Xiao Tianjian can be said to have no problem with the training of sword and shield men and pikemen, but he has no experience in the training of cavalry and scouts, so he can only ask Yan Chongxi to help come up with some ideas, and let Shi Ran and a few other three-legged cat cavalry and scouts explore it by themselves.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian didn't have time to let them train fully, so he quickly sent Shi Ran and them out and began to collect all kinds of intelligence within dozens of miles nearby.

The purpose of training is to expand, and it is not a way to keep such a cat here, so Xiao Tianjian still has to expand his subordinates as soon as possible.

Shi Ran, Da Niu and the others did not live up to his expectations, and with the use of some news obtained from Sha Erbao's subordinates, it only took less than ten days to find out the situation of each village within a radius of dozens of miles and their peers.

At the same time, they also gathered dozens of homeless people on the road, and brought these people back to their lair and handed them over to Xiao Tianjian.

According to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, when they took in these homeless people along the way, they only selected those men who were single and had good physical fitness, gave them food, and tempted these people to follow them back to their lair.

And at this time, for these homeless people, not to mention that if you have milk, you are a mother, but to give a piece of mixed bread, that is, your grandfather, so you don't need to talk too much, but let Shi Ran and them easily bring back more than 50 homeless people.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian did this was not out of pity for these displaced displaced people, but to recruit subordinates for himself, in the past, he had no food and no money, and no one followed him if he wanted to recruit people, but now he has some savings, so he has the conditions for this expansion, not that he has no sympathy for the displaced people, after all, he also has to eat, his hungry eyes have turned green, and he knows the suffering of the displaced people, but he is not arrogant enough to think that he is the savior and can save these poor people, He can protect himself now, even if he is thankful, so he can only do it temporarily, and for those poor women and children, he can only ignore it!

This Ming Dynasty is completely rotten, but also unlucky to the extreme, there are Hou Jin Dongyu invaded the territory, had to increase the salary, but caught up with the natural disaster, Shaanxi drought, the result of the increase in the salary, it forced the poor people around the rebellion, the poor rebelled, they had to encircle and suppress, encirclement and suppression had to conscription, conscription had to have food, the result could only be increased again, after the additional salary, the people could not live, and if they could not live, they would make more trouble, and if they made a lot of trouble, they would increase their troops to encircle and suppress, and they would have to increase their troops to encircle and suppress, and they would have to increase their salaries...... After the cycle, the so-called Chongzhen monster circle appeared, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, and the more it became more and more messy.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian, who understands this, naturally will not think about helping Emperor Chongzhen solve this problem, this is originally a dead knot, and the only way can only be that the Ming Dynasty be completely smashed and establish a new order, so Xiao Tianjian is not thinking about saving the lives of the people in the world, but about how to survive and develop first.

After Shi Ran came back with these homeless people, Xiao Tianjian's subordinates doubled again, but after Xiao Tianjian saw these new homeless people, he still decided not to integrate them into the team as pawns for the time being, for no other reason, just because these people don't want them to copy the guys to fight, even if they let them do some light work, I'm afraid they will also be tired to death, even if these people are relatively strong homeless people selected by Shi Ran and others, but they have been tortured by hunger for a long time, Everyone is skinny, with a serious look on their faces, they are all severely malnourished, and their physical strength is even weaker, and if they are directly allowed to participate in training, no one will faint or die on the spot.

Therefore, even if Xiao Tianjian was in a hurry to employ people, he had to temporarily let these newcomers rest and recuperate for a period of time, give them enough food, and let them recover before training.

These newcomers were full of curiosity about Xiao Tianjian, and at the same time, when they saw Xiao Tianjian's clean men, they were even more full of awe, especially when they received the food Xiao Tianjian gave them, they were even more excited, kneeling on the ground holding the rice bowl and kowtowing to Xiao Tianjian again and again.

And Master Jin, who served them rice, shook his head and said to them: "Eat, eat, eat!" Don't worry, we are righteous people who will let you eat enough! When you people are well, you must remember the kindness of our plates! Follow us to do things well, if someone is half-hearted, it will be struck by lightning! Eat slowly, don't break it! ……”

Jin Fuzi, the volunteer propagandist, kept nagging, as well as those auxiliary soldiers, all of them also learned from Jin Fuzi, while getting food for these people and arranging a place to live, while constantly instilling in them the kindness of Xiao Tianjian, who was in charge of their dishes, with them, Xiao Tianjian was not worried that these people would not stay and do it with him, and he himself also comforted these abducted homeless people with gentle words, leaving them with a pretty good impression of benevolence and righteousness, which made them feel more at ease.

