Chapter 45: The King Kills God

Wang Maoru did not explain to these gentry and people in Gong County that he was just a second-class Beiyang Army unit, and he was not a direct subordinate of the Beiyang Army. However, looking at the flying team's garrison brigade's great achievements and neatly dressed, no one could tell that it was not the main force of Beiyang. However, there were careful people who were surprised that the Beiyang Army was not all blue and gray uniforms, why did this group of people have black uniforms? The people next to him immediately said that this was the main force of the Beiyang Army, and those were second-class privates. Hearing the hearts of the members of the garrison, he suddenly felt proud.

The Flying Team's garrison team won the first battle. With less than a few dozen people, they annihilated 5,000 enemies (promoted their merits when they reported), greatly increasing the morale of the Beiyang Army, and also allowing the Bailang bandit army to see the real strength of the Beiyang Army. The Bailang bandit army has always been traveling around and fighting, avoiding the real and the virtual, never contacting the Beiyang Army head-on. This time, a second-class Beiyang unit of the garrison team annihilated nearly half of them, which made Yuan Shikai very pleased. He immediately issued a telephone to commend and promoted Wang Maoru to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Duan Qirui was also shocked when he saw his military achievements. He also found out that there were only 900 people in the garrison team, and they were all new recruits. He was immediately interested in Wang Maoru. A few days later, Wang Maoru was named Shangwu General by the Beijing government, promoted to the level of the Beiyang Army.

Wang Maoru's troops rested in Gong County for a few days. First, they asked the prisoners to bury the bodies. After all, they brought the bodies back just to ask for merit, not to keep them for viewing. Then they locked up the prisoners, summoned people from Gong County and other places to judge the bandits who were extremely guilty of the most guilty bandits in the bandit army. If someone corrected the crime, the bandit army would be shot immediately. Because Wang Maoru did not belong to the command of Lu Jianzhang and Wang Ruxian from afar, no one cared about his behavior. Duan Qirui heard this in Kaifeng and praised it and said that this was righteousness and acquiesced to his behavior.

The county town of Gongxian was about to hold a public trial meeting, and many people came to testify one after another. Bai Lang was originally a major bandit in Henan. He saw that the bandits rebelled with the revolutionary party before, and they all had been appointed as high-ranking officials, and he only regretted that he was born a little late. When Sun Yat-sen launched the Second Revolution, Bai Lang immediately participated and became the so-called revolutionary righteous man. However, the nature of the bandits made them burn, kill and loot wherever they went, which brought great disaster to the people of Henan.

The Beiyang Army wanted to publicly try Bai Lang's army. Anyone who had killed people and snatched his wife would be killed, and those who were extremely guilty would be cut into pieces. This news immediately spread throughout Henan, and the people who were deeply harmed by Bai Lang immediately ran to Gong County. The Bailang bandit army could not stand the brothers being cut into pieces, so the inside of Bailang's army was split into two voices, one was going to be besieged Gong County and the other was going westward to Shaanxi. The bandit leader Bai Lang was also hesitant. In this way, Bai Lang's army hesitated for a few days and missed the best opportunity to advance westward. The 7th Division, the 8th Division and local troops surrounded the Bai Lang's army under the investigation of aviation aircraft.

The day before the public trial meeting, under the command of Duan Qirui, the Beiyang Army's troops launched a general attack on the Bailang Army. Of course, this did not include the garrison brigade. The officers from all over the country had long been jealous of their achievements, so how could they be allowed to participate? Duan Qirui also happily did the favor and asked Wang Maoru's garrison brigade to kill Bailang's bandit army.

The Bailang Army's tens of thousands of troops were not expected to be discovered and captured. The Beiyang Army's offensive was very fierce. Except for some bandits who used the terrain to escape, the rest of the people were basically surrendered, but this battle lasted for three days and three nights. Lu Jianzhang and Wang Ruxian, who thought that the Bailang Army was vulnerable, suffered a great loss, but the real situation was not that true. The Bailang Army's fierce battle of death shocked the Beiyang Army. This group of people fought a second-rate garrison battalion with less than a thousand people, and they lost their troops. Unexpectedly, the regular Beiyang Army with cannons and machine guns could not handle them for a while, so they simply surrounded them, not afraid of someone running away.

