Although there were dozens of young and strong men standing behind Yang Si, after the few cloth-clothed knights reported their identities, these people did not dare to move, they had seen the thunder methods of the Jiaozhou battalion over the years, and Xinyang Town was also under the protection of the Jiaozhou battalion, and there were a lot of benefits.

The soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion had a very kind attitude, but Yang Si was very panicked because of his heart disease, but he had no way to disobey anything, so he could only obey the other party's orders. These people sent by the Jiaozhou battalion came with spare horses and asked Yang Si to follow him to Jiaozhou today.

Yang Si was helpless, as if he was explaining the aftermath, he gave a few words to a few people close to him, and followed these people on the road without taking anything.

The person in Shijiu was a little different from Yang Si's situation, this person was now working for the Jiaozhou battalion in the salt field of Qingzhou Mansion, even if he was a foreman, he was also found by the people of the Jiaozhou battalion, and someone rushed to Jiaozhou with a fast horse.

No one knows what was specifically discussed, but after Yang Si returned to Xinyang Town, there were more than a dozen men from other places around him, and they also carried a large amount of gold and silver.

After this trip to Jiaozhou, Yang Si, who had been cautious for a few years, also resumed his former publicity, and began to gather those old subordinates, and the old brothers who had been following him couldn't help but open their mouths to persuade him, saying that now it is the Jiaozhou camp in the world, and the fourth brother, if you pull the flag and pull the pole again, won't you kill yourself.

However, Yang Si, who has always been cautious, ignored it this time, but fortunately, Yang Siping was also extremely kind to the people below, and those old brothers all had the intention of dying with Yang Si, who thought that things were a little strange, first the group of people who served in the salt field were released, and they also returned to Yang Si's men.

The dozen or so men from other places also lobbied and solicited everywhere, and some people helped to plan and prepare, and all the young people who were refused to be beaten back when the Jiaozhou battalion recruited soldiers, when they saw someone recruiting, they were all restless in their hearts. These days, whether it is with a knife or a hoe, or with a fishing net or with a paddle. The picture is a full stomach and a happy life, since there is a place to take refuge. It doesn't matter if he is Mr. Li or Fourth Brother Yang!

Yang Si is so unscrupulous. It is very common for some local gentry to see the excitement, but soon see a strange thing, first, it will soon have a scale of thousands of people, more than 100 large and small ships, and the silver money and grain are all ready, which has not yet gone out to do business without capital, how can there be such money to spend.

Moreover, in such a disaster year, most of the grain was controlled under the hands of General Li. The surveillance of buying and selling is extremely strict, and even if ordinary people have food at home, they must keep it for life, and who will take it out to buy and sell.

Besides, the young man recruited by Yang Si is practicing there every day with half-new and not old weapons, and on the ground in Shandong, who has half-new and old weapons in his hands. Or is there only one.

Yang Sidu gathered one or two thousand people, and a few timid gentry and landlords had already gone to the garrison of the nearby Jiaozhou camp to complain, but the Jiaozhou camp was ignorant of it, and by this time, even the most confused people should have something in their hearts.

On weekdays, in the towns and countryside, even if dozens of people get together and want to do something, they will be targeted by the people of the Jiaozhou camp. There are those who want to do evil. The GI arrived, and there was nothing vicious. Coercion obeys the rules of imprisonment, which is directly the killing of all heads, and there are also various punishments for those who do not report it.

But Yang Si has done such a thing, but the garrison of the Jiaozhou battalion still ignores it, but if someone says that this is the instruction of the Jiaozhou battalion, the garrison of the Jiaozhou battalion in Qingzhou Mansion and other representatives will deny it all of them.

Seeing that this Yang Si's subordinates are in this team, the climate is getting bigger and bigger, the surrounding landlords and civilians are at ease, no matter how strong the Jiaozhou battalion is, but it does not harm the people, since it acquiesces to the existence of this Yang Si, there must be some tacit understanding in private, many people's children are under Yang Si's hands, the nickname of the sea monkey is now called by many people, and the team of the sea monkey is really paid for outside the purchase, but it has promoted the livelihood of the people in the area of Xinyang Town, and this existence is not a bad thing.

The people around didn't notice that every time the sea monkey's team expanded, a certain percentage of Laizhou people always came in, but this was very inconspicuous, except for Yang Si and the corresponding personnel, few people noticed this.

However, these things were already after October of the twelfth year of Chongzhen......

