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Ji Guangen, who was trapped in Dongyang Lian, spent the day in panic. This time he sent troops to suppress the bandits, which gave him a great stimulus. He used to feel that he was the leader in the official position and was so powerful in the local area that he could crush everything. No more.

I once wanted to call a group of bandits into chaos.

After much deliberation, Ji Guangen realized something was wrong. How could ordinary bandits have such fierce firepower? There were thousands of fast guns, let alone guns, and the bullets were worth a lot of money.

Even if the bandits were rich, they might not have a place to buy guns and ammunition. I thought this was a suspicious point, so I quickly sent someone to report back to Fei before dark.

The night grave had just arrived when suddenly there were fires and gunfire outside Jiongyang Town. Ji Guangen quickly came out with his soldiers and supervised the battle. He didn't expect that the bandits were bluffing if they didn't attack. In the faint light of the fire, there was indeed a figure shaking.

Ji Guangen ordered to be careful, and the bandits made a fuss for a while and then became quiet. After a while, they started to make noise again, and even used the cover of Hei Lou to rush to the defense line about 200 meters outside the town, and fired a random gunshot, causing sparks to fly out.

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The patrol battalion hurriedly fought back and exchanged fire. No one was injured, and the bandits turned around and ran away. Seeing that there was no damage, Ji Guangen felt relieved. Unexpectedly, the bandits came again after a while. It was another tossing, back and forth.

After going back several times, Ji Guangen understood that the bandits were trying to exhaust their troops. Could it be that the bandits still wanted to eat more than a thousand of his troops?

This is not impossible! Ji Guangen beat the drum in his heart, cheered up and walked around to encourage morale. At the same time, he asked the brothers to take turns to rest every hour.

After struggling until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, it finally became quiet for a while. Looking at the dead silence outside the dark town, it seemed that there were countless bandits hiding in it, Zhengzun was about to launch a fierce attack. Ji Guangen felt particularly uneasy!

Just when this feeling of uneasiness reached its peak, suddenly there was a booming sound of artillery outside the town. Ji Guangen subconsciously leaned against a wall and looked out with wide eyes. Boom, boom, boom! The Sanqi artillery fire was as dense as a gun.

It was like raindrops. You could see artillery fire in the darkness, but you couldn't see the specific battle situation clearly.

However, what could be seen with the naked eye was that intensive artillery fire fell on a hillside about six or seven miles outside the town. Ji Guangen remembered this hillside too deeply. It was there that the Hefei Patrol Battalion was ambushed. It turned out that this bandit also knew the art of war. He thought

When they gathered around to call for reinforcements, did Fang Jianxiong see through it?

It's a pity that the Zeiss six-fold telescope was lost in the chaos. Ji Guangen secretly regretted that he could not witness the battle with his own eyes. He wanted to lead the troops to attack, but he couldn't figure out the specific situation outside. Then he thought about Fang Jianxiong's victory all the way, but he suffered a defeat.

I can't help but hope that Fang Jianxiong will also lose.

The brothers under his command were quite excited and came over one after another to ask for a fight. Ji Guangen gave a strict order: "Hold the town tightly and send people out to find out more before we talk." The bombardment lasted for about half an hour, and intensive gunshots rang out, six or seven miles away, faintly.

Cries of killing could be heard. Ji Guangen couldn't help but secretly worry, worried that Fang Jianxiong would be defeated and he would have no reinforcements, and he was also worried that Fang Jianxiong would win and he would not be able to communicate well.

While he was worrying about gains and losses, Ji Guangen never sent troops until the sky was dimming. The brothers who went out to investigate came back and said that there were many bandits and they seemed to be fleeing towards Hexian County. They must have been defeated.

Looking at the expectant looks in the eyes of his subordinates, Ji Guangen gritted his teeth and ordered the attack.

Ji Guangen was careful, and sent dozens of elite soldiers, keeping a distance, forming a team every five minutes. He didn't encounter any bandits along the way, and finally arrived at the foot of the hillside where he had been ambushed before.

Looking at the hillside, the smell of gunpowder smoke is very strong, there are bloodstains along the way, and there are some abandoned bodies, all of which were bombed beyond recognition.

The leading soldiers at the front came back to report the news and encountered the sentry of the Wuhu Patrol Battalion. Commander Fang Jianxiong on the opposite side learned that Commander Ji of the Hefei Patrol Battalion had led troops to help the battle and was on his way over.

Ji Guangen did not expect that Fang Jianxiong would take the initiative to come and wanted to clean up the matter immediately, but he thought about giving up. What kind of face would a defeated general have? A group of fast horses galloped on the road. The leader was dressed in military uniform. From a distance, there was no trace of anything.

Different places. More than ten people were riding horses five steps away, and Ji Guangen strode forward.

"Ji Guangen is here, who is this person?"

"Wuhu Fang Jianxiong, I've met Brother Ji!" The leader responded loudly, cupping his hands from afar.

Ji Guangen saw only a young man. The gunpowder smoke on his face did not obliterate his handsomeness at all. He seemed to be walking forward quickly with a gust of wind in his movements. Behind him were more than ten tigers with guns hanging, and they were all filled with murderous intent.

Surprisingly, these ten people almost followed the same rhythm from dismounting to walking. They looked as if they had been practicing for a long time.

When I got closer, I saw a young officer. He was wearing a military uniform with spots and weird colors, an armed belt on his waist, a short gun hanging on his waist, leggings, and large khaki leather boots.

"Ji, thank you Master Fang for coming to the rescue!" Ji Guangen, even though he was unwilling, still bowed his hands in greeting. At this time, he saw it in his heart. If he loses, he loses. The same tactics used by the bandits will not work on Fang Jianxiong, which shows that he

Use troops to be stronger than yourself.

