Chapter 80 Picking up horses on the battlefield
Gao Jin's guards were all equipped with Zhuge crossbows, ten of which could fire three shots in a row, like machine guns. Bandits were constantly being shot and falling. Liuzhi was furious when he saw that there were more than a hundred people but only ten of them were helpless. He immediately sent flares to the mountain for reinforcements, and drove the bandits down the mountain to attack by kicking and stabbing them with swords.
This is when he loses his mind.
When Zhao Yulin saw Liuzhi coming into range, he gently pulled the trigger, and one bullet took his life. Then he began to call out the names of the exposed bosses one by one.
The bandits were suddenly in chaos. They could not see where the weapon came from, but they saw their leaders falling to the ground with their eyebrows bursting. They were so frightened that they turned around and fled to the mountains.
At this time, the special forces had already moved to the flank of the bandits, leaving them no chance to escape back to the mountain. The powerful bowstring of the Shenbi crossbow shot arrows like locusts, and the arrows with strong winds kept harvesting the lives of the bandits.
When Gao Jin saw Zhao Yulin, he said that it was worth it for him to lie in the stream and act like a turtle. The young master shot and killed the three bandit leaders in an instant, and he learned another trick.
Zhao Yulin told him to stop talking nonsense and start his work.
Gao Jin led his brothers and rushed up the mountain...
The next day, the Erlongshan bandits were wiped out.
The Shenwei Army seized a large amount of gold, silver, treasures, military supplies and rations from the mountain, and also seized letters written by the military supervisor and aides of the Zhizhisi to the bandits.
Zhao Yulin did not dare to be careless and ordered it to be sealed and taken away.
When he returned to Yangzhou, Miao Gui was still fighting bandits in Foping.
At present, although the Shenwei Army has gained a firm foothold in Hanzhong, new problems have emerged.
First, the logistics supply line was stretched. Just the arrows brought by the Shenwei Army were used up by 20% in suppressing the bandits and there was no replenishment.
The second issue was money. The imperial court issued money to the Shenwei Army, but it was all brand new Huizi coins. This stuff was really a rip-off, and it was depreciating every day. How could the soldiers survive?
The third reason is serious acclimatization. In just one month, there were more than a thousand patients with diarrhea lying in the temporary hospital, and the staff reduction was serious.
Zhao Yulin followed the supply escort team to Mianzhou, and then went to Qingyeyuan to find Mr. Gui. After reporting the situation of clearing bandits and fighting tyrants in the defense zone, he submitted the confidential document.
Gui Ruyuan and Zhao Yan were both surprised that the Shenwei Army had actually eliminated the banditry in the defense zone. Zhao Yan was especially surprised. He couldn't believe it. Liu Zhi'er was a fierce bandit, but he had eliminated him.
When the two men saw the secret document he presented, their faces changed immediately and they immediately ordered their lieutenants to arrest the man.
Zhao Yulin had put aside the matter of suppressing the bandits. He asked about the issue of the soldiers' pay, and why they were all Huizi coins with the ink not yet dry?
Lao Gui spread his hands and said that he was at his wits' end. The imperial court had been waging wars for years and had run out of money. How could they have money to fight a war? They could only use paper money to appease the soldiers.
However, he could give him some salt subsidies, rice subsidies, oil subsidies, etc., which meant allowing the border troops to run businesses in the defense zone and subsidize the insufficient funds.
Zhao Yulin understood immediately that this was called self-reliance and developing production to save oneself.
He proposed to build a military station on the bank of the Han River, because most of his military supplies had to be transported from Yangping Pass and then transferred to small boats to Yangzhou.
Lao Gui agreed, sent him the documents, and let him choose the site himself.
Zhao Yulin finished his official duties and returned to Yangzhou, where he began to plan for the next step of development.
As the team continues to expand, the required expenditures are also increasing. A lot of money must be spent on the spot, otherwise it will overwhelm Chen Xiaomin in Yibin.
