An Yongduo reported to Luo Zhixue with a serious look on his face: "Our sentinels stationed on the periphery found many officers and soldiers' spies wandering around, and they also asked the mountain man hunters to ask for guides. We also disguised ourselves and asked them afterwards.

The mountain people who had contact with the officers and soldiers learned that these officers and soldiers were asking about the situation in the villages in the Funiu Mountain area."

When Luo Zhixue heard this, he noticed something strange: "The officers and soldiers were asking about the situation in each village, instead of directly asking about the situation of the bandits or our Sanshui Village?"

Anyongduo shook his head and said: "It's strange to say that these officers and soldiers didn't ask too much about the bandits. They mainly asked about the situation in each village, such as how many people there are and their specific location."

"What do these officers and soldiers want to do?" Luo Zhixue was a little confused about the routines of these officers and soldiers.

When he first received the news, he heard that after the officers and soldiers returned from the west, they sent a large number of sentries into the mountain. Luo Zhixue's first reaction was that the officers and soldiers had noticed that they were still in Funiu Mountain. It was also possible that there was something wrong with Sun Chengli.

, leading to leaked news.

So the officers and soldiers once again came towards Funiu Mountain.

But, judging from the content of the inquiries made by these officers and soldiers, it doesn’t seem like it.

If they are here for people like themselves, then they will mainly ask about the situation of the bandits, and they will even directly ask about the situation in Sanshui Village.

However, these officers and soldiers did not delve too deeply into the topic of bandits. Instead, they focused on the situation in each village.

In particular, they asked how many people live in each village.

No matter how you look at it, it’s not normal.

When officers and soldiers only go into the mountains to suppress bandits, why do they pay attention to the population of mountain people in the villages in Funiu Mountain?

This is not normal.

No matter what Luo Zhixue thought, he never thought that Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida decided to come to Funiu Mountain again. It was not because their traces were leaked, nor was there anything wrong with Sun Chengli. It was simply because they wanted to go into the mountain to harvest something.

Wave the food.

Although Luo Zhixue still doesn't know what the officers and soldiers are doing again, it is a fact that the officers and soldiers' sentinels once again appeared in the outer area of ​​Funiu Mountain and continued towards the depths of Funiu Mountain.

Luo Zhixue naturally cannot remain indifferent to this.

Immediately Luo Zhixue sent someone to find Sun Chengli and informed Sun Chengli that the officers and soldiers were found outside Funiu Mountain. At the same time, he sent someone to ask Xu He to closely monitor the situation of these officers and soldiers, and allowed that if these officers and soldiers were discovered, they would continue

If you go deeper and there are signs that you are heading towards Sanshui Village, you can attack and kill them decisively.

No matter what the purpose of the officers and soldiers was, Luo Zhixue would not let the officers and soldiers' sentinels get close to the Sanshui Village area.

Not to mention Sanshui Village, not even the dozen or so villages surrounding Sanshui Village can get close.

Because these villages have all had contact with the thieves in Sanshui Village, Luo Zhixue and the others had recruited new soldiers and collected food in these villages before.

As long as the sentinels of these officers and soldiers arrive at these villages and ask casually, they will know that there is a group of rebels nearby, and then they can follow the clues to find Sanshui Village.

After the order was given, Luo Zhixue did not take any other action. Instead, he frequently went to the supply camp to personally train the soldiers, and went into battle himself, using his half-knowledge to guide the artillerymen in the artillery team to train.

If the officers and soldiers really enter the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, they will inevitably have to fight with them.

Since we are going to fight, the supply camp under our control must be fully prepared.

Luo Zhixue looked serious as he looked at the more than a hundred soldiers conducting various trainings in the large open space ahead.

If officers and soldiers attack in large numbers, can people like you stop the attack?

Even if Sun Chengcheng and others rushed back in time, the number of troops Sun Chengcheng led out now was only more than 200 people, and among them, there were only more than 60 cavalry that could fight.

As for the other two hundred ordinary soldiers, they actually didn't train for long before they were taken out by Sun Chengli. After going out, they spent most of their time marching and had no free time to conduct various trainings.

Therefore, their level of training is actually far inferior to that of the soldiers in the supply camp who stayed in Sanshui Village.

The hundreds of soldiers in the baggage camp were trained at different times. For example, the last batch of soldiers were recruited after the autumn harvest, and their training time was less than half a month. Now they can barely even line up.

However, the soldiers recruited in the first two batches have been trained for a relatively long time, and the earliest batch of 30 soldiers have been trained for more than two months.

In the past two months or so, except for temporarily helping out during the autumn harvest, these people have basically been conducting various trainings every day.

Now I can line up in an orderly manner and follow orders to make some basic tactical actions.

As for whether he can fight, to be honest, Luo Zhixue is not sure.

