In the model camp, one hundred and sixty-seven recruits put on brand-new military uniforms and dark green high-top military shoes. They wore armed belts around their waists and carried rifles that had been polished and polished by the ordnance squad on their backs.
, Yin Jinan led a group of company and platoon commander brothers to happily hang big red flowers on the neatly lined up recruits.
In order to get these two hundred big red flowers, the company instructor Huang Yingwu collected all the red cloth from several tailor shops in Tonggu City, and then hired tailors from several shops to work on it overnight. The task was completed at dawn today.
In front of the big stage outside the camp gate, there was a sea of people, all eagerly looking forward to the model camp's stunt performance of flying in the air.
The fully armed and energetic Third Company Commander Chen Zhibiao stood on a temporarily built high platform by the river, raised his shell gun and pulled the trigger. There was a "pop--" gunshot.
Under the leadership of Su Tieming, he jumped into the cold Dingjiang River, and amid the cheers of thousands of fellow villagers, he swam to the bronze drum formed by the boulders on the opposite bank. He climbed ashore and quickly climbed around the stone roots of the bronze drum, carrying three 40-meter-long ropes to reach the top.
The remaining length of rope is fastened to the stake buckle buried in advance.
Amidst the exclamations of the people, the three brave brothers jumped into the river, took the rope thrown from the top, and swam back to the starting point with all their strength, and wrapped a thick hemp rope around a large wooden pile on the shore.
superior.
At this time, twenty-five brothers from the police platoon who had been ambushing in the trees on the mountain rushed to the top of the huge stone drum in full gear. They fastened the movable steel rings on their bodies to the thick ropes in an orderly manner and slid down one by one, using one hand on the way down.
He picked up the floral machine gun he was carrying and pointed it at a large bamboo raft fifty meters upstream and fired continuously, smashing the twelve head-sized clay pots hanging on the bamboo raft into pieces.
This fast and accurate action took only 18 minutes to complete. It started from the armed swimming of thirty officers and soldiers to the rope erection, and finally ended with the extremely difficult volleying and one-handed shooting. More than 4,000 fellow villagers watched it.
People were dumbfounded, and exclamations of exclamation broke out. Liu Zhi and more than a dozen generals and commanders praised him repeatedly and were very excited.
After a while, sporadic applause gradually sounded, gathered together, and soon drowned out the exclamations. Finally, the applause became a wave, and the applause and cheers could not stop for a long time.
With the whistle of the third company commander Chen Zhibiao, the fifty-five team members who returned to the starting point amid applause lined up neatly in two rows. Under Chen Zhibiao's order, they stepped onto the big stage and proudly presented their greetings to thousands of people.
The fellow villagers and their officers saluted, shouted loud chants, ran off the stage, and neatly entered the gate of the military camp on the left.
Suddenly, bursts of firecrackers were heard at the entrance of the camp. The four troupes under the stage and the villagers from each village who were sending off the soldiers' children immediately beat the gongs and drums. The first company commander, escorted by a row of forty-five well-equipped brothers,
He raised the battle flag of the "Model Camp" high and marched neatly to the big stage with vigorous steps.
One hundred and sixty-seven local recruits who were the first to join the army, led by the "Model Camp" flag, lined up in three lines and entered the sight of thousands of fellow villagers. The loud sound of firecrackers and loud gongs and drums made the recruits extremely excited.
, the big red flowers on the chest dyed the young faces red.
In the audience, the villagers and fellow villagers who sent their sons to serve in the army had tears in their eyes. The care and reluctance in their hearts became more and more intense, intertwined with the sense of glory and pride that they had not experienced in decades, and echoed in everyone's heart.
Roaring. Pairs of parents stand on tiptoe looking for their sons. Groups of brothers and sisters happily look for their relatives in the team. Young teenagers look enviously at their brothers and uncles wearing mighty military uniforms and carrying rifles. They look forward to it in their hearts.
I hope that I will join the revolutionary army when I grow up soon. Not only will it be extremely glorious, but I will also bring ten oceans of money to my family as soon as I join the army. My parents can't save so much money even after working hard for a year.
The sound of firecrackers gradually stopped, and the sound of drums stopped slowly. Liu Zhi, Xu Tingyao, Jiang Dingwen and the heads of various regiments, who were wearing straight general uniforms, and the director of the Political Department of the First Army who had just sent more than fifty Huangpu fifth-term trainees from Pingjiang
Lieutenant General Miao Bin, Russian military adviser Major General Bribenov and more than 20 people lined up on the stage to visit one by one the recruits wearing big red flowers on their chests.
