Jianghua County is located in the southernmost part of Hunan Province, adjacent to Liangguang, located in the northern foot of Wuling, the source of Xiaoshui, since ancient times is the traffic point of "Liangui to Hunan to Guangdong", known as "the gateway to southern Hunan", "the thoroughfare of the three provinces", is embedded in the three provinces of Hunan-south, Guangzhou-east, Guangzhou-west between a bright pearl.

There are 32 kinds of rare minerals in this small place, and the mines are dotted all over the county. The rare metal minerals here are of high grade, large reserves and shallow burial, and it is the famous "hometown of non-ferrous metals".

Although after hundreds of years of excavation and mining, especially after the warlords in the early Republic of China and the vigorous mining of the national political axe in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, they all exchanged the excavated ore with Germany and other Western countries for weapons and equipment, but it is still rich in metal mineral resources in the 21st century.

Twelve days ago, the Ninth Army of the Red Army briefly captured this county seat, but because the Gui army that came to hear the news was large and the main Red Army's route was not in this direction, it took the initiative to retreat from here after mobilizing the Gui army to withdraw part of its forces from the Xiangjiang crossing.

The county was reoccupied by the Gui army, because the Gui army was short of troops, and the local militia belonging to the Gui army was responsible for the security here.

Because now the main force, the Red Army, has already crossed the Xiangjiang River and is advancing westward, and this county town is not wanted by the Red Army "on its own initiative" before, and everyone, including Bai Chongxi, does not think that the Red Army will come here, and the defense here is naturally not tight, the city gate is wide open, and from time to time there are frightened wealthy businessmen and big landowners who come in from outside. When they met at the city gate, they greeted each other when they met acquaintances, told each other about the hardships of fleeing, and cursed a few words about the Red Army, saying that these Red Army, which frightened them into fleeing in all directions, would not die well, and sooner or later they would be caught up and eliminated by the strong Gui Army.

No one looked at the militia members standing guard at the gate of the city. Although these people are fierce and vicious in the common people, they have no face at all in front of these powerful and powerful gentlemen with background.

These militia members were also ashamed of themselves, and when they saw those rich businessmen and gentry, they all lowered their heads, and their eyes did not dare to look at those who were now arrogant. They are afraid of causing the other party's unhappiness, for fear that the other party will be in a bad mood and find them trouble.

It was only when these rich merchants and gentry did they raise their heads and begin to shout at the poor people who entered and exited the city gates, kicking and scolding, or scooping some silver horns and copper plates from these poor people, or touching them a few times from women to satisfy their boring psychology, or receiving a few words of flattery and begging for mercy to show their superiority......

"Squad leader, squad leader, someone is here!" A sentry ran up a few steps and gently pulled the group of a woman who was making trouble entering the city to sell fruit and was about to go home to cook for her husband and children.

The regiment had not yet touched the woman's bulging breasts, and his heart was on fire, so he wanted to give his companion a kick, but when he did not want to turn around, he saw a troop in the distance, and was so frightened that he hurried to his post, and could no longer care about the unlucky and fortunate woman.

After standing firmly, he took a closer look, and his body couldn't help but tremble: "My good girl, such good equipment, such good clothes, all of them are so tall and big, whose guard is this, isn't it from Mr. Bai?" What are they doing here? Didn't the Red Army be beaten away? Could it be that what those leaders in the county have said in the past few days is false? Isn't the Red Army dead, and the White Boss is going to personally supervise the battle? ”

In the past few days, it has been said that the Red Army had suffered a fiasco, and that the Central Army had fought a bloody battle with the Gui Army and the Red Army on the edge of the Xiangjiang River for a long time, and many people had died on both sides, and the water of the Xiangjiang River had stained the blood of the Red Army red, and the river surface was covered by the corpses of the Red Army, and now no one dared to drink the water of the Xiangjiang River, and no one dared to eat the fish of the Xiangjiang River.

Some people also say that some poor people were so hungry that they took fish from the vegetable market and ate them home, and as a result, their fingernails and toes were eaten from it.

It's scary.

However, looking at this unit, this small militia squad leader didn't dare to suspect who they were escorting and what they were doing, we just had to receive them. He muttered a few words in a low voice: "It's really fucking unlucky today, why did such a group of Qiu Ba come?" The old women didn't have enough, and only two silver dollars were fished out of this round on duty, and the head of the regiment received them in the evening and didn't know how much he wanted us to pay tribute. ”

His muttering was heard by the little soldier who was pulling him just now, and he was immediately recognized: "That's it, squad leader, Lao Tzu...... I was even more unlucky today, I only fished out a few copper plates, which is not enough for Lao Tzu to drink a pot of wine. These bastards come over, our head must be a chicken and meat hospitality, I don't know how much filial piety we want to eat, we are busy in vain. ”

