"Damn, today's battle is really embarrassing, until Lao Tzu catches that diamond leopard, I will chop him alive!" Hao Qingshan's face was flushed with anger, and he walked around the tent.

"You can't sit down honestly, Lao Tzu's head is dizzy from you, it's better to think about what to do!" He Kui was also angry, and shouted loudly, not polite at all. The other generals in the tent were also breathing heavily, gritting their teeth on the side.

Geng Jingzhong calmed down at this time. Anger can only make people lose their minds, but it will not solve the problem.

"Okay, okay, this incident has taught us a lesson, we have been too smooth for more than a month, it's good to have a lesson, let us calm down, tell us not to be arrogant!" Geng Jingzhong sat on the top and said calmly. After thinking about it for a while, he continued: "Let's retreat first, go to Minhou County to rest and recuperate, and then think carefully!" ”

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Another half a month passed, and it seemed that all the qiē had fallen into peace. The first gate has been rebuilt on Lianyun Mountain, which is taller and stronger than before. The newly cut trees are quite heavy in moisture, and they can't be burned for a while and a half.

"Brother, have you heard, the people of the Gu family of the Wang family have already sent the silver, and it adds up to a full 100,000 taels, and it took thirty boxes and dozens of brothers to bring it up." A minion said to the person next to him, with a look of fascination with money.

"Cut, you just know, I was on duty yesterday evening, and I watched my brothers carry the silver in. Four men carried a chest, dead and heavy, full of silver. ”

"Hey, how much do you think the big boss will give to our brothers?" Another look of longing.

"I estimate that there should be twenty taels, and when I get the silver, Lao Tzu is going to the drunken red mansion in the county seat to have a good pastime, and I am about to get sick on this mountain!"

"Hahahaha, that's all you need!" The minions guarding the gate laughed in unison.

"Hey, brother, there's another shipment!"

A few bandits carried five or six people and a consignment of goods into the cottage, a small caravan that had just been plundered from the bottom of the mountain.

"Alas, today my brothers are lucky, I met this businessman, and I also brought these boxes of silk and satin, and I made a small fortune! Be honest and go! The bandit paused for a moment, and then continued: "Brother, I'll go to the errand first, and the brothers will have a drink together in the evening!" ”

Several bandits escorted the group into a special cell for meat tickets and left, and after a while, the ruthless Liang among the bandits came over to ask for details and prepare for ransom!

Late at night, everything is silent. A few "goo, goo" sounded, and sixteen figures quickly jumped up in the cell, only to see two of them protrude a wire from their mouths, pick it up and pound it on the door lock, and with a "pop", the lock opened! The prison door was quickly opened on both sides, and they walked out gently, and with a few gestures, the group walked outside.

There was also silence in the cave, and several braziers on both sides were still burning, although it was not bright, but it was still possible to see the situation inside the cave. A few bandits on duty at night were yawning, chatting with each other, and before they knew it, someone was leaning in.

Several figures quickly pounced, covered the bandits' mouths and twisted them hard, "click" with a soft sound, and several bandits went to see the Buddha. The leader made a few more gestures and continued to move forward. By the time more than a dozen people came to the gate of the second village, they had already killed more than a dozen bandits who were on duty at night, changed into bandits' clothes, and wore steel knives on their waists. Five of them walked straight to the gate.

"Who!" The bandits in front of the gate of the village shouted, waking up several bandits around.

"I, my brother can't sleep, so I get up and pee by the way!" "Hey, my brothers were all woken up, so they came out together."

A few bandits raised their eyes and slept against the wall. This is the second wall, and in some cases it is also the first. That's how I sleep all the time here.

"Oh, it's not your turn to sleep well at night, you're really idle, hey, I don't seem to have seen you!"

As soon as the words fell, the five of them suddenly burst out, "poof, poof" a few times, and a few bandits on duty at night followed in the footsteps of their cave accomplices.

More than a dozen people in the rear immediately followed, "Leave five people to guard this walled gate, and the others follow me!" ”。

The first gate is the most cutting-edge and important place of the cottage, the brazier around the wall is burning warmly, and the inside and outside are transparent. A dozen bandits were farting and chatting, looking down the hill from time to time, unaware that danger would come from within.

