"Brother Luo, how serious are these bandits in Jinzhou?" During the march, Yi Chen quietly came to Luo Ning's side, a veteran who has been working in Jinzhou for more than ten years, has a fairly clear grasp of the situation in the state.

Luo Ning thought for a moment and said: "The three most powerful bandits in my Jinzhou should be Hutou Village, Dangyangbo, and Qiushan Eighteen Forts, but these three gangs add up to at least eight or nine thousand people, but they usually fight on their own, and the nest is no longer in one direction, so it should be difficult to gather together." ”

"As for some other small bandits scattered around, I really haven't counted them, but these are dozens or hundreds of people in their own group, and we can't make it into a climate, so we don't have to worry too much. The only thing we need to pay attention to is probably Dangyangbo, Dangyang Lake is the only way for our route to the west. ”

Jinzhou is already quite serious because it is far away from the hinterland, next to the border, although Jinzhou is rich, but it is only relative to the border states and counties, and the hinterland is still much worse, poverty will always make people embark on the road of crime.

The second is that these bandits have no fixed place to live, even if they are famous gangs like Nadangyangbo and Eighteen Castles of Akiyama, the old nest is also said to lose it, and it doesn't care at all, if you come to encircle and suppress them, you will run, and they will come back when you leave, or directly change places and loot a village and live directly on the spot.

These bandits are all elite people, and they never confront the officials and troops head-on, resulting in repeated defeats in the suppression of bandits, which is not without results, but it can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean.

However, in recent years, the people of Jinzhou have been getting better and better, and have found the right business opportunities and development paths. How can there be a serious life and live a comfortable life.

Yi Chen thought about it and asked an unrealistic question, it was this question that made Luo Ning not know how to answer, "Then Brother Luo, you said that in our Jinzhou territory, is it possible to hide a small army of Xuan Mang?"

Luo Ning's face froze, he instinctively wanted to say impossible, are you kidding, this is absolutely impossible, but seeing Yi Chen's worried face, he hesitated a little.

In the end, Luo Ning still said in an incredulous voice: "It should ...... Unlikely, we are already halfway through the journey, and we are about to reach Dangyang Lake. ”

Yi Chen's hand subconsciously clenched the reins, "No matter if it's impossible, it's always a big mistake to be careful, all the starting points we consider are that they will be attacked along the way, no matter who comes, it doesn't seem to matter, the only difference is that the combat power of the barbarians is much stronger than that group of bandits who are scattered." ”

Luo Ning's face was a little solemn and said: "Brother, don't underestimate these bandits, if it is a small group of bandits, it doesn't matter, but these three major forces are not only shouting and shouting and killing, although they are very skilled in the technology of breaking into pieces, they can also fight in formation, and the discipline is still very strict when they really fight, which is not much better than the regular army." ”

"Oh?" Yi Chen was surprised at this moment, not much worse than the regular army?

Luo Ning sneered: "Brother doesn't know, there are also people who have been soldiers among these bandits, and there are also grassroots generals who defected, and the 'Tiger General' who was killed by Miss Wang before is one of them, so it is not surprising that these bandit nests that have become a gathering of bandits in the climate have such a consciousness." ”

You must know that people's desires are endless, if this big thief tiger general is at ease to be a general, not to mention rich and expensive, at least he can keep the whole family from worrying about food and drink, but unfortunately his desires do not match his ability, so he eventually went astray.

His ability is to command a party of military horses, but his desire is to be a rich man, and the bull's head is not the horse's mouth.

Moreover, Yi Chen, a retired soldier who defected to the bandits, can also understand that the common people used to have a hard life, and some people couldn't even eat enough, and there was no preferential treatment for sergeants who voluntarily retired after this kind of year.

"Alas, if Brother Luo wants to say this, this group of bandits in Jinzhou is really rampant and difficult to deal with, no wonder it is unfavorable to repeatedly suppress bandits, these people are well versed in guerrilla tactics, if they can all be recruited and expanded into the army, it is also a force to be reckoned with, and it is really condescending to throw them into the land of these two states to be bandits, and their stage can only be displayed more openly on the desert grassland. Yi Chen sighed from the bottom of his heart, this matter can only be regarded as a fool's dream.

Luo Ning and Yi Chen rode side by side, and also sighed deeply: "Who said it wasn't." ”

After three days of rapid marching, everything can be said to be calm and calm, without encountering any twists and turns, and the two armies in front and behind basically maintained the rhythm of reporting messages every half an hour.

"Brother Luo, do you want to take a rest here, just to replenish the water source for the soldiers, I haven't had much rest in the past three days when I was in a hurry. Yi Chen looked at some of the soldiers' lips were a little chapped, and even worse, their feet were like they were filled with lead, and they walked a little staggering, which was really unbearable, and the high-intensity march was not a good thing for the soldiers who were about to enter the war.

