after being kidnapped by the general

The tiger and two wolves didn't know what Chu Hechao did with them, and Yuanli never saw them in the mansion again.

It's a pity to say that Yuanli actually likes such wild and difficult beasts. He appreciates their vigorous vitality, especially tigers. The colorful and flamboyant tiger stripes are so attractive. Who can refuse such a big beast? cat?

He originally wanted to go to Chu Hechao and ask where the tiger and two wolves had gone, but the strange thing was that Chu Hechao didn't know what he was busy with, and Yuanli just didn't see anyone else for several days.Not only did he never see anyone, he even never saw Chu Hechao when he was eating.

Yuan Li was puzzled for a few days, and finally gave up, no longer trying to find Chu Hechao.

Within a few days, the cavalry who suppressed the bandits sent an important piece of information.

When Wu Kai and Wang Er led people to destroy the bandits around Ji County, they got a piece of news from the bandits.There is one of the largest bandit dens in Youzhou, just like the Yishan Army in Yanzhou.This group of bandits stayed in a deep mountain named Jiuding Mountain in Yuyang County all year round. Every late autumn, they would loot the surrounding villages and counties, and the people suffered greatly.

Not only that, they also dug out a piece of news from the mouths of the bandits. It turned out that these large and small bandit nests were all connected, and the bandits in each state and county were also connected.

If the governors of any state were soft-tempered and did not dare to deal with the bandits, they would gather together in that state and make a special trip to bully the people there.

These bandits on Jiuding Mountain are related to some bandit dens in Yizhou, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou.

Because Youzhou has not been managed by a master for many years, and the county guards in various places are also busy making money for themselves, so these bandits in Youzhou are extremely rampant. They have already regarded Youzhou as a fertile ground for them to burn, kill, and loot. I see myself as the emperor of Youzhou.

When Yuanli and Chu Hechao came back, the bandits around Ji County passed the news to the Jiudingshan bandits.

The Jiudingshan bandits were taken aback at first, thinking that Chu Hechao was going to lead troops to be stationed in Youzhou, but finally learned that Chu Hechao was only staying temporarily, and the one who temporarily held the seal of the governor of Youzhou and was stationed in Youzhou was just one of them. After the kid who didn't stand the crown, they immediately relaxed, laughed, and didn't care at all.

The bandits didn't take Yuan Li seriously at all, they didn't believe that a brat could do anything to threaten them.

The bandits around Ji County originally thought so too, but in exchange for such contempt, the bandit den was trampled down by iron cavalry.

They were finally getting scared.

After Yuanli finished reading these, he put down the paper expressionlessly.

In the study, Wu Kai and Wang Er have become more stable and confident after the recent victories against the bandits, and their momentum already has the majesty that a general should have.At this moment, their faces were full of suppressed anger. After Yuanli finished reading, Wang Er immediately clasped his fists and said, "Master, please order me to go to Yuyang County to exterminate the group of bandits in Jiuding Mountain!"

Wu Kai followed in a deep voice, "This subordinate is willing to go with Brother Wang!"

They were all simmering with anger.This anger was not only for the common people, but also because of the contemptuous and arrogant attitude of these bandits towards Yuanli.

Yuanli taught them literacy and gave them the opportunity to make contributions. They were loyal to Yuanli and could not bear the contempt and insulting ridicule of these bandits towards Yuanli.

Zhong Ji was also in the study. After listening to the whole process, he also hated what these bandits did.He gritted his teeth and stood up, "Young Master Yuan, please let me go with you. I want to see these bandits being suppressed with my own eyes, otherwise I will feel uneasy!"

Yuanli did not disappoint them, and gave an affirmative answer, "Suppression, it must be! I must also wipe out the bandits in Jiuding Mountain before winter comes!"

Now that we have started to suppress the heads of the bandits, we will finish them all in one go.

Otherwise, give them a winter to recuperate and recuperate, and I don't know how many people will suffer.

Wu Kai and Wang Er breathed a sigh of relief, waiting for Yuan Li's order with burning eyes.

Yuan Li groaned, and looked at the two of them, "You train the cavalry every day with great care, and the cavalry's ability has been improving by leaps and bounds. I have noticed all of this. The bandits around you have nothing to do with you. The strength of a single battle, but the group of bandits in Jiuding Mountain is the leader of the bandits in Youzhou, do you have the confidence to take them down in one fell swoop?"

Wu Kai and Wang Zhan were full of enthusiasm, and said in unison: "The subordinates will live up to the expectations of the Lord."

