A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 43: Intercepting and killing the officers and soldiers
In the next few days, Li Gui led the people from Yushan down the mountain and defeated Zhuangzi, which he had not attacked before because of fear. He wiped out the powerful families and confiscated all their grain and property.

Because there were so many harvests, several large warehouses had to be built on Yushan to store various materials.

Today's Yushan bandits are all small rich men just by relying on their share of loot.

After seeing the gold and silver, all the bandits became militants. Many brothers were already talking about helping the bandit to break up Yishui County and make brother Li Gui the county magistrate.

Fortunately, Li Gui was still clear-headed and knew that they just wanted to go to the city to buy something for zero yuan. They were doing it for their own selfish reasons and not for their own boss.

This is how war feeds war. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. Once this kind of thing starts, it is difficult to put the brakes on again.

Li Gui was very convinced that as long as he kept expanding and winning, he would be able to cultivate a strong army that could fight, dare to fight, and be good at fighting.

But the problem is that no one can win all the time. If there is a slight setback, this army may backfire.

Not only did Li Gui not listen to their instigation and attack the meaningless county town, but instead began to reorganize.

Now there is no shortage of weapons and equipment in Yushan Village, so the troops must be improved accordingly, including spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and archers.

The Shanzhai began to hold competitions in the army, and those who could shoot were pulled out to be archers, those with high strength were formed into an army alone and were selected as the main force, those with weak force became the reserve army, and the worst ones were made into auxiliary troops, baggage troops, and fire-head troops. Benefits will also be adjusted accordingly.

There are no such things as muskets and artillery in the army now, so the auxiliary soldiers are basically just odd jobs and receive the worst treatment.

Of course those who were laid off were unwilling to do so, but in front of Li Gui's big axe, no one dared to talk nonsense.

In the army, there is a strict rule of 54 prohibitions and [-] beheadings. But when it comes to Li Gui, it becomes beheading, beheading, beheading, and there is no other punishment.

Moreover, although the military orders in the army are strict, they are very flexible when it comes to execution. The key to whether to kill or not depends on the relationship with the general, or the severity of the mistakes made.

But here in Yushan Village, anyone who offends Li Gui will be dealt with "fairly", and a click is an axe.

Before death, everyone is equal.

In addition to reorganizing, the troops are trained every day without any slack. Anyone who dares to cheat will be eliminated and thrown into the auxiliary army. The minimum standard will be used for meritorious service and reward.

For those few taels of silver, all the men trained like they were risking their lives, not daring to be lazy at all.

On this day, Zhu Fu rushed up from the mountain in a dusty way. As soon as he entered the hall, he couldn't wait to shout:

"Brother, the state army has already set off. It will take one or two days at most to reach Yishui County!"

When he was persuading Li Yun in the city, Zhu Fu learned about Ding Zhixian's application for reinforcements again. When he came back, he told Li Gui, who then sent people to disguise themselves and follow the caravan into the state city to secretly detect the state army's dispatch. Things.

The confidentiality work of the Song Dynasty was as leaky as a sieve, and major events such as sending troops were the talk of the city's residents who were eager to pay attention.

Xizuo didn't need to bribe any officials at all. He just sat down in a few teahouses and chatted for a few words, and the well-informed people took the initiative to show off all kinds of secrets.

Of course, it’s hard to say whether this level of confidentiality is true or false. It can only depend on personal judgment.

After Xi Zuo heard the useful news, Fei Ge immediately informed him, and Zhu Fu would report the news after summarizing it.

"Okay!" Li Gui gently placed the huge stone lock next to him, grabbed a towel and wiped his sweat, then ordered: "Get up, we'll set off immediately. We'll ambush them on the way and kill them all." .”

Now everyone in the village has been tortured to the point of going crazy by the training. When they heard that they were going to go down to fight, they were all as excited as if they had taken tonic, gearing up and scrambling to be the first.Only Li Gui knew that the enemy coming this time was a regular army, different from the bastards like Liang Wanshen last time.

But he didn't remind him, just looked on with cold eyes.

He also wanted to know whether these soldiers, fed with a lot of gold and silver, could fight against the regular army.

The group of people quickly gathered together and brought dry food and water with them. Except for leaving some old and weak people to guard the mountain, almost all the Yushan bandits came out.

Yizhou has many mountains, and there are four main mountain ranges from north to south: Lushan, Yishan, Mengshan and Nishan.

There are also many table-shaped mountains formed by water erosion in the territory. They are called "Gu" locally and are commonly known as Yimeng 72 Gu. In fact, there are more than a hundred Gu. Their majestic appearance is not only a wonder on the land of China, but also in the world. The world is also extremely rare.

In addition to being rich in products, the result of having many mountains is that the mountain roads are difficult to travel, and the other is that they are convenient for ambushes.

From Yizhou City to Yishui County, there was only a shabby official road that could allow the army to walk, so Li Gui didn't need to bother looking for any necessary places. He just found a densely forested place on the roadside and divided into several groups. Under the leadership of their respective team generals, lie down inside and wait patiently.

It was already the end of autumn, but the autumn tiger was still there. Not to mention the sweltering heat at noon, there were still many mosquito bites, and some were even bitten by snakes due to inexperience.

Fortunately, they came here early to ambush, otherwise all kinds of chores would appear at the same time, and the ambush would not have the slightest effect, but would only reduce their combat effectiveness.

The bandits had never done such an ambush before, and they complained a lot about it.

They would rather stop in the middle of the road and fight the enemy head-on with great fanfare than lie down in the grass so uncomfortably.

If Li Gui hadn't organized the guards into a supervising team early on, keeping an eye on them and strictly prohibiting them from walking around and talking, they would have been discovered by the enemy from a distance.

Li Gui's supervising team was not prepared for this kind of thing, but was worried that it would collapse after encountering setbacks at the beginning of the battle.

Li Gui had told the supervising team in advance that anyone who dared to be timid in front of the battle, who shouted randomly in the battle to disrupt the morale of the troops, or who fled backwards during the battle, would be shot without mercy!

Everyone waited in the forest for more than a day and a night, and finally saw some scattered cavalry galloping past on the road.

Li Gui knew that these were scouts in the army, specializing in exploring the road ahead to guard against ambushes.

It can be seen that the generals of this army are very cautious, even if they are marching in the state, they still let the scouts go.

However, it was obvious that these scouts themselves were not competent. They did not bother to check at all. They looked around briefly before riding past.

Who would believe that a group of bandits dared to ambush the army?
After another half an hour, the army finally arrived. It was huge and marched neatly in front of everyone.

Li Gui looked at the flags and made a rough estimate: there were at least six battalions, or 3000 people.

These people march strictly according to the pattern of front army, middle army and rear army. When any party is attacked, they will inevitably respond from head to tail. They are definitely not comparable to the ragtag group in Yushanzhai who only know how to line up and stab with spears.

When the front army passed by and the middle army approached, Li Gui nodded to the drummer next to him and shouted: "My sons, line up to kill the enemy!"

Then Li Gui jumped up, got on his horse, whipped his horse faster, and rushed towards the place where the flags were most densely packed.

(End of this chapter)