Chapter 43: Intercepting and Killing Officers and Soldiers
In the next few days, Li Gui led Yushan to descend the mountain day by day, and broke through the Zhuangzi that had not been attacked before because of fear, and the Haoqiang family was exterminated, and all the grain and property were confiscated.
Because of the harvest, several large warehouses had to be built on Yushan to store all kinds of materials.
The current Yushan thieves, relying solely on the seized spoils, are all small millionaires.
After seeing the gold and silver, all the bandits have become militants, and there are already many brothers who want to help the cottage break the county seat of Yishui and let Brother Li Ghost be the magistrate of the county.
Fortunately, Ghost Li was still sober-minded, and knew that they just wanted to go into the city to buy it for zero yuan, and it was simply for their own use, not for their own big village owner.
This is what it is like to raise war with war, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, once this kind of thing starts, it will be difficult to brake again.
Li Ghost is very sure that as long as he keeps expanding and continues to win, he will definitely be able to raise a strong army that can fight, dare to fight, and be good at fighting.
But the problem is that no one can win all the time, and if there is a slight setback, this army will probably backfire.
Instead of listening to their instigation and attacking the meaningless county seat, Ghost Li began to reorganize.
Now Yushanzhai has no shortage of weapons and equipment, and the types of troops must naturally be improved accordingly, and spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and archers should be readily available.
The cottage began to engage in a big competition in the army, those who can shoot arrows are pulled out to be archers, those with high force form a separate army to be selected, those with weak force become reserve army, and the worst ones will be auxiliaries, baggage troops, and firehead troops, and the treatment will be adjusted accordingly.
Now there are no guns and artillery in the army, so the auxiliary soldiers are basically miscellaneous and have the worst treatment.
Of course, the one who was dismissed was unwilling, but in front of Ghost Li's big axe, no one dared to talk nonsense.
The army pays attention to the seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings, but when it comes to Li Gui, it becomes beheading, and there is no other punishment.
Moreover, although the military orders in the army are strict, when they are really implemented, the flexibility is very large, and whether to kill or not depends on the relationship with the generals or the severity of the mistakes made.
But when you get to Yushanzhai, as long as you commit it in the hands of Ghost Li, you must "deal with it impartially", and a click is an axe.
In the face of death, everyone is equal.
In addition to the reorganization, the troops have never slackened off in their daily training, but those who dare to cheat and cheat will be eliminated and thrown away to serve as auxiliary soldiers, and all meritorious service and rewards will be given the minimum standard.
For the sake of the broken silver taels, all the men trained like they were playing with their lives, and they didn't dare to be lazy at all.
On this day, Zhu Fu rushed up from the bottom of the mountain, and as soon as he entered the hall, he couldn't wait to shout:
"Brother, the state army has already set off, and in a day or two at most, it will be able to reach Yishui County!"
When he persuaded Li Yun in the city before, Zhu Fu learned that Ding Zhixian had applied for reinforcements again, and when he came back, he told Li Gui, and Li Gui sent people to follow the caravan in disguise and infiltrate the state city, secretly investigating the dispatch of the state army.
The secrecy work of the Great Song Dynasty leaked like a sieve, and such a major event as sending troops was a topic of keen concern to the residents of the city.
There is no need to buy any officials at all, just find a few teahouses to sit down and chat a few words, and there will be well-informed people who take the initiative to show off all kinds of secrets.
Of course, it is difficult to say whether this level of secrecy is true or not, and it can only be judged by individuals.
After Xi Zuotan heard the useful news, he immediately told the flying pigeon, and after Zhu Fu summarized it, he reported the news.
"Good!" Ghost Li locked the huge stone lock in his hand and gently placed it beside him, grabbed a towel and wiped his sweat, and ordered: "Pick up Erlang, we will set off immediately, go to the ambush halfway, and we will definitely kill them." ”
Now everyone in the cottage has long been tortured by training and is about to go crazy, and when they hear that they are going down the mountain to fight, they are all so excited that they are like taking tonics, and they are scrambling to be the first.
Only Ghost Li knew that the enemy who came this time was a regular army, which was different from the miscellaneous fish of Liang Wanshen last time.
But he didn't remind him, just watched from the sidelines.
He also wanted to know if these soldiers, who had been fed with a lot of gold and silver, could fight the regular army.
The group quickly assembled, brought dry food and drinking water, except for leaving some old and weak to guard the mountain, the Yushan thieves almost poured out.
There are many mountains in Yizhou, and there are four main mountain ranges in the mountains from north to south: Lushan, Yishan, Mengshan and Nishan.
There are also a lot of table-shaped mountains caused by the erosion of flowing water in the territory, the local name is "Gu", known as the Yimeng Seventy-two Gu, in fact, there are more than 100 Gu, the hundred Gu are majestic, not only in the land of China is a great spectacle, but also extremely rare in the world.
As a result of the abundance of mountains, in addition to abundant products, one is that the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the other is conducive to ambush.
From Yizhou City to Yishui County, there is only one tattered official road that can allow the army to walk, so Li Ghost doesn't need to bother to find any place to pass through, just find a densely wooded place on the side of the road, divide into several teams, and under the leadership of their respective team generals, lie down inside, and wait patiently.
At this time, it is the end of autumn, but the autumn tiger is still there, not to mention the sultry heat at noon, there are many mosquito bites, and even because of inexperience, there are snake bites.
Fortunately, they came here early to ambush in advance, otherwise all kinds of miscellaneous things would appear together, and the effect of the ambush would not be half effective, but it would lose their combat strength in vain.
The bandits had never done such an ambush, and there were many complaints about it.
They would rather stand in the middle of the road and fight the enemy head-on with great fanfare than lie in the grass so uncomfortably.
If it weren't for the fact that Ghost Li had organized the guards into a team of supervisors early, always keeping an eye on them, and strictly forbidden to walk around and talk, he was afraid that they would be discovered by the enemy from a distance.
Ghost Li's team of warlords was not prepared for this kind of thing, but was worried that at the beginning of the battle, this side would collapse after being frustrated.
Ghost Li told the supervising team in advance that those who dared to be timid in battle, shouted indiscriminately in the battle to disturb the morale of the army, and fled backwards during the war, all of them would be killed!
Everyone waited in the forest for more than a day and a night, and finally saw scattered cavalry galloping across the avenue.
Ghost Li knew that this was a scout in the army, who was specially scouting the road in front, and he was guarding against ambushes.
It can be seen that the generals of this army are very cautious, even if they are marching in the state, they still release scouts.
However, it was clear that the scouts themselves were not competent, and they did not bother to investigate at all, so they glanced hastily left and right, and then rode by.
Who would believe that a group of bandits would dare to ambush the officials and soldiers?
After another half an hour, the army finally arrived, and marched in unison before the crowd.
Li Gui looked at the banner, and roughly estimated that there were at least six battalions, that is, three thousand people.
These people marched in strict accordance with the pattern of the front army, the middle army, and the rear army, and any side would inevitably echo each other when attacked, and it was definitely not comparable to the rabble of Yushanzhai who could only line up with stabbing guns.
When the front army passed and the Chinese army approached, Li Gui nodded to the drummer next to him and shouted: "Sons, line up to kill the enemy!" ”
Then Li Ghost jumped up, turned over on his horse, quickly whipped his horse, and rushed out towards the place where the flag was most dense.