When Li Qingyuan returned to the cottage, everyone was already preparing for the New Year, and Li Qingyuan also wanted to rest, but Wu Duyan's things had not yet been delivered, and he couldn't rest yet.

Li Qingyuan dispatched 500 people to carry the bird guns and the corresponding ammunition to the crows, and this time it was already the 27th of the lunar month.

Inform Wu Duyan to trade, first agreed on Wolongling, and when Wu Duyan arrived with people to get ready, he went to Shimo Mountain to trade.

In this way, Wu Duyan's preparation was completely in vain, and when Wu Duyan arrived at the place, his face was obviously not good, but after seeing the shotgun, his mood was much better.

This transaction gave Wu Duyan a thousand birds, enough for Wu Duyan to find three or five thousand people, and the two sides agreed to trade short guns after the two years after the money and goods were cleared.

It was Chinese New Year's Eve when he returned to the cottage, and Li Qingyuan originally thought that he would make do with the New Year by himself, but he didn't find the third lady to prepare new clothes for him on the thirty nights, and also made a large table of good dishes.

The two drank wine and chatted about the bits and pieces after getting to know each other, and after the wine was hazy, Sanniang said goodbye and left, Li Qingyuan felt a little stunned, maybe it was the reason why what he expected did not happen......

During the Chinese New Year, Li Qingyuan still did not stop training, but the training time was shortened a lot, just running, and then practicing loading and reloading movements, mainly because he was afraid that everyone would not practice for a long time.

Li Qingyuan always believed that good soldiers do not rely entirely on training, but if they do not practice well, they will definitely not be able to produce good soldiers.

In the New Year, Li Qingyuan gave the newly recruited soldiers in the local area a holiday, the first was to celebrate the holiday, and the second was to go back after the military salary was paid to show off.

When they go back, they must visit relatives and friends, and when they hear that they earn so much money, there must be people who can't stand the temptation to come and join the army.

Sure enough, after the third year of junior high school, the soldiers returned one after another, bringing back seven or eight soldiers to Li Qingyuan, which was enough to set up two musket battalions and had a surplus.

On the night of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Li Qingyuan called these battalion commanders over and asked them to choose one to go to Shandong to support their brothers there.

The form over there is even more complicated, the main force of the Qingshui Sect is in danger of being exterminated by the Qing army at any time, and they will definitely confess that the people brought by Li Qingyuan are still hiding in Mount Tai.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan plans to train at least five or more battalions over there this year, ready to deal with the large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Qing army at any time.

In order to prevent the two battalions on that side from fighting independently for too long and from developing a tendency of mountaineering, Li Qingyuan planned to directly send a musket battalion as a teaching team to train and reorganize the troops there.

At the same time, he brought weapons and new experience in struggle to the Tianli Society and the Freemasonry, and when conditions permitted, Li Qingyuan also planned to let the officers above the company commander level go here for intensive training.

In the end, Li Qingyuan chose Zhao Huan as the second battalion to take over, the second battalion is the second batch of troops equipped with muskets, and the relevant training has been completed, which is just right, and Zhao Huan is honest.

Zhao Huan led the troops to prepare, while Li Qingyuan took the sharpshooter battalion to send a short gun to Wu Duyan, and after three experiences, Li Qingyuan estimated that Wu Duyan should not dare to fight the idea of robbery again.

But Li Qingyuan still changed the trading location again halfway, and never expect them to talk about morality and rules to these bandits, he will not be a bandit if he talks about rules, and only by being careful can he live longer.

Wu Duyan did not come in person for this transaction, and compared with the last 10,000 taels, this kind of transaction of two or three thousand taels can only be regarded as a small business.

However, from the mouths of the three masters who came to trade, Li Qingyuan vaguely felt that Wu Duyan was afraid that he was going to make a big deal this time.

This is also what Li Qingyuan is happy to see, and he agreed with the other party that he will contact the crow if there is a need, and then the two sides will separate.

Although these two transactions are only 13,400 taels, which is not as much as repairing a large household, Li Qingyuan feels that this is a circular economy.

Wu Duyan spent money to buy these weapons and strengthened his strength, and after his strength grew, he naturally had to buy more weapons when he grabbed more money, and Li Qingyuan would be able to earn more money at that time.

Li Qingyuan even considered waiting for the completion of the refitting of his troops to produce a batch of bird guns for Wu Duyan to meet more orders.

At that time, it will also be possible to produce a smoothbore gun with a larger caliber than the bird's gun, so that Wu Duyan will have a greater advantage when dealing with the Qing army.

After the transaction was completed, Li Qingyuan hurried back to the mountain to bid farewell to the musket battalion that was going to Shandong, this time the musket battalion carried five muskets on his back and two short guns pinned to his waist, and Li Qingyuan emptied the entire warehouse for them to carry.

While the year has not yet passed, they will follow the road of Li Qingyuan's retreat to Taihang and return to Shandong.

After sending off the second battalion, Li Qingyuan began to set up a new detachment of the Tianli Society to expand his territory.

People can't always pin their hopes on others, even if Wu Duyan develops well, the credit will not be credited to him Li Qingyuan.

Just as Li Qingyuan was busy expanding his position, Wu Duyan did a big thing.

On the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Wu Duyan led people to raid Quanhe Town, and for a time the prestige was great, not only the number of people expanded to 3,000, but also captured a large number of grain, grass and weapons.

Quanhe Town is the material reserve prepared by Zhending Mansion in order to exterminate Wu Duyan, during the Chinese New Year, although the government did not send a large army, but the hoarding of materials has never stopped.

There are 1,000 green battalions stationed in Quanhe Town, and there will be 2,000 green battalions and 3,000 regiments after the year, and then the 6,000 army will wipe out Wu Duyan in one go.

This time it was good, it was directly equivalent to sending a large number of supplies to Wu Duyan, which made Wu Duyan bigger.

And the Qing army wants to hoard so many supplies without a month, don't think about it.

Li Qingyuan's explosives bag can be said to have made a great contribution, originally in the Qing army, I wanted to come to a thousand defenders, not to mention Wu Duyan, even if the bandits of the entire Taihang Mountain came out, they couldn't break through the city wall.

But what I didn't expect was that it was just a loud bang, the city wall was gone, the Qing army had not yet been organized, the enemy had already entered the city, if it was just like this, there was nothing, after all, the trained Qing army was not comparable to the bandits.

But what I didn't expect was that the other party still had muskets, so that the Qing army's formation advantage and weapon advantage were gone, and there were not as many people as the other party.

What's even more powerful is the short spear team led by Wu Duyan himself, which has the advantage in the street battle, and Wu Duyan's short gun has neither the problem of arquebus nor inconvenient turning, which makes the Qing army suffer greatly.

By the time the Qing army withdrew from Quanhe Town, there were less than 300 people left, and Wu Duyan was also crazy with joy when he counted the casualties and gains, which was a dignified defeat of the official army, and it was not a victory achieved with numerical superiority.

Wu Duyan seemed to see all the towns, villages, and forts as if he had opened their gates, so Wu Duyan, who had conquered Quanhe Town, began to attack everywhere, not only obtaining supplies but also recruiting a large number of new minions.