As soon as Shi Huiji said this, the moonlight of the whole audience was focused on Liu Chang.

Breaking away from Zhai Zhenhan and going out to pull the team by himself is the Jing of most people in the entire small group, but everyone has never opened this layer of window paper, and now Shi Huiji is an outsider who has newly joined the small group, and he can speak without scruples, so he can directly pick out this matter.

All present were the sentry commanders and platoon commanders in Liu Chang's small group, it can be said that the core backbone of this small group, everyone had that little ambition in their eyes, Liu Chang combed his hair casually, blinked his eyes, and then replied: "When Ruian City is opened, we are ready to go it alone, Shi Huiji, are you willing to do it with me!" ”

"Willing to follow the inspection!" Shi Huiji replied without hesitation: "Although I am bringing a local Tuan Yong, I will go wherever the inspector wants me to go!" ”

Liu Chang's eyes swept away, but he swept to Zhai Jie, the sentry commander of the dragon spear whistle: "So, Zhai Sentinel, are you willing to follow me!" ”

Zhai Jie is the nephew of Zhai Zhenhan's own family, and in fact, his tendency also represents the tendency of half of the dragon lance post and the hundreds of officers and soldiers from Hongqiao in the entire small group.

No matter how Liu Chang obliterates Zhai Zhenhan's influence in his own army, there is an indisputable fact, the capital of his business comes from Zhai Zhenhan, and there are more than 300 Hongqiao officers and soldiers in the entire army, accounting for almost half of the entire army.

Zhai Jie hesitated, Zhai Zhenhan asked him to be responsible for keeping an eye on Liu Chang, but he was won over by Liu Chang instead, but it seemed a little uninteresting to let him break away from Zhai Zhenhan and follow Liu Chang out alone.

After a while, he said: "At the beginning of the inspection, did you suggest that Zhai Shuai attack at night, and must completely defeat this Qing army tonight?" ”

"That's right!" Liu Chang didn't know why Zhai Jie shifted the problem to this: "Now that the Qing Demon has even taken away the baggage for us, we will definitely not be able to hold on tomorrow, so if they want a way out, they can only break through at night!" ”

Zhai Jie nodded: "I think the same way, the Qing Demon has no baggage, and it is surrounded by our army, and it will be a dead end if it will be with our army at dawn tomorrow, but I don't know if Zhai Shuai has the decision to be the commander of the army!" ”

The word commander of the army, he still learned it from Liu Chang's mouth, he continued: "If Zhai Shuai can listen to the good words of the inspectors, fight the victory tonight, and sweep away these two or three thousand Qing demons, then he can still be regarded as a promising human master!" Of course, I won't make the inspection difficult, I'll go back to Zhai Shuai alone! ”

"If Zhai Shuai's mother-in-law and mother let go of this Qing army tonight, it can only mean that we have no future if we follow him, then I can only choose to live in the Lord!"

After he finished speaking, Liu Chang smiled bitterly: "Chief Zhai's words are a bit interesting, it seems that I will stay all night tonight to see the results!" ”

Now Liu Chang's troops, not only have to take in the stragglers, but also take care of the captured baggage and more than 200 prisoners, and also take in the wounded, tonight can not move, can only see whether Zhai Zhenhan has the courage to sweep away this Qing army tonight regardless of the fatigue of the troops.

When Zhai Jie said this, the Hongqiao officers present all nodded and nodded, and many of them were ready to advance and retreat with Zhai Jie, after all, they were Hongqiao people, and their relationship with Zhai Zhenhan was very close.

The stars were getting brighter, and the moonlit battlefield had become silent.

Both sides ceased combat operations, and Liu Chang was still considering the impact of Zhai Jie and Hongqiao officers leaving the unit, which would be a very big loss for this unit, just as the impact of Southern officers leaving the Union army before the Civil War.

Shi Huiji followed him, but he was very resolute: "Check, I just followed you with one heart!" ”

As he was talking, there was already a sound of fighting and gunfire in the distance, and Zhai Jie's face turned pale all of a sudden: "Is this the Red Turban Army attacking the Qing Demon?" ”

He had already spoken his big words, but now he felt that he was nothing without Liu Chang, just that ordinary ordinary person, but under Liu Chang's command, he was the invincible dragon lance sentry commander.

Liu Chang also regretted it a little, he asked, "It's better to follow me!" ”

It's just that the next moment, the sound of gunfire and fighting immediately stopped, and Liu Chang breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that it was just an accident!" ”

It was indeed an accident, until the fifth watch, the entire battlefield was silent, Zhai Jie stood up and gave a military salute to Liu Chang: "Check, you are tired, you have been guarding all night!" ”

The officers from Hongqiao also gave Liu Chang a military salute, although there was no earth-shattering expression, but there was only one will, that is, they were willing to follow Liu Chang alone.

Liu Chang shook hands with them one by one, a smile appeared on his face unnaturally, and he didn't say much, sometimes silent was better than sound, and finally hugged Zhai Jie and gave him a warm hug.

The sky was slightly bright, and at this time, the entire battlefield suddenly sounded with earth-shattering gunfire and fighting, Liu Chang's smile froze all of a sudden, and Zhai Zhenhan finally made up his mind and prepared to leave these two or three thousand Qing troops behind.

