182. Pre-war preparations (kneeling and begging for subscription)
Now that Chu He has decided to expand his army, and the Qianyuan Guard has reached 3,000 people, he doesn't care that others know that the bandits in Niujiao Mountain and Wolf Head Mountain are controlled by him.
When he arrived at Wolfshou Mountain, he was very satisfied when he saw these elite bandits from Wolfshou Mountain, who were strong and stubborn, and their momentum was calm.
Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi did not live up to his expectations in the end, and the bandits of Shuangfeng Mountain did not waste his rice and grain.
Compared with the bandits in Wolfshou Mountain, the bandits on the side of Niujiao Mountain are much worse.
In the final analysis, Chu Mu and Chu Shi are just two ordinary hunters, and their abilities are not as good as Chu Heizi and Chu Yuan, who have relatively flexible brains.
These bandits in Wolfshou Mountain have almost never seen the Chu River with their own eyes, and when they saw the Chu River leading the crowd to come, the bandits in the rear quickly changed their formation, and hundreds of bandits who pressed the formation formed a half-moon formation to stop the Chu River.
Hundreds of strong bandits stared at Chu He calmly, their spears were like forests, and their iron knives were unsheathed, although they didn't know what their real combat power was, but this kind of posture could really scare off many enemies.
The bandits who came with Chu He, who were the henchmen of Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi, saw the bandits blocking the way, and suddenly said with a sinking face: "What are you doing?"
"This is Captain Chu He Chu of Qinghe Village's Qianyuanwei, don't hurry up and get out of the way!"
Among the bandits who pressed the formation, a strong man wearing leather armor and holding an all-steel Mo knife walked out, obviously the small leader of Wolf Head Mountain, he looked at Chu He who was riding on the black biao horse suspiciously, and then said in a deep voice: "Where the duty is, don't be careless, Ma San, you wait a minute!"
As he spoke, he pinched his fingers to his lips and let out a clear whistle.
The mountain road is narrow, and there are steep cliffs on both sides, Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi, who are on the mountain road, did not notice the situation here, heard the whistle, turned their eyes, and found that there was movement here.
He commanded in a low voice, and there were bandits waving the order flag next to him, sending out the flag, and the bandits who were blocking Chu He only then arched their hands and said to Chu He: "Captain Chu, how offended! Captain Chu is invited!"
The bandits blocking the road withdrew their knives and guns with a bang and made way of a passage.
Chu He would not blame them, and he forbade it, it was he who asked Chu Yuan and the two of them to train the bandits, obviously in this regard, Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi did a very good job.
Compared with Wolf Head Mountain, although the bandits in Niujiao Mountain are also strong, they lack discipline in the end, giving people the feeling of a rabble, and these bandits in Wolf Head Mountain have the momentum of the army.
After Chu He came back, he instructed Chu Shi and Chu Mu to strengthen discipline training, and he hadn't been to Niujiao Mountain for a long time, and he didn't know what the situation was over there.
Chu He took Qianyuanwei into the mountain road, Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi both came to salute, Chu He At this time, he had already opened the eye of heaven and checked the bandits of the Twin Peaks Mountain opposite.
Gan Tian's situation, Chu He has checked it before, it is indeed quite powerful, the first three attributes are all over 100, and the spiritual power is not weak, and it has condensed a rare dual-attribute high-grade wind thunder martial gall, which has two improved effects like Chu He's overlord martial courage.
This wind and thunder gall can not only increase the speed by three times, but also contain the power of thunder, which can paralyze the opponent, the destructive power is amazing, and the power is increased by three times.
Xu Jing's strength is also much stronger than before, and he has been promoted to the Blood Condensation Realm.
However, his attributes are considered to be ordinary levels, and the three attributes are at the level of forty or fifty, and what is condensed is a decent low-grade swift martial arts, which can only increase the speed by fifty percent.
The more than 100 strong bandits in the mountain path are all martial arts who have cultivated martial arts, most of them are Qi Induction Realm martial artists, and a few are Tibetan Essence Realm martial artists.
Obviously, this time the bandits from the Twin Peaks Mountain came to transport grain, and at the same time, they also came to show off their strength.
After all, the two sides have already agreed to attack Fenglai County, and Gan Tian also wants Chu He to know the strength of Shuangfeng Mountain, and strive for greater benefits, bringing the elite of Shuangfeng Mountain.
It's a pity that at the foot of the Wolf's Head Mountain, the bandits of Twin Peaks Mountain were stopped by the bandits of Wolf's Head Mountain, and compared with each other, the bandits of Twin Peaks Mountain were frustrated and found that they were obviously showing off their strength to find the wrong target.
Even if their individual combat strength exceeds that of the Wolf Head Mountain bandits, but in the military war, the slight gap in individual force can be ignored, whether it is Gan Tian or Xu Jing, they all think that the Shuangfeng Mountain bandits are not necessarily the opponents of the Wolf Head Mountain bandits.
Especially the bandits in Wolfshou Mountain, the armor is complete, and there is a mess on this side of Wolfshou Mountain, there are everything, iron knives, wooden guns, wooden sticks, knives, hammers, iron forks, maces, etc., it is rare to have armor on their bodies, and some are also simple leather armor.
