Chapter 7 Co-optation

"If you don't have to rob people and hurt people's lives, what are your plans?" Liu Feng was noncommittal to the words of the two masters, but asked sharply.

The two masters were stunned when they heard this, but still replied truthfully: "The people in Jingzhou in Xiaben, surnamed Li Mingchuang, are all because they were young and vigorous more than 20 years ago, and they started with the Yellow Turban Ma Yuanyi, and then under the command of Zhang Liang, after the defeat, they were taken in by the eldest brother, and they have fallen into the grass so far. ”

Liu Feng listened, nodded and responded: "If it weren't for the fact that we had already explored the looted villages, we would not have believed such words. ”

Li Chuang thought that Liu Feng had already solved the talisman array, and led the army to burn down the cottage, at this time, he looked around, only to find that Liu Feng had only led ten people here, but the chaos in his own village had been completed, so he had to look at the young woman, showing that this method of cracking still depends on her ability.

"If you want to save the lives of hundreds of bandits, you will solve the formation!" Seeing that the woman was still glaring angrily, Liu Feng stepped forward and almost pressed his cheek to her forehead.

Sure enough, within a moment, the woman's face turned red, she turned around with a cold snort, struggled up and walked towards the place where Liu Feng was camping.

After walking less than a mile, I saw several paper talismans pasted on the trees in the forest, and the sergeant under Liu Feng's command tore off these talismans under the guidance of the woman, and he said that the siege of the mountain had been lifted.

Liu Feng didn't dare to deceive, so he sent two sergeants to pick up the two hundred horsemen up the mountain, personally escorted the woman and Li Chuang, and arrived in front of the cottage gate.

"General, if the fire in the village is too big, not only will all the grain and grass we loot be burned, but the brothers in the village will also suffer a lot of casualties.

Seeing the fire in the cottage gradually rising, the mountain bandits couldn't find the two leaders, all of them were like headless flies and bumped around, not knowing how to get water to put out the fire.

Liu Feng did not hesitate when he heard this, and cut the rope on his body with a knife, Na Li Chuang turned his head and bowed, and then entered the cottage and commanded the people in the village to step up the firefighting.

"General, it seems like this, what should the thief do when he turns over and kills back?" Seeing this situation, the sergeant beside Liu Feng was puzzled and asked tentatively.

"If you kill it back, I will destroy it." Liu Feng replied coldly, and glanced at the woman with a stealing eye, and the sergeant suddenly felt that the cold air around his body was invaded, and he didn't dare to speak anymore.

For a long time, the fire in the village has been extinguished, but Li Chuang gathered a group of bandits on the spot in the village, and the eight soldiers next to Liu Feng raised their spears when they arrived, but saw that Liu Feng was still standing proudly outside the gate of the village, and did not speak, so he had to be on strict guard, and he only hoped that the two hundred horsemen would arrive quickly.

Ran Li Chuang gathered the people in the village, but returned to Liu Cover alone, knelt on one knee, and said: "There are a total of 310 people who can fight in the village of Mangdang Mountain, all of whom are standing in the village, if the general does not give up, they will all return to Xinye, otherwise they will be at the disposal of the general!" ”

Obviously, the more than 300 bandits also knew that Liu Feng had arrived here and subdued the leader, and they all looked at Liu Feng with nervous expressions.

Liu Feng patted Li Chuang, he would stand up willingly, standing behind Liu Feng, Liu Feng immediately walked into the village, until the front of the cottage queue, shouted: "Although you have fallen into the grass, but did not hurt people's lives, now you have descended to Xinye, those who are willing to join the army, immediately return to Xinye with me, and those who do not want to bring enough food and grass, I should place it in the village under the mountain, for the army and the people, and will not condemn you and others!" ”

These two roads flattered the hundreds of mountain bandits in front of Liu Feng, and even the girl bandit looked at Liu Feng with a complicated expression.

But for a long time, there was no choice, obviously, born in troubled times, these people from poor backgrounds did not fully believe Liu Feng's words.

"Those who wish to return to Xinye to serve in the army will stand on the left side of the general, and those who are willing to return to the village with grain and grass will stand on the right side of the general!" Li Chuang shouted at this time, and at the same time stood on Liu Feng's left side, and the girl bandit leader looked at her with a lot of people, and after a little hesitation, he also stood beside Li Chuang.

The leader set an example, and those who were a little more courageous made a decision, and in just a moment, more than 300 mountain bandits were divided into two teams and stood in front of Liu Feng.

About 200 people are willing to join the army, and more than 100 people are among the people. Immediately, Liu Feng ordered Li Chuang to transport all the grain and grass in the village, and when the two hundred horsemen arrived, he put the grain and grass on the horse and led the crowd down the mountain.