"Okay," Yuan Li immediately gave the order, "You two led a thousand cavalry with a little food and raided to Jiuding Mountain to suppress the bandits on light cavalry. Go and come back!"

Wu Kai and Wang Er took orders.

Yuan Li turned his head to look at Liu Jixin again, "Wu Kai and Wang Er went to Yuyang County alone, which still makes me a little worried. Mr. Liu, can you please go with you to serve as the accompanying military adviser and advise them?"

Liu Jixin had long wanted to show his talents in front of Yuanli, so he stood up leisurely and bowed to Yuanli, "Jixin is willing to follow, please rest assured, my lord."

Yuan Li smiled, and finally looked at the anxious Zhong Ji, "Since you want to go, then go with me. But I have to say what I said before, Zhong Ji, this journey is very hard, if you want to To achieve surprise surprise effects, you must not slow down on the road."

Zhong Ji bowed deeply without hesitation, "I will not drag you down."

After the decision was made, Yuanli didn't delay for a moment, and spent a day packing their bags. The next day, Wu Kai and the others rushed to Yuyang County with a thousand cavalry.

Baxian Village, Yuyang County.

Black smoke billowed everywhere in the village that had just been looted by bandits, houses collapsed, and pots and pans fell to the ground.

A few grains of corn were mixed in the loess, splashed with spots of blood.

The villagers of Baxian Village who were hiding in the cellar or in the mountains came out supporting each other. Seeing the miserable situation in the village, they couldn't help but burst into tears.

But they have long been numb to this, silently touched their tears, and began to look for their relatives and clean up the dilapidated house together.

The old village head was supported by several villagers, counting the remaining villagers in the village.

"Forty, 41, 42..."

They are robbed by bandits on these days every year, and the villagers are already familiar with it.Every household has built a place to hide people, either a cellar or a haystack.They have also gained a lot of experience, knowing that they can't take all the food away, and they have to leave some for the bandits to steal. Only in this way will the bandits give up.

But no matter how much experience you have, every time the bandits come to the village, they will kill many people, because there are always some people who have no time to hide.It’s okay for some bandits to leave after grabbing food, while others are too bad, they won’t leave until they can’t kill someone, and they will search the villagers bit by bit fiercely until they catch someone and kill them.

Many elderly people didn't have time to hide, so they didn't hide at all. It was better to let the bandits kill their children and grandchildren than to let the bandits kill their children and grandchildren.

After counting, the village chief was worried that he had made a mistake, so he counted again from the beginning.The two counts were the same, he sighed, his cloudy eyes were dazed, and he muttered to himself: "Don't come again, don't come again... If you come again, there will be no one in our village."

The others around who heard this were silent.

They all knew in their hearts that the bandits would come again.

Every year after the autumn harvest and taxes are paid, bandits loot most of their remaining food, and the villagers starve for most of the time every year.They have also reported to the government, but no one cares about it. Year after year, the appetite of the bandits is getting bigger and bigger, but the villagers of Baxian Village are eating less and less, and they are all skinny.

If you don't come tomorrow, you will come again the day after tomorrow.Even if it doesn't come this year, it will still come next year.

Da Zhuang, who was supporting the village chief, was about to say a few words, when suddenly he saw the shaking stones on the ground with his sharp eyes. His heart trembled, and he quickly shouted: "No, those bandits are back!"

Hearing this, the villagers suddenly panicked and frightened, "What? They're back again?!"

The vibration on the ground was getting bigger and bigger, and other people also noticed something was wrong, "Hurry up, Bao'er Juan'er, get into the cellar!" "Run into the mountain, hurry up!" ...

The adult's yelling was mixed with the child's cry, and the adult hurriedly covered the child's mouth, picked up the child and ran quickly into the mountains.

If you don't have time to run into the mountains, find a place where you can hide.The village head walked too slowly, Da Zhuang looked anxious, and directly picked up the village head and wanted to run into the mountains, but within a few steps, the sound of the rumbling horses behind him became louder and louder, making his whole body tremble.Da Zhuang felt a chill in his heart, knowing that there was no time for him to run into the mountains.

What frightened him even more was that the bandits who looted in the past had never been so powerful.

How many bandits are there this time?

The village head kept saying on his shoulders: "Da Zhuang, you put me down quickly, you run quickly. Leave me alone, you hurry up!"

