Chapter 41: The Fiasco of the Eighth Town (Part I)

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In the mountains northwest of Xingshan, the anti-bandit units of the Hubei New Army are marching toward the "Platform Mountain," the old nest of the bandits.

Looking at this road winding in the mountains, Zhang Jingliang, the 29th standard, had an unconcealed surprise in his eyes, and he couldn't help asking: "This road was really built by a bandit? It really only took more than 3 months?" It was no wonder that he was surprised, because the quality and length of this road were a little beyond his imagination.

This road is a two-lane slate cement road, the roadbed is stone, sand, gravel, the road surface is slate, its gap is filled with concrete, and the drainage ditch is also built on both sides, it is very regular, not like a mountain road at all, even the road in Wuchang City, it is not necessarily better than this. However, this road is in the suburbs, stretching from the city gate to the mountains, passing through more than a dozen villages in the middle, and the distance traveled is at least 3o kilometers.

The stones used to build roads are all made of local materials, and the mountainous areas are so good, the mountains are full of stones, which is not unusual, but the cement is very rare. Although the cement used in this kind of stone-based pavement is not much, it is not a small amount after tens of kilometers of length. And there are several such roads, all of which start from the gate of the county and lead to various directions, and one of them leads to the Xiangxi River wharf outside the county.

Along the way, he also passed several bridges, which, like the roads, were also made of stone and concrete, and the construction level was quite high.

Zhang Jingliang is a graduate of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen the world. But he was still very surprised to see such quality roads and bridges in the mountains, is this Kyodo really a "bandit"?

A middle-aged man wearing a lake silk suit followed him profusely, and when he saw him asking, he hurriedly stepped forward and replied, "Lord Biaotong, this road is indeed built by the bandits." Soon after they arrived, they brought tens of thousands of local elites to build roads, and squandered countless people's fat and ointment......" he said, with a look of bitterness and hatred. Of course, he wouldn't say that his family accounted for a large part of those "people's fat and people's ointment".

This flattering guy is called Wen Yindi, and he is the fifth master of the local gentleman Wen family. The Wen family is the biggest local tyrant in the area, because they usually do too many things that hurt people's character, and after Kyodo came here, their family was put on trial. There are more than 200 members of the family, and there are more than 6o people who have been hung with branches to show the public after the Fa-rectification (unfortunately there are no street lights at this time). More than 7o people were sentenced to prison terms ranging in length to mine and build roads. The rest were also dispersed to various labor camps for forced labor reform. Anyway, their family is old and young, except for this Wen Yindi, they all went in.

If this Wen Yindi hadn't happened to go to another county to run errands, he would have been hung on a tree branch like his father and brother.

Wen Yindi said and cried sadly: "Lord Biaotong, you have to be the master of the whole family." Our Wen family has always been a family of poetry and books, and in the 2oo years of scholarly family, those bandits trampled on Sven, arrested the whole family of my family, and killed a river of blood. The father of the family is the prefect, who is honest and dedicated to public service during his official period, and loves the people like a son...... He is known as a good man in the countryside, and he is over 70 years old this year, and the bandits did not let him go, and he ...... with a knife in front of the mud legs."

Zhang Jingliang glanced at him contemptuously and didn't say anything. He also knew about the local Wen family, and it was completely contrary to what Wen Yindi said, this family can be said to be doing all kinds of evil, and there are countless things in the fish and meat township, bullying men and women, and they are typical local tyrants and inferior gentry. The Wen family is a local tyrant, occupying nearly one-third of the arable land in Xingshan County, monopolizing various profitable industries, opening casinos, brothels, and large tobacco houses, and also has close ties with local bandits. If you want to say that this family is innocent, I'm afraid fools won't believe it.

As for the "good man" who was executed in public, it was not a good thing, he was known for his greed when he was the prefect in the past, and he scraped the ground three feet high. He also has a perverted hobby, likes to play with little girls, and I don't know how many little girls have been tortured to death over the years.

