The weather was good on the day of the expedition, although the weather was a little cloudy, but there was no snow, and there was no wind, just dry and cold, and because of the low temperature for many days, the ground was also very hard, which was very suitable for travel.

Due to the high mule and horse formation of the Jingwu Army, and the fact that the distance between Kanazawa Town and the Yangxinju camp was not far, the march of the entire army was all mules and horses, not on foot.

That is to say, in addition to the cavalry, which rode on horseback on the periphery, the main infantry and logistics personnel were mostly in groups of five sitting in single-horseed two-wheeled ground carts, that is, on large carts, and those four-wheeled carriages were mainly used to transport ammunition supplies and other materials. Although the distance between the Kanazawa Wang family and the Yangxinju camp is quite close, it is said that there is no need to bring so much baggage, but this time it is mainly for military training, so I will bring all of them, so it should be regarded as an opportunity for logistics soldiers to exercise.

This kind of mule and horse corps is estimated to be the only one in the Qing Dynasty at present, that is, Li Yongji can do it now, you must know that his first regiment has a total of only 2,200 people, but there are 1,220 horses, the ratio of men and horses is less than 2 to 1, and the mule and horse are quite high.

However, although there are 1,220 horses, there are only 800 Ili horses that have actually been acquired from modern times, and the rest are locally purchased mules and earth horses. Don't say mules, these horses are local horses, short in stature, not fast, but hard-working, docile personality, good pulling strength, it is difficult to say what bloodline, according to Li Yongji, these horses are estimated to be similar to ** horses, it is likely to be a category.

Li Yongji did not ride alone like other high-ranking officers, but rode alone in a four-wheeled carriage.

The appearance of this four-wheeled carriage is not much different from other four-wheeled carriages that pull ammunition, and it also uses axles, rubber wheels and shock-absorbing springs, but there are sofas and carpets in it, and the walls of the car are covered with quilts, and there is a chimney in the middle that leads directly to the charcoal stove outside the roof of the car, which burns smokeless lime charcoal, which is quite comfortable.

Because Li Yongji likes to be quiet, there is no one else in the car except Li Yongji, but on the pedals outside the door on both sides of the carriage, a male member of the young guard group with two revolvers, stands as a guard. In addition, the driver of the car is Lili, and Su Su is sitting next to her, Xiuxiu and Jiajia are riding horses and following on both sides of the car, and then there is the same horseback riding the Youth Guards, it can be said that all the Youth Leagues are gathered here.

Most of the members of the Youth League are minors, and their status is domestic slaves, so they are not so particular about clothing, and they don't have to wear that kind of Qing military uniform, but they all deliberately wear the costumes of the Swedish Royal Guards in later generations, regardless of men and women.

The sky blue tweed coat of this outfit, the white collar, the white gloves and the white armed belt, and the black riding boots are very dazzling, but the hat does not use a Prussian helmet, but wears a warm hat like the others, which is a little nondescript, but still difficult to hide the handsome and capable demeanor.

There is no doubt that these Swedish Royal Guard costumes were all obtained by Zhang Xinda, and Li Yongji originally questioned whether it was appropriate to plagiarize so clearly, don't crash and make jokes. Who knows that Zhang Xinda said that Sweden at this time was still Sweden and Norway, and the style of military uniforms was not like this at all, and the Swedish Royal Guard clothing seen in modern society was all after the dissolution of Sweden-Norway in 1905, so at this time, this kind of sky blue military uniform will definitely not crash.

With this explanation, and Zhang Xinda kindly sent it, and it looked really good-looking, so Li Yongji no longer shirked and asked his youth league to change into this set of clothes.

In fact, this is the first time that the members of the Youth League have gone out in such clothes, so they are very excited, but fortunately, they are usually restrained and ruthless, Li Yongji is by his side, and he is in the army, which is not too flamboyant, but it is inevitable to turn heads and ears on the way.

