Wangli Village is 165 miles from Wendeng County, and Wendeng County is 325 miles from Penglai City, the capital of Dengzhou.

Along the way, Li Jing and others traveled day and night because they had two horses, two mules, and six donkeys, and the speed of the people was faster. They did not go to Chishan Town because they did not wait for Li Jing to say anything. When Wang Chong and Zhang Zuoli escaped from Red Beard that night, they did not run towards Chishan Town, but ran northeast.

The group of people did not dare to stay on the road, for fear that Red Beard and others would catch up. Li Jing was originally worried that Wang Chong and the others would ask him what he said to Red Beard and how he escaped that day, but strangely, Wang Chong and the others did not ask anything. Even when Li Jing asked tentatively whether to send someone to Chishan Town or nearby villages to report that a large thief appeared, Wang Chong sneered and immediately rejected it.

In Wang Chong's words at that time, he wanted to have a group of bandits who suddenly appeared to work hard and would be known everywhere. In that way, only those reports they wrote would believe it. As for whether there would be casualties from them, it would be a dead fellow Taoist who would not die, so I can't control so many things.

Two days later, Li Jing and others rushed to Wendeng County. After entering the county town, they could be considered to be Zhang Zuoli's territory. Everyone felt much more at ease. After waiting for Wendeng for another two days, Zhang Zuoli and Wang Zaiwei handed over the battle report of the bandits. Wendeng County Magistrate Zhang Cheng is a clan brother of Zhang Zuoli. After hearing about the battle between them, he was very enthusiastic about them. He held banquets and celebrated in the county restaurants for two consecutive days. If it weren't for the late Tang Dynasty, the county magistrates would not have led troops like the governor, and Li Jing really thought that the county magistrate Zhang was going to recruit them.

After staying in the county town for two days, Li Jing and the others encountered bandits, and they were leaked out, whether they were intentional or unintentional. The city was spread immediately, especially when it was later spread. Originally, they encountered bandits, Li Jing and the others fought to kill ten thieves in Xihuozhai, and later they encountered hundreds of bandits in Zhendonghai. Li Jing and others fought hard to break through. But after the news, it turned out that Li Jing and the others met the giant thief on the sea "Zhen Donghai" and went ashore to rob. Li Jing and the others happened to meet them.

Then Wang Xiaowei, Li Jing and others launched a raid on Zhendonghai, fighting against thousands of pirates with ten people. The battle was like some myths and legends. Li Jing and Wang Xiaowei heard someone on the street actually composed this into a piece of music. Several pretty women accompanied by various instruments, and a blind old man stood there singing.

Although Li Jing didn't appreciate the song, the content inside surprised him. He sang the story of their encounter with bandits, and even their names were not changed at all. In it, after Wang Xiaowei became a famous family of the imperial court, he came to Dengzhou to join the army. He said that he had a thousand pounds of power, and had a beautiful beard like Guan Gong, with a nickname called Sai Guan Gong. In Chishan, Wang Xiaowei held the Qinglong Yanyue Sword with one hand and chased the Fengma. He killed the 18 thieves and retreated hundreds of steps to the pirates with a shout.

Li Jing also changed the same thing, saying that Li Jing was originally a monk from Ichigo Temple in Fahua Temple in Chishan. Later, he met Wang Chong who went up the mountain to incense. The two fell in love with each other and became sworn brothers. They also said that Li Jing was tall and mighty, majestic, majestic, and born with a good skin. He was good at riding and shooting. He was especially good at shooting. He could shoot with his horse and spear, and he could shoot with his left and right bows and shoot seven arrows in a row. He was nicknamed Li Guang. It was said that Li Jing and Wang Chong joined forces on the same day, Wang Chong was in front, and Li Jing was in front of him.

Later, the arrow was fired without any effort, and the move was fatal. He and Wang Chong entered and exited seven times that day, killing the living expenses of Zhendong. Finally, Li Jing and others returned, and the Whitebearded Man in Zhendonghai led a cavalry to chase after him. Li Jing turned around and looked at the moon with one move, and shot three arrows in a row, and one arrow broke the pirate flag. One arrow shot the golden crown with white bearded hair, and another arrow shot directly into the open space. But in the end, no one of the thousands of pirates dared to step over the arrow inserted into the ground.

In addition to Wang Chong and Li Jing, even the others were famous and called them the Twelve Generals of Chishan. Li Jing and others looked at each other and didn't know how to react.

On the third day, the Unity Soldiers from the 12 Townships of Wendeng County had gathered together and began to move to Penglai, the Dengzhou District. The person responsible for temporarily commanding the Unity Soldiers in Wendeng County was a strong man in his forties. According to Wang Chong, the man used a horse spear and was even more good at seizing the spear with empty hands. He was originally an officer of the Shence Army, but for some reason, he seemed to offend his superiors and was removed from his post. He asked his friend to go to Dengzhou to find a small official who was the coach of the Unity Soldier Battalion, and he was full-time training the recruits of the regiment training camp.

