By the time Pang Zi arrived ten miles away, the brothers of the dart game were already waiting in a hidden place nearby. Seeing Pang Zi coming, Pang Tianshuo hurriedly came up and said, "Big brother, the brothers have arrived." Knowing that there were spies among his people, Pang Tianshuo felt very annoyed, and he also strengthened his vigilance. Every time he set off a wave of brothers, he personally counted the number of people. Until Pang Zi arrived, everyone in the dart game arrived.

After taking a closer look at the team led by Pang Zi, Pang Tianshuo asked strangely, "Big brother, where is Li Kun?" ”

Pang Zi snorted coldly and shouted at Gao Songling, "Get him out." ”

The brothers of the dart game watched Gao Songling pull Li Kun out of the sack, and they didn't know what was going on, but they heard Pang Zi say loudly: "We have an internal ghost here, and Li Kun sold our brothers for a bitch." ”

All the brothers changed their faces when they heard this, and Pang Zi didn't care about Li Kun's face as dead ashes, he said what Li Kun had done loudly to the brothers who came up. As soon as he finished speaking, the people around him were already angry, some people wanted to rush up and beat Li Kun, and the people behind scolded outside because they couldn't get into the crowd, and Li Kun's ancestors were scolded all over again in an instant.

In order to avoid being killed by the angry crowd, Li Kun leaned tightly on Pang Zi's leg. Pang Zi shouted, "Don't hit him, everyone." ”

"Big brother, are you still protecting him?"

"Brother Pang, give him to us, and we'll kill him."

The brothers rushed up unrelentingly, and it seemed that they must kill Li Kun.

"I told him that as long as he told the truth, he would not be handed over to everyone. Since he told the truth, he Li Kun can be treacherous, and I, Pang Zi, am not this kind of person. Pang Zi shouted while stopping everyone for Li Kun. To put it mildly, it is finally time for everyone to stop beating Li Kun. But everyone didn't mean to let Li Kun go at all.

"Brother Huge, spare your life! Huge brother spares his life! Li Kun kept crying.

Pang Zi glanced at Li Kun with disdain, then pulled him up, pulled out the saber at his waist and cut the rope. "Li Kun, I won't let you kill you. I can let you go, too. As long as you can get past me, you'll be able to go. ”

This is a strange thing, and everyone, including Li Kun, didn't understand it. Pang Zi asked everyone to get out of the way, he led two horses, and asked for a knife from Pang Tianshuo and handed it to Li Kun.

"Brothers, I, Pang Zi, always count. Don't meddle in any of you, I'll take care of this matter. After shouting, Pang Zi said to Li Kun: "There is a horse here, and you have a knife in your hand." I also have horses, and I have knives. The other brothers won't do anything, I'll say dozens of times, as long as you can run away, as long as we don't see each other in the future, I won't go to you. ”

Li Kun didn't expect Pang Zi to draw such a path for himself, he didn't know if Pang Zi was telling the truth or a lie. I didn't dare to move for a while. Pang Zi didn't say anything else, he counted loudly: "One ...... 2. ......"

Li Kun is also a clever person, seeing that Pang Zi began to count, he couldn't care so much, rushed up in three steps and two steps, turned over a horse, and urged the horse to start running for his life. At this time, Pang Zigang counted six, but he didn't speed up, but continued to count at the speed of Fang Cai: "Seven...... Eight...... Nine...... Ten. As soon as the words fell, Pang Zi raised the knife in his hand and threw it at Li Kun's fleeing back.

The long knife slashed out a white light and went straight to Li Kun's back, and Pang Zi spent a lot of effort on the knife. The long knife penetrated through the front of Li Kun's back from the back. Dangling on the horse's back, Li Kun fell off the horse. Pang Zi strode forward, pulled out a long knife from Li Kun's body, and with a backhand swing, he had already cut off Li Kun's head.

The brother of the dart game didn't expect Pang Zi to solve Li Kun like this, and he didn't know what to say for a while. I saw Pang Zi wipe the blood on the knife on Li Kun's corpse, and strode back to the brothers. "Let's go, everyone."

