When Chen Xi decided to fight, some necessary losses were inevitable. ΔΔΔ

Chen Xi can only regard this as a compulsory course for military training!

If you stay on Nan'ao Island for too long, your journey to the north may be affected. Whether you will continue to go on a battle to wipe out the bandits during the hot summer of 16 years of Hongzhi will become the top priority on Shen Xi's head.

If there is a battle, the loss will only be even more serious.

Jing Yue was given the order of Chen Xi and became the vanguard of attacking the bandit camps on Nan'ao Island.

On the first day, Jing Yue led the Hundred Houses, and on the second day, it became the commander of the Thousand Houses. He attacked the cities and captured the villages, echoing the artillery battalion led by Majiu. In just three days, he captured seven bandit villages distributed on different mountain bags on the east and west sides of Nan'ao Island. In the end, only the fortress on the top of Yangyu Mountain in the south part of the island was left, and he sighed.

Since the beginning of the war, no less than fifteen hundred-house battalions attacked the thief village on the top of Yangyu Mountain. However, the thief village on the top of Yangyu Mountain is the largest bandit village in the entire Nan'ao Mountain. It has thousands of bandits. The village is built on the top of a two-hundred-meter-high mountain. It is located on the top of the mountain with a height of 200 meters. The city wall is made of stones and is extremely strong. It is said that the village has abundant food. In recent years, it has reserved a lot of combat supplies such as bows, arrows, logs, stones, etc. Jing Yue tried to attack, but lost the lives of three soldiers and retreated.

At this time, the more than 20 hundred households on the island, except for the six hundred households who divided the prisoners and ranks to send back to 6 places, the rest of the troops had gathered at the foot of Yangyu Mountain, waiting for the general attack order of Chenxi.

After going to the island, the troops of each battalion took the lead, fearing that they would not make any contributions after falling behind. Now, each battalion has gained more or less.

In addition, the village on Yangyu Island was too steep and solid, so that no one took the initiative to ask for the battle at the pre-war mobilization meeting. Even Jing Yue, who seemed very reckless and eager to make achievements before, pretended to be stupid after encountering setbacks, stood aside without saying a word.

It is obvious that whoever attacks first will be cannon fodder. There is a steep slope about two miles long down the Yangyu Mountain Village Gate, which is difficult to transport the cannons. As long as the war begins, stones, rolling woods, and arrows on the mountain fall together, and the few battalions rushing in front may suffer heavy losses.

According to the tolerant casualty ratio of Chen Xi, it is estimated that no one will get the reward in the end, so he just pretended to be deaf and dumb.

"Sir, I finally thought that you could find a small path to detour behind enemy lines before the way."

Recently, the limelight of the Qianhu Sun Xi has been almost completely overshadowed by Jing Yue. Now he has started to speak "silly" and said that he is looking for a path, but the terrain around Yangyu Mountain has been cleared. Except for the other sides in front of him, there are cliffs and cliffs, so he cannot advance. He has to bite the bullet and climb from other places. The effect of falling stones from the top of his head and rolling down from his body is very different. The rocks fall on a cliff one or two hundred meters high, and he will die without a lifetime.

Jing Yue said: "Sir, why don't you... make a long-term plan? Or you can slow down the attack rhythm and slowly push the steep road in front of the thief's village on wooden stakes in turn and push forward step by step. In this way, even if a rolling stone falls in front, it will be blocked by wooden stakes."

"Yes, Deputy Secretary Jing Qianhu's proposal is very good!"

All the generals were worried that their camp would suffer too much, so they immediately followed Jing Yue's words, regardless of whether this strategy was feasible.

Chen Xi asked, "According to this plan, can we reach the mountain by the end of the year?"

"Well……"

Jing Yue looked ashamed and simply kept silent. He was not afraid of death, but he was not a reckless warrior. He was familiar with military strategies and strategies. He knew that this kind of terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack would be best to use strange or siege and delay.

No matter how much food is stored on the mountain, it will take less than half a year or even a year for energy per month, and it will always make the thief army surrender.

But in Shen Xi's opinion, the officers and soldiers could not hold on without waiting for the thief's village to cut off food. Moreover, the army was stationed on deserted islands for a long time, which was simply not feasible.

Chen Xi looked at the topographic map of Yangyu Mountain drawn before and asked the military generals present: "Yangyu Mountain Bandit Village is built on the top of a mountain more than 60 meters high, how can the water supply be provided?"

Zhu Hong used to be a bandit, and had a general understanding of the situation of this mountain, and immediately explained: "Sir, there are usually springs on this kind of densely-wooded mountain. Since this group of thieves chose to build a copycat here, they must have considered the water source issue. Starting from the water source may not work."

"Oh." Chen Xi nodded and asked again, "Then you used to live in the mountains, how many springs do you need to drink for the people and animals in the village?"

Zhu Hong blinked and tried his best to recall: "There should be four springs, which are relatively scattered, but there are those old water tanks that can be taken out to collect rainwater on rainy days, or go downstairs to pick up..."

Speaking of this, many people quickly realize the key to the problem.

