While Abatai was telling his brothers and nephews about the strengths and weaknesses of the various military forces in the mainland, a sitcom was being staged in Jinan.

Outside the west gate of Jinan, the Huiquanlou restaurant by the Tianjing Spring, the whole restaurant has long been chartered by Beijing. Not only Huiquan Building, but also the Taifeng Building next to it, Yanxi Hall, Jubin Garden, etc. are full of friends, and several nearby streets are all soldiers from Beijing and Dragon Tiger Camp hooking their shoulders in and out. Two sentinels at the entrance of the street blocked the street, and no one was allowed to enter except for the necessary personnel. In the restaurant, the laughter of men and women and the sound of drinking orders can be heard from time to time, even if it is a few streets away, you can hear it clearly.

The sweet and sour Yellow River carp in Huiquanlou is a must-have in Jinan and even the entire Shandong cuisine, and the authentic "Yellow River carp" purchased from the Yellow River ferry. The water in the pond is the living water flowing from the springs of Jinan, and the fish are raised in the pool, and the meat is delicate and the muddy smell is lost. Among the diners, there is one who likes it, and some of them are immediately fished up with a long pole net and sent to the operation room for making zuò, which is "referring to the fish set dish". The sweet and sour live carp is put into the plate, the head and tail are high, squeaking and bubbling, and it is in the shape of a leaping dragon gate. The fragrance of food is sweet and sour, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, mellow and slightly salty, and the fish is tender and delicious.

This kind of dish, not to mention the soil buns like Luo Hu, is Wang Long, who has eaten and seen, and Tan Chery and Luo Zuming, who have always paid attention to eating and drinking, are full of praise.

After three rounds of drinking, Tan Chery said to Wang Lung with the strength of the wine: "Brother, can't you leave a few days later?" Isn't Shandong happier than Henan? There was wine and meat in the barracks, and when we walked outside, the officials and gentry saw us like tigers, and the poor people saw us like their own parents. Lao Tzu can be regarded as going south and north, but I have never seen a place that can be so sincerely embraced. That is, it is said that the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times were like this. I never dreamed of it before. Lao Tzu's army can actually become an army of benevolent people like the three emperors and five emperors, I guess you haven't enjoyed this feeling, brother. I don't dare to persuade you to stay, that's a broken rule, but it's okay to stay a few more days, right? ”

Wang Lung pushed away the prostitute who was snuggling up to him, and said with a smile: "The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as your own kennel." Uncle and father are good to us. But after all, it can't compare to our uncle. My uncle took me to the north and south since I was a child, like a son, and he was also kind to me like a mountain, mixed in the rivers and lakes, I can't help but be affectionate, if I don't think about it because Shandong is good, I am the ungrateful bastard. Therefore, please forgive me, the itinerary cannot be changed. But. I will never forget the brothers in Jingying in my life, to put it mildly, if I encounter them on the battlefield in the future, even if I am broken, I will protect the brothers from a good one, and I will never forget this friendship as soon as I turn around. ”

The mission of the Dragon Tiger Battalion was to be declared over because of the annihilation of Abatai's entire army. Don't say that Li Huayu's side can't tolerate a joint stock team that breaks into the camp and Cao Ying's long-term existence in Shandong, it's that he doesn't care. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, who were far away in Henan to besiege Kaifeng, were very urgent, and they also needed this force to return to the division quickly.

After a few months, the Dragon and Tiger Battalion of 6,000 people was originally followed. It has grown to more than 20,000 people. Half of them were horses and half infantry. By the standards of the peasant army, almost all of those horse teams were at least at the level of horsemanship. The infantry is also an elite with armor, swords, and guns.

