The Sun Never Sets Great China

The next day, Zhang Huahan asked the troops to prepare for departure. He asked the two girls he took in to ride in the carriage with Ding Rou, while he set off on foot with the soldiers. Because last night Zhang Huahan asked Zhang Chao to lead a dozen soldiers who could ride horses Except for the horse pulling the carriage, all the horses went to explore first. After all, it is not so easy to find a place with resources such as coal and iron and a stronghold that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Everyone packed up their things and packed them, and pulled fifty carts of dry food and supplies. They had no money to buy horses, so they had to use people to pull them. Fortunately, there were too many people, and everyone was going to take turns pulling the carts.

While everyone was packing up, when Zhang Huahan and the three battalion commanders led a few soldiers to patrol around, they saw noises outside the temporary camp. When they went out, they saw a strong old man of about fifty with a Stocky young men in their twenties were arguing with the guards.

After Zhao Qiang, the commander of the third battalion, saw the two of them, he happily said to Zhang Huahan: "Regimental Commander, my master and my junior brother are here. I will call them over." came in.

Zhang Huahan looked at the old man with an ordinary appearance and a strong body and the young man with an equally ordinary appearance and a strong body. They did not have the aura and image of a master. They were more like two peasants, not as good as Zhang Liang, nor as Zhao Qiang .

Zhang Huahan and Li Wenhua also politely clasped their fists and said the polite words that they have admired for a long time, but Zhang Liang said directly: "I, Zhang Liang, have been in the Northwest for more than 20 years. I didn't know that there was a name called Wang Hao in the Northwest." The old man looked at Zhang Liang and smiled. : "The old man has heard of Zhang Daxia's name 20 years ago. When I saw it today, it's nothing more than that, haha." Zhang Liang heard it, and immediately said: "Okay, okay, let me learn your kung fu." The old man Said: "Real kung fu is used to kill people. You can't see it in the competition. Yesterday you and my apprentice beat Lily because you were afraid of hurting him. If you let him go, just let him go Thirty strokes are needed to win, and Zhang Liang, the king of Northwest swordsmen, is not a man who has made a name for himself." Zhang Liang heard that the other party could see his own details, and praised him greatly, so he put away his contempt in his heart, Also have a good impression of each other.

At this time, the old man looked at a big pagoda tree next to him, which was thicker than a person's waist, and he said to everyone: "If I don't practice, you will think that we are here to eat and drink, okay, I will take it out." Come with some real skills.” He walked under the big locust tree, luckily, he chopped it down with one palm, and with a loud farting sound, the palm cut down more than half of the big locust tree, and the big tree wobbled and did not fall Next, everyone should have admired Wang Hao for cutting off a big tree that was thicker than his waist with his palm, but the old man's thunderous fart made everyone want to laugh. Wang Hao retracted his palm and said with a smile: " Hehe, it could have been cut short, but it’s useless when I’m old, and I just cut it in half.” Zhang Huahan, who had the worst endurance, hugged his stomach and laughed loudly. Everyone laughed, only Zhang Liang didn't smile. He walked up to the tree with a solemn face, looked carefully at the crack in the tree, and suddenly turned to Wang Hao and said, "Old hero Wang, I want to ask you something. To be honest, was it someone you led who killed Tieta Toutuo and Yijian Wuhen, who had no opponents in the northwest ten years ago?" Wang Hao smiled and said: "Hehe, you are very powerful Ah, it seems that you have carefully checked the dead wounds of the culprits. Back then, the gangsters were really outrageous. They did all kinds of crimes, including murder and arson. Many martial arts heroes were killed by them. I happened to go to Huashan to meet some old men. My friend went, and when I came back, I heard about it and fought with my son. To be honest, my apprentice Qiang Er is very knowledgeable but not suitable for martial arts, so I didn’t call him and let him guard the house.” Everyone took a breath of air. Ten years ago, Tieta Toutuo and Yijian Wuhen, who had no opponents in the northwest, had 47 members.And Yijian Wuhen is also a very powerful swordsman, with superb swordsmanship, he always only uses one sword to stab the vital point when killing people, and he claims that he kills hungry people without any wound marks. So many powerful masters were killed by two people, and none of them escaped. One of them is a child. Wang Hao's son, Wang Hong, is only 23 or [-] years old now, and he was only [-] or [-] years old ten years ago, which is amazing.But it's reasonable for them to kill, because I have never heard of anyone with this ability in the Northwest, but after seeing Wang Hao's strength, they do have this ability, and the group of Tieta Toutuo and Yijian Wuhen suddenly After the death, no one said that he killed himself. Even if a few second-rate swordsmen said that he killed himself, no one would believe it. It seems that Wang Hao did it.

