After Zhang Xian got the report, he immediately asked the county Cheng and Dutou to go to the city gate with him to investigate, out of the county yamen, Wang Fu, Niu Dameng, Jiang Wei, Li Jinde, Fang Kun, Luo Tiantian and other six people, have been waiting for a long time, everyone rushed to the city tower with the officials, the county official was already anxious to turn around the city, saw Zhang Xian coming, and hurriedly said:

"Lord Zhang, you are here, as soon as the official returned home, this hateful bandit sent people to gather under the city of Yangzhou, and this bandit claimed to take out 50,000 taels of silver and 200,000 catties of grain from the county, otherwise, otherwise, otherwise, otherwise, ....."

"What else? Murder or arson or siege? Zhang Xian saw that the county order was swallowing, and he also lost his temper.

"They said otherwise, they would block the city gate and don't let the people of Yangzhou City enter and exit!" The county magistrate saw that Zhang Xian's face was not good, so he hurriedly said directly.

"Lord County, it is not difficult to deal with this group of bandits, but the premise is that the entire Yangzhou City, regardless of people and things, must listen to the orders of the officials, and if you dare to disobey, you will be killed!"

After Zhang Xian finished speaking, he stood in front of the battlement of the city tower, and saw that the following was densely packed with people, these four thousand people were obviously divided into seven gathering circles, except for the formation of about 1,000 people in the middle, the formation was quite neat, the front was a hundred shield hands to protect the formation, the middle of six or seven hundred pikemen stood with their guns raised, and the archers of the two or three hundred rear teams pressed the formation, but it was very military-like, however, the other seven formations were crooked and twisted, and some even used bamboo spears made of bamboo sharpening, and the seven bandit leaders in front of the formation, everyone rode a war horse, and the person at the head looked five big and three thick, actually wore the fine armor of the Song Army.

The county commander saw the dense bandits below, and he was already frightened, since this kid's family had exterminated the mountain bandits in the process of escorting grain and grass, maybe he could resist for a while this time, and when Li Tingzhi's reinforcements arrived, he agreed:

"Okay, this official now appoints the county lieutenant Lord Zhang to be fully responsible for the suppression of bandits, and all the people and things in this county must be deployed by Lord Zhang, otherwise, they will be killed!"

"The lower official has thanked the county lord for his authorization, and he will not disgrace his mission! Wang Dutou, do you know this bandit? Where did they come from? Zhang Xian was authorized, and immediately turned his head to stare at the head of the catcher and asked.

"My lord, this bandit really doesn't know his subordinates, under normal circumstances, this bandit knows that the city wall of Yangzhou City is tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the most important thing is that Li Tingzhi, the squire of the military department, Li Tingzhi of Yangzhou, although he is not resident in Yangzhou City, but he is also training soldiers and horses for the imperial court in the school field fifty miles away from Yangzhou City. Therefore, it is common for bandits to come to Yangzhou City to get a vote and run away, and it is the first time that they dare to go to the city tower to call out such a battle. "Wang Changwei can't suppress bandits, but after all, he has been immersed in the local area for many years, and he still knows a lot about local affairs.

After listening to what Wang Dutou said, Zhang Xian couldn't get useful information, so he personally shouted below:

"This official Yangzhou City and County Lieutenant, dare to ask who is in charge of the city? Seeing that there are many of you, I think you should also know that the soldiers in my city are not opponents, so this official is in charge of the county lord, and we agreed to your request, but the silver is easy to raise, but the grain needs to be mobilized from the surrounding granaries, and it will take a day before and after, so how about coming at this time tomorrow? But please don't hurt the innocent people, I don't know what the family wants? ”

"Hahaha, it turned out to be a county lieutenant, it seems that you are also interested, I am Liu Zuohu, the master of Jianglong, today we dare to go to your Yangzhou territory, to tell you the truth, what kind of virtue are you bullshit officials, Lao Tzu has long understood clearly, you are full of more than 1,000 people, Lao Tzu has also personally killed dozens of people who eat human flesh, drink human blood, three heads and six arms of the Tartar head, our 4,000 army, just more than 1,000 people, are all soft eggs who kill good and take credit, and you will be wiped out in an instant. Even if Lao Tzu can't kill your Yangzhou City, which has high walls and thick walls, but if you seal your city gate, you won't dare to come out to fight! Since you know each other, then we will come to collect the money and food on time at this time tomorrow, if you have less money and food by then, or dare to play any tricks, this is your fate! ”

