Jagged Warlord

Li Mohan and Zhang Fenghuang chatted for a while, Zhang Fenghuang took out his pocket watch and looked at it, got up and said: "It's getting late, I should set off."

Li Mohan also got up, shook hands with Zhang Fenghuang, and said with a smile: "There will be a time later."

Zhang Fenghuang also smiled and said: "There will be a period later."

Ma Kecheng and Hu Chengxun stayed like this, followed Li Mohan across the Yellow River from Fengling, and arrived in Shaanxi smoothly.

Li Mohan went ashore, this is Lijiazhuang, Tongguan Office, Shaanxi.From here, you can see the Tongguan wall from a distance.Li Mohan stood on a small mound and looked in the direction of Tongguan with his binoculars. The terrain of Tongguan is dangerous, and it is a pass that one man should pass and ten thousand pass.

"Flying turbulent waterfalls compete for noise, cliffs turn into rocks and thunderstorms... out of danger and back into danger, the other mountain still goes up the mountain..." Liu Musheng was full of poetry, standing on the carriage facing the majestic Qinling Mountains and the rolling Yellow River. chant.

Just when Li Mohan passed by him, Liu Musheng stopped Li Mohan and asked, "Young master, don't you think the mountains and rivers are so magnificent that you should sing them well?"

Li Mohan's head was covered with black lines, he shook his head and left.

Liu Musheng also shook his head, and said regretfully, "I don't understand style."

The soldiers and weapons of the SS came ashore one after another, and Ma Qian'an sent a company of soldiers to guard around.Not long after, a sentry came to report that a group of Beiyang troops had come from Tongguan.

"Beiyang Army? Which part?" Ma Qian'an asked

The sentinel replied: "I have asked, it is the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army." The sentinel smiled: "That is our old acquaintance."

"How to say?" Ma Qian'an was taken aback

The sentinel replied: "The brigade commander is Xu Zhanfeng."

"Damn it, this bastard~ We are friends with a narrow road!" Ma Qian'an smiled, "Let's go and have a look!"

After a while, Ma Qian'an came to the main road, and saw groups of officers and soldiers wearing yellow Beiyang Army uniforms passing by in front of them.Their expressions are either numb or sloppy, and their clothes are sloppy. If you pat them, the dust they raise can choke you to death.

Ma Qian'an looked at their equipment, and found that they were basically made in Hanyang or old sleeves. After looking at them for a long time, there were two Maxim machine guns and a 75mm Japanese-style mountain cannon.

Ma Qian'an smiled contemptuously, and said to himself, "Poor."

Not long after, several officers on horseback passed in front of Ma Qian'an, and the leader was Wang Yuanyi who had competed with the militia in Xuzhou back then.

"Isn't this Wang Yuanyi~~" Ma Qian'an shouted deliberately

"Woo!" Several officers on horseback reined in their horses and surrounded Ma Qian'an. One of them shouted, "Presumptuous, you also called our commander's name?"

Ma Qian'an put his arms around his chest, and said carelessly: "Isn't the name just called by people?"

"You!" The other party was about to explode when he saw Wang Yuanyi riding over.He recognized Ma Qian'an at a glance, "Haha, isn't this Ma Qian'an? I heard that your No.14 mixed brigade was abolished. What's the matter? Why did you come to Shaanxi all the way?" Very arrogant.

Ma Qian'an smiled and replied: "I followed our commander to suppress the bandits."

"Commander?" Wang Yuanyi asked in surprise, "Have you joined the Yi Army?"

Ma Qian'an replied: "No, our man is the battalion commander of the [-]st Battalion of the SS."

"SS Army?" Wang Yuanyi almost laughed out loud, "I've never heard of it, it's better than Yi Jun. Old Ma, you've been going back more and more, why don't you come to my place? It's the Central Army anyway. "

Ma Qian'an looked Wang Yuanyi up and down, and said with a smile: "Come on. Back then, your soldiers were not as good as my militia, but now you have changed from brigade commander to regiment leader~~ just take care of your own affairs."

Wang Yuanyi's face was embarrassing for a while, and the entourage beside him shouted: "Damn, dare to talk to our regiment leader like that?" He was about to draw his gun.

Ma Qian'an was about to draw his gun when he heard the sound of horseshoes, and saw Li Mohan riding a horse with a group of followers coming from the river.

"Hey? Isn't this Brigadier Wang?" Li Mohan smiled and immediately cupped his hands at Wang Yuanyi, "Where in the world do we not meet again!"

Ma Qian'an said narrowly: "It's wrong, Commander, he is now Commander Wang, not Brigadier Wang."

"Yeah? You've been demoted?" Li Mohan pretended to be surprised, "Captain Wang, you've really gone back more and more."

