Thief Emperor

Chapter 92 The world is in chaos!

Although Shan County is not too far from Qingyang, the rebellion in Shan County did not cause much sensation in Qingyang.

Because in this era, rebellion was not a rare thing. After all, not long ago, someone in Hexi Village, Shidai, Lin County rebelled.

Even Li Yun didn't take it seriously at first.

He still traveled between the two places. On the one hand, he was in charge of the bandit suppression work in the entire Qingyang, and on the other hand, he was expanding his bandit forces at a rapid pace.

Not long after the Lantern Festival, Li Yun found an excuse to leave Qingyang County and went to Shiwangzhai with a few brothers.

The current appearance of the Ten Kings Village has been completely changed compared to when it was first captured.

After all, the rules of Cangshan Village in treating bandit members are relatively lenient. Compared with the Ten Kings Village, it is a real "benevolent policy".

After Chief Li inspected the Ten Kings Camp, he found Zhou Liang who was teaching the young men martial arts.

Li Yun watched these people practice for a while, then he pulled Zhou Liang aside and said with a smile: "Uncle San, how is your practice going?"

"not bad."

Zhou Liang untied the gourd of wine from his waist, tilted his head back and took a sip, then exhaled the alcohol and said, "Most of them were born in the mountains. They are quite agile, but they were starving to the point of skin and bones a while ago. They have eaten a lot these days, and they are almost making up for it."

Li Yun said "hmm" and smiled, "Then let the young men from Hexi in Cangshan Village go to Shiwang Village and practice martial arts with them."

There was nothing wrong with this proposal. Zhou Liang was in charge of Cangshan Village anyway. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and bring those kids over in a few days."

Li Yun touched his chin and asked, "Does Third Uncle know about battle formations?"

Zhou Liang was stunned at first, then his face changed slightly and he shook his head and said, "That doesn't make sense."

Village Chief Li was a little disappointed when he heard this, but that was normal.

There are only a few people who are familiar with battle formations. Let alone Zhou Liang, even the soldiers from Xuanzhou would rush forward in a rush when fighting, without any order. It was obvious that the people who trained them did not know any method of training soldiers.

Zhou Liang is just a man of the world, so naturally he wouldn't do this.

"Then let's do this, Uncle San."

Li Yun said slowly: "From now on, these children will be divided into teams of five and twenty-five for a team, and trained in teams."

"There is no need to train anything else for now. Uncle San will take them to run up and down the Ten Kings Peak every day."

“Once they get used to it, you can let them run with something on their backs.”

Li Yun thought and spoke, and soon finalized the content of the training. He said in a deep voice: "Let's do this for now. If anyone complains and is unwilling to train, hand them over to Liu Bo and let them do some odd jobs in the village in the future."

"from now on."

Mr. Li took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Our village is going to carry out reforms. Everyone in the village will receive a monthly salary! Those who can persist in training will become soldiers of our village in the future."

"The salary is twice as much as the rest of the members in the village."

"As for how much money everyone gets paid per month, I still need to discuss this with Lao Jiu and the others, but this is the idea anyway."

Li Yun looked at Zhou Liang and said with a smile, "What do you think, Uncle San?"

Zhou Liang was lost in thought at the moment. When he heard Li Yun's question, he let out a long sigh. He looked up at Li Yun and murmured, "Village leader, you..."

"You are training your troops!"

"We are not training soldiers, we are trying to train soldiers."

Mr. Li said slowly, "We are short of generals who can train soldiers in our village. Now we can only cross the river by feeling the stones. Uncle San will do it for us. Uncle San, you have been taking them running recently. In addition to training their physical fitness, the most important thing is to train their obedience."

"We must enforce the law!"

Li Yun took a deep breath and said, "Whether they can become elite troops or a mob in the future depends on whether they can obey orders."

"I should have been in the village for the past half month, training with them."

The individual combat effectiveness of the bandits in the mountain strongholds may not be any worse than that of regular troops. However, if a hundred bandits encounter a hundred regular troops, the two sides will collide head-on in the wild.

A hundred regular soldiers can even achieve no casualties!