Da Zhuang didn't listen, he gritted his teeth and turned directly into the nearest house.He knew that this was Uncle Li's house, and he also knew where the cellar was.Da Zhuang opened the cellar and stuffed the village chief in. After the village chief went in, there was no place to hide people in the cellar. The village chief was so anxious that his hands trembled and he cursed: "Da Zhuang, you dead boy, drag me out quickly. Come in instead!"

Da Zhuang sweated profusely, "Village Chief, don't make a sound."

After speaking, he closed the cellar door.After looking around the room, he took a stone knife and hid it in the straw, staring at the door.

Da Zhuang didn't close the door, he had his own petty mind.This village has just been looted, and if the door is open, it means that there is no one inside. If the door is closed, someone will definitely come to check.Da Zhuang wanted to fight, but the door was wide open to see if anyone was coming.

If a bandit really found him, he would admit that he was killed, and he would have to hack a bandit to death before he died!

Outside the Eight Immortals Village.

Wu Kai and his party stopped their horses in a hurry.

Except for the [-] specially trained cavalry who were still in high spirits, both Liu Jixin and Zhong Ji were a bit haggard.Liu Jixin was fine, but his face was a little paler, his mouth was dry and peeling, his eyes were a little dark, and he still had the strength to speak.

Zhong Ji's face turned pale to the point of no blood, and his lips turned blue. After a while, he suddenly fell off his horse and ran to the side, bending over to vomit.

Wu Kai and Wang Er stared in the direction of the Eight Immortals Village, they had already seen the black smoke floating in the air, and their expressions were very heavy.Wang Er sighed, "Brother Zuo Sheng, we are still a step late."

Liu Jixin drove his horse up to them, and sighed too, "We have come here at full speed."

Even Zhong Ji, who was extremely unwell, did not delay the itinerary, and rushed all the way here.

While speaking, the scouts who were looking for the road in front had already rushed back, "Report! The village in front has been looted by bandits, and the bandits have left the village. At first glance, no villagers were found."

Zhong Ji rinsed his mouth, walked over weakly, and was startled when he heard the words, "Could it be that the entire village was killed by the bandits?"

Wang Er shook his head, "Don't make a conclusion for now, we still need to go in and check carefully."

Wu Kai nodded and said in a deep voice, "Let's go."

Several scouts rushed in all directions to prevent the bandits from raiding.

The thousand-man cavalry slowed down and walked slowly into the Eight Immortals Village.

The Eight Immortals Village was in a miserable state, and there were some elderly corpses lying in the firework loess.In the entire Eight Immortals Village, apart from the crackling of burning wood, not a single human voice could be heard.

Not to mention human voices, not even the chirping of birds.

Is there really no one left?

No, then why are there only old people dead and no young people or children?

Wang Er had escaped disaster before, and he knew best what the suffering people would think.He said: "People should be hiding."

Said, Wang Er pointed to the houses in the village and the back mountain, "Either hid in the house, or hid in the mountains. They should have just been robbed by bandits. Hearing the sound of our horses, he thought it was bandits." , then hid and dared not come out."

Zhong Ji smiled wryly and said, "It turns out that the common people have been scared to death..."

Liu Jixin also thought the same as Wang Er. He twirled his beard and thought for a while, "The common people are so frightened, we don't want to search for people rashly, lest we frighten them. It's better to let the soldiers shout our name in the middle of the road. Identity, let them know that we are the people who suppressed the bandits sent by Yuanli, the governor of Youzhou."

Wu Kai and Wang Er nodded, and followed his words to notify the soldiers.

Zhong Ji looked at Liu Jixin thoughtfully.

Liu Jixin noticed it, and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhong, do you think there is something wrong with what I said?"

Zhong Ji hesitated and said: "Young Master Yuan has not really become the governor of Youzhou, will such a statement fall into the ground?"

"Hey," Liu Jixin shook his head, "what my lord is doing is what the governor of Youzhou should do, and the position of governor of Youzhou is also a matter of time. What's more, doing extraordinary things at extraordinary times, otherwise, these people are How can you feel at ease? Will you be convinced by us? They are just a group of ordinary people, they don’t know what it means to become an official, and they don’t know what it means to temporarily hold the seal of the governor of Youzhou. It is the most concise and useful to speak with them way."

Zhong Ji nodded, "What Brother Liu said is absolutely true."

But he also knew that Liu Jixin's move was also to create momentum for Yuanli.

