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  Chapter 149 147【Training talents】

   It is easy to make a choice, because... Zhao Han is running out of food.

  On New Year's Eve, I brought rations into the mountains, and now it's the fourth day of the New Year. In the middle of the day, I hid at night and went out at night, for fear of being discovered, so it was naturally impossible to grab food.

  Then directly attack the barracks at night!

  At this moment, Tian Younian, the magistrate of Yuanzhou, was being entangled all the way from the city to the military camp by the magistrate of Yichun.

  Fang Lu, the magistrate of the county, complained endlessly: "Master Fu, why are you conscripting so many soldiers? All the big households in the city have broken through the threshold of the county government."

  Yuanzhou government office and Yichun county government office are in the same city.

   "You don't care about the war, so you can go back to defend the city, and don't let the rebels steal the city." Tian Younian didn't want to explain anything to an idiot.

  The bandits in Duchang have been wiped out by the officers and soldiers, and the entire northern part of Jiangxi is peaceful.

  Tian Younian made an appointment with the governor a long time ago to send troops together after the Lantern Festival. Since the rebels took the initiative to kill them, it would be even better, and directly surrounded and killed Zhao thief in Fenyi County.

  When they came to the barracks, Hong Yan, a staff member, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the army rations have been prepared, and more than 2,300 soldiers have been assembled."

  2,300 people belonged to the "veterans". Temporarily recruited soldiers were not counted as people.

   In total, there are more than five thousand!

  Another scholar came forward, it was Zuo Xiaocheng who had joined Xie Xuelong before. Now he lives at his grandfather's house in Yichun County, and spreads the hateful deeds of Zhao Bandit everywhere, saying that Zhao Bandit is going to kill all the landlords in the world, scaring the big family in Yichun County to the point of weakness.

  Because of this, the big clan in Yichun actively donated money and food to help the magistrate Tian Younian recruit troops to suppress bandits.

  Zuo Xiaocheng reminded: "Master Fu, the rebel in Fenyi County must be the Zhao thief. This thief is extremely cunning, and he advances quickly. We must guard against this thief from stealing the city."

   "Don't worry, I have left 300 elite soldiers in Fucheng, and 800 Xiangyong." Tian Younian had already made up his mind.

  Zuo Xiaocheng also said: "Thousands of soldiers gathered in the barracks tonight, and countless grain and grass were piled up on the boats at the pier outside the city. We must beware of Zhao's night attack."

  Staff Hong Yan smiled and said: "Brother Zuo Xian, I think you are scared out of your wits by Zhao Bandit. Along the Yuan River, our army has already sent out many sentries. Can Zhao Bandit fly over to attack at night?"

   Zuo Xiaocheng hesitated to speak, and felt that he was overthinking.

  Tian Younian frowned, thought for a moment and said: "Set up more sentries tonight, and send more soldiers to guard the army rations. We will set off early tomorrow morning!"

   There were two Tian Younian in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the other one hadn't passed the Jinshi examination yet, but he was already recognized as a master of Mao poetry.

  The Tian Younian in front of him is only from a family background, and he was able to quickly become the magistrate, all thanks to his military exploits to get promoted!

   This guy belongs to the son of a military family in Shaanxi. His father and brother are both military generals. He learned bow horse and art of war since he was a child. Spend money to buy a county magistrate, and every time he goes to a place, he must recruit soldiers, either to wipe out the bandits, or to conquer the rebels.

   After lunch, Tian Younian personally inspected the barracks, constantly condolences to the soldiers, and pointed out the inappropriate layout of the barracks.

  Take back Fenyi County?

  Tian Younian never had such an idea, he just wanted to block the bandit Zhao to death in Fenyi County, and then join forces with the governor Li Maofang and Wang Siren, to kill the rebels' thousands of soldiers!

  As soon as Tian Younian received the news of the thief, he sent messengers to Nanchang and Jiujiang to contact friendly forces.

  As for the sudden recruitment of domestic slaves and gangsters, it was purely to frighten Zhao Han with the superior force, so scared that Zhao Han hid in Fenyi County and dared not come out. The longer the delay, the greater the chances of the officers and soldiers winning. He only needs to wait for friendly reinforcements.

