The person who spoke was a sergeant from Fu Bo Army. When Yang Erdong saw that he couldn't afford to offend him, he had to shut up. However, he saw another wave of Fu Bo Army coming. The mark on the headboard was different from Lieutenant Mi and the others. He didn't know where the new team came from, so he secretly ignored it.

After a while, Mi Longtao and the left team also retreated. When the team returned, they were happily hiding the prisoners and carrying all kinds of spoils. The enemy escaped from the village and walked a few miles away and was caught by Mi Longtao's team who had set up a pocket array. More than 70 prisoners were captured, and the others were all corpses in the paddy fields.

Mi Longtao was very happy and praised Zhu Si and his team for being clean and neat when they attacked Liwei. They forced the bandits out of the village in a few seconds.

"To be honest, I still trust your squadron at first, but I didn't expect that my brother is really a talent!" Mi Longtao praised Zhu Si, "I also know that the team you lead are all temporary mobs. They can go on the battlefield and fight. This is a good performance - if you can beat like this, I have made great contributions."

Zhu Si was flattered by his praise and quickly became modest, saying that it was all Mi Longtao's "strategy" and that he just "resolutely implemented" in place. Although Mi Longtao did not take on his words, his face also smiled brightly. However, Yang Erdong and others were quite unfair: these were clearly thought of by Captain Li, but Zhu Si had a calm face and was considered his own.

Injustice, they are just ordinary soldiers, and have been influenced by the culture of "the first level of officialdom to death", so naturally they dare not comment on it casually. However, they have to mutter a few words in private.

After a scourge of bandits, Liwei had no residents except for a few of the abducted women who were left behind. The sky was already dark, and it was inconvenient to defend here and was far away from the Xijiang River. Mi Longtao decided to withdraw his troops and return to Xugang immediately.

Xugang Village is still on high alert. Although the Fubo army won the battle, the tension caused by these days continues. After nightfall, there were no people on the streets, and only the joint patrol team composed of regiments and the National Army were patrolling. Torches and lanterns were lit on the intersections and bridges, and horse-rejecting horses were set up.

There are many people coming to take refuge around Xugang. Mr. Xu was worried about not enough food in the village, and he did not dare to expel him openly, so he was sheltered in several temples and ancestral halls.

Because the appearance of the bandits is unknown, in order to maintain a state of being able to be dispatched at any time, the teams did not disperse the houses, but slept in the open so that they could be dispatched at any time. The Wuzhou squadron was still placed in the threshing ground. A few bonfires were lit, and the dew was heavy at night, so they wrapped their bodies with blankets.

Xu Gang sent a few old men and women to help them boil water and cook. Because they rescued the siege and wiped out many bandits, this supper was a "reward" from Xu Gang. Not only did they have enough rice, but they also brought chickens, ducks and fish.

After a whole day of continuous battle, the relationship between the comrades who were originally somewhat alienated increased a lot, and the tension when they first went to the battlefield also disappeared. The soldiers put their spears together and sat around the bonfire and ate voraciously. They boasted about their achievements and other people's misfortunes. Especially the unfortunate guys who disappeared during the landing battle - they were wandering back and forth in the mountains and rivers, tired and afraid. They finally came to Xugang, and a soldier who saw the Fubo army standing guard at the entrance of Xugang Village actually burst into tears.

Speaking of which, they can’t blame them for getting lost in this unfamiliar place. If they encounter bandits, the outcome is self-evident. When they were training in Wuzhou, they heard a lot of news about the brutal acts of bandits. The soldiers of the Fubo army who were left behind or lost, and the naturalized civilian cadres who were left alone... Once they fell into the hands of bandits, they would definitely die.

Li Pudun finished the rice in the lunch box with a wind blowing away the clouds, went to the big pot again, and scooped a lunch box of soup.

"You eat so much, be careful to hold on." Luo Mao smiled.

"I eat too badly in Wuzhou, and it's rare to see meat." Li Pudun smacked his lips, "That slutty food will kill me..."

After starting from Guangzhou New Camp to Wuzhou, the main food of the National Army was "military ration" - most of which were produced during the engine operation period, and there was no consumption of refugee relief ration - only refugees who were about to starve to death would not be disliked.

"Uncle, your place is a good place!" Li Pudun, who was full, was in a good mood.

"It would be good if it was a bandit." The old man said with a bitter face. "This bandit is not stable, and the mulberry trees are not dared to pick them, so this year's silkworms are not raised. Without a great prospect, the expenses paid out have increased a lot - this day is sad!"

"Will we just wipe out the bandits?" Luo Mao said, "I don't think the bandits are so good, they are very loose!"

