Deng Niu's question made Zhang Miao couldn't help but be happy: "Rebellion? What kind of rebellion? ”

"Then you need a lot of knives, spears, bows, crossbows, and iron, what are you going to do?" Deng Niu asked puzzled.

Zhang Miao sighed: "It's for self-preservation, my brother Deng Niu." ”

"Brother Deng Niu, you should have heard, just over half a month ago, my Sanshui Village was looted by the Yellow Turban Thieves, the autumn grain that had just been harvested was robbed, and most of the village was burned. Fortunately, I managed to get a large amount of food from Xiangyang, otherwise most of the people would have starved to death by now.

After the large-scale looting of the Yellow Turban thieves, there were many villages in Huyang that were breached, and many people were robbed of food, or carried by thieves, or caused by hunger, and chose to follow the thieves.

Now, although the thief Marshal Zhou Cang led the crowd to retreat into Tongbai Mountain, there are many small bandits in Huyang. Now that all villages are short of food, it is very likely that the bandits will hit my Sanshui village again.

Therefore, in order to protect ourselves, we had to build high walls, and in order to protect ourselves, we had to buy and manufacture weapons. It's all a helpless move. ”

Deng Niu nodded knowingly, expressed understanding, and sighed:

"That's true, it was better some time ago, there were at least wild vegetables in the field, fish and shrimp in the river, and the rhizomes of the reeds could be eaten if they were dug up. Now that winter is approaching, it is difficult for those who are short of food to find food, and they can do anything to survive.

In recent days, there have been many thefts and robberies in Dengyi, all of which were done by nearby villagers entering Dengyi, forcing the villagers to order that the door of Dengyi was closed during the day, no one made bags, and outsiders were forbidden to enter. ”

Zhang Miao said: "So, we must think of self-protection in order to survive." Brother Deng Niu, please help, you are a native of Dengyi, I heard that Dengyi Township is always your cousin, and you don't have many problems. As long as it is ironware, regardless of the quantity, I want it all, and the price is calculated according to twice the market price! ”

"Twice?" Deng Niu's eyes suddenly lit up, such a big profit, even if it was worth taking a little risk.

"Okay, I'll give it a try." Deng Niu gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Brother Deng Niu, don't leave today, let's have a drink." Zhang Miao said with a smile.

Deng Niu looked at the sky and shook his head: "Let's go now, I still have time to rush back to Dengyi before dark." My father is watching closely, and if I don't come back all night, he will be worried. ”

"Brother Deng Niu is filial, since this is the case, I won't stay, by the way, after the trouble brother returns to Dengyi, he will give Deng Zhong's father a message, and let him take the time to come to Sanshui Village." Zhang Miao said.

Deng Niu nodded: "No problem, I will definitely bring you the words." ”

Zhang Ping had already prepared 400 catties of grain and put them into a sack.

Deng Niu came with a total of six people, and he wanted to carry a bag of grain to go, but Zhang Miao stopped him and asked Zhang Chuang to find a wheelbarrow, put the grain on it, and let them push it away.

"I'll send the car back another day." Deng Niu hugged his fists and left with the people.

"Ah Miao, is there too much food to give?" Zhang Chuang said with some pain.

Zhang Miao smiled slightly: "If you don't pay a high price, how can you make them willing to help us work, what we lack most now is time." ”

The conversation with Deng Niu made Zhang Miao thoughtful, he felt that he couldn't train like this anymore, and he should send troops to fight. It's really a very troublesome situation outside.

After dinner, Zhang Miao called Xu Shu and his father Zhang Yu and Zhang Jin together and told him about sending troops.

"Sending troops? The wall has not been repaired, and the villagers are not very well trained, is it too hasty? Changyu objected.

Xu Shu also said: "Brother Sanjiang, why are you in such a hurry? Although the villagers are now familiar with the queue, many formations have not yet had time to be practiced, and their individual combat skills need to be strengthened. ”

Zhang Miao sighed: "I'm afraid it's too late." ”

He told in detail about the situation outside.

"Now that winter is approaching, it may be difficult for those people who have been robbed of food to find food, and in desperation, I don't know how many people will choose to go to thieves. I have food in Sanshui Village, which is bound to be coveted by thieves.

Instead of passively waiting for others to attack, it is better to take the initiative!

Fight a battle first and destroy a group of thieves to deter the thieves. In this way, no one will dare to attack our idea easily. ”

Xu Shu thought for a while and nodded slowly: "What Brother Sanjiang said is very true. In this case, let's fight a battle, and training in battle is much better than boring training. Anyway, these bandits are also a rabble, and our training is enough to deal with them. ”

In Xu Shu's opinion, the combat strength of the Sanshui Village security team can only be called average, and it is still far from the real elite, but the situation is like this, and there is no way, so we can only fight a battle first.

Seeing that Zhang Miao and Xu Shu were in favor of sending troops, Zhang Yu could only agree.

"But where are we attacking the thieves?" Zhang Yu asked.

Zhang Miao looked at Xu Shu with a smile: "What does the military advisor think?" ”

Xu Shu stroked the short beard under his chin, pondered for a while, and said, "Dudu, Sanjiang, how are the bandits in Gegang?" ”

During this period of time, Deng Tu has been sending people to send information about the bandits, and at least four or five groups of thieves' nests have been figured out.

Gegang is about 20 miles southeast of Sanshui Village, it is a hill with a height of more than 200 meters, there are more than 10 acres of flat land at the waist of the mountaintop, and there is a spring water flowing down from the top of the mountain to gather into a pool. Originally, there was a family living on the top of the mountain, and they made a living by cultivating these ten acres of mountain fields.

In the autumn of this year, the seven brothers of Du Liudu near Mayi responded to the Yellow Turban Thieves with a group of ruffians, robbing and killing people everywhere under the banner of Yellow Turban Thieves. When the thief Marshal Zhou Cang led the crowd to retreat into Tongbai Mountain, Du Liudu and the seven brothers were unwilling to retreat into the mountain, but took their one hundred and ten thieves to Gegang, killed the peasant family on the top of the mountain, and entrenched themselves in Gegang.

For more than a month, Du Liudu and seven brothers have led thieves down the mountain to rob many times, killing people and stealing goods, and the methods are extremely vicious. Just ten days ago, they intercepted a merchant from Xiangyang, robbed all the goods, killed more than 20 people in the caravan, and threw their corpses into the wilderness, which is really notorious!

"Military advisor, there are more than 100 people under the seven brothers of Nadu Liudu, and the strength is not under us, and I heard that the Gegang mountain road is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if we forcibly attack, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and there are so many 100 men in our village, we really can't afford to lose. Why don't we change to a gang of bandits? Zhang Yu frowned.

Xu Shu looked at Zhang Miao with a smile: "Brother Sanjiang, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Miao smiled slightly: "I think your idea is very good, so let's choose Du Liu and Du Qi from Gegang to open the knife!" ”

Then he explained to his father Zhang Yu: "This battle is the first battle of my Sanshui Township soldiers, and if you want to fight, you will fight the strongest Yi Liwei, so that other Xiaoxiao dare not face us." Moreover, the Du Liudu and seven brothers have been looting for a long time, and there must be a lot of savings on the mountain, so we will destroy them, and the captured grain can just summon the nearby villagers to expand the army.

Of course, I also know that you are worried about the loss too much, so we have to make a plan instead of attacking! ”