Wang Wei, Li Yi and others, who had retreated from the dangerous city with a lot of captured materials, all felt the excitement of victory and even escape.

Although Cheng Hai, who was more courageous, was slightly injured when he was in charge of covering the city, and his right arm was swollen by a three-eyed stray bullet that had no power from a distance of forty or fifty paces, he still boldly proposed: "Do we want to attack again and seek another batch of captures?" Anyway, after consuming a lot of lead water and ash bullets, there are still people who transport things, and there are still some ammunition left... ”

Zhang Lixin shook his head: "There is a saying: you can repeat and repeat, but you can't repeat and repeat." The first time the other party can be unprepared, the second time may not think of coming again. The third time is a different story. Even if the opponent doesn't think that we will attack again, when facing our attack, they will pay more attention to scattering the formation and paying more attention to the feet, and if the things we have prepared lose their suddenness and surprise characteristics, the killing efficiency will decrease. To take risks, we must also have enough rational judgment: we simply don't have many elite soldiers who are proficient in martial arts and good at hand-to-hand combat like the elite of Jianzhou, and it is impossible to face far more enemy soldiers than us and have some precautions to take such a large camp and seize materials to strengthen our own strength, maybe in the near future... ”

In this way, with more than 50 sets of armor of barely acceptable quality after random inspection, one second general cannon and four third general cannons, and about 200 catties of black powder with barely qualified quality. After the five small trebuchets, four light cannons, and four barely usable, unrecognizable, and not seriously injured horses that the team had already had before, the whole team chose to retreat.

After the more than 40 people who had been tested before led by Chen Ying, Wang Erniu and others saw Zhang Lixin and others seize the armor of such a decent official army, many people whose confidence was a little shaken were completely different and dispelled the idea of escaping. Especially not only that, these people knew that there were only thirty or forty available people under Zhang Lixin's subordinates. With such a small number of people, more than 50 sets of decent official armor and other equipment were seized, but only a few people were slightly injured, and no one was seriously injured or killed in battle, which brought Zhang Lixin's prestige benefits that Zhang Lixin may not be completely clear at this time.

"In the future, I will follow the general!" Although everyone's voice is not loud, especially after Chen Ying has told everyone some basic principles of behavior, they are still in high spirits.

Zhang Lixin hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to find out what he might encounter in the future, and it was best to eliminate some people who might not be very reliable, so he said: "If you see that I am very talented and 'full of wisdom', and think that even if you abandon your current family by following me, you will also have the opportunity to be crowned a wife and a son in the future or even become a 'hero from the dragon'?" Then I advise you not to be deceived by the victory before you. Not to mention that the enemy we are going to defeat is an enemy that is more powerful than ever and has traditions. Even if it's just the Ming Court itself, they have hundreds of thousands or even more soldiers who can fight, and more importantly, the Weiyuan Battalion I brought out before. I can't tell you the truth: with our current strength, even a team of fifty people from the Weiyuan Battalion with the same number of people would be dead during the day. It depends on luck to clash at night, but even if you defeat the main force of the Weiyuan Battalion with the same strength, it will never be as easy as today. They will continue to multiply and expand in the future. Therefore, this is an extremely difficult and difficult road, and if someone has the attitude of gambling their lives, I can tell everyone: this is not a good deal. Now: if any of you are willing to quit, you can leave the country with the settling-in money that was sent to you before, and don't follow us on this troubled water! Minimum enlightenment: even if you die, you must make the wicked people in the world and those who work for the tiger frightened, simply put, it is that sentence: killing one is enough, killing two to earn one, so that we can come to our side of the road of death! I know some of you might be scared that I'll clean up your statements now, and that's okay! Now I announce: the new team is temporarily dispersed, everyone will first disperse to a position within a radius of about 100 steps, and those who want to leave will leave. After the time of the incense stick that you want to gather, you can gather it again in the light that was made... ”

