The Southern Navy confronted the Wei army for more than 20 days under the Zheli Ridge, and except for the first few days of fighting, the rest were all garrisons.

Under the leadership of Li Xiaofei, the Southern Navy not only did not rush to attack the mountains, but went everywhere to dig ponds and ditches for the villagers, repair bridges and repair roads.

At first, the subordinates still understood, and with the villagers' melons and fruits in return, they were very happy.

But after a long time, everyone began to get anxious, when would they be able to rush to the rescue of Sanjiangkou if it dragged on like this. And the strange thing is that Zhou Dapeng's follow-up troops have never come.

Chen Jingyi was more anxious, so he invited Deng Liang, Cai Guishan, and Lin Changsheng to find Li Xiaofei together and took the initiative to ask for battle.

Li Xiaofei was holding a piece of dried fish on the small stove, smearing oil and sprinkling salt, "Do you smell this smell?" ”

"Master Li, it's fragrant, it's very fragrant, but we don't have time to eat the delicious food you made right now. It's not a way to drag on like this, the situation at Sanjiangkou is critical, if we go a day late, the brothers over there will be more danger" Chen Jingyi was the first to speak

"Lord Li is really calm, we are cutting trees and building houses and building bridges all day long, are we here to be soldiers to fight or do hard labor" Lin Changsheng was a little dissatisfied

"Say whatever you have to say, haha, I think you must be a little aggrieved!" Li Xiaofei took the grilled dried fish aside

"Since Master Li has said it, brother, I will say it directly, Lord Li will not move, and Marshal Zhou will not arrive for a long time, do you have something to hide from us?" Deng Liang asked

"That's right, it's been half a month at most, but Marshal Zhou and the brothers of the other battalions of soldiers and horses haven't moved for a long time!" Cai Guishan also asked

Li Xiaofei didn't answer directly, but asked them, "What do you think of the Wei army's combat strength?" Can we win with our four battalions? ”

Chen Jingyi said without hesitation, "The combat strength of the Wei army is below our army, and we have already fought each other, but that's it!" ”

"The more than 400 people newly recruited by my Dead Soldier Battalion will be able to defeat them in another month of training! We have four battalions of men and horses to fight them, and it's no problem at all! Cai Guishan also felt that he could attack

"Not to mention anything else, we have enough food and grass, even if we recruit troops while fighting, their Wei army can't beat us!" Deng Liang's angle is different, probably because he thinks that there are more people and the chance of winning is better

"I heard from my brothers that now is a useless place for heroes, and some say that Master Li cherishes human life too much! How can there be no immortal in war! Chen Jingyi's words were a little sour, and he felt that Li Xiaofei deliberately did not let them make meritorious contributions.

Li Xiaofei picked up the fish unhurriedly and ate it, "Yes, yes, Marshal Zhou and I were afraid that you would be frightened by an enemy five times your size at first, you must know that the Wei army's strength in the Sanjiangkou area is called 30,000, and if you break half of it, there should be fifteen thousand, five thousand people to guard the camp, and 10,000 people to intercept us, so I have been dragging it out and not attacking."

"Lord Li and Marshal Zhou also underestimate us too much, we haven't practiced in vain all these years! Even if the enemy is 30,000 coming, we will still go up and kill it! Chen Jingyi looked unconvinced

"What you just said is very good, there are no immortals in war, but I can't let you die in vain! And our fight with the Wei army also exposed many problems! Since the beginning of the South China Sea, the battle has been a burst of charge, waving the flag and shouting to break the city, or the enemy who has been taken by surprise by clever tactics. But in the encounter on this ridge, many of our brothers because they have no experience, they can only attack and not defend, and they have a great ability to kill, but they are at a loss to protect themselves, and hundreds of people have died in vain! Have you four thought about this these days, and have you thought of a solution? Li Xiaofei began to get serious

The four of them looked at each other, and Li Xiaofei stretched out his hand and motioned for them to sit on both sides, "In the past twenty days, our military doctor almost wiped out the whole army as soon as he came up, and the injured brothers need to recuperate, if there is no stable rear nearby, there will be more brothers who died in vain." It is convenient for us to help the villagers build more houses and repair watchtowers, and we have a foothold here, and we will succeed here in the future

