Pirate Song

The Ezhou Camp is stationed in the south of Ezhou City. After the war started, the troops stationed here have basically moved to Jiangbei and rushed to the battlefield against the Jin Dynasty. Only a few old and weak soldiers stayed here. The entire camp was empty and not popular.

When Gao Huaiyuan led the 300 Daye Xiangyong to arrive here, it happened to be dark and they were still some distance away from the camp. They were ordered to stop by the soldiers left behind on the archery tower and asked about their identities.

As the leader of this group of people, Gao Huaiyuan immediately took out the road note issued by Daye County and stepped forward and replied: "We are rural soldiers from Daye County, and we have been ordered to deliver food, fodder and baggage to serve! I hope you will let us enter the camp.

Handover!"

After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's report, a group of Song troops walked out of the camp gate, led by a low-level officer, and stopped in front of Gao Huaiyuan and the others.

The Song Army officer reached out and took the road strip from Gao Huaiyuan's hand. After checking it, he looked at the team of rural warriors behind Gao Huaiyuan and was slightly surprised. They had seen many teams of rural warriors, but

It is rare to see such a neat team of rural warriors as in Daye County. Most of them are sparse rabbles, shouting without any rules, but this team led by Gao Huaiyuan, although it looks armored

It was chaotic, but it maintained a relatively decent formation. The entire three hundred people remained silent throughout, and no one made any inappropriate noises.

So the officer turned his attention to Gao Huaiyuan, who was leading the team, nodded slightly and said, "Do you dare to ask this little brother his name? Are all these local braves under your control?"

Gao Huaiyuan cupped his fists and replied: "I am a person from Gaojiazhuang in Daye County. My surname is Gao and my name is Huaiyuan. I am the elder of Gaojiazhuang! The magistrate of the county thinks highly of me and allows me to temporarily lead these neighbors and come to join the army to serve!"

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, the officer was quite surprised. He had already seen that Gao Huaiyuan was not very old. He did not expect that he was so young that he became the elder and was responsible for leading these rural soldiers and rectifying them.

He was very presentable and immediately felt good about Gao Huaiyuan and told Gao Huaiyuan: "Very good! You came at the right time. Lieutenant Wang of Daye County has already arrived here. I thought you would come here tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to come tonight."

When you get here, Lieutenant Wang is waiting for you in the camp. You can report to Lieutenant Wang before entering the camp! However, no noise is allowed in the camp. After you enter the camp, rest as soon as possible and do not move around randomly. Otherwise, you will be dealt with according to military law!

be careful!"

After saying this, the officer waved his hand to the Song army behind him to move out of the way, allowing Gao Huaiyuan and others to enter the camp.

After Gao Huaiyuan thanked him, he turned around and shouted to the group behind him: "Everyone is here, the whole team! Don't make any noise, follow me into the camp!"

So under the command of the captains of each team, the three hundred people immediately formed a team of fifty. After arranging in order, they escorted the vehicles and followed Gao Huaiyuan into the Ezhou garrison camp. A soldier led them and led them

They were led to the open space where they were temporarily placed in the outer camp, and handed over to Daye County Lieutenant Wang who arrived here in advance.

After watching them file into the camp in an orderly manner, these Song soldiers nodded and said: "These rural warriors in Daye County are pretty good!"

"Well! That's right. This should be the credit of the elder Gao Huaiyuan, which means that this person must be good at commanding troops. Otherwise, he would not be able to control these ragtag rural soldiers! I didn't expect that at such a young age, he would actually have such skills.

With this ability, it would be a pity not to be a soldier! Okay, let’s go back too! It’s our turn to be busy from now on!” The Song Army officer also nodded with emotion.

County Lieutenant Wang was a little surprised by the speed at which Gao Huaiyuan led the team. He thought that no matter how fast Gao Huaiyuan was, he would not arrive until tomorrow afternoon. He did not expect Gao Huaiyuan to arrive here so quickly. So after hearing about it, he quickly paid the bill.

Come and greet Gao Huaiyuan.

After the two exchanged a few words, Gao Huaiyuan turned around and ordered the three hundred people who were still standing behind him: "Put up tents immediately, bury pots to make rice, no one is allowed to make noise or move around randomly, and rest immediately after eating! Dismissal

!”

