Chapter 18 Mountain Training

Day by day, training, eating, sleeping every day. Two months had passed in the blink of an eye, Wang San just felt a little bored, and Shi Bin began to frown all day.

"Big brother, why have you been so unhappy these days? Why do you always frown? Meng Dutong in front also repelled the Yuan people and recovered Xiangyang! Wang San asked suspiciously.

Shi Bin knew that the Southern Song Dynasty still perished in the end, and now there is not much time left. In this way, training every day is absolutely impossible to defeat the Yuan people, and the recruits who have never seen blood can't even stand on the battlefield when they go to the battlefield, let alone fight, let alone fight against the cavalry. Even with a certain amount of combat experience and no firearms, it was difficult to resist the cavalry. Even if the heavy infantry battle formation broke the cavalry formation, it also lost the ability to pursue it in a mobile way.

What's more, in order to avoid the secession of feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the status of military generals was very low. Make a strong branch weak, and often mobilize generals to lead to soldiers not knowing generals, and generals will not know soldiers, let alone defeating the Yuan people. He regretted a little how he joined the army, why didn't he recommend himself to be a staff member under Wenchen.

"Brother Xian, eldest brother is in a hurry. Although Xiangyang is recovered. However, Meng Dutong was ordered to return to Jingzhou and was not allowed to fight further north. This court is too poor, if our soldiers don't see blood, it's really useless, it's just a waste of food. Shi Bin poured out the unhappiness in his heart bluntly.

"What then? We can't help it! Wang San also became anxious after hearing this.

At a glance, he saw that Shi Bin was not anxious, looking at his confident appearance, it seemed that there was a way, and Wang San calmed down. looked at his eldest brother carefully, after all, Shi Bin would not be full of nonsense, but he didn't guess Shi Bin's method.

I thought that my shrewd and capable brother could guess one or two, but I didn't expect that this time it would be such a humble study. Of course, it was not good to be a sleeping dragon in front of his resourceful little brother, so he immediately said: "I still remember the methods used by the virtuous brother when he joined the army. It was a deep lesson. ”

"I see, that's right. Money can make ghosts grind, it seems that we have to plan how to get money. Wang San was about to speak, but saw that Shi Bin looked like he was in his chest, and he seemed to have made up his mind. I couldn't help but look at Shi Bin again, and then pointed to the mountain.

"Brother Xian is really smart, but I don't know if we think exactly the same. We can divide the army into two routes, one way to suppress bandits, and the other to sell smuggled salt, so as to create our own way. Once the brothers saw the blood, they would not really go to the battlefield and only tremble their legs, and they should be able to kill a few soldiers. In addition, you can also catch some extra money by the way. ”

On the second day, the two brothers met Xue Liang in person, and gave him ten taels of silver, only saying that they wanted to go out of the camp for mountain training. Xue Liang naturally knew that this was an excuse to make extra money, but after receiving the money, he pretended to be confused, not to mention that the people of the two capitals couldn't make any big waves.

The two of them smiled and ran to the armory again, found the chief of the armory, stuffed two taels of silver, and brought out fifty crossbows, a thousand arrows, and two hundred rockets from the warehouse; In the end, a small trebuchet and twenty earth-shattering thunderbolts were obtained. He also left with the promise of a lot of benefits. Although he is somewhat contemptuous of the unruly world, he can also take the opportunity to strengthen himself, so he wants this world to continue to exist before he becomes a climate.

After making these preparations, Shi Bin and the others were not afraid, and announced the start of "mountain training" on the playground, and promised that if they completed the training, each person could have three taels of silver reward. When Wang San heard this, he was very puzzled and asked, "Big brother, I understand that you promised the treasurer a benefit." After the deed is done, we will definitely go to Commander Xue, the question is why do we have to give so much to the soldiers? They are here to fight when they are soldiers and eat food! ”

Knowing that Wang San was originally a soldier and his commander drank the blood of soldiers, it was good to be able to pay money on time and in full. After the operation, if you can not swallow the pension money of your soldiers, you have to burn high incense, where will you be beneficial. Shi Bin patiently explained: "Brother, this is short-sighted, people's hearts are the most precious, how can they ignore them when they are desperate for us?" What's more, we are privately deploying troops without military orders, and we have to be careful of people stabbing knives, and we will be punished for eating alone. ”

Although he had never experienced such a thing, he also agreed very much, and admired Shi Bin's atmosphere very much. Since the two of them were of one heart and one mind, they naturally wanted to carry out this operation faster, and Wang San immediately introduced: "Big brother, there are three mountains within a radius of fifty miles, the largest is Qinglong Village, about three hundred people, followed by Huben Mountain and Ziyun Peak with two hundred people each. The leaders are Zhou Lu, Gongsun Zhi, and Liu Qingyun. ”

"Then let's fight Qinglong Village first and see how the other two villages react. It is best to be able to defeat Qinglong Village in one go, so as to achieve the effect of surrendering the troops of Huben Village and Ziyun Peak without a fight. Try to use long-range weapons to avoid unnecessary casualties, spend some money, and win the hearts of the people to win the world. Shi Bin said seriously. In fact, Shi Bin still has a little selfishness, in his previous life, he had seen enough fireworks and shootouts in TV series, but he didn't know how powerful the real rocket attack and firearm attack were.

The mountain road is very difficult to walk, Qinglongzhai is only two hundred miles away from the camp, but it takes six days to walk with this baggage. He finally understood why historical records record that China's troops were 350,000 at every turn, but after losing two major battles and being annihilated, the entire army was wiped out in less than 150,000. It turned out that most of them were heavy soldiers and civilians, transporting food and weapons. The distance and weight of his march meant that he had to spare fifty men to push wheelbarrows in leather armor as porters, and the rest of the soldiers had to carry an additional 10 kilograms of baggage in addition to the 25 kilograms of armor on their bodies

Before reaching the foot of Qinglong Mountain, the mountain gate had already been closed and the wolf smoke was lit. Maybe he didn't know what the army under the mountain was here for, and it didn't take long for Zhou Luo to send a small pawn to negotiate. After all, the people do not fight with officials, especially not with soldiers, and it would be best if it could be resolved peacefully.

And Shi Bin was originally going to suppress the bandits, so naturally he didn't want to get along peacefully. So he asked the pawn to bring back a message: pay 5,000 taels of silver and retire. When Zhou Yan heard this, he was furious, and immediately gathered bandits on the mountain to prepare for battle.

Wang San was a little apprehensive, he knew that a long-range attack must be good, the question was whether the fire attack would burn himself or be poisoned by the smoke?

As if seeing Wang San's uneasiness, Shi Bin smiled and said, "Brother Xian, eldest brother naturally knows how to protect himself after being on the mountain for a long time. If the south wind blows, we will go to the south of Qinglongzhai to set fire, and if the north wind blows, we will go to the north of Qinglongzhai to set fire. However, before attacking, dig out a fire barrier that is one meter wide and one meter deep, and connect the two sides with wooden planks. Each soldier should have a wet hand towel, remember that it must be wet. ”