At ten o'clock in the afternoon, the wall of Hanxing was full of white flags, and the city gate below was wide open.

Zhang Liao turned over and dismounted, and immediately led more than a dozen armor soldiers to catch up.

"Han Song, the county commander of Hanxing County, meet General Zhang", looking at Zhang Liao with a dignified body in front of him, Han Song immediately bowed down.

Zhang Liao hurriedly strode forward to help him up, and said loudly: "Lord Han opened the city to surrender and avoided the two sabers, he is a benevolent and righteous man, a reckless man, how can he accept this great gift, Lord Han quickly invites him to get up."

After helping Han Song up, Zhang Liao looked at him carefully, only to see that he was over the age of six, the official uniform he was wearing was full of patches, and his eyes were full of worry and melancholy.

After taking the register and the county order seal handed over by Han Song, Zhang Liao only took a cursory glance, and handed over these two things to Cheng Yu beside him, originally he wanted Han Song to continue to serve as the county commander of Hanxing, because except for Cheng Yu, no one in the army has the ability to govern the people, and Cheng Yu is the military advisor of his own army, so it is impossible to be a county commander in this small place.

Therefore, Zhang Liao had a long heart, first entered the city to check how the living conditions of the people were, and then made a decision, if it is good, this Hanxing County Order must still be Han Song's, if it is not good, not only Hanxing County Order will not succeed, I am afraid it will be held responsible.

So Zhang Liao asked Song Xian and Wei Xu to set up camp outside Hanxing City, and led Gan Ning, Cheng Yu and his own guards to more than 100 people, under the leadership of Han Song, slowly drove into Hanxing City.

As soon as he entered the city, Zhang Liao's brows instantly twisted into a ball, only to see that the city of Hanxing was full of ruins, and most of the houses where the people lived became a pile of ruins, and occasionally one or two people passed by, but they walked like corpses together, lifeless.

Then the soldiers guarding the city, only a few of them were wearing a few pieces of leather armor, and the rest were simply wrapped in cloth shirts, and the weapons in their hands were only simple wooden or bamboo spears, and they didn't even have a decent small shield.

"Wenyuan, you see that this Hanxing City is so dilapidated, there must be something strange", Cheng Yu next to Zhang Liao looked at the sparsely populated Hanxing City, which was sparsely populated, and his mood instantly slipped to a low point, and he hurriedly whispered in Zhang Liao's ear.

Zhang Liao nodded, although this Hanxing City is a small county, but as a transportation hub, even if the people are not very rich, but it will not be too bad, and then look at the traces of fire on the city wall are clearly visible, as if they had experienced a big war not long ago, and when they arrived at the county office, they had to ask this Han Song.

The further back they went, the more strange they felt in their hearts, almost all the houses in Hanxing City were burned, the people slept on the streets, only the shops in the streets were intact, and everyone was so rich that they did not fit in with the surrounding scene.

With a lot of questions, everyone came to the Hanxing County Ya, only to see that the county Ya at this time was already overcrowded, many county officials kept shuttling back and forth in it, but whenever they saw that there was no gas, they shouted and asked people to carry it out, followed by the relatives of the deceased.

Entering the hall, without waiting for Zhang Liao to ask, Han Song took the lead in telling the truth of the matter, it turned out that half a year ago, a group of bandits attacked Hanxing City at night, and plundered the people's food and money and then left, and the wealthy landlords and wealthy merchants in the city were spared, not only that, they took advantage of the lack of food for the people, and began to raise the price of grain, and the grain soared to hundreds of dollars, and the people who had already been looted of their money had money to buy food, so most of them were starved to death.

"Seeing the profiteers who forget their righteousness, the heroes who oppress the people, and the thieves who cut thousands of knives, they are all traitors who bring disaster to the country and the people, Han Taishou, do you know where the thief's lair is? As a Han general, we have the duty to protect the peace of the people."

Before Zhang Liao could speak, Gan Ning next to him was already angry, and he couldn't wait to immediately raise troops to kill the mountain and exterminate these thieves.

The speaker has no intention, the listener has intentional, Cheng Yu heard what Gan Ning said, and began to chew his words carefully, and then quickly put Shangjia, Haoqiang, and bandits into a line, after a while, Cheng Yu obtained an astonishing conclusion, but he did not immediately say what he thought in his heart, if it was really as he expected, the people present were more chaotic, in order to avoid startling the snake, Cheng Yu decided to go back to the camp and tell Zhang Liao what he thought in his heart.

