After the year-end war, the once noisy Pengzhou, Quxian, and Hezhou triangles have completely calmed down.

With the rapid changes in the war situation in northern Sichuan, the military and political chiefs in Guang'an and Pengzhou changed rapidly.

Song Zhenzong, commander of the Third Regiment, was promoted to commander of the Chongqing Military Region, and his posthumous post was represented by Tan Sigui. Then Wang Chaoyang rebelled, and Tan Sigui hastily took away the five battalions of the third regiment, except for the fourth and fifth two old battalions, the rest of the troops had just been formed.

Chen Youfu, the head of the Fourth Regiment, was transferred to Huguang, and He Qiukou, the deputy head of the regiment and the captain of Shun Baozhuang, had just taken over, and he led Feng Rubao's task force to Baoning Mansion, and soon became the head of the Fifth Regiment and the chief captain of the Baoning Baozhuang Brigade.

Lu Yinchang took over the position of the commander of the Fourth Regiment and the captain of Shunqing Huzhuang, but he and Luo Jingyun, the supervising army, led his troops to Jiangkou Town, south of the Tongjiang River and on the side of the Ba River, and was out of reach of Shunqing's affairs.

Therefore, the burden of the Shunqing Huzhuang Corps was helplessly pressed on the shoulders of He Zengshan, the head of the first regiment, and the Fusi Qianhu of Jinyi Weibei Town, and Li Cunliang, the deputy director of the National Protector Army and the supervisor of the first regiment. They commanded five infantry battalions and five brigades to protect the village, namely the 1st, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th battalions and five brigades to protect the village in Guang'an, Pengzhou, Yingshan, Yuechi, and Quxian.

Tao Xiansheng, the chief captain of the Yuxi Huzhuang Corps, Li Yongjing, the deputy commander, Zhang Baohuan, the deputy captain, and Dong Kezhi, the deputy supervisor, took over the five counties of Hezhou, Dingyuan, Rongchang, Yongchuan and Bishan, plus the three counties of Anju, Tongliang and Dazu under their original jurisdiction, forming the second defensive barrier south of the Daba Mountain area.

Since it has also taken over the general corps of the village protector, the responsibility of appeasing the local army cannot be run, and the field army also has to do the work of the local army.

Guang'an's Heaven Shaking and Bandit He Jiaqi were completely annihilated, and Yuan Tao and Chen Lin, the kings of the Heavenly Struggle, retreated to the depths of Bashan. However, the Black Tiger Mixed Sky Star Wang Gao and Wang Guangxing had a large number of remnants of bandits scattered in the deep mountains and forests. Even Wang Gao and Wang Guangxing, the two thief chieftains, have disappeared. If these remnants of bandits and gangsters are not cleaned up for a day, then these prefectures and counties will not be peaceful for a day, and the resumption of agricultural production will be an empty word.

However, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and a large number of troops are needed to clear out the remnants of bandits. Although the troops under He Zengshan and Li Cunliang have ten battalion-level numbers, there are very few troops that can be drawn out to search the mountains and clear them.

The 1st Battalion of the National Protector Army and the Guang'an Guardian Brigade with the most combat effectiveness carried out the task of garrisoning important places in the vicinity of Guang'an Prefecture, and had to keep an eye on Liu Weiming's troops who surrendered to Cheng and the captured local tyrants and White Lotus bandits, so they could not move lightly.

Most of the troops of the Pengzhou and Yingshan guards at the southern foot of Bashan have been brought to the depths of Bashan by Sun Deren, the captain of the Pengzhou Guardian Brigade, and it is a matter of time before they are reorganized into regular protectors. The total number of troops left by the two village guards is less than 300, and it is difficult to defend the city. The 9th Battalion had no choice but to hold between Pengzhou and Yingshan as a mobile support force, staring at the Jincheng Mountains in the south and Bashan in the north.

It was difficult for the Yuechi Huzhuang Brigade to start from scratch, so it had to be taken over by the 10th Battalion, which lacked a second company.

The Quxian Zhuangzhuang Brigade was only incorporated into a Hanzhou Zhuangzhuang Brigade to participate in the war, and it did not recruit a few soldiers after going out in a big circle. Fortunately, the nearby town of Sanhui was garrisoned by the eighth battalion, and the pressure was the lightest.

As a result, the 1st Regiment had only the 12th and 13th battalions left with the strength available for the clearance mission.

With the temperament of Yi He Zengshan, he must have wanted to lead the field army across the battlefield. At the beginning, He Zengshan set up and trained the Huayang County Huzhuang Brigade, and built the brigade into a standard field unit.

However, based on the actual situation in the five prefectures and counties, local military construction is not only very important, but also more urgent. If the state and county brigades cannot carry out field tasks for a day, then the field battalions will not be able to extricate themselves from the embarrassment of defending the city for a day. This is the wonderful dialectical relationship between the field army and the local army.

