Tomorrow is the day of the expedition again, Ye Teng has replenished 100,000 military rations, 10 storage bags, plus the 500 Qi Replenishing Pills and 500 Healing Pills that were replenished in the medical hall before, and the materials for the expedition have been prepared.

Considering that most of the soldiers have a simple desire to reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year, the mission objectives of this time must be relatively close to each other to save time on the road. After careful comparison and consideration, a group of bandits located about 150 miles southwest of Jingcheng County was finally selected: Shilongzhai.

Shilongzhai has extraordinary strength, not only itself is an intermediate cottage, but also has four primary cottages.

Xie Gengxin, the owner of Shilong Village, has an extraordinary reputation, and the past business travelers and nearby bandits evaluated him as: shrewd and righteous, strong in martial arts.

It is said that three years ago, the original owner of Shilongzhai at that time killed an old man who went up the mountain to hunt, and this old man was Xie Gengxin's father. Xie Gengxin's mother died early, he had no brothers and sisters, and he depended on his father since he was a child. Hearing the bad news that his father was killed, Xie Gengxin, who had just turned 16 and was studying art in Jingcheng County, single-handedly broke into Shilongzhai, which was still a junior cottage at the time, killed the notorious owner of the village, forced down the bandits of Shilongzhai, and appointed himself as the owner of Shilongzhai.

At the beginning of his tenure, Xie Gengxin punished the bandits who had done a lot of evil, operated cottages, strengthened training, and strictly demanded that robbery from Shilongzhai not hurt people's lives, and only robbed 10% of the total value of the stolen goods. It also guarantees the safety of business travel in the area under its jurisdiction. As a result, there were also some conflicts with nearby cottages, but Xie Gengxin only took more than a year to exterminate the few junior cottages and miniature cottages in the vicinity that had a bad reputation and did not listen to greetings, killed their first evils, annexed their subordinates, upgraded Shilongzhai to an intermediate cottage, and gradually controlled the territory within a radius of more than 200 miles.

Shilongzhai set up a card to "collect taxes" in its own jurisdiction, and what it did was simply transformed from a robber to a tax collector, and it was also a conscientious tax collector to protect the safety of its own business travelers and their goods.

Since then, the reputation of Shilongzhai has gradually increased, and the number of business trips has gradually increased.

However, no matter how good the reputation of the bandits, they are still bandits, and the government still issued an order to suppress the bandits.

For this reason, after Ye Teng took over the task, he rushed back to the military palace to discuss the suppression of bandits with Cai Hui and others. Cai Hui reported the results of this week's training to Ye Teng: The improvement of individual strength is not obvious, but the sense of identity of these bandits with Ye Fu has been enhanced, and their discipline and obedience have been significantly improved.

In terms of generals, there are quite a few surprises. After making full use of the exercises and skill books obtained from the raider cottage, 4 new junior generals have been added, and one junior general has been upgraded to an intermediate general, and one of the newly upgraded junior generals also has characteristics.

So far, Yefu has a total of 1 senior general, 1 intermediate general, and 16 junior generals. Let Cai Hui call the intermediate generals and generals with characteristics, Ye Teng will probe, and then he will see the attribute panel:

Name: Guo Yong

Qualification: S level

Profession: Intermediate general

Identity: Ye Teng's general

Loyalty: 87

Level: Level 35

Brawn: 60 Domination: 34 Intelligence: 32 Politics: 6

Characteristics: None

Internal strength: Intermediate internal strength (small success)

Skill: Cloud Removal Marksmanship (Advanced Skill), Practiced to the Fourth Style)

Name: Xu Xian

Qualification: A-level

Occupation: Junior general

Identity: Ye Teng's general

Loyalty: 83

Level: 28

Brawn: 50 Domination: 11 Intelligence: 14 Politics: 5

Trait: Eagle Eye

Internal strength: primary internal strength (small success)

Skill: Whirlwind Knife Method (Intermediate Skill), has been practiced to the second form)

Notes: Eagle Eye, which has more than three times the eyesight of ordinary people, is also easier to spot hidden enemies.

