Liu He had never been a soldier or fought in his previous life or in this life, but as a serious graduate of the Department of History, he was able to accurately tell the time and process of many classic war examples in ancient and modern times, large and small.

For Liu He, leading troops to fight is equivalent to never eating pork, but he has seen pigs run.

After Liu He quickly compared the strength of the enemy and us, he boldly made the decision to counter-surround the thieves in front of him.

Sometimes, knowledge is really power.

Even Liu He himself didn't realize that today's battle had become the first battle on his way to the hegemon of strategizing and winning thousands of miles!

Shi A and Ding Kuang quickly walked through the mountains and forests according to Liu He's instructions, if it weren't for the same martial arts masters, it would be difficult to find the whereabouts of the two of them at this time. Men like them can't exert much power if they face the battlefield of thousands of troops, but if they carry out a small-scale interception, attack and killing mission, they are better than the generals with rich combat experience.

Xian Yuyin didn't care about the pain after the wound on his shoulder burst, and rushed forward with all his strength with eighty infantry, for fear that because of the delay in the march, he would not have time to rescue the trapped old and weak women and children.

These foot soldiers sent by Duan Xuan to Liu He were not like those soldiers under Dong Bao who were sloppy in military discipline, they were not only experienced in a hundred battles, but also hard-working, and belonged to Duan Xuan's descendants. General Zhonglang asked them to obey Liu He's dispatch after they left the customs, so at this moment they followed Xian Yuyin without complaint and forcibly marched.

In an inconspicuous mountain col on the bank of the Danshui River, Wang Yue and Tian Chou, each covered in blood, each carried a sword in their hands, and they stood on the left and right sides of the col, staring vigilantly at a group of robbers with various weapons not far away.

The blood on Wang Yue and Tian Chou's bodies was not his own, it was splattered from the body of the robber who was stabbed. Looking at the expressions of these two people, as long as there are still blind thieves who dare to rush up, they don't mind letting the long sword in their hands drink blood again.

Behind Wang Yue and Tian Chou, more than seventy old and weak women and children from Houfeng Village were tightly huddled together, they looked at the robbers in the distance in panic and fear, silently hoping that the angel would come to rescue them with heavenly soldiers.

Yesterday, Liu He's promise to everyone with a confident smile has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of these simple villagers. Although they have never studied, and they have never even been to the prosperous Chang'an in their lives, they know that Liu He is a great official who represents the Son of Heaven.

Since the angel said that he wanted to make a living for everyone, he must have counted it.

In the middle of the night yesterday, Wang Yue sneaked out of the heavily guarded Wuguan very smoothly. The five-zhang high wall is an insurmountable moat for ordinary people, but for Wang Yue, who single-handedly entered Helan Mountain, it is just a ridge, and you can cross it with a little lifting your foot.

Wang Yue hurried in the dark and found Tian Chou around the time of Mao. Tian Chou rushed with seventy or eighty people, not to mention the slow speed, and the target was also big, so it was not difficult to find it.

By the time Wang Yue arrived at the col, Tian Chou had already moved the villagers into a makeshift camp.

Tian Chou has a lot of experience in living in the wilderness, and the mountain col he chose is backed by mountains and water, and it can also block the cold and swishing autumn wind at night. Although there are no beds or fences, a few bonfires can be built to protect against the cold and prevent the invasion of wild animals in the mountains.

After Wang Yue saw Tian Chou, he told Liu He what happened before Wuguan, and then sat down with Tian Chou and waited for Liu He to catch up with the team after dawn.

Tian Chou admired Wang Yue's swordsmanship very much, and took this opportunity to ask Wang Yue for advice. Wang Yue now knows that Tian Chou is engaged in Liu Yu's account, so he does not hesitate to give some guidance to Tian Chou.

If the two of them just exchanged swordsmanship in the mountains and forests in the crisp autumn morning, it was likely to leave a well-known story, but the good times did not last long, and a group of road tyrants entrenched near the Sanhe Pavilion actually found this group of strangers brought by Tian Chou, so they shouted and shouted, wanting to ask for some benefits from Tian Chou to go back.

Tian Chou had already given the only little money to Dong Bao yesterday, where was there any money to buy the road to give to the bandits?

As the saying goes, thieves don't go empty, this group of bandits saw that intimidation and threats didn't work, so they wanted to get through the trick with empty mouths, so they wanted to use force, but they were attacked head-on by Wang Yue and Tian Chou.

It was also Wang Yue and Tian Chou who were worried that they would completely anger this group of thieves and hurt their unarmed innocent people, so they did not kill the killers, but just stabbed and slashed the few blind guys who rushed over first, shocking this group of robbers.

The gang of thieves who cut the path near the Sanhe Pavilion were actually not "professional robbers", they were originally villagers in the vicinity, but because they were unable to live by the harsh taxes and cruel oppression of the local big households, they started to block the road and cut the path without a capital business.

The leader of the thieves saw that Wang Yue and Tian Chou were not easy to mess with, and he had a retreat in his heart, but his brothers were injured by more than a dozen of them, and if they didn't do something, they couldn't get off the stage in their faces. As a result, the two sides stared at each other in a stalemate.

The thieves were reluctant to leave, and their calculation was to wait until after dark to make a move, and at that time, even if the two people on the opposite side with blades were powerful, they would not be able to stop everyone's group fight.

