At this time, it is late autumn, the crops in the cottage have been harvested, in the slack time, after the soldiers have finished training, they sit on the hillside and watch the sunset, bragging, chatting, life in the cottage is very simple, not like the world of flowers outside the mountain, so the soldiers and the villagers can only get together when they are idle, which indirectly enhances the feelings between each other.

Xu Renjie dragged his tired body back to his small cave, and the two family members hurriedly rubbed his legs and beat his back: "Master, how hard it is for you to be a soldier here, why bother with this crime?" It's better to go back to Baishui and take charge of the family's business, those businesses are definitely not as good as your own management if they are handed over to the second master. ”

"Smack!" Xu Renjie slapped the fan and flew the fan out of the house: "Master, is this a bad crime?" You know the, sir, this is enjoying ...... Ouch...... Shoulder...... My shoulder ......"

After scolding, he shouted again: "Bring my four treasures of the study...... it turned out that Xu Renjie returned to the cave every day, and he had to write down what he learned today on paper...... These things can't be learned in military books.

The more he followed Zhu Baxue, the more he admired it in his heart, you must know that the person he is learning with now is Zhu Yuanzhang, who once swept the world, with Zhu Yuanzhang's ability, casually saying a few words about marching and fighting is much more practical than the rules and regulations in those military books, combined with the current situation to understand, it is even more profound for Xu Renjie.

He now has a feeling that he is in the middle of the treasure mountain, full of treasures in all directions, and wants to move them all, but he can't do it, and he only hates that his brain can't hold it.

And just in the past few days, Zhu Yuanzhang is training an "engineer unit", and Xu Renjie is excitedly learning to build siege equipment such as trebuchets, ladders, wells, rushing cars, and ballistas.

Some officials think that there were no sappers in ancient China, and sappers are only available in modern times, this view is very wrong, we have had sappers in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty, but the name is called "Zhanggu", "Si Insurance", at that time it was mainly responsible for building cities, digging ditches and other work, all related to defense, so it is called "Zhanggu". By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the army was also equipped with special officials, with a group of engineers, who were responsible for building bridges, building cities, and setting up barriers along the way...... In the Yuan Dynasty, there was even a special "craftsman army", that is, craftsmen were organized into an army to use.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been reorganizing in recent years, and he has followed the habits of the Yuan Dynasty, called the "craftsman army", he gathered the carpenters who had nothing to do in the cottage and taught them to make trebuchets, wells, chariots and other siege equipment.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the three siege equipment of trebuchets, wells and carts have basically rarely appeared on the battlefield, because the Ming Dynasty already has advanced things such as artillery, and there are many types of artillery, what are the franc machine guns, red-coated cannons, etc., this era also plays trebuchets, punches, and wells, which seems a bit out of place.

But...... There are no conditions for the use of those advanced weapons in the cottage, because iron and gunpowder are rare things, and only wood is inexhaustible, so it can only temporarily use the siege equipment of hundreds of years ago. Rao is so, and the army of craftsmen also seems to be quite different from this cottage...... At least in Xu Renjie's eyes, Zhu Ba's ambition is not trivial.

Throughout the ages, when have you ever heard of bandits reorganizing siege troops? Bandits are played in the mountains, and you actually practice siege, what does this mean? The confused soldiers don't understand, they only know that they follow Zhu Yuanzhang to study seriously, but Xu Renjie understands! As soon as he saw the siege weapon, he knew that Zhu Ba had some ideas, at least one thing, Zhu Ba didn't like to stay in the mountains, his goal was to go into the city...... However, within a radius of 10,000 miles, which city is not the city of the imperial court? If the bandits want to live in the city, they can only fight a few with the officers and soldiers, it seems that ...... I really want to be the enemy of the officers and soldiers!

Forget it, it's useless to think too much, Xu Renjie is bored to learn how to make siege equipment, and he doesn't dare to think too deeply about this matter.

He lay on the table, picked up a pen and paper, recorded today's experience one by one, and even proudly drew a trebuchet in the lower right corner of the paper, with a smug look on his face.

As soon as he put down his pen, a family member ran in from outside and shouted, "Master, there are guests coming to the cottage again...... Zhu Bugling was about to meet him, and he asked you to go and listen as well. ”

"Oh? I'll go! Xu Renjie liked to listen to Zhu Ba's speech, so he quickly put down the pen in his hand and ran out...... After running a few steps, he suddenly remembered something, and returned to grab the mask and put it on his head.

When he hurriedly ran to the front of the cottage, he saw that there were already several people sitting in a simple hospitality hall in front of the village. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, Desperate Saburo, Ma Xiaotian and others sat next to him, and the guest seat was actually an acquaintance - Miao Mei!

It seems that the visitor to the cottage is actually Miao Mei, which really surprised Xu Renjie a little, what is this person doing in our village?