This time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai can be said to have made a lot of money. 6,000 centaurs have become more than 20,000 elites, and this input and output are extremely generous in any case. What's more, there is a large amount of stolen goods, no. Captured the Yellow River and the canal to the south and transferred to Kaifeng to help the besieging army. (The so-called foreign team was originally the only way for the officials and armies in various places to expand their strength or make a fortune during the Republic of China, that is, to send part of their own troops to other people's territory as bandits, while expanding their own guns, while causing public security difficulties to the other party.) If the outer team survives, the number grows. Naturally, the establishment can be expanded after returning. Because the establishment of the official army is fixed, and the supply funds and ordnance are also strictly controlled by the above, the leaders of the "miscellaneous officers and soldiers" want to expand the ranks, so they send a few backbone cadres and some people with guns to go out to become bandits. When the bandits have enlarged their ranks and made the situation in dangerous places stricter, the government will naturally allocate funds and offer rewards to restore law and order within a time limit. At this time, the officials and soldiers and the bandits staged a double reed drama of "recruiting peace", which not only gained merit but also expanded the ranks -- this farce of "letting go of the team" was actually a trick of colluding with officials and bandits and harming the people. And this kind of trick was played by Commander Tang, who was stationed in Henan during the Anti-Japanese War. Otherwise, there would be no 400,000 national troops stationed in Henan who could not defeat the 50,000 Japanese troops heading south. The consequence of being even stricter is that other battlefields are starting to launch a major counteroffensive, but your Republic of China government army is a thousand miles away, so how can Chairman Wei Guangzheng have the right to speak in front of international friends? So, whether it's Yalta or Potsdam, you only have to accept it, and there is no room for bargaining. Of course, these are absolutely not seen in the eyes of people who think that there were many masters of that era. They will only say that the ability of the Nationalist army to march long and fast was superior to that of the powerful Japanese army at that time. ）

Seeing that Chery was like this, it was not easy to continue to talk about this matter, but changed the conversation and said: "Okay, brothers have brothers' difficulties, and I am not reluctant." In this way, if my brother needs anything, I will be covered with firearms, gunpowder, clothes, and medicines. If I can, I will try to help raise it as much as possible. After all, if you go south, you have to deal with the 200,000 horses of Xiao Yuan's battalion, firearms, knives and guns, etc., so you must prepare more! ”

It was only when he talked about this topic that Luo Hu found some feelings. He picked up the wine bowl towards Tan Chery and Luo Zuming, "The two big brothers, it's not that I, Luo Xiaohuzi, boast, just the group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the Xiaoyuan camp, not to mention that there is still Brother Wang Long, it is my Zhenshan Battalion, you can beat him to disintegrate the ice!" ”

The small Yuan battalion in Luo Hu's mouth was a peasant army that infested Xuzhou, Haizhou, Mengcheng, Bozhou, and Suiqi at this time. Because of its leader Yuan Shizhong, he was called Xiao Yuan Ying, Yuan Shizhong, a native of Huaxian County, Henan, and gathered people in Kaizhou in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. In 14 years, he crossed the Yellow River and fought in parts of Henan and Nanzhili. Because there was originally a miners' uprising team led by Yuan Laoshan in Henan, Yuan Shizhong's team was called "Little Yuan Ying". Among the local peasant uprisings in Henan Province, Xiao Yuanying was the most mobile and fastest-growing one. Because Yuan Shizhong led these horses to move back and forth on the borders of Shandong, Henan and other places at this time, Li Huayu was a little upset, and he also wanted to give the Dragon and Tiger Battalion a legitimate and reasonable reason for the curtain call. Let them go south to deal with this small Yuan battalion. The conditions have been agreed, and all the materials and food needed to defeat Xiao Yuan's camp will be supplied by Li Huayu, and they will be seized according to the old rules!

"Brother Xiaohu, I also know that you are brave and good at fighting, but the eldest prince's military newspaper said. Xiao Yuanying gathered 200,000 people, but it should not be underestimated! ”

"Brother Luo, this 200,000 is true. However, you don't know the doorway. If Brother Wang Long and I plan to have 300,000 people, we can have 300,000 people in less than half a month from Jinan to the south. Nope! The men and horses of the small Yuan battalion can fight no more than 20,000 or 30,000 people, of which Yuan Shizhong's cavalry, personal soldiers and other elite are no more than 1,000 people. Top a bird! ”

"Huh! Little Huzi, you can't say that, how does it say in the art of war: more wins and less wins. It has to be a poor family! If we had thought about it thoroughly, I am afraid that we would not have drunk and eaten carp here, and we would have already given a banquet on the platform and counted the gold issued by the uncle! Talking about Chery, he pinched the face of the pink head next to him, and laughed twice.