Following his instructions, the three hundred people dared to disperse, unload the tents from the car, and get busy with their respective leaders. No one dared not listen to Gao Huaiyuan, and no one dared to make loud noises or wander around.

The tents were quickly set up according to the designated location. The Huotou Army set up a large pot, and the soldiers of the garrison who were responsible for guarding them fetched water and made a fire for cooking. Everything went on in an orderly manner.

Seeing the actions of these three hundred people, County Lieutenant Wang was greatly moved and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "Young Master Gao is really amazing. You managed to keep these guys in check in just over a day. Wang really admires them!"

I know the virtues of these village warriors, but I was worried about what would happen if they didn't listen to you on the way. Now it seems that my worries were in vain!"

Gao Huaiyuan smiled slightly and said: "Master Wang, you are so complimentary. What a trivial matter is of no concern! I just don't know how the battle ahead is going!"

After Wang County Lieutenant saw that the place was basically occupied, he took Gao Huaiyuan into the tent, made a small folding stool for Gao Huaiyuan to sit on, and ordered someone to bring some food, and the two of them ate while

Talked about it.

"The war situation is not good! I arrived here at noon today and asked someone to find out. This time the Jin army invaded the south and mobilized a total of more than 200,000 troops to attack our Song Dynasty in two ways!

The Jin Dynasty ordered Marshal Zuodu to supervise Wu Gu to celebrate his birthday on the grounds that the Song Dynasty was the last year of his life. He ordered the Privy Councilor Wanyan Sai not to lead his troops across Huainan and invaded. He attacked Zhongdu Town in Guangzhou (now Huangchuan, Henan Province) in the Song Dynasty and killed the official Sheng Yunsheng.

Qingshou divided his troops to attack Fancheng (today's Xiangfan, Hubei), surround Zaoyang (today's Hubei), and Guanghua Army (today's Guanghua North, Hubei). Now the Jianghuai area is in danger.

However, Wanyan Sai did not lead the troops, and defeated the Song soldiers in Xinyang, Longshan, Qilishan, and Duhuai. The troops were directed towards Guangshan, Luoshan, Dingcheng and other counties. The Jiangbei area was now in a fierce battle!

In addition, the benefactor ordered Xu Ding, political minister of Pingzhang, to attack Sichuan from Shaanxi, enter Dasanguan (now southwest of Baoji, Shaanxi), attack Xihe (now Gansu), rank (now Wudu, Gansu), and become (now County, Gansu).

) and other states.

Now it seems that the Jin Kingdom wants to cross the river to destroy the Song Dynasty this time. Now the imperial court has ordered Mr. Zhao to take charge of the anti-Jin cause in the Jinghu Road area. I heard that Mr. Zhao will rush to Xiangyang in the next two days. I am afraid that this

Once we come here, we will probably follow Mr. Zhao to Xiangyang to fight against the Jin army. This time, I am afraid we will really have to touch the Jin army!"

Wang County Lieutenant whispered to Gao Huaiyuan that he was really well informed. He actually inquired about the battle ahead so clearly. He even inquired about the whereabouts of Zhao Fang, the commander of the Jinghu Road System. It seemed that Wang County Lieutenant was really a bit smart.

However, when talking about these things, Wang Xianwei was very worried, with a worried look on his face, and coughed from time to time, as if he had caught a cold.

Although Gao Huaiyuan knew that the Jin Kingdom would start this war, he did not know the specific situation at all. After listening to Wang Xianwei's words, he was a little worried. If what he said was what he said, then he might want to train troops nearby.

It failed. Xiangyang is hundreds of miles away from Ezhou. Once you get there, it will be difficult to come back in a short time! In this way, if the news of his own decision to join the army to fight against the Jin reaches Shaoxing, there is no guarantee that he will

Father Gao Jianhui was furious and said that he was not doing his job properly and it would not be a good idea to send someone to take over the old house!

But now that they are here, it is impossible to go back. Now that their rosters have been handed over to the signing officer, they are considered to be soldiers. Returning without authorization is a deserter and will be wanted by the government.

So it is absolutely impossible to stop at this time.

