Fighting a war is not that simple.
Especially since Meng Yang, the Thunder Sword, has no experience in leading troops at all. If a thousand men and horses are handed over to this person, he will probably not be able to calculate how many days of expedition he will bring with him, how to set up camp at night, and how to arrange logistical support to ensure that the morale of the army is stable. Don't even understand.
However, just because Xiang Lu ignored him did not mean that Meng Yang was willing to give up.
"Master Zhishi, Meng is not talented, and his martial arts has reached the realm of innateness. If the deer thief dares to come, Meng will be the one to do it. Meng only wants an elite army to sweep all directions and protect the country and the people. Master Zhishi With five thousand elite men in hand, the counties and counties can summon tens of thousands of troops, which is more than enough to defend the city, so why should we be stingy with these one thousand troops?"
"Brother Meng is right!"
"Is it possible that Master Zhishi is so greedy for life and afraid of death that he insists on using all the elite soldiers to protect him?"
"Those bandits are really heartless and committed all kinds of crimes including rape, robbery and robbery. It's pity that my third cousin, who was newly married, was strangled to death by those bandits. My third cousin's wife was also robbed by the bandits. Now, Most likely innocence is not guaranteed!" A man in green robe also shouted.
"Brother Li, didn't your third cousin take a tenth concubine last month? Where did he get the newlywed concubine?" the man next to him asked in a low voice.
Generally speaking, if a wealthy family wants to take a concubine, they have to marry a wife. Only a CIA wife can be called a newlywed, and the word "concubinage" cannot be used.
"Ahem, didn't my third cousin take a concubine in the eleventh room again this month?" the man in green robe replied in a low voice.
"Even if your cousin is not killed, he will die on a woman's belly sooner or later."
"Who says it's not? But since he's dead, it's just a good time to use the waste." The man in green robe whispered, and then raised his voice and shouted: "Master, you can't let the deer bandits be so rampant. "
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During this period of time, Lu Wu gave up on attacking the city from the front, and simply imitated the methods used by his lieutenant Ying Yuan to harass Yuci Mansion, released his troops, broke into the city villages separately, killed the local tyrants and squires who were extremely angry with the people, and burned them to death. After issuing IOUs and taking away the gold, silver and jewelry, they distributed food, furniture and other cumbersome items to the poor locals, and of course also withheld part of it as military rations.
Some of these people are pure landowners, but more are servants of nobles, or they are landowners and tyrants on the surface, but secretly they are the white gloves of the nobles - this is to avoid the laws of Chu State.
The local people are indeed afraid to take these things, fearing that the masters will come back to take the blame.
But those poor people who really can't afford to eat, how can they care about settling the scores in the future? It’s true that you have to fill your stomach first.
In this way, coupled with the public burning of many IOUs when robbing and killing large households, Lu Wujun really won a lot of people's support.
The people sent out by Lu Wu were all Qiu Ba, who was of low origin—officers from noble families who had long been taken away by Lu Wu for ransom or sent to the barracks—but it was easy for them to get into a fight with these poor villagers.
As a result, whenever troops were sent out from each county, there would be people taking small routes to report the news. Within half a month, Lu Wu captured two more county towns - this
Lu Wu organized his army and selected good young men for cavalry training.
With the Black God around, Lu Wu's training of cavalry is a hundred times easier than that of other generals - the most troublesome part of cavalry training is the poor coordination between man and horse.
The Black God can directly ask the war horse to actively cooperate with the rider, and the two sides will get along much faster than normal training. Moreover, if the war horse has a bad impression of the rider, he can ask for a replacement through the Black God - this is the only one in the world.
Lu Wu even came up with a secret recipe for raising war horses, and combined with training, the endurance and running speed of the war horses can be greatly improved.
There is actually nothing strange about this secret recipe. It is a simplified version of what Kurokami eats on a daily basis. What is different from ordinary feed is that it is mainly made of alfalfa, mixed with eggs, vegetable oil, soybeans and a little beet, stir-fried, and then pressed into squares.
Just like soldiers who eat wine and meat are naturally stronger than those who eat chaffy vegetables, it doesn't take long for a war horse to eat this kind of feed. First, its hair will become shiny, then its muscles will become developed, and finally its big forage box will become stronger. The belly fat has also gradually been reduced, the strength has been increased and the weight has been reduced, and the running speed and endurance have naturally increased significantly.
Lu Wu personally trained the team and taught them various horse martial arts. The most basic of which was to remove the reins and rely solely on the legs to control the horse in combat. This required the active cooperation of the horse. Without the Black God, this step alone would make the horse and man unable to fight. It will take a year and a half to get used to it.
In order to achieve the unity of man and horse, some generals carefully cultivate the horse from the beginning, feed and clean it with their own hands, even eat and sleep with the horse, and are closer to the horse than to their wives.
So in less than ten days, Lu Wu had an elite cavalry team of about a thousand people under his command.
Lu Wu stationed this cavalry near a farm that he had captured between Zhangnan County and Shangyi County. Whenever he heard that the county had sent troops, he rushed to intercept and kill them. Now they have succeeded twice, Zhangnan County and Shangyi County. The county defenders each lost hundreds of men and horses, and now they have closed the city gate tightly. They are just sending people to Tonghe City to ask for help.
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Xiang Lu had a severe headache.
These people all have origins, and they represent at least one high official, and there are even three families of nobles.
Of course he didn't care if there were two noble families in one family, but there were thirty-nine families here.
This force is extraordinary, representing almost all the nobles of Tonghe Prefecture, and even includes some of the nobles who escaped from Yuci Prefecture.
"Everyone, the deer bandits are no small feat. Even General Pan Fu died on the battlefield. This shows that there is no general in Tonghe City. How can we compete with the deer bandits?
Your Majesty has dispatched the garrison generals from neighboring prefectures to lead their armies to come to our aid. Please wait a moment. If we go out to fight without authorization and lose our troops and the city, we will ruin the overall situation! "Xiangli persuaded him earnestly.
These people were not worried about the people. They were furious because their own property was clearly damaged.
Xiang Brigade was extremely angry, but he had to explain with a smile on his face - if General Pan Fu was still there, Xiang Brigade would not be afraid of these people jumping over the wall.
But now that General Panfu has been killed in battle, there is no one with enough weight in the army to hold down the position. The Xiang Brigade alone cannot withstand the pressure of these people.
"What a waste of waiting! If we wait any longer, all the Zhuangzi outside the city will be lost. How will our family gain a foothold? Dear dignitaries, Meng is not talented and is willing to be a pioneer in protecting our home. Please support me!" Lei Dao Mengyang shouted.
"There are five worshipers in my family, all of whom are fifth-grade masters. They can go with Brother Meng!" someone shouted.
"Brother Meng is so righteous, we will wait and see!"
"My ninth brother, whose name is Qingyun Sword, can go into battle with Brother Meng!"
"I will send out three hundred men, fifteen crossbows, and ten thousand arrows!"
"I have a son who is in charge of the camp, and I can directly pull out a whole battalion!"
"Yes, yes, my family also has children serving in the military, so we can also recruit troops!"
Everyone was talking, and Xiang Lu's expression changed drastically.
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