(Thanks to the 43rd new leader Roger Chi for his generous support...)
At dusk, Xu Xin'an led a few people along the creek beach south of Jinsha Valley, staggering all the way to Jinsha Valley to bring twenty newly recruited thieves.
Although Liu Qiong'er said that he didn't mind taking in the old, weak, sick and disabled, and although Xu Wujiang didn't agree with the rush to conquer one village, Xu Wujiang still selected twenty newly recruited thieves from Xiema Mountain as quickly as possible.
send over.
Five or six of these people are disabled, but it basically does not affect their work; the others are strong laborers that are in short supply in Xiema Mountain.
Xu Huai had practiced swordsmanship for a while, and he and Liu Qiong'er were fighting against the wall, watching Xu Xin'an drive the twenty people into the village.
Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang have been in the grass, served in the army, and led soldiers. How to divide the interior of Jinshagou Village, how to establish rules for these twenty people, how to control them and arrange things, they don't need Xu Huai.
Liu Qiong'er intervened and just watched; it could also be seen that Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang were quite satisfied with the batch of manpower sent by Xu Wujiang.
"You really sneaked into the military camp alone to kill Guo Caoling?" Xu Xin'an handed everyone over to Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang took over. He ran over excitedly and asked Xu Huai through the fence, "How did you do it?
How did you escape? Did Mr. Lu take action? Even Deng Gui couldn't do anything to you?"
Deng Gui usually didn't take care of much in the military camp, but as a martial artist, he was still very prestigious in the minds of Xu Xin'an and others.
Unlike his father Xu Guanshan and Su Laochang, Xu Xin'an, who was just in his early eighteenth year, was not afraid of tigers. He was at the age when his vitality and blood were at its strongest. He didn't have much fear in his heart, but he learned from Xu Wujiang that the new
Liu Qiong'er encouraged Xu Huaiqian to assassinate Guo Caoling, the inspector who took office, and he was even more excited.
Furthermore, he had some thoughts about Wang Xuan at first, and she was very diligent in going to Wang Xuan's side. Perhaps among all the people, he was the one who least wanted to see Wang Xuan die in Huaiyuan.
And if there's anything he's unhappy about, it's that Liu Qiong'er didn't ask him to take action with Xu Huai. This is simply looking down on him!
"I attacked him secretly in the hiding room. There is nothing difficult to kill." Xu Huai said lightly.
"That's not easy," Xu Xinan asked curiously, "How strong are you after being taught by Master Lu for more than two months? How about we compete again?"
In addition to Xu Huai showing off his skills in front of Xu Xin'an in the willow forest that day in order to uncover the truth, whether he was making a big fuss in Huolu Hall or killing the thieves in front of Lutai Village, Xu Xin'an would hide in the back of Tuoling Village.
Either Jinshagou or Zangxiema Mountain, there is no chance to see them.
Hearing others report Xu Huai's martial prowess was rare in Tongbai Mountain, and I always felt that it would be an exaggeration. But this time Xu Xin'an heard that Xu Huai was going to assassinate Guo Caoling, and she couldn't help but want to challenge Xu Huai.
After assassinating Guo Caoling, Xu Huai became more aware of the subtleties of martial arts, which can only be fully stimulated when life and death hang on the line. In the past two days, he also gained a deeper understanding of martial arts.
In fact, Xu Xin'an has not experienced such training. Xu Huai wanted to fight with him at this time, simply treating him as Xu Chen. Xu Xin also bullied him, so he smiled and said: "My back injury is not healed yet, do you want to bully me? I
Make a big fuss in Huolu Hall and beat Xu Chen, Xu Xin and others like dogs until they are beaten to pieces. When can you kill fifteen or sixteen of them together until they are beaten to pieces? Then come and compete with me!"
"That's because they didn't guard against you; now I'm going to challenge them to a fight with fifteen, and I'm tired of living!" Xu Xin'an would not be easily fooled, and said with disdain.
"What if you challenge Xu Chen, Xu Xin, and Xu Zhi alone? If you don't even dare to do this, you really have no right to challenge me!" Xu Huai curled his lips and said.
Xu Huai has no interest in looking for the younger generation of the Xu family to establish his power, but one of the younger generations of the Xu family must stand up and continue to clean up. Only by ravaging them over and over again can they be convinced.
Xu Xin'an is the most suitable.
