Liu Heng looked disappointed, everything he thought was too simple.
According to his previous expectations, after buying the people from the rear camp and finding the support of the two battalions on the left and right, his plan can be launched.
But reality gave him a heavy blow and made him understand that it is human instinct to seek good fortune and avoid harm. Even the people in the rear camp knew how to stand at this time, let alone the left and right battalions who had no friendship with him. .
Chen Xunping on the side said: "It's better to follow what I said before and let the Archer Battalion come forward and raid a few small villages. We can still get some food."
"It's useless." Liu Heng waved his hand and said, "Zheng Daqiu, with Shi Yunhu's support, will definitely attack those villages. We are far inferior to Shi Yunhu's Chinese military camp in such matters as looting."
Among the bandits, the horse bandits are the most terrifying. Liu Heng knew that the only horse team in their army of rogue bandits was in the Zhongjun Camp and was under the command of Ma Yunjiu, the guard leader of the Zhongjun Camp.
When it comes to looting, the Archer Battalion is ultimately inferior to the Chinese Army Battalion with its cavalry.
"Actually... I have a way to solve the manpower problem." Yang Yuan said hesitantly.
"any solution?"
Liu Heng and Chen Xunping both looked at Yang Yuan.
Yang Yuan said: "In addition to the five major camps, we also have an outer camp. Although the outer camp is full of refugees, their foundation is no worse than that of the refugees in several major camps. It's just that there is not much food in the camp, so there is no place to belong. When we go to each camp, if we can bring out some food, the refugees in the outer camps will definitely be willing to work for us."
"What a great idea." Liu Heng's eyes lit up, and he patted the bed board with his hand excitedly.
Mountain darkly, vista.
He almost forgot that the largest number of people was not the five camps, but the camps of refugees who had been brought here.
Chen Xunping said worriedly: "But we don't have much food. There are at least thousands of refugees in the outer camp. We simply cannot feed so many people with the little food we have."
Yang Yuan added: "We don't need to recruit them all, but only a part of the refugees. Naturally, the food consumption will not be that big."
"That's right." Liu Heng turned to Chen Xunping and said, "Second brother, thank you for your hard work. You and Yang Yuan go to the outer camp. First, recruit three hundred refugees and arrange them in the open space outside the Archer Camp. .”
"But what about food? The Archer Camp alone cannot provide food for three hundred people." Chen Xunping looked worried.
"I know that a person should hide some food in his hands." Liu Heng said, "I also need my second brother to leave me a few people to carry the food."
Chen Xunping hesitated for a moment and said: "Since you have a way to get food, I won't say much else. Time is tight. I will go to the outer camp to gather the men and horses you want, leaving four more from the archer camp. People are at your command.”
Afterwards, Chen Xunping and Yang Yuan left the camp with a few archers, and also took away the baskets containing the cakes.
Liu Heng took the remaining people from the Archer Camp to the kitchen in the rear camp.
At this time, the kitchen was busy making breakfast. The only cook was Ma Lao Lai, who had to bake pancakes and cook wild vegetable soup. He usually started working before dawn.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, Liu Heng waved his arm, pointed at Ma Laime and said: "Catch him."
After the words fell, two people from the Archer Camp came up. One of them held down one of Ma Laolai's arms and directly pressed Ma Laolai onto an old wooden table.
Ma Lailai raised his head with all his strength and said with a horrified look on his face: "Liu Tou, what does this mean? I gave you all the cakes yesterday!"
Liu Heng stood in front of Ma Lailai's line of sight and asked: "Stop talking nonsense, let me ask you, where did you hide the food?"
"It's unfair! It's unfair. The food was all brought back from the Chinese military camp. I never hid any food." Ma Lailai shouted that he was wronged.
"It's true that I won't shed tears until I see the coffin." Liu Heng said coldly, "Cut off his left hand. If you don't say anything, chop off his right hand."
