Chapter 26 March to the Village

That night, Zhao Dongyun and others were stationed outside Ping Village. There was no mob night attack on the station overnight. Zhao Dongyun did not say that he slipped into Sister Fang Ruolian's room in the middle of the night.

After dawn the next day, Zhao Dongyun took the troops back to Guangzong. After the troops were ready, Zhao Dongyun looked at Fang Ruolian beside him and said, "You'd better follow me back to Guangzong County first. Bandits are rampant here. You can't live here for a few days alone!"

Zhao Dongyun's words are not exaggerated, but the truth. The church where Fang Ruolian was before had dozens of guards, and in the end, most of them were killed by the mob, so let's not mention whether the church can still live and teach now, but Zhao Dongyun can be sure that as long as he leaves with the soldiers away Those molls will come back immediately.

At this time, if Fang Ruolian, a nun, still stays in Pingxiang, she will be 100% killed, and considering her attractive appearance, 99 percent of them may be raped before the killing.

Although Fang Ruolian believes that she believes that he can transform the wicked, she also knows that God can't protect her. Thinking about the priests and nuns who died tragically yesterday, she can't imagine what she will be like, so although Zhao Dongyun in front of her looks very annoying, she still keeps up with her. The pace of the army returned to Guangzong.

Pingxiang is not far from Guangzong County, and it is located in the Hebei Plain with a flat terrain and no high mountains and rivers, so there is no need to climb mountains and wade in water along the way, so the speed of the troops march is relatively fast.

The journey back to Guangzong County is only more than ten kilometers. Even if there are infantry troops and some heavy, prisoners in the army, it only took a few hours to return to Guangzong County.

After returning, Zhao Dongyun threw the mob prisoners to Guangzong County government office and put them in custody. Zhao Dongyun did not worry that Guangzong County did not have enough power to take care of these prisoners. In fact, the local county team in Guangzong County is not weak, at least much better than those trained troops.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was even more angry that all kinds of old armies were unbearable after the reign of Gengzi, and the new armies in various provinces were extremely rare. In order to solve local security problems, in addition to reorganizing the old army, there were also some local militia self-defense armed forces such as county teams and patrol battalions. The Nanhe County Team under Zhu Jiabao mentioned above That's it.

Most of these militias were formed by local gentry with money. Large families and the government jointly paid for the recruitment of strong men or simply the guardians of large families, and hired local darts and martial artists as mentors. The equipment was mainly composed of single-shot rifles, with dozens to hundreds of people, and they fought. Lilai is actually much better than those who practiced the army.

For example, in this Shunde Guangzong civil resurrection, militia organizations of this nature have played a huge role. In the past few months, county teams, patrol battalions or other famous militia organizations have undertaken the heavy responsibility of county and urban defense. The reason why Guangzong, Julu, Weixian, Nanhe and other counties have been able to dominate the mob Up to now, the self-defense armed forces in each county have made great contributions.

A few days ago, Shunde Prefecture's military training was defeated, that is, the county team under Zhu Jiabao came out to save them. As a more serious area of banditry, the county team under the county magistrate Zhao E was as high as more than 200, which was equipped with a lot of fire guns. It is estimated that these county teams could not take the initiative to go out of the city to encircle and suppress the mob, but watch the detention How big is it that several prisoners are still mothers?

Zhao Dongyun and Zhao E from Guangzongzhi County had lunch together. At the banquet, Zhao E did not show Zhao Dongyun any civil servants to despise military officers. In the late Qing Dynasty, although civilian officials still despised military officers, this was also a scoring situation. They despised those old military officers, and the new army No one dares to despise the officer's words.

If you want to despise him, Zhao Dongyun also despises Zhao E, the seven-level county magistrate. Speaking of the official title, Zhao Dongyun is an alternate Zhizhou and Zheng Sipin. Speaking of the future, Zhao Dongyun will not be able to become an alternate magistrate or even an alternate Taoist priest in a few years, and his grade will be correspondingly promoted to the third grade, from the second grade and the second grade. If he is lucky enough, his official rank can be promoted to a servant of the Ministry of War or a governor before the end of the Qing Dynasty.

As the leader of the young generation in the Beiyang system, Zhao Dongyun has the right to soar rapidly!

In the late Qing Dynasty, he studied abroad and returned to join the army, and if he was valued by his superiors, the promotion speed was super fast.

Zhao E is also a practical person. Naturally, he is not an ordinary pedantic literati in his mind. Otherwise, the court would not have sent him to Guangzong to suppress the popular uprising. As soon as he came to Guangzong, he would first appease him. After he failed, he decisively asked Yuan Shikai to send troops to suppress it.

This person is also a decisive and ruthless person!

The two had a happy luncheon. Zhao Dongyun generously promised to give several experienced officers to help him train the county team for a few days.

It's just that Zhao Dongyun and Zhao E just finished their lunch, and there was an urgent report outside: "A large number of bandits gathered in this village!"

