In Maoming County, more than 50,000 officers and soldiers set out to crusade against the thieves, and less than 2,000 people remained to guard the city defense, and the news of being defeated by the thieves came, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city defense did not care about the order, and there was no order issued at this time. The officers and soldiers guarding the city defense did not need the orders from above, they laid down their weapons and left the county seat of Maoming, and the improvised teams were each looking for their own mothers.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in front were defeated by the anti-thieves, and some deserters came back, saying that the anti-thieves had hundreds of artillery, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city defense did not think that they had a chance to turn over with their own manpower, and stayed here and waited for the anti-thieves to come, and it was impossible to say whether they could save their lives when the time came, Maoming County because most of the people were arrested, leaving a small number of old people who could not do things, and the officers and soldiers came over and scraped the ground again, and many innocent people gave their lives, and the anti-thieves came back, maybe they were angry, and no one wanted to lose their lives, plus the adults of thousands of households ran away, Whoever doesn't run is really a fool.

After the volunteers captured most of the deserters, they sent a brigade of troops to the county seat of Maoming, and at the same time brought twenty Hongyi cannons, which could be used if there was resistance in the county.

When the volunteers arrived at the county seat, they found that the city gate was wide open, there were no officers and soldiers guarding it, and the people guarding the city defense had long been nowhere to be found.

Just finished the mission of chasing deserters, all the volunteers have more or less some credit, if there is more credit in Maoming County, this is a happy thing. Who knew that the officers and soldiers fled.

Seven days later, the news of the crusade against the anti-thieves finally reached the Yuezhou Prefecture and County Government, and when the prefect heard that he had lost the demeanor of a literati, he scolded and sent the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the anti-thieves.

No matter how the prefect jumps, the fact that the encirclement and suppression of the anti-thieves have failed, and the prefect can only accept this result!

A few days later, the impact of the battle slowly ended, and the people of Zhangjia Village returned to their original tracks, what are they doing! The construction of the Zhangdian Highway continued, and the officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress the volunteers, dissipating and invisible.

The people of Zhangjia Village are more convinced of the combat effectiveness of the volunteers, and they can make money under the protection of the volunteers.

Gaozhou County is more than 70 miles away from Maoming County, more than 90 miles away from Zhangjia Village, this time the government encircled and suppressed the anti-thieves, Gaozhou County sent people to provoke the volunteers, Yuezhou Mansion is hundreds of miles away from Zhangjia Village, Chen Zijian will not take care of the battle of Yuezhou Mansion for the time being, but in nearby Gaozhou County, Chen Zijian showed his fangs of expansion. Originally, he wanted to stabilize the two counties, build a good territory and then expand externally.

Since Gaozhou County came to provoke himself, the persimmon was found to be soft and pinched, and by the way, Gaozhou County was eaten, Chen Zijian felt that the manpower in Zhangjia Village was not enough, and he just grabbed seventy or eighty thousand young people.

Chen Zijian has decided to establish a division-level corps, with 3,750 people in one division and 22,500 regular personnel in six regiments, and as for the number of logistics and transportation, Chen Zijian is equipped with five times the number of regular volunteers.

Chen Zijian planned six regiments, with more than 112,000 logistics personnel, and with the number of volunteers, it would reach more than 130,000. At present, the total population of Zhangjia Village does not exceed 150,000, and if Chen Zijian's plan is to be achieved, a large number of young and strong people are needed.

The people of Zhangjia Village have their own jobs, work in different factories, provide materials for Chen Zijian, and recruit them into the Volunteer Army, all the factories in Zhangjia Village will collapse, and they can't start from the people of Zhangjia Village, so there is only one possibility left, that is, to arrest people from the county towns around them, so as to obtain the number of people required to expand the army.

Why don't you take revenge on Yuezhou Mansion immediately, in addition to Yuezhou Mansion is a little far away from Zhangjia Village, five or six hundred miles away, and there are areas where the volunteers have not yet digested the two counties, and there are landlords in some areas, and the existence of Haoqiang, the volunteers went out to clean up this force before, but they didn't expect the government to attack them, and the volunteers who had not completed their tasks were hurriedly mobilized to return.

As long as others don't come to attack Chen Zijian, he will proceed according to the plan, how the major forces in the north will fight like dogs Chen Zijian doesn't care, building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly claiming the king is what Chen Zijian has to do, he is a very low-key existence among the anti-thieves, compared to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, these rebel bosses, that is known to the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zijian, a rebel little leader, only develops in a few counties in eastern Guangdong Province.

Chen Zijian doesn't care about the name or anything, everything is the greatest, and when Chen Zijian completes the initial industrialization, he will use steel to kill his opponent.

