"Wait for news." This is the second time Min Yuanqi has to experience a life-and-death struggle, but his heart is much calmer than when he ran to the river house. That time it was an initiative, but it was a forced move, and there was no way out and no future if you didn't fight. Before the fight, he was not sure of the strength of himself and his subordinates, and he could not completely control the outcome after the bloody battle. And now he is already a deputy Qianhu in the official face, with more than 400 elite soldiers under his command, and the ones who come to commit crimes are just pirates and bandits, and he is invincible in both official and private affairs, so there is no need to be too nervous at all.

Time has passed in a short time, and the situation has changed like this, at least for Min Yuanqi himself, he feels quite satisfied with his choices and actions along the way.

Sometimes Min Yuanqi is also quite strange, in fact, his current financial resources are not comparable to some big salt merchants, let alone the warlords of the big feudal towns such as Liu Zeqing and Huang Degong.

The resources in hand, and the people's hearts are attached, and their understanding of the general trend is definitely not as good as the high-level Ming leaders like Shi Kefa.

Why is it that in this era, the military generals surrendered, the civil officials were confused, everyone made the wrong choice, and every time they led themselves to death, the only one who was right, who had always walked on the right path, was a barbarian like the Manchus.

Is everyone sick, or is Daming sick, or is this civilization really coming to an end?

Min Yuanqi really doesn't know this answer now.

……

When Shen Liang entered the camp, the entire camp was already under martial law, and the members of his firecracker team were divided into two teams, each of whom sat cross-legged on the side of the school field, holding all kinds of firecrackers in their arms, and everyone packed the projectile and primer in different wooden gourds according to the actual combat requirements and standards, the gourd containing the projectile was larger, and the one containing the primer was much smaller.

In addition, there is a short knife hanging on the belt, which is much longer than the ordinary dagger, and it is half the length and size of the standard waist knife, which is quite sharp. This is the last line of defense for the firecrackers, and once the enemy breaks through the close, they can use this short knife to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

Shen Liang also thought about allocating formal waist knives to his subordinates, but later realized that the saber was too long and heavy to affect the action of holding the sword, which was quite troublesome, so he had to give up.

Each gun hand will polish their own lead bullets in normal times, because there are various guns with different lengths and different calibers, so the lead bullets used are also of different sizes, and they need to be sharpened to the right size in order to give full play to the maximum power of the fire guns in their hands.

Everyone's belt is hung with a wooden box, with lead inside, and with a knife, a fire rope, a fire fold, a coconut scoop and other things, although the firecracker does not need to wear armor, only two team officers wear chain mail, this equipment plus the weight of the firecracker, the weight is not light.

Everyone sat cross-legged, Shen Liang had to go out with the permission of the Chinese officer, and after returning to the team, he also quickly sat down at the position of the flag captain.

As soon as Shen Liang sat down, Xie Xiang, who was also the captain of the flag, accosted: "Did you see someone coming in from outside the village?" ”

"Didn't I just go out for such a short time, where did I see anyone?"

Xie Xiang blinked and said, "Damn, I'm really anxious to wait." ”

"Go to war." Shen Liang glanced at Xie Xiang, the other party really looked a little restless, and then Shen Liang smiled and said, "Do you think you are going to the yard to play prostitutes?" ”

"We're really not afraid." Xie Xiang grinned and said, "When I think of someone plotting against us, it's like walking at night to prevent wolves from following, I'm afraid I'm not afraid, and I'm very annoyed." If you find an opportunity, of course, it is best to beat the wolf with a flat shoulder, and prevent thieves every night, how can you have so much patience, isn't it better to kill the thief? ”

"Let's see later," Shen Liang smiled slightly, and replied, "You were originally bold, and you have killed people in Shuiguan, so you are bold." Many banner troops, including your subordinate sword players, are on the battlefield for the first time, and no matter how good their training is, they are bold enough to go to the battlefield without wetting their pants. ”

"You're fucking bullshit." Xie Xiang scolded with a smile: "Our sword and card players are all selected bold and strong elites, everyone has armor, all of them are brave, everyone is very skilled, whether they are in the formation or as a guerrilla, they are all first-class good players." ”

"When I was a battalion soldier in Dengzhou, everyone had to have willow leaves in their mouths when they were in battle." Shen Liang said: "Otherwise, your mouth will dry up after a while, and it will be difficult to open your mouth, and after a few battles, you don't have to hold willow leaves anymore, because there is still saliva in your mouth." Most of your subordinates, I see that their lips are about to dry out, and this is just preparing for battle, not really going into battle. ”

Xie Xiang looked left and right, and most of the subordinates of the three teams on his side were nervous, their lips were dry, and some were even trembling slightly.

Seeing that Xie Xiang was about to scold, Shen Liang pressed his hand and said calmly: "At the moment of life and death, who can not be afraid?" Don't look at me calm, my heart is trembling. It's just that I've been on the battlefield many times, I know what's going on, the more afraid I am, the faster I'll die, if you're afraid, people will be bold, you're afraid, ten percent of martial arts can't be used fifty percent, but the more people fight, the more comfortable they are. The more scared you are, the worse your skills are, you want to run, people are dead people who don't come to chase you? It is necessary to understand in my heart that when I go to the battlefield, I will either kill or be killed, and the less courageous I am, the faster I will die. These people must understand this truth, and you must also tell your people to them. ”

Shen Liang's voice was not small, at least the sword players and fire players around him heard it.

