Seeing the brigade of soldiers leaving the city gate, Fang Mengchen's eyes were inflamed. Wang Xiaolie didn't care about himself and went there, but what should we do? This time he came to the county town to complain, Fang Mengchen was reprimanding his will to die. He was not even afraid of death, and of course he wanted to make things worse. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaolie just asked the matter clearly, and then posted a notice, leaving nothing to worry about it.

The most difficult thing in the world is sometimes like this. You use all your strength and prepare to fight the other party to the death. In the end, you find that the other party ignores you at all. What should you do?

After two days, most of the people around the Fang family knew about the matter. At first, there were people who sympathized with Fang Mengchen. For two or three days, he kept talking to the notice and everyone started to annoy him. How big a thing? Not to mention the government, there were fewer things in the past when power forced to buy and sell?

After passing Jia County, the army turned north and walked on the mountain road. Five days later, we arrived at the foot of the Mount Umbrella.

Wang Jun was sleeping soundly in the village. The soldiers came in and crossed their hands and sang loudly.

When Wang Jun woke up from his sleep, he was furious and said sternly: "What a big deal? I haven't seen me sleeping!"

The soldiers said carefully: "King, according to the spies, the Ruzhou official army is not far away. Judging from their appearance, they are coming for us."

After hearing this, Wang Jun sat up suddenly and was stunned for a while on the couch. He said, "Who is coming? How many soldiers are there? That bird, the magistrate, had already sent people to the mountains to ask me to surrender. He didn't kill him at that time, and he didn't want to come and tease me!"

The soldiers said: "The spy only reported that the troops were continuous for several miles, and there were countless thousands of people. Who was the commander, but they didn't see clearly."

Wang Jun nodded: "Since that's the case, then go and explore again! You must know yourself and your enemy when fighting, how can you be careless!"

The soldiers sang their promise and turned around and went out.

Wang Jun got up from the couch, stretched his waist, paced back and forth for a few steps, poured a large bowl of tea and drank it, and then his mind slowly woke up.

Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. When Wang Jun was in the army, he often heard his superiors say this. But although he was familiar with it, he really didn't understand what it meant. Not to mention the enemy, Wang Jun couldn't even figure out how many people in his army were.

Before the Jin army came south, Wang Jun was the lowest-level small school in the army. He knew the lowest-level daily affairs in the army, but once he reached the upper level, he didn't understand what the general commander had to do. Now Wang Jun's army is organized according to the previous Song army model. Wang Jun is naturally the leader, and he designated a few people he trusted to be the small leaders. The number of people of each of these small leaders is reported by them themselves. Adding up all means Wang Jun's own army. In fact, Wang Jun is not very clear about the number of troops added to the small leaders, and it is calculated by others.

At this time, the ability to be a leader is not to understand the army under his command, but to win over the hearts of the people. As long as there are more people to invest, they will naturally become bigger and bigger. With more troops, they will occupy more territory. In this way, they can become a force. Of course, in the end, such forces will be annexed by real strong people. But what to do with so many things? It has been a pleasure.

After thinking for a while, Wang Jun ordered the soldiers to call several of his leaders and discuss together.

Several leaders entered the door, sang a promise to Wang Jun, and sat down.

Seeing that the people were all together, Wang Jun said, "Just just came to report that the soldiers and horses in Ruzhou arrived at the foot of the mountain. They ran for dozens of miles, and there were tens of thousands of people. Judging from their appearance, the visitors were not kind! We should make a decision early to avoid being caught off guard."

The leaders sang promises together.

Wang Jun said again: "Umpai Mountain is not a steep mountain. We do not have a good geographical location and cannot defend it. When the officers and soldiers come, they will attack and fight with them! After winning one or two battles, we took advantage of the victory to enter Ruzhou and seize the position of the prefect, and everyone will be happy!"

The leaders of his subordinates applauded.

Ma Nandao, who has the most troops, said: "The king is right! He seized the bird position and became the magistrate, and we were the magistrates!"

Wang Jun said: "Ruzhou is a big province, with five or six counties below. You are one county by one, which happens to be just right!"

This is just what the people say, and I can’t help but talk. If you want this county or that county, some of them are red in their faces. As for how to fight with the government troops coming, no one cares about it.

At the military camp at the foot of the mountain, Wang Xiaoli stood in front of the tent and looked at the Umbrella Mountain in front of him. The mountain was not high, there were not too many trees, and it was not steep. Of course, although there were many mountains in this area, they were all earthen mountains and there were no particularly steep places. Wang Jun also had to provide support to the surrounding areas, and it was impossible for him to hide in the mountains.

