My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Actually, everything went smoothly. The soldiers' morale was good, and they met up with Liu Zhen very smoothly. Both sides gave their all and brought all their people.

However, an accident occurred during the march. It turned out that the soldiers under Liu Zhen had no training in long-distance marches.

So much so that after they joined together, they became a mess before they had walked a few miles, with no formation or queue at all.

In desperation, Han Jinlong could only find Liu Zhen and ask him to restrain them so that they could at least look like a march. Otherwise, if they encountered an accident on the way, it would be a lot of trouble.

But Liu Zhen was a fool. He was good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, but he was a layman in marching and fighting. There was only one way to control his men, and that was to whip them.

Now that's great. These guys are good at stealing and bullying the good people, but they have never learned anything about marching and fighting.

They had walked more than ten miles all the way from Qinghe County, which was an unprecedented high-intensity activity.

They were already upset and angry, and after being hit by Liu Zhen, they became even more furious. They fell to the ground and refused to move.

This was really embarrassing. Liu Zhen was a warlord, and he couldn't even manage his own soldiers. How could he hold his head up in front of his peers?

Not to mention, he was still thinking about Han Jinlong's promise that after Jiang Li was eliminated, he would give each of them a county and divide his territory equally.

Of course, only a fool like Liu Zhen would believe such a thing. And precisely because he took it seriously, he wanted to make his people look more like an army.

The strength in his hands was getting stronger and stronger, but those soldiers were used to being lazy and eat a lot, and their physical strength was very poor. Now they didn't want to move a step and just accepted the beatings and scoldings from Liu Zhen with resentment.

Finally, Liu Zhen had no choice but to pull out the pistol from his waist and shoot one of them dead. This calmed the group of soldiers down and frightened them so much that they quickly got up and continued on their way.

Han Jinlong witnessed the whole farce and didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

If he were to stand in the enemy's perspective, he should be thankful for Liu Zhen's performance, as he could easily defeat him.

But from the perspective of teammates, such bad teammates are not only unhelpful, but will also drag you down, so it is better not to have them.

But now that he was already on board, there was nothing he could do. He could only hope that the guy named Jiang was also a fool, and that his men were just as clumsy as well.

That’s right, Han Jinlong didn’t know Jiang Li’s specific situation because he didn’t have a special intelligence organization, and the intelligence exploration of the surrounding areas was just a rough exploration by amateur personnel who were temporarily sent out.

So now he only knows that Jiang Li has about two to three thousand people under his command, and they are often transferred, which seems to be of some level, but he has no idea about the rest.

Back to the cavalry company, the company commander of this cavalry company was specially selected by him from the officer reserve company. His name was Sun Yousheng.

Speaking of Sun Yousheng, he was promoted from a low-level soldier. He had participated in many battles against bandits and warlords and performed well in the process, so he was promoted to the officer reserve company for training.

Previously, when Jiang Li was selecting instructors for the cavalry company, he got the position with an undisputed score.

So this time he led the team alone to carry out such an important task, and he was full of energy, waiting to do a good job to live up to the county magistrate's promotion.

Seeing that it was getting late, he sent out a few soldiers to investigate, while he and the soldiers in the company ate the dry food in their hands, fed the horses and took a rest.

Less than half an hour later, a cavalryman who had gone out to explore the way came back to report, "Captain, I found the enemy camp five miles ahead. Should we attack them?"

Sun Yousheng immediately stood up and shouted, "What the hell, we are just a handful of people, and we don't have any heavy firepower, how can we attack them?"

"Now, go and notify the other scouts immediately and keep an eye on their every move. But remember, you are only allowed to watch and not act on your own. Do you understand?"

Upon hearing this, the cavalryman immediately reined in his horse and turned away.

Sun Yousheng frowned as he pondered his next move. Brutal attack would definitely not work, so he could only launch a sneak attack to see if he could piss them off.

Having made up his mind, he told his soldiers to eat quickly and feed the horses, and then he led his men as close to the enemy camp as possible to observe the layout of their camp and their retreat route up close.

It was soon late at night, and he led his men under the light of the stars, quietly following the path they had previously taken, trotting on horseback towards the enemy camp.

At this time, the horses' hooves had already been wrapped and they were not running very fast, so there was no movement at all until they were close to a hundred meters.

The patrolmen noticed something was wrong, but it was too dark outside and they only heard noises but didn't see any human figures.

However, Sun Yousheng and his men used the campfire in the enemy camp to clearly see the position of the patrol soldiers.

So he shouted, "Fire!"

The cavalry, who had been prepared for a long time, pulled the trigger one after another and quickly completed a round of archery. More than a hundred bullets were fired, and the patrolling soldiers were shot into sieves.

Then Sun Yousheng didn't care about anything else, reined in his horse, turned around and headed back in the direction he came from.

When Han Jinlong and Liu heard the intensive gunfire, they immediately ran out of the tent and asked what happened.

As a result, it took a long time for the subordinates to come back and report that the enemy had attacked at night and killed four guards. This scared Liu Zhen to death.

Although Han Jinlong was also very nervous, he just shook his head and said nothing when he saw Liu Zhen like this, without any desire to comfort him.

Liu Zhen was terrified, and his soldiers were even more panicked. They ran around shouting, causing a great panic, and then Liu Zhen reacted and suppressed the situation by force.

But the commotion lasted for an entire hour, and the key point was that dozens of people were trampled to death or injured. Liu Zhen was so angry that his brain was smoking.

But there was nothing he could do, because his soldiers were so timid and couldn't stand the slightest fright.

After he calmed the soldiers down and returned to the tent to sleep, he heard a burst of rapid gunfire again.

It turned out that Sun Yousheng had returned, changed direction, and ambushed a team of patrol soldiers.

This time, several more people were killed, and the miscellaneous soldiers were frightened into panic again.

But this time it was okay, because I was mentally prepared, so only ten people were injured, and no one died.

Han Jinlong and Liu Zhen got together and discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with any good solution. After all, they were in the open and the enemy was in the dark, so it would be impossible to chase them out.

It would be really fun if we couldn't tell friend from foe because it was too dark and a gunfight broke out.

In the end, there was no choice but to have people light some fires outside to increase the field of vision, hoping that the patrols could spot the enemy sooner and react sooner.