"This ...... This Qu Shuai! The title of the village chief also changed, and his tone contained awe, fear, and some annoyance, "Qu Shuai, you have killed all the officials and soldiers, how can we do this?" ”

Zhou Cang sneered after hearing this, "It was you who sent someone to find us for help, we ran dozens of miles and came back to save you, could it be that we made a mistake to save you?" ”

Hearing this obvious attitude, the village chief didn't know what to say. Before the Han army entered the village, the villagers discovered the Han army. Naturally, everyone fled to the refuge site that had been prepared a long time ago, and the village chief just sent people to ask Zhang Luo for help with the mentality of trying it out, after all, Zhang Luo was shouting that he wanted to rebel and fight Pingyuan County. In the imagination of the village chief, Zhang Luo and they should have some ability, if more than 800 people ran back, even if they couldn't beat the Han army, they could scare the Han army. The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and the Han army couldn't get oil and water, so they were afraid that they would take the looted things and leave.

Moreover, the village chief even thought that since the village had been robbed by the Han army, even if Zhang Luo and them came back, the village chief could pay less or even not pay the thank you gift on the grounds of being robbed. After all, Zhang Luo's team left too deep an impression on the village chief yesterday, and after eating and giving money, and using the door panel and wheat straw, the wheat straw was bundled up, and the door panel was put back in place. The troops did not commit any offence against the villagers. Such a group of polite descendants inevitably give people the impression of being weak. The village chief never expected that this group of "weak offspring" in his eyes would become murderers on the battlefield.

Now it is the turn of the village chief to be embarrassed, and now that more than 200 officers and soldiers have died, Lijia Village will not be able to get out of it no matter what. As far as Zhang Luo's ability to kill officials and soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, the village chief did not dare to trouble Zhang Luo at all, so Lijia Village was likely to face severe retaliation from the government.

Thinking of this, the village chief felt that his head was a few laps bigger.

"Uncle Li, this is already the case, I think you might as well join us in Taiping Dao." Zhang Luo looked at the appearance of the village chief, and he said to the village chief Li with a pleasant face.

"Zhang Shuai, is this okay?" Bian Xi glanced at the brand-new troops, turned around and whispered to Zhang Luo.

In the blink of an eye, the team of more than 800 people had expanded to nearly 1,500 people, and the team composed of purely male warriors was now also composed of both men and women. As for age, from newborn children, to people in their fifties. The fierce spirit that the original team had cultivated through the battle of blood and fire began to fade in the shouts of children and the cries of babies.

"There are many people, let's get to Qingzhou first." Zhang Luo's voice was also a little stiff.

The villagers of Lijia Village all knew that more than 200 Han soldiers died in the village, and if the villagers could not follow Zhang Luo, as long as the Han army returned to Lijia Village, it would be the time when Lijia Village was completely destroyed.

Zhang Luo himself didn't want to take a group of men, women and children with him, he just wanted young people. In the afterlife, even the elderly, women and children would be able to survive on their own. For a long time in China, the main force left in the countryside were the elderly, women and children, with the agricultural mechanization equipment of each family, especially with the combine harvester, the crops that went south and north every year were harvested, and even the strong laborers who went to work in the city did not have to go home during the busy agricultural season.

But in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially in Jizhou, the main battlefield against the Yellow Turban. If there are only old people, women, and children in a village, the village will only face inevitable destruction. Without strong labor, it is impossible to plant good land. If you don't plant good land, that's the result of starvation. This only takes into account the problem of productivity, and a village without strong labor will be subjected to all kinds of looting and trouble.

Of course, Bian Xi didn't like Zhang Xiao bringing so many people, what an army needed was elite soldiers. And not such a huge crowd. He will question Zhang Luo, and Zhang Luo can only take one step at a time. In such an agrarian era, there is no difference between the strong leaving the weak behind and directly killing the weak.

Zhang Luo's headache is another thing, how to organize such a group of people - first organized into a men's battalion, a women's battalion, and the women's battalion established its own officer system. Even if it is his wife, the husband cannot visit his family.

Regarding this policy, Zhang Luo felt "inhumane" and "unreasonable" in his heart. However, this kind of sub-camp system may not be a good system, but it is the "least bad" system in the current situation. First of all, if a pregnant woman is carried on the march, the life of the pregnant woman will be extremely dangerous due to the hardships of the march. In these years, there is no birth control, and once there is a couple's behavior, there is a high risk of pregnancy. If you want to avoid pregnant women, then you can't have any "conjugal behavior".

"Let's take this army to the plains first." This is Zhang Luo's only thought now.

The troops, which originally consisted of only eight tuns, have now been expanded to 15 tuns, with women and children in Lijia Village organized into two tuns, men and middle-aged people into three tuns, teenagers into one tun, and some "old people" also organized into one tun. The oldest of the so-called old people is only 61 years old, and in such an era when the average life expectancy is in the early forties, this is a very old man.

According to the original plan, Zhang Luo and the others could walk for three more days to reach the vicinity of Pingyuan County, and such a team walked for another five days before arriving near Pingyuan County with their baggage - finally entering the boundary of Qingzhou.

Guan Hai and Sima Ju took the lead in going to the vicinity of the county to inquire about the news, and he soon brought back the information that the brothers of Taiping Dao in Pingyuan County had begun to besiege the county seat, and they asked Zhang Luo to meet at the current station.

"Why didn't they come to see us?" Pei Yuanshao asked.

"Because we don't have food." Sima Ju replied very simply.

Pei Yuanshao's words meant that he wanted Pingyuan's brothers to support Zhang Luo, and Sima Ju told Pei Yuanshao very bluntly that this was impossible. There is no way to survive without food, even if Zhang Luo and others brought a lot of food when they went south, after Lijiacun joined the army, they also brought all their own food. However, this food was only enough for these 1,000 people to eat for more than a month, and if other troops joined in, the food would not be enough to eat at all.

"Chief Bian Tun, you go and find the station now. Find a terrain that is closer to the city and easier to defend. Zhang Luo ordered.

After arriving at the boundary of Qingzhou, Bian Xi's title was officially promoted to the commander of the tun, and of course his official position was still that of marching staff officers.

"Zhang Shuai, what should we do?" Bian Xi ignored Sima Ju, but asked about Zhang Luo.

Zhang Luo replied: "What we have to do is to find a place to live first, and then start training." Now we are just a mixed group of men, women, and children, and through training, we have formed these people into a group. ”

Immediately turned his head to Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang: "Lao Pei, Lao Zhou, you have also participated in military training, so you will be in charge of this matter for the time being." Guan Jun and Sima Jun and I went to meet the heroes of the Plains Taiping Road. ”

"What can I do in a month?" Pei Yuanshao asked with a grin.

"Men and women, young and old, have to know one thing through military training, everyone is a part of the Taiping Dao. They no longer only work for themselves and for their own little families. The current Taiping Road is the home of everyone in the Taiping Road. Zhang Luo replied.