One sentence made the thin man's face change, and after being stunned for a moment, he nodded and said: "The merchant is laughing, the villain is a serious person, how dare he have the heart to seek money and kill his life?" ”

"I'm the most serious person in the world, but I want to see how you can give birth to a serious method with a few birds." Yang Yan snorted haha. Xu Wei didn't say much, and led more than a dozen people to sit down in the wine shop. Then an old man wearing a straight shirt and a sunshade hat on his head greeted him, and instead of greeting the guests, he instructed his men to lead the horses for the guests. This newcomer, who is not familiar with the place, is still careful, Xu Wei left two personal soldiers to guard the horses. The old man was not unremarkable when he saw this, and he just greeted him with courtesy.

"What kind of wine do guests eat? What kind of food to go with? ”

Ma Tai was next to Xu Wei, picked up a cup from the table and put it under his nose to smell it, and said casually: "Eat the wine you didn't use sweat medicine, and the dishes that didn't add human flesh filling." ”

When the old man heard this, he swept through his group of more than a dozen people, and saw that all of them were carrying knives and guns, and they didn't see their luggage, and they were a little guarded against it. With a smile: "What did the guest say, my shop is not a black shop that kills people for money, where does it come from, and what is the stuffing of human flesh?" After saying that, he glanced at his subordinates without a trace, and the thin man who had come out to greet him at first quietly left the wine shop and went north. The rest, too, moved slowly, blocking the way.

"If I were him, I would never do such a stupid thing." Ma Tai smiled at Yang Yan.

Yang Yan glanced at the old man and said with a smile: "It's a pity that he is even more stupid than you." ”

Xu Wei didn't speak, and said casually at this time: "You still call that guy back, he has two legs, and he can't run on four legs, and it's not cost-effective to take his life in vain." ”

The old man was still pretending to be stupid, and several minions were also eager to try, Xu Wei waved his hand outside the pergola. Then one of his soldiers took a bow and arrow from the saddle, and with lightning speed, he set up an arrow, opened the bow, and fired it, and the action was like flowing water, all in one go, and in the blink of an eye, the man who ran dozens of steps away fell in response.

"Do it!" The old man shouted loudly, and his six or seven subordinates had not moved, and Xu Wei's personal soldiers had already pulled out their steel knives one by one. For a time, the tables and chairs in the two pergolas flew together, swords and guns danced together, and the thieves who fell into the grass were the opponents of the Hujie soldiers, three times and two times, either kneeling down and begging for mercy, or falling to the ground, and the sound of wailing was everywhere.

The old man was the worst, so that Ma Tai slapped his eyes so that he couldn't find the north and south, and then kicked him in the stomach, and he couldn't get up for a long time. Xu Wei walked up to him and asked, "Are you thieves from Phoenix Mountain?" ”

"Don't hide it from the hero, indeed! I don't know where the hero is a copycat? Looking at the face of the owner of my village...... "Old man, this is treating Xu Wei as a bandit leader who eats black." Hey, it's weird today, why do you think I'm a thief everywhere you go? Am I still guarding the Shaanxi Fifth Road guarded by the Western Army? Why are there thieves everywhere?

Xu Wei shook his head and said loudly: "I won't kill you, go back and tell your people, casually inform all the rogues in Huaxian County, and within half a month, demolish the cottage and scatter the people!" Otherwise, when I raise an army to conquer it, I will be careful that the sword and arrow have no eyes. ”

The old man listened to Xu Wei's tone, and looked at him again, suspicious in his heart. What is the origin of this young man? Dare to say such a wild thing, let all the thieves in Huaxian County break up on their own? Isn't it...... As soon as he thought of this, he loosened his abdomen, hugged his fists and said, "Didn't you ask a good man?" ”

"The imperial court changed Huaxian County to 'Dingrong Army', and this is the new Zhijun, Xu Wei." Yang Yan shouted with a big gun in his hand.