The four of them were silent for a moment. When Abathai was annihilated at the beginning, if everyone could have considered it thoroughly. Tighten the encirclement, I'm afraid it will not be as simple as capturing Abatai's armor banner.

After a while, Wang Lung thought for a while and said, "The reward that should be given has already been given, and there are a lot more." Grain, oil and salt, cloth, mules and horses, gunpowder, weapons, armor, during this time, our two brothers also operated a lot. Even the arquebuses were two carts old, enough for the gunners to use for a few years! I can't be cheeky enough to ask for anything else. But at the moment, there are two things to favor the two brothers. One. Last time, the meat was fresh meat and the wind chicken, bacon and porcelain urn together, I see that you don't seem to like to eat the wind chicken bacon meat porcelain urn, simply, I have recently sent hundreds of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks These fresh meat are exchanged with you for chicken and bacon porcelain urns, the big deal is that I will change nine out of ten. ”

As soon as the words fell. Seeing Tan Chery with tears in his eyes, he said: "Brother, don't say it, one pound of fresh meat for three pounds of dry goods, don't fight with me, you fight with me, I will be anxious with you!"

After that, the two sides happily reached a deal, and Tan Chery thought to himself, what a fucking good person, he actually volunteered to accept those disgusting people's things. Wang Lung was secretly happy, by the way, one pound for three pounds, it was too profitable, these dry goods were easy to preserve, and easy to carry. When you get it to Henan, it is a good product for treats, drinks, festivals, and gifts.

"Brother, you just said two things, what is the other one?"

"Brother Luo, let's be honest, we plan to bring some more medicine back. Especially this thing. ”

Luo Hu took the life-saving bag handed by the soldiers next to him. This is an upgraded product of the life-saving kit, which replaces iodine with alcohol as a product for cleaning wounds and disinfecting wounds.

Iodine wine, which everyone is familiar with, is the most common drug used to disinfect trauma. Since Shouhan separated iodine from kelp with people, it has only been used for silver mirror reactions, but with the increase of conquests, the battles have become more and more brutal, and the proportion of casualties has also increased. The original alcohol disinfection and bandaging gradually became less effective. By chance, Shouhan learned that iodine was added to alcohol to treat wounds, and the effect was obvious. Immediately overjoyed, he ordered a large number of iodine wine to be made.

This thing was transferred to the hands of Kaifeng Chuang Camp and Cao Ying through the hands of Luo Hu and others, and the trial effect of Shang Jiong and other Langzhong in the camp was indeed extraordinary! Suddenly Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others were overjoyed! This is no less than a life-saving elixir for Li Zicheng's troops, who are rolling on the death line every day! Those soldiers who were wounded by swords, guns and arrows, if they could be treated, how much combat effectiveness would they have?

When even if you order people to pegasus to tell Wang Long and Luo Hu, you can get as many of these things as you can, and the more the better! Don't be afraid to spend money!

"Hey! Isn't it just to get some medicinal wine!? What a big deal! Tomorrow, you will send someone to my camp to move!" You can move as many as you want! If it's not enough, I'll go to the Xingyuan Grain Desk to ask for it! It's a big deal to spend some silver to buy it! ”

"Then thank you for talking about big brother! We plan to buy 50,000 silver dollars, and we hope that the eldest brother will help! ”

"Well said! Say! "With such a large sum of money to start, why didn't Luo Tan and the two of them help? You only need to pay some formalities on the official documents. It's a completely costless business!

One is willing to spend money to buy, the other knows how to make money, and the moment is even more of a hit, and it is a scene of brotherly love.

It's good to change the cup for a meal. When everyone was drunk and hazy, Wang Lung quietly pulled Tan Qirui aside, and then handed him a drawing.

When I looked at Chery, I suddenly felt a little big, and the drawings were a bit like a map of Shandong, with the name of the state capital on it. But there are also women's portraits on the picture, silver and food hoards, which feels messy. Tan Chery hurriedly asked, "Brother, what is this?"

