Zhang Xiang was silent for a moment and said: "It's a pity that we have too few personnel, and the training is insufficient, and the county soldiers are unwilling to send out support. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Liu Bei nodded: "I have my own way, if the thieves are not removed, I will not be at ease." ”

Zhang Xiang said: "Okay! I'm going to make arrangements, and I'm going to find out the rules of the bandits' activities. ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "You go!" Be careful yourself! ”

One day three months later, Zhang Xiang came to report: "Liu Gongzi! I got the news of a small leader in the cave of a bandit, saying that the bandit plans to go down the mountain tomorrow to plunder, the location is Yi County, I wonder if the son has any plans? ”

Liu Bei's eyes lit up and said, "Is this news true?" ”

Zhang Xiang said: "This little boss was captured by our people when he went down the mountain alone, and after our persuasion, he agreed to be our insider, on the condition that he promised to leave him alive and not hurt his family, and give him a little money to let him fly away after the cottage was wiped out." ”

Liu Bei said: "What is the character of this person? If it is hated by the villagers, it is not possible to agree. ”

Zhang Xiang said: "This person has just gone up, is from a neighboring county, when his family was collecting taxes in the government, there was no money to pay taxes, so the official took his sister to sell to a brothel to pay taxes, he was angry, killed the tax collector, and fled." Because he had served in the border pass for many years and was full of martial arts, he was favored by the bandit leader and stayed by his side to be a small leader. It took a lot of effort for us to arrest him, and he injured a few people. Later, it was his parents who took him hostage that he agreed. ”

"Is what he said reliable?" Liu Bei asked again.

Zhang Xiang thought for a moment and said, "It should be reliable." When we were arresting him, we happened to run into him taking his parents up the mountain, but we stopped him. It was only after his parents persuaded him to agree to be our traitor, and we should also promise that he would give him a sum of money after the matter was completed, so that he could take his parents to find a place to live. ”

Liu Bei said: "Okay! As long as he can succeed, he will do what he promises, and he must not break his promise. ”

Zhang Xiang said: "Thank you Gongzi for your success." ”

Liu Bei said: "It's nothing, as long as he is not the leader of the thieves designated by the villagers, and can help us get rid of the bandits, and the request is not excessive, he deserves it." ”

"Is that going to attack the village first or to ambush them?" Zhang Xiang asked.

Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, "Attack the village!" Get rid of their lair first, then ambush them, kill their thieves, and the bandits will naturally disperse. ”

Zhang Xiang said a little worriedly: "Is our strength enough, I estimate that they are almost five hundred now." Even if they stay in the village, there should be no less than 200 people. So I'm worried that we won't be strong enough. ”

Liu Bei smiled and said: "Don't worry, in the past few months, I have been going to the countryside every day, and I found that many of our Zhuoxian soldiers have participated in the border service, and have a certain amount of war experience, I talked to them, as long as they participate in our plan to capture the bandits, I will give each person 2,000 yuan."

In addition, killing a bandit adds 500 coins, and a boss adds 2,000 coins. Those who were wounded and killed in battle were compensated to his family according to the laws of the Han Dynasty. I calculated that there were about 500 such people, and even if not all of them came, it would not be a problem for more than 300 people to come. ”

Zhang Xiang said excitedly when he heard this: "Sure enough, the son has a way." It's just that with this lot of money, where can I find it? ”

Liu Bei smiled slightly: "Bandit." If the thieves can't find so much, I'll make it up to them myself, and if I can't make up enough, I owe it, and give it slowly. They are all villagers, so it should be no problem. ”

Zhang Xiang glanced at Liu Bei and said, "Son, you are so good!" ”

As soon as the news of Liu Bei's secret recruitment arrived, all these people arrived, five hundred and thirty people, one is not a lot.

Liu Bei smiled bitterly, he estimated that more than 300 people, so many people came at once, which was another extra amount of money.

In the past two years, with the help of those brothers, the business has done a lot better, and there are more things sold, and I can receive more than a dozen catties of yellow catties every year, adding up to more than 30 catties, as long as the thieves help a little bit.

This is also his plan to wait for the bandits to go out before attacking the mountain, in order to break through each one and reduce casualties.

