In order to solve the problem of supply, Yang Peng was forced to pull out the original backbone, and all the recruit training was handed over to the big brother Zhang Xiang. Zhang Xiang's characteristics are not outstanding, and he usually doesn't have much to say. But he has the best patience and is able to be "bitter" with anyone. Of course, he also has times when he is angry, for example, if you can't complete the training task, Zhao Xiang's old face will collapse, and it will be enough for you to drink a pot. He doesn't scold you, let alone beat you, he just reasoned with you. Once he takes out the big brother style, starting from "I think about the beginning, I was back then", you can talk from morning to night, so that you will automatically surrender.

Yang Peng often talked to his brothers: "The biggest baby in our team is Zhang Xiang's big brother." Without him supporting us in the back, we wouldn't be where we are today. You can be like a demon dog, Big Brother's hard work is in it. You can scold me, but who dares to be disrespectful to Big Brother Zhang Xiang, be careful that Lao Tzu turns his face and doesn't recognize people! Because of Zhang Xiang's comprehensive Zhang Luo, on any peaceful day, Yang Peng slowly became a shopkeeper, staring at the map hanging on the stone wall in a daze all day long.

The time entered the beginning of September, and it was the busy season of farming on the land of the Great Song Dynasty. After more than two months of continuous travel, the six teams that procured supplies finally raised hundreds of people to deal with two years of grain and salt. Zhang Xiang has not been idle in the past two months, in addition to formal military training, that is, to expand the secret camp with new recruits. Because the original cave was halfway up the mountain, it was inconvenient many times, so after research, Zhang Xiang led the new soldiers to dig a new cave at the foot of the mountain.

Yang Peng personally drew a sketch of the excavation plan, requiring that it be conducive to defense and retreat. As a result, this underground labyrinth has become one in, three out, and four holes. One of the holes is hidden in the middle of a cliff, and six ropes are usually prepared for backup. In the event of an emergency, these ropes can be used to escape. The iron miners dug the caves, and they were all very skillful, and the task was completed in three months. Everyone usually moves halfway up the mountain, so the outside world can't see it. But the reserves are all in the cave at the foot of the mountain. The bows and arrows that were originally stored in the Baiyunding Cave have all been moved, and half of the sixty boxes of arrows have been brought over. Baiyunding only left thirty boxes of arrowheads in case of emergency.

The three-dimensional defense plan conceived by Yang Peng has also basically taken shape, and the core position is the machine crossbow originally equipped for the cooking class. Now it has become a crossbow on duty in the secret camp, in a dark castle in the middle of the only way to enter the cave. This bunker was not built out, but dug out, and two people were on duty 24 hours a day. There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart.

Yang Peng saw the grain in storage, and his mood finally improved. It's a pity that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, and it's only been three days since he was happy, and a piece of news that made him thunderous suddenly came! That night, Liu Zhiliang came back from outside reconnaissance, his eyes were red and swollen, and his face was pale. brought Yang Peng a piece of news, which almost made him faint!

It turned out that Liu Zhiliang had always had a soft spot for Biling Town. On the one hand, it was there that Yang Peng let the original eight brothers eat and live in the inn for half a month, not only to take care of their bodies, but also to get up together, so that today's situation is today. On the other hand, at the time of the first temporary station, all his things were brought back from the town of Ridge.

Because of this, whenever there is a chance, Liu Zhiliang will go to Biaoling Town to see the owner of the inn and tailor shop. It has never been interrupted for more than a year, and the villagers in Biling Town also like this young man very much. Although I don't know what Liu Zhiliang does, everyone is willing to get close to him and tell him any news. Last night, when Liu Zhiliang returned from the direction of Xintun, he made a detour to Biling Town again, and found that more than 20 households in the town were hanging filial piety in front of their doors, and there was a lot of mourning! When he found the innkeeper and inquired, Liu Zhiliang almost blew up his lungs!

