Chapter 525: Expand Armaments and Defend Against Tartars!

In the midst of the gunfire, the night passed, and the morning came. The morning light slowly tore through the darkness in the mountains, and the visibility in the mountains gradually improved. Then, the sun crept up to the sky, shining a warm sunshine. The autumn sun is always so popular.

After watching Liu Xing on the big tree all night, I felt that my eyes couldn't be opened. Last night, he was nervous and didn't sleep all night. It wasn't until it was almost dawn that he closed his eyes in a daze, and he was worried about falling from the tree, so he had to try his best to lift his spirits and hold the trunk in his arms. The sun came out, the sun was dazzling, and he had to slide down from the tree.

The birds that were frightened last night are now flying in the morning, squeaking and chirping happily. Some of them also fluttered and landed on the branches next to Liu Xing, not afraid of people at all. Liu Xing had to sigh, what a rare morning! Such a beautiful morning, the perfect for an outing. I'm afraid no one would have thought that in the woods, there were still many corpses of horse thieves.

Zhang Zhun seemed to be really asleep, and he didn't say anything all night. It wasn't until dawn that I slowly opened my eyes. After the gunfire stopped completely, the mountains and forests seemed unusually calm. Sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves, creating large and small circles of light on the ground, which is strange. Looking up at the sky, through the layers of leaves, it seems that you can see strings of sunlight.

"Morning!"

Zhang Zhun stretched comfortably and greeted Liu Xing, who had just slipped down from the tree. If there is an insider here, you will find that Zhang Zhun is in a very good mood.

"Good morning, sir!"

Liu Xing said with great admiration.

After last night's battle, he had truly seen the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army. Before, he was worried that the horse thieves would rush to the camp, and felt that Zhang Zhun's arrangement was very risky. It turned out that the horse thieves hit the muzzle of the Tiger Army, and they were simply sent to death. I didn't see through Zhang Zhun's arrangement, and the horse thief didn't see through it either.

Actually, last night's battle was not fierce, and it felt like scattered cold guns. The Tiger Army lurked in the woods, shooting incessantly. However, it was in such cold guns that the horse thieves were killed one after another. Due to the large number of casualties, the horse thieves had to retreat in the second half of the night.

"My lord, the horse thieves have retreated."

Shangguan squeezed the bones and came to report.

"Well, count the casualties of the horse thieves, and the number of horses."

Zhang Zhun said casually.

Then he walked to the stream, washed his face with the clear water, and then did a little exercise to refresh himself. At this time, Brother Wei had already made breakfast. The so-called breakfast is actually porridge. Zhang Zhun and the soldiers of the sniper detachment, as well as Liu Xing, ate pickles. Liu Xing was in a good mood, ate several bowls of porridge in one go, and ate all the remaining porridge.

Liu Mang said in a low voice: "Brother, I told you, the horse thief is not in the way, you don't believe it." ”

Liu Xing said convincingly: "I really know how powerful you are now." No wonder you can even pack up the tartars. In the future, no matter what enemy I encounter, if I am a little nervous, I will be raised by a bitch. ”

Everyone around laughed.

Soon, Shangguan Squeezed Bone came over to report the results of the battle.

Around the battlefield, the Tiger Ben Army found a total of 362 corpses of horse thieves, and there were no wounded...... The wounded have become dead. A total of eighty-one horses were captured.

"Eighty-one horses ......"

Zhang Zhun said with a deep groan.

This number, apparently some distance from his goal. He was counting on half of the horses he had captured. However, it is better to have than not to have. These war horses of the horse thieves of Wulian Mountain will definitely not be able to escape. The war horse is in hand, it is only a matter of time.

After breakfast, the soldiers of the Tiger Army buried the body of the horse thief simply, and rested peacefully in the camp for a day, recovering from the fatigue of fighting and staying up late, and by the way, summed up the experience of jungle fighting, and rested for another night, and then took the captured war horse on the road.

With the assistance of more than 80 war horses, the burden of the soldiers has been greatly reduced, and a lot of equipment can be handed over to the war horses for transportation. Anyway, on such a mountain path, people riding on horseback are really not very comfortable. Because the trees around the path are taller than a person's head, there is no problem for a person to get underneath, but if you ride on horseback, the branches will sweep directly to your eyes. Even Zhang Zhun himself continued to walk.

