Next, the Li Ziying is to expand the ranks of the Qing army, the rebels like to use the tactics of the sea of people, so that everyone in a region is anti-Li Ziying, and the same local people are tied together, so that the people along the way enthusiastically join the Qing army, to use the sea of people to offset the arrogance of the rebels, although the means are very bloody, but the effect is very good, there is a lesson from the past, other villages along the way, no villagers dare to shoot black guns, but there are patriotic squires who come forward to negotiate with Li Ziying, willing to serve the country, contribute people and food

The officers and men of the Li Zi battalion made a great propaganda to let the people along the way know that the Qing army had returned, and in one day, more than 400 cavalry of Li Yingzi went around the vicinity of Yao Town, burned, killed, looted, slaughtered and reunited the stubborn resistance of the villages, and returned to Shun, and the Qing villages sent people and food, and more than 1,000 villagers had joined the Qing army before dinner time in the evening

There are some local squire armed people who voluntarily joined the Qing army, and some fortresses also resisted the rebels by virtue of their geographical advantages, and within three days, the Qing army rescued them from fire and water, making them sad and joyful, and almost the whole family was slaughtered by the mob

Li Guolou looked at the twelve big landlords kneeling on the ground, fortunately he came early to save these people, the remnants of the Hui army, these people were all supporters of Ma Hualong in the past, and most of them were not landowners, their patriarchs and masters fled into Jinjibao, it can also be said that they were captured by Ma Hualong into Jinjibao, these people sold both sides of the Qing army and the Hui army, hoping to retain their land and wealth in the troubled times, but for the sudden emergence of the rebel "elder brotherhood" But he didn't have a sense of identity, and he didn't want to throw himself into the arms of the third master, and these local squires also knew what kind of organization the elder would be, and they were unwilling to be arrested, so they resisted the impact of the mob, and now he pretended to be a Qing patriot in front of him

Li Guolou didn't break these people's mouths full of lies, and now he wants to rely on these remnants of the rebellion to eradicate the rebels of the Elders' Association, and he wants to treat them as elite soldiers to win in the chaos, which is what he is good at, Li Guolou pretended to be full of emotion, and sighed with his hands: "Gentleman Yao is really the first person in the ages, who can support a piece of heaven in the kiln area, and the official will definitely protect you, and you will have to shoulder the Yan'an area in the future."

Yao Bin is a powerful landlord, a man with more than 70 people, his situation is somewhat special, his brother Yao Yue is loyal to Ma Hualong, led the family to flee into Jinji Fort, and he has been following the admiral Lei Zhengwan before returning to his hometown, soon encountered a mob besieged his fort, and was not killed by the mob, and was grateful to Li Guolou for coming

Jianshuo Yao Bin showed a gangsterism, clasped his fists and saluted: "Chief Li can afford the small people, I used to be a soldier and hated the elders, I would rather die in battle than steal my life, Chief Li is useful, the small people are in charge of the local management, and the small people are willing to die for the Qing Dynasty."

Li Guolou nodded slightly and said: "Okay, since Gentleman Yao is so cool, everyone will be rich and prosperous in the future, and the princes will be famous, and if you want to live a good life, you must eliminate the rebellion of the elders, are you willing to attack Yaozhen with this official?"

"Willing", "willing", more than a dozen squires have expressed their attitudes, if they do not destroy the rebels of the Brotherhood, their homes will be destroyed, and then look at the strength of the surrounding people, the scale of the Qing army is unprecedented, and the mob carrying shotguns in the kiln town is their opponent

"Please give the order to Chief Li, and seventy-one of my men will obey the order," Yao Bin knelt on one leg and looked like a soldier

"Okay, I won't treat you badly, now reorganize your armament, according to the number of each of you, there are three hundred sets of guns and grenades, and there are three hundred sets of military uniforms, first let you dress up and be spiritual, don't lose my mighty Qing army face," Li Guolou laughed loudly, satisfied with the performance of these squires, as long as someone serves him, he can let these people die righteously, it is not enough to have elite soldiers in his hands, and there must be cannon fodder, and the most important thing is to make the enemy feel afraid, most of the enemies have never fought, and the morale of the two sides is overwhelming

Yao Bin and the others were all surprised when they came to the courtyard, several carts were piled up with weapons, ammunition and military uniforms, which made them feel relieved that they saw ten howitzers, and now these people came to the spirit and stepped forward to touch the barrels, with these equipment, it was enough to fight the rebels

Fan Dahui registered these squires with arms, made a list of dozens of people, five of whom were members of the landlord's armed forces, and the other five were mixed into various villages, forcibly recruited the people, and the captain of the army was recommended by the squires to be a team of sentinels. The captain is responsible for the Qing army of Li Ziying, and each team sends a temporary supervisor to train the team, and the landlord armed members give priority to weapons and equipment, so that each team has a few Mauser guns and three or four soldiers who seem to be regular Qing soldiers, and after the distribution is completed, the team is also messy with a pot of porridge, and the team is very decent, led by the captain, each team has a reunion dinner first, so that everyone can get to know each other

Li Guolou was ready to use these miscellaneous troops as the main infantry to scare the rebels in Yaozhen, the Qing army occupied the four towns and eight neighbors, surrounded the towns with the countryside, and the situation was strong, and the Qing army was hiding, and more than 1,000 rebels in Yaozhen did not dare to come out, thinking that they were surrounded by the Qing army

In the vast night, the bonfire was raging outside the kiln town, and a terrifying atmosphere spread, and the Qing army bullied the defending enemy with an overwhelming advantage

Li Guolou inspected and deployed in all directions, it was already in the middle of the night, and it took only half a day for Li Zi's battalion to suddenly expand into three battalions, although the infantry was poorly equipped, most of them still carried farm tools to fight, but the morale of the army was strong, and these people had already received a patriotic education lesson, and they were ready to fight a battle with the defending enemy in Yaozhen tomorrow