Wang Yue and Tian Chou saw that this group of thieves was reluctant to leave, although they were irritable but not too worried, anyway, it would not be long before Liu He would come with a team of soldiers and horses to reinforce them.

About half an hour later, the group of robbers suddenly heard a loud shout behind them: "Oh, bold thief, I am the captain of Xian Yuyin, you have been surrounded by a large army, and you have not quickly put down your sword and knelt down to beg for mercy!" ”

It's also that this group of hairy thieves doesn't have much strength, and the few ears and eyes that are casually scattered are all three-legged cats, and they were easily subdued by Xian Yuyin, who came with the troops, so until Xian Yuyin led the soldiers to block them, they didn't find any movement.

With Xian Yuyin's shout, eighty murderous Xiliang soldiers also poured out from different positions, and they shouted in unison: "Put down your blades, kneel and don't kill!" ”

The thieves saw that there were so many officers and soldiers nearby, and immediately blew up the nest, and some of the bold ones fled in the direction of the Sanhu Pavilion with their weapons in hand, and as a result, they were met with the ruthless resistance of Shi A and Ding Quan, and some of the timid thieves simply threw away their weapons and began to kowtow and beg for mercy.

When Wang Yue and Tian Chou saw the reinforcements coming, they also flew into the chaos of thieves, picking on those guys with fierce faces and fast escape, and put down more than a dozen of them after a while.

A siege without suspense ended quickly, there were more than a dozen more fierce guys among the thieves, who were seriously injured by the Xiliang soldiers and Shi A, Ding Guo and others who surrounded them, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to take care of themselves for a while and a half, and the rest were trembling and kneeling on the ground, and the arrogant and arrogant arrogance was not half a point.

Liu He, who was walking behind the most Lu with twenty foot soldiers and sixteen Zhuang Han, arrived at the scene and found that the battle was over.

Liu He looked around at the situation in the field, couldn't help sighing, and then said, "I really don't know whether to live or die!" I only killed hundreds of guys who didn't have long eyes the night before yesterday, and today I encountered a group of thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead! ”

After Wang Yue, Tian Chou and the others listened to Liu He's boastful nonsense, they all felt a little strange in their hearts. It's only twenty people, but how can it become hundreds in a blink of an eye?

However, after Liu He's words fell into the ears of the group of "cameo thieves" kneeling on the ground, they were so frightened that these people buried their heads lower one by one, and kowtowed vigorously in the direction where Liu He was standing, just begging Liu He to leave his dog life.

Liu He saw that his intimidation had worked, so he asked with a calm face, "Can you be convicted?" ”

All the thieves shouted "confession".

Liu He asked again: "Where is the leader?" Get out of here and answer! ”

A man dressed as a peasant in his thirties crawled out of the crowd with a pale face, only to be stopped in front of Liu He by Shi A, who was holding a sword in his hand.

"I would have asked all the questions only once, and if you wanted to live, you would answer them truthfully, but if there is a lie, you will not be spared!"

"Big, big adults, just ask...... Ask, as long as, as long as the villain knows the Tao, it must be ...... You must answer truthfully, and you don't dare to deceive! ”

The leader of the hairy thieves knelt with a pale face like the ground, and beads of sweat the size of beans poured out of his forehead, and he didn't dare to move.

"How long have you been doing business in this area?"

"Back to my lord, after Master Dong returned to Chang'an last year, we started this business of blocking the road to get money."

"Where is your cottage?"

"If you go back to the adults, the small ones don't have cottages, they usually live in their respective villages, and they only come out to do it when they can't go on."

"In addition to your gang of thieves, are there other bandits in this area?"

"If you go back to your lordship, there are no bandits who occupy the mountains and villages near Danshui County, but there is a strong force near Fengxiang City, which is more than two hundred miles west of the county, and they not only occupy the mountains and claim the king, but also build a dock fort, with no less than a thousand people."

"How many defenders are there in Danshui County? Have you ever heard the name of the general? ”

"If you go back to your lordship, there are about 5,000 defenders in the city, and the leader of the guards is Yuan Yin, the younger brother of the later general Yuan Highway."

"Have you thieves ever done things that hurt nature and reason and bad people's lives?"

"If you go back to the adults, the small ones are just gathering people to make money, and usually extort some small people from the past, as long as the other party leaves a sum of money to buy the road, we will let it go, and we have not harmed the lives of others, but ......"

"But what? Say! ”

"But there were a few times when I was a little heavier, and I disabled a few passing business trips."

"Since you are a nearby villager, why do you want to do this kind of head-killing thing?!"

"Lord Qiyu, since Yuan Highway occupied Nanyang, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been heavier year by year, and the three households in the township, Zhao, Qu, and Jing, have been brutal and unkind, forcing us to really can't survive, so we have to fall into the grass and become bandits, and do such obscene things as roadblocks and robberies."

When the leader of the thieves said this, the other thieves who were originally kneeling and did not move pleaded with Liu He and said: "Lord Angel, what Brother Deng said is true, please open the net and surround his life, we are willing to be cattle and horses for adults, and we dare not commit it again!" ”

The leader surnamed Deng, who knelt in front of Liu He, didn't appreciate it, turned his head and reprimanded all the thieves fiercely and said: "Shut up for me, one person does things and one person does everything!" ”

Then, the leader surnamed Deng turned around, looked at Liu He with a resolute face, and said: "Today, we have no eyes, and we have offended the majesty of the angels, and the little ones are willing to apologize with death." These brothers of mine are not heinous, please give them a way to live! ”