Gaozhou County is not a big city, there is no need for Chen Zijian to take all the volunteers to attack them, otherwise it will give them too much face, it is understood that there are not many officers and soldiers in Gaozhou County to guard, the original guard was left with empty pay and food by the officials left a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no threat to the military households who can't fight, and there is the government service, the government service usually maintains law and order, and the volunteer police have the same task, but when it comes to fighting, if you want to rely on the government to guard the city defense, you can only say that it is difficult for the strong, even if Gaozhou County can recruit the people to cooperate in guarding the city defense, For the volunteers, it was just a matter of a few rounds of Hongyi cannons, and in front of the Hongyi cannons, the continuous shelling of a city wall like Beiping could not withstand it, let alone a simple city wall in Gaozhou County, which was no more than three meters high and one meter wide.

Chen Zijian handed over the attack on Gaozhou County to Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu was the third batch to follow Chen Zijian's personal guards, and the opportunity for meritorious service was a little less than that of Li Shi, so this time let him lead the team to make meritorious service.

Hearing Chen Zijian's order, Zhang Yu's face was overjoyed, and he couldn't suppress his excitement, Gaozhou County was originally lax in guards, because many homeless people in Gaozhou County came to Zhangjia Village very early, and then returned to Gaozhou County, and the volunteers had a lot of situations in Gaozhou County.

Zhang Yu: "Chief, you must complete the task." ”

Chen Zijian looked at the majesty, "Go, bring more logistics people over, I want more than 50,000 people, you know what I mean!" ”

The number of the six regiments to be increased and the number of logistical transport personnel to be increased by five times will add up to more than 100,000 people, and these numbers can only be used by the young and strong between the ages of 18 but 35, and the logistical transport can be relaxed a little, within the age of 40.

In this way, recruiting people into the volunteer army requires a large population base, and with the current population base of Zhangjia Village, Chen Zijian can recruit the volunteer army expected by Chen Zijian, and Zhangjia Village can be pitted to death.

There are no more than 150,000 people in Zhangjia Village, about half of them are women, and the rest have to remove children, the elderly, and there are not many people who can use them.

Chen Zijian: "Niu Sheng, take your army to attack Wuchuan County for me, and the goal is the same as Zhang Yu." Li Shi! The clean-up operation in Dianbai County has not yet been completed, and within a month, I want you to completely calm down Dianbai County. Li Hu, leave the affairs in Maoming County to you. ”

Several brigade commanders went out to receive the mission, and then each left with the regiment.

The remaining Zhang Lin's legions on the scene have no tasks, Zhang Lin is less than twenty years old, he is young and vigorous, other legions have tasks, but he doesn't have them, isn't it awkward!

As if seeing Zhang Lin's uneasiness, Chen Zijian said, "Zhang Lin, the six legions will be expanded into division-level legions, and you will be responsible for the recruitment and training." ”

Zhang Lin was unwilling, "Chief, I want to go out to do things!" ”

Chen Zijian: "It's the best thing to leave the matter of recruiting volunteers to you, I don't know yet, you have taken a big advantage!" ”

It's just recruiting and training volunteers, how cheap can it be, the brother corps that went out to fight is a real merit, Zhang Lin didn't understand what Chen Zijian meant.

Chen Zijian: "Stupid, after training the volunteers, they must be divided into corps, what are the good seedlings of the volunteers you trained, don't you know, it will be easy to ask for people when the time comes, with good seedlings, there will be a lot of tasks in the future, and I am afraid that there will be no merit." ”

Zhang Lin used to be a poor man, and only after becoming a volunteer army did he know a small number of simplified Chinese characters, so it was difficult for him to make suggestions and plan for the future, after listening to Chen Zijian's analysis, he had an epiphany, it is this truth, after the training of the volunteer army is completed, pull the good seedlings to his own army first, hehe.

The captives were escorted back to Zhangjia Village by the logistics transport team, and the captives were aggressive before they wanted to exterminate the thieves, who knew that in less than half a day, it was their turn to go to Zhangjia Village, but their identity had changed, and they were officers and soldiers in front, and now they were prisoners.

Chen Zijian: "Zhang Lin, you are responsible for the rest of the cleaning up of the battlefield, the weapons of the officers and soldiers are iron, and they are all cleaned up and melted to make iron." ”

I don't let go of mosquito leg meat, and I can take it back to make farming tools for the people.

If the government sends someone to encircle and suppress Chen Zijian again, it's a big deal to have another battle, Chen Zijian doesn't care about his mentality, anyway, now the volunteers can resist the government's encirclement and suppression, who is afraid of whom!

However, this time more than 50,000 people came to encircle and suppress the volunteers, and only less than 5,000 officers and soldiers fled, no matter what kind of vision was used, how to whitewash, the officers and soldiers were the result of a big defeat, and they didn't dare to come over, 50,000 people can't deal with the thieves, so how many people can do it, 100,000? Eighty thousand? Who can pull up such a large army? Do you expect the prefect, even if he has the ability, he doesn't dare to do this, just one prefect, organize 100,000 troops, what do you want to do? When the court is dead!

In a short period of time, the government had no choice but to watch the volunteers grow.