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Therefore, after Yang Xingguo's decision was spoken, none of the four spoke out to oppose it.

As soon as he returned to the garrison headquarters left by Lao Maozi in Liaozhong, Yang Xingguo arranged for several young people who were good at internal affairs management to serve as the mayor of the town.

A young man with five talented men who can count and write is in charge of a large town with a population of more than 10,000 people, formed by the merger of more than a dozen villages.

Before the main force of the Liaodong Army arrived in Liaozhong, these mayors had only one task, to keep the situation stable in Liaozhong and count all the population and land in the area under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Army.

What makes these new mayors feel fortunate is that because the Liaodong Army took the initiative to return them 30% of the grain tax, the attitude of the people here towards the Liaodong Army, although it has not reached the attitude of support, can already be done not to be disgusted.

In this way, it has become much easier for these mayors to do things.

Regarding the arrangements of Li Zhilong, Zhang Wenhua and others, Yang Xingguo did not violate his promise.

Li Zhilong was directly sent to the battalion, which suffered the greatest battle losses, to serve as a platoon commander of a company and a platoon.

As for Zhang Wenhua, he handed over to him a limited number of Tulang Middle School of the Liaodong Army, and gave him 5,000 taels of funds for the establishment of the field hospital, and he himself set up the field hospital of the Liaodong Army.

At the same time, the Liaodong Army Maintenance Station, which was composed of Xiao Wenchang and seven or eight craftsmen, was also established.

When hundreds of rifles that were blown up on the battlefield were sent to the maintenance center, Xiao Wenchang, who found Yang Xingguo every day and asked Yang Xingguo to buy machinery and equipment, directly threw himself on these damaged rifles, and began to dismantle the east wall and repair the west wall.

In less than two days, almost twenty intact rifles were placed in front of Yang Xingguo.

"Commander, the five mayors are all in place...... These people are worthy of returning from abroad, and they are the first to manage, and it has only been a few days before the town government has been established......"

"The field hospital has also appeared...... Zhang Wenhua is already thinking about going to Lushun to buy some of the most basic Western medicines and surgical instruments from foreign foreign companies......"

"For the sake of safety, I asked the guard company Li Xiaohu to transfer a guard squad to ......"

"Not only has the maintenance center been established, but it has already begun to produce results......

"I have to say that although we lost 60,000 taels of silver and 500 rifles in this transaction, the price was worth it. Even if the cost is doubled, I am willing to exchange these talents......"

Since Liaozhong is showing a thriving scene, the first thing Yang Xingguo has to do is to run Liaozhong into an iron pass before Lao Maozi reacts, and Lao Maozi can't break through the iron pass.

And in order to achieve this goal, Yang Xingguo had to do one thing.

transferred all the main forces of the Liaodong Army to Liaozhong and completely abandoned the old camp in Anshan......

If only the troops are mobilized, Yang Xingguo is not worried at all. However, the old camp in Anshan, in addition to the troops, also had all the weapons, ammunition and food baggage to maintain the Liaodong Army for a year......

With so many supplies, plus more than a dozen mountain artillery, it is destined that the main force of the Liaodong Army must take the official road to reach Liaozhong.

Although there are hundreds of miles of official roads along the way, there is no Lao Maozi's main force that can threaten the Liaodong Army.

However, these so-called Lao Maozi garrison battalions and hand-backed regiments could threaten and harass the main force of the Liaodong Army at any time, which carried a large number of baggage and artillery.

More importantly, once these Lao Maozi garrisons exchange fire with the main force of the Liaodong Army, the true strength of the Liaodong Army will be completely exposed in front of Lao Maozi.

When the time comes, in the new round of retaliatory encirclement and suppression operations launched by Lao Maozi, they who already know the strength of the Liaodong Army will draw more main forces to deal with themselves.

And this is definitely the last thing Yang Xingguo wants to see.

You know, there is still half a year left before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War.

If you want to get a piece of the Russo-Japanese War, you must start accumulating strength from now on.

And once Lao Maozi dispatches heavy troops to encircle and suppress himself, then in the next half a year, he may fall into the encirclement and suppression of Lao Maozi's heavy troops. In this way, it is fortunate that his limited strength has not been hit hard, and as for the so-called accumulated strength, don't mention it.

Yang Xingguo's worries, Zhou Zhongju also had no way at all.

Just when the two of them frowned and meditated, Li Zhilong, who was still acting as a temporary staff officer by Yang Xingguo's side and waiting for the arrival of the first battalion, suddenly spoke: "Commander, if we find a way to prevent Lao Maozi from leaving their camp, won't our worries be gone......

"It's easier said than done...... Yang Xingguo didn't open his mouth before Zhou Zhongju vetoed......

"There are a total of six garrison battalions of Lao Maozi on these hundreds of miles of official roads, and two regiments on the back of their hands...... Although there are no heavy weapons such as artillery, there are still seven or eight heavy machine guns combined......"

"There are so many enemies, and they all have walls or fortresses to defend, even if several combat battalions of our Liaodong Army are all dispatched, they can't trap them......"

At this moment, Yang Xingguo's deep eyes suddenly shot out two rays of light.

Then, he said confidently: "It's not that there is no way to ......"

"If we plan well enough, we can do that......"

After speaking, Yang Xingguo directly cast a trace of appreciative glance at Li Zhilong, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "Li Zhilong, you are ready...... This time, I am going to let you go back to the old camp in Anshan with Wang Lin of the reconnaissance company and pass on my latest combat orders......"

"As for you, go directly to the first battalion...... I hope you can perform well in this operation, and strive to become a company commander after the battle......"

Two days later, in the old camp of Anshan, Li Zhilong became the platoon commander of a battalion, a company, and a platoon without the slightest accident.

However, after God only gave him half a day to get acquainted with his subordinates, he had to rush into battle.