On 9 July, two battalions stationed in Qingzhou and Pingdu in Dengzhou Town suddenly surrounded Liu Zeqing's camp in Anqiu County.

Geng Zhongming's department directly crossed the border of Jinan Prefecture, and camped in Xincheng County, which has not yet been repaired, where it was plagued by Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the reputation of the Liao soldiers can stop children crying at night, Geng Zhongming is not a serious Dengzhou town, although his 700 family is still strong, but the military discipline is not as good as the authentic Dengzhou soldiers.

With the addition of some temporary recruits, the total number is about two thousand. There is a 1,000-based headquarters of the first battalion on the border of Gaoyuan, which is adjacent to Qingzhou Prefecture, and there are Dengzhou soldiers behind him, and Geng Zhongming is even more arrogant.

Refugees from around the new city flocked to Jinan, and Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, finally ran into trouble after a few years of comfortable life. Xu Congzhi has no soldiers to adjust, Liukou is now in Henan, his standard battalion is still in the Gongzhou Mansion to guard against Liukou, can not be transferred for a while, Caoyun soldiers and horses can not move, he can only use Wude soldiers, this army in Chongzhen four years lost the face of Shandong soldiers, can not be relied on at all, so Xu Congzhi can only send an urgent report to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to mobilize people and horses to support, in addition to the royal court to try to send an urgent letter, asking him to restrain the Denglai army.

There were troop movements in various parts of Denglai Qingzhou, and there were also troops in those places in the south of Qingzhou where Dengzhou's power was weak, and the county was directly besieged, and there were constantly sentinel horses entering and leaving the territory of Yizhou, the main road to the east of Gunzhou, and the whole Shandong was in turmoil.

The soldiers in Jinan are in chaos, but the city of Dengzhou, which is causing turmoil, is still calm, except for the decrease in the number of Dengzhou soldiers who go out, there is almost no change in sight.

All kinds of boats that came to Denglai to buy tobacco still came in and out of the water city, but there were more men in black on the docks. Inspect the ships to be loaded one by one.

Lu Zhi looked at the scene of the dock from the attic of the prison officer's office in the southeast corner, and walked downstairs slowly. Zhang Xiaogonggong below waited anxiously, and said anxiously to Lu Zhi: "My lord, Lord Chen's subordinate, called Zhou Shifa, has to search all the ships that are shipped. ”

"Oh, who are they arresting?"

Zhang Xiaogonggong said in a low voice: "It's Jiang Yuegui's spy, this person is very alert, and he was not caught by the people in Dengzhou Town." ”

Lu Zhi paused for a moment and said, "Is that the one in the cellar of our wing?" ”

Zhang Xiaogong said fairly: "Yes." Zhou Shifa must have gotten the news and knew that he had come to Shuicheng, and this strict inspection of the ships was also coming to us, that is, to tell us, he knew that this person was in Shuicheng. ”

Lu Zhi looked at Zhang Xiaogong. "Then give it to him, dead."

Zhang Xiaoeunuch said dumbfoundedly: "He is from Dongchang, isn't it inappropriate for us to do it?" ”

"Chen Xin can't come to my official office to arrest people, that would be tearing his face, but our family still has to deal with him, so we can only give him the one who died, he just wants to go back with face." Lu Zhi sighed leisurely. "Let's just say, it's not the right time for these people from Dongchang."

"Husband Lu, let's really kill that son?"

Lu Zhi smiled in a sharp voice: "Scared? You think we're going to kill you, have you thought about it? Jiang Yuegui told the factory father about his whereabouts, why did the factory father let him come to our house. ”

The little eunuch's face showed some panic, and then he calmed down, and still asked in disbelief: "What does Husband Lu mean?" The factory basically wants us to know the whereabouts of these people, and we will deal with those who are ignorant? ”

Lu Zhi took two steps behind his back and said in a low voice: "It's not deliberate. But if there is a last resort, there is only one way to wronged them. ”

The little eunuch suddenly said: "I see, the factory is the factory father, but Jiang Yuegui still caused a big disaster, and now the Dengzhou Left and Right Associations are clamoring......"

Lu Zhi laughed and said: "You, it's better to do less, the left and right associations are clamoring for him, what is the matter around Liu Ze, Dengzhou is as usual, and the left association did not take the canal directly, then Chen Xin is to give him room to turn around, waiting for the court to return him face." Dongchang killed the people in Dengzhou Town, if Chen Xin didn't move silently, then who would still obey Qiu Ba below. ”

"Then what can the court do this time?"

