Liu Zheng's question, as soon as he said it, the two people were immediately speechless.

These two people are not so-called wandering merchants at all, they are just a group of horse thieves in the neighborhood.

Perennial wandering around Youzhou, raiding towns or passing by merchants.

Recently, Youzhou was attacked by the Karasuma people, and they united Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun to launch large and small wars against all parts of Youzhou. As a result, the scope of these horse thieves' activities became smaller, and they had no choice but to fight the Karasuma people, so they could only open up more raiding routes, so they ran from Youzhou to Qingzhou.

During the day, they disguise themselves as traveling merchants to conceal their identities, and at night they raid villages and loot their belongings.

It is precisely like this that this group of horse thieves has gradually developed from a dozen people at the beginning to hundreds of people, and after the scale has grown, they have become famous thieves in Youzhou, and even the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou is not in their eyes at all.

Of course, Liu Zheng didn't know that these people were horse thieves who were wandering in Youzhou, he just felt that there was something wrong with the identities of these people.

After being caught by Liu Zheng, they were speechless, and these two people still had the heart to quibble, but in the face of the interrogation of Gan Ning and Zhou Tai under Liu Zheng, they soon confessed their identities.

Only then did Liu Zheng understand that they were horse thieves from Youzhou who had absconded to Qingzhou and wanted to commit a crime.

"It turned out to be a bunch of horse thieves, I said how could there be so many horses, I really thought they were traveling merchants who specialized in selling horses in two places."

Thinking that their identity was horse thieves, Liu Zheng finally understood why they had so many excellent war horses, these horse thieves were afraid that they would be able to get war horses from the Karasuma people when they were in Youzhou, and then use the mobility of war horses to rob merchants and villages everywhere, obtain a lot of money, and then use these money to continue to buy war horses, so as to achieve the goal of gradually strengthening themselves.

"What about these two people? Kill or..."

Liu Zheng didn't give any instructions after understanding their identities, and Gan Ning on the side couldn't make his own opinions, so he could only ask Liu Zheng what he meant.

"Originally, I just planned to cheat a few horses from them, but now that we know that they are a gang of horse thieves, then we can just play with them, maybe we can get hundreds of war horses from them, hundreds of war horses, this is not a small amount of money."

Originally, if these people were just some thieves, Liu Zheng would not have any interest, but when they held hundreds or even more war horses in their hands, Liu Zheng was a little moved, and the purpose of his coming to Youzhou this time was also for some war horses.

Now that you can meet these horse thieves, you can not only get their money in the name of thieves, but also use their war horses as trophies to collect, why not?

"The lord means that he wants to use them as bait to wipe out these horse thieves?"

"With this idea, you go and torture it again, ask them what they are coming to Qingzhou for, what they want to do, and what are the ideas of the gang of guys who gathered there before, after asking these things clearly, we will make the next calculation."

Anyway, Liu Zheng is not in a hurry to go to Youzhou, since there are these horse thieves doing things here, it is better to stay and stop for a few days, anyway, to exterminate some horse thieves, it can't be delayed for a few days, and it is not possible to delay for a few days.

Gan Ning and Zhou Tai then continued to interrogate the two horse thieves.

It didn't take long for Liu Zheng to understand the purpose of their stay here.

It turned out that this gang of horse thieves had just looted a small village here, and they stopped on the side of the road to repair it, and happened to run into Liu Zheng. I was going to go to meet the army, but I didn't expect to be tempted by Liu Zheng's 300 money, so I decided to kill Liu Zheng and robbed the 300 gold.

It's just that I never thought that Liu Zheng was actually a powerful person, not only did he not grab it, but he also folded two brothers here.

And after they robbed the small village, they actually planned to go to join most of the people, and then go to rob a small county town in Donglai County.

After robbing this county seat, he will continue to retreat to Youzhou, after all, the horse thief was originally to shoot and change places.

Gan Ning and Zhou Tai also learned from these people that these horse thieves, there were more than 700 people, and they were divided into more than 20 teams and scattered in Donglai County and Beihai County in Qingzhou to plunder villages.

It has been agreed that two days later, they will converge ten miles outside Huang County, Donglai County, planning to rob such a small county town as Huang County, and then escape to Youzhou.

Huang County, in Donglai County, can only be regarded as an ordinary county seat, there are not many soldiers and horses in the county, and because of the sea, the city defense facilities are not intact, these hundreds of horse thieves are fully capable of entering the county.

You must know that plundering a county town is much richer than several villages, whether it is a large porcupine in the county town or money and grain wealth, it is not comparable to those farmers in the village.

In the land of Qingzhou, many villages are left over from the looting of some Yellow Turban Army, and these horse thieves will not be able to get any oil and water at all if they go to loot the side.

Originally, they didn't want to go to the county seat, but they finally came to ransack a few villages here, but they didn't get any benefits.

That's why I'm ready to hit the county seat.

And when Liu Zheng heard them say that they were going to fight Huang County, the whole person was slightly surprised.

Liu Zheng has really heard of this place in Huangxian County, because this place is one of the earliest counties in the land of China, and the reason why Liu Zheng can remember this place is because he is the hometown of the famous Fangshi Xu Fu in the last years of the Qin Dynasty.

"Are they going to fight Huang County? With seven hundred horse thieves? There really is some whimsical thinking. ”

After Liu Zheng asked about the detailed plans of these people, he began to prepare, he first asked Jiang Qin to select hundreds of brothers with good enough skills from thousands of water thieves, and then let him bring these two people, planning to go back first, and wipe out the more than 30 people, and then go to meet in Huangxian County, and thoroughly understand these horse thieves.

After some coercion and temptation, the two horse thieves still agreed to cooperate very interestingly, after all, when they saw Liu Zheng's hundreds of soldiers and horses, they knew that the more than 30 brothers were taken by people like Liu Zheng, and they couldn't run away at all.

Rather than being killed if you don't cooperate, it's better to ask for cooperation, and maybe you can change a chance to live.