  Tian Younian did not dare to underestimate Zhao thief, and those who can send troops in winter are ruthless people.

   What's more, Thief Zhao also sneaked into Binjiang Town, taking away hundreds of elites he had trained for two years!

  After the camp tour, Tian Younian went back to the house to rest, and took out a copy of "Ji Xiao's New Book" to read. He had read this book for twenty years.

   This guy seems to be a civil servant, but in fact he doesn't have much knowledge, and it would be difficult to test a scholar in Jiangxi. But he is familiar with the art of war, and he is skilled in bow and horse, so he can take the lead and lead the crowd to charge in battle.

  While reading, Tian Younian suddenly put down his military book and went out to observe the mountains behind him.

  It was already afternoon, Tian Younian gave an order: "Cut down the forest under Yuegong Ridge, and send a few people into the mountain to search for the enemy!"

  Yuegong Ridge is very big, it is a big mountain rising abruptly in the southeast of Fucheng, Yuegong Ridge is only its highest peak.

  Sending a few people to search the mountain is definitely useless, and cutting down the woods near the military camp is still feasible.

  In fact, the military camp is thousands of steps away from the foot of the mountain, and it is not close to the mountain.

  This military camp is fixed, and many barracks have been built, all of which are mud houses built of rammed earth. It is pure nonsense to want to attack and set fire to the company camp at night.

  In the corners of the barracks, several sentry towers were also built, which can be used not only for sentry, but also as arrow towers.

  After dark, Tian Younian personally inspected the barracks again, ordering the sentry soldiers and archers on the sentry tower to cheer up.

  After doing all this, Tian Younian finally went back to sleep, exhausted and soon snoring like thunder.

  …

  Zhao Han set off at the third watch, and it was close to the fifth watch when he arrived at the foot of the mountain, which is equivalent to going from midnight to four o'clock.

  March slowly to save energy.

  On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, there is no moonlight, and it is pitch black before dawn.

  Soldiers who attacked at night often accidentally fell down. How could the sentries in the camp see clearly? Instead, in order to keep out the cold, they placed a brazier in the sentry tower, which became a guiding lighthouse for the rebels.

  Huang Yao led 800 men around the north, Huang Shun led 800 men around the south, and Zhao Han led 900 men to Zhengdong.

  It's a pity that I don't have a watch, so I can't tell the time to attack together.

   After the two walked around to the attacking location, they both waited for a while. Huang Yao was the first to light the torches, one person with two torches, and 1,600 torches rushed towards the barracks.

  Hearing the sound of killing, Zhao Han and Huang Shun also lit torches, and a total of more than 5,000 torches were lit in the three routes.

  Because Tian Younian's arrangement was too strict, he couldn't touch the camp quietly. They are all two or three hundred steps away from the camp, and they will light up and start attacking. If you get closer, you will be spotted by sentries.

   "Thief...Thief attack!"

  The sentry was shocked, and they blew their horns one after another, and the archers in the sentry tower quickly wound up.

  The officers and soldiers in the barracks panicked, and the temporarily recruited domestic slaves and gangsters ran out without getting dressed. Seeing countless torches lit up all around, they were so frightened that they blew up the camp and fled for their lives. They rushed to the west where there was no enemy army. They even knocked down the gate of the camp.

  The soldiers who had been trained for about half a year were also not much better. They put on clothes and ran for their lives.

  There are only more than a thousand real veterans, and they don't need to give orders from their superiors. They spontaneously carry weapons and approach Tian Younian's residence.

  This magistrate really has a way of training soldiers!

   It was Xie Xuelong's subordinates. If they had encountered such a situation, the entire army would have been frightened to lose their organization.

  Each sentry tower has six archers.

  Huang Yao was the first to rush to the outskirts of the camp. The wall of the camp was as high as a person. The fellow threw away the torch, struck the ground with a long spear, and used his strength to easily rush through the wall of the village, then killed two gatekeepers, and opened the southern gate of the village.

   "Shhhhhh!"

  Two watchtowers nearby, twelve archers fired arrows, and only hit four targets in a panic.