"Palm plate, the small ones went out this time, basically figured out the situation of dozens of miles around, over the years, this area has often been too large, the smaller Zhuangzi basically have not a few left, and most of the remaining Zhuangzi are some big Zhuangzi, especially the Lijiazhuang, and even the village wall even has cannons, with our manpower to gnaw down I'm afraid it's not easy!

And there are a few poles on the mountains around us that do the same thing as us, and the small ones also inquired, compared to us, they started earlier, and there are more than 200 people on the least pole, if you want to fight the idea of black and black, I'm afraid it is not easy!

However, this trip out, the small ones did not run in vain, the small ones followed the prompts of the squad leader Feng to investigate the two Zhuangzi in the north, these two Zhuangzi are relatively small, and they are relatively easy to fight, they are not many Zhuangding, they are located in the middle of nowhere, but they have not experienced much military disasters, there should be a lot of oil and water to fish! Moreover, they are far away from the county seat, if we do it, the officers and soldiers in the city will not take care of it, so let's start with them! As soon as Shi Ran came back, he reported to Xiao Tianjian the harvest of the activities of the few of their scouts, and also used stones to lay out the positions of those poles and Zhuangzi on the ground, and used a small wine glass in the middle to represent their current location, basically allowing Xiao Tianjian to roughly understand the situation in this area.

"Yes! Palm the plate, it's not a way for us to stay like this, these hundred and ten people, people eat horses and chew, the daily consumption is not small, the food we got from Zhaojiabao and Guzhuang, according to the big guy's way of eating, it won't take long to eat, it's time to go out and do a vote! Otherwise, I'm afraid it's a little too late to wait until you don't have food to find food! Zhao Erdonkey eagerly reminded Xiao Tianjian that in this battle of Guzhuang, Zhao Erdonkey also made meritorious contributions, not to mention being promoted, and got a reward of a few taels of silver, and began to feel that going out to do things has a head, and following Xiao Tianjian is indeed very promising to make a name for himself, so compared with before, he is now a little bit of a dare to fight.

Xiao Tianjian touched the stubble that had just grown out of his chin and was not too long, and put these stones on the ground, feeling a little regretful in his heart, in this era, he had never seen the map of this era until now, everything was based on hearing and then conceiving in his mind, forming a rough map, and then making a judgment, doing so was very passive, and many times he couldn't figure out the details.

Now although Shi Ran uses stones and other things to sketch a rough map, he can't see the terrain of these places, he has to go and see the situation himself, not to mention the delay in doing so, sometimes it will affect his judgment, it seems that it is necessary to let the scouts learn a little bit of how to draw maps in the future, especially in terms of terrain, but also let them understand how to do it, and they can sketch a sketch at the worst, which should be very important for his future development.

But he also knew that this request was still a little too much for Shi Ran and the others now, so he had to temporarily dismiss this idea, pointed to these stones on the ground, and asked Shi Ran: "How far are the two Zhuangzi you are talking about from here?" Also, what is the terrain of these two Zhuangzi, which one of them is more suitable for us to start, and the strength of the Zhuang Ding in their Zhuangzi, have you all explored these? ”

Shi Ran nodded and said: "If you go back to the plate, one of these two Zhuangzi is called Silinbao, and the other is called Fanjiabao, which is more than forty miles away from us, the road is not very easy to walk, far away from the official road, in the ravine, so few people run to where, Silinbao is built by four large families surnamed Lin, they are not enough financial resources compared to other large households, and it is their own family, so they partnered to build this Silinbao, the four families together, plus their tenants, there are more than 300 people in the Zhuangzi, there are dozens of Zhuangding, on the terrain, the small ones went to see, Silinbao is built in the middle of two mountains and a ditch, and you should be able to find a way to get in!

That Fanjiabao is a Zhuangzi of a large family surnamed Fan, built on a soil slope, the old rich family surnamed Fan is said to be very rich, there are more than 100 tenants alone, compared to the last time we went to Liujiabao is not much less, but this guy is stingy to the extreme, when building the village, he does not want the tenants to live in the village, he built his Zhuangzi on the earthen beam, the tenants live outside the Zhuangzi, when there is something, let the tenants go into the Zhuangzi to hide, when there is nothing to do, the tenants have to return to the outside of the Zhuangzi, it is really hateful!

This Fanjiabao is built on the top of the earthen beam, the fort is not big, there are not many Zhuang Ding inside, but the wall is very high, the small one looks at it from a distance, some are not easy to start, the small one thinks that it is still easier to start with Silinbao! ”

Xiao Tianjian is already very satisfied with Shi Ran's report, although it is not very detailed, but it is not easy for Shi Ran to do this, after all, he used to be a layman, and he has just done this not long ago, so he can't be too demanding of him, experience depends on a little bit of accumulation, and in time this Shi Ran should be able to become a good scout.

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