was robbed by a hairy boy, at that time, Qianhu refuted it as an old soldier, but the tone was still education-oriented, not too intense, and it was also to teach these boys with eyes above the top, so as not to make them suffer big losses in the future, so he continued: "Look at the other side, that is a team of thieves, only four or five hundred people, people have the confidence to build a fortress here to block the door of the enemy's house and fight with you, and people can use only four or five hundred people to fight against the enemy army ten times their own without changing their faces." With such momentum, such belief, and such a high fighting spirit, you say that he is a rabble? You're not a frog at the bottom of a well? Do your so-called 5,000-strong army have the guts to fight against such thieves ten times as much, no, on an equal footing? ”

All of them threw themselves to the ground in shame. The reason why I dare to fight against the thieves now is because of a bloody courage and the strength of the people, if I really let myself fight against the same thief army, looking at these brothers, there is really no one with this guts, after all, the great achievements of the thieves since they became an army are there, think about it to know the gap, you can be arrogant, but it is not yet to the point of arrogance hitting a stone with an egg.

In order to save face, a person was unwilling to whisper: "Does he have those centaurs?" "This question makes sense, according to what I know, the original thief 10,000 old and weak women and children went south in Mizhi, several battles along the road, and was surrounded and suppressed by 50,000 officers and soldiers in Yanchuan, the tragic battle lasted for two days and one night, and some elite betrayals, which can be described as thrilling and desperate countless times, although the siege was finally broken out, but it is reported that the thief is also full of corpses, it should be a big injury, where can he recover so quickly? Especially this kind of elite soldiers in front of the thieves is even more difficult to equip and train, and it is impossible to achieve immediate results in a large number of troops, and they know best, just their brother Zhang Yuan spent countless silver money and food to recruit these 3,000 villagers for training, and it took three months of training to have this appearance, is the thief richer than himself? And the old army to point out? Impossible.

"According to the information I have received, there are ten teams of thieves like this, and there are no less than six or seven hundred cavalry led by the thief leader himself." Contemptuously looked at the group of short-sighted Xiangyong leaders, the children of the Zhang family, Qianhu looked at the shocked faces of those leaders after getting the news from the Zhang family, and said again proudly: "I also know that they not only have 5,000 such strong soldiers, but also trained no less than 5,000 militias in various places, and those militias are trained every three days, and they are also equipped with their weird and sharp spears, their combat effectiveness is more than enough to deal with a bunch of poles, do you say terrible?" ”

After striking them again, Qianhu broke the news again: "There is also the strategy of rent reduction and interest reduction proposed by the thief, which has completely won the hearts of the untouchables in Sanxian County, just look at the fortress in front of you, but overnight, it was built by those untouchables, this is not an example?" Also, you are walking in, you will not see a single common person along the way, and you will become a deaf and blind horse, and your every move will have been notified by these untouchables of the thieves, and I dare to conclude that you are marching there, as long as you are left alone, you will be beaten by those untouchables, and there will be no bones left for you, how can you fight this battle? ”

Although this thousand households are bold and straightforward, it does not mean that he is stupid, when the army roars Ganquanfu County, he knows that sooner or later he will face this group of sudden poles, the simplest one in the art of war is to know oneself and the other, he knows, but also to know the future opponent, he has already made up his mind, and constantly sent his cronies to various places, using various means to explore the strength of the army, and after understanding the strength of the opponent, there is only a fear, a kind of egg and stone, a sense of powerlessness, Only then did he wisely get the order to enter and suppress the thieves, and the decision to escape back wisely not far from the city kept the pitiful military strength of Ganquan.

Hearing what Qianhu said, all the people couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and their eyes that were originally full of frenzy have been replaced by fear.

Looking at these fussy guys, the thousand households snorted disdainfully, then turned around and said to Zhang Yuan with a serious face: "Lord Zhang, I will help you with the idea of using your money and you to eliminate the disaster, the battle has reached this point, and the opportunistic way is gone, so that these thieves have not received reinforcements yet, you should know it well when you think about the other situations, let me ask you, are you still fighting or not?" ”

Zhang Yuan looked at the children around him who were already afraid, and secretly thought that thousands of troops were blocked here by this small fortress, if they didn't fight a battle to train them, their spirit would be scattered, and they would not be able to gather together in the future, for the sake of morale, it is time to let go of the original idea of preserving strength, this battle will be fought even if it is a fiasco, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Please continue to command and fight this battle." “

"Okay, he's a man who does big things." The thousand households could see Zhang Yuan's thoughts at a glance, but Zhang Yuan's current performance was very unexpected, and he didn't feel applauded for Zhang Yuan. "Then the old brother will help you fight this battle."

Zhang Yuanshen bowed and thanked him loudly, then resolutely turned around and said loudly to his disciples: "For the first battle of this army, you must have the heart to die and fight to the end, which one dares to disrespect the command of the Thousand Households and retreat and kill on the spot." At this time, Zhang Yuan's waist was straight, and he no longer had the demeanor and smile of a businessman, and his body was full of the dignified majesty of a general, which made a group of junior brothers in front of him and behind him awe-inspiring.

