Chapter 7 Organizing the Army in the Forest
In fact, at this time, who dared to pursue behind Cao Mang, except for the branch of the Guanning Army, who else could there be.
The general headed by him is called Luo Younian, who is the deputy general of the Guanning Army. In the final battle of Heishuiyu, he was placed in the rear army to assist in the pursuit of the defeated thieves.
The Guanning army defeated the vanguard of the thieves at the beginning of its arrival, and this credit must be not small. But there are only a few dozen heads on his credit book, which is really not a good record.
There was no way, when the thieves were defeated, those who ran slowly were all cut down by the brother troops in front, and most of the people who ran fast were all horses owned by everyone, and it was also blamed on the superiors who were assigned to him, only a team of 100 people.
It is true that they are good at field warfare, but they can chase them outside, they are not familiar with the place, and it is too dangerous to rush into the mountains, so he can only lead the team to kill some minions in the field.
Finally, in the afternoon, I found a team of dozens of small fish, thinking that I had collected this small fish, and there were also hundreds of people who kept accounts, and the credit was not great, but they could also make a hard work.
Unexpectedly, they also let people put one in the air, pounced, and then hurriedly adjusted the direction, hurried overnight, and finally let them find a village in the back night.
Scouts were sent to reconnoitre, and a large number of horseshoe prints were found in the direction of the entrance of the village. By all indications, he concluded that the team they were pursuing had entered the village.
I don't know if there are other bandits hiding in the village, but after thinking about it, I'm afraid of him?
They are taking the opportunity of a big victory, the momentum is like a rainbow, the thieves have suffered a heavy defeat, it must be a low morale, plus they are the Guanning army, the best at fast attacks, not to mention such a small village, there are not many people to hide, even if they will meet the thieves' thousand-person team, he will dare to go forward and touch it.
The leader of this Guanning army is Zu Kuan, who has always been arrogant, and Luo Younian, as the deputy general, has been infected by it.
"What a rabble." Luo Younian shouted, "We have all come to the outside of the village, they are still sleeping inside, brothers, after this battle, we can go back to recover with peace of mind, and cheer me up." ”
He quickly adjusted his ranks, gathered in front of the formation into an arrow-like shape, and put out two long groups of cavalry in the rear, whipping horses and rushing out, like sharp arrows, smashing the yellow dragon.
The sentry posts originally arranged at the entrance of the village were all Yang Taisui's people, although Hu Sier, out of caution, also sent two people to prevent trouble.
However, they did not do a good job in their psychological construction, Yang Taisui has always been brave, they only think that they are pretentious, and they are tired and sleepy after the middle of the night, their eyelids fight, where can they resist, and they squint one after another.
When they found out that something was wrong, the hundred-man team of Guan Ning's army had already come to them, and the first two horsemen smashed their skulls with their sticks in their hands, leaving only two screams.
In the middle of the village, Hu Si'er jumped up when he heard the sound, a strong sense of foreboding, and the torrent reached his chest like a torrent, and he seemed to be able to hear the sound of his own heartbeat.
Years of experience in the army, told him to suffer!
"Everyone is up, the enemy has hit the door, and they are still sleeping!"
He scolded loudly, pulled out his long knife, and rushed out of the courtyard, in the same room, more than twenty brothers, followed one after another, and the brothers in the surrounding courtyard, a little slower.
But he saw the torches in Guan Ningjun's hands spreading little by little, like a fire dragon with teeth and claws.
It's all late.
It was as if the fisherman had lowered his net, and behind the arrows of the Guan Ning army, he knocked out a team of cavalry on the left and right, and quickly detoured to surround the several courtyards they occupied. Luo Younian lined up in the center of the arrows and ordered the front army to set fire to it.
When the thieves heard the sound and dispersed, they were buried in the alleyway, the sound of cannons was repeated, and the entrainment screams were difficult to distinguish, and Hu Sier scolded repeatedly: "It's all a group of rice buckets, how did you put the officers and soldiers in?" What about the fucking Yang Tai Sui, where did he die? ”
After three rounds of cannons, the generals collected their knives, and even didn't bother to draw their knives, using the fire guns in their hands as sledgehammers, looking at the head of the thief, and smashing it down.
