"Mayor, our people are here again."
On a hillside, a man holding a monocular said to the people around him.
The person he called the mayor was a tall man. Around him, dozens of farmers and soldiers holding weapons had gathered.
Soon, the distant team approached the hillside.
"Captain Chen, the mayor is in front, come with me!" Peasants and soldiers greeted the team at the foot of the hillside.
A team of about twenty peasants and soldiers was brought to the hillside.
"Chen Qingfu of the Peasants and Soldiers Team came to report." The captain of the Peasants and Soldiers Team came to the mayor Wu Tong and raised his right arm in salute.
Wu Tong returned the salute and asked, "Did the fire gun bring much?"
As he spoke, he looked towards the team of farmers and soldiers brought by Chen Qingfu.
"Most of the firecrackers in the peasant army have been brought. Unfortunately, there are not many firecrackers. There are only five firecrackers. However, my subordinates have brought the only tiger squatting cannon in the team." Chen Qingfu looked back and pointed at the follower. The two gunners at the back of the team, and the Crouching Tiger Cannon in their hands.
"Is there a cannon? Where is it?" Wu Tong looked around. When he saw the squatting tiger cannon in the gunner's hand, his face showed joy.
Chen Qingfu accompanied Wu Tong to the two gunners who brought the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
"With it, we are more certain to stop the army." Wu Tong happily touched the cold Tiger Crouching Cannon with his hand, and the joy on his face could not be concealed.
Chen Qingfu, who was following him, said, "Mayor, are the officers and soldiers chasing you cavalry or infantry?"
"Cavalry and infantry are not so fast." Wu Tong looked away at the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and turned to Chen Qingfu and said, "I know that the training time for our peasants and soldiers is too short, and this mission is so dangerous, but you They are the peasant soldiers of the peasant association, and the peasant association wants to protect the people, so even if there is danger, the peasant soldiers must fight."
"Before I came here, I thought that this battle would be difficult, but I am not afraid of death." Chen Qingfu looked at Wu Tong and said.
Wu Tong reached out and patted Chen Qingfu on the shoulder, and said: "I know that you used to work as an errand in Linxian County, and then you were selected to return to the village as a peasant soldier. Today I will give you a guarantee. After this battle, you If the two of us are still alive, I will find a way to send you to the martial arts hall to study."
"Go to the school!" Chen Qingfu shook his head vigorously and said, "No, no, this subordinate is a rough man and can't study. If he goes to the school, it will be an embarrassment to the mayor. I won't go."
Hearing this, Wu Tong rolled his eyes angrily and cursed: "You know what? After going to the martial arts hall, you can directly become an official in the army. Your future is limitless. Could it be that you want to be a military officer for the rest of your life?" Peasant and soldier squad leader.”
"The captain of the agricultural and soldier team is also very good. It is close to home. When the farming is busy, I can still take care of a few acres of my own land. I also have a mother-in-law. Life is very beautiful." Chen Qingfu said happily.
Wu Tong rolled his eyes at him and said: "You worthless fool, you know how many people want to go to the martial arts hall but can't. If the general hadn't built a military academy in Datong to train military generals, would you want to go?" There are no places for them.”
"Is the Military Academy also a school?" Chen Qingfu asked curiously.
Wu Tong said: "The Military Academy specializes in training generals at all levels in the army. Most of the gentlemen who teach are from the Jiangwu Hall. Do you know how many battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders in the military divisions of several major wars are from the Jiangwu Hall? In the future, if you After entering the martial arts hall, you will also have the opportunity to become the battalion commander of the combat division in the future."
"The kind of Yingzheng who has thousands of soldiers and horses under his command?" Chen Qingfu asked.
Wu Tong nodded.
"Oh my god, a battalion can rival the guerrilla generals from the imperial court. That's a high-ranking official of the third or fourth rank." Chen Qingfu's eyes gleamed.
The attraction of being an official was very great to him, even if he was an official of the Tiger-Character Flag.
Wu Tong said: "How about it? Do you want to go to the Wushu Hall to study?" Gu
"Think, think." Chen Qingfu nodded vigorously, then his face turned bitter and he said, "My subordinates are illiterate, so I'm afraid they won't be able to go to the martial arts hall."
Wu Tong smiled and said: "Literacy is easy. When this matter is over, I will keep you by my side and teach you how to read every day. When you can recognize the words almost, I will send you to the martial arts hall."
"All subordinates will obey the mayor's instructions." Chen Qingfu saluted Wu Tong and his party.
In order to have the opportunity to enter the martial arts hall and become an official, he was willing to become literate.
Wu Tong was very happy when he saw that the other party agreed.
Although the newly opened Military Academy in Datong is not called the Military Academy, in his opinion, it is no different from the Military Academy. They both train officers for the Tiger-Character Banner Army.
Soon, farmers and soldiers from several other villages also rushed to the hillside to join Wu Tong and others. There were more than a hundred farmers and soldiers in total.
Although these peasant soldiers have gone through some time of training, they are still very different from the soldiers in the army.
The peasants and soldiers who got together were okay at first, barely maintaining their formation, but later they gathered in small groups, and the team began to scatter. People in the crowd were talking to each other, and they became a mess.
Wu Tong looked at the peasants and soldiers in front of him, feeling weak in his heart.
With the peasants and soldiers in front of him, he really didn't have much confidence in blocking the more than 200 officers and cavalry.
"Mayor, we can't go on like this. With the situation like this, once the government troops attack, we won't have to fight at all. We will be in chaos ourselves." Chen Qingfu came to Wu Tong and said.
Without restraint, these peasants and soldiers in front of them looked more like a group of ordinary people, with no sense of crisis at all.
Wu Tong looked at Chen Qingfu and said, "I think the team of peasants and soldiers you brought has been maintained very well. Otherwise, all these peasants and soldiers would be under your command."
Compared with the peasants and soldiers from several other villages, although the more than 20 peasants and soldiers brought by Chen Qingfu were scattered again, the formation could be maintained, and there were relatively few people whispering in the team.
"My subordinates are the captains of the peasant and soldier squads. They can only manage the people they bring with them. Others may not listen to my subordinates." Chen Qingfu said hesitantly.
His eyes swept over the peasant and soldier team leaders from several other villages one by one.
"Quiet, quiet." Wu Tong shouted while looking at the noisy crowd in front of him.
However, even though he shouted several times, he could not stop the noise from the crowd.
As a last resort, he walked up to several peasant and soldier team captains and asked these people to control the peasant and soldier teams in his village.
With the help of several peasant and soldier team leaders, the crowd finally calmed down, and the peasant soldiers from different villages barely stood in several rows.
"Now, I accept Chen Qingfu as the temporary deputy mayor. I would like to ask Deputy Mayor Chen Qingfu to give me a lecture." Wu Tong himself was not from the army. Although he could risk his life, he knew in his heart that if he wanted to lead the army, he had to rely on the army. man of.
At this time, Chen Qingfu was not polite and walked in front of several peasant and soldier teams.
He knew that what was needed now was to mobilize the morale of several peasant soldiers and share the same hatred with the enemy. Otherwise, there would be no need to fight this battle at all, and he would be in chaos before the enemy came.
He didn't know much and his speech was rough.
He said what he had said to the peasants and soldiers he had brought before him again to the peasants and soldiers in front of him.