Although it is not convenient for Xu Xin'an to appear in public at this time, Xu Wufu will select the most outstanding disciples from the younger generation of the Xu family in such a crisis to participate in many confidential affairs; what Xu Xin'an has to do is to compete with these people.
"I will take care of them if I have the chance!" Xu Xin'an had long disliked the disciple Xu, and thought of something and asked Xu Huai, "When you went to assassinate Guo Caoling, why didn't you think of bringing Mr. Wang to Yuhuangling?"
Come on? Now Guo Caoling is dead, but the people behind him can’t just let it go!"
"Aren't you afraid of being implicated?" Xu Huai asked.
"Afraid of being useless?" Xu Xin'an spat and said, "Besides, you have already fallen into the trap of a bandit, so why do you need to look forward and backward anymore? Maybe Mr. Wang will have a chance to make a comeback in the future, and you and I need to be supported by Mr. Wang.
, wouldn’t it be nice to have an official position?”
Xu Xin'an had already figured it out at this time. An official lady like Wang Xuan didn't take him seriously at all, and it would be even less likely that she would take a fancy to him in the future.
Opportunity, but full of desire.
Xu Huai raised his head and saw Liu Qiong'er looking towards him with bright eyes.
Obviously, Liu Qiong'er also realized that they had cared too much about the postures of Xu Wujiang and even Xu Guanshan, Su Laochang, Xu Wufu and other people in power in the Xu family, but they ignored that people like Xu Xin'an actually had different ideas.
Deep down in my heart, I am really looking forward to Wang Zhen's comeback.
Perhaps this means that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, or that they are not ashamed to have dreams?
Xu Huai thought at this moment that he was right to be wary of people like Xu Wufu and Xu Wuqi, but he should not ignore the existence of Xu Xinan and others.
At this time, Xu Huai looked outside the wall. The people who had accompanied Xu Xin'an to escort the thieves to Jinshagou were talking and laughing outside the wall.
Compared with other deserted soldiers, these people have a common characteristic, that is, the younger generation of Nanzhai have been recruited into the Inspection Department in the past two or three years. They are usually the most compatible with Xu Xin'an, so they are the queen of the bandit.
They all followed Xu Xin'an and were responsible for scouting out the enemy's situation and other matters.
They were talking at this time, looking around the Xijian Mountain Valley, and occasionally glanced at Liu Qiong'er's pretty face and Pingting's figure. There was raw enthusiasm in their eyes, but they didn't have much fear, and they didn't feel that they were in front of them.
What a difficult situation it is.
As for those military soldiers who were mature and prudent, somewhat old-fashioned and nimble, they were led by Xu Sihu and usually stayed at the Chonghuang Temple in Xiema Mountain.
Xu Huai stood on the wall, pondered for a moment, and asked Xu Xinan: "How serious is the crisis that the Xu family is facing this time? Did Uncle Seventeen talk to you and Sihu today?"
"I said it." Xu Xin'an nodded.
"What do you and Sihu think of this matter?" Xu Huai asked.
"Before I hid in this ditch, I was still a little panicked. I thought all day long about how powerful Pan Chenghu was, how could he allow us to live here? What if he came to drive us away? In the end, I found that Pan Chenghu was nothing special. Soul-stealing
Gun, grab a feather gun!" Xu Xin'an said with a smile, "I have passed this level. Uncle Seventeen returned to Xiema Mountain early in the morning today. When it comes to Hutou Village, Xu Sihu still feels guilty, but I don't.
How does it feel - you dare to kill dozens of strong thieves in front of the stronghold, I can't be worse than you!"
"..." Xu Huai laughed and said, "When I get better from my back injury, I have to fight you to see who is worse than who - but to be honest, it is good to be fearless at heart, but Xiemashan and Lutai
Do you have any opinions on the deployment of the village?"
Xu Xin'an frowned and said: "I can't tell. I just feel that all the owner and Uncle Seventeen are thinking about is fearing that others will come to the door of the house. It seems that all the arrangements are just waiting to be beaten. This doesn't feel good.
!”
Xu Huai said: "Your feeling is correct, but at present it is impossible for you to convince those people in Dazhai. You can't even say how wrong they are..."
"You are running a separate village here because you don't want to be restricted by the family head?" Xu Xin'an asked.