"What to do." Lu Zhi smiled and clasped his hands, "This time Chen Xin aimed at Dongchang and Jinyiwei, the civil officials applauded, no one will come out to speak, Jiang Yuegui is dead, this black pot must be carried on his back, but Chen Xin will not bite Cao's husband and hold on, as soon as the court relaxes, the soldiers in Qingzhou will also withdraw." The important thing is that now that Chen Xin has shown this hand, the court is very worried, and no one has come to provoke Dengzhou Town for a year and a half, this is what Chen Xin really wants. ”

Zhang Xiaogonggong shook his head and said, "It has to be a strong soldier in Dengzhou Town." ”

Lu Zhi nodded and said: "This is the truth, our family is wondering, they are all mud legs, why did they become a strong soldier when they entered Dengzhou Town, and he Liu Zeqing surrounded the inside, how did he practice." ”……

At the Pingdu training base, Tang Wei walked in a three-column column with a backpack on his back, he looked left and right all the way, the wide school field was full of people, and countless figures were sweating like rain under the scorching sun. On the field on the west side of the school grounds, there was a soccer game going on. Although Tang Wei has always been a military member, he is rarely in the camp, and later lived in the barracks when he was in Henan, and the atmosphere in the army is also very familiar, and the activities often carried out in it are basically clear.

Today is the first day he entered the training base, the last time he entered the new barracks with Liu Minyou's tiger skin, and spent a few good days in Changyi, and soon they divided the number of recruits, and those who had practiced martial arts were selected to go to the Wendeng base to practice the cold weapons of the Mandarin Duck Formation, and the ordinary soldiers stayed in the Pingdu training base, and Pingdu was a team of fifteen people, and each instructor was in charge of three teams.

"Fatty, it looks like there are some young soldiers over there." Xie Fei, who was behind him, said in a low voice, this drama Tatar also returned to Denglai, and when he walked to Changyi, he also came to sign up, and he also passed the selection.

"Lao Tzu cares about them, and Lao Tzu is Lao Tzu's soldiers." Tang Wei looked at the school and playground with a little excitement, he felt that he liked this atmosphere a little, now he is a soldier, not a ridiculous actor.

Nearly a thousand recruits stood in the middle of the school field, and the veterans who walked around occasionally glanced at them as they walked by, Tang Wei looked at the stage, and the officers of the mobilization department who brought them were handing over the military books to the training base, and soon a tall officer came to nod his head. He waved a bamboo branch and tapped his head from left to right, like buying a fat pig in a vegetable market.

Tang Wei has received some queue training in the past few days, and the officers of the mobilization department have also told them about their basic discipline, so when the bamboo branch came over, he stood with his head held high, and the officer walked in front of Tang Wei in a flash, and the bamboo branch was a little in Tang Wei's head, and Tang Wei just breathed a sigh of relief. The officer retreated in front of Tang Wei again.

He looked Tang Wei up and down and said, "You, fat man, run five laps around the school field." He turned to the drill stand and yelled, "Five hourglasses, the timer begins." ”

Tang Wei looked at the officer stupidly. The officer tilted his head, "Fatty, if you can't run into the standard, you will be deceived in, and Lao Tzu wants you to look good." ”

Xie Fei saw that Tang Wei was still stupid, and hurriedly pushed Tang Wei's hand, "It's time to run." The timing began. ”

The officer immediately tilted his head towards Xie Fei, and said with a smile: "If you don't have permission to speak, you can also run together." ”

Xie Fei was dumbfounded, and the conscription officer came over and scolded: "Don't run yet." ”……

Two recruits were punished on the first day. A dark-skinned and fierce instructor in the back waved a bamboo whip with a big finger at Tang Wei, who was running at the end, and many instructors and veterans stood by and watched the excitement leisurely.

"The last lap! Fatty, hurry up! ”

Xie Fei said while panting, Tang Wei ran with a dry mouth and was unable to answer. Nodding slightly, another bamboo whip fell from behind. Tang Wei grinned at the beating, and ran a few steps with all his strength, but his speed was a little faster and immediately slowed down.

The bamboo branch crackled on Tang Wei's back, Xie Fei gritted his teeth, slowed down and fell behind Tang Wei, the instructor immediately began to beat Xie Fei, Xie Fei pushed Tang Wei's back and scolded: "Dead fatty, you don't want to be angry, you even have five circles of the school field like this, and you have to get a medal, Guan Xiaomei will have to marry Xu Pingjie." ”

"Guan Xiaomei!" Tang Wei, who was exhausted, opened his eyes wide, and suddenly roared and rushed forward......

Before these recruits arrived at the dormitory on the first day, they were dismounted by the instructors of the mobilization department and practiced a morning of queuing and running. The team was reorganized again, and the teammates became unfamiliar recruits, but fortunately, Xie Fei was still in the team with Tang Wei.

Finally it was time to eat, Tang Wei was already hungry, the two gathered at the assembly place, listened to the instructor finish the morning's summary, and then the instructor said the afternoon's training plan. In the afternoon, I cleaned the dormitory and practiced walking in three rows.

Tang Wei felt that it should be easier than in the morning, he had seen the detachment drill when he was in the propaganda team, and they had a variety of deployment methods, the most of which were from the marching army column to the horizontal formation, and the marching army column had a variety of formations to deal with different road widths, the most important were three-person horizontal platoons, five-person horizontal platoons and fifteen-person horizontal platoons, which were platoon columns, Wu wide columns and squad wide columns. Tang Wei's head is more flexible, and he feels that there is no problem with the queue for him.

