Chapter Sixty-Six: The First Battle of the Bandits Won
After solving a few bandits, Liu Shi's heart relaxed a lot, although the most difficult bandits have not been solved, but after all, there is a good start. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Liu Shi's strategy was to persuade the Lantian bandits, annihilate the Yellow Skin Division, and prevent Peng Tuo's Division.
Although this Peng Tuobu was in Shang County, in addition to forcing the government to pay taxes on time and robbing official grain and silver, it did not harass the ordinary people, but also protected them from other bandits. And the address is very mysterious, and most people don't know where they live. It is said that there are at least three nests, which is also a headache for Liu Shi, so he has to take his time.
In a blink of an eye, Liu Shi has been in charge of Shang County for four months, and after four months of integration and training, the original scattered guard battalion of the Wuwu Guandao has basically become an army, and it is no longer divided into Xiongnu prisoners, mountain thief prisoners, Zhuoxian soldiers, and Shang soldiers.
After several months of training and well-fed, these people's bodies have recovered, they have begun to take on the true colors of the army, and they are familiar with the basic battle formations, and they can be pulled out and used.
In addition to these, Liu Shi also cultivated other followers in the past few months, first recruiting nearly 500 teenagers, aged fourteen to eighteen. These people Liu Shi planned to carry out key training, and practiced strength, skills, marksmanship, sword, archery, and equestrian skills every day. He thinks that once the task of clearing and suppressing bandits in Wuguan Dao is completed, maybe the Son of Heaven will give him the position of Captain of Wuguan Dao after giving him Tinghou.
However, Shang Yu is located in the middle of the mountains and bad waters, and intersects with Nanyang and Yingchuan, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion is still difficult to quell in these places, and it is uncertain when another bandit will run in. At that time, the county soldiers, who were only a few hundred people, were not sure to resist, and these hundreds of teenagers who were proficient in martial arts were his killer weapon.
There are not many soldiers, but they are fine, this is what the soldier saint Sun Wuzi said.
In addition, in order to reduce casualties, Liu Shi specially asked Su Shuang to invite Zheng Tong, who is proficient in the art of kit kat from other places, it is said that this person's skills have been passed down from his family, and he is the best at making crossbow arrows, with the cooperation of Xiang Xiong, several sets of strong crossbows have been produced, and the effect is very good, the range can reach one hundred and fifty zhang, which is twice as far as the range of ordinary bows and arrows.
Liu Shi also selected dozens of people who were good at archery from the original Xiongnu and bandit groups, and handed them over to Cao Xing to teach, specializing in long-range warfare.
In order to overcome the shortcomings of the back-attack, Liu Shi asked Zheng Tong and Xiang Xiong to build a few simple building cars, about ten zhang high, so that the crossbow or archer could stand on the building car and shoot at the wall of the cottage, so as to suppress the defense of the bandits and become a sharp weapon to capture the bandits, and no longer worry about the military taboo of the back-attack.
With all his preparations, Liu Shi began to plan to capture the last group of bandits at the junction of the Lantian Realm and the Shang Realm.
Liu Shi's idea is to make it easy first and then difficult, and Peng Debu's strength is strong and there are many people. The yellow skin department, the mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it must be calculated.
On this day, Liu Zhen walked in, "Childe! The Ministry of Classics has already set off. Are you really going to attack? ”
Liu Shi nodded and said, "Don't wait for me!" The Son of Heaven has set a limit of two years to clear the bandits, and within one year to ensure the smooth flow of goods, grain and grass in the Wuguan Road, and now five months have passed. But we can't bear this man's chewing. You know that better than I do.
And the Son of Heaven personally promised me that as long as the Wuguandao bandits were cleared within two years, I would include the Liu family of Liu Zhuang in Zhuo County into the royal family genealogy and restore the title of my ancestors. It's a rare opportunity, and I have to work hard. This is the wish of generations of our ancestors. ”
Liu Zhen said excitedly: "What a joy it is to think that the last wish of the ancestors should be fulfilled in the hands of the son!" But this Phoenix thief ----。 Either I'll go, and Childe will defend the city. ”
Liu Shi said with a smile: "This defending the city is not a simple matter, after I take away the battalion soldiers and county soldiers, you have to be careful that Peng Tuo's department comes to sneak attack, and the yellow leather department should also be careful, don't let us attack the thieves, but your lair is occupied by thieves, which is laughing to death."
