"We have a Tai Yong of 300 people in Ruian City, and we usually do any work!" Shi Huiji said: "I can't make a fortune, but I can barely fill my stomach, I heard that Xu Muqian once contacted them." ”

"Three hundred? What role can it play? Huo Qiu dismissed: "Let's Nanxi whistle bag beat!" ”

Sun Huzi said the world's sentence: "People are on the city wall, and you also pack and fight?" ”

As soon as he said this, Huo Qiu was silent, but Liu Chang asked, "Can they recruit more people?" ”

"As long as you have money, no problem!" Shi Huiji told Liu Chang: "In our Zhejiang-Fujian ocean, some of them are hard-working Taiwanese boats!" ”

It is said that there are some in the Feiyun River, and there are even more in the Zhejiang-Fujian Ocean, and although the combat effectiveness is not strong, if it is in the hands of the enemy, it will always be troublesome.

In this time and space, there are many areas where the people are fierce and the living conditions are harsh, and they are famous for producing mercenaries, the most famous of which is the Chaoshan region, which provided hundreds of thousands of Chaoyong on the date of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, and these mercenaries can be seen in all aspects of the war.

The second is Min Yong, especially in the Jiangnan region, Min Yong is very common, when Zhai Zhenhan got up, he once contacted Min Yong who was stationed in Wenzhou, trying to seize the city through their relationship.

And Taiyong's fame is much smaller, but they have a feature, that is, they also have a water mercenary, and the price is low, and the combat effectiveness is okay, so they can often be seen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Liu Chang was a little worried, that is, after entering the Taizhou area, would he be strongly resisted by local forces, he vaguely remembered one point, that is, the development of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Taizhou was not very smooth, and it was not the green battalion or the new Yong battalion that opposed them, but the new militia group.

In fact, the situation is even worse than he imagined, Taizhou's militia forces are very strong, and there are some real heroes, they took advantage of the opportunity of the servant Li Shixian's inability to take care of Taizhou, and recaptured six county towns from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in one fell swoop, slaughtering tens of thousands of Taiping officers and soldiers, even in Zuo Zongtang's eyes, this is a rare miracle of war, because this is all the work of the militia, the green battalion and the Yong battalion did not intervene in this battle at all.

So he made a suggestion: "What about their discipline and combat effectiveness?" If it's okay, ask the price, I'll pay! out of real money. ”

Shi Huiji didn't expect his master to come up with such a suggestion: "I'll try, but Sun Qiangming's side must have paid a lot of money, and we're afraid we'll spend a lot." ”

"Guan Jian can come in handy when we go north!"

Liu Chang openly talked about breaking away from Zhai Zhenhan among the first-level cadres, but asked them not to convey it to the bottom or make it public: "We know too little about Taizhou, and we need talents in this area." ”

Shi Huiji also knew that his master would have the intention to develop in Taizhou and Ningbo, although he had some emotions that his homeland was difficult to leave, but he felt that this was a good choice, but he had a problem: "Check, if we develop in the direction of Taizhou, I'm afraid we have to open a Haikou as soon as possible, in this case, it is better to start with the Taiwanese boat first, there are too many people in this group of Taiwanese warriors, and I am afraid that it will cost too much money to come over." ”

With Haikou, he can obtain a steady stream of arms and materials from the sea, but Liu Chang only has a millet boat and a few secret plates brought by Shi Yunqing, which can only be used to transport some materials and personnel in normal times, and cannot be chased at sea at all.

"We're going to have to grab the power on the water!" Liu Chang agrees with this: "You try to start with Shui Yong and tell them that as long as they are willing to help us open Ruian City, the price is easy to say!" ”

However, as soon as he talked about this water surface, he thought of Ge Wu and Ye Niangzi, this time he rejected Ye Niangzi's proposal, and did not get up with Ge Wuyi to attack Ruian County, and now he wants to grasp the power of the water surface, will it cause a backlash from Ge Wu and Ye Niangzi?

At this moment, Ye Niangzi was proud of the spring breeze, and in front of her was a battlefield after the naval battle, where you could see the captured Qing warships everywhere, as well as the defeated soldiers of the Qing army floating on the water, and the fragments of warships that could be seen everywhere.

"If this battle is won, even the price of Zhao'an is different!" Ge Wu clapped his hands triumphantly: "I just don't know if I want to take down the Jade Ring Island!" ”

"Take it down, take it down!" Ye Niangzi said on the side: "Such a good piece of land, how can you not take it down!" Now from Dongtou Island to Yuhuan Island is our territory! ”

This time, Ge Wu's fleet was defeated by the Qing Army's naval division that went south from Zhoushan, and the newly rebuilt Yuhuan Battalion of the Green Battalion Naval Division, but they didn't expect Ge Wu's fleet to get another very powerful reinforcement.

This support army is the remnants of the Yellow Rank Xiaodaohui fleet that failed in the uprising in southern Fujian in the third year of Xianfeng, they have been floating at sea for more than a year, and there are still more than ten warships, and the two armies have broken the Qing army and naval division in one fell swoop, especially the newly rebuilt green camp and the Yuhuan battalion have been devastated.

Fifth Master Ge was more sober: "We have a bigger territory now and more ships, but we can only concentrate on taking a piece of land, should we go to Ruian County to grab a handful?" ”

Due to the southward movement of this Qing fleet, Ge Wu's fleet is now gathered near Yuhuan Island, and there is no spare energy to take care of the direction of Ruian.

