36, Liu Qianhu, who is overly optimistic

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Li Zixiao was silent, his eyes looked past the group of officers and soldiers, and continued to look behind, and the people who followed the officers and soldiers were much more disorganized.

And from the point of view of the flags, it is even more mixed, some flags have a Zhou character written on them, some flags have Korean characters written on them, and some have Sun characters written on them, and groups of large and small teams walk together separately, guarding each other against other teams.

In short, there were at least seven or eight groups of people in these teams followed by the officers and soldiers, and they followed the officials and soldiers noisily, and even two teams were insulting each other, and there were no rules in the ranks.

As for the weapons in their hands, they also have all kinds of weapons, but the overall quality of equipment is obviously inferior to that of the officers and soldiers in front.

After Li Zixiao saw the seven hundred Ming Guards officers and soldiers, he still felt that it was like that, which made him feel a lot of pressure, especially when these imperial court officials and soldiers also carried a large number of rockets and artillery.

However, after he saw these villagers, he said in disbelief: "Are these two goods here to fight?" They really treat us like soft persimmons. ”

Li Zixiao suddenly felt that if there were no 700 officers and soldiers, just these more than 1,000 villagers would attack him, he wouldn't have to worry so much at all, he would have 200% certainty to easily defeat this group of guys who were not even a rabble.

"There are many of them, so they naturally feel that they have won, and those who follow behind them may not really plan to fight at all, but just plan to follow the officials and soldiers to pick up the cheap.

Damn, when you really fight with these people, you have to let you bastards know how powerful Lao Tzu is. Liu Chong also lay in the bushes, watching and scolding quietly.

After watching for a while, Li Zixiao and Liu Chong had already seen the situation of the enemy army clearly, and it was useless to lie here again.

So Li Zixiao beckoned, and everyone pouted and slowly retreated down the dirt slope, walked down the dirt slope quickly, and found Han Tong in the ditch.

Liu Jinbao led a team of more than 2,000 people and walked for a full day and a half before finally coming to the vicinity of White Snake Village.

At this time, Liu Jinbao finally remembered to send someone to inquire about the situation in the White Snake Village first, and after an order, several of his family sentry spies immediately rode their horses and rushed out towards the White Snake Village.

Immediately, Liu Jinbao raised his hand, stopped the marching team, told everyone to rest, and waited for the news from the few families sent out.

For the future war, Liu Jinbao is still quite confident, after all, he is an official soldier, and the quality of this equipment is not comparable to ordinary poles at all.

With these cannons and rockets he brought alone, if the other party dared to come out to meet them easily, as long as a few cannons were put over, the pole would definitely be scattered if it could not be held.

If these poles are not out of the village, according to the danger of the defense, it is also easy to do, set up the cannon by yourself, and then drive those villagers to go up and attack, I think this pole entrenched in the White Snake Village will not be able to hold up.

I have to say that this Liu Jinbao's ability to lead troops to fight is indeed not very good, but he is also a disciple of the general, and he still knows some common sense of combat under the whispering of his eyes since he was a child.

Therefore, Liu Jinbao knew that since he couldn't avoid the task of suppressing bandits this time, he would regard this crackdown on bandits as an opportunity for him to gain military merits, otherwise he would have come in vain this trip.

Li Jinbao also looked disdainful at this time, looking at the group of villagers sitting on the ground chatting and farting next to him, these people had no organization and discipline at all.

It's not good that Liu Jinbao doesn't expect these rabble to do anything, he just needs to act as cannon fodder, which can reduce a lot of casualties among his officers and soldiers.

These more than 1,000 villagers come from six large households, as well as three poles, the big households are from the Cai family, the Liu family, and the other four large households outside the county town Zhuangbao, these four Zhuangbao have a close relationship with the Cai and Liu families.

Each Zhuangzi sent an escort team led by a general this time, promising about more than 100 people, including the other three poles, all of which were personally led by the big bosses.

The reason why these three poles also joined the ranks of encircling and suppressing Li Zixiao, in addition to the silver given by the Cai family, the key reason is the supporters behind them.

They can entrench themselves in the local area and do evil, in fact, many poles have some connections with various gentry behind them, and they collude with each other, so now these 'masters' behind them let them come out to help, can these poles not come? .