The bandits here at the first gate were much more alert than the second, and as soon as they saw that no one had seen them, they immediately shouted "enemy attack" and pounced.

Eleven against fifteen, although the bandits are fierce, they are far from being the opponents of the regularly trained soldiers, and after a while, all the bandits are reimbursed, and there are also a few casualties here. Although there was a lot of noise from the fight, the first gate was too far away from the cave, and the sleeping bandits did not know anything about it.

"Ignition, signal!" One of them quickly picked up a torch and climbed to the wall, rocking it from side to side.

Geng Jingzhong and the others, who were waiting at the foot of the mountain, immediately became excited when they saw the torches. "They succeeded, brothers!" With that, he took the lead and rushed up the mountain.

"Da Zhong, good job, this time I will record your first work" Geng Jingzhong beat Qu Da Zhong excitedly before arriving at the first gate of the village and said.

This plan was conceived by Qu Dazhong, a hundred households of the firearms battalion, after the fire attack plan was broken and terminated half a month ago. Several groups of people pretended to be past merchants and were robbed up the mountain, and then the inside and outside joined forces to break the cottage! All the candidates are carefully selected, with outstanding abilities, the strategy is really successful, and the cottage is broken in one fell swoop!

"Kill!" More than 1,000 soldiers rushed into the cave, and the huge shouting of killing woke up the sleeping bandits, but they had just woken up, disheveled, unprepared, and were pierced by spears, and fell down unwillingly. The gun rang out, and the leopard held a steel knife in his hand, his eyes widened, and he looked down at the bloody hole in his chest with a face full of disbelief, and then he fell down blindly!

After breaking through the cottage, the soldiers were already familiar with the clean-up work and were very handy; It was so natural to tie up the bandits who surrendered, rescue the imprisoned people, and raid the bandits' warehouses. After a while, the cave fell silent.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Geng Jingzhong was already sitting on the special tiger skin chair of the diamond leopard.

"Yu Shizi, in this battle, four hundred and nine bandits from Lianyun Mountain were eliminated from the bandits' head drill mountain leopard, and the second master ghost-faced scholar took the lead in begging and surrendered, and a total of fifty-two thieves were captured."

"What about us?" Geng Jingzhong asked.

"We lost sixteen killed, four seriously wounded, and twenty-five lightly wounded. Including the three people who died in battle when Qu Baihu broke the village. ”

"Well, keep the remains of the brothers and send them back to Fuzhou City for burial. The wounded brothers rushed to the rescue. Geng Jingzhong was still quite satisfied with this operation, regardless of minor injuries, he only paid the price of 20 people to break through such a dangerous cottage and eliminate more than 400 bandits, and Qi Shaobao's troops were nothing more than that.

"Shizi, great harvest, worthy of being the biggest bandit around Fuzhou, a total of 184,000 taels of silver were found in the warehouse, a whole fifty large boxes were stacked together, a total of twelve boxes of other gold and jewelry, and countless cloth and grain." He Kui danced excitedly and reported to Geng Jingzhong with a smile on his face.

"Oh, there are so many! All of them will be shipped back to Fuzhou, and they will be rewarded when they go back! ”

"Yes!"

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More than two months have passed, and all the teams that went out to suppress bandits have returned one after another. In the past two months, all bandits, large and small, on the land of Fujian have been swept away, and such a thunderbolt has caused the whole of Fujian to be applauded, and the people everywhere have applauded. Wherever the Tiger Banner went, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and even helped the local people to do what he could when he was stationed in one place. Therefore, on the way back of the Tiger Army, the people everywhere feasted pot pulp to reward the army. Knowing that the Tiger Army is the army of Jingnan Palace, the prestige of Jingnan Palace has also spread all over the country, following the disaster relief incident, Jingnan Palace's Geng father and son have completely penetrated into the hearts of Fujian people.

