When the Jingwu army suddenly appeared at the boundary of Suzhou in the early morning, it immediately caused a riot, which was simply a copy of the last time it advanced into Qingpu City.

However, because Suzhou City has been under martial law recently, it is better than Qingpu County at that time, at least it did not let the Jingwu Army hurriedly close the city gate when the soldiers came to the city, but blew the horn early and closed the city gate when the Jingwu Army was still three miles away from Suzhou City.

Fortunately, Li Yongji also had experience in this, and he didn't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so after hearing the horn, he simply stopped the army and set up camp three miles away from the city, and sent three envoys to Suzhou to explain his intentions.

Originally, Wang Sanwu wanted to be the messenger himself, after all, he knew him and the Lin family, but unfortunately his identity was too heavy and not suitable, so in the end, he chose Li Fei, Zhang Long, and Bai Yunfei.

These three people are all members of Li Yongji's Junior Guards, in other words, Li Yongji's personal domestic slaves and students.

The reason why the three of them were sent was that the identities of the three of them were domestic slaves, which could show the private nature of this incident in the Soviet Union; secondly, these three people and their brother-in-law Lin Guangyao also know each other, so there will be no misunderstanding; The third is to take the opportunity to train them.

Li Fei, Zhang Long, and Bai Yunfei are all young men who have reached the age of sixteen now, and in the Youth Guards Corps, this age is considered an older teenager. Although the three of them are still teenagers, they may have good congenital genes, plus the nutrition has kept up in time, just over half a year later, the height of these three people has exceeded 1.7 meters, and there is a trend of continuing to grow.

Although these three people have average academic performance in mathematics, physics and chemistry, they are bold, have a lively brain, strong speech and organizational skills, and their riding skills are also the best among their peers, especially Li Fei, whose riding skills are the strongest, and he has also been praised by Wang Sanwu.

In short, these three people are among the people who Li Yongji is more optimistic about in that batch of young guards, and they belong to the key training targets, and the training line has tended to be military, so letting them go out now to participate in some practice as early as possible is also conducive to their growth.

These three people really did not disappoint Li Yongji, in the face of this messenger's task, it was completed quite well, and the good ones were somewhat unexpected.

After receiving the task, these three people put on hats, put on Qing army uniforms, and then rode a quart horse with a body height of one meter six or eight, and then Li Fei took the lead, and Bai Yunfei and Zhang Long were on both sides, forming a character shape.

Among them, Li Fei, who was at the beginning, was empty-handed, Bai Yunfei behind was holding a golden plum blossom flag representing Li Yongji's family, and Zhang Long was holding a five-star red flag representing the Jingwu Army.

Don't mention the five-star red flag, it is the military flag of the Jingwu Army, which is completely a copy of the five-star red flag of another time and space; As for the Golden Plum Blossom Flag, this is actually from Zhang Xinda's original, which is a family crest or family flag made for Li Yongji alone.

The so-called golden plum blossom flag is printed in the center of a moon-white background flag, printed with a gold-colored plum blossom made by computer graphics, symbolizing nobility and unyielding.

In terms of design, Zhang Xinda himself drew it with a computer, and used modern materials to make it in later generations and then send it over, so although the image is very simple, it looks quite exquisite and very beautiful and generous because of the good details.

In addition to this plum blossom flag, there are many golden plum blossom badges, golden plum blossom seals, etc., these badges and seals are slightly different from the golden plum blossom flag in terms of image, but the golden plum blossom pattern in the middle is the same, which is to highlight Li Yongji's family characteristics.

According to Zhang Xinda, the production of the Zuò family emblem and family flag is not only for fun, but also to establish another faith center in the elite army, so that everyone knows whose family this team belongs to and who they want to be loyal to.

In addition, in terms of business, the five-star red flag should not be used indiscriminately because it is a military flag, but the family emblem and family flag can be used on the Li family's business name, so as to indicate that this is a descendant industry of Li Yongji and increase competitiveness.

Anyway, anyway, the family flag of this golden plum blossom appeared, and with the passage of time, the mark of this golden plum blossom has become more and more well-known, and the meaning is more and more, and even later it has become a symbol of the Chinese nation, more famous than the Chinese flag, but that is all a later story, not to mention for the time being.