Such a stark contrast made the bandits in Shuangfeng Mountain embarrassed and showed off their strength, and their actions became embarrassing, and their momentum was very low.
Chu He saw the situation of the bandits in Shuangfeng Mountain, and sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that the bandits of Shuangfeng Mountain who used to have a bad reputation and deterred Datong County are nothing more than that, there is no problem in fighting a good battle, and I am afraid that I can't count on it.
But no matter what, as long as Gan Tian is willing to fight, Twin Peaks Mountain has enough qualifications to join forces with the Hidden Abyss Guard.
After all, Gan Tian has the strong combat power of the Martial Sect in the later stage, and I am afraid that he will not be much worse than his master Qin Shengnan.
You must know that Qin Shengnan can't make it to the Zhongqian Dragon List, Gan Tianshang, even if it is ninety-nine, his combat power is leveraged.
With him to deal with that four-grade Fangshi in Fenglai County, he will definitely be able to greatly reduce the casualties of Qianyuanwei.
Of course, Chu He didn't think that Gan Tian would necessarily be better than the master before the martial arts were broken, after all, the attributes were mutually restrictive, and the previous Qin Shengnan was also qualified to impact the Diving Dragon List.
Her mountain martial courage is perverted enough, and she almost lost even the fifth-grade martial arts sect under her, Chu He suspects that Shi Zunzhi is not on the middle hidden dragon list, I am afraid that he is unwilling to be at the bottom of the list, and intends to improve his strength to the limit of the fourth-grade level, so he will hit the front row of the middle hidden dragon list in one fell swoop.
Judging from the strong character of the beautiful teacher, this is very likely. Chu He didn't believe that a fourth-rank martial sect that could almost defeat a fifth-grade scribe would not even be able to enter the middle hidden dragon list.
Anyway, judging from the attributes of Gan Tian and the previous Qin Shengnan, Chu He felt that the beautiful teacher was more powerful.
After seeing Gan Tian, Chu He arched his hand from afar and said, "Brother Yuanba, please forgive me." Earlier, he was careless and forgot to inform the brother of Wolf Head Mountain, which almost caused a misunderstanding. ”
The bandits of Wolfshou Mountain were also looking at Chu He curiously at this time, and it was a little hard to believe that this half-sized boy was now the controller of Changding Township, and his troops were even stronger than the officers and soldiers of Datong County.
They also know that in fact, the big boss and the second boss are both from Chu He, and Wolf Shoushan is also a soldier under Chu He.
However, the bandits did not make any noise.
Gan Tian's expression was a little complicated, and then he smiled: "Actually, I was too anxious, so I directly pulled people over without notifying you in advance." ”
He paused for a moment and said with a sigh: "Brother Qianyuan's soldiers and horses are really strong and disciplined, Yuan Ba really admires them!"
Chu He smiled: "Brothers of Shuangfeng Mountain, it's not bad. Brothers, please come with me!"
Chu Yuan and Chu Heizi also led the men and horses to withdraw from the mountain road at this time, allowing the bandits and convoys of Shuangfeng Mountain to pass smoothly.
On the way back to Qinghe Village, Chu He secretly observed the situation of the people in Shuangfeng Mountain many times, and it was obvious that they were very envious of the stability and peace of Changding Township today.
When passing through the rice field, everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the heavy rice, swallowing saliva in their throats, looking at their situation, I am afraid that the shortage of food is more serious than what Gan Tian said.
Outside Qinghe Village, three thousand stone rice grains have been stacked next to the village road, and there are hundreds of reserve guards holding blades to guard them.
Gan Tian thanked Chu He again, and then greeted Xu Jing with his hands and carried bags of rice and grain onto the ox cart and carriage.
At this time, you can find the difference between the bandits of Shuangfeng Mountain and the bandits of Wolf Head Mountain.
Many drivers who were so hungry that their eyes were blue even secretly loosened the bag, grabbed a handful of raw rice and stuffed it into their mouths, and devoured it.
Gan Tian Xu Jing felt even more ashamed, and shouted with a black face that the old bandit waved his whip and beat many people before he could barely suppress it.
In the past, the discipline of the bandits in Shuangfeng Mountain was not bad, but the coachmen who were responsible for transporting rice and grain were basically newly recruited homeless people, and Shuangfeng Mountain was not like Chu He, and the newcomers had to go through strict discipline training and ideological education, so the discipline was naturally not much better.
The burlap bags loaded with rice grains can hold 200 catties of rice grain and 3,000 stone rice grains, which is actually just 1,500 bags.
The mountain people here generally have two or three hundred catties of strength, and those who can be recruited into the Shuangfeng Mountain are basically strong men, and there are many people with four or five hundred catties of strength, and those who have practiced martial arts can lift a bag of rice grain with one hand.
Hundreds of people worked together, each carrying three or five bags, and in a blink of an eye, most of the rice grain was loaded onto the car.