After the instructor finished speaking, he loudly ordered to turn right, and the military song sounded everywhere on the playground, and the instructor said loudly: "Recruit 13th Company, military song, prepare to ......"

"Huangsha is reckless and doesn't see anyone, but I hear the sound of battle" Tang Wei and the others sang hoarsely, there was no tune in the queue at all, it was louder than whom, many recruits learned after being recruited, they all followed the roar, and they couldn't even figure out the lyrics. roared all the way to the door of the canteen, and each recruit company formed a team at the door, and then was led into the canteen by the instructors of each platoon, and the smell of braised pork wafted from it, and Tang Wei's mouth soon gushed out a ** saliva.

Finally it was their turn to enter, Tang Wei pinched the bowl a few times, and followed them into the cafeteria, and the instructor designated their team to sit down at a long table.

The instructor of the training base stood on it, and organized them to sing "Man Jianghong" again, the sound in the canteen was deafening, and the recruits were busy eating, singing faster and faster, almost doubling the progress.

The instructor shouted, "Eat!" ”

The sound of chopsticks hitting bowls in the cafeteria was chaotic, Tang Wei and Xie Fei were usually in the propaganda team, and there were many women in it, even the male team members were more gentle, and everyone ate slowly, so they didn't grab it. Tang Wei was still playing with a comrade-in-arms with thick legs next to him, the man didn't talk to him at all, his mouth was full, and his chopsticks danced fast.

Tang Wei realized that something was wrong after a few words, he and Xie Fei next to him glanced at each other, the two hurriedly, stretched out the chopsticks to grab the meat, the chopsticks were running around the braised pork, Tang Wei stretched out the meat several times and didn't catch the meat, he was anxious and went to pick up the meat slices in the soup, stirred a circle and only fished out a few vegetable leaves, Xie Fei was the same, the big bowl of braised pork clanged there for a while, and when Tang Wei's chopsticks finally entered the encirclement, the big bowl turned around and stopped, and there was only a little oil soup left in it.

Tang Wei was stunned for a moment, thinking about how to scoop up that little oil soup, but the thick leg next to him had already grabbed the empty bowl, poured it into his own bowl, and then munched on the multigrain rice.

Tang Wei was dumbfounded, and hurriedly went to grab the last multigrain cake in another bowl, but before his hand arrived, Xie Fei took the lead, Tang Wei had to go to other bowls to pick up vegetables, always one step behind others.

By the time he wanted to get the steamed cakes, it was already empty, Tang Wei looked left and right in a daze, and everyone was munching. There was only a big pot of soup left on the table, Tang Wei was furious, picked up the soup bowl, and poured it into his mouth......

Stomach growled and walked to the dormitory, the instructor of the team leader led them into a tiled room, some recruits from the tunpu were amazed, and the instructor was kicked a few times.

The instructor asked them to stand in the middle circle and said to these people: "Lao Tzu is your instructor, his name is Liu Liu, a native of Liaodong, he has fought in Jinzhou and Fuzhou, and he has also fought in the battle of Lushun. ”

Tang Wei held his head high and secretly looked at the thin monkey instructor in front of him, his skin was as black as coal, and his energy was very strong.

Liu Liu swept around and said: "Each team should choose a captain, three captains, you choose yourself, find someone who can write, and give the list to Lao Tzu after a quarter of an hour. ”

After Liu Liu finished speaking, he went out, Tang Wei quickly ran to the corner, threw the quilt on the bed, and occupied a good position. Xie Fei is the same, they have all been in the propaganda team, and they have some collective life experience, the bed outside is the easiest to sit on, and it is dirty, and there are often people walking around in the laneway, which affects rest the most, and it is much better to rely on the corner.

Some pure recruits were slower to react, choosing here and there, and when more than a dozen people had finished choosing, they sat down on the stool again, and they formed a circle, looking at each other and not knowing what to do.

Tang Wei estimated that the time was coming, he didn't want to run five laps more, so he hurriedly said: "Everyone, hurry up, this is the captain of the recruits, not the captain of the soldiers, who wants to be whom." Let's introduce it first, my name is Tang Wei, nineteen years old, from Ao Shanwei, who has fought Zijinliang. ”

After Tang Wei finished speaking, he said to the thick leg that grabbed the braised pork next to him: "This brother should be you." ”

"Su thick legs, twenty-one, I only stepped on stones in the dyeing workshop before."

"Wang Zhanqing, from Henan, Lao Tzu is a student, but he doesn't like to write, Lao Tzu likes to use a knife to cut people."

"Jiang Lao Wu, ...... from Shanxi Refugee. ”

"Xie Fei, a native of Huang County, has fought a rogue."

"Huang Shan, a native of Xuanfu, participated in the Battle of Lushun."

"Yuan Guzi, a native of Qingzhou, the adopted son of a combat hero."