Chen Zhi gave Li Yi an order, and then began to prepare for the next work with the remaining Hawkeye light horsemen, they went deep into the village, began to mobilize the villagers in the village, and also divided into several teams, skillfully arranged some simple traps at the entrance of the rain village outside the village, and used some waste to arrange hidden defense points on both sides of the road, and prepared to quickly make some simple bows and arrows, once there is a change, it can be used as a defensive stronghold to defend the village.

These were commonplace things for the Hawkeye Light Rider, but this time it was different from the past, in the past, they were the eyes and ears of the army, but this time they were to use them as fists.

Fortunately, the opponent was just an ordinary bandit, and they naturally had a hundred times the confidence to repel it, not to mention that their main general, Chen Zhi, was also in charge himself?

"General, those villagers don't believe that we can help them fight off the thieves, and they say that we are not doing our best!"

A few Hawkeye riders walked out of the villagers' homes a little dejected, their faces full of disappointment, and came to reply to Chen Zhi, who had been waiting on the street for a long time.

Chen Dao glanced at them, not only did he not get angry, but he smiled, and asked not far away, "Who said that no one supports us, isn't there only one here?"

"Oh, big brother is so powerful, big brother will help us defeat those bad bandits!"

Little girls who looked like they were four or five years old stood in front of Chen Zhi, clapping their hands and jumping and shouting, cheering for Chen Zhi and these people.

"What are you doing here?"

Soon, a woman came running, picked up the little girl, and the rabbit went back to her house and bolted the door.

Chen Zhi's smile froze, and the rest of the Hawkeye riders laughed awkwardly.

"Hehe, I can't imagine that you, the leading brother, have no way to do it, Miss Ben still thinks that you are omnipotent like a fairy!"

Suddenly, a crisp and pleasant voice sounded, Chen Zhi listened, and couldn't help but shake his body, he turned around and saw Zhen Rong grinning, but he was dressed like a flat-headed person, but this plain dress, when it came to Zhen Rong's body, it was extremely eye-catching and cute.

"Why did you end up here, didn't you stay in the ancient city and wait for your family to send someone to pick you up?

Chen Zhi was surprised, and soon put on a fierce face, and it was a lesson to face Zhen Rong.

Zhen Rong was very unconvinced, and sneered at me: "You are stupid, I came out this time, I was originally running away from marriage, let me wait obediently for my family to pick me up in the ancient city, didn't I jump into the fire pit by myself?"

Speaking of this, Zhen Rong realized what was going on, and covered his mouth solemnly, but it was too late, and several people present had already heard it, and they all showed surprise.

Chen Dao, in particular, was even more surprised: "It turns out that you appeared in Ye County that day because you ran away from marriage! But it's not right, which girl who escaped from marriage will be escorted by more than 100 people? This is unreasonable!"

Zhen Rong shrugged his nose and looked at Chen Zhi with disdain: "Stupid! Can't you think about it with your brain?" Naturally, those thieves who met me on the way home by those guards just found me and wanted to forcibly take me home had your kind of thing!"

Chen Zhi suddenly didn't expect that this Zhen Rong was also a person with a story, but now was not the time to find out the details of this girl, he took Zhen Rong's hand and walked towards the outside of the village, and said as he walked: "I don't care so much, you have to go back to the ancient city now, the people in your Hebei family should be almost there, I don't want to be gossiped about me, you have to go now, you have to go, you have to go!"

Zhen Rong didn't agree at this time, she broke free from Chen Zhi's pull, and said angrily: "Now you are not in a hurry to protect the villagers and fight the bandits? What are you doing in such a hurry to drive me away? What if I can help?"

Chen Zhi frowned: "What can you do with a little girl? If you don't help, I'll already burn high incense and worship the Bodhisattva!"

"Don't be small, dare you make a bet with Miss Ben, if I can convince those villagers to listen to you obediently, you have to promise not to send me back to the ancient city!"

Zhen Rong said this qiē confidently, as if he had already won the battle.

Chen Zhi didn't believe Zhen Rong's words at all, and he also bet: "If you waste your efforts, I will immediately order someone to send you back to the ancient city, and you can't stay for a moment, even if you have any opinions, it will be useless, and I will tie you back!"

Zhen Rong stuck out his tongue and grimaced at Chen: "It's so rude, people are girls, can't they be gentle?"

Chen Zhi didn't speak, indicating that he was dumb and listening.

Who knew that Zhen Rong just smiled mysteriously, walked towards the village, and made a victory gesture at Chen Zhi.

"This little girl, I don't know what she's doing!"

Chen Zhi pursed his lips, lusted, and instructed a few people, "Follow Miss Zhen, if you need anything, keep an eye on it, in case someone will be unfavorable to her!"

"No!"

