Black Flag Army

In Beijing, under the scorching sun, there were few pedestrians on the street. Apart from the rickshaw drivers who were hurrying to pull their rickshaws, there were only a few newspaper boys hawking their wares along the street. One of the newspaper boys shouted, "Newspapers for sale! Newspapers for sale! Breaking news! Police Chief Yuan Chenggui led the way in arresting gangsters, but unfortunately died in the line of duty!"

In a two-story building on the street, a young man in Japanese samurai clothes gently pushed open the door and saw Yoshida Ryozo doing that kind of thing with the female secretary on the bed. He quickly retreated. Half an hour later, he heard no movement inside, so he knocked on the door and went in. He saw Yoshida Ryozo already dressed and sitting on the bed, but his hair was messy, and the female secretary was still sleeping in the quilt. The young man reported: "Chairman! The Justice Party Beijing Intelligence Station has been completely eradicated. According to the intelligence we provided, the dozens of people who were not beaten to death on the spot have been arrested by the police. No one has escaped. The new director Dong Huailiang promised to hand them over to the court for death penalty as soon as possible."

Yoshida Ryozo said: "This is good news! I just didn't expect that Guan Qier, this Chinese guy, was so cruel that he actually chose to die together with his old friend Yuan Chenggui. It will cost a lot of money to deal with the new director Dong Huailiang. These greedy Chinese guys, you go to the bank and withdraw a thousand dollars to give to Director Dong."

After the young man left, Yoshida Ryozo got into bed again. When he was getting dressed, the female secretary also wanted to get dressed, but he stopped her because he hadn't had enough fun yet.

The female secretary who was once again pinned down by him asked in a sweet voice, "The president actually destroyed the Justice Party's Beijing intelligence station? That's amazing."

Yoshida Ryozo said: "It was the National Police Agency that destroyed the intelligence station. We just provided intelligence."

At this time, Yoshida Ryozo's female secretary was Cha Jingfeng. When she went from Baotou to Tianjin to meet Kawashima Nanito, the chairman of Tianjin Black Dragon Association, she claimed that she had escaped from Baotou Prison. Kawashima Nanito interrogated and tested her, but found no flaws, so he made her his secretary and mistress. When his brother Kawashima Naniwa was in Beijing, he wanted to get Cha Jingfeng. Later, when Yoshida Ryozo went to Tianjin to discuss business with Kawashima Naniwa, he was attracted by Cha Jingfeng's sweet voice and wanted to borrow Cha Jingfeng. Kawashima Naniwa refused. Yoshida Ryozo proposed to exchange her with his own secretary, and Kawashima Naniwa did not have to repay the 5,000 yen gambling debt he owed him. Only then did Kawashima Naniwa agree to lend it to him for one month.

Three days later, the Justice Party Intelligence Department in Erdenet City received an urgent letter from Baotou. The Justice Party leaders were about to hold a meeting, and Di Xiong was surprised to see Tian Mengxue walking in with tears on her face.

Tian Mengxue placed a piece of intelligence in front of Di Xiong and said to him with a sad face: "The Baotou Intelligence Station forwarded the news from the Tianjin Intelligence Group. Guan Qier died. Our intelligence station in Beijing was also destroyed by the Beiyang Police Department. All members did not escape. I am afraid that we have to find a way to rebuild the intelligence station. The whereabouts of Hong Tianlie and his Flying Eagle Gang are also unknown. We don't know whether they are alive or dead."

Wu Chunfeng and Leng Hanbing are also very anxious now. After all, they used to be members of the Flying Eagle Gang. Now that their brothers are in trouble, they must feel bad.

Di Xiong took Tian Mengxue's intelligence in his hand and read it carefully. After reading it, Di Xiong was silent for a long time. He couldn't help but sigh: "Beijing now is really a place of swords and seas of fire. I still underestimated the cruelty of the Beiyang government. They really can't tolerate even a grain of sand. They can't even allow a small gang like the Flying Eagle Gang to exist. Now it is even more likely that they have been wiped out. From the intelligence sent by the Tianjin Intelligence Group, the Beijing Intelligence Station was destroyed because of the involvement of the Flying Eagle Gang. Guan Qier died very heroically. Perhaps I should build the Beijing Intelligence Station more secretly, or I should eliminate wavering elements like Ye Yangkui. The white terror of the Beiyang government cannot tolerate intelligence personnel. As for Hong Tianlie and others, I can only hope that they will wish them good luck."

