Seeing the brigade of officers and soldiers leaving the city gate, Fang Mengchen's eyes burned with anger. Wang Xiaolie ignored him and left, but what should he do? Fang Mengchen came to the county town to complain this time because he was determined to die. Not even afraid of death, of course he just wants to make things as big as possible. Who would have thought that Wang Xiaolie just asked the matter clearly, posted a notice, and ignored it.
The hardest thing in the world is sometimes like this. You exerted all your strength and prepared to fight to the death with the opponent. In the end, you find that the other party ignores you at all. What should I do?
After two days, most people around the Fang family became clear about the matter. At first, some people sympathized with Fang Mengchen. For two or three days in a row, he kept talking next to the notice, and everyone began to annoy him. What a big deal? Not to mention the government, there are fewer cases of forced buying and selling by powerful people in the past?
After passing Jiaxian County, the army turned north and took the road in the mountains. Five days later, we arrived at the foot of Umbrella Mountain.
Wang Jun is sleeping soundly in the village. The soldiers came in, folded their hands and sang promises loudly.
Wang Jun woke up from his sleep and was furious. He said sternly: "What's the big deal? You didn't see me sleeping!"
The soldier said cautiously: "Your Majesty, according to the report from the spies, the officers and soldiers of Ruzhou are not far away from here. From the looks of it, they are here for us."
After hearing this, Wang Jun sat up immediately. He just sat on the couch, stunned for a while. He then said: "Who is coming? How many soldiers and horses are there? That Niao Zhizhou has sent people to the mountains a long time ago to ask for my surrender. At that time, they didn't kill them with a single sword, but they dared to tease me!"
The soldier said: "The spies only reported that there are soldiers and horses stretching for several miles, but I don't know how many thousands of people there are. Who is the handsome man, but he didn't see clearly."
Wang Jun nodded: "In that case, let's go explore again! In battle, you must know yourself and the enemy, how can you be careless!"
The soldiers sang the promise, turned around and went out.
Wang Jun got up from the couch and stretched. After pacing back and forth a few times, I poured a large bowl of tea and drank it, and then my mind slowly sobered up.
Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger. When he was in the army, Wang Jun often heard his superiors say this. But although it sounds familiar, I really don’t understand what it means. Not to mention the incoming enemy, Wang Jun didn't even know how many men there were in his own army.
Before the Jin army came south, Wang Jun was the lowest-ranking junior high school in the army. He knew the lowest level daily affairs in the army, but once he got to the upper levels, he didn't understand what the generals and commanders were going to do. Wang Jun's army is now organized according to the previous Song army model. Wang Jun is naturally the leader, and he will designate a few people he trusts as minor leaders. How many people each of these little bosses have is up to them. All added up, it is the number of troops under Wang Jun's own command. In fact, Wang Jun didn't know the total number of the small leader's troops. He had others help him calculate it.
The skill of being a leader at this time is not to figure out the troops under his command, but to win over people's hearts. As long as more people come to invest, it will naturally grow bigger and bigger. The more troops there are, the more territory they will occupy. If you cycle like this, you can become a force. Of course, in the end, such forces will be swallowed up by the truly powerful. Why do you care so much? It’s already great.
After thinking for a while, Wang Jun ordered his soldiers to call several of his leaders to discuss together.
Several leaders entered the room, made a promise to Wang Jun, and sat down.
Seeing that everyone was gathered, Wang Jun said: "Just now, spies came to report that soldiers and horses from Ruzhou have arrived at the foot of the mountain. They stretch for dozens of miles, and there are tens of thousands of people. From their appearance, they come with bad intentions! Let's make a plan early to avoid being beaten. Gotta be caught off guard.”
All the leaders sang the promise together.
Wang Jun added: "Shenggai Mountain is not a lofty mountain. We have no geographical advantage and cannot defend it. When the officers and soldiers come, we should attack and fight with them in formation! After winning one or two formations, we will take advantage of the victory to enter Ruzhou and seize the opportunity. Now that we know the bird position of Zhizhou, everyone will be happy!"
The subordinates cheered together after hearing this.
Manan, who had the largest number of troops, said: "Your Majesty, you are right! If you seize the bird position, Your Majesty will be the magistrate of the state, and we will be magistrates of several counties!"
Wang Jundao: "Ruzhou is a big state, with five or six counties below it. Each of you has one county, it just so happens!"
This was what a few people wanted, and they couldn't help but talk about it. You want this county, I want that county, and some people argue with each other until their faces turn red. As for how to fight the incoming officers and soldiers, no one cares.
In the military camp at the foot of the mountain, Wang Xiaolie stood in front of the commander's tent, looking at the Umbrella Mountain in front of him. The mountain is not high, there are not many trees, and it is not steep. Of course, although there are many mountains in this area, they are all earth mountains and there are no particularly steep places. Wang Jun still needs the surrounding places to support him, so he can't hide in the mountains.
