Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for achieving a special achievement: All the people are united. The system will issue the following rewards to the host. ]

[1911 Browning M120 pistols with 11.43mm caliber bullets, 50 tons of refined rice, 80 tons of refined flour, 1922 Hotchkiss M150 light machine guns with 8mm Leber rimmed shell bullets, and 8000 wooden handle grenades.]

Su Zhengyang was slightly stunned. The Hotchkiss M1922 light machine gun was another system reward that he had never seen before.

Name of the gun: Hotchkiss M1922 light machine gun.

Diameter----8mm

Sight range: 1400m

Theoretical rate of fire: 300-350 rounds/min

Automatic mode: gas-guided

Locking method: Locking latch swing type

Feeding method: bullet plate

Ammunition capacity: 15 rounds

Total gun length----1220mm

Barrel length----552mm

Rifling: 4 grooves, right hand

Total gun weight (excluding bullets) ---- 9.5kg

aiming device

Rectangular

Rear sight: U-shaped notch

Aiming baseline length----674mm

Type of ammunition: Leber 8x50 mm

Ordinary bullet

Full bomb mass----27.8g

Warhead mass----12.8g

This French light machine gun, which was once imported in small quantities by China, has better dust-proof capabilities than the Czech light machine gun and is particularly outstanding in terms of recoil. The recoil of this light machine gun was extremely small among all light machine guns at the time. The actual rate of fire is 90 rounds/min, and its shooting accuracy is a whole level higher than that of the Czech light machine gun.

Of course, the advantages and disadvantages of this light machine gun are extremely obvious. Its firepower suppression on the battlefield is far inferior to that of the Czech light machine gun. The two guns have their own advantages and disadvantages.

As for Su Zhengyang, the officers at all levels under the security regiment had long been like wolf cubs, looking at the Browning pistols of Liu Gangding and others, howling with envy. Except for the officers above the battalion level, others could only watch with envy for the time being.

This time, they received more than one hundred Browning pistols and sufficient bullets. Any officer who performed well in the training would have the opportunity to obtain the coveted Browning M1911. These wolf cubs had to train hard and with full energy.

For the next ten days, residents of the county town and nearby villages and towns sent their young and strong men to join the security corps. In particular, in Yanlin Town, more than 700 young and strong men spontaneously organized themselves and headed straight for the security corps' base.

In just ten days, the number of new recruits who signed up to join the army increased by nearly two thousand. Together with the captured bandits, except for those who committed heinous crimes, killed people and bullied women, they were ordered to be executed by Su Zhengyang. There were still nearly two hundred people left. Under the ideological education of Qin Huaiyi, they joined the security team. After all, many people went to the mountains to become bandits because they could not survive, and there was no need to kill them all with one blow.

The total number of soldiers and logistics personnel of the security regiment is more than 4600, which is the normal size of three 1500-man combat regiments.

But Su Zhengyang is only a regiment commander now, and there is no way to increase the organization. He can only add four more battalions. The current security regiment has a total of eight regular battalions and one enhanced firepower battalion. The total number of people in the regiment is close to 5,000, but this is not too exaggerated. After all, Brother Li Yunlong's independent regiment has a size of nearly 8,000 people.

Liu Ershun, who has always been very competitive, became the new battalion commander of the 5th Battalion on the recommendation of his old battalion commander Wang Hua. This rocket-like promotion speed also left certain hidden dangers.

The twelve guards who had come with Su Zhengyang before had experienced many battles among the Su warlords in Jiangbei, and at least they had all participated in the military academy built by the Su warlords for half a year of study. However, many of the soldiers recruited locally in Sanjiang County are illiterate. In the future, when the army under their command becomes larger and larger in number, the abilities of these old men will not be enough to take on the heavy responsibility.

Led by the veterans, the new recruits began training in full swing, and the security corps temporarily stopped recruiting. The current daily consumption of four to five thousand people is a huge burden. If the team is larger, Su Zhengyang will almost be unable to support it.

Ever since Ma Jiawei suffered a defeat at the hands of Su Zhengyang last time, the two of them had completely fallen out. Feeling extremely aggrieved, Ma Jiawei came to the Du family and found old man Du to complain. To Ma Jiawei's surprise, the old fox Du Yuxin did not stand on the same front with him to denounce Su Zhengyang this time, but asked Ma Jiawei to be patient and not to cause trouble for the security team for the time being.

The reason why Du Yuxin did this was because the bandits in Shuizhaigou and the Yuan family in Tashan Town, Du Yuxin's relatives, colluded with the bandits to enter the town and prepare to eliminate their rivals, the Lu family. Su Zhengyang obviously knew the inside story. He clearly captured the bandits in Shuizhaigou and those who had already scouted in Tashan Town, but let the Yuan family go. In Du Yuxin's view, Su Zhengyang was giving face to the Du family.

Du Yuxin also scoffed at Ma Jiawei's idea of ​​training his cousin to be a bandit to help him seek benefits. Not only would this make him a big target, but if something happened to the bandit one day, he might be implicated.

In Du Yuxin's opinion, Su Zhengyang wanted to accumulate merits by suppressing bandits. Fengshan was difficult to attack, and the bandits in Shuizhaigou were too small to be worth mentioning. Only Lu Guoquan in Qingfeng Mountain looked very conspicuous, but he was a useless person. Su Zhengyang's choice was undoubtedly correct.

Even Du Yuxin admired Su Zhengyang's approach very much. Little did he know that it was because of this that Su Zhengyang specifically instructed Fang Zhengfei to turn a blind eye to the Yuan family and not touch them for the time being. Sure enough, this won Du Yuxin's favor. Even if he fell out with the Ma family, without the Du family's nod, the Ma family, without guns in their hands, would have no way to do anything to him.

"Dad, don't you take Su Zhengyang too seriously? Uncle Ma has come to complain to us, why don't we unite and deal with Su Zhengyang?"

Du Xiaofeng, a second-generation rich man, obviously didn't quite understand his father's decision.

"If you have half the intelligence of Su Zhengyang, I will die with my eyes closed. The power of the Su family is definitely different from what we have learned. Didn't you see that since Su Zhengyang came, truckloads of military supplies have been continuously delivered to this remote place in Sanjiang County? Therefore, Su Zhengyang must not be offended. Moreover, Su Zhengyang has not shown any ill will towards our Du family so far. Why should we stand against Su Zhengyang for the Ma family?"

Director Wu, the son-in-law, nodded in agreement and said, "Dad is right. The Su family's background and power should not be underestimated. Making friends with Su Zhengyang will only benefit us."

"Anyway, I just don't like Su Zhengyang. That smile of his is even more fake than that of the bitches in his mother's brothel. He is obviously a hypocritical villain."