After Liu Yu arranged for two people to escort Xu Yue away, he summoned all his personal guards and brigade marshals to his tent.
Liu Yu told everyone his plan to capture Xia Mi City first.
After listening to Liu Yu's words, more than 20 people present knew that this meant that Liu Yu's plan to establish his own business before was about to be implemented.
Some people feel confident in taking down Mi City, some feel that it is too dangerous to go deep alone, and some are actually afraid that doing so will offend Liu Bogen.
For his confidants, Liu Yu asked them to speak frankly about their real concerns or suggestions. Liu Yu told them that he regarded them as brothers who share life and death from the bottom of his heart. After all, this step to seize Xia Mi City Chess is related to everyone's vital interests. No matter what they say, Liu Yu won't mind and he will answer everyone's concerns.
"What if the refugees and churchgoers don't obey our orders outside Xiami City?"
"What if we attack the city and cannot win quickly, but are outflanked by the Jin army or powerful private soldiers and besieged?"
"Also, what if after we capture Xia Mi City, Duke Yin immediately follows us and attacks us in a rage?"
All of a sudden, Liu Yu's personal guards and confidants all expressed their concerns.
After listening to several major questions, Liu Yu began to patiently explain them to them.
He promised that the refugees who arrived in Xiami City would obey the orders brought by Liu Yu because of the food brought by Liu Yu, because from last winter to now, more than 10,000 refugees have been suffering from hunger and cold for half a year. In the winter, Beihai County also provided food relief .
But after the beginning of spring, the government of the Jin Dynasty has stopped all relief operations, and the wealthy locals in Beihai County are also trying to annex these refugees and become serfs. These refugees who are unwilling to become serfs are on the verge of desperation and are on the verge of breaking out. Just a leader.
The walls of Xiami City are short and the troops are weak, and the defenders of Xiami City must have known that Liu Bogen led most of his troops to attack Jiaodong City. They must not have thought that they would attack Jiaodong City with only more than a thousand people.
Moreover, the Beihai County soldiers rushing to aid Xiami have been delayed to the west of Weishui by Xu and other local tycoons. Liu Yu felt that he was 80% sure that he could attack Xiami City in one blow.
As for Liu Bogen, whom everyone is worried about, falling out with him afterwards, Liu Yu also thinks that it is unlikely that the Donglai rebels are already powerful enough and have no room for expansion.
Although Liu Bogen will definitely be dissatisfied with Liu Yu's unauthorized actions, even if Liu Yu successfully recruits the refugees in Xiami City, his military strength will increase to 10,000 at most. Liu Bogen's power will continue to grow and will not be here. Shi Shi and Liu Yu completely fell out.
After listening to Liu Yu's words, the people present had heard Liu Yu's words about setting up his own business and planning for a way out early, and thought at the time that he was just complaining after drinking, but now they see that Liu Yu's attitude is serious.
Everyone understands in their hearts that if the robbery of Xia Mi City is successful, the status of everyone present in the Donglai Army will be greatly improved, which means that they can lead more soldiers, distribute more gold, silver, and silk, and will be able to fight every day. I can have wine and meat, and I can sleep with more and better-looking women.
Thinking about the benefits, I am really excited, but after all, I will offend Liu Bergen, so I am still a little uneasy.
Liu Yu took a look and understood that there must be people who "just want to eat meat like thieves and don't want to take risks like thieves." Fortunately, Liu Yu was prepared and knew that some people would definitely need to push him.
Liu Xuan glanced at Dong Ping and winked at him quietly. Dong Ping immediately understood.
"I'm afraid of you. If you don't take advantage of such a good opportunity to get rich, do you still want to go back and live by looking at the eyes of those wretched people like Sun Li?!" Dong Ping suddenly said loudly.
With Dong Ping taking the lead, other interested people expressed their support, and only one or two people were persuaded to agree.
Liu Yu said on the spot that if this was the case, then everyone was now truly brothers who shared life and death. He immediately arranged to prepare wine and make an alliance with everyone through blood.
Afterwards, Liu Yu mobilized the entire army and began to organize the troops, armor and baggage. After preparing for Xu to send food, he hurried to Xia Mi City.
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Xia Mi County, Xu's manor.
Xu Yan, the patriarch of the Xu family, had a majestic face full of anger.
Early this morning, soldiers from the Buqu family escaped and brought bad news. They said that the camp in Jiaoshui River was attacked by thieves at night. The soldiers from the Buqu family were defeated, and the camp and boats fell into the hands of the thieves.
Soon, at noon, Xu Yue, the steward of the Jiao Shui Camp, was sent back by two cavalrymen.
In front of the patriarch Xu Yan, Xu Yue certainly couldn't say that it was because of his cowardice that he was afraid of death, allowing the Donglai thieves to kill more than a hundred of him with only a few dozen people.
Xu Yue told the patriarch Xu Yan that during the night attack, he resisted with all his strength and killed several thieves with his hands. However, there were many thieves in Donglai, with four to five hundred people, and he was unable to fight. He resisted until the end and was outnumbered. He was defeated. He was killed by the Donglai thief Liu Jixing.
"Since you were captured alive because you were outnumbered, I will give you five hundred more soldiers and you can go and take back the water stronghold." Xu Guang said coldly after listening to Xu Yue's words.
Xu Guang was very angry with Xu Yue, his clan brother. He had entrusted him with the important task because he had experience in consulting on military affairs for Sima Jiong in the Prince of Qi's vassal mansion. Who would have thought that the Donglai bandits would be killed just one day after they showed up? The water village was lost.
When Xu Yue heard this, he knew that Xu Guang was doubting himself and said loudly, "As long as there are enough soldiers and armor, there is nothing wrong with taking back the camp. But five hundred soldiers are not enough. The Donglai thieves attacked last night There are four to five hundred people, but today there are no less than four thousand thieves coming from the east side of the pontoon."
Xu Yue thought that anyway, the number of Donglai thieves was at least about two thousand, which was definitely more than the five or six hundred private soldiers of the Xu clan. It was definitely impossible to rob the water stronghold with fewer attacks. No matter how bragging he was, It doesn't matter.
Xu Guang still wanted to speak, but was stopped by the clan leader Xu Yan. Xu Yan knew that the matter had come to this, and the Donglai thieves were willing to let him back. They must not want to fight with him anymore. Since he wanted to make peace, he would look at the other party's conditions. .
When Xu Yue explained the conditions proposed by Liu Yu, both Xu Yan and Xu Guang were a little surprised. The conditions were probably too low.
The combat strength and number of soldiers of the Lai army are a suppressive advantage for the Xu family. The conditions that should be proposed should not only ask for a sky-high price, but also be a request that the Xu family can reluctantly comply with.
With an absolute advantage but only such a low requirement, there are only two possibilities. The first is that the strength of this group of thieves may only be the four or five hundred people who attacked the camp last night, which is not enough to have an overwhelming advantage. The second possibility is that this group of thieves did not come here to plunder money and food, but had another purpose.
Soon Xu Yan himself overturned the first possibility, because according to the description of Bu Qu who escaped, they all saw a large number of Donglai thieves crossing the river from the pontoon today, and some of them were smart enough to count the number of thieves. There are at least more than a thousand people.
That only leaves the second possibility. This group of thieves has other plans. But Xu Yan thought about it and finally felt that what this group of thieves was planning was not just his Xu family, that's all. Now there are tigers in the east and wolves in the west.
As for what this group of Donglai thieves wanted, I didn't bother to think about it. I just promised this group of thieves 50,000 kilograms of grain.
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At noon the next day, Liu Yu's scouts reported that Xu's vehicles escorting grain had begun to leave for his camp.
