Chapter 45: The King Kills God

Wang Maoru didn't explain to these Gongxian gentry and people that he was only a second-class unit of the Beiyang Army, and he was really not a descendant of the Beiyang Army, but looking at the great achievements of the flight team garrison brigade and the neat dress, no one could tell that it was not the main force of Beiyang. There are careful people who are curious, the Beiyang Army is not all blue-gray military uniforms, why are these people in black military uniforms? The people next to him immediately said that this was the main force of the Beiyang Army, and those were all privates, and when they heard it in the hearts of the garrison members, they suddenly felt a burst of pride.

The garrison brigade of the flying team won the first battle, and in the case of its own loss of less than a few dozen people, it destroyed 5,000 enemies (boasting of merit when reporting), greatly boosted the morale of the Beiyang army, and also let the Bailang bandit army see the real power of Beiyang. This time, a second-class Beiyang unit of the garrison brigade annihilated nearly half of them, but Yuan Shikai was greatly pleased, and immediately telegraphed to reward and promote Wang Maoru to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Duan Qirui over there was also taken aback when he saw the battle exploits, and inquired that the garrison brigade was only 900 people, and they were all new recruits, and he was immediately interested in this Wang Maoru. A few days later, Wang Maoru was made a martial general by the Beijing government, and he was promoted to a colonel of the Beiyang Army.

Wang Maoru's department rested in Gongxian for a few more days, and first asked the captives to bury the corpses, after all, bringing the corpses back was only for merit, not for watching. Then the captives were locked up, and people from Gongxian and other places were summoned to try the most heinous bandits in the bandit army. If anyone is accused of a heinous crime, the bandit is immediately shot. Because Wang Maoru did not belong to the command of Lu Jianzhang and Wang Ruxian, no one cared about his behavior in the Beiyang Army that passed by. Duan Qirui heard it in Kaifeng and praised it as justice and acquiesced to his actions.

The county seat of Gongxian County is about to hold a public trial, and many people have come to testify one after another, and this Bai Lang is a big bandit in Henan. He saw that he had rebelled against those bandits with the ** party before, and they were all made officials, and he only hated himself for being late. When Sun Yat-sen launched the second **, Bai Lang immediately participated and became the so-called **righteous man. However, the nature of bandits made them still burn, kill and loot everywhere they went, which brought great disasters to the people of Henan.

The Beiyang Army wanted to put the Bai Lang Army on trial, and all those who had killed people and robbed other people's daughters-in-law would be killed, and those who committed the most heinous crimes would be cut with a thousand knives. This news immediately spread throughout the land of central Henan, and the people who were deeply affected by Bai Lang immediately ran to Gong County. And the people of the Bai Lang bandit army couldn't stand their brothers being cut by a thousand knives, so they split into two voices within the Bai Lang army, one wanted to besiege Gongxian, and the other wanted to go west to Shaanxi, and the bandit leader Bai Lang also hesitated. In this way, the Bai Lang army hesitated for a few days and missed the best opportunity to advance westward and turn to the war, and the Beiyang Seventh Division, the Eighth Division, and various local troops surrounded the Bai Lang army under the reconnaissance of aviation planes.

The day before the public trial, all units of the Beiyang Army under the command of Duan Qirui launched a general attack on the Bailang Army. Naturally, this does not include the garrison brigade, and the officers from all over the country have long been jealous of their first achievement, how can they be allowed to participate, Duan Qirui is also happy to do a favor, let Wang Maoru's garrison brigade supervise the Bai Lang bandit army.

The tens of thousands of troops of the Bai Lang Army did not expect to be discovered by someone and copied the old bottom. The offensive of the Beiyang Army was very fierce, except for some bandits who took advantage of the terrain to escape, the rest of the people were basically captured, but this battle also lasted three days and three nights. I thought that Lu Jianzhang and Wang Ruxian, who were vulnerable to Bai Lang's army, suffered a big loss, but the real situation was not like that at all. The Bai Lang Army's fearless battle shocked the Beiyang Army, and this group of people lost soldiers to a second-rate garrison battalion of less than 1,000 people, but they didn't expect the regular Beiyang Army with artillery and machine guns, but they couldn't figure it out for a while, so they simply surrounded them, and they were not afraid that someone would run away.

