When everyone heard Liu Renyu say that they wanted to get rid of the bandits in Hutou Village, they all nodded again and again, and Li Jiye asked on behalf of everyone: "It is also one of our responsibilities to eliminate the bandits, and the gang of bandits in Hutou Village have been a disaster in the township for several years, and it is really happy to exterminate them, dare to ask your lordship, what is the strategy for suppressing bandits?" ”

"When I waited with this gang of bandits and bandits to exterminate Zhangjiabao a while ago, I had reconnoitred their intelligence, but now a year has passed, I am afraid that their manpower situation and the deployment situation have changed, so I have already sent Liu Renjie with a capable general to investigate the intelligence, and then I will show you the topographic map of the mountains and rivers, the sand table, and the deployment map of the troops."

"Yes, my lord, the lowly rank knows, so what strategy do you want to recruit us now?" Li Jiye asked again.

"The stakes are very high this time, I mean, we can't let a bandit get away, so this is a war of annihilation, I mean, to think of a relatively best way, that is, let us lose a little, and let us be able to wipe out all the bandits."

"My lord, you can just say your strategy, don't let the lowly rank think about it anymore, the intelligence of the lowly grade is not as good as the adult's, so please also ask the lord to make an arbitrary decision, and the lowly rank just obeys the order."

Li Jiye was afraid that Liu Renyu would have to make his own ideas from the beginning, so he immediately praised Liu Renyu, and then expressed his attitude: 'I won't say anything if I kill him.' ’

Seeing Li Jiye's attitude, Liu Renyu was dissatisfied: "Jiye, what are you talking about, you will have to be alone in the future, if you don't accumulate experience now, how will you make decisions in the future." ”

"My lord, you are not an unassertive person, you need to give advice from a low rank, and you can decide. You yourself are full of wisdom, and you don't need to praise the painting of the inferior rank, so you can just put forward the combat strategy, listen to the humble grade, and if you feel that there are any small flaws, I will make suggestions with you. ”

As soon as Li Jiye said this, everyone else nodded again and again.

After all, in front of Liu Renyu, if someone has a bad idea, they are afraid that they will be criticized, so everyone doesn't speak, just wait for Liu Renyu to give a strategy.

"Since you say so, then I can't help it, just listen to my strategy. I mean, when we find out the situation in Hutou Village, we will send all the regular troops, first ambush to the left of Hutou Village, seal all the intersections, and then Jiye, you go to Hutou Village, find those masters, go and say a few words to them. ”

"Dare to ask my lord, what is the need to say humiliation?" Li Jiye asked.

"Do you still remember, the families of the leaders of Hutou Village are still in our hands, don't you read a little incense and take good care of them."

"My lord, although the lowly position and those thieves used to make robes, but that is all in the past, the lowly position is now an official, they are thieves, and the official and the thief are not incompatible, so the lowly position and those thieves are absolutely not a good relationship, and the family of those thieves is treated favorably, and the lowly position is done according to your orders."

When Li Jiye saw Liu Renyu mention this stubble, he thought that his own general doubted his position, so he hurriedly expressed his attitude and drew a line with those thieves.

"Jiye, don't get excited, I didn't mean that, I'm just joking with you. Okay, let's get down to business, I mean, you go and tell those leaders that I'm willing to return their little family, but my status is special, and I can't go to Tiger Head Village, so let's pick a place and let them pick up their families. ”

"My lord, dare I ask where you plan to return their families?" Li Jiye asked.

"The last time we talked to them about cooperation, they didn't stop at a land temple, or there, as soon as you talked about the land temple, they should know."

"Yes, my lord, I know what I do."

"Well, when the time comes, when those thieves arrive at the Land Temple, I will lead people to kill them all, at this time there will be no leader on the mountain, and my army can naturally attack with the whole army and destroy the mountain bandits in one fell swoop. This is the initial strategy, how about it, do you have any comments or suggestions? ”

Liu Renyu said the preliminary strategy, and then asked his subordinates if they had any suggestions.

"My lord, there is a question about the lowly position." Ma Wenshan suddenly opened his mouth.

"Oh, it's Wenshan, if you have any questions, let me hear them."

"Yes, sir. Dare to ask your lordship, if you want to send a large army to exterminate the bandits in Hutou Village, there will inevitably be a large army marching towards Hutou Village, thinking that the bandits, entrenched in Hutou Mountain for a long time, must have many ears and eyes, if they know that there is a large army running towards Hutou Village, I am afraid that those thieves will definitely take precautions. ”

Ma Wenshan finished his opinion in one breath, and then lowered his head and said: "My lord, this is a little bit of ignorance of the humble position, if it is not right, please don't blame it." ”

When Liu Renyu heard these words, he first laughed, and then replied: "Wenshan, you are very good, no worse than my old brothers, and your opinions are quite good." ”

That Ma Wenshan won Liu Renyu's praise, although he tried his best to suppress it, but he could see it personally, Ma Wenshan was very happy.

