Jiahe Town was originally a village on the west bank of the Chuhe River, located more than 100 miles downstream of the Chuhe River.

Jiahe Village has a flat terrain, fertile land, and Chuhe River water irrigation, the villagers here live comfortably, and the river turns here, many boatmen will go ashore to rest, rest, fill their stomachs, and then sail to the bend after having the strength. Hundreds of years later, Jiahe Village gradually became a town, with restaurants and inns along the river, and commerce flourished. The number of people has grown from a few hundred to more than 2,000.

More than ten days ago, a Han army of thousands of men passed by, and took a fancy to the geographical location of Jiahe Town, and set up a supply station here, and countless materials were transported here by boat, temporarily stored, and then transported to the front line by land.

At the same time, three platoons of defenders and nearly 1,000 people were stationed in the town, making the originally lively Jiahe Town even more lively.

For the sudden arrival of the Han army, the people of Jiahe Town were a little uneasy at the beginning, relying on the advantages of geographical location, although the Qing court increased a lot of taxes for more than a year, the lives of the townspeople here were greatly affected, but it was okay, if the war disaster was together, no one knew what would happen?

But whether they want to or not, obviously not they can decide, can only hope that the Han army is really as legend to the people of the autumn did not commit any crimes, a day later, the people of Jiahe Town put their minds at ease, the Han army military discipline is really good, not only did not flirt with the female dependents, buy and sell everything according to the price, pay not the Qing court when ten, when hundred, or even directly made of white tin, but Huang Chengcheng full of copper coins and white flowers of silver dollars. It was to requisition the ancestral hall in the town and the houses of several large families, and also took out the silver dollars for white flowers.

This is strange when the government has compensated for the levy of things, although several old masters in the town are still a little unhappy in their hearts, the townspeople have been convinced of the Han army, and they have become less afraid of the Han army.

Du Rongfu took two guards and inspected along the river Du Rongfu is the person in charge of the military station in Jiahe Town, his position in the army is the company deputy, I thought that after this battle, he could smoothly change from the company deputy to the company commander, but I didn't expect to be assigned an errand to guard the station, which made Du Rongfu a little depressed, who dared to fight the idea of the military station more than 100 miles away from the front line?

However, the materials here are undoubtedly very important for the front-line operation, Du Rongfu did not dare to be too careless, the strength of the three platoons, one of them was discharged from the outside guard, and two platoons stayed in the camp.

The standard strength of each platoon of the Han army was 36 people, one reinforced company with five platoons, 180 soldiers, and 210 logistician personnel such as medical care, communications, guards, and company commanders and company assistants.

The Han army combat troops guarding the Jiahe Town military station were one hundred and eight people, plus the rest of the personnel, a total of one hundred and twenty people, in fact, as long as the Han army logistics personnel were armed with guns, they could also fight.

"Hello Chief Du." Several townspeople met Du Rongfu and hurriedly greeted him with a smile, there was no fear on their faces, and the braids on their heads had been cut off.

"Hello fellow." Du Rongfu replied.

Now that the Han army has been stationed here for only half a month, the relationship between the military and the people can be so harmonious, thanks to the fact that the Han army recruited 200 people to the town a few days ago.

A few days ago, there were too many things to be transported, and the people who followed were too busy to come, Du Rongfu paid to recruit the young people in the town to help, one hundred and fifty copper coins per person a day, and the Han army publicized that more than 400 young people in Hulala Town all participated in the transportation.

Although I was tired and half dead at the end of the day, I was eating a fragrant meal with the one hundred and fifty copper coins in my hand, and everyone felt that it was worth it, and the two meals at noon and evening were white rice and steamed buns, as well as braised pork and dried fish and vegetables.

Although the townspeople of Jiahe Town can barely mix and be full, it is only the days of the year when they can let go of eating white rice and braised pork to their fullness is only available during the New Year.

Du Rongfu immediately said that he could recruit people, three silver dollars a month, including food and accommodation, although three silver dollars is not as much as one hundred and fifty a day, but it is still very attractive to these townspeople, more than 300 people immediately signed up, Du Rongfu selected 200 people to enter the queue of people, and those who did not pick had to return disappointed.

It is the policy of the Han army to recruit people on the spot, which can save the trouble of transporting people in the rear, and it is easy to be recognized by the locals, sure enough, after the two hundred young people became the Han army people, the townspeople of Jiahe Town immediately regarded the Han army as their own people, except for a small number of people, most of the braids on their heads were cut without the Han army's forced order.

Living on the edge of the Chuzhou River, the townspeople of Jiahe Town are also well-informed, since the Han army uprising, the previous imperial court has not won a battle, since the Han army has fought, it will be difficult for the imperial army to fight again, so there is not much fear of cutting braids, and the townspeople of Jiahe Town will cut off their braids so happily.

Just as Du Rongfu was patrolling along the river, in an inn in Jiahe Town, two sneaky figures were talking quietly.

