Outside the valley, hundreds of Chinese workers gathered, all of them standing here with solemn expressions, and a few of them were dragging spirit cards in their hands, and tears rolled down their eyes.

There have been constant conflicts between Chinese workers and Russians over the gold mines, and in the past year alone, more than 20 workers have died tragically, the most at one time was 15, and the anger of the Chinese workers has accumulated to the extreme in the face of the unscrupulous Russians.

And now these evil Russians are all in the valley, like lambs, constantly slaughtered clean, leaving nothing behind, these usually honest workers have no sympathy, only resentment, these beasts should have died a long time ago.

The crisp gunfire became more and more rapid, and there were faint miserable screams, tearing their hearts, these workers couldn't help but clench their fists tightly, they never thought that the Chinese army would have such courage to call the shots for them, and they would not worry about the retaliation of the Russians at all.

This simply subverted all their previous impressions, as if the sky had changed in an instant, and everyone's hearts were subjected to unprecedented vibrations, and gradually the gunfire stopped, and from the valley, more than two hundred Fengjun soldiers came out one after another, and they still carried the smell of blood and gunsmoke.

The soldiers came out silently, and the workers marched into the valley in a row, and they had to go and put the bodies of the Russians in order and burn them all. The workers who entered the valley saw corpses all over the ground, densely turned, horizontal and vertical, some people's heads were beaten into rotten watermelons, and some people had huge blood holes in their chests, and the internal organs could be clearly seen. The ground was covered with blood, and the thick smell of fish irritated everyone's nostrils.

The vast majority of workers saw this kind of scene for the first time in their lives, and many of them couldn't help but retch, and even if they didn't vomit, they were all pale and helpless.

The workers holding the spirit cards were different from the others, and among these dead bodies were the beasts of their relatives who had killed them, and the blood feud made them forget their fears, and kept rummaging through the corpses to find out the culprits.

Looking at the arrogant murderers of the past. Turned into a cold and hard corpse, they couldn't help but cry bitterly, the resentment in their chests seemed to flow out with tears, and the relatives in heaven must finally be able to look at it at this moment.

After a long time, the workers recovered from the shock. Putting away their grief, they silently piled up more than a hundred Russian corpses in one place. Then pour kerosene on it. Then it ignited, the flames flew, and in the blink of an eye, the fire consumed all these filthy corpses, and along with them, there was an era when the Russians did not want to run amok on this land, and they met a new opponent.

After going through this. The state of all the workers has changed dramatically, they have at last straightened their chests, they finally have a sense of belonging to the government, and the army is no longer the only one who knows how to deprive and defraud them, as it used to be. It will also provide them with protection against their most vicious enemies.

Taking advantage of this good opportunity, the Feng army selected a hundred young and strong workers from among the workers, and asked them to form a militia to protect the mines, and their task was to patrol and protect this place, and from now on, whether it was a bandit or a Russian old man, as long as he dared to set foot on this land without permission, he would be punished.

Of course, the existing workers were far from sufficient, and the Feng army drew 5,000 men from the immigrants in the Guannai and added them to the gold mines, which, together with the original manpower, totaled more than 6,000 men, and among these people, a total of 500 militiamen were elected, all of whom had to be trained in military affairs and equipped with guns.

These militias are responsible for patrolling and combating theft in peacetime, and in wartime, they are also the first group of people to be mobilized, not only in the gold mines, but also in the mines are forming mine protection teams and providing weapons and equipment.

Zhang Tinglan implements this strategy, and also has his own calculations, at present, he and Horvath are in a cooperative relationship, but after the turn of the year, their cooperation will end, and the two sides will become enemies, or-for-tat enemies.

The Crimean War marked the failure of the Russians' efforts to gain access to the Mediterranean, and the Russians had to turn their attention to the East, where the double-headed eagle extended its talons to Northeast China to Port Arthur, one of the best military ports in the Far East.

Then in the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians lost South Manchuria, Port Arthur also lost, they only left the Middle East Road, but the Russians' ambitions for the Northeast did not stop for a moment, in history, in the Yalta Conference, the bearded man still remembered Arthur.

For the Feng army, the Middle East Road is bound to be won, and the Russians will inevitably not let go easily, the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable at all, and there will inevitably be a time to turn around and make a move. Zhang Tinglan had already calculated that with the Liliang of the garrison division, it would be difficult to fight against the Russian railway garrison, let alone eliminate them quickly.