In fact, not to mention these horseback boys' regiments, the entire army was not marching on foot, so the atmosphere was very relaxed, and almost everyone was talking in a whisper, of course, this also made Li Yongji not mandatory, after all, in his opinion, this relaxed atmosphere is easier to maintain morale and body. After all, this time they were going to fight people, there were so many troops, there were scouts of the cavalry company on the periphery, and the soldiers had also learned how to deal with mid-way attacks, so the danger index was very low.

It was so easy that it didn't take half a day, and by noon, the cavalry post arrived at the location of the Wang family's mansion, and then Li Yongji, in order to be safe, ordered the whole army to stop, camp on the spot and eat, and use the fullest body and spirit to meet the afternoon battle.

Although no soldier carries dry rations with them, in such a winter, it is better to eat hot meals if there is no urgency, and dry rations are only an emergency.

At this time, the cooking class of the army came into play, they usually took a few cauldrons and stoves from the cart of the cooking class, and then dug a pit on the spot, made a simple boiler with bricks and cauldrons, and then put the firewood and coal they carried into it in turn, poured alcohol and lit the fire, and soon formed a simple cooking point.

The meal is very simple, it is a big pot of bacon stewed cabbage, and there are more chili peppers and salt, star anise must also be put in, and when it is cooked, it is spicy and salty, and the soldiers use the aluminum rectangular lunch box they carry with them to scoop it up, and then break the cold steamed buns and soak them, this is a proper delicacy.

Seriously, these soldiers used to be soldiers of the elite army, and they might not be able to eat such a marching meal during the Chinese New Year, of course, the food during training in peacetime was much better than this.

Soldiers eat big pot rice, senior officers open small stoves, Li Yongji's elite army never talks about the integration of officers and soldiers, but pays attention to promotion, that is, no matter what your background, as long as you pass the examination and your merits are high enough, you are qualified to be different from the senior officers who can be promoted to the level of company commander. Of course, the company commander is different from the battalion commander, the company commander is nothing more than adding some meat and more salted fish, and when it comes to the battalion commander level, such as Zhou Da Zhang Wei and others, they can directly eat with Li Yongji, not to mention the problem of closeness, the food is also several grades worse, Li Yongji has never treated himself badly in eating.

Just like now, as soon as the tent is surrounded and the small wooden table is folded, Li Yongji, Zhang Wei, Zhou Da, Lin Chunsheng, Jiang Yun, and Jiang Hai are sitting together for lunch, and discussing what to do next, including how to deal with it and how to attack.

Lunch is very rich, there are canned peaches, canned oranges, canned fish, ham sausage, bacon, spicy fried soybean sprouts, bacon fried cabbage, in addition to pork rib soup and rice, it can be said that there are vegetables, meat and soup, and fruits, nutritious and tasteful, in the march, such food is quite good.

The meal was good, but during the discussion, Li Yongji was slightly dissatisfied, because listening to these people's meanings, although they were not as clearly opposed to sending troops as Wang Sanwu, almost all of them advocated coercion. That is to say, if you can not use troops, you will not use troops, as long as you let the Wang family soften, apologize, lose more money, and then hand over the family who caused the death.

Obviously, these people's thoughts can't be wrong, after all, in the eyes of their former officials, Ding Huai's matter is not a big deal, and the Wang family's power is not small, and now the Jingwu Army is newly created, there is no need to fight with the Wang family, so as long as the face is passable.

It's a pity that these people don't understand Li Yongji's true thoughts at all.

Indeed, Li Yongji is also very sympathetic to Ding Huai's experience, and he is also quite angry, but he is not so angry as to stir up the crowd for the tragic incident of one person, after all, he is no longer a modern person.

Li Yongji's real idea, just like what he said to Wang Sanwu before, is to rely on the matter of beating the Wang family as a whetstone for the quenching of the Jingwu army.

After more than two months of high-intensity training, Li Yongji found that although these soldiers trained and studied well, they became more and more like a group of middle school students who did not know their worries, and they were getting farther and farther away from the iron-blooded soldiers.

That is to say, in their own teaching methods, although these people have more and more knowledge, they can do better and better, they are more and more accurate in firing guns, and they are also very disciplined, but they are always filled with a relaxed atmosphere of laughter. Li Yongji is no stranger to this kind of atmosphere, after all, he also came out of college, so he knows that this is a group of students who have not suffered major setbacks and do not have much sense of crisis, and they cannot be called soldiers at all!

