Early the next morning, seven or eight taels of horse-drawn carriages slowly drove into the western suburbs. A line of white small words was drawn on the carriage: Zhang Shengting Co., Ltd. Juice delivery truck. Soon, the news of free juice entering the military camp spread among the soldiers. Especially the first new army soldiers, although it was a vacation today, no one had the heart to sleep in. As soon as the two of them got up, waiting for the news of the juice.

Now that the juice has been delivered, the soldiers immediately rushed out cheering, and soon surrounded the carriages carrying the juice. Fortunately, the officers from various battalions were disciplined and immediately ran out to blow the soldiers away, so as not to be stolen into a mess before the juice was removed.

As for the old army and the soldiers of the artillery, they all hurried out to watch the fun when they heard the cheers of the first target. But reality is cruel to them. These juices are only available to the first target soldiers who successfully completed the three-month training, and they could only watch them. The soldiers who did not drink the juice kept sighing and talking about when the above would organize training for them?

It was not until noon that the juice was distributed from the cafeteria to the various camps of the first bid. The above requirements were to drink the juice as soon as possible, and the bottles had to be recycled! When the soldiers of the first bid soldiers got the juice, the excitement was so exciting that they were more excited than picking up gold. They finally got free juice, so of course they could taste it carefully and slowly, but this made the chef who was waiting to recycle the bottles quite helpless.

Not only that, many artillery standards and old troops also came to the camp of the first target. These people ran to their usual familiar comrades and begged them to share a bite of juice and taste it. The whole scene was very lively!

In the afternoon, all the juice bottles were finally recycled and put back on the carriage, and then slowly transported them out of the barracks.

The soldiers of the first target got what they wanted and took their gratitude to Wu Shaoting further. In their opinion, Lord Wu's image has more to keep his promises, and his work efficiency is very fast. It takes only two days to say that every bottle is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same as everyone is the same.

In the next few days, although Wu Shaoting actively contacted Ni Duan and planned to absorb new soldiers to support the revolution, Ni Duan was still in the first place to implement the specific implementation. Wu Shaoting himself was just secluded behind the scenes. This kind of thing was snowball-like. One person could develop two people, and two people could develop four people. These people who were developed only need to know that Wu Shaoting was on their side.

On January 7, 1909, it rained coldly in Guangzhou. Today is the coldest day in the whole winter. Although the year is approaching, it is still not necessarily lively inside and outside the city. Today's days are getting harder and harder, and only those wealthy families still have this mood for the New Year.

That morning, the cold rain drizzled, covering the hazy sky with a thick layer of rain and mist.

The city of Guangzhou has not opened yet. In this weather, there is no sun or sky. The soldiers guarding the city gate are lazy and unwilling to move. Although the weather is very cold, there are still people who want to enter the city outside the city gate. Most of them are ordinary people in the countryside. They take advantage of the New Year's Eve to pick some agricultural products to enter the city to get a good price. Whether they can spend the New Year well depends on the efforts of the past few days.

But the city gate was not open for a long time, and these ragged farmers could only shrink their shoulders, roll their arms, and squeeze under the edge of the city gate, shaking and stamping their feet. Those who could not squeeze in had to squat on the ground and let the rain invade themselves.

Just as these people were getting colder and more anxious, the "Jia" suddenly came from the official road in the distance. The shouting of "Jia" soon broke through the sound of horse hooves and approached from afar. Under the rain and fog, a figure riding a horse became clearer and clearer, and was running towards the city gate.

Soon, the people hiding under the edge of the door were alarmed, and they ran out of the edge of the door to get out of the door. Because they saw clearly the costumes of the horse riders, the other party was dressed in the old army's clothes, threw on the red tassel and wore a bamboo tube on their shoulders, and they knew that they were sending military intelligence to the soldiers at first sight.

It is difficult for the army to mess with people, especially those with privileged soldiers.

The cavalry came to the city gate and wiped the rain on his face with his hand holding the whip. Looking at the closed door in front of him, he immediately cursed: "Don't you lose your mother, you won't open the city gate yet, you're going to die!

He slowed down and immediately raised his head to shout at the city gate: "Urgent military information, open the city gate quickly! Emergency military information, open the city gate quickly! Those who fail to mislead military information will deal with it!"

But I kept shouting at the top of my throat for a long time, but there was no movement on the city tower.

On this heavy rainy day, no soldiers guarding the city stayed on the city tower, and all went to the barracks behind. In addition, it was still raining, so I couldn't hear the sound outside the city gate.

The cavalry shouted for a while, and his throat hurt a little, and he was suddenly anxious and annoyed. He glanced at the common people standing in the rain, and immediately came up with a solution, and immediately shouted to everyone: "You guys, go and shoot me, hurry up, and shout as I said just now."

These ordinary people hesitate. Everyone looks at me and I look at you, not knowing whether they should obey.

The cavalry became angry and cursed: "Don't let your mother go, if you can't open the door, you will take the blame for delaying military affairs. Then you will be beheaded and hurry up."

