Chapter 22: Fierce Battle Ordnance Bureau (1)
1912 was the most chaotic year in society caused by the change of old and new dynasties, the last batch of local officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made a lot of money when they left, and most of the new local officials of the Beiyang government were bought with money, and naturally they were more ruthless after taking office, and as a result, the people in the northern countryside went bankrupt one after another, in order to survive, young and strong men were soldiers or bandits, young women were reduced to slaves and maids in Qinglou or large households, and women and children left their homes and became refugees. The soldiers and bandits went to plague other places, resulting in more bandits and refugees. There are three bandits in the Zhili Province alone, and the strongest one is the Sun Maniac Department in the Motianling near Yanshan, with more than 1,000 minions under his command, but only more than 300 long and short guns, and the rest are big swords and spears. Among them were more than a hundred cavalrymen. After the Flying Eagle Gang's fish that slipped through the net was repaired, in order to take revenge, he took Gou Zongwei to join the Sun Maniac Department, in addition to Gou Zongwei, there were three gangs, but the three people were unwilling to leave Beijing, and when they saw that Fei Bao left Beijing to become a bandit, they found an opportunity to escape from Fei Bao's side and join other gangs in Beijing.
When Wu Chunlei returned to the military camp of Sanjiadian, he went back with Di Xiong's convoy, several carriages were full of military uniforms, and through the relationship of Lan Jinping, Weili Company became the supplier of the left road to prepare the army, and obtained a large number of orders, including military uniforms.
More than a dozen vendors outside the barracks set up stalls selling groceries such as needles and threads. When they entered Feng Jishan's military camp, neither Di Xiong nor Wu Chunlei saw a pair of hateful eyes looking at them, it was Gou Zongwei, a bandit spy pretending to be a peddler. Gou Zongwei has a thin and dark face and short stature, in fact, Gou Zongwei is often beaten and bullied by the big guy in the Flying Eagle Gang, but because Fei Bao had promised, after he got tired of playing, he rewarded Bai Xiuling to Gou Zongwei, Gou Zongwei wanted to get Bai Xiuling and wanted to go crazy, plus Fei Bao saved him once, he was very loyal to Fei Bao. After the destruction of the Flying Eagle Gang, he learned that Bai Xiuling had become Di Xiong's woman, and thought that Di Xiong had robbed him of his woman, so he hated Di Xiong very much.
"Fourth master! I saw Di Xiong and Wu Chunlei bring three carriages of military uniforms into the front camp of the reserve army on the left road, I heard that the commander of the former battalion is called Feng Jishan, and Di Xiong has a very good relationship, Wu Chunlei also became his subordinate officer, Di Xiong often sends things to him, it seems that this Feng Jishan is Di Xiong's backstage. ”
Although Fei Bao is now only a small leader under Sun Maniac, Gou Zongwei still calls him the fourth master as before.
Fei Bao said: "Since this is the case, I persuaded the master of Sun Zhai to attack the Ordnance Bureau, the master of Sun Zhai has been worried about the lack of firearms of the brothers, and at the same time as capturing the Ordnance Bureau, he happened to destroy Feng Jishan easily." Then it would be much easier to clean up Dichon. ”
After Fei Bao joined the Sun Maniac Gang, he once had a firefight with a patrol of the Reserve Army on the front road, killing three soldiers, and he thought that the combat effectiveness of the Reserve Army was too poor, although there were three battalions defending the Ordnance Bureau, it would be easy to defeat them.
Sun Madman's real name is Sun Jingfeng, and he is the younger brother of Sun Jingshan, a thief in the Northeast. After Sun Jingshan was exterminated and killed by Zhang Shaozeng's Beiyang Army in Twenty Towns, Sun Madman led the remnants to the area of Miaofeng Mountain in Hebei Province to rob homes and houses, and escaped several encirclements and suppressions by the official army. Recently, he fled to the Yanshan area, north of Beijing, where his nest was temporarily set up in a cave on a mountain peak. When Fei Bao went in to report, Sun Maniac was smoking a cigarette with several of his leaders.
"What do you say? That battalion commander is called Feng Jishan? Lin Fang'er asked in surprise. Lin Fang'er is a beautiful woman in her twenties, with slender eyebrows, very white skin, and a silver dress, she is the only woman in the cottage.
Fei Baodao: "Yes, it is indeed called Feng Jishan!" ”
Lin Fang'er said to Sun Madman: "Be in charge!" When your eldest brother was fighting fiercely with Twenty Towns in Xinmin Mansion in Northeast China, he was hacked to death by a company commander of the Beiyang Army with a big knife, and that company commander was called Feng Jishan! ”
Lin Fang'er was originally Sun Jingshan's concubine, and after Sun Jingshan's death, she became Sun Madman's wife in the village.
Madman Sun was a bald man with big ears, sitting on a big tiger skin chair, he opened his eyes and said: "It turned out to be the enemy who killed the eldest brother, and this battle not only has to take the armory, but also kill Feng Jishan to avenge the eldest brother!" ”
The three leaders including Liang Bald also said: "I am willing to follow the owner of the village to take revenge!" ”
Fei Bao didn't expect Lin Fang'er's one-handed assistance to make his plan to kill people with a knife successfully completed, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Of course, Sun Madman and his leaders didn't know that Feng Jishan's battalion was the strongest among the twenty-five battalions of the reserve army.
The night in June is not hot, but there are more mosquitoes, and tonight it happened to be Wu Chunlei on duty at night, and he was bitten by mosquitoes a few times, and the itching was unbearable. Wu Chunlei took out a bottle of mosquito repellent and rubbed it on his body, and after rubbing it, he felt that the itching was much lighter. Feng Zhi'an, who was on duty with Wu Chunlei, looked at his bottle enviously.
