From to 1935 2020

Ma Baochang trembled.

Elena killed ruthlessly when she was angry, but Huang Ke was ruthless when retaliating.

Zhang Xiaolin was burned to death with sky lanterns, while the horse bandits were burned to death after he cut off the tendons of his hands and feet.

Huang Ke said to Ma Baochang: "Of the eight horses, three belong to the family of the deceased, and the remaining five belong to you, but you have to take out a share of the food money and distribute it to the people in this village."

Horses are an important production tool in this era, and they are still important in Northwest China.

After Huang Ke's allocation, Ma Baochang was overjoyed immediately. To get five horses out of thin air, it was a windfall for him. Compared with that, the little food was nothing.

Huang Ke pointed to the villagers next to him again.

"A few horse-breaking bandits dare to be so arrogant. You, the security chief, are such a waste. You have to organize the people in the village and town to defend yourself."

"Yes Yes!"

Chief Ma Bao kept nodding in front of Huang Ke. In his eyes, he regarded Elena as a distinguished foreigner from outside, and Huang Ke was the guard sent by the government to protect the foreigner, similar to the "blood drop". The master of the class.

"This kid..."

Huang Ke then pointed to the young man who dared to chop the horse bandit with a knife.

"This child is in your care for half a year. Within half a year, I will come and take him away."

The young man raised his head and looked at Huang Ke, but his eyes were bright, but he didn't speak, but he didn't object by looking at his expression.

Ma Baochang nodded desperately and said that he would take good care of him.

Huang Ke made a gesture and took out a letter of twenty oceans from his arms, and threw it on the ground in front of Chief Ma Bao.Then he said: "Ten oceans a catty!"

"What do you mean, sir!"

"I'll find someone to weigh him later, how much he weighs, and report the number. When I come to pick him up, I will weigh him again! Add a catty of meat to him, and I will reward you with ten oceans, and ten catties is a hundred oceans. Ten catties equals two hundred oceans!"

"Don't worry, sir, next time you come, I will give you a fat and strong boy!"

Ma Baochang showed joy, and at the same time looked at the boy with envy, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder.

"Hurry up and thank this official, Xiaohu, you have met a nobleman."

Although Ma Baochang is old and timid, his eyesight is not bad.The two mysterious guests had an extraordinary aura at first glance, and their attacks were fierce but generous, so they naturally knew what to do.

This delay, coupled with the fact that they were on the road last night and basically did not sleep, the two decided to temporarily spend the night in Majia Town.

Ma Baochang's residence is a cylindrical courtyard similar to the southern earth building. It is three stories high and has about ten rooms on each floor, which are made of mud.The houses of all the residents are surrounded by a cylinder, and the courtyard is in the middle.The windows to the outside are very small, and there are only two doors to enter, and the wooden doors are very thick.

This kind of building is actually the prototype of the northern Wubao with Chinese characteristics. It has the function of a fortress.

In the evening of that day, Huang Ke and Elena stayed at Chief Ma Bao's residence as "visited guests".Ma Baochang, who picked up a fortune for nothing, entertained the two with the best food and drinks.

Elena, who was in a bad mood, didn't go to the table, but asked for a room to take a shower.Ma Baochang, who knows how to adapt to the wind, hastily ordered his daughter-in-law to entertain and wait, and boiled a large bucket of hot water for her to wash off the blood on her body.

Huang Ke, on the other hand, accompanied Ma Baochang and his son to the table for dinner, and asked about the local customs and the current situation of the surrounding area by the way.

In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region, the Ma surname is the common surname. When it comes to this, it always reminds people of the famous Huihui "Three Horses".Majiashan in Majia Town has horses, and most people in the town have the surname Ma, but these people are basically Han Chinese or Han Hui, and there is no unspeakable teaching about surnames.So that night, Huang Ke got along well with the Ma family who were carefully serving them.After drinking and eating, he didn't talk too much politely, and went back to their respective rooms with Elena, who had washed up, to go to bed early.

I barely slept last night. I drove for more than ten hours during the day and killed another group of people in the afternoon. Both of them were very tired both mentally and physically, so they fell asleep quickly.

At night, no one wanted to attack the two of them in the middle of the night.

After sleeping for five hours, the two woke up almost one after the other. The two of them were far better than ordinary people, and they recovered very quickly. It was already past two in the morning.After meeting with Elena, the two bid farewell to Ma Baochang's family who was temporarily called to see him off, and set off on the journey again.

Still the same as during the day.

Huang Ke was driving a Harley motorcycle, and Elena was sitting in the back seat, putting her hands through his waist and holding his stomach against his back.

The road conditions from Majia Town to Tianshui are still very bad, the car is still bumping, and Elena's body is also bumping, the feeling of hitting someone with a ball is really good.

The summer sky on the Loess Plateau is very clear.

In the absence of modern light pollution, you can see the stars all over the sky when you look up.

A Harley motorcycle with headlights on was galloping on the dirt road.For some reason, Huang Ke felt that Elena's body was very close to him.

