Spring and Autumn I Am King

ps: Chapter 2 is in the afternoon

"There are many kinds of bandits, just as there are many kinds of birds. Sparrows and mandarin ducks both have wings, but they are not the same."

In the afternoon, Zhao Wu was wearing black clothes and black armor, urging the horse that Zhao Yang sent from Jin, and paced to the beach where scattered corpses were lying and blood seeped into the mud, looking into the distance. The robbers, who are scattered like birds, said such a sentence.

The operas of later generations like to praise good people who are framed by the court and forced to be bandits, but as Zhao Wuxi has seen with his own eyes in the past few years, most bandits prefer to bully the weak, rather than the Liangshan hero who acts for heaven.

Of course, only a few of them were born bad people, driven by greed, harboring malice, despising their fathers, brothers and clans, and only cared about robbery.

Compared with them, the so-called refugees deserve more sympathy, although they are just as dangerous and unruly when they are gone.

The refugees used to be simple civilians, their faces turned to the loess and their backs to the sky, and they never left their residence even ten miles away. It was not until one day that a tax collector in a splendid and brocade robe came, sternly, and demanded the tax according to the description on the slips. This was the first time that the people knew that they were part of the property of a certain scholar-bureaucrat.

As a result, half of the grain they harvested was taken away, and they were forced to help the doctor hunt wild animals. In addition, you have to go to the city to do labor. The tax rate has gradually increased from eleven to one-half or two-thirds, and labor has risen from January to every month. When encountering harsh, even encircling mountains and occupying land, You are not allowed to fish or hunt in the mountains, forests and waters.

When they were squeezed into an unbearable state, the commoners fled, fled into the mountains and lakes that the scholar-officials could not hunt down, and wanted to go elsewhere to find a piece of paradise that belonged to them.

Paradise Paradise, there is no such rat!

They walked through the thorns, risking their lives to fight wild beasts, half-healed before they took on new wounds. Never enough to eat, shoes gradually disintegrate in the endless trek. Clothes were rotten into strips of cloth, and many people became ill from drinking dirty water, and their excrement and urine were dragged in simple shacks, lingering on.

If you want new shoes. Or warmer clothes, or food to fill their stomachs, they have to ask for it from others, and this method gradually evolves into stealing and looting, the target is naturally the same civilians as they used to be. Stealing chickens and dogs. Killing cattle and slaughtering sheep is one step away from looting the wives and daughters of the commoners, and the refugees begin to turn into rogues.

Until one day, when they looked around the lakeshore, they began to be at a loss as to where they were and how to get home, and they became complete wanderers.

By this time, all the concept of family has disappeared, and the state, the lord, and the clan are not as good as a bowl of sour corn for them, at least the corn can make him live one more day; it is not as good as a bag of turbid wine. Can temporarily drown his fear. The life of a rogue today does not know tomorrow, eats the last meal without knowing the next, and lives like a beast rather than a human being.

At this time, if a certain thief occupies the island and raises his flag, he can gather a lot of people. This is how the robber got his start.

After the war, after interrogating the prisoners, he learned that Liu Xiazhi actually raised his arms and uttered the slogan "Wait for the high and the low, the rich and the poor, and the tiller has his own land". Zhao Wuxi was also stunned for a while.

He didn't know whether this was originally in history or one of the changes brought about by his little butterfly wings, but he secretly speculated whether future students would face such a historical multiple-choice question:

May I ask who is the first leader of a peasant uprising in our country to put forward a slogan and a program?

a. Robber

b. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang

c. Zhang angle

d. Yellow Nest

In short. The "Peasant Rebellion Army" with a platform and the traditional group of thieves are completely two orders of magnitude. The words of the thieves rekindled hope in their ashes-like hearts, no less than a spiritual atomic bomb. Got it.

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In order to lure Pirate Zhi to Yuncheng, Zhao Wuxi took great pains and calmly strengthened the defenses of other lakeshores except Yuncheng. Suppressing the pirates is also an agreement of the union of all the cities of Xilu. At the same time, under the pretext that the Qilu border was tense, he moved the townsmen of Yuncheng away with great fanfare. In fact, he just went around in a circle and quietly drove back.

In response to Roi Zhi's flawed whereabouts, he deliberately turned a blind eye to them, and even deliberately revealed some wrong information to them.

The hard work paid off, just a moment ago, the group of thieves went all the way into the inland as Zhao Wuxi expected. The beacon fire on the shore of the lake, and the scene of people fleeing in a hurry along the way, are all traps set by Ran Qiu without mercy to lure the cunning and suspicious Liu Xiazhi into the trap of the urn.

And once you start looting the countryside, it's hard to stop. This is a common trait of greed.

Although the fire and solitary smoke of the Liaotai by the lake bank broke the plan again, the arrow had to be fired.

After the shouts of killing and the smoke, there were neat footsteps, and the Zhao family's black bird flag flew up. The phalanx of infantrymen lined up in an arc stepped through the dust and copied them from three sides. The agile cavalry swept past the rear of the group of thieves like the wind, preparing to block the only way for the thieves...

Zhao Wuxi stood on a hill to command and watch the battle. His opponents looked like a mob: the thieves, wearing tattered shoes and tattered brown clothes, followed their "general" to the shore, with a bag of grain in their left hand. , a chicken in the right hand.

For some reason, Robber Zhi left half of the nearly 1,000 elites in armor on the island. Most of the two or three thousand people he brought with him had no weapons, only scythes, sharpened bamboo spears, or simple axes made by tying stone flakes with leather cords to sticks.