The three of them moved forward in this way, the horse was unhurried, his body was straight, and he came to the city of Suzhou so straight.

After that, in full view of everyone, the three of them stopped their horses at the same time, and then Li Fei suddenly stood on the horse's back, just facing the city, standing on the horse's back and picking up the crossbow arrows with a good bowstring, and shooting up with a whoosh arrow.

When he found that the arrow with the letter had been shot into the city wall, Li Fei got on his horse again, and rode on the horse quietly, straightening his body and not moving, while Bai Yunfei and Zhang Long were the same, holding the flag and riding the horse, standing straight and motionless.

It's not difficult to straighten up on the horse, but the difficult thing is to control the horse under the body to be motionless, which is a little skillful, and it must go through long-term training, so this alone can see the level of control of the three people.

When he saw the three of them under the city wall with a telescope, Li Yongji was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, knowing that this must be the three boys who were making their own decisions and wanted to show off their skills under the city of Suzhou, especially that Li Fei, this is a proper show of riding skills.

"These boys, but they love it." Li Yongji shook his head.

Fortunately, Suzhou City did not let Li Fei and the others wait, only a quarter of an hour after Li Fei delivered the letter by archery, the city gate suddenly opened, and three cavalrymen wearing Qing army uniforms also ran out of it, and only stopped their horses when they came to Li Fei, and then shouted loudly.

The other party's horse is obviously a head shorter than Li Fei and the others' tall horses, so the other party is raising his head and shouting, and he loses in momentum, but the Qing army is carrying waist knives, and Li Fei and others have no weapons, so on the surface, they can barely compete.

The two sides rode back and forth like this, and when they were almost done, Bai Yunfei and Zhang Long stayed, and Li Fei took the Qing cavalry at the head and went straight to Li Yongji's camp.

It seems that the other party must meet his boss first and confirm whether it is a real group practice before he believes it.

This is normal, this is an extraordinary time, and the Taiping army has always been good at disguise, so they can't open the city gate just by saying one.

Soon, Li Fei brought a red-faced knight with a beard on his face, and after the other party dismounted at the gate of the barracks, he first looked at the military appearance of the Jingwu soldiers guarding the door, and his expression immediately became solemn.

Without him, this Qing army rider is obviously a petty officer with rich combat experience, and he knows at a glance that these soldiers of the elite army are all well-disciplined and have extraordinary equipment, not to mention anything else, this momentum and arrogance alone are not comparable to ordinary soldiers.

It is precisely because of this that he dismounted in a proper manner, handed in his weapons in a proper manner, and then entered the barracks under the leadership of the leading soldiers.

After layers of checks, this bearded man finally came to Li Yongji, and he didn't look closely, he half-knelt and hugged his fist and punched a thousand: "Mark Gong Debiao, knock to see the adult!" ”

Seeing the other party like this, Li Yongji smiled, because according to the other party's clothing complement, this guy is also a general manager, and he is a regular general manager, at least he is also a seventh-grade general, which is even greater than his position as the chief official of the nine-rank foreign commission.

A seven-rank general rushed to kneel down to a nine-grade foreign commissioner to say goodbye, but it was also a scene, of course, this is also related to the other party's lack of careful looks, it is estimated that on the way to come, he was frightened by the power in the barracks.

Thinking of this, Li Yongji smiled slightly, continued to sit in place, and didn't go over to help the other party, so he said lightly: "This adult, please get up." I'm just a Jiupin foreign general, and it's somewhat inappropriate for you to kneel down to me. ”

"Huh?" That Gong Debiao was stunned for a moment, raised his head and looked, but no, the other party's clothes were upside down, but the complement was obviously a Jiupin, and he was also a teenager, which made his face turn red all of a sudden, but fortunately, he was already blushing, but it was not too obvious.

In fact, Li Yongji's official uniform is also worn for the first time, and this is to avoid trouble, otherwise, he will continue to wear civilian clothes as before.