"You!" Wang Yuanyi was very annoyed at being squeezed out, but he still had a sense of jealousy towards Li Mohan in his heart.He gathered himself together and said, "You were also the adjutant of the mixed brigade back then, aren't you just the head of the brigade now?"

Li Mohan smiled and said: "That's different. Now the head of the regiment is personally appointed by President Yuan Da, and the Ministry of the Army recommends it. It's not comparable to what it was back then."

Wang Yuanyi had nothing to say, so he could only change the subject and said, "I heard that you also came to Shaanxi to suppress Bailang?"

"That's right." Li Mohan replied with a smile

Wang Yuanyi said: "I can say my ugly words first, you nonsense, don't hold back our Central Army."

Li Mohan smiled slyly and replied: "That's for sure. Even if your Captain Wang is going to fall into the ditch, we promise not to touch you."

Wang Yuanyi knew that Li Mohan couldn't fight with each other, so he could only snort coldly and beat his horse away.

"What?" Ma Qian'an snorted from the side

Li Mohan's SS Army and Wang Yuanyi's Central Army camped in the Tongguan area that night. The SS Army encamped and arrested their civil engineering craftsmen. In addition to camping, they also dug drainage ditches and latrines in the camp area.The old people from Jiaozuo and the newcomers who joined along the way were very skilled in their work, and they built all the barracks in a short while.

Li Mohan's residence is in the center of the camp, a movable wooden house that can be disassembled.The house was lit by a German diesel generator.

Li Mohan turned on the light with thick canvas gloves, and then called Ma Qian'an, Liu Musheng and others to discuss the matter together.Not long after, everyone arrived, along with Ma Kecheng and Hu Chengxun.

Everyone sat down in front of a long table, Li Mohan asked Hu Chengxun first, and said, "Chengxun, you are from Shaanxi, what do you think Bai Lang will do after he enters Shaanxi?"

Hu Chengxun stood up and saluted Li Mohan, but it was an ordinary military salute.Then he said: "I will definitely go to Shangshan. The various roads of Shangshan have been important passages for military exchanges and food and grass transfers since ancient times. King Huai of Chu entered the pass, Qin Shihuang made a southern tour, Han Gaozu quickly footed in Xianyang, Chimei attacked Chang'an, Huan Wen defeated Qin, Liu Yu's Northern Expedition, and Li Zicheng's troops in Henan, all rushed to attack and march on this road."

After that, he pointed to the map on the table and continued: "Shaanxi and Henan roads are roughly divided into two routes, north and south. From Shangshan County to the east, go through Lalinzi-Baiyangdian-Yecun-Dihua-Longjuzhai, and then change to the waterway , follow the Danshui River and go south to Jingziguan. If you go southeast, you can enter Xichuan, Henan. The avenues of Tongguan, Yanxiang, Lushi, and Lingbao are the northern road. Since Bai Lang entered Shaanxi from Zijingguan, he must have taken the southern road."

Liu Musheng looked at the map, and slid his fingers along Longjuzhai-Dihua-Yecun-Baiyangdian-Linzi.Then he said: "According to this route, Longju Village will bear the brunt. I'm afraid it has already been breached by Bai Lang at this time."

Sure enough, before Liu Musheng finished speaking, he heard a telegraph soldier running outside to report, "Urgent telegram, the Bailang bandit army captured Longjuzhai on the 20th, and then conquered Shangzhou. On the 22nd, they went west from Shangnan, Shaanxi, and broke through Shanyang on the 24th. Governor Lu Jianzhang urged all the armies to intensify the encirclement and suppression, and if anyone is perfunctory, slack and contemptuous, they will be severely punished by the military law."

"I see." Li Mohan waved his hand, let the telegraph soldier go down, and then asked everyone: "What do you think?"

Ma Qian'an is not very good at thinking about such strategic issues, so he pushed the boat along, looked at Ma Kecheng, and said, "Brother Kecheng, you have served as a soldier in Shaanxi and are familiar with the situation, why don't you tell me first?"

Ma Kecheng was not polite when he arrived, and said: "Bai Lang is a rogue, and there are two characteristics of a rogue: one is to avoid the real and attack the false, and the other is to like to attack rich states and counties. Southern Shaanxi is mountainous and poor, and Bai Lang will not stay long , I thought he would go north to Xiaoyi, and then the soldiers pointed directly at Xi'an."

"Bai Lang dares to attack Xi'an?" Ma Qian'an was a little surprised

"Why not?" Hu Chengxun said angrily: "Since Lu Jianzhang succeeded the governor of Shaanxi, he disbanded most of the old departments of the original governor Zhang, leaving only his direct descendants of Beiyang and Chen Shufan's brigade. With him as a teacher and Chen Shufan as a brigade, how can we handle it?"