Village Chief Zhao seemed to be touched by the sadness, and sighed: "Envoy, you are a good person, you lead your troops to investigate the thief in such a dangerous place, you know that you have the people in mind." If our village can survive this year's catastrophe, it will definitely spread the word of kindness.

Some of the words involve the officials of the imperial court, and the old man should not say it: since the first month of this year, the thief has been rampant compared to last year, I don't know how much! The county soldiers who originally defended the Black Mountain thieves have all withdrawn!

The old man went to the county to inquire, but finally heard that it was the new Jia Tingshi, who wanted to withdraw the county soldiers from Changshan, Zhao County, Guangping County and other places to defend against the Black Mountain thieves, and then choose the opportunity to send people to change the guard in the future. But right now, in the counties of Changshan and Zhao County, there are no officials and troops outside the city! The people here hate Jia Tingshi so much that their teeth itch! ”

Hearing this, Guan Yu, who was originally drinking soup quietly next to him, said angrily: "Are you talking about Jizhou Thorn Shi Jia Cong?" Why did he do this? ”

Without waiting for Village Chief Zhao to answer, Zhang Fei also turned to Liu Bei and scolded hatefully: "Big brother! I didn't expect Najia Thorn Shi to be such a wolf-hearted thief! Let's go and meet those dog officials to appeal, can it really be useful? Instead, they will throw themselves into the net and arrest us for asking about the post! ”

"Second brother, third brother, don't be impatient!" Liu Bei was calm after all, "I don't believe that Jia Jianshi has just taken office, and he will ignore the official reputation and do this act of harming the people and thieves for no reason, and there must be a reason for it." ”

And Li Su's heart lit up, and he had already figured it out, so he deduced: "In my opinion, most of it is still Wang Fen's legacy - but I still remember that before Wang Fen plotted to abolish the establishment, he wrote to the imperial court, under the pretext of guarding against black mountain thieves, and wanted to mobilize soldiers from Changshan, Zhaojun, and Guangping County.

Therefore, the imperial court must be jealous now, after Jia Cong took over as the assassin, the first thing he did was to change the soldiers and horses in these counties, withdraw and reorganize, presumably to reassure the imperial court and believe that he had controlled the situation in Jizhou.

As for the fact that after the withdrawal of soldiers and horses, the bandits in Montenegro were rampant again, I am afraid that Jia Cong would not be able to take care of it. For him, the life and death of the people in the countryside in several counties is not as important as the trust of the imperial court. Even if there is something unspeakable, he can only choose the lesser of two evils. ”

Liu Guanzhang listened, and couldn't help but sigh for a long time, lamenting the suffering of the people, and at the same time admiring Li Su's insight more and more.

"Boya is really a fickle person, and he can guess his mind without seeing Jia Cong. Zhang Chunhe was really blind to the talents, so he let him be a scholar. If he is a county guard, at least he must let Boya serve as a long history and engage in the position. ”

Li Su sighed modestly: "What if I have insight, even if I have a deep understanding of the fire, I can guess what Jia Cong thinks." But people are soft-spoken, how can they save the people! Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. ”

The three of them thought for a while, and then became more and more solemn: "Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer...... That's so well said, it's a lot of words! But with our brothers working together, their profits and gold, coupled with the talent of Mr. Assistant, will definitely be able to save the people of the world from fire and water! ”

After talking with emotion for a while, the four of them slept on the ground by the fire pit in the village chief's house.

Although he lived in the village, Liu Bei did not relax his vigilance, and still divided his fifteen cavalry soldiers into five groups and took turns to watch and watch the night as he did when he was marching, which can be called strict military discipline.

On average, each group of horsemen had to stay up three quarters of an hour before they could go back to sleep, while Liu Guanzhang could sleep for seven and a half hours to keep up his energy to ensure tomorrow's battle.

Li Su didn't know anything about the military formation, none of this had anything to do with him, he just slept and nourished his spirits.

After all, he rode a horse for nearly 200 miles today, and Rao was a white-collar worker in the urban elite in his previous life, and he went to the horse farm on the outskirts of Beijing to learn some equestrian skills, but riding so fiercely today that his thighs were still worn out, and he urgently needed to recuperate.

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There was no word in the middle of the night, and everyone slept for about three hours, and when they saw the end of the night, the sentries on duty at night were also changed to the last batch.

"Yang Fei, Agui, go back to sleep, we'll take over." A Wuhuan cavalry under Liu Bei led the way, put on leather armor, took his subordinates, climbed the highest wooden building in the village with a bow and a sword, and waved his hand to order his cavalry to go back to sleep.

The replaced cavalry naturally closed the team with joy: "Thank you, Brother Liu, there is still some sake here that has not been drunk, so let's drink it to refresh yourself." ”

The handover rider said, while handing over a gourd to the team leader, and the team leader did not shirk, and drank a few large sips of Zhongshan Dongjiu to keep out the cold, and then began to be on duty.

The leader of this assault cavalry is named Liu Dun, a native of Zhuo County. Of course, this is not the real name, because when the Wuhuan civilians took the name, their parents only took a pronunciation, and they didn't even have the corresponding text.

Wu Huan's name is accustomed to those syllables of "dululu", which is similar to Ah San's singing "I play with mud in the Northeast". For example, the famous Mao Dun (pronounced du) Shan Yu, and the later Wuhuan Badun.

Liu Dun originally only had pronunciation and no words. But three years ago, when he was sixteen years old, he caught up with Liu Bei to recruit Xiang Yong, and he followed to join the army. Liu Bei saw that he was loyal and brave in battle, so he gave him the surname Liu, and also gave his phonetic name Chinese characters.

