Things have to start with the junior village of "Hanxiang Village".

Previously, Yang Rui deliberately stayed away from the "Hanxiang Village" for fear of causing unnecessary misunderstandings, but as soon as he left on the front foot, someone else came here on the back foot! These people are the water thieves that Yang Rui wants to conquer but can't reach!

"Hanxiang Village" is located in the southeast and lower reaches of Shuiyuan Village, and the distance from Wenshui is also very close, and the founder of the village, ---- Hanlaixiang, actually inadvertently obtained a village building token shortly after the start of the game, and quickly established the village, so far it has been more than two months in real time!

When she chose to build the village near Wenshui, Han Laixiang actually had her own ideas. On the one hand, Han Laixiang is a person who likes to be quiet, and the source of Wenshui is mostly surrounded by hilly land with mountain ranges, overgrown with bushes, and in the flater places, there are dense streams, swamps, and weeds, and few people will come to the vicinity.

On the other hand, Kan Laika also felt that this was a suitable place for the development of the village. At the beginning, Han Laixiang found that there are a lot of fishery resources distributed in the gentle Wenshui River, and there are a lot of fine sand shoals on both sides of the Wenshui River, so you can catch a lot of fish for food with your bare hands.

So, Han Laixiang chose a site to build a village here. In the beginning, the development of Hanxiang village was very smooth, and with the supplement of Wenshui's fishery resources, Hanxiang Village solved the food restriction problem that plagued the development of most villages, and the population quickly accumulated to 500 people, which could be upgraded to an intermediate village immediately.

For this reason, Han Laixiang even called one of the few friends in reality to develop the village together. Village building tokens are very scarce in the initial stage of the game, and these two friends are naturally very happy to come over and join his village when they are invited by Kan Laixiang.

However, the good times didn't last long, just when Hanxiang Village was about to accumulate enough resources and prepare to upgrade to an intermediate village, the water thieves suddenly appeared in boats! These water thieves who came out of nowhere, roaring from the upstream on a clipper, rushed into Hanxiang Village indiscriminately, slashed, plundered, destroyed most of the buildings needed for upgrading, and almost overturned the entire village!

After a period of burning, killing and looting, there were less than 100 villagers left in Hanxiang Village, and all the units that could fight were killed, almost all the resources were taken away, and only the building was left with the council center and more than a dozen thatched huts!

It can be said that after this ransacking by the water thieves, Hanxiang Village was almost wiped out, and the confidence of Hanlaixiang and the other two friends and players was also greatly damaged! The only thing to be thankful for is that the water thieves did not demolish the council center, and the village has not been destroyed!

Far from being discouraged, Hanraka and her friends painstakingly developed the small village again, regathering the peasants, renovating the buildings, and accumulating resources again...... At the same time, they also strengthened the survey of the surrounding environment to prevent the Wenshui water bandits from harassing their village again.

Unfortunately, within a few days, Kan Laika found the water thieves' lair along the river, and this water thief's dock was only sixty or seventy miles away from their village, which was nothing compared to the game's vast map.

Sure enough, within ten days, these water thieves came to Hanxiang Village again, once again looted all the resources of the village, destroyed most of the buildings except for some thatched houses, and slaughtered the population of the village to about 100 people again!

The water thieves don't want to let go of Hanxiang Village! This is also due to the fact that Han Laixiang did not investigate carefully enough when choosing the address of the village, but it was too late to say anything at this time!

After being patronized by the Wenshui thieves for the third time, Han Laixiang's two friends suddenly retreated, and repeatedly persuaded Han Laixiang to give up the village and then seek other developments, but Han Laixiang was never willing to give up! Even though the two friends left Hanxiang Village one after another, he didn't waver in the end!

After several ransacks of the village, Hanlaixiang also summed up the activities of the water thieves, they "visited" Hanxiang Village almost every eight days (2 food production cycles), each time they kept about 100 villagers (and also kept a small ration for these villagers), destroyed most of the buildings but kept enough thatched huts to live in, and the soldiers defending the village were slaughtered every time!

Moreover, the target of the water thieves' "patronage" is not only Hanxiang Village, Hanlaixiang once found a system village and an abandoned player village in the downstream location, and saw the scene after the system village was ransacked, which is very similar to the scene when Hanxiang Village was ransacked, only a certain population and housing are retained, and the rest are all destroyed, killed or looted and taken away!

The difference is that this system village is much larger than his Hanxiang village, it should be an intermediate or advanced village, and the water thieves rarely kill people every time they loot, because the population growth of the system village is very slow, and the population of this system village is almost constant at about 500 people!

As for the abandoned player village, it should not be able to withstand the raids of the water thieves again and again and gave up!

Han Laixiang finally realized that the water thieves were going to use his village as a free supply point! Otherwise, he wouldn't have kept some of the villagers for him every time, these are all left by the water thieves to accumulate resources!

After thinking about it repeatedly, in the last few days, Han Laixiang came up with a way to deal with it, that is, she calculated the time when the water thieves robbed the village, and every time she waited for them to come, she transferred all the soldiers in the village to other places, and the villagers only kept about 100 people in the village, and the rest were all scattered far away from the village to hide, so that they barely retained a part of the living force.

Until Yang Rui appeared with 200 soldiers, Han Laixiang calculated that the time was about the same, but it was only half a day earlier, and he thought that the water thieves were coming to rob the resources, so he closed the door to prevent the water thieves from entering the village. He hasn't had time to transfer troops and villagers yet!

To get back to the point, Yang Rui led the troops out of Hanxiang Village with his front foot, never thinking that the water thieves would come here in less than half a day. Yang Rui, who was keeping an eye on the whereabouts of the water thief, naturally learned this information and quickly rushed in the direction of Hanxiang Village.

Due to Yang Rui's unintentional "harassment" before, Hanxiang Village had already prepared this time, and transferred all the military forces and some villagers in the village in advance, including Han Laixiang himself also left the village with as many resources as possible, leaving only 100 villagers stranded in Hanxiang Village.

Yang Rui took Chen Li and Chen Ping with two teams of soldiers, but they still couldn't catch up with the water thieves to ransack Hanxiang Village again! However, because Yang Rui changed the direction of the route in advance and ran directly towards the shore of Wenshui, the result happened to block the retreat of the water thieves!