Chapter 35 Departure to the Liao River
The crowd is excited! That's the end of the first level.
Yang Xiaolin knew that this was just the beginning, as far as an ordinary person was concerned, it was easy to promise a thing, but it was very difficult to do. What's more, these people never think about morality on weekdays, and they have always been bandits who run between heaven and earth!
If you want them to still abide by the rules in the future, in addition to having the belief that you will maintain military discipline at all costs, you also need to make the bandits full of hope for the future and make them believe that there is a tomorrow, so that they can get rid of the current attitude of life that robs them of being happy every day. But Yang Xiaolin never thought that the first and most severe test after crossing was waiting for him in a seemingly inconspicuous place ahead.
More than 100 of them, plus 200 men and horses under Tang Yulin, set off to the Liaohe area, and they were very careful along the way, and in order to avoid sudden encounters with the Russian troops as much as possible, they even adopted the strategy of day and night.
The biggest enemy is not the guns from the Russians, but the freezing cold, which is now several degrees below zero. In previous years, like this time, the bandits had long been hiding in the mountain nest, sitting on the kang and drinking the old wine they had robbed, and they stayed comfortably with the robbed woman in their arms.
They will endure it without eating or drinking, and if they don't get by, no one wants to come out at this time, especially at night.
But this time it was different, not only did they have to come out, but they also had to march in the dark. Yang Xiaolin's gang is better, they at least have the Russian military uniforms they snatched from the pole tun, those military uniforms are very well made, and they are much stronger than the padded jackets worn by Tang Yulin's brothers in terms of resisting the wind and cold.
Tang Yulin's brothers suffered severe frostbite after a few nights. Some of the entire soles of their feet were red and swollen from the cold, and at this time, the righteousness of the bandits played a very encouraging effect. These people are like this, they may not understand what national righteousness you want to say, but if you want to say go and stick a knife in the ribs of your brothers, none of them will back down, at least not until they see the Russian army.
After five days of travel, the road became more and more difficult, the Russian blockade became tighter and tighter, and occasionally a few Russian outposts could be seen. When Yang Xiaolin heard the first faint cannon sound in his ears, he decided to stop.
When the team of more than 300 people received the order to rest, it was as if it had collapsed, and they fell to the ground along the cold ravine.
Looking at the brother who was sitting on the ground panting behind him, Yang Xiaolin didn't say anything, tied the belt around his waist, and climbed to the top of the mountain by himself. Tang Yulin and Jin Dadao followed after seeing it, Kong Dadao also wanted to come up, but when he climbed to the mountainside, he really had no strength, so he could only sit down and rest for a while on the mountainside.
Yang Jiang's overall health is still good, the first to climb to the top of the mountain, find a relatively high rock, stand on it and look ahead, vaguely seem to see the red light shining in front of him. Yang Xiaolin's hand pointed there: "Brother Tang, is that the Gao family's tunzi?" ”
Tang Yulin was obviously quite familiar with the terrain of this area, and after looking at it for a while, he shook his head and said: "It doesn't look like the location, Gaojiatunzi should go a little further to the north, it should be Wuyaling, Lu Lao Liu and Lu Lao Qi's place." ”
Further north, you can't see it, Yang Xiaolin nodded: "There is still a war there, which means that the Russians have not yet invaded Gaojiatunzi, and it is not too late for us to come." ”
Tang Yulin is a treasure of this piece of mountain: "The beard of Lu Lao's six ancestors, Wuyaling is like their family, and he has more than 800 brothers in his hands, I hope he can top it for a few days, Brother Yang, what should we do now?" Do you start fighting from the outside and drag Lao Maozi's troops out, or do you continue to go inside? ”…,
Tang Yulin was obviously a little anxious, Yang Xiaolin understood his mood, and when he saw it, his heart was even more unbearable than when he didn't see it. But he really can't do it now, he turned to look at Tang Yulin: "Brother Tang, the brothers don't even have enough rations, we must get something to eat now, do you know how there is a Zhuangzi with many Russians here?" ”
Tang Yulin thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "The Russians don't have Zhuangzi, but the Russians have a mine nearby, where there are artillery towers, and Xiaoyue, and there are several machine guns. ”
After the Russians invaded the Northeast, they opened many mines in the Northeast, and most of the laborers on the mines were Chinese civilians who were captured by them, and there were also some prisoners of war from the Qing soldiers, so the guards could be said to be quite strict.
The little moon that Tang Yulin said is a searchlight, and there are several lights around the general mine, all of which are turned on, which can illuminate the surrounding area brightly, like daylight.
Yang Xiaolin asked, "How far is the mine from here?" What's going on inside? ”
Tang Yulin said: "From us to the east, about a hundred miles away, I don't know the specific situation inside, but I know that the mine is quite big, and I heard that there are some old Maozi living there." ”
Yang Xiaolin often saw in films that reflected the early nineteenth century in the United States that in this kind of mine, the guys in the mine were some hooligans and ruffians, who couldn't get along in their own country, and ran to the colony to be a bodyguard-like role. They are quite numerous, and with the support of the local native army, they have some combat effectiveness. Moreover, in order to prevent the escape of laborers, these mines are very closely guarded on weekdays, and the turrets are naturally indispensable, and it is indeed dangerous to start from such a place.
However, Yang Xiaolin did not hesitate even if he knew that there were some dangers, because first they needed supplies. In order to ensure the physical strength of the bandits in the past few days, in order to minimize the non-combat attrition, Yang Xiaolin has given the bandits four meals a day!
You must know that Chinese at this time generally eat one meal a day, and some families can't even eat one meal for a few days. Even if the Qing soldiers came into the mountains to exterminate them, it would only be two meals a day. Such a relatively extravagant squandering made the little material they snatched from Zhang Zuolin about to bottom out.
If you don't grab it again, what will you eat? What to drink? What are you fighting when you haven't eaten or drunk?
Yang Xiaolin is not afraid of danger, there is no danger in robbing the common people, but the tunzi in this neighborhood has already been washed clean by the Russians, even if there are a few old, weak, sick and disabled left, he can't do it. Although this mine is difficult to fight, it is much easier to run than the Russian barracks, and there are more than 300 guns with him by his side, so there is no reason to let it go.
"Let's go to the mine, and if we have a chance, wash him!"