This perverted habit has only intensified with age, and over the years, several little girls have disappeared every year in Xingshan County and nearby areas. Even if it's not all related to this old thief, at least most of them can't run away, and dozens of shots of this kind of goods are enough.

Although Zhang Jingliang was loyal to the Qing court, he had no sympathy for the family. "I've fallen so far in the Qing Dynasty, it's just that there are too many scumbags like this!" this is Zhang Biaotong's idea.

In the original time and space where Mr. Wen lived, in the early part of the 21st century, some scum and gauze in the legal profession, in order to satisfy their cheap sense of moral superiority or to show off, completely ignored the most basic ethics and justice, and formulated some brain-dead laws that specifically protected the "human rights" of criminals.

If that "Wen Da Shan person" let those ** come to trial, they will definitely say: "Old lady Wen is over 70 years old, so he is exempt from punishment ......" Yunyun, and then boast about "human rights", "humanitarian care", "love" and so on.

Wen Deji is the most disgusted with this kind of thing, and "strict punishment and strict law" is the legal thought he admires the most, and the laws formulated by the Kyodo Society under his command will definitely not have that kind of brain-dead law. As for how to protect the human rights of criminals, let Lao Tzu get out of the way! If the human rights of criminals are protected, what should be done with the human rights of the victims?

Not to mention that the "good man" is only 70 years old, even if he is 300 years old, he is still killed here at Kyodo Society! Similarly, there are juvenile crimes, and the evil people in this family still kill a lot, and the legal viewpoint of "juvenile crimes are exempt from punishment" will not work here in Mr. Wen. Here in Kyodo News, the age of full legal responsibility is 12 years old, and all criminals who pass this age are counted as adults, and they will be killed.

"Because the consequences of the same criminal act are not mitigated because the offender is a minor or an elderly person, the punishment cannot be mitigated!"

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Of course, Zhang Biaotong did not know what Wen Deji was thinking, and he would not care about the legal construction of Kyodo Society, and his task was to be the vanguard of this anti-bandit operation. His only thought now was to get to the bandits' lair as soon as possible and block them inside.

However, the appearance of his subordinates along the way gave him a headache.

Because most of the middle and lower-ranking officers and soldiers of the 29 bids are banner people. These flag men don't take his little standard very seriously. What he said as a standard is not as effective as those flag men and team officers under his command.

The Qing court has always distrusted the Han people, but the banner people are basically waste wood that can't be supported by mud on the wall, and they have to use Han people. The same is true when the new army is being organized, they are also not worried about the new army composed of all Han people, so they find a group of banner men to stuff into the new army, such as the first town in Beiyang, the 29th standard in Hubei, these banner people are the backbone of the Qing court's control of the new army.

The idea of the Qing court is very full, but the reality is very backbone. At this time, the flag men have long been raised into pigs by hardcore crops, and they are asked to do something such as walking dogs, playing with birds, talking about cross talk, etc., as for fighting, there is only hehe. The same is true for 29 standards, when they walk their dogs and play with birds, they are all very bull forks, and when they really want to go to war, they will all become stupid forks.

The bannermen are willing to be the vanguard this time because they feel that this crackdown on bandits is a great opportunity to earn military merits, and the Qing court's reward for the military merits of the bannermen has always been preferential and heavy, and the pioneer's merit is the greatest. Therefore, everyone is extremely hot, and they unanimously ask to be a pioneer. It was difficult to shirk the victory of the co-commander king, so he had to pinch his nose and arrange for them to be the vanguard.

These uncles and soldiers have not stopped all the way, either stealing chickens and dogs, or buying things without giving money, as for taking sheep with their hands, leading pigs with their backhands, beating and scolding the people, etc., there are countless people, causing the people on the road to complain, Zhang Jingliang has to wipe their butts every day for the reputation of the new army, which is really annoying. But he can't help it, he can't even control Zhang Biao with these uncles, let alone he has a standard.

For the combat effectiveness of these grandfather soldiers, Zhang Biaotong has completely lost hope, and he is thankful that he will not pull his hind legs. "Fortunately, this time it was only a bunch of bandits to deal with...... he had to comfort himself.

