Bai Qiyi frowned: "Kill whom?" ”

Lei Sheng said: "When Wang Leopard was farming in the countryside, his family planted Master He's land. It was Master He who forced his family to pay rent, and they couldn't pay it, so they robbed his house and all his property, Wang Bao's parents starved to death, and the four brothers and sisters began to flee the famine. Right now, Master He is in the city, Wang Bao just took dozens of people to surround Master He's house, rushed in and killed people when he saw them, and he was already ...... has killed more than 40 men and women in Master He's family. ”

Bai Qi was furious: "I have issued a strict order not to kill the people, Wang Bao doesn't want to live?" ”

Lei Sheng sighed and stomped his feet vigorously.

Bai Qi actually didn't want to kill Wang Leopard, this person had just made a great contribution, and it was a bit inappropriate to kill him if he took the county seat. However, this matter must be obeyed by the public, otherwise the general's order will not be able to be carried out in the future.

He had no choice but to ask, "That Master He, how is he an ordinary person?" ”

When Lei Sheng heard this, he knew that there was a door, and hurriedly said: "Back to the general's words, this surname He simply grew up drinking human blood, his family has 10,000 acres of fertile land, and he wants to rob men and women, usury, and collude with the government, his son also became a county lieutenant, helping his father to commit murder, as long as someone owes no debt, the official will immediately come to the door and rob it cleanly, it is said that hundreds of people are forced to die." ”

There are also people on the side who know some, and add oil and vinegar: "Master He has to spend dozens of taels of silver for every meal, and it is said that he also drinks human milk, and his dogs are wearing cotton clothes in winter, so how many people freeze to death outside the door." ”

Bai Qi waved his hand: "Okay, this surname He is not a common person, but a person in the official government, and if he kills it, he will kill it, but Wang Bao should not even kill the servants and maids in his family, so the death penalty is forgiven, and the living crime is inevitable, and he will be beaten with fifty military sticks to set an example." ”

This is already extraordinarily gracious.

Lei Sheng was overjoyed: "Thank you for the general's grace of not killing, I'm going to pry him hard." Let him know the power of military law. ”

Bai Qi looked at everyone: "Only this time, next time someone dares to disobey the order, I will behead him." ”

Wang Bao listened to the punishment of himself, and knew that this was Bai Qi's mercy, he originally thought that he would kill someone and he would be guilty of death, but Bai Qi actually spared himself, and he was naturally overjoyed, as for beating dozens of military sticks, he was willing, after all, he killed the enemy with his own hands and avenged the whole family, and his wish had been achieved.

Therefore, he did not hate Bai Qi at all, and was very grateful, and made up his mind to follow Bai Qi and go to the soup and fire, and never take a step back.

In the past few days, Bai Qi has been busy recruiting troops and horses, expanding his strength, and sending people to the towns and villages outside the city to recruit people, because he knows that there is the hardest hit area, and there are many hungry people.

Sure enough, his idea was right, as soon as he heard that someone was recruiting people to be soldiers, as long as he became a soldier, he could be fed, and there was an endless stream of people who came to join the army.

Because most of the officials and soldiers were in arrears at that time, the government did not recruit many soldiers, recruited soldiers, there was no money to take, and most of them had to mutiny, which was asking for trouble, and many officers and soldiers went to join the peasant army, in the final analysis, they were all troubled by lack of money, so even if those hungry people wanted to be officials and soldiers, they could only be thieves.

In just two or three days, the number of men and horses under Bai Qi has more than doubled, and the number of people who can fight has reached more than 1,500. Now the difficulty comes, it is easy to recruit, but it is not easy to train, when Bai Qi was in the Qin army in the past, he didn't need to care about training at all, and naturally there were middle and lower-level officers in charge. But now it can't be, the most experienced in combat here are Lei Sheng and Wang Bao, and these two people have only fought once before.

Bai Qi was a little worried, the most important thing at the moment was to turn these hungry people who had just eaten into a warrior. Although anyone can fight, but fighting is different, fighting is to win the opponent, beat the opponent so that they dare not fight back, or flee in the wilderness, even if they win, but to fight, it is to kill the opponent and cut off the opponent's head.

These hungry people don't say that they kill people and cut off their heads, but they are afraid that they have never seen it before, Bai Qi has spent a lot of brains for this, and finally he came up with an idea, which is to let these people fight one-on-one. Whoever loses is given five lashes, and whoever wins is given a bite of meat.

Now everyone's enthusiasm for training has increased, but if you want to improve your fighting skills, you have to go through a long period of hard training, and Bai Qi understands that the officers and soldiers will not give him this time. Therefore, most of his energy is to teach his men and horses to practice military formations.