Luo Ning swallowed a mouthful of saliva, although Jinzhou was close to Xuan Mang, and was blown dry by the cool breeze, without the exposure of the scorching sun, but for a few days, people were a little unbearable, "That's okay, according to what my brother said, the heralds! Order the team to repair in situ, let everyone rest and eat some dry food to replenish the water source! Be careful not to overfill your stomach!"

"Order!"

Xuanzhi once had a rule that when he was on the march, he could only occupy five points of his stomach whether he was eating or drinking, and he could not even take up those seven points, otherwise he would harm himself.

After drinking a full stomach of water, my stomach is swaying when I walk, and I can't run, let alone eating too much, which is even worse.

Yi Chen looked at Luan Nianwei who was sitting next to a big stone in the distance in a daze, her pretty face had long since disappeared, and was replaced by an extremely haggard, the rapid march in the past few days had made this woman who had lost her cultivation enough to choke, but she couldn't hold back and didn't say a word, no matter how fast the team went, she had to keep up.

Nie Huang is energetic, as long as he has free time, he will find an open place to dance there with a stick, and the surrounding sergeants can't help but applaud when they look at this kid, and they should all be given a show by this young man in their spare time.

Yi Chen smiled secretly, the two personal guards he picked were really two extremes, one was in full swing, and the other was originally in full swing, but now it has become a stuffy jar.

Because he has been in the army for several days, Qiao Xibai did not appear on his side, and now it is no more than when he was in the camp, and he needs to pay more attention in the wild, of course, the most important thing is to avoid suspicion, let a group of old men watch the two of them make love, not to mention that Miss Qiao can't pull her face, Yi Chen is also a hundred who don't agree.

"Oh, drink some water, sister. Yi Chen walked to Luan Nianwei's side, untied the water bladder on his waist and threw it in front of her, Luan Nianwei looked up at him without speaking, directly picked up the water bladder and poured a few sips, but directly drank the water of the entire water bladder, and his face finally recovered a little ruddy.

Yi Chen half-squatted down, looked at Luan Nianwei, whose red lips became more and more vivid after drinking water, and touched his hand to his own water bladder on her waist, and the latter was just about to stop it, but the water bladder was dragged down by Yi Chen.

"Alas, why should my sister embarrass herself......" Yi Chen shook his head and sighed slightly, and ran to fill the water with her and her own empty water bladder, Luan Nianwei looked at the young man who was a little angry, and she didn't know what it was like.

"You! If you say it's good, it's pride! If it's ugly, it's tsundere!" Yi Chen walked over and returned the water bladder to her, and poked her forehead with his fingers.

Luan Nianwei took the water bladder, it seemed that there was still residual warmth in the palm of the young man's hand, she gently held it and did not put it directly on her waist, but asked innocently: "What is Tsundere?"

"Well, how to describe it exactly, to put it simply, it is a thorny rose, with a tough attitude, and sometimes shy and shy, anyway, it is not the same as what it looks like and what it is. Yi Chen said as he saw Luan Nianwei, whose face was the color of pig liver, couldn't help but hold her stomach and laugh, and her tears almost burst out of her eyes.

Luan Nianwei picked up the water bladder and smashed it at Yi Chen, even spilling the water she had just taken inside, drenching Yi Chen all over his body, and instantly became a soup chicken.

Looking at Yi Chen with this appearance, the owner of Luan Dafang finally became happier, with a relaxed smile on his face.

I've become your 'tool' to relieve your emotions.

Yi Chen thought angrily in his heart, but seeing Luan Nianwei, who had reappeared with a delicate face, couldn't help but praise seriously: "Sister, you are so beautiful, you will be more beautiful if you smile more every day, don't be sad all day long." ”

When Luan Nianwei heard this, she hurriedly put back that smile, became cold again, and snorted coldly at Yi Chen.

Suddenly, Luan Nianwei looked at the water dripping on Yi Chen's body, moved forward a little closer and sniffed it carefully, and then her face changed, looking at Yi Chen, who was scrambling to wipe it, there was a little struggle in her eyes, "You didn't drink this water just now, did you?"

As an undercover agent, Luan Nianwei is naturally very clear about poisoning and assassination and other means, she felt something unusual when she smelled the smell of the water just now, there is medicine in this water, and it is a poison that can kill people, even if it is diluted by this lake, it may not be enough to kill people, but it is easy to make people lose their mobility.

Yi Chen's movements on his hand froze, he slowly raised his head to look at Luan Nianwei with a complicated face, and then thought of the sentence she asked abruptly and her strange movements, "Everyone is not allowed to drink water!!Throw all the water bladders in your hands on the ground!Quick!" Almost instantly, he made a judgment, this sometimes arrogant owner would not ask him an inconsequential question like this.

Coupled with her action of sniffing the water, where did she not think that there was a problem with the water, he suddenly got up and roared, which made many people stunned, and the water bladder in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously, and only a small number of people were holding the water bladder and gurgling it.