Crimson Dawn

Chapter 166 no_name

When Pang Zi arrived ten miles away, the brothers of the Escort Bureau were already waiting in a hidden place nearby.Seeing that Pang Zi was coming, Pang Tianshuo hurried up and said, "Brother, the brothers are all here." Knowing that there were spies among his people, Pang Tianshuo felt very annoyed and stepped up his guard.Every time a wave of brothers set off, he personally counted the number of people.Before Pang Zi arrived, everyone in the escort agency had arrived.

Looking carefully at the team led by Pang Zi, Pang Tianshuo asked strangely: "Brother, where is Li Kun?"

Pang Zi snorted coldly, and shouted at Gao Songling, "Get him out."

The brothers in the Escort watched Gao Songling pull Li Kun out of the sack, but they didn't know what happened, but they heard Pang Zi say loudly: "There's an insider here, Li Kun took us for a fuck. Brothers sold."

All the brothers changed their faces when they heard this, and Pang Zi didn't care about Li Kun's ashen face, he told the brothers who surrounded him what Li Kun had done loudly.As soon as he finished speaking, the people around were already angry. Some people wanted to rush up and beat Li Kun, but the people behind him cursed outside because they couldn’t get in the crowd. Li Kun’s eighteenth generation ancestors were scolded all over in an instant. .

In order to avoid being beaten to death by the angry crowd, Li Kun leaned tightly on Pang Zi's leg.Pang Zi shouted: "Everyone, don't hit him."

"Brother, are you still protecting him?"

"Brother Pang, give him to us, we will kill him."

The brothers rushed forward unrelentingly, and it seemed that Li Kun must be killed.

"I told him that as long as he tells the truth, he will not be handed over to everyone. Since he has told the truth, he, Li Kun, can break his promise. I, Pang Zi, are not such a person." Pang Zi stood up for Li Kun. He stopped everyone and shouted.To put it bluntly, it finally stopped everyone from beating Li Kun for the time being.But everyone did not intend to let Li Kun go.

"Brother Pang Da, spare your life! Brother Pang Da, spare your life!" Li Kun kept crying.

Pang Zi looked at Li Kun with contempt, then pulled him up, pulled out the saber at his waist and cut the rope. "Li Kun, I won't let everyone kill you. I can also let you go. As long as you can pass my test, you can go."

The words were so strange that no one, including Li Kun, understood.Pang Zi asked everyone to get out of the way. He led two horses, and asked for a knife from Pang Tianshuo and handed it to Li Kun.

"Brothers, I, Pang Zi, always mean what I say. Don't interfere with any of you. I will settle this matter." After shouting, Pang Zi said to Li Kun: "There are horses here, and you have a knife in your hand. I also have horses. , There is also a knife. The other brothers don’t know how to do it. I will make dozens of calls. As long as you can escape, as long as we don’t meet in the future, I will not go to you.”

Li Kun never expected that Pang Zi would draw such a path for himself. He didn't know whether Pang Zi was telling the truth or a lie.I didn't dare to move for a while.Pang Zi didn't say anything else, he counted loudly: "One...two..."

Li Kun is also a clever man, seeing Pang Zi start counting, he couldn't care less, rushed up in three steps, got on a horse, and urged the horse to run for his life.At this time, Pang Zi had just counted to six, and he did not speed up, but continued to count at the same speed as before: "Seven...eight...nine... As soon as the sound fell, Pang Zi raised the knife in his hand and threw it at the back of Li Kun who was fleeing for his life. .

The long knife drew a white light and went straight to Li Kun's back. Pang Zi spent a lot of effort on the knife.The long knife went straight from Li Kun's back to his front.Swaying on the horse's back, Li Kun fell off the horse.Pang Zi strode forward, drew the long knife from Li Kun's body, and chopped off Li Kun's head with a backhand swing.

The brothers in the Escort had no idea that Pang Zi would deal with Li Kun in this way, and they didn't know what to say for a while.Pang Zi wiped off the blood from the knife on Li Kun's body, and strode back to his brothers. "Let's go now, everyone."

When the Huai Army was established, there were 500 people. After arriving in Shanghai in April and May 1862, with the support of foreign troops and the Shanghai customs tax, they purchased foreign guns and cannons to expand their troops.By 4, the Huai army first colluded with the British, French and Changsheng armies to fight against the Taiping army near Shanghai, and then cooperated with the Hunan army to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.After the fall of Tianjing (now Nanjing), the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in the autumn and winter of 5, the Huai Army was disbanded, leaving 1864 battalions with more than 1864 troops. From 1865 to 1868, as the main force of the Qing army, under the leadership of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, he successively fought against the Nian army in Anhui, Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhili (about present-day Hebei).After the Nian Army was suppressed, the Huai Army was responsible for the defense of important areas along the river and sea thousands of miles north and south from Tianjin and Baoding in the north to Shanghai and Wusong in the south.