After all, he Ma Wenshan is not a veteran of Duntai, although he is the same as Yang Desheng, Li Jiye, and Zhang Tieniu, he is a thousand generals, but his status is not as good as these few, so as soon as he has the opportunity, he wants to behave himself well in front of Liu Renyu, so as to get Liu Renyu's appreciation, and then then integrate into the core leadership of Jingbian Fort with this opportunity.

Because of this, Ma Wenshan was overjoyed when he received a word of praise from Liu Renyu.

And Li Jiye, Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu and others saw Liu Renyu praising an outsider, and their faces were a little unbearable, so Li Jiye asked out loud: "Wenshan, your suggestion is good, but I don't know if you have a solution?" ”

"Mr. Li Qian, there is a way to be humble. A few days before the attack on Hutou Village, a small team and a small team were sent to Hutou Mountain, and these small troops could go out day and night, and when they reached the left side of Hutou Mountain, they would lurk. ”

He added: "If you encounter idle people and so on when you are lurking, you can seize them first, so that we can ambush the large army to the foot of Hutou Mountain without knowing it, and wait until the adults get rid of those leaders, and then we will each lead our troops up the mountain to kill the bandits." ”

"Well, what you said is very good, just do what you say." Liu Renyu bowed his head and said that he affirmed Ma Wenshan's idea.

"The idea of lowly duty can be affirmed by adults, and I am afraid that lowly duty will be so excited that I can't sleep tonight." Ma Wenshan said excitedly.

"Well, don't be poor. Okay, the strategy of attacking Hutou Village is basically like this, what we still need to wait for now is the information that Liu Renjie investigated, waiting for his information to arrive. Let's formulate a specific strategy for using troops according to the topographic map of mountains and rivers and the sand table. Your task now is to take a rest, give the soldiers a few days off, and when you have enough spirits, we will go and kill the bandits. ”

"Yes, my lord, the inferior rank knows." Everyone first agreed in unison.

Then, as if Zhang Tieniu remembered something, Ai Ai asked Liu Renyu in a twisted manner: "This, my lord, you said that we want to exterminate the mountain bandits, but it is expected that there must be old and weak women and children in the bandits' cottages. So I want to ask, what do you plan to do with the old and weak women and children in Hutou Village? ”

When Zhang Tieniu said this, Yang Desheng, who was sitting next to him, nodded again and again, and when Zhang Tieniu asked how to deal with the old and weak women and children in Hutou Village, Yang Desheng looked at his own general and wanted to see how Liu Renyu replied.

When Liu Renyu heard Zhang Tieniu ask like this, he couldn't help frowning, and asked with a dark face: "What, if I let you lead soldiers to kill the old and weak women and children, do you still dare to disobey the order and not kill it?" ”

After he said this, he swept his men's faces with a serious face.

Zhang Tieniu heard that his own general was looking at him expressionlessly, and only thought that he was a dignified official and soldier, and killing the enemy on the battlefield was the ability, so he was a little resistant to the slaughter of old and weak women and children, because he heard Liu Renyu say that all the people in Hutou Village were killed, and he thought that his family would mainly let him kill the old like women and children, but he was unwilling, so he asked this question.

Unexpectedly, Liu Renyu asked him a rhetorical question, could he still disobey his orders.

So Zhang Tieniu hurriedly got up from the chair, bowed down and saluted: "My lord, how dare you disobey your orders, you will kill the old and weak women and children, and the lowly will also be killed." ”

"Really?" Liu Renyu asked.

"Seriously." Zhang Tieniu nodded vigorously and replied.

"Well, it's pretty much the same, Tie Niu said it very well, Desheng, don't you say?" After Liu Renyu finished talking to Zhang Tieniu, he turned his head and asked Yang Desheng.

Yang Desheng saw Liu Renyu's uncertain face, and immediately replied with a smile: "Tie Niu is right, the lowly position is the same as what he thinks. ”

"That's fine, it's good that you have such thoughts, but I'm not going to let you do such a dishonorable thing." Liu Renyu paused suddenly when he said this.

When Yang Desheng and Zhang Tieniu heard Liu Renyu's words, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

And Liu Renyu looked at the two fierce generals under him, and then said: "We don't have to do this kind of dirty work ourselves, this time we didn't recruit a thief named Wang Zuohang, these thieves kill people regardless of men, women and children." Someone came, and called Wang Zuohang from the inn. ”

As soon as Liu Renyu gave the order, one of the servants took the order and went straight to Wang Zuohang.

When Wang Zuohang was taken to Liu Renyu by the servant, Liu Renyu asked Wang Zuohang, who was kneeling on the ground and confused: "When the leopard head Lin Chong was like Liangshan, Wang Lun asked him to get a letter of nomination, so that he was willing to enter the cottage, and now that you have surrendered to me, I also want you to submit a letter of nomination." ”