At first, Zhang Jiuling really wanted to compete with the bandits in Taohua Mountain. Seeing this formation, he was already a little panicked. So he called and asked the Public Security Army Brigade in the county for help.

Li Guishan, the captain of the Pingyue County Public Security Army Brigade, participated in the combat meeting held by the 63rd Regiment. He was of high level, and he was well-informed and knew a lot about Gao Jiu in Taohua Mountain. When he heard that Zhang Jiuling had provoked the guerrillas in Taohua Mountain, he was immediately furious.

Li Guishan is a smart man. The reason why he surrendered to the Japanese was because the Japanese were so powerful that they could not defeat them. However, Gao Jiu and others were able to defeat the powerful Japanese field troops. How terrifying is their combat effectiveness?

Pingyue County is also around Taohua Mountain. Li Guishan discovered Taohua Mountain guerrillas and rarely found trouble for Pingyue County and Shoucheng County Public Security Army. Their main targets were the Japanese.

This style is more in line with the characteristics of bandits. The so-called rabbits do not eat grass by their nests. Bandits generally maintain certain contact with the governments around the parody, at least they will not fight to the death with the people around them. It is best to be at peace with each other. This is the so-called official bandit family.

Gao Jiu captured Yuxian County and annihilated Yuxian's security army because Yuxian was not around Taohua Mountain. However, Gao Jiu never made trouble in Pingyue County and Shoucheng County.

The more Li Guishan thought it made sense. He thought that since Gao Jiu was not here to cause trouble, he would have to get into trouble after he was full.

Now, Zhang Jiuling has gotten into Taohua Mountain and is the first to break that delicate balance. In the future, the relationship between the Pingyue County Public Security Army and the Taohua Mountain bandits will probably deteriorate and conflicts will be inevitable.

Li Guishan knew very well about how great military talent he had and the strength of his security army. They were by no means the opponents of the bandits in Taohua Mountain.

After receiving Zhang Jiuling's report, Li Guishan felt a little nervous. He wanted to improve his relationship with the Taohuashan guerrillas, so he decided not to send reinforcements, and even scolded Zhang Jiuling on the phone.

After the guidance of the captain, Zhang Jiuling realized how much trouble he had caused. Seeing that the situation was critical, he asked someone to use a bamboo pole to lift a white shirt out of the gun hole of the gun tower and shake it hard to indicate surrender.

Zhang Jiuling was worried that the bandits could not let him go, so he followed Lian Po, a veteran in "The Reunion of Generals and Prime Ministers" he saw from the stage, took off his shirt, found some branches from the kitchen, tied them to his back, and then took his officers and soldiers out of the artillery tower, lowered the suspension bridge, and welcomed the bandits in Taohua Mountain.

When Zhang Jiuling saw Zhang Quan and others coming over, he immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and kept begging for mercy.

Zhang Quan was full of anger and was about to kill Zhang Jiuling with his own hands. Seeing that the puppet soldiers surrendered so quickly, he felt much less angry. Moreover, when he saw Zhang Jiuling's appearance was very funny, he couldn't help laughing. With this smile, he was not so angry. He said to Zhang Jiuling: "It's okay to spare you, but you have to do what I said."

When Zhang Jiuling heard that he could save his life, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He hurriedly said, "Thank you for your life-saving grace. Your old man's instructions, the younger one will do as he pleases."

Zhang Quan and others confiscated the weapons of the puppet soldiers, looted the artillery tower, and left with the team.

However, this time he did not set fire to the artillery tower, and still let Zhang Jiuling's men garrison here.

Xiwangzhuang.

Xiwangzhuang is not big, with only more than forty families, with a large population and a small land, and a barren land. Everyone lives a very hard life.

Since the bandits came to Taohua Mountain, especially in recent times, the lives of the people in this village have begun to improve. Every household is willing to do business with the bandits on the mountain. They sell their own local specialties to the bandits, or go to other places to sell some goods for resale. The living standards are much higher than before.

When they were dealing with bandits on the mountain, the bandits told them that there was no need to pay any taxes to the government in the future. Although the people were happy, they couldn't believe it. They thought that after the official service knew about this, they would think that they would be in trouble, which was a loss of mind.

But the bandits of Taohua Mountain vowed to tell the villagers that no matter what happened, Taohua Mountain would definitely stand out for them.

The government's heavy taxes were very heavy, and the Japanese and puppet troops also plundered from time to time. Of course, the villagers were unwilling to pay the money. They were skeptical and decided to try it according to the bandits' opinions. Anyway, if the government pursued them, they would say that the bandits forced him to do this. So the villagers bit the bullet and stopped paying taxes.

Last night, Li Gousheng, who went to the market, ran back. Everyone was panicked when they saw his miserable appearance. Although he said that the bandits on Taohua Mountain agreed to help him stand out, the villagers couldn't believe it.

The village chief discussed with several prestigious people in the village and went to each household overnight to collect all the security fees. The village chief went to the town and wanted to find the town chief to come forward, go to the artillery tower in Gaojiazhuang, apologize to Zhang Jiuling, and ask others for forgiveness and not to deal with them as a bandit.

Early this morning, the village chief persuaded him, and the town mayor Wang Dayong agreed to come forward to resolve the matter. The town mayor, the village chief and others bought a batch of pork, eggs and vegetables from the town, and prepared to go to the Gaojiazhuang artillery tower to plead for the people of Xiwangzhuang, and redeem Li Gousheng's nephew by the way. As for Li Gousheng's goods, they would be filial to Zhang Jiuling.

