I traveled through time, starting with two acres of land and a dog

"Charge in!" He Chaowu then led the team to crawl towards the gap as quickly as possible. The machine guns were blocking the opposite firepower. The first few pistols were crawling on the fortifications. After clearing out the militiamen, the troops narrowed the encirclement and were only about 30 meters away from the wall of the compound. There were less than 10 guns inside.

"Just shout, it would be best if they surrender," Du Chenyu ordered.

"Beep...beep..." This is the ceasefire signal, everyone defend in place.

? "Listen, everyone inside. Give up resistance. I promise not to kill you. Anyone who resists stubbornly will be killed. Count to ten and get ready." After shouting this three times, the gunfire in the yard stopped.

"10, 9, 8, ... 3" As soon as 3 was shouted, a voice came from inside: "I surrender", and then a piece of clothing was held up with a gun to indicate surrender.

"Open the door immediately, throw out the guns first, and everyone, come out with your heads covered," He Chaowu was making arrangements for accepting the prisoners.

"Ka...Squeak...", the wooden door was opened, and the person inside threw out the gun first and then walked out.

"My lords, I don't know how we have offended you to such an extent that you have mobilized your army to destroy our Yan family. We will certainly respond to any request you have. But we just hope that you will not harm our family," an old man in a cotton-padded jacket came out, forcing a smile, bowing, and apologizing.

"Go tell Captain Hu to search the finances, take away everything that can be taken away, interrogate the prisoners, and find out who is behind the attack on our caravan. We have an hour to deal with it and we must leave," Du Chenyu said to the signalman beside him. The two battles took nearly an hour, and if the garrison is attracted, we will be in trouble.

"Reporting to Master Chenyu, we have found out who attacked our caravan. According to the confession of the housekeeper and a captain among the captives, they received secret negotiations with the gun dealers in Nanzheng County. When they met a big gun buyer, they would quietly tell Master Chenyu of the Yan family, and then they would steal the guns from the caravan. They have already done several such attacks," Lei Jianqin came to report.

"Who from the Yan family is in the room?" he asked.

"The eldest son of the Yan family, Young Master Chenyu, is in the town, not at home. It is estimated that he is the one leading the attack. The second son of the Yan family has taken people to other places. Only the family members and Old Master Yan are in the courtyard," he said.

"Hang up old man Yan and shoot him, write the words 'Blood debt paid with blood' on his head, and all other male prisoners over 10 years old should help them carry food," he ordered. The Yan family is typical of those who dare to work for others without the necessary skills. There are only more than 100 soldiers in the group, but they dare to rob others. They are too bold, so they need to be taught a lesson.

The sounds of chickens crowing and pigs being slaughtered could be heard in the courtyard. Then I saw their team, each carrying a large bag, going back along the way they came from the mountain ridge.

"Master Chenyu, we searched the yard and collected things that are not valuable, but there are tens of thousands of kilograms of grain. We currently have 25 horses, and there are a few horses and donkeys in the yard. With more than 100 people in our team, we can transport about kilograms of goods at a time. We cannot transport all the grain," reported Hu Laosi.

"It's okay, don't be greedy, we are fighting alone, we must evacuate before 8:20, there are still minutes, we have to act quickly," he said.

"Okay, I will make sure to complete the task," Hu Laosi left.

Du Chenyu followed the last group of teams to evacuate. The last group of teams were the ones who carried their things to the middle of the mountain and then came back to pick them up to defend against the counterattack led by Boss Yan.

It was not until they had completely left and walked a kilometer away that he saw the young master of the Yan family and the remaining militiamen groping in. However, hanging on the big tree at the door was the corpse of Old Man Yan, with several bullet holes on his body, floating in the mist.

"Dad..." A scream broke through the already quiet valley, and a figure ran towards Old Man Yan hanging on the big tree.

