My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Han Yong had no reason to refuse and agreed immediately. "Of course, I will do everything according to your request, County Magistrate Jiang."

After seeing Han Yong off, Jiang Li came to the training ground again. A month later, the 1,200 recruits had completed basic training.

This month, in addition to basic internal training, the training content was specially adjusted to allow them to learn how to use the British equipment.

After a month of getting to know each other, they now have some idea of ​​what they are like.

Jiang Li came to the training ground and picked out twelve company commanders from the officers' camp. He then divided them into ten infantry companies and one artillery company. He also mobilized twenty motorcycles, four trucks and thirty horses to form a logistics company responsible for transporting supplies and communications.

The weapons used by these 1,200 people were exactly the same number as that of an infantry battalion.

Looking at this British-equipped regiment, Jiang Li began to think about further expansion.

There was no other way. Jiang Li really had little money left. He had to continue fighting the local tyrants and collecting some spoils. Otherwise, he might not even have the money to buy the next batch of industrial equipment.

He asked the newly appointed company commanders to continue training with this group of soldiers, while he asked Jiang Youchi to investigate the surrounding forces.

Jiang Youchi took the order and left with a smile on his face, obviously looking forward to this matter.

Jiang Li was speechless seeing him like this, but there was nothing he could do about it. He could only go back to the map and think about it carefully.

"I currently have 6,200 qualified soldiers, and 2,000 new recruits who have been training for a month."

"It seems that we need to quickly transfer the new soldiers gathered in various towns back for training, otherwise we won't have enough manpower to garrison the territories we conquer next."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Li passed the order down and then went home to teach his two wives how to practice.

Jiang Youchi brought back intelligence for several days in a row. When he came to the study, he asked in surprise, "Why are you so fast this time? Don't think you can fool me by making up the numbers."

"If your information is wrong, I'll shoot you!"

After hearing what Jiang Li said, Jiang Youchi smiled awkwardly, "Hehehe, how dare I fool you, young master? I have indeed checked the surrounding area thoroughly!"

"Didn't you ask us to go prospecting some time ago?"

"We only have four counties now, and my brothers took over all of them in a short time. After that, there was nothing to do, so I sent half of the people to scout the surrounding counties."

"When you asked me to investigate a few days ago, I had already done most of the research. I collected all the information these days and brought it to you."

When Jiang Li heard what was going on, he immediately took the stack of information he handed over.

It turned out that the investigation was indeed very detailed. There are now six counties bordering them, namely: Nanxi County, Hui'an County, Ninghua County, Puting County, Zhao'an County, and Meixian County.

Except for Nanxi, Hui'an and Ninghua counties, the other three cannot be moved because they all belong to a warlord named Chen Xueming.

This man controls twelve counties and has thirty to forty thousand troops under his command. If he hadn't been entangled with other warlords in the past two years,

Dongshan and Qinghe are two counties near the water, and it is not Jiang Li's turn to pick the peach.

However, it was also because of this that Jiang Li truly sensed the crisis, because he knew that this was a period when the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse and the various warlords were fighting each other.

Many ambitious people jumped out, ready to pick up the broken bricks and tiles that fell from the big house of the Qing Dynasty, dreaming of occupying the mountain and becoming the king.

They kept on fighting each other, but because of their limited abilities, they turned such a serious matter as war into a fight between children.

There are simply not many people who can kill the enemy in one move and then become big and powerful to conquer the world.

According to the intelligence Jiang Li had gathered from various sources, at that time, there were nearly two hundred counties in Guangdong and Fujian provinces combined, and the number of warlords, both large and small, was also close to two hundred.

It is true that the smaller the temple, the more evil spirits there are, and the shallower the pond, the more turtles there are.

"This is exactly my chance. As long as I can quickly take over the two counties of Nanxi and Hui'an, I can expand my forces and find a chance to give Chen Xueming a good beating."

"Maybe he will be able to join the ranks of great warlords right away."

Thinking of this, he carefully looked at the information about Nanxi County and Hui'an County. It turned out that these two counties were just over a hundred miles east of Qinghe County.

This location may not be intuitive enough, so let's start from the beginning. The source of the Qingshui River is in Qinghe County. After flowing through Qinghe County, it flows through Dongshan County, and finally merges with some other tributaries to form the source of the Minjiang River.

Nanxi County is located on the south bank of the Minjiang River and is also a county by the water. Although Hui'an County is not near the water, it is adjacent to Nanxi County.

At this time, both counties were occupied by a warlord named Yang Shuzhuang, who was also a talented person.

It turned out that their Yang family was a big family in Nanxi County, and had made a lot of money by relying on water transportation for generations.

It's strange to say, maybe because their family made too much dirty money, his father married five or six concubines and had many children, but none of them survived in infancy.

Later, he found a Feng Shui master from somewhere and he told him the reason. It turned out that the Feng Shui of his Yang family was not right.

According to the Feng Shui master, the Yang family's roots were not very prosperous in the early years and had not yet extended to the Minjiang River, so there was no impact.

But later on, the Yang family grew stronger, with many people and luxuriant branches and leaves, and the corresponding root system extended to the river, and was then eroded by the river water all the year round, which led to the situation of his Yang family being in turmoil and the population being declining.

The Feng Shui master's solution was simple. On the one hand, he used the method of the five elements to name the children who were born later, using wood to overcome water to ensure that they would grow up safely.

Later it was verified to be true. After Yang Shuzhuang was given this name, he grew up healthy and several of his brothers and sisters also survived.

Later, with the support of his family, he formed an army and took over the entire Nanxi County. Two years ago, he even sent troops to capture Hui'an County.

He became a warlord who occupied two counties and had four to five thousand troops under his command. Moreover, according to the investigation conducted by Jiang Youchi, this guy seemed to be mobilizing troops recently and seemed to be planning to launch some military activity.

Judging from the direction of their troops, it should be Ninghua County in the southeast.

Jiang Youchi watched Jiang Li carefully reading the intelligence, and he couldn't help but remind him, "Master, it seems that Yang Shuzhuang is going to use his troops. Should we take this opportunity to attack him?"

Jiang Li looked up at him and said, "Okay, I know what to do. Since he has given us such a good opportunity, how can we let it go!"

"Send someone to pass on my order right now, and have each town's garrison send a platoon of soldiers to stand by."

"Wait for him to leave with his men, then we will go down the river to raid his lair and cut off his escape route. Then we can force him to fight us head-on and capture him in one fell swoop!"