Early in the morning of the second day after the sentry was attacked, Yao Shouning of the Inspection Department got the news, and immediately ran to the inner hall of the state government in a panic. Oh no, no! ”

Liang Wensheng was working in the inner hall, and when he heard the shouts outside the house, he hurriedly got up and walked outside. Before he walked out of the door, Yao Shouning ran in, and when he saw Liang Wensheng, he knelt on the ground and cried: "My lord, my lord!" The two checkpoints at the foot of Ma Qi Mountain were attacked overnight, and the losses were heavy! ”

"Heavy losses? Did the bandits from Maqi Mountain do it? Liang Wensheng was shocked and asked one after another.

"It was the bandits of Ma Qi Mountain who did it! There were more than 100 people at the two checkpoints, and only about 20 people came back! Yao Shouning lay on the ground and cried. In fact, he still has a trace of schadenfreude in his heart, it was you who asked me to strengthen the sentry force, what is the result? This loss is huge, see how you end?

Liang Wensheng sat down on the chair in a decadent manner and said in a low voice: "You go back first, let me think about it." Immediately report the list of the dead and do a good job of comforting the families. ”

After Yao Shouning withdrew from the inner hall, Liang Wensheng sat in the inner hall and thought nervously. He didn't expect the crisis to come so soon after taking office, and now the three bandits must have merged into a group, otherwise they would never dare to sneak attack two checkpoints at the same time, and they would also have lost more than 80 people to the inspection department. This is a big deal, if Shangfeng blames it, it will be good if he can keep this black gauze hat.

If you want to keep your official position, you must eliminate the bandits in Ma Qishan as soon as possible, get back a game, get back face, and turn bad things into good things. But now the inspection department has suffered heavy losses and is no longer useful. If you don't ask the provincial capital to send troops, the only ones who can use it are the yamen and Ding Zhuang from all over the country.

Thinking of Ding Zhuang, he naturally thought of He Zhiyuan in Hejia Village. If he really got a strange book in his dream, maybe he also has a unique insight into the art of war. Before asking the capital to send troops, you might as well ask him if he has any way to deal with it. If he can't help it, it's normal, after all, he is still a minor teenager, and at that time he has to ask the Dusi Yamen to send troops.

Thinking of this, he decided to go to Hejia Village immediately and take a look at the training of the two hundred Ding Zhuang by the way. So he took a few guards, asked Tongzhi Zhuang Wenxuan, and Zhang Tonghan, the secretary of the barracks, to accompany Jian Cong in the light car, and ran all the way to Hejia Village in a carriage. Although he didn't like this old official, he was in this position and had to take him with him.

When Zhang Tonghan heard that Lord Liang asked him to accompany him by name, he was so excited that his face trembled, and he said flatteringly: "Your Excellency wants to go to Hejia Village, and your subordinates will definitely do their best to serve well." I'll ride a fast horse and go ahead and inform Chief He (at this time He Shaoqu has been appointed as Chief Grain) and let him get ready, can you? ”

Liang Wensheng didn't like this dead fat man, since he wanted to go first, let him go. It was he who said lightly, "Go ahead." ”

Zhang Tonghan excitedly agreed, twisted his fat body and turned over the horse with difficulty, and took two officials to beat the horse away.

As soon as Liang Wensheng and his entourage arrived at the official road in the west of Hejia Village, they saw Zhang Tonghan, He Shaoyun, Zhou Xuhai, He Zhiyuan, and more than a dozen people of various ethnic groups standing on the side of the road to greet them. It was the dog days of July, and the weather was very hot, and the scorching sun was burning the earth. The people standing on the side of the official road were sweating hot.

Zhang Tonghan held a paper fan in his hand and quickly fanned it, but the sweat on his face still flowed like a river. He saw Liang Wensheng stop the carriage, hurriedly stepped forward to help, and held a paper fan in the other hand to help Liang Wensheng fan the wind, a picture of a slave who was alive.

He walked behind Liang Wensheng and said, "My lord, those two hundred Ding Zhuang are already waiting in line at the training ground, do you want to rest first and then go to the review or go now?" ”

Liang Wensheng was not in a good mood, and he ignored him even more. He snorted through his nose and said, "Let's go straight to the training ground." ”

Liang Wensheng came to the training ground next to the soap shop under the guidance of He Shaoyun, He Zhiyuan and others. On the review stand, everyone invited Liang Wensheng and Zhuang Wenxuan to sit in the middle, accompanied by He Shaoyun and Zhou Xuhai on both sides, while Zhang Tonghan stood behind Liang Wensheng and Zhuang Wenxuan, holding a paper fan for the two of them.

He Zhiyuan looked at Zhang Tonghan's servant appearance, held back the nausea in his stomach, didn't care about him, and found a seat on the side to sit down.

After everyone was seated, Liang Wensheng glanced at the audience, and there were three teams standing in the audience, each wearing a grass-green short dress, with a cardigan and a corseted trousers on the top.

Everyone has a serious expression, full of energy, with their heads held high, their postures erect, and they are silent. This is like a civilian Ding Zhuang, it is clearly a regularly trained army, and even the regular army does not have such momentum. Liang Wensheng secretly clicked right, he carefully observed the three teams, and found that each team was ten columns, and each column had ten people. One square team is exactly one hundred people, and three square teams are three hundred people, and I can't help but wonder. asked He Shaoyun next to him: "Isn't your village Ding Zhuang with 200 people?" How can there be a hundred more people? ”

He Shaoyun replied respectfully: "Lord Qiyu, the other hundred people are Boss Zhou and my family's family members. They usually train together, so today I invite the adults to review together. ”

What Liang Wensheng lacks most now is soldiers who can fight, of course, the more the merrier. I thought to myself, it would be best if these 100 family members could also be pulled out to participate in the war.

