When the sun was biased to the west, Liu Ce accompanied Guo Tao and them into the manor, and learned from their mouths that this village was called Wanjiazhuang, which was the property of the local gentry, because of the thieves, the gentry took their family members and slaves, packed up a few cars of gold and silver and went to Caizhou for refuge, this Zhuangzi was so empty, because the walls of the Zhuangzi were made of bricks and wood mixed with glutinous rice and egg white, it was extremely hard, and it became a temporary refuge for the displaced people to escape the war.

Liu Ce followed the group past the houses where the homeless people lived, almost all of whom were in rags, and the long-term travel and malnutrition caused these people to look skinny and bloodless. Due to the lack of management, there was a foul stench everywhere in the Zhuangzi.

"Mother, hungry ......" In a corner, a three- or four-year-old child snuggled up to a woman, shouting that he was hungry, watching the child scream hungry, and the mother couldn't help it.

Liu Ce avoided the woman's eyes, continued to walk forward, passing by a room, there was a thick gasp of men and women in the room, looking through the hidden window, only to see a thin woman lying on the table, holding a piece of coarse grain cake in her mouth, naked, behind him a man in his forties who was also slightly emaciated, naked, clinging to the woman's body and squirming, seeing Liu Ce's view, he did not evade, turned a blind eye, and the woman panted while stuffing the cake into her mouth, with a numb look.

Liu Ce's throat moved, no longer looking, and followed Guo Tao and them forward, several women in front of them were struggling to pour some wild vegetables and mixed noodles into the pot in front of a large cauldron, and the other two women carried a bucket of water and poured it into the pot together......

"This world, alas, ......" At this time, a gray-shirted young man walked out of the door, looked at the prospect, couldn't help shaking his head, and when he saw Liu Ce and the others, he still shook his head, and walked over to the green-shirted young man and said: "Brother Qin, I really didn't expect it to be so miserable, I thought that there should be no such miserable thing except for the Far East, but I didn't think that this way would be hell on earth." ”

"Brother Liu, you see I almost forgot, let me introduce to you, this is Brother Ye Bin, this is Brother Qin Mo Qin, these two met on the way to escape, and they came here with a few of us all the way, and helped a lot......

After Guo Tao's exchange, Liu Ce knew that the green-shirted guest was named Qin Mo, and the white-shirted young man was called Ye Bin, who was also a member of the Far Eastern scholars, due to the southern invasion of the Hu people every year, the Far Eastern provinces suffered military disasters every year, seeing that the imperial court soldiers and horses did nothing, and the people suffered disasters every year, Qin Mo took out all his savings in anger to fund the righteous army to resist the southern invasion of Hu Lu, but under the double pressure of the Hu people and the local scholar lords, the righteous army was quickly wiped out, and he was framed for plotting misdeeds because of his efforts to fund the righteous army, and even the family, and spent a lot of silver to save his life, but was expelled from the door by the family, so Qin Mo was disheartened and ran away to travel the world in order to be clean. On the way, he met the same cynical Ye Bin, and under the exchange between the two, they sympathized with each other, and traveled together, witnessing the forcible seizure of the gentry of the government, the displacement of the people, and the thieves were everywhere through Heyuan and Jingtai, while the officials and soldiers were passive, and there was no hope for the Great Zhou Dynasty. Because the two have practiced martial arts since childhood, they also did heroic deeds, and after the fall of Gaoyang, they also rescued many homeless people from the hands of thieves and bandits, but they watched more people suffer and could not do anything...... When encountering dozens of bandits at one time, they met Xu Hui and his party in the year of Feng Chou, and jointly repelled the bandits, Xu Hui proposed to go together, and the two agreed after thinking about it, and it took more than half a month to temporarily settle down in Wanjiazhuang.

After listening to the introduction, Liu Ce hugged Qin Mo Yebin with admiration, and the two also hugged their fists in return.

"Brother Yang, take out all our food and distribute it to them." Liu Ce turned around and said to Yang Kaishan, thinking that Yang Kaishan would refuse, but the three of them agreed without thinking about it, and without looking back, he beckoned a few men who looked a little strong to unload the grain on the truck together, Qin Mo nodded secretly at Liu Ce's move......