Shao Ling came over, crossed his hands and said, "Xiao Sheren, the spies sent out are back."
Wang Xiaolie nodded: "The other generals will come over soon, and we will discuss how to fight."
Shao Ling sang his promise and stood aside, looking at the mountain in front of him.
After a long time, Wang Xiaolie suddenly said: "Tell me, how many troops does Wang Jun have in the mountains ahead?"
Shao Ling pondered for a while and shook his head: "It's really hard to ask this question. We sent spies several times, but the information they brought back was always different. Some said there were five or six thousand people, and some said three or four thousand people. , and some say 100,000 people. However, some spies say there are only a few thousand people at most."
Wang Xiaolie said: "Yes. There is a saying in the art of war. If you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. But no matter how many spies we send to Wang Jun's army in front of us, we can't find out how many of his people there are. We can only estimate. Looking at the mountains here, there are not many people around. The large farmland is far away from the surrounding counties and counties, and there should not be many people in the mountains. It is impossible to say tens of thousands of people. There are only 30,000 households in the entire Ruzhou now. There are 100,000 people here, what do they eat? I It is estimated that there will be at most a thousand soldiers, and the remaining population will not exceed 5,000."
Shao Ling said: "That's what Xiaoshe said. It's easy to say tens of thousands of people, but how is it possible in reality? How can we live here for food and drink? Even if they bring food from other places, they can't eat much. day."
Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "The most difficult thing about fighting these mountain kings is these. They don't know how many people there are, so how can they find out? Moreover, the soldiers and civilians are mixed together, so it is extremely useless to detect them. These people are also He talks freely and easily attracts tens of thousands of people, and some even attract hundreds of thousands of people with his words. Will spreading the beans lead to an army?"
Shao Ling shook his head, not knowing what to say.
Education was not widespread at this time, so any literate person in the army of these mountain kings was considered a treasure. As for being able to write and calculate, there is no need to think about it at all. Not knowing how to do arithmetic, if they were asked to count each person individually, they would not be able to figure out how to determine the number of people. For the leader, he is not sensitive to numbers at all. They themselves don’t know how much food a few hundred people need to eat, how much food a few thousand people need to eat, or how much food a few tens of thousands people need to eat. Anyway, if you want to be impressive, the bigger the number, the better. If the leader believes it, how can the others be better than the leader? Naturally, I believed it.
For Wang Xiaolie, he has an idea of how many people there are, how much land they need to occupy, how much food they can produce, and how much money they can produce. With so many people, there is a rough estimate of how much food they need to eat, how much water they drink, how much firewood they need to burn, and how much doctors need to be arranged. Based on these calculations, we can see that these mountain kings are talking about tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
But the two armies are facing each other, and the intelligence must be accurate. It's really not easy to face the mountain king. Perhaps to fight them, the methods of some generals in this era are most suitable. Regardless of anything else, if the army goes up together, they will win.
Xie Linong, Cao Zhiyan, Yu Huan and Niu Gao came over and saluted together.
After entering the commander's tent, Wang Xiaolie said: "The spies heard the news that Wang Jun's troops in front of him are tens of thousands, but the exact number is unclear. We don't need to work hard on this number, I'm afraid Wang Jun himself doesn't know."
After hearing this, several people laughed together.
Niu Gao said: "Zhizhou, that guy Wang Jun is just talking nonsense. He has tens of thousands of troops, how can he be cramped on this mountain!"
Wang Xiaolie said: "Actually, you can't say that he is bragging. In addition to false reports, there is another reason for such an uncertain army. The leader has no concept of numbers at all. In their eyes, hundreds of people are like that, Thousands of people are about the same, tens of thousands are no more than that, so of course the number is larger. Don’t worry about him, as long as the battlefield is selected, no matter how many people there are, it will be useless.”
Shao Ling nodded: "Xiao Sheren is right. As long as we choose the battlefield, even if there are so many of them, it will be useless."
Wang Xiaolie said: "This is exactly the truth. I saw that there is a piece of flat land in front of the mountain. Two parties are arrayed. They can only accommodate one or two thousand people at most. Tomorrow we will send out 800 people to call for an array in front of the mountain. Four people will lead it. There are only two hundred people left, and we must be careful to prevent the enemy troops from using their brains elsewhere on the mountain."
There are not many flat areas in the mountains, and there are even fewer places that can be used as battlefields. Just like Umbrella Mountain, there is only a small flat land with hills on both sides. The two armies can only fight there, and cannot deploy too many troops. Even if Wang Jun really has 100,000 people, they can only come one team at a time.
Wherever you choose the battlefield, you don't have to worry about how many people Wang Jun has. Just keep a close eye on the camp on the mountain and don't let the enemy detour or ambush you for a moment.