Due to the addition of many new military generals and the fact that after training, there have also been new changes in appearance, and it has been decided to carry out a new reorganization to make the mix of old and new troops more reasonable and more conducive to combat. After full discussion with Cai Hui, he came up with a reorganization plan, summoned all the troops, and announced in public:

1. Establish left-behind troops. A total of 29 soldiers with qualifications above grade B and under the age of 18 or whose strength has not reached the third rank were all left behind, with Chen Ping as the team leader and staying in Yefu. In normal times, the Ye Mansion and the Commercial Bank each take turns to arrange 4 people to guard them to protect their safety, and the rest stay in the military government for training.

2. Strengthen the troops directly under it. The military generals with the peak strength of the junior are appointed as the deputy commanders, and the three team leaders are all served by the junior generals, and the treatment is the same as that of the commander.

3. Formation of the main station troops. At present, the main combat unit has two tunes and two tuns, with a total of 8 tuns. Cai Hui was appointed as the first military candidate; Guo Yong was appointed as the second military candidate, and the establishment was the same as that of Cai Hui; All the commanders are junior generals, and the deputy military candidates are temporarily absent;

Fourth, the formation of elite troops. Scout Tun, the first song of the first tun, and the second song of the first tun are all elite troops, all the soldiers are advanced soldiers, and the commander and team rate are all third-order soldiers. Xu Xian is the head of the scout.

Fifth, the formation of two logistics units. Yitun is more combat-oriented, mainly composed of soldiers, performing tasks such as guarding prisoners, guarding, and transporting; The other is a purely logistics unit, which is composed of a medical team, a maintenance team (each led by a junior blacksmith, a junior carpenter, and a junior tailor led by an apprentice), and a team of leaders, which are biased towards transportation, repair, cooking and other tasks. The commander is also a junior general.

As for the disabled soldiers, the mountain people who did not want to join the army, and even some women and children who were rescued, all of them have been sent back to Yefu for resettlement.

After the reorganization was completed, Ye Teng, Cai Hui and other generals discussed the matter of suppressing bandits. After full discussion, it was unanimously agreed that the difference in strength between the two sides was too large, and that it was best to outwit them, and it was best to capture their main generals and force them to surrender.

On December 16, except for Chen Ping's left-behind troops, Ye Teng led all the Yefu armed forces to set off as a whole. After two days of marching, Ye Teng stopped less than 20 miles from the nearest primary cottage under Shilongzhai in Jingcheng County, and sent a scout to set up camp.

That night, Ye Teng called Cai Hui and other generals over to discuss tomorrow's war. It is estimated that the five cottage clusters in Shilongzhai are expected to have nearly 10,000 people, about 500 third-order soldiers, and more than 10 generals, including more than 1 intermediate general and about 10 junior generals. It can be said that compared with Shilongzhai, the Ye family's military generals have an advantage, and the strength of the soldiers is only a fraction of that of others.

It can be said that if you don't count the generals, Ye Teng's strength is equivalent to two miniature cottages. Even if you add military generals, and fight hard with a medium-strength intermediate cottage, you are basically in the end of total annihilation. Neither hard fighting nor strong attack is advisable.

There are two options now: either besiege the fortress and send reinforcements, or defend instead of attack.

Discussions went on and on, and it was felt that both methods were dangerous. Besieging the city to send reinforcements, in case the enemy who comes to help is too strong, it is easy to fall into the situation of internal and external attacks. Defending instead of attacking is to capture a primary cottage and force the enemy to attack, and it is easier to defend because you occupy the advantage of the terrain. However, the strength of the two sides is expected to differ by 5~10 times, so hard attrition, even if they win, they will suffer heavy casualties.

In the end, Ye Teng decided that after laying down a cottage, Ye Teng would lead the main force to defend, Cai Hui would take the first song and the first tun to hide and wander outside, and Xu Xian's scout tun would cooperate to carry out the beheading operation. That is, in the process of the enemy's siege of the cottage, find the right time, give the enemy a fatal blow, capture or kill Xie Gengxin.

After a night's rest, the troops marched out. Less than ten miles, the scouts came to report, and ten miles ahead was the target cottage, about 500 people in the cottage, and two junior generals. Now the bandits patrolling the mountains between this place and the cottage have been completely eliminated by the scout troops.