After Xu Shichang left, Yuan Shikai said directly to Wang Rulin: "Give you a task, can you complete it?" ”

"What task?" Wang Rulin asked in a solemn voice.

"Kill Wang Jundao, if he doesn't die, I don't feel at ease." Yuan Shikai said coldly.

"I can't kill him." Wang Rulin shook his head and said.

"You haven't met him, how do you know you can't kill him?" Yuan Shikai said in a deep voice.

"I just looked at the many people who died in Fuzhong, and found that they were all killed by one shot, and almost all of them were shot in three places, head, throat, heart, these signs show that Wang Jundao has a group of real sharpshooters around him, and their marksmanship can reach such a point, and their skills will not be weak, as long as these people have guns, as long as there are two people to cooperate, I can't deal with them." Wang Rulin said.

"Isn't your marksmanship also amazing?" Yuan Shikai asked.

"It was during the day, and most of the time it was a solo shot, and I couldn't do it in the dark of night, in such a chaotic situation, and I could hit it so easily and accurately." Wang Rulin shook his head and said. He didn't feel any shame, after all, his kung fu was on his body, it was his fists and feet and a hand of swordsmanship, as for marksmanship, he could be regarded as proficient at most, and he couldn't call what Yuan Shikai said.

"Forget it, don't kill him, you send someone for me to thoroughly investigate his details, I want to know what other details he has, I don't believe that he is just the son of Wang Liyan, the leader of the Boxers, and also, find out the situation of the important people around him." Yuan Shikai said coldly.

"Yes, I'll send someone." Wang Rulin nodded.

"Go ahead, see if Pingqing has come back, you just call him to see me." Yuan Shikai said again.

"Okay, I'll go." Wang Rulin strode away.

……

It was already dawn, and it was naturally impossible for the soldiers of the New Army, who had already run exhausted, to catch up with the soldiers of the Tiger Army.

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army quickly crossed the bridge over the Dasha River and rushed into Changqing County with countless gold, silver and jewelry.

Wang Jundao did not let people check how much this batch of gold, silver and jewelry was, but sealed it, changed it into a carriage, and then gave an order to Guo Meng, the commander of the Tiger Roar Battalion of the Guard Regiment: "You take this batch of things to Tai'an and hand them over to Cui Jingluo, the financial officer, he will arrange it according to my instructions, and no one is allowed to open it along the way, is there a problem?" ”

"No problem." Guo Meng straightened up, gave a military salute, and answered loudly.

"This is my order, after you arrive, hand it over to the executive officer of Baiyun City, and ask him to transfer the cavalry battalion to Changqing County, while the Tiger Roar battalion will stay in Tai'an to garrison." Wang Jundao handed Guo Meng a military order.

"Yes, Commander!" Guo Meng said loudly again.

"Also, escort Miss Xu to my mansion safely." Wang Jundao continued.

"The commander can rest assured, I promise that Miss Xu will not be hurt in the slightest." Guo Meng said in a deep voice. Xu Qingyun has now been recognized by them as the wife of the military commander, and they naturally have to do their best to protect it.

"Well, go ahead." Wang Jundao nodded.

After Guo Meng left, Wei Zhongcheng hurriedly came with a bill and handed it to Wang Jundao: "Commander, this is the capture of our army in the first battle of Changqing County and the first battle of Dasha River, a total of 3,100 guns of various kinds, 1,400 taels of gold, 16,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the materials are listed on the list. ”

"Okay, you personally go back to Tai'an, within a month, prepare more than a thousand taels of carriages, the more the better, and then in the name of doing business, divided into branches, not connected to each other, go to all parts of Zhili, be sure to rush to Yanjing City before August, I will be of great use at that time, hurry up." Wang Jundao said.

"Yes, Captain." Wei Zhongcheng gave a military salute and strode away.

Wang Jundao then wrote a military order, and asked Lei Ba to find Fan Zong, the commander of the communications battalion, and handed him the military order, saying: "You personally send this military order to the Zhong Palace, and hand it over to Li Jinglin, the head of the Fifth Regiment, and Sun Chuanfang, the head of the Zhong Gong Min, as fast as possible." ”

"Yes, Captain." Wei Zhongcheng received the military order and strode away.

……

Two hours later, in the Crouching Tiger Mountain military camp in Zhonggong, Li Jinglin read the military order, and then handed the military order to Sun Chuanfang, and said with a smile: "Chuanfang, congratulations, the new commander of the Sixth Regiment of the Tiger Ben Army." ”

Sun Chuanfang quickly swept the military order from Wang Jundao, his face was instantly replaced by ecstasy, the content of the military order was very simple, the Zhonggong Guard Regiment more than 1,100 people were reorganized into the sixth regiment of the Tiger Army, the head of the regiment was Sun Chuanfang, and the deputy head Ma Si rushed to Changqing County every other day to take over the defense of Changqing County, and at the same time assisted the political officials sent by Tai'an to Changqing County to implement the new policy, hit the landlords and tyrants, distribute land, and form a militia group, and the defense of Zhonggong was handed over to Li Jinglin, and at the same time let Li Jinglin lead the fifth regiment to try his best to defeat Licheng County, The east, west and south sides of Jinan City were completely sealed.

After reading the military orders three times in a row, Sun Chuanfang was still unsatisfied, and Li Jinglin said with a smile: "Chuanfang, you can't live up to the army commander's expectations of you." ”

"Don't worry, the regiment commander, I will repay the commander with death for his kindness." Sun Chuanfang was in good health and resolutely gave a military salute.