"You...... His name has not yet been named. On the way down the mountain, Liu Feng walked side by side with the girl bandit, hesitated for a moment, and asked.

"Meng Yao." The girl did not hesitate, and did not even glance at Liu Feng before replying.

"Women are quite inconvenient in the army, so it's better to pretend to be a man for the time being, hide in the army, and stay in Xinye, I will protect you." This stubborn and good at using formation tactics and tricks, Liu Feng was already determined to stay by his side, so he said this.

Meng Yao glanced back at Liu Feng, but did not answer, but hid her long hair in her cloak, straightened her clothes, wiped her face with dust, and in a blink of an eye, she became a thin bandit, mixed in with two hundred people, and no one would notice her.

Liu Feng nodded with satisfaction, and invited Li Chuang again, and it was appropriate to teach face-to-face......

When he returned to Xinye, the more than 100 people who were willing to serve the people had been placed by Liu Feng in various villages that had been attacked, with food and grass, and taught them to treat the remaining old and weak in the village, and if they were thieves again, they would not be spared.

Let's say that Liu Bei heard that Liu Feng wiped out the bandits in Mangdang Mountain without spending a single soldier, and recruited more than 200 people, he was overjoyed, and Liu Feng gathered all the generals to celebrate as soon as he entered Xinye.

At the time of celebration, Liu Bei highly respected Liu Feng for two miraculous feats in a short period of time when he first entered Xinye, and then set up Liu Feng as a partial general, and the 200 cavalry brought by the bandits were under the jurisdiction of Liu Feng.

"Ziwei, you can propose any kind of reward you want." Due to the scale of Xinye, although Liu Bei actively stationed troops here, he did not raise many soldiers and horses, and the position of the commander of the army was attributed to Guan Zhang Zhaoyun and a few others, so Liu Feng was only allowed 200 cavalry, Liu Bei felt that he owed Liu Feng something in his heart, so he said this.

Liu Feng waited for this for a long time, then stepped out of the column and said: "Feng only asks for one thing, that is, to keep Li Chuang, the leader of the bandits in Mangdang Mountain, under Ziwei's account, and make him Ziwei's adjutant. ”

In these days in Xinye, Liu Feng has found that its foundation is too weak, Guan Yu still has Zhou Cang, Guan Ping, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun also have several descendant generals, except for Xu Shu, everyone is unwilling to have a deep friendship with Liu Feng, the reason is that there are no soldiers and no generals in their hands, Li Chuang's early Yellow Turban Uprising was a hundred generals, it can be seen that he has the ability to command the army, and this person is well aware of the righteousness, and the choice is appropriate, Liu Feng has been determined to take it and Meng Yao under the account as early as Mangdang Mountain, and develop into his descendant generals.

Liu Bei listened, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but just as he was about to speak, he saw Guan Yu stand up, and said directly: "This kind of grass coward, perennial to do the business of robbing houses and houses, and once a yellow turban thief, according to my opinion, it cannot be retained, it should be beheaded!" ”

After that, Guan Yu also raised his eyebrows and glared at Liu Feng, obviously displeased Liu Feng's proposal.

Liu Feng was slightly stunned, and then realized that Guan Yu was originally an arrogant person, and he didn't agree with Liu Feng's worship of Liu Bei as his father, so he naturally didn't want Liu Feng to get his wish at this time. But Liu Feng is not a person who is easy to deal with, these mountain bandits are the foundation of his lineage that he has already predetermined, and he has to start from these hundreds of lineages in the Central Plains, listening to Guan Yu's words, he can't help but be angry.

Liu Bei never thought that Guan Yu could say this at this time, but he didn't want to refute Liu Coverzi like this, after all, Liu Feng has repeatedly made new contributions, and he is Liu Bei's righteous son, and when he was in a dilemma, Liu Feng turned to Guan Yu again and whispered: "What the second uncle said is very true, that Li Chuang is indeed from the Yellow Turban Army, but he has not committed any crime against the people, and only absorbs the poor and displaced people in Mangdang Mountain, what is the crime, if you talk about his Yellow Turban thief, General Zhou Cang under the command of the second uncle, I am afraid that he can afford this name even more, right?" ”

"Shaft, dare to do this!" Guan Yu is the most protective, he never thought that Liu Feng could confront him because of a mere bandit leader, and he also pulled out the old matter of Zhou Cang, so he stepped forward and approached Liu Feng in front of him.

"Second brother, don't be reckless! Ziwei, you should also be cautious! Seeing that the situation was not right, Liu Bei hurriedly stood up and shouted to stop.