He asked Wu Yuqi to invite Yangzhou Governor Gao Jia to dinner. He planned to gradually apply Yibin's economic development methods to try here.
In the evening, Zhao Yulin and Wu Yuqi went to the provincial government for a drink and presented Yibin's grains. Gao Jia immediately recognized him as a fellow countryman from Shu.
The two of them drank, Wu Yuqi added more wine, and gradually they started talking.
Gao Jia was very satisfied with his efforts to eliminate bandits and tyrants, and to bring peace to Yangzhou, or half of Hanzhong. The common people finally had a safe place to live, and he told him that many wealthy families had recently moved back from Xingyuan Prefecture.
Zhao Yulin introduced his method in Mahujiang, which was to establish militias in various places, form a situation where all people are soldiers, fight against Jin and Mongolia under the unified command of the Shenwei Army, develop production, and prosper the economy.
Gao Jia was also straightforward and said happily that they would start with the militia.
In fact, there are some folk self-defense organizations such as archery clubs and sword and axe clubs in various places in Hanzhong. If these are arrested, they will become a considerable local armed force.
Afterwards, Zhao Yulin took action. A wealthy man named Li Dagui had gathered 5,000 militiamen. They usually worked in the fields, but when they were combined in battle, they became a desperate team.
Zhao Yulin considered that Hanzhong had been dragged into a quagmire by the war and the landlords were no longer like landlords. He simply redistributed the land, which was equivalent to the land reform carried out by his ancestors.
He went to discuss with Gao Jia and proposed the idea of land reform, which actually got Gao Jia's support.
So Zhao Yulin summoned all the generals to discuss the matter and asked them to cooperate with the various places in carrying out land reform, so that all landless farmers could be allocated land, and all uncultivated wasteland could be collected and handed over to the Shenwei Army for unified arrangement for military reclamation.
After this series of combined punches, Yangzhou quickly regained its vitality. Refugees from all over Hanzhong began to flow into Yangzhou, and its popularity grew.
Miao Gui is back. This special forces member, who is the captain of the special forces, has finally wiped out the habitual bandits deep in the Qinling Mountains with his brothers, recruited countless hunter-born soldiers, and restored traffic .
Zhao Yulin believed that although the Ziwu Road was difficult to travel, it was a shortcut to and from Guanzhong and must be well guarded and repaired to make it easier to travel. He asked Hao Xiaoming and Miao Gui to be responsible for making changes every month and every year.
Miao Gui asked him, the young master is pressing so hard, are you going to occupy Chang'an City?
Zhao Yulin said it was only a matter of time. Do we have to stay here and hatch chicks?
The generals laughed and said that they all wanted to have a child, but what about a wife?
It’s still the young master and Mr. Wu, the steward.
Wu Yuqi listened to his brothers' teasing and ran out.
He told them to stop making trouble and to talk business in the meeting.
Han Yongchao reported that the Jin soldiers outside Raofeng Pass were very proud and often came to the pass to provoke. He was itching to fight.
Lei Man immediately added that it was too bullying for them to run outside the pass to bask in the sun. He really wanted to rush out and kill these bastards.
Wu Yuqi said that there was a news report: Jin general Wanyan Chen Heshang has arrived and intends to seize the pass and enter Hanzhong. She said that the Mongolian army in Guanzhong has been frequently mobilized recently, and there are signs that they will go south to start a war.
Will the Jin soldiers be like hungry wolves, waiting for the Mongolian army to move south, and we cannot take care of both before suddenly attacking Raofeng Pass?
Then she said that Monk Chen fought extremely hard, was brave enough to fight ten thousand men, was good at leading elite troops in surprise attacks, and was known as the undefeated general of the Jin Dynasty.
Han Yongchao didn't believe it and said that no matter whether he always wins or not, he would still touch the tiger's butt.