Zhang Yuanyi twisted his face and shouted with a dark face: "Where is Chen Qiang? “

When a tall and mighty man in the team heard this, he stepped forward and hugged his fists loudly: "The last general." "This Chen Qiang is a son of the Chen family, and he is also Zhang Yuan's brother-in-law, usually called Zhang Yuan's brother-in-law, and he is too rigid and mean to treat people, and he is not liked by all brothers, so Zhang Yuan only gave him an errand without a general flag.

Now all of a sudden, my brother-in-law calls himself by his real name, knowing that the stakes are high, and he doesn't call himself a brother-in-law, and he returns loudly according to the etiquette of officialdom and the army

"Chen Zongqi, I order you to take fifty of my own soldiers as the commander of the war, and whoever retreats without an order will be killed on the spot, and patrol the front of the formation with his head to set an example."

"Your Excellency's Command." After speaking, he turned around, looked at the brothers and said loudly: "I, the general banner of the army, is ordered by General Zhang to be the officer of the supervising team, if any general Xiangyong does not obey the general's order to retreat, my brother is ruthless, and I will definitely kill you on the spot." The majestic gaze looked at all the people, and there was already a thick murderous aura in those eyes, which made everyone present feel cold.

Zhang Yuan turned around and said respectfully to Qianhu: "Please command the dispatch." ”

"Okay, look at your Zhang Yuan's bold and ambitious, today I will let your men go to the countryside to see the blood, let your township Yong be reborn into a real strong army, and lay a solid foundation for Lord Zhang to soar in the future."

"Master Xie."

No longer paying attention to officialdom etiquette, Qianhu mentioned the war horse, and rushed to the front of the battle with his own big bannerman, Zhang Yuan did not watch the enemy behind the battle, and also mentioned the war horse with his own generals and cronies to follow closely behind, the thousand households stood still in front of the battle, and the orders were issued one by one, never dragging mud and water.

"Come, pass the order, and transfer the Xiang Yong, who has learned the operation of firearms and the operation of the bed crossbow in the front, to the rear team to watch the formation, and the fire operation will be completely handed over to the military household of the guard station."

This is a technical arm in the future, and this deployment is to reserve the seeds for Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan gratefully hugged his fist to the thousand households, and the thousand households did not look at him, and continued to order loudly: "Order Zhang Yuan Xiangyong to use the general banner (Zhang Yuan's Xiangyong is organized and trained by the military system of the guard, and there are no thousand households, but starting from the hundred households, each hundred households will command 112 people, divided into two general flags. Each flag commands 56 soldiers. It is divided into five small flags, and the small flags govern 10 soldiers. For the team, he took the ladder in the hand of the signer, and with the rattan player as a cover, he smelled the drum and started to step forward. ”

Going into battle with no armor will not only fail to play an auxiliary role, but once the thief counterattacks and there are casualties, he will disrupt his own big formation, and he will break his sharpness first, and the gains outweigh the losses. Moreover, Qianhu is also a bloody man, and these signatories are also ordinary people in this Ganquan City, so there is no need to let them lose their lives in vain, so they can't bear it.

At the same time, after several attacks, it was known that the thieves on the fortress did not have bows and arrows, and at the same time, the thieves in a hurry to build a city would definitely not have many offensive and defensive equipment such as fire oil and rolling wood, so it was not meaningful for those unarmed signmen to step forward to consume the enemy's bows and arrows according to the custom, so the thousand households were also extra generous to let those signatories go.

When they heard this, they all cheered, and they all stopped crying and rejoiced that they had chosen their lives, and after receiving the order, they ran away.

"Archers, choose those who have the strength to step forward and release arrows, suppress the enemy army in the city, and try not to show the enemy army."

At the sound of an order, the archers who had just regained a little strength were once again led by Shangguan one by one, replenished their feather arrows and ran into battle, and stood in line within a stone's throw from the fortress, waiting for another salvo of ten thousand arrows.

"The firearms and elm spray forward, try to raise the muzzle of the cannon, and when the ladder is erected, aim at the head of the city and fire the cannon to suppress the enemy, and only one cannon is allowed at a time." Chiho gave the order again.

The power of the elm spray is great, but the range is also short, and the service life is also short, basically ten cannons will be invalidated. But fortunately, it is convenient to take materials from this thing, and it was the first choice for the Ming landlords to arm and cottage poles at that time, so Qianhu only asked for only one cannon to play the role of cooperating with the archers to suppress the enemy.

The elm gunners were ordered, and they pushed the elm sprays to the closest place to the fortress, and began to place them in full swing, raising the muzzles, loading the gunpowder lead, and waiting for the launch.

"Supervise the battle team, wait for the army to move forward, set up a line two arrows away from the city, plant a flag on the ground, and kill those who retreat across the line without an order."

Chen Qiang agreed, snatched the red flag in the hand of his flag bearer and strode towards the battlefield, inserted the red flag into the frozen soil two hundred steps away from the city, and then pulled out the steel knife on his waist, drew a deep knife mark on the ground, and then inserted the war knife deep into the soil, his eyes were blood-red and stood still, and fifty Zhang Yuan's personal soldiers behind him ran forward, and after the horizontal line, he took out his waist knife and stared at his brother's back.

"Drummers, drums attack." Look at everything in order, the thousand households shouted hoarsely.

A real siege battle has really begun.