It turned out that the owner of the tailor shop had a son and a daughter. The fifteen-year-old son attends a private school in Yingzhou, and the thirteen-year-old daughter usually helps at home. Counting up, the tailor shop family of four is still at the middle and upper reaches of the level in Bianling Town, and the small life is still passable. What's bad is that the eldest son was arrested as a laborer on his way home from vacation today! However, after all, he has been studying for many years and has a lot of eyes. Six days ago, he escaped in the middle of the night and returned home. When the old couple heard that the arrested laborers had sneaked out again, they knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly hid their son in a small cave in the back mountain.

Unexpectedly, the afternoon before yesterday, fifteen black-clothed people suddenly came to Bianling Town, and directly broke into the tailor shop to arrest people. Since the shopkeeper's son was not found, the bastards had to take the old tailor away to make up the number. While the two sides were tugging, the thirteen-year-old daughter rushed out to reason with these men in black. This time not only did not help, but caused a catastrophe! Fifteen mongrels tied the old couple at the gate, and then dragged the little girl to the street and stripped them naked, and they actually died in public!

The half-grown boy who was hiding in the back mountain heard his sister's cry tearing his liver and lungs, and he couldn't bear it anymore, so he ran home from the cave, took a hoe and fifteen beasts and fought hard, but was killed by random arrows! The old tailor and his wife had already committed suicide by biting their tongues when their daughter was murdered. In this way, a family of four who are loyal and generous was wiped out! Smack!

Yang Peng was so angry that he smashed the long table out of a big hole with one palm. Then he roared, "Who are those bastards?" Where did they come from? ”

"Big brother, don't worry, the origin of those beasts has been investigated!" Liu Zhiliang gasped fiercely, and then said: "They are all the subordinates of the big boss Cui Futing, and they are currently repairing the road on the front line of Niuxintai. Speaking of this Cui Futing, it was not man-made! ”

It turned out that Cui Futing, the big boss, made his fortune by exploiting the contractor. He turned out to be just a Khitan contractor team to keep work and manage the accounts, and then relied on the Khitan Ye Langhelong to set up the Yihexiang cabinet, and through bribery, he contracted the road from Yingzhou to Yingzhou, mining in the Yingzhou mining area, road repair, bridges, highways and other civil engineering projects from the Khitan.

At most, there were more than 10,000 tenants in Yihexiang's cabinet, and Cui Futing subcontracted the project to medium and small leaders, each of whom generally had 20 workers. When the small head goes to the Yihexiang cabinet to settle, one layer of the total salary must be taken out to Cui Futing. In less than three years, Cui Futing never became a penny, and his assets suddenly reached 2 million taels of silver at that time.

Cui Futing eats people and doesn't spit out bones, and the little bosses at all levels under him are even more like each other, all of them are inhumane miscellaneous pieces! He got the right to mine an iron mine from the Khitans, and then subcontracted it to a small boss named Lu Qixiang.

Lu Qixiang's contracted work was to pay four yuan for every cubic meter of iron ore planed, and the money he paid to the miners was nine copper coins for every carload of coal planed. Not to mention, Lu Qixiang always has a variety of celebrations every month, and the workers must follow them. It's useless if you don't follow it, he has already deducted it from your wages!

A strong laborer is said to earn ten big sons a day, and there are about forty-five copper coins a month, but in fact it is far from the case! Less than one-tenth of the one or twenty copper coins a year can be obtained, and they are still in arrears. More than half of the laborers could only make ends meet, and the rest of the laborers worked hard for a year, but the result was not enough to offset the food expenses and owed Lu Qixiang the food money!

Therefore, if you find that you have been deceived, or that you have been forcibly arrested, you will find out how to escape. To this end, Lu Qixiang's subordinates raised fifty or sixty nursing homes to deal with the fleeing laborers. According to villagers familiar with the situation, Lu Qixiang once executed 97 laborers in public on the banks of the Taizi River on the charge of gathering a crowd to make trouble!

The fifteen miscellaneous pieces that appeared this time were Lu Qixiang's subordinates, who specialized in road construction and maintenance, and another small leader, called Qiu Wancai! According to Liu Zhiliang's reconnaissance of crossing the river, Lu Qixiang and Qiu Wancai are now in charge of repairing the road in the Niuxintai area, and there are more than 130 laborers under their command. But there are more than 50 thugs raised by Qiu Wancai!

