Chapter 55: Helpful Help
"Okay, your recruit training has officially ended."
"In the future, you can arrange your time on your own, but remember to focus on your own martial arts training!"
At 3:45 pm, the group had returned to the Wang Family Courtyard in the county town. Before Zhang Xianzhong announced the disbandment, he said to the orphans gathered in the front courtyard, "From tomorrow onwards, for the next two months, I will not continue to follow you in the training and missions of your teams."
"How much you want to achieve in the future and how far you can improve your martial arts skills all depends on your own efforts."
"To tell you the truth, our rebel army's peaceful days are numbered."
"In about two months, our rebel army will abandon this Dingbian City and leave for another place. That is a foregone conclusion."
"I hope that before the government troops arrive, each of you can become a qualified elite soldier through practice and training to increase your hope of survival."
"The court, the officials, the noble families, the wealthy families, these vested interests are deeply rooted, and their fundamental stance is different from our righteous army. They are destined to be irreconcilable with our righteous army."
"If you don't want to be killed by them, you must do everything you can to kill them from now on!"
"Starting tomorrow, I won't come to this Wang Family Courtyard often."
"Unless you receive a military order, you can move freely every day. You can form a team and go out of the city for actual combat training, or stay in the Wang family compound to train hard."
"But you must come back to spend the night. You are not allowed to wander outside!"
At this point, his eyes became stern, and he looked at the four evil geniuses in front of him and shouted, "Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu, Zhang Huier, the four of you must manage your respective team members well. If there are any disobedient disobedient disobedient orders, you can kill them on the spot!"
"We let you guys train and arrange your own time, not to let you herd sheep. Soldiers should behave like soldiers and not act recklessly!"
"In the future, this youth combat battalion will continue to expand according to the current selection model, and its size will be far more than the current number of people."
"The future is unpredictable, but one thing is certain, you will all be the backbone of the Youth Combat Battalion. As long as you have the ability, it is not impossible for you to manage thousands of troops in the future!"
"I hope you can improve yourselves as much as possible during these two relatively stable months. Don't waste this precious time!"
"Okay, that's enough talk, disband!"
After saying this, Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and announced the disbandment.
He then leaped off the platform and hurried away with more than a dozen large carriages filled with spiritual wood and precious materials.
We were very lucky this time and obtained a large amount of precious spiritual wood materials. Of course, we must transform them into the hard power of the rebel army as soon as possible.
Not to mention anything else, in a dozen days or so, the rebel army will set out in large numbers to attack the wealthy Tianjiazhuang and Wangjiazhuang one after another. With the cover of some spiritual wooden shields, the casualties of the rebel soldiers will be greatly reduced.
This is an urgent matter, so of course we must hurry and find the master craftsman who is currently residing in Dingbian City and hire him with a high salary to start work immediately.
The status of master craftsmen in this big world is very high. Even rebels like Zhang Xianzhong dare not offend them easily.
Otherwise, if your reputation gets ruined, it will be difficult to hire craftsmen of this kind to make spiritual weapons for you in the future.
What's more, those who can become great craftsmen all have the cultivation level of Qi Refining. You can't control them just by force.
Even Zhang Xianzhong himself might not be able to defeat the great craftsman who was temporarily living in Dingbian City, and might even be killed by the enemy.
In this magical world, there is no shortage of mysterious and extraordinary people, and no one is willing to offend them unless it is absolutely necessary.
……
"Cao Yongxiang!"
"Come with me, I have something to ask you."
The next day, just after daybreak, Li Dingguo, who had just finished washing up, saw that Ai Nengqi had gone to the front courtyard to practice, and there was no one in the wing where he lived. He called Cao Yongxiang and said to him, "Do you remember the abandoned village we visited yesterday?"
"I observed it carefully yesterday. After we got rid of the group of evil spirits, we cleaned up the place and found it is still suitable for temporary residence."
"Go to the land temple in the east of the city and find Xiao Douya and Hongmei. Then find an excuse to go out of the east city gate with them and the twenty or so little girls. Go along the official road in the direction of the small village we went to yesterday." "I will ride my warhorse out of the city and catch up with you later."
"Remember, try not to let those young men who were eliminated from the warrior selection know where you are going today."
The time for the arrival of government troops is getting closer and closer, and time is becoming more and more urgent.
Some things can be started to be arranged and prepared.
Li Dingguo considered that teaching orphans like Xiao Douya and Hongmei to practice martial arts in the city would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
Yesterday, the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong finally began to let go of their young camp, which also gave Li Dingguo the opportunity to plan.
Thinking about the near future, if the situation becomes critical and he is forced to flee with the rebel army, without being able to take care of the other orphans like Xiao Douya, Li Dingguo felt a little uncomfortable.
If we don’t try, how can we know if we can change their extremely tragic fate?
In the past, I didn’t have the ability or the opportunity to do it.
It’s different now. He has some abilities, time and opportunities. If he doesn’t give it a try, his thoughts will not make sense.
Man makes success, God disposes. There are some things that you need to try, so as not to leave yourself with irreparable regrets in the future.
The abandoned village we visited yesterday is not only uninhabited, but also has all the dangers temporarily eliminated. There shouldn't be any problem using it as a temporary shelter for Xiao Douya and the others for a month or two.
In the next one or two months, Li Dingguo will lead his team of young soldiers to eliminate all dangers around the small village one by one.
In this way, while eliminating some security risks around the small village, he could also obtain some cultivation resources to provide for the cultivation needs of his team members and Xiao Douya and the others.
Even though he had provided the skills and resources for cultivation, it would only be up to fate as to how many of the orphans like Xiao Douya could stimulate the energy and blood to become a warrior.
If they are lucky, there might be more warriors among them than those beggar boys who originally participated in the warrior selection.
This is not Li Dingguo's blind guess, but has a basis of evidence.
An ordinary little girl whose family has been broken up and who is forced to wander around begging for a survival is naturally much less capable than boys of surviving in troubled times.
It is impossible for orphans like Xiao Douya to survive until now without a certain amount of luck and good qualifications.
"Okay, boss!"
Cao Yongxiang was overjoyed when he heard the good news that he had been worried about for the past few days. He patted his chest and assured her, "Don't worry."
"I will complete this simple task very well and will not reveal our true purpose to any outsiders!"
"I'll find an excuse to take Xiao Douya and the others away from the East City Land Temple, wait until the East City Gate opens, and then find a suitable opportunity to leave the city."
"As for the dozen soldiers guarding the East Gate, I have taken time out of the compound several times in the past few days to get acquainted with them. I can ask them to let some little girls out of the city. It shouldn't be a big problem."
Cao Yongxiang was a very scheming person. He had made some advance preparations without Li Dingguo knowing anything about it, which immediately made Li Dingguo look at him with admiration.
Cao Yongxiang was not acting recklessly, but was considering that in two months, the government army that would come to suppress the bandits would most likely come from the northwest of Dingbian City.
At that time, the rebel army had no choice but to flee to the southeast along the remaining official road.
The East Gate of Dingbian City was the only way for the rebel army to leave the city when they evacuated.
It is understandable that Cao Yongxiang thought of these things in advance so that Xiao Douya and the others could have a chance to survive.
The two men discussed it quietly again, and Cao Yongxiang immediately took action, saying goodbye to Li Dingguo and leaving.
He first went back to his room to prepare, then came to the stable near the courtyard in front, led the horse he used for transportation, and walked out of the Wang family courtyard calmly.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Cao Yongxiang jumped on his horse and galloped towards the land temple in the east of the city at a steady pace...
(End of this chapter)
