Chapter 30 The battle is about to begin
Gai Longquan was really unambiguous. That night, he took people across the river and tied up Lao Liu on the bed of a brothel in Jiangnan. Poor Master Liu got a reward of 5,000 yuan and became a prisoner before he could heat up. When he caught him, he used a knife and bleeding. In addition, he rushed for dozens of miles of night, and he looked even more embarrassed.
The officers gathered around and were about to ask for help from Master Six, but Chen Zikun said that the matter had been fully handed over to Gai Longquan for the handling, and he didn't ask.
Without saying a word, Gai Longquan immediately took someone back to the camp.
In the office, Chen Shou asked: "Master, Gai Longquan has always been protecting his calf. If he doesn't punish Lao Liu, your twenty sticks will be in vain."
Chen Zikun said: "It's right to protect the people below, but it's not right to break the rules. Captain Gai is a shameless person. I believe he will deal with it impartially. Chen Shou, you kid are ruthless enough. You can beat me up and can't sit on a chair now."
Chen Shou smiled embarrassedly: "I understand what you mean. This board was called to Gai Longquan. You can't be careless, otherwise you will be in vain."
The two smiled at each other.
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On the school ground outside the city, the old six knelt on the ground with blood on his face, but he was not afraid at all, and he smiled from time to time to greet the people who were coming and going.
After a while, Gai Longquan walked over surrounded by a group of brothers, looked down at Lao Liu, and asked calmly: "Liu Brother, what else do you have to say."
Lao Liu said proudly: "Brother, I'm sorry for you. People are always happy to be happy. We are poor when we have no money to eat meat and drink, and we have no money to be a woman. It's better if we don't have the right government army. I took five hundred people and threw guns over, and immediately ordered a thousand foreigners to me. I also asked me to be the battalion commander. Brother, I think you have gone there too. With the ability of our brothers, I won't recommend you to be a division commander, which is not ten times better than being a bird commander in Jiangbei."
"Pa" Gai Longquan slapped the face, and blood oozed out of Lao Liu's mouth.
"Sixth brother, are you talking about human words? I, Gai Longquan, came out to explore the world, rely on the word "Yi". Now as an official army, rely on the word "Yi" word "Yi". If you are not loyal and unrighteous, what else can you live in the world? Brother will send you on your way."
A sword was handed over, and Gai Longquan pulled the sword in his hand. Lao Liu's face turned pale, and then he realized that the eldest brother was going to play really well.
The officers knelt down together: "Brother, let me spare my sixth brother, he was also confused for a while."
Gai Longquan was unmoved and said coldly: "Sixth brother, close your eyes, brother's hands are fast, it doesn't hurt."
Lao Liu knew that he would die, so he sighed and said, "Brother, brother, let's go first."
Gai Longquan raised the steel knife with a blue face. Just as he was about to chop down, he suddenly heard a shout: "Stay someone under the knife!"
It turned out that it was Chen Zikun who came.
Chen Zikun looked at the knife in Gai Longquan's hand, then looked at Lao Liu, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Captain Gai, what are you doing?"
Gai Longquan said: "I am implementing military law and executing this black sheep to serve as a warning to others."
Chen Zikun said: "Put the knife away."
Gai Longquan was born in a master's family and immediately understood Chen Zikun's intention. He wanted to make himself beat. Since the show was about to begin, let's act to the end.
"The military guard, the sixth crimes of the elders will not be forgiven. If they do not kill him, the morale of the army will be in chaos!" Gai Longquan said in pain.
Chen Zikun said, "Our brothers can come together and conquer the world together. If they don't come together, they will be separated. There is no need to kill people. Sixth Master, I know you are greedy for wealth and honor and surrender to the south. You are not sincerely destroying my Chen Zikun's platform, right?"
Lao Liu caught the life-saving straw and nodded hurriedly: "Master, I was confused for a moment. I was blinded by lard. I was sorry for you, I was sorry for Boss Gai, I was sorry for brothers, I deserve to die..."
Gai Longquan snorted coldly: "You know you deserve to die too."
Chen Zikun said: "Brothers are used to hard life and can't stand the mother and Dayang. I blame me, Liu Master, get up first. Let's talk about your affairs later. Let's do it seriously first."
As he said that, he waved his hand and several mule carts rushed over. The ruts were very deep and the mule looked very hard. The carriage was closed and I didn't know what was installed.
Several horsemen jumped onto the cart, raised their axes and cut off the pins, and countless silver dollars poured out from the thrust and quickly piled up on the ground. The crisp sound of the silver dollars colliding was endless. Everyone's eyes were flashed by silver light, and they stared blankly at the more and more silver mountains on the ground.
A total of 100,000 oceans piled up on the school ground to form an extremely spectacular silver mountain.
More and more soldiers gathered at the schoolyard. Nantai is a poor place. Many people have never seen what silver dollars look like in their lives, let alone silver mountains. Even knowledgeable leaders such as Gai Longquan only earned thousands or tens of thousands of yuan when they were the richest, but they have never seen this formation.
All the doubts, anxiety, worries, anger, and complaints were swept away in an instant, and the silver mountain made them happy and smiled. So much money was enough, and they were worried about not having enough money to drink wine and sleep with girls.
Lao Liu was also stunned. If he hadn't been tied up, he would have wanted to slap himself a few big mouths. He was the battalion commander of the Second Regiment. He should be entrusted with a military rank of 100 yuan a month, and then he would think of some solutions from the soldiers. He could get three or four hundred yuan a month, and sell himself for 1,000 yuan. It was really not worth it.
