Xu Renjie was greatly depressed when he heard that Shaanxi and West China could not fight, and the officers and soldiers would go to Sichuan first, because this meant that he could not fight, which was not a thing to be happy about for him.

But I heard Zhu Yuanzhang say: "You won't be idle, pack up your things and prepare to follow me into Sichuan." ”

Xu Renjie was taken aback: "Into Sichuan? What to do in Irikawa? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a heavy face: "Go into Sichuan to help the 36th battalion...... This time, the imperial court raised the troops of the country, gathered more than 2 million taels of military salaries, and suppressed the 36 battalions with a ten-sided force, if we don't help them, they will be finished. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was alarmist, because he knew very well that the ten-sided net of the imperial court did not kill Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the two of them were still alive and well, and they would bury Daming a few years later.

But Zhu Yuanzhang also knows a small detail, at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, after the court opened the net on all sides, the 36th battalion suffered a major blow, Li Zicheng suffered several defeats in a row, and finally only seven horsemen fled with him into the deep mountains.

And Zhang Xianzhong was also forced into a corner by the imperial court, and finally accepted Xiong Wencan's appeasement in Gucheng, and "built hundreds of houses, bought land and planted wheat, and traded with the people" in Gucheng, until the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianbu re-raised the banner of righteousness and rebelled again.

There is no problem for the two of them to keep a low profile for a few years, and they can eventually turn over anyway, but as soon as they keep a low profile, Zhu Yuanzhang will be very dangerous, and if the 120,000 troops of the imperial court attack Shaanxi from all directions, it is not a scene that Zhu Yuanzhang wants to see. He hadn't been able to complete his full preparations yet, and he didn't want to fight such a large-scale tough battle with the imperial court.

Therefore, the best thing to do now is to change history! Let the two monsters Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong not suffer such a major setback, so that they can survive in this conference and continue to flow and contain the imperial court.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang say this, Xu Renjie immediately became energetic, and said with great joy: "Great, enter Sichuan and Sichuan, I have another battle." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted. Then he asked: "I taught you the soldiers of mountain warfare that I trained a few years ago." How are you training? "Originally from Chongzhen's eight-year Xingyang Conference, Zhu Yuanzhang taught Xu Renjie the tactics of the white pole soldiers in central Sichuan, and Xu Renjie also specially went to form a unit called "black pole soldiers", which has been training for so many years. I haven't put it into actual combat yet. This time, Zhu Yuanzhang plans to enter Sichuan. I asked casually. (Note: For Zhu Yuanzhang teaching Xu Renjie the tactics of the white pole soldiers, please refer to Chapter 372 of this book.) ）

Xu Renjie likes to tinker with these bizarre troops, according to later generations. This is a fever-level tactic, as soon as he heard Zhu Yuanzhang ask, he immediately lifted his spirits and said: "The black pole soldiers were left by me in Huanglong Mountain for training, this time I came to Pingshaanbei, and I haven't seen them for a long time, I don't know how well they are trained, just go and see." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and then ordered Xu Renjie to hand over the military power and temporarily hand over northern Shaanxi to Xue Hongqi to guard, Xue Hongqi was originally from Yulin, northern Shaanxi, and it was best to use it to suppress northern Shaanxi, but she didn't want to be separated from Xu Renjie, and couldn't help but say: "I also want to enter Sichuan." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Renjie shook their heads together and said: "You can't go, Shu is mountainous, not a place for cavalry activities, your precious cavalry should not be wasted in the ravine, recuperate in northern Shaanxi, and cultivate more elite cavalry." ”

Xue Hongqi saw that Xu Renjie also said the same, so he had to give up. The red lady also asked for a sentence on the side to Irikawa, but no one objected, anyway, she couldn't be of much use for the time being, it was entirely for the sake of her bringing a brother into the gang, so she became a leader in Zhu Jun, there was nothing to do, and it was okay to Irikawa.

At the moment, Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Renjie took a few henchmen and went to Huanglong Mountain, and they didn't go back to Huanglongshan Laozhai for a long time.

The county lord Cao Baoxiang greeted him with a red face, and when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he was a series of sycophants, this person has been a local overlord in Huanglong County for several years, but when he sees his boss, he still habitually pats his ass, which shows that the country is easy to change, and his nature is difficult to change. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have time to grind with him, so he hurriedly called the black pole soldiers trained by Xu Renjie secretly.

This is a 3,000-strong young army, and most of its members are from the recruits who have only joined Zhu Yuanzhang in recent years, because the veterans of the Zhu army have their own duties and cannot change their arms at will, so the black pole soldiers can only be selected from among the recruits. Although they are recruits, they are not the kind of rookie soldiers who have never seen blood, but have chosen some tough guys who have seen blood and fire and experienced the fear of death.

These 3,000 people are not very tall, but they are all very athletic, agile and agile. Only such soldiers are suitable for fighting between mountains and forests. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at them a few times and was very satisfied with their appearance, so he said to them: "Take out your weapons." ”

The black-pole soldiers showed their weapons, and their weapons were spears, but they were not ordinary spears, but a spear with a curved hook on the front, resembling a hook and sickle. Unlike the hook and sickle, the spear also had an iron ring at the tail. That is, such a spear is a hook and sickle at one end and a ring at the other...... It's a strange shape.

