"Zhou Lei, I'll give you a task, about six days away in the northwest of Hutou Village, there is a big village called Gu Liuzhai, I want you to unite Gu Liuzhai."

Fang Nan summoned the student Zhou Lei over and handed him a task, Zhou Lei's first reaction to the task assigned by the teacher was to accept it directly, and then asked Teacher Fang Nan about Gu Liuzhai's situation.

Gu Liuzhai is a big village, with a population of more than 1,000, and it is quite far away from Hutou Village, but the reputation of Gu Liuzhai has spread to Hutou Village, and even the people of Qingshan Village have heard of it, but the people of Qingshan Village have not cared.

Gu Liuzhai is different from the village of mountain people and the village of mountain thieves in the mountains, Gu Liuzhai is a mountain people, mountain thieves, and anti-thieves.

According to the survey, Gu Liuzhai appeared later than Qingshan Village, and the two main surnames in Gu Liuzhai were originally ordinary people who made a living from farming, because they couldn't stand the oppression and exploitation of the government and landlords, and the people surnamed Gu were the first to have objections.

The Gu family contacted the Liu family, who also had antipathy, and other poor people who could not bear the oppression of the government and landlords, and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty together, which caused a lot of impact at that time, and even gathered thousands of people to attack the county seat.

This peasant army was quite numerous, but its strength was too weak, and the weapons in the hands of the peasant army were mainly agricultural tools, and only a few people had broadswords, spears, and hunting bows in their hands.

As soon as the gate of the county town was closed, the peasant army was blinded, and then it was directly defeated by a ragtag army of hundreds of people composed of the county defenders, caravans, and guards of large households.

After the defeat of the peasant army, they fled into the mountains, and there was Gu Liuzhai, the current owner of Gu Liuzhai was a talented person, who led the remaining members of the peasant army and their families to settle down in the mountains.

On weekdays, the people of Guliuzhai are mountain people who make a living from farming, and if they encounter an opportunity, the owner of the village will take people out of the mountains to plunder caravans, large landlords and even government teams.

After a successful blow, they fled into the mountains, and a large number of traps were arranged in the place where they entered the mountains, and the government sent troops to encircle and suppress, even if they passed through the trap area, it was difficult to find the location of Gu Liuzhai, unless it was to send tens of thousands of officers and soldiers into the mountains, but Gu Liuzhai, who had failed in the previous rebellion, was no longer worth sending so many officials and troops to encircle and suppress.

For a variety of reasons, Gu Liuzhai was able to survive, it stands to reason that Gu Liuzhai is similar to other bandits, they are all robbing landlords and caravans, but Gu Liuzhai has a good reputation in the mountains, and many times Gu Liuzhai will take the initiative to help the villages with difficult lives in the mountains.

Of course, the people of Gu Liuzhai are not bad people, they first have to ensure that they have enough to eat, and then they will help others, and they will not take others in at will.

Due to the distance from Gu Liuzhai, the People's Army has not sent people to contact Gu Liuzhai, with the expansion of the People's Army, the day of the People's Army raising the flag is getting closer and closer, Gu Liuzhai's strength is good, there are hundreds of young people who dare to fight, even the women of Gu Liuzhai dare to pick up swords and guns to fight, if Gu Liuzhai is united, the strength of the People's Army can increase a lot.

Uniting Gu Liuzhai is an important and somewhat difficult task, Zhou Lei is Fang Nan's most reassuring student, Fang Nan handed over this task to Zhou Lei, with the meaning of test and exercise.

Zhou Lei accepted the task, and after learning about the situation of Gu Liuzhai, he was ready to go on the road, a total of five people, Zhou Lei, two scouts who protected Zhou Lei, and two hunters who knew the road.

There is no hunter in Hutou Village to know the road directly from Hutou Village to Gu Liuzhai, you need to go to other villages from Hutou Village first, and find someone who knows Gu Liuzhai to lead the way.

Zhou Lei and the two scouts did not carry tiger head guns, but each carried two pistols, the most difficult part of the pistol to build is the barrel, the longer the barrel, the more difficult it is to build, the difficulty of building a pistol is much easier than the tiger head gun, but the range of the pistol is far less than the tiger head gun, so the number of pistols is less than fifty so far.

Once Zhou Lei and his entourage encounter an accident in the mountains, they can shoot with a pistol when they encounter a wild beast, and they are easy to run away when they encounter a large group of bandits.

In a blink of an eye, half a month has passed since Zhou Lei and his party left Hutou Village to go to Gu Liuzhai, and it is about six days from Hutou Village to Gu Liuzhai, even if it wastes some more time, it is difficult to exceed eight days, and then use some time in Gu Liuzhai to unite the people of Gu Liuzhai, Fang Nan feels that Zhou Lei and his party should embark on the way home.

Another eight days have passed, Zhou Lei and his party have not come back, Fang Nan frowned, half a month plus these eight days, the time is a little long, could it be that Zhou Lei has a problem in Gu Liuzhai? If something goes wrong, Zhou Lei should have a scout come back with the news.

Fang Nan planned to wait a little longer, wait for a month to pass, if Zhou Lei did not come back, and there was no news, he would send someone to Gu Liuzhai again.

Just when Fang Nan was thinking about Zhou Lei, on the other side, Gu Liuzhai, Zhou Lei looked at the girl in front of him who was about to stay with red tears in her eyes, and she was at a loss.

Half a month ago, Zhou Lei and his entourage came to Gu Liuzhai, and the matter of uniting Gu Liuzhai went very smoothly, Zhou Lei told the purpose of the People's Army to the owner of Gu Zhai, because of Gu Liuzhai's experience, it was easy to obtain the approval of the owner of Gu Village.

Originally, the people of Gu Liuzhai belonged to the anti-thieves, and with the strength of the People's Army, mainly the power of firearms, it was nothing to join the People's Army to continue the rebellion.

After only a few days of coming to Gu Liuzhai, Zhou Lei had to complete his task, and then at most, the owner of Gu Zhai would go in person or send his cronies to Hutou Village, the base camp of the People's Army, and the two sides would communicate again, and Gu Liuzhai would be able to join the People's Army.

At this time, an accident appeared, and in just a few days, Gu Lihua, the daughter of the owner of Gu Village, actually fell in love with Zhou Lei.

Zhou Lei, who is handsome and talkative, is indeed very popular with young girls, but on the side of Qingshan Village and Hutou Village, everyone knows that Zhou Lei has a wife and children, and ordinary people see monogamy in their eyes, so other young girls directly ignore Zhou Lei, a person with a wife, when choosing a partner.

Gu Lihua looked at Zhou Lei, and also knew that Zhou Lei had a wife and children, but Gu Lihua was not an ordinary woman, Gu Lihua's personality was more spicy, daring to love and hate, in order to let Zhou Lei marry herself, Gu Lihua directly said to her father, asking Zhou Lei to marry herself, Gu Liuzhai would join the People's Army, and asked Zhou Lei to divorce his original wife.

Regarding Gu Liuzhai's request, Zhou Lei naturally refused, the matter of uniting Gu Liuzhai was important, but it was not important enough for Zhou Lei to abandon his wife and marry another woman.

Of course, this does not mean that in Zhou Lei's eyes, the People's Army raising the flag is not important, nor does it mean that the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty is not important, but Gu Liuzhai is not important to that point, even if Gu Liuzhai cannot be united, the People's Army can continue to unite other villages.