Along the way, there were no more horse thieves. It may be that the horse thief has been scared, and when he sees the tiger army, he hides far away. Dugu Hunt walked in front of them to open the way, and the gestures they made back were all safe. In one night's battle, hundreds of people died, and even the fiercest horse thieves could not afford to be injured.

Liu Xing couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the Tiger Army is the Tiger Army, and Zhang Zhun is Zhang Zhun, and he easily ate the horse thieves of Wulian Mountain to death. One night of fighting, well, to be precise, only half a night of fighting, actually eliminated more than three hundred and sixty horse thieves, no wonder the horse thieves had to hide far away. If you come to trouble the Tiger Ben Army again, isn't that looking for death?

What made Liu Xing even more emotional was that after eliminating so many horse thieves, Zhang Zhun had no intention of dragging the body of the horse thief to Andong City to show the public, as if the whole thing was insignificant at all. If you change to another army and eliminate three or four hundred horse thieves, it will definitely be regarded as a great achievement, and you must show it off. Not to mention anything else, the head of this horse thief must be taken back to Andong City to invite merit.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of vision. The Tiger Ben army was in Huang County, and they wiped out three or four thousand Tartars in one go. Compared to the Tartars, such a horse thief is nothing at all. Zhang Zhun wasn't even ready to ask for the head of the Tartar, let alone the head of some horse thieves. Perhaps, in his eyes, these horse thieves are not even qualified to carry his shoes.

Witnessing the strength of the Tiger Army, the heavy burden in Liu Xing's heart was suddenly lifted, and the whole person became relaxed. As a guide, it is naturally extra hardworking. Without the horse thieves to stop them, the Tiger Ben Army's marching speed was still relatively fast. By the afternoon of the third day, the crossroads town appeared in Zhang Zhun's clairvoyant mirror.

"My lord, Crossroads is empty."

Dugu Hunt, who was in charge of the investigation, came back and reported.

"Are there any signs of thieves?"

Zhang Zhun asked casually.

"Not yet."

Dugu Hunt replied.

"Then let's garrison Crossroads Town!"

Zhang Zhun said casually.

Dugu Hunt agreed.

Soon, Zhang Zhun and the others entered Crossroads Town.

The entire town of Crossroads is indeed empty. All the houses have been burned down. At a glance, there are only charred and blackened ruins. All the wells were poisoned. Even the nearby streams were dumped with a large amount of livestock manure, apparently to disgust the Tiger Army. It seems that these horse thieves are still very decisive and do not leave anything useful for Zhang Zhun. However, this also strengthened Zhang Zhun's determination to suppress bandits. The Tiger Ben Army can even clean up the Tartars, but can't clean up some horse thieves?

In fact, from the perspective of military training, it is a good way to eliminate horse thieves. The organization, discipline, and coordination of the horse thieves are far inferior to the tiger army, which has a strict organization and advanced weapons, and its combat effectiveness is not at all the same. A small squad of Tiger Ben can completely fight against two or three hundred horse thieves. The new fighters of the Tiger Army, as long as they have participated in real actual combat, will mature a lot faster.

Of course, the matter of suppressing bandits takes a long time, and it is impossible to eliminate all horse thieves in a short period of time. Therefore, Zhang Zhun will not personally participate in the operation to exterminate the horse thieves. He has more important things to deal with. Just leave this matter to Yin Fengyi. Yin Fengyi's nickname is Scud, the Shenxing Taibao, which is used to chase bandits, which is the most suitable.

Of course, sufficient troops must be equipped.

According to Zhang Zhun's order, the Minzi battalion will gradually expand to five associations, with a total strength of about 1,600 people. Such a force is enough to protect the safety of Anton Guard. Whether it is a horse thief or an officer or soldier, as long as they dare to attack and disturb, they will be attacked head-on by the Tiger Ben Army. In other words, since the current Anton Wei has fallen into Zhang Zhun's hands, it is absolutely impossible to spit it out again.

As for Zhang Zhun himself, he made a detailed investigation of Crossroads Town to confirm whether this is Junan County in the future. Two days later, Zhang Zheng believed that this was indeed the future Junan County. Around Crossroads Town, there are a lot of graphite, quartz sand, granite and other resources, as well as a small number of local residents, sporadically planting some peanuts.

