At noon on this day, the fifty-year-old commander Zhang Guofan curled up his fat body, lying on a rattan chair, reading an official document that had just been sent to the military department to transfer troops, the content of the official document was issued by Zhang Fengyi to transfer the Ji'an Prefecture Volunteer Brigade to HN to assist in the suppression of the military department of Zhang Xianzhong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Guofan was tall, with broad shoulders, wearing a loose and soft gray robe, a hosta inserted into his gray hair, and a pair of cloudy pine bubble eyes embedded in his bronzed face. There are already several wrinkles on the forehead.

The commander of the capital is the military attache of the second grade, is the supreme commander of the army of a province, and the order of the military department must be sent to the capital division office to facilitate the transfer of troops in the province.

The subordinate officials of the metropolitan government have one person who has experience in the six products of the division, one person who has the sixth product of the division of judgment, one person who has the seventh grade of the capital, one person who has the seventh grade of the deputy judge, one person who is the eighth grade, one person who has the prison department from the ninth grade, and one warehouse ambassador, deputy envoy, grassland ambassador, and deputy envoy.

After reading it, Zhang Guofan closed his eyes and pondered, and after a while, he asked Liang Renfa, the commander and fellow commander: "What kind of team is this Ji'an Mansion Volunteer Brigade?" ”

"It was formed by Ji'an Prefecture at its own expense and people to prevent bandits and bandits." Liang Ren said with a sneer.

Liang Renfa is 40 years old, fat and short-limbed, with a bulging belly, like a frog. The reason why this person can become the commander of the capital is to send money to the top.

Hearing this, Zhang Guofan scolded: "******, this Zhang Fengyi is an idiot!" Isn't it a joke to send a militia group to fight the rogues? Doesn't he know that the combat effectiveness of the militia is worse than that of the official army! ”

smiled flatteringly, and said treacherously with Liang Renfa: "My lord, transfer the militia to HN to help suppress the Liukou, this is the order of the Ministry of War, with the battle record, you are well trained, no record, everyone will not be surprised, after all, this is just a militia group, so transfer the Ji'an Mansion Volunteer Brigade to help suppress, this is a good thing for you." ”

Hearing these words, Zhang Guofan thought about it, it was true, and he laughed: "Lao Liang, you send someone to Ji'an Mansion to give an order." ”

"Yes!" Liang Renfa agreed, bowed out

At noon that day, Zhao Guohua was directing the team members to shoot firearms at the shooting range behind Mingfeng Village, and Chen Sheng sent someone from Ji'an Mansion to give him an order. After he went, he learned that it was an order issued by the Ministry of War: to transfer the Volunteer Brigade to HN Nanyang to help suppress the Liukou. After reading the order, he knew that someone in Ji'an Mansion was making trouble, otherwise, how would the Beijing Division Military Department, which was thousands of miles away from Ji'an Mansion, know about his small volunteer brigade.

After reading the order, everyone had mixed reactions.

Sun Fu said: "Captain, there are a large number of rogues, and they are fighting old battles, and they can't even clean up the officers and soldiers. ”

"Yes, this matter must be done by some villains in YX County in their secrets, and they are going to destroy the Volunteer Brigade, we must not let their conspiracy succeed, and I also agree to make the money push this matter." Mr. Sun said that some other people in the chemical workshop also agreed with the idea of the Sun father and son

After hearing these words, Zhao Guohua didn't say anything, looked at Cheng Chong and Sun You and other officers, and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"My opinion is to send troops." Cheng Chong said.

Looking at him, Zhao Guohua said, "Tell me your reasons." ”

"The Liukou are just some peasants, but they have fought a few battles, and our volunteer team, after training for so long, is not worse than them, as long as we fight a few battles, we will be stronger than the Liukou, after the Liukou, when we return to Yongxin, it will be more weighty to speak." Cheng Chong said proudly

Zhang Shun and Sun You also nodded in agreement with Cheng Chong's opinion, and Sun You said, "What Captain Cheng said is reasonable, it is a mule or a horse, pull it out and slip it away, we should go out and make a reputation." ”

"Yes, yes......" The officers nodded and advocated sending troops to help suppress them.

To tell the truth, Zhao Guohua has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, if the volunteers don't find a chance to go to the battlefield, they will never be able to grow, and the training ground can't produce strong soldiers, and the Liukou is the most suitable opponent at present, neither weak nor strong, if you can't even deal with the Liukou, then don't expect to deal with the powerful Manchu Iron Cavalry in the future.

In the end, Zhao Guohua persuaded Sun Fu and Sun Laohan with one sentence, and everyone unanimously agreed to send troops to help suppress them.

After careful consideration, he decided to take the three leaders of the Five Tigers of Jinggang, Lin Lihu Zhang Qing, and the fourth leader, Liu Youtian, the mountain tiger, to accompany the army.

The reason why these two people were taken on the expedition was because these two people belonged to the resourceful character Zhang Qing in Qinglong Village was good at planning, and Liu Youtian was good at finding out the news.

He took four team members to Qinglong Village. Hearing that the captain was coming, the five tigers of Jinggang hurriedly greeted him, and Wang Hu said with a smile: "How can the captain have time to come to the cottage today......