After listening to Wang Hao's words, Zhang Liang knelt down to Wang Hao and cried: "Benefactor, you are the one who avenged my family's blood feud, and those gangsters like Iron Tautuo and Yijian Wuhen heard about my crime." He was so famous that he suddenly came to my house. I was totally unprepared. Although there were many apprentices, they were not in front of me. My two sons and eleven apprentices at home fought hard and were no opponents. The whole family was killed. I was taken away by my eldest apprentice and second son desperately and escaped with my life. Later, I called my friends and apprentices to take revenge. I was no match for them in several battles. Many friends and apprentices were killed and injured. I thought I would not be able to avenge, but suddenly I was overjoyed when I got the news from the apprentice who was following them that they were all dead. I ran there and saw that the iron tower Toutuo was cut into two with the palm of his flesh. Thirty people were killed with the palm of his flesh. Yes, Yijian Wuhen and a dozen other bandits were killed with short knives, it seems that little brother Wang Hong is good at wielding short knives." Then, he looked at Wang Hong's two calves with a knife on each. a short knife.Wang Hao hurriedly helped him up and said: "It's too late for me to know. Many people were killed by those bandits. Brother Gao, please cheer up. Those bandits can be so rampant because of the incompetence of bureaucrats. If they do evil, Just use the army to suppress it, and so many people will not die. Didn’t Commander Zhang advocate the establishment of an army for the people to protect the people? I’m here for this. Commander Zhang, if you do what you say, I will The lives of my father and son and my apprentice will be sold to you, and there will never be the Ming army where Ah Qiang left the country, but if you break your promise and do not fulfill what you said, we will leave immediately after we find out." Zhang Huahan immediately told Tian Swearing, everyone also swore allegiance to Zhang Huahan.

Zhang Huahan asked Wang Hao to be the commander of his own company and Wang Hong to be his personal bodyguard. Wang Hong's wife, Zhang Yueer, also followed. Zhang Huahan arranged for her to get into the carriage. Zhang Liang said that Wang Hong's wife Zhang Yueer was also a A famous heroine, she retired later. It seems that she fell in love with Wang Hong, who is a master of martial arts, so she concentrated on being the young daughter-in-law of the Wang family.

Zhang Huahan walked forward with everyone. Although the body was exhausted, the mental power generated by the powerful soul supported the weak body, and even slowly improved the body.After walking for a long time, Zhang Huahan felt too dull, and immediately said to the company commander Wang Hao and personal bodyguard Wang Hong in front of him: "It's too boring, let everyone sing a song as a military song, it can improve morale, and it can also relieve the stress of marching." Depressed." Wang Hao said: "The head of the group is right, but what songs to sing, we are all vulgar people, we know some songs like wolf numbers." Zhang Huahan said: "Tell everyone that I will lead the singing, and everyone will follow. Sing, Wang Hong, you go and tell the three battalion commanders and Zhang Gao in front to let their people sing military songs with our soldiers." The two took the order to inform, Zhang Huahan had two songs in his heart In the selection, one is "Serving the Country with Loyalty" and the other is "March of the Volunteers". It is difficult to choose between the two songs. It is better to sing the "March of the Volunteers" first and then sing "March of the Volunteers". The horse neighs, the sword is like frost. Thinking about the Yellow River, the water is vast, 20 years..." The loud chorus mobilized everyone's enthusiasm, from the last personal soldier company of the team to the logistics and other troops led by Zhang Gao in the middle of the team to the third battalion The second battalion began to sing, and the first battalion followed the second battalion behind to sing the military song before Wang Hong gave Zhang Liang the order to sing the military song.