At first, neither of the two spoke, only the engine of the Harley motorcycle was roaring.

After driving for half an hour, Elena suddenly asked, "During the day, do your arrangements have any special meaning?"

"Kids holding gold in the city will lead to great disasters. We have neglected the affairs of the villagers, so I only allocated three of the eight horses to the villagers, and the rest to Mayor Ma, a local tyrant."

Elena understood the deep meaning behind Huang Ke's words.Huang Ke's actions in the afternoon were actually a combination of kindness and power. He took advantage of the five horses for nothing, and seeing Huang Ke Lingli's handling methods, the horse guard was also intimidated. The idea of ​​three horses.

"When the Red Army comes over, will Chief Ma Bao be beaten as a local tyrant?"

"Maybe so!"

Huang Ke said.

Eileen sighed lightly, in the chaotic world, human life is like grass.What happened today was actually caused by more than a dozen cans of foreign milk powder...

"Such a tragedy has happened many times in my world at the dusk of the end of the day."

"In a world where people cannibalize people, the tragedies are all similar."

Then there was silence again and continued driving.

After a while, Huang Ke took the initiative to say: "I need some people of my own. That child, he can move his hands, said that he passed the first test and is not a waste. I will take him away when I come back. We may be in this world. It's going to be a long time, and there's not much we can do, just the two of us."

"Um......"

"Eileen, you have changed recently. Especially just now, I was a little surprised that you recovered so quickly."

"I just figured out some things and understood my responsibility."

"That's good. In fact, I also figured out some things today and understood my responsibility."

"I know, I can see it. Are you different from him?"

"Which him?"

"The other you, the you ten years later, that nasty guy!"

"Ah That's good......"

That night, Huang Ke drove all night.Although the road conditions were poor and we were driving in the dark at the same time, the journey went smoothly and we did not go wrong.And when there were dozens of miles away from Tianshui, the road ahead suddenly widened again. After changing from motorcycles to four wheels, the two continued to drive, and at noon, they arrived at Tianshui very smoothly.

In just two days, the two completed nearly two-fifths of the itinerary.

After arriving in Tianshui, the two discovered that Tianshui had become a logistics depot.

The reason is related to the Red Army and the bandit army sent by Chang Kaishen.

After the Red Army entered Sichuan two months ago, Chairman Chang Kaishen sent two armies to pursue the Red Army.

One was Xue Yue's troops, which entered Sichuan from the south along the Yangtze River, chasing the Red Army while chasing tigers and wolves, and occupying the territory of local warlords.

The other army, Hu Zongnan, was ordered by him to enter Sichuan from the north of Gansu and Shanxi. The route taken was very close to the route planned by Huang Ke, and Tianshui was the largest supply station before they entered Sichuan.

Now Hu Zongnan's tens of thousands of troops have entered Sichuan.

The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.However, from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, the road quality of the Shu Road from Tianshui, Gansu to northern Sichuan is not bad, and mules and horses can pass through it.Hu Zongnan's army entered Sichuan with the support of a large number of mules and horses, and now it has entered the Songpan area, where it is cooperating with the Sichuan and Tibetan troops and confronting the nearly [-] Red Army.

-------------------- Chapter 59 Searching for "Red" --------------------

Chapter 59

Northern Sichuan is no different than the Chengdu Plain in southern Sichuan. It is close to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with vast land and sparsely populated areas. The crop yield is extremely low, and it is difficult to supply and support the army on the spot.Hu Zongnan's 5-strong army (it is said that there are about [-] to [-] people in reality, I can't find more detailed information on this aspect, if anyone has it, please reply and help me to correct it) entered Sichuan to suppress bandits. Local requisition in Sichuan cannot be sustained for a long time, and it cannot be separated from the support from the rear of Tianshui.

Now it is mid-to-late July and approaching August. In order to support Hu Zongnan's army in front, the local governments in Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province frantically scraped land and collected so-called "bandit donations". The peasants continue to push to the death.

Since the autumn harvest is coming soon, although the expropriation at this time will not cause people to starve to death immediately, the situation will be different after two or three months, and it will be even worse in the early spring of next year.

As for the regime of the Pao Party, the reaction is the reaction, and the food confiscated is far more than what is transported to the army to feed the army.Most of the expropriated food was peeled layer by layer and eaten, and a small part was barely transported to the south of Hu Zong who was suppressing bandits in central Sichuan.

Under such circumstances, the southern part of Hu Zong actually had insufficient food and pay (relatively speaking), so he had to collect food on the spot again.After harming your own rear, continue to harm the front.

(As we all know, even during the ten-year civil war, most of the time the soldiers of the Minoit Party did not eat as well as the Red Army. The reason is that drinking the blood of the soldiers was too cruel. Only when you have to fight for your life will you temporarily feed them OK)

After arriving in Tianshui, when Huang Ke and Elena took a rest, they spent some money to buy military rations from the local grain merchants, and filled all the space consumed by the space cross and the ring.