It was also because the Beiyang Army surrounded the Bailang bandit army too tightly, which made these bandit troops feel like they were fighting against the water, but made the originally divided Bailang bandit army unite in the face of life and death. Relying on the geographical advantage of high mountains and dense forests, although it was fenced, it was indeed a paradise for bandits, and in this mountain with the Beiyang Army around and around, the opponent was stunned, and then concentrated superior forces to encircle and annihilate the Beiyang Army. This Bailang bandit army gave full play to the guerrilla warfare and beat the Beiyang Army to the fullest. The Beiyang Army had no choice but to encircle but not annihilate, relying on the favorable terrain to besiege the bandit army. After the Bailang bandit army was besieged for ten days, the whole army had to risk westward to break through, and the 20,000 Bailang bandit army fought desperately with the Beiyang army, and finally broke out of the encirclement and moved to Shaanxi. However, there were only about 1,000 people left in the Bailang bandit army who came to Shaanxi, and the rest were either killed or captured as prisoners.

The public trial meeting in Gong County was very successful, and a total of more than 400 bandits who had committed murder, arson, and looting were uncovered, and Wang Maoru beheaded 400 people with a stroke of his pen. The local militia is responsible for the execution, the local people watch, cut off a head, the local people will shout good, more lively than watching the big drama during the New Year, these 400 heads and feet were cut off for two days, and the bloody smell of the Gongxian court was kept after a year. However, what to do with the remaining 600 bandits, Wang Maoru didn't know what to do, and there was no news from the War Department, so Wang Maoru handed over the remaining 600 prisoners to the local militia. The head of the militia may have been confused, thinking that these 600 people would also be killed, so he was also dragged to the execution ground.

When Wang Maoru heard the news, he was taken aback and hurriedly sent people to stop him, and the head of the militia group knew that the 600 people were not used to behead them, but to be imprisoned. Li Delin said that this militia hated the white wolf to the core, and it was estimated that these 600 people would be killed if they were handed over to them, Wang Maoru thought so, so he asked Li Delin to wait for four classes to escort these captives to Kaifeng and hand them over to Duan Qirui. Appeasement made Duan Qirui surprised when he saw the security team, not to mention how brightly dressed the security team was, a set of clothes was more conspicuous than the generals of the War Department, and even the weapons and equipment on their bodies far exceeded those of the Beiyang Army.

These soldiers, wearing black military uniforms and black Beiyang Army caps embroidered with five-colored stars, each carried a marching quilt, a raincoat, a bag of dry food, a cross belt on their backs, a water bottle and a magazine on their waists, bayonets on their side waists, an American rifle and fire beads, and big scalp shoes on their feet, and made a neat stamping sound on the road. The four team officers, each with a different weapon, all carried a box cannon and a command knife in their hands, but it seemed that this command knife was not that kind of gorgeous ornament, and the black scabbard was slanted around the waist, so it was not mighty.

Duan Qirui asked curiously, "You are General Shangwu's guards?" ”

Li Delin immediately replied: "If you go back to the marshal, we are not General Shangwu's guards, we are just ordinary infantry. ”

This Qirui was even more surprised, and asked his subordinates to calculate how much it cost to be an ordinary infantryman, and some people calculated that it would cost at least three hundred taels of silver, Duan Qirui asked how many people there were in this garrison brigade, Li Delin said that there were only more than eight hundred, Duan Qirui shook his head and said that the equipment of this soldier can be exchanged for three Beiyang Army and ten soldiers of the Southern ** Army. After inquiring, he learned that Wang Maoru was actually the owner of the largest oil lamp factory and match factory in North China, and now he has opened many flour mills in North China, and he is very rich, and he was once hired as the honorary chairman of the North China Business Association, but he insisted on resigning on the grounds of his young age. And this garrison, speaking out, is like Zhang Xun's pigtail army, it is someone's private army, and everything is obtained by the people themselves. If it weren't for the garrison in Beijing, with Wang Maoru's financial resources, it would be trivial for the garrison to recruit a few thousand people.

Li Delin soon returned to Gongxian with people, and under the auspices of Wang Maoru, the Gongxian airport was also repaired, and the plane flew to Gongxian, causing the people of Gongxian County, who had never seen it, to kowtow and pray for blessings, thinking that a big bird came from the sky to eat people.

Another thing that made Wang Maoru very depressed was that he killed 400 scum in the Bai Lang army, which gave him the nickname of King Killing God in Henan. Wang Maoru's reputation of killing gods first spread in Gong County, which had the effect of Zhang Wenyuan stopping his crying.

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