Zhang Qingping elaborated on his experience of leading troops during this period, especially leading people to clear out the two bandit nests not long ago.

Zhang Qingping spoke seriously, and the owner of the village and Fang Weiliang listened more seriously.

“…… So in my opinion, how do newcomers and old people regard each other as siblings? Only killing the enemy together, bleeding together, wounding together, and so on are all trivial. ”

"Armor is not only useful in battle, but it also makes the cowardly sergeant brave and fearless, and the latter is even more terrifying. I saw with my own eyes that a soldier wearing bamboo paper armor was injured the same as a soldier who was not wearing it, but the soldier wearing bamboo paper armor felt that his injuries were nothing. ”

After Zhang Qingping finished speaking, he clenched his fists and retreated, and waited to the side.

Li Xiang combined Zhang Qingping's detailed narration, his own actual combat experience, and the combat experience of his subordinates and protégés, and came to two credible conclusions: first, recruits and veterans can quickly integrate in battle, and second, the role of armor is not only to block arrows and slash.

In order for recruits and veterans to cooperate with each other on the battlefield, it is necessary to put a lot of effort into tactics and military regulations, and also to provide more guidance in peacetime training.

Only on the battlefield, when recruits and veterans can cooperate effectively to kill the enemy and increase the chances of each other's survival, can recruits and veterans accelerate their integration.

No matter how bad the armor is, it can give the soldier a psychological advantage. In the case of bamboo paper armor, the arrows you see when you put on armor are completely different from the arrows you see when you don't wear armor. Armored soldiers are much less likely to panic when faced with a rain of arrows.

This is especially true in melee combat, before considering how bad their armor is, the armored soldiers will first give themselves a psychological foundation of "Lao Tzu has armor", and when it comes to attacking, the momentum will naturally be different.

The fusion of the old and the new, the supremacy of armor, these two experiences were firmly remembered by Li Xiang.

Thinking about the enemies he might encounter in the future, Li Xiang suddenly thought of a person, and said with a smile: "That Liu Xia is really interesting, the owner of this village thought that he would always be nailed to the south bank of the Xiaohe River, and dominate a small half of the original Mingyuezhuang land and not let go." ”

Zhang Qingping was very curious about Liu Xiadu's acceptance of reconciliation, taking the initiative to leave Mingyuezhuang, and returning all the land on the south bank of the Xiaohe River.

I only heard Fang Weiliang say: "Li Mengkong and Zhang Wanli do have the means, they specifically stared at the money bag, and they made Liu Xiadu and his grandfather succumb so quickly." ”

"The seven families surnamed Liu, led by Liu Xiadu, completely took refuge in some energetic people, turned themselves into nails, and nailed them to our eyelids. However, Gongzhong quickly reconciled with the land-sitting households of Xunyang and Shiyan on the surface, and then launched the exclusion of the seven households surnamed Liu and some people, and no one said anything. ”

The owner of the village was merciful, and as long as the seven families surnamed Liu accepted the reconciliation, he would fund them to establish a foothold in Danjiangkou, Nanyang, Xiangyang and other places to help them reopen their workshops. Liu Xiadu and his grandfather stayed on the south bank of the empty Xiaohe River again, and they were all panicked. ”

"If you can live a decent life, no one will have no scruples like a broken household, and the surname Liu of the seven households is finally in the past. The owner of the village behaves very humanly and admires it. ”

Zhang Qingping listened beside him, and shouted the word "service" to the owner again in his heart. is still the owner of the high realm, directly pick up the money and smash people away!

Li Xiang didn't have much smugness, "The owner of this village hopes that there will never be seven households surnamed Liu eating inside and out, after all, they are relatives of Su Su and Lao Taishan." ”

Fang Weiliang was not familiar with the future owner's wife, and he had never met before, so he didn't dare to answer the conversation.

Zhang Qingping seized the opportunity, "Su Su Niangzi will only focus on the owner of the village, and will not pay much attention to the seven households surnamed Liu." What's more, the owner of the village has given enough of those people, and people's hearts are flesh and blood, so I don't believe who will chew the root of the tongue. ”

Li Xiang smiled silently: Hehe, in this world, especially in the hot yellow earth, there will never be a shortage of people who chew the root of their tongue.

In the Great Zhou, Niangzi is a very widely used daily title, and unmarried women are called "Niangzi" or "Little Lady" every day. So many people call Liu Susu a lady, and Li Xiang can only endure it, but fortunately, he doesn't need to endure it for long.

Fang Weiliang arched his hand and said: "The owner's wedding date is set for the fifth day of the sixth month, and there is less than three months left, so I would like to congratulate you first." ”

Zhang Qingping and dozens of guards distributed along the ridgeline congratulated the owner of the village.

