stubborn thief

Chapter 102 Design
Yatou Mountain.

The wide drying area was surrounded by sergeants.

In the middle, Liu Chengzong stood with his helmet on top of his armor, leaning on his long spear, raised his hand to put his helmet on his eyebrows, and looked at the sun in the sky with frowns.

It's clearly autumn, but the noon sun is still strong and poisonous. It can evaporate the shadows of the distant mountains and make people suffocate.

He turned his wrist, put down the five-meter-long spear, held the barrel of the gun with his front hand, and grasped the thick tail of the gun with his back hand at his waist. He stomped his feet, and was trampled hard, saying, "Come again!"

Opposite him, there is an infantryman from the former Pusi soldier on the right sentry, who can't use a big gun, holds a seven-foot tassel gun, nods: "General, I have offended you!"

clang!
Cao Yao, who was sitting on the ground by the sidelines, leaned on the blunderbuss shoulder, raised his hand and tapped the clay jar with an iron spoon.

The two advanced slowly, and the two guns intersected.

The Pusi soldier suddenly swung his gun to block the spear, trying to break in later, but his strength was weak and he failed to smash the spear away.

Liu Chengzong stepped back half a step, pushed forward with his back hand and stepped up at the same time, the tip of the gun lightly tapped on the breastplate on Pu Sibing's chest, stepped back to close the gun, and put the long gun at his side again.

Cao Yaodao: "The left sentry pawn Du Liangcai, ranks eighth in the rank of soldier!"

The Mule Battalion was appointed for the first time, and the procedure was not rigorous.

As long as the infantry can use ordinary weapons such as spears, boring handles, hooked sickle spears, and waist knives, they can fight Liu Chengzong back and forth, attack and defend for five rounds, and fight twice in a row.

However, the chances of not being able to touch each other after five rounds of offense and defense are very small, and the winner can basically be determined.

If you win, you are ranked fourth, if you lose, you are ranked sixth.

Right now behind him, there are two soldiers of the fourth rank.

After the fight, Liu Chengzong took off his helmet and handed it to one of them, and said while disarming: "It's too hot, you brothers will fight ten games for me each, and we will rest after the fight."

Put this aside elsewhere, on a hot day, wearing full heavy armor for one round or two, ten rounds can exhaust a person.

But in today's Yatou Mountain, it is commonplace.

People's weapon skills are high or low, but the days to eat enough are still short, the body has not returned to normal levels, and most of the battles are very simple.

Liu Chengzong took off his armor and sat with Cao Yao: "Get some water?"

Cao Yao laughed: "There is water, but the drinking water is unclean, and it is easy to get plague. Our water is not clean. The general's body is precious, so he can't drink it."

This old thief doesn't speak well.

Liu Chengzong frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

"It's not interesting. There are military laws. Of the seven wells at the bottom of the mountain, only two deep wells can draw water. There is no one in the village. I asked old man Qian, and no wells were cleaned this spring."

As he spoke, Cao Yao squeezed his eyes: "It's full of dirty water. It needs to be burned. The coal brought from Yanshuiguan is exhausted. I've sent people to collect firewood. I guess there will be no water until evening."

Liu Chengzong understood that Cao Yao was disgusting him.

Sure enough, the old thief shook his head and made a 'tsk tsk tsk' sound: "The military law has been passed on, and the brothers are very obedient. You can't bully the common people. Naturally, you can't pick up other people's houses. If you don't have firewood, go pick it up."

Cao Yao looked like a rascal, and said with a smile: "Then Wei Qian'er doesn't think it's nothing. He has never led soldiers. I asked him to lead people to collect firewood. General, you can take care of it. It's clear that there are two courtyards." , but he wants to collect firewood under the sun to see if his cavalry has any grievances."

"Team Cao Guan, this is not good."

Gao Xian who was sitting on the side said: "The cavalry has grievances, and it's not good for us."

"Why don't you call it bad, you Gao Laosan have other ways? Someone has to do this, don't let him go, okay, you send the right whistle to collect firewood, or you persuade the scumbag to inquire about the news, let the left Go, anyway, my sentry soldiers won't go."

Gao Xian raised his hand: "You..."

Cao Yao saw that it was almost done, stood up and threw the spoon towards Gao Xian, and sneered, "Tch, you just stand and talk without pain in your back, if you are really told to go, you won't go, I am giving advice to the battalion general, no About your third son, rest and don't talk."

He motioned Liu Chengzong to come to the side, and the two of them chose an empty courtyard and walked in, and sat down against the wall, before he said: "It's not that I put on seniority, and I listen to you in major matters. I haven't let my brothers suffer, and I also I know what I'm capable of, being a king of the mountain is okay, but I can't do big things by myself, I think you can do big things, so you point me to where to fight, but listen to my brother's advice."