"General, will you really help the people of Hanxing get rid of the thieves? If that's the case, I'm willing to be a guide and work with the general to quell the thief's hatred."

Hearing that Gan Ning was going to lead the troops to exterminate the bandits, Han Song's body immediately trembled with excitement, and he hurriedly asked.

Gan Ning did not answer Han Song directly, but asked Zhang Liao for his life: "Wenyuan, I am willing to borrow 500 elite soldiers, go up the mountain to suppress thieves, and give the people justice."

Zhang Liao frowned, and after thinking for a while, he muttered in a low voice: "Xingba is panicking, this thief is going to be killed, but how to suppress it, we still need to think about it in the long run, after all, we are not very familiar with the Hanxing realm, if we are ambushed by thieves, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses."

"Just bandits, why prepare, no need to discuss again, you can raise troops tomorrow"

As soon as Gan Ning was about to refute, he heard Cheng Yu take the first step, and his eyes kept looking at Cheng Yu at the moment, smiling at him.

Zhang Liao knew that Cheng Yu was not a person without a target, and he must have a deep meaning when he said this, thinking of this, Zhang Liao smiled at the two of them: "Since Xingba and Mr. said so, then tomorrow we will go up the mountain to suppress the thief." ”

As soon as Zhang Liao's words fell, the eyes of an official standing behind Han Song suddenly flashed, although it was fleeting, but it was still captured by Cheng Yu, who had a vicious eye, so he strengthened his thoughts in his heart.

After finalizing the attention, Zhang Liao resigned from Han Song, and the group returned to the camp.

After returning to the camp, Zhang Liao immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter, and Cheng Yu also said the assumptions in his heart.

After everyone heard this, they instantly defrauded the pot, and Zhang Liao asked thoughtfully: "According to what Mr. said, this powerful landlord and businessman are rich and collude with thieves to rob the people's grain, and then resell it at a high price?" ”

Cheng Yu nodded: "Or maybe it's not collusion, but they let the private soldiers pretend to be not necessarily, otherwise how can they easily break the city, presumably there is an internal response in the city, and according to Han Song, every time Hanxing City comes to produce food, thieves will come to loot, and the streets and alleys of Hanxing City are almost burned down, only those houses of those powerful and wealthy businessmen have not been burned, you can imagine it, once you may be lucky, but every time it is like this, don't you think it is abnormal?" ”

The generals present are not unwise people, after listening to Cheng Yu's analysis, everyone feels reasonable, there must be demons when things go wrong, maybe it is really like Cheng Yu's analysis.

"Mr. Zhongde, if this bandit knows that we are going to encircle and suppress them, what if they ambush us on the road", Wei Xu asked another question.

Cheng Yu stroked his beard and smiled, took out a map from his arms, and then put it on the table: "Rank general, please see, this is the topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Longxi County, Hanxing is located in the transportation hub of Fufeng and Longxi, the terrain is flat and open, only a hundred miles northwest There is a deep mountain, if it is not bad as expected, the gang of thieves must be hiding in it"

After Gan Ning heard this, his eyebrows rose upside down, and he slammed his fist on the table, and shouted: "Okay, I'll kill these thieves tomorrow."

Cheng Yu shook his head: "When General Xingba goes tomorrow, I'm afraid the bandits have already received the news and retreated cleanly."

"Sir, this is a reconciliation?"

Cheng Yu slowly put the map into his arms, and then said: "The powerful landlord dominates the side, then Han Song's side will definitely have their eyeliner, today I agree with Xingba to lead five hundred elite soldiers to suppress the thieves, but also just to paralyze them, I expect that they will receive the news today, and then quickly transfer, and when we lead the troops tomorrow, it will already be people to the empty village, so we must send troops to clear it as soon as possible, in case there is a change."

Gan Ning glanced at Cheng Yu with admiration, no wonder the main guild sent Cheng Yu as a military advisor, and with this wisdom, everyone was convinced.

And Zhang Liao also made a quick decision, let Gan Ning and Wei Xu lead two thousand elite soldiers to intercept the bandits, he and Cheng Yu and Song Xian led a large army to be stationed in Hanxing, observing the movements of the merchants in the city at any time, as for the powerful landlords outside the city, Zhang Liao also sent scouts to keep an eye on them, if it is really as Cheng Yu analyzed, the merchants in the city and the heroes outside the city, none of them can escape.