Can such a soldier be combative? It's hard to say, after all, although they have advanced weapons, if they can't keep up, then it's all in vain.

One of the best examples is that during World War II, Italian soldiers were among the best in Europe in terms of weapons, training, and treatment...... That's a joke!

Not to mention the far, let's just talk about the near, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, regardless of the treatment and weapons and equipment, are the best, but the combat effectiveness is much worse than the green battalion soldiers with a lot of worse treatment, and the green battalion soldiers, the combat effectiveness is much worse than the regimental training of the village Yong, which is even worse than the treatment.

A little closer, not far from the Jiangnan camp.

There are quite a few people in the Jiangnan battalion, 200,000 in a mess, and nearly 100,000 in the regular army, and the equipment and logistics are quite sufficient.

In addition, He Chun, who commanded the army, is also a person with rich experience in leading the army, and he is not a fool.

But in this way, the Jiangnan battalion, which has a full 200,000 people, is still on defense, but it is defeated by miscellaneous soldiers of more than 100,000 men, women and children combined, and the actual soldiers are less than 5,000, and they are divided into several roads, and the Taiping army, which is not under each other's control, can this be crushed?

This shows that weaponry and combat effectiveness are not absolutely proportional, not to mention that the weapons in the hands of Li Yongji's troops, due to various considerations, are not too different from those of this era.

It was after discovering this that Li Yongji had a sense of arrogance, and always wanted to find an opportunity to change the atmosphere of the troops, but this kind of thing is not something that can be changed lightly, it is not that shouting slogans and carrying discipline can be done, but it must go to fight with people, fight a battle with real swords and guns, must kill people, must see blood, only in this way can they arouse the blood in their hearts and become a qualified soldier!

However, it is not easy to find someone to fight, neither the Qing army nor the Taiping army can fight, as for the suppression of bandits...... He had already inquired about it, and the vicinity of Zhujiajiao Town was a rare paradise, and it was a water town, so there were a lot of scattered water bandits, and there were very few bandits.

That is to say, there are many water bandits in the Zhujiajiao area, but there are few mountain bandits, and they are too scattered, and there is no one who has become a bandit, so it will increase the difficulty of suppressing bandits, and even if they can suppress bandits, they will lose the effect of military training. Besides, these bandits are basically bitter who can't eat, haha, don't talk about no oil and water, and it's a little unbearable to beat them.

Thinking about it like this, Li Yongji wants to learn from his revolutionary ancestors and start a big business by fighting local tyrants, but this matter is more sensitive, and there is no suitable reason for Wei Guangzheng, so it is not easy to make a move at all, after all, they are regular group training.

As for pretending to be bandits, this is even more unfeasible, after all, paper can't contain fire, and this will also bring bad morale to the troops, and the harm far outweighs the benefits.

Just when Li Yongji was worried about how to find a target to start training, it was so good, Ding Huai's matter gave him an excuse to pull people over for military training.

In fact, for the Wang family in Jinze, he had already inquired about it, not that he told Wang Sanwu that he didn't know the details of his family, after all, the Wang family was very famous and close to his own camp, which was originally one of the targets he was ready to attack.

The current head of the Wang family is called Wang Feng, whose name is Yuezhi, is not the same thing as the modern merry man, but an old man with gray hair.

Wang Feng is a lifter, or a candidate platform, but unfortunately he has never been an official in his life, but he has gained a lot in business, and he has a lot of children and grandchildren, his two sons are operating in Suzhou and Hangzhou respectively, and they have a lot of industry and power.

The Wang family's mansion is Wang Feng's residence, but also the Wang family's base camp, just because of Wang Feng's relationship, the Wang family's power is very large, only in Jinze, the Wang family has 20,000 acres of land, and in Qingpu County, there are more than 100,000 acres of fertile land, see clearly, they are all good land! This means in Qingpu, which is a paddy field with a high yield!