I only heard Miao Mei say in a voice with some anger: "Eighth Brother Zhu, I came to your village this time to represent the righteous army of the world and ask you for an explanation!" We are all rebels who rebelled against the imperial court, you didn't go to fight with the officers and soldiers, but you came to beat us up, and actually protected those dog officials and landlords in Baishui City, what do you mean? If you can't make a name for yourself today, don't blame the heroes of the world for looking down on you. ”

So it turned out, Xu Renjie suddenly realized: Yichuan Wang Zuojiao is not an idiot, he fled back after being defeated, and he must find out which officers and soldiers defeated him, but this guy inquired, and it was not the officers and soldiers who defeated him, but Baishui Zhuba, who was also a rebel army...... Wang Zuo was not angry, he was half dead before he had a ghost.

No, Miao Mei came to denounce Zhu Ba! Interesting, I watched the play, and Xu Renjie hurriedly watched on the wall. He waited with curiosity for Zhu Ba to explain to Miao Mei, wanting to hear how Zhu Ba could explain this matter clearly.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Ba didn't explain anything, he smiled slightly, stretched out a fist, hovered in front of Miao Mei, and then smiled: "My fist is bigger than yours!" ”

"What do you mean?" Miao Mei's face changed color.

"It means ......" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "I will hit you if I am happy, and I will not hit you if I am not happy, because my fist is bigger than you, so I have the final say, there is no need to explain to you." ”

"You ......" Miao Mei was furious, and jumped up from the chair with a brush: "Are you unreasonable?" ”

"Reasonable people, do not rebel!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You are also a thief, have you been reasonable?" ”

"Aren't you afraid that the heroes of the world will look down on you?" Miao Mei was so angry that her chest fell together: "Just a villain like you, I don't want anyone to come to you again in the future." Have you watched "Water Margin"? Do you know why Song Jiang can attract all the heroes to get alike? Because people talk about benevolence and righteousness, it is a timely rain in the eyes of Jianghu people! How can a big brother be as ...... as you?"

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a calm face: "Song Jiang died in the end...... Liangshan Bo collapsed......"

Miao Mei: "......"

"Miao Mei!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his voice and said: "Benevolence and righteousness will attract people to take refuge, I know this truth better than you, but I also know that there is another kind of person who can also attract people to take refuge...... That's ...... Overmatch! ”

"The strong must also be benevolent!" Miao Mei said angrily: "Otherwise, it will be like a tiger, no matter how strong it is, it will only make people afraid." ”

"I also speak of righteousness!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "I only talk about benevolence and righteousness to those who are worthy of preaching, and those who are not worth preaching...... I'll grind them out one by one, so why talk nonsense with them! ”

"You ......" Miao Mei was furious: "You mean, my eldest brother Wang Zuojiao is not worthy of benevolence?" ”

"He really doesn't deserve it." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "I know ...... for a long time."

"How can it be?" Miao Mei was so angry that she jumped to her feet, panting heavily, and after half a sound, he forcibly suppressed his anger and said angrily: "Although you are like this to us, we are talking about the morality of the rivers and lakes, Miao Mei came here, on the one hand, to scold you, on the other hand, to remind you of a few things, this is the information that our brothers finally found out, and I don't want to see your village destroyed...... Damn, I really don't want to tell you. ”

"Huh? You said! Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

Miao Mei said indignantly: "Hu Yanyan, the governor of western Shaanxi, has stepped down...... There was a new governor, and ...... The imperial court also appointed a new trilateral governor named Yang He, and as soon as this person came, he vigorously reorganized the army, wanting to unify all of us rogue bandits...... Now that the Xi'an government has begun to assemble heavy troops, my brother has spied on the information that the imperial court has prepared an army of 15,000 and is ready to be sent to various places to suppress the rebels...... Of course, you can't do without it. ”

"Huh?" When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his heart moved, in his last life, did this happen? Let me think about it...... Thinking about this, he immediately vaguely remembered something, Emperor Chongzhen did send a new trilateral governor named Yang He to Shaanxi *xi, but ...... This person doesn't seem to have made any achievements, right? I don't remember exactly...... It is precisely because this person has no achievements that Zhu Yuanzhang can't remember clearly, if he is really a powerful person, Zhu Yuanzhang must remember it clearly.

Since he didn't have any impression in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang was relieved, if he hadn't seen the development of this world once and knew the process of Dazhi, he might have been nervous about this information, but ...... Miao Mei sent intelligence to this action, but it was very interesting, he couldn't help but smile and said: "I know, thank you for coming to send this news......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said seriously: "I beat you, you are full of anger, and you are willing to come to send me this information, you are a good man...... I think you are a person worthy of righteousness...... In the future, if you can't get along with Wang Zuohang, I welcome you to my stockade. ”

"Ahh I'm not going to come to your place! Miao Mei was still angry, he turned around angrily and walked out, all the way, scolding all the way: "Bastard, the same rebels, actually beat us, and I can't say the reason after the fight...... I really don't want to tell you this information...... Lao Tzu really doesn't want to ......."

Miao Mei scolded and went far, looking at the direction he was going, it should be the north...... It is estimated that after Wang Zuojiao was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he retreated to the north......