Crossing the Rise of Special Forces

After two months of reorganization in Jiyu, the company led by Xu Yan had a completely new look. All the personnel had been working together day and night for two months. Although there were some bumps in the road, Xu Yan set a good example by setting a good example himself.

They had never thought that Company Commander Xu Yan would eat, live and train with them, and treat everyone as brothers. He never beat or scolded the soldiers and never drove them without restraint. This had never happened before in the warlord troops.

In the warlord army of this era, soldiers were just like the officers' family slaves and their private property. In Xu Yan's opinion, this was a very ordinary and insignificant thing, but in this era, it was also a thing that made these soldiers drop their jaws.

Of course, Xu Yan also has a strict side, that is in the training ground! But Xu Yan's strictness is based on the premise that he takes the lead in training, which makes some people dissatisfied but unable to speak out.

Time flies and the Spring Festival is coming soon.

In this era, the Spring Festival is basically not a happy time for the poor. As the saying goes, the New Year is hard! For the poor, every New Year is like passing a test! This is the true portrayal of the cannibalistic society.

Xu Yan gave everyone half a day off that day. He sat in the dormitory and chatted with everyone about all sorts of things. This was a rare hobby of his. Fang Tianlong lazily lay behind Xu Yan and fell asleep.

Nowadays, Fang Tianlong is often given extra training by Xu Yan. Even though he is in good health, he can hardly bear it. After finally getting a rest, Fang Tianlong really just wants to have a good sleep.

"Captain, the New Year is coming soon. How are we going to celebrate it?" a soldier suddenly asked.

"How do you want to live? Let's hear everyone's opinions. Here, we insist on democracy in everything. Everyone, please speak up." Xu Yan responded immediately.

Everyone started talking at once, and Xu Yan couldn't hear what was being said in the chaos.

"Oh, these bastards are making so much noise that I can't sleep well!" Fang Tianlong suddenly sat up from behind Xu Yan and said with resentment.

"Look, we've disturbed Captain Fang's sweet dreams, haha," Xu Yan said with a smile.

"If you ask me, it's fun to celebrate the New Year. Set out a big table with good wine and delicious food, and everyone drinks and eats meat in big bowls! Drink all night long!" Fang Tianlong said directly without responding to Xu Yan's teasing.

After hearing this, everyone agreed. After cheering for a long time, they found that Xu Yan did not express anything, so everyone became quiet and looked at Xu Yan.

Xu Yan said calmly: "It's fine to drink and eat meat, but it's boring just to drink and eat meat. Let's try something a little more exciting! We can't drink this wine for nothing, and we can't eat this meat for nothing!"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, not understanding what Xu Yan meant.

Fang Tianlong put his hand on Liu Fengquan's shoulder and said in a muffled voice: "I knew it, our company commander has a lot of ideas! He won't let me drink to my heart's content."

Xu Yan laughed and stood up and said to everyone, "Simple! Let's have a competition among the three platoons and determine the rankings! Whoever ranks higher gets to eat the meat first!"

Everyone became excited when they heard Xu Yan's words. This is easy to do! After training so hard for so long, it is time to decide who is better! The spirit of not admitting defeat and wanting to win was aroused.

Seeing these people talking about all kinds of things, Xu Yan quietly walked out of the room and went to the kitchen, where he found the logistics staff to ask about the supply situation. When he heard that they were only rationed 30 kilograms of meat for the New Year, he frowned a little. This Northeast Army was too stingy. What good were 30 kilograms of meat for a whole company of more than a hundred people?

Thinking of this, he called Liu Kunyi out.

"What's the matter, Company Commander?" Liu Kun asked.

"Platoon Leader Liu, this is what's going on. The New Year is coming soon, and I want my brothers to have a good year. However, the meat ration is only 30 kilograms, which is a bit too little. I want you to take a few brothers into the mountains to see if we can hunt some game to make up for the loss."

Liu Kunyi was born into a hunter family. He said that he once hunted a bear with his father, and showed everyone the scars on his body left by the blind bear. Xu Yan was absolutely confident that he could go into the mountains.

Liu Kunyi immediately patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Captain. I will prepare it right away and make sure everyone has a good New Year!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Platoon Leader Liu." Xu Yan patted Liu Kunyi's shoulder and said.

While Xu Yan was happily preparing for the Spring Festival, Jiming Mountain, not far from here, was also preparing for the New Year, but the way they prepared the supplies needed for the New Year was different.

At that time, almost every well-known mountain in Kanto had a bandit force, and Jiming Mountain was no exception.

