"Let seventy-one people guard a mountain that is nearly ten miles long, what are those people above thinking?"

"Isn't this a clear idea to send us to death?"

When the order of the military department was conveyed to the soldiers of the twenty-six tents, the soldiers at the grassroots level immediately became angry, knowing that according to common sense, it takes at least five teams of 100 people to defend such a mountain, in other words, 500. Five hundred soldiers can roughly guarantee the monitoring of the situation in the area around Dongshi Mountain, but now the top brass of the military department has left them with only twenty-six tents of seventy-one people to guard Dongshi Mountain, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even the chief Lu Min is a little angry.

However, as the so-called military order is like a mountain, although there are many dissatisfaction in their hearts, the soldiers of the 26th account did not dare to disobey the order, so they could only obediently go to Dongshi Mountain.

East Stone Mountain, is a hill in the south direction after the Guangling River has passed a tributary of the Yangtze River, occupies an area is not large, two or three miles longitudinally from north to south, eight or nine miles longitudinally from east to west, compared with the dangerous scenery of Mount Tai that Zhang Huang and others have seen, this East Stone Mountain is only a small soil slope at best.

But this small dirt slope was crucial for the first route, both for the Guangling army and for the rebels. The reason is that on the official road on the west side of Dongshi Mountain, there is a military camp of the Guangling Army used to Tuntian, and now this military camp is personally guarded by Yang Qi, a general of the First Army, guarding the first road to Guangling.

It is not difficult to see from the map in the hands of Bo Chang Lu Min that if the rebel army chooses this route to attack Guangling, then it must take the military field camp guarded by Yang Qi, the general of the first army of the Guangling Army, and if you want to take the military field camp, as the local commanding height, Dongshi Mountain, its location becomes extremely critical.

It is not difficult to imagine that if the rebels conquered Dongshi Mountain and built a camp on the mountain, then the situation of the military camp would become very awkward, because all their movements would be exposed to the enemy's nose.

It is precisely in this way that Shan Fu is a little puzzled that the military department actually handed over such a key strategic position of Dongshishan to them with only seventy-one people to guard it.

Fortunately, they are not alone, because Sunzhuang, which is close to the north side of Dongshi Mountain, Zou Zhuang on the northeast side, and Jizhuang, which is further north, are stationed in a small force of 100 people of the First Army, plus more than 2,000 soldiers under the command of Yang Qi, the commander of the military field battalion, the First Army of the Guangling Army can also be said to be several key strongholds that hold this road.

Thinking about it this way, in fact, the role of their twenty-six tents is mostly just a scout team to monitor the movements of the enemy. Because once Dongshishan was attacked by the rebels, it was absolutely impossible for Yang Qi, the general of the military field battalion, to stand idly by.

Half a day later, Uncle Commander Lu Min led his group of soldiers to arrive at Dongshi Village on Dongshi Mountain. Unlike the villages controlled by the powerful in Sunzhuang, Zouzhuang and other places, Dongshi Village is inhabited by mountain people who make a living by hunting, and there are no powerful private soldiers in any place. Therefore, when the evacuation order of Jiangdu was issued, the mountain people of Dongshishan immediately packed their bags and fled to Jiangdu, where they lived in the city under the arrangement of the government. And the village they left behind became the stronghold of the twenty-six tents on the East Stone Mountain.

Of course, an ordinary village does not have any defense, so the soldiers of the 26 tents must be remodeled and processed, such as strengthening the wall, adding sentry posts or something, otherwise if the rebels come to attack, it is very likely that the reinforcements of General Yang Qi at the foot of the mountain will not have time to rescue, and their 26 tents will be wiped out here.

The matter of strengthening the garrison of the village, the chief Lu Min naturally will not hand it over to Zhang Huang and his Yishi, after all, Yishi has his strongest soldiers in the twenty-six tents, if they are used to cut wood, I am afraid that Lu Min himself will not be able to convince himself, because it is too big and useless.

In this matter, Lu Min handed over Zhou Li, the chief of the second shi, and Zhao Yong, the chief of the third shishi, and asked the two of them to command the nine soldiers except for the first shi, and stepped up the matter of strengthening the garrison of the village. As for Zhang Huang's team, Lu Min personally led them deep into Dongshi Mountain, and he had something to hand over to these soldiers.

"What do you think is the most important thing to fight?"

On the way deep into the mountains and forests, Lu Min asked coldly.

"Strength, right? Right? Xiao Liu, a young soldier in Zhang Huang's team looked at Zhang Huang with some excitement and replied casually. I have to say that the strength of their companions a few hours ago really amazed him, so much so that Xiao Liu, who was originally annoyed that he was commanded by a ghost, is now secretly glad that he was picked by Lu Min that day and became one of the other four soldiers of Yishi. God is pitiful, in fact, Lu Min was just a finger at the beginning.

"Strength?" Lu Min, who was walking in front, snorted lightly, and didn't say whether it was right or wrong, which made Xiao Liu murmur a little in his heart: Could it be that he said something wrong?

"It's intelligence!" Shan Fu opened his mouth and corrected, "The art of war, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, can one not be defeated in a hundred battles." To know oneself is to know oneself, and to know one is to spy on the enemy......"

[This kid is really smart......]

Lu Min turned his head and glanced at Shan Fu approvingly, and said in a deep voice, "Not bad! When the two armies are at war, intelligence is the most important. Think about it, if you know every move of the enemy, will this battle be considered a victory of six points? ”

The Wang brothers tilted their heads and thought about it, then nodded in realization. As for people like Zhang Huang and others, they were not ordinary soldiers in the first place, how could they not know these things, the reason why they didn't speak was just waiting for Lu Min's next words.

