Borrowing the power

Li Chen nodded repeatedly. He was moved and grateful now. Lord Wu actually gave himself face, and actually gave face to an unknown soldier. Uncle Shan in the kitchen team was right. Lord Wu really treated soldiers as brothers! He was definitely not like Zhao Sheng, who even sacrificed his lives in order to frame Lord Wu!

He secretly made up his mind that if Lord Wu doesn’t pursue this time, he will spare his life. His life will be Lord Wu’s in the future!

"Mr. Wu, I don't say anything anymore. I... I will be the only one in my life."

After Li Chen finished speaking solemnly, wiped his tears, knelt down again and kowtowed to Wu Shaoting.

Wu Shaoting quickly stood up and helped Li Chen up, and said with a smile: "Xiao Li, I said, I don't advocate this kind of kowtowing old rules. Everyone is a brother who is born and dies. Who has a life that is inferior to whom?"

Li Chen stood up, sniffed, and said, "Mr. Wu, the young man knows that he is a low-key person. The young man cannot persuade Brother Chen and Lord Zhao to frame you, but... But in the future, as long as they have the intention to frame Lord Wu, the young man will definitely come to inform Lord Wu."

Wu Shaoting nodded slightly to express his gratitude. He sighed heavily and said with a wry smile: "Xiao Li, I actually don't advocate you to be a double-faced person. First, this is dangerous to you, and second, I can't let Adjutant Chen and Lord Zhao do anything bad forever. I won't say much about it. I just hope you can remember your position."

Li Chen also knew that he was too naive. He could not help Lord Wu once, but he might not be able to help him twice. Moreover, such conspiracy and frame-ups cannot always be ignored by Lord Wu. If that day really comes, he feels that he should be on Lord Wu's side. Although Brother Chen has kindness to him, Brother Chen cannot use this kindness to make him do bad things that are against his conscience!

He made up his mind secretly, then nodded solemnly to Wu Shaoting and said, "Mr. Wu, I understand!"

From Li Chen's tone, Wu Shaoting could be sure that Li Chen really understood!

He said, "It's great. You can adjust your emotions first. Just pretend that what happened just now hasn't happened. Don't tell anyone else about me! Just treat it as usual!"

Li Chen responded and said, "I understand little."

After a while, Li Chen packed up his dishes and retreated from the tent.

Wu Shaoting stood alone in the tent, and his previously calm face suddenly turned into a kind of coldness! He cursed secretly: Chen Sheng, this bastard, is going to murder me! Very good!

Although he said on the surface that he would pretend that he didn't know this, but people with a little IQ would know how it is possible? If it simply destroys the bandit suppression and ruins himself, this can be regarded as a political struggle, and he can temporarily endure this tone. But this time it was a naked assassination!

As the saying goes, the first move is the best, but then moves will be a disaster. Chen Sheng even has the intention to kill, the sooner he eliminates the more quiet he is.

It just so happens that he is now in need of a trusted adjutant, not a time bomb, so take this opportunity to remove the time bomb and replace it with a confidant!

After a while, Wu Shaoting turned off the oil lamp in the tent, but he did not sleep, but secretly went to the third battalion area to wake Ni Duan up.

Early the next morning, Zhang Renjun came to Xin'an from Dongguan County. After listening to Long Liangguang's deployment, he immediately agreed to act according to Long Liangguang's plan, and the old army came to surround the mountains, and the new army was responsible for searching the mountains. He was not jealous of the title of Guangzhou's strongest army, nor was he considered based on the interests of the old army, but objectively believed that the new army's combat effectiveness was much stronger than the old army. This bandit suppression operation was so powerful in the early stage. If the old army's actions were unfavorable, it would be a backfire.

Of course, considering that the new army is not familiar with the mountainous areas in this area, Zhang Renjun ordered Long Liangguang to personally lead a group of local defense forces to go up the mountain with the new army.

As for the artillery team of the new army and the artillery team of the Governor's Office, they bombed the mountainous areas in this area before the infantry went up the mountain. They did not seek to fight the bandits, but just to create momentum and shock the bandits.

In addition, Zhang Renjun also revealed another news that this bandit suppression was just to deal with the bandits. The pirates in the sandbank were bandits that appeared between the Hong Kong Sea and the Inner Bay. Since it involved the matters of both areas, it was just a matter of no care. Although the Governor's Office still ordered the Guangdong Navy to be dispatched, it would be just a patrol in the Inner Bay and make a move.

This matter is irrelevant to the Army. Their abilities and responsibilities are limited to the road surface, so there is nothing in the water that can do.

After some resolution, it was already noon. Everyone felt that it was too late to go up the mountain now, because in that case, the action might continue until late at night, and it would be even more troublesome at that time.

However, Zhang Renjun believes that this time, he mobilized a large number of troops and came to Xin'an to suppress the bandits with great fanfare. The bandits hidden in the mountainous areas must have received the news, so he was very worried that the bandits would be prepared or escape in advance. If there was no big gain in this bandit suppression, the previous preparation would still be in vain.