Zhao Yulin thought for a moment and said: We can't be careless. The Shenwei Army has expanded to nearly 30,000 troops. We will temporarily divide it into three columns. Miao Gui will lead the first column to guard Qinling, Han Yongchao will lead the second column to guard Raofengguan, and Lu Huacai will lead the third column to garrison Yangzhou. We will quickly expand the army and train soldiers to support the first and second columns. Wu Yuqi will be responsible for intelligence and logistics, and will quickly build the military supply workshop.
After making some arrangements, Zhao Yulin followed Lei Man and Han Yongchao to Raofeng Pass and climbed up the beacon tower behind the pass to observe. Han Yongchao said that when Wu Gong was guarding the pass, he encountered the Jin people coming over Chanxi Ridge and attacking the pass from a high position.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that some of his opponents were experts and strong men.
Lai Chuanfang reported that the enemy showed signs of trying to lure us into battle. Yesterday, a group of war horses came over and took off their saddles to bask in the sun on the grass. Gao Jin said that they were bullying us because we had no horses and our legs were too short.
Zhao Yulin heard the feedback from his brothers. The enemy's provocation was already written on their faces, and they were just about to attack him. He asked the people in the pass to send a message to Miao Gui, warning him to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack, and to report the situation to the Qingyeyuan Military Division camp.
The next day, the brothers who went out to investigate came back and reported that the Jin soldiers had no less than 500 cavalry stationed in a small woods five miles away from the pass.
Yang Xingyun felt that there was no point in maintaining such a stalemate, so he simply made their intentions known.
He asked how to fight?
Yang Xingyun said that we still have cavalry, and if we gather all the horses in the corps, there will be at least more than a hundred horses. We can definitely charge for a while.
Lei Man became excited and said that this was a great idea. He would lead the team to charge and grab the horses outside.
Yang Xingyun said that there was no way he could let the chief military officer take the risk, so he would just go.
Zhao Yulin knew that Lei Man was eager to fight, so he said, "Okay," he would lead the team, Yang Xingyun would be the vanguard, and they would gather a hundred horses. The brothers would go out with Zhuge crossbows and fire a volley of arrows. They would kill the enemies and then come back. No lingering battle would be allowed.
Han Yongchao had long wanted to do something interesting and insisted on leading the team himself.
Zhao Yulin disagreed, saying that he was now the protagonist of the Second Column and had to analyze and judge from the overall perspective how to guard Raofeng Pass and expand the territory to the east and north.
Later, the warriors gathered in place, and Zhao Yulin personally checked that everyone was wearing the new cotton armor of the Shenwei Army, which was a bulletproof vest . Ordinary arrows could not penetrate it at all.
There was no movement after the door was closed. Suddenly, it opened and Yang Xingyun led the suicide squad to gallop out on horseback. Lei Man and his brothers followed closely and rushed in front of the Jin soldiers in a blink of an eye. They fired a volley. Yang Xingyun turned his horse around and fired another volley, then rushed forward to hold the position with the Zhuge crossbow. The brothers behind him went forward to clean up the battlefield and lead the horses.
Only then did Zhao Yulin stand up from the battlement of the pass. Few of the thirty or so Jin soldiers outside the pass could move. The brothers galloped towards the pass with the clatter of their horses' hooves.
There was already thick smoke billowing on the road in the distance, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard coming in from afar. By the time the Jin people arrived at the scene, all the gates had been closed.
The Jin soldiers began to curse outside the pass.
Zhao Yulin told them to ignore them, even if they took off their pants and cursed, we should ignore them. How can they fight if they don't have this kind of mental quality?
Lei Man was not satisfied yet and said he just went out for a visit.
Zhao Yulin exclaimed, amazed at Lei Manzi. He actually understood the network name he mentioned.
The brothers were extremely happy as they easily obtained dozens of war horses.
He asked some nearby hunters to ask if there was any small path that could bypass the pass.
