After planning to loot Liu Lizhuang, Li Xingzhi ordered all the soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion and the Rapid Fire Battalion to stop training, let them rest for two days, so that they could recuperate their strength, and at the same time ordered Qian Anning to immediately reorganize their weapons.

In this dispatch, Li Xingzhi prepared to personally lead the newly trained mandarin duck soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion, 30 archers of the Fire Battalion, 30 bird guns, 30 fire guns, and two tiger squat cannons, with a total strength of about 380 people.

He also ordered Chen Wu, the leader of the sentry probe, to take a few trustworthy small leaders to pretend to be wine sellers, and enter Liu Lizhuang Town first as an internal response, and ordered him to hang three red lights in the city as a signal after he succeeded.

Nowadays, although there are rogues everywhere, but Baoding Mansion is subordinate to Beizhili, that is, people often say that at the foot of the Son of Heaven, although there are also many bandits and bandits, but it is only a small fight, robbing and robbing the past merchants, as for attacking the town where the official army is stationed, it is never daring, plus Xin'an Zhi County Lu Liangzhi is also a Qing official who is the master of the people, so Xin'an is quite peaceful here.

The place is peaceful, and Zhang Shaoqian, who guards the hundred household officials in Liu Lizhuang Town, is naturally idle, and the more than 100 soldiers under his command have fought with pigtailed soldiers with real knives and guns, what kind of thief dares to come and pick up his tiger whiskers.

A few days ago, a group of thieves came out of the Gaoyang County Dajiaotai next door, Zhang Shaoqian was gearing up to send troops to suppress the thieves, but he was a hundred household officials in Xin'an County, although he was not far from the thieves' lair, but there was no Baoding Mansion line, where did he dare to raise troops privately, at that time Zhang Shaoqian was bent on thinking that this group of thieves crossed the border into Xin'an, then he could justify the thieves.

Clinker, just a few days have passed, and news came that this gang of thieves has been suppressed by Gaoyang garrison Huang Wenchang, which made Zhang Shaoqian very depressed.

What should I do if I am depressed? Drinking, but this Liu Lizhuang is not a traffic artery, and it is not a county seat, where is there any good wine? Zhang Baihu has long been tired of drinking the wine brewed by the Zhuang family.

But something is better than nothing! On this day, Zhang Shaoqian was staying in the hundred households and drinking alcohol, while secretly scolding Li Xingzhi for not beating, this ability actually learned from others to be a thief, but it was cheap Zhang Da and Huang Wenchang.

At this time, Li Mingyuan, the chief flag officer under Zhang Shaoqian, entered the lobby of the hundred households with a happy face, looked at the water and wine in front of Zhang Shaoqian, and said flatteringly: "Lord Baihu, now that the food is tight, the wine brewed by the people of Liu Lizhuang has faded out, what is the fun of drinking?" ”

Zhang Shaoqian scolded: "What do you drink if you don't drink this? You kid is smiling so cheaply, did you eat bee? ”

Li Mingyuan came up with a smile and said: "Lord Baihu, today it is our turn to check at the gate of the town, guess what, who is our Liu Lizhuang today?" ”

Zhang Shaoqian frowned and scolded: "Who can come, it won't be Li from Gaoyang's side who rushed to our Xin'an County, right?" ”

Li Mingyuan pursed his lips and said: "Li Wei was defeated by Huang Wenchang and fled, how dare he come to us to die, this will not be said to be hiding in the horse shed and drinking the northwest wind." ”

Then he said with a smile: "My lord, today we have seven or eight wine dealers here, I am afraid that there are not twenty or thirty jars of wine on the car, all of them are Gaoyang's East Road tribute wine, and you can smell the aroma of wine from afar. ”

Zhang Shaoqian's eyes lit up, and while looking behind Li Mingyuan, he asked, "Where's the wine?" ”

Li Mingyuan hurriedly turned out the door, and then took the wine with a smile.

Smelling the rich aroma of wine, Zhang Shaoqian snatched the wine jar, patted the mud seal, poured a few sips into the wine jar, and shouted "Happy, happy!" ”

When he had drunk enough, he frowned and asked, "Why are those vendors only willing to sell us one jar, can't we afford it?" ”

Li Mingyuan smiled and said: "My lord, my subordinates have also asked them, and those vendors said that this wine has been booked, and they said that it was going to be sent to Anxin County, if we want it, we have to wait for them to come back." ”

Zhang Shaoqian smiled: "You go and tell them, this wine has to be surnamed Zhang when it enters Liu Lizhuang, they have to sell it if they don't sell it, how many roads can Gao Yang and us have here, let them go back and get it again, the road fee is mine, if they refuse to sell, then they are not allowed to be released out of town, take the wine, you will inform the brothers, Lao Tzu invites them to drink tonight"

"Gotcha! Look, my lord! Li Mingda smiled and saluted, turned around and ran out.

This gang of liquor dealers is Chen Wu and others, Li Xingzhi asked Zhang Da for wine, since the owner of Li Dazhai wants to drink, then he will definitely not make trouble, Zhang Da and Huang Wenchang are naturally happy to give it, where did they think of Li Xingzhi They have the intention of looting in Xin'an County.

Chen Wu looked at Li Mingda, who was both soft and hard at him, with a look of embarrassment, and said cautiously: "If we give you this wine, if you miss the delivery time, how will the villains do business in the future?" ”

Li Mingda said with a big grin: "You just tell them that this wine was taken by our hundred households, our Zhang Baihu is a good man who has killed the Tartars, who will not buy it from the gentry of Xin'an, you can rest assured, it will not be delayed for two days, and we will cover the road expenses for hundreds of households." ”

"But...... But......? Chen Wu still hesitated.

"But what?" Li Mingda took out two ingots of silver from his sleeve pocket and patted them on the desk, and said, "There are thirty taels here, which should be enough for your wine money and round-trip expenses." He turned his head and said to the soldiers who came with him: "Brothers, take all the wine to Lao Tzu, and tonight the Lord of the Hundred Households will have a treat." ”

Those soldiers were impatient with the waiting, and rushed up, moving, hugging, and turning around with the wine jar and running towards the hundred households.

Li Mingda looked at the stunned Chen Wu, and also turned his head and left with a smile.

Chen Wu brought the wine this time is very particular, as a ruffian in Gaoyang, he is very good at this kind of thing, although the jar is sealed with mud seal, but it is difficult for him, take a small hole from the seal and fill in a small branch after the medicine, as long as there is a mud mark on the surface, that little hole, who cares.

That night, Liu Lizhuang's hundred households were brightly lit, except for leaving more than ten soldiers to patrol the night, all the rest were summoned by Zhang Shaoqian to the banquet of the hundred households, that is, those soldiers on patrol, and the adults of the hundred households also promised that this wine would definitely leave them a few jars.

It is said to be a banquet, but in fact, there are few dishes, all of which are aquatic products fished out of the horse shed, but this wine is fragrant, and you can smell the tempting smell of wine from afar, and the soldiers who are directly attracted are shining one by one.

The wine is good wine, but this wine is a little top, two bowls of wine are down, it is dizzy, and the brain is blank, looking at Li Mingda who fell in front of him, Zhang Shaoqian took a sip with disdain, twisted up the wine jar and poured it in a big gulp, and the result was obvious, the Lord of the hundred households followed in the footsteps of Li Mingda with a blank face.