According to traditional farming conditions, in fact, the entire Funiu Mountains area is not very good. Only 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, all villages in Funiu Mountain also exist in these valleys.

The farming conditions of these villages vary from good to bad. Among them, Sanshui Village, located deep in the mountains, is easy to defend and difficult to attack from a military point of view. It is very suitable as a bandit den, but its farming conditions are actually very average.

There is not much developable farmland.

Even if it were fully developed, with today's farming standards, it would only be able to feed a few hundred people at most.

Not to mention that the road in and out of Sanshui Village is extremely difficult. It is just a mountain trail that goes around and around, up and down the mountain, and there is no way for carriages to pass. This is very troublesome for daily marches, transportation of food and other materials, and artillery.

As for Songshan Village, the terrain around the village is flatter, more cultivated land can be developed, and the development difficulty is lower. The water source is also relatively abundant, with several streams. If the land is cultivated here, it can feed one or two thousand people.

What?

As for safety, there is no need to worry. This place is actually the same as other villages in the Funiu Mountains. There are mountains in the southeast, northwest, and these mountains are undeveloped and inaccessible virgin forests. It is difficult to climb directly over the mountains and ridges to get in.

There are only a few trails leading in and out of Songshan Village.

The road to the south goes south along the bottom of a valley in Songshan Mountain, where the Songshan Defense Line is established.

With the Songshan Defense Line here, you don’t have to worry too much about safety.

After passing through the Songshan defense line, you will find the hilly area outside 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 Baoxiangying's tentacles to the villages in the southern peripheral areas of Funiu Mountain. If this area can be controlled, it will be of great benefit to the future development of Baoxiangying.
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The Baoxiang camp will always be hungry for more food and more soldiers.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue decided to move the main headquarters of Baoxiang Camp 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.

Used as a backup base.

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

But when it reaches that level, Luo Zhixue may directly choose to abandon Funiu Mountain and go to the mountains in the west.

Luo Zhixue never said that once officers and soldiers attacked on a large scale, they would stay in Funiu Mountain even though they were clearly unable to defeat them.

The best case scenario is to hoard enough food in the Funiu Mountains, recruit enough soldiers, train a strong army, and then start to look around and wait for opportunities.

However, if the progress does not go smoothly, and a large number of main army officers attack and are defeated midway, Luo Zhixue will not hesitate to withdraw from Funiu Mountain with his elite backbone, and look for opportunities to make a comeback.

When it comes to rebellion, don’t be too rigid.

If you can fight, fight, if you can't fight, run away. If you run away, find opportunities to develop and grow and try again!

When it comes to rebellion, you have to learn from Li Zicheng. He suffered countless defeats during his rebellion career. His army was defeated every time it was formed, but every time he led the backbone of the army to break out and escape when the army was defeated.

The Ming army often thought it was over, but it didn't take long for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to come. After defeats, they were defeated in the capital and forced Chongzhen to death...

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

Therefore, Luo Zhixue didn't know how things would develop in the future, but he always liked to arrange several backup plans, and among many plans, he never stuck to Funiu Mountain.

It's just that, that's all for the future. Now, Luo Zhixue still wants to continue to control Funiu Mountain, and even control the southern and eastern peripheral areas of Funiu Mountain, and control more grain production areas.

With this plan in mind, Luo Zhixue did not move back to Sanshui Village after the Battle of Songshan. Instead, he took his adults to stay in Songshan Village.

While arranging manpower to open up wasteland and cultivate land, at the same time arranging people to relocate the craftsmen in Sanshui Village.

At the same time, we are stepping up efforts to send people out to purchase various supplies, especially gunpowder, ironware, salt, cloth and other strategic supplies.

Interestingly, after the Second Battle of Songshan, no second Ming army was found entering the mountain for a long time.

I don’t know what the Ming army is doing. Is it because they are ignoring the disastrous defeat of Huang Guangmao’s troops, or because they really can’t spare any troops.

What Luo Zhixue and others in the mountains don't know is...

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 establish connections with Tan Zhengling and obtained Tan Zhengling's asylum.

The entire responsibility for the failure of the final attack on Funiu Mountain fell on Huang Guangmao. Not only was Wang Jida not guilty of defeat, but he was responsible for fighting against the bandits.

Tan Zhengling had already given him the letter of approval. This time his 'credit' was not great, and there was no hope of being promoted to the magistrate. However, it was no problem to be promoted to a fellow magistrate. It happened that the fellow magistrate of Ruzhou was old and sick and was about to retire, so Wang Jida would look forward to it when he came back.

Make up for the lack of common knowledge in Ruzhou.

