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

This is not because he is so extravagant, but to meet future combat needs. After all, the performance of aircraft these days is very backward, and a combat radius of three or four hundred kilometers is already quite good.

As Jack mentioned before, the Boyne 80 has just started production. Its speed is about 250 kilometers per hour, and its flight distance on a single refueling is about 780 kilometers.

All in all, the combat radius is also three or four hundred kilometers, so he must build a few more airports to ensure that it can reach the vicinity of the target when it is needed.

After arranging matters at the airport, he thought of the pilot's problem again.

The pilots of the previous three planes were invited back from Guangzhou at a high price, and he would need a large number of reliable pilots next.

It would definitely not be possible to just rely on hiring people with money, so he ordered the hiring of flight instructors at high salaries in various places to prepare for the establishment of an air force in the future.

After arranging the appointment of instructors, he devoted his energy to selecting pilots.

For three consecutive days, he first selected hundreds of people with good physical conditions, and then selected thousands of ground personnel to form his first air force unit.

But before he had time to train this group of people, Jiang Youchi hurriedly found him.

"Commander, when my men were searching for cultivation resources in Guangxi, they discovered that there was a sect called Yinshen Sect active in the mountains of the Zhuang ethnic group in Dahua County."

"According to the locals, this Yinshen Cult seems to have rituals that use human sacrifices. I'm afraid it's not a righteous organization!"

Jiang Li frowned upon hearing this, "Human sacrifice? Have you checked it out?"

"We have found out that it is in the upper reaches of the Hongshui River, in the territory of the Bama Yao people. Our people have already gone in to investigate, but the specific situation inside is not clear yet!"

Jiang Li thought about it for a while, and then made up his mind, "If that's the case, I have to go there in person to see what they are up to!"

Then he asked Ah San to gather the Taoist soldiers, but he was not satisfied after thinking about it, so he simply dispatched a motorcycle regiment and 30 trucks to accompany them, totaling more than 500 people together with the Taoist soldiers.

The vehicle was equipped with not only a large amount of food supplies, but also some mortars and several wireless radios to deal with emergencies.

After all, although Guangxi has been conquered for several months, there are too many mountains and there may still be some opposition forces in some deep mountains.

He felt uneasy if he didn't bring more people with him, but looking at this large group of people, he thought of another problem.

"It seems that I need to recruit some talented people and set up a special organization to deal with this kind of problem. Otherwise, every time I encounter this kind of thing, I have to deal with it personally. This is not acceptable!"

But that's a story for the future. He can't gather people out of thin air now. He can only talk about it after this matter is over.

Because the group was a mechanized force and the roads in Guangxi had been renovated in the past few months, they were able to travel very quickly.

It took only three days to reach the middle and lower reaches of the Hongshui River, a distance of thousands of miles.

As soon as he got off the car, he immediately noticed that something was wrong with the river water, because there was a strong negative energy in it. You have to know that it was broad daylight and there was no obstruction on the river surface.

It is still in the middle and lower reaches of the Hongshui River, dozens of miles away from the source of the Hongshui River where the abnormality was discovered. Such a big anomaly can still be found at such a distance.

There must be something extraordinary at the source of the river, which made him a little nervous.

I'm in a very good situation now, do I really have to get involved like this?

But on second thought, he now controls an army of over 400,000, a population of nearly 50 million, and has the blessing of the luck of five mountain gods.

His own luck has long been extremely strong. Even compared with those emperors of ancient times who unified the country, he is probably not much inferior.

If it was any other army, he might have been a little wary, but if it was demons and monsters, there would be few that could get close to him.

After figuring this out, he immediately gained confidence. He asked everyone to put on hair robes soaked in cinnabar and realgar, pick up peach wood swords, and swim upstream.

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After driving upstream for about fifty miles, we finally saw the source of the Hongshui River.

After he carefully examined the composition of the riverbed, he found out why it was called the Red Water River.

It turned out that the river was flowing through red sandstone rock layers, which caused the water color to turn reddish-brown. However, no one could find out why the yin energy was more concentrated than that in the downstream.

As for how he knew about the Shabei rock formation, it was because of the large amount of information reported by the prospecting teams in recent years. He saw that the composition of the riverbed was somewhat similar to the description of the Shabei rock formation, so he arbitrarily gave it a classification.

But these are all unimportant minor issues. The bigger problem is that Jiang Li saw several Yao villages along the way.

However, he found that there was no one there, as if the entire village had disappeared. Even the intelligence officers sent by Jiang Youchi were nowhere to be seen, which made him very confused.

But he had no other choice now, so he could only use a qi-gazing technique and then lead his men to the mountain where the yin energy was the strongest.

But as soon as the group reached the foot of the mountain, a large group of "mountain people" rushed out from the mountain, wearing all kinds of decorations and holding various simple weapons. These people didn't care about anything and launched an attack directly.

At once, muskets, bows, arrows and javelins were all fired at him, making the unprepared Jiang Li very embarrassed, and many Taoist soldiers and some soldiers around him were also killed or wounded.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jiang Li immediately ordered a counterattack. Gunshots rang out all over the place, and those "mountain people" were beaten to death and wounded and fled in a panic.

This really confused Jiang Li. What's wrong with these people? They dared to launch an attack with such little ability, and did it without saying a word. Don't they even need to ask about the identity of the person?

So he immediately sent someone to go up and see if there were any survivors, and bring two over for questioning.

So a team of Taoist soldiers quickly went up and searched among these "corpses" to see if there were any alive. The result was not unexpected.

The shooting did not kill everyone. They soon found three people whose injuries were not too serious. They searched them and brought them over.

Looking at these guys who were lucky enough to survive, Jiang Li asked, "Who are you and why did you attack us?"

But when they heard Jiang Li's question, the three bound captives did not answer him, but instead cursed him in all directions in the Yao dialect.

Of course Jiang Li didn't understand what they were saying. He guessed it based on their tone and expressions, as well as the large amount of saliva and blood foam.

Unable to understand what they were saying, Jiang Li turned his head to look at Jiang Youchi who was following him. Jiang Youchi immediately understood and drove over from behind to bring an interpreter.