Know that it takes more money to compensate for each casualty.

That's a lot more than that.

But there are many people who are easy to do, the terrain of Wuji Mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is necessary to use danger and strategy to attack the mountain. After sweeping away the thieves in the cottage, if you want to ambush the thieves who go out and return to the mountain, you also need not to leak the news, otherwise it will be in vain, and if you don't do it well, you will be ambushed by the bandits.

The thieves went out to loot and left the village early in the morning before dawn and returned to the village at night.

Liu Bei first gathered hundreds of villagers one day and took them to the ravine in the opposite direction to the thieves overnight, and they were only two miles away from the thieves' cottage.

Most of the dozens of anti-thieves in the county remain in the county office.

Before dawn, someone who monitored the bandits sent back news that the bandits had left the cave, and there were about 300 people.

Liu Bei quickly assigned, took the most elite thirty people selected from hundreds of people, quietly approached the cottage, and climbed up while the bandits were relaxed. Zhang Fei and Liu Shi naturally will not be without them, and the others are slowly approaching.

Half an hour later, as soon as the sky was bright, Liu Bei took advantage of the bandits' negligence to launch a battle to seize the door.

These bandits never dreamed that someone would attack them when their main force was coming down the mountain.

The bandit traveled and disturbed his sleepiness, and at this time, the bandit guarding the gate was still ignorant, and he didn't even have time to react, so he died.

A flag was set up at the gate of the village, and when the people under the mountain saw it, except for a small number of people who were left to monitor the intersection at the bottom of the mountain, the rest of the people quickly followed and seized the entire village.

When the leader of the left-behind cottage was discovered, the entire cottage had been occupied by Liu Bei.

These hundreds of people are veterans who have gone through the battle array, and the bandits left behind in the cottage are all old and weak, except for the bandit leader who struggled slightly and was stabbed to death by Zhang Fei with a spear, most of the rest were killed in their sleep.

Only some old people and children survived, and some veterans couldn't do it.

You know, every kill is 500 beads!

Later, Liu Bei sent people to search the entire cottage and found a batch of grain, salt, oil, cloth, dozens of catties of gold, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some hand ornaments and other objects.

At this moment, Liu Bei's heart was relieved.

I also secretly hate this bandit, I don't know how many people he killed.

After resting for a while, a hundred people were left to temporarily guard outside the cottage, and the rest immediately went down the mountain to the predetermined place to ambush.

By the end of the day, hundreds of bandits were bulging in their waists, giggling and driving a few carriages all the way, and there was not even a single outpost.

As soon as he entered the ambush circle, Liu Bei gave an order, and hundreds of people rushed out together.

Suddenly, these hundreds of bandits were stunned.

Looking at the five-baht coins one by one, hundreds of men were red-eyed.

After a burst of slashing, these bandits were killed by these men before they could resist, except for a few people, most of them were killed by two people, or even three people killed one.

Liu Bei didn't estimate how much magic he had to add five hundred yuan to kill a bandit as they promised him, and looked at the corpses of the bandits all over the ground and smiled bitterly.

After reporting the number of thieves they killed, these villagers consciously began to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses, and their movements were extremely skillful.

Liu Bei asked people to check whether anyone was injured or killed.

A moment back only a few wounded, no killed.

Liu Bei nodded and showed a hint of a smile.

These villagers are dragged by their families, and if someone dies, it will bring great trauma to the family.

He walked over and looked at the wounded and examined the wounds.

He found that the wounds had been cleaned and bandaged with some simplicity.

Nodding secretly, the veteran was really different.

When asked how they were injured, the men replied: "When they just rushed down, they saw a man who looked like a small leader running into the forest, and they chased after him."

Unexpectedly, this little leader was extremely fierce and injured several people in a row, if it wasn't for the other party's rush to flee for their lives, they might have been injured even more seriously.

Liu Bei nodded, comforted them a few words, and then instructed Liu Zhen to clean up these belongings.

After a while, Liu Zhen came to report, Liu Bei waved his hand and said: "According to the promise, these warriors will be given the fee for clearing and suppressing the thieves, and the injured will make up more, and the rest will be sent back!" ”

When the villagers heard this, they were so happy that they shouted, 'Hooray!' ’