Tian Mengxue cried, "Guan Qier changed his name to Guan Han Tang because he listened to Mr. Di's stories about the past five thousand years and hoped that China could restore the territory of the Han and Tang dynasties. Unfortunately, he died before we could recover even an inch of land. He was only seventeen years old!"

Di Xiong said solemnly: "Guan Qier is the first wise man who sacrificed in the Justice Party. Tomorrow, a monument to the heroes who recovered the lost land will be built outside Erdenet City. The names of the martyrs who sacrificed, such as Zhang Hei Lian, Ma Tiehan, and Guan Qier, will be engraved on it. Although they did not participate in the battle to recover the lost land, they made great contributions in the early stage of the business, which is also very important."

Wu Chunfeng suddenly said: "Boss, don't we have an intelligence team in Tianjin? Do you want them to help find the whereabouts of Hong Tianlie and the others?"

Di Xiong immediately refused, "No, the intelligence group in Tianjin must not move now. People are being arrested everywhere in Beijing, and the situation in Tianjin will not be much better. Self-protection is the best strategy at this time. Otherwise, not only will the Flying Eagle Gang not be able to find them, but they will also be implicated. Hong Tianlie chose the route to Beijing himself. Whether he can survive depends on his own ability."

In fact, Di Xiong's migration team only arrived in Erdenet the day before yesterday, and it took them more than three months to walk. Now it is late spring in June 1914, and Di Xiong has basically spent the entire spring in a long march.

This great migration was not very smooth. When the team of more than 7,000 people arrived in Erdenet, there were only more than 6,000 people left. In more than three months, due to various conditions, the team reduced by more than 1,000 people. Many people with poor health died of illness on the road, and many people died in bandit attacks. In addition, many people died of falling off cliffs and sandstorms when crossing mountains and deserts. Some people could not stand it on the march and ran away, disappearing in the team with their families. Among them, the troops of the former Baotou Guard Brigade also lost more than 300 people. Most of them died in battle or accidents. Although the bandits arranged by Fei Bao were easily eliminated, the bandits in Mongolia were far more than them. Along the way, they still had to fight bandits in various places. Even some villagers in some villages would come to attack their team. Conflicts broke out almost every two or three days. Over time, the losses of the troops became more. These problems are mainly related to the policies of the Mongolian government. Today's Mongolian government is almost a puppet government under the control of Tsarist Russia. The rejection of the Han people is very serious. The top leaders are still like this, and the people at the bottom naturally have the same mentality. In addition, the security problem in Outer Mongolia has never been good. This is an old problem left over from the Qing Dynasty, and the current puppet government naturally cannot handle it well. In addition, Mongolia has been exploited by Russia in terms of economy and resources since its independence. The domestic economic problems are getting worse and worse, and more and more people are starving, so naturally more people are turning to banditry.