"Brother Ji, how have you ever been defeated? How have you ever saved me? It should have been you and I who joined forces and defeated a handful of ruthless bandits, but there were tens of thousands of ruthless bandits. The coalition army won after a hard battle." Fang Jianxiong stepped forward to speak with a smile, and Ji Guangen was stunned as he listened.

, then understood what he meant, felt a sense of shame in his heart, and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Brother Fang!"

Fang Jianxiong smiled and said: "You're welcome, this is not the place to talk. Please help my brothers in Hefei to clean up the battlefield. Then you and I will win the battle."

"Okay!" Ji Guangen was not polite, just write down the favor. They are all leading soldiers, so there are not so many twists and turns. If there is an opportunity in the future, just repay this favor.

Only six to seven hundred people came out of the more than one thousand Hefei patrol camp, and the rest were injured and recuperating in the town. Fang Jianxiong accompanied Ji Guangen all the way up the hillside. As he walked, he scolded Jianxiong and said with emotion: "This group of bandits is really terrible."

Cunning, Fang fell into the trap of suspecting the soldiers. Otherwise, they would have arrived long ago, and the main force of the bandits would not have been able to escape."

"Oh?" Ji Guangen was also curious and quickly asked: "How?"

Fang Jianxiong pointed to a foreign iron bucket hanging on a tree and said with a wry smile: "Brother Ji will know it just by looking at it!"

Ji Guangen stepped forward and took a look, and was immediately filled with shame. It turned out that the iron bucket was full of firecrackers and confetti. The doubts in his heart disappeared, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry. He raised his hand and slapped his forehead hard and said, "Hey, sir, shame on you!"

Got it!"

"Brother Ji, there is no need to be like this. The coalition forces of you and I have won a complete victory. No matter how cunning a squid is, it will be defeated by you and me together." Fang Jianxiong stepped forward and said something. Ji Guangen turned around and said with shame: "I was suspicious of Brother Fang before.

Only now did I know that I had fallen into the bandits’ scheme.”

Fang Jianxiong was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I have also doubted where the bandits got so many bullets. Brother Ji's suspicion is human nature. Let's not talk about it anymore. I have already drafted a telegram to send someone to Hefei to send a report.

, Brother Ji, take a look first, and if there is no objection, then sign and submit the report."

As he spoke, Fang Jianxiong handed over a piece of paper, and Ji Guangen took it and took a look. Fang Jianxiong wrote this: Lord Futai Junjian! Tens of thousands of bandit soldiers besieged Tongyang Town. Jianxiong and Commander Ji sent officers to encounter each other, and agreed to Li Ying

Waihe. It was night, our army launched a fierce artillery attack and then attacked. Commander Ji led his team to attack and attacked the bandit soldiers in front and back. The remaining bandit soldiers were found to be fleeing towards the county. I hope you can send an urgent message to the county to take precautions. This message: Fang Jianxiong!

After Ji Guangen looked at it, he sighed in his heart, Fang Jianxiong was giving credit to himself, it was a great favor.

Just as he was thinking about what to say, Fang Jianxiong smiled and handed over a pen and said: "My colleagues and I, please take good care of me in the future!"

After this battle, Fang Jianxiong and Ji Guangen formed a deep friendship, er, friendship! War friendship!

The battlefield was cleaned for almost an hour, and all the bandits left behind were some unrecognizable corpses. Remembering the sight of a thigh hanging from a tree on the road, Ji Guangen concluded that the artillery fire from Wuhu was very fierce.

This judgment was soon verified. An artillery unit with sixteen 37-guns was disassembled and transported by pack horses. A closer look revealed that Fang Jianxiong's Wuhu Patrol Battalion was actually the head of a large battalion, with more than 500 people in each battalion.

I also saw a machine gun company, pulling eight Maxim heavy machine guns on a horse-drawn carriage. Moreover, this Maxim had a weird shape, and it even had baffles and wheels. It was not that Ji Guangen had never seen Maxim before, but this was the first time he had seen this.

kind.

"With this firepower, it is more powerful than the New Anhui Army. No wonder it can sweep away the bandits." Ji Guangen thought to himself, and was very interested in this kind of Maxim, so he went up to observe.

"The German-made Maxim is too heavy and inconvenient to carry. I asked the manufacturing bureau to come up with an improvement plan, adding baffles and wheels. This can protect the machine gun shooters who are hit hard, and it is also convenient to move on the battlefield."

Fang Jianxiong gave an explanation in time, and Ji Guangen gulped, thinking how much of a waste of money this thing was. Even if he had it, he couldn't afford it! Legend has it that Fang Jianxiong was very wealthy. See if this meant that it was true. Just two camps would be enough.

Equipped with eight guns.

Next, Ji Guangen saw another strange weapon, a round pipe carried by a soldier, followed by a soldier carrying a stand, and several accompanying soldiers carrying wooden stands.

"This is a mortar, used for close fire support. It is light and can be carried around. One gun of sixty caliber accompanies the four gunners and auxiliary gunners. One gun for each company, and the company is required to bring its own base number

Sixty shells." Fang Jianxiong introduced again in time, and Ji Guangen couldn't close his mouth.

Fang Jianxiong was still saying: "Wuhu only has four battalions, two steps, one horse and one artillery, and the industrial zone promises a lot of business. If you don't worry about the lack of soldiers, you can only make a fuss about firepower. By the way, look at the shoulders of that soldier

The one you carry is called a Bren light machine gun. It is the latest product from Germany. Each squad is equipped with one. These are good things, but they cost too much money."

Well, Ji Guangen's heart is throbbing, and he is dead!

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