The coach's name was Lin Wei. Although he stayed in Wendeng County for a short time, he also heard about Wang Chong and his killing of the thieves in Xihuozhai. This incident was very turbulent in Wendeng County, and even Penglai had heard of it. The superiors also sent him a special letter to him to investigate whether Wang Chong and others killed bandits, and whether there was any false reports. Lin Wei carefully investigated the matter and could basically determine that Wang Chong and others encountered bandits in Xihuozhai that day. The two sides fought, and one died and seven injured people.

The price was to wipe out ten thieves in Xihuozhai, including two thieves in Xihuozhai. Moreover, the incident of their later encounter with Zhendonghai, losing a piece of silk, and failing to seize the thieves in Xihuozhai, can basically be verified. Because just a day ago, more than 100 thieves in Zhendonghai robbed several prisoners who were secretly escorted to Beijing on the dozens of miles of official road in Chishan Town. He has verified that the robbed prisoner was the second in charge of Zhendonghai and his subordinates.

Everything was clear, and the process of the matter was similar to what Wang Chong and Zhang Zuoli reported. They first encountered the bandits in Xihuozhai, and after fierce battles, they wiped out the thieves, and then met a large group of bandits in Zhendonghai, and they broke through and fled.

Lin Wei had already reported all the results of this verification truthfully and in detail. He also admired Wang Chong, Li Jing and others very much. When marching towards Penglai, Lin Wei temporarily appointed Wang Chong as the general and commanded 100 new recruits. He also temporarily appointed Li Jing as the leader of the team and managed a team of fifty new recruits. The eight people from Li Jing's village were also appointed as the temporary chief and deputy mates of Li Jing's team, helping him to lead the new recruits together.

Although this was just a temporary appointment and not a real official appointment, it still made Li Jing excited. Especially Wang Xiaoshitou and the others were so happy that they rolled around. Although the gang leader was only responsible for ten people, they were also officers. They were in charge of other recruits who had just been summoned from various townships and villages, they were so excited that they almost didn't know what their surname was.

Wendeng County gathered a total of 1,000 new recruits this time. According to the military system of the various vassal states in the late Tang Dynasty, these 1,000 people were temporarily organized into the first battalion, with ten capitals under each of them. Lin Wei temporarily served as the ten generals of the battalion, Wang Chong was the head of the first capital of the left, and commanded a hundred people. Li Jing was the head of the first team of the left capital, and commanded a fifty people. These organization and appointments were temporary. After the united soldiers arrived in Penglai, they had to be re-selected and divided, and officers would definitely be appointed and removed.

However, Li Jing was very serious. There were 325 miles from Wendeng to Penglai. The Unity Soldiers were only marching 60 miles a day because they were recruits. This speed was not fast, and the recruits were very leisurely. But Li Jing did not intend to be the official title of the team for nothing.

From the first day of Wendeng's departure, Li Jing implemented the entire plan he had formulated. The first was the marching troop, and other teams were scattered like a spring outing, but Li Jing strictly required the team to unite the soldiers and advance in an orderly manner. When camping every day, soldiers must take turns to boil water and burn their feet with boiling water. In addition, soldiers must also be arranged to take turns to night guard posts, and they must be divided into light and dark posts, and strictly enforce daily commands.

Most of these were compiled together by Li Jing combined his previous memories and then asked Wang Chong for advice. Although there were many imperfections in this plan, Li Jing made full use of the current marching time and used the dozens of soldiers under his command to do experiments.

In this way, Li Jing really gains a lot every day. Training is a very complicated matter. On the surface, the plan on paper is very simple, but when it is implemented, it always encounters countless troubles. However, Li Jing does not really want to train his temporary subordinates into elite soldiers, but it is just used to test his plans. He carefully records every problem he encounters and then thinks about the solutions.

On the other hand, he spent every day with these young united soldiers to strengthen his communication skills. He knew that because of his former scholarship and his previous life, he was also a "literati" in his previous life, he always showed some temperament that was different from these united soldiers. This temperament became a barrier between him and others. He is now learning to adapt to becoming an ordinary united soldier, a united soldier who can get along with everyone and be able to get involved.

Every day, he marched during the day, got along with his subordinates during rest, chatting and joking. At night, Li Jing began to summarize and record all this again. The time was arranged every day, and he was extremely busy and fulfilling, but Li Jing was very satisfied with this kind of life.

After six days, from Wendeng to Penglai, it was 325 miles away, and after five and a half days, I finally arrived outside Penglai City.

Arriving here means that Li Jing's position as the temporary leader of the team has ended. What he is now looking forward to is whether he can really jump from a soldier to a formal officer after entering Penglai as Wang Chong said.

"Dengzhou, I'm here!" Li Jing looked at Penglai City in front of him, and shouted with excitement in his heart.
Chapter completed!