At this time, Xu Shichang was already sitting on the boat crossing the Yellow River in the north, of course, he was not voluntary, but was 'kidnapped'.

In fact, as early as ten days ago, Li Jinghua sneaked to Jinan with more than ten elites of the 'Luo Net' organization under Wang Jundao's order, with the purpose of trying his best to 'get' Xu Shichang.

With Li Jinghua personally out of the horse, Xu Shichang naturally couldn't escape, because he himself is a thief, good at searching for all kinds of good things, and also good at capturing all kinds of news, after more than half a year of training by Wang Jundao, his various abilities are not what they used to be, and he has established a 'Luo Net' intelligence organization for Wang Jundao, although there are now less than 500 members of the 'Luo Net' organization, but they are definitely experts in collecting intelligence.

After arriving in Jinan, Li Jinghua and the elites of the 'Luowang' organization found out the information that Xu Shichang liked to go out with his family to relax, so he planned this kidnapping.

Li Jinghua is a thief, the ancestor who escaped, since he is good at escaping, he naturally knows the way to escape, and after Xu Shichang was kidnapped, he naturally couldn't escape from the palm of his hand.

Although Li Jinghua kidnapped Xu Shichang, he did not tie him up with ropes like ordinary kidnappers, gagged his mouth with cotton cloth, and blindfolded his eyes with a black cloth, but only threatened Xu Shichang's wife and daughter.

Of course, Li Jinghua didn't dare to hurt Xu Shichang and her family, after all, Xu Shichang's youngest daughter was Wang Jundao's woman, so Xu Shichang was Wang Jundao's father-in-law.

After going ashore, Xu Shichang also knew that Li Jinghua was not an evil person, because Li Jinghua neither abused Xu Shichang nor was he rude to his wife and daughter along the way, he couldn't help but ask again: "Where are you going to take me?" ”

Li Jinghua glanced at Xu Shichang lightly and said, "Let's go to Texas for the time being." ”

Texas?

Xu Shichang muttered to himself a few times, paused, and asked again, "I want to know why you 'kidnapped' me?" ”

Li Jinghua glanced at Xu Shichang and said, "I'm just acting on orders, as for the reason for kidnapping you, you may be able to guess it, if you can't guess it, it doesn't matter, when you see the person you should see, you will naturally know." ”

After listening to Li Jinghua's words, Xu Shichang also knew that it was impossible to ask anything valuable from Li Jinghua's mouth, so he could only keep his mouth shut.

At this time, Li Jinghua took out a letter, which was given to him by Wang Jundao before he set off for Jinan, and asked him to hand it over to Xu Shichang after successfully 'kidnapping' Xu Shichang, and now he has naturally successfully 'kidnapped' Xu Shichang.

Li Jinghua handed the letter to Xu Shichang and said, "This is a letter to you?" ”

Xu Shichang glanced at Li Jinghua in surprise, took the letter, and asked casually, "Who gave me the letter?" ”

Li Jinghua said: "See for yourself." ”

Xu Shichang nodded and opened the letter, and soon, excitement appeared on his face, because the person who wrote the letter was his youngest daughter Xu Qingyun.

Xu Shichang had no sons, only three daughters, and the eldest daughter, Xu Qingxia, died of illness less than a few years after she got married.

Before the second daughter Xu Qinghe got married, the man unfortunately died, she tied up the woman's hair in a bun, decided not to marry from now on, and did her filial piety by her parents' side, all the time, her health has not been good.

Although the third daughter Xu Qingyun is only Xu Shichang's adopted daughter, Xu Shichang treats her as his own daughter, and he does not treat her badly at all because she is an adopted daughter.

Since Xu Qingyun's disappearance to now, it has been more than half a year, Xu Shichang has not received even a little bit of news about Xu Qingyun, and now that he has received Xu Qingyun's letter, how can he not be excited? How not to get excited?

The content of the letter is not long, and the general meaning is to greet Xu Shichang and his wife Wang Yaru, as well as his second daughter Xu Qinghe, and then explain her own current situation and situation, so that Xu Shichang should not worry.

After reading the letter, Xu Shichang's mood couldn't calm down for a long time, not just because he received Xu Qingyun's news, but because Xu Qingyun's current situation made him unable to calm down, he never thought that Xu Qingyun would follow Wang Jundao, the leader of the Dragon and Tiger Army.

From the tone and tone of the letter, he could see that Xu Qingyun was not forced at all, but voluntarily followed Wang Jundao, and even followed without seeking fame, which is also the reason why he has not been able to find Xu Qingyun in the past six months.

With his mouth open, he was about to ask Li Jinghua for some words, but thinking of the previous situation, he knew that it was impossible to ask anything from Li Jinghua's mouth, so he had to give up.

After thanking Li Jinghua, he walked to the carriage not far away.

No matter what Xu Qingyun's current identity is, at least he must first tell his wife and second daughter Xu Qingyun's news so that they can rest assured.

It was only a little more than 200 miles from Jinan to Dezhou, and the group sat in a carriage and disguised themselves as a caravan, plus Li Jinghua was there, and they did not encounter any major trouble along the way.

