After Lei Ben entered the battle, he immediately saluted Xiao Jingxuan.
"The last general Lei Ben met the general, and the last general was transferred to the general's command by the Ministry of War."
Looking at Lei Ben kneeling on the ground, Xiao Jingxuan quickly walked over and helped Lei Ben up.
"Haha, Lao Lei, you came at just the right time. Sit down quickly and tell me about the situation in Fengzhou first."
After Lei Ben sat down with a smile, he told Xiao Jingxuan about the situation in Fengzhou.
The two of them chatted and talked about the current war.
"Old Lei, you came just in time. Now, Funiu Mountain is really difficult for me. Now it's just right. I'll leave it to you."
"General, how can a small Funiu Mountain stop the general?"
"Haha, although Pingzhou is a border town, there is no war and the army is slack. I want to clean up the armies, enforce strict military discipline, and determine rewards and punishments. This Funiu Mountain is the first stepping stone for the armies."
After hearing Xiao Jingxuan's explanation, Lei Ben thought deeply, then handed over his hand and accepted the order.
After getting Lei Ben's consent, Xiao Jingxuan held a military meeting and handed over the command of the army to Lei Ben. At the same time, in order to increase Lei Ben's prestige, Xiao Jingxuan temporarily gave up his position as commander to Lei Ben.
After Lei Ben was humble for a while, he began to give orders without hesitation. First, he sent soldiers to find nearby hunters and mountain people to see if there was a path to go up the mountain.
Then they began to select death squads from among the infantry. However, the bravery of the infantry clearly exceeded Lei Ben's expectations. Although there were generous rewards, only forty people in the two thousand army were willing to join.
Seeing that there were so few applicants, Lei Ben's face turned green, and he had no choice but to increase the reward.
Unfortunately, there is still no warmth.
Lei Ben had no choice but to turn around and look for Xiao Jingxuan.
Seeing the depressed Lei Ben, Xiao Jingxuan knew the purpose of his visit as soon as he saw it, so he was the first to speak.
"I know what you saw. This is my purpose of purging the army."
"General, these people can no longer be called soldiers. They have lost their courage and courage. Even if they are trained, they will not be of much use."
Xiao Jingxuan sighed.
"Lei Ben, do you think we are in Fengzhou? Do you know how much money it costs to disband a soldier? Do you know what the disbanded soldiers usually do?"
After hearing Xiao Jingxuan's words, Lei Ben was silent for a while before taking the order to leave.
Helpless, although Pingzhou is a border town, bandits are rampant. If the troops are laid off today, there will be many more bandits in Pingzhou tomorrow.
Moreover, the money needed to reduce the troops and return to the fields was not something Pingzhou could afford.
After returning to the infantry camp, Lei Ben was speechless after looking at the soldiers in the camp.
After several days of searching, Lei Ben finally learned about a path leading to the bandit village from a herb collector.
However, the path is very rugged and can only be passed by small groups.
However, that's enough. There are a total of four checkpoints on the way from the foot of the mountain to the main village in Funiu Mountain. Once you reach the main village, everything will be easy.
There are not many guards in these four levels. There are only about fifty or sixty people in each level. If rotation is included, it is estimated that only about forty people need to be dealt with.
However, for the sake of safety, Lei Ben still transferred twenty people from his personal guards to set off together.
This time, Lei Ben's purpose is to start from the alley, with large forces attacking from the outside, while the death squads will launch a surprise attack on the checkpoint from the alley.
The time for combat was set to Chou hour. The death squads set off in the afternoon. After getting into position, they launched an attack at Chou hour together with the large forces.
The entire battle was personally commanded by Lei Ben, while Xiao Jingxuan led the cavalry to supervise the battle. If there was a battle without the former, he would be killed without mercy.
The night was dark and windy, which was a good time to kill people. Seeing that the appointed time was getting closer, the atmosphere of the battle became more and more tense.
Seeing the appearance of his infantry, Xiao Jingxuan was really speechless.
Although I had never led infantry in Fengzhou, the cavalry recruits did not suffer like this when they entered the battlefield for the first time.
Xiao Jingxuan looked at the Xiaowei guerrillas on the left and right, and Xiao Jingxuan said: "Remember, these infantrymen, no matter who they are, will be killed as long as they dare to take a step back. If a deserter or bandit is let go, military law will be engaged."
Xiao Jingxuan actually doesn't like these people in Xiaowei very much, and they are not very easy to use.
As the emperor's personal army, most of Xiaowei's soldiers were sons of good families who came to Italy near the capital.
Life at home is pretty good. Moreover, as a cavalry member of the Guards, the pay and food are not comparable to those of infantry.
Therefore, these Xiaowei cavalry troops were still dissatisfied with Pingzhou. They were also full of complaints on weekdays.
This is also a major issue that Xiao Jingxuan currently needs to solve.
Soon, the ugly moment arrived. Xiao Jingxuan sat on the horse and watched Lei Ben command the infantry to launch an attack.
First, the archers kept firing rockets to suppress the bandits on the tower.
Then the sword and shield soldiers began to attack.
In fact, infantry attacks are quite monotonous, just back and forth. There are no new tricks.
Jamel Xiao frowned and looked at the battle situation. Although the infantry attacked fiercely, Jamel Xiao could see that the infantry were a little afraid of the battle.
Xiao Jingxuan looked at the left and right majestically, and the four guerrillas from Xiaowei on the left and right quickly waved their horses forward.
