Although Qixingzhai failed to attack Wanjiabao twice before, these two times Wanjiabao defended the castle and did not dare to go out of the city to fight with bandits, and there was no protection ability for the surrounding villages, so although Qixingzhai failed to capture Wanjiabao, it could still loot in the surrounding villages and return with a full load.

And it is based on this experience that Qixingzhai has a wrong judgment, thinking that the Volunteers are the same as the original Wanjiabao, even if they capture Wanjiabao, they will hide in the castle and defend like the original Wanjiabao, as long as they do not attack Wanjiabao, they can still loot at will in the villages within the sphere of influence announced by these Volunteers.

The nearest Qixing Village to the area around Wanjiabao is the fifth village. So the five masters He went in and out to loot a village, which was intended to slap a dozen volunteers in the face, and proudly declared that in this place, hiding in Wanjiabao and returning it, as long as it was out of Wanjiabao, it was Qixingzhai who had the final say.

Of course, the traverser will not endure this breath, what he asks for is the absolute safety of the area under his control, and naturally he cannot let the bandits act recklessly, and the platoon-level officers of the Volunteer Army are basically veterans of the original People's Army. After all, in the two years since the establishment of the People's Army, it has indeed achieved very brilliant results, and naturally it also has proud capital, and the soldiers who have crossed also know that soldiers should be a little arrogant, and if they are only soldiers, then it is useless to give them the best weapons. Therefore, this gang of bandits who don't know the height of the sky actually dared to slap themselves in the face, of course, they wanted to retaliate fiercely.

Moreover, Qixingzhai is located at the junction of Shandong and Henan, and it is just stuck on the traffic artery from Shandong to the new base, so it is from the perspective of ensuring the traffic line, and Qixingzhai must also be cleared. However, the power of Qixingzhai is relatively strong, and it is difficult to exterminate it in a short period of time, and now the main task of the volunteers is to ensure the stability and security of the controlled area, and there is no energy to exterminate Qixingzhai for the time being, but it is still possible to eliminate one or two of the villages and suppress the qi of Qixingzhai.

So Li Wenjie immediately ordered two companies of troops to attack the fifth village of Qixingzhai. And this battle, once again, showed that the volunteers far exceeded the bandits' fighting behavior, and there were three 60 mortars to suppress the formation, so it did not waste much effort to conquer the fifth village. It's just that in the battle, the fifth master, He Jin, fled. However, after breaking through the fifth village, the volunteers did not take advantage of the victory to attack, but sent a captive bandit to send a warning to Qixingzhai, who dared to touch the village protected by the volunteers in the future, the fifth village is an example.

And the destruction of the fifth village also shook the entire Qixing Village, because this is something that has never happened since the establishment of the Qixing Village. The message warning of the volunteers is even more contempt for the Seven Star Village, and the big boss Zhu Jun immediately decided that he must find this field back, so he gathered the remnants of the third village, the sixth village, the seventh village, and the fifth village, gathered a total of more than 600 people, and launched an attack on the volunteers again.

In fact, the volunteers also estimated that if they only broke one stockade, the bandits would probably not give up and would definitely retaliate again, and they would only beat the bandits again, so they knew that the pain was for this, so they were ready to fight again. This time, three companies were dispatched, with one company facing the bandits in the front, and the other two companies outflanking from the left and right, and as a result, the bandit army was once again defeated, and less than 200 people fled back, and even the fifth master, He Jin, also died in the chaos.

At this time, Qixingzhai received a green forest post from Lin Shenwang, and the big boss Zhu Jun certainly had no intention of participating in this green forest conference, so he sent the second master Huang Quan to attend the meeting on his behalf. As soon as Huang Quan left, the volunteers launched an attack on Qixingzhai again, and this time it was the seventh village, the result was of course self-evident, the seventh village was broken by the volunteers, and Fang Yue, the seventh master, was killed on the spot.

Several times in a row, Qixingzhai did not take advantage of anything, on the contrary, it ended in a fiasco, and suffered heavy losses, Qixingzhai was actually beaten into a five-star village, so it also made the remaining few masters realize that this volunteer army that came out of there is a hard bone, so they did not dare to act rashly, and did not want to rob the villages under the rule of the volunteers. Fortunately, the heads of the two stockades that were breached were dead, and no one objected.

Huang Quan returned to Qixingzhai after participating in the Green Forest Conference to know that he had broken another village, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and he understood the behavior of the volunteers in detail, because he knew that the volunteers actually confiscated all the land of the landlord and the powerful and distributed it to the ordinary people, so he strengthened his judgment, the volunteers are very likely to be the army of overseas Chinese, at least they have a close relationship with overseas Chinese, because this routine is not what overseas Chinese have done in Shandong?

