In the gray-blue sky, the sun rose red like a drunken face, which brought a hint of warmth to the forest. The ground was covered with white frost, dry and hard, and 70% or more of the leaves on the tree had fallen. The branches of the tree were exposed withered in the cold wind of the deep winter. Every time a gust of cold wind blows, the frost leaves suddenly escape from the branches, flying in the wind like a group of birds.

Chen Yiquan held his hands on a big tree, gasping for breath, feeling his legs as if they were filled with lead, sour and painful, and his chest felt like they were burning. After a while, Chen Yiquan took a breath, and then looked at him, there were only a dozen people left, and they were all torn clothes and exhausted. Some people were holding the tree studs, gasping or retching, and some were lying on the weed ground without moving.

At this time, Chen Yiquan couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation in his heart. Just 3 or 4 months ago, he was the number one figure in the green forest in Shandong, with 3,400 brothers under his command, and was quite glorious. He even had a few battles with the government army and never had a disadvantage, but he had never been as miserable as he is now.

All of this started with the Green Forest Conference more than 4 months ago. Chen Yiquan also participated in the Green Forest Conference and joined the alliance against overseas Chinese. After returning to his own copycat, Chen Yiquan also selected the strongest copycats according to Wang Kefu's suggestion and formed two teams of 50-60 people to raid the villages around the copycat.

At the beginning, Chen Yiquan's actions were very smooth. He broke two villages in succession and grabbed a lot of supplies. However, when attacking the third village, an accident occurred. It turned out that after the crackdown on the village, the bandits wanted to rob more supplies due to the greed of the bandits, which was delayed a lot of time. As a result, the people's army nearby arrived. The two sides fought fiercely, and the bandits lost more than 30 people and fled back to the mountain village.

After a day's passage, the People's Army launched an attack on Chen Yiquan's clan. It turned out that the People's Army learned the location of the clan from the prisoners and immediately dispatched a company of troops to attack the clan.

The bandits naturally could not defend the parcel. Fortunately, Chen Yiquan was still somewhat decisive and gave up the parcel and fled into the mountains. After hiding for a few days, Chen Yiquan inquired about the situation of other parcels and prepared to find a partnership. But then he found that the situation of other parcels was not better, and several bandits with good relationships with him were confiscated by the People's Army.

Chen Yiquan had to lead the team to continue hiding in the mountains and forests, and joined with the remaining personnel of other parody hamlets. He gathered more than 150 people and there were 11 rifles. It turned out that some bandits bought them from Wang Kefu. He thought that they could deal with the People's Army with muskets, but after they started fighting, they found that even if they had muskets, they were not an opponent. After all, the number of rifles in their hands was too small, and the number of more was only 5 or 60. There are only a dozen fewer ones, of course, it cannot be compared with the People's Army's rifle. Moreover, the bandits' muskets are all single-shot guns, and can only load one bullet at a time. The People's Army uses continuous guns, * supply bullets, and can load 6 bullets at a time, and the continuity of firepower is much stronger. The most important thing is that modern warfare does not just fire guns randomly, but rather seek cover, cover each other, judge the opponent's firepower point, concentrate firepower suppression, etc. These are not something bandits can do to fake it.

The group of people had no clues. They hid in the mountains and forests for a few days and had eaten up some food with them. After discussing, several leaders believed that Shandong had the People's Army and there was basically no way to live in green forests, so they could not stay in Shandong anymore. They decided to fight two villages, grab some food and money, and then transfer to Henan or Zhili province for development.

But after everyone came out of the mountain again, they found that the world outside the mountain had changed. Many villages built land encirclements and organized militias. Although the land encirclement was not high, only more than ten feet tall, it was an insurmountable obstacle for these bandits. Moreover, there were militias stationed on the land encirclement. Therefore, the bandits attacked two villages in a row, but they failed to break it. They lost more than 20 brothers. When they attacked the second village, they were attacked by the People's Army. As a result, the people were dispersed and went their separate ways.

Chen Yiquan fled into the mountains and forests with some people, but was bitten by a team of People's Army. Both sides chased them in the mountains and forests for a day and a night. Although they were not caught up, there were fewer and fewer bandits around Chen Yiquan, and he was unable to get rid of the People's Army until the remaining dozen people ran exhausted.

After a little breath, Chen Yiquan looked around. In fact, he was very unfamiliar with this forest. He didn't know where he was, but after all, he was experienced in the mountains and could roughly estimate his location.

At this time, a bandit came to Chen Yiquan and gasped, "Master, what should we do now?"