Not to mention the battle formation.

Organization and discipline are the key to whether a team can have combat effectiveness!

Of course, the organization and discipline of the army on the battlefield in this era mostly came from the supervisors.

However, Li Yun felt that it would not be enough to rely solely on supervisors. It would be better to train organization and discipline during the training phase.

After hearing what Li Yun said, Zhou Liang lowered his head to drink tea, then looked up at Li Yun and said slowly: "I can see that, Village Chief, you are going to..."

He looked at Li Yun and slowly exhaled. "What are you doing?"

"I don't want to do anything."

Li Yun shook his head and said, "Uncle San has been in the mountains for too long and has no idea what is happening in the outside world."

He knocked on the table and said slowly, "Last year, there was a rebellion in Shidaihexi Village, Lin County. At the end of the year, there was another large-scale rebellion in the southeast."

"Not long ago, there was a rebellion in Shan County, Yuezhou. I heard that the scale was quite large. They had occupied several counties and defeated local officials and soldiers several times in succession. Even the governor of Jiangnan East Road had rushed to quell the rebellion."

"Uncle San, these rebellions in various places are not accidental."

Li Yun whispered: "We must prepare early."

"what to prepare?"

Zhou Liang looked strange: "Are you ready to compete for the world?"

"Chief, we are just a group of bandits..."

Mr. Li frowned, then said, "It's still too far away to compete for the world. I haven't thought about it yet. But I think that since the chaotic times are approaching, we should have some ability to protect ourselves."

"At least, in troubled times, we need to have some power of our own, so that even if we don't fight for the world in the future, we will still have some capital."

"Uncle San, most of the young people in Cangshan Village are bachelors, including me."

Li Yun smiled and said, "If we don't seek a future, we can only go down the mountain to rob women and bring them up, but we will never be able to marry a wife."

He reminded: "It's the same with your son."

Zhou Liang sighed and said, "You are the village chief, so naturally what you say is what counts. I will do my best to help you with this matter, but I have never trained soldiers before, so I don't know if I can lead them well."

"I told you, I'll stay in the mountains for half a month and train with you."

Li Yun smiled and said, "Let's start tomorrow."

Zhou Liang nodded slowly, stood up, turned around and walked out of the gathering hall.

After he left, Li Zheng and Liu Bo came in. Liu Bo sat next to Li Yun, blinked at Li Yun, and said with a smile: "Second brother, what did Third Uncle say?"

"agreed."

Li Yun took a sip of tea and continued, "But Uncle San has never led an army before. When I go down the mountain again, I will see if I can find someone who has served in the army and bring him up the mountain."

"Train those kids with Uncle San."

Li Zheng thought for a moment and asked, "Second brother, since you want to train soldiers, it's not urgent to find soldiers to come. The important thing is to recruit more people."

"After all, including those young men from Hexi, the number of people led by Third Uncle is no more than 40."

“There are too few people.”

"Thirty or forty is enough. We are not asking them to go out and fight with others right away."

Chief Li said with a smile: "At this time, going out to recruit people will attract too much attention. Besides, I want to reform the village and pay the brothers in the village. Now there can't be too many people in the village."

"Otherwise, the money and materials won't last long."

Liu Bo nodded and asked, "Second brother, do we also want to send those who surrendered from the former Ten Kings Camp?"

"All of them."

Li Yun said firmly: "We must treat them as our own people, then they can become our own people."

Li Zheng poured himself a glass of water and said with a smile, "Why is Second Brother suddenly like a madman and wants to reform the village?"

"Because I was in the county government office and saw the document about Qiu Dian's rebellion in Shan County."

Li Yun knocked on the table with his hand and said slowly: "I am sick of the inequality between the rich and the poor. Now... I will make it equal for you."

"This is too inflammatory."

Li Dazhaizhu said slowly: "I am sure that Qiu Dian will become powerful and even affect our Qingyang."

"Even if it doesn't affect Qingyang, it will affect several states and counties nearby."

"Two brothers."

Li Yun looked at Liu Bo and Li Zheng and said in a deep voice.

"The world may be in chaos!"

(End of this chapter)