In Sanshui Village, in addition to the supply camp under Luo Zhixue, there is also the right army led by the old farmer Xu He. This unit has four cavalry soldiers and about 60 newly recruited soldiers, of which about 30 have been trained.

A month later, the remaining thirty people were also recruited after the autumn harvest.

Adding the two units together, the total defense force in Sanshui Village is more than 180 people.

Among the more than 180 people, there are actually not many who can fight. The only ones who can be truly considered elite are the four cavalry soldiers under Xu He and the seven cavalry under Luo Zhixue. Well, if you include Xu He himself,

Then there are twelve people!

These twelve people are all Yulin frontier cavalrymen. They can ride and shoot. They are definitely not ordinary thieves and can be compared with infantry.

And these people are undoubtedly the absolute main force.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue had an example of gathering seven of his cavalrymen to form a temporary cavalry team when he intercepted a group of Tatianhu thieves who accidentally entered Sanshui Village, and Luo Zhixue found that the effect was quite good.

Luo Zhixue, who was worried about the incoming officers and soldiers, once again summoned the cavalrymen who were already serving as commanders and artillery under his command, preparing to use them intensively.

Luo Zhixue believes that it is not worth the gain to break up these elite cavalry and then integrate them into ordinary soldiers to serve as captains or captains.

They hold official positions such as captains, and they are just small bosses who can fight a little.

But if they gather together, they can form a cavalry squad.

This cavalry squad can definitely play a more important role on the battlefield than the existing 100-strong infantry battalion.

In fact, An Yongduo, Zhao Hongshu, Ding Chuwu, and Ma Dapao were a little confused at first about Luo Zhixue recruiting them into the Guards Corps, and even had some minor objections.

After all, the four of them have gradually become leaders in the past two months, and their subordinates are in charge of people.

If they were all transferred together and treated as ordinary cavalry, people would naturally be unhappy.

But when they heard Luo Zhixue said that they would come here to be cavalry commanders this time and select people to be cavalry commanders, all of them smiled broadly.

If this can be used as a cavalry commander, it is not much better than a recruit infantry commander.

But they were also curious, where did the cavalry under their command come from?

Anyondo asked: "Sir, if the seven of us are counted as seven corps, how about the cavalry under this hand?"

Luo Zhixue said: "Select people from prisoner of war camps."

As soon as Luo Zhixue mentioned the prisoner-of-war camp, these people woke up. Zhao Hongshu said: "Sir, are you planning to recruit those old thieves from the Sky-trampling Tiger?"

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly and said: "Yes, although these people are all bandits, they have been in the army for many years, and many of them can also ride and shoot. They are just wasted as coolies."

"I intend to select people who are loyal and good at riding as auxiliaries for the cavalry team to enrich the cavalry team."

Ma Dapao said: "If this is the case, then there won't be much problem with our cavalry team."

Except for a few casualties, all the bandits who entered Sanshui Village by mistake chose to surrender. They were then thrown into a prisoner-of-war camp by Luo Zhi and became coolies with the original bandit prisoners of war.

However, Luo Zhixue later discovered that these people were all backbone thieves who had been thieves for many years and had a lot of experience in fighting with officers and soldiers. Moreover, there were actually many people among them who were officers and soldiers before.

Well, there is no doubt that many of the elite members of the bandits these days are officers and soldiers.

Some are deserters, and some are simply officers and soldiers who mutinied collectively and turned into bandits.

This is what Li Tonglin and the others did before!

To be honest, it is a waste to use these experienced soldiers directly as coolies.

So Luo Zhixue was thinking about how to recruit these people and then enrich his own strength.

As for saying that these people are all bandits, they used to burn, kill and loot. Recruiting them will ruin the morale of the team...

This is purely unnecessary worry, because there are a few more people in An Yong who burned, killed and looted under the leadership of Li Tonglin before, and no one can blame anyone.

Moreover, what the soldiers did was mostly just obeying orders or blindly following orders. If you want to criticize, you have to criticize the leading generals.

Luo Zhixue firmly believes that as long as the military law is strict enough and the military stick is thick enough, even a soldier can be beaten into a loyal soldier.

If you encounter a stubborn person who refuses to change, just kill him with one knife...

In order to recruit these people, Luo Zhixue threw them into a prisoner-of-war camp and worked as laborers with the original bandit prisoners of war.

The purpose is to let them see the miserable life of being prisoners of war, thereby tempering their character, and at least rubbing off some of their gangsterism.

During this process, there were also people who were dissatisfied and tried to resist, but most of these people have become ghosts under the sword.

After such a period of hard work, coupled with the threat of attacks by officers and soldiers, Luo Zhixue felt that it was time to choose someone from among them.

Hearing what Luo Zhixue said, An Yongduo and the others had smiles on their faces.

Luo Zhixue knew that these old thieves were not ordinary thieves, and An Yongduo and the others also knew that if suitable auxiliaries could be selected from these people, the cavalry team would almost be ready.
Chapter completed!