On the official road of Caotou Mountain, not far from Hejia Town, an army of almost 600 people was marching forward in a neat queue. It can be seen from the young faces that this is a young army, which is both nervous and hesitant, but more energetic for the future...

"How far are we from those bandits now..."In the middle of the group, Yin Ziang, who was riding a tall horse, looked at the sky and asked the adjutant who was following him.

Hearing Yin Ziang's words, the adjutant who was burying his head forward hurriedly took out the map he was carrying and looked at it, and only replied after comparing it with the surrounding terrain. "It's about seven or eight miles away, battalion commander, do you want the brothers to prepare in advance..."

"It's okay..."Talking about the war, Yin Ziang also became much more cautious. Tell the brothers, be careful, this time is just to deal with a group of bandits, if we can't even deal with a group of bandits, then our three battalions will lose face..."

"Yes!" Nodding, the adjutant hurriedly ran down to give the order.

After receiving Yin Ziang's order, the queue that was still moving forward suddenly became much slower, and not only the soldiers, but even some officers began to prepare nervously.

Seeing this scene, Yin Ziang, who had just returned from France, suddenly sighed.

It's just that he also knows that he can't blame the people below, after all, they have just been incorporated into the third division, not to mention soldiers, and even many officers have little actual combat experience. It's almost impossible to say not to be nervous...

"Fortunately, this time let's use bandits to train our soldiers, otherwise when there is really a bad battle in the future, then the matter will be lively..."

Thinking so, Yin Ziang picked up the binoculars. glanced at Caotou Mountain in the distance, but unfortunately he couldn't see anything clearly except for patches of trees, and after half a sound, he could only give up and put down the telescope.

In China, at least in the old era of China, there have always been many bandits, especially in the period from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, bandits dare not say anything everywhere, I'm afraid it's almost the same.

And after the Xinhai Revolution. There are even more people who fall into the grass.

Yan Shao intends to develop Anhui into one of China's industrial centers, so the public security in the territory must reach a very high level. Then many bandits in the territory obviously have to be cleaned up, originally because of Anhui Xinding. The three divisions under his command plus a regiment are not satisfied, and Yan Shao can only let this matter go, and now that the recruits have been replenished, it has become a matter of course to clean it up.

Moreover, the new recruits who were newly integrated into the army did not have much actual combat experience. Just took the opportunity to suppress the bandits and let them see blood. In this way, in case there will be a big war in the future, and these soldiers will suddenly pee their pants.

As for the appeasement? This Yan Shao has never considered it, firstly, because those bandits on the mountains may not be able to recruit them, and secondly, although many of these people went up the mountains and fell grass because of their livelihood, this does not mean that they can rob the rich and help the poor after they fall into the grass, but it will become even more intensified.

So things are simple, there is only one word to deal with this kind of person. Kill...

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No one knows what Caotou Mountain is called Caotou Mountain, but it has been passed down from generation to generation anyway. That's what it's called.

Three or four years ago, there was a man named Li Ergou who was persecuted by the local gentry, so he took many people to the mountains to fall into the grass, and this grass head mountain is more or less worthy of its name.

It's just that after this Li Ergou went up the mountain, he didn't have the slightest empathy for the people who were still persecuted by the inferior gentry, but often took people down the mountain to rob the people's property, and it was not surprising that the inferior gentry who persecuted him at the beginning were a little offended—————— persimmon was also pinched softly, who in the landlord's family in these years did not raise a dozen or even dozens of guns? Li Ergou was only twenty or thirty people when he was on the mountain, and after developing in the past seven or eight years, he has only developed to more than 100 people, and it is enough to move the common people.

Because this Li Ergou stared at the scourge of the common people, the common people did not go to the government and asked the people of the government to send troops to suppress this gang of bandits. The problem is that it was the end of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and it was not long before the Qing government collapsed.

This kind of thing is actually very common in China, in Anhui, there are even a few gangs of bandits near Anqing, which is the provincial capital, if you really want to talk about it, except for Dangtu and Wuhu, I am afraid that there is no place in Anhui that is clean.

When Tu and Wuhu are like this, it is also because of the long-term clean-up, and the local people are still rich and clothed because of the relationship between the factories, so there is no need to take the risk of falling into the grass.

However, Yan Shao can't build the whole of Anhui into the same as Dangtu and Wuhu, and the recruits do need to see some blood, even if they train for a long time, there is always a difference between the soldiers who have seen blood and the soldiers who have not seen blood.

So when he thought of actual combat, the first thing Yan Shao thought of was the bandits all over Anhui.

At this time, in the cottage of Caotou Mountain, Li Ergou was lying on the bed, holding a cigarette stick and smoking.

Originally, Li Ergou was just a farmer, and he actually had nothing to do with this kind of thing, but once when he went down the mountain and looted a cart of goods, there happened to be a lot of tobacco and soil in it, and there were even some clouds and soil...