Cao Yao whispered to Liu Chengzong: "In the 47th year of Wanli, my brother was in charge of the army. Leading troops is not only about fighting. The military law is to restrain soldiers for their own use, and you can't just memorize the regulations. If you compare your heart with your heart, you can burn water if you tear down a house , but let people gather firewood against the sun, can the sergeant be convinced?"

Very reasonable.

Liu Chengzong nodded slowly. He felt uncomfortable because of this matter.

Seeing him nodding, Cao Yao was very happy and said with emotion: "Your family is really interesting. You are upright and upright, and your brother is resolute and brave. Even if you are rigid, you won't listen to persuasion. It's great that you can listen to me. What about your brother?" People are good everywhere, but they don’t know how to be flexible. He is obviously a captain, and he believes in the requirements in the military book more than the general. I am not surprised that he taught you to make these decisions.”

"I'm different from your brother. Leading the soldiers, the leader is an old mother. It's comfortable to serve the soldiers in peacetime, and the soldiers can make me comfortable in wartime. Even if I lose the battle, they will remember to protect me and run, because there is no longer a soldier in the world. People can treat them like I do."

For a while, Liu Chengzong felt a little complicated.

It is a very rare quality for human beings to have their mistakes pointed out face to face, even if they avoid others, and can not rebel.

Let alone gladly accept it.

Compared with accepting it readily, it is easier for people to feel comfortable if a group of officials and people dare to stab someone for their faults.

But Liu Chengzong was more in his heart, he was really happy.

He seemed to see a new door glowing, slowly opening towards him.

The last time I felt this way, it was Liu Chengzu who taught him the skills of marching and camping.

"In this way, I am really impatient to use the military law of the frontier army. I just don't want the sergeants to develop the habit of looting and invade the Quartet, but I haven't considered such things thoroughly."

Liu Chengzong first admitted his mistake, and then said: "But I can't admit it, and I can't correct it now."

Cao Yao also nodded, raised his finger and pointed at his temple, and said, "I can't admit it, I don't mean anything else, I just want to tell you, think twice before acting in the future... But if you don't change it now, what are you going to do?"

Liu Chengzong sat on the ground against the earthen wall, thinking about it carefully.

After a while, he turned his head and said to Cao Yao in a very confident tone, "Brother Cao, you set up a trap for me."

They will encounter such problems, but it was Cao Yao's decision to assign Wei Qian'er's cavalry to collect firewood, and Liu Chengzong failed.

He guessed that before Wei Qian'er led the cavalry to monitor the river beach, Cao Yao talked about the lack of firewood. He didn't know what kind of language he used to provoke the generals, so Wei Qian'er went to do it by the way.

The impact of this incident should not be that bad, and the sergeant's resentment may not rise to dissatisfaction with Liu Chengzong himself.

It is likely that it will be over when they are dissatisfied with Captain Wei Qian'er.

"Correct."

Cao Yao admitted it generously, waved his hands and said, "But you can't blame me, I'm all for the sake of the team! I found out that my general is bookish, as a subordinate, how can I not persuade him?"

The old thief shook his head, and used the last sentence in a singing voice: "Short words, you Liu family can't listen to it, and you will cry when you see the coffin."

"Don't let me wipe your shit."

When Liu Chengzong saw him admit it, he felt very relaxed, and said with a smile: "Tell me, you must have a way to solve this problem, otherwise even if I solve it, I will blame you, and the solution is not smart. If you hide the firewood, then But that would be stupid."

"Hey, let's see what you said about me."

Cao Yao was also very relaxed: "It is true that there is no more firewood, and there are two meals left to cook. The water solution is also easy to solve, but I still want to hear what the general has to do first."

Cao Yao said, think twice before acting.

Liu Chengzong really started to think twice.

It's not a big deal, but it's likely to have a profound effect on the team because of the solution he chooses.

With Cao Yao, Liu Chengzong was able to admit his mistakes and then correct them.

This is person to person, Cao Yao is a good brother, he is right, he should listen, so he has to listen.

But the mistake he admitted was that he was inexperienced, had never encountered such a thing, and did not think carefully before passing the general's law to the whole battalion.

Rather than strictly enforce the military law, it is wrong in itself.

If he went out and had people burn down the house or even change the law, not only would he not be able to make the soldiers who went to collect firewood appreciate him, but the soldiers at other posts would think that the general's determination to enforce the military law was nothing more than that.

This complicates what is so simple.

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said: "Still using the old method my brother taught me, take the lead, and I will put horses and collect firewood together with them. After everyone is familiar with yesterday's military law, next time we change camps, find an uninhabited village, and organize the search for firewood. If I can’t find it, I’ll just rip up the house before people get angry. Work around, Brother Cao, is this what you want to teach me?”

Cao Yao was amused by his solution: "The bad thing turned you into a good thing. I didn't mean to find trouble for you. I can solve it with water. You know, your sister-in-law is from a big family in Beizhili. Her family repaired the well. It is necessary to stick tiles and pad charcoal at the bottom of the well, and the water drawn up will be clean."

