Seeing the middle of March, it is a few steps closer to this season's wheat harvest, and there are more and more rumors about the troubled township of the Black Mountain army, and they are becoming more and more true! While the people of Qianshou in Shahe Township are busy, they are becoming less and less confident about whether they can resist the Montenegrin army and bandits.

"Today is the ninth day, and the enthusiasm of the villagers at the beginning has been very little!" Wen Chou looked at this mess of the second batch of villagers who were trained, and thought to himself.

In fact, after seven days of training, the first batch of villagers still have a lot of growth, perhaps because of the fierce folk customs, they all have a certain combat effectiveness, although on average they have not reached the level of villagers, but it is enough to deal with thieves.

In the past seven days, the people of Shahe Township have made more than 3,000 pairs of simple horses to fill all the main roads leading to the township, and nearly half of the ditches about half a zhang wide on the periphery of Shahe Township have also been built! In addition, a total of more than 3,000 homeless people have been settled, and only the daily ration of the homeless people is a large amount, and the 500 stone corn that Wenchou took the lead in providing has been exhausted, but fortunately it can be maintained with the support of the rich families in the township! And the homeless people are also interested, and they have joined the team of Shahe Township Beikou, and the grace of life is greater than heaven!

In the past few days, Du Yi and his group of township officials have been so busy that their feet do not touch the ground, and the mobilization of six or seven thousand people is not just a matter of talking, and it takes a lot of energy to coordinate the tasks and contradictions in each pavilion! Therefore, when Wen Chou went to the official temple to report the results of the day to Du Yi every day, he inevitably listened to his nagging!

Sometimes Du Yi looked at such busy villagers, and couldn't help but wonder if his decision was correct! Or is it too optimistic to estimate the situation? If you protect the people of this country, it is indeed a great merit! If he still doesn't keep it after the people, it will be a great sin, Du Yi is also gambling, he has been in the officialdom for more than 20 years, and he has just become the master of a township, he is unwilling, so he is gambling! It's an opportunity to jump into the dragon gate or fall into hell!

In short, the current Shahe Township is surrounded by a rather strange atmosphere, the initial enthusiasm slowly dissipates, and doubts about whether it can resist the thieves slowly grow.

But all this will be broken by the ranger who is fast on the official road!

In the fourth year of Zhongping, at noon on March 13, on the official road leading to Shahe Township in Taolin Township, there was a person galloping on a fast horse, the robe on his back had been wet with sweat, and the smoke and dust along the way were raised high, and the people and horses had not subsided after walking far away!

"Report to the ......" Liu Zhongzheng is assisting Wen Chou to train the villagers! From afar, he rode and shouted!

"Report, there are thieves in the southwest of the township!"

Such a sound disturbed the villagers who were training, and they saw the scene buzzing and exchanging ears.

Liu Zhong and Wen Chou hurriedly came and asked, "What is the specific situation, how many thieves are there?" What is the composition of the troops? How many miles from Hongo now? Is there a rank to inform the invasion information? ”

The ranger wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "There are about a thousand people, coming to us from the southwest thirty miles away from Taolinsai, and we can only see that there are fifty or sixty cavalry, and the other troops can't see clearly!" Jiang Lin had already rushed to the official temple. ”

When Wen Chou heard it, there were thousands of people, so it was worth it! Nowadays, there are only a few hundred people in Shahe Township who can be pulled out and put on a scene, and if the situation is very good, they also have to fight!

"Quickly inform the people of the township, stay in the defensive circle, and summon the strong men of the North Fourth Pavilion to quickly assemble in the official temple!" Wen Chou turned to Tie Qiandao, who was standing aside.

Seeing the excited Wen who had been gearing up on one side, he said: "Brother Ba took a team of people to Benli to bring knives and other weapons and equipment to the official temple!" "Due to the lack of weapons, only a little over a thousand, Gu was not distributed to every villager, but stored in the Wen's Liwen Chou mansion.

