That night, Zhao Dongyun and the others were stationed outside Pingxiang Village, and there was no night when the mob attacked the station, and Zhao Dongyun did not say that lust slipped into Sister Fang Ruolian's room in the middle of the night.

After dawn the next day, Zhao Dongyun was preparing to return to Guangzong with the troops, and after the troops were ready, Zhao Dongyun looked at Fang Ruolian beside him and said: "You better go back to Guangzong County with me first, bandits are rampant here, and you can't live here alone for a few days!" ”

Zhao Dongyun's words are not an exaggeration, but the truth, the church where Fang Ruolian was located before was guarded by dozens of people, and most of them were killed by the mob in the end, so let's not mention whether that church can still live and preach now, but Zhao Dongyun is sure that as long as he leaves with the soldiers, those mobs will come back immediately.

At this time, if Fang Ruolian, a nun, remained in Pingxiang, she would be killed 100%, and considering her seductive appearance, there was a 99% chance that she would be raped before she was killed.

Although Fang Ruolian believes that God can influence the wicked, she also knows that God can't protect her, and thinking about the priest and nun who died tragically yesterday, she can't imagine what it will be like for her to face that kind of thing, so although the Zhao Dongyun in front of her looks very annoying, she still keeps up with the pace of the army and returns to Guangzong.

Pingxiang is not far from the county seat of Guangzong, and it is located in the Hebei Plain, with flat terrain and no mountains and rivers, so there is no need to climb mountains and wade through rivers on this way, so the speed of the troops is relatively fast.

The journey back to Guangzong County was only a dozen kilometers, and even if there were infantry units in the army and some baggage, prisoners, etc., it was relatively full, but it only took a few hours to return to Guangzong County.

After returning, Zhao Dongyun threw those mob captives to the Guangzong County Government and let them be detained and guarded, and Zhao Dongyun was not worried that Guangzong County did not have enough strength to take care of these prisoners. In fact, the local county team in Guangzong County is not weak, at least much stronger than those training troops.

In the late Qing Dynasty, it was even more angry that all kinds of old armies were overwhelmed after the Gengzi year, and the new armies in various provinces were extremely scarce, and in order to solve the local security problems, in addition to the reorganization of the old army, there were also some local militia self-defense armed forces such as county teams and patrol battalions, which was the case with the Nanhe County team under Zhu Jiabao mentioned above.

Most of these militia armed forces were formed by the local gentry and the government, and the large families and the government jointly contributed money to recruit strong men or simply the guardians of large families, and hired local dart heads, martial artists and the like as instructors, and were mainly equipped with single-shot rear-loading rifles, ranging in number from dozens to hundreds.

For example, in the Shunde Guangzong Rebellion, militia organizations of this nature played a huge role, and in the past few months, the county teams, patrol battalions, or other militia organizations of various names have undertaken the heavy responsibility of the defense of the counties and cities, and the reason why Guangzong, Julu, Weixian, Nanhe, and other counties have been able to survive until now in the areas where mobs are rampant is that the self-defense forces of each county have made great contributions.

A few days ago, the Shunde Mansion training army was defeated, and it was the county team under Zhu Jiabao who went out to save them, and Guangzong County, as an area where the bandits were more severe, the county team under the county commander Zhao E was as high as more than 200 people, which were equipped with a lot of muskets, and it was estimated that these county teams would not take the initiative to go out of the city to encircle and suppress the mob, but it was still a big problem to take a few prisoners.

Lunch Zhao Dongyun and Guangzong Zhixian Zhao E ate together, during the banquet Zhao E did not give Zhao Dongyun any civil officials to disdain shì military attachés, in the late Qing Dynasty, although civil officials still despise military attachés, but this is also a score, people despise those old military attachés, and the new army officers no one dares to despise shì.

To despise shì is also Zhao Dongyun despise shì he Zhao E, the seven-grade county order, speaking of official titles, Zhao Dongyun is an alternate Zhizhou, Zheng Sipin. Speaking of the future, Zhao Dongyun will not be able to become an alternate prefect in a few years, and even an alternate Taoist, and his grade will be correspondingly promoted to the third grade, from the second grade, the second grade, if he is lucky enough, his official rank can be promoted to the military department or the governor of a place before the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

As a leader of the younger generation in the Beiyang system, Zhao Dongyun has the qualifications to soar quickly!

In the late Qing Dynasty, if you study abroad and return to China to join the army, and if you are valued by your superiors, the promotion speed is super fast.

Zhao E is also a practical person, and he is naturally not an ordinary pedantic literati in his mind, otherwise the imperial court would not have sent him to Guangzong to suppress the people's rebellion, and as soon as he came to Guangzong, he was the first to appease, and after the appeasement failed, he decisively asked Yuan Shikai to send troops to suppress it.

This man is also a decisive and ruthless person!

The two had a very happy conversation at a luncheon, and Zhao Dongyun generously agreed to give a few experienced officers to help him train the county team for a few days.

It's just that Zhao Dongyun and Zhao E had just finished lunch, and someone outside reported urgently: "A large number of bandits have gathered in Piece Village!" ”

"Piece only village? It's not far from Dongzhao Village, they are not small, they dare to gather there! "Zhao Dongyun has read the map of Shunde Mansion countless times during this time, not to mention that the county and town are well known, and even some villages are mostly known.