When night fell, the homeless people ate the first meal of thicker rice porridge and sweet potato soup noodles in such a long time, although the taste was not very good, but in this troubled era, who cared about this, even if Qin Mo Yebin and other scholars looked a little embarrassed after eating.

After the meal, Liu Ce, Yang Kaishan, Yang Youhuai, Sun Cheng, Yang Fan, Guo Tao, Chen Qing, Feng Chounian, Qin Mo, Ye Bin, Feng Ying, Xu Hui, and Han Feng, several important figures in the village, sat around the bonfire and discussed what to do next.

"Now that there is a shortage of food in the village, and the homeless people are still pouring in, how can this be good." Ye Bin threw a piece of firewood into the bonfire and said.

"In four or five days, we will run out of food, and now we can't sustain a half-full meal every day, and the rice porridge is already thin enough to raise fish." Chen Qing also said worriedly, he was very happy to know that Liu Ce was alive, and looked at Liu Ce at this time, hoping that he could come up with a way like Houtu Fort.

Liu Ce looked at the fire, a dagger in his hand and a thin log, without saying a word to listen to the others, he was not familiar with this generation and needed more intelligence and information to determine the next strategy.

Qin Mo took a sip of water and said slowly: "It's not just a food problem, the thieves are gathering ten miles away, I'm afraid that when the time comes, they will target this Zhuangzi, once it is broken by the thieves, the more than 1,000 homeless people in our village will die without a place to bury!" ”

Liu Ce's hand on the fine wood stopped abruptly and asked, "Where the thieves gather?"

"Exactly." Qin Mo said, "It may not matter if we wait, it's a big deal to continue to flee, but how can the people in the village escape from the pursuit of thieves?"

"Wait." Liu Ce didn't directly answer Qin Mo's words, "You mean the thieves are ten miles away?" How long ago was that? ”

"Counting the days, it's been eight or nine days, what's wrong?" Qin Mo raised his head and looked at Liu Ce with a puzzled expression.

Liu Ce pondered for a while and continued to ask, "How many people are there?" ”

"It won't be less than eight hundred." Ye Bin on the side said, "After Brother Chen Qing and I went to investigate before, we estimated that it was only a lot more, and they had eighty pots per meal, and one pot was at least ten people, and it must be no less than eight hundred." ”

Then why did they delay attacking Zhuangzi? There are all old and weak women and children in the village, and they are right under their noses, how can they watch this side and not do anything?" Liu Ce raised his doubts.

"Maybe they think we're not a threat for a while, right?" Ye Bin replied unconfidently, and Qin Mo on the side began to ponder, suddenly he got up and took out a pair of parchment from his body and spread it out, everyone looked at it, and couldn't help but gasp, the parchment about the main roads in Heyuan appeared densely on it, in Liu Ce's opinion, it was still very rough, just a rough idea, but it was enough to determine his current location.

Qin Mo slapped his thigh: "I see, after the fall of Gaoyang, the thieves have already controlled the financial grain routes of the states and counties here, and the group of thieves ten miles away should be a branch guarding the grain routes here." ”

"Heh, the thieves are now starting to know about the grain after capturing Gaoyang? It seems that this is not a good thing for Zhao Yuanji. Sun Cheng, who rarely spoke, muttered casually.

"Zhao Yuanji's life or death has nothing to do with us, the key is ......" Liu Ce's eyes were cold, "Rob him." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes immediately lit up, especially Qin Mo was even more shocked, grabbing food? You're too bold, just a few of us? It is not known who robbed whom.

Feng Chou Nian, on the contrary, agreed with Liu Ce's words very much.

Although the Yang Kaishan brothers have the will, this is not so easy to grab a cart of grain today, since it is an important place for grain, even if there are not many people, it is by no means that those thieves who have just joined the gang do not have combat effectiveness, he came out of the thief army, although the thieves are not as outstanding in martial arts as themselves, but they are also fierce and not afraid of death, and they are not easy to mess with.

"Brother Liu, what do you say?" Xu Hui, who had not spoken on the side, clenched his fists, these days, especially after Zeng Yan's death, he has matured a lot.

"Brother Liu, you say, what should I do?" Chen Qing felt admiration for Liu Cena from the bottom of his heart, even though it had been a while since the Battle of Houtubao.