Once you have come, make peace with it. Anyway, there is no way to escape this battle. We have to fight the Jin people, and if we are huddled here in Ezhou, it is impossible to see what fighting is like today. As for going to Xiangyang, just go to Xiangyang. By the way

Also take a look at Xiangyang, a famous city that fought against Mongolia in later generations. It’s not a bad thing to walk around more! Who cares?

After chatting with County Lieutenant Wang for a while, Gao Huaiyuan ate and returned to his tent. At any rate, he was now considered a prominent figure among the rural soldiers in Daye County, so he was fortunate enough to get a separate small military tent.

There is no need to crowd together with those big soldiers and end up in peace.

Perhaps because of the tight war situation, when they arrived here, no one came to receive the grain and baggage they had brought from Daye County. They just left them here to dry for more than two days, and only informed them that they were here to wait for orders.

, there was no one to take care of them anymore, which made Gao Huaiyuan a little confused, so he asked County Lieutenant Wang to inquire about this matter, and wanted to know where they would be transferred next.

Wang Xianwei seemed to be in poor health, and his coughing became more severe. The man in his forties looked as if he was seventy or eighty years old. Whenever he coughed, he would feel heartbroken, and he felt as if he would die at any time. However, he was too high.

No matter how Huaiyuan looked at it, he felt that this old guy was just pretending, and his expression didn't change much.

"Ahem... Master Gao, don't be anxious. Ahem... I'm waiting for the heroes from some nearby counties! Ahem... When they are all gathered, there will be news! People will die in war, Master Gao.

There is no need to rush to the battlefield in such a hurry!" County Lieutenant Wang advised Gao Huaiyuan while coughing.

What he said is true. There are not many people in the world who are really anxious to go to war, especially people like this in the Song Dynasty. They are even rarer. Gao Huaiyuan really can't show the idea of ​​being too anxious to go to the battlefield, so he has to

He stayed in the camp patiently.

After arriving here, it stands to reason that Gao Huaiyuan should return Guo Liang and other 200 people to Commander Wang County. However, for some reason, Commander Wang County did not seem to be in a hurry to take over these people. Instead, he handed over 100 Xiang Yong under his command.

Gao Huaiyuan was in command. He said that he was not in good health and had no energy to take care of these people now. Lao Gao Huaiyuan could help him command these people. Only the fifty archers with formal establishment under his command did not let Gao Huaiyuan take charge.

With this, Gao Huaiyuan became the actual ruler of Daye County Xiangbing. Gao Huaiyuan did not know what kind of medicine Wang Xianwei was selling in this gourd.

Since Wang Xianwei didn't care, he simply accepted the matter and took over the remaining one hundred rural soldiers. These one hundred people were also a ragtag group of young men drawn from each township.

, they looked like they were doing nothing, and no one paid attention to them all day long, so they just idle around and found trouble.

This time, Gao Huaiyuan stopped coming forward. He only asked Huang Yan and others to come forward and beat up the instigator of these guys. After letting them know who was in charge here, the gang immediately became honest and behaved.

According to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, some rectification was carried out.

Only then did Guo Liang and others realize that not only was Gao Huaiyuan powerful in their Daye County, he couldn't even afford to offend his villagers. A group of young men were all highly skilled in martial arts and were quite ruthless. What made them even more embarrassed was that

Help the young people to advance and retreat together. When fighting, they share the same hatred and the same enemy. Although they don't join together, the rest of the people line up neatly to watch the battle. That kind of morale alone makes the fighting spirit high and makes the opponent frightened.

They are still very arrogant on weekdays. Although most of them are just servants of the Gao family, everyone has good calligraphy skills. They practice calligraphy on the ground when they have nothing to do, or they silently find a place to use their strength. There is no one at all.

Doing boring things makes them envious. It is rare for a servant to be literate.

As a result, these young men gradually influenced the other village heroes to become conscious and no longer dared to make loud noises or wander around in the camp.

And Gao Huaiyuan thought that if these people went to the battlefield, with their current behavior, they might be left on the battlefield, so after Wang Xianwei gave up and handed over the management of them to him, idleness was also idle.

Then, they gathered these people together during the day and started practicing.