Topographically, the area around Crossroads is a good basin. Just go through some rugged areas of Wulian Mountain to enter this basin. From a military point of view, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. Isn't this the case in the Shuzhong Basin? It is no wonder that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army had to set up a headquarters here. When facing strong enemies, this is indeed a good place!

Zhang Zhun focused on inspecting the cultivated land here. In this basin, it takes a little effort to cultivate one million acres of cultivated land. However, there is no problem at all in cultivating 7.8 million mu of land. If it weren't for the fact that the horse thieves didn't know how to produce and didn't know how to be self-reliant, otherwise, it would be absolutely no problem for a small basin to really develop and feed tens of thousands of people. Junan County in later generations had a population of 1 million.

"From now on, this place will be called Junan County."

Zhang Zhun decided to upgrade the town of Crossroads by one level and directly turn it into a county level.

At present, there are too few people settled in Junan County, and there is a serious shortage of labor, the main reason is that it is still threatened by horse thieves. As long as the Tiger Ben Army exterminates all the horse thieves in Wulian Mountain, there should be no small number of people who are willing to move here. On Anton Wei's side, each person only has three acres of land. If you are willing to move to Junan County, each person can get ten acres. Such a standard will definitely be tempted by many military households.

In order to exterminate all the horse thieves and ensure the safety of Junan County, the Tiger Ben Army must be stationed here for a long time. In order to meet the needs of the expanding territory, and to take into account the third invasion that the Tartars could launch at any time. According to Zhang Zhun's order, the Huben Army will expand the army into three battalions, all of which will be composed of three associations, and the strength of each battalion will be about 900 people. The numbers are the Qizi Battalion, the Renzi Battalion, and the Taozi Battalion, and the commanders are Li Jiaxi, Zhang Yatie, and Wu Xinshui. These three people are also the old men next to Zhang Zhun.

At the same time, the other battalions of the Tiger Army, which were less than three associations, were all expanded into three associations, and their respective strength was increased to more than 900 people. After such an expansion, the Huben Army will have thirteen battalions with a total strength of more than 15,000 troops. With such troops, even in a face-to-face battle with the Tartars, they can hold out for a while.

The Junan County garrison must be quite powerful. It not only wants to ensure the safety of Junan County, but also cooperates with the Minzi Battalion to recover the thieves. At the same time, it is also necessary to actively help local residents to carry out the work of reclamation of wasteland. Due to the special topography of Junan County, it has to withstand pressure from Qingzhou Mansion, Yanzhou Prefecture and Huai'an Prefecture. Therefore, commanders must have a strong mental quality and the ability to handle things flexibly and proactively.

Zhang Zhun finally decided that Wu Qingliang would lead the Gangzi battalion to garrison here. Wu Qingliang's troops, originally stationed in Changyi, have always been the front line against the Ming army. Wu Qingliang paid close attention to the training of the troops. According to Zhang Zhun's judgment, the combat effectiveness of the Gangzi battalion is very strong, and the mood for war is also very high.

Wu Qingliang himself is the first team leader outside the eight-person Thornfish Squad, and the first battalion commander outside the eight-person Thornfish Squad. When Yang Qianqiang, Yang Hongwen and others had not yet become the team, Wu Qingliang was already the team. It's not for nothing that they can overwhelm the original veteran players and become the most eye-catching rising star. His overall quality, among the officers under Zhang Zhun, can be stably ranked in the top five. Now, it is most suitable for him to garrison Junan County.

It takes a lot of time to expand and mobilize troops. The Tiger Army has never been short of soldiers. What is lacking is an adequate transport fleet. The transportation task on the side of Weihai Weijun Port is equally heavy. It was impossible to pull out a large number of ships and transport personnel and equipment to Antonwei in a short time, so it was not until late September that all the troops of the Tiger Army were in place.

Yin Fengyi and Wu Qingliang set up a joint command for suppressing bandits. In accordance with Zhang Zhun's suggestion, they dispatched the most elite fighters and set up 15 capable bandit suppression squads and put them in Wulian Mountain. As long as he finds the trace of the horse thief, he will bite down hard and stalk until he annihilates the other party. This method of suppressing bandits has proved to be the most effective. There is a detailed description in "Lin Hai Snow Field". As long as the horse thief is touched by the Tiger Army, he will not escape the fate of destruction.