What's more, Li Zixiao was really troublesome during this time, swallowing two big poles in a row, and his subordinates may have accumulated a lot of wealth, so they took the opportunity to kill Li Zixiao and share the wealth of his cottage.

This is the key reason why they are willing to respond to the call of the Cai family and gather together, but from the beginning of the assembly along the way, there has been endless noise between them.

finally came here, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, just waiting for this Liu Qian to give the order to attack the village, and wait for the cottage to divide the wealth in Li Zixiao's cottage.

Liu Jinbao didn't worry at all along the way, this pole surnamed Li would take the initiative to attack them, because he got the news from the Cai family.

This pole surnamed Li was only a month ago, and he had just gathered five or six hundred subordinates, and it is estimated that his subordinates are a group of recruits.

Let them take the initiative to attack, it's just to send them to death, if they don't come, they just pay back, if they come, then he will save trouble, and they will definitely be able to win this battle easily.

It was precisely because Liu Jinbao had such an idea that he didn't bother to send scouts along the way, and even hoped that Li Zixiao would take the initiative to ambush him, so that he could end the battle as soon as possible.

I have to say that Liu Jinbao's idea is too naïve, a little too optimistic, not everyone is as lazy as him, and he also seriously underestimated the difference of Li Zixiao's pole.

If he saw the recruits recruited by Li Zixiao's men a month ago at this time, lined up in a neat formation, holding spears, and looking murderous, he would definitely regret his idea.

Therefore, among the officers and soldiers and the villagers, there was a relaxed atmosphere, and few people thought that they had the possibility of losing this battle, and they were just waiting to take advantage.

Although Liu Jinbao was nominally the commander of this crackdown on bandits, in fact he had no discipline over these messes, and the control of the villagers who gathered together was very poor.

When he came out of Lijiazhuang, he saw that there were also a lot of contradictions between these people, and they had a few fights on the road, and they killed two people, and they had no trust in each other at all.

If he hadn't sent people to suppress him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to get here, and they themselves would have started a fight, and these people also disobeyed his orders, and no one really obeyed his orders.

But after arriving here, he was still a little nervous, after all, this was to suppress the bandits, although he knew that it should not be difficult for them to win, but he still had to go all out, and he still understood the truth that the lion and the rabbit also needed all his strength.

So although he knew that he couldn't control these people, after arriving here, he still sent someone to find the stewards of those Xiangyong.

Now that he has nominally obtained, the recognition of these guardians, Zhuang Ding, the head of the pole and the big bosses, he can command these people, although the combat power of these people is really worrying, but there is no need to use it in vain, and the waste should also be used!

In the several townships here, those who come from the nursing homes of the big families, the discipline of the Zhuang Ding is obviously stronger than that of those poles.

In addition to the Cai and Liu families in Yongcheng County, there are mainly Hanjiazhuang, Zhouzhuang, Sunjiabao and Wangjiazhuang's nursing homes and villages, and these villagers are also mixed with some pole people, and the composition is quite complicated.

After Liu Jinbao recruited the stewards of these villagers, he dismounted, asked his subordinates to bring him a big chair, and sat in the upper position with a big grin.

"Everyone, rest easy, this official doesn't care if you have any grievances before, but what I want to tell you now is that we are here to suppress bandits today, I hope you don't forget to get down to business, and put aside other grievances first.

Break through the White Snake Village and kill the bandit leader surnamed Li, everyone is happy, and you can also make some benefits and make a small fortune.

If you continue to mess around like this, then this battle is from the perspective of the officer, and if you don't fight, the officer will lead the troops back to the guard post now. ”

As he spoke, Liu Jinbao squinted at a pair of small eyes on his fat face, swept the faces of these big housekeepers, and said in a deep voice.

Liu Jinbao put on a fine iron armor today, wearing an eight-petal iron helmet on his head, but he also looked majestic, and this fat body was not so conspicuous.

After listening to this, the stewards of several big families glanced at each other, and said to Liu Jinbao with their fists: "I am willing to listen to President Liu Qian's orders!" I won't delay big things because of small things. ”

Liu Jinbao showed a slight smile at this time, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then the official will be relieved, remember what you said now, if there will be anyone who does not listen to my orders, don't blame the official for not showing him mercy."