It took five days of walking on the rugged mountain road to reach the place Zhang Chao chose. Fortunately, Zhang Chao sent a cavalry back to lead the team to take the shortest and easy way, otherwise it would not have arrived in half a month.

After setting up camp, Zhang Huahan sent Wang Hong to call Wang Hao, Zhang Gao, Zhang Liang, commander of the first battalion, Li Wenhua, commander of the second battalion, and Zhao Qiang, commander of the third battalion, to hold a meeting.

After everyone came, Zhang Chao first took out a map he had drawn, pointed to a valley and said, "There is a cottage in this place, and they are very good at choosing a place. There are a lot of plants, and the field of view is very good. Just send a few sentries to prevent the enemy from climbing up. The only weakness is that they are all dirt hills. It is easier to dig into the valley, but it requires a lot of people to do it, and it is easy to be discovered by the defender. So it can still be prevented. Moreover, there is abundant groundwater in the valley, and it is easy to dig wells to get water. There is a mine rich in iron resources in the valley, and there are three larger coal mines not far from the valley. The valley mouth is There are more than 300 bandits in the village built of wood and stones, and the leader is Bai Da, who is a villain.” At this time Zhao Qiang said: “I know Bai Da, it’s not a thing that bullies men and women. It turned out that he was in the same unit as me, and my boss was his brother-in-law, who was not a good person. After the Ming army was defeated by the Dashun army, the Dashun army captured and killed his brother-in-law, and he also escaped. Unexpectedly When he got here, his skills are average, anyway, he can make two or three tricks in front of me." Zhang Chao continued: "They also arrested more than 500 farmers to plant land for them in the valley, and they also arrested more than 800 women and girls for their abuse. They have been harmed by them for dozens of miles around, and they all use cold weapons." "Wait, what are cold weapons? Isn't it a knife and gun?" Zhang Liang asked strangely, and everyone listened in puzzlement. With Zhang Chao's explanation.Zhang Huahan directly explained: "Cold weapons are the weapons such as knives, guns and sticks that you use now. The corresponding cold weapons are hot weapons. Hot weapons are muskets and artillery. We will build a powerful hot weapon force in the future. You can shoot and kill the opponent, but that will be a matter for the future." Only then did everyone figure it out.

Zhang Chao went on to say: "The day after tomorrow, when the Dashun Army retreated to Xi'an, a troop escorting the gold and silver treasures looted from Beijing and other places will pass through here. This escort team has 3000 people. I estimated the transport team of the Dashun Army." There are about a dozen of them, so the escort team passing by here carries at least 500 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry." Everyone took a breath when they heard the astronomical figure of silver.And Zhang Chao continued: "Bai Da has also received the news. He seems to want to rob the team that escorted the gold, silver and jewelry, but he can't do it alone. He contacted the bandits in the three surrounding big villages to prepare A joint operation can gather about 4000 people. We can use Baida to sneak attack his cottage when he led a large army out to rob, and then wait for the bandits and the Dashun army to fight for both sides to clean up the mess and grab the money. Come over to us to build the start-up capital of our power."

Zhang Huahan said to Zhang Chao: "Aren't you afraid of their revenge after robbing the Dashun Army? We don't have much strength now." Zhang Chao said: "The Dashun Army has been chased into Shanxi by Wu Sangui and the Qing army, and the main force is very strong. We will return to Xi'an soon, and we don't care about us at all, but we try not to reveal our identities when we do it, in case the Qing Eight Banners find out that we are in danger, but we will be robbed as soon as we come, and suspicion cannot escape. But if there is no start-up capital, we have no economic support for development except robbery. We can build anything, but we need people. If you don’t have money, you can force them to do bad things for you, and we have to buy food, of course. You can also rob the supplies of the Qing army, so there will definitely be a big conflict with the Qing army, but first they will not have a lot of troops to deal with us, and we will have time to train and produce equipment before loading our guns." After finishing speaking, he asked Listen to the bewildered others explain breech-loading guns and the current form of military power.