Chapter 22: Abducting the Young Man (Part I)
According to Zhu Jun's orders, Li Ming's song, together with Zhu Yong's 100 relatives, a total of 500 people, set off the next day.
"Junhou, are you crazy? Five hundred against three thousand? The point is that we don't even have professional scouts! That night, as soon as Li Ming talked about this matter, Yang Le gave a strong opposition, and even Zhang Mo remained silent.
"You don't have faith in me, do you? Let's make it simple, you guys pick me out! If we win, we will set off, and if we lose, I will go to the general to ask for military law! Li Ming directly stated the conditions.
"Afraid of you?" Yang Le was immediately ready to move, and due to the problem of the venue earlier, it was inevitable that he would not be able to show it. If it's a real battle, God knows who will win and who will lose? It's a rare opportunity to be ashamed, and naturally you won't miss it.
At the instigation of Yang Le, in the end, except for Zhang Mo, Yang Le and the other four teams directly followed Li Ming to other places to compete. Thirty minutes later, he obediently followed behind Li Ming and announced the news of the next day's departure.
"Whoa!" The soldiers couldn't say anything, so they could only obediently accept their fate.
"I just want to ask, what are you afraid of?" Li Ming looked at their faces and immediately shouted, "The enemy is just a group of peasants who have taken up arms, but you are soldiers who are fully armed and even have some experience in war.
Not to mention that we can also recruit some children from good families to join the army on the way, and the team will eventually expand to 2,000 people. When the time comes, I will naturally be a lieutenant, so won't you be promoted?
If you defeat the Yellow Turban stragglers, it will be a military achievement! Not to mention those yellow turban thieves, it is inevitable that there will be some oil and water along the way...... Everyone is here to ask you, promotion and fortune are just around the corner, do you want to do it! ”
"It's done!" Zhang Mo gritted his teeth, he didn't have much choice anyway. Not to mention Li Ming's words, they really aroused his interest, or as long as he was a man, he couldn't keep silent about those words.
"What else! Yang is not a bad breed! Yang Le spat and immediately made up his mind.
As mentioned above, the next day, 500 people left the large army and began to advance in the direction of Jiaxian.
Passing by two townships, but the people seemed to have fled, and without the people, there would naturally be no soldiers, which made Li Mingkong have a cart of armor and food, but there were no soldiers who could be recruited, and his heart was suddenly unhappy.
"Don't look at it! When the Yellow Turban thieves cross the border, the people generally hide in the county seat or in the surrounding dock forts. They will not return to farming until safety is restored.
It's just that the Yellow Turban thieves just rebelled during the spring ploughing season, and once they enter a protracted war, this year's grain price will definitely have to be raised again, and I don't know how many people will be separated and displaced...... "Zhu Yong probably also saw what Li Ming meant, and stepped forward to say.
"The question is, how do we recruit troops according to this situation?" Li Ming was a little dissatisfied.
But he didn't want Zhang Mo and Yang Le to hear this, so he suddenly smiled "poof", maybe he felt embarrassed, covered his mouth and didn't look over, but he could still see their constantly shrugging shoulders from this angle.
"Do you really know what the concept of the so-called 'good family' is?" Zhu Yong was also speechless, "The so-called good family, first of all, must have a permanent property, which means that the homeless people and tenants cannot be regarded as the children of a good family." Especially the outcast, you don't know what his background is, in case it is a yellow turban thief pretending to be a riot at a critical moment, it will only make our army suffer a big defeat!
As for the radius of a hundred miles, most of them are actually fields under a certain dock fort. Most of these people are tenants of large families, and they can't say that the deed of sale is in the hands of others, can you conscript this kind of person into the army? ”
"A hundred miles? Have they all been bought by big families? That...... Can't these people even have a piece of land of their own? Li Ming couldn't believe the situation.
"In the nearly 400 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, almost all the fields in the Central Plains, Sizhou and Hebei have been acquired by large households. How many people will have their own land? Or find a way to go to Bashu, Jiangnan, Jingnan and Youzhou!
These places are either often plagued by barbarian people, or they are too wild...... Who doesn't love the flower world of the Central Plains? Whoever goes to those places unless they really can't survive? Zhu Yong said helplessly.
"It's all the eunuch's fault?" Li Ming immediately thought.
"A must! It can only be the eunuch's fault! Zhu Yong expressed his support.
"How do you feel like you have something to say?" Li Ming immediately stood up to Zhu Yong, only feeling that this guy was hiding something from him.
"See Dock Fort! Originally, the government did not allow such a dock fort village, but in recent years, local people have been in turmoil, so that the control over this aspect has become weaker and weaker. In order to protect their property, large families have gradually set up soldiers and built such dock forts or stockades.
Aren't you going to be drafted? You only need to explain your intention to the owner of the dock fort, and you can't say that there are hundreds of soldiers! Zhu Yong pointed to a dock fort on the horizon and said.
"Don't you say that you can only recruit good children? How can you recruit hundreds of people there? Li Ming was a little puzzled.
"Hey!" Zhu Yong really didn't know how to say it, and Li Ming didn't know anything, "As long as you can say that your children can enlist in the army, then there will naturally be three or five hundred family soldiers to accompany you." These families have large families as guarantees, so they can naturally be regarded as good families. ”
Li Ming suddenly realized that he immediately stepped forward. Although he was not yet a lieutenant at the moment, Zhu Jun still sent out two batches of military horses and distributed them to Li Ming and Zhu Yong. Zhu Yong taught for half an hour, and Li Ming reluctantly learned a new passive skill:
Riding LV1: Increases horse speed by 20% and falls by 90%.
It is said to increase the speed by 20%, but in fact it is based on the slow walking of horses. After improving, he can barely trot, and if he is faster, he will be out of the control of the skill, and then Li Ming will fall directly from the horse.
Rao is like this, for Zhu Yong, Li Ming's learning speed is still so demonic! Yes, in Zhu Yong's eyes, Li Ming's talent is no longer a genius, but more like a demon!
Not to mention anything else, when he was fighting in a group yesterday, he discovered that this time he actually fused Huwei marksmanship and wolf tooth protrusion into a new martial art. It was this martial art that made Yang Le and the others very embarrassed. It can be seen that Li Ming has just successfully fused this martial art, but this talent can no longer be described as shocking!
However, when it comes to riding, Li Ming can't compare to Zhu Yong, and he was chased after him in three or two clicks. But at this time, Li Ming had already come to the bottom of the dock fort. Directly above, above the watchtower and the arrow tower, there were already people with bows and arrows, as if they were about to shoot.
"Don't shoot! We are the right Zhonglang general Zhu Jun's subordinate department, and we are about to go to Jiaxian to crusade against the Yellow Turban Thief! Passing by the castle by chance is not meant to disturb! Zhu Yong knew that Li Ming didn't understand the rules, so he immediately stepped forward and shouted.
On the watchtower, a middle-aged man in a Confucian robe heard this, thought about it and raised his hand directly, and all the soldiers immediately put down the bows and arrows in their hands. Then he clasped his hands into fists, saluted Li Ming, and said with a smile: "It turned out that he was the king of thieves, and Xin was disrespectful!" ”
Beside the middle-aged man, there were two young people, looking curiously at Li Ming and Zhu Yong, as well as the troops behind them!