Su Muzhe sent Chen He and Li Yan to sit at the foot of Qingtong Mountain every day, and let people broadcast with loudspeakers, telling the people nearby and the people on the mountain that the imperial court had sent grain over, and as long as they surrendered, they could be dealt with lightly.

For ten days in a row, day after day.

Moreover, Su Muzhe also learned to make porridge and rice from the grain and distribute it to the nearby people, and these people no longer had extra food to help the bandits above.

On Qingtong Mountain, the big boss and several brothers are together.

"This little general is the little general Su who went deep into the enemy army in the border city and took the head of the other party's leader, right? I heard that he values affection and righteousness, and if he says so, should we talk to him? Besides, we don't have enough food. ”

Because of the support of the people down the mountain, they didn't store much food.

One of them nodded violently: "What the eldest brother said is, don't say that people are just consuming us like this, if we run out of ammunition and food, we will have no right to speak at all." ”

Several others also fell into deep thought.

Next to the big boss, a white-faced scholar-like man shook his fan gently, looking at the faces of several people, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.

"Strategist, tell me, what should we do?"

The big boss turned his head to look at the military advisor.

Their brothers are just thieves who occupy the mountain as kings in Qingtong Mountain, robbing vehicles coming and going, and they have no culture, except for the big boss who also knows his own name, the others don't even know a word.

Later, there was a drought in Longxi, and the brothers on the mountain had nothing to eat.

He was originally born in Xiucai, but he was forced by local officials to rob his sister as a concubine, and his parents went up to fight hard and were beaten to death by the county order.

He had no way to ask for help, and with the help of the villagers that night, he escaped, passing through Qingtong Mountain and was caught by a few big bosses.

Later, he joined the gang, and he had no home anyway, and he hated the officials and the court to the core.

The drought is getting worse and worse, and the relief grain sent by the imperial court has also been sold at a high price by the black-hearted county order, except for those rich merchants, other ordinary people can only wait to starve to death.

Under the planning of the military division, several of them broke into the county office, killed the county commander, avenged the military division, and took out the food and distributed it to the people.

Later, the banner of Tianxingdao was erected.

There is no shortage of enthusiastic young people in the vicinity to devote themselves to them, and the team is getting bigger and bigger.

The military advisor actually knows the art of war, and he leads people to practice day and night every day, and those soldiers sent by the government are not their opponents.

Until Su Muzhe came, after the first few exchanges of troops, the military advisor came up with an idea to not move the troops, so they were consumed.

However, now that there is no food, they are a little unable to consume it.

Hearing the big boss ask him, the military advisor shook his fan and said, "Isn't surrendering tantamount to admitting that we have committed trouble?" If we surrender now, we will fall into their divisive scheme, and the people will not speak for us at that time, and even think that we are using them to steal food, which is not cost-effective. ”

The rest of the people looked at each other, and one of them plucked up his courage and asked, "Strategist, what is collusion?" ”

Strategist......

His face darkened, but he still gritted his teeth and explained: "It's that the people in the government are colluding with each other and covering each other." ”

Several people nodded silently.

Yes, in the past, they sent silver to the county order, and the county order told them to ask for more, and if they sent it to Zhizhou, they would be able to rob for a few months without being surrounded and suppressed.

Complicit, that's what you're talking about, right?

The big boss shrunk his neck, and never dared to say this to the military advisor.

Otherwise, the military advisor would still think that he was also complicit with the government.

"Then what should we do, we can't run out of food, right?"

The military advisor thought for a while: "We can exchange food, a few people took advantage of the night to kidnap the local people, and one person exchanged for a bag of grain." ”

"Huh? Isn't that right? "The big boss was the first to object.

They are all rich businessmen who rob, and they have never felt sorry for ordinary people.

"Hey, the people support us, as long as we explain our intentions to them, besides, it is clear in the daytime, Su Muzhe dares to put the people in danger, and if he doesn't agree to our conditions, the people will resist first."

The big boss had no idea, so he had to listen to the military advisor, and sent a few people to the town at the foot of the mountain quietly overnight and woke up a few families.

By dawn, Su Muzhe sat at the table at the foot of the mountain as before.

Chen He and Li Yan haven't come back yet, he needs to delay time, and besides, he still has to figure out the reality on the mountain.

There was no movement for ten days, and the little soldier with the horn turned on the horn as in the past and began to repeat it, and every day he was able to memorize these words, and he was able to read them aloud with emotion.

But today, he was only halfway through it, and he couldn't read it anymore.

Halfway up the mountainside, a group of people came down, and the two leading people were escorting several young men, including a child of eleven or twelve years old, who came down from a distance.

"General Su, what our big boss said, he has heard what you said in the past few days, but he has to think about it, but when he is thinking, he has to eat enough, so bother General Su, bring the food up, we won't let General Su Xiao suffer, exchange these hostages, how about it?"

As he spoke, the man with a scar on the right side of his face pushed several people forward.

"General, help, general......"

Several people suddenly shouted in fear.

Su Muze wrinkled his eyebrows, angry in his heart.

What he has always heard is that the mountain bandits in Qingtong Mountain are relatively conscientious and have never bullied the common people, why do they do such a thing now?

"How? Give it or not, General Su. ”

Scarface said viciously.

Su Muze squinted slightly: "I don't know where your big boss is, let's talk about it when you come out, such as what kind of food does the big boss need, a little more rice, or a little more white flour?" ”

When Scarface heard this, he was overjoyed and couldn't help but look at the bend in the mountain road behind.

The big boss raised his feet and was about to go out, but was pulled back by the military advisor: "Why are you going?" ”

"Didn't he say negotiation?" The big boss looked puzzled.

The military advisor hated iron and said: "Can't you see that he is a trap?" It's trying to test how many of us we have, how many troops we have, how can you go out and tell him how much? ”

"Huh? So what to do? The big boss asked innocently.

"One person for five bags of rice, five bags of flour, go and talk to him." The military advisor commanded the little minions beside him.

"Yes." The little minion ran over in three or two steps.

Su Muze raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that there were smart ones in this rabble team.