The leader of Jiming Mountain is named Liu Dianchen, nicknamed Liu Foye. He is fat and big-eared, just like a big-bellied Maitreya Buddha. Although he is a bandit who kills people without blinking an eye, this guy talks about Amitabha, benevolence, righteousness, and morality all day long. He keeps his rosary in his hand all day long, and claims that he is a lay disciple of Buddhism!

He has more than a hundred desperate criminals under his command, who are not afraid of arson, murder, looting and other evil deeds. He is a bandit force in Heilongjiang. The strength of Fang Tianlong and his ilk is far inferior to that of Liu Foye. Liu Foye not only robs ordinary people and local tyrants, but sometimes even dares to rob the Northeast Army! He has three good brothers, namely the second brother Zhao Wenyu, the third brother Zhang Jingyuan and the fourth brother Liu Diangong.

These four are sworn brothers who have sworn blood alliance. The fourth one, Liu Diangong, is Liu Dianchen's younger brother. Liu Dianchen is insidious and cunning among these people. He looks like a kind-hearted old man all day long, but in fact he is a ruthless character who is decisive and murderous.

The second brother, Zhao Wenyu, looks like a scholar, wearing a long gown and a cardigan all day long and a pair of black-framed glasses. He is the military strategist of Jiming Mountain. He has studied in a private school for several years and worked as an accountant for a rich man. This man is greedy. It was he who joined forces with the Liu Dianchen brothers to rob the rich man's wealth and set fire to the house. He ran to Jiming Mountain to recruit soldiers and horses and occupied the mountain as the king.

The third brother, Zhang Jingyuan, was originally a company commander in the Fengtian Army. He was good at using two guns, and he could shoot without missing a single bullet. In his early years, he followed Zhang Zongchang. He hooked up with Zhang Zongchang's concubine because of his lust. The concubine fell in love with Zhang Jingyuan and pestered him to elope. Zhang Jingyuan was tempted by the beauty, so how could he dare to run away with Zhang Zongchang's concubine? He was so scared that he ran to Jiming Mountain alone.

The fourth brother, Liu Diangong, is the weakest of the four. He is addicted to almost everything including eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He only knows how to rely on his brother's power and make a lot of noise all day long, acting like a bully. He is a complete good-for-nothing who can do nothing but makes trouble.

At this time, the four of them were sitting in Liu Dianchen's room, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing.

Zhao Wenyu looked at them and said, "Brother, we should plan ahead! As the year draws to a close, the brothers on this mountain are counting on a good year. Right now, our inventory of silver and grain is not abundant. If we don't take action, I'm afraid we won't have a good year."

Liu Diangong exclaimed, "What's the big deal? If I take my brothers down the mountain and make a big deal, I'll have everything. It's just that the people at the foot of the mountain are all poor. If we want to make a big deal, we have to go far away."

Zhang Jingyuan looked at Liu Diangong, who was ignorant and could only flaunt his power, with great disgust and said in a deep voice, "It's not peaceful now. Some time ago, Governor Wu sent troops into the mountains to suppress bandits. Fang Tianlong was defeated and surrendered to the Dongning Army. Although we withstood the attack of the Dongning Army, we also suffered heavy losses. Some of my brothers died or were injured, and our horses and guns were more or less lost. How can we go far like this? What's more, there is still a company of Dongning Army stationed in Jiyu Village more than ten miles away."

Zhang Jingyuan paused, glanced at the other three people, and continued, "If we're not careful, our retreat will be cut off. It's easy to get out, but hard to come back!"

"Third brother, I think you are scared by the Dongning Army last time, haha. If you are scared, then give me the position of vanguard. I am not afraid of their Dongning Army!" Liu Diangong said to Zhang Jingyuan with a smile. Although he said it sincerely, everyone could hear the extremely provocative tone.

Zhang Jingyuan was about to lose his temper, and was stopped by Liu Dianchen when he was halfway through a curse. He could loudly rebuke Liu Diangong, a loser, but he couldn't muster up the courage to say no to his brother Liu Dianchen! After looking at Liu Dianchen, Zhang Jingyuan sat down angrily.

"Liu Diangong! Do you still have any sense of seniority? Your third brother risked his life with his brothers to fight off the army's encirclement in order to protect Jiming Mountain. How can you question that? You are becoming more and more disrespectful and unruly!" Liu Foye glared at Liu Diangong and shouted.

He turned around with an extremely apologetic expression and said to Zhang Jingyuan: "Jingyuan, don't bother with him. I spoiled your brother, and you did it all for my sake. Calm down."

Liu Dianchen didn't waste any more time on this matter, and continued, "I have also thought about it carefully these days. The brothers under me have been having a hard time recently. This will definitely not work, so I have decided to go down the mountain and do a big job myself."

After hearing what he said, everyone hurriedly advised, "Brother, no! You can't move! How will we explain if anything happens?"

