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Time has passed in this monotonous and high-intensity training, and the training in the cottage has also been similar, which has made this group of originally scattered bandits somewhat taste of elite soldiers, and of course, almost hot.

This little fire is to see blood, not to see blood, after a battle, these people will not be able to become elite soldiers after all.

The training of pikemen was boring and boring, and fifty men every day were like clockwork, under the leadership of Li Zixiao, they practiced stabbing over and over again, and marched in line with the order.

On the sword and shield soldiers' side, Wang Zirui obviously couldn't teach much, so he handed it over to Zhou Dazhu and Quartz to manage.

Zhou Dazhu had practiced fists, feet, knives and guns before, and he still knew a little about knife techniques, not to mention quartz, he was proficient in knives, guns and sticks.

Soon, Zhou Dazhu and Quartz did not disappoint Li Zixiao, and according to the instructions given by Li Zixiao, they summed up a set of simple and practical knife movement essentials.

After repeated exploration, they chose the quickest, most ferocious and most direct slashing action, with the shield cover in their left hand, and did not want them to do any other fancy movements, or nine people swung their knives at the same time.

Because of the urgency of time, Li Zixiao didn't have time to train a sword master, which was also unrealistic, the simplest and most practical on the battlefield was also the most effective.

This kind of training lasted for more than ten days, and such non-stop high-intensity drills day and night finally began to show results, and a group of rabble in the cottage who had just turned from peasants to bandits finally had the appearance of soldiers under the service of Li Zixiao's military stick.

Although they were still wearing tattered clothes one by one, Li Zixiao didn't have enough cotton clothes to distribute to everyone, and he gave priority to Zhou Dazhu and Wei Hong with the best cotton clothes and leather armor, and there were already more than 20 subordinates who had fought with them in Liujiazhuang.

After all, these people are the core of their team, and they are all assigned to the first platoon of the pike, and they have to face the enemy first when fighting.

With Li Zixiao's order, dozens of people were immediately able to list three relatively neat horizontal columns, and when he ordered the assassination, all the spears were straight ahead, and the spears of the people in the back row passed through the gap in the front line, forming a dense forest of guns, giving people great shock.

After Li Zixiao shouted the order, everyone roared in unison side by side, and dozens of spears stabbed out at the same time, which was also a bit majestic.

And Zhou Dazhu trained this group of sword and shield hands, and after ten days of repeated training, he has done a very decent job of raising the shield to block and the simple chopping action.

At least compared to when they first came here, they looked much stronger, several knives were swung down at the same time, and when dealing with a person, even Zhou Dazhu had no power to parry

And at this time, after more than ten days of cottage improvement of food, two pigs have been killed, which makes Li Zixiao feel distressed for a while, but no matter how distressed he is, he has to hold on.

And before, these people lacked food for a long time, resulting in malnutrition, and they were skinny and skinny, and they didn't have much strength at all, let alone fighting, and they couldn't even hold on to training.

During this time, these people have eaten much better, although they are not nutritious, but there is no problem with eating three meals a day, after this period of training and nourishment.

Now everyone's face has improved a lot, there are some ruddy colors, and with high-intensity training, their muscles are gradually bulging, and everyone looks stronger.

Li Zixiao referred to the Macedonian phalanx and designed a simple version of the Macedonian phalanx suitable for their situation, which looked quite good, but it was almost tested in actual combat.

However, at this time, Li Zixiao found that their team lacked long-range fire support, although they had obtained two bows from Liujiazhuang before.

And Li Zixiao also knows very well that in battle, the medium and long-range weapons such as bows and arrows are very important to support the battle, and if a few archers can be trained, the combat effectiveness of his team will be greatly improved.

It's a pity that Li Zixiao's idea was right, but he quickly gave up on this idea, because he couldn't find anyone who could use a bow and arrow in the cottage, and it was impossible to train a qualified archer in a short time.

You must know that the skill of archery is not simple, it requires a long time of training, and there are many skills, and if you want to shoot accurately, it is not as simple as ordinary people imagine.

And their gang, except for the peasants who were ruffians before they fell into the grass, no one had ever touched the bow and arrow, and it was a fantasy to want someone who had never touched this thing to quickly become a marksman.

A qualified archer has to be trained in archery since he was a child, and even after a long time of training, even their bones are deformed, which shows that it is difficult to train a qualified archer.

At first, Li Zixiao didn't believe in this evil, so he personally went into battle and shot a few arrows, which hit him very hard.

It seems to be a very simple thing, but it is difficult to do, within such a close distance of twenty paces, a few arrows shot by him basically can't find a target, either high or low.

Either he simply didn't know where he flew, and it made a group of subordinates who watched him shoot arrows laugh for a long time, so Li Zixiao finally had no choice but to give up equipping this long-range weapon.

In the whole cottage, quartz has been exposed to bows and arrows, and has practiced more or less since childhood, although it is not called an archer, but it is still possible to be accurate within twenty or thirty steps.

So, Li Zixiao handed over a bow and arrow to quartz to use, and make the best use of it, otherwise let the bow and arrow lie in the warehouse and become moldy!

