But the banditry is getting more and more serious, especially the leader of the local riots on Bamiao Mountain, Guo Tianxing Liang Leopard, heard that Yang Lin became the chief of Luojiabao, and now he is training the soldiers and is even more annoyed and angry, and he sends his minions down the mountain to rob every once in a while, and his arrogance is very arrogant.

Less than half a month after the training, there were a series of incidents of theft and injury by local thugs in several villages near the direction of Yingshan.

Especially yesterday, more than a dozen local rioters wearing various masks approached the Wangjia Temple 20 miles away, and fought with the strong men guarding the village, injuring seven or eight villagers, and all the villages within a radius of more than ten miles fell into a panic for a while.

The team members in the nearby villages didn't have the heart to train at all, and asked to return to the village one by one, although they may not be able to stop the rioters, but at least they can be with their families.

Gathered the various squad leaders together, everyone gossiped, and some even cried bitterly.

Standing at the window and pondering for a long time, Yang Lin suddenly turned around and shook his head and said, "Everyone, the local tyrants didn't fall from the sky, they may not even be as good as the street ruffians."

Guys, let's make a sand table, I don't believe we can't find clues. ”

The sand table, is the terrain model, ancient China has long been, someone in the Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses found a large terrain model, Han Guangwu Emperor Fubo General Ma Yuan also used a simple sand table, but before the Republic of China, this sand table was rarely used on a large scale in modern warfare.

Everyone didn't understand it at first, and then when they heard that it was a terrain model, that is, a radius of forty or fifty miles from Luojiabao was outlined with soil, and they suddenly realized it one by one.

The members of the Li soldiers came from all nearby Lijia, and the terrain of the usual gathering to visit relatives and friends was quite familiar, so the two masons finally completed the production after half a day's effort.

On the sand table, the places where the local thugs and robbers appeared in various places were briefly linked, and the targets of the local thugs were mainly Xinhe, Fude and several other Lijia in the north.

The nearest distance from the old nest of the soil tyrant to the Xinhe is also twenty miles, and there are several courtyards in the middle, so it is impossible to run so far in one night to steal and plunder.

In this way, the local tyrants should have a foothold in the vicinity for more than ten miles, and during the day, they should send small workers to disguise themselves as passers-by, monks, humanitarians, and merchants to ask for information in various villages, and at night they will go out on a large scale to rob those rich families.

So where might the local tyrants settle down?

It is possible to have a radius of more than ten miles, the ancient land is vast and sparsely populated, there are hills everywhere, deep mountains and old forests are very easy to hide, there are few traces of people, there are at least ten or more places to hide people, and the most stupid way is of course to organize villagers to search the mountains.

But if the local thug hides in the dark, if he searches the mountains, he will definitely startle the snake, even if he is discovered, if the other party is limited to hold it, he will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

Looking at the sand table in front of him, everyone was gossiping, Yang Lin's eyes suddenly lit up, no matter where the local tyrant was, he had to go to Tiger Ditch, so why not come to an urn to catch turtles?

On this morning, Yang Lin announced that due to the rampant local violence, the training would be suspended, and the soldiers trained in Xinhe and Yinhan would return to the village for defense.

Let these strong men tell the village chief, patriarch, and squire to organize manpower to monitor the main intersections to guard against suspicious pedestrians, merchants, monks, Taoist priests, etc., to prevent the local tyrants from sneaking in.

Considering that the area is too large, it is recommended that the surrounding three or five villages implement joint prevention and control, and each mile and each village organizes manpower to patrol at night, and after discovering the whereabouts of the local rioters, they set fire to round up.

The soldiers who return to the village can disperse to the countryside during the day, and at night they need to be led by the team leader to support the nearby villages after discovering the whereabouts of the local thugs.

In order to support everyone to guard against the local rioters, Yang Lin led another five or six squads of soldiers to garrison a small mountain village ten miles away to support the attacked villages.

Hearing that they could go home to guard against the local rioters, everyone was quite happy, originally thought that they could go to the bazaar to participate in the soldiers to learn their skills, although there were also rewards, but the real skills were learned very little, in addition to walking the right step or walking the right step after a few days, many soldiers had already been impatient, and now they heard that they could go home and everyone was quite happy.