Shao Ling came over and said with his hands crossed his hands, "Little Sheren, the spy sent out is back."

Wang Xiaolien nodded: "After a while, the other generals are coming, let's discuss how to fight."

Shao Ling sang Nuo, stood aside, and looked at the mountain in front of him together.

After a long time, Wang Xiaolie suddenly said, "You tell me, how many soldiers and horses are there in the mountains ahead?"

Shao Ling pondered for a while, shook his head: "It's really stumping to ask about this. We sent spies a few times, and it's always different to bring back the breath. Some said 50,000 or 60,000, some said 30,000 to 40,000, and some said 100,000. However, some said that there were only a few thousand at most."

Wang Xiaolei said: "Yes. The military strategy is full of military tactics. Knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated in a hundred battles. But no matter how many spies we sent in Wang Jun's army, we can't find out how many of them. We can only estimate it. Looking at the mountain here, there are no large areas of farmland around it, and it is far from the surrounding prefectures and counties. There should be not many people on the mountain. What is it impossible for tens of thousands of people. There are only 30,000 households in the whole Ruzhou now. What are the 100,000 people here? What do they eat? I estimate that the maximum number of soldiers in war is 10,000, and the remaining population will not exceed 5,000."

Shao Ling said: "What the little shepherd said is that the number of tens of thousands of people is easy to say, but where is it possible? How can we live here if we eat, drink, defecate, and slaughter? Even if they brought food from other places, they would not have enough time to eat."

Wang Xiaoli shook his head: "The most difficult thing to fight with these mountain kings is these. They don't know how many people they can find out clearly? Moreover, the military and civilians are very useless to explore. These people are unrestrained, and there are tens of thousands of people at any time, and some even speak hundreds of thousands of people. Do they sprinkle beans into soldiers?"

Shao Ling shook his head, not knowing what to say.

Education was not popular at this time, and there was a person who knew literacy in these Shanda Wangjun who could write and calculate it. As for those who could write and calculate it, there was no need to think about it. They didn’t know how to count the number one by one. How could there be a certain number? For the leader, they were not sensitive to numbers at all. They couldn’t figure out how much food hundreds of people should eat, how many thousands of people should eat, and how many tens of thousands of people should eat, they couldn’t figure out how much they could eat. Anyway, if they were to be prestigious, the bigger the number, the better. If the leader believed it, how much better the others were than the leader? Naturally, they believed it.

For Wang Xiaoli, there is a concept of how many people, how much land they have to occupy, how much grain they can produce, and how much money they can produce. There are roughly a number of people who have to eat, how much water they drink, how much firewood they boil, and how many doctors they have to arrange for. Based on these calculations, we know that these mountain kings are talking nonsense, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

However, the two armies have to face each other, and the intelligence must be true. It is really not easy to face the Shan Dawang. Perhaps fighting with them is the most suitable method for some generals in this era. Regardless of the others, if the army goes up together, they will win.

Jie Linong, Cao Zhiyan, Yu Huan and Niu Gao came over and saluteed them together.

After entering the commander's tent, Wang Xiaolei said: "When the spy heard the news back, Wang Jun had tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him, and the specific number was unclear. We don't have to work hard on this number anymore, I'm afraid that Wang Jun himself wouldn't know."

After hearing this, several people laughed together.

Niu Gao said: "Magic Prefecture, Wang Jun is just a fool. How could he be cramped on this mountain when tens of thousands of troops under his command?"

Wang Xiaolei said: "Actually, we can't say that he is bragging. In addition to false reports, there is another reason for such an army that has no fixed number. The leader has no idea about numbers at all. In their eyes, hundreds of people are just like that, thousands of people are almost the same, and tens of thousands of people are just like this. Of course, we will talk about the number of people to a larger number. Don't worry about him, as long as the battlefield is selected, no matter how many people are, it is useless."

Shao Ling nodded: "Xiaosheren said it well. As long as we choose a battlefield, even if they really have so many people, it will be useless."

Wang Xiaolei said: "This is the reason. I saw that there was a flat ground in front of the mountain, and the two sides lined up, and at most one or two thousand people could only accommodate one or two thousand people. Tomorrow we will leave 800 people and go to the mountain to challenge the formation. Four people lead. Two hundred people left. Strictly prevent the enemy on the mountain from thinking about it elsewhere."

There are not many flat lands in the mountains, and there are even fewer places that can be used as battlefields. It is like a mountain with only a small flat land and there are small hills on both sides. The two armies can only fight there, and they cannot set up too many soldiers and horses. Even if Wang Jun really has 100,000 people, he can only come in one team at a time.
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