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Shen Xi can only regard this as a compulsory course for military training!

If you stay on Nanao Island for too long, then the journey to the north may be affected, and whether you will continue to go out to sweep away the thieves in the hot summer of the sixteenth year of Hongzhi will become the top question on Shen Xi's head.

If there is a war, the damage will only be worse.

Jing Yue was ordered by Shen Xi to become the vanguard of the attack on the bandit camp on Nanao Island.

On the first day, Jing Yue led a hundred households, and on the second day, it became the commander of a thousand households, all the way to attack the city and pull out the village, echoing with the artillery battalion led by Ma Jiusuo, and it took only three days to break through the seven bandit villages distributed on different mountain bags on the east and west sides of Nanao Island, and finally only the fortress on the top of Yangyu Mountain in the south of the island was left to sigh.

From the beginning of the war, there are no less than fifteen hundred battalions to attack the thief village on the top of Yangyu Mountain, but the thief village on the top of Yangyu Mountain is the largest bandit village in the whole Nanao Mountain, with thousands of bandits, the village is built on the top of the mountain at a height of two hundred meters, condescending, the city wall is repaired by stones, extremely strong, it is said that the food in the village is abundant, and in recent years, a lot of war materials such as bows, logs, and stones have been stored, Jing Yue tried to attack, and as a result, he lost the lives of three soldiers and retreated.

At this time, there were more than 20 hundred households on the island, except for 6 hundred households to send the prisoners and heads back to land, the rest of the soldiers and horses had gathered at the foot of Yangyu Mountain, waiting for Shen Xi to issue an order for a general attack.

After going to the island, the men and horses of each battalion took the lead bravely, for fear that they would not be able to take credit for falling behind, but by now, each battalion has more or less gained.

In addition, the village in Yangyu Mountain was so steep and strong that no one took the initiative to ask for war at the pre-war mobilization meeting, and even Jing Yue, who seemed to be very reckless and eager to make contributions before, pretended to be stupid and stood aside without saying a word after encountering setbacks.

There is a steep slope almost two miles long down the Yangyu Cottage Gate, and it is difficult for artillery to be transported up, as long as the battle starts, the stones, rolling wood, and arrows on the mountain will come down together, and the heads of several battalions in front may suffer heavy losses.

According to Shen Xi's tolerable casualty ratio, in the end, it is estimated that no one will be rewarded, so he simply pretends to be deaf and dumb.

"My lord, the general thinks that he can find a small path to detour behind enemy lines, and then he will be on the way."

Recently, the limelight of Qianhu Sun Xi has almost been completely overshadowed by Jing Yue, and he began to talk about "cool words" at this time. Said to find some path, but the terrain around Yangyu Mountain has long been touched, except for the other few sides are cliffs in front of them, unable to enter the army, you have to climb from elsewhere, the stone falls from the top of the head and rolls down from the front of the effect is very different, one or two hundred meters high cliff encountered a rockfall, ten deaths.

Jing Yue said: "My lord, why don't you ...... Think long-term? Or you can slow down the pace of the attack, and slowly drive the steep road in front of the thief's cottage with wooden stakes in turn, and move forward step by step, so that even if there are rolling stones falling in front of you, they will be blocked by wooden stakes. ”

"Yes, Jing Vice Qianhu's proposal is very good!"

The generals were worried that the loss of their battalion was too great, and immediately followed Jing Yue's words, regardless of whether this strategy was feasible or not.

Shen Xi asked, "According to this plan, can you hit the mountain at the end of the year?" ”

"Uh......"

Jing Yue's face was ashamed, and he simply kept silent. He was not afraid of death, but he was not a reckless martial artist, he was familiar with the art of war, and knew that this kind of terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack was best used to use odds, or to delay the siege.

No matter how much grain is stored on the mountain, the energy consumption in a month cannot take half a year or even a year, and it will always make the thief army succumb.

But in Shen Xi's opinion, there is no need to wait for the thieves' stockade to run out of food, and the officers and soldiers will not be able to hold it first. Besides, the army has been stationed on a desert island for a long time, and it will not work at all.

Shen Xi looked at the topography map of Yangyu Mountain drawn before, and asked the generals present: "The Yangyu Mountain Bandit Village is built on the top of a mountain more than 60 zhang high, how to supply water?" ”

Zhu Hong had been a bandit before, and he had a general understanding of the situation in this kind of mountainous area, so he immediately explained: "My lord, there are usually springs on this densely wooded mountain, and since this group of thieves chose to build a cottage here, they must have considered the problem of water sources." I'm afraid it won't work to start with the water source. ”

"Oh." Shen Xi nodded, and asked again, "Then you used to live in the mountains, and how many springs do you need to drink for the people and animals in the village?" ”

Zhu Hong blinked and tried his best to recall: "It should ...... There are four springs, which are relatively ...... Scatter it out, but there are old water tanks that can be taken out to catch the rain on rainy days, or go down the mountain to pick up ......."

Speaking of which, many people quickly realized the crux of the matter.

Although there are springs on the mountain, it is simply unrealistic to use three or five springs to feed thousands of men, women and children in the cottage, especially now that it is the dry season, and many springs are dry.