"Alright, alright!" Yang Peng smiled angrily: "These damn bastards are really impatient, they dare to do anything wrong around Lao Tzu!" Shi Liancheng, inform the brothers above the deputy squad leader, and immediately give Lao Tzu a meeting! "There are only two contents of the meeting, the first is to listen to Liu Zhiliang's briefing, and before Liu Zhiliang finished speaking, the whole cave has turned upside down! It was the first time Zhao Jinxi had participated in a formal combat meeting, and it was also the first time he had heard of such an ancient tragedy! For a while, the female power was furious, and immediately pulled out her crossbow and slapped it on the conference table: "What are you old men still grinding here, why don't you kill it quickly!" ”

"Big girl, sit down!" Although Zhang Xiang was so angry, he was still able to hold his head: "Since the capital is convened for a meeting, there is naturally a charter." Cui Futing didn't say it for the time being, there were more than fifty people under that Qiu Wancai. You need to sum it up well, and you can't act hastily. "Brothers, be quiet!" Yang Peng pointed to the map and said: "If we want to get to Niuxintai on time, the biggest problem we face is a Taizi River!" The retreat route is also very difficult, because we must capture the culprit alive this time! ”

"So I ordered: Zhang Xiang led a squad and a communications squad to rush to the front line of Sanjiatai in the southeast of Biling Town within three days. Your main task is to cross the river in anticipation of our retreat. This is the most important thing, and there must be no mistakes! Duan Zhixian and Liu Zhiliang's third class, after the meeting, took all the equipment and set off immediately, and the target was Zheng Jiaji. On the one hand, he made a forward stop, and on the other hand, he looked for a place to cross the river, and raised two boats for backup. Cheng Shijie and Zhou Dayong's second class followed me. The cooking squad is in charge of the defense of the secret camp, but now it is necessary to immediately prepare three days' worth of dry food! Break up and prepare separately! ”

Yang Peng knew that this time was different from the past, the previous times were ambushes, and this was the first frontal attack of a small unit. In addition, a few new fighters have been added, and I don't know how well the coordination of the battle will be. Anger is anger, anger is anger. Once they are engaged in combat, commanders at all levels must be cool-headed. Everyone was busy working separately, and Yang Peng was alone in the map meditating, and his two hands kept comparing and drawing on the map. may be too devoted, Zhao Jinxi doesn't know when he will come in or how to sit next to him.

Zhao Jinxi was also very engaged, but she didn't look at the map, but stared at Yang Peng for a moment! What Yang Peng was worried about was not how to annihilate Lu Qixiang, but about a hundred households of the Yingzhou Khitan army! The straight-line distance from Yingzhou to Niuxintai is only more than 20 miles, and it is more than 40 miles along the road. That is, once the battle has begun, it must be resolved within an hour. If the battle is stalemate, the Khitan will be able to rush to the battlefield in an hour if he rides out on horseback.

Although his brothers are not a rabble, they are still very different from the well-trained Khitan army, and a head-on confrontation will definitely be over. After careful planning for a long time, Yang Peng realized that he had too few soldiers available. After arranging reinforcements for one squad, only 20 people from one squad and one machine crossbow squad were left to attack. In terms of firepower density, it is still good, and three machine crossbows are enough for the other party to drink a pot.

With a bang, Yang Peng suddenly slammed his fist on the table, which made Zhao Jinxi jump up in fright. Yang Peng found that there was a big beauty sitting next to him, and he was immediately a little unhappy: "Hey, when did you come over, why didn't you follow Big Brother to set off?" Do you know what the consequences of disobeying military orders are? ”

"Who disobeyed the military order? Who disobeyed the military order? Zhao Jinxi's chest straightened, and he directly hit Yang Peng's chest: "Miss Ben is ordered by Big Brother to come to you as a personal guard!" "Be my bodyguard? Are you kidding me! Yang Peng didn't believe Zhao Jinxi's words, just with his ability, if he didn't have a personal bodyguard, he might be safer. Zhang Xiang is scheming, how could he do such an oolong thing!

