Lin Jue did not dwell on this matter anymore. There was another important thing pressing in his mind, which was about the situation of Gao Muqing and the others in Funiu Mountain and how to solve the crisis.
Since Liang Qi came to Hangzhou, Lin Jue has thought about this matter from time to time. Every time he thinks of the situation of Gao Muqing and others, Lin Jue feels depressed. He was busy with the autumn examination, and Lin Jue did not systematically sort out the whole matter.
The context and solution. Now that Qiu Wei is over, Lin Jue thinks that he must think about this matter seriously. He must not stay out of this matter.
When Liang Qi came to Hangzhou, although he gave him money to buy supplies and bring them into the mountains, Lin Jue knew that this was just a stopgap measure. If everything goes well, the food supplies purchased with these more than 10,000 taels of silver can relieve the pressure on the mountains.
The urgent need can help more than a thousand people in Luoyan Valley survive this severe winter, but it does not solve the fundamental problem.
The fundamental problem is actually the problem that Gao Muqing and others can really take root in the future. That is by no means a matter of providing a batch of food, cotton-padded clothes and other materials to sit back and relax. Next spring, the Funiu Mountain cottages that have offended the public will definitely unite again.
To deal with the people in Luoyan Valley, that is the most critical time. With the strength of more than 300 men under Gao Muqing, it is impossible to withstand the joint attack of other cottages. These 300 men and more than a thousand people will eventually
They will be driven out of Funiu Mountain and have no place to stay. Once they leave Funiu Mountain, these people will have no way of living, and the government will not tolerate them.
Therefore, how to allow them to gain a firm foothold is already an extremely urgent and life-or-death issue.
After careful consideration, Lin Jue believed that there were only two solutions for the present. Either to reach a compromise with the bandits in Funiu Mountain, or to have the strength to withstand their attack and defeat them.
Reaching a compromise with other copycats in Funiu Mountain seems to be an excellent solution, but in fact this is almost impossible. Because they are not strong enough and have lost the blessing of Shirenshan copycat, then Gao Muqing and others
The only possibility to reach a compromise is to seek refuge in a certain mountain stronghold and become a vassal of others. In that case, the people of Guishan Island who came to Gao Muqing will be the first to be expelled and massacred. Because
It is impossible for any village to support these people in vain. It is precisely because of this that Gao Muqing decided to seize the territory and fall out with Zuo Zongdao, because Gao Muqing would never abandon these people.
In this situation, it is actually a dead end that cannot be compromised. Moreover, if you surrender to others, the Guishan Island cottage will cease to exist. This is definitely not an outcome acceptable to those who are die-hard followers of Gao Muqing. Therefore,
This first solution seems to be a mild solution that offers the best of both worlds, but it is actually the most unlikely one.
In comparison, the second solution, which seems to have no chance of success, does have a glimmer of hope.
On the surface, Gao Muqing's existing manpower of more than 300 people is unable to withstand the full-scale attack of the bandits. Even the Funiu Mountain bandits are not an elite division, and their equipment and combat power are not well-equipped, but Gao Muqing's men
The three hundred men are still unable to protect themselves. If we want to have a firm foothold in Funiu Mountain with these more than three hundred men and resist the attack of the bandits, we may need to meet several conditions.
The soldiers and horses must be well-trained, the combat measures must be well planned, and the equipment and weapons must be sophisticated. These are the three important factors that Lin Jue believes will determine whether a soldier and horse can become an elite. If Gao Muqing and her three hundred people can
If these three conditions are met, then the three hundred people, although few in number, are definitely not something that the ragtag group of bandits can contend with. However, for now, the manpower led by Gao Muqing does not have these three conditions at all.
elements.
In terms of fighting ability, these three hundred people may be better than the bandits. After all, these three hundred people can be regarded as the elite leftover from the Guishan Island cottage. Most of these people have some skills, otherwise they are
It is absolutely impossible for the officers and soldiers to escape in blood after landing on the island. In the following time, these people also experienced many large and small battles, and it can be said that they are already polished and quasi-elite soldiers. The soldiers of Funiu Mountain
The bandits are incomparable to these more than 300 people, which is also an important reason why they were able to successfully repel Bao Meng's attack of thousands of bandits in the previous battle.
However, the advantage of these three hundred men is not enough to ignore the advantages and disadvantages of numbers. If we can survive this winter, the attack next spring will definitely be more fierce. Bao Meng has already lost hundreds of men, and he is absolutely
They refused to give up. Zuo Zongdao of Shirenshan Dazhai also gave an ultimatum. The attack next spring is likely to be Bao Meng from the northwest and Zuo Zongdao from the south. Because Bao Meng will definitely recognize the ownership of Laojun Ridge.
