A small courtyard in Zhuolu Mountain.

The house was full of people, except for Zhiwen and others, who were far away in the grassland and had no whereabouts so far, the main personnel of Zhuolu Mountain had all arrived.

"Mr. Song, I thank you here in advance, you saved Huang Si's life." Ma Er arched his hand at Song Xiance, "If it weren't for your clever plan and timely let Kewang and Lao San bring people to respond, not only would Huang Si and Eleven people be broken, but the exact news would not have been able to come back." ”

"That's it, Second Brother Ma." Song Xiance waved his hand again and again, "Thanks to you for finding out the details of Jinxi from Zhou Chengyun's son, if I hadn't learned that there were rogues in Jinxi not long ago, but they suddenly disappeared recently, I would never have judged that this group of refugees who suddenly appeared was the disappeared rogues, speaking of which, a few of them were saved, and you also had a share." ”

"That is, you can only imagine, I and other rough people, where would I think of refugees and rogues together, I can't imagine that these thieves are so ruthless, and the grace to save lives is yours after all." Ma Er sighed convincingly.

"Okay, okay, it's all a family, thank you for the trouble," Sun Kewang said, "If you want to talk about the grace of saving your life, and the third brother, and me, do you also want to thank them one by one, Second Brother Ma?" ”

"That's a must." Ma Erhao said dryly, "When it disperses in a while, I'll take those four boys and invite everyone to drink." ”

During the Lantern Festival, in order to entertain the major shopkeepers, Zhuo Luji bought a lot of wine, and the mountains were also stained, and some of them were tuned, but Ma Er was happy.

"You'll have to pay for it yourself." Song Caijie said coldly on the side.

"No problem." Ma Er didn't care about it at all, the money and food he got now was to drink every day, but he knew that he was responsible and didn't have much time to be greedy.

"I don't want to drink with you," Sun Kewang flatly refused, "Xiao Zhi said, none of us yet... Nothing..."

"Underage!" Sun Dachun was deeply impressed by these strange-sounding words in Zhiwen's mouth, but they made sense when he thought about it.

"Yes, underage, Xiao Zhi said, underage drinking is not good for the body." Sun Kewang said seriously.

"Cut!" Ma Er pouted, "You can't drink, what's the fun of living, I've been drunk many times when I'm your age." ”

"Mr. Song, let's get down to business," Song Caijie said coldly again, "Whether to drink or not, let's decide for ourselves later." ”

Song Caijie's temperament is getting colder and colder, in stark contrast to his sister Xiaoying who jumped out, and everyone is talking in private, saying that he ran into something unclean when he followed Zhiwen to find the underground vault, so that he would become like this.

Song Xiance coughed dryly, "Xiao Jie is right, let's get down to business first, a few days ago, Second Brother Ma discovered a large group of refugees who went north, and now it is clear that they are bandits who fled from northern Shaanxi, as for what their intentions are, it is not clear at present, today we are convening everyone to discuss together, how to deal with these people." ”

"What's there to talk about, if they don't come to provoke us, if there is any bad intention, beat him." Sun Kewang was the first to say.

"Dingguo, what do you think?" Song Xiance ignored Sun Kewang's nonsense and directly asked Li Dingguo's opinion.

"I think..."Li Dingguo hesitated for a moment, looked at Song Xiance, saw him nod slightly, and finally said, "... Their target is probably our Zhuolu Mountain. ”

"Yo, these people are so bold, they actually beat our idea, I haven't done it yet, I haven't done it yet, just make up for it." Sun Kewang jumped up and said.

"Dingguo, why do you say that?"

"Dingguo, is there a basis for such a judgment?"

So many people pointed at Zhuolu Mountain, and the remaining few people couldn't sit still and asked one after another.

"Well, why don't you ask Mr. Song to tell me, it's purely my intuition." Li Dingguo excused himself, Song Xiance's behavior showed that the two had the same opinion, and as for the truth, let the reader say it.

"Bury me? Dingguo, if you want to say that you don't see any clues, I don't believe it, let's talk about it, let's confirm each other. Song Xiance said.

"Okay." Li Dingguo said, "Actually, I only focus on one point - grain, the thieves must be short of food, so they ran from northern Shaanxi to western Shanxi, according to Zhou Gongzi's report, the governor of western Jinxi will concentrate the money and grain of various states and counties in Jinyang Mansion, although it has not yet cleared the wilderness, but it is already a strong wall, the thieves and grass can not be replenished, they must find another way, Jingshi will definitely not dare to go, and our reputation for recruiting people some time ago has spread out again, to recruit people must have food, then it has naturally become their goal." ”

"Dingguo is right." Song Xiance agreed, "But they dare to go up from the northwest of Jin Province and pass through the two border towns, and their courage is a bit unexpected." ”

"It's not surprising, that's why they don't hesitate to eliminate the spies, if the news is revealed, it will be self-defeating." Song Caijie said.

"So, there's going to be a battle soon?" Sun Kewang suddenly burst into laughter.

"I'm afraid it's true." After listening to Li Dingguo's analysis, Dr. Sun was worried, "More than 100,000 people, can we withstand it?" ”

"Ants bite and kill elephants, so many people, consumption can consume us to death." Li Zhi is also not optimistic.

"More than 100,000 people is good, but there is no need to worry." Song Xiance saw that some people were frightened, and hurriedly comforted, "Most of them are refugees who have been coerced by thieves, and they have almost no combat power, and what they can really fight is the personal guards of those leaders, I don't think it will exceed 10,000." ”

"More than 10,000 people," Li Dingguo said, "I don't think they can afford to feed so many people with the food they can grab, and I heard that they have a lot of horses, so it won't exceed 5,000 people." ”

"Even if there are only 5,000 capable warriors, it is two to three times the number of our entire mountain." Dr. Sun said.

Not counting the refugees who were resettled outside the pass, there were less than 2,000 people in the entire Zhuolu Mountain.

"Don't worry, Uncle Sun." Li Dingguo comforted, "Our two passes are better than thousands of troops, no matter how many of them are, they are also dogs biting hedgehogs, and there is nowhere to put their mouths." ”

Speaking of this, I admired Zhiwen's foresight, it was his repeated insistence that he built another pass behind the thin mountain road, so that even if the first pass was lost, the second pass was still an insurmountable moat.

"According to the latest investigation information, the thieves are only more than ten days away from Baozhou, and we have to act as soon as possible." Song Xiance began to arrange, "Dingguo, Kewang, patrol and prepare for war will be handed over to you." ”

"No problem." The two nodded.

"Second Brother Ma, you need to be careful to find out the news, the mountain people within a radius of a hundred miles will be mobilized, where the thieves are, the sooner we know, the better."

"Yes! Mr. Song, I'll send all these boys out of here. ”