Black Flag Army

1912 was the year of the most chaotic society caused by the change of dynasties. The last batch of local officials of the Qing Dynasty made a lot of money before leaving. Most of the new local officials of the Beiyang government were bought with money, so they naturally plundered more fiercely after taking office. As a result, the people in the northern rural areas went bankrupt. In order to survive, young men became soldiers or bandits, young women became slaves in brothels or wealthy families, and women, children, the elderly and the weak left their homes and became refugees. Soldiers and bandits went to cause trouble in other places, resulting in more soldiers, bandits and refugees. There were three large bandits in the northwest of Zhili Province alone. The strongest one was Sun Fengzi's tribe in Motianling near Yanshan. There were more than a thousand followers, but only more than 300 long and short guns, and the rest were swords and spears. Among them, there were more than a hundred cavalry. After Fei Bao, a member of the Flying Eagle Gang who had escaped the net, recovered from his injuries, he joined Crazy Sun's gang with Gou Zongwei for revenge. Originally, there were three other gang members besides Gou Zongwei, but the three were unwilling to leave Beijing. When they saw that Fei Bao had left Beijing to become bandits, they found an opportunity to escape from Fei Bao and joined other gangs in Beijing.

When Wu Chunlei returned to the Sanjiadian military camp, he went back with Di Xiong's convoy. Several horse-drawn carriages were loaded with military uniforms of the reserve army. Through Lan Jinping's relationship, Weili Company became a supplier of the left-wing reserve army and received a large number of orders including military uniforms. Di Xiong added a clothing workshop in the Weili Textile Factory to make clothes directly from the cloth. In this way, even if he did not compete with the East Asia Factory for the cloth market, he could still make a profit.

There were more than a dozen vendors outside the military camp, selling groceries such as needles and thread. When entering Feng Jishan's military camp, Di Xiong and Wu Chunlei did not see a pair of hateful eyes looking at them. It was Gou Zongwei, a bandit spy disguised as a vendor. Gou Zongwei had a thin and dark face and a short stature. In fact, Gou Zongwei was often beaten, scolded and bullied by the big guys in the Flying Eagle Gang, but because Fei Bao had promised that he would give Bai Xiuling to Gou Zongwei after he got tired of playing with her, Gou Zongwei wanted Bai Xiuling so much that he almost went crazy. In addition, Fei Bao saved him once, so he was very loyal to Fei Bao. After the demise of the Flying Eagle Gang, he found out that Bai Xiuling had become Di Xiong's woman, and thought that Di Xiong had taken his woman away, 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 Left Route Reserve Army. I heard that the commander of the front camp is called Feng Jishan, who has a very good relationship with Di Xiong. Wu Chunlei also became an officer under him, and Di Xiong often gave him gifts. It seems that Feng Jishan is Di Xiong's backer."

Even though Fei Bao is now just a small leader under Crazy Sun, Gou Zongwei still calls him Fourth Master as before.

Fei Bao said: "In this case, I will persuade the leader Sun to attack the Armory. The leader Sun has been worried about the lack of guns for his brothers. While attacking the Armory, we can also kill Feng Jishan. Then it will be much easier to deal with Di Xiong."

After Fei Bao joined Crazy Sun's gang, he had a firefight with a patrol team of the reserve army in the front and killed three soldiers. He believed that the reserve army's combat effectiveness was too poor. Although there were three battalions defending the Ordnance Bureau, it would be easy to defeat them.

Crazy Sun's real name is Sun Jingfeng. He is the younger brother of Sun Jingshan, a bandit in Northeast China. Sun Jingshan, Zhang Zuolin and Du Yuanshan were known as the three major bandit leaders in Northeast China. After Sun Jingshan was killed by Zhang Shaozeng's 20-town Beiyang Army, Crazy Sun led the remnants to the Miaofeng Mountain area in Hebei to rob and rob, and escaped several encirclements by the government troops. Recently, he fled to the Yanshan area north of Beijing. He temporarily set up his lair in a cave on a peak of Yanshan. When Fei Bao went in to report, Crazy Sun was smoking opium with several of his leaders.

"What did you say? The battalion commander is called Feng Jishan?" Lin Fang'er asked in surprise. Lin Fang'er was a beautiful woman in her twenties, with long eyebrows, very white skin, and dressed in silver. She was the only woman in the village.

Fei Bao said: "Yes, his name is indeed Feng Jishan!"

Lin Fang'er said to Crazy Sun, "Boss! Back then, your eldest brother was hacked to death by a Beiyang Army company commander with a broadsword during a fierce battle with the Twenty Towns in Xinminfu, Northeast China. That company commander was called Feng Jishan!"

Lin Fang'er was originally Sun Jingshan's concubine. After Sun Jingshan's death, she became the wife of Sun Fengzi.

Crazy Sun was a bald man with big ears. He sat on a big tiger-skin chair. He opened his eyes wide and said, "So it's the enemy who killed my brother. This battle not only requires us to take the armory, but also to kill Feng Jishan to avenge my brother!"

Liang Tuzi and three other leaders also said, "We are willing to follow the leader to seek revenge!"

Fei Bao didn't expect that Lin Fang'er's help would allow him to successfully complete his plan of killing someone with a borrowed knife, and he couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

Of course, Crazy Sun and his leaders didn't know that Feng Jishen's battalion was the strongest among the 25 battalions of the reserve army.

The night in June was not that hot, but there were more mosquitoes. Tonight, Wu Chunlei was on night duty and was bitten by mosquitoes several times. The itchiness was unbearable. Wu Chunlei took out a bottle of mosquito repellent and rubbed it on his body. After rubbing, the itchiness was much less. Feng Zhian, who was on duty with Wu Chunlei, looked at his bottle with envy.

