wasteland ranch

Chapter 164
Lin Guiyao was startled when he saw the strange bunch of roots in his palm twisting and turning as if they were alive, and hurriedly put them back into his backpack, but in his haste, one fell and landed on the ground. ground.

As soon as the root, which was as small as an earthworm, fell to the ground, it actually stood upright, crawling with its roots, and the direction seemed to be the other side of the pond.

Lin Guiyao took out a hoe and poked it, but found no danger, so he shoveled it up, saw how it was trying to wriggle towards the pond, and then threw it into his backpack.

"This thing should have something to do with the leaves of the world, but I can let Ye Sangeng and the others take a look."

As he was patting the dirt on his hands, a dark and thin man suddenly ran over and bowed.
"Lord, Lord Gui asked you to go to the meeting hall. He said that he had something urgent to report!"

"Understood, I'll go right now."

After waving his hand and asking Ma Mali to continue to supervise the watering of the villagers, Lin Guiyao rushed to the meeting hall, but seeing that only Gui Xingchao, Wang Bing, Xu Shilang and Chen Elong were present, he was a little surprised after sitting down:
"What's the matter? Is there anything in Hope City that you can't decide?"

Gui Xingchao shrugged and looked at Wang Bing. Wang Bing stood up and said, "Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources has reported that there are fewer businessmen coming to the village. After asking Xu Shilang and I, we found out that someone suddenly appeared outside. The Bo armed forces set up cards on the road leading to our Hope City to charge high tolls. If you don't pay, you can't pass, so I need to report to you."

"Tolls? Have you found out who is setting up the card?" Lin Guiyao frowned.

Wang Bing pointed to the sand table, which had been marked with a flag.

"It's the ghosts of the surrounding territories. According to the information fed back by the Inspectorate, there are about six territories involved in this incident, namely this, this, and these."

After placing several black wooden figures on the six places representing territories, Wang Bing replied.

"The scale of these six territories is not large, with a population of about 2000. The actual combatants are only about two or three hundred. Only one is slightly better. It has five or six hundred soldiers, and the total number is about [-]."

"About 2000 people?" Lin Guiyao felt a little tricky, "Is there any explanation from the metropolis?"

"No answer! They didn't respond at all!" Wang Bing was a little angrily,
"Those scumbags even stopped our convoy to Metropolis. After hearing that the goods were from City of Hope, they even seized the people and the goods. We wouldn't have known if Lin Hai hadn't written back to ask us what was going on. , Metropolis seems to be planning to pretend to be deaf and dumb!"

"What about the merchants who entered the city? Didn't they tell you?" Lin Guiyao asked.

Since there are still merchants entering the city, they must have paid the toll, and they should have seen the detention of the City of Hope caravan, but why did no one seem to mention it?

"Haha, they thought we were acting and charging the city entrance fee in disguise! Of course they wouldn't tell us. Now those businessmen who were stopped don't know how they will scold us at Hope City!"

After a pause, Wang Bing looked anxious,
"Lord, I suggest sending troops to take them out immediately! Otherwise, it will be difficult to deal with the bad reputation!"

"This..." Lin Guiyao looked at Gui Xingchao, "What does the military commander think about this?"

Gui Xingchao shrugged his shoulders, his expression was justified: "Of course he beat his mother!"

"Haha, I like what the military advisor said. He should be beaten for how dare he bully us!"

Chen Elong and Xu Shilang, two people who were afraid of chaos in the world, responded one after another, one trembling his chest, the other trembling his eyebrows, they almost missed a gun and a knife.

"It's just a few minions who were used as gunmen. Lord, don't worry. Our military department has trained more than 1000 soldiers during this period, which is enough to deal with them." Gui Xingchao said confidently.

"One thousand beats two thousand? And it's still in an open battlefield?"

"It's not one thousand against two thousand, it's two hundred against one thousand!"

Before Lin Guiyao could ask, Gui Xingchao explained directly:

"We only need to dispatch 200 people. Like us, they also need soldiers to stay behind to defend the territory, so the bandits blocking the road can number up to a thousand people. In addition, they have separated several roads to set up roadblocks, and their troops are even thinner. We can use our elite troops to break through them one by one!"

After finishing speaking, Gui Xingchao took out two wargames representing City of Hope, and knocked over the checkpoint flags on the sand table one by one.

"Lord, don't worry. After being equipped with new weapons, although the individual training level is still not high, we hope that the collective combat capability of the city is enough to beat two. If we send out the donkey barracks, I don't expect there will be even casualties." Wang Bing added.

Lin Guiyao nodded, but immediately shook his head again,

"I know about the donkey barracks and new weapons, and I have great confidence in you, but I'm worried about another thing..."

"The lord is worried about the metropolis, right?" Gui Xingchao said with a smile.

Lin Guiyao nodded. He didn't say whether it was the lords who were jealous of Hope City or whether the metropolis was obstructing them.Once he takes the initiative to attack other territories, he is afraid that Metropolis will use this as an excuse to blackmail him and even destroy Hope City.

"Regarding this, the lord can rest assured that we are fighting the bandits blocking the road, not their territory. The metropolis will not be able to catch us. Just like these few courageous bandits, they dare not attack us."

"Also, I think this time is just a small test. If we can't be very strong and scare them, I'm sure that it won't be such a few little people who will block the way later. the territory of
They even blatantly set the checkpoint directly at our door! "

Lin Guiyao frowned, what Gui Xingchao said may very well become a fact, if that is the case, there is nothing to hesitate.

He is a person who likes to think of the worst when doing things, but Gui Xingchao has explained it so clearly, his worries are gone, and it is time for his other decisive character to play, and immediately waved his hands seriously:
"Well, since they provoked it first, then don't blame us for being cruel! Wang Bing obeys orders!"

"To!"

"This time your military department has a very heavy task. To achieve the purpose of killing chickens and monkeys, you must kill all of them, leaving no one behind! In this battle, we don't want any prisoners!"

After finishing speaking, Lin Guiyao and Gui Xingchao looked at each other tacitly, and the corners of their mouths curved in surprisingly the same way.

As long as all these people blocking the road are killed, then how can it be true to say that they are bandit road bullies or bandit road bullies without even taking prisoners?
Wang Bing stood at attention and saluted: "I promise to complete the task! The first battle of the military department will definitely show our military power!"

When Wang Bing and Xu Shilang went out to organize the army, Lin Guiyao glanced at Chen Elong who was still standing aside, feeling a little strange.

"How come the external war also involves the Evil Dragon's Ministry of Public Security?"

Hearing this, Chen Elong frowned, with a look of embarrassment and entanglement, but Gui Xingchao laughed loudly,

"Lord, don't forget that our people and goods are still in their territory. The thousand heads are just interest.

As for the principal, it depends on whether Minister Chen dares to withdraw it! "

(End of this chapter)