When he arrived in Texas, Xu Shichang found that Texas had been occupied by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and through understanding, he also found that the Dragon and Tiger Army did not have much fighting in the process of occupying Texas, and almost took Texas without bloodshed, which made him both surprised and shocked, and he even wanted to meet the leader of the Dragon and Tiger Army earlier.

Under the leadership of Li Jinghua, Xu Shichang soon got his wish, Wang Jundao's youth was really beyond his imagination, he thought that the person who could do such an earth-shattering thing would be at least twenty-seven or eighteen years old, even if he was young, at least twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and although Wang Jundao looked like he was about twenty years old, he could still see that Wang Jundao's real age was less than twenty years old, and he had never missed it.

After a not special greeting, Wang Jundao and Xu Shichang brought the conversation to the point, only to hear Xu Shichang say: "I don't know what Commander Wang invited me to Texas, what are you doing?" ”

Wang Jundao smiled and said, "Mr. Xu is a smart person, so I won't say superfluous polite words, I want Mr. Xu's help." ”

Xu Shichang pretended to be strange and said, "Oh? What helps? ”

Wang Jundao said indifferently: "Naturally, Mr. is doing his best." ”

A hint of wisdom flashed in Xu Shichang's eyes, and he said directly: "Why? ”

Wang Jundao was not the slightest surprise when he heard this, he didn't like people beating around the bush, obviously Xu Shichang was not that kind of person, after nodding secretly, he said: "There are two reasons, first, you are Qingyun's father, so I am your son-in-law, and you are my father-in-law." Second, whether it is strength or ability, I am now better than Yuan Shikai, good birds choose trees to perch, choose me, it is better than choosing Yuan Shikai, this is the simplest truth. So it's reasonable that you have no reason to refuse. ”

Xu Shichang is not a person with rotten thoughts, naturally he will not be foolish, although Yuan Shikai is his sworn brother, the two have a deep relationship, the reason why they have been following Yuan Shikai is also to realize the ideal in their hearts, but the two have differences in political opinions, and it is likely that sooner or later they will break up.

Now as Wang Jundao said, Wang Jundao is his son-in-law, compared to Yuan Shikai, Wang Jundao's identity is closer, and Wang Jundao's current strength is indeed stronger than Yuan Shikai, and he can have such strength in less than a year, which is a manifestation of personal ability, so it is reasonable for him to choose Wang Jundao.

After pondering for a while, Xu Shichang said: "I can agree to your request, but I have to go to Yanjing first to see Qingyun." ”

Wang Jundao said with a smile: "If you don't hurry up and promise me, go to Yanjing first, and then talk about it after I return to Yanjing, I will have someone escort you to Yanjing tomorrow." ”

"Good!"

After Xu Shichang nodded, he didn't say anything else.

After Wang Jundao personally arranged for someone to escort Xu Shichang north to Beijing, Wang Jundao gave Li Jinghua a series of new tasks, all of which were 'kidnapping', kidnapping many people who were famous and capable in history, but who have not yet become famous, he wanted to gather as many talents as possible to Yanjing, while cultivating, while doing things for himself, even if he couldn't do things for himself, he had to control them first, and couldn't let these people do things for others.

Three days passed quickly, and in the afternoon of this day, Fan Zong came to Wang Jundao's headquarters, handed him a good news, and said, "Commander, this is the good news from Wuding Mansion from Division Commander Zhang. ”

After the Dragon and Tiger Army was drawn from Tianjin, Wang Jundao divided the army into two routes, one route was led by Wang Jundao himself, taking the western front, and the main force of the army was composed of three divisions of the Tiger Ben Guard, directly attacking Jinan Mansion, and now it has taken six counties in the north of Jinan Prefecture, including Dezhou, Ningjin, Ling, Pingyuan, Linyi, and Yucheng.

On the other hand, the eastern front was taken by the army, which consisted of the first division and the second cavalry division of the Longwu Army, with Zhang Decheng as the commander-in-chief and Murong Ke as the deputy commander-in-chief, with the aim of attacking Wuding Mansion in the northeast of the mountain.

In the past three days, the Dragon and Tiger Army did not stop its pace, but divided various armies to occupy the county towns in the northeast of the mountain, and under normal circumstances, 5,000 people went to attack a county seat.

In the northeast of the mountain, the average defender of each county is less than 300 people, under the pressure of more than ten times the Dragon and Tiger Army, most of the county towns choose to open the city and surrender, only a small part chooses to resist, but the resistance is ineffective, with a large number of artillery and explosives The Dragon and Tiger Army is too easy to capture these counties with low walls and small cities, and often only one round of charges can solve the problem.

Due to the large-scale cavalry of the eastern route, the speed is faster than that of the western army, and now it is on the side of the Yellow River.

After reading the good news from Zhang Decheng, Wang Jundao immediately wrote a military order, handed it to Fan Zong, and said, "You will send this military order to the hands of Division Commander Zhang as quickly as possible." ”

Wang Jundao's military order did not contain much content, to the effect that Zhang Decheng should gather the main force in Binzhou, north of the Yellow River, and only need to rent boats on the banks of the Yellow River, build a large number of new rafts and bamboo rafts, and not cross the Yellow River for the time being, and wait for his next order.

Fan Zong took the military order and said, "Yes, Commander." ”

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