Chapter 17: Seeking the Skin of the Tiger

Yang Xiaolin heard between the lines of Chen De's words that although this old man promised himself, he didn't fully understand what he meant, or rather, he was just coping. This is the limitation of the landlord class, their eyes are only on their own one-third of an acre, and the rent-collecting tenants are what they are best at, and they will not consider what the war between the Japanese and the Russians has to do with them.

The Japanese or the Russians came over, and they entertained them with good wine and food, just like Chen De entertained himself today. As long as others leave, this acre and three points of land are still his.

Yang Xiaolin once thought about bringing down these landlords! Just like what Jinggangshan did at the beginning. There are two advantages to fighting the landlords, one is that they can sufficien their own materials, the people here in Liudaojiang live in poverty, but Chen De is rich. Fight him down and distribute his property to those ordinary people, and also ensure that the common people will follow him in the future.

But then he changed his mind, because he knew that the common people were exploited by Chen De, but exploitation existed in any era, and it was not people like Chen De who really made the people fall into this predicament, but the Manchu system!

War is about to start, and at this time we should ignore all internal struggles and unite all the liliang who can be united! Zhang Zuolin wants to be united, Feng Delin wants to be united, and people like Chen De are even more united. If it weren't for the fact that the Manchu court couldn't support the wall, he even wanted to unite with Zaitao. As long as all the liliang is gathered, he can change the ending of the Russo-Japanese War in which the Qing Dynasty was most injured.

Yang Xiaolin glanced at Chen De, he wanted to unite him, but was this guy willing to unite with him? I sighed in my heart, these landlords!

Yang Xiaolin knows that his current environment is really bad, and after others have crossed over, they are all exquisite, but he is a rumor here, the Russians want to kill themselves, the Manchus want to kill themselves, and those Western countries also hope that Yang Dagui will be killed. Only Little Japan is still a ghost in its own way.

He couldn't find a shili around him to rely on, and now there are many people who come to him and regard him as a big hero against foreigners, but so what? He would rather not be a hero, as long as he can succeed.

Yang Xiaolin slowly put down the chopsticks in his hand: "Authentic, I'll let Biaozi help you dig together!" ”

In the afternoon, he went to the other brothers, and the situation was basically similar to that of Liudaojiang. Most of the local squires and villagers have been able to accept the existence of Yang Dagui's team around them, and their attitude towards them is quite good. Because Yang's team of fighting ghosts does not disturb the people, they also help the villagers do some work they can do when they have nothing to do. With Yang Dagui by his side, the strength of the militia has been strengthened, and those small groups of bandits have either been incorporated or run away, which is a good thing for them, with Yang Dagui as a bandit, the pressure on public security has really eased a lot.

The common people are like this, they don't care if you are a bandit or an officer or soldier, as long as you can bring them benefits, they can accept you. It's just acceptance, it's still far from the fish-water relationship that Yang Xiaolin requested!

How to get these people closer to themselves? Yang Xiaolin, who returned to Yulu Mountain, thought about it for a whole night, which not only depends on publicity, but also allows himself to show himself at the right time, and shows the villagers with practical actions.

It is impossible for him to be like Zhang Zuolin, send people to disguise themselves as bandits, cover their faces to rob Tunzi, turn around and remove the masked black scarf, and then play the role of a militia to chase and suppress.

Yang Xiaolin's heart is very conflicted, on the one hand, he hopes that his piece can be safe and sound, and the people can plant those lands in peace and live humbly. On the other hand, I vaguely expect those villagers to encounter a little trouble that they can't solve by themselves, so that they can have a chance to perform, so that they can follow themselves to do something big. …,

In this contradictory mood, he couldn't sleep. The grass hut was really cold, and the body was hiding in the quilt, still unable to resist the chill.

The next morning, the Russians came. This was half a day earlier than the time they agreed with Yang Xiaolin, and it could be seen that these Russians were very anxious.

Then came the negotiations between the two sides, and the main arguments were on two sides, the first was about the price, and the second was that the Russians did not agree to pay the bill with artillery. The Russians are particular about artillery, they believe in the liliang of cannonballs. Even though the 76-millimeter artillery made in 1900 that Yang Xiaolin wanted could only be regarded as a small caliber for the Russians, they were unwilling to send the shells to Yang Dagui when Yang Dagui and the Russians were still in the stage of confrontation.

The negotiations between the two sides were extremely difficult, and a rifle had not been negotiated for three whole days. The Russians Zuihou made a little concession, they were only willing to give Yang Xiaolin a hundred cannons and more than 1,000 shells, and the rest of the money was provided to Yang Xiaolin in cash and pounds.