Liu Dianchen didn't say anything. He looked at the facial expressions of the crowd with a smile and suddenly called out, "Come in!"

The door creaked open and a short man who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old walked in.

The man walked into the room and bowed: "I greet the four masters."

The other three were stunned. Liu Diangong was the most impatient and spoke first: "Ocelot! Where have you been these days! I thought you sneaked down the mountain to join the Dongning Army!"

The man called Leopard Cat said quickly: "Fourth Master, how dare I! I can't bear to leave my brothers. What's the point of joining the Northeast Army? I heard that Fang Tianlong and his gang joined the Dongning Army and were trained like grandsons all day long!"

Liu Dianchen interrupted the two and whispered to Zhao Wenyu and Zhang Jingyuan, "I asked Leopard Cat to sneak down the mountain a few days ago and investigate. Our secret sentries at the foot of the mountain have not been very effective recently. They did not send back any information in advance during the last encirclement and suppression by the Dongning Army. I'm afraid they can't be trusted."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao Wenyu could no longer sit still and his face flushed. He knew very well that he was the one who had been in charge of the secret sentry at the foot of the mountain, and these words were clearly a warning to him.

Liu Dianchen glanced at Zhao Wenyu and said enthusiastically, "Don't think too much, second brother. I have no other intentions. Second brother has been in charge of all the affairs of the mountain stronghold and has to worry about these secret sentinels. Second brother is really tired. It is unfair for a scholar like second brother to have to deal with these bastards. That's why I let Leopard Cat go down the mountain."

Not suspicious? This is clearly to stop me from managing the sentries! Zhao Wenyu cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. He leaned forward and said, "Brother, you have considered everything. I am really a little overwhelmed. This time, I troubled Brother Leopard Cat to go down the mountain in person. Fortunately, you came back safely. If anything happened on the way, I would be very sorry!"

These words made the others frown slightly.

Leopard Cat bowed and said, "Thank you, Second Boss, for your concern!" and stopped talking.

Liu Dianchen tried to smooth things over and said, "Leopard Cat, please tell the leaders what useful information you have learned since you came down the mountain."

Leopard Cat walked quickly forward, took out a piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it on the table, and told everyone in detail what he had seen and heard when he went down the mountain!

After a cup of tea, Leopard Cat finally finished speaking, bowed to the four people, and walked out.

At this time, the other three people knew what Liu Dianchen wanted to do!

He wanted to rob the Japanese reclamation group fifteen miles down the mountain!

"Brother, are you crazy? You actually want to attack the Japanese reclamation group!" The fourth brother Liu Diangong was the first to jump up.

Liu Dianchen was speechless about his younger brother. He hadn't made any progress in all these years! He ignored him and looked at Zhao Wenyu.

"What do you think, Mr. Zhao?" Liu Dianchen asked in a deep voice, with his hands on his shoulders and his sharp eyes looking at Zhao Wenyu.

Zhao Wenyu did not respond. He looked thoughtful, obviously calculating the pros and cons in his mind. After a while, he said, "Does the Buddha have any plans?"

Liu Dianchen smiled and said nothing.

Zhao Wenyu had no choice but to speak: "I have just carefully calculated that this Japanese reclamation group is indeed a good target. The Japanese reclamation group is the only place around us that can meet our needs. If we send most of our troops to raid once, the harvest will be enough to offset the harvest we get from going to the other five places. This reduces our risk of failure."

After hearing this, the other two also understood. Everyone knew the pros and cons of going down the mountain to do it once or five times.

Zhao Wenyu continued, "And I think the Japanese and the Dongning Army would never have thought that we would have the guts to rob their Japanese reclamation group! This is a perfect start for a surprise victory! Leopard Cat just said that the reclamation group only has fifteen Kwantung Army guards, and at night there are only three people on guard in each shift. Moreover, the reclamation group does not have high walls and courtyards. There are only wooden fences outside their base, which also reduces our risk."

"If we send out two more decoy troops to attack in the opposite direction, they will surely confuse the Dongning Army and the Guandong Army's reclamation group. As long as we are fast enough, we should be able to reap a lot in one night."

Zhao Wenyu finished speaking in one breath and looked at Liu Dianchen: "I wonder what the Buddha thinks?"

"Hahaha, it's Brother Wenyu who understands me! The second in command's idea coincides with mine!" Liu Dianchen stood up and said with a laugh.

Zhang Jingyuan also stood up quickly and offered his flattery: "What a brilliant idea, Boss! I think this can be done!"

When Liu Diangong saw that everyone agreed, he also shouted loudly: "Brother, let me take the lead this time!"

Liu Dianchen said loudly without looking at him: "I will do it myself this time!"