Even if there are many water tanks prepared in the cottage to store water, the water in the cottage should be drastically reduced in the ten days that the officials and soldiers have landed on the island.

Shen Xi immediately ordered: "Find some older ones from among the captives, it is best to be greedy for life and fear death, call them for careful interrogation, and thoroughly investigate the situation of the water source in the thief village." ”

"Okay, my lord, let's go!" Jing Yue jumped out again, he was very keen on beating and scaring people.

Jing Yue went to the qualified captives for questioning, although others felt that this plan might not work, but it could be regarded as an extraordinary means in extraordinary times.

Sun Xinian reminded: "My lord, if the water tank in the thief's cottage exceeds the estimate, we can't beat it down for a month, and it is always not a way, it is better to ......"

Shen Xi didn't wait for Sun Xinian to finish speaking, and shouted: "Those who withdraw troops lightly will be disposed of in order to disturb the morale of the army, and behead!" ”

In a word, let Sun Xinian shut up obediently.

In fact, in the eyes of most of the officers and men in the army, this war has been fought, and the most important thing in the war is to obtain military merits and rewards, level Tai O and Nanao Mountain, kill about four or five hundred bandits and capture more than 1,000 Dingkou, and another tens of thousands of taels of silver captured, in the face of such a fruitful result of the bandits, it does not matter whether the last nail is pulled out, with the current results of the battle to the imperial court for reward, and then take out the captured silver and divide it equally.

This is very different from Shen Xi's strategy of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and Shen Xi will not tolerate the continued existence of a relatively threatening group of bandits.

If they make a small fuss, when the army of bandits leaves, these people are afraid of the soldiers and horses of the local guard station and the inspection department, and can only scatter birds and beasts, even if they still do the business of killing people and looting goods, they will no longer dare to blatantly go to the official roads and waterways to plunder.

But now the remaining gang of thieves is extremely strong, if they don't get rid of it once, they will be unscrupulous, and it won't take a year or two to resurrect, so that the northern Guangdong generation will be entrenched by bandits again, and the imperial court may have to send someone to preside over the bandit affairs again, and Shen Xi, who led the troops to level the bandits for the first time, may be angered by the emperor and the court.

The soldiers can go home after receiving the credit, but Shen Xi cannot.

Shen Xi is responsible for the results of his own banditry, which is also responsible for history and this era...... Finally did a meaningful thing for the people of the Ming Dynasty, if you can get by and return to the mountain, then the history books of later generations may not count people.

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After asking six or seven elderly islanders, the officials and soldiers finally understood the water source situation of the bandit village on Yangyu Mountain.

Shen Xi did not expect badly, there are indeed three springs on the mountain, but in the past, the mountain still needs to send people down the mountain to fetch water to meet the basic needs of life.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of water tanks purchased in the mountains, and there is no specific number of how much water can be stored, and it is not even easy to guess, because the islanders only know about their own situation, and the thieves on the island are doing their own thing, sweeping the snow in front of their own doors, who cares how much water can be stored in the water tanks in other villages?

Shen Xi roughly asked about the location of the three springs in the Yangyu Mountain Thief Village, and immediately made a decision that made all the soldiers present dumbfounded - digging up the water source!

Even those veterans in the army only occasionally heard of wells where water sources were dug, and they were usually accompanied by legends of ghosts and gods.

When encountering this kind of thing, the people usually need to ask someone to go back to do the law, kill chickens to reward the gods, or drive away ghosts and monsters, and so on.

Now Shen Xi actually said that he wanted to dig up the water source on the mountain, but no one knew how to dig it.

Everyone looked at Shen Xi with worship in their eyes, as if they were looking at a living immortal. Some people speculate in their hearts, could it be that Shen Xi knows how to be able to accurately calculate the location of the dragon veins on the island, and find someone to dig up the dragon veins, so the water source on Yangyu Mountain is cut off?

The soldiers all wanted to ask Shen Xi about the specific operation process, but they were afraid that it would be boring to talk about themselves, so the matter was arranged by Shen Xi, they only needed to obey orders, Shen Xi said that they would dig wherever they wanted, and it was very simple to do what they didn't need to use their brains.

That night, Shen Xi seemed to draw a few schematic diagrams of the direction of the "dragon vein", and then sat down, with a little interest, and buried himself in writing a log of the army.

"Master, are you really going to dig up the water source on the mountain tomorrow?"

Ma Jiu couldn't sleep, remembering the things of the coming day, so he came over to ask Shen Xi to see him.

Shen Xi glanced at Ma Jiu: "You treat me as an immortal, can you pinch it?" The source of groundwater is not so accurate even if it is calculated by a group of scientists with advanced instruments. ”

"What the master said, the little one doesn't understand it very well, then the master will ...... tomorrow" Ma Jiu looked confused.

Shen Xi has always done things imaginatively, but there is one logic that remains the same, that is, surprise. Shen Xi's occasional brilliant brushstrokes that seem to have no reason are based on some unbelievable preparations.

"Go back and rest, you have something to do tomorrow, sleep in peace, and do what I tell you tomorrow." After Shen Xi finished speaking, he had already stretched his waist and yawned, "I'm sleepy, let's disperse." After speaking, Shen Xi no longer paid attention to Ma Jiu, and went back to the camp to rest first.

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