The loads they carried were all over 80 kilograms, so they were moving very slowly. It was estimated that they would not be able to reach the pass until the afternoon and return to Sichuan. This way, the road coming here was downhill, and the road going back was uphill. It was very dangerous for each person to carry so much load, and they would be easily caught up by pursuers.

After walking for two hours, half of them continued to set up camp at the place where they had camped last night to prevent pursuit, while the other half temporarily transported the supplies in batches to the Taoyuan stronghold and then came back to continue to support them.

The next day, after returning from Taoyuan in the morning, they continued to move forward. The news of Huang Guanyu's attack yesterday had spread to Taoyuan, and it was obvious that the inspections at the checkpoints were more stringent. There was no choice but to use the ocean to clear the way. He personally told the person in charge of the Taoyuan stronghold not to be reluctant to spend the ocean, and to pay the garrison troops for a full-scale attack, from the soldiers to the battalion commanders. He also gave 1000 oceans as funds to open up the joints.

In this way, they successfully passed through all the intersections of Micang Road, crossed Zhengjiadi and finally entered Wuying, which was considered safe.

It was already the third day when we returned to Linshui's home. The team was very tired after fighting and traveling for many days, so we held a simple summary meeting and then prepared to rest.

"We lost 13 members, 5 were seriously injured, 68 enemies were captured, 57 guns of various types, including a Maxim heavy machine gun, and about 500 kilograms of property. We also had at least 8 kilograms of pork, 6 cattle, 4 horses, 500 donkeys, at least kilograms of food, and a number of calligraphy and paintings. These are the harvests from the battle."

Finally, a more detailed summary of the tactical arrangements for this raid was given. It was the first regular offensive battle. The enemy's combat effectiveness exceeded that of anyone they had encountered before, including the Red Lantern Sect. In the raid, they even achieved a record of almost 1:3, which was indeed a bit ugly. Hu Laosi made a battle report.

They rested in Linshui for three days, treated the wounded, held a memorial service for the members who died in this battle, issued pensions, and buried them in peace.

At present, I have enough money. As a warlord, of course I want to buy guns and cannons, but there is no large channel for arms trade. I only purchase more than 10 guns per month, and they are purchased at high prices.

Then we will train talents, build factories, and carry out infrastructure construction. Du Chenyu approved 1 oceans to Hu Laowu, asking him to speed up the establishment of Baizhang Wenwu School, expand the caravan, stockpile sugar, and try to buy some machines.

The tax collection documents for the spring of this year have been reported to him, requiring that more than 50% be paid before the early spring purchase. This year, a lot of taxes and donations have been added. In addition to last year's land tax, mountain tax, and pig and cattle slaughtering tax, there are also increased levies on fighting ships, mountain products, exit from the country, oil pressing, and grain. Last year's tax was 3% of the harvest, and this year it will increase by at least 1% to 2%. Since 1911, the people's taxes have increased by almost 1% a year, and this year it has increased even more. The first batch of 20 tax police sent by the county have already entered Wuying.

The entire jurisdiction must pay at least 3 oceans to meet most of the requirements. With their weak forces, they really dare not resist taxes now. They can only bite the bullet and collect part of it from the people, and subsidize part of it, as long as they can barely prevent the county from sending troops to wipe them out.

However, in the Lijiahe area, he had already decided to resist the tax. There were several gangs of bandits there, and they had attacked Chongqing Township several times, causing some losses to the joint defense brigade. He asked Xue Chen to garrison Lijiahe and train the reserve team as soon as possible. If the tax was not paid in the fall, the joint defense brigade would definitely take action.

This year, they took down two big households, but it was not enough to pay the tax. Du Chenyu rubbed his hands. This was the heavy burden in their jurisdiction. The landlords in other areas had at least 5%, and there were also the village chiefs, township chiefs (fort chiefs, militia), joint defense teams, county assistants, county and provincial governments, each of which had at least another half a percent tax. In the end, the common people only had % to % of the harvest. In years of disaster, they could only flee from famine and eat tree bark and weeds.