After sweeping Niutou Ridge, the harvest was pretty good.

After going to those who were killed by them, there are still more than 60 people left, and they got 15 Hanyang-made and more than 20 fire sticks. There is nothing else, just some pots and pans, take them away.

Have a meal.

The main thing is manpower. With these 60 people, his men have expanded to more than 140 people. With Lin Zhonghu's heavy bag of gold sand, they are all armed with ease. After training for a while,

No one is afraid of improving their combat effectiveness. The government doesn't have as much firepower as them, and they still use fire sticks...

The other one is occupying the gold pit next door. The gold sand produced here is not as much as theirs. After refining, it is about forty taels, which is four large yellow croakers.

It is impossible for the officers and soldiers outside to know such a big commotion. Zhang Yi'an asked someone to send a message to Wang Yan to see him, which was really embarrassing. As far as the current situation is concerned, Wang Da's family has fired more than a hundred guns, including him.

The original manpower had undergone three months of basic military training, so it was not a big problem to kill the officers and soldiers. Moreover, in the current environment, the government did not have the power to annihilate and defeat such a large group of bandits.

However, Wang Yan did not want to take the lead. After leading people around Zhang Yi'an, they had an intimate conversation. They talked about how his ancestors made their fortune and the current health of his family. He did not change the distribution rules, and even Wang Yan very considerately assigned Lin Zhonghu's side

It was also replaced by them dividing it into 20%. It was a tacit agreement, no one should touch anyone, hello to me, hello to everyone.

Wang Yan really doesn't care about the sharing plan. After all, he occupies the golden pit and his fist is big, so he will do whatever he says. He just takes out a small amount and sends it away. Zhang Yi'an also understands, but he wants to report it to the superior.

Why is there less gold? It can only be because there is less digging.

Now in Lao Jingou, Wang Laowu is the eldest brother, and Zhang Yi'an, who holds the power of a hundred soldiers, has to kneel down and be his son. Although he was not convinced, when he saw Wang Yan, he fired a gun from 600 meters away and knocked away a bolt tied to a tree.

, after the small piece of cloth fluttering in the wind, and considering Wang Yan's deep concern for his family, those who do not accept it are honest.

After all the bandits from Niutouling arrived at Laojingou, Wang Yan asked his original subordinates to take over the patrol work in Jingeng next door and train them in turns. He brought the people with these intentions to build houses and conduct training. From the beginning to the end, he did not

I asked these people if they were willing to follow him, because if they didn't want to, they would die and there would be no other way, so the training effect was pretty good.

During this period, he went to Bingcheng again, found Lao Maozi from the last time, and with his recent accumulation, he bought another hundred Shuilianzhu and bullets. He decided whether to buy bullets or not, and he had to be able to settle accounts.

Now that he has more guns than men and stronger soldiers and horses, he has to fight whoever he wants.

After a group of people from Niutouling were trained, Wang Yan broke up his more than 100 people and formed two teams of 70 people. After all, they are two groups. It is inevitable to form cliques and cannot be allowed to

The original people continued to lead them. The two groups took turns guarding the two golden pits and took turns training.

Of course, you can't make a mistake behind closed doors, you must fight in practice. Just like the time at Niutouling, the mistakes made were really low-level. Wang Yan kicked them one by one and repaired them severely. After all, they themselves were bandits, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests.

, so I laid a trap and set a trap, but in the end, I was tricked by others and I had to deal with it.

The carrying capacity of the land is limited. In the entire Wudaogou, there are only two golden bandits, Lazishan and Niutoushan. The other bandits are not so lucky, so they just engage in the business of robbing families and homes, and the scale is not large. After all, what happened in Lao Jingou,

Everyone here knows that if they are really capable, they are not afraid of fighting with the more than 100 people in the government.

After the second batch of manpower was trained and after collecting intelligence for two months, Wang Yan directly asked a newly promoted man named Liu Qi to lead the team to crack down on bandits.

Wang Yan had always told them about strategy, tactics, and tactics. It was just a bandit attack, and he would definitely be able to defeat it. It was just a matter of how many people died, and that was not his concern.

Anyway, every time a battle is fought, the fighting power of those who survive will be stronger. Although there are not many bandits in hlj now, and they have not yet reached the 100,000 bandits that Zhu Chuanwu's leader later said, there are quite a few large and small.