"Deputy Master! You have guns and cannons, so you are not afraid of it. However, when we ordinary people talk about the three words "Big Heaven 2", they are like seeing ghosts. Although they have recruited some soldiers, they have never fought a war and seen bloody young people - if you hadn't come today, Xu Gang would have suffered a great disaster!"

He said that because of the bandits these days, the people nearby fled to Xugang, the largest and most powerful, to take refuge. Thousands of people had gathered in the village, many of whom were women, children, young and old. He continued to talk about the atrocities of the bandits moving nearby, both angry and sad.

The dead and injured, those who were robbed and raped, although they were all people who had nothing to do with me, I didn’t recognize them. But when I thought, they were ordinary people like me, eating, working, and sleeping every day... Life was hard, but at least they could live... Now they were harmed by others without asking about it - some were still a family... and it felt uncomfortable... The people didn’t expect luxury and food, they just wanted peace! Peace was so difficult!"

After he said this, the soldiers sighed. Luo Mao quickly comforted him: "Don't be sad, my Fubo army is here! When we wipe out all the bandits, everyone will naturally live a stable life."

"...If you really break the village by bandits today, it would be a disaster for the creatures... It's a sin..." The old man sighed in a grateful tone, "You have been doing good deeds and accumulated great virtues, and you will definitely be blessed in the future..."

"Where did you say?" Everyone felt a little embarrassed. In their hearts, they felt the sense of honor and responsibility of soldiers for the first time. When the training team was studying politics, the officers repeatedly taught that "The Fubo Army is the soldiers of the people and the foundation stone for safeguarding the country and protecting the people." Everyone heard it, and now they suddenly understood: why they came here to fight.

"Command!" the sentry on the threshing ground suddenly shouted.

"Chasing!" Li Dong's voice came, and the soldiers were all excited and stood up one after another. In today's battle, the right team made many outstanding achievements, and Li Dong's prestige had been established among many soldiers.

Li Dong and Zhu Si had just attended an officer meeting chaired by Mi Longtao in the Xu Family Ancestral Hall. Now, in addition to the troops brought by Mi Longtao from Fengchuan and their Wuzhou Integrated Squadron, Xu Gang also came a company from Sanshui.

This company was preparing to reinforce Lianzhou and Hezhou's attacking troops: consisting of a Fubo army infantry platoon and a National Army squadron. They originally drove to Fengchuan County for a while before heading along the Lianjiang River. However, they received an order on the way: According to the latest information, a large number of bandits were found at the junction of Fengchuan and Yinnan counties, and ordered them to participate in the encirclement and suppression battle. Therefore, the detachment came to Xugang according to the new order and met with Mi Longtao's troops.

Because of this operation, Zhu Si’s Wuzhou Integrated Squadron was also dismissed from patrol and escort missions, and was directed by Mi Longtao to carry out the clearing activities.

The captured prisoners were interrogated by the intern officers of the team, and they obtained a lot of useful information. According to the leaders, they gathered from all over the place more than ten days ago. The leaders were mostly local tyrants and bandits "campus masters", who were responsible for providing food and food, as well as some firearms. In addition to local gangsters and bandits, most of the members were defeated Ming soldiers and soldiers from all over the place. Some Yao people even came.

"This shows that the intelligence department inferred that the bandits that are now everywhere are political. Someone secretly incite and provide support behind their backs." Mi Longtao said at the meeting, "It seems that the Yao chaos in Bapai Yao District and the bandit riots in Xijiang River Basin are in a tendency to merge."

The situation was very tense, and the suppression activities seemed very urgent. At this moment, Zhu Si was holding a combat meeting in the ancestral hall, and Li Dong was ordered to come back to rectify the troops and prepare for combat.

He was not in a relaxed mood. Today, the integrated squadron performed very well and was unanimously recognized by Mi Longtao and others at the combat meeting. However, the casualties were not good: six people were killed in the entire squadron and more than twenty people were injured. The entire integrated squadron had only more than one hundred and twenty people, and the actual casualties had exceeded 10%. This was very unfavorable to the morale of the new troops.

There were many problems exposed during the battle. He originally suggested that Zhu Si hold a squadron's combat summary meeting, but Zhu Si was obviously not interested in it. Besides, he wanted to stay in the command center and discuss the details of the combat with Mi Longtao and others, so he asked him to go back to hold the meeting.

In fact, he had just listened to the soldiers' chats in the dark for a while - this kind of "eavesdropping" can most truly understand the soldiers' thoughts and morale. Now that he heard everyone's discussion, he felt that his worries were a little redundant: it seemed that the soldiers not only did not waver, but their awareness of seeking war was much stronger than before.

It seems that war can train the troops! Li Dong thought to himself that when he was in Wuzhou, no matter how strict the training was, the troops would still be unreliable after boarding the ship. However, after the war was fought all day today, they became much more calm and composed - like soldiers.

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