It really wasn't Liu Lang's idea that the new recruit camp's assessment would target bandits from all walks of life running rampant in northern Sichuan.
The idea came from Zhou Shiyu, commander of the death-defying company.
Since becoming the commander of the death-defying company, Zhou Shiyu and his sixteen soldiers have become the only organic company in the independent regiment base that does not need to participate in daily training. Liu Lang gave him great authority and allowed him to recruit freely.
A soldier's equipment treatment is 30% higher than that of an ordinary company. All training is determined by him. Except for Liu Lang, other officers have no right to interfere.
In other words, Zhou Shiyu can play with his sixteen soldiers every day, as long as they don't run away during the war. Of course, you can't run away even if you want to. You can avoid death by being a deserter once, and you can do it again.
, even the gods can’t save them.
Zhou Shiyu and his sixteen soldiers certainly didn't dare to play around. They had been idle for the past three months. Recruiting enough soldiers was a top priority for the company.
Just hearing the name "Dare to Die Company" makes both new recruits and veterans feel cold, and they have no envy for the super high treatment they receive. It is naturally very difficult for them to join. Except for Zhou Shiyu who got it from the prison
More than 20 gangsters were brought to the recruit camp for training. There were also about 10 people who had been cheating and cheating for a long time and were taken to the mines by the regiment to make an example. Only 30 recruits and old veterans were willing to die.
If these thirty or so people went to the battlefield, they would probably not be a daring company but a must-die company. Seeing that Cai Dadao and others were doing well in the recruit camp, Zhou Shiyu was inspired and naturally made up his mind.
When it comes to the bandits, since no one is in the prison, it's easy to catch them yourself.
Otherwise, the Chinese people attach great importance to official positions. Once this person is promoted, his vision and mind will change. It is naturally not easy to catch the bandits with more than a dozen people on his own, but what if it is replaced by an independent group? Zhou Shiyu came up with an idea
When I passed the recruit assessment, I mentioned this suggestion to Liu Lang a month ago. There was no doubt that Liu Lang agreed without much thought.
Eliminating the gang of bandits who live by plundering will bring peace to northern Sichuan and at the same time allow the recruits to grow in actual combat. Finally, it will satisfy Zhou Shiyu's desire to recruit more soldiers, killing three birds with one stone.
Of course, there was another reason Liu Lang didn't say. During this period, Liu Lang was almost going crazy from poverty.
The base of the Independent Regiment is a complete gold-swallowing beast. I got 150,000 yuan from the military headquarters and the Gou family, and my father supported another 500,000 yuan.
A total of 650,000 yuan. Wherever he goes, Liu Lang can say that he is a rich man, or the rich kind. You know, a courtyard house in Yanjing now only costs 500 yuan.
But this wealth, which many people may never see in their lifetime, was almost used up after Liu Lang didn't last more than three months. Although Du Yuesheng had already sent a telegram, the domestic fertilizer powder they cooperated with had been sold as early as a month ago.
It has already been listed in the North China market. Although it is not in time for the busy farming season, the price is nearly twice as low as that of imported chemical fertilizer powder. It is still welcomed by a large number of farmers. The monthly profit has reached an astonishing 100,000 yuan, and this is just
It is the beginning of the product launch and it is still the slowest season. It is conceivable that as time goes by and the busy farming season arrives, the profits of chemical fertilizers will reach an astonishing figure.
However, water from afar cannot quench his thirst nearby, and Liu Lang needs money now.
The monthly salary for the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment is as high as 40,000 oceans. The military expenditure for the 6,000-strong escort force distributed in various villages is slightly less, but it also requires an expenditure of 20,000 oceans. The continuous investment in materials, labor and other expenses for the independent regiment's fortress base is even more expensive.
There is no bottomless pit. The monthly expenditure of 60,000 to 70,000 yuan is the result of the logistics officer Liang Wenzhong saving little by little. This does not include the investment of three factories that are crucial to the independent regiment. Whenever I see Liang Wenzhong,
When Wen Zhong came to him with a grimace on the thick bill to sign, Liu Lang also wanted to cry loudly and jump out of the window to run away. The series of horrific figures written on it would definitely make Ji Yanxue
A chaebol like Dad would have a heart attack on the spot.
As the saying goes, "If you don't have windfall, you won't get rich, and if you don't have a horse, you won't get fat." With Zhou Shiyu's suggestion, Liu Lang immediately turned his attention to the bandits who were plundering in northern Sichuan. To say that he was rich, I'm afraid the entire northern Sichuan
, there is no one richer than those bandits who are good at doing business without capital.
The poor green forest heroes never imagined that one day, they would also be labeled as "fat sheep" and become the big fat in the eyes of a poor and crazy fat man.
It took a full month for Zhou Shiyu and sixteen soldiers under his command to disguise themselves and conduct reconnaissance throughout northern Sichuan, choosing the six most powerful bandits with the greatest public grievances and providing them to Liu Lang as targets.
Some have thousands of bandits, while some have as few as four or five hundred. They all rob the rich and rob the poor, run rampant and destroy families and families at every turn, and all have masters who seek death.
Therefore, Liu Lang's order to each recruit company is also very clear. Kill all the bandit leaders. If you encounter those who abandon their weapons and surrender, they should be screened carefully. Those who have committed murders will be shot on the spot. 20% of the property obtained will be returned to the police.
The company allocates it itself, and 80% of it is handed over to the regiment headquarters.
To put it bluntly, how could the horse run but not eat grass? Liu Lang himself hoped to make a fortune from breaking into the bandits' den, let alone those who came from ordinary families and had not read many books.
New recruits, no matter how many great principles you give them, it is better to give them some benefits.
Of course, you can only win people over with money for a while. If you want to gather real military morale, you have to rely on other things. The Battle of the Great Wall is actually the best place for the newly established independent regiment to be smelted. The Japanese army is like a sledgehammer.
, as long as one person does not hammer the iron of the Independent Regiment completely to pieces, the harder the hammer is, the sharper the iron of the Independent Regiment will become, and it will eventually grow into a sharp blade that can make all Japanese invaders bleed when it touches it.
Because the warlords in Sichuan have been attacking each other all year round, each warlord is busy defending his own territory and has no time to care about others. It is not an exaggeration to describe the number of bandits in Sichuan. There are many bandits with names in such a poor and scummy place like northern Sichuan.
There are as many as a dozen nests.
The most famous among them is Huang Qingyuan, a giant bandit who is entrenched in Chonghua Township at the junction of Jiangyou, Zitong, and Jiange counties. The four Huang family brothers are known as the Huangmen Four Tigers. Based in the mountainous Chonghua Township, they possess gangsters.
There are more than 1,800 people, spanning more than 200 miles in the surrounding area. Moreover, this giant bandit is different from other green forest heroes who just rob and run without capital. Huang Qingyuan even controls the tobacco, financial and other transactions in the surrounding three counties, and jointly
He joined a series of forces such as bureaucrats, Ge Laohui, landlords, and bandits to form a bandit alliance headed by him, just like a small warlord.
But although the warlords are brutal, they still know to some extent that the people on their territory are crops in their own fields. As long as the roots are not cut off, they can be harvested again next year. Huang Qingyuan is a bandit at heart. He kills people and steals goods wantonly.
Looting was just a small thing, and he had done many things like destroying villages and annihilating people.
When the Four Tigers of Huangmen are mentioned in the northern Sichuan area, everyone becomes pale. Needless to say, Zhou Shiyu said that Liu Lang had heard of the reputation of this big bandit when he first came to Guangyuan.
The task assigned to the first, fifth and eighth recruit companies was to deal with the so-called "Northern Sichuan Emperor".