In the mountain town in the first month, people still continue the topic of thirty nights after dinner, it is said that there is a person who comes to the Buddha from outside the mountain, after listening to the sound of nature, he immediately committed a demonic disease, claimed to have an epiphany, packed his bags on the first day of the new year, walked to the Qinghai-Tibet Temple, and disturbed the old monk. When Zhang Yingquan heard this, he said two words in a row: "Creation!" Good luck! "But I was helpless in my heart: sin! Sin!

The Zhang family is still busy, everything is in the planning, fifteen is not recruiting people, fifteen just after a string of firecrackers, start work! Wisps of green smoke rose from the blast furnace.

Xiang Xianyun was happy, as expected. When the girl first got married, she didn't go through the world, and once she was in a different tune, and she was familiar with it only in the second month, and she couldn't stop it, and she couldn't make people, which was unexpected.

My sister-in-law has more than eight months of 'heavy armor' on her body, and it's almost over! The sister-in-law understands people, and goes back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings and give birth, saying that everyone is busy, don't add to the chaos, and her mother's family is taken care of by Aunt Zhou, and the eldest brother has no opinion, and asks: "Bring more food and silver, don't lose the child and yourself!" ”

The second sister-in-law doesn't touch the house, the second brother is unhappy, and there is no way to call someone the shopkeeper. This is not the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper is not the housekeeper, what kind of name is the third brother?

Take care of the family, it's Xiaoya and Garcia's turn, fortunately, they are not particular people, and the family is still happy!

The situation outside the mountain is not severe to be described by two words, the Taiping army along the first line of the river is marching forward, Jiangxi and Anhui are dyed, and the long-haired figure has appeared under the city of Jinling, the land of Liangjiang Prefecture. Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, who had just taken office at the end of last year, was emaciated by this and devoted himself to organizing battalions, regimental training, and township courage drills, hoping to be able to resist bandits and foreign countries.

People with a little geographical knowledge can see that once Jinling is unexpected, Shanghai and Hangzhou are directly exposed to the long-haired soldiers.

"If the big Jinling City, there are only a few thousand Eight Banner soldiers who can go into battle to compare two moves, and the others are all township warriors and nonsensical people in the market, and it is a matter of time before the city is lost, so I have to take precautions as soon as possible."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Bai Xianglong also nodded in agreement with the group of civil and military officials.

"People say that wave warfare is better than bow horses, defending the city and fighting firearms, can you find someone to bring some foreign guns first, prepare some competent guys, practice first, I know that there is no stock on the market now, please worry about this."

"Definitely, definitely."

With the governor's words, Bai Xianglong was busy, and hurriedly sent a letter to Zhang Yingquan, no matter what, first let Han Zhang and foreign companies provide 2,000 flintlock pistols within two months for training needs, and the affairs of building a factory must also be stepped up.

A few years ago, the magistrate took people up the mountain to check the illegal guns, which reminded Zhang Yingquan, the magistrate got the complaint, and took people up the mountain to check and verify, which was his own business, and it was his own carelessness, and the factory protection team was not legally armed, and it was difficult to ensure that there would be no accidents after a long time.

Since the Gengzi year, Lin Dashuai resisted the foreign and launched a township warrior and regimental training system, the green camp army was basically abolished, and the imperial court simply handed over the temporary armed forces such as the township warrior to the commander of one party. Can we also act under the guise of the militia?

For this matter, Zhang Yingquan specially visited Bai Xianglong, and before Zhang Yingquan finished speaking, Bai Daren understood in his heart, isn't it just to get a legal license for a few of his own people and a few guns? A pat on the chest, a small thing! Don't say it, he really has a way to do this kind of thing, no, in a few days, he asked for a serious Qing Dynasty martial arts, the foreign commission will be the general, lead from the ninth rank, not a penny, all the job cards, as long as you have money, you can reasonably arrange, Xiangyong, group training, just agreeable.

