An Yongduo reported to Luo Zhixue with a serious look on his face: "Our sentinels stationed on the periphery found many officers and soldiers' spies wandering around, and they also asked the mountain man hunter to ask for a guide. We also disguised ourselves and asked him afterwards. The mountain people with whom the officers and soldiers had contact learned that these officers and soldiers were asking about the situation in the villages in the Funiu Mountain area."
When Luo Zhixue heard this, he noticed something strange: "The officers and soldiers were asking about the situation in each village, instead of directly asking about the situation of the bandits or our Sanshui Village?"
Anyongduo shook his head and said: "It's strange to say that these officers and soldiers didn't ask too much about the bandits. They mainly asked about the situation in each village, such as how many people there are and their specific location."
"What do these officers and soldiers want to do?" Luo Zhixue was a little confused about the routines of these officers and soldiers.
When he first received the news, he heard that after the officers and soldiers returned from the west, they sent a large number of sentries into the mountain. Luo Zhixue's first reaction was that the officers and soldiers had noticed that they were still in Funiu Mountain. It was also possible that there was something wrong with Sun Chengli. , leading to the leak of the news.
So the officers and soldiers once again came towards Funiu Mountain.
But, judging from the content of the inquiries made by these officers and soldiers, it doesn’t seem like it.
If they are here for people like themselves, then the main inquiry will be about the situation of the bandits, and they will even directly ask about the situation in Sanshui Village.
However, these officers and soldiers did not delve too deeply into the topic of bandits. Instead, they focused on the situation in each village.
In particular, they asked how many people lived in each village.
It's not normal no matter how you look at it.
The officers and soldiers only went into the mountains to suppress bandits, so why would they pay attention to the population of mountain people in the villages in Funiu Mountain?
This is not normal.
No matter what Luo Zhixue thought, he never expected that Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida decided to come to Funiu Mountain again. It was not because their traces were leaked, nor because there was something wrong with Sun Chengli, but simply because they wanted to go into the mountain to harvest something. Wave the food.
Although Luo Zhixue still didn't know what the officers and soldiers were doing again, it was a fact that the sentinels of the officers and soldiers once again appeared in the outer area of Funiu Mountain and continued towards the depths of Funiu Mountain.
Naturally, Luo Zhixue could not remain indifferent to this.
Immediately Luo Zhixue sent someone to find Sun Chengli and informed Sun Chengli that the officers and soldiers were found outside Funiu Mountain. At the same time, he sent someone to ask Xu He to closely monitor the situation of these officers and soldiers, and allowed that if these officers and soldiers were discovered, they would continue If you go deeper and there are signs that they are heading towards Sanshui Village, you can decisively attack and kill them.
No matter what the purpose of the officers and soldiers was, Luo Zhixue would not let the officers and soldiers' sentinels get close to the Sanshui Village area.
Not to mention Sanshui Village, not even the dozen or so villages surrounding Sanshui Village can get close.
Because these villages all had contact with the thieves in Sanshui Village, Luo Zhixue and the others had recruited new soldiers and collected food from these villages before.
As long as the sentinels of these officers and soldiers arrive at these villages and ask casually, they will know that there is a group of rebels nearby, and then they can follow the clues to find Sanshui Village.
After the order was given, Luo Zhixue did not take any other action. Instead, he frequently went to the supply camp to personally train the soldiers, and went into battle himself, using his half-knowledge to guide the artillerymen in the artillery team to train.
If the officers and soldiers really entered the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, they would inevitably have to fight with the officers and soldiers.
Since there is going to be a fight, the supply camp under his command must be fully prepared.
Luo Zhixue looked serious as he looked at the more than a hundred soldiers conducting various trainings in the large open space ahead.
If the officers and soldiers attack in large numbers, can people like myself stop the officers and soldiers from attacking?
Even if Sun Chengcheng and others rushed back in time, the number of troops Sun Chengcheng led out now was only more than 200 people, and among them, there were only more than 60 cavalry that could fight.
As for the other two hundred ordinary soldiers, they actually didn't train for long before they were taken out by Sun Chengli. After going out, they spent most of their time marching and had no free time to conduct various trainings.
Therefore, their training level is actually far inferior to that of the soldiers in the supply camp who stay in Sanshui Village.
The hundreds of soldiers in the baggage camp were trained at different times. For example, the last batch of soldiers were recruited after the autumn harvest. Their training time was less than half a month. Now they can barely even line up.
However, the first two batches of soldiers recruited have been training for a relatively long time, and the earliest batch of 30 people have been training for more than two months.
In the past two months or so, except for temporarily helping out during the autumn harvest, these people have basically been conducting various trainings every day.
Now they can line up in order and follow orders to make some basic tactical actions.
As for whether he can fight, to be honest, Luo Zhixue is not sure.
In Sanshui Village, in addition to the supply camp under Luo Zhixue, there is also the right army led by the old farmer Xu He. This unit has four cavalry soldiers and about 60 newly recruited soldiers, of which about 30 have been trained. A month later, the remaining thirty people were also recruited after the autumn harvest.