After being stunned, Gong Debiao wanted to stand up on his own immediately, but suddenly saw the cold gaze of several soldiers around him, especially one of the young men with a square face, and instantly felt numb.

"The adults laughed, the adults are mighty, how can it be the ninth grade." Gong Debiao said with a smile.

"I'm indeed a nine-pin, okay, stop talking nonsense, get up and get down to business." Li Yongji waved his hand lightly, "Look at the seats." ”

After Li Yongji finished speaking, he saw a soldier quickly take a small horse and put it in front of Gong Debiao, meaning to let you sit down and reply.

"Thus, offended." That Gong Debiao lightly hugged his fists, and then sat on the maza with a golden knife, which also showed a bit of pride.

After that, without waiting for the other party to ask, Li Yongji began to introduce himself, such as his origin, the purpose of his coming here, and so on.

After listening to it, Gong Debiao was really surprised: "You, are you really just the general office of Qingpu County's regimental training?" Moreover, you brought troops here just to take your brother-in-law's family back to Qingpu County? ”

"Exactly." Li Yongji smiled.

Gong Debiao only felt that his eyelids jumped, and he really wanted to jump up and scold his mother.

In fact, Li Yongji's words, the previous Li Fei also said it, but Gong Debiao didn't believe it, thinking that he was teasing him, so he came over to ask in person. But Li Yongji, who is obviously the commander of the First Army, also said so, so he couldn't help but not believe it, but in this way, it would be too child's play.

You're spicy next door, if you just bring your brother-in-law back, do you need to bring so many strong soldiers over? Who to scare? Who believes?

Of course, Gong Debiao only dared to say these words in his heart, but he didn't dare to really say them, after all, he was now in someone's camp, and these soldiers knew at a glance that they were not easy to mess with, that body and expression, at first glance, they were long-trained elites, and the weapons on their bodies, how they looked like foreign guns that they had never seen, they were definitely not ornaments, they were bare-handed, if they messed up here, they would suffer if they didn't do well.

In short, he still understands the truth that a hero does not suffer losses in front of him, and in this situation in front of him, even if Li Yongji says that he is Bai Ding, he has to serve as an official now.

"Well, in that case, please stay here for a while." Gong Debiao immediately stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Rong Mou will go back to Shangguan first, and then come back to talk back, okay?" ”

"Please." Li Yongji smiled, "But please also bring my three envoys over to reply together, so that you can explain better." ”

"That's the way it is."

In this way, Gong Debiao hurriedly left the camp, took Li Fei back again, and after rounding with his own people, he took Li Fei, Bai Yunfei and Zhang Long into Suzhou City.

After waiting for about half an hour, that is, an hour later, the gate of Suzhou City was reopened, and a group of soldiers and horses ran out from inside, with a total of about fifty people, all on horseback, among which the first was a Qianzong, Gong Debiao was on the side, and it seemed that Qian was always a regular messenger.

After this army of soldiers and horses came to the camp of the Jingwu Army, the camp gate officer of the Jingwu Army asked them to dismount and disarm as usual, but this time, the Qian general manager was not so easy to speak, and directly whipped it, and pulled out a blood mark on the face of the camp gate officer.

After smoking the whip, Mr. Qian scolded and wanted to break into the camp gate, but he was surrounded in an instant, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at him.

Before Mr. Qian could scold again, after a row of guns, the horses under the fifty knights fell down with a scream, and it turned out that the soldiers of the Jingwu Army shot and killed the horses.

Although the fifty riders reacted quickly and jumped down in time without much injury, they were still frightened when they saw that the other party really dared to shoot, and there was no longer the previous flying and domineering.

After that, these people were all tied up and knelt at the gate of the camp, but the Qian general manager was gagged with rags and escorted to Li Yongji.

After seeing Li Yongji, the Qian Zong began to struggle again, as if he wanted to speak, but Li Yongji only lowered his mouth slightly, and Wu Shouyun, the commander of the guard battalion next to him, immediately walked over viciously, kicked the other party down, and after the other party fell to the ground, Wu Shouyun immediately picked up the whip and whipped it fiercely.