Bai Qi's worries were really justified, and the news of the loss of Meixian County reached Wugong County the next day. The three county magistrates who were waiting for the good news here were all surprised, especially the county magistrates of Meixian County, who were so frightened that their souls were not possessed, because strictly speaking, he left his post without permission, resulting in the fall of the city, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he should be sentenced to death.

Fortunately, the other two county orders are interesting enough, give him a move, this is not reported in advance, wait for Fang Hu to come back, lead the troops to suppress the bandits, it is estimated that there are not many people in this group of thieves, but the sneak attack is successful, as soon as the official army comes, it will be dispersed in a hurry, and the county will definitely be lost and regained.

Early the next morning, Fang Hu returned with a full load of people and horses, and before he had time to catch his breath, someone came to report, the county commander was invited, Fang Hu hurriedly came to the county office to take a look, the three county orders were in a hurry, Fang Hu inquired clearly, only to know that this group of thieves gave him a secret crossing Chen Cang.

Because of the last attack on the fortress, Fang Hu felt that this gang of thieves had no combat effectiveness, and the number was small, so he patted his chest: "Don't worry, a few adults, it's not our tiger boasting, as long as I lead the troops, this gang of thieves will definitely collapse at the touch of a button." ”

As soon as he heard that General Fang was so ambitious, the county commander of Meixian County was also relieved, and he also had to go out with the army.

More than 2,000 horses rested for a day, and then drove to Meixian.

As soon as Fang Hu's side moved, Bai Qi got a report there, and he immediately deployed men and horses to prepare for the battle. From Wugong to Xianmei, he must cross the Weishui, Bai Qi thought that his men and horses could not guard in the city, because the people in the city were not convinced, in case there was a traitor, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he had to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

Bai Qi judged that Fang Hu's men and horses had just won a small battle and gained a lot of treasures, so they must be arrogant, and an ambush halfway could defeat the official army in one fell swoop. He had already looked at the terrain and felt that he could only rely on the Weishui River to attack back and forth.

After he decided, he left a hundred people in the city to prevent the traitors from seizing the city, and then he took all the horses, a total of more than 1,400 people, and drove out of the outside of Meixian County. A few miles outside the city was the Weishui River, and there were two stone bridges on the river, and Bai came to this place, and ordered the 1,400 men to divide into two teams and lie in ambush on both sides of the river.

There are many high slopes and forests here, and it is not difficult for more than 1,000 people to ambush them.

Bai Qi made a specific subordinate, and he ordered his only 100 cavalry to lie in ambush on the east bank of the river, because he judged that the cavalry of the official army would cross the river first, so that his cavalry would avoid fighting the cavalry of the official army.

His 100 cavalry is said to be cavalry, in fact, they are just hungry people who can ride horses, they are not trained, and it is okay to fight some infantry on a rampage, but if it is against the official cavalry, only the part will be defeated.

After ambushing the cavalry, Bai Qi ordered all the spearmen, shieldmen, and shortsword men to ambush on the west bank of the river, forming an army formation, ready to meet the official cavalry, and the rest of the pikemen and some miscellaneous soldiers were ambushed on the east bank.

His idea is this, as soon as the officers and soldiers and horses arrive, the cavalry will definitely be in front, and they will cross the river first, and then the infantry, and after half of the officers and soldiers have crossed the river, he will wave his army to attack, attack on both sides, and trap the officers and soldiers on both sides of the bridge and squeeze them in the middle.

In this way, although there are many officers and soldiers, they are squeezed together, and the people in the middle cannot rush out, so they do not have any combat effectiveness, and they only need to deal with the officers and troops on the periphery, so that they can keep the number of people in the area and the number of people fighting in the locality.

In modern terms, this method of warfare is to concentrate superior forces, strike at weak links, and make full use of the terrain.

Bai Qi ambushed the men and horses, and stood on a high slope by himself, looking far to the east. He knew that in a few hours, the officers and troops led by Fang Hu would appear.

As expected, more than an hour later, the officers and troops drove from afar.

Sure enough, there were more than 200 cavalrymen at the head, all of them were arrogant, even talking and laughing, the armor on their bodies was shining, and the swords and guns were also shining, and behind them, there were more than 2,000 infantrymen, who were also elated, as if they were not going to fight, but to have a banquet.

Fang Hu walked in the middle, followed by the Meixian county magistrate, along the way, the county magistrate praised Fang Hu, saying that he used soldiers like a god, Tianwei was difficult to commit, thieves and clowns, fled when he heard the wind, etc., and he was very useful in his heart.