Let’s fight.

His stated goal is to start with Lao Jingou as his base camp, wipe out the surrounding bandits, move south, surround Bingcheng, and occupy his hometown of Yuanbao Town. Then use this area as the basis to attack from both sides and completely wipe out hlj

All the bandits. As for what to do after wiping out the bandits, that will be discussed later.

While his men were going out to attack, Wang Yan was not idle and led his people to start making guns. In fact, making guns is not difficult. What is difficult is the industrial base. Without good materials, no skilled workers, and no professional talents, he has to do all these things.

Do it yourself. He almost killed the blacksmiths and carpenters nearby, and the whole family was moved to the mountains. The women cooked, and the men chopped firewood and built houses if they didn't want to be bandits. There were apprentices, and the children were not alone.

They would play with them, and occasionally Wang Yan would give them lessons and study in person.

Now he leads them every day, teaches them, and helps them change jobs. However, it is difficult in the early stage. In the future, when the power becomes stronger, it will be better, and he can go to factories all over the country to kidnap people. Now there is no manpower available.

When doing things, the quality is still low, it is easy to do bad things, and you have to wait.

Just like that, the year is over.

In the past time, after sweeping the mountains of all sizes within a hundred miles, Wang Yan's combatants have reached more than 500 people, all of whom are stationed in Laojingou. With such a number of people, management is a big problem, and of course

, set up a set of arrangements.

Drawing on the modern military structure, a basic combat unit consists of twelve people, with one captain and deputy squad leader. Three squads and one platoon, each with one captain and deputy platoon leader. Three platoons and one company, one captain and deputy company commander.

A company has 114 people. Counting the health workers and supervisors crammed in, the full strength is 120 people. Now he has only 500 people, so there is no battalion-level establishment, only four companies, and the remaining two

More than ten people served as his bodyguard.

Although they are said to be guards, they are actually considered to be special forces at this moment. Because these 20 people are the best among more than 500 people in terms of marksmanship, attack and fighting. A group of people who are specially taken care of by Wang Yan, even

I was given secret medicine to strengthen my body, and I went out with the team from time to time for combat training. The treatment was very good, but I was a little tired every day and couldn't stand it.

No matter how stupid a group of bandits are, they still know that Master Wang has no good intentions. They are doing this according to the military, and they are even better equipped than the people in the government. Although they don't know what Master Wang is going to do, it must be a big deal.

At the same time, after half a year of hard work, we successfully produced high-quality Shuilianzhu and achieved mass production, along with three standard three-edged bayonets a day... This is the result of the busy work of more than thirty people, because many

The process is all done by hand, which is understandable...

With a foreign cigarette in his mouth, Wang Yan put his hands in his sleeves and stepped on the snow with Zhu Kaishan, who was also dressed in the same way.

Relying on the densely packed adobe wooden houses built along the river, listening to the sound of neat running, Zhu Kaishan spit out the hot cigarette butts: "I said brother, this year has passed, and spring is about to begin.

When are we going back?" He had been living in vain for a year, watching how his good brother went from being a gold digger to being the current boss of the king's family. At this moment, he felt a little homesick, missing his wife and children...

"Missing home?"

"Can you not think about it? It's been a year since you came out. Your sister-in-law came here with her children, and we didn't stay together for many days before we went to this golden ditch to ask about He Laosi. It doesn't matter that you are single, but I am my brother

My wife and children are hot on the bed, and I feel itchy..."

"I understand, then if you didn't go when we visited the brothel before..."

"Go, go, go, is that what I meant?"

"I'm kidding you, you see you're in a hurry." Wang Yan said with a smile: "Didn't I send the two big cabinets from the two ditches to recruit people in several nearby towns? Brother, I did what I said, last year

Those gold diggers here are all giving silver dollars at a discount according to the market price. When they go back to celebrate the New Year, they will definitely spread our new rules. So there will definitely be a lot of people attracted this time, and we have to wait until they come over.

Things have been taken care of, let's go back. Brother Zhu, if you just hold on, it will only take a few months. You will definitely be able to go home before spring. It's not just you who misses home, although I don't have anything at home.

, that’s not what I’m worried about.”

After getting the confidence, Zhu Kaishan chuckled: "Are you going to collect other gold veins this year?"

