Li Zhuangyong and Jing Tingbin don't know each other, but they have some friendship with Zhao Sanduo, and they are Zhao Sanduo's juniors. And Jing Tingbin is a righteous person, so he welcomes Li Zhuangyong and the crowd to vote.

Although the number of troops brought by Li Zhuangyong is not large, there are more than 100 guys with rings, most of which are advanced bolt-type repeating rifles, and although Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo's troops now have more than 200 rifles, they are basically old-fashioned single-shot rifles, and even many of them are breech rifles; in addition, Li Zhuangyong's army also has a complete cavalry establishment, so Li Zhuangyong's joining has indeed greatly strengthened the strength of Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo. So Jing Tingbin also confirmed that Li Zhuangyong was a franchise and was qualified to sit on an equal footing with other Lianzhuang associations, League associations, and local gang forces.

After joining the alliance of Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo, Li Zhuangyong led the troops to fight bravely, took the lead, broke several landlords' manors in a row, and even defeated the officers and soldiers twice, because Li Zhuangyong was influenced by the People's Army, and knew that the soldiers were not expensive, and the strong army was fought out, not the reason for guaranteeing it, and there was no other Lianzhuang Association, League Association, and local gang forces like the style of wise self-protection, so although he joined for a short time, he was known for being able to fight a good war, and was also deeply valued by Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo.

And Li Zhuangyong also knows that although he has gained a firm foothold in Jing Tingbin, after all, he is an outsider and has no roots in the local area, so he still continues the previous style, after laying the landlord's manor, he distributes the land and property to the villagers, and collects taxes, grain, and recruits in the village, based on this, now Li Zhuangyong has controlled two villages, more than 300 households, and the army has also expanded to 300 people. In the team of Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo, he can be regarded as a well-known family member.

As soon as he heard Chen Qi's speech, Li Zhuangyong knew that it was the People's Army, which naturally aroused the discussion of other franchisees, and now the prestige of the People's Army is naturally known to everyone, and when Li Zhuangyong came to vote, he did not hide his origins, and everyone knew that he had worked in the People's Army.

At this time, a person stood up and said: "It doesn't matter what kind of people's army he is, he can't help but do the business sent to the door, rob this people's army, not to mention anything else, he will definitely be able to get a lot of resounding guys, which is very good for us, in my opinion, find a good place and give him a vote." ”

This person's name is Huang Weiying, he is the head of the group in Neiqiu County, and there are more than 800 people under his hands, which is a relatively important franchisee. It turned out that everyone saw that although Li Zhuangyong's team was small, but he was able to fight well, they all thought that it was because he had a large number of rifles, so they all wanted to get more guns and weapons. As soon as I heard that everyone in this army was armed with rifles, not only was they greedy, but since Jing Tingbin had been winning consecutive battles, the surrounding officers and soldiers had no way to deal with them, and it also raised the pride of some people, and they didn't know how many catties and taels they had.

Li Zhuangyong said: "The People's Army is not comparable to ordinary officers and soldiers, they are well-trained, brave in battle, and well-armed, in my opinion, it is best not to provoke them, this deal is not done." ”

Huang Weiying sneered and said: "Li Zhuangyong, you are too timid, what's so great about the People's Army, we have defeated so many officers and soldiers, are you still afraid of these 1 or 2,000 People's Army? We have more than 10,000 people, and if you beat him 1 out of 10, are you still afraid that you won't win?"

Li Zhuangyong said: "I'm not cowardly, and for our good, I have stayed in the People's Army, I know how powerful they are, your team is not 10 to 1, or 20 to 1, and it is not the opponent of the People's Army." Even if I let my team, the KPA only need to dispatch one platoon at most, that is, more than 40 people, which is enough. ”

He said that Huang Weiying's team of 20 was not an opponent against one of the People's Army, but he said that his team could compete with more than 40 people of the People's Army, which of course meant that Huang Weiying's team was inferior to his own team, and although Huang Weiying was very annoyed in his heart, he did not dare to argue with Li Zhuangyong.

It turned out that many people were very dissatisfied with Li Zhuangyong's small team, but they were on an equal footing with themselves, and they all thought that Li Zhuangyong's team could only fight by relying on a large number of rifles, and it was Huang Weiying who had provoked Li Zhuangyong several times. But more than ten days ago, the two had a dispute over the distribution of the spoils, so Li Zhuangyong challenged Huang Weiying, and 50 soldiers from each side made the long stick fight and won by capturing the flag. As a result, there were three consecutive competitions, and Li Zhuangyong's team won a complete victory in each game, not only successfully capturing the flag, but also beating Huang Weiying's team to scatter and flee.

Then Li Zhuangyong asked Huang Weiying to send 100 people to play, and he still responded with 50 people, and after two more games, the result was still won, which also proved that Li Zhuangyong's team did not win with rifles alone. Therefore, now Li Zhuangyong belittles Huang Weiying like this, but Huang Weiying is speechless to refute.