A place for the storage and transshipment of our military supplies! As for Marshal Zhou, he didn't plan to let everyone come over to rescue Sanjiangkou at the beginning, he had already led people to make a detour to attack Qiantang! Since you have all been concealed, it means that Marshal Zhou's plan is very successful! ”

Everyone suddenly realized and had to nod. Chen Jingyi still felt that he had to fight, "Lord Li and Marshal Zhou are really well-intentioned, but if we don't fight, we can't explain it to our brothers!" ”

The other three also looked at Li Xiaofei, "It's okay not to fight, it's okay to make a small fight, Lord Li!" We're all suffocating! ”

"A little fight? Well, yes, yes, you are allowed to take fifty people to rob the camp, I don't want you to kill as many people, it is better to capture a few alive and go down the mountain! Treat it as a military training, remember not to be greedy for merit, don't love war, fight if you can, and retreat down the mountain after investigating the enemy's situation if you can't fight! Li Xiaofei finally allowed them to fight, but the number of people was limited, and only two hundred people from the four battalions could attack every day.

Although there were fewer people who could follow up the mountain to kill the enemy, they finally opened their mouths, and the four of them were overjoyed and immediately thanked Li Xiaofei.

Li Xiaofei waved his hand, "If you can train your men and horses in ten days and catch 200 people down the mountain, you have made a great achievement!" ”

"Dare to ask you, sir, why is it so troublesome to capture alive?" Cai Guishan was a little puzzled, it was still relatively difficult to capture people alive and take them down the mountain.

"Capturing alive is to completely destroy the enemy's illusions, and to attack the heart is the best! Capturing the enemy alive is more powerful than killing the enemy! I don't know if the four brothers can understand this explanation? Li Xiaofei continued to take out a fish to grill

The four of them glanced at each other and were about to go out, Li Xiaofei said again, "Which battalion has more enemies captured alive is the first achievement!" Capturing alive is a task to test you, and it is also a good way to train our army's ability to explore and infiltrate. ”

The four of them clasped their fists and bowed, "Thank you, Lord Li, for your advice!" Our brothers and I will definitely fight this battle according to Master Li's instructions! ”

"All I want is the result of you capturing the enemy alive and yourself intact, as for how you do it, it's your business, I can't do everything! I'm just an ordinary person! Alright, I'm going to see Master Lan's newly accepted twenty disciples! You each go back to the camp, and when you are ready, you can attack at any time, you don't have to report me, I just want the result! Li Xiaofei shook his hand, rubbed it in the burlap pile in the camp tent, and went out.

Lan Datou selected twenty people with slender fingers and serious work in six villages, including men, women, and children, while Yuan Xin became the deputy medical officer, telling these twenty people the names and shapes of some medicinal herbs every day.

Lan Datou looked at Yuan Xinjiao for three days, shook his head, and asked the soldiers to fetch charcoal and stones, find dozens of bluestone slabs, and draw dozens of commonly used medicinal materials.

Yuan Xin was a little unconvinced, "Master Lan, you didn't say it earlier, now take these things, didn't the three days I taught before be in vain?" ”

Lan Datou chuckled, "You, don't think like this, your first three days were not in vain, it's just that most of them are illiterate, and it's amazing that they can remember a few names and medicinal effects after you say it for three days." I also looked at it for three days, before I thought of this method, illiterate, look at the picture will always be it, but this picture is afraid that it will take more than a month, and then go to the local medicine to collect! You have to worry a lot about boiling medicine and decoction medicine, they are all careful people, as long as you teach them every day, they can give people a look after five years! ”

"Five years? How many thousand of me, and tens of thousands of people in the future, will be waiting to be cured of the sick and wounded? Li Xiaofei was a little anxious when he heard that it would take five years

"Master Li, five years, it's still the fastest! In the barracks, it is enough to be able to dispel poison and drive away evil spirits and bandage wounds, but if you want to be proficient in medical skills, you can't do it without 20 years! Master Li wants to tell the captains of each battalion that they must maintain the habit of bathing in the water every day in the South China Sea! Food and drink must be overheated, and the residue of eating and drinking must be buried and then filled with charcoal ashes. I've been talking about it for a month, and some brothers still don't like to hear it, so I have to ask Master Li to say it! Big Blue began to ramble again

Li Xiaofei listened seriously, "Okay, immediately give an order, dig a dung pit for every ten people, and the bamboo leaves used every day will be set on fire!" Firewood is set around the manure pit, and mugwort has to be lit every night! ”

Lan Datou nodded, "You have to wash your hands, you must wash your hands!" ”

Here took the newcomer to study medicine, and the four generals over there took the newcomer up the mountain to catch people, and after ten days, they really caught more than 300 people.

