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The Cai family can be defeated, and the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station who rushed to encircle and suppress them can also be defeated, but they must not be defeated, because once they are defeated, they will never have a chance to start all over again.

So Li Zixiao can't afford to lose, the next battle will be the first big difficulty he encounters after crossing, and after passing it, he will take his strength one step further, but if he can't pass it, he will be miserable.

"I don't know if if I die in this battle, will I travel back more than 300 years, if that's the case, then I guess I will set a record and become the most rubbish crossing pig's foot in the history of crossing!"

At this time, Li Zixiao did not forget to laugh at himself in his heart, although he was nervous, he was still very confident in himself and his subordinates.

For the upcoming battle, Li Zixiao has a rough idea in his heart, although the number of people and horses in the cottage at this time is less than the number of villagers gathered by the Cai family, and they still have a team of 700 officers and soldiers as backing.

But his biggest advantage is that his subordinates are very popular, unified in command, united in command, and tacitly cooperative.

Although the opponent is numerous, it is indeed forced by the status of the old Wang Ba surnamed Cai, who was forcibly pinched together, and it is difficult to unify the order, let alone have no cooperation to talk about.

Those big landlords and poles also understand that in this troubled world, their own strength is the truth of real capital, and no one will be stupid to be a gun for others.

It seems that there are many people on the Cai family's side, but people from all walks of life will definitely have their own ghosts, and it is estimated that no one will want to do this kind of unlucky drudgery at the beginning.

Some people may even make up their minds to take advantage of the opportunity to catch a handful, and if they can't, they will slip away, and want them to fight to the death regardless of casualties, which is purely a joke.

This is the biggest advantage of Li Zixiao's side, and there is another advantage, that is, the opponent's subordinates lack training, and they are all bullying the soft and afraid of the hard.

Maybe many of these people can do some kung fu, and they can't do it under Li Zixiao alone, and few of them are opponents of the other party at all.

However, his subordinates emphasized the coordination of the overall battle formation, which was absolutely incomparable to the opponent, even the officers and soldiers.

At this time, what is the combat effectiveness of the guard army of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zixiao has seen it before, to be honest, it is not stronger than some bandits.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the tattered mandarin duck robes of the Ming Dynasty were issued ten years ago, and in terms of soldier morale, these are nothing more than a few rewards, and the morale can be higher than having Li Zixiao's subordinates, but all for the morale of survival?

As for the military households in these guards, they don't remember to practice for a long time, and they eat two porridges a day, so how can they have the strength to train.

In this way, a group of poor guards and military households who are not well fed and clothed want them to win the battle when they are pulled together, which is simply a joke.

Li Zixiao, who understands these situations, although he is still a little nervous in his heart, but on the surface, he seems to be very relaxed, and after arranging the preparations for this battle, he let people perform their duties and do what they should do.

Now that Liu Chong is not in the cottage, he led the scout team on the road to Yongcheng County, closely monitoring the situation there, and immediately sending it back to the cottage as soon as there is news, so that Li Zixiao can prepare in advance.

The rest of the battle teams and recruits continued to step up their training, and at the same time, Li Zixiao did not intend to hide from his subordinates, and informed them in advance of the future battles.

As soon as these people heard that there would be court officers and soldiers coming to attack them, the veterans seemed very calm, they had killed several batches of officers and soldiers, what was there to be afraid of, but the recruits who had not yet been on the battlefield panicked.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao sent Qian Guangyuan to those recruits to do ideological work, and even personally asked some veterans to tell the recruits about the battles they fought when they intercepted and killed officers and soldiers.

Li Zixiao did nothing more than to dispel the recruits' fear of officers and soldiers, and at the same time, the veterans scolded the Cai family and the officers and soldiers, telling the recruits that these people should not look down on them.

I can't see that they are well fed and clothed now, and I want to beat them back to their original shape, so that they can go back to the miserable life of starving all day long, starving to death, and starving to death one day.

Qian Guangyuan's eloquent speech, which had already been said by those veterans, made these recruits hate these enemies who wanted to deprive them of a happy life.

These recruits have now tasted the benefits of a good life in the cottage, they are well fed and clothed every day, and they don't have to go hungry, and they are certainly not willing to give up such days.

