Chapter 224 The Eve of the Great War
Jin Tianbiao brought more than 20 confidants from the headquarters. In the three months since he arrived, he cleaned all the backbone of He Laoliu of the former security brigade and the personnel he thought were unreliable.
Yaojin Mining is now in charge of the eldest brother Jin Tianlong. As his younger brother, Jin Tianbiao naturally wants to defend the mine below to the death. This is the source of wealth.
At this time, the murderous aura emitted from his body mixed with the cold weather, solidifying the air flowing around into a ball, suppressing everyone present.
Everyone kept their heads down, but they began to think about what to do?
A few months ago, he had just experienced a prison robbery and a gun battle, but the security brigade was beaten to pieces, killing and injured more than 20 people. The captain He Laoliu and the squadron leader Gan Kui both died in a bad life.
This time it was even more dangerous. It was an armed group of troops coming over, and I don’t know who the sacred was.
The sky was dark and I couldn't see each other's faces three meters away.
It is said that several surrounding checkpoints and guard posts have been occupied, and there are a pool of blood and a group of corpses on the ground, which is shocking.
Several of the inquisitioners were still in shock, their faces were as pale as death, but they were muttering unwillingly.
"Captain Xia..."
Jin Tianbiao screamed in a hoarse voice, with a solemn expression.
"exist…"
The squadron leader Xiahou Xuan was waiting beside him.
After all, he had just been promoted from deputy squadron to captain, and was the only backbone retained from He Laoliu's old system, and he rose instead of decline.
Xiahou Xuan certainly knew that he should maintain his elder brother's prestige at critical moments.
"You lead a squadron to occupy the roofs of the town, strengthen the houses, and light torches. When the enemy attacks, you should not attack, just block the enemy and wait for reinforcements."
"Yes, captain!" Xiahou Xuan whispered.
He waved his hand and led more than a hundred men out of the courtyard, spreading defenses towards the various commanding heights of Meishan Town, and scattered defenses in solid buildings.
After a loud sound of horse hooves, there were only Jin Tianbiao's guards in the courtyard, and his elite troops were at this time.
He waved his hand and asked the forty members to guard the various posts, surrounding walls, and the main building of the team headquarters.
At this moment, he calmed down, his eyes dark, making people unable to understand his thoughts.
"Report!"
A squad leader of the outpost was dismounted and came to report the military information.
"Let's talk in the room!" Jin Tianbiao was very calm. He walked into the empty dining room and signaled that the whistle detective could speak.
The squad leader immediately stood at attention, walked straight to him and said:
"The captain, there were at least a few hundred men in the black crows. They held the Qinglong Banner and claimed to be the first association of Zhejiang New Army. They were ordered to come to Meishan Town to encircle and suppress. An officer led by the head of our security brigade asked our security brigade to immediately surrender his gun, otherwise we would be wiped out."
The squad inspector coughed softly, glanced at Jin Tianlong, and saw that he had no reaction, he continued:
"The officer in charge said that Yaojin headquarters had surrendered, and the eldest shopkeeper Jin Tianlong, the second shopkeeper He Renbao and others were all arrested. This time they came to pay the guns from the Meishan Town Security Brigade. The officer also said that as long as the guns were taken, it would be fine."
Unexpectedly, Jin Tianbiao was very patient. After listening to the report from the squad leader, he seemed very calm.
In fact, when he heard hundreds of armed personnel rushing to Meishan Town, the first reaction was that it was related to the disappearance of British people.
A year and a half ago, seventeen British people including Charlie and were killed in Meishan Town. In fact, he was secretly ordered by his elder brother Jin Tianlong to work with He Laoliu, the security captain of Meishan Town at that time.
He led dozens of hard-core brothers from the Taihu Gang to disguise themselves as bandits, hijacked Charlie and seventeen others with armed forces, and then took them into the mountains to kill them one by one, buried them in the deep mountains and valleys, including instruments and equipment.
A few months ago, the British sneaked into Meishan Town through the Shanghai Application Hall to find clues to the disappearance of Li.
First, the man and woman who came to inquire were arrested by He Laoliu.
Then, He Laoliu was killed, and someone pretended to be a police officer at the headquarters to rob the prison. Although they were discovered and pursued, they successfully escaped.
It is said that the people who came to rob the prison were very skilled in martial arts and excellent in riding and shooting, and the people from the security brigade were no match for them at all.
This time, it should be the British side that hired foreign horse bandits and used fake tricks to prepare to arm the capture of Meishan Town, so as to find out the truth about the deaths of Charlie and others and wait for an opportunity to regain the mine property rights.
How could the new imperial army arrive in Meishan Town in such a thing, claiming that they will still encircle and suppress them? Isn’t this a fantasy?
Besides, if an accident occurs at Yaojin Mining Headquarters, why no one will come down to inform us?
Therefore, even if Jin Tianbiao was killed, he would not believe it. The content reposted by the squad leader of the squadron was real. How could the eldest brother Jin Tianlong be arrested inexplicably?
Since the British mercenaries were here, that is, the horse bandits, it was impossible to have strong combat effectiveness, which actually aroused Jin Tianbiao's long-lost dignity.
"Hmph! A group of horse bandits and bandits pretended to be new imperial troops and acted as big-tailed wolf. We will never surrender. The winner will be the king and the enemy will be defeated! Let's fight them here!" Jin Tianbiao sneered, turned his head to the squadron inspector and said:
"You can send two sergeant detectives to take a fast horse and take a detour to the mining headquarters to report the news, and ask the shopkeeper to send the headquarters security team to reinforce."
"Yes." The squad leader stood attentively and saluted and then withdrew.
Jin Tianbiao tidied up his armed belt and waved his hand at the two personal guards at the door, "Go, follow me to the wall of the brigade courtyard."
After saying that, he walked straight to the stairs, and the bodyguards and followers standing outside the door followed him one by one.
...
Night has long been around.
The surroundings of Meishan Town are completely dark and the cold air is overwhelming.
On the hillside about three miles away from the entrance of the town, there are large and small bean green military tents.
In several tents in the southwest area, several iron-shelled kerosene lamps were lit, which was actually called a horse lantern.
There are many fronts of the roads around, with high alert, and there are many people entering and leaving, which is obviously different from other areas.
This is the location of the Zhejiang New Army First Assistant Guard Battalion Command.
In a military tent, there was empty surroundings, and a charcoal brazier was placed in the middle, making the tent slightly warm.
A flat surface made of bullet boxes, covered with a shabby bean-green military blanket, made into a simple desktop.
On the simple desktop is a military topographic map of Meishan Town.
There were several folding chairs in the tent, and there was a narrow folding camp bed and a bedside table made of boxes at the bottom.
A horse lantern is hung high on the tent support pole.
Chapter completed!