I want to be emperor

Chapter 66
According to traditional farming conditions, the entire Funiu Mountain area is actually not good. Only the sporadic valleys in the mountains are suitable for farming. It is far inferior to the Ruzhou Plain in the east or the Nanyang Basin in the south, which have large areas of plain farmland.

Due to geographical constraints, the villages in Funiu Mountain also exist in these valleys.

The farming conditions of these villages are good and bad. Among them, Sanshui Village, which is located in the deepest part of the mountain, is located in the deepest part of the mountain. From a military point of view, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is not much developable arable land.

Even if it is fully developed, the farming level of these years can only support a few hundred people at most.

Not to mention the difficult way to get in and out of Sanshui Village, there is just a mountain path that goes around and goes up and down the mountain, and there is no way for a horse-drawn cart to pass. This is very troublesome for the daily march, transportation of food and other materials, and artillery.

As for Songshan Village, the terrain around the village is flatter, more arable land can be developed, and the development difficulty is also less difficult. The water source is also relatively sufficient, and there are several streams. If it is cultivated here, it is enough to feed 2000 people. .

As for safety, don't worry, this place is actually the same as other villages in Funiu Mountain. There are mountains in the southeast, north, and west. These mountains are undeveloped and untouched primeval forests. It is difficult to get in directly through the mountains.

There are only a few trails that can enter and exit Songshan Village.

The road to the south is to go south along a valley bottom in Songshan, and the Songshan defense line is set up here.

With the Songshan line of defense, there is no need to worry too much about safety.

After passing through the Songshan defense line, there is the outer hilly area of ​​Funiu Mountain. Although this area is still hilly, it is actually a relatively mature area with many mature villages.

Mature villages represent more food and more people.

If possible, Luo Zhixue still hopes to extend the tentacles of Baoxiangying to the villages in the southern peripheral area of ​​Funiu Mountain. If he can control this area, it will be of great benefit to the future development of Baoxiangying.

The Rural Protection Battalion will always be eager for more food and more soldiers.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue decided to move the main resident of the Baoxiangying to Songshan Village. Of course, Sanshui Village will not give up, and will continue to send some manpower and prisoners of war to cultivate the land of Sanshui Village, as a Backup base use.

If the officers and soldiers rushed into the mountains that day, and he couldn't bear it, he would have to abandon Songshan Village and return to Sanshui Village.

It's just that at that level, Luo Zhixue may choose to give up Funiu Mountain directly and go to the big mountains to the west.

Luo Zhixue never said that once the officers and soldiers attacked on a large scale, they would die in Funiu Mountain when they were obviously unable to fight.

The best situation is naturally to hoard enough food in Funiu Mountain, recruit enough soldiers, train a strong army, and then start to look around and wait for opportunities.

However, if things don't go well, and they are attacked by a large number of main government troops on the way, and then defeated by the government troops, then Luo Zhixue will not hesitate to evacuate Funiu Mountain with his elite backbone, and look for another opportunity to seek a comeback.

Play rebellion, don't be too brainy.

Fight if you can, and run if you can't. If you run, find a chance to grow and do it again!
In the matter of rebellion, you have to learn from Li Zicheng. In his rebellion career, he suffered countless defeats. His army was defeated once when he was formed, but every time he led the main force to break through and escape when he was defeated.

The Ming army always thought it was over, but it didn't take long for them to pull out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops. This defeat, they were defeated and entered the capital, forcing Chongzhen to death...

This is simply a model of repeated defeats and repeated defeats, even more awesome than Zeng Guofan.

So, Luo Zhixue doesn't know how things will develop in the future, but he always likes to arrange several backup plans, and among the many plans, he has never stuck to Funiu Mountain.

It's just that, that's all for the future. For now, Luo Zhixue still wants to continue to control Funiu Mountain, and even control the southern and eastern outlying areas of Funiu Mountain, and control more food producing areas.

With such a plan in mind, Luo Zhixue did not move back to Sanshui Village after the Battle of Songshan, but entrenched in Songshan Village with his adults.

While arranging manpower to open up wasteland and reclamation, at the same time arrange people to relocate the artisans in Sanshui Village.

At the same time, it is also stepping up sending people out of the mountain to buy various materials, especially strategic materials such as gunpowder and ironware, salt, and cloth.

Interestingly, after the second Battle of Songshan ended, no second Ming army entered the mountain for a long time.

I don't know what the Ming army is doing, whether it is ignoring the disastrous defeat of Huang Guangmao's troops, or whether it is really unable to spare troops.

What Luo Zhixue and others in the mountains did not know.

In fact, after Wang Jida returned to Lushan County, he began to mobilize his contacts to spread his story. He also spent a lot of money to get through Tan Zhengling's relationship and obtained Tan Zhengling's asylum.

In the end, the failure of the attack on Funiu Mountain all fell on Huang Guangmao's head. Not only was he not guilty of defeat, but Wang Jida had the merit of fighting against the bandits.

Tan Zhengling has already given him the letter of approval. This time the 'contribution' is not great. There is no hope of being promoted to the magistrate, but it is still no problem to be promoted to a co-prefect. It happens that the co-prefect of Ruzhou is old and sick and is about to retire, so Wang Jida will soon return. Make up for the lack of Ruzhou Tongzhi.