At this time, he did not expect to improve the personal skills of these people. He just made these people stand under the sun every day to bask in the sun, stand in a military posture, and constantly preach military discipline to them. Using this fatigue tactic,

We bombarded these guys indiscriminately, hoping that these guys would remember military discipline and form an instinctive response to orders, so that when they go into battle, if something happens, they would break up and be chased one by one.

Just chop it up.

At first, some people were not used to this method. From time to time, they would twist around in the team, as if they had fleas on their bodies, either looking around or staggering around. They had no feeling or reaction to Gao Huaiyuan's orders, but they were quickly supervised.

Their young men were pulled out of the team and stood alone in front of the team holding bricks to stand, or simply pushed them down and gave them a few boards. The guys who were dealt with complained incessantly, and were frightened by Gao Huaiyuan's pressure.

He dared to resist, so he became honest.

Then Gao Huaiyuan asked them to obey the order, turn left or right, or turn back and circle in the camp. What he wanted was for them to get used to obeying orders. Those who did wrong would be immediately pulled out of the line and asked to do push-ups or horse steps on the spot.

It only took two days to practice squatting, and when the group of people lined up again, they looked a bit like soldiers, and the team was much more orderly.

At this time, the Xiangyong teams from surrounding counties also began to arrive at the Ezhou camp one after another. When the Xiangyong teams in these counties were compared with those from Daye County, the gap between them was immediately apparent. Anyway, the Xiangyong teams from Daye County were fighting all day long.

During the drill, some village warriors from neighboring counties had no one to supervise them, so they wandered around in the camp, looking for trouble, gambling all day long, talking nonsense, doing nothing, and even drinking secretly. Fights occurred from time to time in the camp.

This situation made the left-behind officers in the camp very unhappy. Somehow, they felt that the heroes from Daye County should behave according to the rules, so they stepped in to deal with the heroes from neighboring counties. Every day, some people were tied up in the camp for violating the camp rules.

The whips were used on the wooden posts at the camp gate to somewhat curb the chaos.

Gao Huaiyuan did not bother to ask about things outside his own area, and continued to train the four hundred village warriors. He used their assigned weapons and their respective strengths to disrupt the team and organize them together.

Among the hundreds of people, 300 were selected and divided into the responsibilities of swordsmen, gunners, and archers. They were organized according to the common organization of the Song Army. There were one team of fifty people, and two teams formed one capital, which happened to be three capitals.

, start training them separately.

As for the remaining 100 people, they are not included in the team. They are used exclusively to drive carts and serve as auxiliary soldiers for the fire leaders. They only undergo general training, as long as they obey orders.

The Sandu soldiers just performed their own duties, each with spearmen, swordsmen, and archers, so the training was a little easier. Gao Huaiyuan did not teach them too many tricks. He now knew that they should pay attention to what they were doing when going into battle.

It is collective strength, individual bravery is of little use.

Therefore, it is enough for the spearman to remember to follow the orders, raise the gun, lower the gun, assassinate and station the gun. He just listens to the orders and performs these simple actions all day long. The only requirement is to achieve the uniformity of the movements. When it is time to assassinate,

When it was time to assassinate, and when it was time to deploy the gun, Gao Huaiyuan would be satisfied if he could do this.

The movements of swordsmen are simpler, just two movements: raising shield and chopping. They are used in conjunction with spearmen to resist enemy attacks. They are mainly responsible for defense. Even if they know how to follow orders and raise shields to resist enemy arrows, they can do it.

If you want, don't ask for anything more from them.

As for the archers, it's simple. They just draw the bow and aim every day without even releasing the arrow. They just have to practice aiming and build up the strength of their arms. They can shoot the bow more times. They hope to finish it in three days or two.

This ragtag group of people trained themselves to be sharpshooters, and Gao Huaiyuan asked himself that he didn't have the ability.

But his team of fifty teenagers was not incorporated into these people. They were still formed into a separate team, used as his personal soldiers, and as an assault force when necessary. Only these fifty teenagers could he truly

trust.

But at this time, Wang County Lieutenant finally "fell ill". According to the archer who came to see Gao Huaiyuan, Wang County Lieutenant suddenly coughed up blood last night and could not move. He asked Gao Huaiyuan to come over.dd