So he ordered the old army to go to the mountainous areas and set up defenses around the mountainous areas to prevent the bandits from escaping.

In the early morning of the third day, the sky was just dawn. The first three battalions of the new army entered the mountain area from Dayan Mountain and Qilin Mountain as a unit. Zhao Sheng made an operation arrangement that was extremely lacking in military knowledge. He asked the first battalion to be responsible for cutting into Dayan Mountain from the front, the second battalion entered Qilin Mountain from the east to advance west, and the third battalion entered Qilin Mountain from the north to recommend it south.

There are three major mistakes in this order. The first is that the entire army has no supervision team. After all, this is the first time that the first target has carried out actual combat tasks. Who knows if an accident will occur once the battle occurs? The second is that all three battalions are put into operation, and there is no reserve team to take a rotation rest, so the entire army can only operate overload; the third is that the direction of the three battalions is completely nonsense, especially the first battalion and the third battalion, which are obviously moving in the opposite direction. Once the fire is exchanged, it is very likely to cause accidental injuries.

More importantly, this kind of combat deployment is inefficient at all. You should know that this mountain search was aimed at three mountain areas within a radius of twenty miles, but Zhao Sheng actually concentrated all three battalions in Dayan Mountain and Qilin Mountain. What about Dama Mountain?

Before the operation, Wu Shaoting and Xu Shaowen, acting battalion commander of the Second Battalion, found Zhao Sheng together and made suggestions to him. The two staff officers Xu Haiying and He Fuguang from the General Staff of the Commander's Office also pointed out the problem with the operation.

However, Zhao Sheng emphasized that it was precisely because of the first battle of the first target and in order to concentrate the offensive efforts, this kind of siege tactic was adopted. As for the Dama Mountain, after the First Battalion headed north to meet with the Third Battalion, it could directly go to Dama Mountain.

Everyone thought this was a total waste of resources. There were only a few hundred bandits in three mountainous areas. Is it necessary to be so careful?

Faced with the criticism of the crowd, Zhao Sheng was very angry and had to show the majesty of the ruling system and force the battalions to start acting according to the order, otherwise they would be treated as a violation of the order and military law.

Everyone had no choice but to start taking action separately.

Zhao Sheng set up a temporary commander at the foot of Dayan Mountain to be responsible for coordinating the operations of the entire army.

After the artillery symbolically carried out one-third base bombing, Wu Shaoting began to assemble the entire First Battalion Army.

He accidentally saw Adjutant Chen Sheng whispering to Zhao Qianxun, the second team leader, but there was no strange color on his face. He quickly turned his face and pretended not to see anything.

After the entire battalion gathered, they conducted routine arms inspections and mission introductions, and then advanced towards Dayan Mountain in teams. Long Liangguang sent a defense force team to guide the first battalion, and the guides were assigned to each team of the new army.

Twenty minutes later, all the first battalions left the garrison.

The Big Eye Mountain is not too high, and the mountain road is not so rugged and bumpy. It is just that the wild forests are very dense, and the traces of artillery bombing just now have had a great impact on the march. After about an hour of marching, although the physical strength of the entire battalion was still in good condition, the distance he walked was not too long, and no abnormal situation had happened so far.

Wu Shaoting sent an order to ask the three teams in the camp to distance themselves and expand the search area. He also reminded the soldiers not to be careless. The bandits dare not confront the official army head-on, but they will definitely hide in the dark and fire cold guns.

Soon, the three teams gradually dispersed, the first team extended northeast, and the third team advanced northwest. Wu Shaoting led the officers and soldiers of the battalion office to follow the second team to advance northward.

As an adjutant, Chen Sheng has been walking behind Wu Shaoting. He is now secretly happy. Fortunately, Wu Shaoting is with the second team. If Wu Shaoting is following other teams, his plan will be more difficult.

Although Li Chen, he arranged for him, was a member of the guard team of the battalion office, if there was no chaotic environment cover, it would be not so easy to start. The second team Zhao Qianxun played the role of creating a chaotic environment. As soon as he encountered bandits shooting, Zhao Qianxun and his men would immediately pretend to be defeated.

Chen Sheng turned around and looked at Li Chen who was walking at the back of the guards, and signaled to Li Chen with his eyes.

Li Chen seemed a little nervous, but he nodded slightly to respond.

Suddenly, a warning shout came from the front: "Who is it!"

Everyone suddenly became nervous and everyone picked up the weapons in their hands.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, your own people!" A response came from a distance ahead, and the sound was very familiar.

Wu Shaoting immediately pushed away the soldiers blocking the front and strode to the front of the team. He raised his eyes and looked ahead. He could vaguely see the back of the sentry exploring the way forward. He immediately asked a shed leader beside him, "What's going on?"

The head of the shed shook his head and replied, "Sir, I don't know yet. Maybe the sentry discovered the situation."

