Volume 1 Teacher Chapter 23 Raid
Dai Jiliang's visit to local tyrants was quite fruitful. He only spent a few old guns that the Guards looked down upon, and some incompatible bullets, and not only did he obtain a large amount of food, fodder and vegetables from the gentry of Tanghe and Biyang counties, but also added nearly 20 strong men from western Henan to the Second Regiment of the Guards.
What made him even more satisfied was that the guards were no longer blind.
Just as Bai Lang was about to move westward, Dai Jiliang received some of the news.
"Young Patriarch, your news is timely!"
Dai Jiliang shook the hand of the young patriarch of the Lin family in Dahetun and expressed his gratitude.
"Sima, take out 500 yuan in cash and give it to Young Patriarch Lin for me."
"Captain Dai, you're too polite."
The young chief of the Lin clan calmly withdrew his hand from Dai Jiliang. Dai Jiliang's eagerness was a bit overwhelming for him.
"Bai Lang and my Lin family have a deep blood feud. My eldest brother and third brother both died at their hands. Since the commander is really serious about suppressing the bandits, he will not hesitate to ask my Lin family to go through fire and water. So there is no need for this money, right?"
"well!"
Dai Jiliang untied his belt, on which hung a Browning pistol.
"Since the Lin family has such righteous men, I have nothing to offer them. I hope the young clan leader will not despise me."
"Thank you, Captain!"
There is no better gift than a gun in troubled times, and this newest pistol in the world is not something that a rich man in southwestern Henan can buy with just money.
"Without further delay, our Lin family is willing to lead the group."
"Come here, ask the chief of staff and the three battalion commanders to come over. Tonight, I want to attack Zhangdian..."
The night was dark and everything was silent. Only the restless night owl was still flapping its wings in search of prey that was also out all night.
Suddenly, under the bright moon, heavy footsteps were heard. The night attack troops of the Second Regiment of the Guards Army rushed forward in two columns. The terrifying momentum frightened all the birds and beasts on the ground and they hid far away.
"Sir, we have passed Tanghe County."
Although Bai Lang had given up Tanghe County long ago, Tanghe had already become a dead city due to the chaos caused by bandits, so it was naturally impossible for the Second Regiment to use it as their base.
"It's about thirty miles to Zhangdian."
"Hurry up and make sure we get to Zhangdian before dawn!"
Dai Jiliang naturally couldn't believe the Lin family's words completely, so the attack detachment was only half of the first and second battalions, and half of the machine gun company. Of course, the Lin family also sent nearly a hundred farmhands, but Dai Jiliang didn't have much hope for this...
The sky gradually turned white, and the wet dew soaked the uniforms of the guard officers and soldiers. Everyone took the opportunity to rest, running sixty miles in one night. This record was unprecedented in this era.
However, the soldiers could rest, but the officers could not.
"Young Patriarch, where are your people? They just arrived at Chenzhuang, which is too slow!"
Dai Jiliang convened an impromptu military meeting before the war, and it turned out to be a good idea. At the critical moment, these miscellaneous soldiers who had just been transferred from ordinary people still failed to perform well.
"I guess they won't be able to catch up."
Dai Jiliang shook his head.
"Forget it, Yin Hai, what was the result of your close investigation just now?"
"I took a closer look. The bandit army's defenses are very sparse. But they will probably wake up in a while, which may cause trouble."
The regiment's intelligence officer Yin Hai casually drew a simple diagram on the mud ground with a branch.
"Zhangdian is a big town with exits on all sides. We can't possibly block them all. Young Patriarch Lin has said before that there are about four to five hundred bandits in the town, as well as some hostages and civilians, but there are no more than a thousand of them. We have about six hundred people and are better equipped than them. It shouldn't be a problem to defeat them, but the key is to wipe them out completely, which is a bit difficult."
"listen!"
Dai Jiliang took the branch.
"To the south of Zhangdian is Tangzhuang. Although the manor has been opened before, it is still fenced. If the bandits break in, we will be in trouble."
Dai Jiliang ordered.
"Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang is leading the first company of the first battalion with a machine gun to deploy defenses in the south. First, we need to block the bandits' escape route to the south, and second, we need to guard against the possibility of support from bandits in other directions."
Seeing Zhang Binnan nodded, Dai Jiliang continued to make arrangements.
"The Second Battalion will use one company to bluff on both sides of the northeast. The remaining two machine guns will also be assigned to you. Your mission will be the same as Deputy Commander Zhang's. I will lead the rest and deploy them to the west. We must wipe out this group of bandits!"
About half an hour later, the originally silent Zhangdian seemed to come alive, with the sound of people shouting and horses neighing in the air.
Suddenly, gunshots rang out and the north, east, and south were suddenly engulfed in battle.
"The government troops are coming!"
There was a burst of heart-wrenching screams in the town, and then several bandit squads launched a counterattack, with an intention of fighting to the death.
But soon, the bandits' fantasies were shattered, as the power of machine guns taught them a real lesson about modern warfare.
"The government troops rushed forward with bayonets pointed!"
The screams of fear further stimulated the nerves of the bandits. Finally, the large group of bandits who could no longer hold back abandoned their few abandoned soldiers and stepped into Dai Jiliang's trap of surrounding three and killing one.
"Ready, fire!"
Looking at the panicked bandits through the telescope, Dai Jiliang gave orders calmly.
After a row of bullets, the bandits were completely thrown into disarray.
"Bayonets fixed, everyone charge!"
Dai Jiliang was holding his saber and gazing into the distance. He was already the head of a regiment, so there was no need for him to take risks like a small soldier. Of course, he also left the young chief Lin behind. As for whether he was taken as a hostage, only Dai Jiliang himself knew the answer.
Two companies of white soldiers rushed forward, with Li Guo taking the lead to avenge his previous humiliation.
Soon Li Guo found an excellent target. The big bandit was originally riding a horse, but now he had rolled to the ground. Even so, he still held a revolver in one hand and a machete in the other. He shot here and stabbed there, and managed to hit several soldiers of the guard army.
"go to hell!"
Li Guo stabbed the bandit in the chest, and the bandit was caught off guard and tried to block with his knife. However, the Chinese sword technique that could defeat the Japanese bayonet technique had not yet been born, and the bandit was not a superman, so the knife flew out in a spin with just this one stab.
Li Guo put away his gun and stabbed again. The big bandit rolled and crawled to escape from Li Guo's stabbing range, so he raised his gun and shot.
There was only a crisp impact sound, and it was such luck that there were no bullets left.
Li Guo, who escaped death, was not polite. He strode forward to the bandit, stabbed him with all his strength, and then pulled him out. A pool of blood spurted out along the blood trough, and he killed the bandit instantly.
"This Li Debiao really lost his temper."
Dai Jiliang could see clearly through the telescope and couldn't help but praise it.
"Send the signal, rush into the town immediately and wipe out the remaining bandits."
Seeing that the outcome was decided, and seeing that a few clever bandits had fled back to the town to resist, Dai Jiliang gave orders, and soon several columns of smoke rose into the air.
"Captain, let my people go too."
The Lin family's farmhands finally arrived. Clan leader Lin Shao felt a little embarrassed for being so late, so he volunteered to join in the fight, but his reasons were also legitimate.
"There are still hostages in the town. If your army accidentally injures any of them, wouldn't that be a waste of your commander's wisdom?"
"Young Patriarch Lin, our tribe has clear rules regarding seizures. Can your people abide by them?"
After the last battle, Dai Jiliang had drafted regulations on spoils of war. All weapons had to be turned in, and the financial subordinates could keep half of them, but the rest had to be turned in. Therefore, he looked at someone who wanted to take advantage with suspicion.
"No problem. Our Lin family has a deep hatred for the bandits. We don't need anything."
It seemed that someone was seeking revenge. Dai Jiliang touched his short beard which he had not had time to shave, and thought that since he still had to cooperate with the powerful people in southwestern Henan, he might as well do as the other party wished.
So he nodded.