The old man didn't notice anything different when he first heard it, but after thinking about it for a while, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he said in a trembling voice: "But Xu Jiuguan, who blocked the enemy for five days and nights in front of the Purple Mountain? ”

Finally an eye-opener! Yang Yan was very relieved and said loudly: "Not bad! A bit of insight! ”

"The villain is clumsy, offending the tiger, and I hope that the beggar will forgive the sin. So he led the brother back to report to my brother and convey the decree of the Zhijun Lord. The old man bowed to the ground and said in fear. With that, he took a few minions with him and fled north in a hurry.

Yang Yan looked at the backs of these thieves and said to Xu Wei: "Ninth brother, will these rogues really break up obediently?" ”

Xu Wei looked into the distance with his hands behind his back, only to see that in the blink of an eye, those thieves disappeared into the mountains and forests, shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily, it's just that we just arrived, and we are not very familiar with the local situation, so let's knock on the mountain and shock the tiger first." ”

"Brother Jiu, what now?" Mattei stepped forward and asked.

Xu Wei thought for a moment, he was a member of the imperial court, and he was the master of ceremonies in the local area, if he retreated in this wilderness, he must be stationed in Huaxian first. Let all kinds of people in the territory know that the Dingrong Army is not a pool of muddy water, and anyone can come to it. Just now, the farmer said that the thieves occupied Huaxian, so it was better to go back and figure out the situation before making a calculation.

At that moment, he led everyone back the same way. The local people who hid in the mountains and forests for refuge returned to the village one after another after learning the news of the arrival of the imperial court officials and soldiers. It turned out that the name of this village was Weizhuang, and there were more than 100 households, all of whom were farmers digging soil and collecting dung. Xu Wei summoned the local Baozheng and the leading figures of Weizhuang to inquire about the situation in Huaxian. Only then did I learn that since the Jin Army's West Road Sticky Han Department swept Hedong, the ground in Shaanxi was not very peaceful, especially after a large number of refugees from Hedong poured in, the local government failed to properly resettle, and the problem dragged on and on, and finally caused a riot.

At first, only a few hundred people gathered to do some roadblocks and robberies and plunder farmers. Later, it gradually became bigger, and it is said that there were four or five thousand people and horses, occupying Phoenix Mountain, and there was no day when they did not harm the people of Huaxian County. The magistrate of Huaxian County recruited local township soldiers and archers to suppress them several times, but they could not be eradicated. Later, the army of Shaanxi Wulu was ordered to King Qin and left for Tokyo. To appease Fan Zhixuan, he feared that the forbidden army was not enough, and even the village soldiers and archers were dispatched together. As soon as the Western Army left, the homeless thieves turned against the sky, one in Phoenix Mountain, one in Huashan, these two groups have the most people, known as tens of thousands. The rest of the petty fights cannot be calculated. A month ago, a group of strongmen came over from Hezhong Mansion, it is said that there are 40,000 horse infantry troops, and the leader is called the 'white-fronted beast', who is good at using hammers and has the courage of ten thousand people to stop. Trapped Huaxian, killed all the officials, entrenched in it, and successively destroyed Guanxi Town and Fushui Town. The men, if they had some strength, were seized and brought into the city, but the women, who had some grace, were taken captive into the city. The thieves within a radius of hundreds of miles pushed him as the leader. Now in this Huaxian County, I don't know that there is a court, so I know this white-fronted beast.

After Xu Wei learned about the situation, when Zhang Qing, Wang Yan, Wu Jie, and other generals arrived, he sent Li Guan to send capable people to spy on the news, reconnoiter the terrain, and on the other hand, convene military attachés to discuss countermeasures. He himself advocated that the thief should be captured first, and if the white-fronted beast entrenched in Hua County was broken, it would be easy for other strongmen who gathered in the mountains and forests to do it. Wang Yan and Wu Jie's others agreed, but Hujie had never attacked the city since he formed an army. The thief army is also known as 40,000 or 50,000, if it is attacked, when will it be a head?

"There is an idea for the lowly to lead the snake out of the hole." In the big tent, Hu Jie's commander made the above officers all there, and it was Wu Jie's younger brother, Wu Ling, twenty-five years old, who described it similarly to his brother, but the two short beards were extraordinarily fine.