"Squad leader! What kind of potion are you? Feng Zhi'an asked, thanks to Wu Chunlei's help, Feng Zhi'an had changed from a servant to a regular soldier.
Wu Chunlei said: "This is the mosquito repellent liquid produced by the pharmaceutical factory of Weili Company, which not only prevents mosquito bites, but also relieves itching, so you can also rub it." He handed the mosquito repellent to Feng Zhi'an.
Feng Zhi'an took the medicine bottle and said: "The effect of the medicine produced by the company is really good, the scabies cream you brought back last time, I only rubbed it for three days, and the scabies was cured." ”
Wu Chunlei said: "Of course, every drug on the market of our pharmaceutical factory has caused a rush to buy in the market, but it is a big move, because it has robbed the business of Japanese foreign companies, which has aroused the hatred of Japanese pharmaceutical companies. Now is the era of the jungle, even if a company is good in business, without the protection of a strong army, it will not be able to open for long, this is probably the reason why Brother Di sent me to be a soldier, but unfortunately I am only a squad leader so far. ”
At this moment, several dark shadows quietly pounced on the two sentries at the gate of the camp, and the sound of frogs and insects at night muffled the footsteps of the black shadows. A rope noose was thrown at Feng Zhi'an's head, and Wu Chunlei saw it and hurriedly shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”
After all, Feng Zhi'an had only become a regular soldier, and within a few days of participating in the training, his reaction was a little slower, and he was immediately put on his neck. The man in black who threw the noose tightened the rope. At this time, it was too late to pull the gun and shoot again, Wu Chunlei pulled out the sharp knife and rushed forward, the action was fast, the man in black didn't have time to dodge, he was stabbed in the back by the sharp knife, and the blood sprayed Wu Chunlei's face, the man in black let go of the rope, and his body slowly softened. Another man in black raised a big knife and slashed at Wu Chunlei's back, Wu Chunlei didn't look back, he kicked first, and hit the other party, and the man in black fell out three meters away with a knife. This kick was learned from Di Xiong, and Wu Chunlei suffered the loss of the kick when he first met Di Xiong.
"Bang! Bang" Two gunshots rang out, the dark whistle fired, and the remaining two black-clothed men who pounced on Wu Chunlei were shot and fell to the ground. When Feng Jishan arranged the sentry posts, he set up two sentry posts, light and dark. Tonight, Wu Chunlei and Feng Zhi'an are the open whistles, and Cao Fulin and Liu Ruming are the secret whistles.
Sun Jingfeng, who was five hundred meters away, scolded: "Liang Bald, this stupid! You can't even touch a sentry! ”
Fei Bao said: "The owner of the village! The idea is very strong, they have four people, the open whistle and the dark whistle, and now they can only attack. ”
At this time, a spy brought good news: "The owner of the village! Leader Zheng and Leader Wang each led 100 brothers to capture the camp of Lu Chengwu and Dong Shilu, and the officers and soldiers were defeated in a battle, and we captured hundreds of fast guns. ”
Zheng and Wang were originally feints, so that the officers and soldiers did not dare to support Feng Jishan, but who knew that it was easy to succeed, which greatly increased Sun Maniac's confidence, and he shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers! The officers and soldiers of the two battalions on the left and right have collapsed, as long as the camp in front of us is breached, the weapons in the armory will all be ours, brothers, rush me! The first one to rush in will be rewarded with twenty pieces of the ocean! ”
Liang Baldzi, the leader wearing a helmet hat, took the lead in raising his gun and rushed to the front camp, followed by a large number of bandits. Some of them were holding pine torches, and in the light of the fire, it could be seen that the bandits were dressed in different colors and were very tattered, except for a few leaders with ruddy faces, and most of them were dressed with vegetables, because they were refugees a month or two ago, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, they went to the cottage to become bandits.
After Wu Chunlei shot and killed the bandit who was kicked down, he saw the crowd rushing over, and hurriedly retreated into the gate with his three soldiers, and at this time the soldiers of the front battalion who heard the gunshots took their rifles out of the barracks, and under the command of the company commander and platoon commander, they rushed to the shooting position in a hurry, and the effect of Feng Jishan's usual training was shown at this time. Of course, there were a few people who fled in panic, Yang Guisheng, the commander of the third company, took the lead in escaping, and some of his soldiers also fled, Feng Jishan, who supervised the battle, immediately raised his pistol and knocked down Yang Guisheng with one shot.
"Captain Company Commander Yang Guisheng fled from the battle and was executed on the spot! Whoever dares to run away will also end up! Feng Jishan said sharply, Yang Guisheng's soldiers hurriedly returned to the battlefield, and Feng Jishan appointed Han Fuyu as the acting commander of the third company.
At this time, more than 300 bandits have launched a charge to the camp, the direction of the charge is the position of the first company's defense, Song Zheyuan commanded his soldiers to block the fence as an obstacle, the enemy only ordered to open fire when he reached fifty meters, after a row of crisp gunshots, dozens of bandits were shot and fell in a pool of blood, others were frightened and retreated, only corpses, seriously wounded people and white gunpowder smoke remained on the position. Liang Bald shouted in the crowd, kicked and punched the retreating bandits, forced them to rush forward, and shot and killed one of the retreating bandits. His performance caught Song Zheyuan's attention.
Song Zheyuan called Wu Chunlei over and said: "Look at that guy wearing a helmet-shaped hat, obviously a leader, three hundred meters away, you aim for me to put him down, I will give you credit!" ”