"Zhou Lei, I'll give you a task. About six days northwest of Hutou Village, there is a big village called Gu Liuzhai. I want you to unite Gu Liuzhai."

Fang Nan summoned his student Zhou Lei and handed him a task. Zhou Lei's first reaction to the task assigned by the teacher was to accept it directly, and then asked Teacher Fang Nan about Gu Liuzhai's situation.

Guliuzhai is a large village with a population of over 1,000 and is quite far from Hutouzhai. However, Guliuzhai's reputation has been spread to Hutouzhai, and even the people in Qingshan Village have heard of it, but the people in Qingshan Village have never cared about it.

Guliuzhai is different from the villages of the mountain people in the mountains and the mountain villages of the bandits. Guliuzhai is a mountain villager, a bandit, and a rebel.

According to the survey, Gu Liuzhai appeared later than Qingshanzhai. The two main families in Gu Liuzhai, the Gu family and the Liu family were originally ordinary people who made a living by farming. Because they could not stand the oppression and exploitation of the government and landlords, Gu family was the first to rebel.

The Gu family contacted the Liu family, who had the same intention to be opposed and other poor people who were not under the oppression of the government landlords, and they jointly opposed the Ming Dynasty, which had a considerable impact at that time, and even gathered thousands of people to attack the county town.

This peasant army has a large number of people, but its strength is too weak. The peasant army mainly uses farm tools, and only a few people have big swords, spears, and hunting bows.

As soon as the county gate was closed, the peasant army was caught blindly, and then they were defeated by a miscellaneous army composed of hundreds of people, including county defenders, caravans and guards from wealthy families.

After the peasant army was defeated, they fled into the mountains, and Gu Liuzhai was found. The current leader of Gu Liuzhai was a talented person, who led the remaining peasant army and their families to settle down in the mountains.

On weekdays, the people in Guliuzhai are mountain people who make a living by farming. If they encounter opportunities, the village leader will take people out of the mountain to rob caravans, landlords and even government officials.

After the successful attack, he fled into the mountains and laid a large number of traps in the places where he entered the mountains. The government sent troops to encircle and suppress them. Even if he passed through the trap area, it was difficult to find the location of Gu Liuzhai. Unless thousands of official troops were sent into the mountains, Gu Liuzhai, which had failed in rebellion before, was no longer worth sending so many official troops to encircle and suppress them.

Gu Liuzhai survived for a variety of reasons. Logically speaking, Gu Liuzhai is similar to other bandits, both of whom are plundering landlords and caravans. However, Gu Liuzhai has a good reputation in the mountains. Many times Gu Liuzhai will take the initiative to help villages with difficult living in the mountains.

Of course, the people in Gu Liuzhai are not bad people. They must first ensure that they have enough food, and then they will help others, and they will not take in others at will.

Because the distance from Guliuzhai is a little far away, the People's Army has not sent anyone to contact Guliuzhai. With the expansion of the People's Army, the days when the People's Army raises the flag are getting closer. Guliuzhai is strong, with hundreds of young and strong people who dare to fight. Even the women in Guliuzhai dare to fight with swords and guns. If Guliuzhai unite, the strength of the People's Army can be greatly increased.

Unifying Gu Liuzhai is an important and somewhat difficult task. Zhou Lei is Fang Nan's most reassuring student. Fang Nan handed over this task to Zhou Lei, which means testing and training.

Zhou Lei accepted the mission and learned about Gu Liuzhai's situation and prepared to go on the road. The group of five people, Zhou Lei, two scouts protecting Zhou Lei, and two hunters who knew the road.

There is no hunter who knows Hutou Village directly from Hutou Village to Guliu Village. You need to go to other villages from Hutou Village to find someone who knows Guliu Village to lead the way.

Zhou Lei and the two scouts did not carry tiger-headed guns, but each carried two pistols. The most difficult part of the pistol was the barrel. The longer the barrel, the harder it was to build. The difficulty of creating a pistol was much easier than that of a tiger-headed gun. However, the range of the pistol was far less than that of a tiger-headed gun, so the number of pistols was built so far is less than fifty pistols.

Once Zhou Lei and his group encounter an accident in the mountains, they can shoot with pistols when they encounter wild animals. When they encounter a large group of bandits, they are easy to run away. Zhou Lei is not a weak scholar. Fang Nan teaches the body-strengthening boxing every day.

In a blink of an eye, it has been half a month since Zhou Lei and his party left Hutou Village and went to Guliu Village. It was about six days from Hutou Village to Guliu Village. Even if it wasted more time, it would be difficult to exceed eight days. If you spend some time in Guliu Village, you will feel that Zhou Lei and his party should set out on their way home.

Eight days passed, and Zhou Lei and his group did not come back. Fang Nan frowned. Half a month plus the eight days, the time was a little longer. Could it be that Zhou Lei had a problem in Gu Liuzhai? If there was a problem, Zhou Lei would have a scout come back with the news.

Fang Nan planned to wait a little longer, and wait for a month to pass. If Zhou Lei has not come back and there is no news, he will send someone to Gu Liuzhai.

Just as Fang Nan was thinking about Zhou Lei, on the other side, Gu Liuzhai, Zhou Lei looked at the girl in front of him with red tears and tears that were about to stay.

Half a month ago, Zhou Lei and his group came to Gu Liuzhai. The matter of uniting Gu Liuzhai went very smoothly. Zhou Lei explained the purpose of the People's Army to the Master of Gu. Because of Gu Liuzhai's experience, it was easy to gain the recognition of Gu Zhuangzhu.

Originally, the people in Gu Liuzhai were rebels. With the strength of the People's Army, mainly the power of firearms, it was nothing to join the People's Army and continue to rebel.

After only a few days in Guliuzhai, Zhou Lei had to complete his mission. At most, the leader of Guzhai will go to or send his confidants to Hutouzhai, the base camp of the People's Army. After the two sides communicated, Guliuzhai would be able to join the People's Army.

At this time, an accident happened. In just a few days, Gu Lihua, the daughter of the village leader, actually fell in love with Zhou Lei.

Zhou Lei, who is handsome and has extraordinary conversation, is indeed very popular among young girls. However, in Qingshan Village and Hutou Village, everyone knows that Zhou Lei has a wife and a child. Ordinary people see monogamy in their eyes, so other young girls directly ignore Zhou Lei, a person with a wife when choosing a partner.

Gu Lihua looked at Zhou Lei and knew that Zhou Lei had a wife and son, but Gu Lihua was not an ordinary woman. Gu Lihua had a tough personality and dared to love and hate. In order to let Zhou Lei marry her, Gu Lihua directly told her father and asked Zhou Lei to marry her so that Gu Liuzhai would join the People's Army. She also asked Zhou Lei to divorce her original wife.

Zhou Lei naturally refused Gu Liuzhai’s request. The matter of uniting Gu Liuzhai is important, but it is not so important that Zhou Lei abandoned his wife and married another woman.

Of course, this does not mean that in Zhou Lei's eyes, the People's Army raised the flag is not important, nor does it mean that the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty is not important, but that Gu Liuzhai is not so important. Even if Gu Liuzhai cannot unite, the People's Army can continue to unite other villages.
Chapter completed!