The brothers in Zhujiapu definitely didn't know Song Biao's inner plan. They all thought that Song Biao really wanted to transport the 40,000 tons of grain to Shenyang City and sell it. The price of grain in Shenyang City was said to have increased ten times compared with previous years. Each load of grain costs at least 80 taels of silver. Forty thousand loads is 3.2 million taels of silver. What a huge windfall is this?
If Song Biao can really get all these 3.2 million taels of silver, he will be the richest man in Guandong.
When the banquet was about to end, Song Biao, Xue Changqing, Lao Jintou, Zhao Tingzhu and others continued to discuss the matter of going to Shenyang. Everyone thought that Song Biao really wanted to go to Shenyang to sell food. He just wanted to go to Fengtian battlefield to fight the Japanese. Yang Tiesheng probably told Xue Changqing what he said on the stage. Several people in Xue Changqing's group were also very excited, and everyone was talking happily.
In order to avoid the Japanese garrison and the eyes and ears of the Japanese army in Tonghua, both Xue Changqing and Lao Jintou proposed to take the northern route to Shenyang City, pass the Liuhe River and walk through the mountain city, and finally reach Fushun, which is 80 miles longer than the Tonghua line. The larger the cavalry, the more problems there will be. , Xue Changqing and Lao Jintou estimated that it would take half a month at the fastest. If there was a heavy snowstorm halfway, even a month would be normal.
Hearing what they said, Song Biao was very anxious. If he wanted to participate in the Battle of Heigoutai, he would have to arrive in Shenyang City before January 20 next year. However, he still kept silent and only thought about the details in his heart. countermeasures.
The banquet at noon lasted for nearly two hours. Seeing that everyone was enjoying themselves, Song Biao raised his wrist to look at his watch. Seeing that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, he said to everyone: "We still need to get things done as soon as possible for our trip to Shenyang. It's ready, set off early and have peace of mind. I hope to prepare everything within three days. I will arrange the specific brothers to escort the food team all the way. Mr. Xue, you are now also the squadron leader of our security team. You can also play your part. You will be responsible for recruiting scattered small caravans in Hunjiang, and try to organize a large cavalry to set off from Balichuan. Old Jintou, you are responsible for purchasing some horses and carriages. Captain Hu, are you in Hunjiang? Jiang area is most familiar with the situation. You first take a squadron to Balichuan to find a suitable place to station secretly. As a support, transport thousands of loads of grain and wait there. When the time comes, Captain Yang will stay to guard the stockade, and the other brothers will follow. When I go out, all our troops will be dispatched. One team will be left in Shenyang and the other in the village. Two teams will be responsible for protecting the grain team on the road. Try not to let the news out and don't let the Japanese know the news."
Everyone became even more happy when they heard this, as if the 1.6 million taels of snowflakes of silver were lying in front of their eyes, they all nodded in agreement.
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Song Biao continued to talk to Zhao Tingzhu, and Zhang Yahu ordered: "You will follow me this afternoon to count the firearms in the warehouse and prepare for a big deal."
Zhao Tingzhu and Zhang Yahu nodded silently and had no objections, but they did not expect that Song Biao actually planned to take out the entire Da team at once and play a big trick with the Japanese army at Heigoutai.
After arranging the tasks, all the brothers went out to do things, while Song Biao took Zhao Tingzhu and Zhang Yahu to the warehouse to count ammunition and firearms.
There are six warehouses in Zhujiabao. The arms warehouse occupies two separate rooms. It is located in the northwest corner of Zhujiabao, between the school field and the back slope. It occupies a large area. It was still during Liu Tongpao's period. Liu Tongpao's warehouse has always been very generous and confident. Some time ago, Liu Tongpao was very generous and bought a large number of old arms and supplies with the Japanese army, especially the Murata Type 18 that was eliminated by the Japanese army. I bought 400 used rifles and equipped them with 40,000 rounds of 11mm ammunition.
Yang Tiesheng's Second Infantry Squadron was always responsible for guarding the warehouse, and Yang Tiesheng also followed in with his people.
The east warehouse is a semi-cellar-style warehouse, about the same as a basketball stadium. The main arms and supplies are stored here, while the west warehouse simply stores artillery and other scattered supplies, including supplies such as morphine.
Song Biao walked around the east warehouse with his riding whip in hand. Looking at the ammunition reserves in more than a hundred boxes, he felt a little confident. Although more than half of the ammunition in it was old goods eliminated by the Japanese army, it was still better than nothing.
After taking a rough look, Song Biao and Zhao Tingzhu beside him sighed: "Liu Tongpao may have some ideas. He just wants to wait for the grain to be sold at a good price so that he can continue to recruit troops later. It's a pity that such a good foundation has been lost.
We stayed."
Saying this, Song Biao stepped forward and picked up a Murata 18-type rifle to inspect. It was very old and must be obsolete goods of the Japanese army. This gun is a replica of the French Chaspo rifle, with a more advanced bolt mechanism.
