Under pressure from the Eastern Prisoners, Lu Liangzhi finally agreed to exchange artillery for Liu Zhongwu and his subordinates.

On the third day after the withdrawal of the official army, Guo Shao brought three tiger squat cannons, 500 catties of medicine, and corresponding money and food, and came to Dajiaotai.

Li Xingzhi did not break his promise and released Liu Zhongwu and his subordinates, but their armor was stripped off, compared to artillery, Guo Shao naturally didn't care about a few pieces of armor.

After everything was done, Li Xingzhi instructed Qian Anning to recount all the soldiers and materials in the warehouse.

After Qian Anning's hour, due to the loss of more than 100 people in this battle, there were only 478 soldiers left in the cottage, but after this battle, the morale and courage of the soldiers have been improved to a certain extent.

In terms of money and grain, excluding the rewards, there are still 11,000 taels of silver stored in the warehouse, and 1,700 stones of grain and grass, so there is no need to worry about money and grain for the time being.

In terms of weapons, with Huang Wenchang, the captain of the transport brigade, naturally there will be no shortage, but according to Zhang Shaoqian's statement, Li Xingzhi's mandarin duck soldiers are not regular, and the real mandarin duck soldiers are two sword and shield soldiers in the front row must carry javelins, followed by wolf warriors on both wings, followed by four pikemen and two palladium boring hands, these two palladium boring men are responsible for protecting the pikemen, and finally two fire hammermen.

Li Xingzhi knew that what Zhang Shaoqian said was true, but there was no boring palladium in the army, so he just wanted to build it, and it was too late for a while, so Li Xingzhi ordered the boring palladium hand in the middle of the battle to replace it with a wolf whisk.

After the soldiers' money and food were finished on the hour, Li Xingzhi re-ordered the Gangfeng battalion to be reorganized into 30 pieces, and the remaining 178 people were all organized into the fire battalion, including 30 bird guns, 70 fire guns, 30 archers, and the rest were organized into the artillery team.

After the two battalions were properly organized, the remaining problem was to rebuild the Lijiashan defense line and mass production of cement.

According to Zhang Shaoqian's estimate, the arrival of the Dongyu in Baoding should be around the beginning of September, which was not long after the summer grain was put into storage, which was the best time for the Dongyu to grab grain and population.

Therefore, Li Xingzhi believes that the most critical thing at the moment is to collect the money and grain of Lijiashan Zhouzuo into the mountain as soon as possible, and even rob all the money and grain outside Gaoyang City, so as to achieve the effect of clearing the wilderness.

These things require a lot of labor, and what Li Xingzhi lacks is people, and all the soldiers and civilians in the entire Lijiashan add up to less than 1,000 people, so the leaders are helpless.

Li Xingzhi didn't think that these things were so difficult, now that the eastern gentry were raising troops to the south, the rich gentry in Gaoyang would inevitably be busy collecting the summer grain, and when these rich gentry collected it, they would rob it themselves, and with the grain, those tenants would not follow them up the mountain.

Regarding Li Xingzhi's view, Yang Biao and Wang Zhong, who was still lying in bed recuperating from his injuries, both held opposing opinions, believing that the most important task of Li Jiashan's righteous army now was to seize the time to train, not to go down the mountain to collect grain.

Li Xingzhi said: "Our soldiers can't move, but the Gaoyang official army can move, the owner of the village intends to invite Huang guerrilla to take Gaoyang's money and grain, in addition, the east captives are about to enter the Kou, and there is no need to defend the fort that supports the city, the city is surrounded by water on three sides, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a Jedi, it is the best place to ambush the east captives, and the owner of the village intends to collect the city, these two things want to come to the guerrilla general will not refuse." ”

Qian Anning was ordered by Li Xingzhi to step into the city for the first time.

Zhang Da, the Gaoyang garrison stationed in the city, looked at Qian Anning, who was talking eloquently, with a confused expression.