"Horse monkey, are you really sure, there are really only a hundred short-haired people here? If the information is wrong and you miss Lord Li's big event, don't blame me for not reminding you, Lord Li can't spare you. A man in his thirties with a purple face said.

This purple-faced man is named Zhou Shengchuan, who is the younger brother of the dead Zhou Shengbo, the six brothers of the Zhou family, respectively, Sheng Yu, Sheng Xuan, Sheng Hua, Sheng Bo, Sheng Chuan, Sheng Chun, since the formation of a group training, because of repeated battles with the Taiping Army, the first three have been killed, and now Zhou Shengbo's whereabouts are unknown, most of them have suffered accidents, in order to protect the Qing Dynasty, the Zhou family can be said to have shed blood.

"Lord Zhou put it down, the villain observed it for more than ten days in a row, and personally pointed at the short-haired head, except for the people, the short-haired army will never exceed one hundred and fifty people. 、, the humanity of the horse monkey.

The horse monkey is the owner of this inn, surnamed Ma, the big name Ma Houjun, just because of his domineering behavior, he was privately called a horse monkey, but in fact, instead of looking like a monkey, he looked like a hippopotamus.

The Ma family not only has inns, but also pawnshops, warehouses, hundreds of acres of fertile land, and is also a leading figure in Jiahe Town, but he is not a local, although he is rich, he is still faintly rejected by the locals.

The arrival of the Han army, although his interests were not much damaged, but there were many losses in his heart, in this place of Jiahe Town, how can he be considered a character, I thought that the Han army would pull him, but I didn't expect the Han army to ignore him, which made Ma Houjun hate the Han army, and took the initiative to become a spy of the Qing army, and got in touch with Li Hongzhang's regimental training.

These days, Li Hongzhang has been looking for loopholes in the Han army, and when he got a report from Ma Houjun, he immediately sent Zhou Shengchuan to confirm.

"Okay, if the information you provide is true, after the army comes over, Lord Li will definitely reward you for your meritorious deeds." Zhou Shengchuan patted Ma Houjun on the shoulder and said.

Ma Houjun's bones suddenly lightened, and he said: "Lord Zhou, the villain doesn't need much of a reward, just hope to become the mayor of Jiahe Town." ”

Zhou Shengchuan couldn't help but be full of disdain in his heart, this person took a huge risk to contact him, but he didn't expect that he just wanted to become a mayor, but a smile appeared on his face: "Don't worry, as long as the army comes, you will be the mayor." ”

"Thank you, sir." Ma Houjun's face suddenly smiled like a flower, and he became the mayor of Jiahe Town, so that all the townspeople who looked down on him before listened to his own orders, which almost became an obsession of Ma Houjun, and he couldn't wait to ask: "My lord, I don't know when the army will come?" ”

Zhou Shengchuan's eyes widened: "This is not something you should care about." ”

"Yes, the villain is too talkative."

"Okay, this officer is leaving, you are always keeping an eye on the situation of Shorthair, writing down everything, and sending someone to contact you before the army comes."

"Yes, the villain wrote it down."

Zhou Shengchuan didn't pay any attention to Ma Houjun, he straightened his hat, sure that no one would see anything wrong, and then walked out of the inn door.

People come and go on the street, there are many foreign accents, these foreign accents are undoubtedly the Han soldiers and civilians who follow the army, although the Han soldiers and civilians also have military discipline, but they are very loose when there is no goods to handle, and they can take turns on the street, only more than 2,000 people in the town, there are hundreds of people at once, and the street is very lively, and Zhou Shengchuan does not seem dazzling when he walks in it.

Originally, Zhou Shengchuan could leave at this time, but seeing such a scene on the street, his heart moved, and he slowly approached the direction of the ancestral hall in the town, which was the base camp of the Han army's military station, where all the military supplies that had not had time to be transported to the front line were stored, and it was also the most heavily guarded place for the Han army.

This attack on the Han army, in addition to the blow to the Han army, the military supplies here are undoubtedly the most needed by the Qing army, although the Mahou army judged the number of the Han army, but what is in these military supplies is not clear, Zhou Shengchuan is very interested in confirming it.

However, he had to withdraw wisely as soon as he approached the ancestral hall a hundred steps away, because the Han army here was heavily guarded, even the people had to enter and exit with the number plate, and the eyes of several Han soldiers guarding him had already stared at him, scaring Zhou Shengchuan into a cold sweat, he pretended to have forgotten something, patted his head before turning away, and finally did not arouse the suspicion of the defenders.

After dark, Zhou Shengchuan had arrived at the garrison of Li Hongjun's army, which was only more than 30 miles away from Jiahe Town, in a village, and had been stationed here for several days after the Qing army controlled the villagers.

The Han army carried out all the way, although the Qing army surrendered along the way, but only controlled the city and some important points, and the vast majority of villages have not had time to receive, a village does not say that it does not interact with outsiders for a few days, even half a month I am afraid it will not be noticed, Li Hongzhang took advantage of this to lurk.! ~！

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