Xu Wei nodded: "Tang Qing has ideas, it's okay to say it directly." ”

"Yes, the idea of the humble position is to send a general in advance, lead three or five thousand men and horses to attack, and fight and leave, and I will mainly set up an ambush in a suitable place, so that ......" Before Wu Yan finished speaking, Yang Yan began to shake his head.

It's just someone else, what are you shaking Yang Yan's head? Are you just a good puppet, and then rely on the relationship with Xu Zhijun's fellow villagers and playmates to occupy an important position? Do you really think you're a shallot? Do you really think that your troops are the first and foremost main force of the Tiger Victory?

Wu Xuan was displeased, he stretched his face and stopped talking, and when Wu Jie saw it, he asked Yang Yan with a smile: "What, what is Commander Yang's opinion?" ”

Yang Yan was straightforward, glanced at Wu Lan, and said seriously: "Wu Tangqing, don't be unhappy." If you are fighting the Jurchens, I strongly approve of your style of play. But we are facing thieves, it is not difficult to lure them out, the problem is that this rabble is not a serious army, as soon as they see that the momentum is smooth, they will swarm up, and when they encounter a slight setback, they will be scattered. When the time comes, our ambush soldiers have not killed a few, but they have scared them out, and they will not easily leave the city again. ”

After saying this, even Xu Wei was taken aback. When did we Yang Dalang start to learn to use his brain to think about problems?

Yang Yan probably also found that his comrades were staring at him, and his neck was stiff: "What do you think I do?" I'm not talking nonsense, on the first day we carried the big gun, we followed the army to suppress the thieves, from Hebei to Shandong, and I couldn't know more about these things. ”

"What Commander Yang said is extremely true, we can't use the method of beating the Jurchens to deal with these thieves." Wu Jie's words are equivalent to directly negating his younger brother's strategy.

There was silence in the tent for a while, and when Ma Tai saw this, he said in an urn voice: "Brother Jiu, simply, build a cloud ladder and a trench bridge and go directly!" I don't believe it, a group of homeless people gathered together, can they stop my Hujie army? ”

Without waiting for Xu Wei to speak, Yang Yan hit him on the rib with an elbow: "I said that you finally picked up a life, why are you getting more and more bold?" Do you know if we don't have enough food to bring? If you are hard to deal with these thieves who cut off their heads, will it take time? Mattei touched his left rib, muttered a few words, and stopped talking.

Xu Wei was about to speak, when he heard a sound of footsteps under the tent, the curtain was lifted, and Li Guanda, who was dressed in civilian clothes, stepped inside, Xu Wei raised his eyebrows and said happily: "What?" What's the news? ”

"Back to the Zhijun, let's not talk about the news first, the babies have caught two fine works." Li Guanyu reports.

When Xu Wei heard this, he couldn't help laughing, that is, in the forbidden army of the imperial court, there is no one who has raised as much as me, who doesn't open his eyes and put the fine work under my nose?

Li Guan yelled outside, and a regular samurai pushed in two people who cut their hands behind and tied them together. As soon as the two birds entered, they were all officers in armor, all of them majestic, all of them heroic, and they were so frightened that they trembled like chaff.

Zhang Qing's current official position, in addition to the deputy commander of Hujie, there is also the "Dingrong Army in charge of Jiyi" appointed by the imperial court, so he stepped forward and asked: "Have you been tried, what is the source?" ”

"Back to Zhang Jiyi, these two have been shouting for mercy since they were caught, and they have all been recruited before they have been tortured. It was said that the owner of the Phoenix Cottage sent them to peep into our military camp. Li Guan replied.

When Zhang Qing heard this, he glanced back at Xu Wei, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he waved his hand and said, "Since you have already peeped into it, put it back." Tell you the owner of the village, don't leave anything to chance. ”

The two minions nodded vigorously, saying yes again and again, and Zhang Qing ordered someone to loosen the tie and was about to be thrown out. Xu Wei suddenly stopped, and the two of them were so shocked that their legs went weak.

"You might as well say one more thing when you go back, if anyone can do something for the appeasement of Huaxian, not only is he not guilty, but he will be meritorious."