Now Wang Jida is just waiting for the new year's transfer order to go to Ruzhou to serve as Tongzhi, where he will also go to great lengths to organize an army to march into Funiu Mountain.

Although I am not good at fighting, I am not stupid.

After the Battle of Songshan, Wang Jida knew very well that the bandits on the Funiu Mountain side were difficult to fight.

Under such circumstances, he didn't just wait for his promotion and had to fight against the gangsters in Funiu Mountain. If there was another disastrous defeat, there would be no second Huang Guangmao to take the blame for him.

Therefore, whoever wants to suppress the bandits in Funiu Mountain can be suppressed, but he will not go anyway...

As for killing thieves to achieve meritorious service and establish a reputation as a knowledgeable soldier, there are many kinds of thieves and refugees outside. He casually took the newly recruited county warriors to catch the refugees in the wilderness and killed them, and got some heads as a reward.

Isn’t it delicious?

Why are you fighting with those thugs in Funiu Mountain!

After all, I can’t beat him...

Wang Jida is a smart man. After suffering a loss once, he will not suffer a second loss.

Therefore, after he returned to Lushan County, other than sending out sentries to continuously monitor Funiu Mountain, especially whether the bandits in Songshan Village were showing up in large numbers, he had no extra action. As for the remaining brave men from other counties,

We came down to defend the city, and some of them were sent out to exterminate various refugees and perform meritorious service.

As the local chief official, Wang Jida has quit his job, and the military attache system is also busy now and has no time to deal with the small group of bandits in Funiu Mountain.

Because at the beginning of December, they were defeated in northern Chu and finally fled back to Shaanxi. However, they were encircled and suppressed by various ministries led by Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi. The main force of the rebel armies such as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng began to attack Henan from the east of 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 were very nervous about this. Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, had ordered all ministries to be on guard to block the rebels' eastward march. He even ordered Zuo Liangyu's headquarters stationed in Xin'an and other places, and Chen Zhibang's headquarters stationed in Ruzhou.

, the various departments of the Ming army stationed at Lushi must curb the rebels' intention to move eastward.

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

Under such circumstances, Chen Zhibang's troops stationed in Ruzhou can still take care of the little thieves in Funiu Mountain. Their main force is already in Ruzhou City, Ruyang City and other places in the north of Ruzhou, and they should also be prepared for Xuanyuan.

At 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 his subordinate Huang Guangmao's defeat in Funiu Mountain, he also thought of sending troops to Funiu Mountain to wipe out this group of daring bandits.

But under the pressure of the rebel army, he could not 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 the county bravery he had tossed was useless and could not defeat Funiu Mountain. Naturally, no large-scale Ming army would come to Funiu Mountain to cause trouble.

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Luo Zhixue in Funiu Mountain didn't know anything about this yet. He just felt it was strange that the Ming army did not continue to come to Funiu Mountain. After all, he had annihilated thousands of Ming troops in the Battle of Songshan. Even within the Ming army,

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn a blind eye.

Since the Ming army has not come, Luo Zhixue will naturally not miss this opportunity.

In mid-December, Luo Zhixue convened everyone for discussion, and then decided to officially move his troops southward to the villages on the southern outskirts of Funiu Mountain to try to control these villages and obtain food and troops.

During this process, there was no interference from the official force of the Ming army, but there was resistance from the private forces of the villages, especially the landlords.

The peripheral areas of Funiu Mountain are not considered big mountains. Although the terrain is still mainly hilly, they are all traditional villages, and there are naturally many big landowners in them.

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

When Baoxiang camp wanted to collect grain outside the mountains, it mainly collected grain from the landlords.

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

The Baoxiang camp has never done anything to steal food from Kuhaha. This was true in Li Tonglin's era, Sun Chengli's era, and it was also true in Luo Zhixue's era.

It's not that we can't be cruel to the Kuhaha, but even if we rob these Kuhaha, we won't be able to get much food.

The grain output in these traditional villages is basically concentrated in the hands of the landlords in each village. If the Baoxiang camp needs to collect grain on a large scale, it can only go to these landlords.

These landlords are actually not easy to provoke for ordinary thieves. Many landlords have high walls and guarded courtyards, and ordinary small-scale thieves cannot do anything to them.

However, just because ordinary small-scale thieves can't do anything against the high-walled courtyards of these landlords doesn't mean that the Baoxiang camp can't do anything about them.

All the organizations in the Baoxiang Camp are heading towards the regular army. Ordinary landlords really cannot withstand the attack of the Baoxiang Camp.

Even if you encounter a powerful hero, don't you still have artillery?
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