Therefore, as soon as He Zengshan discussed with Li Cunliang, he left Yin Jialin and Zhu Pingqi, who had been promoted, and let them be responsible for the formation and reconstruction of the five brigades. As a condition for taking over, Yin Jialin and Zhu Pingqi asked for a large number of officers and sergeants from the five field battalions as the seeds of the Five Regions Guardian Team.

But Ding Zhuang can't be extracted, and with seeds, it may not be able to germinate and flower. The reason for this is very simple: the local household registration is withered, and the supply of soldiers is insufficient.

After a catastrophe at the end of last year, the population of the Pengzhou, Quxian, and Hezhou triangles suffered great losses, and Jingzhuang had either joined the National Protector Army or was coerced by local rioters.

There are 30,000 or 40,000 Liu Weiming's troops who surrendered to Cheng and the captured local tyrants and White Lotus Sect bandits, and there are also a large number of strong ones, but many of these former local tyrants are full of banditry and dare not use them at all. Only those who have been coerced and have not been thieves for a long time, after screening and education, and arousing their hatred of the local tyrants, can they choose the best to join the national protection army.

Screening and education require a process, and the evaluation of results also requires a process, so the recruitment speed cannot be fast. But even if the new recruits are added to the Protector Army, priority must be given to replenishing the main battalions, especially the 1st and 10th battalions of a company that is missing. Yin Jialin and Zhu Pingqi were busy working in Guang'an for a long time, but they made wedding clothes for others, and they were not good at losing their temper, so they had to keep complaining to He Zengshan and Li Cunliang.

It just so happened that Li Cunliang heard an important piece of news from the mouths of the three little girls: More than 1,000 soldiers of the National Protector Army and officers and men of Zhao Ronggui's unit who had recovered from minor injuries were about to be discharged from the Hezhou Invalids Hospital.

He Zengshan was extremely excited when he heard the news. He was worried that Tao Xiansheng of the Yuxi Huzhuang Brigade would get the moon first, so he hurriedly ran to Hezhou in a hurry, and he was the first to strike.

As soon as He Zengshan left, he threw the matter of purging the remnants of thieves to Li Cunliang, the prison army sitting at the foot of Jincheng Mountain.

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Immortal Mountain Resort, often called "Cave Heaven Blessed Land", which means the fairy mountain on the ground.

Taoism, China's native religion through and through, has ten caves, thirty-six small caves and seventy-two blessed lands in ancient times. These 118 places constitute the main part of the Taoist fairyland on earth, and also outline the large framework of China's tourism map.

For example, Zhu Pingjin's mother and Luo Yuhong's father partnered to rely on Qingcheng Mountain, where they did not go home, not only ranked second among the famous mountains of the Four Great Avenues, but also ranked fifth among the top ten cave heavens. Jincheng Mountain, which lies at the intersection of Nanchong, Pengzhou and Yuechi counties, is also fortunate to be listed among the 72 blessed lands (Note 1). Located in the depths of Jincheng Mountain, the thousand-year-old Golden Purple View is recognized as a holy place for cultivating the truth and attaining the Tao by extracting the essence of the blessed land and gathering the aura of heaven and earth.

One morning in mid-February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, a platoon of the second company of the 12th battalion of the Protector Army hastily had a simple breakfast. Under the shouting of the superiors, the soldiers slowly gathered on the narrow and difficult mountain road. The soldiers cursed the eighth-generation ancestors of the soil tyrants, and took turns to the black tiger and Wang Guangxing's mother, and then packed up all kinds of equipment, took heavy steps, and began their routine mountain search work for a new day.

According to the order of the battalion commander Wang Huaide, their task today is to search for a mountain peak in the mountains west of Jinziguan. This peak, like the many peaks of the Kaneshiro Mountains, is not only without a road, but also without a name. It can be seen from a distance, and it will take at least a day to climb up and search it.

A platoon of people gradually formed a slender column on the rugged narrow mountain road. The two officers who walked in the head, the short, swarthy and swarthy strong man was the platoon commander, named Ma Xun; The tall, thin and pale man is named Jiang Dou, who is the deputy platoon leader.

Jiang Dou was originally a small banner of Chengdu's avant-garde, and later escaped to join the Chengdu County Guardian Team of the Shu Palace. Because his surname is Jiang, he is also thin and thin, so he is called "cowpea". After escaping, in order not to be caught by the avant-garde Shangguan Master and go back to the camp with arrows, he reported the crooked name as a big name.

At the end of last year, Jiang Dou followed the Chengdu County Village Protection Team to participate in the Dujiangyan annual repair project. But halfway through the work, he was incorporated into the Chengdu County Combat Company and joined the war in northern Sichuan.

