Lin Xiao also smiled, turned his head to Li Hanzhi and said, "You hurry up and load the recycling materials on the ship, set off early, and strive to go again before the year." ”

After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "Bring back the remains of the martyrs and the wounded, and after returning to Qinzhou, find an open place facing the sun in the mountains and bury the martyrs...... When we get back, we will make up the send-off ceremony. ”

"Got it, Captain."

Li Hanzhi didn't catch the battle, and when he heard the captain mention the martyrs, his mood was not too high.

……

In the next three days, Lin Xiao used the excuse of training the troops and never went to the DPRK again, but just talked to Zhu Yujia, Liu Xulei, and Xia Bomin on time every night to keep abreast of the battle ahead.

Knowing that Liu Xulei and Xia Bomin had begun to recruit recruits, and there were many people who signed up, and there were more than 10,000 recruits participating in the trial, Lin Xiao was happy but had a little headache, how could there be so many guns issued to them?

Therefore, they had to be warned that the soldiers were expensive but not too expensive, and that the field army equipped with modern weapons could only give each person a regiment of 3,000 men, and the rest of the troops had to be temporarily used as garrison troops, and then consider upgrading them after the arsenal produced guns and ammunition.

Zhu Yujia's side, Liuzhou has been taken without much effort, Zhu Yujia left Li Yuanyin's 1,000 cavalry there to continue to clear the surrounding areas, and the rest of the troops continued to go north, and the vanguard cavalry has already arrived under the city of Guilin, and it is expected that it will be recovered in a few days.

"Captain, there's a nerve-wracking question, there aren't enough troops in the surrounding counties to station?"

"This ...... What can I do? I'm also helpless! Otherwise, I will also give you the establishment of a regiment and find a way to expand the army yourself, right? ”

Lin Xiao said helplessly, he has no good plan for this, isn't the biggest problem at present is the lack of troops?

"Wait......"

Lin Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and immediately raised his brows and shouted, is it a bit of a waste for Liu Xulei and Jiao Lian in Wuzhou to huddle together?

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao immediately pulled Liu Xulei in for a three-way call, and ordered him to discuss with Jiao Lian whether he could transfer some people to form a mixed army and go north to Cangwu and Hezhou, leaving only the Yangshuo, Pingle, and Gongcheng lines to Zhu Yujia, and Zhu Yujia's main force must send at least one company north to station in Quanzhou after taking Guilin.

In this way, an arc-shaped defensive line facing the direction of Hunan will be formed, and for a long time in the future, the northern line will be monitored by Zhu Yujia and Jiao Lian, and Liu Xulei on the southern line can rest assured that he and Xia Bomin will form two fists to attack Guangdong and Fujian.

After speaking, Lin Xiao faintly blamed himself for not forming a clear enough combat idea before, but fortunately, he got inspiration from communicating with his brothers and was able to make amends.

Ay! It's all dragged down by a bunch of bad things here in Nanning, and I haven't calmed down to think about strategic issues for a long time.

……

The next day, Li Hanzhi organized people to load the recovered materials onto the ship, ready to return home, because the captured Qing artillery was all copper and iron, the heaviest was tens of thousands of catties, and the loading staff was a little tight, Lin Xiao asked Ding Shuai to organize some prisoners to help.

Unexpectedly, something happened.

Just as the Minfu team was using the lever to lift the cannon onto the ship, a group of prisoners passed by with some tattered knives and guns, waiting in line to get on the ship and unload.

Suddenly, a young boy rushed out of the minfu team, rushed to the captives not far away, and as he ran, he threw a crowbar in his hand as a javelin at one of the captives, who was caught off guard and fell to the ground with his head open.

The young guy didn't give up, and rushed forward to choke the wounded captive's neck, and the two rolled together, and Ding Shuai's people couldn't pull away.

When he finally pulled it away, he found that the captive's ear had been bitten off, and the little fellow stared at him with blood-red eyes, opened his mouth wide and kept crying something, and his throat made a sound like a wolf's howl.

Ding Shuai's men hurriedly sent someone to report and find someone to urgently rescue the wounded.

When Lin Xiao and Ding Shuai arrived, they found that the captive had died of anger, Lin Xiao hurried to ask the young man, but found that he was kneeling on the ground and crying, no matter how he asked.

Lin Xiao knew that there must be something strange about this matter, so he showed his identity at the moment and comforted him gently, and only after the young man's mood stabilized a little intermittently asked the reason.

It turned out that this person's name was Wang Dong, only 16 years old, a Han from Lipu County, and his family lived in a small mountain village called Longdun in the Dahang Mountains.

Because there is too little arable land in the mountainous area to live a difficult life, so the local villagers have been half-ploughing and hunting for a living for generations, Wang Dong has followed his father into the mountains to learn hunting since he was a child, and he can enter the mountains alone at a young age, Wang Dong also has a twelve-year-old younger brother, named Wang Jie, who has been smart and clever since childhood, very well-behaved and sensible, and has been able to draw a bow and throw a gun, and he is also a good hunter in the future.

On that day, because his father wanted to take his younger brother down the mountain to catch the market and exchange the mountain goods for some oil, salt and cloth, Wang Dong went into the mountains alone to hunt.

After a whole day in the mountains, he didn't get much, only caught a few hares and a pheasant, and did not hunt large prey, so he picked some mushrooms along the way, and saw that it was not early, Wang Dong went down the mountain with the harvest.

When he was about to enter the village, he suddenly heard the sound of muskets in the village, and when he listened carefully, the village was full of cries, scolding, and the sound of chickens and dogs...... It turned out that the officers and troops were looting.

Seeing this, Wang Dong was timid, so he climbed an ancient tree at the entrance of the village and covered his mouth to witness the atrocities of the officials and soldiers...... Later, when the group of officers and soldiers led the cattle and sheep out of the village, he saw clearly that most of those people were dragging a long braid on the back of their heads—it turned out to be Qing soldiers.

One of the people who led the team with the appearance of an officer, when he passed by under the big elm tree where Wang Dong was hiding, stopped and relieved himself, so Wang Dong saw this person's face clearly.

When the Qing soldiers walked away, Wang Dong slipped down the big tree and quietly entered the village, only to find that his parents and younger brother had all fallen in a pool of blood, and the family was in a mess......

Later, I learned that there were 71 people in the village, only Wang Dong survived, and the rest of the old and young were all slaughtered.

The young Wang Dong didn't dare to make a noise, so he had to secretly follow the Qing soldiers and follow them all the way to Lipu County...... But he was alone, not only did he fail to take revenge, but was captured into the Minfu team, followed Kong Youde's army all the way to Liuzhou, and then went south......

After Lin Xiao and the others ambushed Kong Youde, Wang Dong took the opportunity to follow the Minfu team to Nanning, and had been looking for his enemy, but how easy was it to find one person among the tens of thousands of captives?

The sky lived up to his painstaking efforts, and today he finally encountered this demon, Wang Dong could no longer control himself, and the long-term torment finally made him completely explode, so he rushed forward like crazy...... He's going to strangle this devil alive!

Lin Xiao finally listened, frowned and said nothing, and after a long silence, Lin Xiao ordered the captives to come and identify the corpses.

As a result, more than a dozen people identified the person as their original commander, named Li Chengrong, a centurion and a former Ming soldier......