When the tens of thousands of victims wandering from Jizhou were about to arrive in Lingshui County on the border of Qingzhou.

Xiao Jiu and his Xiao Ziying had already arrived at Xiaogang Village at the junction of the two states.

This time, not only the Xiaozi camp, but also the militia teams of various villages and towns in Lingshui County are all gathered here at this moment.

As a rough estimate, there are about four thousand people.

But they did not dare to relax, because the number of victims they would face would be more than ten times that of them.

At this time, low earthen walls had been temporarily built on the periphery of Xiaogang Village, and the Xiaozi camp and the militia everywhere relied on the earthen walls to set up camp.

Xiao Jiu, who was outside the big tent of the Chinese army, looked at the soldiers and militiamen who were weaving figures, and felt a little more confident in his heart.

Now the team of the Xiao Zi battalion is equipped with armor and bows and crossbows.

Coupled with the usual rigorous training, there are already some rudiments of the army in the previous life, and the overall quality is extremely high.

The large number of militia teams is somewhat varied, such as red tassel guns, bows and arrows, crossbows and other equipment mixed together.

Xiao Jiu didn't expect too much from this, it was already good that these temporarily expanded militia teams could be ordered and banned.

It's just that the determination of these militias to defend Lingshui County is extraordinarily firm.

Most of these people have been poor peasants for generations, struggling to survive on the meager food they have earned in exchange for their strength.

Now that after Xiao Jiu's land reform policy, they have obtained their own land, how can they be willing to give it to others?

A few days after Xiao Jiu set up camp in Xiaogang Village, several groups of the vanguard of the victims had already been blocked out of the village.

As time passed, more and more victims gathered outside the earthen walls of Xiaogang Village, and the number of people gradually exceeded 10,000.

Yu Gou, the temporary leader of this army of disaster victims, also arrived in Lingshui County surrounded by the crowd.

In a makeshift shack outside Xiaogang Village, Yu Gou and his brothers met to discuss.

"Big brother, if you want me to say tomorrow, you will directly let people rush a wave."

"The small earthen wall in front of it is far worse than the city wall of Yangcheng."

A sloppy man with his hair sticking to his scalp with a lock of hair said loudly to Yu Gou, who was sitting in the middle.

And Yu Gou listened to the man's words but didn't answer, just lowered his head and thought carefully.

If the small mountain village in front of him was as high and thick as Yangcheng, Yu Gou would not be as cautious as he is now.

But instead of fleeing to the county seat to save their lives, these people gathered people and confronted the army of disaster victims here.

All kinds of abnormal behaviors made Yu Gou more and more worried.

"Could it be that they really have something to rely on?"

Thinking like this in his heart, Yu Gou decided to arrange a messenger tomorrow to test the garrison guarding the village.

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In Xiaogang Village, in the temporary camp tent, many leaders of the Xiaozi battalion and the backbone of the militia of various villages and towns gathered together.

Everyone had serious faces, looking at Xiao Jiu on the main seat without saying a word.

And Xiao Jiu's face was also gloomy, and he was holding his hands thoughtfully.

"The owner of the village."

With the call of the old horse, the heavy atmosphere here was broken.

Xiao Jiu followed the prestige, and the people in the camp all looked at him, and Xiao Jiu began to arrange work.

"Brothers, fellow villagers."

"At present, tens of thousands of victims from Jizhou have gathered outside the village."

"If you just let them in, I think you all know what the consequences will be."

As Xiao Jiu slowly spoke word by word, whispers began to appear on the scene.

Xiao Jiu was very practical, and they were stationed in Xiaogang Village to block the victims.

Xiao Jiu was always wise before, and many people were still worried that Xiao Jiu would be soft-hearted to accept this group of refugees, and at this time, this statement directly showed Xiao Jiu's attitude.

But then I heard Xiao Jiu continue.

"But if you fight, you will die, and you have to be prepared."

After speaking, the hearts of many people at the scene suddenly pinched.

Yes, in the face of the hungry people outside, if you want to stop them, a bloody battle will definitely break out.

As soon as they thought of this, many people began to show sadness.

After that, Xiao Jiu dismissed the militia, leaving only the leaders of Xiao Zi's camp to continue the discussion.

How to deal with the victims who were several times more numerous than himself, in fact, Xiao Jiu had already had a plan in his heart.

Although Xiao Jiu was confident that with Xiao Zi's camp and the militias organized by various local blockages, he could also keep a large number of refugees out.

But in this way, there will inevitably be a large number of casualties.

If this crisis can be resolved without bloodshed, it is the best policy.

So Xiao Jiu prepared a two-handed plan.

The first is that Xiao Jiu is going to use the three cannons that have been transported to see if he can directly kill the leader of this group of victims.

If the leader dies, it will naturally be much easier to deal with the leaderless rabble.

The second is that Xiao Jiu decided to absorb refugees with families in the disaster team into Lingshui County and divide them from within.

Judging from the various information collected before, most of the victims of the disaster were dragged with their families.

Although there are more than 10,000 people, there are a large number of elderly and weak women and children, and almost half of them have a complete family structure.

Although he couldn't accept all the refugees, only 20,000 or 30,000 people could be brought in, and Xiao Jiu was still acceptable.

These people with a complete family structure know that they can enter Lingshui County to survive, and they will definitely not let go of this hard-won opportunity.

And with their wives and children no longer in danger of dying, the men in these families will never be in the company of other disaster victims again.

Listening to Xiao Jiu's explanation, Lao Ma and the others secretly smacked their tongues, sighing at Xiao Jiu's subtle control of human nature.

Of course, the premise of the feasibility of this kind of conspiracy is that it has sufficient strength.

Only by resisting the first wave of the flood victims can they be obedient.

This is also the reason why Xiao Jiu did not tell the news to the militia captains of the villages and towns.

Now that the people's hearts are available, only by letting them have the determination to dare to fight to the death can things be made logical in the future.

In this regard, Xiao Jiu felt helpless.

At noon the next day, the team of victims began to send several people to Xiaogang Village to negotiate.

When the messenger sent by the victims heard that Xiao Jiu was willing to accept some of the victims in the team, he immediately wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

After repeated confirmations, the envoy who had come to negotiate hurried back and hurried to report to Yu Gou, the leader of the victims.

And after Yu Gou heard about Xiao Jiu's conditions, he knew that he couldn't wait any longer.

Through this temptation, Yu Gou knew that the head of Lingshui County must be an opponent with insight into human nature.

If he really allowed his subordinates to hear the news, he was afraid that he would soon face a fatal backstab.

Subsequently, Yu Gou directly took a few of his henchmen and began to mobilize the victims to attack the village.

Xiaogang Village's side did not come forward to make any response, but they all waited for the coming fight with serious faces.

At this time, in the grooves of several earthen walls at the entrance of the village, three heavy cannons were added.

After several days of stalemate between the two sides, today's noon negotiations are like a fuse, making the situation come to an imminent point.