The little monkey immediately straightened up and said, "Who is afraid, isn't it just to fight bandits, I like to fight bandits the most." ”

Wu Ergou snorted and laughed: "Yohe, you often fight bandits." But you're in a hurry. With Lord Ning here, this bandit is a matter of being caught. ”

"Brother Ergou, have you ever killed someone?"

The little monkey suddenly asked, and Wu Ergou was stunned.

"Of course not, why do you ask this."

"It's nothing, the instructor always says that a soldier must have seen blood before he can be considered a soldier."

Wu Ergou rolled his eyes and said, "But our Lao Tzu was a good citizen before he joined the army. Which good citizen have you ever seen kill? But the bandits are really murderous. The mountain bandits we are going to suppress this time have countless blood on their hands. It is said that the one-eyed dragon, the big boss of the mountain bandits, fell in love with the daughter of the owner of the Song Jiazhuang, so he sent someone to propose marriage. Naturally, it was impossible for the owner of Songjiazhuang to push his precious daughter into the fire pit, so he categorically rejected the one-eyed dragon..."

"And then?"

The little monkey asked, swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

The one-eyed dragon was naturally furious when he heard the little minion's reply. He ordered the bandits to go down the mountain and kill Songjiazhuang without leaving a chicken and dog. ”

Wu Ergou paused deliberately, and smiled: "But after all, Songjiazhuang is a large village with a population of thousands of people, and it is not easy to attack it, so the one-eyed dragon plans to use a plan." ”

The little monkey had already been hooked by Wu Ergou, and urged: "What plan? ”

"Bitter Meat Trick!"

Wu Ergou slowed down and said: "He asked some of his subordinates to dress up as fugitive military households, wear ragged clothes, and walk to Songjiazhuang. The owner of Songjiazhuang was kind-hearted and took in these people. As a result, these bandits poisoned more than a dozen wells in Songjiazhuang, poisoning most of the villagers. There are two or three hundred people left, how can they resist thousands of bandits. ”

The little monkey looked gloomy and said: "This Songjiazhuang must have been breached, and the remaining villagers must be unable to escape death, right?" ”

Wu Ergou nodded: "Not bad." The one-eyed dragon led the mountain bandits to break through Songjiazhuang and then burned and slaughtered on a large scale, and the only dozens of women were taken captive up the mountain. As for the daughter of the owner of Songjiazhuang, she was raped to death by bandits. ”

"These brutes!"

The little monkey clenched his fists tightly and rebuked sharply.

"So these bandits are scum. Lord Ning asked us to attack the mountain bandits, which is for the sake of heaven! ”

"That's right. But doesn't the local government care? ”

"Tube? How? The government was also unable to mobilize the officers and soldiers of the guards. Besides, even if they were able to mobilize the officers and soldiers of the guard, those people might not be able to fight the mountain bandits. ”

Wu Ergou said with emotion: "In the final analysis, our military households in the Ming Dynasty are tenant farmers of officers, and they are the kind that have signed a deed of sale. The officers drank the blood of the soldiers and desperately squeezed the military households, who had nothing but farming, and it was too wishful thinking to expect them to fight. ”

"No wonder." The little monkey muttered: "No wonder Lord Ning wants to train a new army, ordinary military households really have no combat effectiveness." ”

"We are battalion soldiers, so we don't have to farm for officers like those military households. Of course, Lord Ning said that he would give us land in the future, all of which are on Wuzhushan Island. But that's our own land, we can plant it if we want to, and we can sell it if we don't want to plant. But it can only be sold to robes. ”

Wu Ergou chatted with interest for a while, and then talked about the welfare of the soldiers.

"Seriously, Lord Ning treats us really well. Isn't there a saying among scholars, those who are confidants die? Although we are not scholars, we also understand that people know about Entu. Well, our Lao Tzu's fate is sold to Lord Ning. Master Ning told us to fight whoever we wanted, and we would fight whomever we wanted! ”

The little monkey only felt his blood boiling, and nodded desperately: "Brother Ergou, that's good!" ”

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After Ning Xiu decided to send troops to Bishan to suppress the bandits, he immediately called the veterans of the Qi family's army to discuss.

They are now the instructors of the battalions, and they can be said to be in charge of their own affairs. Ning Xiu naturally wanted to listen to their opinions.

As the chief instructor, Qi Wen took the lead in speaking out: "My lord, my subordinates feel that they should divide their troops to attack. There are roads in front of the mountain and behind the mountain. Among them, the front mountain is relatively gentle, and the back mountain is more steep. Most of them can go up from the front mountain, and you can send a surprise soldier to plug in from the back mountain. ”

Ning Xiu nodded with satisfaction, this was exactly what he thought.

It seems that he asked Qi Wen and others to read more military books, but it still had an effect.

"But we are not familiar with the terrain, and I am afraid that we will suffer."

"It's not difficult, we can go and hire a few locals as guides. Those ordinary people have been suffering from bandits in the mountains for a long time, and when they hear that the officers and soldiers are coming to suppress the bandits, they will definitely support them. ”

"Then hire a few more guides, and don't take it lightly. We are going to suppress bandits, and we must control the battle loss ratio. ”

Everyone nodded.

Ning Xiu had already told them these novel words, and he was a little uncomfortable when he first heard them, but now he was used to it.

"Bandits are generally divided into old thieves and new bandits. Old thieves are generally their backbone and will not easily engage in hand-to-hand combat. The new bandits are their vanguard, and our soldiers mainly fight against them. ”

Ning Xiu said unhurriedly: "So purely in terms of combat skills, our soldiers are no worse than those bandits. ”

Generally speaking, the number of old thieves will not exceed one-tenth of the number of copycat bandits.

There are thousands of bandits, so the number of old thieves is about a hundred at most. And in Ning Xiu's new army, there are hundreds of pacesetters, and these people's combat effectiveness is not weaker than that of the old thief. What's more, Ning Xiu also has more than a dozen veterans of the Qi family's army, as well as dozens of mercenaries of the Franc machine. These are his killer features, and they can be taken out at critical moments to make or break the tide of the battle.

So Ning Xiu didn't worry about the battle at all. The only thing that needs to be controlled is the battle loss ratio.

These soldiers have been trained for months of hard work, and they must not be easily killed.

"Don't worry, sir. The soldiers brought by his subordinates must have brought them back! ”

The corners of Ning Xiu's mouth rose and smiled: "That's very good." ”

The reason why he insisted on suppressing the bandits was not only to let the recruits see the blood and increase their courage, but also to seize the dirty silver of these bandits.

It costs a lot to raise a military household, and in the past few months, the dirty silver of the Haikou on Wuzhushan Island has been almost spent, and if Ning Xiu doesn't open it up, he will have to use his own silver.

Although there is nothing wrong with this, if there is another way, Ning Xiu still doesn't want to serve the public in private.

He is not a saint, so there is no need to demand himself according to the standards of a saint.

The silver of the imperial court is barely enough for military salaries, and as for the benefits promised by Ning Xiu, we have to find another way.

At the moment, the most direct way is to suppress bandits.

These bandits must have saved a lot of money over the years, and as long as Ning Xiu captures the cottage, he can pocket all the income from it. Those magistrates would not obstruct them if they wanted to, after all, it was a good thing for them to exterminate the bandits, and it was also a good thing for them to protect the territory and the people.

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