stubborn thief

Chapter 100 I Came From Yan'an

The house of the grain chief in the past of Yatou Mountain.

Three sentry chiefs and sixteen captains were crowded into the largest room, still crowded, and there was not even a place to go.

Liu Chengzong sat cross-legged on the kang, looked at everyone's faces, took a deep breath, opened the account of Yanshuiguan, which was used as a notebook, and said, "A few days ago, let you ask the chief and sergeant about Yanshui. What was the outcome of Guan Yi’s battle?”

The captains all looked at the sentinels.

The current structure of the Mule Battalion is headed by Liu Chengzong, with three posts and one team under it, with more than [-] people in the whole battalion.

The three posts are Feng Keng Left Post, Gao Xian Right Post, and Cao Yao Pao Post, each of which has five teams.

The first team was the Tang cavalry team led by Wei Qianer, which basically consisted of excellent light cavalry, and the professional knowledge of Tang cavalry was lacking.

Feng Hao didn't speak, but Gao Xian took the lead in saying: "The right sentry teams were killed and wounded, and nearly half of them fled. Although they were recruited and surrendered, their morale was low."

Cao Yao nodded in agreement and said, "These days, I let the surrendered officers and troops train soldiers, but earlier they were enemies of life and death. It's not easy to expect people to teach them. If I really want to say my opinion, I'd better avoid night battles in the future."

Liu Chengzong wrote down their words and turned to look at Feng Hao and Wei Qianer.

Wei Qian'er waved his hands quickly: "We have seventeen brothers dead, but the leader didn't break his promise, and indeed he didn't starve to death. When he was alive, he could eat enough, not get angry, and run around without getting tired before. That's enough."

His words made everyone burst into laughter, and Liu Chengzong also laughed and said, "Brothers in Tangqi are not very demanding. It seems that recruiting troops in the future will have to follow this standard to ensure that they will die."

Everyone laughed again, and Liu Chengzong asked Feng Sheng, "Where's Brother Ling, just tell me if you have any ideas."

"I, I think Yanshuiguan..."

Feng Hao hesitated, met Liu Chengzong's expectant look, thought for a while, and finally said: "I think the leader's arrangement is not good, and the cannon should be sent to the post. Doing business; gunshou as infantry, many casualties escaped."

This time, the smiles on people's faces that had not yet been put away froze, and even Cao Yao, who was smiling, stared at Feng Keng.

It wasn't until he stared at Feng Sheng that he lowered his head, then he turned to Liu Chengzong and said, "He didn't mean that."

Liu Chengzong was the leader of the lion camp. At this time, there were not only a few old acquaintances in the house, but some outsiders.

The four or five captains in the Three Sentinels were all promoted from the subordinates, and they were completely sloppy at this meeting, and there was no sense of belonging.

Feng Keng's words affected the leader's prestige again, and the result was even worse.

And this is his old subordinate.

Cao Yao was afraid that this would affect Liu Chengzong's view of himself.

Liu Chengzong didn't speak, no one in the room spoke, and the atmosphere quickly solidified.

Only Wei Qianer stared left and right with wide eyes, very relaxed, and even wanted to laugh a little.

He said in his heart: The leader's heart is much wider than the Yellow River.

As far as his mouth is concerned, he was often seen wearing small shoes by the courier at the inn, but he was in the lion camp. Even if he scolded Liu Chengzong while guarding the inn, he was not treated differently afterwards.

This is something I haven't had since I was a kid.

"Brother Cao thought of me as something, it's fine."

Liu Chengzong didn't speak because he was thinking. After a while, he nodded and said, "Well, Brother Zhuangzi is right. If we let the cannon whistle go up at that time, our gunners can also learn from the battle."

He admitted: "This is my problem, I will pay more attention in the future."

Liu Chengzong took this matter seriously, and then said to Cao Yao: "But I don't think the night battle is the biggest problem. On the day of Yanshui Pass, the officers and troops were also in chaos."

"But soon, they were able to reorganize, and many of us just fell apart and didn't come back after the battle," he said.

Cao Yao waved his hand with a smile, and said, "They are used to fleeing, so it's just right to leave. Those who like to escape leave. As long as we don't fight at night, we can fight harder."

The battle of Yanshui Pass was a battle of survival of the fittest for the Mule Camp. After this battle, not many old thieves from Huanglong Mountain were left in the team.

Those thieves were originally at the bottom of Lao Huihui's subordinates, and they dispersed when they couldn't keep up with the team. A group of thieves ran away from Yan'an, and another group in Yanchuan.

Intellectually, Liu Chengzong also agrees with Cao Yao's idea.

"Actually, reorganizing the troops in Shanxi was an idea that I had when I crossed the Yellow River. Our current team composition is very good. It is mainly composed of the flag troops of the Weisuo, the soldiers of the express shop, the soldiers of the post station, and the frontier troops of the battalion. Everything, the whole camp of more than [-] people has mules and horses, and the food can last for [-] days.”

Speaking of this, Liu Chengzong's words changed: "But there are also many problems. Hundreds of soldiers were injured or injured in the previous battle, and the morale of the team was not high; it was difficult for the newly joined frontier troops to integrate, so the captains don't have to be busy. Wave your hands, everyone is well aware of this, and if you find a problem to solve the problem, I am willing to let everyone open their hearts to talk about it.”

After talking to several army commanders from Yanshui Pass and Jingbian with a smile, Liu Chengzong continued: "Also, Sentinel Cao just said to avoid night battles... Brothers, we are building an army from scratch. "

Speaking of the rise, Liu Chengzong stood up from the kang and opened his arms: "Where will this army go, the military discipline and military strength are related to everyone's life and death, so ask yourself, who are we, where do we come from, and what do we want? Where to go?"

The people in the room looked left and right, but there was no answer.

Cao Yaodao said, "Boss, you built either the lion camp or the mule camp... I don't even know where I'm going, but you want us to tell us where we're going."

This is not a philosophy, just a goal.

People are happy, there are only a few people with goals in the world, and even among these people with goals, how many people can go down firmly?

More people just choose a way of life, and they don't even choose their own way of life, they just go with the flow.

In January, six coins and silver are eaten, and in January, two or two will be more comfortable, and they are all alive.

"I don't know?" Liu Chengzong glanced at everyone: "I tell you, the patrols, the township soldiers, the flag army, and the official army all want to take our lives, we are fighting the imperial court, and the imperial court is stronger than any of us imagined.

If we want to survive, we must combine our strengths and overcome the shortcomings of the officers and troops. If the officers and troops are [-] miles a day, we need [-] miles a day; if the officers and troops bring three days of food and grass, we must bring dry food for six days; We must cheer up; if the official army plunders the people, we will not commit any crimes, nor will the official army commit any crimes, and we will help the people.

In the world, the less wins the more, who of you has ever seen the weak win the strong? "

Liu Chengzong shook his head. There may be a situation where the weak overcomes the strong among individual people, but among the closest organizations in human beings, the weak overcomes the strong is just a fairy tale.

He just believes that winning has something to do with it.

"We will live, stand with the poor people in the world, be the enemy of the imperial court, and finally win. I am Liu Chengzong, I came from Yan'an, and I am going to Beijing; we are people who cannot eat enough, we are from the world. Come, go to Beijing!"

(End of this chapter)