Under the watchful eyes of more than 4,000 fellow villagers, Miao Bin, Liu Zhi, and Jiang Dingwen awarded banners and 100-yuan bonuses to the three village representatives who served the most soldiers. Miao Bin, who had the highest policy level, delivered a passionate revolutionary speech and called for
The people united and worked hard for a new republic and a new life.
The six representatives from the three villages, who have been honest and honest all their lives, were trembling with excitement amidst the thunderous sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers. Their feet were weak when they walked down the platform holding banners and reward red envelopes. Thousands of soldiers and civilians again
They received warm cheers and overwhelming applause. One hundred and sixty-seven glorious recruits solemnly saluted thousands of fellow villagers on the stage, and the atmosphere of the entire venue reached another climax.
An Yi, who was sitting under the stage, was very satisfied with the effect. Before the officers could step off the stage, An Yi had already ordered Yin Jinan to quickly lead the brothers from each company to pull out a large recruitment banner outside the camp gate. It was estimated that six tables would be moved out.
Enough.
Sure enough, as soon as the local opera that was to be performed on the stage started, hundreds of men, women and children gathered around the gate of the model camp, requesting that their children be allowed to join the mighty revolutionary army. Before lunch time, more than 300 young people enthusiastically signed up.
When they were about to undergo a physical examination, more villagers asked Yin Jinan and others to wait for a whole day, saying that the villages and villages were far away and they would be too late to send their children for a physical examination today.
Yin Jinan and others, who were so busy, did not pick up their jobs until two o'clock in the afternoon. They had to admire An Yi's recruitment method.
At the end of the morning performance, An Yi, who was hanging his left arm, came on stage again and opened his loud voice to announce an exciting and very exciting news: starting at three o'clock in the afternoon, a competition in shooting, martial arts and other military skills would be held.
Heroes from all over Tonggu are welcome to participate. The top three winners will not only receive medals from the Second Division of the Revolutionary Army, but also receive cash rewards ranging from 100 to 300 yuan. Those who are willing to join the Revolutionary Army can also immediately obtain the rank of sergeant.
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As soon as the news was announced, it immediately triggered bursts of exclamations. Bribenov, who was sitting next to Miao Bin, could speak relatively fluent Mandarin, but could not understand An Yi's increasingly authentic Hunan accent. After listening to Miao Bin's laughter,
After the explanation, he was very surprised. He admired the massive revolutionary propaganda activities of the Second Division, and said with emotion that the unique approach of the Second Division was better than the political departments of the two parties in Changsha, but there were just some shortcomings.
That is, money should not be used to inspire revolutionary enthusiasm.
Miao Bin nodded in agreement on the surface, but he disagreed with it in his heart. He was well aware of the current situation in China. He also learned from Jiang Dingwen just now that the settling-in allowance paid to recruits by the Anyi Model Camp was not the military expenditure of the Second Division, but came from the Model Camp.
Spending money from his usual "savings" will not increase the burden on the division headquarters. As for where this "savings" comes from, Miao Bin will not ask. He knows very well that even if he asks, he will not be able to find out. Each department has its own differences in fighting abroad.
So far, no army, division or regiment is clean. In contrast, our First Army is cleaner than all the friendly armies that are crazy about making money.
At noon, the division commander and Miao Bin, who were leaving, and his entourage were all dining in the model camp. An Yi was very happy to see dozens of bosses devouring their food. He thought to himself, I am afraid of you in everything else, but I am not afraid of you freeloading.
One ocean will definitely be returned to me ten oceans in the future. As long as you are greedy, I will find a way to get it back tenfold.
At the same time, more than 40 leaders of the Nine-dong and Eighteen Villages and their masters gathered in Shangyuan Village south of Shuaijiaba, eating chicken, duck and fish that every household in the village filial piety, and loudly discussing the performance of the revolutionary army in the morning
, everyone was so impressed by the flying shooting of the Revolutionary Army Model Camp. The boss of Mengziling was even afraid of these revolutionary troops with high martial arts skills and powerful firepower who would go up the mountain to suppress the bandits. Several other village owners also echoed and were frightened.
The noisy cottage meeting went on for an hour and still had no focus. Leader He of the Daxian Temple finally couldn't bear it anymore. He clapped his hands twice to silence dozens of people. He turned to Gu Laoer who had been calm beside him and smiled.
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"Brother Changfeng, you are the second head of Yang Village, the most powerful village within a hundred miles of Tonggu. If you don't speak, how dare the brothers speak? During this time, Brother Yang of our No. 1 Village has been in poor health and has not gone down to visit us for a long time.