Then, the two began to enter Sichuan along the route that Hu Zongnan's army had walked.Along the way for hundreds of kilometers into Sichuan, apart from encountering a few caravans, the two only saw two teams transporting grain into Sichuan.But when they came here, there were still various large-scale food levies in the area of ​​Tianshui, which caused people's resentment to boil.

This is why the Chairman of the Standing Committee is suppressing bandits more and more: because his bandit-suppressing soldiers are a hundred times more vicious than the "communist bandits" being suppressed, and even forced the local people to die.

After the split of the Central Red Army, although the strength of the Red Army was greatly reduced, the Red Army with only 8000 soldiers rushed out of northern Sichuan and entered southern Gansu.The soldiers passed like a comb, and the bandits passed like a grate. After the Red Army did not grab food, they would fight the local tyrants to divide the fields to promote Marxism-Leninism... The contrast was sharp. A large number of people voted with their feet and joined the army enthusiastically, so that the Red Army was continuously replenished.

In order to avoid trouble, Huang Ke did one thing before leaving Shanghai.

He got an officer's uniform from the Cannon Party Army and put it on, and changed Elena into a foreigner's officer's uniform—the latter was copied from the room of the British officer he killed in the arsenal in the concession. .

The two of them who entered Sichuan wore tall military uniforms and sunglasses, held the special pass that Mrs. Kong wanted to come, and drove an imposing foreign motorcycle, and they entered Sichuan without hindrance.

On the way, there were also several waves of checkpoint checks.

But Huang Ke was dressed in a military uniform with a pass from the Executive Yuan, and he was a high-ranking official. Elena relied on her blond foreigner image and used the sign of a "British reporter" as a foreigner. How dare the bumpkin officers and soldiers at those local checkpoints stop her? Let the two travel smoothly and easily reach the Songpan area within four days.

However, due to the route, when the two arrived in Songpan, they were in the rear of Hu Zongnan and other main forces of the "bandit suppression".

Songpan at this time is actually a wide grassland area with an area of ​​more than 21 square kilometers.There are swamps and snow-capped mountains here. Even in the [-]st century, the population is only [-].

The real Songpan County is a very small town where "one shot can hit the bottom". Most of this area is desolate grassland, forest, Gobi and swamp.

If you are not familiar with the environment here, there is one place that can be the best reference in the future: Jiuzhaigou, a famous tourist attraction in later generations.It is next to Songpan.After the development, there are beautiful scenery, snow-capped mountains and flowing water. A "Journey to the East" made the beautiful scenery here famous all over the world.

But that's post-development.

Songpan, which has not been developed, is the standard "poor mountains and bad waters".

The local residents are mainly Tibetan and Qiang, and the total number of original residents at this time will not exceed [-].However, in order to destroy the Red Army, driven by the chairman, the chieftains in the entire northern Sichuan and Tibet borders spontaneously organized thousands of local armed forces. In addition, the Sichuan Army, in cooperation with Hu Zongnan's troops entering Sichuan, was confronting the Red Army in this area.

In terms of military strength, Hu Zongnan's troops appeared to have the upper hand, but they were well equipped, had sufficient ammunition, and received strong support from the local Tibetan cavalry. Instead, they took the initiative on the battlefield—if Zhang Guotao hadn't deliberately delayed, they could have acted a week in advance.The Red Army had already easily captured Songpan, and then they could wait for work with leisure, like eating sugar cane, sending Hu Zongnan into Songpan's troops to eat them one bite at a time. (This is the chairman's combat strategy during the Battle of Songpan).

As a result, after a delay of two weeks, the main force of Hu Zongnan's army entering Sichuan was basically assembled. Although the Red Army still had an advantage in strength, the defenders at this time had already taken advantage of this opportunity to dig fortresses on their own defense lines. Songpan, which could have been captured by a surprise attack, has become a solid line of defense that requires a strong attack.

Songpan is now the front line.Huang Ke and Elena, who came to Songpan, did not enter the city because they "knew what they knew", and at the same time avoided the avenue, directly entered the vast and endless Songpan grassland and mountainous area, like blind people walking a dark road, to the map Go to the "roughly" position of the Red Army.

It was the seventh day after departure from Xi'an.

Huang Ke estimated from the map that the distance between him and Elena from the Red Army at this time was about [-] to [-] kilometers.

Although Huang Ke has collected a lot of historical materials in advance, the battlefield is ever-changing. The maps left by the Republic of China are not standard and very simple. Now, Huang Ke wants to find the Red Army, mainly relying on a copy of 21 obtained by Da Huang Ke. Century tourist map of Songpan region.

The 75 years of time have changed, and the sea has changed. In fact, the terrain on both sides has many anomalies, but there is no way to do it.

This map is still hand drawn.The specific method is that two people are in the same position in different time and space. Little Huang Ke puts a piece of paper in front of him, and Big Huang Ke puts a map in front of him.

When Big Huang Ke uses a pen to draw on the ready-made map, Little Huang Ke will also make similar actions because of the "space-time resonance", and then a map is drawn in the "drawing" state.