"Liuzi, your injury is not healed yet. I think you should recover for a while."
Lao Cui from the dispatch department was very moved when he saw Jia Liu, who had lost his walking stick but walked with one leg taller and one leg shorter.
Due to the recent frequent attacks by bandits on grain roads, many officers and soldiers of the grain protection team and the arrest team were killed. Therefore, no matter whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Camp, generals in the village dare not lead their teams out, and some people have even begun to pretend to be sick.
Afraid of death, it's human nature and not shabby.
Liu Butang was so angry that he had to hold two emergency military meetings and dismissed three officers who were afraid of thieves. This severely suppressed the fear of thieves.
But the effect is limited. Most of the officers drag their troops out like a tortoise, taking half a day to walk one mile. This is called the careful sailing of a ten thousand year ship.
Despite this, they were still being attacked continuously, causing heavy casualties and even more serious losses of food and grass.
There are various indications that in the face of Wen Zhongtang's "Spring Offensive", in addition to actively resisting, Jinchuan's Fan army regarded destroying the Qing army's food routes as the only strategy that could save the situation.
Not only the food road from Menuo to Muguomu Camp was destroyed by the Fan army, but also the logistics support of Agui, Fukang'an, Dong Tianbi and Ha Guoxing were seriously disrupted.
It's okay if the food and grass are cut off, but if the medicine is cut off, it will be a big problem.
If the situation never improves, Wen Zhongtang may have to deploy elite soldiers from the front lines to strengthen the food roads.
Now that the injury has not completely healed, Jia Dongge, who has been praised by the Tiezhu Guanyin Protector and Vice-President, has taken the initiative to ask for help. Can Lao Cui not be moved?
"Thieves have been rampant recently. When I came to Jinchuan, my father once told me that my Jia family has always been loyal and loyal, and as a descendant of the Eight Banners, it is time for the imperial court to put an end to the chaos. We should be brave enough to take the lead, even if we die on the battlefield and be shrouded in horse leather, only
In this way, we will not bring shame to our ancestors, and we will be able to live up to the Qing Dynasty’s kindness to our Jia family..."
Jia Liu thought to himself that if I hadn't planned to rob the armored truck, I was afraid that some flaws would be discovered. For example, if you, Jia, don't go to work, nothing will happen to you, but when you go to work, something will happen. Why would he go to work early?
With that kind of skill, playing chess with Wu Laoer would be so exciting.
"Please, sir, give me a chance to serve the court, and give me a chance to prove myself!" Lao Cui should know what Jia Liu meant by this opportunity.
"That's it..."
Lao Cui thought that his military merits last time could not upgrade Liuzi to a higher level, so this time he asked Liuzi to make another meritorious service, so that he could fight for him again.
Immediately, he arranged patrols and arrests, and repeatedly told the six sons to pay attention to safety. If they really encountered a thief, they would fight if they could, and if they couldn't, they would come back first. Don't act like a hero.
"Your Excellency, I have so much concern for you, I can't repay you..."
Jia Liu took out a fifty-tael banknote and handed it over. There were a thousand words in it.
It's not that he is picky, but he can't give him a hundred taels, but give him two hundred taels. He has to let Lao Cui know that he is also financially tight now.
But no matter how nervous or painful it is, it can't be done no matter how hard it is, Mr. Cui.
Patting Liu Zi on the shoulder, Lao Cui said nothing, his expression betrayed him: From now on, if I, Cui Liangchen, can eat in one bite, you, Liu Zi, will definitely drink in one mouthful.
After receiving the order and taking the two teams under his command, Jia Liu, whose body was still recovering, was carried by others on a lifting frame and began a routine patrol.
Due to Lao Cui's instructions and the fact that the target of this operation was not the Fan bandits, Jia Liu did not dare to go deep and kept wandering twenty or thirty miles west of the Meinuo village, not even close to the Akoli village, which the Fan bandits had already besieged twice.
That place is so important, just like a person's neck. The Qing army can ensure smooth breathing by occupying this place. If the rebels occupy this place, the Qing army on the front line will roll their eyes and kick their legs.
During the past two days on the road, Jia Liu mainly led people to set up checkpoints to check the grain teams going back and forth, and to find out the situation from the mouths of these grain teams.
The attacks by the Fan thieves are still continuing, but it may be that the last siege of Akoli Village lost a lot of men, and the Qing army strengthened the defense force of Akoli Village, so the Fan thieves could no longer organize large-scale attacks and still changed their positions.
Return to the previous routine of using a small group of troops to attack the grain transport team on the road.
This caused the grain transport teams to complain again and again. Those from the front line returned empty-handed, but not a single grain transport team to the front line was not attacked.
But this is exactly what Jia Liu wants. As long as the thieves' activities are rampant, this road will be his Master Jia's cash machine. Otherwise, how can he fish in troubled waters?
No matter how much food there is, he doesn't want it.
It can't be cashed out.
In his free time that day, he left a large team of people to continue setting up checkpoints. Jia Liu led a group of key members to quietly climb up a high slope, looked around, and finally selected an excellent place surrounded by mountains and rivers.
This place is narrow, with lush mountains and forests, making it a treasured land for calamity.
"This is it."
Jia Liu made the decision, and the key members of the gang had no objections.
After some deliberation, Jia Liu led his people down the mountain, and then organized the team to return to Menuoguanzhai. However, no one noticed that the two arresting teams that came back were missing dozens of people.
As the cash transport truck was about to arrive, the atmosphere became tense.
Finally, the cash transport truck arrived as scheduled.
This day is the sixth day of the second lunar month, and the old almanac says it is appropriate to open a business and accept weddings.
It's a good day.
Peng Xiaohan and Lu Ada, the insiders of the Governor's Yamen, did not participate in this escort operation because they were worried that they might accidentally hurt themselves during the operation.
Jia Liu expressed his understanding of this.
Otherwise, he would do the same thing, because who can guarantee that Mr. Jia would not want to do it anymore, so he would just do the second best and kill the two insiders directly.
Since the cargo shipped to Muguomu this time was regular wages, which amounted to 1.4 million taels, the Governor's Yamen, having learned from the experience of being robbed of annual wages last time, sent 500 soldiers to escort the shipment. Together with more than 300 civilians, the entire team numbered as high as
More than eight hundred.
The leader of the team was Dubiao guerrilla Huang Zhaoguo.
The situation has changed. The intelligence provided by Peng Xiaohan said that the convoy could have up to 300 people, possibly led by President Qian. However, 500 people came, and it was still a guerrilla formation. This made the backbones of the gang headed by Jia Liu a little bit.
I feel scared.
After all, their two arrest teams together only have more than 200 people, so it may be difficult to succeed.
"My lord, is that right?..." Bao Guozhong was beating in his heart, feeling that he was not sure and should give up.
"What's the point of panic for a bunch of camp soldiers?"
Zu Yingyuan was becoming more and more courageous. He didn't know whether he was competing with Captain Jia or because he felt he couldn't be more cowardly than the Japanese.
After staring at the guerrilla surnamed Huang for a long time, Jia Liu took a sip and said: "Wealth is sought in danger, but people hang in the sky! Do it!"
The armored truck doesn't come every month. It has to wait at least a few months for the next time. Seeing that the war situation is getting more and more tense, Jia Liu doesn't have much patience to wait any longer and must speed up the pace of progress.
To put it bluntly, even if he is unlucky enough to be dragged to the front line, the person with a higher official position will have more lives than the one with a lower official position.
"Dry!"
The spirit of the backbone members was greatly boosted.
Because Mr. Jia is steel, Mr. Jia is iron, and Mr. Jia is their Dinghai Shenzhen.