Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 37 Really big fish!
As they were talking, the two men walked hand in hand towards the Xunzhou prefectural government office, discussing the aftermath as they walked.

Whether it was the death of Iktambu in battle, the near fall of Xunzhou, or the subsequent killing of innocent people to take credit for the aftermath, there were many details that needed to be discussed.

After discussing for a long time, Zhou Fengqi left the prefectural government office and prepared to return to the military camp with his men.

He told his men to maintain order in the barracks, and he prepared to return to his room to rest.

Zhou Fengqi was a guest soldier. He had no house in Xunzhou City and had been living in the military barracks all this time.

When Zhou Fengqi returned to the door of his own residence, he suddenly felt a little nervous.

He subconsciously stopped and turned to speak to a soldier beside him.

"Go in and check if there is any danger."

After all, Xunzhou had been briefly occupied by bandits. In order to prevent bandits from ambushing in the house and assassinating him, Zhou Fengqi would naturally not be the first to enter the house.

Instead, he planned to let his personal soldiers go in and investigate first.

After confirming it is safe, it is not too late for Zhou Fengqi to go in.

Upon hearing this, the guard nodded without any hesitation, then walked forward.

With a creak, the door was pushed open and the bodyguard walked into the house.

But as soon as his footsteps touched the ground, he felt the floor tiles beneath his feet sink noticeably, followed by a distinct clicking sound.

But before the soldier could react, a ball of fire mixed with smoke burst out from under the floor the next moment.

A loud bang was heard, and Zhou Fengqi had no time to move. He only felt a shock wave coming towards him, which blew him and several of his personal soldiers away.

Before it even hit the ground, it was engulfed by the flames and smoke that followed.

Zhou Fengqi, the Guizhou general, was blown to ashes before he could even utter a scream.

Deafening explosions occurred one after another, spreading outwards with Zhou Fengqi's residence as the center.

Soon, the Qing army camp was in chaos.

This time, the small gift that Li Yi left for the Qing army was a real big fish...

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On the official road, the team led by Li Yi stretched for several miles.

There were bags of grain on the carts.

In addition, there were boxes filled with silver, copper coins, swords, spears, and muskets.

Barrels of gunpowder and cannons were carried carefully for fear of accidents.

Li Yi rode on horseback and followed the army.

Suddenly, he heard a faint explosion coming from the direction of Xunzhou City behind him.

The moment he heard the explosion, Li Yi's expression changed. He knew that this must be the landmine that he asked Chen Yucheng to plant being successfully triggered.

I just don't know if any results have been achieved.

Thinking of this, Li Yi called Chen Yucheng to his side.

"Yucheng, how did you bury the gunpowder in the Qing army camp?"

In response to Li Yi's question, Chen Yucheng scratched his head and said.

"I mainly buried the gunpowder in and around the residence of the Qing Yao commander."

"I thought that the residences of the officers of all levels of the Qing Yao should be not far from each other. If I bury the gunpowder in the residence of the Qing Yao commander, when the gunpowder is triggered and explodes, it should be able to kill a few more big fish."

"The trigger device is placed under the first floor tile at the entrance. It will explode when you step on it."

Li Yi heard this and nodded.

“It’s a good arrangement.”

"I hope our arrangement can really kill a few big fish!"

Thinking about this, Li Yi subconsciously looked in the direction of Xunzhou City. …

Soon, Li Yi led his men back to Lijiazhuang.

After arriving at Lijiazhuang, Li Yi fulfilled his promise to reward the people of Xunzhou.

After finishing this task, Li Yi ordered people to sort out the materials that were transported back, and at the same time sent people to Jintian Village to report the good news.

And be prepared to hand over part of the spoils of this battle!

Li Yi always understood one thing, that with his thin arms and legs, he still needed to rely on the wings of the God Worshipping Church to grow and develop, and was far from being able to eat alone.

If the spoils he seized in Xunzhou were not large in quantity, he might be able to eat them all himself.

Even if the higher-ups knew about this, they wouldn’t care too much.

For example, Feng Yunshan didn’t care about the spoils Li Yi seized from Li Dianyuan’s mansion after he reported it.

But the problem was that the spoils he had seized this time were too much and too eye-catching. If he didn't share a portion of it with his superiors, he would definitely not be able to explain himself.

Li Yi didn't want to offend the Qing army and then become alienated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, thus making himself unpopular both internally and externally.

Besides, if the main force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not tied up the Qing army in Xunzhou in Jintian, how could Li Yi have successfully raided Xunzhou and gained such a huge advantage?

People should never be too greedy. Only when you are content can you be happy.

After instructing someone to go to Jintian to report the good news, Li Yi called Ye Zhisheng and Fan Xiyuan over and began to give instructions.

"Gentlemen, please organize the supplies captured by our army in this battle."

"Divide the materials into three parts according to their quality: the best, the inferior, and the average."

“After being sorted, they are transported to the warehouse for storage.”

Upon hearing this, the two nodded in agreement.

The reason why Li Yi wanted to classify the supplies was because he had different uses for these supplies.

The best quality batch was kept for his own use. Well, Li Yi was going to continue expanding the army and increase the size of the regiment and camp, that went without saying.

As long as he has the energy to spare, Li Yi will do it.

The batch of slightly lower quality was a small gift from Li Yi to his immediate superior Feng Yunshan.

Those of average quality were prepared to be handed over to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasury.

The reason for this arrangement is that Li Yi understands that even if he hands over the best to the public treasury, the God Worshipping Society will not remember his kindness, and most people will just think it is their due.

But if he left the better quality batches to Feng Yunshan, and handed over the average quality batches to the church, then in comparison, Feng Yunshan, his immediate superior, would definitely look at him more highly.

I will promote him more in the future!

Li Yi always understood that the person who could promote him would always be his immediate superior, not the God-Bearing Church as a group.

If you want to make progress, pleasing your boss is always more effective than contributing to the collective.

After instructing the two men to do their work, Li Yi began to think about training the troops.

He bought several military training manuals currently used by the great powers such as Britain, France, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia from the mall, and then began to study them on his own.

He planned to learn from the strengths and make up for the weaknesses and create his own military training manual.

Of course, there is no need to rush this matter, because the regiment under Li Yi is still in the stage of practicing formations.

Let them practice the queue first, and it won’t be too late to practice other things later.

In addition, Li Yi’s current training framework is still within the framework of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s regiment and battalion organizational model.

If he wanted to learn Western methods of training troops, the biggest problem would be how to deal with the resistance from the God Worshipping Society.

Li Yi thought, this matter will probably depend on Old Feng in the end...

(End of this chapter)