With the bandits from these three villages joining the Flying Eagle Club, several masters in the martial arts realm have also increased in the Flying Eagle Club. In order to facilitate unified management, Ye Ying followed the model of the Liangshan bandits of the previous dynasty and implemented a leader-responsibility system.
All bandits are under the unified control of the head master Ye Ying. Among them, fifty or sixty bandits are his personal soldiers and are directly responsible to him. The remaining leaders, "White-faced Fox" Jiang Jin, also served as the left military advisor, and "Miao Scholar" Ge Shun also served as the right military advisor.
Among all the bandits in the Flying Eagle Club, Ye Ying has the highest kung fu. He is the only second-grade warrior. The silver spear in his hand makes him miraculous. Everyone gave him the bandit nickname "Jade Faced Silver Spear".
In addition to the leaders "Leaping Stream Tiger" Ge Shun, "Black King Kong" Chen Gang, "Evil Zhong Kui" You Tong, "Hungry Eagle" Zhu Dian, and "Rouge Leopard" Gui Sanniang, each of them led thirty or forty combatants. Responsible for daily management and training.
Although each leader has a team of men and horses, all personnel must abide by the regulations of the village. Those who violate the regulations of the village will be punished by the Xinglutang. During wartime, the bandits of all tribes were uniformly dispatched by the mountain stronghold, and the leaders were not allowed to lead people to rob or attack without permission.
In addition, the Flying Eagle Club also divides the entire area into a military zone and a demilitarized zone. All non-combatants are not allowed to enter the military zone at will.
The Shanzhai also required all combatants and non-combatants to not leave the Shanzhai at will without Shanzhai's permission, based on the advice of military advisor Jiang Jin. In particular, the leaders are not allowed to bring their family members down the mountain without Ye Ying's consent.
Although this provision seems a bit unreasonable and seems to be a family-based pledge, it can largely avoid the situation of leaders leading people to defect, so after weighing the situation, the village also agreed to this regulation.
After the three major villages were merged into the Flying Eagle Society, there was indeed some initial discomfort and even some minor frictions. But after some adjustments, the situation improved a lot.
The newly joined bandits discovered that the Shanzhai did treat everyone fairly and justly as they had promised. This quickly made many people identify with the Shanzhai and began to sincerely consider themselves members of the Flying Eagle Society.
After many newly joined bandits returned home, the military advisor in charge of this matter, Jiang Jin, turned his attention to the bandits headed by Qiu Ba in Luofengjian. From beginning to end, Jiang Jin had no intention of allowing this group of bandits to exist independently.
I communicated with Qiu Ba several times, but this guy was always reluctant to join the Flying Eagle Society. But with Qiuba's talent, how can he compete with this resourceful "white-faced fox".
Since Qiu Ba refused to cooperate, Jiang Jin decisively chose to bypass him. He found an intermediary and contacted the second-in-command of Luofengjian Village. This was a guy who was greedy for petty gains.
After receiving the benefits from Jiang Jin, this guy quickly took action. He took advantage of the many ordinary bandits in Luofengjian's longing for the Flying Eagle Society and quickly attracted a large number of people. Then this guy found an opportunity, got Qiuba and all his cronies drunk and killed them, and then led them to join the Flying Eagle Society.
Qiu Ba was also a very scheming person, but he never dreamed that he would die inexplicably at the hands of the second-in-command he personally promoted.
Ye Ying has never had a good impression of people who like to betray, so when the bandit from Luofengjian joined the Flying Eagle Society, the second-in-command who betrayed Qiu Ba did not get the position of leader as he wished, and became a small leader without 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 capturing the bandits in Luofengjian, all forces within a fifty-mile radius will belong to the Flying Eagle Society. Because these bandits are made up of various forces, it is difficult to form an overall joint force, and their combat effectiveness will of course be very poor. Therefore, Shanzhai suspended its expansion and focused on integrating its existing strengths.
During combat training, Ye Ying discovered a very thorny problem, that is, there was a serious lack of leaders who were good at training soldiers in the village. Among all the leaders of the Flying Eagle Society, only Chen Gang had served in the army. The rest were ordinary people from all walks of life. They had not received any formal military training and certainly did not know how to train soldiers.
With no other choice, Ye Ying had no choice but to let Chen Gang serve as the general instructor of the entire village, responsible for the daily training of all combatants. But Chen Gang's knowledge was also very limited. Many times he had to do it himself as the head of the family, Ye Ying. Despite the hard work, Ye Ying also developed a strong desire 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 former commander of the new battalion, although he did not have the power behind him and was not good at greeting his superiors, he still managed to reach the position of leader of the first battalion. This was because he was good at training troops.
Therefore, it was rare for these officers who were good at training soldiers to be willing to become bandits, so Ye Ying had to hide this idea in his heart for the time being, hoping to have the opportunity to recruit such military talents.