"What? Let this garrison find hundreds of homeless people in good health to enter the mountain, in addition, Gao Yang will also send officials and troops to rob money and food for you, you big bosses are not crazy, Lu Liangzhi has already suspected that General Huang has colluded with you, and now that his army and horses have just retreated, let's rob money and food together, I'm afraid it's not good! ”

Huang Wenchang, a guerrilla general who came to hear the news, did not think so, since Li Xingzhi's uprising, he had spent a lot of money, and he had spent thousands of taels of silver just to recruit homeless people into the army, and this was not counting the condolences that were given every time he entered the mountain.

So he looked at Qian Anning and stretched out five fingers, "Since you want Ben to send troops, it's not too much for Ben to take fifty percent, right?" ”

Qian Anning didn't answer, and looked at Huang Wenchang with a smile.

"Okay, you six, you will take four, you can't be less, for you Li Zhai master, Lao Tzu has a lot to do."

The guerrilla lord's face has changed, and he and your Li Zhai master lie in the camp and sleep profusely, doing nothing, and refusing to share fifty percent of the money and food.

When Qian Anning went down the mountain, Li Xingzhi made it clear to him that he asked Huang Guerrilla for help this time, and half of the money and grain he got was obtained by the family, and now he didn't say a word, so he got an extra 10% of the money and grain, how could this not make Qian Anning satisfied, and nodded on the spot: "The general said that sixty-four points will make sixty-four points, but the owner of my village still wants to borrow the general's support for the city to live temporarily, I don't know if the general can agree." ”

Huang Wenchang did not allow it, the Donglu was about to enter the country, and this embracing the city was not enough to resist the Dongyu, so he said with a smile: "Embrace the city here, the general has already instructed Li Youcai to order all the supplies and transfer all the materials to the county, and you Li Zhai Lord can be stationed at will, there is a wharf behind the fort, and there are dozens of small boats, even if the Dongyu comes, he can retreat safely." ”

Huang Wenchang said this, and suddenly his heart moved, although he drank the blood of soldiers and was timid and afraid of war, but after all, he was a family of generals, and he had read a lot of military books and war strategies, that is, he said: "Isn't your big boss trying to calculate the east in the city?" ”

Qian Anning said with a smile: "The general's eyes are like torches, and my owner of the village has this intention." ”

"Okay, dare to fight with Dongyu, Brother Li is really a good man, you let him rest assured, the five hundred homeless people who were collected before can be given to you half, and I won't take any of the money and food collected this time, as long as Brother Li gets the head of Dongyu this time? Even if there is no general, I admit it. ”

Although the guerrilla general is nearly 50 years old, he still has an upward heart, and the money and food are from the rich gentry of Gaoyang, and he is just generous to others, if he can change a few Tartar heads, he will be able to mix up with a general and a general soldier, this Li Xingzhi can defend Lijiashan, and it should not be difficult to get a few Tartar heads.

Qian Anning was overjoyed, the task of going down the mountain this time was overfulfilled, with Gaoyang's money and food, isn't it easy to recruit the homeless people and the people.

The two had already decided, so Huang Wenchang took Li Youcai to the county seat to recruit the displaced people, and ordered Zhang Da to order 300 newly recruited soldiers to follow Qian Anning back to Lijiashan.

With the 300 soldiers supported by Huang Wenchang, Li Xingzhi ordered Yang Biao and Li Rui to lead this group of troops and horses to attack the large and small dock forts on the left side of Lijiashan with the fire battalion.

For a time, Gaoyang's Longhua Township, Pangkou Township, Renqiu's Zhu'an Township, Qingta Township and other Wubao were attacked by Li Jiashan's rebels.

From the third day of the eighth month to the 25th of August, the Li Jiashan rebels attacked six dock forts, collected 2,300 stone of grain, 38,000 taels of silver, and more than 1,200 catties of medicine, in addition to more than 700 young and strong people and more than 200 old and weak.