I want to be emperor

Chapter 45 Songshan Village

Luo Zhixue knew very well that once these officers and soldiers were allowed to come to the depths of Funiu Mountain, their traces of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp and the location of Sanshui Village would inevitably be exposed. They wanted to try to intercept the officers and soldiers directly in the outskirts.

In addition to continuing to conceal the traces of Sanshui Village, Luo Zhixue also wanted to protect the surrounding villages of Sanshui Village.

These villages are now the sources of soldiers and food for the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Battalion, so how can they be easily harassed by officers and soldiers!

Although Sun Jianli hadn't come back yet, relying on Luo Zhixue and Xu He's relatively weak forces, Luo Zhixue still decided to send troops.

Before sending out troops, he once again set his sights on those prisoners of war and old thieves.

These old thieves are soldiers with combat experience. Even if they cannot be selected as cavalry auxiliary soldiers, they are much better than recruits as ordinary soldiers.

Luo Zhixue was still the same as before, let them choose according to the principle of voluntariness, if they were willing to defect to Luo Zhixue for a living, they would come here, and they didn't want to and they didn't force it.

Not surprisingly, except for a very few people who are unwilling, most of the rest are regarded as choosing to take effect.

For these people, Luo Zhixue didn't expect too much, and he held the mentality that he could use it if he could use it, and it wouldn't hurt if he didn't use it.

Even in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of these people, and at the same time to prevent them from ruining the old-fashioned soldiers in the three infantry teams, Luo Zhixue simply organized them into two separate teams.

However, the captain and chief were still selected from the supply battalion.

In doing so, it is inevitable that there will be deserters and the like, after all, there must be some people who are dissatisfied with Luo Zhixue and the others, or dare not be under others, or simply for freedom or something like that.

Not two days after taking them out, more than [-] people ran away... Among them, there were many who had been selected as cavalry auxiliary soldiers, especially the previous bosses, who all ran away...

Luo Zhixue was not surprised by this, after all, it was expected.

He doesn't feel angry, and he even thinks it's a good thing.

Those who are dissatisfied or have other small thoughts have escaped, so the rest of the people will feel more at ease when using it.

If no one ran away all this time, Luo Zhixue would still have to worry about whether they would rebel halfway or even turn around and beat him Luo Zhixue.

Of course, not being surprised or angry doesn't mean Luo Zhixue didn't respond.

Since these people agreed to serve him as soldiers, they ate his food and wanted to serve him, but now they ran away and became deserters. If Luo Zhixue didn't respond, would they want to lead a team in the future?

So Ernst & Young has been very busy these days, and he has been chasing and killing these deserters with his own soldiers.

Under the pursuit of the cavalry, except for a few lucky ones, the rest of the people were basically beheaded and hung on the trees on the mountain path!
In such an attack all the way, the team led by Luo Zhixue lost nearly 30 people before they fought with the officers and soldiers. It has to be said that it is quite ironic.

Going all the way out like this, they finally came to Songshan Village, where they met with more than [-] people sent out by Xu He and led by Xu He's confidant captain Wang Bingqi.

Previously, Wang Bingqi had been leading a small number of people in activities in the villages outside Sanshui Village. Before that, they were collecting food, but after that, they were monitoring and intercepting the sentry of the Ming army.

In this way, in a small Songshan village, the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp has gathered about 200 troops. In addition, there are more than [-] prisoner-of-war camps and more than [-] civilian husbands temporarily requisitioned to transport supplies.

As for Sanshui Village, only Xu He and 40 people were left looking at his hometown, waiting for Sun Jiancheng to come back.

After arriving in Songshan Village, Luo Zhixue approached Wang Bingqi immediately to learn about the situation in Songshan Village and the Ming army.

Wang Bingqi is also an old thief who was born in the cavalry of the officer army. He was Xu He's personal soldier before, and was later promoted by Xu He to be the captain of his subordinates. He was in charge of more than 20 people.

Although strictly speaking, Wang Bingqi is not considered Luo Zhixue's subordinates, but he also knows that Luo Zhixue is the military division in charge of the camp and supplies, and at the same time there is a team under his command that is responsible for transporting and guarding the supplies, but in fact it is better than the other three armies. A stronger supply battalion is required.

So Wang Bingqi didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly told what he learned one by one.

"Songshan Village is about four days away from our Sanshui Village. It is also the southernmost village among the more than ten villages under our control. If we continue to go southeast, we will go out of the mountains to the outer areas."

It is said that it is a four-day journey, but the actual straight-line distance is not too far, but the roads in the mountains are some small roads that are difficult to walk, and these mountain roads are often winding.

Sometimes it's just a mountain, but it often takes half a day to climb over this mountain.

This is what Wangshan ran dead horse said.

Just listen to Wang Bingqi continuing: "There are more than [-] people in Songshan Village now, and there are dozens of scattered mountain hunters around. When we recruited soldiers before, we also recruited more than ten people."