When everyone heard this, they had to bite the bullet and run up to slap the city gate, slapping while shouting. Anyway, they also wanted to go into the city, so they opened the door early to avoid being frozen in the rain. Finally, the soldiers guarding the city heard the movement and ran to the city tower to take a look. After confirming that a messenger had indeed come, they hurriedly ran down to open the door. The gate opened quickly, and the cavalry drank the common people and rushed into the city.

Half an hour later, the Governor Zhang Renjun, the Governor of the Governor's Office, endured the pain of rheumatism, sat up from the chair and received a letter submitted by the subordinate. He opened it and took a look, and then impatiently handed it back to the subordinate, and said in a bad tone: "Read!"

When I get older, my eyes are not good, especially in this rainy weather, it is very difficult to read the letter.

The subordinate officials immediately read out: "Governor General, the bandits in Shajing, Xin'an County are in urgent need. On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the bandits and pirates in Dayanshan attacked Shajing Wharf together. The bandits advanced together on the water and land, and the masses were unprecedented. In this battle, our defense battalion cooperated with the Xin'an County Government to fight more than 1,000 soldiers and defeated the bandits three times. Unfortunately, the pirates attacked alternately from the sea. Three deputy generals below the general were injured, five sentry officials were injured, countless soldiers were injured, and more than 30 people were killed. The bandits robbed eleven ships of Shajing Wharf and 800 stones of sea salt. The remaining losses are still to be counted. The bandits are in trouble. I hope the Governor will send troops to help each other and avoid bandit trouble. Long Liangguang, the general flag of the Guangdong Defense Army, knelt down and reported."

The tenth day of the twelfth lunar month is January 1, 1909 in the Gregorian calendar, which means that the bandits attacked Shajing seven days ago.

Zhang Renjun became more and more angry as he listened to it. After finally listening to the letter, he couldn't help but curse: "Baoshi, the great Guangdong Defense Forces can't even deal with a group of thieves, what's the use of keeping it?"

The official swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his face feeling terrified, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

The duty of the defense army is to maintain local public security and to suppress the bandits. Now the officers and soldiers have been defeated by the bandits and more than 30 people have died. Isn’t this ridiculous? Of course, everyone knows that this military newspaper was sent over after it was processed. How many casualties and how much materials have been lost are probably far more than the number reported.

"Things don't matter, the key is face!" Zhang Renjun said panting, his face very angry. "Half a year ago, Guangxi caused a disaster in the association, and today there was another bandit incident in Xin'an. Have I encountered only these headaches since I took office? Long Liangguang, Long Liangguang, can't this earthly tyrant do anything practical?"

"Stop your anger, sir, sir, sir, sir, it's not worth it to get angry." The official quickly comforted him.

"Can I not get angry? It's simply a waste!" Zhang Renjun said hatefully. He is a man in his seventies and has already had a cunning situation, but he has frequently had troubles since he took office as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He has not made any achievements yet, but there are a lot of negative news. Even if he can tolerate it, he should be anxious.

"Sir, I heard that the pirates on the sandbank are indeed very fierce, and even the British cannons can do anything. These pirates have guns and cannons, and dare to steal anything. It is said that three years ago, a British gunboat was sunk in Victoria Bay and a British merchant ship. This incident was a big deal at that time." In order to ease Zhang Renjun's anger, the official deliberately raised the pirate's fierce side, which at least made people feel at ease.

Zhang Renjun recalled it and it seemed that there was something like this. At that time, the British asked the Guangdong Navy to clear the pirates within a specified period, and the acting governor Zhou Fu hurriedly resigned because of this. He sighed heavily, and his previous anger dissipated a little, but the clouds on his face became increasingly thicker and said, "This matter is really troublesome. Long Liangguang was not good at it. He was beaten to ask me for help in such a battle. It was funny to say it out!"

The official said, "Sir, although this bandit crisis is impossible to be eliminated. After the trouble is over, it will be suppressed again and again. But it will still be suppressed. In fact, you might as well think so. Although this bandit crisis is a headache, it may be an opportunity. The Governor-General works hard to suppress the bandits, calm the bandit crisis, and restore peace to the people. This is a great thing to spread!"

Zhang Renjun nodded slowly and murmured: "Disaster is the basis of good fortune, and good fortune is the basis of bad fortune!"

The official responded: "This is exactly the reason."

Zhang Renjun thought for a while and immediately said, "Okay, since the Xin'an bandits are seriously in trouble, let's do it. You go to the general's mansion immediately and take this military newspaper with you. Then I said I'm coming to meet the general at noon and discuss the bandit suppression."

The official said: "I understand, I will do it immediately."

At noon that day, Zhang Renjun and Fuqi met, and Fuqi already knew about the Xin'an bandits.

However, Fu Qi believed from the beginning that this matter was not under the jurisdiction of the General's Office. Since the defense army had a fault, the Governor's Office should naturally preside over the bandit suppression. His mind is now focused on the compilation of the Twenty-four towns. When the spring of the New Year is about to come, he will report to the Military Training Office to inspect the Twenty-four towns.

Although Wu Shaoting completed the army training for the first target, there is still a cavalry standard, an artillery standard and a second infantry standard in the 24 towns yet to be trained again.

