Chapter Eighty-Six: Beginning to Take Shape
With the addition of these three cottage bandits to the Flying Eagle Society, the number of masters of the martial arts realm in the Flying Eagle Society has also increased by several people. In order to facilitate unified management, Ye Ying imitated the model of the Liangshan bandits in the previous dynasty and implemented the leader responsibility system.
All the bandits are controlled by the big boss Ye Ying, and fifty or sixty of the bandits are the big boss Ye Ying's personal soldiers and are directly responsible for him. The rest of the leaders, "White-faced Fox" Jiang Jin, concurrently served as the Left Army Division, and "Miao Shusheng" Ge Shun concurrently served as the Right Army Division.
Among all the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society, Ye Ying's kung fu is the highest, he is the only second-grade martial artist, and a silver spear in his hand makes him superb, and everyone gave him a bandit name of "jade-faced silver spear".
In addition, the leaders of the "Jumping Tiger" Ge Shun, the "Black King Kong" Chen Gang, the "Evil Zhong Kui" You Tong, the "Hungry Eagle" Zhu Tong, and the "Rouge Leopard" Gui Sanniang led thirty or forty combat personnel to be responsible for daily management and training.
Although each leader has a subordinate with him, all personnel must abide by the rules of the village, and those who violate the rules of the village will be punished by the criminal law hall. In wartime, the bandits of each department are uniformly dispatched by the cottage, and the leaders are not allowed to lead people to loot or attack without permission.
In addition to this, the Flying Eagle Society Cottage also divides the entire area into a military zone and a non-militarized zone, and all non-combatants are not allowed to enter the military zone at will.
According to the suggestion of the military adviser Jiang Jin, the cottage also required all combatants and non-combatants not to leave the cottage at will without the permission of the cottage. In particular, the leaders are not allowed to bring their families down the mountain without Ye Ying's consent.
Although this article seems a little unreasonable and a bit hostage to family members, it can largely avoid the defection of the leader and others, so after weighing it, the cottage also agreed to this regulation.
After the three cottages were merged into the Flying Eagle Club, there were indeed some discomforts in the early stage, and even some small frictions occurred. But after some adjustments, the situation has changed a lot.
The newly joined bandits found that the cottage was indeed as they said at the beginning, treating everyone fairly and justly, which made many people quickly strengthen their sense of identity with the cottage and began to sincerely consider themselves members of the Flying Eagle Club.
After many new bandits returned to their hearts, Jiang Jin, the military advisor in charge of this matter, set his sights on the bandits led by Qiu Ba in Luofengjian, and from beginning to end, Jiang Jin had no intention of letting this bandit exist independently.
I communicated with Qiuba several times, but this guy always didn't get in, and he was always unwilling to lead the crowd to join the Flying Eagle Club. But with Qiuba's talent, how can he compete with this resourceful "white-faced fox".
Since Qiu Ba did not cooperate, Jiang Jin decisively chose to bypass him, he found a middleman and contacted the second leader of Luofengjian Cottage, who was a guy who was greedy for a small bargain.
After getting the benefits from Jiang Jin, this guy quickly took action, and he took advantage of the longing of many ordinary bandits in Luofengjian for the Flying Eagle Club, and quickly attracted a large number of people. The guy then found an opportunity to get Khuba and his henchmen drunk and killed, and then led the crowd into the Eagles.
Qiu Ba is also a very scheming figure, but he never dreamed that he would die in a daze at the hands of the second-in-command whom he personally promoted.
Ye Ying has never had a good impression of people who like to betray, so when the bandits of Luo Fengjian joined the Flying Eagle Society, the second-in-command who betrayed Qiu Ba did not get the position of leader as he wished, and only became a small leader who did not have much real power. But at this time, even if he wanted to regret it, he had no choice but to accept the arrangement honestly.
After successfully pocketing the bandits of Luofengjian, all the forces within a radius of fifty miles belonged to the Flying Eagle Society. Because these bandits are all patchwork of various forces, it is difficult to form an overall joint force, and of course the combat power will be very poor. As a result, Shanzhai paused the pace of expansion and focused on integrating existing strengths.
During combat training, Ye Ying found a very difficult problem, that is, there was a serious lack of leaders who were good at training in the cottage. Among all the leaders of the Flying Eagle Society, only Chen Gang had been in the army, and the rest were ordinary people from all walks of life, who had not undergone any formal military training, and of course did not know how to train soldiers.
There was no other choice, Ye Ying had to let Chen Gang concurrently serve as the head coach of the entire cottage, responsible for the training of all combatants on weekdays. But Chen Gang's knowledge is also very limited, and many times Ye Ying, who is a big boss, has to do it himself, and in addition to hard work, Ye Ying also has a strong thirst for military talents.
But Ye Ying also knew that these generals who were good at training soldiers were also very popular in the military. Just like Cao Zhen, the commander of the previous recruit battalion, although he has no forces behind him and is not good at welcoming his superiors, he has also achieved the position of the head of the first battalion, which is because he is good at training.
