Chapter Twenty-Four: Boldness
"It's not. Xavier shook his head and said, "I mean, give each of them a little bit of food, and then let them continue south and annoy the other villages. ”
As soon as he heard this proposal, Sir Liszt could not help laughing, and he knew very well that Xavier's proposal sounded harmless to humans and animals, but in fact it was full of evil.
This is mainly because the villages in the south may not have such foresight, and most of them will suffer if they encounter refugee riots.
However, this is the best response for the village of Reston now to prevent more refugees from falling into a food starvation.
Sir Liszt was silent for a moment, and finally nodded to Xavier, "Your plan is good, but you need some additions......"
"Like, lie to them. ”
"What do you mean?" Xavier seemed to catch the captain's thoughts, but asked not quite clearly.
"The refugees are not fools, and now that we in the village of Reston are able to give us food, who would want to leave here and go further south?" said Sir Liszt with a smile, "so we must lie to them, to lie to them with words, to go south. ”
"Tell them, for example, that there is a big granary in the South?" Xavier suggested, "and that when they know that there is better grain in the South, they will definitely leave." ”
"Nice offer. "But there will certainly be some refugees who have doubts, so we can give them some food before they go, so that they can go with some peace of mind." ”
"In addition, we can also bribe some refugees to spread rumors that the barbarians of the north are about to arrive, and if they don't go south, they will become their dead souls. ”
Hearing this, Xavier couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's still the captain who is good at playing yin!" He actually thought of using this method to trick the refugees away, as for whether he would feel guilty because of this, of course not? They have already tried their best to rescue the refugees, so what's wrong?
Immediately, the two continued to discuss for a while, and after adding the details, they were ready to implement it.
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Refugee camp.
Here is a series of tents, connected or separated, built by the refugees themselves.
Skylar looked at Natalie who was sleeping next to her, relieved and deep in thought.
He never imagined that there would be such a good village as Reston that would take the initiative to give them food! Among them, the plan to give priority to the elderly, weak, women and children in obtaining food made Skyler full of affection for them.
But he knew very well that it was impossible for a small village like Reston to store too much food, and when the time came, the soldiers would surely drive them away.
When the time comes, she and her sister Natalie will be hungry again, and it doesn't matter to herself, but Natalie, she is in the process of growing her body, and she can't lack nutrition!
After thinking about it, he still couldn't think of a countermeasure to deal with this situation, and he also knew that he didn't have that ability, if he had, he wouldn't have dragged his sister to flee from the north to this place.
Alas....... He walked out of the self-made tent, intending to take a break from the side.
Today's starlight is quite bright, so even if Skyler doesn't have an oil lamp, he can roughly tell the route next to him. He didn't go too far away from his sister, but kept her in his field of vision, so as not to have any accidents with her.
At this moment, he passed by the camp next to him, and was about to leave, but he heard some plots coming from inside.
"You say, what if we robbed this village? They must be a very rich village if they still have the money left over to help the victims. A voice said.
"My God, did you eat poisonous mushrooms, and you saw the armor they wore when you got the food today, and even if you sent all the companions in the cottage, you probably wouldn't be able to beat them!" retorted another voice.
"I'm certainly not that stupid. The person who spoke before laughed, "We can't beat a frontal attack, but what if we attack closely? They can't wear armor in their sleep, right?"
"When the time comes, we will be able to snatch all the food inside, enjoy the beauties of the village by the way, and make every brother happy!"
Hearing this, Skyler finally understood, it turned out that the people inside were bandits, and they actually dared to rob Reston Village!
Since the outbreak of the war in the north, many civilians have become refugees, and some of them have become thieves, taking advantage of the war to rob their own people.
After all, there is no army in the north of the huge Gurnia, so it has naturally become a breeding ground for thieves.
And even if they can't beat it, they can just run to the barbarians.
It's just that Skyler didn't expect that this group of thieves would actually develop all the way to the south, and they were also preparing to rob the village of Reston with an official garrison!
Should they be brave, or stupid?
Anyway, Skyler decided to tell the military about this, and he didn't want the good guys who gave them food to be implicated.
Immediately, he slowed down so that the people in the tent could not hear him leaving, and then returned to his camp to wake Natalie up, and went to the village of Reston to call the police overnight.
Shortly after he left, a sharp-eyed black-haired man walked out of the tent and smiled as Skyler departed.
"Boss, are you sure he heard?" the same voice that questioned the method of the robbery earlier, and it seemed to be the man's subordinate in front of him.
"If he hadn't heard, why would he have left overnight?" the black-haired man stroked his pitiful beard and paused for a moment before continuing, "So I'm sure he'll tell the military this information." ”
Hearing the boss's statement, the subordinate hurriedly showed admiring eyes and explained the ins and outs to the reader:
"Boss, you are really clever enough to think of such a scheme! In this case, those soldiers will definitely defend all night, and then we will attack when they are most tired, that is, early in the morning!"
"What a perfect plan! Cruyff's wisdom must have been the same!"
It should be noted that this time, when the subordinates told the ins and outs, they paid attention to whether anyone nearby heard them, and lowered their own volume so that their actual battle plan would not be known to outsiders.
Hearing the praise of his subordinates, the black-haired man hurriedly smiled and said: "I am comparable to the sage of Cruyff! But I like to listen to this sycophant, now follow me, go back to the cottage, and gather soldiers and horses!"
Immediately, the two stepped on broken steps and quickly left in the hazy night.