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

"Have everyone put on their raincoats, speed up, and protect the ammunition. It's going to rain soon," Du Chenyu instructed the messenger beside him.

He also put on a raincoat and sped up his pace. In less than 5 minutes, bullet-sized raindrops fell on them. Of course, they had grown up in the wild almost since childhood, so getting wet in the rain was commonplace. They did not panic at all, and walked on the gradually slippery road. Half an hour later, they arrived at the valley bottom, in front of a small courtyard tile-roofed house near the river in the middle.

"Mr. Chenyu, you've been caught in the rain, hurry up and dry your clothes." Peng Huiyu, as a newcomer, was promoted to the position of squadron leader. To be honest, he felt a little uncomfortable, so he was usually very low-key and attentive. He opened his oilcloth umbrella and led the donkey in front of him when he saw him coming. They lit a fire in an empty firewood shed not far from the quadrangle, and everyone followed the tradition of occupying a place, not rushing to occupy the house, robbing the yard, and setting up camp in the open outside. One is to ensure that no one is disturbed, and the other is to ensure safety. If you rush in and get beaten up, you will have no place to cry.

There were benches placed around the fire and a chair against the wall. "Mr. Chenyu, sit inside, there is no smoke inside," Peng Huiyu said. In fact, the safest side is inside, with a wall behind and someone guarding behind the wall. The back is safe and the front is open, with no good sniper ambush point. Judging from the arrangement of the position, this was intentional. This young man is teachable, he thought to himself.

"Master Chenyu, we have sent people to continue attacking Shiqiangbao, but we have to stop the attack due to such heavy rain," said Peng Huiyu.

"Don't worry, you don't have to stay here to guard me. It's generally safe. You should also learn how to deal with our previous land occupation and transformation methods. Captain He is also familiar with this. Although we can't open our identities to transform the people, we can appropriately stabilize the people's hearts, let the people support us, and actively join our team, then our formal acceptance will be a natural result later," he said.

"Yes, Master Chenyu..." Peng Huiyu hesitated for a moment and turned to leave. It seemed that Peng Huiyu still had doubts about them conquering the people as the Red Lantern Cult, but his military nature made him obey orders without asking any more questions.

He doesn't need to intervene to pacify the occupied territories. He can just stay quietly in a safe place and not cause trouble, thus saving the maximum amount of manpower.

At lunchtime, the rain stopped, and Lei Jianqin verbally reported to Du Chenyu that they had searched everywhere, but only found a few hundred dollars and a few thousand kilograms of food, not much property. It seemed that the more time passed, the more difficult it was to support the war with war. The wealth of local landlords and gentry was either transferred, or used to buy guns, or was robbed, and the big part was taxes.

In the evening, a signalman came back to report that Lizibabao did not send anyone to attack Heitugou, but Shiqiangbao had several groups of reinforcements entering. The special service and reconnaissance teams had already infiltrated behind Shiqiangbao and cut off the team that continued to support Shiqiang.

It rained heavily again in the middle of the night and he was awakened by the sound of rain outside the tent. He had been going in the wind and rain these days and was used to it. He fell asleep again after a while.

The next day, the weather was clear and cloudless. Today was another day of fighting, and he continued to stay in Heitugou. As the people saw that they did not harm anyone, they sent food to some poor families. Most families returned last night, so the village was filled with smoke again, but there were many more guards standing around, and some brave children were whispering in the distance.

There were battle reports almost every one or two hours. Since Shiqiangbao was located on Micang Avenue, a major transportation route to Ningqiang County in Shaanxi Province, it was also the most important gateway to guard the Liziba area. It was backed by mountains on both sides and the Yanjing River ran through the middle, with sufficient water and food. Outside were more than three stone defense bunkers, which were too difficult to destroy with machine guns and grenades. Therefore, the attack was not effective for a whole morning. The other side was covered by fire almost all the way. After several casualties, Peng Huiyu stopped the attack and focused on siege.

After two days of attack, the firepower points around Shiqiangbao were cleared one by one, and Shiqiangbao was gradually completely encircled. However, it was temporarily impossible to completely capture it. He Chaowu led the special service and reconnaissance teams to attack the surrounding areas, and moved to Wangjiaping and Dujialiang to eliminate the active forces. He wrote a battle report and a letter in the camp and handed them to the guard team, and gave them to his father to act according to the plan.

On the other hand, after receiving the battle report, my father immediately ordered Huang Kunyang to organize the 1st Squadron to stay in Wuyin and to recruit 20 militia reserves to participate, a total of more than 100 people. Since Hu Laosi had a base in the Lianghui Yanzi area, the 1st Squadron could only be led by Huang Kunyang.

That same day, my father sent an official document in the name of the Wuyin Group to the Baizhang County Assistant Directorate, requesting assistance in protecting Liziba and clearing out the Red Lantern bandits in the Liziba and Yanjing areas.

Due to He Chaowu's fierce offensive and the implementation of the guerrilla tactics of "shooting and changing places", he constantly eliminated the guards. The head of the Lizibabao regiment, Xiang Huaian, had asked the county for help twice. However, since the drought last year, the bandit forces in various places have grown rapidly. The bandit king of northern Sichuan, Wang Sanchun, has gathered at least 500 people under his command. They have been roaming around from Jiangyou, Jiange, and Zhaohua to commit crimes. Last month, they also attacked the Baishiguan area. The joint defense team had to strengthen the defense of the Zhuoyaobao and Baishuiguan areas. Li Long has been promoted to platoon leader and stationed in Zhuoyaobao. The county has already There was no ability to send out more soldiers of the joint defense corps, so as soon as my father's application for battle arrived, the county approved it, requiring that troops be led immediately into the Lizibabao area to clear out the Yanjinghe area invaded by the Red Light Sect, open up a transportation line to Ningqiang in the north, and approve a batch of guns and ammunition for support. Teacher Yang Chaoyi personally took Hu Laowu to the logistics department to get guns, and still paid the market price for 15 Hanyang-made guns, 40 oceans per gun, but they were given 4000 rounds of bullets. This was also the first time they received gun and ammunition support from the county.

The next day, Huang Kunyang led the team to personally hand over guns to Hu Laowu at the Jinguyan Ferry, along with purchased explosives, fuses, saltpeter and other military supplies.

Early in the morning of June 6, my father personally led the entire team to Liziba Fort. This was the first time he had publicly set out since he was promoted to the head of the regiment, and he was authorized by the county to expand the territory.