Therefore, Di Xiong's team suffered a lot to arrive in Erdenet smoothly. Even Di Xiong's old subordinates, Lan Jinping and Wu Zhong, had repeated illnesses and had to miss today's meeting due to illness. Fortunately, Xian Yuji of Erdenet did a good job in the six months after the coup. Since Huter himself was a lazy coward, Xian Yuji easily sidelined him. Huter's original confidants had long been bribed by Xian Yuji in various ways. Huter was nominally the prince of Erdenet, but the actual person in power had long been Xian Yuji. She was not idle during the days when she was waiting for Di Xiong's team in Erdenet, and she also did a lot of local business one after another. First of all, in terms of foreign policy, she cancelled a series of decrees that were hostile to the Han people, and in turn issued many preferential policies for the Han people, which attracted many displaced Han people to Erdenet and expanded the Han population in Erdenet. Of course, Xian Yuji was not hostile to the Mongolians. She fulfilled her promise that the Mongolian villagers who participated in the Battle of Bulgan would be transformed from slaves into free men. She was also trying to ease the contradictions between the Han and Mongolian peoples and try not to let the two ethnic groups have conflicts. Secondly, in terms of the army, Xian Yuji integrated the bandits she had recruited with the local army in Erdenet to form a new Erdenet Security Corps with more than 1,000 people. The former bandit leader Bagen served as the head of the regiment, and Timur, Chichar and other people who defected to Xian Yuji also served as battalion commanders in this army. The quality of the army is difficult to improve in a short period of time, but Xian Yuji still spent a lot of money to help them buy guns and uniforms. At least in terms of equipment, the security regiment can be on par with the cavalry regiment in Kulun. In addition, Xian Yuji opened a new pasture in Erdenet according to the methods of Di Xiong's church, and changed the free-range breeding of cattle and sheep to pen breeding, so that the cattle and sheep would grow faster. The silage method was used to ensure that the cattle and sheep would not lack feed in winter to maintain the economic situation of Erdenet. At the same time, she organized the people in Erdenet to carry out infrastructure construction, build ditches and water conservancy projects, and divert Lake Khuvsgul to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland to ensure that the newly arrived Han people would not be left with nothing to do. Lake Khuvsgul, the largest lake in Outer Mongolia, is very close to Erdenet. Erdenet is one of the few areas in Outer Mongolia with abundant water resources, but the local rulers were too lazy to make use of it.

When Xian Yuji was busy with construction, she was in serious shortage of people, so she borrowed people from other nobles. Erdenet had six counties under its jurisdiction, which were managed by two dukes and four marquises. Xian Yuji borrowed 3,000 slaves from the six dukes and marquises at the price of one silver dollar per person for three days. After a month of work, Erdenet City changed a lot. The roads became wide and flat, public toilets were added, people and animals were no longer allowed to urinate and defecate anywhere, and criss-crossing underground drainage channels were built, so that there was no more sewage flowing during heavy rains. After the project was completed, the six dukes and marquises found that the slaves were disobedient after returning. The slaves said that when they worked in Erdenet, they had enough food, warm clothes, and good sleep. The dukes and marquises treated the slaves too badly and wanted to improve their treatment. The dukes and marquises were furious and used the method of killing chickens to scare monkeys. They killed several of the most violent slaves. Most of the remaining slaves did not dare to resist. Some of them chose to flee, and the destination of their escape was naturally Erdenet City. In one county, slaves openly rebelled, killed the entire family of a marquis and some servants, and then fled to Erdenet. Xian Yuji actually accepted these daring guys and organized more than 500 of them into a separate brigade, with Subuda as the brigade leader. This brigade was called the Slave Brigade.

The nobles of the five counties were all furious. They sent people to ask why Princess Xian Yuji broke the rules. They demanded that the escaped slaves be returned immediately and those who rebelled be executed. Xian Yuji flatly refused, so the nobles decided to unite and launch a rebellion of "clearing the king's concubines and killing the evil concubines". Even the high priest of Lamaism joined in, because the high priest found that Xian Yuji cured many patients with medicine. Before going from Beijing to Erdenet, Xian Yuji bought a carriage of medicine. Although Yuan Xiaobao died, the medicine was still there. Xian Yuji and Tang Qianhu also learned simple medical skills in the intelligence school. Xian Yuji's prestige among the people of Erdenet became higher and higher. Many civilians and slaves placed Xian Yuji's portrait at home and kowtowed, instead of going to the Lamaist temple to kowtow and donate money. When the rebels bribed Subuda to be an insider, Subuda promptly reported to Xian Yuji, who decided to take the initiative and led the security group and the slave brigade to attack the rebels' base camp, Lashant County. The nobles naturally would not wait to die, and hurriedly gathered more than 2,000 people to resist. In the battle, the slave brigade rushed to the front, singing the slave song: "Slaves are not born, as long as the knife is fast and the heart is cruel enough, the kings and generals dare to fight. We used to be cattle and horses, but today we want to be human beings!" Waving swords and guns, they rushed towards the rebels. This song was taught to the intelligence officers by Di Xiong when Xian Yuji was training at the intelligence school, and Xian Yuji taught the slaves in Mongolian.