Wen Chou had to give a few more orders here, but he saw a horse galloping over, and it turned out that the cavalry in the team of Qin Zhang was ordered to ask Wen Chou, Liu Zhong and others to rush to the official temple.

After the news of the imminent arrival of the Black Mountain Army bandits, the people in the township had different reactions, some were flustered and panicked, some were calm, and some were more enthusiastic, especially the homeless people who had recently joined, all of them were indignant and vowed to fight the thieves endlessly!

When Wen Chou and the others arrived at the official temple, the main persons in charge of the township had already arrived, and Du Yi was pacing in the hall, a little nervous, and Qin Zhang stroked the ring knife on his waist from time to time, and the nervousness was unobstructed, and the third elder Jiang Cheng was still looking at Wen Jian on the side case, and he couldn't see that he had a trace of panic.

When everyone saw Wen Chou and the others coming, Du Yi hurriedly said: "Since everyone has arrived, now that the Black Mountain thieves are about to invade, don't greet and be polite, I want to lead the army to fight the thieves, what are your intentions?" ”

"Du Jun is the lord of a township, when he sits in the official temple and dispatches all parties, how can he be in danger? Never. Wen Chou persuaded him. Qin Zhang, Liu Zhong and others also chimed in: "Du Jun must not be in danger!" ”

In fact, Du Yi was also beating the drum in his heart, not to mention the combat effectiveness of the villagers who had formed this temporary formation, the morale was much worse than that of the thieves who had just ransacked Gaoyi County! He was reluctant to go to the front line in person, and he was happy to recognize what Wen Chou said: "If this is the case, he will be led by You Qin Zhang, and Wen Chou will be the deputy to meet the thieves!" ”

Qin Zhang and Wen Chou responded loudly: "No! I will live up to my command! ”

The third elder Jiang Cheng closed the bamboo slip in his hand and asked Qin Zhang, "How do you want to meet the thieves?" ”

Qin Zhang heard Jiang Cheng's inquiry, and said after a while: "When the thief army is coming, it should first attack with cavalry to hit their morale, and then the sword soldiers are in front and the crossbowmen are behind, and the killing can be successful." ”

Jiang Cheng didn't see the joy and sorrow when he heard this, and said to Wen Chou: "What do you think? ”

Wen Chou already had some ideas on the way to the official temple, and sorted out the language: "There are thousands of thieves from the southwest, and if they want to invade our township, then the Taolinsai in the township fifteen miles away is their must pass, the Taolinsai is a forest on the left and right, and the narrow passage can be a place to block the thieves. ”

When Jiang Cheng heard this, his eyes lit up and said, "If the thief army passes by, what should I do?" ”

Wen Chou pondered for a moment and said, "If the thief army advances in divisions, it can be cut off and divided, and the villagers can sweep the ground with branches in the forest, raising smoke and dust, thinking that they are suspicious!" ”

Du Yi and Qin Zhang both nodded when they heard this.

Jiang Cheng also wanted to ask a question, but the assistant official who was in charge of gathering the villagers outside the door reported: "The people have arrived, they are all equipped, and they are ready to go!" ”

"Time is urgent, and I hope you will do your best!" Du Yi got up and said.

Everyone in the official temple hall said that it was a long story, but in fact, it was only a quarter of an hour.

When Qin Zhang, Wen Chou and others heard this, after bidding farewell to Du Yi and Jiang Cheng, they led the army to Taolinsai to meet the thieves! The third elder Jiang Cheng saw Qin Zhang and Wen Chou go away, and said to Du Yi, who was a little anxious: "Wen Chou, this person understands the location, knows the people, and will win, Du Jun doesn't have to worry." ”

ps: Taolinsai refers to the ancient city of Huxian County on the west bank of the lake west of Qinhangu Pass, that is, the Hangu Ancient Road between the former site of Huxian County (the former site of Ruxiang County), which is named after the peach trees on both sides of the valley road and the peach trees in the south of Henglingyuan (Jiaocun source in the south) and Zhudingyuan