The Huai army numbered 6,500 when it was founded. After arriving in Shanghai in April and May 1862, he purchased foreign guns and cannons with the support of foreign troops and the tax revenue of Shanghai Customs to expand the army. By 1864, the Huai army first colluded with the British, French and Changsheng armies to fight against the Taiping army near Shanghai, and then cooperated with the Hunan army to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the fall of Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in the autumn and winter of 1864, the Huai army was dismantled, and there were still 100 battalions and more than 50,000 people. From 1865 to 1868, as the main force of the Qing army, under the leadership of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, he successively fought against the Twist Army in Anhui, Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhili (about present-day Hebei) and other places. After the Twist Army was suppressed, the Huai Army undertook the defense of thousands of miles of rivers and seas from Tianjin and Baoding in the north to Shanghai and Wusong in the south.

The canal defense battalion is the army of the old Huai army, and the Shandong Canal is an important transportation artery, which has always been the bulk of tax revenue. Although the defense battalion was theoretically set up for the purpose of fighting bandits along the river and protecting the safety of the canal, they did not put their minds on such their own work at all. In the face of such a fat gap, the Huai army has completely become a tax group that sets up cards to collect money, and military training has been basically abandoned. As for Yuan Shikai, who inherited the mantle of Li Hongzhang, he devoted all his efforts to the construction of the Beiyang New Army and the police system, and had no intention of absorbing the old Huai Army at all. In the past few years, the military training of the defense battalion has plummeted. This unit was already a tax collector with guns on their shoulders, and its combat effectiveness was extremely low.

Canal tax is a quick money deal, as the saying goes, money comes quickly, goes fast. Among the officers and men of the defense battalion, there were quite a few opium smokers. The low combat effectiveness caused by the lack of training was reached to a lower level with the help of opium.

But it's an official army, and at least there are still guns. Li Yutang, the battalion officer of the canal defense battalion, did not ride a horse, but sat in a sedan chair like a civilian official. But it is not an ordinary sedan chair, but a bamboo sedan chair carried by four people. Li Yutang was compared to Wei Rui, a famous general of the Southern Dynasty, and rode in a bamboo sedan chair during the war. But the soldiers had never read a book and did not know about Wei Rui's deeds. Second, Master Li Yutang "eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, smokes" all five poisons, and this body has long been depleted, and he can't ride a horse at all. This time, I was able to come out in a sedan chair with everyone, which had already surprised the soldiers. As for the significance of the "example" set by Master Li Yutang for himself, it did not impress any officers and soldiers at all.

Lord Li was able to personally lead troops to deal with Pang Zi this time, which can be regarded as giving Pang Zi face. These days, the name of "Huge King" has spread all over the vicinity of the canal, and it stands to reason that Pang Zi should have negotiated an amount of tribute to the defense camp a long time ago, so that everyone could see each other. However, this Pang Zi is extremely uninteresting, Master Li sent people to find him several times, and Pang Zi's attitude was very serious and perfunctory. If the soft one doesn't work, then come to the hard one. But when he was about to do this, Pang Zi's escort became the line from Nangong County to Jinghan Road, and it was out of the jurisdiction of Lord Li.

Moreover, the insider of the bought Pang Zi Dart Bureau should tell Master Li that Pang Zi dared to send spies to monitor the actions of the defense camp. This is the real reason that completely angered Lord Li. A small dart board actually dares to monitor the defense camp? I really don't know how to write dead words. Master Li immediately sent someone to arrest the spies of the dart bureau, and also ordered soldiers and horses to go to Nangong County to ask for the guilt.

Pang Zi's approach made Master Li very angry, if the people around him were like this, how could the order of the canal be maintained? Therefore, Master Li felt the need to teach Pang Zi a profound lesson. And he heard that Pang Zi's teacher is the county magistrate of Nangong County today, and sending someone to teach Pang Zi may not be effective, plus Master Li heard that Pang Zi's dart game also has a lot of guns, so he thinks that he can simply bring a large team of people to block Pang Zi, so that things can always be done well.

In fact, Lord Li may not really want Pang Zi to do anything, the key is that Pang Zi once "offended" the canal defense camp, if he doesn't get his face back, the name of the defense camp will be damaged.

The team was marching on the road, and Master Li didn't have the heart to look at the scenery, he was thinking about what to say to the county order and how to intimidate Pang Zi when he arrived in Nangong County. How to make Pang Zi spit out everything that should have been spit out before. How to determine the amount of tribute in the future. The key is the county order of Nangong County, if it weren't for this county order to protect the calves, Lord Li would have cleaned up Pang Zi a long time ago. Therefore, those spies of the dart bureau were all taken in the team, and when they arrived in Nangong County, as long as these people were handed over to the county commander for questioning, the county commander would definitely know the rules. It is definitely more effective for the county teacher to teach Pang Zi this student.

