Yuan Jin, the commander of the naval battalion on Juehua Island, had a well-organized group of officers and soldiers. Miao Naicheng, the commander of the battalion, had already helped take care of everything, so he was not in a hurry to leave at this time.

After Yu Liangtai paid homage to Yang Zhen, Yang Zhen told them a few more things to pay attention to on the return journey, such as the transportation of captured materials, the supply of water for people and horses, and when he would wait for the rendezvous on the sea outside the mouth of the Liaohe River.

Waiting for matters.

After Yang Zhen finished his instructions, he sent Yuan Jin and Yu Liangtai out, but saw Hu Dabao, who had left before, standing in the corridor under the steps outside the door.

"Hey, my eldest nephew hasn't left either?!"

Yuan Jin saw Hu Dabao waiting there at the same time, and immediately smiled and shouted to him jokingly. When he saw that Hu Dabao hadn't left, he immediately knew what he meant.

However, Yang Zhen told everyone to disperse the meeting and everyone went back to prepare for evacuation. Hu Dabao didn't think much about it, got up and followed the others and left.

However, when I walked to the bottom of the city, I suddenly realized that I left like this. It would be difficult to see Yang Zhen again in the future. If he went to Tianzhuang Terrace, he would definitely not return here the same way. He would probably wait at the mouth of Liaohe River.

After reuniting with Yuan Jin's fleet, they returned to Songshan City in western Liaoning.

When he thought of this, Hu Dabao immediately turned around and went back to the city. He heard Yu Liangtai and Yuan Jin talking at Yang Zhen's place.

He didn't want to go in at that time, and he didn't want to go in either. He had no choice but to wander in the corridor under the steps outside the door.

It was already dawn, and Hu Dabao was getting more and more anxious. He suddenly heard Yuan Jin's words and didn't take it seriously. He immediately stared at Yang Zhen with one eye. Seeing that Yang Zhen was also looking at him, he immediately clasped his fists and bowed.

, said to Yang Zhen:

"Sir, Commander-in-Chief! Hu Dabao has something to say and wants to report it to you!"

Seeing this, Yang Zhen already roughly understood what he meant. He looked at each other with Yuan Jin and Yu Liangtai, and went down the steps first, with Yuan Jin and Yu Liangtai following a few steps behind.

Yang Zhen walked down the steps, walked up to Hu Dabao, patted him on the shoulder and said, "We are brothers, why should we be so polite! Brother Hu, please speak directly if you have anything to say! General Yuan, Third Brother Yu are not outsiders!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Dabao looked up at Yang Zhen, then turned to look at Yu Liangtai and Yuan Jin who were standing not far behind Yang Zhen. He knew that Yu Liangtai had already taken one step ahead of him and surrendered to Yang Zhen. Without hesitation, he immediately went to

He took a step back and then knelt on the ground with a plop.

"Master General of the Army! Hu Dabao is willing to lead all the troops on Tu'er Island, obey your orders, accept your reorganization, use Tu'er Island and Gaizhou Bay as the rear, attack behind enemy lines on the coast of southern Liaoning, kill the Tatars, save the Han people, and make great contributions! I hope

The Commander-in-Chief accepts it!"

As soon as Hu Dabao knelt on the ground, he said these words to Yang Zhen. After finishing speaking, he kowtowed to the ground and did not dare to raise his head.

The reason why he didn't dare to raise his head was because he was afraid that Yang Zhen would feel unhappy after hearing this and refuse to agree in a fit of anger.

Although Hu Dabao is younger than Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou, he is more thoughtful than them. He knows that this time he and others followed Yang Zhen and defeated Xu Guanbao, Xiongyue City, and now Gaizhou City.

, and let them bring disaster to a great extent. When the Tatars react in the future, how can they let it go?

At that time, the Tatars sent a large army. Needless to say, they sent a thousand or two thousand people. How could they, a pirate gang like stragglers, be opponents?

And when Yang Zhen leads the officers and soldiers and leaves, what will the local snakes entrenched in Fuzhou Bay and Gaizhou Bay do?

Especially for himself, compared to the Fuzhou Bay islands of his uncles Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou, the Rabbit Island he occupies is at the forefront. Without a single soldier, horse, money, food, or weapons,

With a backer in ammunition, how long can he stay at ease here?

If in the past, he still had the option of surrendering to the Heavenly Assistance Army and surrendering to the Tatars, then now, they massacred Xu Guanbao, destroyed Xiongyue City, Gaizhou City, and not only killed Xu Erxian, but also the Tatars

He killed one Gushan Beizi of the clan, and Niulu Zhangjing, the wife of Jia La Zhangjing family. He was even more conceited about his youth and strength, and caused several disasters in succession.

After doing these things, how can he still seek refuge with the Heavenly Helping Soldiers and surrender to the Tatars?!

From now on, the option of surrendering to Mannu is completely gone for him!

However, if he was asked to really follow Yang Zhen and go to Songshan City to become a Qian Commander in the advance camp, or even a garrison officer, he was unwilling.

Although it is dangerous here now, the advantage is freedom. Being able to rely on the big tree Yang Zhen without having to follow him to Songshan to make a camp is the best choice.

Hu Dabao's thoughts were all expressed through the few words he just said. After saying those words, he held his breath and waited patiently for Yang Zhen's answer.

But Yang Zhen heard what Hu Dabao said, and after a brief thought, he understood what he meant. He knew that he wanted benefits but did not want to be restrained. However, there is no such good thing in the world.

