Chen Wansan and Yuan Biao urged their horses to the front of the convoy, looked at the warning banner in front, and the two of them muttered in a low voice: "It's not a bandit." ”

"Is it the army?" After listening to Zhao Chenyi, he frowned and muttered in a low voice.

"How can there be an army in this place? What are they doing here? Yuan Biao's brows were also tightly locked.

Chen Wansan, on the other hand, took out the map from his arms, gestured a few times with his fingers, and explained in a low voice: "There are two villages nearby, and the nearest one is only a few miles away from us. Immediately, Chen Wansan also frowned, and his words were full of doubts: "But, what are they doing here?" Could it be a robbery of the village? ”

"Officials and soldiers robbing the people? Are you kidding?! Yuan Biao pursed his lips and retorted to the other party in a low voice.

"Wait, the brothers from the front will be back soon!" Zhao Chenyi raised his eyes and looked ahead, and opened his mouth to remind.

As Chen Wansan and the others stood, the caravan slowly stopped, and the laughter in the carriage gradually disappeared.

The convoy was not long, and when Zhuge Shiwei's clothes were tidied up, he had already arrived at Yuan Biao and the others, covered his hands in front of his forehead, adapted to the sunlight to look ahead, and turned his head to ask the two: "Why don't you leave?" What's going on? ”

"Well, the brother in front warns, a small army has appeared!" Yuan Biao nodded, pointed to the few people who were returning to the convoy and explained to Zhuge Shiwei, then looked behind him and continued to add: "But it's nothing!" Sir, let's go back to the car first! Leave it to us here! ”

"Okay!" Zhuge Shiwei was also refreshed, and promised to turn around and leave, but he stopped after just two steps, turned his head and added to Yuan Biao and the others: "If there is any situation that can't be solved, just call the deity to solve it!" ”

After finishing speaking, regardless of the helpless smiles of Yuan Biao and the others, he strode back towards the carriage, and undressed as he walked, and kept muttering: "It's hot to death, the sun in winter is so poisonous!" ”

Under the helpless smile of everyone, the Red Maple brothers who were exploring the way in front also returned to the team, and the person who led the team was Lu Shaode, and now Lu Shaode is already the head of Red Maple, this time he transferred people from Hanzhong Mansion to assist, and Wan Qixing, who stayed in Hanzhong Mansion, sent his apprentice Lu Shaode out, and by the way, he also exercised.

"Brother Biao, Brother Chen, Brother Zhao!" Lu Shaode first greeted several 'senior' figures with fists, and then pointed sideways to the front and explained: "A small army was found ahead, about the size of a hundred-man brigade!" But the banner is that of a regimental captain! Looks like there should be one of their brigades nearby! ”

The military system of the Tang Empire was a group of ten people, with a group of ten people and a group commander. Five groups in a team, set up a team. Two teams and one brigade, with one brigade commander. Two brigades and one regiment, with one lieutenant. Sometimes a regiment is three brigades.

"How can there be an army here? Where are they headed? Chen Wansan frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice.

"It's said to be an army, but it's actually similar to bandits!" Lu Shaode did not answer directly, but also frowned and explained: "Those people are as if they have just been robbed, and they are loaded with large bags of goods on horseback, and even the brothers who are close to see some of the vacant horses and women on their backs!" ”

"What?!" Hearing this, everyone was stunned, staring at them and asking loudly.

"It seems that after such a long boring time, God also wants us to move before we arrive in Mianshui County!" Yuan Biao was the first to react, rubbing his arms back and forth on the horse's back, squinting and looking ahead, with a faint smile on his face.

"A bunch of scum! Disgrace! Chen Wansan cursed the other party in a low voice, waved his hand at Zhao Chenyi, and ordered in a deep voice: "Let the brothers get ready!" Kill this group of scum! ”

There is no need to think about it at all, although there was a battle in Chengdu Mansion, and it can even be said that the entire Jiannan Province was implicated, but the current front is still in the Yazhou area, even Jiazhou is just on alert, and there is no war at all, how can there be a war in Luzhou, which is hundreds of miles away? There is only one answer, and that is that there was a riot here, and it was a riot by the officials and soldiers.

"Okay! It's been so long, my arms are almost rusty! Zhao Chenyi happily agreed, turned his horse's head and walked towards the rear convoy, shouting at everyone as he walked: "Brothers, get ready!" ”

"Then I'll bring the other party over!" Seeing this, Lu Shaode knew that this battle was inevitable, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to lure the enemy, and without waiting for Yuan Biao and others to agree, he turned the horse's head around and galloped in the direction just now, and at the same time picked up a longbow from the saddle and pulled out three carved feather arrows from the quiver.

The brigade of thieves of about 100 people had indeed just gone through a robbery, and they ransacked a nearby village. But among the more than 100 people, there are not only officials and soldiers, but also bandits and bandits. They were the official army of Hejiang County, Luzhou, because there was a war in Jiannan Province, so two months ago, under the conscription order of Luzhou, the counties under their jurisdiction recruited hundreds of thousands of people to form an army, but these newly formed troops had no discipline at all.

In the first battle of Chengdu Mansion, Jiannan Dao Jiedu made Chen Jingxuan a complete defeat, and even Luzhou, which was hundreds of miles away, was also affected by the defeat, and officials at all levels did not know what to do, and Chen Jingxuan repeatedly sent troops to urge grain, resulting in a shortage of surplus grain in Luzhou this year, and even ordinary people's homes were reduced from three meals a day to two meals a day, one of which was still porridge.

In this case, the instability of the situation has been accelerated, and the bandits and bandits who have great hidden dangers in the surrounding areas have been summoned to loot in the nearby states and counties, while the recruits trained by the states and counties at all levels in Luzhou are ineffective, and several times the bandits have failed, and many recruits have turned to the bandits and bandits, relying on fighting homes and robbing houses to survive, and at the same time they can also enjoy the excitement of experiencing it.

The current team, led by the captain, was originally just a nearby bandit, because in the process of being suppressed, he led fifty or sixty brothers to defeat the three two hundred recruit regiments who went to be responsible for suppressing the bandits, and it was also considered 'famous in a battle' in the vicinity. In that battle alone, the other side took in more than 100 captives to expand its ranks. Subsequently, after several "battles against bandits", the other side expanded its number to several hundred.

The other party simply expanded his team to nearly 1,000 people, and according to the army system, it was divided into five regiments, and then took many of his subordinates to accept the recruitment of Luzhou Assassin History, and became a new army in Luzhou.