At this time, another person said: "Li Zhuangyong, you used to work in the People's Army, speaking for the People's Army like this, is it a spy sent by the People's Army." "This person's name is He Yilan, he is from Xizhao Village, there are more than 500 people under him, he and Huang Weiying have always been good friends, and he can't get used to Li Zhuangyong, seeing that Huang Wei can't answer, so he speaks to help Huang Yingyi speak.

Li Zhuangyong smiled and said: "Joke, if I am a spy sent by the People's Army, why do I have to admit that I have worked in the People's Army? And not to mention anything else, the People's Army is different from officers and soldiers, they are the army that really fights foreign devils, when I was in the People's Army, the guns killed do not count, there are 6 foreign devils killed with bayonets alone, this is not a foreign monk or Ermaozi, Sanmaozi, they are all genuine foreign devil soldiers, and most of the guys we use are snatched from foreign devils. What about you? I've killed a few foreign ghosts. ”

Being able to kill foreigners is indeed a boastful thing among everyone, not to mention killing foreign soldiers, so when Li Zhuangyong said this, no one had anything to say.

And Zhao Sanduo was also very dissatisfied with Huang Weiying and He Yilan, and Li Zhuangyong was also regarded as his sponsor, and Huang Yingwei and He Peilan accused him of being spies, didn't they slap themselves in the face? Not to mention that Zhao Sanduo was also an old-timer of the Boxers, and Huang Yingwei and He Peilan were nothing in his eyes.

But at this moment, Jing Tingbin said: "Everyone don't say a few words, although Brother Li has not been here for a long time, everyone can see his performance, that time in the battle was not his team rushing to the front, I can absolutely trust him, who will say that Brother Li is a spy in the future, I Jing Tingbin is the first to get along with him." ”

Jing Tingbin's prestige is well-known, and he is the head of the general group recommended by everyone, so as soon as he spoke, everyone did not dare to disagree. And Jing Tingbin said: "As for the People's Army, we have all heard that they are indeed an army that fights foreign ghosts, and they also beat foreign devils to the ground, but they have greatly increased the prestige of our Chinese, to be honest, I Jing Tingbin admires it very much, so we must not oppose such an army, and this deal will not be done." ”

In fact, Jing Tingbin is also very dissatisfied with Huang Weiying and He Yilan, these two people have a lot of teams, but they always hide behind and work hard when they fight, and they never lag behind when they grab the spoils of war.

Huang Weiying together: "The general group practice, now the weapons of my brothers are not complete enough, and the food and drink are almost the same, please also ask the general group to practice some branches, or let's go to fight a few more big households, I see that the Qi Lao family in the old suburbs of Shanbei Qizhuang has a big business, if his Zhuangzi is broken, the big guys can live a few days of relaxed life." ”

Jing Tingbin pondered for a while and said, "What about everyone?"

Li Zhuangyong said: "We now have more than 10,000 brothers, even if we defeat Qi Laoquan's Zhuangzi, we won't be able to eat for a few days, and the team will expand in the future, and we can't support it for a long time just by fighting big households." ”

Huang Weiying glanced at him and said, "Then what do you think we should do?"

Li Zhuangyong said: "In my opinion, if you want to do it, you can do it bigger, and you will have to build a few county seats, and the materials in the county are abundant, and the next county town will be worth more than 10 Zhuangzi." ”

Everyone also took a breath of cold air when they heard this, it was not that they didn't want to fight the county seat, but the number of people was too small, only more than 10,000 people, and there was no siege equipment, the county town was not very good, there were also city walls to defend, and the general peasant uprising often had to gather tens of thousands of people to fight the next county seat.

Huang Wei responded: "Fighting the county seat? It's easy to say, we only have more than 10,000 people, why should we fight the county seat." ”

Li Zhuangyong said: "I said that if I can fight, I will definitely be able to fight, as long as the head of the regiment gives an order, let me command, then my team can take the lead, and let everyone take the lead, and let everyone go with me, if you want to go, you can stay." As he spoke, he turned to Jing Tingbin to see his attitude.

Jing Tingbin pondered for a while and said, "Okay, it's decided that this time the attack on the county seat will be commanded by Brother Li." ”

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"Political commissar, no one has been staring at us for two days, and it seems that those people don't dare to do it. ”

"Well, that's fine, if you can do less, you can do less, but you can't be careless, all the security work can't be relaxed. ”

"Yes. ”

Qin Zheng also nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and let the car continue to move forward, although this people's army could not be compared with the army in the old time and space, but it was formed according to the model of the modern army, and every bit of it was indeed soaked in the hard work of Qin Zheng, Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun and others. Now it's an achievement.

The people's army guards along the road were very tight, and there were cavalry guards on the front and back, left and right, so some people were immediately discovered by the people's army's sentinels and spies, and after the group left Zhengding Mansion, they turned westward and entered the territory of Shanxi Province, and they were safe and sound for three consecutive days, while Prince Qing and others were still in the dark, still muttering about the bandits who came from there? The local officials of Zhengding Mansion were all nonsense.

On the third day when the People's Army entered Shanxi Province, Jing Tingbin, Zhao Sanduo, Li Zhuangyong and others led their troops to break through Guangzong County.