"What's good? It's not like it's going to retire here......"

Xiao Sheng's words were oozing with strong resentment.

Of course, not to Li Shi, but to Shi Shibiu. Shi Shibiao asked Bai Daolong to transfer a battalion to him for direct command, and named him for the left battalion, Xiao Sheng was very excited when he first heard it, and he thought that he had a great opportunity to show his strength. But he didn't expect Shi Shibiao to kick him out of the battlefield and let him guard the flanks in this Li House.

"Guard the flanks!? He thought that the opponent was the Eight Banners Cavalry......"

Xiao Sheng's stomach was scratching.

Li Xi also had some regrets, originally he came to fight a good battle to gain experience in the war, and with his inference, even if this Yang Chun was fanned up by his own butterfly to rebel, it was not enough to make any big waves, and he could defeat the governor of a province and get the era of the White Lotus Sect uprising.

Looking around at the team of five or six hundred people under the high hill, two hundred of them were his men, sixty young guards, and one hundred and fifty miners from the former mines. Li Xian thought to himself, this is fine, at least you don't have to worry about any losses to your own people, and feeling the atmosphere of the big war can be regarded as a harvest.

Li Xian remembered the situation before the dispatch, Guan Tian and the others resolutely opposed him to only taking the young guards to fight, and they must let him bring these 150 miners. At that time, he was very surprised, he took the initiative to follow Xiao Sheng to fight, which is different from the surname of defending Zhuangzi, with the surname of Guan Tian and others in the past, it is a good thing not to object, why did he take the initiative to ask the villagers to participate in the war?

"Yang Chun doesn't take care of it, he has to worry about the disaster that night, everyone is looking forward to a good life, but he can't just wait for the fourth brother to take care of everything, and he doesn't even have any strength, right?"

Guan Fengsheng's mentality changed, and Li Shi was very pleased.

"They are all men from the mine, and they didn't hesitate to fight the thieves that night, and they followed the fourth brother to go again, but they can be absolutely trusted, and they can join our meeting when they come back."

Tian Dayu's consideration is more realistic, and he already has the mentality of making a comprehensive consideration for the team.

Recalling that when he was in Fengtian Village earlier, he made some spears for the miners to train, but they were all opposed, and such a change made Li Xian sigh and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Although these one hundred and fifty miners have not received much training, they are courageous, at least they will not flee from the battle, and they also have the experience of forming spear formations, which is no worse than the elite sentry under Xiao Sheng. But Li Xian didn't think about letting them be spear guards, but let them practice shotgun loading, since they had worked hard to create an extraordinary shotgun, they had to give full play to its maximum effectiveness.

"It's a pity, you boy, and your shotgun, it's not going to be useful this time."

Xiao Sheng was still scratching, and he was still holding a new shotgun made by Li Shi in his hand.

In terms of appearance, the new shotgun is only close to a modern rifle with a butt, and there is no change in other aspects, and the weight is heavier, weighing seven or eight pounds. It's not that the young guards have relied on training and food during this time, and their physical strength has increased significantly, and it is really a bit difficult to shoot with this thing.

The extra weight of this gun is all on the barrel, and there is an extra layer of iron wire wrapped between the two layers of barrels, coupled with the large force of the manpower forging hammer, the barrel faintly has a dull color of crude steel. Xiao Sheng was greedy for this gun, and deliberately asked for thirty branches, and the branch in his hand at this moment was only freshly baked yesterday. Because the dispatch was two days late, Li Shi now had one hundred and fifty new shotguns in his hand, and thirty were nothing to give Xiao Sheng. Now that the process of making guns has been straightened out, if you don't consider the problem of material preparation, the blacksmith shop will work overtime, and you can make him sixty or seventy sticks a day.

Of course, this production is only theoretical, and the stock of wrought iron has been exhausted to make these shotguns, and the drill bits and steel bones are also consumables, and they have to be rebuilt. In addition, this number of shotguns was enough, and it was not only unnecessary to continue to build them, but it would also attract the fear of the government, so Li Shi stopped the shotgun workshop of the blacksmith shop.

