The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 174 Xiang Jun came to the official camp in the rain to test

Outside Guanying Town, Minzhuang who came from the Fifth Battalion, together with local men, were building fortifications.

In addition to strengthening the town, the fortifications built this time also built two earth and stone trench walls outside the city facing the direction of Gongchang to prevent Xiang Qi from marching in.

"Brother Zuo, are you alright?" At the gate of the town, Song Yingkui was meeting an old acquaintance, Zuo Shaotang from Zuojiazhuang.

Zuo Shaotang, like Song Yingkui, also pulled up a group of people during the feudal turmoil, and later occupied Guanying Town and became a powerful force.Unfortunately, due to bad luck, after the Beixiang army broke through Gongchang City, they quickly came to Guanying Town and beat Zuo Shaotang and hid in the nearby mountains.

After the Yungu soldiers sent out the fifth battalion and occupied Guanying Town, Zuo Shaotang dared to show his face and shamelessly ran over to say that he would join.

"Uncle Song family, we had some misunderstandings before. It has been several years now. Uncle, you have a lot of people. You should not care about what happened back then, right? I am here this time to find a way out for my brothers. I hope you can take her in!"

Back then, Zuo Shaotang was Song Yingkui's first mortal enemy. He robbed the Song family twice. The first time, the two rooms of the Song family were divided. The real Song Yingkui was swung to death by his grandfather with a pole.The second time, had it not been for Song Yingkui's fate, the small family that had just made some progress would have gone bankrupt.However, times have changed, and now this guy wants to work for Song Yingkui.

"How many troops do you have?" He stretched out his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man. Since Zuo Shaotang wanted to join him, he had to understand his strength first.

"There are about five to six hundred brothers in our official army, and all of them are good soldiers. If I serve under your account, I will definitely help my uncle achieve great things."

Help me achieve great things?Relying on your band of bandits?Song Yingkui sounded very ridiculous.Zuo Shaotang has a shitty 600 people under his command. It would be troublesome for his regular manpower to exceed [-]. "Zuo Shaotang, stop talking nonsense! Are you going to use a group of farmers who usually farm to deceive me? Go back and bring a hundred men to report to me, and I will give you a captain to do it. If you feel that you are at a disadvantage, You don’t have to come, but let’s talk about this, there is no shop like this after passing this village. If you don’t come this time, next time the city lord sees you, it will be like seeing a bandit.”

It was said that it was for Zuo Shaotang, a captain of the team, but in fact, he could not be given such a good position at the beginning. He would be given a vacant position for a while to see his character.

"How many men are there under the captain's command?" Zuo Shaotang came here just to ask for an official position. Seeing that Song Yingkui had promised him an official position, he quickly asked how big the official was.

"I have 150 soldiers under my command. You go ahead and do it. After I further expand the army, I might give you a bigger officer to do it." Let's lure his people over first, lest this guy be suspicious. The pay is low, hiding in the ravines and doing bad things.

"Okay, uncle! We have agreed that when your army is strong, uncle, you can get some more people for me, the old man. Let's go back and bring our brothers to join my uncle tomorrow."

Do you think this is for buying shares and doing business?I still think about dividing the number of people after the army is strong and the horse is strong, it is really daring to think.Seeing Zuo Shaotang returning happily, Song Yingkui couldn't help but sneer.Early the next morning, Zuo Shaotang was very trustworthy and took 120 people to Guanying Town.When Song Yingkui looked at his team, he almost laughed out loud. This guy even counted his own father in the team. He relied on a bunch of old and weak people to gather more than 100 people. How dare he brag that he has five people? Six hundred men and horses.

"Ying Qing, please select the more than 100 people from the Zuo family, pick fifty or sixty strong ones and divide them into various regular army brigades. From the remaining old and weak, pick some of the usable ones and send them to my third uncle. It's really impossible. If you need it, send it to the factory in the fifth battalion to do whatever work you can." As soon as he saw the person, Song Yingkui recklessly arranged for Song Yingqing to split up Zuo Jiajun!

When Zuo Shaotang heard this, he became anxious. Isn't this what he said yesterday? "Uncle, this is not how you promised me! If this was the arrangement, I would have to take my brothers away."

Hearing this, Song Yingkui's face showed murderous intent, a cold light appeared in his eyes, and he said loudly: "Zuo Shaotang, what did you just say? You want to take people back to be bandits? How can there be bandits under my rule in Yungu City? Someone, please kidnap these bandits to me."

With a crackle, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time heard the order, took their swords and slapped them on the backs of several Zuo Jiajun's necks, and then tied them all up.

"I will give you one more chance. Are you going to be bandits or join our Yungu Army?" Song Yingkui asked loudly after the soldiers tied up Zuo's army.

Everyone is tied up, what else can be done?Everyone, including Zuo Shaotang, confessed his fear.

"I will keep my words to the end. We are all from the front and back of the village. Whatever you did before, I can forget about it. But when you enter my military camp, you must respect my military orders. If you have other ideas, I will go in with a white knife and go out with a red knife. Of course, if you obey orders and obey the rules, I will treat them equally. You will be given the same treatment as you deserve, and those who can be promoted will be promoted! As for Zuo Shaotang, I will give you the position of captain. I can't lose you, but not now. You first serve as my adjutant for a period of time and temper your temperament, and then I will lead your troops! If you do well, I will become the battalion commander rather than the battalion commander. I dare to use you!"

With the combination of kindness and power, the issue of Zuo Jiajun's surrender has been temporarily resolved. Of course, it will take some time to completely subjugate them, but just a hundred or so people cannot affect the overall situation.

In addition to Zuo Shaotang, there were three or four similar powerful armed forces on the Didao front line of the official camp.Song Yingkui's attitude was that if they came to voluntarily join, they would reorganize them in the same way as the Zuo Family Army. If they didn't come, as long as they didn't cause trouble, they would leave it alone and deal with it after they were free.

"Your Excellency, the sentries have come to report that Xiang Jun in Gongchang City has moved in our direction." More than ten days after setting up positions in Guanying Town, Song Yingxiao, who was in charge of the former enemy's military situation, hurried over and reported that Xiang Jun could not bear it anymore. It's time to take action.

"Quickly find out how many enemies are coming! It's raining today. It's strange for Xiang Jun to choose such a day to act. They shouldn't be thinking that the rain will affect the use of our army's firearms, right?" If they don't come sooner, they won't come later, but they don't come later. Choosing a rainy day to attack, Song Yingkui was a little confused about General Xiang's thoughts.Raining will affect the use of firearms to a certain extent, but it will also have a big impact on Xiang Jun!The movement of their cavalry will be restricted, and the movement of their heavy infantry will also be inconvenient.

When the Yungu army came to attack the official camp in the rain, Liang Huonv's intention was indeed to rely on the heavy rain to prevent the Yungu weapons from showing off their power.Liang Huonv did not know the specific performance of firearms, and he had not experienced it personally.However, firearms should be mainly based on fire. The principle of water and fire is always in harmony, right?Rain should affect the use of Yungu soldiers' firearms!

(End of this chapter)