"I don't know what these bandits think, how to build the road. Isn't this convenient for our artillery? I was worried at first, the road surface here is too poor, and the cannons can't keep up with it......" Zhang Biaotong couldn't understand this kind of behavior at all, he felt that these bandits were probably in the water in their brains, and they actually spent so much effort to build the road so well, could it be that they really regarded themselves as officials, even if I didn't bother on this kind of mountain path.

At this time, he noticed that there were many signs erected on both sides of this road, and this section was particularly dense, almost every twenty or thirty meters. This kind of one-meter-long, half-meter-wide, about 10-centimeter-thick, slightly curvature of the brand is arranged at an angle of 6o degrees with the road surface, about one meter five higher than the road surface. The signs are written with the words "Platform Mountain Base, xx meters forward", "Xingshan County, xx meters forward" and so on.

"Are these bandits so arrogant, lest others not know their lair?" Zhang Biaotong was thundered, he never dreamed that there would be such "tyrants and cool ** bombardment" bandits in the world, and they also used a very trendy unit like "rice" on a tall level.

"Lord Biaotong, the bandits are so arrogant! They set up a private court to incite the people to falsely accuse the gentry......" Wen Yindi said and cried again.

In fact, he was far from being as sad as he seemed, on the contrary, there was some snickering. He is the fifth oldest in the family, if there are no bandits, although the Wen family has a huge industry, it has little to do with him, and at most he can get a little leftovers. And now it's different, his father, uncle, and brother have all been hung by the Kyodo Society, and he is the only heir of this generation, and the entire Wen family is his. Of course, this can only be obtained after the elimination of the bandits, which is why he is so active in leading the way.

What they didn't notice was that before they entered Xingshan County, they were targeted by scouts from the revolutionary army. Their march along the way was under the surveillance of the revolutionary army.

On the hillside about five hundred meters away from them, there was an observation post of the revolutionary army. The six soldiers were all dressed in jungle camouflage, and their hands and faces were coated with camouflage ointment that had the effect of repelling mosquitoes and insects, and they were also covered with camouflage nets, so that when they lay down in the grass, they could not be recognized as individuals after 20 meters away. The ground of the observation post was sprinkled with snake repellent and insect repellent, and despite being in the jungle, the scouts were unaffected.

"This is the new army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, doesn't it look very good......" The squad leader looked at the new army column below with a telescope, and spit out while watching: "Cut, a whole standard, it is actually made in Hanyang by a water, and there is not even a machine gun, I think they are not as good as bandits......"

Another soldier echoed the spit: "That is, there are no steel helmets, no mortars, pistols only have officers, not even grenades...... Too bad, too bad. He also said that our revolutionary army is a bandit, I bah, who is like a bandit!"

After speaking, he looked at himself and his comrades, who were armed to the teeth, and couldn't help but show a smug smile. Half of their squad of 6 people had 5 M19O3 Springfield MK1 rifles, an M19O6 "Cobra" light machine gun, and each of them had a "Horse brand pistol" stuck in his waist, which was a Browning M19O3 pistol, and 4 wooden-handled grenades were hung behind his buttocks, and there was a multi-purpose saber and a bayonet on the left and right gaiters.

These firearms are all products of the "Cobra Arms Company" under the US Zenith Consortium (yes, now the consortium), and the Cobra Arms Company, which was established in September last year, purchased the patent authorization and production licenses of the relevant weapons from Browning, Springfield and other weapons companies, and has made a series of improvements according to its own plan.

The Chuntian MK1 is an improved version of the Chuntian, with a caliber modified to 7mm, a 5 magazine replaced with a 1O magazine, and improved man-machine functionality. The matching 7x49mm bullet is the original of the "Cobra Weapons Company", which is specially opened to adapt to the use of Orientals, of course, with reference to a lot of "later generations" bullet information, especially after World War II, several 7mm bullets. Compared with the current mainstream bullets of several calibers, the recoil of this bullet is greatly reduced, but the performance has not decreased at all, or even better.