Zhao Wuxi's original intention was to subdue them, and wanted them to end this life of wandering bandits with no fixed place and return to the households of Qimin. At least he could guarantee that the people under his rule would be well-fed and well-fed.

However, the way of dialogue and contact between the two sides is still the spear and the halberd. Only by defeating and subduing by force can these people feel fearful.

But the group of thieves actually ignored the cries of the military soldiers to let them surrender.

And Liu Xiazhi's commanding ability made Wu Xie even more amazed. He falsified a shot and used a gecko to break its tail. After leaving four or five hundred people to resist, he scattered away with a bang, like a flock of sparrows that were scattered. Run in the direction of the densest stream of swamps.

This is why Wu Xie gathered the light knights here. He waved his flag, and then, more than a hundred light knights rushed out from behind Wu Xie. A team of ten people attacked the fleeing group of thieves.

Chasing down stragglers with bows and spears has always been Yu Xi's favorite thing to do. Unsurprisingly, today is the same one-sided massacre as before.

However, Liu Xiazhi had a countermeasure. The group of thieves who had scattered everywhere to avoid the advancing square suddenly gathered again. The latter pulled the long bamboo spear outwards, preventing the horses from rushing into the crowd, and there was a faint stance of four martial arts rushing into the formation. Dozens of slings threw out stones in unison, trying to knock down the rider who was controlling the horses, while the rest kept throwing things on the ground.

Not for a while. The group of thieves retreated farther and farther, but the horses neighed endlessly, looking at the seemingly flat ground in front of them and stopping, letting the knights scold them, the whips, and the newly invented spurs poking the horses' belly for blood, and they refused to move forward.

The cavalry had no choice but to take a detour from the side. Zhao Wuxi also took the command center to transfer. He rode his horse and took a look at the things that Xing Ao picked up and handed over. Hey but laugh.

"It's Tribulus terrestris, this Liu Xiazhi is really an all-rounder, how jealous of us, how many thousands of these objects are actually brought on the shore to loot, and one person..."

Tribulus terrestris is hard wood and is shaped like a terrestris. It is an imitation of people's observation of nature. Generally, only the regular princes and three armies have it. It is used to deal with the horses that are not protected by horseshoes. The horses are afraid of pain and will not run. The wheels naturally cannot roll. Now the robbers have learned and used them lively, and they have been cut down a lot before going ashore, which has become a weapon to restrain the cavalry.

The cavalry encountered obstacles, and the infantry line phalanx also encountered certain difficulties.

Recently, there are too many places where Zhao Wuxi needs to divide his troops. For example, the long border of Qilu and Zhencheng confronting Weiguo. Therefore, in addition to the five hundred military pawns, the other five hundred soldiers were all Yi soldiers who had only been trained for half a year. They lacked actual combat, and they were in a hurry for the first time.

It was no problem for them to use spear formations and swords and shields to push and smash the hundreds of robbers, but the harsh training on weekdays made them afraid to leave the ranks, and they were quite unfamiliar with changing formations. Plus everyone wears armor and holds long soldiers. The pirates were not as fast as they ran, so they were pulled behind.

Zhao Wuxi had already noticed that the large and dense linear phalanx could only be used for frontal combat, not suitable for Huze guerrilla attacks, and even less conducive to pursuit. This is also the reason why he has not been able to go deep into the lakes and marshes in the military. Fortunately, Zhao Wuxi has already started to improve, and today is the time to test.

At the same time, the group of thieves ran unhindered into the swamp two miles away, and the chase was taken into a place unfavorable for the cavalry.

Low-lying muddy, swampy, difficult to advance and retreat, this is the troubled area in cavalry operations; there are deep ditches on the left, pits on the right, uneven, seemingly flat, and advancing and retreating will lead to enemy attacks, this is the depression in cavalry operations, In both cases, the cavalry is dead in battle,

The wise general had to do his best to avoid the terrain that was unfavorable to his troops. Out of prudence, Zhao Wuxi and Ming Jin recalled them.

The infantrymen also hurriedly ended the battle and gathered together. Mucha and Yu Xi let the enemy run away from under their noses. They were ashamed to ask for the guilt, but Zhao Wuxi knew that they had done their best.

The original plan was to lure the pirates further inland and ambush them on the predetermined battlefield, but the robbers were too vigilant, and he went to the four corners, and even the beacon fire tower by the lake was used by him. for a while. So the military soldiers hurriedly ambushed all over, but failed to complete the encirclement, especially the gap leading to the lake was too large to be blocked, which caused the ambush to fail.

Zhao Wuqi threw away the tribulus in his hand and said, "Competing against a cunning opponent like Liu Xiazhi~www.wuxiahere.com~ nothing is foolproof. In just one year, he has already figured out our shortcomings. This man is terrifying."

Robbers are not scary, just afraid of robbers with culture...

No wonder there were countless pirates in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but only a few robbers left their names.

"The battle is not over yet when it's time to get discouraged!"

He cheered for the officers under him, pointed the whip to the lake and said, "Did you see the new smoke rising? It was Ziyu who was burning down the boats of the pirates. They could run for a while, but they couldn't run for the rest of their lives. The cavalry moved toward the lake shore on the left and right flanks, and let the infantry move forward faster. I just hope that the new formation that I have made with Zi Youlian can stop the group of thieves for a while. If possible, Liu Xiazhi must be captured alive, and he will be indispensable in future plans. !" (To be continued.)

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