Dominate the Country

In the eyes of the head teacher with a cloth wrapped around his head, Chen Ming is a dog that can't change its ****.

The news that Chen's army is equipped with iron armor has spread to half of western Henan. Chen Ming's more than 200 people are more than 200 powerful armored soldiers. They have fought several fierce battles with the government army and have seen blood. Although they are few in number, their combat effectiveness is obvious to all. This Baotou head teacher secretly complained about the equipment of Chen's army, but he did not dare to lead the Dengfeng militia to fight against more than 200 armored soldiers head-on.

This time and space is not a martial arts plane. No matter how powerful the kung fu of Shaolin Temple is, it will become weak when facing a group of soldiers in iron armor.

So Chen Ming's team is very powerful, capable and capable of fighting. If they are equipped with mules and horses, their mobility will be doubled. Their combat effectiveness and deterrence will rise sharply, which is absolutely incomparable to ordinary militiamen. But Chen Ming actually brought hundreds of "burdens". Yes, in the eyes of this Baotou head teacher, those slaves holding wooden sticks and bamboo spears were burdens. Chen Ming did not quickly return to his old nest, but lingered in Jiaxian, plundering batches of wealth and money. This was completely blinded by greed.

This is the nature of a thief, and he is absolutely a dog that can never change.

"The thieves have accumulated wealth, including gold, silver, grain, cloth, medicinal materials, salt and sugar. None of them are willing to give up. Once they make a move, the team stretches for miles, and the burden is continuous. The energy consumed is more than ten times more than when they just left Lushan. The thieves have tasted the benefits of plundering again and again in Baofeng and Jiaxian. I really don't believe that these Chen family thieves still have any fighting spirit."

To put it bluntly, everyone present still looks at the Chen family army with the eyes of "thieves", and looks at the Chen family army as an enlarged version of mountain bandits, rather than looking at the Chen family army from the perspective of "rebels".

So the hidden meaning of the words of the Baotou chief teacher was recognized by everyone present. The Chen family thieves looted Baofeng and Jiaxian, and even a soldier in the team had his arms full of gold and silver. In this case, the bandits in the usual sense must have no fighting spirit and only wanted to go home and enjoy themselves.

The opinion of the chief teacher of Baotou was first recognized by the entire Dengfeng militia, and now it was also agreed by Wang Jun.

The Chen family thieves, who only had a total of 200 people, were carrying four or five times more burdens and a team of carriages and horses that stretched for several miles and were full of money and food. If they were suddenly attacked by a powerful militia like the Dengfeng militia, how could they get away with it? Even if they couldn't wipe out the thieves, at least they wouldn't lose, right?

On Qingtiao Ridge, there was complete silence. Zhao Chuanjing led his men away. The person sent by Chen Ming to contact Qingtiao Ridge looked at this scene with a smile. When this person reported the news to Chen Ming, Chen Ming had already gathered the team and crossed the Beiru River, and was about to enter Baofeng County from Jia County.

He didn't go to the city of Ruzhou anymore. The harvests in Baofeng and Jia County were too rich, and the team was already bloated and inconvenient to move.

The total number of Chen's army that crossed the Beiru River was close to 1,300, with more than 200 ruffians and tenants who really couldn't survive. The latter accounted for only a small part, and the former was the main part.

Chen Ming was disgusted with these ruffians from the bottom of his heart. He welcomed the honest and decent tenant farmers. In his eyes, ruffians were just a piece of chicken ribs, purely "tasteless to eat, a pity to abandon". But these 200 people are really not a small number. With the idea of ​​taking them back to the mountains, even if they don't serve as soldiers, they can still do hard labor, Chen Ming closed one eye and brought them into the team.

But restraint must be determined.

The person in charge of managing these ruffians is Chen Jianbai, a Chen family member with the surname Chen, but who has nothing to do with the Chen family in Xiaonangou. This person is not even from Lushan, but from Nanyang Prefecture, and is on the same line of the Gao family. Once he was drunk and stabbed someone to death with a knife, and ran to the Chen family for refuge. When the Chen family started the rebellion, Chen Jianbai stood on the side of the Chen family without saying a word. This man was a scoundrel in his early years. He was ruthless and had a strong ruffian nature, otherwise he would not have stabbed people with a knife after getting drunk.

After escaping, Chen Jiabai hid in the Chen family's private mine. He must have learned a lesson and his ruffian nature has been restrained a lot, but the things in his bones cannot be removed just by saying so. When Chen Jianbai was in the mining protection team, he was a dog face without hair - he often turned his face and didn't recognize people. Chen Ming knew this, so he let him lead the new group of people. Of course, a big part of the reason here is that Chen Jianbai and this group of ruffians were originally in the same line of work.

Chen Jianbai was originally a team officer in the team, leading a hundred people. Now the "troops" seem to have expanded a cup, but if they really fight, these two hundred ruffians will be counted as grandsons. After the job transfer, Chen Ming did not let Chen Jian take the position alone. He arranged a small team of veterans from the Chen family army [ten people] and twenty slaves to suppress the troops.

The entire team of the Chen family army crossed the Beiru River from Changqiao Town, with 1,300 people and one or two hundred carriages, as well as a large number of livestock. The team stretched for five or six miles. After crossing the Beiru River, the county of Baofeng was in front, and then Lushan County. There were no rivers blocking the way. Chen Ming also received the news sent by Chen Guang that the Dengfeng County militia had arrived at the city of Ruzhou, but it did not make Chen Ming feel nervous. When the news from Qingtiaoling came back, Chen Ming simply gave up some ideas and planned to rest in Baofeng for a few days.

After the rescued slaves had vented their anger by robbing the wealthy and powerful, they had already let out a lot of their anger. Or, you could say that they were less angry. In the days ahead, if they wanted to maintain their strong fighting spirit, the Chen family army would need to use propaganda and treatment to instill loyalty in them little by little.

Chen Ming's team had a considerable number of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and wine. It didn't matter whether they took these things back to the mountain or not. What Funiu Mountain really needed were powerful large livestock such as cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules, and pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and wine were not among them.

Large pieces of meat, large bowls of wine, and two days of rewards, dozens of pigs, sheep, hundreds of chickens, ducks, and geese, and jars of Baofeng wine, in exchange for the full spirit of the entire team. Except for the alternative group of hooligans.

Chen Jianbai had not shown his power since he took over the team. After two days of happy days, he finally started this alternative team. Looking at the 200 newcomers in front of him, he felt a sense of familiarity again. In the crowd, each of them stood with their arms tilted and their hips lifted, and their postures were loose and sloppy. They felt like they were pierced with needles and couldn't stand it if they didn't move for a moment. It really made him feel deeply nostalgic. Wasn't he the same person back then? If he hadn't accidentally stabbed someone to death, he would be like this now...