At this time, several hawk-eyed light horsemen rushed back from outside the village, and it was the people who followed Li Yi out to spread false news, and they said to Chen Zhi: "General, we have already found out the origin of that group of thieves, they are Liu Pi's troops, the leader is called Liu Hu, there are about 1,000 people under his command, and they have looted the property of many villages, all of which are concentrated in the mountain col twenty miles ahead, guarded by more than 300 heavy soldiers, and Liu Hu himself has more than 700 subordinates, camped and rested fifteen miles away, ready to find the next target of the plundered village!"

Chen Zhi nodded, and said without thinking: "Go and tell Li Yi and let him deliberately leak the news to this Liu Hu, just say that a large amount of copper ore has been found under the ground of the village where I am staying now, and I am leading people to station here, and transfer troops to mine here, so that Liu Hu can just catch the person who sent the letter, at that time, he will definitely believe it, and come here to die!"

"No!"

The hawk-eyed riders listened to Chen Zhi's orders, did not stop, turned their horses' heads, and headed out of the village again.

Next, Chen Zhi said to the people around him: "Let's go, let's also go to see how Miss Zhen will persuade the villagers to support us!"

At this time, Zhen Rong did not go door-to-door to persuade the villagers as Chen Zhi thought, but directly found the village chief of this village, directly untied a piece of jade pendant from himself, and slapped it in front of the village chief: "Three things, one, immediately gather all the villagers, two, let all the villagers cooperate with the general in the village to prepare to fight the bandits, three, three, hey, I haven't thought about it yet, in short, this jade pendant is yours, you can take it to the pawnshop as a three or five hundred gold is not a problem!"

The village chief is an old man who is over the age of six, and he even coughs and wheezes when he speaks, and when he sees Zhen Rong's jade pendant, his expression is slightly surprised, but then he recovers naturally: "The little girl is extraordinary, but what's the use of the old man asking for this jade pendant? Girl, please go back, you don't know how powerful these bandits are, we can't afford to provoke them, they come, it's just for money, it won't hurt people's lives, if according to what the girl said, if we organize a rebellion, if it fails, then we will have to fall to the ground, this responsibility, the old man dare not bear it, and he can't afford it!"

Zhen Rong was also speechless for a while, she was so angry that she grabbed the jade pendant and turned around to leave, but thinking of this move, isn't it equivalent to admitting to Chen Zhi that she lost this bet?

I was really unwilling to think about it, so I turned back and asked the village chief angrily: "Say, how can you agree with Miss Ben's words, I don't believe it, the people of your village are willing to be blackmailed all day long, do you know, today almost died, many villagers were robbed of life-saving money for food and treatment, what is the difference between conniving at lawlessness and killing?"

The village chief was not impatient at all, he sat down slowly, sipped the tea in his hand, and looked very pleasant: "Little girl, you are too young, the old man has nothing to talk to you about, the old man only trades with people who speak well!"

"Trading? There are thousands of lives in the village, and the village chief is just using them as a trade?"

Chen Zhi coughed and came uninvited from outside, and his accompanying eagle-eyed light riders all looked grim and did not smile.

When Zhen Rong arrived, he was overjoyed and surprised: "Big brother, why are you here?"

Chen Zhi smiled: "How are things going, I have already prepared there, just waiting for you, I didn't expect you to make no progress at all, and no one was convinced!"

Zhen Rong pursed his lips and was unhappy: "The matter is not to the end, don't jump to conclusions!"

Chen Zhi knew that Zhen Rong was just quibbling and didn't care, but saluted the village chief: "The old gentleman is polite, just now I heard outside that the old gentleman wanted to trade the lives of the people in the whole village, I really don't dare to agree!"

The village chief smiled and touched his beard: "Why, isn't it a deal? Is the general's determination to fight this battle just for the safety of the people of this old village? Isn't it just to recruit talents, and wants to give himself a weight?"

Chen Zhi was speechless, because what the village chief said was exactly what he was thinking, and after a long time, Chen Zhi said: "I have a perfect plan in my heart, and I don't go into the tiger's den to get the tiger's son?" If the old gentleman thinks that he will be affected, he can leave here overnight with the people and go to the ancient city, where there is a large army stationed, and there is no need to be harmed by the thieves' aggression.

The village chief smiled disdainfully: "Is the general a fool to be an old man? The ancient city is difficult to protect itself, and it was broken and sacked by the thief army once, does the general really think that the imperial court is only going to deal with Liu Pi's forces?"

Chen Zhi smiled: "I naturally didn't think about it like this, but no matter who the other party is, whether it is in the light or in the dark, it will be wiped out, as for the current thief army outside the village, the news has already been released in the next, only saying that a rich copper mine has been found in this village, which can be mined in large quantities to mint five coins, and I have few people stationed here, forgive them for a few days and will definitely come to attack again, at that time the old gentleman and the villagers only have two ways, either flee or fight to the death!"

With a clang, the village chief's tea bowl fell to the ground and shattered.

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