Chaotian Dragon Zhou Baxi is a famous thief in Shandong, the so-called reckless and many hidden heroes, that is basically a family dialect, since ancient times, people born in the government and the army can be mixed in the grass and green forests, Zhou Baxi Dongchang Mansion people, three generations in the army, was once the official body of the general banner.

In the early years of Chongzhen, he once exterminated the Wenxiang Sect and caused chaos, but was defeated by the other party, knowing that even if he went back, he would be dealt with by military law, so he simply fell into the grass. Zhou Baxi took a dozen old brothers who followed him personally, gathered up some of the routs of the day, and began to wander around the prefectures and counties.

Their gang is different from ordinary bandits, they have many mounts, they act like the wind, and they know how to fight on horseback, and they are in battle with bandits and thieves elsewhere.

Sometimes even if these people slaughter the village, the government is not able to catch up, helpless, Zhou Baxi also feels that the days of wandering around and looting are comfortable, there are only more than 20 brothers around him, all of them are from the cavalry and horse team, and they have made a great reputation between the six mansions in Shandong, and the ordinary green forest cottage not only does not dare to offend, but also spends a lot of money to invite them when they need help.

Four or five years of hard work has made the name of this bastard dragon, and in this era, it can be called "dragon", even if it is a nickname on the rivers and lakes, it is also strong.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Chaotianlong didn't know that the tendon was wrong, and started the idea of Li Mengyan's team, in fact, this was the Huaishang salt merchant who released the reward, and Zhou Baxi had the heart to earn this silver, and by the way, he made friends with these salt merchants.

But even if the Jiaozhou battalion is the salt of the salt team, they are all systematically trained soldiers, and it is not so easy to beat down, so it is easy to die, and Zhou Baxi is used to it, and he didn't expect that there were soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion near the salt team, and the battle broke out suddenly. One of the salt team and the coachman were caught off guard. Killed on the spot. Then, Zhou Baxi ran out with only one brother, and the rest died around the salt caravan.

After this setback. Zhou Baxi was completely scared. Although he recruited more than a dozen brave subordinates, he never dared to touch any business related to the Jiaozhou camp.

But the scope of the Jiaozhou camp is expanding more and more, and Zhou Baxi, who is wandering around, also feels more and more cramped, and asks him to leave Shandong, but his hometown and land are unwilling.

As a result, when Huang Ping recruited his subordinates in Shandong, Zhou Baxi pondered for a while, thinking that he had accumulated enough money, why not find a big force that could shelter him. A few years of stability!

Anyway, he fought fast in the case of looting the salt transportation team back then, and no one knew that he did it back then.

Huang Ping is naturally very much in need of this kind of Jianghu people who are familiar with the land and have the ability, and Zhou Baxi quickly joined Huang Ping's sentinel camp and joined the Jiaozhou battalion. But he didn't dare to swagger into the town. For some wealthy and powerful gentry, it is also necessary to avoid them, but after having the title of Jiaozhou Camp on their heads, those gentry and landlords with status and status are polite and polite when they see him, which is very simple. Because Zhou Baxi is no longer the thief of the year. It is the representative of Li Erlang of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Such a good day did not last for a few days, and the Qing army entered the north of Zhili. After the news spread all over the world, Huang Ping gathered his people from the rivers and lakes to go to the border of Beizhili and Shandong, and these people immediately became half-hearted and hesitated.

Especially this week, Baxi has stayed in the barracks, so he naturally knows how powerful this Tartar soldier is, but at the moment, Li Meng is stationed in Dezhou City, and the sphere of influence in Shandong has not changed.

When the Jiaozhou battalion pursued the Qing army, Zhou Baxi finally had a different kind of thought in his heart, he thought that he had stayed in the military camp, and his knowledge was much higher than that of others, since this Li Erlang was stupid to fight with the Tartars, he must be asking for his own death, why hang himself on this tree, as soon as the Jiaozhou battalion fell, Shandong was in chaos, wouldn't he have returned to the good days of the past.

As soon as the Qing army entered Shandong, the soldiers and horses of Shandong General Qiu Lei immediately fled and dispersed, at this time Huang Ping asked his subordinates to inquire about the news, none of these purely profit-seeking people in the rivers and lakes were willing to go, and the angry Huang Ping asked Zhou Baxi: Have you ever thought about being in Shandong, how do you survive", Zhou Baxi replied indifferently and said, "Do you have anything to say in the future in the Jiaozhou battalion, who to scare with this cruel word!" ”

The Jiaozhou battalion was not only still there, but also won a great victory, and its power was greatly expanded, and those Jianghu people who fled from the enemy began to have no place to live in Shandong......

