Suddenly, Bai Zhijun and Zhao Xinbo jumped out from beside the two Japanese secret agents. One of them pressed down one of the Japanese agents, the "camera" fell to the ground and shattered, revealing a gun barrel inside.

  After the guards came up and tied up the two agents, Zhao Xinbo kicked one of the agents with his foot: "Damn it! I've been watching you for a long time! You think you're so clever!"

  All the students in the auditorium were shocked by this sudden change, and some people had already started to stir up trouble. Even General Liu Zongzhou was frightened pale.

  "Children! Don't panic!" Zhang Xueliang waved his hand at the students, then turned to Bai Zhijun and Zhao Xinbo and said, "Take these two Japanese spies away!"

  Liu Zhen's pale face didn't recover until half a day later, and he incoherently said: "What's going on? Are the Japanese trying to kill me or are they trying to kill Han Ying brothers?"

  Li Bin remained calm and composed, after a brief moment, he continued his speech.

  After returning to the Young Marshal's Mansion, Li Bin immediately proposed to Zhang Xueliang: "Young Marshal, I must set off for Lingyuan immediately. My brothers are all waiting there. I just hope to defeat Japanese imperialism as soon as possible and recover my northeastern homeland!"

  "But whether it's national power or military strength, we can't compare with Japan. Moreover, we have the National Government above us, and they are determined to fight an internal war. I, Han Ying, am also helpless. You go and gather with your brothers first, that batch of weapons and ammunition will arrive later!" Zhang Xueliang said.

  The next day, Li Bin, disguised as an ordinary soldier, followed a group of officers and men from the 620th Regiment of the Seventh Brigade to Lingyuan, where he would meet up with his comrades.

  They sent Li Bin all the way to the Yanshan Mountains north of Beiping, and Wang Tiehan bowed to Li Bin and said: "Brother Li Bin! We have to return to Beiping to report back, we can only send you here, brother take care!"

  "Take care, brother!" Li Bin replied with a bow.

  "There is a regiment of brothers here, and I'm handing them over to you! I hope the brother can lead them well to fight against the Japanese devils!" Wang Tiehan said.

  "Thanks, brother!" Li Bin bid farewell to Wang Tiehan with a bow and then led the soldiers of this regiment to Lingyuan together.

  Upon learning the news that Li Bin had escaped unscathed under the protection of Shao Shuai, Akira was so enraged that he couldn't speak. After a long while, he slammed his fist on the table: "Bastards! Those damned Chinese! If we don't teach them a lesson, they won't know the power of the Great Japanese Empire!"

  At 23:20 that night, the January 28 Incident broke out. The Japanese naval landing party launched an attack on Shanghai under the cover of heavy artillery and tanks, but encountered strong resistance from the 19th Route Army.

  Later, the Japanese army had two more aircraft carriers and over 10,000 troops arrive in Shanghai, while Japanese warships sailed south along the Yangtze River towards Nanjing, preparing to bombard the city.

  Li Bin bid farewell to Wang Tiehan and walked for three days and nights before arriving at Lingyuan with his soldiers. As soon as he arrived at Xitai, he saw Hong Biao and Xiao Bo coming to greet him.

  Not seeing General Huang Xiansheng, Li Bin asked: "Where is Commander Huang? Why isn't he here?"

  Hong Biao replied: "Commander Huang has formed a new army in the Bei Piao area, he is now seeking help from Feng Yuxiang. Now all of us brothers who retreated from Jinzhou are waiting for you here!"

  "How many brothers are left from Jinzhou?" Li Bin asked.

  "Besides those who were killed, wounded or dispersed, we have six hundred and seventy-eight men here." Hong Biao replied.

  Thinking of the five thousand hot-blooded men guarding Jinzhou, only more than 600 people were left, Li Bin's heart ached, but what he was most worried about was his "earth tank" unit. So he asked Hong Biao: "What about our earth tank unit? How many brothers are left? Are they here?"

  "Big brother, after the Tootank withdrew from Jinzhou, because the target was too big, it suffered heavy losses due to bombing by the enemy planes. By the time we reached Shanhaiguan, only six tanks were left. Big brother, do you want me to go and bring those tanks back?" Hong Biao said.

  "No need!" Li Bin said, "We are in a mountainous area, the target of the war chariot is large, and it is also inconvenient to move in the mountains. Moreover, we now have only so many people, more than 600 people plus the company given by General Xiao, less than 800, even with war chariots, there is no use, it's better for us to fight lightly."

  Two men walked into the camp, all the warriors knew that Li Bin was back and stood on both sides of the road to welcome him. After entering the camp, Li Bin gathered his troops and personally counted the number of people, finding that except for Huang Hua, Wu Congyu, Jing Hu, Ma Lisheng, there were eleven snipers and twenty-three divine shooters left. Looking at Fang Juntian's special forces team, only thirty-five people were left.

  "Comrades, General Shuai will provide us with another batch of weapons and ammunition in about two or three days. We'll recruit more men here for now. However, this isn't our territory, and we can't stay under someone else's roof forever. So, we must enter the Northeast! There, we'll fight against the Japanese devils and establish our base in their heartland! We'll fight in the Northeast until we drive those devils out!"

  After finishing his speech, Li Bin began to arrange tasks. He let Hong Biao take the lead in recruiting soldiers in various villages around Lingyuan, promising two silver dollars for each soldier's family and one silver dollar as monthly salary for each soldier.

