The eighteenth day of the lunar month, the eighth festival of the lunar month. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the eighteenth day of the lunar month is not the Spring Festival, the eighteenth day of the lunar month every year is an important festival of the people, and the government will organize large-scale celebrations to add a little festive atmosphere to the barren Yan'an Mansion. However, this year's situation is different.

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month this year, from day to night, there was no lively atmosphere.

The whole Yan'an Mansion has been under martial law since the morning, and a close confidant of those officers has been driven up to the city wall with bright weapons in hand, holding good weapons and waiting for the outside of the city.

At this moment, in a barracks outside the city on a flat ground, the entire barracks were full of swords unsheathed and spears sharp. Gu Xiao still had a vaguely pale face, wearing a fish-scale armor, constantly patrolling the barracks.

In the whole barracks, all the people already knew.

Just today, a gang of bandits is going to attack their barracks. Therefore, even on this festive day, these soldiers and horses are not happy, on the contrary, the soldiers and horses who are still in the barracks are already ready for the final battle.

In this place, which has been a place of fierce folk customs since the Qin and Han dynasties, almost every one of these warriors has seen life and death, and many of them have also seen the scene of the Tartars attacking the city with their own eyes. So, this little battle is not enough to scare these people.

The fireheads in the barracks had already boiled out bowls of bright red and fragrant laba porridge, and then delivered them to everyone in the barracks one by one.

On the day of this Laba Festival, this Laba porridge is also exceptionally fragrant, Gu Xiao sent people to the city yesterday to purchase almost ten fat pigs, and then slaughtered, except for a small part of the air-dried, the other fat pigs have been made into Laba porridge in the hands of these soldiers.

As time went on, the already dim weather began to get darker and darker.

The blackened sky seemed to be ready to fall from the sky at any moment, crushing these people to pieces. The barracks were already full of archers, and a famous archer was lying on the fence with the help of the benches under his feet, waiting for the enemy to arrive.

In their hands, it was the Divine Arm Bow that had shown its majesty when dealing with the Ziyang Dao people and others.

The Divine Arm Bow used to be the first weapon of the Song people to deal with the Western Xia and Jin people, claiming to be able to penetrate armor at three hundred steps, but the high cost made the Divine Arm Bow never be popularized, on the contrary, since the founding of this dynasty, because of the high cost of the Divine Arm Bow, none of the officials of the Ministry of Industry and Household Affairs were willing to provide soldiers with such expensive weapons.

In the eyes of the civil officials who are now in charge of the government, this divine arm bow is worth more than a hundred soldiers, what is the use of making it? It's better to recruit more troops, and let those lowly warriors work harder!

This is the face of those civil officials who claim to be the people all day long and ask for the lives of the people and bring peace to all generations.

As a person from later generations, Gu Xiao knows one thing better than anyone else, this Ming Dynasty has long since become the world of civil officials or scholars behind them, and for these scholars who have nothing left in their minds except silver, there is nothing more important than the silver in their hands.

The Treasury of the Household Department, which was once reserved for state expenditures, has long since become the money bag of those civil officials. The money in the household department can be used by scholars, but not by the common people, not by the army, and the money in it is simply prepared for these scholars who are full of benevolence and morality all day long.

Since he took office, Gu Xiao has not received even a penny of his 3,000 soldiers and horses.

This world-wide scholar has long since stopped treating the world's army as his own soldiers and horses, otherwise it would not have appeared almost 30 years later, every time he built a captive and entered the customs, it was to order the world's soldiers and horses to be the king of Qin, but after the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin arrived under the city of Beijing, they would never get even the slightest salary and rations.

The generals questioned the old men of the military department and the household department, and those old men also said very unceremoniously, "The people have grain, the people have silver, and the people have houses!" ”

This is the face of today's scholars, so after taking office, Gu Xiao never expected to be able to rely on military salaries to support these 3,000 soldiers and horses, so during this period of time, on the one hand, he organized soldiers and horses to dig out several coal mines, relying on selling coal to make profits, and on the other hand, relying on the silver obtained from the hands of this Yansui Green Forest to raise the army.

This divine arm bow was specially made from the drawings he found in the Yongle Ceremony of the Hanlin Academy after he was admitted to the martial arts champion. In the past few years, he has been accumulating silver taels to make these hundreds of divine arm bows.

Now, it is also the time for this divine arm bow, which once showed its majesty on the battlefield hundreds of years ago, to show its power again.

In the evening, when the sun had completely set, scattered horses' hooves and footsteps finally began to appear in the distance, and a burly and fierce green forest thief began to appear sporadically in the eyes of Gu Xiao and his soldiers and horses.

"Kill!" After hundreds of green forest thieves appeared in the range of the barracks, they all began to scream excitedly, and then charged towards the barracks like a swarm of bees. Hundreds of Green Forest Bandits huddled together and launched what seemed to them to be a fierce charge towards the barracks.

"A rabble!" Gu Xiao stood in the center of the barracks, at this moment his internal strength had recovered seventy percent, and his originally pale face was now a little more dizzy. Through the fence, looking at the green forest thieves who had launched a charge towards the barracks, Gu Xiao said disdainfully at the moment.

"Shoot in three stages, release the arrow!" In Gu Xiao's eyes, these green forest thieves were simply here to send them to death. Therefore, after disdainfully evaluating them, he gave the order for the slaughter in the concept of his very professional military strategist.

Sou! There was a muffled sound.

After receiving Gu Xiao's order, the five hundred carefully selected archers immediately divided into three sections and began to aim and shoot. In the first stage, more than a hundred divine arm bows shot out deadly crossbow arrows in an instant, shooting straight towards these rushing green forest pirates.

"Ahh "Ouch!" "Help!" ……

After the first crossbowman finished shooting, the second crossbowman quickly picked up and began to shoot.

The power of the divine arm bow is endless, but in an instant, these green forest thieves shot a person on his back, and many crossbow arrows were shot through the body of a person in front of him, and then shot into the body of the person behind, and even some crossbow arrows could fall weakly after shooting four or five enemies.

In the face of this deadly crossbow arrow, the green forest thieves, who were originally not afraid of death, were shot to death by two or three hundred brothers one after another, and finally no one dared to stupidly step forward and send them to death.

In the barracks, the crossbowmen had already changed once, and the five hundred crossbowmen were ready again.

Gu Xiao stood in the barracks, looking at everything that was happening outside, his cold expression was not moved in the slightest, for him, this little battle was really nothing. Because he has long been accustomed to seeing life and death, whether it is the life and death of others or his own, it is nothing new to him.

"Brothers, let's spread out and rush with light power!" At this time, the green forest thieves who came one after another in the distance finally got smarter and proposed such a solution.

Soon, this approach was adopted by everyone.

After a cup of tea, two or three hundred scattered green forest thieves once again launched an attack on the barracks. It's just that after suffering a loss, these green forest thieves finally didn't dare to continue to rush up, on the contrary, this time the formation was much more scattered.

"Keep shooting!" Looking at the green forest thieves who were scattered and showed off their light skills one by one, the corners of Gu Xiao's mouth finally showed a smile, but this smile was still full of mockery.

He never thought that he could wipe out these enemies with these crossbowmen. For him, this crossbowman can only be regarded as an appetizer, so after seeing the reaction of these green forest thieves, he immediately ordered his subordinates to continue to shoot as many people as they could.

Immediately after that, he began to prepare the second course.

At this moment, in his barracks, five hundred spearmen had already formed a spear formation and were waiting at the gate of the barracks. (To be continued.) )