Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Looking at the more than 200 bandits squatting in the open space under the gunpoint of the security soldiers, Su Zhengyang said, "Where is Lu Guoquan? Bring him out to me!"

Wang Hua kicked the bandit next to him and shouted, "Find Lu Guoquan for me, or I will kill you right now!"

The bandit stood up tremblingly and pulled out Lu Guoquan who was hiding at the back of the crowd.

Looking at the short, pot-bellied middle-aged man in front of him, Su Zhengyang glanced at him and slowly said, "Are you Lu Guoquan?"

Lü Guoquan was trembling all over, and he nodded and said, "My lord, I am Lü Guoquan. I don't know who you are, and how I, Lü Guoquan, have offended you."

"I am Su Zhengyang, the new head of the Sanjiang County Security Corps. Although you, Lü Guoquan, have not offended me, you have gathered hundreds of people and occupied Qingfeng Mountain as the king, causing trouble for the people. This time, I brought the security corps here specifically to wipe you out."

Hearing that these people in front of him were from the county security team, Lu Guoquan was slightly stunned, and then said to Su Zhengyang: "So it's Captain Su from the county. Don't you think that the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple? Is there any misunderstanding here?"

At the same time, Lu Guoquan was very confused. When did the county security group become so powerful? Could a local security group have such firepower? If Su Zhengyang had not revealed his identity, he would have thought that it was the ace troops under the command of some warlord who were coming to attack.

"There is no misunderstanding! You relied on your relationship with the county magistrate Ma Jiawei to gather a group of people here and rob people. I will take you back to Sanjiang County and publicly try and execute you in front of the people!"

"Clean up the battlefield and count the spoils! Bring Lu Guoquan and the other prisoners back to the security group's base!"

"Yes, leader!"

Half an hour later, Qin Huaiyi, along with a dozen soldiers, escorted thirty or forty fleeing bandits back to the village.

After the security corps soldiers quickly cleared the battlefield, they escorted Lu Guoquan and a group of bandits down the mountain and rushed towards the security corps’ base.

On the other side, Fang Zhengfei led fifty soldiers from the first company of the second battalion and used a bandit in his hand to lure the second in command of Shuizhaigou, who was in Tashan Town, into the ambush circle he had set up in advance. He successfully captured him without losing a single soldier.

A day later, Qin Huaiyi stood up in the security group's base and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "The security group's anti-bandit operation was a complete success. We wiped out two bandit problems near Sanjiang County, Shuizhaigou and Qingfeng Mountain. A total of 291 prisoners were captured, 207 bandits were killed on the spot by our army, and the spoils obtained included 328 committee rifles, rounds of bullets, two Czech light machine guns, 7280 catties of grain, 275 silver dollars, various types of homemade guns, and old sleeves..."

"In the Qingfengshan bandit suppression operation, four of our security regiment's soldiers were seriously injured and nine were slightly injured. In the Shuizhaigou bandit suppression operation, no one was killed. Report completed!"

Su Zhengyang said solemnly: "For soldiers with minor injuries, each will be awarded two silver dollars. For soldiers with serious injuries and disabilities who can no longer go to the battlefield, they will stay in the security group and continue to be responsible for logistics work. Each will be given a pension of ten silver dollars!"

"From now on, any soldier in our security group who dies on the battlefield will be compensated with 20 yuan, and their families will be given 20 kilograms of food every month! We want all the brothers who follow us into battle to have no worries!"

Liu Gangding reminded quietly: "Captain, isn't that a bit too much?"

Su Zhengyang shook his head with a firm expression and said, "We must let the families of the brothers who died on the battlefield live a prosperous life. We cannot let them shed blood and tears. Let's make this arrangement."

The system's voice sounded again in Su Zhengyang's mind.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully eliminating the banditry in Qingfeng Mountain and Shuizhaigou near Sanjiang County, and completing the special achievement: protecting the territory and the people. ]

[The following rewards are now being distributed to the host: 1500 boxes of canned beef, 2000 individual marching rations, 98 800K Mauser rifles with matching bullets, 18 MP200 submachine guns with matching bullets, commander's saber, and 50 fine iron Tang horizontal swords. ]

[The reward has been distributed to the system space, and the host can claim it by himself. ]

Su Zhengyang's eyes lit up. The other rewards had appeared several times, but this individual soldier's rations and the commander's sword were the first time they appeared on the system reward item list.

[Marching individual soldier rations: Contains a box of 200g luncheon meat, a pack of compressed biscuits, 5 cigarettes, and a box of 200g beef jerky.]

Although this individual soldier ration is not as rich as the individual soldier rations of the troops of various countries in later generations, it still contains meat and staple food, and even comes with five imported cigarettes. In military operations that require rapid marching, the importance of this individual soldier ration is self-evident.

The reason why the Security Corps was able to achieve a great victory in this bandit suppression operation, without even suffering any casualties, was because of their sufficient firepower equipment. Compared with these bandits who occupied the mountains and acted like kings, the Security Corps was obviously two or three levels higher.

Of course, the soldiers have never actually been on the battlefield and are far from being elite soldiers. This is the only shortcoming of the security corps at present.

But after experiencing this bandit suppression campaign, the soldiers of the security corps had seen blood before. Although a large number of soldiers felt unwell and even vomited on the spot after the first killing, these were all normal reactions. It was the same as a fight. After a fierce fight and seeing blood, they would be able to handle any big scenes in the future.

At the whole regiment meeting on the second day, Su Zhengyang loudly spoke out the current reward and pension system of the security regiment in front of all the soldiers. In particular, the soldiers who were injured in the bandit suppression operation felt the real sincerity of the security regiment.

Several seriously injured soldiers will stay in the security regiment after they recover and be responsible for logistics work. They will also be able to receive the same military pay as the front-line soldiers, so that the soldiers will truly have no worries and will recognize the security regiment and the young commander Su Zhengyang from the bottom of their hearts.

"This bandit suppression operation was very successful. I am very satisfied with your performance. After several months of training, it is obvious that you have grown into qualified soldiers! But what I want to say is that you should not be proud and continue to train hard without slacking off. I still say that the more you sweat during training, the less you will bleed on the battlefield! Next, Deputy Regiment Commander Liu Gangding will distribute training manuals to you and arrange future training plans!"

The soldiers below spontaneously burst into warm applause. Liu Gangding stood up with a serious face and said, "From today on, all soldiers of the regiment will gather at the training ground at 7 o'clock every morning to carry out a three-kilometer cross-country run with a load of 20 kilograms. Your meal time is from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. After 8 o'clock, you will conduct queue training, physical training and combat training! You will have lunch at 12:30 noon, and the meal time is still half an hour. From 1 o'clock to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, you will conduct live-fire training. After 4 o'clock, you will do a five-kilometer cross-country run with a load. After the end, you will be dismissed at 5 o'clock. The kitchen will provide you with dinner at 6 o'clock. Do you understand!"

"Understood! Deputy Captain!"

The soldiers saluted Liu Kangding with serious expressions.