Adding the two units together, the total defense force in Sanshui Village is more than 180 people.
Among the more than 180 people, there are actually not many who can fight. The only ones who can be truly considered elite are the four cavalry soldiers under Xu He and the seven cavalrymen under Luo Zhixue. Well, if you include Xu He himself, So that’s twelve people!
These twelve people are all Yulin frontier cavalrymen. They are capable of riding and shooting. They are definitely not ordinary thieves and can be compared with infantry.
And these people are undoubtedly the absolute main force.
At the same time, when Luo Zhixue intercepted a group of Tatianhu thieves who accidentally entered Sanshui Village, he had an example of gathering seven of his cavalrymen to form a temporary cavalry team for combat, and Luo Zhixue found that the effect was quite good.
Luo Zhixue, who was worried about the attack of officers and soldiers, once again summoned the cavalrymen under his command who were already serving as commanders and artillerymen to prepare for centralized use.
Luo Zhixue believed that it was not worth the gain to break up these elite cavalry and then integrate them into ordinary soldiers to serve as commanders or captains.
They hold official positions such as captains, and they are just small bosses who can fight a little.
But if they gather together, they can form a cavalry squad.
This cavalry squad can definitely play a more important role on the battlefield than the existing 100-person supply battalion infantry.
In fact, An Yongduo, Zhao Hongshu, Ding Chuwu, and Ma Dapao were a little confused at first about Luo Zhixue recruiting them into the Guards Corps, and even had some minor objections.
After all, the four of them have gradually become leaders in the past two months or so, and their subordinates are in charge of people.
If they were all transferred together and treated as ordinary cavalry, people would naturally be unhappy.
But when they heard Luo Zhixue said that this time they would come over to be cavalry commanders and select people from them to be cavalry commanders, all of them were smiling.
If this can be used as a cavalry commander, it is not much better than a new infantry commander.
But they were also curious, where would the cavalry under their command come from?
Anyondo asked: "Sir, if we count the seven of us as seven corps, what about the cavalry under my command?"
Luo Zhixue said: "Select people from prisoner of war camps."
As soon as Luo Zhixue mentioned the prisoner-of-war camp, these people woke up. Zhao Hongshu said: "Sir, are you planning to recruit those old thieves from the Sky-Trampling Tiger?"
Luo Zhixue nodded slightly and said: "Yes, although these people are all bandits, they have been in the army for many years, and many of them can also ride and shoot. They are just wasted as coolies."
"I intend to select people who are loyal and good at riding as auxiliaries for the cavalry team to enrich the cavalry team."
Ma Dapao said: "If this is the case, then there won't be much problem with our cavalry team."
Except for a few casualties, all the bandits who accidentally entered Sanshui Village chose to surrender. They were then thrown into a prisoner-of-war camp by Luo Zhi and became coolies with the original bandit prisoners of war.
However, Luo Zhixue later discovered that these people were all backbone thieves who had been thieves for many years and had a lot of experience fighting with officers and soldiers. Moreover, there were actually many people among them who had been officers and soldiers before.
Well, there is no doubt that many of the elite members of the bandits these days are officers and soldiers.
Some were deserters, and some were simply officers and soldiers who mutinied collectively and became bandits.
This is what Li Tonglin and the others did before!
To be honest, it is a waste to use these experienced soldiers directly as coolies.
So Luo Zhixue was thinking about how to recruit these people and then enrich his own strength.
As for these people being bandits who used to burn, kill and loot, recruiting them would ruin the morale of the team...
This is purely over-concern, because there are a few more people like An Yong who burned, killed, and looted under the leadership of Li Tonglin before, and no one can blame anyone.
Moreover, what the soldiers did was mostly just obeying orders or blindly following orders. If you want to criticize, you have to criticize the leading generals.
Luo Zhixue firmly believes that as long as the military law is strict enough and the military stick is thick enough, even a soldier can be beaten into a loyal soldier.
If you encounter a stubborn person who refuses to change, just kill him with one knife...
In order to recruit these people, Luo Zhixue threw them into a prisoner-of-war camp and worked as laborers with the original bandit prisoners of war.
The purpose is to let them see the miserable life of being prisoners of war, so as to temper their character and at least remove some of their gangsterism.
During this process, there were also people who were dissatisfied and tried to resist, but most of these people have become ghosts under the knife.
After such a period of hard work, coupled with the threat of attacks by officers and soldiers, Luo Zhixue felt that it was time to choose someone from among them.
Hearing what Luo Zhixue said, An Yongduo and the others had smiles on their faces.
Luo Zhixue knew that these old thieves were not ordinary thieves, and An Yongduo and the others also knew that if suitable auxiliaries could be selected from these people, the cavalry team would almost be ready.
After a little discussion, Luo Zhixue took them to the prisoner of war camp on the spot to prepare for selection.