The people on the side of the road saw so many officers and soldiers, and they were so frightened that they hid on the side of the roadside, and occasionally a few guys who did not know how to die rode by the side of the defense camp, and the officers and soldiers of the defense camp scolded angrily, and those people were frightened and fled. Master Li was carried by four people in the arrogant son, so it was naturally impossible to notice, and the officers and soldiers who were holding those captured dart brothers did not care, whenever they rode by, these dart brothers had a strange look in their eyes. But the more prestigious brother always stopped the captured brothers with his gaze. So they didn't perform too out of the ordinary after all.

Pang Zi got the news that those brothers were not imprisoned in the barracks of the defense camp, and were taken in the team and rushed to Nangong County together. He breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could save his brothers, Pang Zi would have a lot less to worry about. But what did Li Yutang of the defense camp have planned, and he actually rushed to Nangong County with these brothers. Does he still have to sue? Pang Zi thought.

It's one thing to say it in your mouth, if Pang Zi is really determined to tear his face with the court, it is also to lift Pang Zi. If Pang Zi's real purpose is only to establish his own independent small kingdom in Nangong County, it is just a teacher who is the county commander, and others must listen to his "huge king". As for the outside of Nangong County, whether it is the imperial court or someone else, Pang Zi actually doesn't care.

If you have to say it, Uncle Jing Tingbin also had such a style back then, but when he encountered challenges from outside, foreign religions began to preach, and the imperial court levied "foreign donations", and Uncle Jing had the backbone to rebel against these unreasonable things imposed on the people. Pang Zi, who had participated in Uncle Jing's uprising and watched the uprising fail, had concerns in his heart. These straw bales are naturally not in Pang Zi's eyes, but if they attract the Beiyang Army......

At the end of last year, Pang Zi and Chen Ke went to watch the autumn drills of the Beiyang Army together, and saw the tens of thousands of people in the drills. As long as the defense battalion is hit, sooner or later the Beiyang Army will be attracted. Pang Zi had to face this fact. Every time he thought about it, he felt very panicked.

If you just let the defense camp blackmail, it will not be impossible to make a deal in the future.

If you ask your own teacher to come forward, it is not impossible to have room for manoeuvre.

If......

All kinds of reasons and excuses are circling in Pang Zi's mind, and there is only one line away from completely convincing Pang Zi, but this line is like an iron wall, and it can't be broken through.

"Brother Pang, what should I do?" Pang Tianshuo beside him asked. Seeing that the defense army was about to arrive at the preset ambush site, Pang Zi delayed giving the order. Ever since Pang Zi executed Li Kun, the brothers knew that it was impossible to reconcile with Fang Ying. Everyone waited with their faces stiff. Some people rubbed knives and guns, and some ate salted duck eggs that they carried with them. But no one spoke again.

"What to do? Beat these bastards! Pang Zi replied subconsciously.

As soon as these words came out, Pang Zi suddenly understood one thing, deep down in his heart, he wanted to fight this battle. Uncle Jing's hatred, the hatred of the Boxer brothers, and the hatred of those villagers who have known each other since childhood. Beiyang, foreigners, and the imperial court owe too much blood debt. This is also the reason why Pang Zi can't pull down his face and wagging his tail to the defense camp to beg for mercy no matter what. This is also the reason why Pang Zi could not obey the order formulated by the imperial court no matter what.

"Pass the word, we're ready to fight. Remember, get your brother out first. Drive away the defense camp, and if you can, don't kill people. Pang Zi explained the main points.

When the brothers heard the order, they mounted their horses and put their masked scarves around their faces. Pang Zi raised the long knife that killed Li Kun, and only shouted, "Go!" Then he rode out onto the road.

More than 500 officers and soldiers came, and the long procession was pulled out for several miles. Pang Zi had exchanged cavalry combat skills with Chai Qingguo before, and he knew that if he was divided into two teams to cut this long snake formation into several sections, and then the cavalry would cut them down, no matter how many infantry there were, they could be defeated in an instant. But Pang Zi was afraid that his brothers would be addicted, and if he really killed Li Yutang and these people, it would be a shocking event immediately. After the brothers become murderous, where can they stop it, they will definitely start killing. In order to prevent this from happening, Pang Zi adopted the most inefficient method and attacked from the front. The horse team approached the enemy in an instant, and a musket was released, and Pang Zi was about to lead the team to rush forward, but saw that the enemy on the opposite side was first stunned in place, and then collapsed.

This is not a partial collapse, but a full-scale collapse of the entire enemy army.