"Wait, wait, isn't that too hasty." Ye Bin hurriedly stopped, "Let's talk about 800 people on the other side, just us, plus those old and weak people in the village, how can we grab food?"

Liu Ce glared at Ye Bin and said word by word: "Are you waiting to starve to death?" The scene he saw when he entered the manor today, hunger, dirty, and turbidity, these are nothing, and the most important thing is that he couldn't see a glimmer of hope in the eyes of the homeless, but he was insensitive, this kind of look had never been seen even in Sister-in-law Qing's mother and daughter, and he was deeply touched by himself.

Moreover, seeing that the wall of this Zhuangzi is solid, it is a rare stronghold, and I don't want to wander aimlessly, but the biggest problem to settle down is food, so this grain village must be robbed.

Qin Mo thought for a while and said: "But there are nearly a thousand thieves, we only have these people, even if we add the strong men who still have strength in the village, there are more than 100 people, how to fight?" After all, he had also participated in the battle of the rebel army, and he also had a little knowledge of the army, so he knew that there was a huge gap between the two sides.

Liu Ce looked around, then stared at Qin Mo and pointed to his head and said, "You can't rely on brute force alone to fight, you have to rely on your brain, if we kill like this, it's better to wait for death." ”

"Old Feng!" Without waiting for Qin Mo and the others to reply, Liu Ce said to Feng Ying, "You always brag about how your skills are, now it's time to pull it out and slip away, if you are cowardly, get out of here!" ”

When Feng Ying heard this, her face kept twitching, and she replied, "Say, what do you want me to do!" ”

Liu Ce gestured the sharpened wood to the ground for a while, and said: "Make dozens of square shields in this way, the more the better, and you can find the planks that can be used in the Zhuangli plank." ”

Feng Ying glanced at the style on the ground, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, what is this, I can't do this, just hit my head and die.

Liu Ce's "square shield" couldn't be more simple, that is, a few wooden planks were put together and then a few thick ropes were tied together to fix it, but there was an inverted triangle gap above the shield and I didn't know what to do, Liu Ce didn't say, and Feng Ying didn't ask.

"Who calls the shots in the village?" Liu Ce asked again, everyone sitting around looked at each other, and then they all looked at Liu Ce, as if to say that you have the master......

It's no wonder that there is no one in charge of the village, and if there is, the village will not be so messy. It may be possible for these big bosses to go into battle to kill the enemy, but managing the homeless people is a black eye, and they don't know where to start, including Qin Mo Yebin, although they also take care of some industries in the clan, they really have no experience in managing the homeless.

Liu Ce sighed and said: "Since this is the case, then I will be the master for the time being, Mr. Qin, you will order to go down tomorrow morning, and call some men who still have strength to give Lao Feng a hand, it is better to have craftsmen, Mr. Ye, you tell those women and children to clean up the village tomorrow morning, if it is so dirty and messy on such a hot day, bacteria will breed, and if you get sick, it will be all over, Chen Qing Guo Tao, you two will find more than 100 men tomorrow, it is best to drag the family with the mouth, I will teach them how to set up the formation, although there is no time, but it can only be like this, Brother Yang, you take someone to the place we came to outside the village tomorrow morning, there is a lot of raw ash there, how many will be loaded back for me, remember to cover your face, don't be touched by the ashes, Xu Hui Brother Xu, don't be idle, tomorrow the porridge will be thicker, let everyone eat as much as possible, two meals of training and doing things, women and children are old and weak, but it must be thicker......"

Listening to Liu Ce's tight and methodical arrangement of various things for everyone, everyone really wondered if this guy was a young master from a big family, how could he be so skilled, but those soldiers who had served in the army together knew that Liu Ce could not be a scholar, and there was no one surnamed Liu in the Shi clan, if there was, he would not stay here now but would have been in Caizhou City for a long time......

When the bonfire was about to burn out, everyone gradually dispersed, Qin Mo stood beside Ye Bin looking at Liu Ce's departure direction and was silent for a long time, Ye Bin said, "What do you think of Liu Ce?" ”

"I don't know, let's see how he resettles the more than 1,000 people in the village this time." Qin Mo put his hands behind him, his eyes were focused, and his face showed a hint of determination.