Soon, they were aroused to the hatred of the officers and soldiers, the landlords, the landlords, the old wealth, the court officers and soldiers, you don't let Lao Tzu live, Lao Tzu is only a cheap life, just fight with you rich lords, officials and lords.

At this time, the morale of the new and veteran soldiers of the entire cottage was high, and they were full of hatred for the landlords, officers and soldiers who came to deprive them of their happy life.

Because those officers told them that only by sweating more in peacetime can they shed less blood in wartime, and no one will think that their lives are long, so they all use their strength to eat milk during the drill.

The 100 recruits under Li Zixiao are intended to be used as a supplementary source of soldiers, and once the three teams of soldiers are damaged in battle, they will allocate troops from these recruits to replenish them in time.

By doing so, we can try our best to ensure that the three teams do not suffer from excessive shortages in manpower, resulting in a significant drop in combat effectiveness.

After a month of intense training, these recruits have basically trained almost all kinds of subjects.

They have mastered all aspects of the process, through the simulated battle on the school field, it can be seen that they have adapted to the battlefield discipline, more than 100 people stand in formation, gathered but not chaotic, but also quite a fierce taste.

In terms of the supply of weapons, there is no longer a problem, in this month, in addition to the blacksmith shop presided over by Sun Tong to build the bird gun, the other two blacksmith shops, day and night, have been working day and night, and finally created enough weapons, shields and some armor for all soldiers.

They also made time to create a three-edged military thorn for Li Zixiao, the big boss, as well as Zhou Dazhu and Wei Hong, each of which was about a foot long, like a short sword.

In this month, Li Zixiao bought a batch of saltpeter and sulfur from a merchant in Xiao County in the east at a high price, and then sent people to configure gunpowder in the cottage, and the task of configuring gunpowder was handed over to Sun Xiaotian, the second son of Sun Tong's boss.

Then all this batch of gunpowder was made into granular gunpowder, and the performance of gunpowder took a big step forward, and it was divided into fixed gunpowder, which was distributed to the hands of each gunner.

Moreover, in the past two days, Li Zixiao has also made an exception every day to give each firecracker the opportunity to shoot two live ammunition, so that they are more familiar with the practice of salvo fire.

Even the Tiger Squat Cannon had ten fixed medicine packs prepared for it, and the dilapidated Tiger Squat Cannon was carefully maintained.

Let the blacksmith add a few iron hoops to the body of the tiger squat cannon to ensure that there will be no explosion accident when firing, and now the gunner who operates the tiger squat cannon has become Sun Dazhuang, the eldest son of the old man Sun Tong.

Li Zixiao also specially asked a few strong subordinates to operate this tiger squat cannon and form a temporary artillery squad, which was temporarily included in the team of archers and firecrackers, and was temporarily led by Li Zixiao himself.

This is also the only firearm unit in Li Zixiao's hand that has been attacking from a distance at this time, and Li Zixiao also expects this tiger squat cannon and these bird gunners to play a greater role in the next battle to defend the village!

After Sun Dazhuang was ordered, he was even more enthusiastic, leading a few new subordinates to him, and he was busy fiddling with this tiger squat cannon all day long.

Originally, a rusty tiger squat cannon was shiny and shiny by them, but in a few days, their loading projectile speed increased rapidly.

Moreover, a few strong men carried tiger squat cannons, and they actually ran very fast, and they were able to lay out the tiger squat cannons in only half a cup of tea time, which made Li Zixiao very satisfied with Sun Dazhuang's small artillery class.

Because of the constraints, Li Zixiao regretted that up to now, he still couldn't equip all his subordinates with armor, even if it was the sword and shield soldiers in the three teams, they couldn't equip each of them with a pair of leather armor.

Therefore, all the armor was first provided to the commanders of the ranks, and then to the pikemen who rushed to the front line, after all, these commanders were needed to command the troops in battle.

But what made Li Zixiao a little strange was that just after Han Tong sent back the news, they waited for another five days, and the expected enemy still did not arrive.

On the contrary, the two scouts sent by Liu Zhong to Guide Mansion to confirm the news to Qi Wei returned, and the two confirmed from Qi Wei that a group of officers and soldiers had indeed left the Suiyang Guard a few days ago, and they were rushing towards Yongcheng County at this time.

According to the intelligence that Qi Wei inquired about Li Zixiao, Suiyangwei sent a thousand households surnamed Liu to lead troops this time, and this Liu Qianhu had a total of more than 700 officers and soldiers.

