Originally, Ji Ling was still puzzled, but after being reminded by Yuan Yao, his eyes suddenly lit up.

That's right, the richest people in Lujiang County are none other than those mountain bandits.

Don't look at these people as mountain bandits, but the mountain bandits in Lujiang County have existed for many years, and these mountain bandits not only grow their own food, but also rob homes and houses, and rob merchants who come and go.

Among them, there are not a few family businesses that have been accumulated.

After all, some thieves have to settle down because they can't eat, and some thieves are just a profession.

The mountains in Lujiang County are stacked, the mountains are continuous, and there are many Shanyue people gathered, more than ten years ago, there was a rebellion between the Shanyue Sect Marshal Huang Sui and the Jiangxia barbarians.

Although the commotion at that time was not as good as the Yellow Turban Uprising, it was also not small, crossing states and counties, and the momentum was huge.

It can be seen from here that these bandits have a rich family background, and if they can eliminate some of the bandits and get their food reserves, they can not only solve the temporary problem of money and food, but also be able to collect prisoners and expand their soldiers and horses.

This is what Yuan Yao thought of at the beginning, after all, in history, Eastern Wu successively crusaded against the Shanyue people, not only got a lot of money and food from the hands of the Shanyue people, but also expanded the population and recruited soldiers and horses.

It's just a lot of killing one stone, and Yuan Yao can naturally follow suit.

And the reason why it took him nearly a month to walk from Shouchun to Lujiang was purely to train his subordinates first.

After a month of training, these veterans already have a strong foundation.

It's time to give it a try.

"What does Childe mean is that these soldiers under our command will go to suppress the bandits now?"

"That's right, I've already inquired clearly, on the way to Qianxian County, there is a group of mountain bandits entrenched next to the official road, there are not many people, only three or four hundred."

"These people are just enough for these horses under our command to practice their hands. First, let them find the feeling on the battlefield for military training, and second, it can also help us solve the problem of food and grass. ”

Yuan Yao said that, and then stretched out his hand and pointed on a silk map.

Yesterday, when he asked Liu Xun about the news of the mountain bandits, he roughly asked Liu Xun to mark the location of the nests of the major mountain bandits in Lujiang.

Although his target was these three relatively large bandits, he would definitely not be able to target those mountain bandits at the beginning.

Let's not talk about Yuan Yao's current old and weak, sick and disabled, whether he is an opponent or not, even if he is an opponent, in the eyes of Yuan Yao, who has no experience in combat, he can't take risks.

Therefore, it is still necessary to take some mountain bandits with slightly weaker strength to train their hands, first, to increase their combat experience, and secondly, to train their men and horses by taking advantage of the situation, so as to enhance their confidence and cultivate combat quality.

At the same time, they seized the weapons, money and food of the mountain bandits, and used them to strengthen themselves.

Now that Yuan Yao had made a decision, Ji Ling just got up and looked at the soldiers of the warrior battalion behind him.

"Childe, that's right, it's time to train and train these people."

"Let the last general personally lead these people to suppress the bandits."

Ji Ling spoke, Yuan Yao did not refuse, Ji Ling's own strength is good, with him in charge, the difficulty of suppressing bandits will be much smaller, after all, this is the first time, Yuan Yao has no experience before, and it is easier to have Ji Ling's help.

According to Yuan Yao's train of thought, the group soon came to a place called Wufengling, fifty miles away from Qianxian County.

There is a group of mountain bandits entrenched here, who specialize in robbing merchants on the official roads, killing people and stealing goods is just a trivial matter, and often harass the surrounding villages and towns.

It's just that there are many mountains near Qianxian County, and the county magistrate of Qianxian County has not yet taken office.

Without the government organizing manpower to suppress the bandits, this gang of bandits was naturally able to stay at ease for so long.

Even because they did not attract the attention of the government for a year or two in a row, they became even more emboldened, openly opening gates on both sides of the official road to collect money from passers-by to buy roads.

These things naturally fell into Yuan Yao's mouth, and when he was not far away from this gang of bandits, Yuan Yao divided his three thousand soldiers and horses into two batches.

A group of third-class soldiers are old and weak, and a group of first- and second-class soldiers are in front of the strong main force.

When approaching the stronghold of the mountain bandits, Yuan Yao asked the second-class soldiers to stop temporarily, and only let Ji Ling lead those third-class soldiers to the stronghold of the mountain bandits.

The third-class old, weak, sick and disabled, Yuan Yao didn't treat them as a new force from the beginning, so they were not useful at all, at most they were used as people and horses to transport heavy baggage.

And although the privates are all normal people and have some training, it is not good to want them to participate in the battle directly.

The main group of mountain bandits is not large, only a few hundred, and Yuan Yao's second-class soldiers have thousands of people, far more than the number of bandits, let them go out, it will not play a role in training at all.

Even if these mountain bandits were annihilated, they would only take advantage of the large number of people and defeat them.

When he was about to arrive at the stronghold of the mountain bandits, Yuan Yao personally followed Ji Ling to lead the more than 400 third-class soldiers.

On the official road not far away, a large wooden stake stands on both sides, and a huge log is horizontal in the middle.

More than a dozen middle-aged strong men dressed in flowing air, holding knives of various colors, stood on both sides, and as soon as they saw someone coming, they immediately stepped forward.

Ji Ling and Yuan Yao had already calculated, and at first they only stepped forward with a few retinues, disguised as passing merchants.

Otherwise, the army will appear directly on the official road, and these dozens of bandits, where would they dare to step forward and touch their edge.

Once the grass is startled, it will be much more difficult to suppress the bandits.

Although Ji Ling felt that this was a bit too cautious, Yuan Yao thought that being careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship, even if it was to kill chickens, it should be done with a knife.

"Stop! What the hell are you doing! ”

One of the guys who seemed to be the leader quickly stepped forward to intercept Ji Ling, Ji Ling has always thought highly of himself, in the face of these bandits, in fact, he planned to fight directly, and he could kill as many as he could.

But this time, after the mountain bandits approached, Ji Ling finally had nothing to endure.

Putting aside the rags in his hand, he directly showed his weapon.

"What? Do the right thing for heaven! ”

After saying a word, the long knife in Ji Ling's hand had already slashed out.

Several old soldiers who followed Ji Ling's side also immediately followed, swinging their knives and slashing.

Several mountain bandits didn't react at all for a while.

In the past, they used to scare people with weapons and shouting, but I didn't expect that today, someone would actually take the lead.

As soon as the leader was about to take out a knife to resist, Ji Ling's big knife had already fallen in front of him.

With a snort, the head fell to the ground.

Seven or eight mountain bandits, four or five died before they could react.