  Of course, Li Bin was still quite strict with the recruitment, and many young people who applied were eliminated because they were too weak, and some were eliminated because of their bad habit of smoking. Xiao Bo, on the other hand, was responsible for purchasing food, clothing and other daily necessities.

  After three days of recruitment, Hong Biao was exhausted from talking, and in the vast area of Lingyuan, he only recruited 1,000 new soldiers. This was because at that time, ordinary people really didn't have any concept of defending their homes and country; they only knew how to survive, and joining the army during wartime was an extremely dangerous thing to do.

  At the same time, the weapons and ammunition provided by Zhang Xueliang to Li Bin were also delivered smoothly. This time, Young Marshal was very generous and gave Li Bin 1,500 Type 13 rifles, 200 Mauser pistols, 6 of the most advanced 30-round heavy machine guns, 12 water-cooled heavy machine guns from 1924, 80 Czech light machine guns, 6 82mm mortars from 1920, 12 Shanghai-style 60mm mortars, and an additional 10 Browning high-power pistols, 10 Mauser C96 pistols, 30 MP18 submachine guns, 20 Thompson M1921 submachine guns, 200,000 rounds of various ammunition, 8,000 hand grenades, and 500 artillery shells.

  Apart from guns and ammunition, Zhang Xueliang also gave Li Bin's Righteous and Brave Army a batch of medicine and 100,000 yuan.

  "Li Bin, my brother, you are a true hot-blooded man and an excellent general! You are so young yet have such great military talent, I, Zhang Xueliang, deeply admire you! The weapons of the Righteous and Brave Army are too poor, these weapons were allocated from the Northeastern Army to give to you. As for medicine and money, it is my own money, all of which can be used by you, keep the money as military pay and other expenses. Besides this, I, Zhang Xueliang, am powerless, above me is the National Government. Having lost the three eastern provinces, I, Zhang Xueliang, am now a stray dog, please forgive me, Li Bin brother! By the way, the Japanese have taken away a large amount of wealth from my Northeast, in the future when you, Li Bin brother, have the opportunity, help me take back this wealth from the Japanese! After taking it back, let you develop your troops!"

  After reading Zhang Xueliang's letter, Li Bin could only secretly feel grateful to the Young Marshal in his heart.

  The troops were insufficient, and the guns given by the young marshal had increased. Therefore, Li Bin decided to send 600 rifles and 80 Mauser pistols to Huang Xiansheng's Righteous Brave Army, and also gave away all 20 expensive Thompson M1921 submachine guns to Huang Xiansheng's Righteous Brave Army.

  Hong Biao and Fang Jun Tian expressed incomprehension towards Li Bin's decision to give the guns to Huang Xiansheng. Hong Biao said, "Why should we give these guns to Huang Xiansheng? We can take them with us when we leave, and use them after we've developed our base and recruited new soldiers."

  Li Bin said, "After we leave, this 7.92mm gun can only be used for a period of time. Once the bullets are gone, the gun will be useless! We don't have any bullets to replenish our supply! From now on, we can only rely on capturing the enemy's 6.5mm caliber weapons. Moreover, Huang Xiansheng's army is also an anti-Japanese army. If we give him the guns, it would actually strengthen our own anti-Japanese forces!"

  After the new recruits enlisted, Li Bin began to train them. The most basic training was physical training. However, these new recruits ran five miles on mountain roads, and every one of them was out of breath, not a single one could satisfy Li Bin.

  Faced with this situation, Li Bin could only feel helpless: at that time, the Chinese people were generally malnourished and couldn't be compared to modern times. Fortunately, General Shao gave so much silver, which can be used to buy more grain and pigs to supplement the soldiers' physical strength after training. Anyway, for the time being, this silver will not be used up soon. When we enter the enemy's rear and open up a new base area in the future, we can go to the enemy's place to rob money at that time.

  This place is the territory of the Ninth Brigade, and Li Bin certainly cannot stay here for long. He knows that they can only stay here for three months at most, and then this unit will have to go to Northeast China, deep into enemy-occupied territory to open up a new battlefield.

  After a month of training, the quality of the new recruits improved somewhat, and Li Bin began to teach them combat skills such as shooting, bayonet fighting, and grenade throwing.

  After simply teaching some basic shooting requirements, Li Bin began to let the soldiers hold wooden guns and aim at targets. After a few days, bricks were hung on the wooden guns, and the soldiers had to hold the guns with bricks without shaking their hands.

  After ten days of training, Li Bin finally taught these soldiers live ammunition shooting. He ordered the issuance of rifles to all soldiers, with five rounds per person, for live ammunition shooting.

  After live ammunition training, Li Bin selected a batch of machine gunners from the new recruits based on their scores and mastery of shooting skills. When training the machine gunners, Li Bin patiently explained to the new recruits how to use the Czech-style machine gun for short bursts and long bursts: "One magazine is twenty rounds, if you don't release the trigger, the bullets will be quickly used up, not to mention that the subsequent bullets cannot accurately hit the target..."

  While the light machine gunners were opening "small stoves", Hong Biao selected a batch of soldiers from the old soldiers to serve as heavy machine gunners and trained them. As for the mortar gunners, they were also selected from the old soldiers and trained by Liu Hanshan.