After capturing the Qing army's position on Banping Mountain, Colin put ten mercenaries here, plus a hundred Chinese soldiers, and let them garrison the position here, and the large army all returned to the city to station, because after breaking the blockade of the Qing army in Banping Mountain, the significance of the Guishan position to the left battalion was lost, and the external security zone of the left battalion was greatly advanced to the north, and the Qing army could not be seen within thirty miles.

The soldiers, who had been fighting for a day, rushed back to the left camp before dark, and then rested.

This night, the left camp was rarely lively, because although those Chinese soldiers did not contribute much, Colin still gave them a combat subsidy, each of them got as much as five silver dollars, so that these city idlers with poor living habits had a hard time, good women, take the money to find women, good gambling, take the money to the casino, eat and drink, take the money to the restaurant, which boosted the consumption of the left camp.

What is incomprehensible is that the Qing army obviously blockaded the left camp, but in less than a month, the business of the left camp basically returned to normal. A large number of goods poured in from all directions, the largest of which was from the sea, and the fishermen of Banten Village, although they had a grudge against the occupation forces of Zuoying, were not at all relentless in launching a windfall, as if they had taken the smuggling of goods from the mercenaries at high prices as a form of revenge. Nearby villages are also sending supplies to Zuoying, including food and cloth.

It's just that the materials in the left battalion are still in short supply, the price of goods has doubled compared to before, and the lives of ordinary people in the city have become tense, which is why there are three hundred soldiers who finally stay under Colin stably, because it is really difficult to find a livelihood except for Colin as a soldier.

Twenty days after the end of the Battle of Banping Mountain, the Qing army, which had lost Banping Mountain, never launched a counteroffensive in this direction and seemed to have abandoned the place, while Colin launched a second attack.

This time, the target is Dagu Mountain in the south of Zuoying, starting from Snake Mountain, winding up, and the distance of more than ten miles is the flood land of Chishan Xun, and this time Colin won again.

Zhou Lang once again witnessed his victory throughout the whole process, and the specific process was similar to the last attack on Banping Mountain, the basic process was still artillery bombardment and charge, and the Qing army still fled. What worried Zhou Lang was that the performance of those Chinese soldiers this time, although Colin still didn't let these soldiers charge together in the end, the three hundred Chinese soldiers were able to advance to a distance of 100 meters from the main position of Chishan Xun with the mercenaries under the cover of artillery fire, and then fired a salvo.

This situation made Zhou Lang quite worried, which meant that Colin had a stronger control over the Chinese soldiers, and he could already make these soldiers engage in simple battles through simple military terms, and gave them the desire to fight for Colin. Prove that Colin really has the ability to create a puppet army in the left battalion.

Winning two battles in a row seemed to make Colin even more inflated, and he immediately began to plan to attack the Qing army in the direction of Lianchitan, which was the main force of the Qing army, with a strength of up to five hundred people, which meant that no matter how it was calculated, it would be a fight of less and more at a time.

Zhou Lang also did not object to Colin continuing to launch an attack on the main force of the Qing army, and completely lifted the blockade of the Qing army on the left battalion, because time was on Colin's side, as time went by, the training level of the Chinese soldiers became higher and higher, and Colin became more and more controllable over the Chinese soldiers, and the command became more and more convenient. Really mastered a base on Chinese soil.

Although this base was occupied in the name of the China (East India) Company established by Zhou Lang, Zhou Lang was very sure that he would not get more benefits from it than the British East India Company, and the most important thing was that once the British had gained a foothold in China, their management ability would quickly organize the manpower and material resources under their jurisdiction to form a military force, just as they had done in India.

This was a very dangerous situation, because Zhou Lang was convinced that the fundamental reason why Britain succeeded in colonizing India but failed to colonize China was not military, but political and diplomatic. The era of British colonization of India coincided with the continuous strife on the European continent, the outbreak of the French Revolution, which caused France to wage decades-long wars with other European powers, and after the end of the war, the British had seized most of the territory of India, and other countries had lost the opportunity to compete with Britain for India.