Chen Yiquan thought for a while and said, "First find a place to hide for a few days, find some food..."

At this moment, there was only a "bang bang" sound of gunfire. The bandit's head tilted and fell to the ground. Then the gunfire continued, and dozens of gray-green figures rushed out of the bushes.

Chen Yiquan was not shocked. The People's Army had been chasing here all the time. Wouldn't they be tired if it was difficult? The bandits often moved in the mountains and forests, and they all developed good skills and had strong athletic ability in the mountains and forests. Therefore, when Chen Yiquan and the Qing army were in battle, even if they were defeated, they could basically ensure safety as long as they escaped into the mountains and forests. The Qing army generally would not pursue them, and even if they were chasing them, they could not catch up with the bandits.

But the People's Army not only pursued, but also was able to pursue it, even stronger. On several occasions, the bandits thought they had already left the People's Army's pursuit and could stop and rest, but just after taking a breath, they found that the People's Army was chasing from behind again, just as the bandits were exhausted now, and the soldiers of the People's Army not only caught up, but also had the physical strength to attack the bandits.

In fact, the endurance of the People's Army soldiers is indeed stronger than that of the bandits, but the bandits are more accustomed to mountain sports, and in total, it is almost the same. However, the People's Army is the chasing side, and the bandits are the chasing side, so the two sides are completely different in their mentality. Anyone who has received long-distance running training knows that in long-distance running, chasing behind others is easier than leading the way.

In addition, in this kind of long-distance pursuit, the reasonable distribution of physical strength is also very important. After all, the People's Army has received professional training and pays great attention to maintaining the rhythm of movement during pursuit. It does not pursue eye-catching pursuit. Instead, it maintains the rhythm of chasing based on clues left by the bandits and does not exert force easily. Therefore, when the bandits have run out of exhaustion, the People's Army does have enough physical strength to launch an attack.

This time the bandits really couldn't run, so even if the People's Army caught up, they were unable to run and could only wait for death on the ground. However, there were still 3 or 4 bandits who were not willing to give up and got up from the ground and escaped into the forest.

Chen Yiquan had not lie down at first, so when he saw the People's Army chasing him again, he was shocked and bitten him. He stepped apart and ran into the mountains and forests. But after a distance of 4 or 5 steps, a sudden pain came from the vest, his feet suddenly became soft, and he fell to the ground. He was rugged on the mountain road, so he rolled for 5 or 6 times before hitting a big tree.

Chen Yiquan opened his eyes in a daze, and saw a clear blue sky and white clouds in front of him. This was his last consciousness.

On the next day, Luo Yue received a report. After confirming that Chen Yiquan was shot dead and all the remaining troops were wiped out. This was the ninth bandit force that was annihilated by Luo Yue after the comprehensive operation of eliminating bandits. A total of more than 700 bandits were killed and more than 1,200 were captured. Among the combat troops in regiments, it was the largest number of captured bandits.

However, after annihilated Chen Yiquan, the bandit force, Luo Yue also received a notice from the division headquarters that the 5th Division would replace the 1st Division and stationed in Jinan area, so he handed over the takeover troops as soon as possible, returned to Jinan to meet with the division headquarters, and returned to Qingdao to station.

The 5th Division is a newly formed unit. They were asked to garrison in Jinan, mainly to increase their experience. Although the removal of bandits has come to an end, after all, they are stationed in the border areas and still have a certain practical training value. The 1st Division also has other important tasks.

Although the People's Army has formed five divisions, the artillery of all divisional artillery units has not been fully equipped. Some companies only have one cannon for training, while others can even be assigned one cannon.

Now Qingdao Arsenal has produced a batch of artillery. Except for the 155mm caliber heavy artillery, the rest of the artillery can basically be equipped with a division. However, although the time-travel soldiers are not unfamiliar with artillery tactics and infantry and artillery cooperation tactics of this era, they are basically limited to theoretical knowledge. After all, in the old time and space, they were not professional army, but Marines, and they did not use artillery much. Moreover, the artillery tactics of the old time and space are also very different from this era. The theoretical knowledge they understand is also relatively superficial. After all, in the old time and space, unless they were a few researchers, ordinary soldiers would not study artillery tactics in detail more than 100 years ago.

Although artillery was used in the battle with the Eight-Nation Alliance in the past, most of them were mortars, and there were not much artillery when they were actually used, and the experience accumulated was not enough. Therefore, the use of artillery and the tactical details of artillery need to be explored, tested, confirmed the well-known theoretical knowledge, and gradually accumulated experience.
Chapter completed!