"It can be said that when facing a strong enemy, we must face it together, but we cannot let the clan have the final say in everything," Xu Huai said, "And Uncle Seventeen wants to gain a foothold in Xiema Mountain, and the manpower
We have to rely on Dazhai for all our supplies, and we can’t make it difficult for Uncle Seventeen in the future, so we set up a separate branch to work hard and be self-reliant."
"But you are so happy and you are not afraid of hardship at all!" Xu Xin'an said with emotion as he looked at the simple village, which only contained the seven or eight wooden houses they had built before.
"It is impossible to convince the head of the family, Xu Zhongyu, Xu Bosong and those stubborn old men now, but there are some things you can insist on doing in Xiemashan." Xu Huai said.
"What can I do?" Xu Xin'an asked doubtfully.
"Try every possible means to find Dazhai for good horses and armor, and lead everyone to practice riding combat, but don't tell others, this is a bad idea I taught you..." Xu Huai said.
The Lutai villages, which can now be said to be the Xu family's villages, are basically still under the control of Xu Wufu. They need people, food, and money.
However, Xiema Mountain lacks everything, so it is inevitable that Xu Wufu is in charge of everything. However, the fundamental thoughts of Xu Wufu, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu, Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing and others are still to protect themselves.
Their many deployments, the core idea is also "I will not attack others unless they attack me; if they attack me, I will make them unable to gnaw at them."
This is also what Xu Xin'an feels, every preparation is just waiting to be beaten.
Xu's current preparations are mainly focused on stockpiling more food, especially preparing for the worst-case scenario, which is to stock up on food in Xiema Mountain. In the future, they will also strengthen the construction of walls, archery towers and other facilities in Xinzhai and other villages.
Assemble clan soldiers to practice bravery in the stronghold, and mainly rely on the wall to defend, and prepare more bows and arrows.
All these actions appear to be more defensive than insufficient offensive.
Xu Wufu and others were even afraid of irritating Hutou Village and the people behind all this, and were afraid of being exposed. In many arrangements, they deliberately ignored the possibility of a head-on attack by the Xu clan soldiers when the thieves of Hutou Village swarmed in.
When it comes to armor, let alone iron armor, Lutai villages can only collect less than 40 or 50 pieces of leather armor made of cooked cowhide, and there is no preparation at this time to purchase and blend the cooked cowhide to make armor.
The large pastures on the northern slope of Yuhuangling raise mules and horses. The Xu clan, especially the young men who help the masters herd horses, can be said to have excellent riding skills in Tongbai Mountain, but there is no practice in riding battles.
Not to mention forming a formal cavalry team.
The North Slope Pasture can breed dozens or hundreds of good horses every year, but they are mainly used to make profits; a few horses will stay in the clan, and they are only the capital to show off for a few such as Xu Wufu, Xu Heng, and Xu Chen; Xu Wukun previously worked in Xu
Wu Fu could not find a good horse to ride on.
In the past, when An An was a citizen of Dai Viet, no one even thought about practicing mounted combat, which was nothing. No one could think that as a rural soldier participating in the suppression of bandits, fighting in the deep mountains and old forests required catching and killing on horseback.
However, it would be too conservative and even cowardly to deliberately not make full use of Xu's existing resources and organize a small group of elite cavalry at this time.
Xu Huai had no way to persuade Xu Wufu to fundamentally change anything, but seeing that Xu Xin'an and the others were willing, he suggested that they try their best to ask Xu Wufu for good horses, leather armor, practice more riding combat, and practice riding and shooting, so as to prevent the situation from completely deteriorating.
Previously, there was a small squad of elite cavalry available that could travel through battles.
Seeing that Xu Xin'an was hesitant, probably because he was worried that speaking in front of people like Xu Wufu would not work, Xu Huai smiled and said: "I'll give you half a month. When the time comes, Uncle Wu Kun and I will go into battle, and you can gather six or seven people to ride against us."
, I bet you will still be beaten to pieces by me, maybe even worse than Xu Chen and the others."
"Bullshit, six or seven of us can't defeat you and Uncle Wu Kun?" Xu Xin'an was also very angry and said, "I'll go get the horse when I get back. We can't scout out the enemy outside, and we can only rely on foot power or leading a mule to ride.
, I can’t even afford to lose that person! You don’t have to wait for half a month, I will come over to challenge you as soon as I get the horse!”
