Li Yao assigned official positions to all the people present, and said: "Your official position is not permanent, you will be rewarded for doing well, and punished for not doing well, if someone is a corrupt official, once it is found out, it will not be forgiven!" ”

Seeing that everyone did not object, Li Yao smiled and said: "Let us drink this cup of wine, and then contribute to the prosperity of the three northern counties!" ”

Li Yao didn't know the talent of these people at all, but there were no vain people under the fame, Li Yao believed that they would not be people with no ink, so Li Yao planned to use these people first, and look at the situation, if they were suitable for doing, they would do it, and if they were not suitable for it, they would be removed.

Li Yao counted the number of days, the high platform should also be built, and the army of Yiguo should also come, it seems that from tomorrow onwards, we will go all out to prepare for the battle of Gukou!

I don't know how many troops will come? Li Yao was very curious, but according to Li Yao's guess, it would not exceed 20,000 at most, because the rebellion in the south of Yiguo was far from over. The Yiguo Bandit Army is led by young people, and this time they should be veterans of a hundred battles who come to recruit themselves, and I also want to see how powerful these veterans are!

The next day, Li Yao came to the defense zone of Taniguchi, because of the bombing of the mountain in the early stage and the rectification in the later stage, Taniguchi was already the same as the city wall, especially suitable for firearms combat! This greatly increased Li Yao's confidence.

According to the information sent by the scouts, Yiguo sent 20,000 troops to the three northern counties, led by the veteran Manzhi, Li Yao had no impression of this Manzhi, but from the information sent by the thin monkey, it was known that this Manzhi was a relatively powerful figure, and it turned out that bandits were rampant in the Yiguo area, and Manzhi led the team to suppress the bandits, and killed tens of thousands of bandits in one fell swoop. Became a famous general of Yiguo!

Li Yao said with a smile: "Those people in the country of affection regard themselves as bandits, but it's okay to do so." There are only 50,000 troops in the capital of Yiguo, and if you kill 20,000 this time. Then Li Yao's pressure is much lighter! ”

Man Zhi led the army to camp two miles away from the valley mouth, and the quality of the 20,000 national capital troops was very good, Li Yao looked at the formation and defensive measures set up by these national capital troops, which was indeed very professional.

But Li Yao looked at the ten high platforms and steep cliffs that had been erected, and Li Yao thought to himself: "Even if these troops are sophisticated, it is basically a fantasy to attack them!" ”

But Li Yao did not relax his defense because of the steepness of the terrain, what Li Yao was most afraid of was that there were other paths that could be attacked, so Li Yao asked the blind man to visit the mountain people in various villages. Scatter scouts to find a path, but if you find a path that is likely to come up, you will immediately blow it up with a bag of explosives!

The sky is getting dark, and the Manzhi army is beginning to bury the pot to cook, Li Yao is the defender, and he is defending by the steep terrain, so it is difficult to attack it, after all, there is no city gate here, and if you want to go down, you can only slide down the rope!

Man Zhi also saw the dangerous terrain of this valley mouth. Therefore, he also knew that he could not attack by force, and he knew that by burying the pot on the opposite side and burning the bonfire, he could deduce that there were at least 5,000 people stationed at this valley mouth, and with such a topography. Man Zhi knew that even if all the 50,000 elites in the national capital came, it would be basically impossible to attack them!

Manzhi knows that because of the perennial suppression of bandits, he knows that there are actually many mountain roads. As long as you are willing to look carefully, you will definitely find a way. Although this road may be more dangerous, it is definitely less likely to lose more people than a strong attack!

So on the first day of garrison, Manchi sent soldiers to find a path. In addition, I found the county orders of several nearby counties and asked for cooperation in finding the path!

There are a lot of paths, but not all the paths are suitable, but with the efforts of everyone, they still found some paths that can barely be pedestrians, Li Yao was condescending, and he saw Manzhi's strategy at a glance, looking at the scouts and local officials and mountain hunters who came in and out, Li Yao knew that they were going to march from the path!

Li Yao had already damaged some paths, and had also sent a regiment of people to patrol around the mountain, and if he saw any suspicious people, he would report them and attack!

In fact, Li Yao specializes in defending in Gukou instead of defending in Qin County, or he is afraid that the people in the county will rebel, although Li Yao sends grain everywhere to buy people's hearts, but who knows what these rich squires think, every rich squire's family has more or less some private soldiers, even if there are only fifty people in each family, there are 1,000 people in twenty families, which is equivalent to the number of city guards, so this force has to be guarded against!

And in the defense of the valley, there will be no situation of being stabbed in the back, one is that the valley mouth has been turned into a defensive area within a radius of ten miles, as long as an unknown person comes in, he will be caught! Second, because of the distance, if those rich squires really want to turn against themselves, they will definitely have to travel more than ten miles to reach the valley, and the distance of more than ten miles is enough for Li Yao to react! The third is because Taniguchi is too far away from Qin County, so even if Taniguchi fights, ordinary people will not find out! So even if they want to deal with Li Yao from the inside and outside, it is impossible!

But Taniguchi also has a disadvantage, that is, the defensive front is a little too long, at least a few miles need to be defended, fortunately, Li Yao let the craftsmen create ten high platforms, with the height of the high platforms, you can hit the enemy from Taniguchi in all directions!

After two days of confrontation, Li Yao found that Man Zhi had no intention of attacking, and it was estimated that he was still looking for a path up the mountain, Li Yao was impatient, but he really wanted to try the strength of the elites of these national capitals!

But two miles away, the distance of the flying thunder tube can't reach it, even on a high platform, there is no way to reach such a long distance! If only Ouyang Artillery was here, it would definitely make these troops suffer a big loss!

Li Yao looked at the two eight-bull crossbows placed at the mouth of the valley, and his mind suddenly moved, if the eight-bull crossbow was placed on the high platform, then it should be able to be projectile two miles away, if the explosives package could be tied to the crossbow arrows, would it be possible to hit their military camp?

Li Yao hurriedly found the engineering platoon and said, "Hurry up and experiment, how to use the eight-bull crossbow to hit the explosives bag to the enemy two miles away!" ”

The engineer platoon looked at it and said, "If you change the shell of the explosive pack, you may be able to use it as a crossbow arrow!" ”

Li Yao urged: "Then you should hurry up and go to the experiment, and it is best to give me the results tomorrow!" ”

The people of the engineering platoon hurriedly ran to the experiment, and Li Yao commanded the soldiers to carry the two eight-bull crossbows on the high platform! Li Yao first experimented with his own side, to see how far he could hit on the high platform, Li Yao fired a crossbow arrow, the crossbow arrow was launched in a straight line at the beginning, and then it became an arc, and finally fell to the ground, Li Yao looked at the distance, there are definitely two miles of land, it seems that this idea is absolutely feasible!

Then Li Yao used the eight-bull crossbow to shoot on his back again, and this time the crossbow arrow flew three miles, because Li Yao finally wanted to use gunpowder to damage it, not by the power of the crossbow arrow, so it was no problem to shoot back!

Looking at the crossbow arrows that fell three miles away, Li Yao thought psychologically: "I have to take a good look at the camp tent in the past two days, if I can directly blow up the boss to death, it will be much easier!" ”

(To be continued.) )