The two cavalry armies on the flank, running dozens of paces, quickly interspersed in the middle, but in just a quarter of an hour, blood was sprinkled all over the walls of several lanes, and the lively village once again regained its tranquility.
Luo Younian, while ordering the people below to harvest the heads, ordered the others to search the whole village, and soon, they found the villagers who had been imprisoned.
From the mouths of these villagers who thought they had been saved, Luo Younian learned that there was originally a team here, the number was about three or four hundred, that is to say, the two teams had a conflict here, and the other party abandoned them.
What he annihilated now was not the team they were chasing, but another unlucky one, but it didn't matter, it was all a credit, wasn't it?
The other team, three or four hundred people, has been gone for some hours, and now if you chase it again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to annihilate it for ten days and half a month.
After asking, I picked a few that could have long eyes, played all over the place, and then selected some that still had strength, and a few heads were put into the credit book, and I was satisfied with the troops and returned to life.
In fact, Luo Younian's judgment was quite accurate.
After Yang Taisui took the team out, he hurried all night, and at this time he had already run sixty or seventy miles, stopped in a small forest to rest, and they could no longer hear the sound of artillery fire in the rear.
Even if Guan Ningjun wanted to chase it, he couldn't catch up.
Taking advantage of the stop to repair this effort, Yang Taisui spent half an hour reorganizing the people below into five teams. He no longer follows the old camp set, after a few years in the army, although they are no longer in the same sky as the officers and soldiers, but they also have to admit that the other people's system is more useful for fighting against the enemy.
As soon as the number of people got up, when they arrived on the battlefield, they asked him to command hundreds of teams by himself, how big the hell did he have to be loud?
He gave Han Bin and Cao Mang, each with a hundred people, most of whom were old brothers left by the old department, and they were named after 100 households. The remaining old brothers, fifty, made up for the ten newly recruited ones, and distributed them to Yang Kai, called the deputy hundred households.
Yang Taisui left fifty people as guards, and most of the others were assigned to each management team, and the captain governed the team together, in fact, the arrangement of ten commanders had been formed, and finally he arranged five management teams for Cai Qian to lead a hundred people, and his name did not change, he still served as his small management team.
Cai Qian snorted twice, but his heart went straight to his mother, had there ever been a small pipe team with only five pipes in the camp?
Although he was reluctant, he could only accept it, who told him that he didn't have a good reputation under the roof of others? He hated the boss of the Cheng official army.
The key is that Toucheng doesn't bring him with him!
Now those brothers used to be in the official barracks, full of wine and food, and slept well, right? I can only be a turtle with a shrunken head here, and I don't like it horizontally.
Arranged in this way, the control of the entire team can be regarded as in the hands of Yang Taisui.
Now in this situation, King Chuang was arrested, and the most powerful peasant army was scattered, which was a major blow to the rebel army fighting in Shaanxi, and it was also the time when the defeated soldiers were really at a loss.
The people brought back by Han Bin and the new ones who came in, even if there were a few who were not convinced, were not familiar with each other. Most of the rogues in the group are divided and united, united against the enemy, and Yang Taisui is indeed in a higher official position than them, and judging from the situation in the village, he can protect calves, have a good brain, and fight bravely.
Almost none of these qualities were seen in their previous leaders, so what more could they ask for? It's kind of resignation.
In the end, Yang Taisui also pulled Yang Kai to the center of the team, Yang Kai killed his own people, where is the old brother, naturally there is no need to emphasize more, the rules should be understood.
In the minds of these newcomers, they must not leave a bad impression, lest there be any mistakes in commanding the team in the future.
"Brothers, don't be in a hurry to lie down and rest all the way, bandage and bandage the wounds on your body, and take care of your horses, whether we can survive in the future depends on it.
If you are not familiar with each other, you can also chat, and only when you are familiar with each other can you cooperate with each other, our equipment is not as good as that of the officers and soldiers, on the battlefield, what do you rely on? Isn't it just by relying on better cooperation than them that everyone has a chance to live? ”
Yang Taisui pulled Yang Kai to sit down very down-to-earth, "Look, this is my brother Yang Kai, there are still three months left, he is only nineteen years old, and he has already held the lives of more than 100 officers and soldiers in his hands, and he rushed out of Heishuiyu with me all the way, he is a full man." ”
In order to avoid making people think that Yang Taisui was singing, Han Bin and Cao Mang did not speak.