"That's not necessarily, there are so few officers and soldiers at the moment, Shi Junmen can't just throw this whole battalion aside, here...... may just be blocking Yang Chun's side attack. ”

Li Xian lifted his belt and said casually, the two guys hanging on his waist were really a little heavy, but this thing was blocked by the placket he was wearing, and even Xiao Sheng didn't know what it was.

He is just a military fan, and he only understands the micro things about the war of this era, and he also understands the most comprehensive theories about the macro strategy and tactics. What is the concentration of superior forces, what is the back arc to attack the void, set in the current actual battlefield, the judgment he can make has a strong "civil science" flavor. I also know that it is unprofessional, so Li Shi's tone is very uncertain.

"Here? The northwest side here is Hengshitang, and Bai Zongrong's middle camp is in Dabuji in the northwest, even if Yang Chun will be stupid enough to throw his back out and risk laying an ambush in Hengshitang, Bai Zongrong's eyes are not blind, right? ”

Sure enough, his judgment was immediately sprayed by professionals.

"To the northeast is the spacious Bird North Road, and Yang Chun has tens of thousands of displaced people under his hands, so he can only go there, and he wants to set up an ambush in the valley of the North Bird Road. He wants to ambush in Hengshitang, almost ten miles away from the north of the bird road, whether the homeless people are really defeated or deceitful, he can't grasp the situation in time, what ambush is impossible to talk about at all, at most it is just a side attack, five or six miles away, what is the point? ”

"If you want to set up an ambush in Hengshitang, it is simply a talk on paper......

Xiao Sheng has really experienced actual combat, and the analysis is the way, Li Shi only has the share of listening, who makes himself unprofessional.

It's also learning......

Li Xi comforted himself like this.

"Shi Junmen...... It is to let his standard battalion monopolize the credit, military merit is the future of our martial arts, he can hold as much merit as possible in his hands, in order to get as much benefit as possible. ”

Xiao Sheng also felt a little cynical.

"Yang Chun must have set up an ambush in Bird North Road! Li Shibang soaked in the Guangzhou Mansion, and his brain was soaked into bean dregs, and he despised this Yang Chun too much, and even forgot this bit of military theory. He was anxious to make meritorious service, so let him go! ”

The army was marching out, and a few miles ahead of the commander's banner, the governor's flag was also waving in the wind. To the guerrilla garrisons of the generals who blushed and begged for battle, Shi Shibiao reprimanded in a deep voice.

"Let's talk about the affairs of the soldiers, more is more than victory, I put a battalion of Bai Daolong in the west, but also to prevent Yang Chun from Hengshitang flank, although it is said that a little military theory will not do this, but the more the battle, the more cautious and serious!"

Speaking of this, the Chinese army reminded Shi Shibiu: "Junmen, that battalion is the remnants of Yang Chun's defeat before, and it is also mixed with the Lian Yong of Yingde County, Yang Chun really wants to attack from Hengshitang, they can't stop it." ”

Shi Shibi snorted coldly: "The custodian of that battalion is the newly promoted Xiao Sheng, if Yang Chun is really in Hengshitang, whether he can only put on a show, or if he really has the ability, you can just take a look." ”

He stopped his horse, and his subordinates around him quickly grabbed the horse's head.

"I don't expect him to be able to block it, it is enough to carry it for an hour or two, if you want to fight for the future, then you must have the consciousness of being sacrificed as a pawn!"

As he spoke, the horn from the north was melodious, and the voices of the people like a tide sounded faintly.

"The bandits have appeared! Just to the north, there are twenty or thirty thousand people covering the mountains and mountains! ”

The short man Zhang Ying urged the short Chuanma back to the Li House, panting and reporting.

"The rear battalion and the left battalion are in front, and the middle and right battalions of Shi Junmen are behind, and they are pressing up towards the north. I was stopped by the rangers four or five miles away, and I was not allowed to pass, but the news came from them. ”

Zhang Ying's report made Li Xi feel quite novel, he was not one of those otaku who returned to ancient times and became a famous general. Although he also had experience in the raid of the walled fort and the defense of Zhuangzi before, it was all the size of the team, like the current battle of tens of thousands of people, he had no concept at all, and he was unwilling to let go of every detail.