After the county government got the military proclamation from the foreign commission, he went up to the magistrate of the county and down to the errand officer, and immediately spread the news, not because the reason was serious, but because it was too funny, and they laughed so much that they couldn't do it! Someone is already a sixth-rank civil official, at least equivalent to a fifth-grade general, how can he put on a small shoe for himself from the nine-rank foreign commissioner? It's still the kind that has been filed by the imperial court. It's no wonder, how many people are there in the mountain town? Counting all men, women and children, you can't afford to set up a thousand total shelves, you just put the total life, better than the craftsman, a small joke, nonsensical, a joke!

Zhang Yingquan can finally rest assured and boldly recruit armed personnel, publicly named 'Shanzhen Volunteer Regiment', this volunteer regiment is not easy to enter, there must be a guarantor, good physique, young, clever, picky and picky, it may not be long to come in, it is said that the first round of drills will have to be eliminated to go down a batch, the best of the best are also selected, it is not strange, the treatment is good, the salary is high, and the descendants of the town want to participate.

Now there are a total of 38 people trained in the Volunteer Regiment, the leader is the big tiger, the second tiger assistant, divided into two teams, the big tiger and the two tigers each lead a team, Xiao Changmao is still the head of the firearms instructor, it is said that there are not many people, there are so many factories under the big shopkeeper, how can there be only three or five people in each factory? Besides, wouldn't it be a joke that the head of the 100 households was the former chief, and there were no 180 people under him? In fact, few people in the town, including the Volunteer Troupe, know who the general is? Love who's who! You know: listen to the words of the big shopkeeper, do the things of the big shopkeeper, and be the person of the big shopkeeper.

That day, early in the morning.

"Third brother! Third brother! Oh no! The eldest brother knocked on the door urgently.

"What's the matter?"

"Fifty miles of Po Huang Lao Zhang and Aunt Zhou rushed to report at night, the rebels occupied the village, and your sister-in-law is in danger."

"Huh? This can't work, don't worry, big brother, I'll personally bring someone to pick up my sister-in-law back, you wait at home, don't worry! ”

"Beware!" The boss is easy-going by nature, and he is a little anxious today.

Zhang Yingquan called Aunt Zhou, brought a little long hair, and went out of town, just when he met Garcia, he was called together, women take care of women, and Garcia's family was born, top thing!

On the road, it became clear that the rebels occupied fifty miles of slope like bandits, and there were about 300 people, and the young men of the whole village were imprisoned, saying that they were borrowing land to rest for a few days, and the whole village was not allowed to enter and exit at will, and at first it was not difficult for the sister-in-law, but the road was narrow, and there was a leader in the rebels, called Wu Nengjing, who had lived in Wupo and had a marriage contract with Yuelan, and then because the marriage period of the martial arts family in the army could not be discussed, and finally broke up unhappily. This person, who detained Yuelan alone in a house, came to see it twice at first, and when he saw Yuelan who was already a big-bellied woman, he left tastelessly, and told the soldiers not to embarrass her, and also gave her stuttering food when she was eating, don't let her run around, just watch it. Old Man Huang was down-to-earth, took advantage of his slackness, sneaked out of the village with Aunt Zhou, and went up the mountain overnight to report the news.

This rebel army is a standard green battalion army trained by the imperial court a few years ago, divided into the Qiantang area, transferred to Guangxi four or five years ago to quell the bandits, and was raided by Changmao the year before last and collapsed! After several reorganizations, they were defeated several times, and they were bound to lose every battle, and they were defeated from Guangxi to Guangdong, and then retreated to Hunan, and then through Jiangxi and Anhui, they lost their cities and land, fled in embarrassment, and their morale collapsed to the extreme, and they withdrew to their original places of residence last year. How do you know that the newly appointed governor of Zhejiang, Lord Huang, does not believe in evil, but it is Han Xin who points troops, the more the merrier, although the remnants of the army are defeated, it is also a food court to eat the court, isn't it? All re-draped in training, ready to fight long hair. Unexpectedly, the war was still early, an ordinary change of guard order, triggered a camp mutiny, officers and soldiers killed each other, more than 300 people out of the camp, armed rushed to the Jinxian fifty-mile slope, ready to enter the mountains for bandits, according to their saying, to fight long hair is death, killing officers and soldiers is also death, if you choose a way to live, into the mountains for bandits, a day of freedom is a day.

