Sensing the strangeness of the matter, Haoyun said goodbye to the old man, and he stationed his army in a clearing not far from the village, led by Yun Ying and the rest of the team, while he rode back on horseback to report what had happened.

Zhang Fan and the others listened carefully, and after a while, they also frowned, this matter is too strange, there should be a deeper mystery in it!

After another moment, Zhang Fan and Aoshuang Douxue glanced at each other, and they both saw the realization in each other's eyes, Fu Chen also smiled when he saw this, and asked towards Haoyun: "Then according to you, what is going on?" ”

Haoyun was slightly stunned, hesitated for a moment and said slowly: "I think there is a problem with those villages, and the old man's suspicion is also very big, he may have some connection with the bandits!" ”

"It's a talent that can be made!" Zhang Fan smiled in his heart and asked, "What do you see from it?" Take a good look at it! ”

Haoyun nodded and said, "First, I didn't notice it originally, but now I think about it more and more suspiciously, those villages are built at the foot of the mountain, and as the old man said, there are thieves in the mountains, often invading the village, in that case, why do they still live there?" Why don't you just move to the city? That should be a lot safer, right? ”

"Second, the old man pointed out to me that the road was extremely difficult, and said that it led to the bandits' lair, but if the bandits kept coming and going, the road would be very smooth, and it would not be as I saw! However, in this case, we really encountered the attack of the bandits, which must have something to do with it, and it is even possible that the old man deliberately led us to a dead end! ”

"Third, when we wanted to retreat, the old man came with a group of people with swords, and at that time my heart jumped, because it is difficult for ordinary civilians to get swords, and they will not be so brave to participate in the big war, at that time I realized that these people may be here to block our back road, so I deliberately exaggerated the number and strength of the follow-up army, and wanted to bluff them, but I didn't expect the bandits to really retreat, which proves the conjecture in my heart, those villages are indeed suspicious!"

Aoshuang Douxue laughed: "In this case, the matter has been laid out in a clear place, why don't you just take decisive action and raze those villages?" ”

Haoyun shook his head slowly and said, "It's naturally not difficult to raze the village of thieves, but what's the point? The bandit army is still hiding in the mountains, and my actions are likely to startle the snakes, but what if they do run away by then? Once they hide in the depths of the mountains and jump out while we are at war with the four great powers, it will cause great trouble to our rear, this is a time bomb that must be uprooted! ”

"Good!" Zhang Fan expressed his admiration, being able to think of this step, it can be seen that Haoyun's combat quality is very strong, surpassing the vast majority of people, and he is definitely a talent!

Haoyun smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "I came back this time to ask for advice, is there any good way to lure the snakes out of the hole and kill them all?" ”

Zhang Fan beckoned to him and said, "This is easy, you come over ......"

Zhang Fan, Aoshuang Douxue, Fu Chen, Haoyun, these four people got together and discussed for a long time, Haoyun kept nodding, and finally smiled and said that he knew, and left quickly, and he left with Yanyang, Leng Yanzitian and others and the eight thousand army, these people joined forces, and the number of the army approached fifteen thousand, and Haoyun led the army to return to the village with a big smile, and the momentum was great!

The old man found this army of soldiers and horses from a long distance, and hurried to the entrance of the village to greet him: "Warriors, why are you back again?" ”

Haoyun changed his previous appearance, snorted noncommittally, shook his hand and said, "Oh! I forgot just now, there is not much food and grass in our army, and I want to come to the old man to 'second' some, and I will return it in the future! ”

"Huh!" The old man echoed twice with a smile, his face was a little cloudy, but he endured it and did not have a seizure.

Haoyun said again: "That's right! My army has no place to spend the night at night, so I will stay in your village today, and tomorrow morning you will prepare the grain and grass for me, and we will leave as soon as it is dawn!" ”

The old man nodded and asked slowly: "It naturally doesn't matter if the general wants to live here, but how to settle the hundreds of thousands of troops, we have a small place here, and we can't live so many people!" ”

"Hahaha!" Haoyun laughed wildly when he heard this: "What hundreds of thousands of troops? That's all a liar! At that time, I was almost scared to death, and I thought that my life was about to be lost, but I didn't expect the bandits to be so cowardly, and they ran away as soon as they were scared, causing me a false alarm! ”

The old man was stunned, his eyes flashing again and again: "So, there is no army of hundreds of thousands?" ”

"Naturally not!" Haoyun nodded: "All my troops are here, and the total number is less than fifteen thousand, where did the hundreds of thousands of troops come from?" Those are all deceitful thieves, why do you care so much? Why don't you go and prepare food and drinks? Today I scared off the bandits with my incorruptible tongue, and I must drink it well! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The old man withdrew with a gloomy face, and when he walked out of the door, he spat on the ground fiercely, and his face, which was originally a little submissive, was now full of hideous colors, and it was the same as before.

At this time, a villager sneakily walked up and asked in a low voice: "Old Liu, how is the situation, why are these guys back again, don't they want to let us go?" ”

"Phew!" The old man sneered: "These guys are a bunch of military ruffians!" They are here to extort and extort from us, to demand food and grass and other goods! ”

"What? Shall we prepare? There are many people on the other side, we should endure the anger for a while, and then slowly ask for it back in the future! The villager said with a look of surprise.

The old man shook his head: "There are many bullshit people!" There are only 15,000 of them in total, so what so-called hundreds of thousands of troops are all made up of lies, they are just a bunch of liars, we just let them go, we should have made a decisive move to kill them in front and back! ”

"You go and contact the chief, and say that a group of fat sheep will spend the night in the village tonight, let him lead all his brothers down to take revenge, and today we will take them all down at night and rob them of their weapons and armor!"

The villager was overjoyed when he heard this, and his face bloomed with a smile: "I'll go now!" There's sure to be a big catch tonight! ”

Seeing him leave, the old man slowly walked into the village and commanded in a cold voice: "Prepare wine and food for them!" Let them eat and drink enough, and remove their guards, so that our plan can be more successful! ”

"Hmph, dare to go to Lao Tzu's territory to spread wild, live impatiently!"

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