Before the arrival of Indian reinforcements, there were two armed forces in the left battalion, one was the mercenaries led by Colin and the three hundred Chinese soldiers recruited, and the other was an army sent by Zhou Lang composed of members of the Heaven and Earth Society, led by Zhao Wen who went to the South Seas.

According to Wei Lianli's investigation, Colin has completely purged the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society among the three hundred soldiers under his command, and dozens of leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society have been purged out, although the remaining soldiers have nominally worshiped Guan Gong before, but in fact it is not a rope, Colin has appointed a large number of Chinese grassroots officers, and now he has completely mastered this army.

Before the purge, the power that Colin could use was only a dozen Hessian mercenaries at one time, and these mercenaries, let alone used to suppress the three hundred Chinese soldiers, were not enough to disrupt and disperse to be officers.

The reason why Colin was able to successfully purge the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society among the Chinese, Zhou Lang finally figured out this time was because of the appearance of a traitor. An extremely intelligent and unambitious reader has become a crucial character.

This person's name is Wang Fuqian, a local scholar in Zuoying, who is in the middle of the road, has failed the imperial examination many times, and makes a living as a bookkeeper. But after Zuoying's government office moved to Xiapitou Street near Fengshan, he was fired from the shop, and his livelihood became a problem. After a year of poverty, Colin captured the left battalion and recruited soldiers, and he became a soldier at this time.

But this person had been unknown until three months ago, when he suddenly appeared. The reason is that he actually learned English and can communicate directly with Colin in spoken English.

Language geniuses are not common, but there are definitely ones, and Xie Qinggao is such a genius. One such genius was Stang Don Jr., who set out from England and studied with four Chinese priests recruited from Italy, where he was able to speak Chinese freely.

Wang Fuqian, a scholar from the left battalion, had daily contact with the British and mercenaries, and although it was not easy to learn each other's language, as long as he had the heart, it was by no means impossible.

After this person was able to communicate with Colin, he quickly gained respect, and it was he who made Colin understand the threat of the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society in the army, helped Colin find the core members of the Heaven and Earth Society organization, eliminated the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society, and disorganized the soldiers, promoted the soldiers with clean backgrounds as officers, and completed the control of the army.

Zhou Lang sighed, sad in his heart, finally a traitor appeared.

The other situation is better, the three hundred people led by Zhao Wen have always been in Zhao Wen's hands, not that Colin didn't think of attacking Zhao Wen's army, but that Zhao Wen resisted Colin. After all, Zhao Wen is Zhou Lang's person, and without completely turning his face, Colin does not dare to take coercive measures, otherwise after mastering the three hundred Chinese soldiers he has trained, he will have the absolute power to suppress Zhao Wen.

But Zhao Wen himself does have a certain ability, and Zhao Wen is still one of the few people in the army who has read, his family is not a rich family, the reason why he can study is because his father is a local talent, although the family is poor, but he can study. Zhou Lang didn't know more about the situation, because Zhao Wen had always been secretive about his family background.

Zhao Wen has always been cautious and low-key, and his ability to lead the team is not bad, which Zhou Lang has also observed some clues before. Previously, Zhou Lang was also in a correspondence with Zhao Wen, and knew that Colin had wanted to eliminate the Heaven and Earth Society forces in Zhao Wen's army, but Zhao Wen said that he refused.

Judging from the situation brought back by Wei Lianli, the pressure encountered by Zhao Wen was definitely not as easy as he said in his heart, because Colin used his strength advantage to make trouble for Zhao Wen many times, for example, before Colin led troops to attack the Qing army in Guanyin Mountain, he placed Zhao Wen in an extremely unfavorable position, almost facing the strong attack of the Qing army, but Zhao Wen withstood the pressure, not only successfully kept most of the troops, but also successfully stopped thousands of Qing troops, and was finally annihilated by the Tiandihui army.

When resisting the Qing army's naval division in the south and attacking the left battalion, it was also Zhao Wen who led his troops to engage in the fiercest battle with the Qing army on the beach, and the 300 musket troops led by Colin occupied a favorable high ground and calmly fired a volley. This time, Zhao Wen took measures such as digging trenches, setting up horse rejections, and building sand walls to save the vast majority of soldiers.

Now the original 300 soldiers under Zhao Wen are still as many as 260, and the losses are very few.

But Zhao Wen has never mentioned these difficulties to Zhou Lang, and he has never complained of any hardships.

This made Zhou Lang have a new understanding of him.

"Can you get rid of him now?"

It is necessary to get rid of Colin, this is a concept that Zhou Lang has long had, but he has not succeeded by mistake, and after Colin cleans the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society, it will be basically difficult to get rid of him, and now with the arrival of Indian reinforcements, getting rid of Colin seems to have become a bit fantastical, and if there is a head-on conflict, Colin will kill Zhou Lang is the most likely.

Zhou Lang was ruthless in his heart, he had already decided to get rid of Colin at all costs, and get rid of Colin as soon as possible.

It's just that Colin now has 2,000 troops in his hands, and his training level and armament level are much stronger than Zhou Lang's army.

Conventional means cannot be used.

After tossing and thinking about it for most of the night, Zhou Lang finally made up his mind to make a risky move.

"You have to get paid at the bottom of the kettle!"

got up suddenly in the middle of the night, and after getting up, she began to write letters, and the sleepy-eyed Chen Sanmei dozed off to grind ink for Zhou Lang.

"Go to sleep!"

Zhou Lang said.

Chen Sanmei said: "Master, you have something important to do, how dare the concubine rest alone." ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, a long letter of two thousand words was written, Chen Sanmei looked at it, she couldn't understand it at all, she was illiterate, and at the request of Zhou Lang, she found a female gentleman to study, but he didn't understand these words, it was completely the same as the book of heaven, because the letter was not written in Chinese characters, but in English, which was a letter to Colin.

Zhou Lang told Colin in the letter that after his own prudence and consideration, he thought that Colin's proposal to expand the army was very reasonable, and allowed Colin to recruit 3,000 soldiers. At the same time, he told Colin that the current situation on the side of Daguxun was still not optimistic, and that there were Qing soldiers stationed in Donggang, and told Colin that he would transfer Zhao Wen's troops to Daguxun as soon as possible; Colin was also told that the soldiers who were playing the drum were now short of weapons and equipment, and asked that the weapons be sent over as soon as possible.

This letter is actually a deal, Zhou Lang agrees to Colin to expand the size of the army, Zhou Lang agrees, he will provide military pay for the newly recruited soldiers, but also ask Colin to send those weapons. As for the transfer of Zhao Wen's troops, firstly, it is to strengthen the troops in his hands, and secondly, those people are now staying in the left camp, if they turn their faces with Colin, it is equivalent to the meat sent to Colin's mouth, which will be eaten by him at any time.

The letter was important, but it was at best a ploy to continue to paralyze Colin, with the purpose of delaying time and the consideration of wanting to get away with it.

The real killer is for Wei Lianli to do.

"You rush to Guangzhou as soon as possible, I want you to send this news to the Guangzhou government, I don't care what method you use, you must make it clear that the Guangzhou government knows the situation, and you can only come back when they have a movement, understand?"

What's the news? It was to tell the magistrate of Canton that everything that happened here in Taiwan was done by the British.

This is the bottom of the kettle, so that the Guangzhou place directly clashed with the British, even if the Opium War broke out in advance.

Wei Lianli, who has always lacked courage, did not hesitate at all: "Don't worry, Dashuai, you can look at the lowly one." ”

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