I want to be emperor

Chapter 17 Soldiers Send Funiu Mountain

Funiu Mountain is located in the north of Nanzhao County, Nanyang Prefecture, in the west of Ruzhou, in the south of Song County, and in the east of Lushi.

There are mountains in the north and mountains in the west.

But the Lushan area of ​​Ruzhou in the east is a smooth road, and Nanzhao County in the south is also an open land.

And Funiu Mountain, together with other surrounding mountains, constitute the mountains in the northern part of the Nanyang Basin. With such a terrain, it is naturally impossible for any large army to go there under normal circumstances. The road is too difficult to walk.

Therefore, since ancient times, when the army went south from Ruzhou to the Nanyang Basin, they always went to Luyang Pass, Fangcheng and other places, and those places were also military passes since ancient times, and heavy troops were stationed in all dynasties.

But the road around Funiu Mountain is difficult, and it is limited to large-scale troops, but for Luo Zhixue and his party, which only have a few dozen people, they can barely walk.

In fact, not only Luo Zhixue and his team drilled into the mountain, but even other large-scale rebels would run towards the mountain when they encountered a crisis.

Once the situation is not right, many rebels will go directly to the Qinling Mountains. On the one hand, they can avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers.

This is also one of the reasons why officers and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty failed to completely wipe out the rebels after encircling and suppressing the rebels many times.

And today, Funiu Mountain in the middle east of the mountains also ushered in a group of new guests.

Sun Jiancheng, Luo Zhixue and others finally arrived at the Funiu Mountain area after climbing mountains and wading for several days, but when they got here, they found that this place had already been occupied by other bandits.

"I didn't expect that there were people who came up with us and also fell in love with this Funiu Mountain." Sun Jiancheng looked at the mountains in front of him, trying to see the enemy's traces from the mountains.

But this is obviously impossible. Although they are already located in the Funiu Mountain area, they are still a few hills away from the traces of other bandits discovered by the sentry.

The straight-line distance is not far, but it is not easy to see across the mountains.

Luo Zhixue said: "If we can see the benefits of Funiu Mountain, naturally other people will also be able to see it."

"The only plan now is to send elite sentries to find out the situation on the opposite side, so that we can deal with it calmly."

Sun Chengli also nodded: "That's right, we have to find out the situation on the other side first."

Luo Zhixue continued: "If there are many people on the other side, then I will have to make plans early and find another place to settle down!"

Having said that, Luo Zhixue's face gradually turned cold: "If it's just a few dozen small thieves, then we'll kill them directly."

Luo Zhixue still attaches great importance to Funiu Mountain.

This place is just located on the edge of the mountain. To the east is the Central Plains, and to the south is the Nanyang Basin. These two places are open areas with flat terrain and densely populated places. Not to mention going out completely, there are many people on the edge of the mountain. The village, with the help of this place, can obtain enough soldiers and food to complete their goals of cultivating health and accumulating strength.

And to the north and west is the depth of the mountain. Once a strong enemy comes to attack, then you can directly escape to the depth of the mountain to protect yourself.

Luo Zhixue was naturally unwilling to give up such a place where he could advance and retreat, and where he could obtain food and soldiers.

He also wanted to further expand his strength after settling in Funiu Mountain.

On the way, Luo Zhixue had already mentioned to Sun Jiancheng that the baggage camp should be rebuilt to protect and transport the baggage.

Sun Chengli has already agreed to this. After all, Sun Chengli is also in the army, and he was in charge of the management of the camp and supplies before. He knows very well that his subordinates are all cavalry, and they need a lot of supplies.

Not only the soldiers' own weapons, armor, and dry food, but also the large amount of horse feed consumed by the horses.

The horses eat more than the people, and the pressure on the transportation of the luggage has always been very high. The previous Li Tonglin and his party had a size of several hundred people, and Sun Chengli was in charge of the luggage camp.

But when Yiyang broke through, Li Tonglin dismissed all the refugees and soldiers in order to escape quickly, and the refugees and soldiers in the supply camp under Sun Jiancheng were no exception, they were all dismissed.

Part of the large amount of food was directly distributed to the demobilized refugees and soldiers, and the cavalry also carried part of the food with them, and the rest was carried by dozens of mules and horses.

However, in this case, emergency use is okay in a short period of time, but in the long run, especially after the scale is expanded in the future, it will not work.

It must be to establish a professional baggage battalion to manage and transport the baggage,
Luo Zhixue planned to wait until Funiu Mountain, and use the soldiers and food in the area of ​​Funiu Mountain to formally prepare for the establishment of a supply camp, and through the preparation of the construction of the supply camp, obtain the first army under his own command.

The problem now is that Funiu Mountain has been occupied by other people.