In addition to the issue of combat training, there is another thing that also gives Ye Ying a headache, that is, the mountains are rich in animal and plant resources, and the village has collected a lot of them these days. In addition to a small amount being sold to a market dozens of miles away, most are still hoarded in cottages.
These piles of things are very troublesome for everyone in the village, because they really can't find a way to sell them. The wood ore and medicinal tea leaves are better, and they can be stored for a longer time. But the prey caught in the mountains cannot be kept for a long time.
After racking his brains for a while, a name deep in Ye Ying's memory suddenly emerged. Ma Zhengyuan is a tea merchant. In fact, in addition to tea, his business also involves many aspects.
Ye Ying met this man on the way from Kaoshan Village to the Kuangshi Military Camp. After just a few days of contact, Ye Ying discovered that Ma Zhengyuan was a very business-minded person. At the same time, this person has a wide network, through which he is likely to find sales outlets for the materials hoarded in the village.
Ye Ying remembered that Ma Zhengyuan's home was in Yuhe County, more than two hundred miles away from the mountain village where the Flying Eagle Club was located, and his good brother Gan De's home was also in Yuhe County. Thinking of this, Ye Ying decided to go down the mountain in person to find tea merchant Ma Zhengyuan, and also to visit Gan De's family.
After settling everything in the village, Ye Ying set out on the road to Yuhe County, accompanied by Ge Niuer and Ge Gen. These two were Ye Ying's loyal supporters and are now Ye Ying's personal commanders. .
"Master, this mountain is called Yongquan Mountain. Do you know why it has such a name?" Seeing Ye Ying looking at a towering mountain peak with great interest, Kudzu Gen said beside him.
"Oh, then tell me about his origin?" The mountains that Ye Ying has seen are all mountains with rich vegetation. He has never seen mountains like this, which are mainly composed of strange rocks and not rich in plants, so he is not interested in them. This is very interesting.
"That's because there are many hot springs in the mountain, which is why the mountain got its name." Kudzu said with a smile.
Pueraria lobata's words aroused Ye Ying's interest. He studied medicine with Feng Wanli, the sixth master with the title of Yao Ying, for many years. He knew that this hot spring could not only cure diseases and strengthen the body, but also be of great help to the internal skills and mental methods of the Zhimu Heart Sutra he practiced.
"Master, go find a spring! We are not interested in that thing, so just watch the horses outside!" When they reached the front of the mountain, Ge Gen and Ge Niu'er were unwilling to go with them.
In this case, Ye Ying didn't force it. He went to the mountains alone. Along the way, he soon found several springs, some big and some small. Each one was bubbling with warm spring water. Everywhere was steaming and misty. , like a fairyland on earth.
At the source of the spring water, several pools of different sizes were formed. Ye Ying searched around and found a huge hot spring pool. The water was flat and curved, making it impossible to see where the other end was at a glance.
After testing the water temperature, he found it to be just right. Seeing no one around, Ye Ying took off his clothes and walked into the pool, sitting down in a corner. The natural hot spring has no artificial contaminants. Its salty taste is mixed with the smell of sulfur. It is purely natural and clear. It makes him feel refreshed and the fatigue of a day's journey quickly disappears.
Next, Ye Ying sat cross-legged in the pool again, guiding the internal energy in his body to circulate along with the running route of Zhimu Heart Sutra. In a moment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that while meditating in this hot spring, his internal energy increased faster than Ordinary.
Since entering the second-level upper realm, Ye Ying has been practicing martial arts, hoping to break the bottleneck and become a third-level warrior. However, the growth rate of the internal force in the body is too slow, and there is no hope of breakthrough.
But while meditating in this hot spring today, Ye Ying vaguely felt that he had found an opportunity to break through the bottleneck. This made him ecstatic. After nearly two hours of meditation, Ye Ying's body had improved a lot, although there was no breakthrough. Even though he has reached the level of a third-grade warrior, he has gained a lot.
The increase in internal force became slower and slower, and Ye Ying finally knew that it was time to stop, so he stopped the circulation of internal force in his body, opened his eyes, and felt very comfortable, and his mood also improved.
Looking at the green pool water, Ye Ying became interested and decided to swim in the pool for a while. He had been dealing with water since he was a child. His water skills were very good. Sometimes he could swim a long distance once he dived into the water.
No, he started to enter the water from a corner of the pool. When Ye Ying emerged from the water again, he was already far away. This feeling made him very happy. He once again dived all his body into the water. , and went in another direction.
When Ye Ying emerged from the water again, a large expanse of white snow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. He had never seen such a scene before, and there was a brief pause in his mind, causing him to fall completely into a sluggish state.
A scream woke Ye Ying up. Only then did he realize that the white piece of snow turned out to be a person's back. From this scream, it was not difficult to tell that the white back belonged to a young woman.