Liu Dun was very moved by the fact that he could be given the surname Liu, and decided to follow Liu Bei with all his heart.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Hu people in the north did not all work against the Han people. The situation of the Hu and Han dynasties at that time was completely different from the situation in the later Song and Ming dynasties, because there were five Hu at the end of the Han Dynasty, so the Hu people were also different.

The most rejecting Sinicization and insisting on using force as the enemy are mainly the Xianbei and Di people. Especially a few years ago, when the Xianbei Lord Tan Shihuai was alive, the Xianbei power was expanded to the maximum, known as 15,000 miles from east to west, and the threat to the Han land was very great.

Later, the history of Wuhu Chaohua also proved that both the Xianbei and Di people established the Northern Wei Dynasty, the former Qin and other great dynasties that unified the north.

The Qiang people are slightly better than the previous two ethnic groups, but they often rebel, but they have no ambition to destroy the Han, they just want to burn and plunder, and they belong to the second echelon.

The Wuhuan and Southern Xiongnu, most of which were attached from the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had the highest degree of maturation.

The Eastern Han court also often spent money to recruit Wuhuan cavalry to attack other more die-hard Hu tribes, and some of them later disappeared completely in sinicization.

Of course, there were times when the Wuhuan people rebelled, especially in the two years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. But the main reason was the collapse of the central government's finances, and it was no longer able to pay for the Wuhuan Tucai to fight for the imperial court.

Many Wuhuan people have been accustomed to being mercenaries for the Eastern Han Dynasty for generations, and they have no other livelihood skills, and they are gradually corrupted when they are unemployed and cannot receive military salaries, and they turn into thieves and start plundering when they have no food.

But with Liu Bei's subordinates, he has been steadily raising dozens of very loyal Wuhuan Turquoise horsemen - mainly because Liu Bei has always been very punctual in paying his salary.

There are so many Hu people, and they also have to be divided and used, so why not kill Hu with Hu.

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Gossip stopped, and said that Liu Dun drank some Zhongshan winter brew and felt warmer, so he shook his spirit and was loyal to his duties.

After looking at the wooden tower for about half an hour, about two o'clock in the morning (four o'clock in the morning), he suddenly noticed the glimmer of torches in the south.

Liu Dun immediately narrowed his eyes and stared in that direction to confirm, but soon after, as the firelight approached, it suddenly went out, followed by a slight abnormal sound.

"Kuroko, go and report to the lord immediately! Little four, prepare a bow and arrow! Liu Dun resolutely whispered the order, and at the same time climbed the ladder of the wooden building and slid to the ground, lying on the ground and turning his head sideways, listening with one ear against the ground.

"There is the sound of horses' hooves in the south! It should have been the torch that the thieves had extinguished when they saw the village in sight. Liu Dun immediately judged that seven or eight out of ten were Black Mountain thieves!

The Han poor have a rough diet, no meat and animal liver, and their night blindness is more serious than that of the Hu people who eat beef offal and haggis, so it is not easy to sneak attack at night, and it is easy to trample on each other without torches.

You can only temporarily extinguish the fire torch after discovering the target, and quietly touch the last distance before receiving the enemy.

Liu Guanzhang and the rest of the cavalry were also alert, they were lying in their clothes, and they got up and put them neatly in less than half a cup of tea.

The black mountain thief also quietly touched the entrance of the village, and then suddenly shouted and rushed into the village.

However, their shouts seemed to be choked by the neck, and with the sound of a few bowstrings of "boom~boom~" and the muffled sound of the blade penetrating into the flesh, the momentum was instantly suppressed back.

"It's not good, it's a shooting sharp, could it be that there are elite soldiers to defend it?"

"Impossible! Brothers, don't panic, keep rushing for me, ah......"

In the darkness and noise, a small leader of the Black Mountain thieves wanted to stabilize the thief's heart, but was shot by an arrow and fell down screaming in pain. He didn't hit the vital point in the dark, but the screams that stopped abruptly dealt a serious blow to the morale of the Black Mountain thieves.

"Run, there really is a shooting sharp!" Those thieves who just wanted to loot some belongings and fight with the wind were in chaos in an instant.

The so-called "Shooting Sound Sharp Soldier" is an elite soldier under the command of the "Shooting Captain", one of the eight battalions of the Northern Army of the Beijing Division.

The two Han Dynasty were the eight captains of the Northern Army of the forbidden army, and many of them were named after the characteristics of the troops, such as the Tun Cavalry Captain, the Yue Cavalry Captain, and the Hu Cavalry Captain, which were all cavalry battalions, and the Huben Captain was an archer.

And under the command of the captain of the sound of shooting, as the name suggests, it is an elite archer, taking the meaning of "shooting with the sound in the dark". These archers must not only be good at archery, but also have a keen sense of hearing, and be able to distinguish their positions.

Liu Dun's martial arts are actually not good, but as a Wuhuan Turf rider, his racial talent is good, and his riding and archery skills can be ranked among the best under Liu Bei. It was trained in the upper reaches of the grassland since he was a child, and he could shoot in the dark and within thirty steps.

Thirty steps to hit, in the case of aiming by the eyes during the day, of course, it is not a master, and the master pursues a hundred steps through Yang. But on a dark night, it's more against the sky.

Even in the harsh era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the selection criteria for the shooting battalion were only twenty steps to listen to the sound and distinguish the position. What's more, the armament of the Northern Army has been slackened for hundreds of years, and now the soldiers of the Beijing Division's Shooting Battalion can only account for 23 out of 10 paces in the dark.

In such an environment, it is no wonder that these unlucky Black Mountain thieves mistakenly thought that they had bumped into the Shooting Battalion, and their morale collapsed instantly.

But this nightmare of the Black Mountain thief has just begun, and it is all appetizers ahead.