That Zhao E also stroked his chin and beard: "Jing Tingbin's people rely on nothing more than the township, once he stays away from Dongzhao, Piece and other places, it will be difficult to set off storms." However, this person is also a bit bold, and now that the army is pressing, he dares to gather and raise the flag! ”

"But it's good for them to gather, I'll look for them everywhere in the province, and I'll personally lead the troops to annihilate them in one fell swoop!" When Zhao Dongyun heard the large number of mobs gathering, instead of feeling nervous or frightened, he wanted to laugh out loud.

You must know that he has spent more than half a month searching in Guangzong, Julu and other places for so long in order to find Jing Tingbin and others, isn't it just to find a large number of bandits and then destroy them, and now he just wants to sleep and send a pillow over.

"Brother Ziyang, your troops are not even now, and the number of people is less than a thousand, and now that the bandits have gathered, I am afraid there are tens of thousands, are you more cautious!" Zhao E knew that Zhao Dongyun's troops were insufficient, and he was also afraid that Zhao Dongyun would be too light on the enemy, and then fall into a disadvantageous situation, and it didn't matter if he hurt him Zhao Dongyun, but don't come to harm him Zhao E!

Zhao Dongyun knew what Zhao E was worried about, it was nothing more than that he was worried that his troops would suffer a fiasco like those training troops.

However, what Zhao E didn't know was that the new army led by Zhao Dongyun and the training army under the two towns of Daimyo and Zhengding were not the same concept at all.

"Brother Zhao, I'll go back to the camp to prepare first, and please help with my brother's logistics supplies!" Zhao Dongyun didn't stay long, and soon said goodbye to Zhao E.

After he returned to the temporary barracks station, he called several commanders in charge of the army to discuss the military situation, and not long after, there were already seven or eight people sitting in the main hall of the courtyard where Zhao Dongyun temporarily lived.

Those present were all the backbone officers under Zhao Dongyun, such as the two assistants, the leaders of each team, and Wu Changlan, the leader of the cavalry team.

"Just now, there was news from the north, saying that the bandits had gathered in the village, and they had already taken the oath to raise the flag and gather tens of thousands of people!" After Zhao Dongyun said an opening remark, he said, "What do you think about this?" ”

As the second-in-command under Zhao Dongyun, Li Zejun was the first to speak: "We have been looking for them, and now that they have taken the initiative, we should immediately send troops to gather them and annihilate them!" ”

At this time, Lin Yongquan also spoke: "It's certain to send troops to suppress it, but how to fight?" How many troops do we need to be able to gather and annihilate them? ”

Lin Yongquan asked himself: "According to the opinion of the department, we should lead the main force directly to the north, flash the bandits with lightning speed, and round up the fleeing bandits after defeating them!" ”

"In this case, the risk is still relatively large, if we defeat them alone, it won't be long before they gather all things again, so we should still be steady, transfer troops to slowly march from all directions, and finally gather and annihilate them, and not let go of any of them!" These are the words of Gu Qizhi, the leader of the right team of the second battalion, and his words are ruthless.

"Marching from all directions? How can we have so many troops? Now our army is only more than 800 people in Guangzong County, even if the sentinels sent to other directions are transferred back, it will only be more than 1,000 people, relying on our 1,000 people to defeat more than 10,000 bandits, but how can it be possible to completely surround them? It was Wu Changlan of the cavalry who spoke.

Next, many people are raising one after another, some people insist on directly defeating the bandits, some people insist on surrounding and annihilating them, watching the subordinates argue again, Zhao Dongyun is also a little difficult to decide.

Everyone said very clearly that their troops are too small, and if they divide their troops, it is very likely that they will not be able to surround the more than 10,000 bandits, but if they do not divide the troops and gather the main force to directly defeat the bandits, then it can be expected that at most they can only defeat the bandits, and it will not take a few days for these bandits to be able to regroup.

At this time, Zhao Dongping, who had been standing behind Zhao Dongyun and serving as the minutes of the meeting, said: "We can't divide our troops, as long as we go into the enemy formation in one go, and then capture Jing Tingbin, we won't be afraid of those scattered stragglers!" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Dongyun was also cold!

Yes, these bandits in front of them are not habitual bandits, nor are they outcasts, they are just foolish people who have been bewitched by the Lianzhuang Association and the Boxers, killing them will not solve the root of the matter, because as long as Jing Tingbin and those Boxer leaders are still there, then it will not take them a few days to trick more villagers into participating.

And if you want to completely destroy the Guangzong civil uprising, you must kill Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo and other leading people, and there is nothing to worry about after killing them, if you can't kill them, it is difficult to kill a thousand, kill 10,000 foolish people, and completely parallel this popular uprising.

After thinking of this, Zhao Dongyun no longer hesitated: "Order, order Bi Xiaoqiang's troops to quickly go south, enter the eastern part of Piecei Village, and cooperate with my main force to launch an attack on the bandits in Piecea Village!" ”

Then he said: "Immediately order the troops who went out to inspect and rush back to Guangzong, and the troops in the city are ready for battle, and they will march with me to the village tomorrow!" ”