In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, Xiong Lichun has been busy and fulfilling.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he set fire to Lingyun Village, gained more than 700 elite soldiers, and after they were scattered and incorporated into the Ningzhou Volunteer Army, the strength of the troops was greatly improved.

After hearing the news, the 36 village owners in the Mufu Mountains have expressed their submission, Xiong Lichun took advantage of the situation to pull and fight, both soft and hard, and merged several of the stronger cottages into his command, several village owners have bowed to him, become his subordinate generals, after a vertical and horizontal battle, the Ningzhou volunteers swelled to more than 6,000 people in just a few days, Xiong Lichun seems to be a strong party.

In addition to these cottages, the other more than 20 cottages are all small fonts, and one hundred and ten people occupy a mountain, even if they are the number one person, Xiong Lichun is too lazy to clean them up, as long as they send the protection money on time, they will be the king and hegemon in the ravine.

If there is chaos today, Jiangxi and Huguang are fighting, it is the time when heroes emerge in troubled times, Xiong Lichun's eyes have long seen Mufu Mountain, and he has no time to pay attention to these small fish and shrimp.

Sweeping the 800-mile Mufu Mountain is just the first step taken by Xiong Lichun, and he has even greater ambitions. The Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty fought for the world, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer, as long as he grasps the opportunity, Xiong Lichun is confident that although he is a thief, he will be able to get ahead in the future.

But Xiong Lichun also knows very well that there is still a long way to go to achieve this goal, and there is a soldier in the troubled times, and he must build the Ningzhou volunteers into an elite division, and he also needs a group of loyal henchmen.

Talent! In the few months that he was running the Ningzhou Volunteer Army, he was deeply touched by the lack of talents, and he was strict with the development of his own forces, so he worshiped his brothers with those village owners and hollowed out his mind to envelop them. Although these village owners are only bandits and bandits, they are all the masters of a village. At least very experienced in management.

According to the rules of the green forest, since everyone is together to cut off the head of the chicken and drink blood wine, and become brothers of the opposite sex, from now on they will share the weal and woe with the rich and noble. Xiong Lichun has always had great ambitions, and he doesn't believe too much in this kind of righteousness, but he is now on an unstable foundation and urgently needs to win people's hearts, and he is still the fastest to worship his brothers.

Take advantage of the New Year. Xiong Lichun has to feast these brothers every day, contact feelings at the wine table, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, he was drinking with his brothers, and suddenly received a second letter from Wang Kefan.

Xiong Lichun's identity is a general in Ningzhou. The messenger bowed to him according to the rules, and then presented Wang Kefan's handwritten letter. Xiong Lichun didn't rush to read the letter after receiving it. Instead, he smiled and politely asked the messenger to rest first, and ordered someone to entertain him.

After the messenger went down, Xiong Lichun opened the letter and read it carefully.

Wang Kefan's letter was not written for a long time, and he first offered a commendation for the 5,000 taels of military salary he sent. He also asked the volunteers of Ningzhou to mobilize before the war, mobilize more than 2,000 soldiers, prepare all kinds of military supplies, and rush to the area of Xingguo Prefecture in Hubei Province before the 15th day of the first lunar month.

"No wonder you want to use my old bear!" Xiong Lichun suddenly realized.

Although Xingguo Prefecture belongs to Hubei. But it is only separated from Jiangxi by a Mufu Mountain, very close to Xiong Lichun's territory, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, Wang Kefan wants to come to Xingguozhou, he must use Ningzhou volunteers.

The matter had to be summed up, and he handed the letter to several brothers and passed it on one by one.

Among these brothers, Xiong Lichun is naturally the eldest, followed by the second Mr. Deng, Mr. Deng was also the owner of a village in Mufu Mountain, because he had studied for a few years, he had always regarded himself as a Confucian general, and was called Mr. Deng, and no one even called his real name.

"Big brother, I'm afraid this matter is not safe!"

After reading the letter, Mr. Deng handed the letter to the third child, and then frowned and said: "Since Wang Junmen has made this trip, he will not only fight one Xingguo Prefecture, the next step is to either hit Jiujiang Mansion or Huangzhou Mansion, we can't afford this kind of big scene!" ”

The terrain of Huangzhou Mansion is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is very close to the main force of the Qing army in Wuchang Mansion, and Jiujiang Mansion is an important town on the Yangtze River, with heavy troops stationed...... The strength of the Ningzhou volunteers is too poor, to put it bluntly, they are a group of bandits and bandits, and they can't hand it over at all in this kind of regular army battle, so Mr. Deng is not in favor of taking risks.

"Second brother, what does this letter say, tell everyone!" The third bald man was illiterate and couldn't read the letter.

Mr. Deng explained it in general.

Huang Bald immediately said: "That must be Huangzhou Mansion, Wei Wei to save Zhao, this can't be seen!" ”

Although he is a bandit, he still knows the art of war, and his head full of wisdom has been lost.

The fourth Zhao Zhugan is a thin and tall man, and he has different opinions: "Not necessarily, if you want to fight Huangzhou Mansion, you have to cross the Yangtze River, that's not a joke, no matter how powerful Wang Junmen is, he won't fly across the Yangtze River, so he still fights Jiujiang Mansion." ”

Huang Bald and Zhao Zhugan argued, and several brothers below also quarreled, and Mr. Deng suddenly slapped the table.

"Okay, whether it's Huangzhou Mansion or Jiujiang Mansion, we can't afford to provoke it, what's the use of arguing about this, let's listen to what the eldest brother says!"

He turned his face and said to Xiong Lichun with a smile: "Big brother, it's better to push this matter away, if you can't push it off, you can drag it out, just scrape together some money and food and send it to Xingguo Prefecture for business, Wang Junmen has a lot of nobles, so he won't go to the Mufu Mountain to be honest with us, don't you say?" ”

"Yes, what Wang Junmen Wang Junmen, don't bother with him!" Huang Bald agreed, he had been mixing in the Mufu Mountains and didn't know much about Wang Kefan.

"I don't think it's safe, the eldest brother is a general of the imperial court, if Wang Junmen blames him, I'm afraid he can't afford to bear the crime." Zhao Zhugan objected, his cottage is close to Huguang Tongshan County, and he has heard of Wang Kefan's prestige.

"What's the big deal? Does the man surnamed Wang have three heads and six arms? If you really embarrass the eldest brother for this matter, let's go to the tartars, and enjoy the same glory and wealth! "Yellow bald people are born with a crown, which means that there is no psychological barrier to shaving their heads.

"Yes, I just sent five thousand taels of silver to Huguang, and I want us to send money and troops, this is too bullying, don't go, don't go......" Several other generals echoed one after another, sending money, food and troops, and following Wang Kefan to take risks, no matter how you look at it, it is a loss-making deal.

Xiong Lichun's heart was on fire, these people were too arrogant, especially the second Mr. Deng, who wanted to be on an equal footing with him, and he must clean up this guy when he turned around, but he couldn't be angry now...... He took his glass and drank it dry, and then looked up with a friendly smile.

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There's something going on during the day today.,Update late.,There's still a chapter later.,But it could be late.。 (To be continued......)