Now that we have arrived outside the White Snake Village, the official has also sent a sentry to inquire about the news, as soon as my people come back, we will immediately start attacking the White Snake Village.

Although this battle is dominated by 700 officers and soldiers in the hands of this officer, you must also help each other, and you should go back first to restrain your subordinates, and don't mess up the battle.

Set up camp first, and then reassemble the team, when the time comes, whoever I let go, who will sacrifice his life to move forward, anyone who does not obey the military order and retreats without authorization, or is afraid of war, will be dealt with by military law, and there will be no forgiveness for killing! ”

After everyone heard Liu Jinbao's words, they also felt a pang in their hearts, and quickly nodded in agreement, and after clasping their fists and saluting, they returned to their own crowd, shouting to let their villagers be honest and stop messing around.

After some tidying up, the more than 1,000 of them still looked like they were fighting, and they were no longer as chaotic as just now, and they began to set up tents and other things.

Just a discerning person can see that these groups of people are each setting up their own camps at a distance, and no one wants to touch anyone's side with each other, blowing their beards and glaring at each other from afar, but they don't scold each other anymore and fight.

Liu Jinbao didn't bother to care about these people anymore, sitting on the big chair and fanning the cool breeze, although Liu Jinbao was very confident that it should not be too difficult to attack this group of bandits this time.

But he didn't expect to be beaten down all at once, maybe it would take ten days and half a month, so when he came out this time, he wanted Cai and Liu to ask for some food respectively, enough for them to eat for a while.

At this time, he also asked a few of his cronies to command his officers and soldiers to set up camps, and also to prepare for the night, set up horses to resist horses, dig traps, and look like a regular army, much stronger than those scattered village warriors.

After a while, Liu Jinbao saw a few fast horses galloping over in front of him, and it could be seen from the armor that it was a few sentry sentries he sent out, so he beckoned them to come over and answer.

After a family member dismounted, he quickly ran to Liu Jinbao and reported loudly to Liu Jinbao: "Mr. Qiyu Qian, the little one just went outside the White Snake Village and found that there were nearly 100 chaotic people, who were fleeing north in a cart.

There were things lost everywhere on the road, and the small ones also chased up and killed a few stragglers, who were attracted to the soup porridge in the White Snake Village before, and then heard that the official army was coming, so they wanted to flee from this place quickly.

And the gate of this mountain bandit is still open, I can't see anyone holding on, the front of the gate is full of grain, I guess it may be that the bandits heard that we are coming, and some people are afraid to escape with food in advance.

How should we act now, please make a quick decision! ”

After Liu Jinbao listened to the report of his subordinates, he said in his heart, God helped me, it seems that this bandit surnamed Li heard that the official led the army to kill, and knew that he couldn't bear it, so he ran away with money and food.

It's really a godsend, if you don't seize the opportunity to attack at this time, what are you waiting for here.

So Liu Jinbao immediately stood up from the chair and laughed loudly: "Haha, this group of bandits must have heard that this official led troops to encircle and suppress them, and they were afraid that we would break through the cottage and kill them, so they fled in fright."

Quickly, pass the order of the official, call all the horses to gather, prepare to attack, and those who have horses quickly get on their horses and go to chase and kill those chaotic people, and kill as many as they can for the official. ”

The reason why Liu Jinbao first sent the few cavalry under his command to hunt down and kill those chaotic people in the mouths of the family was completely to make up the number of people after the war and increase his merits.

He was worried that Li Zixiao's bandits had already fled most of them before they heard about their arrival, and by the time he broke through the cottage, it was estimated that there would not be many bandits, so what would he do to publicize his exploits in destroying a large group of bandits in this battle.

At that time, it will depend on the heads of the people, and he will now let his cavalry chase and kill the fleeing exiles in advance, just in time to take the heads of these people after the war and make up for the heads of the fleeing bandits.

It has to be said that Liu Jinbao is meticulous in doing things in this regard, and at this time he has even considered how to maximize his benefits after the war.

He didn't look like a military general at this time, but more like a calculating businessman, with a pair of soybean-sized eyes sparkling in them.