When the people in Youzhou think that the governor of Youzhou is Yuanli, and when Yuanli wins the hearts of the people in Youzhou, once Yuanli comes of age, even if the Chu family regrets not wanting to give Yuanli the title of governor of Youzhou, they have to give it to Yuanli. up.

The soldiers obeyed the order and stood on the road in the village and kept shouting towards the houses on both sides: "Master Yuanli Yuan, the governor of Youzhou, sent us to suppress the bandits. Are there any villagers here?" "We are the cavalry of the governor's house, Those who came to suppress the bandits!" "Where are the villagers? We are not bandits!"

When Da Zhuang, who was hiding in the straw, heard their yelling, he felt great hatred in his heart, gnashing his teeth and thinking, why are these bandits so hateful!

Isn't it enough to just loot villages and burn villagers?Do you still want to play this trick, pretending to be people from the government to trick them into going out and massacring them? !

They are really inferior to pigs and dogs, how can they be so vicious!

Da Zhuang didn't believe what they said at all.

When the bandits first came to their village, they had not reported to the government.But the government seems to have never heard of it, and they don't take their people seriously.Reporting to the government again and again has resulted in useless results. How could the government suddenly send people to suppress the bandits this time?

Da Zhuang still hid it tightly, and anxiously hoped that other people in the village would not believe the lies of these bandits.Once you are tricked out, you will be tricked, and you will die without a place to die.

But the reality is not what Da Zhuang expected.He saw a six or seven-year-old girl walking out of the opposite room.Clutching a wooden stick in her hand, the girl cautiously walked out of the room with a blank face.

don't go out!don't go out!

Da Zhuang roared in his heart, and watched the girl pass by his door and walked towards the group of shouters.

Da Zhuang also knew this girl, she was a child of Widow Sun's family in the village.Widow Sun is kind and has taken care of Da Zhuang many times. Da Zhuang can't just watch her die.

Da Zhuang's eyes turned red, and a burst of strength suddenly emerged from his heart. He rushed out of the straw, ran out with a stone knife in his hand, and shouted: "I killed you bandits!"

But as soon as he went out, Da Zhuang saw many strong soldiers wearing armor standing in the middle of the road before he swung the knife.

Groups of horses were behind them, and these soldiers had big knives on their waists, and each of them had the chilling aura that only soldiers have.

And the girl from Widow Sun's family was standing in front of them without any harm.

The stone knife hit the ground with a "bang".

Soldiers...really soldiers...

It is true that the governor of Youzhou sent people to suppress the bandits...

Da Zhuang came back to his senses suddenly, crawled and rolled back to the house, opened the cellar door, cried and laughed and said: "Village Chief, the government has sent people to suppress the bandits!!!"

After all the villagers came out of the mountains and their houses, Liu Jixin and others knew the name of the village and how many people there were.

This village is called Baxian Village, which is very close to Jiuding Mountain and suffered the most devastation.Originally, there were 800 people in a village, which was considered a very large village, but now there are only more than 300 people left.

After the village chief finished talking to Liu Jixin, he said tremblingly: "Before the adults came, our village was just looted by bandits, and it was our sin to mistake you for bandits. My lords, please forgive me."

"You don't need to be like this, old man," Liu Jixin sighed. "How could it be your fault? It should be all the fault of those damned bandits. You were the ones who suffered before, but don't worry, our newly appointed Youzhou this year Governor Yuanli Yuan sent us to suppress the bandits after hearing about this, we will definitely wipe out those bandits, and we will not let you suffer from them again!"

The village head wiped away his tears and kept saying: "Thank you, Lord Inspector, thank you, Lord Inspector."

Liu Jixin asked again: "I don't know if the old man knows where these bandits have gone? Which village will they loot next?"

The village chief fell into deep thought when he heard the words, and after a while he said uncertainly: "They should go to Anding Village, or Linxi Village, or they may go to Xiaohe Village first."

After Liu Jixin asked the directions of these three villages, Wu Kai prepared to send scouts to these three villages to inquire about the news.

Liu Jixin frowned, "It would be great if we could determine which village they will loot next."

Da Zhuang, who was listening on the side, said cautiously: "I seem to have heard where the next village they are going to be..."

Everyone immediately looked at him.

Da Zhuang swallowed, a little nervous, but also a little excited and said: "When I was hiding, I heard the conversation between two bandits. They said that they wanted to have a good time when they came to the village next time. She is beautiful. She also said that in the next village, some women will be caught and washed for them. The water in that village is clean, and they will have lice all over their bodies... I think they are going to Xiaohe Village."