In addition to the good land, the Wang family also has a large number of businesses, such as Jufeng Qianzhuang, Jufengdang, Jubaozhai, Jufeng Grain, etc., which are also well-known local businesses, almost all aspects of tea, salt, grain, money, etc., and they are all doing well, the host is basically the Wang family, which can be said to be a huge economic consortium with the family as the link.

And what supports this behemoth is the Wang family's intertwined relationship in the official government, as well as the more than 500 people who sit in the Wang family's old mansion, and have been established for more than 30 years and have a lot of rich combat experience!

These 500 people are only standing soldiers such as the Jiading Guardian Yuan, and in extraordinary times, the Wang family can also quickly gather their tenant farmers and arm them, and they can easily raise a force of 2,000 people.

Therefore, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of the Wang family's soldiers, the old people in the vicinity all give a thumbs up, and it is precisely because of this that the Wang family can be called the first strong in Qingpu.

Of course, although it is called the first haoqiang, in fact, the Wang family is not arrogant, on the contrary, under the leadership of Wang Feng, the Wang family's style has always been relatively low-key, so that many ordinary people can't feel the power of the Wang family, only those middle and upper-class people can know the power of the Wang family.

In short, the Wang family is not a pure and harmless white rabbit, on the contrary, it is a behemoth that even the government can't move. However, this one also has the biggest problem, that is, it is too proud and too rich.

Not to mention the rich, there are hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and businesses are open everywhere, which is a proper problem of being looked down upon and too arrogant, that is, they seem to be low-key, but they are actually arrogant. Although they dotted Qingpu County up and down in black and white very properly, they were basically aimed at those who had stayed in Qingpu County for a long time, and they were said to have a relationship with the Governor of Liangjiang, and they didn't treat the small county orders that often changed people, or they simply ignored them, so the relationship with the magistrate of Qingpu County was not good.

Therefore, as long as Li Yongji can completely defeat the Wang family at once and give He Zhixian some benefits, then his behavior will not be a problem at all, and no matter how much dirty water he throws on the Wang family, as long as it is consistent with the caliber reported by He Zhixian, it will not be a problem.

After all, no matter how shallow He Zhi County is in Qingpu County, he is in charge of the mouthpiece of reporting to the imperial court, and the above generally only looks at the report of the county order, regardless of anything else.

As for the legendary backstage, He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, I don't say whether it's true or not, even if it's true, it doesn't matter, it can't protect the Wang family at all. As long as the prefect reports the Wang family bandits, he will first go to the prefect, and then from the prefect to the governor, and so on, and when the news reaches the hands of the governor of Liangjiang, this matter is basically a foregone conclusion.

Others don't know, but Li Yongji knows that the biggest problem now for He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, is to supply the Jiangnan camp with all his might, and everything else is secondary...... Well, the Jiangnan camp is about to be breached, does he have a future?

In short, such a family seems to be deep-rooted, but in fact, the foundation is very shallow, although the power is large, but the core is Wang Feng's personal prestige and the formidable Wang family soldiers! Such a local tyrant and inferior gentleman is naturally the most suitable target for the elite army to train and shoot targets, and the excuse is so great, at least he is full of righteousness.

Once the Wang family is defeated, it can not only play a role in training troops and rallying people's hearts, but also make a fortune by the way, which is a multi-kill thing.

Therefore, from the moment he heard Ding Huai's story, Li Yongji made up his mind to send troops, and the Wang family was not afraid of many people, but they were afraid that there were not many people! Don't be afraid to get together, just be afraid to disperse! If you are rich and powerful, you are afraid that he will not have money!

What these troops are best at is fighting tough battles! As long as his nest is broken and the trees fall apart, even if he still has many shops in Suzhou and Hangzhou, but without prestige and armed force, those shops are fat in the eyes of others, and then his Wang family will be finished!

It's a pity that these former officials can't understand their own hard work, and they don't understand the true meaning of what they do, they just want to calm things down, and they think that they are young and vigorous, sympathize with Ding Huai's experience, and can't wipe off their face by the way.

Hey, it seems that it's really lonely to be a man here, it seems that this henchman has to be cultivated by himself.