We old brothers, we can only rely on brother Changfeng’s opinion for such a major matter today, can you just tell us?”
Gu Laoer put down the coarse porcelain wine glass in his hand, raised his head and glanced arrogantly around the village leaders:
"Starting from this afternoon, the Revolutionary Army will set up a ring. I just listened to the discussion by the bosses, and I feel that everyone is intimidated by the skills and marksmanship of the Revolutionary Army. This is nothing. I also think the skills of the Revolutionary Army are good. Inside
There are probably one or two people with strong martial arts skills, but as long as we fight alone, they are no match for us. And as far as I know, the revolutionary army has no intention of embarrassing our nine holes and eighteen villages. What I posted today
The new notice clearly states these words: We hope that heroes from all walks of life will put the interests of the country and the nation first, inherit the legacy of the revolutionary pioneer Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and stand up to serve the party and the country and the people at this difficult time... Do you understand? I just want us to
Brothers from Jiudong and Eighteen Villages have also recruited the revolutionary army to fight Sun Chuanfang's army together. They will not embarrass us. At least until they defeat Sun Chuanfang and occupy the entire Jiangxi, the revolutionary army will not engage in the same bandit suppression methods in Hunan and Guangdong.
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After hearing this, the leaders from all walks of life finally felt relieved and said that no wonder the revolutionary army allowed us to come and go freely without any embarrassment. The boss of the Dongjia store was a rude man in his mid-thirties. After hearing what Gu Laoer said, he laughed.
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"Brother Changfeng, we rough guys are not as knowledgeable as you. You have been studying martial arts with Senior Zhou who lives in seclusion in Tonggu since you were seven years old. You have read all the art of war, boxing, the Four Books and Five Classics, and you have also studied with Senior Zhou.
I have traveled all over the country and am well-informed. When my friends on the road in various provinces mention "Northern Gansu Tiger Head", no one will give a thumbs up. Although you are younger than us brothers, none of us brothers will disapprove of you.
Today I am following your lead. No matter what you say our brothers should do, we can’t let the revolutionary army march out in a majestic manner, right? If word spreads, what will friends on the road in northern and western Jiangxi and even neighboring provinces think? Our bronze drums are all
Where can I put this old face of Lu Junjie?"
As soon as everyone heard the excitement and high morale of the crowd, Gu Laoer held up the wine glass reservedly, drank it in one gulp after thinking for a moment, then put down the wine glass and immediately told all his thoughts.
The leaders were very excited after hearing this. Gao Laosan, who was ranked fourth because of his outstanding martial arts skills and was selected as the vanguard of the ring, immediately stood up and said with full confidence: He must let the revolutionary army who don't know the heights of the world have a taste of his iron sand palm.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, three martial arts masters from the model camp police platoon performed boxing, sword and stick skills under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes. Their superb martial arts won the cheers of thousands of spectators, and the audience also watched.
Liu Zhi and more than a dozen generals and commanders praised loudly.
Just when the third brother put away his long stick, Gao Laosan, who was tall and long-armed and had a domineering look, strode towards the ring. Amidst the crowd's exclamations of "Gao Laosan is here", he jumped onto the ring and started first.
He greeted the villagers and the officials in the audience with fists, then walked to the right side of the stage in front of An Yi, Hu Hu and Xia Jian who were sitting behind two long tables, and saluted the three hosts with fists:
"Three heroes, below is Gao Jianling from Tonggu Gaoqiao. Brothers from all walks of life have given me the bandit name Gao Laosan. Today I saw the announcement of the competition in front of the city's Yamen. I was so happy that I came up to meet my friends from outside. Now I invite you
Dear heroes, please teach me!"
From the moment Gao Laosan walked through the crowd towards the ring, An Yi heard the whispered comments from the beard beside him. He knew that the person coming was good at martial arts. He also heard Gao Laosan from the crowd exclaiming, so he stood up and said hello with a smile on his face:
"Hello, Brother Gao! My younger brother, An Yi, is the battalion commander of the model camp. I am lucky to meet Brother Gao today, haha! I can see that Brother Gao is a cheerful person. Let's not be too polite and start competing. How about we start?
Explain that winning or losing should not hurt the harmony between friends, does Brother Gao agree?"
"Of course! Please!" Gao Laosan was very cheerful.
An Yi pointed to his left arm and said apologetically: "My gunshot wound has not healed, so I cannot ask Brother Gao for advice. Please forgive me. How about I ask my brother, Platoon Leader Xia Jianxia, to ask Brother Gao for advice?"