Gan Tian saw that he had loaded the rice and grain, and he didn't have anything to do with Chu He, so he said goodbye, and then took two hundred ox carts and carriages, quickly set on the road, and rushed back to Shuangfeng Mountain.
I don't know where the Twin Peaks got so many oxen and carriages.
However, it is obvious that this is already the limit of the cars that can be dispatched by the Shuangfeng Mountain, because the cars are not enough, many bandits from the Shuangfeng Mountain carry rib clamps on their shoulders and move hundreds of bags of rice and grain by manpower.
Chu He also had a headache when he saw the situation of the Shuangfeng Mountain grain transportation team, and it was indeed a trouble to transport rice and grain in this mountainous area.
Because of the restrictions of the road, it is impossible for oxen and horses to be built in Dali, even if he gathers the cattle and horses in Changding Township, it is estimated that it is only two or three thousand, and to form a convoy, the rice and grain transported at one time are only twenty or thirty thousand stones.
It seems that we have to learn the Ben method of Shuangfeng Mountain, and take the displaced people out, tens of thousands of displaced people resist two stones per person, and the rice and grain transported back are more than the convoy.
As for whether or not Fenglai County can be captured, Chu He really hasn't considered this issue.
In his opinion, the Qianyuan Guard, who he had trained for so long, had spent a lot of strong bones and blood pills and demon honey, and more than half of them had been trained into a golden bell jar, plus he and Gan Tian, two powerhouses equivalent to the four-rank martial arts sect, could not capture Fenglai County, so they could just find a stone and kill them.
As for the great cause of rebellion or anything, there is no need to think about it.
The next thing is also monotonous, strengthening training, organizing people to harvest in the autumn, collecting cattle and horses to build carts, and so on.
Chu He and Jiang Wei and Chu Wu took the map to study, including the situation in Fenglai County, as well as the dangerous terrain in various places, the arrangement of the Yellow Turban Army bandits in Shuangma County, and so on.
In addition, once Fenglai County is captured, what will be the reaction of the Yellow Turban Army, what route will it take to aid Fenglai County, and attack the grain convoy, these things must also be studied in detail.
This battle can be regarded as the first battle of the Qianyuan Guard, and it must be planned carefully and foolproof.
Regardless of Chu He, Jiang Wei, and Chu Wu, when they were studying tactics, they didn't consider the help of Shuangfeng Mountain.
In their opinion, relying on others is always unreliable, as long as the Twin Peaks Mountain does not add to the chaos, what they really value is just Gantian.
The three of Chu He, in fact, are all chasing ducks to the shelves, and none of them really have the experience of leading the army to fight.
However, three stinkers are better than one Zhuge Liang.
Chu He has many wonderful ideas, has 2,000 years of experience in later generations, knows a little bit of strategy and tactics, and has put forward a lot of strategies for attacking cities.
Such as building siege vehicles, catapults, etc., and even proposing whether it is possible to dig tunnels to enter Fenglai County, and sending elites to pretend to be homeless people to infiltrate Fenglai County.
And Jiang Wei is calm and thoughtful, which just complements Chu He's whimsy, and he has really studied and figured out a relatively safe way to capture Fenglai County in the past few days.
In this battle, Chu He is not to win, but to win beautifully, try to reduce the casualties of Qianyuanwei, and give Qianyuanwei a chance to train.
A large number of spies from Changding Township were dispatched to infiltrate Fenglai County separately, and the situation in Fenglai County was not mentioned.
And Jiang Wei, at this time, gave Chu He a suggestion.
Training!
Instead of putting the first opportunity to train troops in Fenglai County, it is better to let Qianyuanwei see the cruelty of war early!
Now Qianyuanwei only controls Changding Township, and Datong County, but there are four townships, and Changding Township is just the township with the smallest number of people and the smallest area.
The other Wuqing Township, Heishan Township, and Wutan Township have a total population of almost 100,000 people, and the area is even larger than 5,000 or 6,000 square kilometers.
Now the soldiers and horses of Datong County are shrinking in the city and dare not come out, and the situation in the other three townships is extremely bad, with displaced people everywhere, mountain bandits rampant, and starvation all over the wilderness.
According to Jiang Wei's meaning, since Changding Township is firmly in his hands, why not send troops to the other three townships to exterminate a large number of mountain bandits and homeless people, rescue the villagers, and let the villagers harvest grain with a little peace of mind!
In order to say that Chu He sent troops, Jiang Wei also listed three benefits.
First, military training.
Needless to say, this one. After all, most of the Qianyuan guards have not really seen blood, only when they see blood, they are real soldiers, and in the siege of Fenglai County, they will definitely be able to better exert their combat power and reduce casualties.
Second, it can win over the hearts and minds of the villagers in Datong County.
At this time, helping the villagers to quell the bandits will definitely make the villagers grateful to the Chu River and bring great luck to the Chu River.
Third, the Qianyuanwei will have to go out sooner or later, and now is an excellent opportunity. If all the grain in the fields is wasted, it is not necessary for Qinghe Village to take out grain to help the villagers in the end.
These three reasons, as long as there is one, can tempt Chu He to send troops, not to mention that the three are complete. 210