Although there are springs on the mountain, it is not realistic to use three or five springs to feed thousands of men, women, young and old in the mountain village. Especially in the dry season, many springs are dry.

Even if there are many water tanks to store water in the parody, the water in the parody should be reduced sharply in the past ten days after the government army landed on the island.

Chen Xi immediately ordered: "Follow some older people from the prisoners, who are better to be greedy for life and fear death, call them to interrogate them carefully, and thoroughly investigate the water source in the thief village."

"Okay, sir, let's go now!" Jing Yue jumped out again, and he was very enthusiastic about beating and scaring people.

Jing Yue went to ask the prisoners who meet the conditions. Although others felt that this plan might not work, it could be regarded as an extraordinary means in extraordinary times.

Sun Xinian reminded: "Sir, if the water tank in the thief's village is estimated, we can't beat it for a month, it's never a solution, it's better..."

Before Sun Xinian could finish his words, Chen Xi shouted sternly: "Those who quit their troops will be punished to disrupt the morale of the army and beheaded!"

In one sentence, Sun Xinian shut up obediently.

In fact, most soldiers in the army thought that this war had been completed. The most important thing in the war was to obtain military merits and rewards. They pledged Tai'ao and Nan'ao Mountain, killed about four or five hundred bandits and captives, and seized tens of thousands of taels of silver. Faced with such a rich battle to suppress the bandits, it didn't matter whether the last nail was removed. Isn't it great to ask the court for rewards with the current results and then take out the seized silver equally?

This is very different from the strategy of Chenxi to eliminate the bandits. Chenxi will not tolerate a relatively threatening bandit to continue to exist.

It would be fine if there were small fuss. When the bandit army left, these people were afraid of the local garrisons and inspection departments' troops and horses, and could only scatter birds and beasts. Even if they were still doing business of killing people and robbing goods, they would not dare to rob the official roads and waterways.

But the remaining thieves are extremely fierce. If they are not eliminated once, they will be unscrupulous and will be revived in less than a year or two, causing a generation in northern Guangdong to be entrenched by bandits. The court may send people to preside over the fight against bandits again. Chen Xi, who led troops to combat bandits for the first time, may be angry by the emperor and the court.

The soldiers could go home after receiving the credit, but Chenxi could not.

Chen Xi is responsible for his own victory in fighting the bandits, which is also responsible for history and this era... I finally did something meaningful to the people of the Ming Dynasty. If I could live by the tiger and return to the mountain, then how could I criticize people in later history books?

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Six or seven elderly islanders were asked for inquiries, and the government army finally had some understanding of the water source of the bandit village on Yangyu Mountain.

Chenxi is not bad. There are indeed three springs on the mountain, but in the past, people still needed to send people down the mountain to carry water to meet basic living needs.

In the past two years, there have been many water tanks on the mountain. There are no specific numbers for how much water can be stored. It is hard to guess, because the islanders only know their own situation. The thieves on the island are doing their own things and sweeping the snow in front of the door. Who cares about how much water can the water tanks in other villages store?

Chen Xi asked roughly the locations of the three springs in Yangyu Bandit Village, and immediately made a decision that made all the soldiers present dumbfounded!

Even the veterans in the army only occasionally heard that some wells were dug, and the legends of ghosts and gods were usually accompanied by them.

When encountering such a thing, people usually need to ask someone to go back and do things, kill chickens to reward gods, or drive away ghosts, etc.

Now Shen Xi actually said that he wanted to dig the water source on the mountain, but no one knew how to dig it out.

Everyone looked at Chen Xi with admiration, just like looking at a living god. Some people guessed in their hearts, could Chen Xi know the Qinkong system, and accurately calculate the location of the dragon vein on the island, and find someone to dig the dragon vein, so the water source on Yangyu Mountain was broken?

The soldiers all wanted to ask Chen Xi about the specific operation process, but they were afraid that they would be boring. The search for love was arranged by Shen Xi. They just needed to obey the order. Chen Xi said that they would dig wherever they were digging. It was very simple to do their best without using their brains.

That night, Chen Xi drew several diagrams of the direction of the "dragon vein" as if in a look, then sat down, and wrote the log of the follower with a little bit of fun.

"Master, I really want to dig the water source on the Broken Mountain tomorrow?"

Ma Jiu couldn't sleep and was worried about the future, so he came over to see Chen Xi.

Chen Xi gave Ma Jiu a blank look: "You think I am a god, can you calculate it? The source of groundwater comes from, even if you find a group of scientists with advanced instruments to calculate, it is not so accurate."

"What the master said is, I don't understand very much, so the master will tomorrow..." Ma Jiu looked confused.

Chen Xi has always been absurd in his work, but there is one logic that remains unchanged, that is, unexpectedly. Chen Xi occasionally uses seemingly unreasonable writings, all based on some incredible preparations.

"Go back and rest. There is still something to do tomorrow. Have a safe sleep. Just follow my instructions tomorrow." Chen Xi said, and he stretched and yawned. "I am sleepy myself, let's go." After saying that, Chen Xi ignored Ma Jiu and went back to the camp to rest first.
Chapter completed!