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The re-sent out sentry sent out the news very quickly, and in the afternoon of the same day, some sentries reported more detailed information one after another.

After Luo Zhixue got the detailed information, he immediately found Sun Jiancheng: "The sentry we sent visited the surrounding area, found some mountain people and Orion, and got some basic information after questioning!"

"The people occupying Funiu Mountain today came to Funiu Mountain from the south to the north a month ago. Now they are entrenched in Sanshui Village in Funiu Mountain. According to the hunters in the mountain, there were more than 200 people when this group entered the mountain. They are young and strong, but there are also some women and children, they should be refugees and bandits who escaped from the south, and their name has not yet been found out."

"Since this group of people moved into Funiu Mountain, they have frequently dispatched men to plunder the countryside. In just over a month, several villages near them have been deserted. Waiting to be plundered back to Sanshui Village"

"In addition, our sentry has also asked emphatically, and confirmed that there are no cavalry, no heavy armor, and even ordinary armaments in this group. They don't even have many swords and spears. Only then can we continue to destroy villages and loot.”

After Luo Zhixue finished speaking, Sun Chengli said: "It seems that they are a group of ordinary rogues from the south. Hmph, these rogues burn, kill and loot wherever they go. I can smell them from miles away. The bloody smell they left behind from killing, damn it, if you have the ability to attack big farms and cities, what's the point of looting these mountain people, if you kill them all, you won't get a few grains of food."

"Tomorrow we will send troops to Funiu Mountain, kill the villains, and return the people in the nearby mountains to a bright future."

When Luo Zhixue heard Sun Chengli's words, he also echoed: "Such a traitor, everyone gets to punish him, and the general sent troops to Funiu Mountain, it's a great kindness!!"

Having come to this troubled world more, and seeing more fights, Luo Zhixue also has a deeper understanding of this world.

Relatively speaking, they are also rebels, and they are also burning, killing and looting, but Sun Chengli and the others are much better than those thieves.

Be it Sun Chengli or Li Tonglin who died in the battle, although they have also become rebels, they have always looked down on those rogues, otherwise they would not have always resisted and defected to those large-scale rogues, and they would not even Connect with other thieves to fight against the officers and soldiers.

They were serious officers and soldiers a few months ago, and even though they had mutinied and rebelled now, they never regarded themselves as thieves.

They are rebels and rebels, but they will never consider themselves rogues or rogues.

Also, they didn't play the coercion trick that many rebels like to use along the way. Before they recruited soldiers, they only recruited young and strong volunteers, and they didn't just coerce anyone.

It's not that they have a conscience, it's purely that they think that coercing a lot of people, most of them are old and weak women and children, even if they are young and strong, they may not dare to fight, so coercing so many ordinary people is useless except wasting food .

So they only recruited young and strong before.

There is also burning, killing and looting, which is naturally indispensable. The food they eat now, and many mules and horses are all looted.

However, they generally don't start with those bitter people, and generally only target some big households, especially those large farms owned by officials and gentry.

It's also not because they have a lot of conscience, it's purely because those bitter hahas have no food, and they can't loot much food for half a day, and the cost-effectiveness of looting these bitter hahas is too low...

But it’s different to plunder big gentry households. After breaking through a farm, you can often harvest a lot of grain, gold and silver. If you’re lucky, you don’t have to worry about breaking a farm for ten days and a half months.

If they could win three farms in a row like they did outside Luoyang, it would be enough for their 1000-odd people to eat for a month or two.

Of course, their choice to attack the big gentry and break through the big farms and small towns also has something to do with their own strength.

In the past, they had nearly 1000 elite cavalry and more than [-] young and strong refugees. Ordinary farms generally couldn't stop them, and even some small towns couldn't stop them.

An ordinary army of refugees, even an army of thousands or tens of thousands of refugees, might not be able to break through those towns.

The way Sun Chengli and his group behaved and handled things was also one of the reasons why Luo Zhixue hadn't left them yet.

Luo Zhixue did not leave these people, but chose to continue to hang out with Sun Chengcheng. On the one hand, it was not easy for him to live with a little boy in troubled times.

On the other hand, he felt that people like Sun Chengli still retained the last trace of humanity.

And this bottom line of humanity is already very rare in this troubled world.

Despite Luo Zhixue's judgment, the reason why they still retain the last trace of humanity is purely because it was easy for them to rob big families in the past, and now they still have food so that they will not go hungry. Same, directly turning into a humanoid beast.

But at least it hasn't changed for now.

Sun Jiancheng decided to send troops to Funiu Mountain tomorrow. In order to arrange military affairs, he called Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He over to discuss together.

After everything was finalized, they officially sent troops to Sanshui Village, Funiu Mountain early the next morning.

(End of this chapter)