Li Xiaofei, the person who caught them, separated them and placed them in the newly built Yizhuang in six villages, in addition to not being able to move around at will, he also sent them food and fruits and dried meat and dried fish every day.

Li Xiaofei is still very good, ten days of hard work, half of the people have asked about the ten generations of their ancestors, and half of them have to stay and are reluctant to leave.

On the eleventh day, Li Xiaofei asked the four generals not to arrest people, but to put nearly 200 Wei troops back, not only to put them back, but also to send three rations of the Southern Navy to each of them.

Some people were reluctant to leave, so Li Xiaofei had no choice but to let Chen Jingyi scare them, and finally let them go back to the mountain.

After these people went back, Li Xiaofei asked each battalion to send people to bury pots and cook sheep and vegetables not far from the camp halfway up the mountainside, and the aroma rose to the Wei military camp on the mountain.

An Siqing, the Wei army who was put back, was originally going to kill them all, but Ouyang Ning and the other generals were against it, so they had to give up.

After searching for the rations from these Wei soldiers, An Siqing immediately asked people to try them, and after the tasting, he confirmed that there was no poisoning, so he ordered the whole army to divide the rations.

When the battalions were cooking the rations of the Southern Navy and wafting with aroma, Ouyang Ning shook his head, "We have been tricked!" This is worse than poisoning! ”

An Siqing was puzzled, "Could it be that if you eat one meal from them, you can't beat them?" ”

Ouyang Ning looked at the formation under the mountain and smiled, "It is said that the people take food as the sky, and there is no food and no soldiers, this Li Xiaofei has taken our lifeblood!" What they eat on weekdays is hundreds of times better than what we eat during the holidays! ”

An Siqing shook his head, "The Great Wei treasury is empty, and it is good to be able to ensure the supply of military food, where can it be compared with the South China Sea, which has been peaceful for a long time!" If this continues, our people will have to run to them! ”

"Have you ever heard the story of Zengzao's retirement? We are actually half of the success at present, dragging Li Xiaofei for a month, and there is no movement on the Sanjiangkou side at present, at this time, the only road on the ridge is dug up, and we can kill back and take the Sanjiangkou, and we can also stop the Southern Navy! Ouyang Ning rolled his eyes, and the idea came out.

An Siqing was also thinking about it, the water source was choked at the beginning, but the Southern Navy dug a well with the help of the locals to solve the water source, and later sent people to cut off the grain road, not wanting the Southern Navy to deliberately leave them attractive military rations, so that the morale of the army fluctuated. If this stalemate continues, the Wei army will be defeated sooner or later, so it is better to withdraw as soon as possible.

But it is not easy to withdraw the army, as soon as this side moves, the Southern Navy will immediately know that when the folding Li Ling reaches the flat land, if it is caught up by the cavalry of the Southern Navy, it is very likely that the whole army will be annihilated.

Ouyang Ning said that the only passage on the ridge was dug up, but the ridge was full of boulders, how could it be done.

"Mr. Ouyang, has a way to get rid of these boulders?" An Siqing looked questioning

"It is not difficult to do this, let the sergeants cut down trees and pile them on the boulder to light a fire, burn it overnight, and then use their helmets and the barrels and basins in the army to hold water and prepare it aside, and when the stone is red, splash water on it, and then the boulder can be broken!" Ouyang Ning was very confident

An Siqing suddenly realized, "Wonderful, wonderful, in this way, this natural stone bridge will be broken, and when the Southern Navy wants to come over, it will have to build a bridge!" ”

"That's right, so all the big trees on the west side are cut down, and those that can't be moved are burned or sawn into a few pieces, and if they can be moved to the boulder bridge, they can be moved, so that they have to find wood from dozens of miles away to build the bridge!"

Now it is a bit difficult for the Wei army to fight, and they all know that the combat power of the Southern Navy is above them. But let the Wei army cut down trees and hunt by the way to improve the food, and the Wei army was very happy.