Chen Zikun was very satisfied. What he wanted was this effect. After the officers and soldiers of the brigade had seen the silver mountains made of 100,000 oceans, the assembly trumpet sounded, and the adjutant announced that Major General Chen Zikun, the envoy of the brigade commander, personally paid everyone a salary.
The salary standards for the Seventh Mixed Brigade were formulated strictly in accordance with the regulations of the Army Department. The big-headed soldiers cost six yuan per month, and the horsemen and scholars paid eight yuan and ten yuan, so there were more officers. The platoon leader had thirty yuan, the company commander had 70 yuan, and the major officers like Gong Zijun had 100 yuan. Chen Shou was a lieutenant colonel and could get 200 yuan. Gai Longquan was one level higher than him, and he got 500 yuan, which was more than ordinary university professors.
The salary of senior officers was not received here. Chen Zikun only paid the soldiers. Two people followed him, holding pallets filled with oceans, and sent them one by one. Not only did they send the oceans, but they also chatted with the soldiers, patted their shoulders and encouraged them. Many soldiers were moved to tears, and they felt deeply that they had met a great commander.
After doing this, many officers were depressed and their plans to get empty salaries were lost. Chen Zikun seemed to guess what they were thinking and said in public: "Brothers, everyone knows what our Seventh Mixed Brigade is, so I don't want to use any military discipline to restrict everyone. I only have two rules, one is not to abuse the people, and the other is not to drink soldiers' blood, so you can do whatever you want. But if anyone dares to violate these two, hum, the people are my parents, and the one who serves in the army is my brother. Whoever provokes them, just kill them!"
When Chen Zikun said this, the field of the university was silent. Although the soldiers of the 12th Regiment were from a pole, they were essentially poor people. The words of the guards made them admire them from the bottom of their hearts. They were all rough people with guns and could not say anything beautiful, but their eyes at Chen Zikun were completely different from before.
When he said it was right, there was no need to pay it one by one. Chen Zikun handed over the work of paying the salary to the Chief of Staff and interrogated Lao Liu himself.
"Captain Sixth Battalion, I won't punish you today. How did you kidnap the troops and bring them back to me?" Chen Zikun said.
"Yes, I, Lao Liu, made a mistake once, and I will never make a second mistake again!" Lao Liu saved his life, and he was still scared and dared not say anything.
Chen Zikun sent him, and then summoned the officers to a meeting. Everyone received military pay, and their spirits were different. They were ready to go to the city to go to Shanghai to do something big.
"Brothers, I found out that the opium fields were burned by people from the south. I burned two acres of land and lost hundreds of thousands of oceans." Chen Zikun looked around and said.
The officers took a breath, then felt heartbroken, and their full expressions turned into hatred for the south: "Damn it! Dash, please speak."
Chen Zikun said: "I guess there will be a battle within two months. Everyone will be cheered up. Don't use up all the strength on the women. When we fight across Jiangnan and occupy the provincial capital, there are some silver and women. Without saying much, brothers can know what to do and the meeting will be together."
After returning to the office, Chen Zikun secretly ordered Xue Bin to lead the pistol battalion to disguise himself as a farmer to set up an ambush near the poppy field. In addition, he ordered the security team to strictly investigate the foreign population. Nantai County was a little too big, and it was easy to search for strangers. It was very easy to find out that several merchants from the provincial capital lived in the Xia family's mansion, and they ran around the streets all day long, not knowing what they were doing.
Chen Zikun knew it.
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The burning of poppy fields was indeed done by Governor Sun. What happened in Jiangbei made him extremely worried. The opponent developed too rapidly, far exceeding his own expectations. If the poppy matures and sells it for a lot of money, he will be even more unparalleled.
On that day, Governor Sun was playing mahjong with his concubines in the back house. Suddenly, Adjutant Xia came to report that he asked Xiao Wu to touch him a few times, took Adjutant Xia to the office room, sat on the master's chair and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, what's wrong with you?"
Xia Jingqi said: "The soldiers from the 7th Brigade of the First Battalion, who came back a few days ago, ran back yesterday and kidnapped hundreds of military uniforms..."
Governor Sun waved his hand: "Bandits are all villains, for nothing, the people named Chen are enough to raise these people."
Xia Jingqi continued: "The brothers sent to Nantai by Beizhi were arrested by the security team. They were randomly placed in prison and their eyes were broken... In addition, the whereabouts of the brothers sent to burn opium fields were unknown, and they were afraid that there would be a lot of danger."
Governor Sun's face looked even more ugly: "Is there any other bad news? Don't hide it."
Xia Jingqi said: "There is another thing. The brothers fought a war with cargo ships in the north on the river, killed a few water bandits, seized some things, and asked the commander to take a look."
Governor Sun was interested: "Come on."
The two horsemen carried into a wooden box, and inside it was a spur of a strange shape, which looked like a rifle and a machine gun. The barrel was very long and the receiver was thick and strong. It could be seen that it was made of a whole piece of steel, with a grim light of roasted blue. Under the receiver was a long magazine that could hold at least twenty rounds of bullets.
"Is this?" Governor Sun asked in confusion.
"I have checked the dictionary. This weapon is called browningautomaticrifle."
"Speak Chinese!" Governor Sun waved his hand impatiently.
"It's Browning's automatic rifle, loading twenty rounds, and even firing. The range is amazing. The brothers seized five of these guns, and several boxes fell into the river and were being salvaged."
Governor Sun's face looked ugly again: "I bought arms again in the north. This kind of gun can be used as a rifle and as a machine gun. We will suffer a great loss when we fight. It seems that we can't wait anymore, and the plan must be in advance."
Chapter completed!