The Canal Defense Battalion is a unit of the old Huai Army. The Shandong Canal is an important transportation artery and has always been a major source of tax revenue.Although the defense battalion was theoretically set up for the purpose of combating bandits along the river and protecting the safety of the canal, they didn't put their minds on this kind of work at all.Encountered such a fat job, the Huai Army has completely become a tax group that sets up cards to collect lijin, and military training has basically been abandoned.As for Yuan Shikai, who inherited the mantle of Li Hongzhang, he devoted all his energy to the construction of the new Beiyang army and the police system, and had no intention of recruiting the old Huai army at all.In the past few years, the military training of the defense battalion has plummeted.This army is already a tax collector with a gun, and its combat effectiveness is extremely low.

Canal taxation is a fast-moving business. As the saying goes, money comes and goes quickly.Among the officers and soldiers in the defense battalion, there were quite a few opium smokers.The low combat effectiveness originally caused by lack of training has reached a lower level with the help of opium.

But at any rate, it is an official army, and there are still some basic firearms.Li Yutang, the battalion officer of the Canal Defense Battalion, did not ride a horse. Instead, he sat in a sedan chair like a civil servant.But it was not an ordinary sedan chair, but a bamboo sedan chair carried by four people.Li Yutang compared himself to Wei Rui, a famous general of the Southern Dynasty, who rode in a bamboo sedan chair during battles.But the soldiers had never read a book and didn't know Wei Rui's deeds.Second, Mr. Li Yutang "eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles and smokes" all five poisons, his body has long been hollowed out, and he can't ride a horse at all.The soldiers were quite surprised to be able to come out with everyone in a sedan chair this time.As for the significance of the "example" Li Yutang set for himself, it did not impress any officers and soldiers at all.

Master Li was able to personally lead the troops to deal with Pang Zi this time, and it was considered a face for Pang Zi.Over the past few days, the name of "Pang Dawang" has spread all over the vicinity of the canal. It stands to reason that Pang Zi should have negotiated a tribute amount with the defense camp long ago, so that everyone can meet each other.However, this Pang Zi was extremely ignorant, Master Li sent people to look for him several times, but Pang Zi was very serious and perfunctory.If the soft ones are not enough, then come hard ones.But when he was about to do this, Pang Zi's escort became the line from Nangong County to Jinghan Road, which was out of the jurisdiction of Mr. Li.

Moreover, the insider of Pang Zi's bodyguard agency who bought it should tell Mr. Li that Pang Zi actually dared to send spies to monitor the actions of the defense camp.This is the real reason that completely angered Mr. Li.How dare a small bodyguard bureau monitor the defense camp?I really don't know how to write the dead word.Master Li immediately sent people to arrest the spies from the Escort Bureau, and ordered soldiers to Xingshi in Nangong County to interrogate them.

Master Li was very angry at what Pang Zi did. If everyone around him was like this, how would the order of the canal be maintained?So Mr. Li felt that it was necessary to teach Pang Zi a profound lesson.Moreover, he heard that Pang Zi's teacher is the current magistrate of Nangong County, and sending someone to teach Pang Zi a lesson may not be effective. In addition, Mr. Li heard that Pang Zi's bodyguard bureau also has a lot of guns, so he thought he might as well bring the brigade. People and horses go to block Pang Zi, so that things can always be done well.

In fact, Mr. Li may not really want to do anything to Pang Zi. The key is that Pang Zi once "offended" the Canal Defense Battalion. If he doesn't get his face back, the reputation of the defense camp will be damaged.

The brigade was marching on the road, and Mr. Li didn't care to look at the scenery. He was thinking about what to say to the county magistrate when he arrived in Nangong County, and how to intimidate Pang Zi.How to make Pang Zi spit out all the things that should be spit out before.How to set a tribute amount in the future.The key is the county magistrate of Nangong County. If the county magistrate hadn't been protecting the calf, Lord Li would have dealt with Pang Zi long ago.So the spies from the Escort Bureau were brought into the team. When they arrived in Nangong County, as long as these people were handed over to the county magistrate for questioning, the county magistrate would definitely know the rules.It is definitely more effective for the county magistrate to teach Pang Zi a lesson.

