Zhu Yan and the others thought seriously according to Zhou Cang's description, according to the intelligence data of this Ziyun Mountain in the early stage, there were more than 30 bandits and bandits of all sizes in this area. There are only about a dozen or twenty people on a small scale, and as many as four or five hundred people on a large scale.

In the depths of its Ziyun Mountain, there is a group of bandits that can be regarded as a super force, that is, Ziyun Diao located in the middle of the Ziyun Mountain Range, its boss is also called Ziyun Diao, and there are more than 1,000 horses under his name, among which there are many bandits.

This force has been doing evil here for more than ten years, even Zhou Cang and others have heard of it, and they have always thought that they would meet this Ziyun Diao for a while, but they didn't expect to do it this time.

I heard that it seems that seven or eight years ago, when he took office as Taishou, he sent a local garrison to suppress them. However, because of its treacherous terrain, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and after losing seven or eight hundred men in front and behind, it gave up. Since then, the bandits have become even more rampant, annexing several small forces in the surrounding area.

Later, many like-minded people were not accustomed to what he did, and after uniting several large forces to resist it, they fought several battles and suffered damage, but they also relented.

"Zhou Squadron, my opinion is to start small, and we must be hidden in the early stage. We can choose forces that are close to the official road or a little more remote, and train the troops first according to what the intelligence says. ”

"Besides, it seems a waste of personnel for so many of us to attack one place, so I propose that we can make corresponding adjustments according to the number and strength of the other party, and then concentrate on attacking these large forces, and finally exterminate Ziyun Diao." Zhu Yan thought about it for a moment and said.

"Well, I agree, in this way, the first can be used as a training for small forces, after all, most of the brothers have never seen blood, and it is too variable to attack the big forces now." Zhang Wu, the second squad leader, said. Seeing that his younger brother had expressed his opinions, Zhang Wen, who was an elder brother, couldn't sit still.

"I also agree, let's be safe in this matter, attack a few small-scale forces, and let everyone be familiar with it. After all, these are the lord's baby bumps, but let's try to do as little as possible this time and let these rabbit cubs try. ”

Seeing that Zhang Wen finished expressing his opinion, everyone looked at Qian Wanli, Qian Wanli thought about it and nodded: "I also think it's okay, but in the next process, let's see if we can select some bandits with a good reputation to spare their lives, of course, try to persuade them to join us as much as possible." Now the power in the hands of our lord is limited, I think this place is good, especially in Ziyun Diao, I haven't been to but I have heard of it, in the future, we can concentrate these bandits who have taken refuge here to train, and in the future, it can also be used as a trump card in the hands of the lord. ”

Zhou Cang saw that everyone finished expressing their opinions, and he felt that his thoughts were similar, and he basically unified the line of action.

"Okay, in that case, I don't have an opinion, what the Qian team said just now is very right, let's gather as many people as possible."

"Most of these are actually ordinary people, who wants to go up the mountain and fall to the grass if they can survive with a little food."

"Of course, it is also for the sake of the lord, if this group of people is rectified, it will definitely become a hole card in the lord's hand. Let's not mention this matter to the lord for the time being, and finally give the lord a surprise. ”

"Agreed."

"Agreed."

"I'm okay with that."

"No problem."

Seeing that several people agreed with their views, Zhou Cang began to assign tasks to everyone.

"Next, there are five of us, each leading 36 people to raid the small forces around us. But the target of this raid mission, half of it has to be left, and when the time comes, the second squadron and the people from the personal guard department will come to practice, so don't be happy and kill them all. ”

"The second squadron also came out, I thought the first squadron would come out for training."

"I said, it's right to train separately, and you can't have no one in front of your lord."

"Well, I'm still thinking about killing."

Zhou Cang looked at these people and began to chatter, and hurriedly said: "Then let's start assigning tasks: according to intelligence, we will mainly clean up these small forces in the southwest this time." Most of these are about thirty or forty people, and the most are less than a hundred, and there are basically no difficult characters. But don't take it lightly, there are some forces that may be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, so everything is based on the safety of the brothers. ”

"Retreat immediately when we encounter hard stubble, let's gather together and then act, we must not be rash, it is a joke with the lives of our brothers. Ministers, you will walk along this ditch into the mountains tomorrow and go straight all the way. Among them, there are three groups of forces, here, here and here, and the leader of this group is called ......" Zhou Cang pointed to a simple map, and reasonably arranged the corresponding route according to everyone's situation, and told himself and others the walking range and so on.

This map was also hard for Jia Xu to get, but it was very simple. So it's also equipped with two guides, otherwise it's a bit choking to find these places, and we're not stupid, although I haven't learned how to look at the map, but I have a rough look at the actual terrain and I know a rough idea.

"After arriving at the expected garrison tonight, we will rest for the night, and we will set off tomorrow morning after a simple meal. The tasks have all been issued, is there anything else you don't understand? After Zhou Cang finished assigning the task, he looked at everyone and asked seriously.

"Understood, Squadron Leader." Everyone replied in unison.

"Squadron leader, let me ask, how are we going to rest at night? I didn't say anything in advance when I came out, everyone was dressed quite thinly. Now the weather has a big temperature difference between morning and evening, and I am afraid that the brothers will not be able to bear it. Zhang Wen glanced at Zhou Cang and said in a low voice.

He didn't know if the squadron leader and the group leader had taken this situation into account, or if they had already prepared everything in the garrison, so he asked Zhou Cang curiously. Everyone was also very curious, but they were embarrassed to ask, and after hearing Zhang Wen's inquiry, Zhu Yan and the others also straightened their ears.

"What do you think this is? Come out and live? Prepare the futon for you? And I will set up camp for you? Do you need a wife for one of you? I tell you, go down and talk to your squad. If you can't even clean up these bandits this time, just wait to go hungry. There was nothing to eat, let alone anything else. ”

"Just the dry food for these three days, the rest is up to you. In the future, whether you will drink big fish and meat or drink the northwest wind every day depends on whether you work hard or not. Of course, there is luck, after all, not every bandit den has a good life, and there may be days that are not as good as ours. ”

"There are still days when training cannot be interrupted, bandits are bandits, and the amount of training every day must be carried out. Especially armed cross-country, we are short of horses now, and the training of physical fitness and endurance cannot be stopped. Okay, just say anything, and you can arrange the rest by yourself, and get out of here. In Zhou Cang's laughter and scolding, several people began to speed up, caught up with the large army, and continued to move forward.

At night, we finally arrived at the designated place, which is a relatively flat mountain nest, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and you can take shelter from the wind at night. However, as the temperature gradually dropped, and then the cold wind blew, everyone began to be a little unbearable. At this time, Zhu Yan came up with an idea for everyone: since everyone is cold, let's exercise together.

Five hundred push-ups first, then five hundred sit-ups, and finally five hundred frog jumps and squats. In order to prevent everyone from catching a cold after sweating, a group of people took off their clothes and shouted trumpets together shirtless to do training, which was quite spectacular from a distance.

After jogging for more than half an hour, the wind slowly stopped, and everyone didn't feel so cold. After Zhou Cang arranged patrol matters such as shift changes and vigils, everyone huddled together one after another and began to rest.