"You are now the same as me, you are also the regiment commander, don't be so polite to me, hurry up, reorganize the militia well, don't let the commander down." Li Jinglin returned a military salute and said with a smile.

"Yes." Sun Chuanfang left overjoyed.

The next day, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Sixth Regiment of the newly established Tiger Army rushed to Changqing County under the leadership of Sun Chuanfang and Ma Si.

After some greetings, Wang Jundao said directly: "Chuanfang, Ma Si, I will give you 3,000 guns, if after three months, you can pull up 5,000 troops, and you can cross the Yellow River west and conquer Dongchang Mansion, I will hand over the entire Dongchang Mansion to you." ”

Sun Chuanfang and Ma Si glanced at each other, and they both saw a touch of fanaticism in each other's eyes, Dongchang Mansion, under the jurisdiction of Gaotang Prefecture and Liaocheng, under the rule of Tangyi, Boping, Chiping, Qingping, Xin, Guan, En, Guantao nine counties, that is a large mansion with a population of three million.

"How? Okay? No, I'll let someone else come. Wang Jundao suddenly said in a deep voice.

"Okay!" Sun Chuanfang and Ma Si were provoked by Wang Jundao and shouted loudly.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you to bring me good news." Wang Jundao smiled and nodded.

"Yes." Sun Chuanfang and Ma Si yelled again.

Wang Jundao nodded with satisfaction, looked at Ma Si and said, "You are also the head of the regiment now, it's too bad to use the name Ma Si again, I'll give you a new one." ”

"Please give me a name, commander." Ma Si Si Xi Dao.

"Do you know Ma Chao, the famous general of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period?" Wang Jundao asked.

"The gentleman who heard the story on the street before said that Ma Chao is the five tiger generals who can draw with the fierce general Zhang Fei, keep Cao Ying awake at night, and make Qiang Hu frightened." Ma Si said.

"Okay, you will be called Ma Chao in the future." Wang Jundao said in a deep voice.

"My name is Ma Chao?" Ma Si muttered to himself, can I compare with Ma Chao?

"I know all your penance in the past few months, I believe that in a few years, you will become my general, and you will never lose to Ma Chao's general, how about it? Do you dare? Wang Jundao said in a deep voice. In the past few months, Wang Jundao has seen everything Ma Si has done, although his qualifications are only average, but he has outstanding perseverance, such a person, even if he is ordinary, as long as he is given time and cultivated well, he can also grow into a real towering tree, Wang Jundao will naturally not give up such a big tree.

"Dare! From now on, I will be the military commander's Ma Chao! Ma Si hissed and yelled.

"Good!" Wang Jundao praised loudly. He knew that he had completely subdued Ma Si, and he also knew that once a person like Ma Si was loyal to someone, even if someone used his relatives and friends to blackmail him, even if someone threatened him with his surname, he would never betray him.

That night, Yue Fengxian, commander of the cavalry battalion of the Huben Army, led more than 1,000 cavalry battalions to Changqing County, and Wang Jundao had already arranged all the important military and political affairs in Changqing County.

In the middle of the night, Wang Jundao led a large force of nearly 7,000 people, including the Huwei Battalion, the Tiger Roar Battalion, and the Tiger Leopard Battalion below the guard regiment, and the special operations battalion, machine gun battalion, pistol battalion, cavalry battalion, baggage regiment, and communications battalion under the Tiger Ben Army, to cross the Yellow River north, and then marched more than 60 miles at night.

When dawn came, the seven thousand Tiger Ben soldiers had already settled in a dense forest, and no one could find them, Wang Jundao said to Tang Jian, the commander of the special operations battalion who hurried from outside the forest: "Where are we now?" ”

"Commander Hui, fifty miles to the northwest, we can rush to Gaotang County." Tang Jian replied.

"Gaotang County, this is our hometown, we started here more than a year ago." Wang Jundao sighed.

"Yes, we had more than 5,000 Boxer brothers at the beginning, but unfortunately there were only one hundred and eight left." Tang Jian said sadly.

"It is precisely because of these one hundred and eight brothers that we can have tens of thousands of people today, not only that, our people are developing rapidly, and the southern part of Shandong has also become our territory, or it will not be long before we have more people, and those dead Boxer brothers can also be blind." Wang Jundao said.

"Commander, are we going to defeat Gao Tang this time?" Tang Jian asked.

"It's not. With our current strength, we can defeat Gaotang, but we can't control it, almost all of our military and political personnel are used in the south of Shandong, and only after we completely swallow Yanzhou Mansion, Caozhou Mansion, Yizhou Mansion, and Jining Prefecture, and gain a firm foothold, can we develop northward. Wang Jundao shook his head and said. Although he has now controlled Yanzhou Mansion, Caozhou Mansion, Yizhou Prefecture, and Jining Prefecture with military strength, he has not yet completely gained a firm foothold, and the new policy and land policy are still in full swing.

"And what are we going to do this time?" Tang Jian couldn't help but ask.

"Go to Yanjing." Wang Jundao said lightly.

"Yanjing?" Tang Jian couldn't help but tremble in his heart, could it be that the army commander wanted to attack Yanjing? Thinking about it, he thinks it's impossible, 7,000 people want to defeat Yanjing, it seems like a fool's dream, but what are you going to do?

"Don't think about it, you'll know when the time comes." Wang Jundao chuckled.

"Hmm." Tang Jian nodded.

"From tomorrow, we will march westward, first to the Taihang Mountains, and then to the north of the eastern part of the Taihang Mountains, so that we can hide in the Taihang Mountains at any time. And for unnecessary trouble, sleep during the day and march at night! Wang Jundao said lightly.