In fact, these reckless people in the rivers and lakes are all self-explanatory, good at observing the style, and most of them are from the background of rout deserters, and they think that they have a thorough understanding of these court officials and soldiers.

After many people in Liaozhen came to Shandong, there was no way to survive at all, after Kong Youde's big mess, he didn't follow the trouble, and those who stayed in Shandong ended up even more bleakly, even if they begged for food, if there was a Liaozhen accent, the locals would close their doors and ignore it. In addition, most of the people in Liaozhen are martial artists, so it is logical to fall into the grass.

After such Liaozhen people fell into the grass, because of the group, they also had a certain military literacy, and soon had their own territory and prestige in the land of Denglai and Denglai in Shandong.

The Ming army is known as the strongest in the nine sides, and the Liaozhen soldiers are the best among them, they fight to the death with the Tartar army outside the pass, and retreat all the way, they are considered to have seen and known the people, and they naturally have a judgment on the strength of the Qing army, Li Meng's soldiers and horses are few, and what he does is secret, and the whole Shandong understands his forces are the vague impression of the middle and upper class people.

As a result, as soon as the Qing army came, the first to disperse were these Liaozhen soldiers who were born in the rivers and lakes, and after returning to their own territory, they changed their previous restraint and robbed and committed violence with their reckless hands, the reason is very simple, the Tartar army is coming, and the Ming army in Shandong is okay if it hides, and there is still a way to live if they go up to meet the battle.

When they made such a fuss, the reckless people who were still under Huang Ping were also undecided. Wait until the army is really overwhelmed. Immediately it was done with birds and beasts.

Although Huang Ping's cruel words were left behind by these Jianghu people, he also knew that although their intelligence work was dangerous, it was related to the life and death of the Jiaozhou battalion. Since it is already an oath of allegiance. Then even if you die, you have to go.

It's just that Huang Ping and those secret agents from the Jiaozhou camp under him hate these reckless people very much, but they are also flexible roles, thinking that in the future, the Jiaozhou camp will also take over these people, and he may have to endure this breath for a lifetime.

However, Li Meng's actions have always been unexpected, and as soon as the Jiaozhou battalion settled down, he immediately issued a punishment order, except for Huang Ping, who also took into account the overall situation and persuaded a few words, and the few people who survived were all happy in their hearts. Even Huang Ping gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, so naturally he would not insist on that false persuasion.

The army is fighting, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou camp are naturally strong soldiers, and dealing with these rivers and lakes is like chopping melons and vegetables, but this time it is at most a local action to clean up public order, and although the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion are excellent, the number is not much. Recruitment training, everyone is busy with a pot of porridge, and they can't take care of this.

Although Huang Ping also selected many suitable people for the May recruitment, these people must be trained in the regular army of the Jiaozhou battalion for a period of time, and can only officially join after a special selection and screening procedure, and they are not needed.

And post-war. Before the war, there were fourteen earthlings left among the spies. The spy Jiang Xianxuan, who went to meet Li Meng, became his deputy, relying on these fourteen people to take revenge on those murderers. Obviously unrealistic things.

Among the armed personnel of the Jiaozhou battalion, there is also an important component - armed salt, stationed at various checkpoints, and the personnel who transport salt and send salt to the land have always been armed with salt, and the armed salts were all purely military children at the beginning, which can be said to be the predecessor of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Later, the children of those powerful clans in various places became the main members, and some of the veterans and old Yanding who were really not suitable for training and fighting in the regular army served as the big and small leaders.

On that day, when each family drew ding, the children of relatives and relatives sent by everyone to the armed salt ding were rarely direct or close to the family, and they were all children who were estranged from the side line, and these people did not get any opportunity to show themselves in their own families.

In addition, there is already a provision in the Yanding team to draw excellent Yanding to supplement the Jiaozhou battalion, and the titles of the Yanding team, team vice, and captain are also well-known when they go outside, so to achieve this position, even the former patriarch family head must be treated politely, and he can also make a birth status.

Moreover, those veterans and old Yanding who were leaders knew that they could not fight, but they had no intention of competing for victory and comparison with their peers and juniors in the Jiaozhou battalion army, and they had the intention to compare the training of their subordinates with those soldiers.

