Chapter 21: I'm going to fight the bandits
Are you on the side of your brothers or on the side of the bandits?
This is in the Xu family, but it is a political problem, no matter how to bow to reality, the two masters of the Xu family are all gentry who have been admitted to the Jinshi and have been officials of the Great Zhou, and now there are many friends in Jiangnan who are the same year, and they are also slightly famous, colluding with bandits, which is a dirty thing that can be done but cannot be said.
But Xu Shiyang unceremoniously and directly uncovered this layer of scars, didn't you call me "Young Tiger"?
Then I'll show you the tiger!
"San Lang must not say that, of course Erlang is on the side of the Xu family."
"The implication is that the Xu family is on the side of the bandits?" Xu Shiyang unceremoniously interrupted the head of the family.
"Shiyang!" Xu Muhe had to scold his son: "Don't be so rude!" ”
Xu Shiyang smiled and bowed his hand to his father.
"My son voluntarily received the family law, but it was still the same sentence, I would not give a grain of grain or a piece of cloth to that bullshit Luo Dao man in fifteen tuns!"
"Since Saburo doesn't want to come out, then forget it." Xu Mujiang shook his head slightly, and said softly: "This year, the public treasury came out for him." ”
"Father!" Xu Shibai shouted.
"It doesn't matter." Xu Mujiang continued: "Shiyang repelled the Tartars this year, and each of our villages has saved a lot of money and grain, which is all won by San Lang, and his loss must not be small, and the public treasury should share a little." ”
Xu Shibai remembered the war horse that his third brother promised to give him, and suddenly felt that his father's words did have some truth.
Not to mention the money and grain left over from the villages by the Tartars in advance, those horses alone are worth the other docks of the Xu family to pay the bandit tribute for ten or eight years for the fifteen tuns.
As a result, the others stopped talking, and it seemed that they had tacitly acquiesced to the proposal of the Gongku to deal with Luo Daoren's for Xu Shiyang.
However, Xu Shiyang's purpose is not this at all.
"Uncle! Father! ”
Xu Shiyang looked at the three elders of the Xu family sitting at the top of the house, and said seriously:
"I won't give food to the bandits now, and I won't give it in the future."
"My suggestion is that while there is more food this year, we will all go out to eliminate the bandits on the floating mountain!"
There was an uproar in the lobby.
Everyone looked at Xu Shiyang in shock, and they found that the nickname they had just given to this child in their family was really right.
The young tiger, who has just tasted blood, can't help but eat people!
"San Lang, floating on the mountain, not counting bandits, there are 2,000 in Ding Zhuang alone!" The old scholar Liang Jun was so shocked by Xu Shiyang just now that he almost pulled off the few remaining beards, and his tears of pain flowed down at the moment, and he was still rubbing his chin while talking.
"Mr. Liang, 2,000 bandits, none of them dared to fight the Tartars." Xu Shiyang smiled and shook his head: "If the bandits on the floating mountain are really as strong as they seem, why do they always avoid that little Tartar?" ”
Every year the Tartars appear, and the bandits do not dare to go down the mountain, this is something that everyone knows.
"And me! With one village, it is easy to destroy a Mok in the east! Xu Shiyang patted his chest and said proudly: "It can be seen that no matter how many bandits there are, there is no need to be afraid!" ”
"With the actual combat experience of 15 tuns, our Xu family has 15 villages, 4 or 5 thousand strong, and its combat effectiveness exceeds that of Tartar by one Meng'an! Dealing with 2 or 3 thousand bandits, it's even more of a problem! ”
This is pure bragging, in fact, the last actual combat experience with the Tartars shows that if the two sides clearly fight in the field of carriages and horses, half of the Tartars are enough to overturn two 15 tuns.
After all, at that time, the Tartars were slapped with a slap in the sneak attack, and they lost nearly a third of their men as soon as the battle began, and they didn't have time to pierce the armor, and they didn't have the formation and didn't prepare the weapons they had at hand, so they killed nearly 20 of Xu Shiyang's men.
However, the other castle masters of the Xu family didn't know all this, they only knew that Xu Shiyang did indeed use the strength of a dock fort, and took the initiative to eliminate a Dongyu Mouke, beheading level 46, including the Tartar Mouke master.
In the face of the facts, Xu Shiyang had to brag, saying that he could overturn a village in one village, and others could not find a reason to refute it.
"San Lang, the bandits set up a village on the mountain, more than 2,000 people defended it, and the attack is equivalent to attacking the city." 8 Luan Tingyu, the lord of Tunpu, said: "Even if we are fully dispatched, we may not be able to defeat it, and even if we can fight it, the casualties will inevitably be heavy. ”
Luan Tingyu of 8 Tun and Sun Li of 9 Tun may be the two most useful Xujiabao masters in Xu Shiyang's future planning.
First of all, these two infantry and horse battles have a very high level, or to put it bluntly, their personal strength can be ranked in the top two in the entire Xu family.
Although it is not yet known how well the two brothers are able to command the troops, in the future, if Xu Shiyang has the opportunity to raise a large army, they can at least be used as qualified stormtrooper captains.
In addition, these two names, Xu Shiyang once read in the Water Margin in his previous life, and the strength in the book is not bad, although the history of this world has nothing to do with the Water Margin, but these familiar names still make Xu Shiyang have a lot of good feelings.
Therefore, Xu Shiyang felt that he should give these two foreign surname castle owners a little face.
"I know that the terrain of Fulai Mountain is steep, and the bandits have built a stockade on the mountain, and the wall is very thick."
Xu Shiyang said seriously:
"However, in the name of paying tribute, we can lead the Narada people down the mountain to fight."
"As long as you kill that Luo Dao person, the rest of the things will be easy to do, even if it is a siege, you are not afraid."
"The Narodian is very cunning, he will not go down the mountain easily." Sun Li said next to him.
"Then we will first destroy the bandits who came down the mountain, weaken them, and then forcibly attack the wall." Xu Shiyang said categorically: "Leave the matter of attacking the wall to me, and when I break through the wall, the castle lord will bring people to kill it!" ”
Xu Shiyang stood up, walked to the center of the hall, and said impassionedly to his parents, brothers, and the lord of the castle with a foreign surname:
"Fulai Mountain can support thousands of bandits and their families, and there is definitely no problem in building 3 or 5 dock forts on the mountain!"
"Moreover, the terrain of Fulai Mountain is complicated, our Xu family is a local, so they naturally know the way, but outsiders cannot, as long as they occupy it, even if the Tartars march in a big way in the future, we will hide in the mountains, and they may not have any way. This is a treasure land that can be attacked and defended! ”
"Also, after defeating the Luo Dao people, other small groups of bandits are not at all in the climate, they are powerless to harass us, my Xu family's dock fort can reclaim the land farther away, just this one, how much more can we collect every year? What's more, it can save 60 stone of grain and 150 pieces of jackets every year, which is not a small number! ”
In Xu Shiyang's mouth, Fulai Mountain is simply a godsend for the Xu family, as long as they get there, the Xu family is not only the largest household in Juzhou, but I am afraid that the entire Qi Province can be ranked first.
Moreover, if you destroy the Luo Dao people, you can also clear the suspicion that the Xu family colluded with bandits, why not?