Huang Zhongting looked at Liao Zhongyi and said slowly: "Uncle Liao, thank you very much for taking care of me and my father in the past few years, now my father has fallen ill, but I want to continue to implement my father's wishes, so before my father recovers from his illness, I will be in charge of the overall situation." ”

Huang Zhongting's straight to the point directly stunned Liao Zhongyi. Looking at Liao Zhongyi, who was shocked, Huang Zhongting felt normal, and he was a little happy to think that the opportunity had come, and what he wanted was this effect.

Huang Zhongting continued: "Uncle Liao, my father said let us flee into Lao Cai, Vietnam, I don't think this is a foolproof solution, Vietnam is now a French colony, Lao Cai also has a French garrison, at present France and the Qing court have more interests, if we flee to Lao Cai, Vietnam, the Qing court will immediately ask the French army to capture us, and return to the Qing court for disposal, and the fate of the Qing court to deal with Uncle Liao, you can think about it." ”

Seeing that Liao Zhongyi's face turned from shock to thought, Huang Zhongting said no more. Huang Zhongting believes that Liao Zhongyi will understand the stakes, after all, it is related to the life of every revolutionary rebel.

At this time, Liao Zhongyi's heart was very complicated, he thought that Huang Zhongting was just a child, he had no experience in military command decision-making, and he should not listen to it at will, but should firmly implement the commander's orders, but he felt that what Huang Zhongting said was very reasonable, which was also related to his own net worth and future destiny, so Liao Zhongyi's heart was very complicated at this moment.

Half an hour later, Liao Zhongyi broke his calm and said in a deep voice: "The decision to go to Lao Cai in Vietnam was made by the commander, what if the commander asks in the future?" ”

"You can rest assured about this Uncle Liao, in the future, when my father asks, I will say that I made it, and I believe that my father will not embarrass you. In addition, when we enter the mountains, we can rest and recuperate without worrying about the pursuit of the Qing army. I remember that you said before that there is a gang of bandits in the mountainous area of the border between Hekou and Vietnam, which has existed for more than 10 years, and the Hekou County Ya and Yue Zheng Fu have organized many times to clean up and suppress them, but they have not succeeded, but have made them stronger and stronger, so that now both sides are no longer able to clear them, and they acquiesce in the existence of this gang of bandits. We can emulate this gang of bandits. Huang Zhongting persuaded hard.

"Okay, the commander is sick now, you are the only son of the commander, you can do what you say, I will listen to you." Liao Zhongyi felt that the master was sick at the moment, and the little master could also be in charge, so what did he do with so much care, just do things well.

Liao Zhongyi is equivalent to the personal guard commander of the old society, and Huang Mingtang is its master, and it is only because Huang Mingtang instigated the anti-Qing uprising that he was arranged to be the commander of the guard company.

"Okay, Uncle Liao, you are anxious about the officers above the platoon commander in the guard company outside, and I will make some specific deployments."

In this way, Huang Zhongting realized his first step plan and initially mastered the military power, and Huang Zhongting's heart was still a little happy.

There are more than 160 people in the guard company, under the jurisdiction of three platoons, one platoon of 60 people, the rest of the second platoon, the third platoon each of 50 people, the platoon commander and above there are only 5 officers, company commander Liao Zongyi, deputy company commander Xu Guichuan, first platoon commander Huang Zhongyuan, second platoon commander Li Desheng, third platoon commander Li Kan.

Although most of the rebel army came out of the original Qing army, they were all new armies established in accordance with the Western army system, and the title of the modern army was not much different.

At the meeting, Huang Zhongting adjusted the guard company, with 10 people in one squad, three squads in one platoon, and three platoons in a complete company, and only 90 people in the first company except for the company commander and deputy company commander. The whole guard company was divided into five platoons and one squad.

Huang Zhongting split the guard company into three companies, and the commander of the guard company, Liao Zhongyi, had a platoon and a squad under his jurisdiction; The commander of the first company, Huang Zhongyuan, has three platoons under his jurisdiction.

Huang Zhongyuan is Huang Zhongping's cousin, 29 years old, who has studied abroad at the German Army University, is a veritable commander, originally a centurion in the Qing army, and then responded to Huang Mingtang's revolutionary uprising.

And he usually has a good relationship with Huang Zhongping, and takes care of him like a younger brother.

Based on these, Huang Zhongping made him the commander of a company and gave him a full number.

Xu Guichuan, the commander of the second company, has a platoon under his command; Li Desheng, the former second platoon commander, and Li Kai, the third platoon commander, temporarily followed Huang Zhongping as staff officers, and then appointed another one, and the platoon commanders of each company were appointed by the company commanders themselves.

Except for one company, the remaining two companies were not fully staffed. Huang Zhongting is doing this to prepare for the expansion of the compilation in the future, now he is not just to go up the mountain and be the king, he is familiar with history, he already occupies an advantage that people in this era do not have, not to mention that this is another troubled era, and his ambition will gradually reveal in the future.

Huang Zhongting also asked people to count the weapons, ammunition and food, and the weapons and ammunition were 300 rifles and a Makqin heavy machine gun, and there were 20,000 rifle bullets and 3,000 machine gun bullets left.

As more than 400 people who have fled to Hanoi, Viet Nam, have just been collected, the equipment is sufficient for the current 160 people.

These equipment were relatively advanced at that time, and were allocated by the Qing court to the garrison in Kunming, Yunnan.

Originally, a few rifled guns made by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were captured, but unfortunately they were damaged and lost in the next few battles, and there was no one left.

This made Huang Zhongting feel quite a pity, artillery was an absolute heavy weapon of war at that time, and one cannon could improve the overall strength of a unit.

Even if there is only one cannon left, Huang Zhongping's heart will increase a little confidence. But reality is reality, and if you don't have it, you don't have it, and you can't force it.

The grain is relatively sufficient, and there are still 200 quintals of tax grain that have just been collected in the granary of Hekou County, which is enough to supply these 160 people to eat in the mountains for several months.

Later, Huang Zhongping arranged some other matters after entering the mountain, and at 3:00 a.m. he headed for the mountainous area southeast of the estuary and the Vietnamese border.

After walking about 50 miles of mountain roads, I found a suitable place to stay.

There are five or six caves around the perimeter, which are fully capable of accommodating two hundred people. After Huang Zhongting settled his father Huang Mingtang, who was still in a coma, he led a group of officers to carefully inspect and arrange a cordon before returning to the cave to sleep.

But Liao Zhongyi and Huang Zhongyuan and their group of officers got together and did not sleep.

"Uncle Liao, do you feel that the court has changed, and it has changed a lot, and it is not the same person as him before." Huang Zhongyuan asked with some surprise.

Without waiting for Liao Zhongyi to answer, Xu Guichuan and Li Desheng had already hurriedly replied: "It's changed, it's changed, it's become obvious, several of us have been following the commander for several years, and we know the kid in the middle court better, it's really different from before, and I feel that I have some momentum as a commander." ”