If Hu Dabao wants to be a military attache of the imperial court, there is no problem. As long as you carry the banner of the advance battalion of the Imperial Order to the East, this status can be given to you.

However, if you just want the status of an advance battalion, and then defraud money and goods from Yang Zhen, or even defraud weapons and ammunition under the guise of attacking behind enemy lines to support Liaoxi, how can it be that easy?

At the moment, Yang Zhen pondered over all the possibilities he could think of. Seeing that the sky was already bright, he really couldn't delay it any longer, so he took a deep breath and said to Hu Dabao:

"Very good! Brother Hu, Yang is very pleased that you have this intention! Your department now has more than 200 people. When you return to Tu'er Island, you can draw dozens from the young men and make up for 300 people.

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"When I return to Songshan, I will report to the imperial court to formally incorporate your unit into the imperial expeditionary camp, and ask the imperial court to appoint you to the post of Gaizhou Bay garrison! You can always choose three candidates from the thousands of soldiers under your command.

, inform Li Lu and request for appointment at that time!"

Yang Zhenti didn't even mention that he would follow him back to Songshan. At the same time, he also promised him a position of 300 men on the spot, a Gaizhou Bay garrison position, and three thousand general positions under him. This made Hu Dabao

I was immediately overjoyed.

"Hu Dabao, who holds a humble position, swears to follow you to the death, and is willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses!"

Hu Dabao said this with joy on his face, settling the matter, and then kowtowed three times to Yang Zhen on the spot. From then on, he was officially accepted into the command of Yang Zhen's advance battalion.

Yuan Jin, who also stayed until the end, saw that Yang Zhen had taken in two pirate leaders, Yu Liangtai and Hu Dabao, one after another. He immediately stepped forward to express his congratulations, and at the same time asked every possible opportunity for the specific location and method of rendezvous outside the mouth of the Liaohe River in the future.

Yang Zhen didn't know the specific location, so he had to go back and ask Qiu Zhenhai. Qiu Zhenhai named place names one after another, but Yuan Jin always looked confused. It wasn't until he finally mentioned Clam Hill that Yuan Jin's eyes lit up and he immediately agreed.

At this moment, it was getting late, so Yang Zhen hurriedly sent Yuan Jin, Yu Liangtai and Hu Dabao away and came to the downstairs of the city gate. Zhang Chen and Li Lu were both there, and they quickly asked about the preparations.

Zhang Chen's left and right musketeers temporarily selected some elite soldiers who were good at using muskets from Li Lu and Jin Shijun's men, and once again gathered forty people.

In addition to the ten men from Dunn's small artillery team, who still brought their precious little tiger squatting cannons, this team has a total of about fifty people and more than a hundred horses. Everyone wears a Tatar vest with a white flag.

Everything is ready.

After the capture of Gaizhou City, a batch of Tatar war horses and military supplies were seized. It was not difficult to prepare them.

The only difficulty was that the ammunition Li Lu was asked to prepare was a little more difficult. The gunpowder pellets on the left and right wings of the musketeers were almost exhausted.

The grenades previously allocated to the musketeers have long been gone. No matter how many enemies they destroyed, they have all been thrown cleanly now.

As for the small powder packs of Lumi guns that were packed in rations, as well as the projectiles of the same caliber, Yang Zhen asked Pan Wenmao's ammunition factory to prepare a lot of ammunition as early as when he set out to attack behind enemy lines.

At that time, the gunpowder pellets of the musketeers were prepared according to the quantity of two hundred shots per person, which means that one person can shoot two hundred times with one gun.

For a front-loading smoothbore flintlock musket, this amount of ammunition and the number of shots are quite large, but now it seems that if the battles become more frequent, this ammunition base will not be enough.

He himself didn't fire many shots along the way, but he had a lot left. However, some of the musketeers on the left and right wings of the musketeers had very few left, and some of them had been wasted for some reason and were gone.

The same goes for Dunn's small artillery team. The prepared projectiles and medicine packs have been completely used after several battles.

It stands to reason that they carry the Little Tiger Crouching Cannon. Now that there is no ammunition, it is of no use and can be thrown away, but they are reluctant to throw it away.

Yang Zhen also let him keep it just in case. Anyway, there were enough horses, and there were also a few squatting tiger cannons that weighed only more than a hundred kilograms at most.

Faced with the lack of good gunpowder, Li Lu had no choice but to carefully dismantle the two remaining ten thousand enemies, divide them into equal parts, and send them to Zhang Chen and his musketeers.

These ten thousand enemies were originally going to bury two bombs under the south gate wall of Gaizhou City in preparation for their evacuation, but they had no choice now.

At the same time, Li Lu also dug out all the dozens of flying generals that the Grenadier Corps had in stock on the ship and equipped them with the Musketeers.

In addition, Yang Zhen had not fired a few shots since he went deep behind enemy lines. There were many young and old left with the musket packs and projectiles that were distributed to him. Now he took them out and evened them out, finally giving them to everyone.

Everyone collected seven or eight medicine packets and seven or eight pellets, which was enough ammunition to shoot seven or eight more times.

After everything was tidied up, Yang Zhen explained some matters to Li Lu and Jin Shijun. After that, the group simply shared some dried meat, saqima and other dry food and snacks collected from the Tatar homes in Gaizhou City, with Qiu Zhenhai taking the lead.
Chapter completed!