During the conversation with Fuqi, Zhang Renjun certainly heard Fuqi's indifference to this incident and his avoidance. The reason why he had to ask Fuqi to discuss sending troops to suppress the bandits was not because he had not enough troops, but as long as Fuqi was willing to send troops, the momentum of the bandit suppression this time would definitely grow a lot, and the greater the achievements he had achieved afterwards.

After some discussion, Fuqi insisted on his attitude.

Zhang Renjun had to use a provocation method, and he said to Fu Qi: "The general has all the army that is known as the strongest in Guangzhou. Is it difficult to deal with some little thieves?"

Fu Qi smiled coldly and said, "It is precisely because of some little thieves that Lord Zhang can handle easily. Why do you need the strongest army in Guangzhou to take action?"

Zhang Renjun laughed for a while, stroked his beard, and looked calm and said, "Does General look down on such a thief? Or is it for the sake of taking care of the so-called Guangzhou's strongest army? Yes, as long as the strongest army never goes to the battlefield, it will never be defeated. Just like a vase, as long as it doesn't touch it, it will not break!"

Fu Qi snorted and said, "Mr. Zhang, it's useless to provoke me. Now the twenty-four towns under my command are preparing to apply for a formal number. Please forgive me for being unsuccessful."

Zhang Renjun was not in a hurry, sighed slowly, and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, I have nothing to say. Although I don't care whether the strongest army deserves its reputation, if the news spreads today, how do those outsiders understand it, it will be unknown. Haha, okay, then I won't bother the general and ask the bandits for help, so we old people will have to deal with it."

After saying that, he slowly stood up, picked up his crutch and was about to leave slowly.

Fuqi's face changed drastically. He knew what Zhang Renjun meant. If he disagreed, Zhang Renjun would definitely make a big fuss to criticize the new army. He pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Sir Zhang Stay."

A smug smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Renjun's mouth, and he knew that Fu Qi, a scholar general, valued fame the most.

The reason why Fuqi decided to change his mind was, on the one hand, because of Zhang Renjun's threat, and on the other hand, he really wanted to verify the results of Wu Shaoting's military training. The 24 New Army Towns have been established for two years. In the past two years, they have been training, either staying in the military camp and doing nothing. It is time to pull out and exercise their muscles.

A day later, the military camp in the western suburbs received a rumor, and the Governor's Office and the General's Office were preparing to mobilize troops to Xin'an to suppress the bandits.

Another day passed, all over Guangzhou City heard that Xin'an was attacked by bandits and pirates. Although the degree of the bandits' victims was not reported in the newspaper, the news that they often did not report was very serious. For a time, some bad rumors were filled with Guangzhou City, and some even said that pirates would attack Guangzhou City.

Faced with such rumors, Zhang Renjun became even happier. He wanted to hire a group of people who caught the sword to spread rumors.

The more fierce and brave the bandits are promoted, the greater the "difficulty" of suppressing bandits, and of course the more benefits they will gain.

Soon, the Governor's Office issued a notice on the suppression of bandits, saying that the Xin'an bandit crisis is becoming increasingly serious, and the government must ensure the safety of the people, and the matter of bandit suppression is urgent. As for the specific date of the bandit suppression operation, planning is still needed.

That night, Zhang Renjun held a military meeting at the Governor's Office to discuss specific action plans for the suppression of bandits.

The above action plan has not yet been released, and the troops below have also started a round. The first thing they discussed was which troops to send this bandit suppression meeting, the fire battalion is the most likely, and the new army will also send some troops.

If it is to suppress fake bandits or gangsters, it is a job that everyone will rush to go. As long as you contact the bandits in advance, you can shoot a few shots. But now you are dealing with the bandits in Xin'an, you have to do it with real swords and guns. If you say you die, you will die. Everyone should not push such things far away.

Huang Shilong was always very depressed after hearing about the bandit suppression, but there was no way. If he really wanted to transfer the fire battalion to Xin'an, he could only bite the bullet and go to Xin'an.

In addition, Li Zhun, the admiral of the Guangdong Navy, was also very melancholy. However, he was not worried about sending troops to encircle and suppressing pirates, but since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the budget of the navy has been continuously reduced every year. Now half of the more than 20 warships of the Guangdong Navy can go to sea to fight, which is already good. Many cruisers have good ammunition, and the ships are under repair for a long time, and only some small torpedo boats are intact.

Li Jun had long known about the situation of pirates in the sandbank. These pirates were hidden between the islands of Sandbank and Kowloon Bay. They were elusive and could not prevent them. They had been robbing merchant ships and attacking docks all year round to gain profits. If these pirates were not properly equipped, they would even be stronger than those of the official army. If the Governor's Office asked him to dispatch a navy to deal with pirates in the sandbank, this risk would be worrying.

At the same time, the 24 New Army Towns were also very lively.

In the western suburbs, all troops believed that the first sign was the most likely to be dispatched. After all, this unit had just experienced the complete military training and was also known as the strongest army in Guangzhou. As the saying goes, a big tree attracts wind. With such a high hat, it will inevitably attract the attention of the above.
Chapter completed!