"A squadron?" Ma Yunjiu looked at Liu Heng.
He had heard before that Liu Heng trained refugee recruits and formed some sort of team, but he didn't quite understand how many people Chen Xunping mentioned in a squadron.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "Our squadron leader in Hutou Village is about the same as a hundred households, managing about a hundred people."
Ma Yunjiu nodded.
They will trick the Xu family's village gate into opening. There is no need to attack by force. More than a hundred people are enough.
Ma Yunjiu said: "When your people arrive, I will lead the cavalry team to trick the Xujia Zhuangzi into opening the door, and then you rush in and capture the Zhuangzi in one sentence."
"There's no rush." Liu Heng said, "It's still early. Let's go to the village of Xu's house when it gets dark."
Ma Yunjiu nodded and said, "Okay, I will listen to you. After we capture Zhuangzi, we will return to Daliang Mountain tomorrow."
At this moment, the sound of uniform footsteps came over.
"It should be one of ours." Chen Xunping said and came to the mountain bag.
Ma Yunjiu followed curiously, stood on the hill and looked over.
On the official road.
"One two one, one two one..."
A team of a hundred people, marching in neat steps and in a neat queue, trotted towards the mountain.
Seeing this scene, Ma Yunjiu's eyes widened, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
As a frontier soldier, he had never seen a team running so neatly on the road without being scattered. Although the running speed was not very fast, everyone raised their feet and landed on the ground at almost the same time, making neat footsteps.
Step, step, step... The footsteps are so uniform and full of power that it makes people's chests unconsciously heat up, making them want to join in.
"When I was in the rogue camp, I heard that Brother Liu has a good way of training soldiers. Now it seems that he is really good. No wonder the Lingqiu garrison camp is no match." Looking at the approaching team of 100 people, Ma Yunjiu murmured to himself .
Chen Xunping, who was next to him, heard this and said proudly: "Our soldiers from Hutou Village repelled the official army at Tiancheng Guard, and that was how we came to Lingqiu smoothly."
"What? Did you also meet the army at that time?" Ma Yunjiu was surprised.
He always thought that Shi Yunhu and he were surrounded by the army, but Liu Heng and the others were lucky enough to escape and were not surrounded by the army.
Now after listening to Chen Xunping's words, I realized that the other party had encountered Tianchengwei's officers and soldiers just like them.
But the results for both sides were different.
Facing the encirclement and suppression by the government army, he and more than 20 cavalrymen escaped with Shi Yunhu. Almost all the remaining bandits fell into the hands of the government army, but Liu Heng and thousands of people fled safely to Lingqiu and stood firm. heel.
The gap between the two sides is so huge.
He even wondered if Liu Heng had led a team to rescue them, would he have had a chance to rescue most of the bandit camp.
However, he knew that he could only think about it. With their relationship with Liu Heng and others at that time, it was impossible for the other party to come to rescue them. Even if they came to rescue, facing thousands of officers and soldiers, it was very likely that he would be involved.
At that time, most of the capable bandits in the bandit camp were taken by Shi Yunhu. Liu Heng and the others only had an incomplete rear camp and a small archer camp, plus some refugee recruits who had only undergone brief training.
With such strength, even if they attack the encirclement of the official army, it will be difficult to rescue people. After all, the official army has thousands of people.
"Okay, those are all things in the past." Liu Heng said, "There is still some time before dark, let's go to a nearby village to rest first, and we will set off when it is almost dark."
"Going to a nearby village to rest?" Ma Yunjiu was stunned. "You're not going to rob a nearby village, are you?"
You must know that Liu Heng and the others are bandits, and the people in the village have no time to hide. How can they be allowed to enter the village to rest.
Liu Heng smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll know when you go."
Seeing what he said, Ma Yunjiu did not object and led his horse bandits to follow Liu Heng and others out of Shanbao.
After walking for more than three miles, everyone arrived outside the village.
"This is it." Liu Heng pointed to the village in front of him and led the people to the village first.
Ma Yunjiu looked at the village in front of him. There were villagers passing by on the street. Seeing so many of them, he was not surprised at all. He just glanced at them in a normal way.
With the doubts in their hearts, he and Cima followed Liu Heng until they came to the gate of a courtyard in the west of the village.
"We're here, let's rest here before it gets dark, and eat something to replenish our strength."
Liu Heng reined in the reins and dismounted.
Someone trotted out from the yard, took the reins, and led the horse away.
"Everyone dismount and follow Mr. Liu into the courtyard." Ma Yunjiu ordered to his people.
Then he dismounted and handed the reins to the man beside him.
Arriving in the yard, Ma Yunjiu discovered that the yard in front of him was connected to the yards of several households. The main houses behind the yard were also connected in a row, and the sound of tinkling iron could be heard in the house.
Liu Heng, who was walking in front, said: "This is where Hutou Village makes armor and fire guns. People from Hutou Village are usually stationed in the village."
"Aren't the villagers afraid of you?" Ma Yunjiu expressed his doubts.
He had never heard of any villagers who were not afraid of bandits. Today was an eye-opener.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "Hutou Village neither robs them nor bullies them. It gives priority to the villagers who have jobs. We also charge 10% higher prices for the food in the village. Now we in Hutou The prestige of the village in this village is higher than that of the government."
Hearing these words, Ma Yunjiu felt that Liu Heng and the others did not look like bandits, but he could not tell what they looked like.
There has never been a bandit who opened an iron yard, spent money to buy people's things, and hired people to work.
After arriving in the yard, Ma Yunjiu noticed that Chen Xunping and a squadron of bandits did not follow them, but went to other parts of the village.
"Master, you are here." A middle-aged man came over.
When Liu Heng saw the middle-aged man, he turned around and said to Ma Yunjiu: "This is Huang Chong, the head of Zhaojiayu. The armor-making craft has been passed down from his family. He is now the owner of the weapons factory in Hutou Village in Zhaojiayu."
Huang Zhong glanced at the unfamiliar Ma Yunjiu and others, and said to Liu Heng: "Master, the spring you mentioned has been made, but the elasticity is not good, but the reed is okay, and I have started to try to install it on the fire gun. "
"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, you can always succeed if you improve it a few times." Liu Heng said, "Let people prepare some food first, and we people will take a rest and leave."
"So fast?" Huang Zhong was stunned, and then said: "Master, don't you go to the weapons factory to take a look?"
Liu Heng shook his head and said, "No, I still have something to do. Next time, you can arrange for someone to prepare meals."
Huang Zhong responded.
There is a dedicated cook in the weapons yard, just tell the cook.
"Ma Tou, let's go inside first to warm up." Liu Heng walked towards one of the rooms.
Ma Yunjiu heard the conversation between Liu Heng and Huang Zhong, which was spring and reed, and he was curious, especially that Liu Heng could actually make his own armor, which surprised him.
He had a vague feeling that although Liu Heng and the people in Hutou Village were called bandits, many things were completely different from what bandits did. At least they were very different from most bandits.