Xia Jian immediately stood up and saluted Gao Laosan with cupped fists: "Brother Gao, are you using your bare hands or using a weapon?"
Gao Laosan laughed and saw that although Xia Jian was taller and stronger, he did not have the heroic spirit of a warrior between his eyebrows, so he said very cheerfully: "You don't need weapons to make friends with martial arts, Gao used a pair of hard-working twenty-one
Let’s play with Brother Xia, Nian’s meat paw.”
Xia Jian was always respectful in front of An Yi and Hu Hu, so he looked naturally humble and low-key. At this moment, when he heard Gao Laosan's words of arrogance, he was secretly angry. He cupped his hands without saying a word and strode to the high platform.
Stand quietly in the middle and wait.
Thousands of people in the audience saw this and knew that the tense fight was about to begin, and the noisy venue became silent.
Liu Zhi, who was sitting in the center of the front row, and Xu Tingyao, Jiang Dingwen, and Hui Dongsheng beside him started talking in low voices. None of them knew how good Xia Jian was, the leader of the police platoon of the model camp, but several people thought that since Xia Jian
An Yi, who can sit on the stage, is definitely not an incompetent person.
Jiang Dingwen became interested in gambling again, and immediately made a bet to Hui Dongsheng and Chen Jiijie, saying that he would pay two if he bought Xia Jiansheng for one. When Chen Jiucie and Hui Dongsheng heard this, did they think it was worth it? Finally, Xu Tingyao also joined in, and the three of them each invested.
Five hundred yuan was used to buy Gao Lao's three wins. Jiang Dingwen happily followed it up without hesitation. After finishing the game, he said, "I will pay you three thousand at most in this round, and I will make it back immediately in the next few rounds."
With the bets made, everyone was very excited, and the group of generals and captains on the side looked at it and were itching, thinking that they would be happy to bet on it at the beginning of the next game. After all, it is rare to encounter such a bet.
Gao Laosan on the stage didn't know Xia Jian's ruthlessness. After greeting each other, he immediately opened his palms, left yang and right yin, and slowly placed them in front of him. Xia Jian unceremoniously flew out with his right foot and kicked it to waist height.
His feet landed on the ground, causing Gao Laosan to chop down quickly with his left palm.
Gao Laosan was shocked. He moved his right palm across his chest and immediately took a step back. Unexpectedly, Xia Jian moved quickly and got close to him. He swung his left fist towards Gao Laosan's face and inserted his right foot silently between Gao Laosan's legs.
Suddenly, his right hand turned into a palm and lifted up quickly from bottom to top, hitting Gao Laosan's left elbow with a "pop" sound. Gao Laosan's left hand flew away and his body immediately lost balance. Xia Jian's left fist had already turned into a fist.
The claws clasped Gao Laosan's right wrist joint tightly, and the shoulder and heel slammed into Gao Laosan's open chest. He bent down and turned around to pick up the 1.85-meter-tall Gao Laosan and put him in place.
After turning half a circle and suddenly exerting force, Gao Laosan's strong body flew out of the left front of the ring and fell onto the sand pile more than one meter high with a "bang" sound.
Fortunately, the soft sand took away most of the force, and Gao Laosan, who was out of breath, was able to throw a mouth full of sand without any serious injuries. Only then did the audience shout loudly. It can be seen that Xia Jian knocked Gao Laosan into the air just by looking at him.
How quickly Lao San was defeated.
The heroes of the Nine Holes and Eighteen Villages who were hidden in the crowd were all pale with shock. Gao Laosan, who was always known for being good at fighting tough battles and getting stronger when encountering the strong, was knocked off the ring by a small platoon leader as soon as they met. This is
Dozens of confident leaders would never have thought of something. The great ambitions they had when they came suddenly disappeared. Many people were thinking about how to leave more decently. The two leaders who had originally discussed the second formation and the third formation simply came out.
No one could be found.
The performance of the thousands of spectators was different. The wide-eyed fellow villagers were very excited. They praised the bravery of the revolutionary army and asked who the mighty young officer on the stage was. Someone in the crowd called out the mighty young officer.
The officer was from Hunan, which immediately made the people marvel again. Countless girls and sisters-in-law looked at Xia Jian's heroic gesture and their eyes widened.
Before Liu Zhi and others in the audience could react from their surprise, Jiang Dingwen's cheerful laughter sounded, and he had already offered odds of one to four in the second game.