So Huang Quan told the other four leaders in detail about his participation in the Green Forest Conference and the content of the meeting, and of course also said his judgment. After everyone heard this, they were also very shocked, they didn't expect that the overseas Chinese had forced the green forest of Shandong to this step, and they all agreed with Huang Quan's judgment, the Volunteer Army must be the army of the overseas Chinese, it seems that the overseas Chinese are not willing to be satisfied with only Shandong Province, and stretched their clutches to Henan.

Of course, the encroachment of overseas Chinese in Henan has nothing to do with the green forest, but their squeezing of the living space of the green forest in this way is a major matter related to the vital interests of every green forest person. So everyone also asked Huang Quan for advice on how to deal with overseas Chinese.

And Huang Quan also said that he ordered 150 rifles from Wang Kefu, which was also unanimously agreed by everyone, who thought that Huang Quan did the right thing, but the quantity was still a little less, and unanimously agreed to order a batch after receiving the goods.

Huang Quan suggested that before the first batch of rifles was delivered, it was not advisable to have a direct conflict with the volunteers, and to wait for this batch of rifles to arrive before acting, and the plan of action also used the tactics formulated by Wang Kefu to break into pieces, attack and infestation the village, and at the same time manage their own back roads. This opinion was also unanimously agreed by the other four masters, after all, Qixingzhai has a relatively rich family background, which is much stronger than other green forest forces in Shandong, so it can still hold on.

As a result, only Wuzhai was left in Qixingzhai, and since then it has also died down, closed its doors, and no longer clashed with the volunteers. The volunteers, on the other hand, had no energy to take care of anything else, but instead concentrated on carrying out land reform, establishing a local grassroots administrative system, training local cadres, recruiting and forming an army, and so on.

Moreover, the volunteers defeated Qixingzhai in a row, and implemented land reform, and also made their own reputation in this area, several villages took the initiative to join the volunteers, and some villages sent people to invite the volunteers to their villages to implement land reform, etc., so they were also busy for a while.

By the end of November, the Volunteers had taken control of 43 villages, distributed in Chenzhou, Guide, Kaifeng and other places, with a total of 974 households and a population of 5,812 people, and controlled an area of about 2,000 square kilometers. At the same time, more than 700 new soldiers were recruited and a battalion was formed. Since the volunteers were all active in the villages, they did not intrude on the county seat, and the taxes had already been collected this year, so the local officials in Henan Province did not want to do much, thinking that it was just a local riot or bandit looting, and they did not pay attention to it.

At this time, the government of the new base area wrote a detailed report and passed it to the Qingdao Executive Yuan, and at the same time put forward a request, hoping that Shandong would provide another batch of guns and ammunition.

After receiving the report, the Executive Yuan was very satisfied with the work of the government of the new base area during this period, and the first step of the mine division plan was carried out well, and the next day it replied to the government of the new base area, first praised the work of the government of the new base area, and agreed to transfer 500 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition and part of the ammunition to the volunteers. At the same time, it also reminds the government of the new base area not to be careless, because with the expansion of the scale of the new base area, it will certainly attract the attention of the government, and the bandit forces in the green forest should not be taken lightly, and it should take advantage of the fact that it has entered the period of agricultural slack and mobilize the residents of all villages to immediately build village fences, walls, and other protective facilities in each village to prevent attacks by bandits.

It turned out that just a few days ago, there were reports from various parts of Shandong about bandit forces attacking villages. Moreover, this round of attacks is quite strange, as if the bandits in various places had been discussed, they acted almost at the same time, and the number of bandits was small, the number of bandits was generally between 50 and 60 people; the time was short, no more than an hour, and they ran away after the robbery; they killed a lot of people, almost killing people when they entered the village, and they did not care about the characteristics of indiscriminate use; in addition to looting, the bandits also shouted in public, "The reason for robbing you is because the overseas Chinese have forced us to have no way to live, so if you want to blame the overseas Chinese, we will blame the overseas Chinese." ”

In a short period of three days, a total of 57 attacks occurred in Shandong, a total of 17 villages were breached by bandits, resulting in 1,127 deaths, 2,561 injuries, more than 10 tons of grain and materials were robbed, and countless other materials were also caused.

Of course, the KPA stationed in various places was not idle, and as soon as they received the report, they would attack immediately, but the bandits moved too fast, and when the KPA arrived, most of the bandits ran away. Only a small number of bandits were stopped, and in the end only 362 bandits were killed and 67 captured, which can be said to be not very effective.

However, in the whole territory of Shandong, there is also a shining point, that is, although there were 10 attacks in Jinan Fuli, none of the villages were breached by the bandits, only 23 villagers were killed, and another 37 villagers were injured, and 143 bandits were killed and 29 were captured. This is mainly because after exterminating the bandits of Mount Tai, all villages in Jinan Province are fully prepared for defense.