After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

All the people in this area came to the merchants.

And these merchants were all soldiers of Anping.

After You Yi and Jiang Zhong left, these ten armed infantrymen have been on heightened alert.

Among these infantrymen was Zhao Qiang, nicknamed Zhao Goudan, who was from Huang County.

Zhao Qiang joined the army in Huang County, and later followed the Silver Armored Soldiers to participate in the Battle of Anping for the first time. However, he was not timid and was quite courageous.

Zhao Qiang has made many contributions.

Later, when he arrived in Anping, he entered the infantry team composed of strong men with his excellent scores in all the tests during the soldier selection.

Maybe it was because he shot a lot of birds with a slingshot when he was a child. Although his talent is not as good as that of C, he can still hit two out of three shots.

Zhao Qiang then followed Situ Jin to attack Shucheng and made great contributions.

Zhao Qiang had long been the captain of the Second Army Team, and it was he who took the initiative to request to set out this time.

After You Yi left, Zhao Qiang took over the team.

Zhao Qiang spent money to recruit some more people from the people. It was simply impossible for the ten of them to manage so many people.

As a result, many people took the initiative to come forward for the job that paid ten cents a day.

Zhao Jinming was one of them. He was physically strong and was included in the team.

In this way, Zhao Qiang will have more manpower.

When he first decided on the departure time from Min County, he anticipated that some people would not want to spend money to follow their team.

He wanted to use the road they had taken to identify the direction to Guangsha, so that he could reach Guangsha without spending a penny.

At the beginning, the people in the team who had paid for their lives were dissatisfied, but Zhao Qiang ignored these people and even ignored the people who followed at the end of them.

Just let these followers follow, Zhao Qiang didn't care whether they paid for their lives or not.

As long as one person from Suo County is willing to come to Anping or Guangsha, he or she will become a labor force.

Let’s see if they can hold on.

Although there have been no bandits coming to rob the Panlong Mountain area in recent days, don't forget it.

This path is mostly used by locals and is not a main road.

This road is in the mountains and forests. The mountains near Panlong Mountain are not only infested with thieves but also with wild beasts.

This wolf is one of them.

The people who fell behind Zhao Qiang's team were unwilling to pay for their lives but wanted to take advantage of this.

Zhao Qiang knew clearly that even if these people arrived in Anping, they would not have much sense of belonging to Anping.

But it's a different story when their lives are in danger.

Lord Mu once told Lord You and other infantrymen that they needed to win the hearts of the people.

As long as they are willing to stay in peace, we will bring them back.

If someone has a bad character or is a scum, it would be better for him to be executed on the spot.

Zhao Qiang understood that what Anping needed was fresh blood rather than troublemakers.

These wolves attacked the people following them, but Zhao Qiang did not take action. Instead, he waited until the wolves got close to him and threatened the people who had paid for their lives before he took action and killed the person who led the wolves.

As for the wolf killing people, Zhao Qiang didn't have to do much to win over many people's hearts.

The power of the flintlock rifle gave the people in Zhao Qiang's team a lot of confidence. At that moment, they were extremely glad that they spent the twenty cents, otherwise they would have died in the wolves' mouths like the people behind them.

Only at this moment did they truly feel a sense of belonging to Anping.

And the advantage of powerful military force also showed its value at this moment.

The people behind him saw that those who paid were protected by Zhao Qiang and others, while they themselves almost died in the wolf's mouth.

In contrast, they only felt regret in their hearts.

The fear of death spread to almost everyone, so they all came forward to Zhao Qiang to buy things on credit.

At this point, those people who paid for their lives were completely included in Zhao Qiang's consideration.

Zhao Qiang didn't care at all about them following behind him, which invisibly made these people who originally didn't intend to pay feel a little good about Zhao Qiang and An Ping.

This wave is part of Zhao Qiang’s plan.

Ji Ying watched those people go away. After listening to the words of the man from Suo County, his mind was filled with thoughts.

He always felt something was wrong.

Aren't the bandits in Panlong Mountain always greedy for money?

They had forced him to do hard labor for a month before. If he hadn't managed to escape, he would probably still be chopping wood in the woodshed.

But he pretended to casually inquire about the bandits, but no one told him that they had seen the bandits.

With so many people and merchants, how could they not come to plunder?

What's more, those people chased him all the way to the foot of the mountain the day before.

This is one of the doubts.

The second doubt is the news he heard.

The man said that they only heard a noise, and then both the wolf and the man who led the wolf were killed.

This is obviously not logical.

Ji Ying initially suspected whether the news was exaggerated, but when people around him said so, he gave up his original idea.

So what kind of noise or what kind of weapon could kill a wolf and a human at once?

Ji Ying couldn't infer anything from the bloodstains he saw at the scene before.

In addition, they had already gone far away from Panlong Mountain, so Ji Ying had no way of figuring out why the bandits did not come to rob them. However, he might be able to figure out the second doubt.

Soon after, Ji Ying also brought Cui Liu into the team to buy things on credit.

If there were another wolf coming today, he might be able to solve this doubt.

However, after Ji Ying joined the team, no wild beasts came for two days, and naturally no one noticed them using weapons.

Whenever Ji Ying passed by merchants dressed in unique clothes, her eyes would always linger on their flintlock rifles.

Zhao Qiang noticed this person, but he didn't care too much.

The flintlock rifles they were equipped with had a special shape, and Ji Ying was not the only one who often stared at them. Many people also cast curious glances at the flintlock rifles.

Three days after Ji Ying joined the team, the official road suddenly became wider.

Then the official road became more and more different as it got closer to Guangsha. First, the road was paved with gravel.

Then the mud was replaced by a flat and hard road.

"This is?"

Ji Ying is a sweet-talker, and she will answer almost all questions from merchants from Anping regarding Anping.

Ji Ying asked Zhao Qiang a lot of questions in the past few days, and Zhao Qiang answered them patiently.

Zhao Qiang looked at the dried cement road and couldn't help but rejoice: "This is a cement road."

I didn't expect that Guangsha would be paved with cement so soon. It seems that this road will be much easier to walk on even on rainy days.

Ji Ying listened to the new words and kept pondering their meanings, but he was a local after all, and he couldn't figure them out after a long time.

So he asked again:

"I've never seen this cement road anywhere else. Is it exclusive to the Quad Cities?"

Even though Ji Ying was not well-informed, he already knew that after the refugee army's defeat, three of the cities were returned to Mu Qing. Together with Anping, a total of four cities were in Mu Qing's hands.

And this Guangsha is one of the four cities today.