Everyone's originally somewhat uneasy expressions gradually calmed down, and those who were trembling gradually calmed down.

"We practice hard for four or five hours a day, how have those bandits and pirates ever practiced?" Shen Liang continued: "If you are really cowardly, look around you, don't look at the other side, there are all the Pao Ze brothers who share life and death, grab guns and knives like you, and kill the enemy side by side, there are many enemies, and there are also many of your Pao Ze brothers, if you are afraid and turn around and leave, people will catch up and hack you to death, not to mention, but also sell your brother, even if you are not chased and hacked to death, the military law will not spare you afterwards." Everyone has thought it through, and I won't say more. ”

The people around him listened to it sincerely, and after Xie Xiang was stunned for a while, he turned around and shouted angrily at all the sword and card players: "Captain Shen Qi's words, did you hear them?" ”

"I hear you."

"I know what to do."

"No matter how many enemies come, let's listen to the order of the Golden Drum Banner."

"Captain Flag, don't worry, I won't be a bad seed."

Many people were talking nonsense, and the sound gradually spread throughout the school field.

Shen Liang sat cross-legged peacefully, his back straight, because of his role, the entire school field still had a solemn atmosphere, but the original overly nervous sense of stagnation was invisibly diluted a lot.

This is the role of a veteran, if an army has about 30 percent of the veterans, it can be as stable as a rock on the battlefield, if more than half of the veterans have been on the battlefield, as long as they can win the battle, they will not lose.

If more than seventy percent are veterans who have undergone hard training and actual combat, it is also possible to win miracles with more strikes and fewer blows.

"It's good to solve the immediate problem." Shen Liang told himself in his heart that as long as he won the pirates and bandits, it was estimated that within a radius of 100 miles, no force would dare to come over to fight the idea of the 300th household, and then expand the salt pond and make a profit from drying salt.

Shen Liang looked around, his reassuring words were very effective, and the banner troops who had been too nervous before had gradually settled down. Although there is still a nervous state, it is very different from the previous state of tightening the bowstring, and everyone has more or less high-spirited fighting spirit on their faces, it can be seen that the training on weekdays, as well as Min Yuanqi's generosity and kindness to everyone, as well as the generous and generous payment of money, the results are quite good, everyone regards the fate of the three hundred households as the fate of themselves and their families, such an army, after such a long time of high-intensity training, has actually opened the door to victory.

At this time, the corners of Shen Liang's mouth also showed a smile, he had participated in many battles, and even crawled out of the corpses several times, but none of the battles could make him have the mentality in front of him, eager to try, and even some expectations!

……

"I saw the marker."

A team member saw an inconspicuous sign at the corner of the wall of the house at the head of the village, which was the mark agreed between Liang Shifa and the team members in front, a very simple symbol, which looked like a child had drawn blindly, but the sign pointed out the direction very clearly.

A dozen or so members of the team abandoned the salt frying shed in the evening and followed several targets to the north.

Around midnight, Liang Shifa calculated the footsteps, and he and the others had already walked nearly forty miles.

Passing through several market towns and more than a dozen villages, fortunately, the northbound road and the village market town were quite familiar in advance, the team members were divided into three groups, staring at the three people respectively, and after walking more than thirty miles, the three people who parted ways gathered together again, judging from the imprints left by the team members in front, the three people who had been staring at were a few miles ahead.

"Went out of the village." Liang Shifa nodded and said, "I guess I went to the beach." ”

"This is less than thirty miles away from Qinshan Island, it is the boundary between Haizhou and our Dahewei, there are not 100 households here, Haizhou is here and there are several deserted villages along the coast, but it is indeed a good place to transport people to the north and wait for assembly."

"There should be a few small islands outside here, and it is estimated that many bandits will settle down there and wait."

Here in Jiangbei, there are not a few decent big islands, there is an island in Haizhou, but it is a peninsula, and there are only a few small islands that are a few hundred steps from north to south, or even a few hundred steps from north to south.

Jiangsu Province in later generations is also like this, when it comes to the island, it is almost blank to zero, unlike Shandong, where there are many small islands scattered on the sea and adjacent to the northeast, as well as the Nuoda Peninsula, Zhejiang also has large islands such as Zhoushan Islands, Dahewei to Haizhou, the decent big island is only Qinshan Island, but it is only a small island that barely allows hundreds of people to live.

Moreover, it is impossible for a few hundred people who do not produce and only plunder, and if they want to immigrate on the island, cultivate land or fish for a living.

Liang Shifa made the same judgment in his heart, but he still said very calmly: "Don't rush to make a conclusion now, wait until we follow and see it with our own eyes." Yesterday at noon, the news was sent, and the adults should have been waiting for the battle, and at this time we should wait for us to confirm the news. ”

Everyone nodded yes, Liang Shifa erased the logo with his hand, tightened the belt around his legs and waist, there was a short knife hidden on the belt, and there was a dagger hidden in the boots on his feet.

Almost everyone in front of him is the same equipment, but Liang Shifa is not sure if everyone has the determination to commit suicide without revealing it, and the courage to match it.

Liang Shifa is not sure about this point, and now he can only act cautiously and not easily fall into the predicament of testing his own or the will of his subordinates.

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