After winning the two battles of Guangmenpu and Yuechi, Jiang Dou thought that his position as the deputy platoon commander of the head and tail of the army would definitely be corrected, and maybe there would be a bigger reward. Who knew that a new platoon commander was sent by the official last night, and I heard that he used to be an officer of Zhao Ronggui's department!

Hope was disappointed, and Jiang Dou was naturally unhappy in his heart. He had the intention to talk about his glorious history in front of the newcomers and show off the prestige of his old qualifications, but as soon as they met, he knew that the original plan would not work.

Why? Because the new platoon commander has a breathtaking star in his eyes that kills countless people and can be born!

This starlight made Jiang Dou shudder. Therefore, he quickly changed his struggle strategy, from confrontation to corrosion.

"Our battalion commander is an honest ghost! The head of the regiment asked him to search the mountain, and he asked us to measure the land inch by inch! The tall and thin Jiang Dou chewed a grass root fiercely, and vented very dissatisfiedly in front of the platoon commander Ma Xun: "It's okay now!" From the first day of the first lunar month to the present, we have been going around in this barren mountain for more than a month, and we don't know when we will be able to get out of the mountain! I haven't taken a bath this month! There are lice inside and out, and it's itchy everywhere! ”

"How can you not measure the land? Could it be that the local thugs will pop out on their own and honestly let us be tied up one by one? ”

Hearing the deputy complaining, Ma Xuntou, the platoon commander who was walking in the head, replied coldly without replying. His eyes were fixed on the opposite side of the mountain. In the dense forest, a corner of the cornices and a line of white walls loomed out.

The place with white walls of the eaves is called the Golden Purple Temple, which is named after the Golden Purple Ridge of its mountain.

Jin Ziguan is no stranger to the officers and soldiers of the whole platoon. When he received the task last night, Jiang Dou shouted that their platoon had been searching around this golden purple temple like a ghost hitting a wall for more than a month, and not even a single human hair of a thug had been found.

Probably knowing that it was useless for him to complain, Jiang Dou decided to change the topic of the chat and establish a good relationship with the new boss first. Maybe people are familiar with it, and it's easy to say this, and there is no need to climb the mountain road.

"Platoon commander, are you really the son of the world personally rescued from the pile of dead people by the canal river?"

"Hmm." Ma Xun replied in a muffled voice.

It seems that the new boss does not like to discuss this topic. Jiang Dou observed the words and immediately changed the content that Ma Xun might care about.

"Platoon commander, there is no problem with this Golden Purple View!"

Seeing Ma Xun suddenly turn around, Jiang Dou hurriedly put his thoughts together: "Think about it, we are in the light, and the local tyrant is in the dark; We searched for a month, and the thugs hid for a month. We are bitter, and the local tyrants are even more bitter! They are hiding in this big mountain, they have to eat or drink, they don't even have a place to sleep and bathe, where can they hide? ”

"yes, that's what I'm thinking!" Ma Xun responded.

"More than 200 people and horses, how much grain and forage do they have to eat every day? So from the beginning, Lao Tzu focused his search on this golden purple view! You know, there is food in this golden purple view! The regimental headquarters Li Jianjun also issued a military order, let us seriously investigate the Taoist temple, and force the local tyrants to show up with a plan to startle the snake! ”

"How?" Ma Xun asked.

"Not good!" Jiang Dou shook his head in frustration, "Lao Tzu has searched inside and outside the Taoist temple, and it is impossible to hide the local tyrants. With more than 200 horses, no matter how big a Taoist temple is, where can it be hidden? Since there is no Taoist temple, is there any collusion between the Taoist temple and the local tyrants, and send food to the local tyrants? At the beginning, Lao Tzu was full of confidence, and he was assisted by Jinyiwei's brothers. We squatted together in the woods and grass outside the Golden Purple View to conduct secret investigations, but a few days passed, and we didn't wait for a fart! ”

"Then Jin Ziguan really doesn't have a thief?" Ma Xun muttered to himself, "What does that local thug eat and drink in a month......

Later, Li Jianjun sent a notice again, saying that during the occupation of Yuechi by the local rioters, this Jin Ziguan had taken in many fleeing people, and it was meritorious to the country, so that we must not be rude to it. So every time I go into the meditation, I act according to the orders and pay tribute to the Taoist chief Jin Xuanzhen. Platoon commander, you haven't seen it, that old real person, white hair and white beard, the real god is also ......"

Ma Xun listened to Jiang Dou chattering in his ear, thinking about things in his heart, but he didn't stop taking a step under his feet.

The Golden Purple View is on the opposite side of the valley, as if it is close at hand. But to get to the Taoist temple, you need to go down to the ravine, cross the stream, and then climb halfway up the mountain. One at a time, at least two hours.