Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 207

Sun Xin looked at the map and asked: "The horse bandits attacked from here the day before yesterday, right?"

Luan Tingyu nodded: "This is the main attack direction. The feint attacks in the other two directions were very unsystematic, and they were directly repelled. The horse bandits lost a few people because they were attacked by peasant soldiers and musketeers in this open area." shot."

Sun Xin nodded and pointed to the open space from the foot of the mountain to the village and asked, "Is this a farmland?"

Luan Tingyu replied: "It used to be some corn fields planted by a few farmers in the village, but now it has basically been trampled and there is nothing left."

"How many infantry can be deployed?"

"The place is so big, it's no problem to start a regiment."

Listening to several people's detailed discussion, it seems that they are going to fight the horse bandits in their own Dawangzhuang. Wang Yuanwai's face became bitter, and he said quickly:
"Sun Zhuangzhu, you have infantry in your hands. How can you fight against the group of horse bandits who come and go like the wind? If you don't, you won't be able to hold on. The bandits are afraid of the muskets of your farmers and soldiers. If you defend for a while, they will probably not be able to fight. Return."

The little Chen Dutong on the side didn't want to really fight, and what he heard just now was also wrong. Even if the old Wang Yuanwai didn't say anything, he was ready to speak, and at this time he also echoed: "Yes, Master Sun, just these peasants in your hands Soldiers... I'm afraid they won't win."

Sun Xin glanced at them and shook his head, "Even if we don't fight here, those horse bandits may not let the Zhuangzi here go. Moreover, they are scattered all over Dengzhou, and other places have already robbed them." , now we must go to the place where the peasants and soldiers are guarding. If we don’t fight here, we will fight elsewhere. It’s better to end the war here.”

Hearing his words, Wang Yuanwai and Xiaocheng Ruler were both stunned and fell silent.

Sun Xin started to arrange the formation with Zhou Tong and Luan Tingyu, Wang Yuanwai and Xiao Chen both commanded them to walk out of the venue worried.

Looking at the busy peasants and soldiers with his hands in his hands, Xiao Chen Du said to the king, "You should think about moving your family to Dengzhou City."

Hearing that Wang Yuanwai's face collapsed, he didn't believe that these peasants and soldiers with muskets could deal with those horse bandits who came and went like the wind.

He had seen the scenes of those gangsters entering the village, not to mention setting up formations in the fields to start a war, they ran so fast, even if they really broke into the formations, they could pass through the farmland in the blink of an eye.

You can't really find a celestial master to sit in it and set up a heavenly gate formation.

Well, recently the story of the general of the Yang family has spread around Dengzhou. As a landowner who loves to enjoy himself, the old Wang Yuanwai has also heard the story of Mu Guiying's breakthrough.

Returning to the courtyard of his home with Xiao Chen Dutongzhi, several guests surrounded Wang Yuanwai and asked Sun Xin what his attitude was now.

Now there are seven or eight servants and stewards in Zhuangzi sent from nearby Zhuangzi to inquire about the news. Some of them are from Dazhuangzi who agreed with Sun Xin to be protected by peasant soldiers, and many of them did not agree with Sun Xin to be protected by peasant soldiers. Xiaozhuang came to protect, but everyone, big or small, was equally concerned about the danger this horse bandit posed to Dengzhou City.

When the news came that Sun Xin personally led the peasants and soldiers to rescue Dawangzhuang, the servants and stewards of those big farms were quite happy, which showed that Sun Xin's commitment to their defense was not empty words.

But when they heard that Sun Xin was going to use Dawangzhuang's subordinates to capture the horse bandits, everyone was dumbfounded.

No one thought that the farmers relying on Sun Xin could confront these horse bandits head-on.

The cost of supporting a cavalry is at least five or six times that of supporting an infantryman, not to mention that they are facing super strong cavalry with one man, two horses or even three yards. If the cavalry is so easy to fight, why spend so much money to raise the cavalry? ?
Sun Xinyuan said to Xiao Chen Dutong: "I can't escape for a while, I just hope he won't fight too hard this time, and when the battle is over, I will find a chance, and I will bring my family in." Go to Dengzhou City."

Xiao Chen Dutong nodded with a serious face and said, "I will escort you into the city when the time comes."

Hearing their conversation, several stewards immediately offered to follow the old Wang Yuanwai and Xiao Chen Dutong, seeing that Dawangzhuang was about to become a battlefield.Is it worth fighting this battle?Sun Xin was willing to seek death, but they all regretted their lives.

Just when everyone was about to flee, Zhou Tong, Sun Xin, the master and his disciples discussed the battle plan, and called all the battalion and company commanders of the peasants and soldiers under him for a pre-war meeting.

The second company of the third battalion guarding the farmland in the east of the village suffered heavy losses, and the company commander was killed in battle. After Luan Tingyu arrived, he temporarily promoted a heroic and injured front platoon leader to serve as the second company commander.

Sun Xin called the acting company commander Zhao Qi to inquire, and soon found that although Zhao Qi was injured, he didn't feel afraid of the enemy at all because of it. He also said how Yu Baosi's team attacked in an orderly manner.

Sun Xin nodded in his heart and agreed with Luan Tingyu's judgment on this former Yinmachuan bandit: he is a man who can be made.

After determining the enemy's tactics and tactics in detail, the layout plan for the east side of Dawangzhuang was listed, and one of Tang Long's apprentices followed the farmers and soldiers to arrange the barbed wire.

It is not very difficult to manufacture barbed wire. As long as you have iron wire to make a barbed wire weaving machine with a simple structure, you can mass-produce barbed wire ropes.

When arranging, drive the wooden piles deep into the ground according to the defense layout plan, and then fix the barbed wires on the wooden piles, and stagger them into a net.

Processing iron wire is also simple. In this era, there are many people who can process metal wire to make fine gold and silver jewelry. Just enlarge the chess set for processing gold and silver wire by one size to process iron wire, and the barbed wire actually saves materials, [-] square meters As long as the defense area is five catties of wire, it is enough to defend tightly, and the open space at the east end of Dawangzhuang is only less than [-] acres. Intensive road blockade.

There is still enough material left to block the other intersections in the village.

Finding that the material of the barbed wire is so rich, Sun Xin is also interested in playing flowers.

They called Luan Tingyu and Zhou Tong to discuss it, and the three masters and apprentices looked at each other and smiled.

So another one was added to the three barbed wire fences at the east end of the village, but the wooden posts of this barbed wire fence were buried very shallow, and the connection between the barbed wire fence and the wooden posts was not done properly. Basically, it only needed a little effort You can pull out the barbed wire.

After completing these arrangements, Sun Xin began to allocate troops.

There are a total of [-] peasants and soldiers in Dawangzhuang, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

Sun Xin used fifty cavalry and a battalion of one hundred infantry as the central army to maneuver, and the other three hundred infantry were divided into two companies to defend in the other two directions of the village. The remaining more than 200 musketeers and fifty cavalry The army all pushed out Zhuangzi, and stood carelessly behind the barbed wire, as if afraid that the enemy would not come to fight.

Seeing his arrangement like this, the old man Wang who watched the excitement in Dawangzhuang and the other stewards who came up from the village shook their heads secretly.

(End of this chapter)