Yuntu, in fact, is the tobacco produced in Yunnan Province, which is a famous variety of domestic opium at that time. Yuntu is divided into the south soil, the west soil, the east soil, among which the south soil is the best quality, the color and fragrance are good, there is the reputation of "the king of kings", many opium eaters call it "half a mile to smell the fragrance, three mouthfuls top a penny".

At that time, the cloud clay was generally made in the shape of rectangular bricks, and the head of Lin Zexu, who was famous for selling cigarettes in Humen, was pasted on the outer packaging, which is really ironic.

However, Li Ergou was originally a farmer who couldn't read a single word. Naturally, he didn't know who Lin Zexu was, and he chose Zeyuntu because there was an opium ghost under his hand who was very proficient in it, and he specially picked it out for him when Li Ergou wanted to try it...

And he tasted it. But I can't get rid of this thing anymore...

Just as Li Ergou was enjoying himself on the bed, a small leader outside ran in.

"Big boss, what's wrong?"

"Huh?" At this time, Li Ergou was in a daze, and the person became lazy, but after hearing the leader under his hand say this, he still cheered up and asked. "What's the matter?"

"I just got the news...", wiping the sweat from his face, the little leader said. The government has sent troops to surround us, and I heard that it is not far from our stockade now..."

Hear the little boss say that. Li Ergou, who was originally cheering up, suddenly lay back again.

Encirclement, encirclement...

In the past, he was not surrounded and suppressed in Caotou Mountain, and he was still in good shape? He could see those officers and soldiers clearly. I don't have any skills at all. So after taking two bites, Li Ergou just said lazily. "It's not that I haven't experienced it, so let the brothers prepare and deal with it as usual..."

Seeing Li Ergou, he didn't care. The little boss hesitated.

Although the bandits usually hide in the stockade. But this is not to say that they will not go down the mountain, after all, the looted things are also to find channels to sell them in exchange for silver dollars, food, weapons and ammunition, so once he also saw the current Anhui Revolutionary Army, although it was only from a distance, but those revolutionary troops wearing black uniforms left a deep impression on him.

If anything, it's the spirit that the former Qing Dynasty didn't have in the past...

Just looking at Li Ergou still floating there, he also knew that he couldn't talk to him about this now, so after thinking about it, he could only run out of the house. Discuss with the second master and the third master.

"Let's hope the results this time will be the same as the past few times..."

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is different from Li Ergou's dizziness there, the second and third masters in the cottage still attach great importance to this matter—————— it is not okay if they don't pay attention to it. According to the practice of the former Qing Dynasty, their gang of bandits who were caught were generally ...

Although they are all very confident in their own brothers and have confidence in the topography of Caotou Mountain, this is related to their own lives after all. Therefore, after getting the news, the second master quickly asked a few brothers to ride down the mountain to see what the situation was at the bottom of the mountain, where the troops sent by the government to suppress the bandits were, and on the other hand, they took the brothers to strengthen the cottage.

Not long after, the people who were sent out by the second master ran back, and the leader shouted even louder. "The people sent by the government are almost down the mountain, and we are only a few miles away..."

"It's so close..."Hearing the news, the faces of the second and third masters suddenly became ugly.

Bandits are always going to rob homes and houses, and it is impossible to be soft on those merchants who pass by the cottage, so they will always leave some eyes at the bottom of the mountain, as long as someone passes by at the foot of the mountain, it is impossible to let go of one, so it stands to reason that these bandits on Caotou Mountain cannot wait until Yin Ziang is so close to the cottage to find out.

It's just that at this time, after all, it's only more than January, just after the Spring Festival, although the bandits on the cottage will not all go home for the New Year like ordinary people, but it is impossible to run to rob houses during the New Year, so almost all the brothers at the foot of the mountain have withdrawn, drinking and enjoying themselves, even if there is any business, they will wait until the end of the New Year...

Who knew that the military government sent troops at this time, and the result happened to surprise them...

"Go, let the brothers go to the stockade to guard it, no matter what, you can't let the officers and soldiers come in..."

And after hearing the words of the second master, the few leaders standing below immediately nodded.

On the other hand, he ran to the foot of Caotou Mountain so smoothly, and to be honest, Yin Ziang himself was quite strange.

Yin Ziang knew very well that the soldiers under his command had no actual combat experience at all, although they were trained, but from a certain point of view, they were probably not as good as the bandits on the mountain, so he was fully prepared before setting off, and even got some information about Caotou Mountain from the Special Affairs Bureau, so he still knew a little about the past of Caotou Mountain.

"But it came so smoothly. It's a little too easy, could it be that there is some trap on the mountain..."Thinking that he hadn't even encountered a figure along the way, he couldn't help Yin Ziang think so. "Or do you say that those Qing troops are really rubbish to the extreme? I can't even clean up bandits of this level..."

After thinking about it, I still think that the former is more reliable, but now that he has reached the foot of the mountain, and the order from above is for him to clear the bandits on the mountain, so even if there is really an ambush, he can only grit his teeth and break in...

However, just when Yin Ziang also felt a little apprehensive in his heart, the scouts sent to the front finally had news back.