   "Take the tower!"

  The two chiefs who rushed in first immediately led the nearby soldiers to seize the sentry tower according to the predetermined plan, and the rest followed Huang Yao and continued to kill inside.

   "Mom!"

   "Forgive me!"

   Some fleeing officers and soldiers were killed by Huang Yao's troops, and they just ran with their heads covered in the dark.

   Zhao Han in the east was hit by an arrow, but fortunately he was not injured. An arrow hit the cotton-padded clothes under the ribs, and pierced the clothes diagonally, almost sticking to the flesh.

  He led his troops straight to the deeper part of the barracks, Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu led troops to capture the tower respectively.

  Zhang Tieniu had also thrown away the torch, without a shield, and climbed up the ladder frantically. The enemy's archers were even more flustered than him, and they were hanging their bows with trembling hands. One arrow hit Zhang Tieniu's shoulder, another shot down the soldiers behind him, and all the other arrows shot to nothing.

"kill!"

  Zhang Tieniu had already climbed up, facing the long spear stabbed by the sentry.

   This guy was really reckless, he stretched out his right arm to block, his sleeve was pierced by the tip of the gun, and his arm was also cut a big hole. Another long spear came, Zhang Tieniu dodged shortly, took out an ax while dodging, and chopped off half of the enemy's palm with one axe.

   Two sentries with guns, plus six archers, Zhang Tieniu rushed in with an ax in hand. He first wounded one person, then killed another, and then charged sideways, knocking an archer off the sentry tower.

  Finally, teammates rushed up and killed all the remaining enemies.

   "Kill the enemy!"

  Holding his ax high, Zhang Tieniu roared down from the sentry tower and rushed to the main battlefield in the barracks.

  Tian Younian didn't take off his clothes at all, he was even wearing armor. After waking up, he immediately took off the bow and arrow and the sword, and walked out of the barracks to let the trumpeter blow the trumpet to gather the soldiers.

   More than 1,300 elite veterans quickly surrounded Tian Younian and formed an army formation.

   Fortunately, Zhao Han attacked Binjiang Town by surprise and took away hundreds of veterans, including more than a hundred archers. Otherwise, there must be more than 1,800 elites around Tian Younian at this time.

   This guy runs the army very strictly, and the military pay is never deducted.

   To be able to support so many soldiers, in addition to donating money and food from big households, it must be an extraordinary method. For example, in the suppression of bandits in Pingxiang County, two big landlords were killed without any hassle, and they declared that it was a good deed done by the bandits, and took a large amount of money and food as military pay.

   Facing the tight formation, Huang Yao didn't dare to approach at all, and formed a formation far away to wait for the arrival of friendly troops.

  Tian Younian didn't dare to take the initiative to attack. Although both sides lit up torches, the formation would be messy when charging in the dark, and there were bandits coming from his north and east.

   Surrounded by rebels on three sides, there are more than 2,400 people.

  In one year when Tian was besieged, there were only more than 1,300 soldiers in the camp, but there were more than 800 archers.

  Zhao Han couldn't help admiring: "Tian Zhifu is really powerful. In terms of military training talent, he is already comparable to famous generals of all dynasties!"

   "Are you Zhao Yan from Luling?" Tian Younian asked.

   "Exactly." Zhao Han replied.

  Tian Younian said with a smile: "You are not bad, you can lead soldiers to cross mountains through snow."

   "Let's surrender." Zhao Han didn't want to attack by force, and the opponent's archers were a headache.

   "Okay." Tian Younian immediately agreed.

"Ok?"

  Zhao Han was a little surprised, because Tian Younian surrendered too readily.

Tian Younian said: "My hometown is in Shaanxi, and the whole family died at the hands of bandits. Some time ago, there was news that my father and brother were also killed in battle. The Tian family has repaid Jun's kindness, and the rest should be considered for myself. I am in Yuanzhou Fucheng There is a concubine who is almost two years old after giving birth to a son, this is the only incense left in the Tian family."

   Well, thanks to the rogue bandits in Shaanxi, Tian Younian's worries have been eliminated.

  (end of this chapter)