"When I was weeding in the north, she made a kind of filter barrel for me. Holes were punched in the bottom of the wooden barrel, and hay, bamboo charcoal, and stones were placed on the bottom of the barrel, and a stick was placed. The raw water was filtered and drunk, and I never got sick. I think you can take out the filter bucket when people are in a hurry to collect firewood, and you can also win the hearts of the new soldiers."

Liu Chengzong found this very familiar, and it was basically the same principle as the method of dealing with raw water in the wild in another memory.

Basically the same, means reliable.

However, he felt that what Cao Yao said was not what was in his heart. Taking out this thing was of little significance to the morale of the new surrendered troops. The greater significance was probably that Cao Yao did not want to steal his limelight.

He didn't point it out, and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are waiting for me here. It's good. Then I will do it first. Take out the filter bucket before boiling the water. Whether you should boil the water or you have to boil the water. There is a lack of firewood." The thing is to remind us that we should find a big family to rob the rich and help the poor."

"Wait for Rouzi to find out the news and come back, but did you find out..." Cao Yao said solemnly: "There is a problem with our camp."

"What's the problem?"

Cao Yao looked puzzled: "There are more than 500 people in such a large battalion, and the leader is often needed to charge forward on the battlefield; there are more than 500 people in the whole battalion, and I am the only one who can give you advice. There is a shortage of talented people."

"It can't do anything about it. It's not bad that it can fight. Didn't the two brothers Zhonghu Zhongbao be selected in today's martial arts competition. Their martial arts skills are not inferior to mine."

Zhong Hu and Zhong Bao are the two soldiers with fourth-class honors in today's martial arts competition, and they are replacing Liu Chengzong to check the sergeants on the drying ground.

The two are brothers, they were born in the Guards Army for generations, they used to be soldiers of the Jingbian Battalion, they are good at horsemanship, spears, waist knives and martial arts.

Liu Chengzong said: "The people who can be recruited by us can't be of high family background, but if there is a way out, no one wants to be a thief; if they don't look like a thief, even if they are tied up, they can rest assured, unless there is something like a guerrilla. , I really want to bring it with me, otherwise I wouldn’t want to force others to be thieves.”

If you talk about other problems, Liu Chengzong probably has a solution, but there is no solution for talents.

Earlier, I wanted to tie up Guerrilla Lu, but I still had to talk about whether he could fall into the grass from the thief, but who knew that General Lu dodged dozens of shells and was stabbed to death by a small piece of wood.

As for the others, they surrendered to the frontier army in the First Battle of Yanshuiguan and were willing to follow them. All of them were soldiers, and none of them had official positions.

This kind of background can only recruit some people with martial arts skills, and not many people can read and write.

The few new frontier soldiers who were promoted to captains had no other advantages, they became captains just by being able to write down the names of other people because of their literacy.

There are not many literate people, and even fewer educated people. It is true that many such people have been forced to rebel in this world, but compared with the ordinary people who were forced to rebel, the number is still very small.

This matter can only be considered as a brain trust when they return to Yan'an Mansion and meet with their father and brother, together with Yang Dingrui and Song Shouzhen.

Cao Yao also said casually, and laughed at himself: "Our old Cao will force you to be a dog-headed military adviser first... Do you think it is appropriate for us to be a big one in Shanxi?"

"Damn it, what do you mean?"

Cao Yao raised his hands to spend several laps on the ground, rubbed his hands together and said, "I asked old man Qian about the general geography of the vicinity, but I don't know the details, I only know that this is Xizhou, which belongs to Pingyang Prefecture, and Fenzhou is to the north of Xizhou. Xiaoyi County in the prefecture, and the county further north is called Fenyang County, which is the seat of Fenzhou Prefecture."

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "It's Fucheng again. There are guards in Fucheng, and if we are a big one in Shanxi, it will be easy for the two provinces to join forces to suppress us. Then there will be no rest day, and we will flee all day long."

"I just said this, and you feel big? This is not like your courage, there are bigger ones."

Cao Yao pointed to the route he had drawn on the ground, and said with an excited smile on his face, "This Fenzhou City is where Prince Qingcheng's residence is located. I was a soldier in Xuanfu before, and I have heard of King Qingcheng. The first generation of King Qingcheng gave birth to a hundred babies, all grown up, and the city is full of generals who rule the country and generals who assist the country, and the palace is built like an imperial city, so you are not tempted? I wanted to snatch it seven or eight years ago. They're gone."

"I can't grab it...it's too dangerous."

Liu Chengzong still shook his head, and when Cao Yao was gradually disappointed, he said: "But I've come here, I have to explore first, the route of Qingcheng's palace, and his Zhuangtian, I can't take over the palace now, but I can in the future, And rob Wangzhuang."

He patted himself on the chest: "Steal Wangzhuang, our brother is an expert!"

　Good morning!It's still two in one, don't wait for the update at eleven o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)