He Shaoyun asked Liang Wensheng: "My lord, let's start the review?" ”

After Liang Wensheng nodded in agreement, He Shaoyun nodded slightly at Xu Tangyi, who was standing under the stage.

Xu Tangyi turned back one by one, and then faced the three squares, shouting: "Lizheng!" ”

The three teams retracted their right feet with a brush, and their bodies stood upright, and all the team members stood upright.

Liang Wensheng, who was sitting on the stage, heard this strange command, and saw the neat and strange movements of each member of the team under the stage, and was secretly surprised in his heart. Thinking that these Ding Zhuang's movements, costumes, and passwords are very different from previous teams, is this He Zhiyuan's idea? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at He Zhiyuan who was sitting on the side.

He Zhiyuan understood, nodded at him, and whispered: "This is the training result of the new training method, just continue to look at it." ”

At this time, under Xu Tangyi's command, the three teams were already walking forward around the training ground with neat steps.

When the team walked near the review stand, Xu Tangyi shouted: "Walking, look to the right!" The whole team changed from walking in unison to walking in front of each other, and all the team members turned their heads to look at the review stand. The sonorous and powerful steps, the uniform movements, and the energetic and upright momentum of each team member shocked everyone on the stage.

After the queue review, it is time for the individual skills to be performed. The 200 Ding Zhuang recruited later, due to the short training time, their personal quality was not as good as that of these family members. So this project is basically a solo performance of these 100 family members.

But they are all uniform, and Liang Wensheng and the others can't distinguish between Ding Zhuang and Jia Ding at all. When he saw the sturdy and dexterous posture of the team members, the skillful bow horses, and the wonderful knife and gun fights, he was shocked again by this strong small team. This is the most elite, most organized, and most neat team that Liang Wensheng has seen since he entered politics. Although it is only a civilian Ding Zhuang, its momentum is by no means inferior to that of a regularly trained army.

He secretly thought in his heart that if there were an army of about 1,000 people, he would be completely sure that he would capture Ma Qi Mountain and wipe out all the bandits on the mountain.

After the review, it was noon, and He Shaoyun invited Liang Wensheng and his party to the house for a banquet. Liang Wensheng said solemnly: "The banquet will be waived, and after a simple lunch, I still have important things to discuss with you." ”

Everyone saw that Liang Wensheng had been thoughtful, and now he was so serious, knowing that there must be something big, so they no longer invited him warmly.

On the way home, Zhuang Wenxuan found an opportunity to whisper to He Shaoyun and his son: "Last night, two outposts near Maqi Mountain were secretly attacked, more than 80 soldiers were killed in battle, two outposts were burned, and heavy losses were taken. It is assumed that the three bandits in our state have colluded with each other and have all gathered on the Maqi Mountain. Your Excellency's visit to the inspection this time is secondary, and the important thing is to discuss with you about the suppression of bandits. ”

When He Zhiyuan heard the news, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised. When the three bandits get together, their power will rise greatly, and the large population here and the fact that it is not far from Maqi Mountain will inevitably become their primary target. It seems that we must find a way to remove it in order to be safe, otherwise it will definitely be unbearable in the future, and one careless person may lose a lot.

Liang Wensheng hurriedly had lunch accompanied by everyone, and then summoned the He family father and son, Zhou Xuhai, Xu Tangyi and his son, as well as Zhuang Wenxuan, Zhang Tonghan and others to come to the living room of He Mansion together. After everyone was seated, Liang Wensheng said to everyone: "This morning, I saw that Ding Zhuang of Hejia Village was disciplined, trained hard, his movements were neat, and everyone was full of energy, comparable to a regular army. The official is very appreciative and gratified! If Ding Zhuang in the whole state is like this, why worry about the bandits. ”

"This official came this time, firstly, to take a look at Ding Zhuang's training, and secondly, to discuss with you on an important matter. Just last night, two checkpoints in the north and south of Maqi Mountain were attacked by bandits, causing heavy losses. More than 80 soldiers were killed in battle, two checkpoints were burned, and what was more serious was that the three bandits in our state all converged on the Maqi Mountain, which was quite loud for a time and caused great harm to the surrounding people. This time, I saw that Ding in Hejia Village was strong and brave, and the matter of suppressing bandits was worry-free. ”

Zhang Tonghan, who was sitting at the bottom, had never known about the attack on this outpost, and when he heard the news, he suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar. He is the secretary of the military room, in charge of the state's military affairs, and now the inspection department has been disabled, and the only available soldiers in the state are Ding Zhuang. Seeing this meaning, Lord Liang is determined to use the folk Ding Zhuang to suppress the bandits, so it is very likely that he will go to the front of the battle, and with these hundreds of civilian soldiers, he will attack the dangerous Maqi Mountain, and he will definitely be defeated. If you can't get your own life, you have to give an account.

He was so scared in his heart that he secretly scolded Liang Wensheng for having a lot of trouble, if you don't send someone to investigate the bandits in these places, how can there be such a big mess. The bandits will not rise so quickly, everyone is safe and sound, and it is better to live their own small lives.

It was in his heart that he began to think about how to stop Liang Wensheng's actions......