"I'm in the fucking ......"

Xiao Sheng was angry and scolded. After holding it for more than ten years, seeing that the war had started, he was thrown aside and mixed cold, so that this usually very calm shotgun always scolded his mother.

"Let's line up, don't think about the north, what if Yang Chunzhen appears from the west Hengshitang?"

Li Xian didn't bother to care about him, so he just took this opportunity to practice. Even if there is no opportunity for actual combat in this battle, we must take advantage of this actual combat atmosphere to improve the professionalism of ourselves and our subordinates as soon as possible.

"Hopefully your crow's beak will work this time......"

Xiao Sheng had a glimmer of hope burning in his heart, but it was only a little spark, and he issued the order to line up in despair.

To the north of the county seat of Yingde is a large area of hills, which are divided into pieces by scattered streams and small rivers. The terrain of the Li House where they are located is also very complicated, and the north side is the bare Hengshitang ridge, which cannot pass the large group of people. To the south is a pond that gathers into a water town. In the middle of these two or three miles, there is a chaotic river, and the area around Liwu is a soothing hill. If Yang Chun really wants to flank them, he will have to make a detour to the south or climb over the steep Hengshi Mountain to the north if he wants to attack from the side, without crushing their battalion. Shi Shibi's casual arrangement is by no means arbitrary.

"Taking advantage of the location is a necessary quality of a celebrity......"

Li Shi is not Liu Bang, there can be a bunch of famous generals waiting for him to use, he must first train himself to become a famous general. You can't win the war with sharp weapons alone, if you really want to rebel, the green battalion soldiers in this era are not tofu scum that will be defeated when they encounter the enemy, at least not all. Looking at the sophisticated methods of Shi Shibiu, the governor of Guangdong, and now stuffing him with 2,000 flintlock pistols, he didn't dare to pat his chest and say that he could definitely defeat Shi Shibiu.

The formation was spread out under the high hill where Li Xi and Xiao Sheng were located, and was divided into four parts, and the left and right wings were a sword and brand archer formation centered on a mountain splitting cannon each. In the center is a six-row shotgun formation, each with twenty people in a row, and the front is sixty or seventy meters wide. Although they are all green battalion soldiers' uniforms, it may be obvious that they are two small formations put together. The shotspear soldier on the center left is obviously shorter, but he is tall and neat, and this is Li Shi's young guard. The other part was dwarfed, it was the shotspearmen of Xiao Sheng's left battalion. Behind the shotgun formation of the young guard, there were more than 100 miners wearing the "Yong" uniform, who were the auxiliaries of the shotgun formation.

This is the "cooperation" between Li Xi and Xiao Sheng, because Li Xi is bringing "Lian Yong" to help in the war, and his subordinates are all shotspearmen, which is easy to attract suspicion, so he changed into a soldier's uniform and pretended to be a battalion soldier.

The two of them combined five or six hundred people, and the front row was almost completely arranged, and the remaining fifty or sixty people gathered at the foot of the high slope, becoming the last reserve.

"It's really nondescript......"

Xiao Sheng sighed, this kind of formation is not in line with the tradition, generally the cannon is in front, the shotgun archer is in the middle, the cold soldier is in the back, and if there is cavalry, put the wings.

But in order to fully develop the power of the shotgunners, he could only put on such a formation, although he always wanted to rely on the shotgun to win, but at the moment this formation still made him feel very dazzling. This is Li Shi's arrangement, under such conditions of mixed hot and cold and chaotic weapons, Li Shi can only choose the most traditional crab formation.

"I've read it in some book, but I forgot the title of the book......"

Li Shi, who is transforming from a civil theorist to a famous general, is still looking for the source of his position in his mind.

"Bandits! Thousands! Black pressed a large piece! ”

As soon as the formation was formed, the two of them were in a daze, Zhang Ying rode his thin Sichuan horse again, and rushed back desperately with a few sentry horses, shouting loudly while pumping the horsewhip.

Li Xi and Xiao Shengru were struck by lightning and froze on the high slope at that time.