And when all the people at the head of the city spoke of the cruelty of the thieves.

In a guard under the city, Xiao Han, who was dressed in a green shirt, was looking at the map hanging on the wall of the room with interest behind his back with his hands behind his back.

The map is huge! Occupies almost the entire north wall of this house!

And unlike those simple maps with rough workmanship, on this map, the entire city of Yangzhou, as well as the location of its nearby villages and towns, is carefully drawn, and just by looking at the ink on it, you can know that it must have been modified from time to time before it finally became this shape.

"Xiao Hou!"

Just when Xiao Han was still squinting, studying the strange markings on the map.

Outside the door, a rush of footsteps suddenly sounded, and immediately after, the door was pushed open, and Yang Wenwen and Cui Jingzhi hurriedly walked in.

"You're here...... Well? How did you get to be like this? ”

Hearing the sound outside, Xiao Han turned his head with a smile, and just wanted to say hello to them, but when he saw the appearance of Cui Jingzhi and the two of them, he was immediately stunned!

If it weren't for the two of them wearing the familiar official robes, he wouldn't have recognized the two of them!

Unexpectedly, after only a few days, these two people are so old!

The black hair on their heads had turned gray at this time, and their ruddy faces had turned sallow!

Not to mention the deeply sunken eyes and a pair of heavy dark circles!

Xiao Han even felt that no one would recognize them if they were like this, with their hair stained and sent to the zoo to pretend to be a panda, except for being a little thin......

"Hou Ye is responsible!"

Cui Jingzhi saw Xiao Han's surprised eyes, and naturally knew what he was thinking! So he arched his hand and said with a wry smile: "In the past few days, Brother Yang and I have not thought about tea and dinner, and we can't sleep day and night, and we are a little haggard, and we don't care!" ”

"It's less than 10,000 people, so you two are worried about being like this? When we faced Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong's army of hundreds of thousands was not like this......

"That, Hou Ye said with a smile, the two of us have lived in Yangzhou for a long time, where can we compare to Hou Ye, you are in the south and the north, and you are well-informed? Besides, the thieves are not less than 10,000, but more than 15,000! We have a lot of manpower in the city......"

Cui Jingzhi heard Xiao Han's teasing, and his face was about to wrinkle into a bun!

And he was not wrong, Xiao Han was faced with hundreds of thousands of troops, no matter how much he had on hand, there were also tens of thousands of troops to call!

But now in this Yangzhou city, don't look at the surface, there seem to be 100,000 people, but there are only a few thousand soldiers, and there are only a pitiful hundreds of veterans!

This is really going to fight, and those 100,000 people can't use it! Thousands of recruits are also effective, how can a few hundred veterans alone withstand the thieves who have always been fearless of death.

"When did there be more than 15,000 thieves?" Xiao Han didn't care about Cui Jingzhi's complaints, but was shocked, and asked suspiciously, "How is it possible?" Will they still be able to play tricks? Where did they get so many people out of a few days? ”

"This ......" Cui Jingzhi opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, Yang Wenwen saw this, stepped forward and arched his hand and said: "Master Hou, this thing is true!" The few scout rewards we threw out were about the same amount! As for where those people came from, we don't know yet......"

"Don't even know where you came from?" When Xiao Han heard this, his brows furrowed, and then he thought of something, and immediately asked: "Did the scout say who these extra people are, they can't all be Haikou after all, right?" ”

"Not really."

Yang Wenwen should have asked the same question, and he replied to Xiao Han almost without thinking: "According to the scout's report, those extra people are all dressed as Han people on land!" The scout said that it might be some outcast robbers who wanted to get in so that they could fish in troubled waters. ”

"Outcast robbers?" Xiao Han sneered when he heard this, looked at Yang Wenwen and said, "In this Yangzhou vicinity, are there still so many homeless robbers?" ”

"No ......" Yang Wenwen's old face was slightly red when Xiao Han asked, and he replied in a low voice.

In fact, in his heart, he didn't believe that these people were so-called outcasts and robbers.

This is not to say that he has a good way to rule, but that Jiangnan is already in a rich area, and in the past two years, there have been three crops of rice, a high-yield grain plant, and there will be no shortage of food and clothing at all.

It is said that the son of a daughter can't sit down!

It's not that they can't sit, it's because they can't!

I am so rich and have such a privileged life! If you have nothing to do and sit under the eaves, if you are crushed to death by falling tiles, wouldn't it be a big loss?

The same reason: in a place where you can eat enough and dress warmly, there must not be many people who will think about attacking the city, which is a dangerous business like being stabbed if you are not careful!

"There are no clues to the appearance of these people?" Xiao Han stared at the two and asked again.

The two glanced at each other this time, and then shook their heads in unison: "No!" Because there are many thieves with excellent martial arts, the scouts don't dare to get too close at all, so they can only see that their number of people is increasing day by day, but they don't see where they come from! ”

"Excellent martial arts, I don't know where it came from?" When Xiao Han heard these details, his eyes suddenly flickered, and he breathed a sigh of relief after half a sound: "That's it, fifteen thousand is fifteen thousand!" To us, five thousand more doesn't seem like much! ”

When Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wenwen heard this, they thought that Xiao Han was cost-effective in defending the city, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

They are all civil officials, although they have also learned a little swordsmanship and swordsmanship, but these wives and concubines who scare and scare the back house are okay, and they really get to the stage, except for laughing at the dead thieves, there is no other role, let alone the technology of defending the city!

Fortunately, now, Xiao Han has come here and gave them advice! Let's not say that his strategy works or not, even if it doesn't work, the three stinkers can also top Zhuge Liang!

However, is Xiao Han really thinking about defending the city? Of course it can't be!

Yin Can handed over the bottom last night, and Xiao Han also knew that the purpose of those who provoked the incident was not Yangzhou City, but Qili Village in the south of Yangzhou City.

To be more precise, their purpose is Xiao Han's workshops!

In this way, it is naturally useless to defend the city, after all, people will not attack you at all, they just need to go around you!

Of course, Xiao Han knows these things himself, let Cui Jingzhi and them know, and maybe something will happen!

Maybe both of them will be able to set off two firecrackers and celebrate! Because as long as Yangzhou City is kept, Xiao Han's workshops are really not in their eyes!

"Oh, you're dying! Do you really think that in these days, more people means that you are powerful? ”

With a long sigh in his heart, Xiao Han suddenly looked up at Yang Wenwen and Cui Jingzhi, and said, "Yangzhou Governor Cui Jingzhi!" Prefectural Order Yang Article! ”

"In!" When the two people who were thinking about it with their heads down heard this, their bodies trembled violently, and they subconsciously gave up.

"Command the two of you to quickly prepare 500 military supplies for us to go out of the city tomorrow to meet the battle!"

"Whew...... Yes? ”