The "Cobra" light machine gun is also original, that is, it is an improved version of the Bren light machine gun 3O years later, which reduces weight, optimizes the design, and modifies the caliber of the original version, so that it uses the same 7x49mm bullet as the Springfield MK1 rifle. The full gun weight of this light machine gun was 8. 5 kg, the ammunition feeding method is 3O magazine or 1oo bullet chain, and the performance is completely explosive to the current Madsen light machine gun. For Wen Desi, the design is no problem at all, if it is not for the limitations of technical process, where can I afford to look at Bren, at least it is M249.

Hand grenades, sabers and other gadgets are self-produced in the base, and the prototype of the grenade is the "later generation" China's Type 67 (it is said that this model has produced hundreds of millions of pieces, and pLa has not used half of it for more than half a century, and it is really kneeling), but the body of the bullet has been changed to a prefabricated fragmentation layer, and the weight has also been reduced by 1oo grams. The prototype of the saber is also a domestic product, the famous Huya D8O, of course, the current materials and craftsmanship are limited, and the performance is definitely not as good as the genuine version of the "later generations", but it is also top in this era.

As for steel helmets, military uniforms and other equipment, not to mention, as the soldier said, compared to these soldiers of the revolutionary army armed to the teeth, the Hubei New Army looks more like bandits.

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The fighters' spitting continues.

"The marching army is in a mess, like chasing ducks, it is better for us to train recruits for a month, is this really the regular army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty?"

"When marching in an area of hostile forces, there are no scouts in front of them, and there are no alert detachments around, all of them are crowded on the road, do they want to be targets...... Hmph, we completely overestimated them, there is no need to hide 5oo meters away. Don't say 5oo rice, even 1oo rice, they can't show our ......"

"In my opinion, the commanders look too highly on them, this kind of scum-like army, it is enough to clean them up with only our 2 regiments, where do you need three regiments and a battalion......"

Another soldier sarcastically said: "Hehe, I heard that last year, the Manchu New Army in various parts of the country conducted a joint exercise in Zhangde, and the Beiyang New Army was rated as [Winning with Courage], and this Wuhan New Army was rated as [Winning with Knowledge]. It's understandable that they are highly educated, so they are naturally a little worse at war......"

"Hahahaha, learning wins, what are they doing with guns, just take a pen and get ......"

"Cut, if they are really good at learning, why are they still soldiers......?

As long as our revolutionary army does not fight wars, there are cultural classes every day, and even in terms of learning, they are not necessarily better than us......

Those who can be scouts are elite veterans, and naturally they are all knowledgeable. Because of the strange appearance of the new army, they couldn't help but vomit one after another. This is a psychological gap is too big, originally they all thought that even if the new army was inferior to themselves, at least it would not be too bad, then they knew that it was better to be famous than to meet, and it was actually such a group of waste wood.

If Zhang Biaotong had known the evaluation of the revolutionary army, he would definitely shout that he had been wronged. Fuck, the 29 standards are all flag soldiers, what can I do, these bastards can't represent the level of our new army at all!

As for the equipment or anything, you can't blame the Hubei New Army, like mortars, light machine guns, and grenades, these are all new things, not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even the European and American powers are not equipped much. As for the heavy machine gun, the main thing is that the bigwigs feel that it is a waste of bullets and deliberately ignore it. At present, only Beiyang is equipped with some Makqin in the new army, and the Hubei new army has a few old-fashioned Gatlings, but this time they did not bring them over. As for the new armies in other regions, it will have to wait a few years.

In fact, strictly speaking, the equipment of the new army is really not the best in the country, at least in light weapons. When they were still using Manlixia and Hanyang, the Cantonese merchant group had already used Enfield and 1898. From 19o5 to 19o6, more than 2oo Madsen machine guns were sold in China, but the new army and the old army were not equipped, so where did these guns go? Naturally, they went into the hands of non-governmental organizations such as merchant groups and "dynamic social organizations".

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