"Because Songshan Village is the outermost village of ours, and after crossing Songshan Mountain to the south of the village, although it is not yet out of the mountain, it is still outside. The mountains outside are not high, and there are many people."

"Before, we found traces of officers and soldiers sentry on the path into the mountain in Songshan. After we captured the survivors and questioned them, we found that a large group of officers and soldiers had already camped in the south of Songshan, which is about a day away from our Songshan village."

"I went there personally the day before yesterday and inspected the camps of the officers and soldiers. I estimated that there were at least two hundred officers and soldiers, but they couldn't be all soldiers. Many of them were young and strong civilians who went into the mountains with the army."

While listening to Wang Bingqi's introduction, Luo Zhixue also looked up at the village in front and the mountains in the distance.

Songshan Village, like other villages in the mountains, is built in a relatively flat valley under several mountains, and a small river flowing from the depths of the mountains passes through the valley.

Only this relatively flat valley with small rivers can provide enough arable land to feed the population, so that it can continuously attract farmers fleeing famine to live here.

There are many pine trees around the village. Luo Zhixue guesses that this is why the local people call this place Songshan Village, and the high mountain in the south is called Songshan.

Luo Zhixue narrowed his eyes and surveyed the surrounding terrain of Songshan Village for a while, and then turned his attention to Songshan in the south.

This Songshan Mountain was indeed the same as what Wang Bingqi had reported before. Although it was not too high, it was extremely steep and densely covered with jungle. Several places were simply cliffs that could not be climbed.

With such a steep mountain and dense jungle, it is not easy even for mountain hunters to climb over, let alone an army with a large amount of luggage.

And it is doomed that if the Ming army outside the mountain wants to enter the mountain, they can only enter along the roads that have been opened in some low-lying valleys in the mountains.

In this way, if one's own side wants to resist the attack of the Ming army, it will have the terrain to use.

And this is actually the reason why Luo Zhixue led the army south to Songshan Village non-stop after learning the news of the Ming army. It was because he knew that there was a terrain here that could be used to better keep the officers and soldiers out of the mountains.

With such a plan, Luo Zhixue arrived in Songshan Village to understand the preliminary situation, and then personally took people to Songshan in the south to conduct a detailed survey of the terrain in order to take corresponding measures when the officers and troops entered the mountain.

Whether it's a sniper battle, an ambush battle, or even trying to escape if you can't fight, you have to be familiar with the terrain.

While Luo Zhixue was doing these preparations in Songshan Village, Fei Bingqing frowned slightly in the Ming army camp seven or eight miles south of Songshan.

Most of the sentries he sent in several directions came back, but only the sentry sent to the north in the direction of Songshan did not return.

It's fine if you don't come back for a day or two, but four or five days have passed and you haven't come back. Fei Bingqing can guess it without asking anyone else. The sentry must have had an accident.

Moreover, it is unlikely that they were attacked by wild animals such as tigers in the mountains, or fell into the cliff by slipping.

Because the scouts he sent to the north were all in groups of three, and one or two might be killed or injured in an accident, but the possibility of all three being wiped out was not great.

Therefore, Fei Bingqing concluded that there was a high probability that the sentry going north was killed by thieves or thugs in the mountains.

That being the case, the situation in the north is very obvious, there must be enemies.

Now that he discovered that there were potential enemies in the mountains to the north, Fei Bingqing didn't plan to procrastinate, and planned to go north early tomorrow morning.

He accepted Huang Guangmao's order to lead his troops out of Funiu Mountain. Although he didn't have to go directly into the mountain to kill, but at least he had to figure out the basic situation in the depths of Funiu Mountain.

Otherwise, after Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida ran over with an army of thousands of people, they would be blinded to the situation ahead, and they would easily capsize in the gutter.

Therefore, Fei Bingqing needed to find out what was going on at Songshan in advance.

If there were only some unruly people in the mountains or a small number of rogues, then Fei Bingqing would not be polite and directly command his troops to sweep over.

If you encounter a large group of thieves, you must find out how many people are on the other side and what kind of equipment they are equipped, so that when Huang Guangmao personally leads the army up and asks him about his situation, he will not ask three questions.

After thinking about it, Fei Bingqing led more than 200 people early the next morning and marched along the mountain path towards Songshan in the north.

The camp of the Ming army was located in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by high mountains and dense forests. Even though Fei Bingqing had sent soldiers to guard the surrounding area, he still couldn't find the spies from Sanshui Village who were hiding in the dense forest.

Therefore, as soon as Fei Bingqing's troops set off, they were discovered by the spies of Sanshui Village, and they sent people to run all the way north to inform Songshan Village.

It didn't take long for Luo Zhixue to get an urgent report of the Ming army's northward advance.

(End of this chapter)