"Then go ahead, but be careful, my brothers are all from Zhili and Shandong, just don't let them misunderstand you are bandits."
"No problem. I asked my men to tie red cloth on their arms."
The method is old-fashioned, but also very practical.
"Captain, how about we go and take a look together?"
Seeing the farmhands rushing into the town, clan leader Lin Shao also became eager to try, so he raised his head and looked at Dai Jiliang expectantly.
"Okay!"
Although there might still be danger, Dai Jiliang nodded as he heard the increasingly sparse gunshots. Then the two of them, along with their personal attendants, walked into Zhangdian.
Looking at the corpses of bandits scattered all over the road, the face of Lin Shao, the clan leader, became more and more excited. Suddenly, he took out the pistol given by Dai Jiliang and fired two shots at the corpse of a bandit leader. Dai Jiliang's guards were immediately frightened and surrounded their leader tightly.
"Young Patriarch, what are you doing?"
Looking at the other party's actions of mutilating the corpse, Dai Jiliang was quite confused.
Chief Lin Shao knelt down, grabbed the sand and stones beside him, banged his head on the ground, and cried bitterly.
"Big brother, third brother, Tang Damazi is dead. You can rest in peace now."
So that's what it is. Dai Jiliang breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he had found the real culprit.
"Young Patriarch, I am deeply saddened by your loss."
Dai Jiliang personally intervened and spoke generously.
"This head is given to the young patriarch. Take it back to commemorate the deceased. It is also a small token of my appreciation."
"Thank you, Captain."
Young Patriarch Lin wiped his tears and was about to say a few words of gratitude when suddenly a farmhand from the Lin family ran over and whispered something in his ear. Immediately, Young Patriarch Lin's face changed drastically.
"What's the matter?"
Dai Jiliang found this guy quite interesting. Sometimes cloudy, sometimes sunny, he was definitely the direct descendant of Sichuan face-changing.
“This, this.”
Clan leader Lin Shao wanted to say something but stopped himself. Dai Jiliang understood and sent away the guards around him. This new-school person who claimed to have studied in a new school for a few years spoke the secret with an embarrassed look on his face, which made Dai Jiliang feel unbelievable.
"My family is in misfortune. My eldest brother was attacked by Tang Damazi when he was sending my eldest sister-in-law home to visit her parents. My eldest brother died and my eldest sister-in-law's whereabouts are unknown. Originally, everyone in the family thought she was dead, but we didn't expect that she would be found here by the farmhands in the farm."
"What?"
Dai Jiliang also fainted. This was a plot that only appeared in TV dramas in his previous life. However, the ending would not be as good as in his previous life. The only outcome for such an unchaste woman was to be drowned in a pig cage and sacrificed to the river god.
"That?"
Dai Jiliang didn't dare to say more. If he spoke too much, he would make mistakes. Who knew what he said would violate taboos.
" Let's go check it out first."
Dai Jiliang suggested, so the reluctant clan leader Lin Shao had someone lead the two of them to a place that was obviously a place for the bandits to have fun. There were more than a dozen naked women in it, making the guards and soldiers who had been holding back for quite some time swallow their saliva.
"What's going on? Back off a hundred steps, face outwards, and don't look!"
Dai Jiliang's face turned serious, and immediately, the cordon was expanded.
"You have a military coat? Take one off."
So a coat was handed to Chief Lin Shao.
"sister in law!"
After a while, Lin came out, supporting a haggard-looking woman wrapped in a coat.
"This is Captain Dai. If it weren't for Captain Dai, you would still be the one to take revenge on the eldest brother and the third brother."
He couldn't continue.
"never mind!"
Dai Jiliang stared at the woman deeply, and she was indeed quite pretty. It is a crime to possess a treasure, and beauty is doomed to a tragic fate, Dai Jiliang sighed.
"Young Patriarch, please send my sister-in-law home quickly. We can talk about anything when we get back."
He continued to give orders.
"Come here, put some clothes on these women, and ask them again. Send those who have homes back home, and those who don't have homes, find a nunnery. If any of you dare to take advantage of them, I will kill you!"