After defeating France, Britain began to eat alone in India, slowly eating away at the whole of India. By the time the British set their sights on China, they had essentially established their dominance in India, defeating the alliance of Mysore and Marat, the last powerful princely states of India, but their rule over India was still unstable after the Opium Wars. After the Indian uprising, Britain took control of India from the East India Company and directly returned to the British government, which was considered to be a stable rule over India. But by this time, Britain's old enemies, the French, had recovered their strength, and Britain could not encroach on China alone, as it did in India. At the same time, there was the ambitious Tsarist Russia, which because of the Crimean War, looked to the East.

Britain had no way to colonize China surrounded by tsarist Russia and France, on the other hand, China was much larger than India, and it was easy to defeat China's army, but it was difficult to occupy China, and it was even more difficult to rule hundreds of millions of Chinese people.

But now Zhou Lang's intervention threatens to turn Britain's attention from India to China forty or fifty years earlier, allowing them to occupy a base before any other power can act in China.

This risk is too great, Zhou Lang judged, and now the East India Company's main attention is still on India, because India is Britain's largest overseas market. But once they get a lot of benefits from China through the Chinese base, even more than India, or just have the possibility of surpassing India, maybe the East India Company will invest more resources in China.

In Zhou Lang's view, the British East India Company, whether it is military technology, management ability, or organizational ability, is much stronger than the rotten Manchu government, they are more capable of transforming the resources of the occupied area into hard power, so with Zuoying as a base, they will soon be able to gain a firm foothold, and then begin to expand to the whole of Taiwan, once the whole of Taiwan is occupied, is the mainland still far away?

This is a huge hidden danger, Zhou Lang hates in his heart that he can't solve this hidden danger immediately, so it is very necessary to let Colin suffer a failure and let them gain a firm foothold in the left camp go bankrupt.

Now that Banping Mountain and Dagu Mountain have not blocked Colin's military power, instead of making him stronger step by step, it is better to let him have a decisive battle with the most powerful local enemy, the main force of Fengshan County, Zhou Lang is still convinced that as long as the Qing army can make a little decent resistance, it will not be difficult to defeat Colin with him making trouble behind his back.

But just before Colin was about to leave, a major event happened in Fengshan County, which made Zhou Lang sigh in his heart. The Heaven and Earth Society in Fengshan County was launched, and because the main force in the city was outside, they successfully occupied Fengshan County, and the county order committed suicide. Then the 500 Qing troops in Lianchitan quickly evacuated, and all of them rushed back to the county seat, and the siege of the left camp was completely lifted.

This accident can be regarded as a sudden reversal of the situation in the left battalion, Colin can be regarded as a complete foothold here, and the hidden danger that Zhou Lang is most worried about has become a reality.

The situation in the left battalion was no longer bad, but soon became an advantage, no longer a dead place blocked by the Qing army, but a sweet and sweet spot that was co-opted by others.

After the Qing army fought with the Tiandihui in Fengshan County, it did not easily recapture Fengshan County, but surrounded Fengshan County, and the Tiandihui armed more than 300 people in the city, and the raid on the county government was successful, but the head-on face of the 500 Qing army still had no power to fight back, and could only defend with the help of the city wall, and the two sides formed a strategic confrontation between encirclement and surroundment.

And Zuoying, who is outside Fengshan County, has become a force that can affect the strategic balance of the two sides, plus there has been a conflict with the Qing army before, and it is regarded as a natural ally by the Heaven and Earth Society, and even before they launched an uprising, they contacted Zhou Lang, but Zhou Lang did not agree to advance and retreat together.

Now that the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society are surrounded in Zuoying, they have come to contact Zhou Lang again, hoping that the two sides will cooperate, cooperate with the outside and the outside, and completely defeat the Fengshan County army.

Whether to accept the proposal of the Heaven and Earth Society, Zhou Lang really began to consider it at this time.