"Only a village? It's not far from Dongzhao Village. They are bold enough to gather there!" Zhao Dongyun has looked at the map of Shunde Prefecture countless times during this period. Not to mention the counties and towns are familiar with it, and even some villages know it. Only the village knows that it is there.

Zhou E also stroked his beard: "Jingtingbin and those people rely on nothing more than the countryside. Once he is far away from Dongzhao and other places, it will be difficult to make waves. However, this person is also a little bold. Now that the army is under pressure, he dares to gather people to raise the flag!"

"But it's okay for them to gather together, so that I don't have to look everywhere, and I will personally lead the troops to annihilate them in one fell swoop later!" Zhao Dongyun heard a large number of mobi gathering, but instead of feeling nervous or afraid, he wanted to laugh out loud.

You should know that he has spent more than half a month searching in Guangzong, Giant Deer and other places to find Jingtingbin and others. Isn't it just to find a large number of bandits and destroy them? Now he sent a pillow to sleep.

"Brother Yang, your troops are uneven now, and the number of people is less than 1,000. Now that the bandits have gathered, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of them. Are you more cautious!" Zhao E knew that Zhao Dongyun's troops were insufficient, and he was also afraid that Zhao Dongyun would underestimate the enemy too much, and then fell into an unfavorable situation. It doesn't matter if Zhao Dongyun hurt him, but don't harm Zhao E!

Zhao Dongyun knew what Zhao E was worried about, but he was just worried that his troops would suffer the same defeat as those training troops.

However, what Zhao E did not know is that the new army led by Zhao Dongyun and the training army under the two towns of Daming and Zhengding are not the same concept at all.

"Brother Zhao, I'm going back to the camp to prepare first. In addition, please help me with my brother's logistical supplies!" Zhao Dongyun didn't stay much, and soon left after saying goodbye to Zhao E.

After he returned to the temporary barracks station, he called several chief officers in the army to discuss the military situation. Soon, seven or eight people were sitting in the main hall of Zhao Dongyun's temporary courtyard.

The people present were all the backbone officers under Zhao Dongyun, such as the two assistants, the leaders of each team, Wu Changlan, the leader of the cavalry team and others.

"Just now, there was news from the north that the bandits gathered in the village and had taken the oath to raise the flag to gather thousands of people!" Zhao Dongyun said the opening remarks and said, "What do you think of this?"

As the second-in-command under Zhao Dongyun, Li Zejun was the first to say, "We have been looking for them. Now that they have taken the initiative to come up, we should immediately send troops to gather them and annihilate them!"

At this time, Lin Yongquan also said, "It is certain to send troops to suppress it, but how to fight? How many troops will it take to gather and annihilate it?

Lin Yongquan asked himself and answered himself: "According to the view of the Ministry of Public Affairs, we should lead the main force to go directly to the north, flash the bandits with lightning speed, and round up the fugitive bandits after defeating them!"

"In this case, the risk is still relatively large. If we defeat them alone, it won't take long for them to gather all sentient beings again, so we should stabilize the situation, slowly march from all directions, and finally gather and annihilate them, without letting go of them!" These are the words of Gu Qizhi, the leader of the right team of the second battalion, and his words are fierce.

"Are you marching from all sides? How can we have so many troops? Now our army is full of more than 800 people in Guangzong County. Even if we transfer back the sentries sent to other directions for clearance, there are only more than 1,000 people. There is no problem relying on 1,000 of us to defeat more than 10,000 bandits, but how is it possible to completely surround them? It was Wu Changlan of the cavalry.

Next, many of them spread one after another. Some insisted on directly defeating the bandits, and some insisted on surrounding and annihilating them. Looking at his subordinates arguing again, Zhao Dongyun was also a little difficult to decide.

Everyone made it very clear that their troops are too small. If they divide their troops, they may not be able to surround the more than 10,000 bandits, but if they do not gather the main force to directly defeat the bandits, then it can be expected that they can only defeat the bandits at most, and these bandits can be reassembled in a few days.

At this time, Zhao Dongping, who had been standing behind Zhao Dongyun and served as the minutes of the meeting, said, "We can't divide our troops. As long as we enter the enemy array and catch Jing Tingbin, we will not be afraid of those scattered soldiers!"

Hearing this, Zhao Dongyun was also chilled!

Yes, these bandits in front of them are not used to bandits or exiles. They are just fools who are deceived by the United Village Association and the Boxer Rebels. In fact, killing them can't solve the root of the matter, because as long as Jingtingbin and those leaders of the Boxers are still there, they can be deceived in a few days. More villagers are involved.

And if you want to completely destroy the Guangzong civil unrest, you must kill Jing Tingbin, Zhao Sanduo and other leaders. There is no need to worry about killing the rest of them. If you can't kill them, kill 1,000 and 10,000 fools, it will be difficult to completely parallel this civil revolution.

After thinking of this, Zhao Dongyun no longer hesitated: "Order, order Bi Xiaoqiang to go south quickly, station in the eastern part of the village, and cooperate with our main force to attack the village bandits!"

Then he said, "Immediately order the patrol troops to rush back to Guangzong. The troops in the city are ready to fight and march with me to the village tomorrow!"