The Russian advisor sitting next to Xu Tingyao said "incredible" several times and asked in a low voice where Xu Tingyao found a capable low-level officer like Xia Jian? Xu Tingyao didn't know the specific process, so he could only tell Bribenov with regret.
Major General: There are more powerful martial arts masters than this in the model camp. Even the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel An Yi, is a sharpshooter well-known throughout the army. His shooting skills with pistols and rifles far exceed those of many top marksmen in each army. Among them, Yu
Lyushenkov, the shooting instructor of Whampoa Military Academy who returned to Russia in the first half of the year, is also one of An Yi's two main instructors. There is also an instructor who teaches An Yi pistol shooting. Now in Guangzhou, he has become a special instructor of the Central Party Headquarters Action Department.
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Bribenov immediately remembered this matter. Several of his Russian colleagues who were still working as consultants in various armies had introduced it to him. With his interest greatly increased, Bribenov's chestnut eyes immediately looked at it.
An Yi on the stage.
An Yi waited on the stage for ten consecutive minutes but didn't see anyone coming up to the ring. He thought about it for a moment and walked to the stage to give a loud encouragement. Suddenly he saw Gu Laoer and Xiaodouzi hiding in the crowd about forty meters to the right.
His mind quickly came up with a plan. He wanted to completely destroy the competitive spirit of the local heroes to avoid possible subsequent series of fierce battles. After all, his elite would soon shoulder the heavy responsibility of secretly attacking. Who would be injured?
They were all huge losses, so under the watchful eyes of thousands of soldiers and civilians, they saluted Liu Zhi and loudly asked for instructions:
"Master, I would like to perform a shooting game to add to the fun of today's event. Please approve it."
Liu Zhi had always admired An Yi's good marksmanship. Hearing An Yi's request, he understood what An Yi was thinking, so he calmly stood up and ordered loudly: "Approved."
"yes!"
After An Yi saluted, he walked to the edge of the stage and gave a few words to his adjutant Dong Yaozi. Dong Yaozi turned around and left. He quickly took out two celadon wine bottles from behind the ring and ran to the one built on the shore next to the ring.
Stand and wait on the high platform.
The eyes of thousands of spectators moved back and forth between An Yi on the ring and Dong Yazi on the high platform forty meters away to the left. As An Yi pulled out the shell gun from his waist and gave an order, everyone knew An Yi's purpose.
"ready, go!"
Dong Yazi threw a celadon wine bottle into the air with great force. An Yi raised his hand and fired before the bottle, which had flown to a height of 20 meters, fell. The bottle exploded in the air with a crisp sound, and the fragments fell one after another on the river.
, triggering loud cheers from thousands of soldiers and civilians.
The bosses of the Nine-Dong and Eighteen Villages in the crowd were horrified to see the young battalion commander with one arm hanging like this. Who would dare to go on stage and ask for trouble?
Unexpectedly, An Yi's next order triggered bursts of exclamations. Dong Yazi on the high platform actually took off his big cap, fastened his collar, and placed the celadon bottle that was about half a foot taller than his fist firmly on top of his head, showing no fear.
Facing An Yi with a smile.
An Yi nodded and slowly raised the black muzzle of the gun, pulling the trigger before anyone could take a breath and see clearly.
"Snapped--"
The porcelain bottle above Dong Yazi's head shattered with the sound, shocking thousands of soldiers and civilians. The Russian adviser repeatedly exclaimed that this is crazy, but Liu Zhi and a dozen other generals immediately stood up and applauded loudly. Only then did the thousands of soldiers and civilians react.
The cheers rose and the applause soared to the sky for a long time, spreading the reputation of the Revolutionary Army Model Camp to all directions.
The leaders of the Nine Holes and Eighteen Villages in the crowd were so frightened that their spines trembled and they sweated like rain. This was the first time they had seen such a powerful and desperate army. All the officers and soldiers at the top and bottom were tough and not a single kind person.
Not only will there be no benefit from antagonizing the army like this, but it may also lead to disaster. It is better to just leave. If you stay any longer, you will have no face to see others. Therefore, a group of bosses who have dominated the Tonggu for many years did not fight with anyone.
Say hello and leave quietly, never daring to think about being competitive again.
Only Gu Lao Er Gu Changfeng and his younger brother Xiao Dou Zi Dou Fang did not leave. Xiao Dou Zi's eyes were full of shock and yearning, but Gu Lao Er had a gloomy face and stared blankly at An Yi who was walking down the platform.
, Hu Hu and Xia Jian had indescribable feelings in their hearts as if they had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.