Without food and drink, the battalion of nearly 2,000 people will disperse immediately, and if the task of the Son of Heaven cannot be completed, we will definitely be impeached by the ministers, and then we may be difficult to turn over. Be especially careful that there are people in the city who should cooperate with the bandits, release more external stabs, and notify me in time if there is a situation. If the Yellow Skin Department dares to come, let him have no return. Liu Shi said fiercely when he said the last sentence.
"Childe! I'm going to hold on. You can rest assured! Liu Zhen said.
"Good! I'm ready to go, too. Liu Shi got up and walked away.
"Did the bandits escape?". At this time, Liu Shi had already come to the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, looked up at the mountain and asked Dian Wei
"No, they have all retreated into the cottage, and now all the exits of the cottage are guarded by us. Son! Give the order to attack the mountain! I'll lead the team. Dian Wei said.
"I know your bravery, but I can't attack the mountain in a hurry, has the archery team led by Cao Xing found a suitable place?" Liu Shidao.
Dian Wei smiled bitterly: "The terrain of Phoenix Mountain is dangerous, bows and arrows can't be shot, crossbow arrows are still a little useful, but the accuracy is much worse, Chengren plans to let the archers directly suppress the bandits at close range by my side when I attack the mountain." ”
Liu Shi frowned, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that we still think about the situation of attacking the mountain too well." ”
Then he thought for a while and said: "When attacking the mountain, you and Chengren attacked in two places, and each sent ten archers to guard it. Distracting the bandits can only be seen as the effect of the warriors now. ”
Dian Wei said: "Are these boys okay? When I was asked to go up, you didn't agree. ”
Liu Shidao: "The martial arts of these dozens of people selected are only more than ten generals, but I don't know if they can go up the mountain smoothly!" By the time, it is now to the cottage. Besides, you are the main force attacking the mountain, who did you go to lead people to attack the mountain? Let's all go and wait! Or you can try to attack first to attract the attention of the bandits, so as to avoid the warriors being discovered by the bandits as soon as possible. Also, let me know when you notice movement on the mountain. ”
Gao Shun said: "Cheng Shan is observing on the side mountain?" ”
"Good! Go ahead and get ready! Take it as soon as possible, otherwise the real brother will write a letter, and we will have to go back. Liu Shidao.
Dian Wei and Gao Shun each led dozens or hundreds of warriors in armor to attack Phoenix Mountain, and the drums were bursting, urging people to be brave. The bandits on the mountain were already standing on the mountain wall, and when they saw the Dian Wei attacking, they kept throwing the stones and sticks in their hands down.
At this time, Shi Jian took fifty teenagers to the foot of Phoenix Mountain since last night, rested for two hours, and walked all the way up and zigzag at dawn under the leadership of three teenagers who were familiar with the terrain. From time to time, they climbed with ropes, but fortunately, these teenagers were all extraordinary, and soon came to the bottom of the wall. Because this side is extremely steep and difficult, the bandits did not send someone to guard it, Shi Jian threw the rope in his hand up, a few claws seemed to hook an object, and pulled it lightly with his hand, his heart sank, "Can't bear the weight?" This wall is too bad! Shi Jian scolded secretly.
At this time, I happened to hear the sound of shouting and killing, and the attack on the mountain began.
In a hurry, he threw out a climbing paw again, put the two ropes together, and swept his eyes to find the lightest boy.
The young man's heart was overjoyed, and he immediately grabbed the rope with both hands like a monkey, gently took it, and then jumped upward, just halfway through, a rope was loosened, and the young man sank down, so frightened that Shi Lian tightened.
Seeing that the boy only stopped, he continued to climb up.
I had just climbed the wall when I heard someone shouting, "Who? ”
The boy rolled on the spot and fell off the wall.
Shi Jian was in a hurry, grabbed the rope and climbed up, and as soon as he got up to the wall, he saw two thieves walking towards the wall, Shi Jian threw two flying knives in his hand, and with two muffled snorts, the two thieves fell to the ground.
At this time, Shi Jian looked down and saw that the young man was rolling at the foot of the wall, holding a rope in his hand. Shi Jian nodded secretly.
Shi Lian suddenly appeared in the cottage, causing the thieves to panic, Shi Lian took the opportunity to kill the gate of the village, these teenagers are all like tigers, and it is Liu Shi who Pei specially ordered a hundred ring hand knives for them, extremely sharp, these thieves are opponents, and they have avoided them.
Dian Wei attacked the cottage under the response of Shi Lian. After the clean-up, most of them were captured, except for a few who escaped.
Liu Shi exhaled softly, looking at these so-called bandits with yellow faces and thin muscles and unclothed bodies, he felt sympathetic and hateful, it was these people who cut off the business travel on Wuguan Road.
With a wave of his hand, "Bring it back." ”