If it is developing at this rate for half a year, it is estimated that there are not as many people as them in the Taihang Mountain base area, and even Li Qingyuan estimates that it may not take half a year.

But the development is too fast, and now the problem comes, the first is that the logistics can't keep up, most of the people are still holding big knives and spears, and the second is that they are too noisy to be targeted by the government.

Now that we are preparing for war, the first is to do a good job of strategic depth, but we can't learn from Wu Duyan's second cargo being blocked on the mountain, and the second is that since it has been exposed, it is time to launch a base plan.

The vast mountainous area to the east of Tai'an, first of all, is a natural base, and then as the old man Zhao Gongming said, the golden horn and silver edge grass belly, Shandong this place is a side and a corner, as long as it develops to a certain scale to the north to defend the Yellow River, to the south to defend the Taishan region.

In this way, this base area is considered a separatist force, and the Qing Dynasty does not attach importance to the navy and coastal defense, so as long as the Shandong Peninsula is occupied, then there is basically no need to worry about the problems behind it.

As Li Qingyuan's guerrilla force, the Tianli Society is the outpost of all the teams, and since there is a plan to occupy Shandong, the first step is for Li Qingyuan to send the detachments of the Tianli Society to various parts of Shandong.

There is also an advantage here, that is, the people who are in Tianli these days are all local villagers, who are familiar with the local terrain and local people, unlike Taihang, which needs to be mixed with people from both places.

Hongxiang has more advantages in carrying out work locally, which is also the reason why the development of Tianli here is so smooth, Li Qingyuan said his thoughts, and someone here immediately said that he had been there or that someone under him was from there.

After making some arrangements, Li Qingyuan didn't need to send spies to know the general situation in Shandong, not to mention other people, even Wu Sanniang could tell the situation of the bandits and the official army in Shandong.

There are now eight squads in Shandong, each team has more than 200 people, which can be regarded as more than half of the battalion, but there is a lack of weapons, and each team brought a short musket last time was only assigned a dozen.

This time, in addition to the 1,800 musket barrels brought by Li Qingyuan to arm the six battalions, the remaining 200 will also be cut into 600 short muskets.

And after the production of this batch of muskets is completed, Li Qingyuan will also produce a foreign trade version of the carbine, which is a little stronger than the current short musket, and of course it is much longer in length.

Therefore, the main task of this month is to expand to 12 teams on the basis of the current eight teams, and then achieve full coverage of the entire mountainous area of Shandong.

Before rescuing Fan Wei and the Qing army to officially start the war, Li Qingyuan also considered subduing all the bandits in Shandong first, but Li Qingyuan was not holding a bullshit conference like Wu Duyan.

Directly everyone in the house summed up, that bandit usually does the most evil, which one usually preaches morality, the evil is defeated, and the moral one is directly recruited.

Anyway, they are all acquaintances, and many forces know Wu Sanniang, it is estimated that as soon as she went to say it, people responded immediately, and all the problems were busy for three days, and the news of Fan Wei was also sent.

This time, he not only heard the news of the Qing army, but also contacted Fanwei's team through a special method, the so-called special method is to buy off the local militia group, and the single person can enter and exit unimpeded.

The Qing army is now surrounding them in a mountain forest, they still have more than 1,000 people, and the food is enough to eat for a month, but the people have no spirit, and the 20,000 Qing soldiers are divided into five roads to block five main roads, each road is more than 4,000 people, Fan Wei can't rush out at all.

After Li Qingyuan got the news, he thought about it and asked Fan Wei to inform him, let him hold on for a month, and after a month, his side would definitely rescue him, so that he should not worry.

The news was sent to Li Qingyuan and began to clean up the bandits from near to far, and it happened that they also practiced soldiers, although these people were holding muskets, they also trained musket warfare, but Li Qingyuan heard from Battalion Commander Zhao's description of the last war.

These people actually rushed up to win the battle by relying on the superiority of numbers, and this did not play the role of muskets at all, and Li Qingyuan used a battalion of musketeers to cooperate with a battalion of broadsword spearmen this time.

The two sides coordinated with each other and divided into four teams to destroy four cottages at the same time, and the remaining musket battalion was for defensive needs in addition to continuing to train new soldiers.

Originally, Li Qingyuan also wanted to participate in this crackdown on bandits, but was stopped by Sanniang and others, and Li Qingyuan had no choice but to stay in Daying to guard.

Li Qingyuan, who was bored, paid full attention to the manufacture of muskets, and from the fourth day the production of muskets entered the stage of guns.

As for those that could not be mastered, all of them were used to lay hands, and the production of the musket barrel was removed, and the remaining steps were nothing more than the production of the flint structure, and then the wooden trailer on the gun was made.

In addition to muskets, explosives packs are also the most important part of the next phase of the war, as well as artillery, but the prerequisite is to get the muskets right first.

Among the more than 100 blacksmiths, there are 100 who can participate in the production, and the two of them can produce all the parts of a musket in one day, and then the hand speed will come up, and there will be no problem at the end of the month.

Now it can produce 50 muskets a day, and in five or six days it can equip a new musket battalion, and everyone will naturally be more enthusiastic about training when they see the new guns.

When the latest firearms battalion was gradually completed, one of the bandit suppression teams returned to the mountain in triumph, not only captured a large number of prisoners, but also obtained a large amount of food and other supplies from the bandits' lair.

This team came back to rest, and the musket battalion that had been left behind set off, and when the second team came back, Li Qingyuan simply asked the first team to take the newly formed musket battalion to see the world together.

After all the troops came back, Li Qingyuan's musket battalion was formed again, and by the time the second round of suppression of bandits was completed, more than half a month had passed, and Li Qingyuan's musket battalion had reached ten, and all the troops had at least one experience in suppressing bandits.

After two rounds of extermination, eight bandits were wiped out, and two groups of bandits were surrendered, so that the entire Shandong region no longer had a climate, and Li Qingyuan no longer had to worry about the officials and the army in the mountains and forests.

And all the preparations were ready, Li Qingyuan decided to start the implementation of the plan to rescue Fan Wei, Fan Wei wanted to save him, but Li Qingyuan still wanted to try his best to annihilate the Qing army, so that he could delay one more day and his strength would be stronger.

So in the end, Li Qingyuan chose the Qing army in the southeast, this Qing army came from Jiangsu, and had not participated in any battles since entering the mountains, and he was relatively contemptuous of the bandits in the mountains.

And he seems to feel that his hometown is behind him, so he doesn't even have decent defense, which is just right for Li Qingyuan to send troops to annihilate everything.