Therefore, expanding military strength and making good preparations for battle has become an inevitable choice, but at this time, the financial resources of the Feng army are limited, and the attitude of Zhang Zuolin and the Beiyang government must also be considered, and the Jilin side must not arbitrarily expand the army.

After thinking about it, I had to change a strategy, in the name of the militia, the mine protection team, the police, and the armed police, to increase the armed liliang.

Zhang Tinglan has already formulated a plan, the workers must be armed, and the immigrants outside the customs must also form a large number of militias and receive militarized training, of course, Zhang Tinglan must also find a better excuse for his actions, and the banner he played is armed immigrants!

Bandits are rampant in Jilin, and if you want immigrants to be able to get their heels, you must be armed so that they have a certain ability to protect themselves, and Zhang Tinglan also asked Zhang Zuolin to set up a border police to be responsible for patrolling the Sino-Russian border.

These are also normal measures, and Zhang Zuolin did not oppose them, but only demanded that the border police must be unified in formation, and Fengtian and Heilongjiang should also be uniformly deployed, and they should also be unified in coordination and command.

After obtaining Zhang Zuolin's permission, the entire operation to expand the force was launched, and the whole province of Jilin was busy.

"To put it mildly, I don't object to the armed militia, but the number of weapons we have is far from enough, and even the single one is not fully equipped, you can't let these militiamen carry red tassel guns to the battlefield, right?"

"Dad, don't worry, the weapon will be available soon, I have already obtained the preparation information, there was a serious famine in Russia this winter, a large number of people are dying of cold and starvation, they urgently need a large amount of food, but this year's grain harvest in the three eastern provinces, we have a trump card."

"Do you want to trade food for weapons?" Zhang Zuoxiang's eyes are also bright, his son has always had an idea, if he can really do this, it is indeed good, Fengjun has used a large number of Russian-made equipment, and if he can change a little more, it is unbelievable.

"Dad, I've thought about it, let's not only change the main equipment such as water rifles and large-caliber heavy artillery, but also replace some obsolete old equipment to arm the militia. Take this year as an example, the Russians have lost millions of troops, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire that fought with them has also lost millions of people, and Russia has a large number of Austro-Hungarian weapons in its hands, which are basically a pile of scrap metal, and the Russians are useless, as long as they can buy the officials inside Russia and dredge the links, we will exchange weapons for food. ”

When Zhang Tinglan said this, he stood up excitedly and said: "In exchange for these things, we don't have to count the money one by one, but calculate the money according to the weight, one hundred catties of grain for ten catties of rifles, or even twenty catties of rifles, I don't believe that those hungry and crazy Russians will refuse, and when the time comes, how many weapons they want, isn't it all endless!" ”

When Zhang Tinglan said this, he couldn't help but think of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the later generations, when Russia was a leaky ship full of munitions, and someone bought a large amount of munitions with the price of scrap iron, and now this scene will be staged decades in advance.

Zhang Zuoxiang didn't expect that he could make arms like this, he was all excited by the situation described by Zhang Tinglan, a hundred catties of oceans is only three or two oceans, and ten catties is almost the weight of two rifles, even if there is a complete haode rifle in it, it is ten times, or even dozens of times the profiteering.

The Austro-Hungarian army is not very good, it is a complete waste, but the military industry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not weak, especially the equipment such as rifles and cannons, the quality is comparable to that of the Germans.

Even if the main force of the Feng army is not equipped with this thing in the future, it can be thrown to other warlords, and a second-hand rifle can be sold for one or two hundred oceans in the northwest.

The two of them discussed here, and they both showed a smug smile on their faces, of course, if they want to exchange this crazy smuggling, it is not safe to go to the Middle East, the safest way is to wait for Heilongjiang to completely freeze, and then trade with each other through the ice.

Just when they were looking forward to it, the first batch of gold panning equipment has been transported to Harbin, three gold panning ships are going to Heilongjiang, and the rest of the equipment is going by railway.

After the arrival of gold panning equipment, the Jiapigou gold mine finally became lively, the workers seized the time, before the complete freezing, as far as possible familiar with the equipment, and so on until the spring of next year, in a big job, these workers are now in good spirits, work very actively, they seize the time of zuihou, has mined out thousands of taels of gold.

After Zhang Tinglan got the report, he was very satisfied, and he then went to Fuyuan County, across the Heilongjiang River, opposite Boli, the long-brewing ice trade route is finally about to officially begin. (To be continued......)