He led the officers to run up a small hill with a straight face, looking at the figures of the Red Turban Army all over the mountain, but he didn't see the Qing army's uniform and green flag, and he didn't know what was happening in front of him: "What's the matter?" Get your troops ready and ready to charge with bayonets! ”

Not long after, Shi Yunqing, the captain of the forward team, came galloping with sweat and shouted: "The Qing Demon has run away, the Qing Demon has all run away!" ”

Although the Qing army escaped from the encirclement of the Red Turban Army at night, Shi Yunqing's face was filled with a smile that could not be concealed: "The Qing Demon ran cleanly, Zhai Zhenhan and they only caught a batch of color numbers dropped by the Qing Demon!" ”

His statement is a bit exaggerated, there are still a lot of scattered units in the encirclement, and there are many trophies thrown by the Qing army, and after a while, the sky has turned white, and Liu Chang watched the Red Turban Army escort three or two Qing army prisoners over.

When the sun rose, Liu Chang knew what happened last night, and as soon as the night came, Ye Bingzhong and Qinglian had already made up their minds, as many troops as they could, they found a trail and didn't care how many people would run away during the night march, that is, they marched from this road overnight to break through to Fucheng.

The Red Turban Army fought all day, fighting all the way from Hai'an City to Chashan, exhausted, but Zhai Zhenhan couldn't make up his mind to attack at night, afraid that he would not be able to control the troops at night, and the result was just a contact with the Qing army that broke through Liu Chang heard the gunfire from the two sides at that time.

When the sky was slightly bright, Zhai Zhenhan made up his mind, but it was too late, the Qing army in the encirclement had already run away at night, and the Red Turban Army had only caught a few small ones.

After hearing all this, Liu Chang was in a better mood, he personally walked in front of Zhai Jie, shook hands with him, hugged every Hongqiao officer before finally saying: "When Ruian City is defeated, even if the situation of Wenzhou Mansion is defeated for him, we are worthy of Zhai Shuai!" ”

"And!" He advised: "The baggage we seized yesterday will be sent to Zhai Shuai!" ”

The amount of baggage seized yesterday is not small, this is most of the baggage of Qinglian's 3,700 soldiers, but things like black powder, lead, and vehicles can only be regarded as chicken ribs for Liu Chang, and it is useless to give them all to Zhai Zhenhan, as for the valuables and mules and horses in it, they have already been intercepted: "It was yesterday that Shi Huiji came to serve me, and I had to accept these people for the sake of face, and today I apologize to Zhai Shuai!" ”

This can be regarded as giving Zhai Zhenhan enough face, but in the next step, Liu Chang still decided to reward Zhai Jie: "Captain Zhai, our team, although we have the strength of a battalion, we have not set up a camp, from now on, we have the first infantry battalion, the dragon spear battalion!" Congratulations, Camp Commander Zhai! ”

Zhai Jie suddenly had tears on his face, and he wiped his tears with ease: "Dragon Gun Battalion, good name!" Good name! ”

Huo Qiu patted Zhai Jie's shoulder, but he thought in his heart: "Since the Dragon Lance Battalion has been established, will the Nanxi Battalion be far away?" ”

As soon as he thought that he could lead a battalion of people, he had a smile on his face, and Liu Chang said again: "In addition to the dragon lance whistle, Camp Commander Zhai should also have a basic company of his own, so be it!" Draw one from the dragon lance post as the backbone and then set up a sentry, and the soldiers are drawn from the brave team, what is the name? ”

"Second Sentinel without a gun!" Zhai Jie couldn't think of any good name: "Let's call it the second whistle of the dragon lance!" ”

"Good!" Liu Chang agreed: "Yesterday, we fought all day, and there were fifty-three casualties, so we will adjust in place for a day, and you quickly organize the second sentry of the dragon lance!" ”

Zhai Jie nodded, didn't say anything, just said: "Let's fight Ruian County, we are definitely worthy of Zhai Shuai!" ”

Ruian County is already in the midst of a rumor.

The bad news from Hai'an and Chashan has spread to the county, and the price on the market has suddenly become more expensive by 20%, and now even if there is a relationship, you can't buy yellow cloth, and the price of white cloth, which has always been in demand, has dropped directly by 10%.

Not only has Hai'an City been broken by the Red Turban Army, not to mention Xu Muqian's suicide in the martyrdom, in the area of Chashan and Nanbaixiang, many people have seen the official army beaten by the Red Turban thieves, and even the prefect Ruichun died in front of the battle.

As soon as they heard that these reinforcements had been defeated by the Red Turban Army, many of them decided to leave the county seat and cross the Feiyun River to take refuge first, and then return when the war was over.

It's just a bad news that makes many people jump, and they went to the county magistrate overnight to ask about the truth of the news, and Sun Qiangming, who is in charge of the county's military affairs, has become the eye of the storm of this news.

Now Sun Qiangming said to his brother Sun Jiayan: "I don't know where the rumors came from, but I want to burn down the more than 3,000 houses and shops outside the city!" ”

Sun Jiayan was also concerned about this matter, and many people asked him about it in a roundabout way: "Brother, is this thing true?" ”

"This must be a rumor created by the thief of Liu Jiehu." Sun Qiangming, as the former Guangxi Xuezheng, replied very majestically: "It's just to disturb the hearts of the people in my county, and there is no such thing." ”

But Sun Jiayan still patted his left hand, and decided to break it: "I think, the rumors are spreading, maybe it is from the poisonous plan of the thief Liu Juehu, but the willow thief can't be without wind and waves, you and I are my own brother, what else can't I say?" ”

This sentence was to the point, and Sun Qiangming didn't know how to answer his brother.