The bandit leader Liu Zuohu said menacingly, afraid that the officers and soldiers on the city tower would not know their power, and boasted of the magic power of the Tartars, Zhang Xian smiled in his heart, this group of people is a dish! So Zhang Xian continued:

"Liu Zuohu is in charge, we don't dare to play tricks with you, please come on time tomorrow!"

After Zhang Xian finished speaking, the bandit thought that Zhang Xian should not be able to play any tricks, and he couldn't ask for help to guard the city gate, so he dispersed back, Zhang Xian saw the bandits scattering, and immediately called Luo Sansan, whispered a few words, and saw Luo Sansan's rapid disappearance in the crowd.

"Zhang, Zhang, Master Zhang, you are crazy, banditry is a major crime of murder, how can you say that you agree on behalf of the official? Even if we can't win, we can send someone to dredge it privately, you are so blatant that you are afraid that others will not know that we are bandits? When the county commander heard what Zhang Xian said to the bandits, he immediately panicked, and regardless of the dignity of the county order, he walked over from a distance, pulled Zhang Xian to the corner and asked quietly.

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, this is a delaying tactic, these bandits, even if they are bandits, Ming'er can't run away, since the adults appoint the lower officials as the county lieutenants, then the matter of public security and theft, you must listen to the lower officials, before the lower officials do not exterminate this bandit, the lower officials must order the ban, the military orders are accessible, I hope the adults will not be embarrassed, the lower officials are embarrassed, the adults will be embarrassed, right." Zhang Xian saw that the county order was anxious to interfere with him, how could this kind of thing be tolerated? But for a while, he didn't have time to explain to the county order, so he had to coldly threaten the county order.

The county order was deflated by Zhang Xian's words, thinking that his life and death handles were pinched in Zhang Xian's hands, and he was also terrified in his heart, they are all scholars, why is this young Zhang Xian so tricky? It's really insulting, the bullshit sage book I read, the county commander hated it in his heart, but he had no choice but to say:

"Then, then it's all up to the county lieutenant, and the official still goes home and waits for good news! It's late! ”

The county man had already been frightened by the bandit momentum in front of him, and said tremblingly:

"Lord Zhang, is this—really going to prepare silver and food for the bandits? This is a deadly crime! If Li Tingzhi and Master Li knew, the lower officials really couldn't afford such a crime, so please think twice! ”

"Lord County, if Lord Li Tingzhi is to blame in the future, all the blame will be borne by the official, Lord County just said that everything in Yangzhou City is up to the official, if the matter of suppressing bandits and thieves is delayed due to hesitation, the head of Lord County Cheng will be taken unceremoniously. Lord County Cheng is still preparing the food and silver for these bandits earlier, you and Dutou hurry up and prepare, Dutou will arrange people to help transport food, remember one thing, all of them are carried by people, Ming'er is not allowed to appear under the city wall, even if it is a trolley, tomorrow at this moment, I want to see a pile of grain outside Yangzhou City, otherwise I will ask you. Zhang Xian said unceremoniously.

The county man also left with grief and indignation, thinking that since you were in a hurry to fornicate with bandits as soon as you became the county lieutenant, and your house was raided and destroyed, anyway, everyone heard what you said, and you can't blame yourself at that time. Wang Dutou saw that everyone was gone, and he didn't want to hang here, so he couldn't let this young county lieutenant do something that made people lose their souls.