"Sergeant! What kind of potion is this?" Feng Zhian asked. Thanks to Wu Chunlei's help, Feng Zhian was promoted from a conscript to a regular soldier.

Wu Chunlei said: "This is mosquito repellent produced by Weili Pharmaceutical Factory. It not only prevents mosquito bites, but also relieves itching. You can apply it too." He handed the mosquito repellent to Feng Zhian.

Feng Zhian took the medicine bottle and said, "The medicine produced by Weili Company is really effective. I only used the Weili scabies cream you brought back last time for three days and my scabies was cured."

Wu Chunlei said, "Of course. Every drug from our pharmaceutical factory that comes on the market causes a rush to buy. However, a big tree attracts the wind. Because we robbed the business of Japanese companies, we aroused the hatred of Japanese drug dealers. Japanese ronin came to the pharmaceutical factory to cause trouble several times, but the security team was well prepared and did not let the Japanese succeed. Now is an era of the survival of the fittest. Even if a company has good business, it will not last long without the protection of a strong army. This is probably the reason why Brother Di sent me to the army. Unfortunately, I am only a squad leader so far."

At this time, several dark shadows quietly pounced on the two sentries at the camp gate. The croaking of frogs and insects at night covered the sound of the shadows' footsteps. A noose was thrown at Feng Zhian's head. Wu Chunlei saw it and shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Feng Zhian had just become a regular soldier after all, and had only been in training for a few days. His reaction was a little slow, and he was immediately caught by the neck. The man in black who threw the noose tightened the rope. It was too late to pull the bolt and shoot again. Wu Chunlei drew out his sharp knife and rushed forward. His movements were so fast that the man in black had no time to dodge and was stabbed in the back by the sharp knife. Blood sprayed Wu Chunlei's face. The man in black loosened the rope and his body slowly fell limp. Another man in black raised his big knife and chopped Wu Chunlei from behind. Wu Chunlei did not look back, but kicked the man from behind, and kicked the man from behind. The man in black was thrown three meters away with the knife. This back kick was learned from Di Xiong. Wu Chunlei suffered from the back kick when he first met Di Xiong.

"Bang! Bang!" Two gunshots were heard, and the secret sentry opened fire. The remaining two men in black who rushed towards Wu Chunlei were shot and fell to the ground. When Feng Jishan arranged the sentries, he always set up two sentries, one visible and one invisible. Tonight, Wu Chunlei and Feng Zhian were the visible sentries, and Cao Fulin and Liu Ruming were the secret sentries.

Sun Jingfeng, who was five hundred meters away, cursed: "Baldy Liang, what an idiot! He can't even get past a sentry!"

Fei Bao said: "Village leader! The idea is very tricky. They have four sentries, both visible and hidden. Now we can only attack by force."

At this time, a spy brought good news: "Captain! Chief Zheng and Chief Wang each led a hundred brothers to capture the camps of Lu Chengwu and Dong Shilu. The officers and soldiers were defeated in one battle, and we seized hundreds of quick-firing guns."

Zheng and Wang's troops were just feinting to make the officers and soldiers afraid to support Feng Jishan, but they succeeded easily. This gave Sun Fengzi a lot of confidence. He shouted to his men, "Brothers! The officers and soldiers on the left and right camps have collapsed. As long as we break through the camp in front, all the weapons in the armory will be ours. Brothers, charge! The first one to rush in will be rewarded with 20 dollars!"

The leader Liang Tuzi, wearing a helmet-shaped hat, rushed to the front camp with his gun raised, followed by a large number of bandits. Some of them held torches, and in the light of the torches, it can be seen that the bandits' clothes were of different colors and very tattered. Except for a few leaders with ruddy faces, most of them looked pale, because they were refugees a month or two ago, forced by hunger and cold, and fled to the mountain stronghold to become bandits.

After Wu Chunlei shot and killed the bandit who was kicked down, he saw a huge crowd rushing over and quickly led his three soldiers back into the village gate. At this time, the soldiers in the front camp who heard the gunshots took their rifles out of the barracks and ran to the shooting position under the command of the company commander and platoon leader. The effect of Feng Jishan's usual training was revealed at this time. Of course, there were a few who fled in panic. The commander of the third company, Yang Guisheng, took the lead in fleeing, and some of his soldiers followed him. Feng Jishan, who was supervising the battle, immediately raised his pistol and shot Yang Guisheng down with one shot.

"Captain Yang Guisheng fled from the battlefield and shall be executed on the spot! Anyone who dares to escape will suffer the same fate!" Feng Jishen said sternly. The soldiers under Yang Guisheng hurriedly returned to the battlefield. Feng Jishen appointed Han Fuju as the acting company commander of the third company.

At this time, more than 300 bandits had launched a charge towards the camp, the direction of the charge was the position defended by the first company. Song Zheyuan commanded his soldiers to use the stockade as an obstacle to block the enemy. He ordered to open fire only when the enemy was 50 meters away. After a row of crisp gunshots, dozens of bandits were shot and fell in a pool of blood. Others retreated in fear. Only corpses, seriously injured people and white gunpowder were left on the battlefield. Liang Tuzi shouted in the crowd, kicked and beat the retreating bandits, forced them to rush forward, and shot and killed a retreating bandit. His performance attracted Song Zheyuan's attention.

Song Zheyuan called Wu Chunlei over and said, "Look at that guy wearing a helmet-shaped hat. He's obviously the leader. He's about 300 meters away. Aim and knock him down. I'll give you credit!"