After listening to Xie Huaiyuan's explanation, Chu Boyi and the others also realized that this was to simply emulate the courage of the overlord of Chu to "break the kettle and sink the boat". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info didn't bother here, and sent his disciples to move reinforcements.

After some orders, everyone gathered again in the hall of the inn, which was one of the Moge dive sites (small strongholds), and there were no other trivial matters. At this time, most of the tables and chairs in the hall had been removed, and the accompanying senior disciples and elders were already waiting in the room, and a rough map of Nanzhili (around Nanjing, Jiangsu) was spread out on the long table in the center of the hall.

Chu Boyi led the Moge to resist the Japanese in the southeast all the year round, and had relatively rich experience and a strong grasp of the overall situation and the combat power of the Japanese invaders.

Chu Boyi didn't have much to think about at this time, and his current mind was focused on how to stop this gang of would-be robbers, even if they couldn't be defeated, they had to be stopped outside Taizhou City, otherwise once the Kou people burned and plundered Taizhou along the way, they would go straight to Yangzhou Mansion. Although Ying Tianfu has a garrison of tens of thousands, it is beyond the reach of this place, waiting for the Nanjing Military Department to prepare troops and horses to set off to help, and hundreds of miles north of the river have become scorched earth.

"We have long swords with us, and we don't have bows and crossbows, and we have a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat. Chu Boyi said with a little headache, "The armies of the surrounding guards don't know if they can compete for something like Dongxian County, so that I can gather reinforcements." ”

Xie Huaiyuan said: "My beggar gang has three bags of hundreds of disciples, although they are all junior disciples, but they all have some ability to attack, I went to choose some good hands with the elders to blow arrows, etc., but it is better than nothing." ”

Chu Boyi expressed his gratitude: "It's hard work." ”

Bai Mosheng stepped forward and said: "Bai also has a bit of secret weapon kung fu in his hands, so I will lead this trip." And at that time, Bai can go high and high with light skills to attract the attention of Kou Zhong. ”

Xie Huaiyuan nodded and said, "It's great that Brother Tingyan can lead it, and you have to be careful of those firearms." ”

Bai Mosheng replied with a "hmm", and pointed to the map in his hand and said: "Bai Mou is in the north to observe the defenders of the garrison who are sitting in the town to defend the Tatar light cavalry to attack and harass, which is generally intercepted in echelons, gradually weakened, and then assembled to attack, and completed its work in one battle. Bai's attack is only the first step, at this time, the Japanese should have approached Rugao, the villages and towns near Rugao are dense, and their crowds will be scattered and focus on burning, here more than 100 disciples can be divided into multiple groups, from the side to surprise the few people who are left alone, and then retreat, can also achieve the effect of delaying the enemy. ”

Chu Boyi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Tingyan's words are very good. It's better to do this, the beggars help the disciples to explore the enemy's traces, the Moge disciples hold swords and move, and the Nancao Pavilion disciples press the formation, cooperate with each other, and advance and retreat are well-founded. ”

Everyone said that it was a good policy, and it was decided to implement it in turn. Bai Mosheng led more than 30 disciples of the beggar gang to blow arrows and attack the disciples to set off first, and went to the vicinity of Rugao to find out the general distribution of the thieves, and attacked the large number of thieves who were rushing inward. Song Chi, Mu Zhan, and a number of elders of the beggar gang led a large number of disciples to follow closely behind, and carried out precise raids on the relatively scattered thieves according to the situation that Bai Mosheng had led to hear. Chu Boyi was still sitting in Taizhou, waiting for the arrival of help, and gathering a large number of troops to fight a decisive battle against the Japanese invaders.

Li Chengliang was not idle, the trip to the Taizhou official office was very smooth, and the lord of the official office was a literati with some integrity, and immediately ordered the officials to gather and organize a militia group to prepare for the enemy. After Li Chengliang returned, he took on the task of joint communication in the two echelons of Bai Mosheng and Song Chi, and complained for not being able to go into battle directly to kill the enemy.