Zhang Xian watched the people in the county government leave one after another, and said to Wang Fu and the others:

"Tell me, big guy, do you think we can clean up this gang of bandits? How to clean up? How much casualties do we predict to cost? Jiang Wei, let's talk about it first! ”

"My lord, my subordinates feel that it is no problem to win against them, our own brother's combat strength subordinates still know it, and the casualties are based on our subordinates, for us, the biggest threat is the archers of two or three hundred people, because we don't even have a shield now! But our brother's sprint speed is now very fast, if we outflank the attack from both sides, the bandits have at most two rounds of archery opportunities, our brother has already sprinted in front of them, so, two rounds of arrows rained down, and the subordinates predict that we may have about 200 casualties! ”

Zhang Xian nodded, and said to Fang Kun:

"Fang Kun, what do you think?"

"Lord Qiyu, my subordinates saw that the bandits were divided into several gangs, which shows that they cannot achieve effective unity internally, and if they really encounter danger, they will first save their own strength and scatter birds and beasts. Therefore, the subordinates thought that they could attack those bandits who were far away from the archers first, forcing them to flee for their lives and rush into their own archer camp. ”

Zhang Xian was noncommittal, and asked Li Jinde again:

"Li Jinde, what do you think?"

"My lord, my subordinates think that what the two brothers said is reasonable, according to our strength, victory is inevitable, it depends on the number of casualties. Although the subordinates have a lot of experience in battle formations, if we want to minimize casualties, we should not fight with bandits, because even a veteran of battle cannot avoid casualties in tough battles such as arrow-to-arrow and knife-to-knife. If we grasp the timing of the attack accurately, first disrupt the small team of bandits who have no combat power, let them mess up their positions in the retreat, and then a few of us will capture the thief together to capture the king first, and take down the bandit leader, and the casualties of our subordinates should be controlled at fifty or sixty people! ”

Zhang Xian nodded, did not say anything, and continued to ask Niu Dameng.

"My lord, my subordinates agree with Li Jinde's statement, as long as they disrupt the bandits' position, then capture the thieves and capture the king first, and destroy the four thousand bandits with fifty or sixty casualties, it should be regarded as a better record!"

Zhang Xian still nodded, mumbled, and continued to ask Wang Jiaotou and said:

"Sect Leader Wang, what do you think of it?"

Wang Fu smiled and said:

"My lord must be reluctant to suffer fifty or sixty casualties, according to the old man's opinion, my lord asked the bandits to come tomorrow to get money and food, I'm afraid it's not just a simple plan to delay the army, but a plan!"

Zhang Xian looked at Wang Fu in surprise, and had to admire Wang Fu's eyes like a torch, and saw through his plan at a glance, and said:

"Hehe, Wang Jiaotou has good eyesight, so please tell Wang Jiaotou, how to fight Ming'er, how many casualties does Wang Jiaotou predict can take down this bandit?"

"Back to my lord, according to the opinion of my subordinates, my lord piled up money and grain under the city wall, this should be the deliberate arrangement of the adult, the purpose of which is to distract the enemy's attention and vigilance, under greed, people often lose their minds, just when the bandits divide the money and food, we suddenly killed, first use the elite to quickly rush to kill the bandit archers, and then capture a few bandit leaders with the fastest speed with three generals, as long as the speed is fast enough, the subordinates can take down this bandit with a maximum of one or twenty casualties!"

Zhang Xian listened to Wang Fu's words, the so-called Jiang is still old and spicy, this is really true, just talking about the generals who lead the troops, Jiang Wei, Fang Kun, Li Jinde, Niu Dameng, these four people, at least in this era should be excellent generals, even the generals of this era, they dare not say that when they suppressed bandits, they annihilated 4,000 bandits with one or two hundred casualties, and there were nearly 1,000 defeated bandits. And Wang Fu, a general at the level of the god of war, dared to say that he used one or twenty casualties to achieve victory, and this kind of courage is difficult for ordinary people to match. But for Zhang Xian, these families are all elite soldiers who spend a lot of energy and financial resources and carefully select strong generals, and every time they consume, they will be difficult to accept, so Zhang Xian said to everyone:

"None of the casualties want to appear, victory is a must! This official wants to win! ”

When Zhang Xian finished speaking, everyone stared at Zhang Xian in surprise, and said in unison:

"Winning ???"