Zhao Jinxi didn't pay attention to Yang Peng's set at all: "Believe it or not, anyway, I came on order, followed you every step of the way, and did not violate the military order." "Hehe, I see!" Yang Peng slapped his head suddenly: "Okay, you Zhang Xiang, you actually gave me this set!" "It turned out that Zhang Xiang was ordered to find a ferry, and Zhao Jinxi found him and asked to join the attacking troops. Zhang Xiang suddenly thought that his brother liked to rush to the front the most, and it really didn't look like something that a commander should do. Just give him a burden so he doesn't leave it alone. So he temporarily gave Zhao Jinxi an order, and he came over, and he was justified.

Yang Peng and Zhang Xiang know each other, both of them are "Mongolian doctors", and everyone knows the home remedies they prescribe. So after a little stunned, Yang Peng saw through Zhang Xiang's tricks. But now it is a fait accompli, and Zhang Xiang's trick has been a great success! Gossip is closed, and the book is back to business.

After a day and a night of climbing over mountains and mountains, Yang Peng led a large army and finally arrived at the mountain behind Zhengjiaji in the evening of the next day. This was the scheduled meeting point, but Duan Zhixian was the only one here. Seeing Yang Peng coming, Duan Zhixian hurriedly stood up and reported: "Report to the head, we found a place where the water depth is less than fifty centimeters. You can wade directly through the water, and you don't need a ferry! ”

"God help me!" Yang Peng was overjoyed when he heard this: "Pass the order, all of them will rest and eat dry food on the spot, and wait for the next order!" Yang Peng took Cheng Shijie and Duan Zhixian to the front mountain where Liu Zhiliang was, because there he could look down on the Taizi River from a high vantage point. Of course, Zhao Jinxi naturally strictly implemented Zhang Xiang's orders and absolutely did not leave an inch. After giving Yang Peng a headache, he continued to have a headache.

"Big brother, come and see!" When Liu Zhiliang saw Yang Peng coming, he immediately shouted in a low voice: "Opposite is Niu Xintai, I sneaked over to see it this afternoon." At supper, all the little bosses and black-clad thugs gathered in the house by the river in the lighted yard. Because the shed was right in the middle of that yard, the laborers had no chance to run even if they wanted to. ”

Bai Shujie stared at the other side of the river and asked casually, "How many people are there, and how are the weapons and equipment?" Liu Zhiliang nodded and said, "In order to guard the laborers, Lu Qixiang actually got a crossbow. It is placed in the northwest corner of the courtyard wall to monitor the gate of the labor shed. There were about forty of the others, less than fifty. It was all long knives, and no spears were found. ”

Bai Shujie said in a deep voice: "Shijie, an hour later, you led the second squad to the west along the Taizi River, and set up an ambush for about ten miles, as soon as the Khitan rushed over to reinforce me, you immediately sent someone to inform me, and blocked me for ten minutes!" , which is what you usually call a quarter of an hour or so. If there is no Khitan coming, you will immediately withdraw and join us when the specified time comes. ”

"Zhixian, the crossbow on the wall will be handed over to you, you must not let him shoot an arrow!" After ordering Duan Zhixian alone, Bai Shujie immediately said sharply: "The other soldiers of the third squad are commanded by Liu Zhiliang, and the crossbow group will follow me and attack at my command!" Under Zhao Jinxi's reminder, when it was time for the third watch, Yang Peng shouted in a low voice: "Inform the brothers to check the equipment, don't make a sound, and cross the river with me!" ”

Duan Zhixian was right, the river was only up to his knees. Although the riverbed was bumpy, everyone held hands, and there were no accidents. It's early autumn, and the river is a little chilly at night. But it was still tolerable and did not affect the crossing of the river. Besides, the military orders are like a mountain, and everyone is thinking about the upcoming battle, and they are not in the mood to think about the river at all.