Ye Niangzi has her own little woman's thoughts: "Go, how can you not go, Zhai Zhenhai promised to lend us half of Ruian County, as long as we grab as much territory as we want, where is our territory!" ”

She continued: "Besides, the group of people from the Little Knife Club want to go back to the south, even if they can't go back to Fujian, it is also excellent for them to go to Ruian and Pingyang!" ”

Ge Wu thought it through: "But we people are crisscrossing the sea, and we can't go ashore, if we can unite with Liu Jiehu this time!" ”

Ge Wu is invincible at sea, Liu Chang is invincible on land, the two armies advance by land and water, Ge Wu is confident that he will take the entire Ruian County, but Liu Chang would rather give Ye Niangzi a batch of arms for nothing than unite with Ge Wu.

"Without him, we won't eat pork!" Ye Niangzi couldn't help hating in her heart: "This Ruian County is our deserved territory, if Zhai Zhenhai doesn't show some sincerity, we will turn the world upside down on the coast of Wenzhou."

"Don't say that!" Ge Wu said: "People were cruel to me at the beginning, if I can't get along with Ge Wu at sea, I will go to him, as long as he eats meat, he won't let me Ge Wu drink soup!" ”

"People said casually, you are now in command of thousands of rapists, and you will actually believe it!" Ye Niangzi said angrily: "This little man is not simple, you have to worry!" ”

"I'm afraid you'll suffer his loss!" Ge Wu casually said what was on his mind: "Now it's such a big territory, so many warships, it's a trouble!" ”

As he was talking, a speedboat came at a gallop, and someone on the opposite boat shouted loudly: "Is it Ge Wuye on the other side?" Our Generalissimo Zhai Zhenhan sent me to the sea to invite the fifth master to make a big deal together!! ”

Ge Wuye glanced at it, and it was the yellow flag of the Red Turban Army hanging on the opposite side, and he didn't know where Zhai Zhenhan got it from, but when he thought that Zhai Zhenhan was also trying to develop the power on the water, he was a little unhappy in his heart, and looked to the other side: "Why did Zhai Zhenhai come to me to do business?" ”

The envoy on the opposite side had already come over on a private board, it was Liu Gongrui, the dog-headed military advisor, and as soon as he met, he said respectfully: "My family Zhai Shuai is now preparing to attack Ruian County, but the army lacks Western heavy artillery, and I want to borrow a few from the fifth master's ship!" ”

His eyes rolled, and then fell on the short sword and tunnel gun on Ye Niangzi's waist: "Also, my Zhai Shuai wants to buy a batch of foreign guns, and I want to ask Ye Niangzi to think of a way!" ”

This is a fat pig delivered to the door! Ye Niangzi remembered that although the group of people from the Little Knife Society had been floating at sea for two whole years, they brought a small number of foreign guns and foreign gunpowder from Annan to prepare for the sale, but the price they opened was too high and the quantity was too small, so Ye Niangzi did not take this batch of goods.

Now she can do a personal favor, her eyes are bright: "It turned out to be Liu Gongrui and Liu Junshi, your Zhai Shuai wants to run foreign guns and cannons, and open Ruian County, what does it have to do with our fifth master?" ”

Liu Gongrui smiled: "Naturally, there are benefits of the fifth master, as long as the fifth master is willing to help, our Zhai Shuai is willing to lend the Feiyun River Estuary to the fifth master!" ”

He asked again: "Ye Niangzi has a way to buy foreign guns, and the price is easy to say!" We, Zhai Shuai, want to fight the Qing Demon and urgently need to buy a batch of foreign guns. ”

"Fight the demons?" Ye Niangzi's eyes seemed to be able to speak: "I think it's to prevent Liu from being out of the house, right?" ”

As soon as Liu Chang was mentioned, Ye Niangzi's competitive heart came: "Liu Jiehu, who has no conscience, Ye Niang, I kindly introduced him to a way to buy foreign guns, but he crossed the river and demolished the bridge in a blink of an eye, and he didn't even agree to sell a few more barrels of foreign gunpowder to Ye Niang. ”

Liu Gongrui breathed a sigh of relief, he was not a staunch anti-Liu faction in the Red Turban Army: "No, of course not, Zhai Shuai will go south to attack Fuzhou with the Red Money Volunteers, so he will naturally borrow the power of the Fifth Master and the Fifth Ladies!" ”

"What?" Ye Niangzi was taken aback: "You want to fight Fuzhou?" ”

Liu Gongrui found that he had lost his mouth, and only the Red Turban Army knew about this matter, but he didn't expect him to say it casually, but he immediately fooled the past: "Yes, there is just such an idea, and it is not necessarily, Fifth Master, Fifth Mother, how many foreign guns can you get?" There are no 100 strokes! ”

This time spent 10,000 taels of silver to ask Liu Chang to cross the river to the south, and afterwards Liu Gongrui was in pain for Zhai Zhenhan, if he could buy a batch of foreign guns and equipment to go to the Red Turban Army, then why spend 10,000 taels of silver to ask Liu Chang to go down.

"No, but more than twenty strokes!" Ye Niangzi replied: "And the price is not cheap!" ”

Not only is it not cheap, it is simply a super killing pork, compared with the price that Liu Chang bought it, Demons is a super good person.