"Battalion commander. The scout at the front reported that he had spotted a small group of bandits and looked panicked. It seems that we were just discovered..."

ran back from the front, and the adjutant reported back to Yin Ziang.

"Could it be that it's really just a rabble?"

Hearing the adjutant's words, Yin Ziang was also puzzled in his heart.

Anyway, battles always have to be fought, so after shaking his head, Yin Ziang quickly threw these thoughts out of his mind. Then he raised his voice to the more than 600 officers and soldiers beside him.

"Brethren. I won't say anything superfluous, the bandits on Caotou Mountain in front of me have plagued the people for many years, the government was incompetent in the past, and there is nothing to do about them, and now the governor is in power, and he wants to do a good job in the life of the people, how can he still let this group of bandits plague the township? Now we are going to exterminate this group of bandits who do all kinds of evil, and the brothers have no confidence! ”

"Yes!"

Hear Yin Ziang's words. More than 600 officers and men of the third battalion immediately shouted.

Unlike the revolutionary armies of other provinces, although there are many soldiers in the Anhui Revolutionary Army, they are only greedy for a monthly salary of 10 yuan. However, there are also many aspiring young people who have great expectations for the Anhui military government and Yan Shao himself because Yan Shao implemented a series of new policies after he came to power.

At this time, China's thinking was very mixed, and there were all kinds of ideas, even those who agreed with a constitutional monarchy, so many people did not know which way to go, but they agreed very much with what Yan Shao once said.

'What is a revolution?' It's to let the people live a good life...'

Although the words are simple, but they are the truth, what are so many people throwing their heads and spilling their blood for? Isn't it just to make the people live a good life? If the days after the revolution are not as good as before, then what is the revolution doing?

Now the suppression of bandits is just to make the local people live a good life, plus the colleagues around them are shouting, affected by this atmosphere, the soldiers of the third battalion suddenly became excited, and even the nervousness in their hearts because of the battle has eased a lot.

Seeing that the morale was available, Yin Ziang naturally did not hesitate, and immediately ordered his men to march quickly towards Caotou Mountain, and in a short time, more than 600 people from the third battalion had already rushed to the foot of Caotou Mountain.

At this time, the bandits in the cottage were all ready, although they had not been surrounded and suppressed by the government in the past, but looking at the black pressed figure of more than 600 Anhui Revolutionary Army soldiers wearing black military uniforms at the foot of the mountain, the bandits on the mountain also became nervous.

Standing on a wooden wall, the second master took out his pistol and looked out.

This was the first time he had seen the Anhui Revolutionary Army with his own eyes, and he was naturally very curious.

Just when he thought that the revolutionary army below would be like the officers and soldiers in the past, and first persuade them to surrender, the more than 600 revolutionary troops at the foot of the mountain suddenly separated 150 or 60 people and quickly rushed up the mountain.

The people of the third battalion naturally surprised the bandits on the mountain, and by the time they reflected and opened fire under the order of the second master, the revolutionary army under the mountain had already rushed out of a distance of twenty or thirty meters.

The terrain of Caotou Mountain is complicated, but it is not very complicated, and the soldiers of the revolutionary army in the past are not to mention anything else, but all kinds of physical training are carried out very strictly, almost every day is five kilometers, even if they keep climbing on the mountain, they do not waste much strength, which is completely different from the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress in the past, and those officers and soldiers usually did not climb far, they were already tired and out of breath.

It's just that when climbing up, the third battalion did not pay a price.

The bandits on Caotou Mountain don't say anything else, but their marksmanship is good, this time Yin Ziang asked a company of people to rush up the mountain first, but only half of the way was rushed, and there were more than 20 casualties. Especially when rushing to the mountain pass, due to the terrain restrictions, the company couldn't rush up at all...

"Company commander, you can't rush up!" Hiding behind a rock, the deputy company commander of the first company wiped the sweat from his face and said to the company commander next to him.

The mountain pass is very narrow, and the bandits can suppress the company by standing on the wooden wall of the cottage, and it is not easy to rush up.

"What then! Could it be that the bandits above are waiting to run out of ammunition? Hearing the words of the deputy company commander, the first company commander said a little angrily. Although this is not a solution, if it is really done, then the face of their three battalions will be lost.

Seeing that the bandits on the cottage were hit by bullets, the company commander gritted his teeth. "You go and organize all the machine gunners, and I'll take some brothers to take a look later..."

The deputy company commander also knew that there was only one way to do it, so he didn't say anything more.

At this time, the arms imported from abroad had not yet fully arrived, at least those 75mm caliber mountain guns and 105mm caliber light howitzers had not yet arrived, but there were quite a few light machine guns or heavy machine guns.

The third battalion is just an infantry battalion, and there is definitely no need to think about artillery, and even heavy machine guns are not qualified, but each squad in the battalion is equipped with a light machine gun, so seriously speaking, the firepower is not weak.

With the order of the company commander, the light machine guns in the company were immediately organized, and at the same time, in front of the headquarters building of the Innovation Association in Anqing, cars or carriages drove in, and naturally many people came on foot, these people may come in different ways, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are all well-dressed. (To be continued......)