Seeing Shang Cheng's question, You Ze leaned over and replied, "Yes, there is a female bandit." Although he is a rich man in the countryside who has not seen much of the world, after all, he has the identity of an elder, and he usually has a lot of contact with officials and people, and he sat in the room for a long time, seeing that Shang Cheng, a big official, in addition to his hideous and terrifying appearance, his speech and behavior are not as vulgar as ordinary officers, so the fear and panic when he first entered the door gradually subsided. As soon as his mood relaxed, he talked more, and continued to talk about the female bandit: "My brother-in-law also said that the female bandit looks very handsome, with a pair of big eyes on her silver-plate-like face as if she can speak, and she can inadvertently give people a sultry look, which can aim at people's bones, especially with a naturally good voice, the voice is crisp and clear, and it is comfortable and refreshing to listen to in people's ears, just like biting a piece of ice in her mouth in June Futian, and 36,000 pores on her body are exploding......

He didn't care whether others listened to it or not, he admired while gesturing, as if he had seen the female bandit with his own eyes, and his mouth was foaming. The three officers sitting on the stool all seemed to have not heard him, and their eyes were lowered and their faces were as heavy as water. Guan Xuan knew that his words were wrong and wanted to stop it, but he saw Shang Cheng looking at You Ze with a light smile on his face, and seemed to be very interested in the female bandit, so he had no choice but to swallow and sit next to him and continue to listen to You Ze's story about his brother-in-law.

In fact, Shang Cheng's eyes looked at You Ze, but his mind had already turned elsewhere, Guan Xuan thought he was laughing, but the scar made him have this kind of smiling expression on his face all the time.

He had been nervously thinking about how to exterminate the bandits in Dujiadian.

Speaking of which, he has participated in many battles since he became a soldier, such as the battle for the C-shaped battalion in Nanguan, the storming of Taihe Town, the Battle of Wild Duck Beach, and the Battle of Gongqian Pass...... It's a tough battle, and every time it's a bloody battle, but no matter what the battle is, he's not as nervous as he is now. Because at that time, he was just a battalion captain who listened to orders and led troops to fight, no matter what he did, as long as he followed the order, he didn't have to worry about this, he didn't have to worry about this, he roared at me in front of the enemy's formation, and hundreds of people collided with him, even if there was a mountain in front of him, he could be crushed. But now I imagine that I was like before, and I can't wait for the war to fight. He had to draw up a battle plan, plan everything in advance, estimate all possible accidents, and make preparations in advance to deal with them......

He didn't worry about how many people there were in the bandits' den for the time being, as long as Sun Zhongshan grabbed the gate of the village, there was actually no difference between a hundred bandits and three hundred bandits, they were just a rabble, and dozens of disciplined soldiers could break them up with a single charge. But what if the gate is not taken? Unable to take the gate of the village, the bandits have a chance to breathe, at this time, as long as the leader of the bandits stands up and calls for command, the bandits may re-accumulate strength and fight with the border army, in this case, and then order to attack the cottage is to pile up human lives. So is he going to storm it? If he wants to attack, will he have enough manpower to use it? The border army and the village warriors did not have an advantage in numbers; As an attacking party, it is a loss in terms of geographical advantages, and the only advantage is the time of day, but it is impossible to take the gate of the village, and then what to say "surprise and attack its unpreparedness" is meaningless empty words. But if you really want to attack, even if you win, it can only be a miserable victory, just to break through the cottage, and there will not be too much strength to chase down the remnants of the bandits. This is different from what he envisioned earlier to exterminate the bandits and set foot on the cottage. What he wants is to get rid of all the evil, and he wants to sweep away all the bandits in Dujiadian, especially those thirty or so habitual bandits, and he can't let any of them go! But he doesn't have enough people on hand to use it safely. Not only was it a problem of insufficient manpower and insufficient troops, but he was also worried about the fighting level and fighting will of these soldiers, after all, he did not have much contact with these soldiers and were not familiar with each other......

It's too complicated, and there are too many uncertainties......

He rubbed his hand against his temples a few times to clear himself up.

He suddenly felt that the war he had envisioned against bandits was a bit reckless and hasty. He shouldn't have been in such a hurry to suppress the bandits. He should first familiarize himself with his soldiers and the local situation, and then patiently look for a suitable time to try to eliminate the bandits.

But the current situation does not allow him to back down. He can only face the difficulties. This is not to say that he is afraid of giving up halfway and saying that he will be embarrassed, nor is he afraid of being ridiculed by his subordinates, but he is afraid that spreading this matter will encourage the arrogance of the bandits, and he is even more afraid that the bandits will be alerted because of this, and it will be more difficult to do it in the future, and the sacrifice will be greater......

This battle must be fought.

Not only must it be fought, but it must be won, and the cost must be minimized......

It's hard. He sighed faintly in his heart. In particular, he was not familiar with the border soldiers of Ma Zhi, and he did not know their details and will to fight. He was afraid that these soldiers would drop their chains at a critical moment.

He couldn't help but think about how good it would be if all the soldiers he had led in the Nanguan camp were here. As long as the four or five hundred people are here, not to mention a bandit nest of 100 people in Dujiadian District, even if there are 100 large tent soldiers on the opposite side, as long as he says, "Take it for me", it will only be a matter of time to break the village and kill the enemy.