After whipping thirty times in a row, the skin on the back of the whip was open, and everyone fainted, Wu Shouyun stopped. Then he called over two soldiers, one of whom set up the Qianzong, took out the rags in his mouth, and poured a bowl of water on the face of the Qianzong, waking up the other party.

"What's your name?" Li Yongji was the first to ask, "What is the position?" What are you doing here? ”

"I, my name is Zhang Shude." After the other party finished speaking weakly, he suddenly remembered something, and began to hiss, "I, I am the general manager of Ma Ying under the command of Admiral Zhang, and this time I came here on the orders of Lord Zhang and Governor Xu, and I hereby come to recruit you, you, you dare to treat me like this!" ”

"Recruit us? Interesting. Li Yongji smiled, "Didn't that Gong Debiao tell you where I came from, and didn't tell me what I came from?" Even if Gong Debiao didn't say it, my people followed in, and they will always make it clear, you won't know it, right? ”

"I know, you are a group training in Qingpu County." That Zhang Shude said, "However, your reasons are too child's play, and our adults think it is inappropriate, but I see that your troops and horses are not bad, so I hereby order to recruit and assist in the defense of Suzhou City." Hmph, I advise you to let me go quickly, do you know that I am your future boss? Do you know that your army will be under my control in the future? ”

"Recruit us, we're a private group practice." Li Yongji said with a smile, "We are the group training of Qingpu County, and it is also Qingpu County's business to be managed, what qualifications do you have in Suzhou to manage us?" ”

"Doesn't your Qingpu County belong to Songjiang Prefecture? Isn't Songjiang Mansion under the control of Jiangsu? As the governor of Jiangsu, what questions do we have about your order? Zhang Shude shouted.

"That's a big problem." Li Yongji continued to tease him, "You can see clearly, I'm just the head of a foreign committee of the local garrison of Songjiang Prefecture, what do you mean?" In other words, I am the foreign commissioner of the Songjiang garrison, that is, an unofficial supernumerary. If you want to transfer me, you must first get the consent of the Songjiang Prefecture, and then after the Songjiang Prefecture agrees, you have to ask me if I am willing or not, and only after all of them agree can I be transferred to the station.

As for my soldiers and horses, since they are called regimental training, they are private soldiers and horses, in other words, this soldier is a private soldier pulled up by myself, not an officer and soldier who eats the court's money. If you want my soldiers to work, no problem, but you have to get my consent first, and if I don't agree, it's useless for anyone to come, you know? ”

"You, you ......" Hearing Li Yongji's words, Zhang Shude was stunned, and suddenly yelled, "What nonsense!" You, what do you want to do? Want to rebel? ”

"Yo, the hat is so big." Li Yongji smiled, "It's a pity that you can't use me." Whether it's a rebellion or not, you don't count. ”

"Hmph, just with your words, at least you are also a contempt for Shangguan and lawlessness." That Zhang Shude said coldly, "Since you are a foreign general, you are also a court official, and you are a court official, so you have to listen to Shangfeng's orders!" Believe it or not, I have a copy of yours? I'll let you know when the time comes! ”

"Hey, sure enough, identity is a big problem." Li Yongji shook his head, "Drag it down, it's good to look good!" ”

As soon as Li Yongji finished speaking, several soldiers quickly stuffed the rags back into Zhang Shude's mouth, and then dragged him away without saying a word, never letting him say a word again.

After Zhang Shude was dragged away, Li Yongji looked at Wu Shouyun, the commander of his guard battalion: "Shouyun, you said that if I rebel now, will you follow me?" ”

"I'll go wherever the adults go, and I'll do whatever the adults tell me to do." Wu Shouyun grinned, "If the adult wants to be an official of the Qing court, I will follow, and if the adult wants to say rebellion, then I will also rebel!" ”

"Hahaha, good, well said." Li Yongji got up from his chair suddenly, "Forget about rebellion, the timing is not right." However, it's also my fault, Taoguang is too obscure, others don't know our details, so they don't know how powerful we are, thinking that if you find someone at random, you can come over and take over power. Well, it's time to do something and give some people a little color to see, you can't always make people think that we are soft persimmons, anyone can pinch them. ”