Seeing that he couldn't talk about it, Yang Xiaolin agreed. A hundred is a hundred. Yang Xiaolin swore that when he had laid down a piece of territory, the people sent by Sun Wen from overseas would help him build an economy that could support him and develop his own science and technology, and the first thing he would do was to expand the arsenal! When the time comes, produce your own weapons, get out all those grenadiers, mortars, and let the Russians ask for weapons!

One hundred artillery pieces, each regiment of the brothers under the mountain can be assigned fifteen, and he keeps twenty-five for himself. The kind of artillery that Yang Xiaolin wants has no advantages, the rate of fire is not fast, and the firing range is not too far, but its size is relatively small, and it will be very convenient to move it by making the wheels a little bigger!

Yang Xiaolin was going to fight a sports war, and if the Russians really brought him a few huge cannons, he wouldn't want them. He has a cannon, and his cannon is easy to move! On the top of the Yulu Mountain, Zhou Tong and others have produced more than 70 conscienceless cannons! That caliber is proud of all foreign goods!

There are many advantages of the conscienceless cannon, the shell is easier to make than Western goods, and the power is as amazing as its caliber. At the time of the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang originally thought that the Communist Party did not have any artillery, but it could not help their reinforced concrete fortifications, but there was no conscience cannon to show its might.

When Yang Xiaolin and the Russians completed this deal, his combat mode could change. Before the First Shijie War, the firepower of various countries was basically a point attack. That is, everyone pays attention to the destruction of enemy targets.

After the Shijie War, those Western countries began to pay attention to the coverage of firepower, and in the second Shijie War, countries were very particular about the allocation of firepower.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, hundreds of guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army couldn't beat down a dozen Japanese artillery towers? It's because the Japanese have a lot of firepower. As soon as you showed up, people's infantry artillery began to beat you. Before you even see people, you start to have casualties; After a while, the small steel cannon of the people will come again, and you will die again; When you rush to someone's bunker, they kill you with machine gun grenades, and you won't have many people.

Yang Xiaolin's advantage is that he can take these things for his own use in advance. In the past, Yang Xiaolin fought like the Eighth Route Army, relying on sneaking to the other party, and then rushing up with a grenade and a bayonet! Although this method kills blood, the damage to the troops is also very large.

Now it's different, if he can really get the perfect combination of all kinds of firepower, he can also form a complete fire coverage, a little farther away, use the artillery that the Russians gave him this time to bombard the enemy, when the enemy rushes closer, use no conscience cannon, and when he gets closer, use grenades and heavy machine guns. …,

Even if the melee battle starts, Yang Xiaolin's current individual weapon configuration can already make him full of confidence.

The conscienceless cannon was his secret weapon, and he arrogantly erected those big iron barrels around the mountain, and the Russians and Japanese saw it, and no one asked what it was for. In the eyes of the Russians, this may be due to the lack of water on the mountain, and Yang Dagui kept these iron buckets for water when it rained.

After the negotiation, it is to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other. Now the situation of the Russians in the northeast is very tense, they have gathered a large amount of supplies, a hundred guns, a thousand shells, for the Russians who want to rely on artillery to win the war, just squeeze out of that unit.

They completed the deal with Yang Xiaolin as quickly as possible, and when the colonel got the rifle, the military expert couldn't even wait to go back, so he disassembled the gun on the top of the mountain. When I opened it, the Russian military industry experts immediately regretted that the problems that had been plaguing the Russian military industry were so simple!

The Russian colonel only breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and stretched out his hand to Yang Xiaolin: "Yang fights ghosts, this is the first time that you and us have a pleasant cooperation, thank you very much for keeping your promise and not picking up our railroad tracks." ”

Yang Xiaolin shook his hand: "Colonel, I think we will deal with each other in the future, if you can, please tell the commander-in-chief of your Russian army on my behalf, I have no interest in getting involved in the affairs between you and Japan." I hope that we will have a brief peace during this time. Let me start with it, as long as you don't provoke me, I promise that you won't cause you any trouble in the mountains. ”

The Russian colonel laughed, could he believe the promise of Yang beating ghosts? But it doesn't matter. The Russians had already concentrated their forces in Kaiyuan, and they were about to carry out a campaign to destroy the mountain.

smiled and shook the hand that was holding with Yang Xiaolin: "Okay, I will convey your meaning to our Russian military command, I believe that as long as you can fulfill your promise like this time, our command will definitely agree." Yang fights ghosts, I hope we can meet again next time. ”

Zuihou said a pun, but Yang Xiaolin didn't hear it. (Ask for a recommendation ticket!) )