Zhang Yingquan and they rushed to the entrance of the village, it was getting late, only to see a figure and knives and guns shaking, Aunt Zhou was familiar with the terrain, and mixed into the village, at this time the rebels were eating, and the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the village were almost slaughtered.

Aunt Zhou pointed to an independent hut not far away: "Your sister-in-law is locked up there!" ”

"Garcia, you have to find a way, go over there, make some movement, the bigger the better, Aunt Zhou, you go to the exit and wait for us, it's better to find a boat, let's touch the little long hair."

"Hmm!"

"Is this okay?" Garcia pulled out a string of firecrackers from his backpack, and there were a hundred sounds, "I didn't finish when the paper mill opened the door, hey! ”

"Great! After the order, gather at the hut and walk together. ”

"Oh!"

When I touched the door, I saw two soldiers sitting on the stone grinding plate, each eating with a large blue and white porcelain bowl, both of them with weapons on the side of their hands, it seems that they are both veteran ruffians, not good!

Zhang Yingquan thought to himself that he might be defeated one-on-one, so he still used the sound of firecrackers to cover and solve it with a gun. He took out a short gun from his backpack, this short gun, in fact, is a breech gun truncated barrel, replaced with a simple foldable butt, not unfolded butt is only more than two feet long, one-handed gun can also shoot, the bullet is also special, although the caliber is the same, but short, because the barrel is short, the original design of the bullet is not suitable, before the expansion gas has not full force, the bullet has been discharged, in fact, it is a waste, it is better to shrink the point to achieve the best efficiency, the difference is that this gun tried to pull out the shallow rifling, the effect is OKThe precision range is within 120 steps, small, easy to operate, and the rate of fire is correspondingly fast.

Little Longhair still clutched his familiar breech gun.

"Bang Bang!" Firecrackers sounded.

"Hit!"

"Bang bang! Bang! Smack! Bang! Smack! ”

The heads of the two rebels were planted directly into the large blue and white porcelain bowl.

Push open the door.

"Sister-in-law!"

"It's you?! Scared the hell out of me! It's too dangerous for you to come here! ”

"Let's go!"

That's when Garcia came over too.

"Garcia leads the way, I carry my sister-in-law, after the little long hair is broken, go quickly!"

The rebels were confused by the sound of firecrackers, and someone else set off firecrackers? Haunted before it gets dark? I looked around, but it was evening, and I couldn't see anything.

Out of the village, Aunt Zhou led to the river, there was a boat house on the river, Aunt Zhou shouted softly, obviously they knew each other.

"Go to the city and give more money!"

When the boat arrived at the county wharf, it was already midnight, and it was only after showing the official seal letter that it entered the county seat, and went straight to the Zhan family compound, at this time the sister-in-law shouted stomach pain.

"Isn't it going to give birth?" Aunt Zhou muttered to herself.

"Quick! Go to the midwife. "The shopkeeper Zhan didn't rush to ask the reason, and first ordered to find someone.

"Don't look for it, I am." Aunt Zhou turned around and said, "Prepare hot water!" Basin! ”

…………

"Wow--!"

"Congratulations to the shopkeeper! Happy to have a noble son. ”

"Huh?"

"Hey! It's a nephew ....... ”

Zhang Yingquan had an indescribable feeling in his heart, a feeling of being scratched by a kitten, of course he knew that this was his own child, when he was instigated by his second sister-in-law to steal that from Yuelan, he found that Yuelan was still a virgin, and the eldest brother was really 'roasted' that .......

Zhang Yingquan knew that now was not the time to be happy, and he had to rush back as quickly as possible, the rebels were likely to pass through the mountain town when they entered the mountain, and he seemed to have seen a bloody battle scene.

Mountain Town Volunteers, this is our first battle!