After all the soldiers returned to the barracks, Geng Jingzhong began to reward them on a large scale, and for a time a large number of meritorious soldiers were promoted to become rich, and the soldiers who did not make war merits also secretly spontaneously worked harder in the future, hoping to get ahead. Geng Jingzhong greatly raised the standard of bereavement in the imperial court, sending 200 taels to the families of each soldier who died in battle, and arranging for the workshops and shops under the name of the palace to give priority to the families of these martyrs, so that they would not have no means of living. This action made the entire army return to their hearts and serve the palace with all their hearts. Considering that the soldiers were also very tired from the repeated battles, His Royal Highness the Prince, who knew the importance of combining work and rest, waved his hand and put the whole camp on a ten-day vacation, and at the same time distributed a silver reward, making the military camp a sea of joy.

In Jingnan Palace, Geng Jingzhong was honestly sitting in front of his father Geng Jimao and reporting.

"Father, the child's training against bandits this time was a great success, and there is no bandit den in the whole of Fujian. The Tigers have also become veritable elite soldiers. Geng Jingzhong paused, and when he saw that his father was still listening intently, he continued: "This time the bandits have eliminated more than 17,000 bandits and captured more than 5,000 bandits. However, the Tigers also lost nearly 2,000 brothers. As for the goods, hehe, a total of more than 52,000 taels of gold, 313,500 taels of silver, more than 100 boxes of other gold, silver and jade, and 150,000 quintals of grain were seized. Everything was worth about 1,200,000 taels of silver. ”

"Oh, such a big catch?" Geng Jimao was a little surprised, he didn't expect the bandits to be so smooth, and he also extorted so much money, although the palace was very rich, but he didn't expect that a bandit could also hand over half of his property.

"The biggest credit for this is Ah Hou, this kid is responsible for the collection of all the intelligence, and it is also this information that makes the battle so smooth. However, we also lost a lot of soldiers! Well, I raised the standard of the army, and after the war, I also spent 600,000 taels on pensions, rewards, etc., so there are only 600,000 taels left. ”

"You're doing the right thing. I'm so relieved that I'm handing over this home to you. Since you got sick last year, it's really changed a lot! Looking at what you have done in the past six months or so for my father, it seems that I am preparing for something, can I talk to my father about it? Geng Jimao stared at Geng Jingzhong's eyes and said faintly.

Geng Jingzhong was shocked, as the saying goes, 'there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure', it is really 'an old man, an old ghost, an old spirit', this qiē really can't hide the old man who has been in Rong Ma's life. So he pondered for a while and said: "What does my father think of our situation as well as Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the king of Pingnan, Shang Kexi? ”

"Hey, the imperial court has an annual income of 36 million taels of silver, of which 20 million taels are used in our three feudatories, Wu Sangui alone has 10 million taels, and our monk's family uses 5 million each. Since ancient times, no vassal king with a foreign surname has had a good end. Geng Jimao said with a long sigh.

"What my father said is very much, look at the king of Pingxi in Yunnan, with heavy soldiers, sitting in the silver palace, carrying the imperial court to smelt iron and boil salt, casting copper to make money, self-levying grain, self-widowed officials, strong strength, disobedience does not go to the court, within ten years Wu Sangui will rebel, then how should we deal with ourselves? If Wu Sangui is powerful, he will definitely coerce us to oppose the Qing Dynasty together, and if the court is obedient, he will no longer be able to tolerate us and other vassal kings. Geng Jingzhong stopped and took a sip of tea: "Now the emperor is still young and has not yet taken charge of the government, and when the little emperor grows up, he will inevitably do that trick of cutting the domain." Therefore, the child thinks that let Wu Sangui and the court fight each other, and we can secretly develop and accumulate strength, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and when our strength is strong enough, whether he Wu Sangui or the imperial court, he will not be willing to provoke another strong enemy. ”

"Okay, I'm sober! Our quality is extremely high, the lord is extremely expensive, the court is kind and has nowhere to give, your brother is still in the Xuanwu Gate as a proton, and I want to take them back in the future, my father hasn't seen them for a few years, and I don't know how their brothers are doing! Thinking of his two sons being hostage in the capital, Geng Jimao's eyes instantly dimmed.

"The boy will find a way to get his brothers back!"

"Okay, you can do it, with your father behind you, you don't have any scruples. Help me to rest! ”

Geng Jingzhong immediately stood up and helped Geng Jimao to walk towards the bedroom.