Thinking of those soldiers, thinking of those familiar faces, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show some warm smiles. That's the real Da Zhao elite! The five successive charges during the attack on Taihe Town not only frightened their own people, but also frightened the enemy......

It's a pity that the battalion is not under his command now. They have been transferred to garrison Zengcheng. When passing through Zengcheng County, Ji Zheng and Fan Quan, who had just been promoted to battalion captains, and a group of former subordinate officials, invited him to the best restaurant in Zengcheng and got drunk.

These bastards! More than twenty people poured me one! Why don't you dare to come up one by one? Thinking of the excitement at the banquet that night, he glanced at Sun Zhongshan who was sitting in the field and the stone standing by the door. These two are not good things either! Seeing that I was surrounded by a bunch of people, I didn't even say that I came up to help out and block two bowls of wine!

Only then did he notice that You Ze was still telling stories with his eyebrows fluttering.

“…… I was also stunned at the time, I never thought that Xiao Feiyan would toast me, I didn't know what to say with the wine bowl in my mouth, and it took me a long time to find my mouth and drink all the wine of the beauty in one gulp. That wine is a line of Yanzuo famous wine, and when you take a sip, you feel a fragrance crawling up from your chest and throat, and even the breath that spews out is fragrant. I heard that there is also a kind of 20-year-old wine in the cellar of a first-line incense, and the fragrance of the wine can float out five miles of land with the wind when you open a bottle, so it is called a five-mile first-line fragrance. I didn't have the chance to taste it, but a friend of mine did. Speaking of my friend who traveled far away, he was also a wonderful person, and his story could not be told for a day and a night......"

You Ze's words were a spade in the east and a spade in the west, and in a blink of an eye, he had already climbed from the beauty Xiao Feiyan to his wonderful friend, and Shang Cheng had already heard the confusion. Isn't that talking about bandits? How did you run out of a little delphinium? Looking at the people next to him, Jin Xiqian didn't squint, Guan Xuan looked at the sky with his eyes, Sun Zhongshan pressed the corner of his robe with his hand and seemed to be pondering, and although the stone and the other guard at the door had a tense face, but there was a smile in his eyes, it seemed that You Ze was not talking to himself, he still had two listeners.

However, Shang Cheng was not angry with You Ze because of this, and said with a smile: "Lao You, what a wonderful method for your friend, wait until we kill the bandits and then come to listen to your details......

The phrase "Old You" made You Ze smile, and his mouth was almost grinning to the root of his ears.

As soon as Shang Cheng opened his mouth to speak, the three officers all stood up on the stool, and they all looked at him. Guan Xuan was vigilant, pulled You Ze, who was still smirking at himself, stood up and bowed and was about to retire, Shang Cheng motioned for both of them to sit down, and said: "One of you two is a Li Zheng and the other is an elder, both are officials, the Guan family is still the Xuntian family, it doesn't hurt to listen." His eyes rolled on the faces of several people, and the corners of his mouths were already smiling. I don't pursue the previous things. But from now on, the reward of the award should be punished, and if anyone mistakes the order and leaks the secret, don't blame me for being ruthless and trying to march the law. ”

The three officers stood up at the same time, stood up to him with a military salute, and whispered in unison: "Remember." The two squires also hastened to their feet, but did not know whether in this case they should salute like an officer, or bow their hands as they usually do with an officer, raise their arms and put them down, and stand at a loss for what to do with their feet.

"Qian Whistle, the affairs of the barracks are handed over to you, one by one, in the name of I am inspecting and inspecting the village, I ordered the barracks to be under martial law from now on, and all sergeants are not allowed to step out of the barracks for half a step without reason, and those who dare to disobey the order will be beheaded. Golden Whistle, you will command the daily military affairs of the village, and the twenty soldiers brought by Sun Whistle will also be handed over to you, and you must strengthen patrols, especially those unfamiliar faces that appear in the village, but it is not yet possible to make people see the abnormality, and the gate of the village must also enter and exit as usual, and it must be tight inside and loose outside; Those who are in the way of the eyes can be arrested first by name, and then screened after the crackdown on bandits is over. Sun Whistle, you and Guan Li Zhengyou Qi Chang went back overnight, carefully screened Xiang Yong again, and all those who were implicated in the family were all taken care of. Guan You and the others are a little harder, in addition to keeping in touch with the bandits and keeping abreast of their movements, the contact with the Xiazhai side also depends on you one by one, starting tomorrow, three times a day in the morning, noon and evening. If the situation remains unchanged, six days later, at noon, Sun Sentry led people to seize the gate of the village, and the soldiers led by Qian Sentry were divided into two teams to intercept on the periphery, and the soldiers led by Jin Sentry followed me, and once the door was successfully captured, they would cover it up. ”

All five of them obeyed the order.

After arranging the big task, Shang Cheng discussed the details of the suppression of the bandits with the three officers and two gentry, from how the marching route of the official army in Xiazhai bypassed the eyes and ears of the bandits, to how the border troops living in Guanjia provided food and drink, and talked about them one by one, especially how the two teams kept in touch on the day of the operation, and how to arrest the bandits who slipped through the net. It wasn't until the end of the day that Shang Cheng felt that there were no negligent loopholes left in the whole operation, so he ordered the meeting to be dismissed.