"And in this way, the role of scouts in the war is especially important." Living up to the expectations of Zhang Huang and the others, Lu Min finally began to explain what they wanted to hear: "It's not easy to act as a qualified scout. Be bold and careful, these four you must keep in mind. When you should go in and when you should retreat, you must also have a degree in your hearts. With that, Lu Min stopped, and after looking around, he chose a tree.

He walked to the tree, picked up a sharp stone from the ground, made a mark on the trunk, and then turned to the soldier behind him and said, "Make a mark, this is what scouts do at any time, leave marks where they have been, so that they can find their way back and contact their companions, but remember not to use the dagger you carry with you to make a mark, it will expose your position to the eyes of the enemy scouts." Ordinary scouts are accustomed to leaving marks after walking a similar distance, but experienced scouts can determine the location of the opponent based on the distance between several marks, and set up an ambush in advance to kill them. This is important to keep in mind. ”

Zang Ba touched his chin with interest, after all, he was wondering why the chief Lu Min gave up the weapon in his hand, and picked up a broken stone to leave a mark, hearing this, he suddenly realized.

"But it's not set in stone. Sometimes, you can deliberately leave a mark to lure enemy scouts into sniping you, so you can wait for your time and kill them. As he spoke, Lu Min demonstrated that he used his short sword to draw an arrow on the trunk of a tree, compared to the inconspicuous mark just now, this arrow now feels dazzling no matter how you look at it. It's not hard to imagine that any scout who sees this arrow will think that it must be a mark left by an enemy scout.

"Will the other party's scouts be fooled?" Li Tong felt a little incredible.

"Absolutely." Lu Min smacked his lips and said with a chuckle, "In any evenly matched war, scout warfare is particularly crucial. In some cases, the number of scouts killed on both sides was even higher than on the battlefield. All scouts have two missions, to spy on enemy forces and to kill as many enemy scouts as possible. If the scouts of one side of a battle were wiped out, it would be a catastrophe. To use an inappropriate analogy, it is like the role of my 26th account in Dongshishan right now, which is to act as the eyes of General Yang Qi of the military field camp, and to monitor every move of the rebel army within his range. If we succeed in spying on the place where the enemy's garrison is empty, then General Yang Qi can lead his army to attack its unpreparedness and severely defeat the arrogance of the rebels; On the other hand, if my 26 tents are wiped out, General Yang Qi will lose his eyes to monitor Dongshishan for him, and he will not know any movement of the rebels, and at that time, there will only be two ways left for him: either send additional scouts to fight the rebels for this Dongshishan, or retreat from the military field camp ......"

"Retreat?" The Wang brothers' eyes widened, and they said in unimaginable silence, "Just because you lost the scouts, you have to retreat from the military field camp?" As far as I know, it's a very well-guarded barracks! ”

Lu Min glanced at the Wang brothers and said expressionlessly, "No matter how strong the garrison is, the military camp is just a turtle shell, don't think that the rebels will have no way to take it." ”

"I don't believe ......"

"Well, let me ask you, what if the rebels cross the Dongshi Mountain and attack Guangling directly after killing all our scouts?"

"Isn't there still General Yang Qi's military camp?"

"Here's the problem!" Glancing around at all the soldiers, Lu Min said in a deep voice, "If all the scouts on his side are killed, General Yang Qi has no way of knowing the situation in Dongshi Mountain, and most of them dare not attack lightly, but at this time, the rebels took the opportunity to cross the East Stone Mountain and take a small road to attack Jiangdu, not to mention that General Yang Qi has 2,000 soldiers in his hands, even if he has 20,000 soldiers, he is dozens of miles away from Jiangdu and does not know that the rebels have a surprise attack, what help can he play?" ”

The Wang brothers were speechless, fantasizing in their minds, and were suddenly frightened.

Glancing around at everyone, Lu Min lowered his voice and said in a stern tone, "The scout battle is the most critical part of the battlefield, and it is related to the victory or defeat of the whole battle. Because of this, it is also the most tragic and cruel, and if it is not for the top elite soldiers, it will not be able to shoulder this heavy responsibility. Because scouts are the eyes that watch the entire battlefield! The eyes of the army! ”

Lu Min unreservedly taught his experience to Zhang Huang, the fierce soldiers he valued, and if he could, before the sun went down today, he hoped that Zhang Huang and the others would understand the importance of scouts and how to fight.

The scout war is a fierce confrontation between the scout hunting and counter-hunting of the two sides, and the combat methods are all extreme. And Zhang Huang, Zang Ba, Tai Shici, Chen Dao, Li Tong, and Shan Fu are undoubtedly the strongest soldiers in his twenty-six tents, if they can become a qualified scout, then the pressure they put on the enemy is extremely strong. After all, scouts are a very special class of troops, and in some cases determine the movement of entire armies. If these imps can kill the rebels' scouts one by one, even though the rebels have several times the strength, I am afraid that they will not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool for fear of being ambushed by mistake.

"Sounds ...... Listen to the interesting. Zhang Huang grinned, and the rest of the Black Feather Crow members also showed expressions of interest.

Traps, ambushes, assassinations, and scout warfare at all ends are undeniably very attractive to fledgling boys like Zhang Huang, not to mention, this important task is also related to the survival of the entire First Army.