As for how to solve the problem of medium and long-range weapons, Li Zixiao has no choice for the time being, so he can only think about it later. In his mind, his favorite thing was firearms, because he knew that they were the ones that would dominate the battlefield in the future.

But now that he has this condition, the archers can't find it, let alone the matter of firearms, so let's talk about it slowly when I have the opportunity in the future!

Now there is another problem that makes Li Zixiao feel a headache, for more than ten days in a row, the cottage has been conducting large-scale military training, and more than 60 men eat too much food every day.

Even if they snatched back two carts of grain from Liujiazhuang before, they couldn't last long if they continued to eat in this way, and they had to find a new source of food.

The new source of food is actually to find a new big family in the Zhuangzi to fight down and rob the grain in the Zhuangzi, after all, they are now bandits, of course they have to do the bandits' 'work', life is forced!

Therefore, Li Zixiao put Zhang Ergouzi down the mountain two days ago, and asked him to find out if there are those rich Zhuangzi around is easier to fight, and it is time for his subordinates to go down the mountain to see blood.

However, although Li Zixiao fell into the grass at this time, he didn't really plan to take a group of men to harm the people, after all, he is a five-good young man in the 21st century, and he still understands some truths.

Besides, in these years, where is there so much grain in the homes of ordinary people, even if it is really a scourge, they will not be able to grab much food, and they will bear the name of a bandit, and those who are really rich are those landlords and old wealth.

What he is going to attack is those local tyrants and gentry who are famous on weekdays, these rich and unkind landlords, who would rather let their own grain be moldy and smelly than help the poor people and attack their Zhuangzi, Li Zixiao did not have a sense of guilt in his heart.

However, although most of the landlords in this era are not good things, there are too many people who oppress and exploit and are unkind to the rich, but after all, there will be some landlords with a good reputation.

In a word, Li Zixiao wants to be a righteous bandit, eliminate violence and peace, and do the right thing for heaven, well, this slogan is very good, he likes it.

In fact, Li Zixiao still has a sum of more than two hundred taels of silver in his hand, but he can also buy back a lot of grain, but he doesn't want to use this silver now, and he has already thought about the use of this silver.

Besides, if they don't rob food when they are bandits, they are still called bandits. More importantly, Li Zixiao wanted to test the results of their training in the past ten days as soon as possible.

Before Zhang Ergouzi joined the cottage, he was a famous ruffian hooligan around Mangdang Mountain, and later because he offended people, he had to become a bandit in order to survive.

Cats have cats, rats have rats, Zhang Ergouzi relies on the valuable experience of local ruffians and hooligans in the past, and really has rich experience in inquiring about news and collecting intelligence.

Li Zixiao took a fancy to his sleek and clever personality that he entrusted him with such an important task of collecting intelligence.

And Zhang Ergouzi didn't let Li Zixiao time, on the third day after going down the mountain, he rushed back, and he also brought back a valuable piece of information.

"Big boss, I'm back." Zhang Ergouzi rushed back to the cottage overnight, although his face was a little tired, he couldn't hide his excitement.

"How? What good news for us! Li Zixiao is also looking forward to it.

"There is really good news. According to the exact information I have received, a caravan will pass under our mountain at noon tomorrow.

It seemed to be a caravan from the north and south of the Yangtze River to Beijing, with a large number of goods, it seemed to be mainly cloth and grain, I thought this was a good opportunity, I just got the information, and rushed back to the cottage overnight.

How about it, big boss, can we do this deal? ”

After listening to Zhang Ergouzi's report, Li Zixiao was also extremely moved, the goods carried by a caravan were definitely worth a lot and were worth selling.

"Big boss, let's do this order, the brothers have been training in the cottage for nearly half a month, it's time to go out and do a job." After hearing this, Zhou Dazhu said excitedly.

"Big boss, I also agree to shoot, but Zhang Ergouzi, can you find out the size of this caravan and how many guards it is equipped with? This is very important.

If that kind of large caravan travels, equipped with hundreds of escorts, and they are all well-trained and extremely elite guards, now we encounter absolutely dead and lifeless.

Therefore, we can only rob those small and medium-sized caravans now, so that it is safest. ”

"Well, what Wei said makes sense, Zhang Ergouzi, how is the situation of that caravan guard?"

After listening to Wei Hong's words, Li Zixiao glanced at him with great appreciation, this is a thoughtful subordinate, with the style of a general, he can hone it well, and it will be of great use in the future.

"Big boss, I've inquired about all this, that caravan is not large, almost equipped with twenty or thirty guards, we should be able to eat it."

After listening to Zhang Ergouzi's last words, Li Zixiao fell into thought, and everyone around him waited with bated breath for Li Zixiao's answer.

Soon, Li Zixiao stood up from the seat of the big boss in the cottage, with a sharp light in his eyes, glanced at a group of subordinates, and said loudly: "Everyone listens to the order, cook when you are ugly, and set off to go down the mountain when you are ugly, we have done this deal." ”

"Yes!"

The men shouted in unison, and then quickly got up to work, preparing to descend the mountain overnight and ambush the caravan that passed near Mangdang Mountain at noon tomorrow.