In this battle, Xian Yuji suffered heavy casualties and eliminated the rebels. Five nobles and the high priest were all killed. What was unexpected during the battle was that Chichar suddenly turned against Xian Yuji and attacked her. It turned out that the nobles not only bribed Subuda, but also bribed Chichar with a large sum of money. Xian Yuji was caught off guard by the attack of her own people. In a critical moment, Tang Qianhu blocked the bullet for her. Although Xian Yuji killed Chichar, Tang Qianhu also died due to serious injuries. Tang Qianhu used his life to fulfill his promise that "if anyone hurts Team Leader Xian, they must step over my body."

After the battle, Xian Yuji cried again while holding Tang Qianhu's body. Because Xian Yuji always liked to wear clothes embroidered with snow lotus, the herdsmen called her "Snow Lotus Princess". After this battle, the Snow Lotus Princess became famous in the Erdenet region.

After arriving in Erdenet two days ago, Di Xiong also began to deal with the transfer of Beihai Company. The first and most important thing was the aircraft factory. The aircraft in this large migration was also the most difficult to deal with. In the second half of the migration, the aircraft still had a lot of problems. Gasoline was lost and ignited one after another. The pilots also had problems with fatigue driving. The aircraft itself also had various failures. Three pilots died in the plane crash. In addition, more than a dozen staff members died in accidents caused by aircraft failures. Zhu Zhaohuai's arm was also burned in a fire and is still bandaged. Among the more than ten aircraft, only five arrived safely in Erdenet, and until now they can only be parked in the suburbs because the new aircraft factory has not been built yet. Feng Ru treated these aircraft as if they were his own children. He stayed beside these aircraft absent-mindedly. During these days, he rarely slept well. The loss of the aircraft was so serious that Feng Ru felt heartbroken, but he did not get angry with Di Xiong this time, because he knew it was already quite difficult to keep them under the current conditions. However, even so, the sadness in his heart was difficult to resolve. In the past two days, he still led people to conduct continuous inspections near these five aircraft, for fear of any accidents.

The main issue of the Justice Party's high-level meeting today was that Zagalov was going to be the commander of the Erdenet Guard Brigade. This news was passed to Erdenet by Bian Zhimei from Kulun a week ago. After Xian Yuji learned the news, she quickly asked the security team to strengthen the alert and prepared to notify Di Xiong. After all, she didn't dare to make the decision on her own. Di Xiong learned the news as soon as he arrived in Erdenet and held a meeting today. Since Wu Zhong and Lan Jinping were absent due to illness, Hu Lin and Lan Jinchun attended the meeting instead of them.

Wu Chunfeng first said jokingly: "Is this old Russian guy a little confused about the situation? Erdenet's army has only more than a thousand people, and he still wants to be the brigade commander. Does he expect us to supplement his troops?"

Leng Hanbing then said: "This order from Kulun is aimed at us. How could the Russians come here alone to take office? You didn't read the message sent by Team Leader Bian carefully. He will bring a Tsarist Russian cavalry regiment and two Mongolian regiments. We don't need to worry about the number of troops. The problem now is how to deal with it. They will definitely think of various ways to transfer our troops. If we accept it, we will be at the mercy of others. If we refuse, there will be another conflict."

Li Fei said at this time: "Actually, I think that solving the problem by force is a more practical solution, but we have many difficulties of our own now. The troops of the Guard Brigade have been traveling all the way, and the soldiers are already exhausted. Even Brigade Commander Zhang was too sleepy to get up today. If we have to fight the enemy in the next few days, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. But the Kulun side probably thought of this. Ivanov and Zagalov are urging the two Mongolian cavalry regiments to set off as soon as possible. It is said that the Russian cavalry has also crossed the Mongolian border. They will not give us so much preparation time. We may have to fight the enemy hard despite being tired."

Lan Jinchun, who was attending the meeting on behalf of her sister, suddenly asked: "Is there any way to delay the enemy's attack?"

After moving to Erdenet, her coffee shop closed and she is now a Chinese teacher in the middle school department of Zhengqing School.

Di Xiong said: "Of course there is a way, but it will make Kulun's intelligence team suffer."