As soon as they walked out, they saw a strange person coming in front of him. He was bare-armed, with many branches tied to his body, and walked towards the town dejectedly.

Soon, the village chief and the town mayor recognized it. This guy turned out to be a arrogant Zhang Jiuling.

The village chief and the town mayor looked at each other, wondering which one this guy was playing? They were going to ask Zhang Jiuling to apologize, but when they saw him coming, they had to bite the bullet and greet him.

The mayor Wang Dayong said, "Captain Zhang, are you?"

Zhang Jiuling shook his head with a wry smile.

The village chief remembered Li Gousheng's words and guessed a few points. However, he did not dare to express his meaning rashly. He said, "Captain Zhang, Li Gousheng in our village is a guy who is not good at all. Don't be as knowledgeable as him. We have already collected all the security expenses. Please give me kindness and let his nephew go."

Zhang Jiuling looked around in horror, waved his hands, then bowed to the village chief with his fists, and said, "Captain Wang, don't say such things again. It's not that Li Gousheng, Master Li is ignorant, but that I don't know Mount Tai. I also ask Village Chief Wang to help you say good things and expose this beam."

The mayor Wang Dayong and the village chief Wang knew in their hearts that the bandits on Taohua Mountain must have gone down the mountain and were afraid of Zhang Jiuling. Seeing Zhang Jiuling's arrogant and domineering look like awkward, they felt so happy. They wanted to laugh out loud, but they didn't dare to offend this guy, so they tried to hold it in, and it felt really uncomfortable.

Not long after, Zhang Jiuling came to Xiwangzhuang accompanied by the mayor Wang Dayong and the village chief Wang.

Li Gousheng was beaten, and the villagers originally felt very sympathetic. However, when everyone paid the security fee, they were in a bad mood and their attitude towards Li Gousheng changed. Everyone complained that he was ignorant and offended Zhang Jiuling. Now, it was good, and everyone was in trouble. Not only that, everyone was worried that Zhang Jiuling would not let go and might cause something to be bad in the future. Everyone hoped that the village chief could properly solve this matter and not let Zhang Jiuling hold a grudge.

Now the whole village is starting to feel a little scared and decides not to interact with the bandits in Taohua Mountain in the future. It doesn’t matter if you make less money. If the government thinks that the bandits are broken, it will be unpaid if you lose your head.

The mayor Wang Dayong and the village chief Wang accompanied Zhang Jiuling. The villagers felt very happy when they saw Zhang Jiuling's embarrassed look. They also guessed the reason for the incident. So everyone gathered around to watch the fun.

When Zhang Jiuling saw Li Gousheng, he knelt directly on the ground. He shouted: "Li Gousheng, Master Li. I, Zhang Jiuling, have no idea about Mount Tai, offended you. I hope you are a lot of adults and spare your life." As he said that, he kept kowtowing.

The villagers around looked at this scene curiously and couldn't help but talk.

Li Gousheng was a man with a temper. He was beaten for no reason and was scolded by the villagers. This tone was swallowed up. He glanced at the villagers proudly, raised his chin and ignored Zhang Jiuling.

Village Chief Wang is a kind man. He is timid and afraid, and is worried that Li Gousheng will not let Zhang Jiuling go down the steps. He is so angry that he will take revenge in the future. He quickly stepped forward to persuade him, but Li Gousheng gave up. After Zhang Jiuling stood up, he announced to the villagers that the village would no longer have to pay the security fees and other expenses in the future. He promised not to come to Xiwangzhuang for trouble, and he would persuade Captain Li of the Public Security Army, nor would he come to Xiwangzhuang for trouble.

After this incident, the people of Xiwangzhuang were all excited and felt that there was hope for the future. Moreover, they felt that their backs were very strong and they would no longer have to worry about someone bullying them in the future.

After Zhang Jiuling returned, he reported to Li Guishan, the captain of the Public Security Army.

Li Guishan was quite satisfied with the result of this matter. Although the Taohuashan guerrillas took away half of his squadron's weapons and ammunition, they left all the people for him and the artillery tower was not burned. He only had to add a batch of supplies, Gaojiazhuang was still his territory. He felt that Gao Jiu and others were enlightened bandits and could still deal with them in the future.

Li Guishan privately found Pingyue's county magistrate and informed him of the situation. The county government notified the mayor of the town where Xiwangzhuang was located, asking them to come in the future

We no longer collect taxes from the three villages around Taohua Mountain including Xiwangzhuang, but just treat it as if there are no these three villages in this area.

After this incident, the 17 villages around Taohua Mountain all enjoyed the same treatment as those in Xiwangzhuang. Pingyue County and Shoucheng County ticked these 17 villages from their tax accounts.

The villagers of these 17 villages were proud and showed off their beautiful life to their relatives and friends, which made the people living in other places envious. From then on, the villagers of these 17 villages became fortresses of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas. They would promptly inform the Taohua Mountain guerrillas about the movements of the surrounding Japanese and puppet troops.

That morning, Gao Jiu took the special forces members down the valley as usual to start a day of military training. After he had just announced today's training subjects, he saw a member of the guard running down from the mountain. He reported to Gao Jiu that Wang Yuling had received an important telegram asking Jiu Ye to go back to translate it himself.

Shortly after Gao Jiu returned, he sent someone to call Zhang Quan, Guo Hengming and Du Shengxi to go back for a meeting.
Chapter completed!