Long Zhijiao and seven or eight brothers in the village went first, everyone hurried all the way, one by one, they returned to their homes twenty miles away after half a day's effort, and the patriarch, who was feeling understaffed, was a little relieved when he saw these young people returning.

Three days ago, forty or fifty local thugs attacked the compound of the He family next to it, not only burning down two houses, killing and injuring four or five strong men, but also taking away the daughter-in-law of the old man He who had just married.

Asked if there were any suspicious strangers in the past few days, everyone shook their heads again and again with an oath, since a few days ago after hearing that the local rioters attacked the surrounding cottages, everyone was worried all day, and before going to bed at night, each household was equipped with shovels, hoes, axes, etc., and all the men came out with torches as soon as there was movement.

After asking for a long time with no result, Long Zhijiao returned home, drank two sips of herbal tea and was about to go down to the field to help with the work.

Although it is much more idle than when the farm is busy, the seedlings in the paddy fields need to be maintained, and everyone often goes to the seedling fields to work regardless of the scorching sun at noon in May.

Suddenly, I found that I had a small purse hanging on the head of my bed, and my mother claimed that it was given by a monk from Youfang a few days ago.

Unlike other monks, this one was very strange, slightly chubby, not skinny like other dervishes.

This monk is very particular about eating, does not eat everyone's leftovers, is not as docile as other monks, and often scolds people if he is not well entertained.

Monks should be kind to others, Long Zhijiao felt strange and decided to find out the situation, and asked four or five villagers how strange they felt.

When I asked about the nearby villages that had been attacked, many people had seen this monk before, and he did not live in people's homes at night, but came out of the ground during the day for no reason.

Ryu Zhijiao felt that something was wrong, and while asking everyone to prepare, he sent a brother to report.

In summer, the weather is hot, the days are long and the nights are short, the weather is very hot, standing high and looking far away, Long Zhijiao took two strong men from the village to keep vigil on the small hillside in front of the village entrance.

At first, they could talk softly, but in the middle of the night everyone was quite tired, and everyone was napping on the grass.

In a daze, he heard a noise in the distance, and hurriedly looked up, and found a cloud of black shadows rushing towards the entrance of the village.

As soon as his heart was tight, Long Zhijiao hurriedly asked the six children to ring the gong to call the police, and asked the three dogs to light the fire on the mountain to be in a hurry, while he hid on the side to disturb him.

The dense procession dragged on for a very long time, and they were quite surprised when they heard the sound of gongs and drums in front of them, and they stopped at the bottom of the hillside one by one, and some hurriedly lit torches.

Through the torches, I saw that these people looked quite panicked, and some even put masks on their faces, and in a moment everyone turned into beast-headed human bodies one by one, looking very terrifying and terrifying. Long Zhijiao took a sharp breath, took off the hard bow, took a heavy arrow, took a deep breath, and aimed it at the torch twenty meters away after it was full.

Qi Jiguang divided the archers into three levels in the chapter "School Long Shooting" in the "Record of Military Training", namely:

"Can pull the bow and shoot heavy arrows, and go flat, go far, and many, and the middle will be deep, this super shooter, can not be treated normally (that is, to be hired).

Shoot not far and flat, open a hard bow and send heavy arrows, and those who can hit are second-class.

Shoot far but not flat, the arrow is light and the bow is soft, and the third class is also. ”

And "the arrows of the Japanese people are not far away, and the arrows are heavy", that is, although the Japanese can not shoot far, they can shoot heavy arrows, so they can only be regarded as second-class archers.

And the dragon frame has been practicing martial arts since childhood, and he often contacted the hard bow in the past, and is famous for his bravery in the countryside, although he is not a first-class shooter, but his arm strength is amazing, and he can shoot two stone hard bows, which is a very good shooter.

Hearing only a scream, the thief fell to the ground, and everyone around was panicked, and everyone searched around with torches and horrors.

With a joy in his heart, Long Zhijian took a deep breath and bent the bow and shot the arrow again, although the thief's body moved, the arrow still passed in front of him, and the other party was shocked and screamed.

Everyone found out where the dragon frame was hiding and rushed over shouting.

The dragon frame walked on the side of the battle, turning back from time to time to release arrows, and the two sides went back and forth in the dark night, so they actually shot and injured two or three people on the other side.