Just about one hundred meters away from the second team, the two sentries responsible for exploration held up their rifles in their hands and half-squatted on the ground, staring at the grass twenty meters in front of them.

At this time, several people walked out from behind the grass, but these people were all wearing new military uniforms. An officer in the lead shouted while walking: "I told you that you are, don't be excited, put down your gun. If you kill me if you fire, I will never end up with you!"

When the two sentries finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, they found that it was impossible for bandits to disguise themselves as new troops. The military uniforms of the new troops were not something they could get! They quickly put down their rifles and looked at each other in confusion, because these new troops did not seem to be from the first battalion, so how could they come here?

"Sir, what part are you from?" the sentry asked the colleague who walked out of the grass.

"I'm so disappointed, don't know me anymore? The third battalion auxiliary officer Ni Duan!" The officer in charge, who was in charge, spat on the ground in anger. This person was Ni Duan.

"Ah? It turns out it's Lord Ni." The sentry quickly saluted.

"Which part of you are?" Ni Duan asked with his hand on the armed belt around his waist.

"Sir, we are the sentinels of the second team of the first battalion." The sentinel replied.

"What, the first battalion? Is this Big Eye Mountain?" Ni Duan asked in surprise. His face suddenly became exaggerated, as if he was amused and incredible.

The sentry nodded and said with certainty: "Sir, this is Big Eye Mountain!"

Ni Duan laughed for a while, then turned around and looked at the subordinates following him, cursing: "Who is the fucking way? I'm fucking, my camp is still in Qilin Mountain, and I actually brought me to Dayan Mountain! Decline!"

The people from the third battalion looked at each other, and each had a helpless look. An officer who looked like a team official said, "Sir, it's not the way we lead, but the way we lead the way we lead the guide of the defense force!"

Ni Duan immediately said, "Hurry up, go and find the guide for me."

The team of officials took the order and hurriedly returned to the back of the grass. Not long after, he actually brought out more than a dozen officers and soldiers from the Third Battalion. Among the dozen people, there was a soldier wearing an old military uniform, the guide soldier arranged by the defense army. The guide soldier was quickly brought to Ni Duan.

"Are you wrong? Are you a local? How can you lead the way?" Ni Duan asked.

"Sir, you said you were going south..." the guide said softly.

"Pujie, I asked you to take me to the south to find my troops, not to bring you to Big Eye Mountain." Ni Duan said sternly.

At this time, the second team of soldiers in the rear immediately came forward after confirming the safety of the situation in front.

Wu Shaoting walked in the front. When he saw Ni Duan, he was immediately surprised and said, "What happened? The Third Battalion searched from Qilin Mountain so quickly?"

Ni Duan said with a wry smile: "Mr. Wu, I don't know what's going on. Half an hour ago, I found a place to make it convenient. As a result, it was finished and I fell behind with the large army. I asked the guide to lead the way to the south to follow the troops. The guide was really excited and took me directly to Dayan Mountain."

Wu Shaoting asked strangely: "Why, there is a shortcut to Qilin Mountain from Dayan Mountain?"

The guide nodded and said, "Yes, but you have to climb a steep slope. It is easy to come from Qilin Mountain, but it is a bit difficult to pass from Dayan Mountain."

Wu Shaoting turned around and asked his men to find the guide on his side and asked about the geographical situation. The guide on the First Battalion also said that there were indeed shortcuts. The distance between the two mountain areas was a little shorter, but the road was not easy to walk on.

"You are so good now, you have lost your troops. Haha, I see how you explain when you go back." Wu Shaoting said helplessly with a smile.

"Nothing is useful now. But I am also divided into three groups, led by the team officer. Even if I encounter any accidents, I should be able to deal with them." Ni Duan sighed and said.

"Anyway, we are going north to meet your third battalion, so you can follow me. It's really a big deal to meet bandits on your way back." Wu Shaoting said.

"Oh, Lord Wu said that, so I have to do this. I think the first battalion and the third battalion are not too far away. We should be able to meet in a while!" Ni Duan nodded and said.

"Maybe." Wu Shaoting said.

So, Ni Duan and others joined the queue of the first battalion.

This scene was naturally a plan that Wu Shaoting and Ni Duan agreed last night. The reason why Wu Shaoting wanted to transfer a group of soldiers from the third battalion was because he knew very well that he could not control the first battalion. Once Chen Sheng and Zhao Qianxun really wanted to conspire to create a defeat and there was no one available in his hands, it would be impossible to suppress it.

Although Chen Sheng felt strange, why did the people from the Third Battalion come for no reason? Moreover, these people from the Third Battalion did not rush to the Second Battalion or other teams of the First Battalion, but they just met the Second Team. Is there any weirdness in it?

But he turned around and thought that Dayan Mountain and Qilin Mountain were only less than ten miles apart, and everyone had that nine out of nine to go up the mountain. Perhaps the distance was indeed very close. This was just a coincidence!
Chapter completed!