Seeing so many officers and soldiers on the side of the road, the people on the side of the road were so frightened that they hid on the side of the road. Occasionally, a few unknown guys passed by the defense camp on horseback. Had to run away.Mr. Li was carried by four people in the pride, so it is naturally impossible to notice, and the officers and soldiers who escorted the captured Escort brothers didn't care. Whenever someone rode by, these Escort brothers had strange sights in their eyes. .But the more prestigious brother always stopped these captured brothers with his eyes.So they finally did not perform too out of line.

Pang Zi got the news that those brothers were not imprisoned in the military camp of the defense camp, but were taken in the team and rushed to Nangong County together.He was greatly relieved, as long as the brothers could be rescued, Pang Zi's worries would be much less.But what is Li Yutang's plan in the defense battalion? He actually took these brothers to Nangong County.Does he still have to sue?Pang Zi thought.

It's one thing to say what you say, if you say that Pang Zi is really determined to tear yourself apart from the court, that's flattering Pang Zi.If Pang Zi's real purpose is to establish his own independent small kingdom in Nangong County, it is enough to have a teacher who is the county magistrate, and others must listen to his "Popular King".As for the outside of Nangong County, Pang Zi doesn't really care whether the court is in charge or someone else is in charge.

If I have to say, Uncle Jing Tingbin also had the same style back then, but when he encountered external challenges, foreign religions began to preach, and the imperial court imposed "foreign donations", Uncle Jing had the guts to rebel against these forces imposed on the people. Unreasonable things.Pang Zi, who had participated in Uncle Jing's uprising and watched the uprising fail with his own eyes, had concerns in his heart.These idiots in the defense camp are naturally not in Pang Zi's eyes, but if the Beiyang Army is attracted...

At the end of last year, Pang Zi and Chen Ke went to see the Beiyang Army's autumn exercise together, and saw the team of tens of thousands of people performing the drill with their own eyes. No matter what they said at the time, Pang Zi was very afraid in his heart.As long as the defense battalion is fought, the Beiyang army will be attracted sooner or later.Pang Zi had to face this fact.Every time he thought of this, he felt very panicked.

If you just ask the defense battalion to blackmail, it's not like you won't be able to make a deal in the future.

If you invite your own teacher to come forward, it is not impossible to have room for maneuver.

in case……

All kinds of reasons and excuses circled in Pang Zi's mind, and there was only a thin line to completely convince Pang Zi, but this line was like a copper wall and an iron wall, which could not be broken through.

"Brother Pang, what should we do?" Pang Tianshuo asked beside him.Seeing that the defenders were about to arrive at the preset ambush site, Pang Zi did not give orders for a long time.Ever since Pang Zi executed Li Kun, the brothers all knew that it was impossible to make peace with Fang Ying.Everyone waited sullenly.Some people wiped their knives and guns, and some people ate the salted duck eggs they carried with them.But no one spoke again.

"What should I do? Beat these bastards!" Pang Zi replied subconsciously.

As soon as these words came out, Pang Zi suddenly understood one thing, deep in his heart he wanted to fight this battle.The hatred of Uncle Jing, the hatred of the Boxer brothers, the hatred of those folks who have known each other since childhood.Beiyang, foreigners, and the imperial court owed too many blood debts.This is also the reason why Pang Zi can't lower his face and beg for mercy from the defense camp no matter what.This is why Pang Zi could not obey the order established by the imperial court anyway.

"Send the word, we are going to fight. Remember, rescue the brother first. Drive out the defense camp, and don't kill people if you can." Pang Zi explained the main points.

After hearing the order, the brothers of the Escort got on the horse one after another, and wrapped their veils around their faces.Pang Zi raised the long knife that had beheaded Li Kun, and only shouted, "Let's go!" Then he galloped onto the main road.

More than 500 officers and soldiers came, and the long line stretched out for several miles.Pang Zi had exchanged cavalry combat skills with Chai Qingguo before. He knew that if he divided into two teams and cut this long snake formation into several sections, and then the cavalry rode their horses to kill them, no matter how many infantry there were, they could kill them instantly. They crushed.But Pang Zi was afraid that his brothers would kill the addicts. If Li Yutang and the others were really killed, it would be a shocking event immediately.After the brothers became murderous, there was no way to stop them, and they would definitely start killing.In order to avoid this kind of thing from happening, Pang Zi adopted the most inefficient method, attacking from the front.The cavalry team approached the enemy in an instant, and Pang Zi was about to lead the team to charge up with a shot of the musket, but saw the enemy on the opposite side first stunned in place, and then collapsed.

This is not a partial collapse, but the entire enemy army is beginning to collapse.

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