When it was time to eat at noon, Song Biao gathered everyone and sat beside the fire to discuss the next countermeasures.
He already had some ideas in his mind, and when everyone sat down he said: "Brothers, I guess we must stay in Erlang Cave for a longer period of time during this period. First of all, we must train the brothers. Otherwise, let's forget about it."
Someone with a gun may not be someone else's opponent. A few days ago, a group of Russians ran away at the mouth of the Hunjiang River. I plan to take a group of people there to search, and by the way, check out the situation in the surrounding area. Zhuzi, you take a group with me.
Go out. In addition, since we are going to stay for a few days, we have to go out and buy more oil, rice, salt and vinegar, as well as some wine to keep away the cold. We also need to set up some obstacles around Erlang Cave to prevent anyone from attracting our attention."
Zhao Tingzhu nodded.
Yang Tiesheng said: "Master, I used to be a hunter and I know how to make traps. I will lead some brothers to dig some traps around. Another thing is that we have too many horses, forty horses. If we don't continue to run the caravan,
Just eating food will make us poor, so we have to go to the village to buy more beans and coarse hay, as well as some salt, otherwise, we horses will starve."
Song Biao nodded slightly and said to Lao Jintou: "In this way, you are familiar with the roads in this area. You can go to a nearby place to buy goods and buy good materials for the horses along the way."
Lao Jintou knocked the cigarette pot and said: "Okay, I just don't know how long it will take to prepare the food. I guess there will be another heavy snowfall in half a month. This is the case in previous years. It snows heavily during the heavy snow season. So this
It’s been a rough year, and the snow is heavier than in previous years. A heavy snowfall occurs in half a month and the mountains are closed.”
Song Biao said: "Then buy more and be prepared. If you meet the mountain master on other roads, you should still use the banner of the caravan."
Lao Jintou said: "There is just something. What if the mountain master on the road asks us about the batch of goods we made some time ago?"
Song Biao said: "Just say that they were robbed by the Japanese. You injured many brothers and horses, so you can only keep them on the spot."
Lao Jintou said: "That's quite an explanation."
Song Biao continued and said to Yang Tiesheng: "Then you stay and look after the house. I will draw a picture for you later. You can use my method to build a circle of fortifications outside the cave entrance with snow and stones for defense. Zhang Yahu is on the second day.
The team picked some people and followed Lao Jintou to go shopping. The remaining people had to go out to cut more dry firewood. It would be better to cut down more big trees. Let's make some doors to block the entrance of the hole. It's gloomy at night.
There was a strong wind and it was freezing to death.”
"Okay, just follow the boss's arrangements!"
Everyone agreed in one breath.
After dinner at noon, the wind and snow had subsided a lot, so Song Biao and Zhao Tingzhu picked six people from a team to follow them and went out on horseback to check the situation. More people stayed to look at the yard.
The snow outside is as deep as the knees. Most people can no longer walk far, but it does not have much impact on the Mongolian horses.
The group of Russian soldiers ran eastward and escaped into the woods. Time was too tight at that time and there was not enough time for them to get to Hunjiang County, not to mention they didn't even know where the county seat was.
Therefore, the most likely destination for them to go is Hushan Ridge, because the supplies are all here at the caravan. Once they encounter such a heavy snowstorm in the wild, they will basically freeze to death.
Everyone went directly to the Hushan Ridge area to check. They were all brothers from the horse racing gang. They had been traveling in this kind of old forest for many years and had rich experience. They found some broken branches at the west notch of Hushan Ridge, as if someone was there.
It’s such a remote place to cut firewood in the wild, so everyone continues to search here.
Master Biao made a lot of money in the previous battle and collected several military telescopes. Each of the three captains received one, but they were still no match for the Type 95 telescope in Song Biao's hand. So Song Biao first found a recess at the foot of the mountain.
Two tents were found in the pit.
Looking over, the fourteen Russian soldiers were frozen into ice men. They had pitched four tents in the snow. Two tents were blown away by the strong wind. They were hungry and cold. It would be strange if they didn't freeze to death.
Song Biao jumped off his horse and inspected these Russian soldiers in person. One of them was wearing the same tulup-style black military coat. The material was very exquisite, and the military rank on his shoulder was lieutenant.
The Tsarist Russian team only has about seventy-five people, at most two platoons. Since there is a lieutenant, it means that it is organized according to the specifications of a company, but the number is insufficient. It is also possible that some of the personnel were transferred to the combat unit.
And these are logistics troops.
A lot of history has been dusty for a long time and is difficult to excavate. Perhaps at this stage of the Russo-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia's logistics company usually only had an actual establishment of two platoons. This is difficult to explain clearly.