"What? The king's leader doesn't welcome me here, huh? Zhao Guohua said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Wang Hu hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No! No! How dare my subordinates, what I mean is that if the captain is coming, say it in advance, and we can clean up this cottage and make it look more pleasing to the eye. ”

"Haha" smiled, Zhao Guohua said: "Just kidding with Leader Wang, don't you mind." I'm here to discuss something with a few of you. ”

"What's the matter? Please say it to the captain, as long as I can do it, I will not shirk it. The second leader, Bantam Tiger Chen Dashan, arched his hand and said.

Looking at the other three leaders, Zhao Guohua smiled and said: "A few **** ago, I received an order from the Beijing Division and the Military Department, and asked me to take the Volunteer Brigade to Wuchang Mansion to listen to the dispatch of the Governor of the Five Provinces, the Secretary of the Military Department and the Right Deputy Governor Lu Xiangsheng, to assist the officers and soldiers in encircling and suppressing the Liukou Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, I don't know which leaders are willing to go with me?" Of course, everyone has their own ambitions, and if I don't want to, I won't force it, after all, it's normal to have some concerns. ”

After listening to Zhao Guohua's words, the five leaders were silent.

Lowering their heads and thinking for a while, the five of them raised their heads, and Wang Hu said: "Captain, you are right, I, Wang Hu, do not want to spend the rest of my life like this, I am willing to go with you." ”

"I'm also willing to go with the captain." The second leader, Bantam Tiger Chen Dashan, also said.

Looking at the two of them with a smile, Zhao Guohua looked at the other three leaders again, and asked with a smile, "What are the three of you going to do?" ”

The third leader, Lu Qing, the fourth leader, Liu Youtian, and the fifth leader, Liu Fangfei, glanced at each other, clasped their fists together, and said, "I'll listen to the captain's orders." ”

"Good! Good! Good! The five leaders are really loyal people, and I also want to take you out, but no, this cottage can't be given up for the time being, so I decided to take the third leader Lu Qing and the fourth leader Liu Youtian down the mountain to go out with the team, and the other three leaders Please keep the cottage with peace of mind, as long as you follow me Zhao Guohua, I will let you all have a good future. ”

Hearing this, the five leaders all had happy faces, and their eyes looked at Zhao Guohua more deferentially.

After the third leader Lu Qing and the fourth leader Liu Youtian returned to the house, they quickly cleaned up and went down the mountain with Zhao Guohua.

When he arrived at the Volunteer Brigade, he appointed Liu Youtian, the mountain tiger, as the deputy captain of the scout team, and Niu Huan was promoted from the squad leader to the captain. Lu Qing was a staff officer of the army.

Worried about the safety of the chemical workshop and Mingfeng Village after the volunteer brigade left, Zhao Guohua not only entrusted the Song County Order and Wagyu Master Ji Meng Prefect and Chen Bingbei, but also transferred 1,000 people from Qinglong Village to form a left-behind team, and promoted Ma Bao from the team leader to the captain of the left-behind team, and Sun Fu as the deputy captain.

In order to make a name for himself in the first battle and show his prestige, Zhao Guohua brought out all the 3,000 Lumi guns this time, and also brought out 300 Type 81 automatic rifles named Shenji Gong, and 200 boxes of 300,000 rounds of ammunition have been consumed after attacking Jinggangshan and a period of target training, and this time in order to ensure that the first battle was fired, he brought another 40 million or 50 million rounds of ammunition. These Type 81 automatic rifles were organized into a separate squadron and named the Bayi Commando, which will be used in the most critical places as a killer weapon to achieve a lethal effect with one hit.

In order to enhance the effect of the strike, each team member is also equipped with five homemade grenades, which are not as powerful as the explosion effect of the later generations, but also reach more than half the power of the later generations. In order to ensure the use effect, all cast thin iron shells are used, and some broken magnetic sheets are added to them.

Among the 5,000 men, there were almost half of the musketeers and half of the pikemen, the pikemen were holding three-meter spears, carrying scimitars at their waists, wearing three-layer rattan armor with iron sheets inlaid with five millimeters of iron rattan armor vests on their chests, and the dry food they ate was biscuits cooked with flour and soybeans, oil and salt, and they brought 50,000 taels of silver tickets.

After all the preparations were made, on May 18, the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Volunteer Brigade set out.

On this day, the old and young of Mingfeng Village and YX County Commander Song Zhong, Master Niu and Wang Zhutou, as well as the prefect Meng Liangchen and Bingbei Dao Chen Sheng all came to see them off.

Chen Sheng held a glass of wine in his hand, and said with a smile: "Captain Zhao, this official and Governor Meng wish you success in your victory." Come, drink this glass of expedition wine. ”

"I wish you a triumphant song early and a safe return." The prefect Meng Liangchen also looked at Zhao Guohua with a glass of wine and a smile. Standing in the back, YX County Commander Song Zhong, Master Niu and Wang Zhutou also looked at him worriedly with wine glasses in their hands.

Not far away, Yang Degui, Liu Wanshi and a group of squires looked at him gloatingly, their faces full of pride.