"Backwards: Quickly check the equipment, light your steps and prepare to go up the embankment." Yang Peng pulled Zhao Jinxi's waist and ran up, and the brothers behind him naturally did the same. A few guys slipped and fell a few times, but it wasn't a big deal. Yang Peng climbed the embankment and saw the railway near the river. Crossing the road is the so-called "platform", which is just a relatively high flat land. It is a courtyard close to a square, with a wall one hundred and fifty meters long, enclosing a large compound.

Except for a little sporadic dim light in the courtyard, it was pitch black all around. Because the enemy's crossbow was on the side of the road, Yang Peng had to take his troops on a detour. Leave Duan Zhixian in place, waiting for the opportunity to take down the enemy's crossbow. At about half past one in the middle of the night, Yang Peng had already touched the root of the southernmost courtyard wall. He looked up, and the wall was not very high, and it seemed that it was a beast, less than six meters long. Yang Peng slowly poked his head out, and there was indeed a row of brick houses next to the southernmost wall. There were two men in black chatting at the door, this should be the guy on night duty.

Yang Peng lowered his voice and ordered: "Liu Zhiliang and I will go in first to kill the sentry, and the others will hear Liu Zhiliang's greeting, so they will climb over the wall from here and enter." The two crossbows of the crossbow group are set up on the wall to fight the enemy who rushes out. After speaking, he pulled Liu Zhiliang to the mountain, and when he saw that Zhao Jinxi still wanted to follow, Yang Peng glared at him and roared: "Nonsense!" Pick us up right here! ”

Yang Peng and Liu Zhiliang made a detour to the hillside, and then touched the bottom of the wall. Fortunately, for the sake of heat preservation, the house is not high. Yang Peng didn't make much effort to go to the roof, and then pulled Liu Zhiliang up again. Crawling to the position near the gate, he was now looking condescendingly at the two men in black below. Originally, Yang Peng was going to use darts, but now that the two of them were directly below, the darts could only pierce the top of the head, which could only ensure that one blow was fatal, but could not ensure that the enemy would not make a sound.

Jump down and stop your enemies in a split second! Other than that, there is no other way! Yang Peng made a gesture at Liu Zhiliang, then pulled out his two-handed crossbow and flew down, and the two crossbows smashed down against the top door of a man in black! "Poof!" The watermelon is ripe, and that's probably the sound. Liu Zhiliang did the same, dealt with the other man in black, and then slowly put the two corpses on the ground.

Yang Peng's two-handed crossbow opened the nose to guard the gate, and monitored the left and right side doors at the same time. There was no noise in the room, and the slight snoring was still very even. Liu Zhiliang came to the courtyard wall with his hands and feet, and beckoned the soldiers to climb over the wall one after another.

All the personnel were divided into three groups, led by Yang Peng, Liu Zhiliang and Zhao Jinxi, and all three doors were killed. Only then did Yang Peng push open the door and dodge in, and the five warriors behind him scattered in all directions.

It turned out to be a tongkang, all with their heads facing outwards and their feet facing inwards. One by one, they are neatly arranged. On the walls on both sides of the gate, long knives are neatly hung. Eighteen on one side, a total of thirty-six people. With a wave of Yang Peng's hand, the two warriors quickly put away all the long knives on the wall, and then took them outside.

Leaving four fighters at the door to spy on the bastards in their dreams, Yang Peng first came to the door of the room controlled by Zhao Jinxi on the right. The situation is the same, Zhao Jinxi has taken control of the situation. The room was small, with only four people in it, but there were six crossbows.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow rang out from the room controlled by Liu Zhiliang, followed by a scream, followed by a chaos, and then a soldier was helped out. Yang Peng didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly shouted: "The eight calves in the room have listened, and now they come out with their heads in their hands, whoever moves will kill whom!" ”

After a period of chaos, all thirty-six people in the room controlled by Yang Peng came out and squatted in the middle of the courtyard. In the room controlled by Zhao Jinxi, the four guys were also escorted out to watch together. Only the room controlled by Liu Zhiliang was tied with ropes and dragged out of two people, and they were a man and a woman.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.