Wang Long smiled: "Brother, this drawing has a name, it is called Shandong Xiangyao Distribution Map." ”

"These places are all carefully investigated by the brothers who are responsible for the water and pulling the thread below, some places have many beautiful women, so they draw a woman's head, and some rich people have a lot of money, so they draw a silver ingot. Some landlords had a lot of grain, so they drew a grain hoard. These people are quite innocent in their background, and their reputation is not bad, so it's not easy to start for the time being. I was going to secretly start making some extra money together in the future, but this is not going to leave, so this benefit will be given to you, brother. But if these people want to be rectified, they have to be charged. Do you want me to leave some people for my brother to help? “

Talking about Chery, he also smiled: "Brother thinks too much, this little thing." Don't bother your brother to worry about it. In addition, our Beijing camp seems to have lost a batch of armor staff and equipment and more than 20 artillery pieces of the Shenji battalion on the side of the Yellow River in the north of the city, and the people below came to report. The thousands of horses and mules in captivity there had crushed the stables due to too much wind and snow, and the horses and mules did not know where to flee. Your camp is close to you, so you might as well send some men to look for it. If you can't find it, forget it, if you find it, send it back. ”

Wang Lung smiled knowingly, and then the two of them laughed knowingly at the same time. For such a transaction. Both of them are happy to see it. The peasant army attached the most importance to the capture of mules and horses, even to the point of attaching more importance than the capture of gold, silver, pearls and jade. The capture of mules and horses was rewarded, followed by the capture of swords, guns, and firearms, and the capture of cloth, and the lowest reward was given to those who seized gold and silver. With these more than 1,000 mules and horses, Wang Lung and Luo Hu returned to Kaifeng, and in front of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, they were afraid that they would have more face in speaking. And the soldiers of the Beijing camp have already replenished the shortage of horses, mules and donkeys in the camp in the campaign of more than half a year in Shandong, if the surplus captured horses are brought back to the Beijing division, will it cause others to covet it is still two to say, those horse grass and bean fodder is a large amount of expenses, which has to be paid for by the sons and sons themselves! Instead of paying for it yourself, it's better to exchange some money!

After a tacit laugh, Tan Chery mysteriously asked Wang Lung to come over, Wang Lung hurriedly complied, Tan Chery said in a low voice: "The confidential military information from the capital, the imperial court has issued a decree, intending to let Ning Yuanbo's eldest son Li Huayu send troops to Henan to fight your father-in-law, we are our own people, let your father-in-law prepare." Brother is dragging you a little bit, and then you will come and I will put on a good show. ”

After hearing this, Wang Lung immediately gave Tan Chery a big gift

Wang Lung said gratefully: "Brother, I don't thank you for your great kindness. Brother, rest assured, when my brother arrives in Henan, Lao Tzu's gun will only be shot in the sky! After the battle, we will be defeated for thirty miles, we are thieves, and it is normal to leave some gold and silver when we are defeated. ”

Tan Chery patted Wang Lung on the shoulder and said, "That's right, but thieves are also very cunning, and they often take advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers to fight back, so it is normal for brothers to drop ignition gunpowder." Then it was inevitable that some mules and horses would be lost in the camp! ”

The two wolves bèi were traitorous and laughed again.

A few days later, the Dragon and Tiger Battalion completed its rearmament and set out on the road with new clothes and armor, a large amount of gunpowder and supplies. Originally, the Dragon Tiger Battalion wanted to leave quietly, but where would the two of them agree? I had to go out of the city to see him off.

So, the final result was that Tan Chery took part of the Beijing camp out of the city to see him off, and both sides of the road were full of people who came to hear the wind. For a time, the two sides of the road were like a busy city, and the peasants who had just been distributed grain and clothing from the fields did not hesitate to set up pots and stoves, make millet porridge and pancakes, and handed them to the officers and men of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, asking them to eat before leaving. Some people even cried and grabbed the hands of the officers and soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, thanking them for bringing them food for the spring famine, and eradicating the bullies in the rampant township for themselves. Wang Long and Luo Hu were also full of emotion, thinking of himself back then, if Shaanxi was also like this back then, someone reduced rent and interest and the official gentry paid grain in one piece, why did he bother to do this business on the tip of the knife?

