The villain of Xianwu world

Chapter 311 The bandits attack, Gu Xiao stays calm

The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Laba Festival.

Although the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month is not the Spring Festival, every year on the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month is an important folk festival, the government will organize large-scale celebrations to add a bit of festive atmosphere to this barren Yan'an mansion.However, this year's situation is different.

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month this year, there was no lively atmosphere from day to night.

The entire Yan'an Mansion has been under martial law since the morning, and one of the officers' confidantes, Ding, was driven up to the city wall with a bright weapon in his hand, and he was waiting outside the city with a high-quality weapon.

At this moment, in a military camp located on a flat ground outside the city, the entire military camp was full of swords and sharp spears.Gu Xiao's face was still pale, and he was wearing fish scale armor, constantly patrolling the barracks.

In the entire barracks, everyone already knew about it.

Just today, a group of bandits will attack their camp.Therefore, even on this festive day, these soldiers and horses are not happy. On the contrary, the soldiers and horses who are still in the barracks are all ready for the final battle.

In this place where the folk customs have always been strong since the Qin and Han Dynasties, almost every one of these soldiers has seen life and death, and many of them have also witnessed the scene of the Tartars attacking the city with their own eyes.Therefore, this small battle is not enough to scare these people.

The Huotou soldiers in the barracks have already boiled bowls of bright red and fragrant Laba porridge, and then delivered them to everyone in the barracks one by one.

In the days of the Laba Festival, this Laba porridge is also extraordinarily fragrant. Yesterday, Gu Xiao sent people to the city to purchase about ten fat pigs, and after slaughtering them, except for a small part of them that were dried, the rest of the fat The pigs have already been made into the Laba porridge in the hands of these soldiers.

As time went by, the already very dark weather began to become darker and darker.

The dark sky seems to be crushed from the sky at any moment, crushing these people into pieces.The fence of the barracks was already covered with archers at this moment. A famous archer leaned on the fence with the help of a bench under his feet, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

In their hands is the divine arm bow that used to show off its majesty when dealing with Taoist Ziyang and others.

The Divine Arm Bow used to be the number one weapon used by Song people to deal with Xixia and Jin people. It claimed to be able to penetrate armor at [-] steps, but the high cost made it impossible to popularize the Divine Arm Bow. On the contrary, in this country Since the founding of the dynasty, because of the high cost of the god-arm bow, none of the high-ranking officials in the Ministry of Industry and Households was willing to provide soldiers with such expensive weapons.

In the eyes of the civil servants in charge of the government, this magic arm bow is worth more than a hundred soldiers. What's the use of making it?It's better to recruit more troops and let those lowly warriors work harder!
This is the face of those civil officials who claim that they are pleading for the lives of the living people and bringing peace to all generations.

As a person from later generations, Gu Xiao knows one thing better than anyone else. The Ming Dynasty has already become the world of civil servants or the scholar-bureaucrats behind them in this era. For the scholar-bureaucrats who have nothing but silver left, nothing is more important than the silver in their hands.

The household treasury, that is, the national treasury, which was once specially prepared for national expenditure, has long since become the pocketbook of those civil servants.The money in the household department can be used by scholar-bureaucrats, but not by ordinary people and the army. The money in it seems to be prepared for these scholar-bureaucrats who talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long.

Since he took office, Gu Xiao has not received even a penny of his three thousand soldiers and horses.

The scholar-officials all over the world have long stopped treating the army of the world as their own soldiers and horses, otherwise they would not have appeared almost 30 years later. But after Qin Wang's soldiers and horses arrived under the city of Beijing, they would never get even a tiny bit of military pay and rations.

The generals questioned the lords of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, and those lords said very bluntly, "The people have food, the people have silver, and the people have houses!"

This is the face of today's scholar-bureaucrats, so after taking office, Gu Xiao never expected to be able to rely on the military salary to support the three thousand soldiers. Coal mines rely on selling coal to make profits, and in addition rely on the silver they get from the Yansui Green Forest to support the army.

This magic arm bow was made from the blueprints he found in the Yongle Grand Ceremony of the Imperial Academy after he was admitted to the Wu Zhuang Scholar.In the past few years, the continuous accumulation of silver taels has made these hundreds of divine arm bows.

Now, it's time for the divine arm bow, which once showed its might on the battlefield hundreds of years ago, to show its power again.

In the evening, after the sun had completely set, there were finally scattered sounds of horseshoes and footsteps in the distance, and a burly and sturdy green forest bandit began to appear sporadically in the eyes of Gu Xiao and his soldiers.

"Kill!" After hundreds of green bandits appeared within the range of the military camp, they all started screaming excitedly one by one, and then charged towards the military camp like a swarm of bees.Hundreds of green forest bandits huddled together, and launched a very violent charge towards the barracks.

"A gang of mobs!" Gu Xiao stood in the center of the barracks. At this moment, his internal strength had recovered by [-]%, and his originally pale face was now a little more flushed.Through the fence, Gu Xiao looked at the green bandits charging towards the barracks, Gu Xiao immediately said with disdain.

"Three-stage shooting, let the arrows go!" In Gu Xiao's eyes, this gang of green bandits came here to die.Therefore, after evaluating them disdainfully, he very simply issued the massacre order in the concept of a very professional military strategist.

Whoosh!There was a muffled sound.

After receiving Gu Xiao's order, the five hundred carefully selected archers were immediately divided into three groups and started aiming and shooting.In the first section, more than 100 god-arm bows shot deadly crossbow arrows in an instant, and shot straight at the rushing green forest bandits.

"Ah!" "Ouch!" "Help!"...

After the first crossbowman finished shooting, the second crossbowman took over and started shooting.

The power of the God Arm Bow is infinite, but in just an instant, it shot these green forest thieves into a person who turned his back on his back, and many crossbow arrows shot through the body of the person in front, and then shot into the body of the person behind , and even some crossbow bolts can fall weakly after hitting four or five enemies.

In the face of this deadly crossbow, the green forest bandits who were originally fearless of death, after being shot to death two or three hundred brothers, finally no one dared to go forward to die foolishly.

In the barracks, the crossbowmen have changed for a round at this moment, and [-] crossbowmen are ready again.

Gu Xiao stood in the barracks, watching what happened outside, his stern expression was not moved in the slightest, for him, this battle was really nothing.Because he has long been used to life and death, whether it is the life and death of others or his own, it is nothing new to him.

"Brothers, let's disperse and charge with light work!" At this time, those green forest bandits who came one after another in the distance finally got a little smarter and proposed such a method.

Soon, this approach was adopted by everyone.

After a cup of tea, two or three hundred scattered green bandits attacked the barracks again.It's just that after suffering a loss, these green forest bandits finally didn't dare to continue rushing up in a swarm. On the contrary, this time the formation seemed much more scattered.

"Continue to shoot!" Looking at the scattered green bandits who were all showing off their lightness kung fu, Gu Xiao finally showed a smile on his mouth, but this smile was still full of sarcasm.

He never thought that these enemies could be wiped out with these crossbowmen.To him, the crossbowman was just an appetizer. Therefore, after seeing the reactions of these green forest bandits, he immediately ordered his subordinates to continue shooting, killing as many people as they could.

Immediately afterwards, he began to prepare the second course.

At this moment, in his barracks, five hundred spearmen had already formed a long spear formation and were waiting in full force at the gate.

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