Chapter 13: Planning

Xiao Yan stood in the back mountain of Shuizhai and looked around for three months. Today's Lianyun Shuizhai is not the past. Now it can be said that the soldiers are strong and horses are strong. There are more than 7,000 young and middle-aged people alone, and after these months of training, they are all fierce.

The only shortcoming is that he has no combat experience. I don't know what will happen on the battlefield in the future. The current fat fish is not the hairy boy with hundreds of people at the beginning, but the commander-in-chief of a former village with a whole 3,000 people. Ding Sheng and Feilong each take 1,000 people to guard the right village and the back village.

The rest was specially selected by Xiaoqi with a thousand people. Some Mrs. Yang asked them to shoot arrows. Xiao Yan changed the capture action of the enemy with a long knife according to some of the enemy he learned later. Although it seems simple, it is very practical. This can be said to be the elite of the whole water village, usually responsible for the inspection of all parts of the water village and the sentry of important parts of each water village. Xiao Yan named him the Flying Tigers.

There are also 1,000 people under the command of Hou Ying, who are mainly trained in Dongting Lake in Qianzhai, which can be regarded as a continuous water army, and can also be regarded as a forward, right? Usually, they drive a boat to patrol the outside of the water village and inquire about some outside information. Here it looks like a reconnaissance force.

There are also more than 3,000 old and young women and children. Most of the women are wives and children of the water village personnel. They are all divided into several large rooms in the cottage and are responsible for the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the cottage. Li Gui is responsible for this area. At first, Li Gui was unwilling to be with a group of old women and felt that he had no face. Later, he passed by Xiao Yan and Mrs. Yang's persuasion gave him more than 100 men, led by him to go out to purchase with him, and take care of the rice fields and fish ponds opened by Shuizhai. Although the scale is small, it is still the beginning of Shuizhai's self-reliance.

And Wang Yuancheng himself was willing to go to Hou Ying to inquire about the information for the water village. Xiao Yan then opened a big restaurant called Laiyun in Yueyang City. Because the hotel is crowded, it is possible for anyone to reveal a little news after drinking. In addition, if it is good, it can also bring it to the cottage. A certain income.

Wang Yucheng can cook from men and women in Shuizhai, and the two of them have a firm mouth and cleverly picked more than 30 people to do it. Unexpectedly, Wang Yuancheng was really that material. In less than a month, he took away 20 or 30 people from the water village.

Wei Dayong and Zhou Cheng'an took over all the rest of the people and were responsible for cleaning, moving, repairing and repairing the water village. Anyway, where there is the lack of people there? The deputy owner of the village can't get enough face at the beginning, but once something happens, the vast people close to 2,000 people are also majestic, and Wei Zhou Wang and Li saw that Xiao Yan did not intend to settle accounts after autumn, and those people's ability was better than themselves. In this way, they were more comfortable and better, so they gradually got better for Xiao Yan and regarded the matter of the stockade as their own business.

In fact, Xiao Yan also had a headache for them at the beginning. Although these places did not seem to be important, any problems in any place may cause great losses to Shuizhai. Later, when he saw that several people really obeyed, he was relieved to arrange them where they were.

"Brother." Yang Tai walked slowly past the "big brother". Xiao Yan saw Mrs. Yang coming. What are you thinking about?" Brother, now our water village has begun to take shape. What do you think we should do next? Xiao Yan asked.

Yang Tai nodded and said, "Yes, this is the only way for the time being. Although there are still few personnel, they can't take it anymore." Xiao Yan also nodded: "Yes, the expansion is too fast and the training can't keep up. On the contrary, it will affect these people now. The personnel can only wait until the time is ripe."

Xiao Yan paused and said, "Now the most urgent thing is to solve the weapons problem of the brothers first. Although Xu's leading people to build it day and night, it is too little after all, and now the good steel court is under strict control. It has sent so many people out and only bought such a little at a high price. There are three more If it hasn't been, where can the leader Xu stop working?

Yang Tai has been thinking about this problem these days. There are more than 7,000 people, and an average of two people have one weapon, and it is also messy and uneven, especially the more than 1,000 people of Xiaoqi, all of which have less than 50 bows and arrows and more than 400 feathers and arrows. After this period of training, it has basically been used.

The weapon is even more pitiful. It has only been divided into 100 long knives, which is still the fighting power of the golden dog a few months ago. Although the combat effectiveness of the personnel is not bad, once something happens, you can't let the brothers fight with their bare hands.

Seeing that Mrs. Yang didn't say anything for a moment, Xiao Yan took out a note from her arms and handed it to Mrs. Yang. When Mrs. Yang looked at the note, her eyes suddenly lit up, and then she seemed to have some doubts and looked at Xiao Yan.

"This is from Yueyang early this morning." Yang Tai asked, "Brother, you won't be ready...?

This is too risky." Xiao Yan looked at Yang Tai and said, "Brother, if we want to develop and grow, we can only help the court fight against the golden soldiers for the time being. If our own people beat our own people, we will not only take advantage of the golden dog, but also the encirclement and suppress the imperial court. The current court is not very good at the Jin people, but it spares no effort to deal with its own people. . If we rob the things of the government, once we attract the siege of the imperial court, even if we finally repel them, it will hurt both sides. It seems risky to take advantage of others for nothing, but in fact, there is still some certainty. I just want to discuss with my eldest brother about how we should fight this battle first.

After listening to what Xiao Yan said, Mrs. Yang pondered for a while: "Originally, I wanted to persuade my brothers to pay attention to fight in Changsha. Today's governor of Changsha, Feng Zhaoyu, is incompetent and insatiable. He made a good Changsha angry and resentful. Now the whole Changsha defenders are less than 5,000, and there may still be empty. This group is a box. The military is not strong, but Changsha is the second gateway to the south of the Jin army and the reserve granary of Xiangyang. I guess there should be too little weapons and food in it. It's enough for a thousand of our brothers in the water village to get it.

After saying that, he looked at Xiao Yan. It means that I hope Xiao Yan can think about it. Xiao Yan shook his head and said, "I have also thought about what Brother Yang said. To be honest, sometimes I really want to grab it first, but I still can't think about it later. Although it is temporarily profitable, once the court knows that once it is known and send troops to encircle and suppress it, the vitality we have just recovered may lose a lot."

Yang Tai nodded when he heard this: "Well, brother, since you don't say anything, can I, the eldest brother, still hold back? Besides, in the long run, you are still right. Since we now claim to be a Rebel, we can't do these sneaky things anymore. We need weapons, food, grass and armor, so we are taking it away from the golden dog. Then I picked up the note and looked at it.

The note mountain says that the Song army besieged six counties of Xiangyang. Jiankang Mansion is empty.