Nie Chen laughed when he heard this, rubbed Weng Qiuchan's little head and said,
"You have brains, but not much. Liu Hu only has 10,000 people left, and we have 16,000. Liu Hu will only enter the city to attack us if his brain is damaged.
Unless he is desperate, he plans to fight with us to the death, and let the barbarians attack the city while we are fighting among ourselves, and annihilate them all.
Otherwise, Liu Hu would not be so confused as to want to enter the city at this time. "
Weng Qiuchan was unconvinced and said,
"Then Liu Hu doesn't enter the city or withdraw his troops. Why does he stay here? Wait for us to defeat the barbarians and then kill them? Or wait for the barbarians to break the city and kill them?"
Now, neither us nor the barbarians can be defeated by his ten thousand people. "
"What if we fight the barbarians to the death? In the end, we only have a few thousand remnant soldiers left, and the barbarians are gone. Then will his recharged tiger and wolf troops be effective?"
"Then what do you think the people sent by Liu Hu outside do?"
"I don't know what it is for. I'll find out if I just ask."
Nie Chen put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked outside.
"Hey, put on your armor."
Weng Qiuchan called him.
"It's just a team of people, what kind of armor are they wearing?"
As soon as Nie Chen left, everyone had no intention of eating, so they followed him, ready to watch the fun.
A group of people rode horses to the south city wall and climbed to the top of the city. The soldier said,
"Greetings, my lord, that team of people is below, waiting for you?"
After hearing this, Nie Chen walked to the city wall. It was not dark yet and he could vaguely see the scene below.
"Who is your leader? What do you want from me?"
Nie Chen shouted.
Below, a young captain walked a few steps, held his hands and said,
"I have met Mr. Ming. My name is Liang Peng, and I am the captain of our team."
"Just tell me why Liu Hu sent you to me. My patience is limited."
Nie Chen said impatiently.
He doesn't have a good face towards the enemy.
"We were not sent by Liu Hu. We couldn't stand Liu Hu's behavior of betraying his compatriots instead of fighting the barbarians. We fled the military camp and came to fight the barbarians with the brothers under Ming Gong."
Hearing this, everyone on the top of the city was surprised and looked at each other. Nie Chen smiled and said,
"Boy, if you want to be a spy, why don't you pretend to be a bit like one? For example, arrange some officers and soldiers to hunt you down later, or use a bitter trick to have Liu Hu beat you up, and then pretend to be very angry. It looks like this.
There is no one like you, who comes with a big face and says that he wants to defect to me. Who can you believe? "
Liang Peng frowned and said,
"We sincerely came to join you. We all saw it today. Nearly ten thousand of you passed not far from our camp and went directly into the city.
There are more than ten thousand of you. Instead of coming to avenge us, you all went into the city to resist the barbarians and protect the people.
At that time, we knew that you were all heroes and good men who were dedicated to resisting foreign aggression.
There is no reason in the world for bandits to protect the city while officers and soldiers stand idly by. Based on this alone, you are much stronger than Liu Hu. I admire you and am willing to join you in resisting the enemy.
And I also have a good strategy to defeat the enemy, which I want to offer to you. "
Nie Chen sneered, took the repeating crossbow from a crossbowman beside him, and pointed it at Liang Peng.
When the soldiers around him saw his action, they immediately picked up their repeating crossbows and prepared to fire arrows.
Nie Chen smiled and said,
"Come on, come on, say a few nice words to make me happy, maybe I'll let you go back."
Liang Peng shook his head seriously,
"That's all I've said. It's up to you to believe it or not. There are only ten of us. If there are too many of us, we won't be too many. If there are too few of us, we won't be too many. If you don't worry, just kill us."
Liang Peng threw the knife in his hand to the ground and said,
"But if you want to kill us, I suggest you send a team of people over to kill us with knives."
"Why?"
Nie Chen asked with a frown.
"Save a few crossbow arrows and go fight the barbarians. Don't waste them on us."
As soon as Liang Peng said this, the soldiers on the city were all moved and looked at Nie Chen, waiting for him to make a decision.
Nie Chen thought for a moment, then looked into the distance and found that there was no ambush, so he said,
"Open the gates and let them in."
"Open the city gate!"
With a shout, the soldiers below immediately opened the city gate. Liang Peng and others picked up their knives and strode in.
Nie Chen led the generals down the city wall and met Liang Peng.
Liang Peng led the nine people behind him to kneel on one knee and said,
"Greetings, my lord!"
"Everyone, get up."
Nie Chen looked at them and said,
"You haven't eaten yet. Let's go eat before we go and chat while we eat."
"As you command!"
After taking them back to the county government office, Nie Chen asked people to entertain the nine soldiers, then took Liang Peng into the dining room and sat back down in his original position.
Xiao He moved another chair and added a pair of dishes and chopsticks.
Liang Peng was not polite or reserved, he just picked up the steamed bun and started to eat it.
"Eat slowly, don't choke, and have some wine."
Nie Chen poured a bowl of wine for Liang Peng, and Liang Peng drank it. With this free and easy attitude, he saw Lin Guang and the others looking at each other with smiles on their lips.
Nie Chen smiled and said,
"Aren't you afraid that I'll poison you?"
Liang Peng said while eating,
"The food on this table is set with bowls and chopsticks, and there is residual juice in the bowl. It is obvious that you have eaten half of it. You won't poison your food, right?
And I came back with you. You called me to go to the city because you decided on the spur of the moment, and you didn't have time to send someone to poison me.
Besides, if you want to kill me, it would be easier to just chop me down with a knife. Why waste a table of such good food? After all, you don’t have much food. "
Hearing this, Nie Chen also smiled and said,
"Okay, I'm very careful in observing. You don't look like a brainless person. Let's not talk about whether you are trustworthy or not. Tell me why you think I will accept you instead of just shooting. Kill you."
"Because here, people are employed regardless of their background. Unlike in the army, all important positions are held by nobles, and they don't care whether their subordinates were enemies before. They are promoted only by their talents.
To be able to develop a bandit village to such a large scale in just a few months, you are definitely not a mediocre leader. I feel that I can use my talents here, so I came here.
Of course, the most important thing is that you fought the barbarians instead of the county guards. You have moral integrity in your hearts and your reputation is not bad. "
"Do you know it in detail?"
Nie Chen asked with a smile.
Liang Peng poured wine from a wine jar and said,
"The commander of the camp will go to the county guard for a meeting. The county guard focused on collecting information about you. I went to the commander for a drink and learned about it from his mouth.
You people here used to be your enemies in Qingfeng Village. "