Therefore, it is rare for these officers who are good at training non-commissioned officers to be willing to become bandits, so Ye Ying had to hide this idea in his heart for the time being, looking forward to the opportunity to recruit such military talents.
In addition to the problem of combat training, there is another thing that also gives Ye Ying a headache, that is, the animal and plant resources in the mountains are very rich, and a lot of them have been collected in the cottage these days. Except for a small number that is sold in a market dozens of miles away, most of them are hoarded in cottages.
These piles of things make the cottage people very nerve-wracking, because everyone really can't find a way to sell them, those wood, ore and medicinal herbs and tea are better, and they can store them for a long time. But the prey hunted in the mountains cannot be kept for a long time.
After racking his brains and thinking about it, a name in the depths of Ye Ying's memory suddenly emerged. Ma Zhengyuan is a tea merchant, in fact, in addition to tea, his business involves many aspects.
Ye Ying met this person on the way to the Crazy Lion Barracks after leaving the mountain village, and in just a few days of contact, Ye Ying found that Ma Zhengyuan was a very business-minded person. At the same time, this person has a wide range of channels, and through it it is likely to find a market for hoarding materials in the cottage.
Ye Ying remembered that Ma Zhengyuan's home was in Yuhe County, which was more than 200 miles away from the cottage where the Flying Eagle Club was located, and the home of his good brother Gander was also in this Yuhe County. Thinking of this, Ye Ying decided to go down the mountain in person to find Ma Zhengyuan, a tea merchant, and visit Gander's family by the way.
After settling everything in the cottage, Ye Ying embarked on the road to Yuhe County, accompanied by Ge Niuer and Ge Gen, who were Ye Ying's loyal supporters and now Ye Ying's personal commanders.
"Great boss, this mountain is called Yongquan Mountain, do you know why it has such a name?" Seeing Ye Ying looking at a standing mountain peak with interest, Ge Gen on the side said.
"Oh, so tell me where he came from?" The mountains that Ye Ying has seen are all mountains with rich vegetation, like this kind of mountain that is dominated by strange stones and not lush with plants, he has never seen it, so he is very interested in it.
"That's because there are so many hot springs in the mountain, hence the name of the mountain." Kudzu said with a smile.
Ge Gen's words aroused Ye Ying's interest, he studied medicine with Feng Wanli, the sixth master with the title of Medicine Eagle, for many years, and knew that this hot spring could not only cure diseases and strengthen the body, but also be of great help to his cultivation of the Zhimu Heart Sutra Internal Strength Method.
"Go find a spring for yourself! We're not interested in that, let's just watch the horses out there! When they came to the mountain, Ge Gen and Ge Niu Er were unwilling to go together.
In this case, Ye Ying did not force it, he went to the mountain alone, all the way, and soon found several springs, large and small, each gurgling with warm spring water, steaming everywhere, the mist was thick, like a fairyland on earth.
At the place where the spring water flowed, several pools of different sizes were formed, and Ye Ying searched everywhere and found a huge hot spring pool, which was flat and curved, making it impossible to see where the other end was.
After testing the water temperature and thinking that it was just right, and seeing that there was no one around, Ye Ying stripped and walked into the pool and sat down in a corner. The natural hot springs, without the slightest artificial mixture, their salty smell mixed with the smell of sulfur, pure natural clarity, made him feel refreshed, and the fatigue of the day quickly disappeared completely.
Next, Ye Ying sat in the pool again, guiding the internal force in his body, and circulating with the running route of the Zhimu Heart Sutra, and in a moment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that while meditating in this hot spring, the increase speed of internal force was really faster than usual.
Since entering the second-grade upper realm stage, Ye Ying has always insisted on practicing, hoping to break the bottleneck and become a third-grade martial artist, but the growth rate of the internal force in his body is too slow, and he has never seen any hope of a breakthrough.
But meditating in this hot spring today, Ye Ying vaguely felt that he seemed to have found a chance to break through the bottleneck, which made him ecstatic, after nearly two hours of meditation, Ye Ying's body has improved a lot, although he has not broken through to the realm of the third-grade martial artist, but he has also gained a lot.
The growth rate of internal force is getting slower and slower, Ye Ying finally knew that it was time to stop, so he terminated the circulation of internal force in his body, opened his eyes, but felt that his body was very comfortable, and his mood improved.
Looking at the turquoise pool, Ye Ying became interested, he decided to swim in the pool for a while, since he was a child, he has not dealt with water less, his water nature is very good, sometimes as soon as he dives into the water, he can swim a long distance.
No, he started to enter the water from a corner of the pool, and when Ye Ying emerged from the water again, he was already far away, this feeling made him very happy, he dived into the water again, and went in another direction.
When he emerged from the water again, a large piece of snow white suddenly appeared in front of Ye Ying's eyes, he had never seen such a scene, and there was a brief pause in his mind, which made him completely stunned.
A scream woke Ye Ying up, and only then did he react that this piece of snow white turned out to be a person's back, and through this scream, it was not difficult to judge that this white back belonged to a young woman.