This time, it seems that the Cai family opened up the above relationship, and the imperial court sent this Qianhu surnamed Liu to send troops to encircle and suppress Li Zixiao and them, and at the same time, the Cai family did not give this Liu Qianhu less silver.

This Liu Qianhu left the Suiyang Guard Station at the beginning of spring and went to Yongcheng County to suppress the bandits.

However, it has been several days since the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station left Suiyang, but why haven't they seen them in Yongcheng County, otherwise Liu Chong would have sent someone to inform them.

This made Li Zixiao a little strange, it was like pulling a shelf and preparing to fight, waiting for a long time but not seeing the opponent, which made people feel a little uneasy in their hearts.

Li Zixiao didn't know what was going on, and the scouts sent had not yet sent back useful news, so he could only continue to let his men prepare for battle in the cottage.

What Li Zixiao didn't know was that at this time, Yongcheng County was very lively, and all the villagers who were invited to help the battle, and some poles who took the Cai family's silver to help the war, had all gathered outside Yongcheng County.

Yongcheng County Ling Wang Yong was worried that so many people would make a mess when they entered the county seat, after all, there were still a lot of poles here, so let them all gather outside the county seat.

With so many people gathered outside the county seat, the Cai family was worried that these people would make trouble, so they had to set up a cauldron every day, slaughter a pig and raise it, reward these people, and wait for the arrival of the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station outside Yongcheng County.

However, the more than 700 officers and soldiers who came from the Suiyang Guard Station did not arrive for a long time, and the Cai family sent people to ride north to urge many times, but they still did not see that Liu Qianhu led 700 officers and soldiers to Yongcheng County.

This can make Cai Tianyuan, the head of the Cai family, jump up and down in a hurry, and constantly send people to Suiyang Weitong to urge them on the official road.

I can't help Cai Tianyuan not be in a hurry, because this operation is his main business, and the villagers and poles gathered are concentrated outside the county seat.

This problem of eating is mainly responsible for their Cai family, a team of more than 1,000 people is gathered together, and it is a lot of consumption for people to eat and chew every day.

Although he has a lot of money, he still hurts his flesh when he looks at the food that is eaten like running water every day.

What's more, the villagers who came to help this time with several big Zhuangzi villagers, and those local poles, there are inevitably some grudges between the two sides.

Isn't this just when some people have just assembled outside the county seat, there is a conflict between a pole outside the village and the Zhuang Ding outside the Zhou Yuanwai.

The two sides fought outside the county, and there were casualties on both sides, almost causing a big mess, but later Cai Tianyuan personally came forward to mediate the conflict.

Otherwise, this time they acted together, just because of this conflict, they might have been aborted, and now Cai Tianyuan regrets it a little; Summoned these poles.

It was Cai Xuanguang's proposal to find these poles to attack Li Zixiao together, after all, this guy is mixed with the rivers and lakes, and he knows a lot of reckless men on the road, and they all pull up large and small poles.

In this era, there were too many bandits in Henan, and many times the government was resigned to it, as long as you don't make too much movement and raise the banner of rebellion.

As long as you bandits are beaten into the city, they don't bother to care about how these poles toss those poor people outside.

Cai Xuanguang gave each of the few poles he knew a sum of silver, and asked them to attack Li Zixiao with them, in fact, he wanted these people to be cannon fodder.

These poles also knew this, but they couldn't resist the temptation of silver, so they still agreed, not to mention that they still wanted to loot Li Zixiao's cottage.

For the rise of Li Zixiao's legendary pole, there are some poles around Yongcheng County, and it is rumored that Li Zixiao has laid several big villages, and his cottage has accumulated more than 100,000 taels of silver and gold.

If Li Zixiao heard this, he would definitely scold: If Lao Tzu really has so much silver, he can still nest in this small ravine and let you local chickens and dogs knock on the door.

Lao Tzu has already pulled up more people, and his strength will be stronger, do you have a chance to jump off the beam? It's ridiculous.

And those poles also know that the Cai family is using them, but how can they not fool the Cai family!

When the time comes, if they see that there is a cheap one to fish, they will make a lot of money, and if the situation is not right, they will immediately slip away, so that they will not really risk being used as cannon fodder! They're not stupid either.