Chapter 21 I want to fight the bandits
Are you standing on the side of your brothers in the same clan or on the side of the bandits?
This is a political issue in the Xu family. No matter how much you bow to reality, the two masters of the Xu family were both gentry who passed the Jinshi and served as officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now there are many friends of the same year in Jiangnan. They are somewhat famous and colluded with bandits. They are dirty things that can be done but cannot be said.
But Xu Shiyang just unceremoniously uncovered the scar. Aren’t you calling me a “tit”?
Then I will show you the tiger!
"Sanlang must not say this. Of course Erlang is standing on the side of the Xu family."
"What I mean is that the Xu family is on the side of the bandits?" Xu Shiyang interrupted the head of the family without hesitation.
"Shi Yang!" Xu Muhe had to speak out and scold his son: "Don't be so rude!"
Xu Shiyang smiled and bowed to his father.
"My son volunteered to follow the family law, but the same thing is said, I would not give a piece of grain to 15 pieces of cloth to that shit Luo Taoist!"
"Since Saburo doesn't want to go out, then forget it." Xu Mujiang shook his head slightly and said softly: "The public treasury has been released for him this year."
"Father!" Xu Shibai shouted.
"It's okay." Xu Mujiang continued: "Shi Yang defeated the Tartars this year. Each of our villages saved a lot of money and food. This was all obtained by Saburo. His losses must be quite large. It is also worth sharing the burden with the public treasury."
Xu Shibai remembered the war horse that his third brother promised to give to him, and suddenly felt that his father's words made some sense.
Not to mention the remaining money and grain that the Tartars retreated to the villages in advance, the horses alone were worth paying the other forts of the Xu family for ten or eight years for the bandits for Shiwutun.
So, the others stopped talking, and it seemed that the Gongku had already agreed to deal with the proposal of Luo Daoren for Xu Shiyang.
However, Xu Shiyang's purpose was not this at all.
"Uncle! Father!"
Xu Shiyang looked at the three elders of the Xu family sitting on the top and said seriously:
"I won't give the bandits food now, nor will I give it to them in the future."
"My suggestion is that while we have more food this year, we will all dispatch to eliminate the bandits on the Fulai Mountain!"
There was an uproar in the lobby.
Everyone looked at Xu Shiyang in shock. They found that the nickname he just gave to this child was really right.
The young tiger, just tasted the bloody smell, couldn't help but eat people!
"Sanlang, floating on the mountain is not considered a bandit, but there are 2,000 Ding Zhuang alone!" The old scholar Liang Jun was so shocked by Xu Shiyang that he almost pulled down the remaining few beards. He was so painful that he burst into tears. While talking, he was still rubbing his chin.
"Mr. Liang, 2,000 bandits, they didn't dare to fight the Tartars." Xu Shiyang smiled and shook his head: "If the bandits on Fulai Mountain are really as strong as they appear, why would they always avoid that mere Tartar?"
Every year when Tartars appear, bandits dare not go down the mountain. This is what everyone knows.
"And I! With a village, I can easily destroy a Donglu and a Mouke!" Xu Shiyang patted his chest and said enthusiastically: "It can be seen that no matter how many bandits are, it is not enough to be afraid!"
"Using the practical experience of 15 villages, our Xu family has 4,500 strong villages, and its combat effectiveness is more than that of the Tartars! It is no problem to deal with 2,300 bandits!"
This is pure bragging. In fact, the practical experience with the Tatars last time showed that if both sides clearly showed a chariot and horse fighting in the field, half of the Tatars's tricks would be enough to defeat two 15 troughs.
After all, the Tartars were hit by a sneak attack, and they lost nearly one-third of the people as soon as the war started. They didn't have time to pierce armor, had no formation, and were not ready for weapons. They killed nearly 20 people under Xu Shiyang.
However, the other Xu family's fortress masters didn't know about all this. They only knew that Xu Shiyang did use the troops of a fortress to take the initiative to attack and eliminate a Donglu Mouke, beheaded at level 46, and also the Tartars's Mouke.
In the face of facts, Xu Shiyang insisted on bragging, saying that he could defeat a single Mouke in a village, and no one else could find a reason to refute it.
"Sanlang, the bandits set up camp on the mountain, with more than 2,000 people defending to the death. The attack is equivalent to siegeing the city." Luan Tingyu, the 8 Tun Fortress, said: "Even if all of us are dispatched, we may not be able to fight. Even if we can fight, the casualties will be severe. If so, we will be in danger when the refugees start next year!"
Luan Tingyu of 8th trunk and Sun Li of 9th trunk may be the two most useful Xu family fort owners in Xu Shiyang's future plans.
First of all, these two infantry and horse wars are of high level, or to put it bluntly, their personal force can rank among the top two in the entire Xu family.
Although I don’t know how capable these brothers are to command the troops, in the future, if Xu Shiyang has the opportunity to form a large army, they can at least be used as qualified stormtroopers.
In addition, Xu Shiyang once read these two names in the Water Margin in his previous life. The strength in the book is quite good. Although the history of this world has nothing to do with Water Margin, these familiar names still gave Xu Shiyang a lot of favor.
Therefore, Xu Shiyang felt that he should give these two foreign castle owners some face.
"I know that the terrain of Fulai Mountain is steep, and bandits built villages on the mountain, with thick walls."
Xu Shiyang said seriously:
"However, we can lead the Naluo Taoist down the mountain to fight in the name of giving tribute."
"As long as you kill that Taoist Luo, the rest of the matter will be easy to deal with, even if you are siegeing the city."
"Dao Ren Luo is very cunning. He will not go down the mountain easily." Sun Li said from the side.
"Then we will destroy the bandits going down the mountain first, weaken them, and then forcefully attack the village wall." Xu Shiyang said firmly: "Leave the attack on the village wall to me. When I break the wall, all the fortress lords will lead people to kill in!"
Xu Shiyang stood up, walked to the center of the lobby, and said passionately to his elders, brothers and the castle owner of the other surname:
"There is no problem to build 3 or 5 forts on the mountain that can raise thousands of bandits and their families!"
"Also, the terrain of Fulai Mountain is complicated. Our Xu family is a local, so we naturally recognize the way, but outsiders cannot. As long as we occupy there, even if the Tatars march in a large scale in the future, we may not have any way to hide on the mountain. This is a treasure land that can be attacked and defended by retreating!"
"Also, if we attack and destroy Luo Daoren, other small bandits are not as good as they are unable to harass us. My Xu family's fort can reclaim land farther away. How much more can we collect every year alone? What's more, we can save 60 stones of grain and 150 coats every year, which is not a decimal!"
In Xu Shiyang's mouth, Fulaishan was simply the place of the Xu family. As long as you get there, the Xu family is not only the largest household in Juzhou, but I am afraid that the entire Qi Province can be ranked first.
Chapter completed!