"The more people there are, the more expenses will be spent. When the gun fires, not all the bullets are fired, but the money. You said that after this year, there is not much land left? I hope He Laosi has a grasp of the gold veins.

Just some, otherwise brother, I will go out to the mountains to hunt down landlords."

"Don't worry, He Laosi and I have been brothers for half our lives. He always talks like a nail. We, Lao Jingou, have been mining for gold since the Daoguang period. At that time, four to five hundred taels of gold were produced every day. I and I

The main vein you mentioned must be just a lot more."

"I hope so."

Zhu Kaishan asked: "If you let others dig it out, aren't you afraid that the news here will be exposed? If the government or Russian old men are invited, our more than 500 guns will not be able to withstand it."

"Of course it can't be exposed. It just depends on how many people are recruited this time. When the time comes, a group of people will be screened out and they will be coerced and lured to join. Secrecy will not be a problem. Just wait and see. It will be absolutely thorough."

Ten days later, the big cabinets from the two pits returned one after another. Together, they brought back 1,200 people and 600 people on each side. There was no problem in housing these people. Last year, Wang Yan let the gold diggers build enough houses.

The official in charge of registration only got a list of 200 people, all of whom were sensible. After such a long time, all the people in the government were bribed, and no one dared to be disobedient.

As for the big cabinet, the head, honestly speaking, it saved their lives. How many people have clean hands after seeing gold all day long? The arrival of Wang Yan made them dare not look at it, dare not be greedy, let alone

Entrainment, otherwise this big cabinet and the head will have to be replaced every year.

After the people arrived, all the bandits were dispatched, and they registered in detail the ancestry, current residence, family members, etc. of the 1,200 people. They also asked acquaintances to protect each other, and told them clearly that what they saw in Jingou,

If you hear anything, don't spread it, otherwise you will kill the whole family. In front of them, two bandit leaders with a long history of crimes were chopped alive as a deterrent. This was left behind specially to teach these people a lesson.

After a day of resting with good food and drink, they were all chased by bandits the next day and started running. I didn’t tell them what they were doing. Anyway, whoever ran fast and far would have a fortune waiting for him. As long as he ranked first

The sixty-year-old is like this on both sides. With the bayonet attached clearly pointed at the spear, no one dares to be disobedient. In addition, Wang Laowu has a good reputation of being fair and truthful. If there is wealth, then there must be wealth.

Helping people means running at risk of death.

After running around all morning, we selected the 120 strongest people out of 1,200 people. One out of ten, they were considered to be outstandingly talented.

Wang Yan's purpose is very simple. Firstly, he secretly mines the gold veins inside for military supplies, and secondly, he builds a reserve team. These 120 people will do military training and gold mining at the same time. They are absolutely pure gold bandits.

Choice is never the right of the weak. There may seem to be many, but there are not many to choose from. Whatever the king gives them to choose, they must do it. If they don't do it, they will die. If they advance, they will not retreat.

As for the remaining more than a thousand people, they just have to dig hard for gold. According to what Zhu Kaishan relayed from He Laosi, the gold veins in these two pits have run out of energy, and they will be completely dug out in a few years.

.

Wang Yan is not sure, but he can dig it out as soon as possible. When he gets stronger, he can find civilians to mine on a large scale. Anyway, there are still six veins. If there is really Mr. He

What Si said is so accurate is enough for him to dominate the Northeast.

Zhu Kaishan was dumbfounded by Wang Yan's operation. He originally thought that the good brothers would just get people here, and then secretly find some of them to dig for gold leaves. Of course he thought it was right, but he didn't expect that choosing people would

According to the standard, who can run should be chosen one out of ten. But he saw that there are many people who can run faster than him. They must be in good physical condition. They are still good at ambidextrous, and they are all good soldiers. He thought

After all, what he wanted was to dig for gold, but what his good brother only wanted was to train troops, which was nothing compared to...

Looking at the bag of silver coins and ten gold bars in front of him, Zhu Kaishan stretched out his hand and pushed it in front of Wang Yan: "Brother, what are you doing?"

"I can't let you work in vain, come out and hang out with me for a year, and let you go back empty-handed? Take it, go back and build a big house, buy some more land, and give it to my nephews.

Mother-in-law, you are better than anything else."
To be continued...