When he was sighing, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be some squires in leather clothes among the people who saw them off, and I saw these people smiling flatteringly and unfurling a banner that said that they would resolutely support the new policy and send off the officers and soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion. The two of them sneered for a while, and thought to themselves, I'm sorry, now that I think of pretending to be a good person, why did I go earlier, if it weren't for the fact that the old men were not available, see if I didn't cut you one by one and hang them out.

"Two adults, military affairs are in the body, don't dare to stay longer! Please! ”

After all, there are still many people and squires here, and in full view, Luo Hu and Wang Long are still assuming the identities of volunteers recruited on the spot in Shandong to make this trip to the two deputy generals of the Beijing camp.

"Good! I think that Xiao Yuan Ying is just some ant thieves who gather in the mountains and forests, and the mantis arm is a car gangster. If the two of you go, you will definitely be victorious and successful! ”

After a few words, the brigade of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion meandered for dozens of miles, carrying countless vehicles and heavy artillery to the south.

"This group of jackals and tigers is gone!" The brightly dressed squires in the send-off team couldn't help but secretly rejoice, hoping that after these people left, the eldest prince Li in Jinan City and the masters of the Beijing camp in front of them would not be able to ease up a little when they implemented the evil government of paying food as a messenger?

The facts soon gave these beautiful fantasies a blow to the head. The Dragon and Tiger Battalion went south to exterminate Xiao Yuan's camp, and the Jingying that stayed in the hinterland of Shandong was even more crazy. Under the pretext of exterminating the remnants of the bandits, the chickens and dogs that disturbed the state capitals in Shandong were like dogs.

Countless gentlemen and wealthy businessmen who have always played a charitable role among their neighbors have suffered unjustified disasters. was smashed by the Beijing camp in the name of harboring the remnants of the kiln. However, after smashing the kiln, all kinds of things that were originally invisible were revealed to the world.

"Mother sells! It turns out that we think that our Jingying can do these jobs dirty enough, and this group of gentlemen who are full of benevolence and morality on weekdays are even dirtier than us! "Flipping through all kinds of evidence that has been copied and examined, I watched how gentlemen from all over the country took advantage of natural disasters to rip up river embankments and flood other people's fertile fields, and then used the excuse of relief to raise money and food to privately buy the fields of these disaster-stricken people, and even turned people's wives and daughters into their own crotch playthings. How to build bridges and pave roads, renovate temples, set up righteous schools, etc.

"Fuck! What else does this say all day long, what is the foundation of the country and the society of the scholar and the gentleman? Shit! Luo Zuming slapped the ground under his feet with a leather whip.

"Lao Luo, let's just smash the kiln to get money. We can't do anything else. Tell the children under Sù, although these kilns are fat, remember that they can't be smashed! We can't afford to mess with it! ”

On the picture of the kiln in the hand of Tan Chery, two huge red circles are full of silver, grain and beautiful women. However, it discouraged Luo Tan and the two.

One red circle is marked with the Confucian Mansion of Qufu, and the other is the Meng family of Zoucheng.

This is the Yansheng Mansion and the Yasheng Mansion, although they have long known that these two families are full of feces, urine and blood and tears under their butts. But this is the ancestral grave of all the scholars in the world! Can this still be smashed?

"If you want to smash such a loud kiln, I'm afraid you have to be led by Li Dagongzi in Jinan City!"

For no reason, Luo Zuming suddenly had such a thought in his mind.

At the end of February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Luo Hu and Wang Long led their subordinates to defeat Yuan Shizhong's small Yuan battalion in a battle in Suizhou and Qixian. beheaded Yuan Shizhong and Yuan Shitai brothers, captured tens of thousands of their men and horses, and starved more than 100,000 people.

Since then, the war situation in the Central Plains has been even more treacherous. (To be continued......)