Now Wang Jida is waiting for the order to be transferred in the next year, and then he will go to Ruzhou to serve as a co-prefect, where he will go to great lengths to organize an army to march on Funiu Mountain.

Although they are not good at fighting, they are not stupid.

After the Battle of Songshan, Wang Jida knew very well that the thieves on Funiu Mountain were not easy to fight.

Under such circumstances, he still waited honestly for his promotion and insisted on confronting the gangsters in Funiu Mountain. In case of another fiasco, there would be no second Huang Guangmao to take the blame for him.

Therefore, whoever wants to suppress the thieves in Funiu Mountain, he will not go anyway...

As for killing thieves and making meritorious service, establishing a reputation as a soldier, there are many rogues and refugees outside, and he casually takes the newly recruited county bravery to catch and kill the refugees in the wilderness, and get some heads as credit for it. Isn't it fragrant?
Why do you want to fight those thugs from Funiu Mountain!
After all, I can't beat it...

Wang Jida is a smart man, he won't suffer a second time after suffering a loss.

So after he returned to Lushan County, he had nothing to do except to send sentries to continue to monitor Funiu Mountain, especially whether the thieves from Songshan Village were moving out of the mountain on a large scale. When they came down to guard the city, some of them were sent out to exterminate all kinds of refugees and made meritorious deeds.

Wang Jida, who was the local official, quit, and the military officer system is also busy now, and has no time to deal with the small group of thieves in Funiu Mountain.

Because at the beginning of December, they suffered a disastrous defeat in northern Chu and finally fled back to Shaanxi, but they were encircled and suppressed by Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi. The main forces of the rebels, such as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, began to attack Henan from the east of the Qinling Mountains.

These rebels are not small-scale bandits with only a few hundred people like Funiu Mountain, but large-scale rebels with tens of thousands at every turn.

The officers and soldiers are quite nervous about this. Governor Xuanmo of Henan has ordered all ministries to take strict precautions to block the rebels going east. He even strictly ordered Zuo Liangyu's garrison in Xin'an and other places, and Chen Zhibang's garrison in Ruzhou. Therefore, the ministries of the Ming army stationed in Lu's family must curb the intention of the rebel army to go east.

Because of the large-scale eastward march of the rebel army, the pressure on the Ming army in Henan was greatly increased, and the situation was very bad.

Under such circumstances, Chen Zhibang's troops stationed in Ruzhou can still take care of those little thieves in Funiu Mountain. Their main force is already in Ruzhou City, Ruyang City and other places in the north of Ruzhou. At Mo Mo's request, some troops were sent to Luoyang City to assist in the defense.

As a result, although Chen Zhibang was very dissatisfied with Huang Guangmao's defeat at Funiu Mountain, he thought about sending troops to Funiu Mountain to wipe out this group of daring thieves.

But under the pressure of the rebel army, he couldn't spare enough troops to go to Funiu Mountain.

And when Chen Zhibang's main Ming army was restrained by a large-scale rebel army, Wang Jida knew very well that his county bravery was useless and would not be able to defeat Funiu Mountain. Naturally, no large-scale Ming army would come to Funiu Mountain to cause trouble up.

Luo Zhixue in Funiu Mountain still doesn't know anything about this. He just feels strange that the Ming army didn't continue to come to Funiu Mountain. After all, he wiped out thousands of Ming troops in the battle of Songshan. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to pull the cross.

Since the Ming army did not come, Luo Zhixue naturally would not miss this opportunity.

In mid-December, Luo Zhixue convened a discussion with everyone, and then decided to formally go south to the villages on the southern outskirts of Funiu Mountain, trying to control these villages and obtain food and soldiers from them.

This process was not interfered by the official power of the Ming army, but there were resistance from various villages, especially the private power of the landlords. .

The outlying area of ​​Funiu Mountain is not a big mountain anymore. Although the terrain is still dominated by hills, they are all traditional villages, and naturally there are many big landlords in them.

This is different from the situation where there are basically mountain people in the depths of Funiu Mountain, and there are no landlords at all.

And the Baoxiang camp mainly collects grain from those landlords when it wants to collect grain outside the mountains.

After all, apart from landlords, most of the others are tenants.

And Baoxiangying has never done anything to grab food from Kuhaha. It was the same in Li Tonglin's time, Sun Jiancheng's time, and it was the same in Luo Zhixue's time.

It's not that it's impossible to deal harshly with the bitter people, but even if you rob them, you can't get much food.

The grain output in these traditional villages is basically concentrated in the hands of the landlords in each village, and the rural protection camp can only turn to these landlords if they want to collect grain on a large scale.

These landlords are actually not easy to provoke to ordinary thieves. Many landlords have high walls and guard yards, and ordinary small-scale thieves can't do anything to them.

However, ordinary small-scale thieves can't take these landlords' high-walled yards, but it doesn't mean that the Baoxiangying can't take them.

All the establishments of the Baoxiangying camp were all for the regular army. Ordinary landlords really couldn't withstand the attack of the Baoxiangying camp.

Even if you meet a powerful tyrant, don't you still have artillery!

The two [-]-jin cannons that Blacksmith Song took several months to build have already been built and are on their way to Songshan Village.

(End of this chapter)