, which is naturally different from the rabble. The yellow wolf also raised a hint of awe.

"Brother Haitian. Just by virtue of your work for the prince, it proves that you have two hits, and after you arrive in Zhuanghe, you must be reused, at least a company commander. ”

"To borrow the auspicious words of Brother Yellow Wolf, in fact, we just want to get some money. Then go to Kannai Hana Shijie to enjoy. ”

"That's right, whoever is willing to work hard is a grandson. This time, Feng Jun did too unauthentic, and they were all from the green forest. As a result, now flying on the high branches, he looks down on the Jianghu people. What kind of militia is there, there are militia patrols in the locality, and there are officers and soldiers behind to press the formation, who dares to rob the merchants, how can these Jianghu people still get mixed up. ”

The yellow wolf complained all the way, Zhang Henian agreed without a word, they walked out of another section, and met two groups of people one after another, one of them was a thug raised by the landlord, and the other was a gang of people.

Everyone gathered together, there were two or three hundred, and after going deep into the territory of Zhuanghe, there were people from the revolutionary party who were responsible for standing guard and sentry on the road, and there were many people who came to take refuge these days, and they were all familiar with the road, and after a simple question, they arranged Zhang Henian and them to a town near the county seat.

There were already more than 300 miscellaneous soldiers gathered here, all shouting and drinking, so it was not lively. When Zhang Henian was driving a car at the landlord's house, he often dealt with this kind of people, so he quickly got along with this group of people, he was very skilled, and the marksmanship of the brothers under his hands was amazing, and he was promoted to be the battalion commander.

I waited for more than ten days in a row, and every night someone came to publicize, basically the first group of people to come over to overthrow Yuan Shikai, abolish the imperial system, and restore the Republic of China. The second wave of people came and said that they wanted to take back the land and kill the Feng army and the brave mud legs. The third wave was the remnants of the Zong Socialist Party, who wanted to restore the Manchu dynasty.

This is not the end, sometimes the Japanese come over and talk nonsense about Sino-Japanese friendship and so on, Zhang Henian is very funny, these rabble take these words as the wind in their ears, they care about how much benefit they have, how much money and food they can have every day, and everything else is.

Zhang Henian was not idle, using this time to understand various situations in detail, he knew that there were a total of more than a dozen such garrison points, with a total strength of nearly 4,000 people, Shili was not small.

After tossing for half a month, that night, He Tianjiong and Gu Renyi appeared together, followed by a few Japanese, carrying a large number of guns, and Zhang Henian, the cheap battalion commander, organized everyone to receive guns.

Some of these guns were 30-style rifles, and there were also many old-fashioned singles, each of whom was issued a gun and a 10-yen Japanese gold ticket.

After the weapons and money were distributed, He Tianjiong said to them: "Brothers, General Cai Ye is winning every victory, Yuan Shikai is about to finish, and we must also take action to fight Yuan together." I declare that the Mukden Protector Army has been formally established, and now set out immediately to attack the Zhuang River. ”

After an order, these rabble all set off together, everyone held torches, and looked at it from a distance, like a fire dragon, after walking out of more than ten miles, the same fire dragon appeared in other directions one after another, and everyone gathered together to besiege Zhuanghe.

The revolutionary party has been making trouble for so long, and the officials in Zhuang Hanoi have long known about it, but now that they have finally launched, this gang of people has already run away, He Tianjiong and Gu Renyi personally commanded this gang of guys and rushed into the city.

After entering the city, this gang of bandits had no discipline, and after entering the city, they began to loot frantically, and they robbed whatever they saw was good, and the main shops and even the homes of ordinary people were not spared.

He Tianjiong didn't have the heart to care about the evil deeds of his subordinates, he couldn't wait to erect the banner of the Fengtian Protector Army, and issued an announcement to discuss Yuan.

With a leader, there is no worry that no one will follow, not only the revolutionary party, but also other guys who want to fish in troubled waters have also jumped out. In addition to Zhuanghe, Yingkou, Haicheng, Fengcheng, Dandong and other places have appeared the banner of the national protection army, and the land of southern Liaoning is surging.

Zhang Tinglan, who was in the center of the storm, was very calm, not too impatient, he unhurriedly dispatched soldiers to clean up those who rebelled and rebelled, but Zhang Tinglan intentionally or unintentionally avoided Zhuanghe and let the revolutionary party mess around here.

Zhang Tinglan can sit firmly and fish, it does not mean that other people are also so calm, after Emperor Yuan in Beijing heard that there was also a revolutionary party in Fengtian, he was so anxious that he almost vomited blood, only Zhang Zuolin was such a loyal minister, but there was a problem under his rule, isn't this the absolute Hongxian! (To be continued......)