At the expense of Zuo Zongdao's territory, he requested Zuo Zongdao's assistance. For Zuo Zongdao, this would allow the territory of Laojunling Mountain Village that he had occupied not long ago to be legitimately included in his own territory, and Bao Meng was forced to admit this.
.At the same time, it is also a punishment and revenge for Gao Muqing and others who betrayed him. This deal is the easiest to reach under the current circumstances.
Therefore, with the huge advantage in numbers, Gao Muqing's Luoyan Valley is absolutely unable to defend. They may be forced to withdraw eastward from the Funiu Mountain boundary. However, they also have no way to survive leaving the Funiu Mountain boundary, because the imperial court outside the mountain
The soldiers and horses will never be merciful to them.
One of the conditions is well-trained, which is obviously impossible for the three hundred people who were born as bandits on Guishan Island. A bandit's background is a bandit's background. No matter how prosperous, powerful and rule-based the Guishan Island village was before,
, it was nothing more than a copycat. The tall leader who was once a Forbidden Army instructor could not turn the Lake Bandit into a well-trained and disciplined soldier. On the contrary, due to the complicated source of personnel, the Guishan Island copycat was filled with those who did not follow the rules.
There are mostly well-behaved desperadoes, and most of these people just go their own way. How can they be well-trained and disciplined?
This was also evident after the officers and soldiers landed on the island. When the officers and soldiers broke their previous promises and started killing people, these people became a mess and could not organize an effective counterattack. In the end, only this small number of people escaped.
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Training a force with strict disciplines, strict orders, and powerful force cannot be accomplished overnight. Even if Gao Muqing and the others had the intention, they would not have time to realize it. Even if they started training from now on, they would not have to spend at least a few months to polish it.
There is no visible effect. It is even less likely that it will become an elite force overnight. Therefore, the first condition for quickly making Gao Muqing's men stronger is not met.
The second condition is that those who command the combatants must have superb combat strategies. This is particularly important in a battle with less and more. An excellent leader can keenly seize opportunities and follow strategies. He knows where to go.
When to attack, when to retreat, you know how to use the only manpower at hand to create the greatest combat power. You can set up various traps to design the opponent, and use various favorable factors to severely damage the opponent. That is an art.
It's definitely not something you can do just by saying you can, or can do it by saying you can.
Lin Jue did not look down upon Gao Muqing, but he knew that Gao Muqing did not have this ability at the moment. This could not be blamed on Gao Muqing. After all, she was only a woman, and neither Gao Lao Village Master nor herself had the intention to become the village master. Gao Muqing
She has always wanted to be an ordinary woman and escape from her status as a bandit. The village leader Gao Lao did not want his daughter to follow her own path. In fact, the successor he was looking for was definitely not his daughter.
However, fate played a trick on people, and a huge change occurred in the Guishan Island cottage. Qiu Biao seized power and killed Gao Yuankui. The old people in the cottage who were aware of it also had doubts about Qiu Biao, so they tried their best to push Gao Muqing to be the leader of the cottage.
But in fact, Gao Muqing is still a novice when it comes to leadership, planning, scheming, and the ability to lead troops into battle. It’s just that fate forces her to become a flag for the Guishan Island cottage and the leader of everyone.
Therefore, it is obviously too much to ask Gao Muqing to strategize and demonstrate superb skills in leading battles. This ability cannot be mastered overnight and requires the accumulation of talent and theoretical and practical experience.
The first two of the three conditions are difficult to meet, and only the last one is left, which is to upgrade the weapons and equipment of these three hundred people so that they have powerful equipment to crush their opponents. The first two are soft power, and this
It is hard power. Improving soft power is the most difficult and requires the accumulation of time and experience. But once it is successful, it will be a permanent combat power and the least likely to dissipate. Improving soft power is the most difficult and least immediate.
Yes, but the improvement of hard power is different. It is the fastest and most effective way, and can increase the combat effectiveness of a soldier and horse to a very high level in a short period of time.
Just like two groups of people fighting each other with bare hands, the one with fewer people will naturally suffer. But if the one with fewer people has rich experience in group fighting, makes good use of the terrain, protects each other well, and has a well-organized approach to advance and retreat, then even if there are fewer people, it may not be a problem.
They will suffer a loss. On the contrary, if they do not have such ability and fight randomly, they will obviously be beaten to pieces because of the small number of people. The synergy of these fighting experiences and rules can be called soft power.
However, if they have no rules and don't know how to coordinate advance and retreat and take advantage of favorable conditions, the way to win this battle is also very simple, which is to put a steel knife in each of their hands. This steel knife will
It can be called hard power. With a steel knife in hand, a weak person can defeat an opponent several times his size with bare hands, and a young boy can defeat a big man with bare hands. This is a way to quickly increase combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