Zhang Lixin's statement made Li Yi feel that it was a little too much, and only after everyone dispersed did he whisper beside Zhang Lixin: "General, they still don't understand the truth of the reform cause, and some people will definitely be afraid if you say this." But isn't that a bit untaught... ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lixin was silent for the time being, because this involved the choice of future direction. Many civil uprising routes are faced with the difficult choice of whether to take root in one place or to go out and fight on the move when they are still relatively weak. It seems that neither option is perfect. The most obvious problem of the latter is that in the absence of patches of famine, famine, and even deserters from the army, the contingent is faced with a fundamental problem of a good source of soldiers, and there will only be fewer and fewer people in foreign countries where the language is not very fluent. Moreover, the scale of the guest battle was not so large that the local bulls, ghosts, gods and gods did not dare to provoke easily like the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty, and the risk of being ambushed by the local snake was also very large. The arrangement of the wounded is even more of a big problem, which is actually something that some people in the team may have concerns about now. And choose the former: there is no doubt that you will face the risk of being surrounded and suppressed by a strong enemy.

As a traveler who has traveled from ancient times to modern times, Zhang Lixin knows that this kind of meager strength is simply not enough to deal with the right choice in a decent encirclement and suppression situation: guerrilla base areas. Guerrilla base areas are more likely to exist in the form of "two-faced regimes," that is, underground organizations for the enemy. Moreover, unlike the "two-faced regime" during the Anti-Japanese War, it did not firmly control the area, but first chose to provide military resources and logistical support with a small number of "base point villages" as necessary. However, the team's station is still in the field not far from the "base point village", in order to deal with the enemy's possible search and investigation, or the bribed civilian informant traitors, etc. Zhang Lixin believes that compared with the severe tests faced by the guerrilla base areas in history, the pressure in this era when there was no radio or even cable telegraph, and even the size and density of troops that could not be compared with the situation in the 20 th century, the pressure was one level less. However, where exactly are the guerrilla base areas chosen? The area around the plains of Hejian Province is still too close. Moreover, a big problem in the guerrilla base areas on the plains is that it is not so easy to find a hiding place to avoid people.

Based on historical experience and the nature of the Gyeonggi region, Zhang Lixin finally felt that the guerrilla base area was not suitable for the area of Hejian Province, and it was better to be in the Taihang Mountains near the border between the two provinces. Baoding Mansion, which is half plain and half mountainous, is of course a barely enough place. Of course, Baoding Mansion also has limitations: the governance here has always been in the middle and upper ranks of the country, the social contradictions are often not sharp, and the people are conservative. Moreover, the Zhongshun battalion of Baoding Mansion was one of the soldiers who were not too many in the Ming court. It's just that after this confrontation with the Zhongshun battalion, Zhang Lixin felt that although the soft and hard combat effectiveness of these officers and soldiers was worlds different from ordinary guards, it was not so high that it was particularly difficult, and it should not be as strong as the main force of the border army led by Cao Bianjiao, who later raided the Manchu army. At least temporarily, it should be possible to settle in the western counties of Baoding Prefecture...

When the recruits returned, several people did not choose to return, and only thirty-nine remained. Of course: among the dozen or so military craftsmen who had been captured before, Zhang Lixin did not give these people a chance to choose their own fate: because at least for the time being: these people are a little too important to him.

Even so, when the entire team, including Zhang Lixin, expanded to seventy-four people, the manpower also improved greatly. Even without the use of mules and horses, it was barely a problem to carry nine small and large guns, five trebuchets, provisions, and some ammunition. This adds a lot of benefits to the stealth of the whole team in action.

When marching to the Taihang Mountains in Baoding Prefecture, Zhang Lixin also thought about some details about how to open up and gain a foothold in the guerrilla base area: When his own contingent did not yet have the ability to do quite good non-governmental political work, he could only rely on the simple and brutal means of "killing chickens and monkeys" in nearby localities and opening the way with the yellow and white things that had been selected as the "base point villages."