Chapter 42: My fate is up to me

Xu Guoren has prepared a countermeasure, Li Mingzhi's secret activities are still ongoing, his son Li Fugui went to unite with other local tyrants and inferior gentry in Pingyang City, and he began to inquire about looking for suitable candidates, using money, beauty and power as the temptation, ready to dig Xu Guoren's corner. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

All this was secretly controlled by the reconnaissance company commanded by Guo Xiaoliu, and Li Mingzhi selected to win over some recruits who were later recruited in Pingyang, officers who had grown up, and the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army that had been incorporated not long ago.

Relatively speaking, Guo Hu and Niu Dagen, these people's loyalty to Xu Guoren is not very high, and they are not Xu Guoren's henchmen, but their military ranks are not high, and the highest is a company commander.

After receiving the report from the reconnaissance company, Xu Guoren ordered it to continue surveillance, and at the same time began to secretly order the battalion and the guard company, which were absolutely loyal to him, to prepare for battle.

In order to avoid startling the snakes, Xu Guoren, the other troops, did not let them prepare, and everything was as usual.

Among them, all members of the guard company remained at the headquarters to protect Xu Guoren and his parents, and the three companies of the first infantry battalion, one was stationed not far from the county government, and two were stationed near the third battalion.

Most of the ones that Li Mingzhi recruited were in the third battalion, and Xu Guoren deployed it this way just in case.

The defense of the four gates was under the sole responsibility of Guo Hu's second battalion.

As for those local tyrants and inferior gentry, landlords and old wealth, the reconnaissance company alone is enough to deal with it.

Seven days later, Li Mingzhi had secretly recruited more than 20 grassroots officers and backbone of the security corps, and his father had also colluded with other squires and landlords to prepare to oppose Xu Guoren.

So Wu Xing began to hold the formation of the new county government and the inauguration ceremony of the new county magistrate, inviting the county's major landlords, local tyrants and inferior gentry and other influential figures to participate, Xu Guoren, Guo Shiyin, naturally also invited.

In the past week, in order to prevent emergencies and strengthen his own defense forces, the scheming Wu Xing sent people to the provincial capital to bring in a team of armed policemen, a total of more than 100 people.

At the same time, in order to completely overthrow Xu Guoren and seize the command of the security regiment, he also made another preparation, using his connections in the provincial capital to quietly transfer an infantry regiment of the Jin Sui Army stationed in the provincial capital to Wu County, north of Pingyang.

The commander of this infantry regiment was Wu Xing's brother-in-law, and their purpose was that if Li Mingzhi's plan to "force the palace" failed, the Jin Sui army would launch an attack, while Wu Xing and Li Mingzhi commanded the police and part of the troops of the security regiment that had been co-opted to rebel, and joined forces with the Jin Sui army outside the city to eliminate the troops loyal to Xu Guoren.

It is not surprising that this kind of rush to annex happened from time to time in China at that time, between large and small warlords.

It is worth mentioning that the more than 100 policemen transferred by Wu Xing were actually disguised by Jin Suijun.

Xu Guoren was not a professional soldier after all, and his main energy was focused on monitoring all the people in the city, and he neglected the intelligence outside the city.

Therefore, when Wu Xing's brother-in-law led the infantry regiment to leave Wu County and quietly march towards Pingyang, Xu Guoren still knew nothing.

In the open space outside the county government, many big families in Pingyang City have gathered, and they are all uneasy and uneasy, but when they look at the surrounding police who are three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and are loaded with guns and ammunition to maintain law and order, their inner worries have relaxed again.

Before Xu Guoren went to the appointment again, he secretly instructed the first battalion and the first company to lie in ambush not far from the county government, and the second and third companies to monitor the third battalion, and cooperate with Guo Danian to suppress the rebellion if necessary.

The guard company left a platoon to guard the headquarters in case the other side sent people to take advantage of the opportunity to kidnap the father and mother, and the reconnaissance company was responsible for contacting and monitoring the various departments in the city.

The second battalion strictly guarded the four gates, and Guo Danian sat in the third battalion station, and secretly mobilized officers loyal to Xu Guoren and his subordinates, preparing to arrest those subordinates who were instigated.

After making arrangements, Xu Guoren took two platoons of guards and went to the appointment with Guo Shiyin.

Wu Xing wore a suit, stood on the temporary podium in high spirits, glanced at the crowd at the scene, and said enthusiastically: "Thank you for coming to participate in today's new government and government establishment ceremony, Wu Xing, thanks to the provincial government, is specially appointed as the new county magistrate of Pingyang, here, Wu promised to all the fathers and villagers, in the future, I will definitely act impartially, people-oriented, do a good job as the parent of a county, so that everyone can live a peaceful and happy life!" ”

Li Mingzhi took the lead in applauding, and a group of local tyrants and inferior gentry in the audience applauded one after another, and the applause was thunderous for a while.