"What kind of bullshit regular army are these guys, Lao Tzu looks at it and is dressed brightly, and if he really wants to fight, he may not be able to beat us......" The squad leader said this, and seemed to feel that saying this was very inconsistent with his identity as a squad leader, so he immediately stopped his mouth and loudly scolded a few small merchants and vendors who were still busy extorting money and entering and leaving the city gate: "Dog, come back to Lao Tzu!" Cheer up Lao Tzu, don't let the regular army look deflated. If the head of the regiment is scolded by them and blames Lao Tzu on his head, Lao Tzu is beaten, don't think about it. They may be the guard company of the General Headquarters, and they can reach the sky, so don't get our commander in trouble. ”

The head of the militia is not really the head of the regiment, let alone the treatment of a regimental cadre in the army, which is just a general term. There is also no definite number of people he manages, and it all depends on whether the person headed by this person has a background of influence and whether he has enough funds. If the background is hard and the funds in his hands are sufficient, the militia he manages is likely to exceed the members of a regiment, and if the power is small and there is no money, there will be only about a hundred people under his command, or even only a few dozen. They are equipped with a variety of weapons, those who have the ability and money can also be equipped with a batch of fast guns, a few pistols, and even a machine gun or something, and those who have no money can only use a few guns to load the façade, and the rest are either big knives or pike marks or something.

The regular army has never looked at the so-called regiment commander of the militia at all, and sometimes the battalion commander, company commander, and even platoon commander of the regular army dare to reprimand him, and even if they respect him, it is mainly based on the forces behind him.

The militia forces defending the county seat of Jianghua County are not bad, not only have more than 400 people, but also more than 300 guns, although these guns are Wanguo brand, and some of the rifling has been polished, but after all, they are guns. What makes them even more proud is that they also have two light machine guns, a mortar.

Tuan Ding also knew about this situation, and immediately became well-behaved, standing at the gate of the city one by one with their heads held high.

Seeing that Sun Xingguo and Song Jun's special combat team was coming, the people at the gate of the city scattered in a hurry and ran away.

The squad leader of the militia bravely greeted him and asked loudly: "Stop!" What part of you are in? ”

The team stopped, and out of it came a burly soldier who shouted, "Bastard! Blind? Get lost! ”

The squad leader of the group was dumbfounded, knowing that the other party would not treat him politely, but he wouldn't be so faceless, right? He was a little angry in his heart, and said loudly: "After receiving the order of Shangfeng, anyone who enters and leaves the city gate must be inspected by us!" ”

The soldier sneered, "Check? Okay, you check Lao Tzu! I can't check anything, I'll kill you! As he spoke, the muzzle of the gun in his hand pointed at the head of the regiment.

The squad leader of the regiment broke out in a cold sweat, and was about to take out his documents, but he saw Sun Xingguo, who was wearing the uniform of the major commander, come out of the team and sternly reprimanded the soldier who came out of the column just now: "Take back the gun!" People are loyal to their duties, how can they be treated like this, Bai Zongzuo usually educates you like this? That's how I make you arrogant? Hmph, you're disgrace to the sir! ”

"Yes!" The soldier hurriedly put down his gun, snorted coldly at the squad leader, and then retreated into the ranks.

Hearing the other party open his mouth Bai Zongza, shut up Chief Bai, and saw that the other party's military uniform was still the major and regiment leader, the regimental squad leader beat a drum in his heart, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Report to the chief, Hou Guiqiu, the first squad leader of the third platoon of the Jianghua County People's League, is on duty, please reprimand!" ”

Sun Xingguo said in authentic Gui-Lin dialect: "Squad Leader Hou? Yes, the inspection of us was strict, very good. However, your behavior of favoritism, this behavior of pandering to favor, is not right. Before we came, you blackmailed the common people, made the common people complain about our Gui army, and turned the entrance and exit gates into ghost gates.

Your squad leader Hou made two silver dollars today, which is a lot, more than a month's allowance for our regular soldiers of the Gui Army. Just now I heard you muttering something about touching a woman and not touching enough, and the group said that he only fished a few copper plates today, and he was very dissatisfied. So may I ask, squad leader Hou, are you here to maintain order, to help the Gui army stabilize law and order in the area, or to bully the people and provoke the people to oppose our Gui army? Are you a spy for the Red Army? Did your regimental commander secretly join the Red Army? Is it through these methods to force the people to rebel and let them launch an uprising against our Gui army? Well? ”

Hou Guiqiu's face became pale, another layer of cold sweat broke out on his back and flowed straight down, his legs trembled like leaves in a storm, he couldn't hold on, he knelt on the ground on his knees, his lips trembled and trembled, and he stammered: "Long ...... Long...... Sir, the small sin deserves death, the small sin deserves death, the small one is not the Red Army, not the Red Army, the small one is not the same as the Communists, the small one is ......."

Sun Xingguo sneered: "You are not a Red Army, then your regiment commander is a Red Army?" Otherwise, how can you help the gangsters to disturb the law and order so much? He wants to lead you to a co-ordination with the bandits, right? ”

(To be continued)