On 23 April, Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo gathered more than 10,000 people in the village to plot rebellion, and after receiving the news that day, Zhao Dongyun immediately began to gather the troops that had been dispersed, and ordered the troops to prepare for the attack.

Early the next morning, the people in Guangzong County found that the city began to line up in a neat formation out of the city, heading straight to the northeast.

"Did you hear, yesterday Jing Tingbin's gang raised the flag in the north, no, these armies are going to fight them!"

In addition, there were also a few people from the Lianzhuang Association, who also secretly went out of the city after seeing the new troops in the city leaving the city one after another, and then rode fast horses outside the city to try to report the news to the direction of the village.

Don't mention these trivial things, but on Zhao Dongyun's side, he is the same as when he led the army to fight before, wearing the regular combat uniform of the new army, stepping on long riding boots, riding his batch of white high-headed horses, and the command knife that never leaves his body is still hanging on his waist.

When Zhao Dongyun personally led the infantry, machine guns and other main forces to the north, Wu Changlan's cavalry troops were already going north in advance, they had to go out to reconnoitre, but also had to walk on both sides of the main force to prevent being attacked by the rebels, due to the large number of rebels facing here, Zhao Dongyun was also a little worried about the more than 100 people in the cavalry, so he ordered them to strengthen two machine guns. Anyway, there are a lot of horses on the cavalry side, so after directly disassembling the machine gun, you can use horses to carry it at high speed.

The cavalry moved forward, while Zhao Dongyun's main force maintained a rapid advance speed and forced into the village.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the front cavalry reported that they had found a large number of bandits in Dongzhao Village, suspected of a thousand people, and half an hour later, the cavalry team reported again, Wu Changlan led his troops to launch an attack on the bandits, killing and wounding as many as 100 people, and the enemy broke eastward!

Zhao Dongyun didn't feel much after hearing the news, more than 100 elite cavalry, equipped with the most advanced cavalry guns and machine guns, used the most popular cavalry maneuver today, if he couldn't take Dongzhao Village, which was guarded by thousands of homeless people, then there would be no need to fight this battle.

However, this news is nothing to Zhao Dongyun, and he even takes it for granted, but after the same news reached the village, it surprised Jing Tingbin and others.

"More than a thousand rebels were defeated like this? Didn't even resist for half a moment? Jing Tingbin couldn't believe the news.

Zhao Sanduo on the side also frowned: "Although our rebels are not strong, their morale is high, and many sect members are even more fearless of death, how can they be defeated so quickly!" ”

According to the expectations of Jing Tingbin, Zhao Sanduo and others, it is normal for more than 1,000 people to be unable to hold Dongzhao Village, but this normality is based on the premise that Zhao Dongyun leads the main force to attack.

Referring to the precedent of the defeat of the Shunde Qing army by the rebel army in Nanhe County, even if the rebel army on the other side of Dongzhao could not win, it could still be done to block the Qing army for a few days, and with this time as a buffer, they would be able to pull up more people, and at the same time, they could also form a piece with the rebel army in Weixian, Nanhe and other places.

After linking the rebel army in the entire Shunde Prefecture, then the whole game of chess will be able to live, and the rebel army will have at least fifty or sixty thousand people at that time, and the Qing army will not be able to help them at all with its existing thousands of troops.

And the longer the time drags on, the better it will be for them, because then they will have more time to expand their power, and every day of delay in the Qing army, then their number can be thousands or even thousands more, not to mention that the situation in the entire southern part of Zhili is now serious, and the slightest spark will ignite a monstrous fire, what they want to do is to become Mars, and look forward to igniting the flames of the fierce uprising in the entire Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places.

Don't think it's their fantasy, in fact this kind of thing has a great chance of success!

The xenophobic attitude of the people in the north towards foreigners and the occasional lesson plans are an important reason, and the living standards of the people in the north have dropped significantly in recent years.

In recent years, the climate in Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places is not good, and many places have poor crop harvests, and natural disasters have always been the high incidence of peasant uprisings, of course, this is not the main reason, the current China is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole of China has not suffered large-scale natural disasters in recent years, so even if some areas in the north are affected, the imperial court can also transfer food relief from other places, so the problem of natural disasters is not strict.

Among the causes of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty, this can only be regarded as one of the reasons, and it is not the main one. The main reason for the large number of peasant uprisings in the north around the time of the Gengzi was the foreigners.

In the early stage, it was the people's hatred of foreigners, including lesson plans, rumors, etc., such as foreigners eating children raw, building churches with the flesh and blood of pregnant women, etc., these people had a great panic about foreigners, and people with good intentions bewitched them, so the Boxer Rebellion in the year of Gengzi was formed.

In the later period, that is, after the year of Gengzi, it is also related to foreigners, in addition to the aforementioned lesson plans, rumors, etc., there is also an additional factor of foreign taxes.

The foreign tax is also the indemnity to the foreign powers in the year of Gengzi, these indemnities naturally cannot fall from the sky when they open their mouths, the Qing court needs to collect more taxes if they want to pay compensation, and the overcharging of taxes is bound to increase the burden on the people.

When these anti-tax associations or other peasant organizations were mixed with the Boxer Rebellion, it was logical that they developed into large-scale riots and uprisings.

From these perspectives, it can be basically determined that the northern region in 1902 has a popular base for large-scale uprisings, and what they need is just a little spark, and Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo are the little sparks that spark the prairie fires!

However, now the defeat of Dongzhao Village is much faster than they imagined, how can this not make them frightened!

If they fail too quickly, it means that Mars will be extinguished before it can be burned, and this kind of thing is unacceptable to them.

