Hearing Ye Li's inquiry, Zhang Hua pondered for a while, and said: "If you want me to say, the comprehensive strength of their team is actually not far from ours, this group of fish thieves is very proficient in camouflage and raiding, and their ability in these two aspects surpasses ours, but on the frontal battlefield, they are not as good as us, so if there is a big battle between the two of us, it will be difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser." ”

Hearing Zhang Hua's words, Ye Li's eyes couldn't help but light up, after all, if the strength of the fish robber was comparable to that of the yellow-clothed bandits, then after he recruited the other party, he would get a well-trained and powerful army.

"So, these guys still need to surrender?"

Ye Li said.

Zhang Hua nodded and said, "Although I don't like them, if you want me to be honest, they are indeed worthy of your surrender."

Their manpower is not much different from ours, it is also about 400 people, and after you take them all under your command, I think the number of private troops will be full!"

Ye Li didn't explain much about the number of private troops, he needed more than that.

Li Rushan had told him before he came, asking him to find more ways to recruit enough people from different places.

After all, with a quota of 10,000 people, the imperial court can allocate a maximum of 3,000 people to him, and the remaining 7,000 gap has to be found by himself, Ye Li just wants to pick a son and not do it, after all, it is a waste of time to let him recruit people everywhere.

However, Ye Li also knew that the legion he formed now was the same as the army he had formed on Pufan Island, and it was a powerful force against the Great Soul Heaven Organization in the future.

So he can't be lazy now, and now he's lazy, and if he really starts an all-round war in the future, his strength will be much smaller.

After discussing with Ding Si and Zhang Hua, Ye Li decided to take the two of them to attack the fish thieves that night.

And Qian San was left near the manor by Ye Li, leading the yellow-clothed bandits who had just joined in to continue to build the camp.

According to Zhang Hua, Ruan Bailang, the leader of the fish thieves, is an extremely afraid of death, as long as Ye Li can threaten his life and let him escape, he will definitely be obedient.

After knowing this, the leaf centrifugation was a lot easier.

After all, the leader who is afraid of death is still very beneficial for him to control the entire fish thief organization, as long as he can threaten Ruan Bailang, the other party will obediently lead the entire organization to surrender.

When night was about to fall, the three of them rode fast horses and galloped towards the edge of the Qingjiang River.

The Qingjiang River is a wide river that runs through the entire Dongfang County, and it passes through most of the Tang Kingdom, as well as parts of the Great Yuan Kingdom, and many countries along the way.

Therefore, there will be a lot of merchant ships coming and going on weekdays, and there will be a lot of caravans gathered along the way to load and unload goods.

The fish thieves started out robbing these shipkeepers, but now because they are relatively strong, they rarely go out to rob merchant ships in person.

After all, most of the merchant ships that often take this waterway will pay a certain amount of protection money like them.

As long as it is a caravan that has paid the protection money, they will not attack, after all, thieves also have a way, and as a bandit, there are some rules that must be followed.

Ding Si had also investigated the camp of the fish robbers before, but he did it in a hurry after all, so he didn't know much about the situation here.

Fortunately, Zhang Hua knew a lot about fish thieves, and Ye Li also got a lot of useful information.

After observing the other party's camp for a while, Ye Li said: "You have a good look, these places on the periphery of the front are dark sentinels, and there are open sentinels in several places.

Here's how we'll choose the route of the invasion, which will pass through the middle of the light and dark posts and blend into the camp.

This fish thief really has some problems with the layout of the sentinel point, it is worse than you yellow-clothed bandits, and it is too easy to invade it. ”

Hearing Ye Li's words, Zhang Hua touched his nose and said, "We still have a lot of soldiers in the past, so we know a little bit about the arrangement of the sentry.

There are not so many soldiers on the side of the fish thieves, and even if there are, they are mostly naval troops, and they definitely don't know much about the issue of arranging sentry posts on the shore. ”

Ye Li nodded and said, "Let's go, you two follow me, keep the footsteps to a minimum, and we'll lurk over." ”

After explaining to the two of them, Ye Liben rushed out first, and with an extremely strange twisted route, he mixed towards the camp of the fish robbers, Ding Si and Zhang Hua followed closely behind him.

It didn't take much effort for the three of them to infiltrate the camp of the fish robbers, which looked not much different from the camp of the yellow-clothed bandits.

After some effort, they found Ruan Bailang's residence.

At this time, Ruan Bailang was cultivating in the house, and he seemed to be more diligent than Zhang Hua and the others, but there was a gap in qualifications between people after all, and his cultivation was still worse than Zhang Hua.

When Ye Li and the three of them stood in front of him, he had already woken up from the meditation, and the moment he saw the three of them, he was ready to attack and take the opportunity to escape.

Although his thinking was correct and his reaction was very fast, his strength was too weak after all, and before he could jump up from his seat, he was pressed back by Ye Li.

Feeling the terrifying pressure of the mountains on Ye Li's body, Ruan Bailang's body softened, and he finally gave up resistance.

"Who is Your Excellency, for...... Why are you here?"

Ruan Bailang looked at Ye Li in horror, and after he knew Ye Li's strength, he couldn't help but stammer.

"Ruan Bailang, this is Lord Ye Li, the lord of our Dongfang County!"

Zhang Hua stood next to Ye Li and said to Ruan Bailang.

Ruan Bailang noticed Zhang Hua next to him, and the look on his face was even more surprised.

"Zhang Hua, why are you here!!?

The county guards who came before were all solved by you for Wang Yue and them, how could you stand on the lord's side this time!!"

Ruan Bailang asked Zhang Hua suspiciously.

Zhang Hua laughed awkwardly and said, "Lord Ye Li's strength is outstanding, and I have already taken my entire village to serve him and become his private army."

Since this is the territory of the lord, naturally we bandits are not allowed to exist, and after we serve him, you are the only gangster left here.

So you should understand by now why he's here!!"

Hearing Zhang Hua's words, Ruan Bailang looked at Ye Li, swallowed his saliva and said tentatively, "My lord, do you still need subordinates?"

His words, on the contrary, Ye Li was stunned, and before he could open his mouth to surrender, the other party actually had the intention of going straight away.

"If you are willing to surrender with all your men and take a poison pill, then you will be my man from now on.

I want to form a legion now, I need a lot of manpower, if you submit to me, you will be part of my legion in the future, and you will also serve as the captain of a hundred people like Zhang Hua and them, how about it!?"

Ye Li's attitude towards such a guy who knows the current affairs is a lot softer.