The plan has been decided, and it is agreed that after arriving near Rugao tonight, it will be done according to the plan, if any group of people and horses encounter an accident, they will retreat to Guxi Town, thirty miles west of Rugao City.

Everyone gathered the horses that still had some physical strength, handed them over to Bai Mosheng, and went out as soon as possible to investigate the movements of the Japanese invaders.

Riding out of the city, Li Chengliang followed closely behind Bai Mosheng, wanting to fight with his master for another chance to go into battle and kill the enemy.

After walking for about half a day, the blood-colored sunset shone on the whole sky, and the sunset floated in colorful colors. The green paddy fields on both sides of the official road seem to be covered with a layer of red veil, and a breeze blows through the fields, and the sultry summer heat dissipates a lot.

"Da Da~" A rapid sound of galloping horses came from the front of the official road, and everyone looked at it as one of the six bags of disciples of the beggar gang who came out to investigate.

Everyone reined in their horses, and the disciple galloped to the front, one turned over and dismounted, and reported: "Bai Ge envoy, three miles ahead, I found a group of Japanese robbers, about thirty or so, and from a distance, the clothes seem to be mainly Buddha Lang machine people. ”

Bai Mosheng pondered for a moment and ordered: "Cheng Liang, you quickly go to the rear to report the discovery, and let them divide a force to exterminate these thieves." Investigate the disciples, you can change the direction to find the large army of Japanese invaders, and we will now go north to bypass here. ”

Li Chengliang gave up his hand to receive the order, and when he returned to the horse, he went west to find the convergence of Song Chi and others. The two teams were not far apart, and after running back along the official road for only ten miles, they saw Song Chi and others marching on foot.

"Elder Song, about fifteen miles ahead, there is a group of more than thirty widows, mainly the Buddha Lang Jiren. The mission of the cabinet is to send the people to exterminate these pirates. The rest marched north, waiting for orders. Li Chengliang will restrain the horse and immediately report to Song Chi.

Song Chi responded, turned to the young man behind him and said, "Wan Qisong, your team will go with Master Li Xiang." The rest stopped, heading north. ”

"Ordered. The young man who had dealt with Li Chengliang in Beijing before was less light and more dignified between his eyebrows at this time.

Li Chengliang and Wan Qisong simply saluted and did not be verbose, urging the team of about 20 people to rush forward. Although he remembered in his heart that the master had told him not to take risks when he was leaving, and that he would chase north once he had guided the backup to find the gang of would-be robbers, Li Chengliang still kept hesitating in his heart to decide, whether to disobey the master's order to kill the enemy with his own hands or follow the master's order to retreat from the enemy.

Wan Qisong, who was beside him, seemed to notice Li Chengliang's uncertain face, and asked, "Master Li Xiang, this is just to exterminate some rabble, what's the trouble?"

Li Chengliang was puzzled when he heard this, and asked, "Where did this rabble's argument come from?"

Wan Qisong replied in a relaxed tone: "My Moge disciples all know that this Japanese is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, to say that the most powerful is the Dongying Japanese people, equipped with Japanese swords, good martial arts, and fierce and ruthless, can fight to the death with the main force of the official army and do not retreat, followed by those coastal thieves who have committed crimes and fled, so brave and ruthless, the third is these Franc machine people, most of them are from the coastal flow of Liangguang, relying on the advantage of firearms, if you meet a little equipped with acceptable officers and soldiers are all fleeing from the wind." ”

When Li Chengliang heard Wan Qisong's explanation, he suddenly made up his mind and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Wan Qi." You and I don't want to be so polite, just be commensurate with brothers. I'll speed up, and don't let that thief plunder any more. ”

Wan Qisong was a little puzzled by Li Chengliang's answer, but he also responded: "What the senior brother said is very true. ”

The crowd and others accelerated their march again, and the three bags of disciples of those beggars were sparse in martial arts, but they could still keep up at this time, and they had never fallen behind, Li Chengliang couldn't help but admire these walking "beggars" who were as big as himself or even younger than himself.