Subsequently, Wu Xing announced the appointment of Li Mingzhi as the new chief of the police department and secretary to the county magistrate.

After Li Mingzhi expressed his gratitude, he began to cut to the chase: "Fellow villagers, today is the day of the inauguration of the county magistrate Wu in Xia, and the county magistrate intends to uphold justice for the people. ”

Li Fugui got the hint, and immediately raised his hand to speak: "County Magistrate Wu, under Li Fugui, I have an important situation to report." ”

"Oh?" Wu Xing pretended to be surprised and said, "What do you report?" ”

Li Fugui glanced at Xu Guoren, who was standing on the right side of the podium, and plucked up the courage to say: "I want to report the current head of the security regiment, Xu Guoren, who was corrupt and bent the law, withheld taxes, and was also suspected of colluding with bandits to kill the former county magistrate and police chief. The county magistrate was also asked to take a clear look. ”

As soon as Li Fugui's words came out, several other landlords and old fortunes who had been knocked by Xu Guoren also jumped out to express their agreement.

Xu Guoren smiled and said nothing, but Guo Shiyin was very shocked, looked at Li Fugui and the others, turned his eyes to Wu Xing and Li Mingzhi, and said a little angrily: "County Magistrate Wu, don't listen to their nonsense, if there was no Xu Guoren's security group, Pingyang would have been looted by the bandits many times." ”

After a pause, Guo Shiyin scolded Li Fugui and the others again: "You people are really ungrateful, if it weren't for Xu Guoren, you would still be alive today?" ”

Niu Dagen also said indignantly: "That is, I don't know who cheekily went to Guojiabao to invite our security team to come to Pingyang to garrison, if it wasn't for us to eradicate bandits, you can have today?" ”

Wu Xing did not rush to express his position, but quietly observed Xu Guoren's reaction.

Seeing that Xu Guoren didn't mean to speak, he cleared his throat and waved his hand: "Commissioner Guo, please don't be impatient, since the people say so, there must be a reason for it, of course, if they make trouble for no reason, I will definitely deal with it seriously!" ”

Guo Shiyin nodded and retreated to Xu Guoren's side.

Wu Xing turned to Xu Guoren with a smile and said, "Captain Xu, you have seen this matter, do we have to give an explanation to the people?" ”

"What does County Magistrate Wu mean?" Xu Guoren looked at him for a long time and asked.

Wu Xing was frightened by Xu Guoren's unfazed performance, but he had to send it on the string, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "In order to calm the people's anger and avoid the intensification of the contradictions, in my opinion, Head Xu can temporarily step down from the post of head of the security regiment, and wait for me to investigate the truth of the matter, and then return you to Captain Xu!" ”

Xu Guoren smiled and said, "What's the matter, the fox's tail is exposed?" ”

Wu Xing didn't expect Xu Guoren to say this, so he was taken aback and said, "Head Xu, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Don't you understand what I mean?" Xu Guoren quietly gestured to Niu Dagen, and said with a smile: "I don't know if County Magistrate Wu, have you ever been chased and beaten by a group of beggars because you have no place to stay?" ”

"Of course not, this official is from a scholarly family, how can he live on the streets." Wu Xingdao.

"Have you ever been shot by your boss because you offended a few Oriental pirates?" Xu Guoren asked again.

Wu Xing shook his head and said, "I don't understand what you're talking about, Commander Xu, but today you have to give me and the people of the city an explanation, otherwise the people will be angry and the consequences will be unpredictable!" ”

Xu Guoren laughed angrily: "Haha, what you haven't experienced, Lao Tzu has experienced, the reason why Lao Tzu picked up a gun is forced by this troubled world, since this world doesn't give me a way to live, then I will fight a way out by myself, I don't want to be chased by beggars because of a foothold, I don't want others to decide my life and death indiscriminately, my life is up to me!"

Just with a few of you clowns, you want to take away Lao Tzu's military power, wishful thinking! ”

After saying this, Xu Guoren pointed at Li Fugui and other landlords and squires and said: "And you, these scum who will only oppress the poor people, when it is critical, it is Lao Tzu who will take the team into Pingyang to keep you safe, exterminate bandits, and return you to peace, do you want to cross the river and tear down the bridge now?" What a bunch of wolf-hearted stuff! ”

"Xu Guoren, today's position as the head of the security regiment, you have to hand it over, and you have to hand it over if you don't pay it! I can't help you! Seeing this, Li Mingzhi immediately pointed at Xu Guoren and shouted.

"Really? Just because you are also worthy of Lao Tzu to hand over power? Xu Guoren was not afraid, and shouted angrily: "You ask them if they agree!" ”

Hundreds of officers and soldiers from the first battalion and one company arrived in time, and the soldiers of the two guard platoons raised their guns in unison and stood behind Xu Guoren to protect.