A night of spring breeze, indescribable.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Three Counties in the North. Taylor was holding a meeting at the highest level, attended by senior officials from the three northern counties, as well as the senior generals of the division he had left behind. And, of course, his most important advisor, the Earl of Clifford.

At the meeting, Governor Taylor said to the participants with a serious face: "Ladies and gentlemen, not long ago, General Charles, the commander of the Fourth Legion, and the Earl of Clifford joined forces to appease the Joseph bandits who were on the side of the disaster, and many small bandits also began to surrender to us one after another under the majesty of the government, and our great cause of suppressing bandits has achieved rich results, and General Charles and Earl Clifford have made indelible contributions to the peace and development of our three northern counties. However, we should also be clearly aware that this is only the first step in our great cause of suppressing bandits, although Joseph is finished. However, there is still a huge bandit force entrenched in the three counties in our northern border, that is, the Dupont bandits who have long occupied the mountains between Chaoen County and Duolai County. Seeing the arrival of our officers and soldiers, this bandit did not restrain himself in the slightest, and still went his own way, which had a very bad impact on the law and order of our three northern counties, and seriously damaged our great cause of suppressing bandits, so this governor decided to immediately exterminate the bandits. ”

After all, in Taylor's eyes, this is the regular army of the country, and the combat effectiveness is guaranteed, so Taylor naturally puts his hopes on them.

What Taylor didn't expect was that the officers of that division, from the division commander to the ordinary middle-level officers, all stuck their heads low, and no one said a word. This scene made Governor Taylor very angry, and he couldn't help but sink his face, looked at the division commander, and said angrily: "Jeff division commander, isn't there any one in your division who dares to take orders?" Then, he swept around the officers of the division with tiger eyes, but the officers still bowed their heads and refused to say a word.

At this time, the commander of the Jeff division had to speak even if he didn't speak, raised his head, looked at General Taylor, and said calmly: "Your Excellency, I understand very well your desire to maintain local law and order. But you should also know that Chao'en County is so big and has so many important places, and the strength of one of our divisions is overstretched to defend it, where is the extra ability to suppress bandits? Dupont's bandit den is deep in the mountains, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are thousands of bandits entrenched there, if we want to destroy them, I am afraid that we will need at least 3,000 men, which is half of our strength. ”

This time it was Governor Taylor's turn to bow his head and remain silent, although he knew in his heart that after the officers of the division came to Chao'en County, they had picked a good place to guard, and they were used to living a good life, and no one wanted to go to the ravine to suppress the bandits and suffer that crime, but what Jeff Division Commander said was the truth, so that he could not refute it, his eyes stared at the table for a long time, and then he said lightly: "Clifford, what good can you do?" ”

Clifford didn't speak, and quietly gave von Bock who was sitting next to him a look, he had already done what von Bock had done, and successfully made von Bock have a relationship with Governor Taylor, von Bock took the opportunity to send Governor Taylor something bad, coaxed the old fox very happy, and said on the spot that you will be the old man's person in the future, follow the old man to work hard, and you will not suffer.

At this time, von Bock's head was also running like a flint, he was quickly weighing the pros and cons, although he also thought that DuPont's bandit den was difficult to fight, at least with his own little men and horses could not be defeated, but after thinking about it, he had just patted his chest with the Governor to serve the Governor, and now the Governor was in trouble, but he shrank aside and kept silent, isn't this a slap in the mouth? In this way, the relationship that has been built up with great difficulty is coming to an end.

After weighing it repeatedly, von Bock still stood up, bowed to Governor Taylor, and said, "Your Excellency, I can't see the DuPont bandits endangering the township for a long time. Since I surrendered, I have been treated favorably by the Governor, and I have never had a chance to repay it, so let me attack Dupont this time, so as to share the worries of the Governor. "If you can fight, it's just a matter of strength, but whether you can fight or not is a matter of attitude, and sometimes, attitude is more important than strength.

The commander of the Jeff division was very annoyed by Feng Bock's behavior, he just said that he would not fight, but you jumped out and wanted to fight, what the hell do you have to do, sincerely give Lao Tzu eye medicine, isn't it? A little unhappily sarcastic: "Battalion Commander von Bock, if I'm not mistaken, when you were in the Wuthering Mountains, it seems that you had a target with this bandit named Dupont." ”

Feng Bock is worthy of being an old oilman in the rivers and lakes, and he was not angry at all when he heard such ridicule, and frankly admitted: "Yes, at that time, I was forced to survive, and I had a relationship with Dupont. However, now that I have surrendered, and he is still obsessed, for the sake of the trouble, then the relationship between us will be broken, from the day I recruited An, I am a soldier, he is a bandit, and the soldiers and bandits are not separate. But he scolded secretly in his heart: His grandmother's, when Lao Tzu has a chance, he must clean up your bastard.

Jeff still wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but was stopped by Taylor, Taylor is already very dissatisfied with Jeff, even if you don't want to work yourself, and still mock people who are willing to work here, with a hint of emotion, said: "Okay, Jeff." In any case, Battalion Commander Von Bock was willing to stand up at this time, which was enough to show his loyalty. However, you have less than a thousand men under your command, how can you exterminate the bandits of DuPont? ”

A contemptuous snort came out of the nose of the commander of Jeff's division, he looked down on a bandit like von Bock in his heart, and saw Governor Taylor praise him on the spot for his loyalty, didn't that mean that he didn't have loyalty? was very dissatisfied with Feng Bock in his heart, and looked at him coldly without saying a word, just waiting for him to come out of the ocean.

Feng Bock also beat the drum in his heart, Du Pont is the big brother on the road, in terms of qualifications and strength, he is above him, if he fights alone, he is really not sure to win him, not to mention that this time it is someone who is guarding according to the danger, leading the troops to gnaw hard bones, and the chance of winning is almost none.

Seeing that Taylor had no soldiers to use and made a big difficulty, Clifford knew that his opportunity had come, if he didn't grasp this opportunity, there would be no store in this village after that, even if Taylor had an opinion of himself, he couldn't let go of this opportunity to expand his strength.