The structure is basically the same. The overall design is not only controlled by the French, but also the role of manufacturing director is played by a French captain. Japan also hired more than ten technical supervisors from Germany and Belgium.
These were all in 1880, and it was not until 1885 that this gun really began to enter service.
The development of Japan's military industry was basically in sync with that of the Qing government, and the two sides were evenly matched. However, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1894, they developed in two directions, one high and one low. One was rising day by day, and the other continued to decline.
Zhao Tingzhu followed Song Biao and also picked up a Murata 18-type rifle to check. After waiting for a while, he said to Song Biao: "Liu Tongpao's skills are still too weak. Even if he has money, he will still be beaten sooner or later.
If someone else takes his place, I think it would be more economical for people like him to wash their hands of the problem as soon as possible."
After hearing this, Yang Tiesheng and Zhang Yahu both laughed out loud.
Song Biao couldn't help but laugh.
If he only counted the firearms and supplies in hand, he could form a team of 1,500 people. There are still a lot of firearms in hand, including 153 Mosin Nagant rifles, 92 Japanese Thirty Rifles, and Murata Type 22 rifles.
335 shots, 450 Murata Type 18 rifles, 44 old Mauser rifles, in addition to more than 50 miscellaneous guns, 600 Winchester shotguns, ten Maxim heavy machine guns, and a Hatch rifle.
The bullets for Sri Lanka's heavy machine guns are naturally all kinds of weird.
Zhujiabao has recently recruited a lot of brothers, and most of the newly recruited brothers have not yet been issued rifles. Even if they were to be issued, they would probably only be issued old Murata Type 18 rifles.
Song Biao took a rough look and found that the Murata Type 22 rifle and the Murata Type 18 rifle had the most ammunition, while the Mosin Nagant rifle and the Maxim heavy machine gun could only be chosen from the two.
After thinking about it for a moment, Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng ordered: "I will leave all the Japanese rifles for you. You have to guard the village. I will go out with the Russian guns and equip them with a batch of shotguns."
, I will think of another way when I get to Fengtian Mansion!"
Yang Tiesheng said: "Master, don't worry. I will keep two sentry troops in Nandian Village, plus half a small artillery squadron, and the rest will be guarded in the village. Then I will arrange for the newly recruited brothers to temporarily form a team.
Patrol squadron, let them show off their power in various villages to prevent the Japanese and other bandits from seeing our reputation."
Zhao Tingzhu said: "This is not good. There may be someone else's spy among the newly recruited brothers. This is still difficult to say. Either they are not allowed to go out, or they are simply arranged to stay in Nandian Village and are not allowed to enter the village.
inside."
Song Biao nodded slightly and agreed with Zhao Tingzhu's opinion, saying: "Divide the newly recruited brothers into three, select some of the more reliable brothers to train in the stockade, and the rest will use Nandian Village as their main camp and contact place.
The third part is scattered in several villages farther away, and is divided into several patrol posts."
Yang Tiesheng hummed and said, "That's fine, then that's what I'll do."
Song Biao didn't say anything else. He wanted to take a gamble and believed that Yang Tiesheng had the ability to stay in the stronghold. As long as he didn't rush out, considering the dangerous terrain of Niujiabao and the level of fortifications of the stronghold, two hundred men could be left to garrison.
At this point, the enemy must be at least as good as a Japanese regiment. The key is to have artillery in the village, which is very important.
Song Biao roughly counted all the other supplies and asked Yang Tiesheng to transport the dozen boxes of morphine to Nandian Village and wait for the Japanese to pay and deliver the goods.
Time was very tight, and only Song Biao knew it very well. He then asked Zhao Tingzhu to immediately take the First Infantry Squadron to count all the supplies that were to be taken away with the army.
Intercepting two Russian army transport convoys gave Song Biao a lot of money. During this period, Feng Linge also robbed dozens of Russian army trucks of arms and supplies in Liaozhong, which was even worse than Song Biao. He immediately became
He became the largest bandit leader in the Northeast, with thousands of men in his hands. He was later recruited by the imperial court and became the two major bandit leaders in the Northeast. The other one was Zhang Zuolin.
In addition to miscellaneous rifles and eleven heavy machine guns, Song Biao also had more than 600 grenades in his hand. Song Biao left 300 grenades to Yang Tiesheng and took away all the other 300. His adventure was to take all the shotguns
They were all taken away, leaving not a single pole to guard the stockade.
It was also a risk for him to participate in the Battle of Heigoutai, and he fought with these 600 shotguns.
It is not necessary to bring too many machine guns. Song Biao only took away six. According to his plan, two of the five left behind would be left alone to scare people in Nandian Village. As long as the Japanese army did not even dare to offend Nandian Village easily,
Zhujiabao is naturally safer.
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