Among the bandits in the rear camp, there were few people who didn't know that Ma Laocai was secretly hiding food. However, Ma Laocai's clan brother used to be the leader of the rear camp, so everyone pretended not to know that he was hiding food.
Now that Liu Heng was short of food to raise money for the refugees, he naturally focused on the food hidden by Ma Lao Lai.
Among the bandits brought by Liu Heng, one of them pressed Ma Laime's left hand on the table, while the other took out the knife in his hand and raised it, about to chop it off.
Ma Lailai, who was struggling hard, saw that he couldn't get away, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't cut, I said, I said, I said everything."
Liu Heng waved his hand to signal the man holding the knife to wait, and then asked: "Where is the food hidden? If you dare to lie to me, you don't need both of your hands."
Having already lost one leg, he naturally didn’t want to lose both hands. Ma Lailai said dejectedly: “All those grains are hidden where I sleep.”
"Come on, take us there." Liu Heng winked at the man who restrained Ma Lao Lai.
Ma Lailai lowered his head and led the way, and a group of people came to the hut next to the kitchen.
"Everything is behind those chopping firewood." Lame Ma couldn't move his hand, so he could only raise his chin and point his finger into the hay shed.
A man from the Archer Camp walked in, lifted up the thatch and some firewood, and found five grain bags neatly stacked behind these things.
The man from the archer camp slashed one of the bags with a knife, and the food inside flowed out instantly.
"Lao Ma, you can do it! I'm afraid these bags of grain weigh more than two stones." Liu Heng walked over and picked up one of the bags with his hand. It weighed at least a hundred or ten kilograms.
"Find a big car and take everyone away." Liu Heng ordered someone from the Archer Camp, and then said, "Let him go!"
Upon hearing this, they all were pulled away. Ma Lailai had a bitter look on his face and said, "Liu Tou, can you leave some for me?"
Liu Heng raised his brows and said, "Don't the Central Military Camps distribute food every day? I took all this food with me."
"No, it's not..." Ma Lailai rubbed his hands and said, "Isn't the leader of our back camp about to be replaced? I want to use these grains to buy peace."
Liu Heng looked Ma Lao Lai up and down for a while, then said: "Okay, I'll accept the food. I'll keep you safe when I get back."
Ma Lailai choked on his words, and then said with a grimace: "Liu Tou, don't be joking. I heard that the leader of the rear camp will be Zheng Daqiu."
"That was before, and it's me from now on." Liu Heng turned to the people in the archer camp and said, "Come, let's carry the food out together and load it into the car."
Ma Laime didn't dare to stop him, so he chased after Liu Heng and said: "Liu Tou, this is no joke. Shi Dashi from the central military camp has already spoken. Zheng Daqiu will be the leader of the rear camp. As for Shi Dashi, who will You dare to object, so Liu Tou, look at this food..."
Putting down the grain bag in his hand, Liu Heng's face sank, and he said in a cold voice: "If you want to jijiwaiwai, believe it or not, I will have you chopped off right now."
Ma Lao limped and closed his mouth. He did not expect that Liu Damou, who was once honest and easy to bully, would now be so violent.
Of course, there are also those guys from the Archer Camp who are armed with sharp blades and look like they are not easy to mess with.
Bags of grain were loaded onto the cart and the animals were hitched. A man from the Archer Camp drove the cart and slowly drove away from the rear camp.
Ma Laolai looked at Liu Heng and others leaving with a look of resentment on his face.
There were many bandits from the rear camp nearby who saw Liu Heng and others carrying food from Ma Laolai, but no one dared to ask questions.
Now that there is no camp head in the rear camp, most of the bandits in the rear camp hold that more is worse than less. Moreover, the food is Ma Laolai's private possession. Even if it is gone, they will not go hungry. The Central Military Camp will still send food every day. A batch of grain for the rear camp.
After leaving the rear camp, Liu Heng followed the cart to the Archer Camp.
At this moment, a bandit from the archer camp ran towards him panting.