Fan Dahui, Li Yunkai, Li Yunzhuo, Xu Lan, Fan Ye and other officers came to Li Guolou's side, and under the oil lamp, Li Guolou looked around, and his cronies were resolute, and a smile appeared on his face

"Tomorrow's battle arrangement must have a clear main goal, with our realistic strength to fight a town is very difficult, the battle will cause unnecessary panic, these ragtag troops will immediately reveal their original form, the enemy will find our weakness, so we still develop and grow according to today's model, mobilize the surrounding villages, gather people's hearts, capture and hide those rebels in the countryside, pull out a few strongholds on the periphery of the kiln town, improve the morale of the team, and let the defending enemy move, if the enemy dares to move, we will fight a field battle with the enemy, give full play to the superiority of artillery and cavalry, and do not expose the inferiority of infantry”

Li Guolou's words caused a burst of complaints, Fan Ye was extremely indignant, he got ten howitzers, he thought it was enough to sweep away everything, and the enemy protested loudly: "We don't fight the kiln town, then what are we doing here?"

Li Guolou smiled and said: "You don't understand, in fact, I am now using tricks to call the bottom of the kettle to draw salaries, and the rebels can't be killed, not only because there is a vast land that can be vertical and horizontal, but also because the local people support us, we are fighting a battle of people's hearts, as long as we arm the local area, let the people support us, don't we do it, we will arm ourselves everywhere, we will attack and build villains, all strongholds today, we advance twenty miles, tomorrow will extend forty miles to the surroundings, the day after tomorrow will be more than a hundred miles, now we do things called sowing seeds, depriving the enemy of living space, Lei Heng rebels can not advance to the east half a step in the future, the enemy's expansion plan is difficult to move an inch in the east, and time and people's hearts are ours here, the kiln town can not survive long, and will flee back to Yan'an to fight in the field, it is usFighting for attrition is not our responsibility."

Fan Ye was still unwilling to ask: "Sir Li, do you say that the enemy in Kiln Town will be dispatched?"

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Yes, I will not expose my strength, and I will not attack Yaozhen, the enemy will always test the truth, Lei Heng will send troops to support, and besides, the defenders of Yaozhen are also like us, and the enemy will not be willing to fail, and will definitely organize a counterattack, we must set up a pocket formation, set the battlefield, and we will designate the place, now we have three battalions of infantry and two battalions of cavalry, and the total number of cavalry sources is more than 16 people, enough to destroy the enemy."

Li Guolou said big things, learned from the rebels, and both sides of the enemy and us expanded the team, and the cowhide was picked up first, and the big blow was to see whose cowhide was pierced

At this time, the war in the northwest has been in turmoil for many years, and the people have collected firearms to defend their hometowns, and the people have a variety of guns in their hands: birds, flintlock pistols, arquebuses, broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, but no matter what, they can kill the enemy and serve the country, Li Guolou learned the practices of the rebels, desperately expanded the team, first resolved the unstable factors, and let people's hearts return to the Qing Dynasty

The sense of identity is very important, those who were forcibly recruited by the Qing army, the officers of the people, slept with them, ate together, and were very good at cultivating comradeship, and the military spirit was stable to win the battle, Li Guolou crushed the backbone of the rebels with the soldiers who surrendered without a fight, if these people who had never fought were forcibly pushed onto the battlefield, the battlefield command was ineffective, and it would also cause a collective escape, this battle could not be won, although Li Guolou's approach was conservative and not very enterprising, but through the analysis of the current situation, his subordinates still agreed with his approach, and no longer proposed to level the kiln town in one go

Fan Dahui scratched his head and said: "Chief Li came to fight like this, I thought we were going to fight hard."

Li Guolou looked at the flickering oil lamp, his eyes were clear, and he said with a sense of evil: "War is actually the ultimate performance of political struggle, if you want to win on the battlefield, we must also stand on the height of justice politically, we are now gathering people's hearts, so that the rebels become fish without water, can only be tossed in the mud, or it will not be long before Lei Heng tens of thousands of rebels will lose their military heart, Zuo Zongtang relies on the immigration policy to solve the problem of the Hui rebellion, I am more than him, forcibly tie the people together, as long as the people die, a family in the hands of the rebels will not share with the elders, this is to learn from the rebels, why the rebels can catch the strong men, and we have to send troops from far and wide to directly use the local people to deal with the rebels, the effect is a hundred times better, you see, very those who enthusiastically participate in the rebels, the people will run back”

"Don't rely on money to buy", Fan Dahui didn't believe that there was such a simple thing

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Master Rice, there are so many mouths to eat, how can there be no need for money, we are not rebels, we can make a living by looting, I spend money like flowing water, there is a place to get into the account, don't miss it, but unfortunately there is only loess in the loess, I want to make a mine, there is no place to dig it."

"Hey, the more this battle is fought, the poorer it becomes, it's too boring," Fan Ye agreed, Li Guolou said, it was really difficult to get rich in the war in the northwest, and the people were so poor that they didn't even have much oil and water

Fan Dahui sighed: "It's still Tianjin Wei, it's gold everywhere, Lord Li, don't toss around, don't fight again after this battle, we can't win glory for Zuo Zongtang."

"Don't disturb the morale of the army, I must win this battle," Li Guolou raised his eyebrows and angrily scolded his subordinates, in fact, he was also tired in his heart, winning the civil war is not worth showing off, the war between the Qing army and the Hui army is still long, Jinjibao, Hezhou, Xining, Suzhou Shanghui army in the hands of the Great Northwest Liberation Campaign, I don't know when the year can end