"I heard that the demon army under this Zhao thief is all dressed in strange costumes, could it be that they are all demons?" Jing Tingbin forcibly suppressed his fright and pretended to be calm.

Zhao Sanduo glanced at Jing Tingbin after hearing this, and then his heart flashed with contempt for Jing Tingbin, this hillbilly deserves to be the head of the sect all his life, and he doesn't even know the famous Wuwei Right Army.

Zhao Sanduo is an old qualification of the Boxer leader, born in Wei County, Shunde Prefecture, Zhili, he received thousands of apprentices and grandchildren in the name of teaching plum blossom boxing before the year of Gengzi, and then rebelled many times based on these thousands of boxers, and his pace of activities almost ran through all the Boxer activities before and after the year of Gengzi.

This person has also been surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army many times, but this person's life is very big, in the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of the Boxers, other Boxer leaders died, and they fled, but he was the only one who continued to rebel.

After Gengzi years, the Qing army wantonly encircled and suppressed the Boxers, and he Zhao Sanduo could only hide in Guangzong for several months, but he was a person who was unwilling to be ordinary, just a few months after he was low-key, he saw Jing Tingbin want to play the drama of armed resistance to taxes, and immediately ran over to hook up with Jing Tingbin, after the two of them drank a few bowls of wine, Zhao Sanduo said to Jing Tingbin: "Brother, I've been idle lately, let's play rebellion!" ”

Jing Tingbin is also a person who lacks a heart, maybe he thinks that playing armed tax resistance is not enjoyable enough, so he immediately dried up a bowl of wine: "It's boring these days, I'll accompany you to play this big ticket!" ”

So the two men agreed on the cause of rebellion while drinking wine and nibbling on chicken legs.

In this way, the Lianzhuang Society headed by Jing Tingbin and the Boxer Rebellion headed by Zhao Sanduo developed rapidly, and the speed of development was even faster than the Boxer Rebellion in previous years, not only in Guangzong County, but also rapidly expanded to other counties, and the Lianzhuang Society and boxers in Pingxiang, Nanhe, and Weixian County expanded on a large scale.

As the leader of the Boxer Rebellion who has been active on the front line of the rebellion for a long time, he is not the elder brother of the Boxer Rebellion who can only shout invulnerability, but a person with considerable knowledge, at least he knows that the rebel army under his command cannot defeat the army of those foreigners, and he also can't defeat the new army under Yuan Shikai, and the only ones who can bully and bully are those old armies such as the training army.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "Although the number of demon troops under the Zhao thief is small, everyone is armed with a quick robbery, although the number of my righteous army is numerous, but the muskets are scarce, I am afraid that there will be many accidents if we force a fight!" ”

Hearing Zhao Sanduo so exalt Zhao Dongyun and the new army's own rebel army all over the place, Jing Tingbin's face was unhappy: "There are as many as 10,000 people in my righteous army, and one person drowns them with a mouthful of spit!" ”

Zhao Sanduo sneered, and then said, "We also thought so in the Year of Gengzi!" ”

Although Jing Tingbin is a countryman and has little knowledge, he still knows a little about the chaos in Gengzi Nian, so he immediately did not continue to refute Zhao Sanduo's words, but waited for him Zhao Sanduo continued:

"The only way to do this is to use a geographical advantage, after all, they are guest troops from afar, and they are far less familiar with the surrounding terrain, we can choose a favorable terrain to ambush them, and repeat the victory of Nanhe County!"

Jing Tingbin said: "It's naturally inappropriate to face the formation, but if we want to ambush, why don't we ambush there?" ”

Zhao Sanduo sighed when he heard this, Damn, this Guangzong is your land, I know where to ambush! At this time, Zhao Sanduo regretted finding Jing Tingbin, a stunned man, to act as his rebel accomplice.

At this time, if Zhao Sanduo knew a sentence from later generations, I am afraid that he would agree very much, that is: I am not afraid of god-like opponents, but only of pig-like teammates!

Seeing Jing Tingbin at a loss and turning around in a panic, Zhao Sanduo knew that this person was unreliable, and he could only rely on himself to fight against the Qing army.

He immediately found many leaders of the rebel army, especially the local leaders, and after discussing for a long time, everyone said that there was a small hillside outside Li Village, although the terrain was not high, but there were dense forests inside, and it was close to the fields, and there were canals and ditches in it, which was the most suitable terrain for ambushes in the surrounding area.

After agreeing, Zhao Sanduo asked Jing Tingbin to gather all the foreign guns into one team, and prepared to use the foreign gun team as the main force to ambush at that time.

There are a lot of people in this foreign gun team, there are more than 600 people, but there are only more than 300 muskets, because Zhao Sanduo is planning to have a musket for two people, and after the person in front of him fought, the people behind him picked up the musket and continued to fight, which has the style of hard fighting of the Soviet army in World War II.

It's just that the 300 muskets are mostly old, most of their foreign guns are scavenged from the people, and only a single rear-loading gun of about 100 rods can be regarded as cutting-edge, and the rest are front-loading guns, and the models are also very complicated.

At this time, in addition to the more than 600 foreign rifle teams with muskets, the rest of the soldiers were all cold weapons or no weapons, some of them were broadswords, spears, and more hoes, sickles, wooden sticks, etc., which were inferior to the weapons and equipment of the traditional homeless people.

After the discussion, it was decided that Jing Tingbin would sit in the big formation and prepare to fight against Zhao Dongyun's main force who came, while Zhao Sanduo was ready to personally lead the foreign spear team to ambush on the flank.