The general of the cavalry was walking back and forth among the cavalry ranks, shouting loudly, "This is the general's order. If you don't fight first, you'll be killed. If you don't fight, you'll be killed."
Following the orders of several cavalry generals, all the cavalrymen began to take out their swords, ready to attack the unsighted infantry at any time.
Maybe it was the role of the supervising team, or maybe the sneak attack by the death squads was effective.
The first level was quickly breached. Then, the army continued to attack the second level.
However, due to the rugged mountain road, the cavalry could not go up the mountain at this time.
Seeing this situation, Xiao Jingxuan said to Xu Ce beside him: "General Xu, I will order you to take everyone from the personal guard battalion to supervise the battle. Remember, the personal guard battalion is not allowed to participate in the battle and is only responsible for supervising the battle.
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After Xu Ce accepted the order, he set off with his guard battalion. Looking at the departing guards, Xiao Jingxuan ordered the cavalry to start preparing for the celebration banquet.
There is no more suspense in this battle.
Sure enough, at about three quarters of a hour, Lei Ben began to lead the army back to the camp.
Looking at the prisoners escorted by the army, Xiao Jingxuan was slightly surprised. There were many old, weak, women and children.
Although Xiao Jingxuan can't bear the barbarians, he will not hesitate, and the sword in his hand will not stop for a moment because of the old, weak, women and children.
However, the people in front of him were all the people of Wei Dynasty, and Xiao Jingxuan was a little confused about how to deal with it.
At this time, Lei Ben stepped forward and began to talk about the situation of the battle.
When the army broke through four checkpoints and came to the enemy's main stronghold, they faced the siege of the army. The bandits only lasted two rounds before surrendering directly.
Hearing what Lei Ben said, Xiao Jingxuan was a little curious. After some questioning, he found out that most of the people in this village were fellow villagers. They had no choice but to surrender for the sake of their families. The bandit leader had no choice but to surrender.
After Xiao Jingxuan learned about it, he made plans for these prisoners.
Xiao Jingxuan ordered that the entire village be burned down. At the same time, he sent people to Changli County and ordered the magistrate of Changli County to come and see him immediately.
After meeting the leader of the cottage and other leaders, Xiao Jingxuan discovered that although these people were bandits, they were not too evil. This is just the tragedy of the times.
Xiao Jingxuan told several bandit leaders that he would make arrangements for the old, weak, women and children. As for the young and strong among the bandits, Xiao Jingxuan organized all of them into auxiliary troops.
As long as the bandits are suppressed effectively, they will be exempted from death penalty. They will even be allowed to perform meritorious service for their crimes.
After the Changli County Magistrate arrived, Xiao Jingxuan handed over more than 300 old, weak, women and children among the bandits to the County Magistrate.
Looking at the county magistrate kneeling on the ground, Xiao Jingxuan sternly warned him to properly arrange these people.
Although there are differences in civil and military affairs, Xiao Jingxuan can still manipulate a seventh-grade county magistrate at will.
After making these arrangements, Xiao Jingxuan began to hold a celebration banquet with the soldiers.
Although in Xiao Jingxuan's view, this is just a small achievement, but facing the group of soldiers under his command, he still needs to be appeased.
The hustle and bustle outside the big tent did not affect Xiao Jingxuan. Looking at the list in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan was still satisfied.
The death squads suffered considerable casualties. Nineteen of the forty-member suicide squads died, and the rest were more or less injured.
After reading the list in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan looked at the list of seizures. There was still a lot of property in Funiu Mountain. In addition to some of the weapons seized, there were also a lot of cloth, grain, gold and silver.
A small part of it will be used to house the elderly, weak, women and children in Funiu Mountain, and Xiao Jingxuan can handle the rest by himself.
All suicide squad members will be rewarded twenty taels of silver if they are alive, and fifty taels of silver if they are dead.
As for the other battalion leaders of the infantry, except for a few who fought bravely and were rewarded heavily, there was no pension for those who died at the hands of the supervising team.
In this battle, more than 100 infantrymen were killed, and more than 30 of them died under the sword of the supervising team, which had to make Xiao Jingxuan angry.
The key point is that among the more than thirty people, there are six captains and one captain.
After Xiao Jingxuan arranged the pension matters, he planned to adjust the infantry under his command.
The first step is to promote the surviving members of the death squads to whatever level they wish to be. These people will be recruited into the Guards Battalion.
At the same time, more than 20 people were selected from the guard camp and sent to serve in various ministries.
The standard of the Guards Battalion is relatively high, and everyone has accumulated military merits in the military merit book. The Chief is the lowest status in the Guards Battalion.
After the celebration banquet is over, the next target is in front of us. However, the second fire bandit is not easy to eliminate.
A group of horse bandits have taken hold in Xinchang County. It is understood that these horse bandits are defeated soldiers who escaped from Yan State.
Each of these people are cavalry and have no fixed stronghold. The entire team of horse bandits has no old, weak, sick or disabled, and they are all elite soldiers.
These people can be regarded as thieves, they only attack landlords and rich people, but they don't do anything to common people.
Moreover, even if you are a wealthy landowner, as long as you are not unkind and do evil things for the sake of wealth, you will usually only take money without harming your life.
However, local powerful people often hate this kind of bandits the most. It is said that before Xiao Jingxuan came to Pingzhou to take office, Xinchang County Government organized several rounds of sieges against this group of horse bandits in Pingzhou County.
However, because this group of horse bandits was too mobile, they failed several times. This chapter has been completed!