Therefore, the armed forces in various places are really not much worse than the combat strength of the regular army, and the difference is only in the weapons and equipment, the training methods that are improved from time to time, and the experience of actual combat.

Li Meng had already given the order to retaliate, so Huang Ping had to mobilize the forces that could be mobilized to carry out this matter, and arming Yanding became the best choice, and the children of these local clans had a better understanding of the local area and the methods of dealing with the landlords and gentry in various places than the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, and even better than Huang Ping's former spies.

As soon as this matter of purging and retaliating was moved, the effect was immediately apparent, and the people in the rivers and lakes scattered all over the place were already scarce, and the large number of people in the Jiaozhou battalion had already disappeared in the repeated exercises and clean-ups, and these few people in the rivers and lakes also knew that the rumors were wrong, and they were all hidden.

But how can this part of the people in the rivers and lakes who are hidden be compared to the armed salt ding, many people are even directly blocked in their homes by these armed salt dings, and the characters who come and go in those words are killed by these armed salt ding arrays.

There are also people who run out in a hurry, but there is also a horse riding salt ding in the armed salt ding, and these people in the rivers and lakes can't run far even if they run.

Chaotian Dragon Zhou Baxi was originally hiding in the Shouguang area, but in late June, he felt that the wind was wrong, Zhou Baxi was alert, and he was immediately alert when there was a disturbance, and ran towards the territory of Jinan Mansion early, but he only ran for three days, and the armed salt had already found the door.

Zhou Baxi belongs to the people named by Huang Ping, who made Zhou Baxi say the sentence "Jiaozhou camp can't be long-lasting" that day, and once instigated people to disperse, which really made Huang Ping hate it.

After returning to the place, Zhou Baxi, the chaotic dragon, borrowed his former name, and quickly pulled up a group of forty or fifty people, of course, not as good as before, this team of forty or fifty people wanted to do some business in the local area, but as a result, they robbed a large household, and they were guarded by the other party and did not attack it.

The armed Yanding who arrived later killed this small gang of thieves cleanly, and this week Baxi was terrified, only to understand the deep foundation of the Jiaozhou battalion in Shandong, and it was a big mistake to say those words and think that he was accurate in his judgment that day.

He still wanted to take advantage of the chaos, and he honestly went to a familiar house in Shouguang to hide, look at the wind, who would have thought that the situation was completely opposite to him, which made him realize that something was wrong.

Zhou Baxi, who was chased and killed by the armed salt ding, still had some luck psychology, and wanted to hide in Jinan and Dongchang, the new two prefectures of the Jiaozhou camp, Zhou Baxi also had some news channels of his own, he really didn't want to leave Shandong, Henan was like hell, the officials and thieves were tugging at each other, and Beizhili had just been ravaged by the Tartar soldiers, and that place was not rich, so it was naturally not more comfortable than Shandong Hongxiang.

It is even more impossible to run towards the south, the south is full of people from the Jiaozhou battalion, and Zhou Baxi does not dare to run towards that side.

Things began to go wrong in the middle of July, after the armed Yanding captured a few Jianghu people from the Liaozhen army, they were already frightened by the killing of the Jiaozhou battalion, and after they were caught, there were timid people who confessed first, and their companions inquired about the news of the Tartars of Liaozhen. Because the soldiers and horses of Liao Town and a large number of Liao people have lived in the area of Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Mansion, it is not difficult for these Tartar spies to lurk.

Of course, after the Tartars entered Shandong, they lurked in advance and inquired about the news sent by the sentinels before the war, which actually did not help much, for example, basically the spies gave the above news that the Jiaozhou battalion was more than 10,000 men and horses, and the combat power was slightly stronger than the soldiers and horses of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong.

Such a judgment made the Qing army not worry at all, and directly rushed into Shandong, of course, looking at the results of that encounter, it is not too much to say that it is slightly stronger.

Just got this result, which made Li Meng and the other high-level leaders of the Jiaozhou battalion angry, thinking that Shandong's operation was as tight as an iron bucket, who would have thought that there were still so many loopholes and defects, and immediately issued an order that the army, armed Yanding, and the village guard team of Tuntian Tianzhuang should fully cooperate with Huang Ping to suppress these reckless bandits.

Zhou Baxi was targeted by more than a dozen armed salt dings, fled all the way west, and finally had to go to his old acquaintance, Zhang Chengye, a thief in the southern mountains.