Wang Shan's family responded the most quickly and calmly. Soon, the carriage and horses came over and formed a circle, protecting Li Bing, Wang Shan and some officials in the middle. Then the servants took their bows and arrows from their wagons and distributed them.

Li Bingdu was dumbfounded, these family members have bows and crossbows, and the bows are all wound.

You must know that before the Jingtai Dynasty, even the Jing army of the Ming Dynasty generally did not have a bow on the march.

Because it is always wound, it will seriously affect the life of the bowstring. Therefore, the Ming army was reluctant to wear the bowstring at any time during the march, and generally put on the bowstring when the two armies were engaged and the troops were arranged.

According to Li Bing's investigation, the Ming army also attacked Shanxi first, and the Ming army suffered several defeats, including the collapse of the Son of Heaven's pro-army in Tumubao, all of which were ambushed and raided by the Mongolian army, and there was no time to prepare.

The heavy armor of the soldiers was not put on, the bowstring was not pulled, and the Mongolian cavalry had already rushed over in a large area.

Then what else can be done, you can only be chopped melons and vegetables.

Hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were brutally harvested by the Mongolian cavalry like chopping cabbage and leeks.

As for the battlefield analysis of the Battle of Shanxi that year, no one dares to comprehensively review it until now, let alone report it to the imperial court for discussion.

What surprised Li Bing the most was that judging from the performance of these family members, the emperor seemed to have learned the lessons of the year.

Because these Baoding guards from their families are well-equipped and strictly trained, they are also highly valued, and they are actually the reserve force of Yingzhou Guard.

The soldiers of Baodingwei all knew that they could fight at any time with a good bowstring on the march, not to mention the Yingzhou Guard, which the emperor relied on the most.

In the Jingtai Dynasty, the army of the Son of Heaven almost never suffered the loss of being ambushed, which is the evidence that the emperor learned the cruel lesson of the battle of Tumubao.

Li Bing became more and more aware that it was difficult for the emperor to be deceived.

Li Bing hid behind the car and thought about his thoughts, but the enemy was already roaring and rushing to kill.

This gang of bandits, at least two or three hundred people, some with bows and arrows to shoot from a distance, some with long knives in their hands, and then cover up and kill.

Wang Shan's family leader came over and reported: "Family master, these people don't look like simple bandits, judging by their performance, they can be regarded as first-class local soldiers if they are incorporated into the Shanxi Guard." ”

Wang Shan smiled helplessly: "You want to say that they are also the elite who retired from the guard?" ”

The leader of the family nodded: "It is very possible, but please rest assured, the local army is the local army in the end, and their combat strength is obviously not comparable to ours." ”

Wang Shan instructed: "Leave a little alive, and tell the brothers that if you kill one person for fifty taels, you can leave a dozen or so alive." ”

The leader of the family was overjoyed and immediately went to formulate tactics and assign tasks to his subordinates.

Li Bing listened to it again and again, the enemy had two or three hundred people, and one was worth fifty taels. Good guy, as soon as Wang Shan opened his mouth, there was a bounty of more than 10,000 taels.

If it is really a heavy reward, there will be brave men.

Wang Shan's family is proficient in battle formations and cooperates tacitly. Although there are many enemies, after all, they have never practiced battle formations together, and the combat power of individual soldiers is not comparable to these elite soldiers. So once the battle was engaged, it soon suffered a big loss.

The men divided into two teams and launched a wave of assault on the enemy rushing towards the valley on both sides, and then they rushed the enemy. The next thing is to cut off the head, fifty for one knife, fifty for one, swinging a knife, but bursting out of a silver coin.

These so-called 'bandits' are also very helpless, no one told us that the governor has elite guards in his team.

And this is not an ordinary elite of the border army, but the elite of the Shaanxi-Gansu border army.

Everyone deals with a servant and catches fast on weekdays, just like chopping melons and vegetables; But against this kind of elite level of the border army, it will be completely reversed, and the other party will be cut melons and vegetables.

In less than half an hour, the bandits were cleared. Some of those who fled into the valley were also chased and cut off, after all, a head is worth fifty taels.

Only a handful of people escaped by chance.

The leader of the family commanded the family members, and brought thirteen live mouths to Wang Shan to restore his life.

Thirteen people were tied with their hands and feet tied and knelt in a row, and Wang Shan asked Li Bingfa to give orders.

Li Bingxuan chose the bandit who was kneeling in the middle, and asked sharply: "Sunny and white, bright and clear, you dare to openly attack the imperial court officials, your nine clans have lived enough, right?" Whom are you under the command of you, it is not yet true that you have been recruited. ”

The bandit was still stubborn: "We were forced by the imperial court to live, so we went into the mountains to become bandits." We only want to rob money, we don't want to kill people, and no one wants to direct us. If it weren't for being instructed by others, then we were also instructed by the imperial court to embark on the desperate road of falling into the grass. ”

Too lazy to listen to such nonsense, Wang Shan snatched a quick knife from his hand and directly wiped the neck of this hard-mouthed bandit, and immediately blood splattered three feet.

Even Li Bing was taken aback, and the other bandits were even more shocked.

According to the normal process, the bandits have been caught, so they can't be killed casually. Even if they are guilty of the most heinous crimes, they will be tried and convicted by the judicial department and then beheaded.

The reason why these thirteen bandits were captured alive shows that they are all afraid of death. Those who are not afraid of death have fought bloody battles to the end, and were finally beheaded.

Wang Shan slashed one, and then pointed his knife at another bandit: "You are outlaws, but I am a great good man." As long as you confess obediently, I will keep you from dying. If you don't recruit people, you can confess, three or four people are enough.

So there are twelve of you left, and I won't delay anything if I cut eight or nine.

Decide for yourselves, whoever is in a hurry to die, you can kneel forward two steps, and I will give you a good time. ”

After that, Wang Shanluo waited and waited, and when he saw that no one replied, he wiped it with a knife and killed another person.

Seeing this, Li Bing took five or six steps back, so as not to be splashed with blood. As for how to interrogate, Li Bing didn't bother to care, anyway, if he killed people like this, Wang Shan himself could settle down.

This is a psychological warfare, Wang Shan didn't even ask, and ordered Jiading to light a pillar of incense, and if the incense burned an inch, he would kill someone.

By the time there were nine left, there were already people who were paralyzed on the ground urinating.

When there were still six left, and Wang Shan raised the quick knife again, someone finally spoke: "Stop, stop, I'll move, I'll move." ”

With someone taking the lead, the other five people all cried and shouted confessions.

This is the prisoner's dilemma, if you have one move, you have to rush the rest.

If everyone resisted and didn't move, Wang Shan would definitely not dare to kill them all. But if three or four people are recruited, the rest will have no value and can only wait for death.

Wang Shan smiled proudly, but soon reined in his smugness, and turned to look at Li Bing: "Ming Gong, they have all been recruited, you can continue to ask." ”

Li Bing stepped forward and asked, "Who are you instructed by?" ”

Several bandits scrambled to answer first, pouring beans into a bamboo tube, and selling those Haoqiang in Datong City cleanly.

Li Bing ordered several bandits to be scattered and imprisoned in several carriages, and then continued on their way.

Before the crowd could move, the sound of horses' hooves rumbling could be heard in the distance.

(End of chapter)

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