Hearing this, a forty-year-old steward sitting next to Cai Qian nodded again and again, he had a handful of goatee, was lean, took Yang Taisui's words, and said:
"He is indeed a good man, in the last battle of Heishuiyu Pass, we followed behind the master, I saw Yang Baihu killed a thorough in the Guanning army, and he deserved the name of a small pioneer, when I was as old as him, I still gave them urine at the outside house!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a scattered laughter, and then he saw Cai Qian's face blackened and quickly shut up.
"What a little pioneer." Yang Taisui saw that someone took the initiative to come out to speak, and the old brother he prepared didn't have to appear, so he laughed, "I don't know this brother's surname?" Where are you from? ”
The man shouted at Cai Qian, and then said: "The head of the house is smiling, I am from Shanxi, I have no high name, Wei Qianfu, I have been a scholar outside the courtyard since I was a child, and I have read a few stinky books, which are not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." ”
"According to me, stinky books are more useful than sage books, look at my little brother, who was sent to a private school by his father since he was a child, and he was stupid to read what a saint is.
Shanxi is good, it has always been a place for heroes, I have a fifth brother, who is also from Shanxi, and he escaped into Henan, met us, Chongzhen for eight years, in order to cover the old palm action, to outnumber, to meet the Tianxiong army of King Lu Yan, beheaded eleven people of the Tianxiong army, and the broken hand is still fighting, are there any Shanxi people here? ”
"I am, I am ...... too" was asked, and everyone responded.
Yang Taisui stretched out his hand and pressed it, and then said: "It turns out that we have so many heroes in Shanxi here, my fifth brother, a family of twelve people, my father and mother gave birth to seven sisters, and he is a son when he is up."
The imperial court levied three taxes at the same time, and he wanted to help the Northeast, but in the end, he didn't see a bird. But it has suffered us ordinary people.
My brother, he was first robbed of land by the squire, two of the six sisters were killed, three were robbed, and the remaining one was tied up by the beggar to eat again, and in a fit of rage, he killed the squire's family of thirty-six people, beheaded the beggars of the whole village, and escaped. ”
Hearing this, the people around them seem to be ignited, and they can get to the point where they are today, who has not had some tragic experiences.
With the introduction of Yang Taisui's words, everyone fell into memories one after another, and began to curse the court and the squires for the culprits, and there were many of them, and when they talked to each other, they couldn't help but shed tears when they talked about their true temperament.
Hearing them scolding for a while, Yang Taisui stretched out his hand and pressed it, "So from then on, I have set a rule in the team, it is okay to rob the village, but we can only do what people do, and it is okay to enter if you want to, if you want me to do it, leave the silver, and dare to shoot at those children, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, I will not let go of any of them."
Recently, everyone must have heard of my brother Yang Kai's murder, and to tell you the truth, if my subordinates did this kind of thing, I would be the first to behead him. How old is that child, eleven or twelve, is that something that people can do? ”
After saying this, everyone suddenly fell into silence again. Gradually, he whispered about Yang Kai's murder, but from a few words, Yang Taisui had already felt that the direction of the wind had changed.
He nodded with satisfaction, stood up, and finally pressed his hand, and then emphasized that he would help the brothers solve the problem of lack of money, and then let the brothers come to his place to introduce themselves one by one, and then went down satisfied.
Yang Kai looked at the back of his eldest brother, and although he understood the last few words as a big pie for everyone, he couldn't help but secretly respect him in his heart.
Yang Taisui has never read a single book, and there are a few big words, but how to say it, he was once the leader of more than 5,000 people, and he has unique experience in gathering the hearts of the army.
pressed his hand three times, not only resolved his embarrassing situation, but also raised his prestige, stabilized the morale of the army, and most importantly, let the rules he set resonate with the people in the team.
Is this something that can be taught in books?
Some people are born to do this.
Yang Kai silently wrote down these things, and everyone in this grove, when they were excited, there were still people who called the nickname of "Little Pioneer" and pulled Yang Kai onto the stage to speak. And the way they looked at Yang Kai was also very different from before.
Throughout the conversation, Yang Kai had also been paying attention to Cai Qian's expression, was this guy soft-tailed or hard-tailed?