When the red lady saw their equipment, she couldn't help but wonder: "How is this strange weapon a bit like a special prop for a juggling show?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and smiled: "This is a murder weapon, which is different from a prop." He took a black-pole gun from a soldier, danced a spear in his hand, and said, "This gun can be used to stab the enemy...... It can also be used to hook the horse's legs, when you only want to hurt the enemy and don't want to take people's lives, you can also turn it around and use the iron ring at the end of the gun as a hammer, although it is not as powerful as the hammer, but it is light enough to make it more than the hammer head. ”

When the red lady saw him dancing with a spear, her beautiful eyes widened: "Ah...... Brother Zhu, you ...... You can play with guns? I always thought you were using your brain, not hands......"

Everyone laughed, and Ma Xiaotian laughed especially loudly: "My martial arts were taught by Zhu Bugs, you actually said that he can't use his hands and only his brain?" Hahaha...... Who of us here doesn't know? If Zhu Bugs is really angry, and the sword kills, if the leaders of our Zhu army are more ruthless, there is no one who can match Zhu Bugs. ”

The red lady stuck out her tongue, and admired Zhu Yuanzhang a little more in her heart.

At this time, Ma Xiaotian asked: "Brother Zhu, although this weapon is rich in functions, I can't see what it is conducive to mountain and forest warfare, and I would like to ask you for some advice." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and then said to the black pole soldiers: "You practice, let me see how you train." ”

"Yes!" Three thousand people answered in a neat voice, and then began to practice. The first thing they practiced was stabbing, this was nothing surprising, it was not much different from an ordinary spear formation, Ma Xiaotian and the Red Lady and others had already seen too much, and they didn't care.

After the array was stabbed, Xu Renjie smiled and ordered: "Go up the tree!" ”

"Yes!" The formation of 3,000 people suddenly dispersed, and the soldiers in the front row rushed towards a row of trees, and they waved the black guns in their hands, and the hooks on the tips of the guns firmly hooked the branches on the trees, and then these people held the guns with both hands and pulled them up, and their feet kicked on the trunk of the tree a few times, and the people climbed the trees and hid in the leaves.

"Wow!" Ma Xiaotian couldn't help but applaud when he saw it: "It's amazing, it's extremely flexible." ”

The red lady felt the same when she saw this, and she smiled: "If it were me, I wouldn't need to hook the branch with a gun, and I could easily go up the tree with just my hands and feet." Everyone glanced at her sideways and thought: Of course, you don't need a hook to perform acrobatics, but ordinary people must.

I saw the black pole soldiers take turns to climb the tree in groups, swing down on the tree, and then quickly descend the tree...... The series of movements is as fast as lightning, which is really pleasing to the eye. After the performance, the troops came to the front of a mountain wall, which was about five or six people high, and they had to raise their heads to see what was going on on the mountain wall.

The red lady said strangely: "This kind of mountain wall, you can't go up with a hook, right?" ”

Xu Renjie laughed and said, "Look at it! He waved his hand and ordered, and the captain of the black pole soldier unit jumped to the mountain wall alone, this person was obviously also a man who ran the rivers and lakes to practice acrobatics, although his skills were not necessarily lighter than the red lady, but he was more powerful, he climbed left and right on the mountain wall, and soon climbed to the top of the wall.

Ma Xiaotian couldn't help but wonder: "What's the use of him climbing up alone?" There aren't many people like him who have practiced juggling. ”

I saw that after the man went up the cliff, he turned around, and a black pole soldier under the cliff threw hard, and a black pole gun flew up the cliff, and the captain on the cliff caught it with his left hand, and then another black pole soldier threw his own black pole gun, and the captain caught it with his right hand.

At this time, he had a black gun in each of his left and right hands, and I saw that he suddenly buckled the hook on the black gun in his left hand to the tail ring of the gun in his right hand, and the two black gun guns were connected together at once.

Ma Xiaotian and the red lady finally realized: "It turns out that the iron ring is used to dock with the hook, so that when it is connected, the two guns are connected together, and it is more than two zhang long......"

The black-pole soldier under the cliff threw his guns up the cliff again, and the captain on the cliff joined them together to make a long spear shaft, which hung down from the top of the mountain wall, and a black-pole soldier grabbed the hanging spear with both hands, and climbed up the cliff after dividing it by two. Now there were two people on the cliff, and two spear shafts could be hung down, so two more soldiers climbed up the spear shafts...... Then four more spear shafts hung down......

In a short time, all 3,000 men climbed up the mountain wall, and the people on the mountain wall withdrew their spears, broke them apart, and turned back into one man with a black gun in his hand.

Ma Xiaotian clapped his hands: "Wow, wonderful!" ”

The red lady also had to be convinced: "It's really amazing!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed lightly: "This is just imitating the white pole soldiers in Sichuan, they are still tender, the real white pole soldiers over the mountains and mountains, like walking on the ground, are one of the five strongest soldiers in the world......" (to be continued.) )