Li Xiang accepted it with a smile, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart: Lord Yuezhang was rescued, the wedding date was approaching, and he was finally going to take the most important step in his life in Da Zhou.

What if the situation in Jiangnan is not settled? Phew, is it important to exterminate Fang La, or is it important to get married? Even if Yongle Chao is still fighting with Da Zhou at that time, he will have to run back to tie the knot first, Li Xiang said secretly ruthlessly.

"Staring at the area around Tiger Pond in the north, there is a problem with epidemic prevention, notify me immediately." When Li Xiang went downhill, he told Fang Weiliangdao.

Before noon the next day, there was an accident around Tiger Pond. Fortunately, Liu Yuan and Liu Sheng were present, and there was no big mess.

The cause of the incident was very simple, and it did not exceed the expectations of the owner: there were several soldiers of Liu Chengdong's department, who were nervous about contracting the epidemic and did not want to accept some quarantine orders, so they had a quarrel with the medical and health department Lang Zhong dressed as a village soldier.

Liu Yuan beat up a few soldiers who were making trouble and reprimanded them for wanting to kill everyone. Old man Zhang, who had just arrived at the edge of the Tiger Pond, stepped forward and once again emphasized how the epidemic was spreading, and advised all soldiers to obey the order.

As for the sour words of a soldier who did not choose to speak, indicating that the children of Yuezhuang had preferential treatment in medicine, food, accommodation, etc., they were naturally suppressed by Liu Yuan and Old Man Zhang.

One eye was staring at Tiger Pond, and the other eye was always guarding against Fang Tianding's annoyance, Li Xiang's nerves were tense.

On the afternoon of March 17, Fang Tianding, who was stationed in Deqing County, finally learned of the forces that Li Xiang had used to fight several battles with him: at most, it was no more than 600 men!

Fang Tianding was furious, the feeling of being played by Li Xiang almost made him lose his mind. Two thousand orphan troops, two thousand Ying Ming troops with medium combat strength, and one thousand elites who were selected and concentrated by Fang Tianding and had just begun to strengthen training, a total of more than 5,000 people stepped into the mountains and forests.

Li Xiang, who received the news, breathed a sigh of relief. It's good to have definite news, Li Xiang is most afraid that there will be no news from Fang Tianding, which will make people worry.

The battle that took place on 17 March was not worth the expense, because Li Xiang, Xiong Dachun, and Yang Yingdong relied on their geographical advantages and ordnance advantages to block the large-scale attack of the 5,000-square-meter army.

At that time, there were nearly 1,500 people in Liu Chengdong's department, plus nearly 700 Li Xiang's subordinates who recovered their physical strength and combat strength, as well as the three Great Zhou Instrument Armies that operated the vehicle-mounted bed crossbow, the kicking crossbow, and the firearms, and it was certainly not a problem to block Fang Tianding's hateful blow.

Fang Tianding knew very well that the cost of fighting in the mountains and forests was far greater than that of the flat land, so he began to harass and attack the two defensive points of the Great Zhou army, Meihuawu and Shangyao, without interruption. It not only consumes the materials of the Great Zhou army, but also trains the troops of the Yongle Dynasty.

Li Xiang also adjusted his tactics and began to deliberately train his subordinates. Soon, Liu Chengdong, who re-intervened in command, also adjusted his tactics.

Before late March, a series of low-intensity battles began in the mountains and forests north of Deqing County.

After his subordinates regained their combat strength, Li Xiang no longer needed to take them to frequent hand-to-hand combat.

It happened that the arrow workshop in Xiwangmiao was put into production, and the first batch of arrows was also sent to the front line, so Li Xiang once again studied the straight bow combat method.

The mountains and forests were originally not suitable for a large number of straight archers to fight in formation, but the attacking side was the Yongle Dynasty, which made Li Xiang's tactics of using the straight bow squad to defend key positions become a reality.

Ding Shihang, Da Niu, San Yanzi, Zhang Yongnian and others marked several places in advance, and when the Fang La army passed through that area, they used the rain of arrows from above to attack, and then took advantage of the chaotic formation of the Fang La army to collect the arrows.

The cost of shooting arrows from the sky is terrifying, and the cost is enormous.

Stop, stop.

On March 20, Li Xiang finally met with the officials who came to reinforce him, Wang Xiaochen and others, and confirmed a piece of news from them:

Yu Yunwen led more than 30,000 Great Zhou troops and arrived in Wuhu on March 17! With the addition of auxiliary soldiers, young men and people, the more than 50,000 people carried by the official and military fleets did not all stay in Wuhu, but some of them were stationed in the three cities of Tongling, Chizhou and Anqing.