If we really want to fight Tsarist Russia in the future, these are all things that need to be taken into consideration.
Song Biao found some letters from the lieutenant and looted two hundred and seventy rubles in banknotes, which was equivalent to about three hundred silver dollars.
It only made Song Biao a little sad that he found six grenades on these Russian soldiers, and they were imitation German wooden-handled grenades.
This is enough to show that the combat effectiveness of the army does not solely depend on equipment and training. Spirit is also very important. In the words of the British, "The Russians are fighting for dinner, and the Japanese are fighting for survival."
When applied to the Russo-Japanese War that took place in Northeast China, it sounds like the greatest mockery of the Chinese people.
well……!
Song Biao could only sigh and opened several letters in his hand that looked more like military letters. Only then did he realize that the other party was a lieutenant from the Siberian Infantry Regiment, temporarily assigned to transport supplies to Fengtian. This batch of supplies
The silver coins carried will be used to recruit some horse thieves and bandits in Fengtian so that they are willing to attack Japanese troops under Russian command."
He chuckled bitterly and thought to himself, the Russian morons' calculations were very good. With their poor temper, few bandit groups were willing to follow them.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.
After taking out the arms and silver coins, Song Biao continued to order the others: "Strip all these Russian idiots. We also need supplies. Their coats are so good. It would be a pity to leave them here. Brothers, if
Just keep it to yourself if you like."
Everyone was so happy that they immediately dismounted and looted all the woolen coats, leather jackets, military boots, leather satchels, etc. from the fourteen Russians.
During the Tsarist Russia, Russians did not wear socks in extremely cold areas like the Northeast. They used a very special foot-wrapping cloth to replace socks. When their boots were pulled off, they looked like mummies.
The brothers found more than 400 rubles of dead money, 57 silver coins, and six 10-ruble gold coins. They also obtained a nine-shot Winchester M1897.
The lieutenant spent a lot of money to protect his warmth and the special honor of his military appearance. In addition to the specially customized tulup-style black military coat, he also spent a lot of money to buy a pair of dark brown red deerskin felt boots, which were very special.
A rare specialty of Far East Siberia.
He grabbed so many valuables without firing a single shot, and easily obtained fourteen Mosin-Nagant rifles, a batch of grenades and a lot of ammunition, as well as a Mauser M1896 semi-automatic pistol, which is the legendary C96 shell gun.
, which made the brothers even more convinced that the banditry business really has a brighter future than the caravan.
Everyone cut down a few small trees, added tents to make a simple sled, and used horses to drag the supplies back to Erlang Cave.
Song Biao had been playing with the shell gun with great interest on the road. This gun was later improved into a fully automatic pistol. It was also considered one of the originators of submachine pistols. During World War II, the Communist Army and the Kuomintang were seriously short of machine guns, so they used this gun as a weapon.
A kind of supplementary equipment is provided to grassroots officers, and various domestic military factories are also imitating it. At most, there were hundreds of thousands of shell guns in the Chinese theater of World War II.
Chinese people have a long-standing love for shell guns, which became popular in the late Manchu Dynasty. When Zhang Zuolin first accepted the Manchu and Qing court's recruitment, he often used shell guns as gifts to Qing generals, which were very popular with everyone.
There are many tricks and tricks used on this gun in China. For example, because its handle is on the left side, experienced hands will always rub the gun on the trouser legs and elbows, which makes it look particularly impressive, and there are more shooting tricks.
, so that everyone has a gun and a flower job.
Song Biao, who had a 92 pistol, did not need this kind of weapon. He asked Zhao Tingzhu next to him: "Do you want it? This pistol is still very interesting, but it is difficult to buy bullets for this pistol at the moment. You have to save money."
Use it!"
Zhao Tingzhu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, I will save this little money."
Song Biao gave him the gun, thought for a moment, took it back and pointed in his hand: "Today's rifles and pistols are all notch-type sights. Compared with ordinary pistols, their aiming baseline and barrel are longer.
The accuracy and distance are actually higher. It is a semi-automatic design, that is, it only needs to pull the bolt once to reload automatically. The rate of fire is very high, but continuous shooting will cause the muzzle to jump up, so when using this kind of pistol
Be careful. If there are many targets, turn the gun sideways and use the muzzle to jump up and shoot horizontally, or deflect it 45 degrees inward and outward. If there are few targets, shoot one round at a time."
Zhao Tingzhu nodded.
Compared with the Luger 08 of the same period, the continuous shooting accuracy of the shell gun is obviously insufficient, and the market in Europe is not large. The people who really like to use this gun are the early Soviet Red Army and various warlords during the Republic of China.
Because of its strong firepower and long range, if you really practice it, the shell gun does have great advantages over ordinary pistols.
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