It was also because the Beiyang Army surrounded the Bailang bandit army too tightly, which made these bandits feel like they were fighting against the water, which made the originally divided Bailang bandit army unite at the moment of life and death. Relying on the geographical advantage of high mountains and dense forests, although it was surrounded, this place was indeed a paradise for bandits. In this mountain, the Beiyang Army was led to the opponents dizzy, and then concentrated its superior forces to encircle and annihilate the Beiyang Army. The Bailang bandit

The army fully demonstrated the guerrilla warfare, which hurt the Beiyang Army. The Beiyang Army had no choice but to surround the bandits without annihilation, and relying on favorable terrain to surround the bandits. After the Bailang Bandits Army was besieged for ten days, the entire army had to venture westward to break through. 20,000 Bailang Bandits Army fought to the death with the Beiyang Army, and finally broke through the siege and turned to Shaanxi. However, there were only a thousand left of Bailang Bandits Army who came to Shaanxi, and the rest were either beaten to death or captured as prisoners.

The public trial meeting in Gong County was very successful. More than 400 murderers and set fire to rob robbers who committed crimes were found. Wang Maoru waved his pen and all 400 people were beheaded. The behead was carried out by the local militia. The local people watched and chopped their heads. The local people shouted, "Okay, it's more lively than watching the Chinese New Year drama." These four hundred heads were cut for two days, and the bloody smell of Gong County's court was kept for a year. However, there were still 600 bandit soldiers left, and Wang Maoru didn't know what to do. The Army Department did not send any message, so Wang Maoru handed over the remaining 600 prisoners to the local militia. The leader of the militia might have been confused and thought that the 600 people were going to kill, so he also brought them to the execution ground.

Wang Maoru was shocked when he heard the news and hurriedly sent someone to stop it. The leader of the militia realized that these six hundred people were not used to behead their heads, but were imprisoned. Li Delin said that the militia hated Bai Lang to the core, and that these six hundred people would probably be beaten to death if they were handed over to them. Wang Maoru agreed and asked Li Delin to wait for four squads to escort the prisoners to Kaifeng and handed them to Duan Qirui. The comforting envoy Duan Qirui was shocked when he saw the security team. Not to mention how bright the security team was dressed, a set of clothes was more conspicuous than the generals of the Army Department. Even the weapons and equipment on them were far superior to the Beiyang Army.

These soldiers wearing black military uniforms and embroidered five-color star black Beiyang Army caps, each with a marching quilt, raincoat, dry food bag, cross-armed belts, kettles and magazines hanging around his waist, bayonets hanging on his waist, an American fast gun fire bead on his back, and big-headed leather shoes on his feet made neat steps on the road. The four team officials, each of whom had different weapons, all carried a box cannon on his body and a command knife on his hand. It seemed that this command knife was not the kind of gorgeous decoration, with the black scabbard slanted around his waist, which was so majestic.

Duan Qirui asked curiously: "Are you the guards of General Shangwu?"

Li Delin immediately replied: "If you go back to the general, we are not the guards of General Shangwu, we are just ordinary infantry."

Duan Qirui was even more surprised and asked his subordinates to calculate how much this ordinary infantry cost. Someone calculated that it would cost at least 300 taels of silver. Duan Qirui asked how many people there were in the garrison brigade. Li Delin said 150% of them were only 800. Duan Qirui shook his head and said that the equipment of this soldier could be exchanged for three Beiyang Army and ten Southern Revolutionary Army soldiers. Then he became curious about Wang Maoru. After inquiring, he learned that Wang Maoru was the largest in North China.

The owner of the oil lamp factory and the match factory now opens many flour mills in North China. He is very rich and has been hired as the honorary chairman of the North China Chamber of Commerce. However, he refused to accept it because he was young. And the garrison, just like Zhang Xun's braided army, is a private army, and everything is obtained by others. If it weren't for the garrison being in Beijing, with Wang Maoru's financial resources, it would be a slight idea to recruit thousands of people.

Li Delin soon brought his people back to Gong County. Under the leadership of Wang Maoru, Gong County Airport was also repaired. The plane flew to Gong County, which attracted the people of Gong County who had never seen before to kowtow and pray for blessings. He thought that a big bird was coming from the sky to eat people.

Another thing that made Wang Maoru very depressed was that he killed four hundred scum in Bai Lang's army, which gave him a nickname for the king and the god of killing in Henan. Wang Maoru's reputation as the god of killing was first spread in Gong County, which was quite effective in Zhang Wenyuan's crying.
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