Luo Feng and Zhang Xuli arrived at the door of Ran Santong's office and heard Ran Santong yelling curses inside, "When will you study more or practice your sword properly? Look at the last battle, if it weren't for Luo Feng and Zhang Xu Li, you probably don’t even have your life, you’re still here pretending, what are you pretending to be, why are you stealing my gold bars?”
Ran Jie lowered his head, "That one just wants to drink."
"Drink," Ran Santong was furious. "What kind of drink should you drink? You have to know that in the future, Zhongzhou will never be as peaceful as before. If you don't become stronger, sooner or later the village will be wiped out."
"Dad, we are so rich, we just need to raise more militiamen."
"What's the use of having more militiamen? The key is to have strong combat power, otherwise we won't be able to deal with even a Baili Guang."
"That's Luo Feng and the others," Ran Jie said with a look of grievance and jealousy.
"You have the nerve to say that," Ran Santong walked to the seat in front of his desk and sat down, glaring at Ran Jie.
Ran Jie didn't dare to raise his head and stood weakly.
"Village chief." Luo Feng called at the door, opened the door, and walked into Ran Santong's office with Zhang Xuli.
Ran Jie panicked when he saw Zhang Xuli. He pushed Zhang Xuli quietly and said softly: "Don't talk nonsense, otherwise there will be no gold bars."
"You are so boring. You have been doing this for so long and you still can't get it done." Zhang Xuli looked indifferent.
"What are you talking about? You two." Ran Santong heard Zhang Xuli and Ran Jie talking and asked loudly.
"No, it's nothing." Zhang Xuli shook his head vigorously and smiled honestly.
Luo Feng took two steps forward and changed the subject, "Village chief, last night I thought that since the villages in Hedong have been coming to rob, then we should simply destroy them."
Destroying a village was something that was unthinkable before, but Xiujie's precedent has given many powerful villages the idea of annexing surrounding small villages.
Ran Santong thought for a moment and asked, "I heard that you are here to protect the village?"
"Yes." Luo Feng replied.
"Can you really occupy other people's villages?" Although Ran Santong was afraid that his village would be occupied by others, he had not thought about how to occupy other people's villages.
Luo Feng thought for a long time and then said: "My father is the village chief of Laihu Village. After being killed by Xiu Jie, Laihu Village lost its support. Some people who resisted were killed, and the remaining people could only listen to Xiu Jie. Jie's." Speaking of this, Luo Feng looked a little sad, and he was also thinking about how to defeat Xiu Jie and avenge his father.
"Okay," Ran Santong had already made up his mind after hearing Luo Feng's answer, "Ran Jie"
Hearing Ran Santong shout, Ran Jie immediately said "Oh".
"You are responsible for recruiting five hundred villagers and giving them to Luo Feng and Zhang Xuli for training."
"Okay, I'll go now." Ran Jie was afraid that Zhang Xuli would cling to him, and he was afraid of being scolded by Ran Santong, so he found an excuse to leave.
"Okay, go quickly." After Ran Santong finished speaking, he said to Luo Feng and Zhang Xuli: "I will hand over all the villagers recruited by Ran Jie to you and let you train them. How about you two?"
"Training villagers should be considered an official." Zhang Xuli said.
This statement stumped Ran Santong, "That's true, but there is no precedent before. What do you think should be done?" Ran Santong asked.
"It doesn't matter," Luo Feng was afraid that Zhang Xuli would become less reliable the more he said, "It's better to wait until Ran Jie recruits people, and Zhang Xuli and I will train first."
"That's fine, but I won't be short of salary." After saying that, Ran Santong took out a stack of money from the drawer under his desk, "Here are 10,000 coins, which are the rewards from the last battle. After training the villagers, we can conquer Hedong. Village, I will reward you five hundred thousand yuan."
"Half a million, okay, okay." Zhang Xuli laughed happily, as if Hedong was already in hand.
After the agreement, Luo Feng and Zhang Xuli returned to their residence, and Ran Jie began to recruit villagers through various channels.
The villages in Xihe have been harassed and plundered by the villages in Hedong. Now they heard that the villages in Hedong were to be wiped out at once. In addition, Bailiguang had just been defeated. The enthusiasm was high. Many people were willing to join the militia. In just a few days, five people were recruited. Hundreds of people.
Luo Feng came to Ran Santong's office and said, "Village chief, I suggest that these militiamen be supported by the village from now on."
Ran Santong knew that it was impossible to protect the village without the militia, and he also had this idea, but so many people needed to be managed. Ran Santong had no experience and didn’t know what to do. "Luo Feng, if so many people keep gathering together, will something happen?" ?”
"Probably not," Luo Feng thought of Roy Village and continued: "We only need to look at Xiujie. He developed by relying on the militia. Now I heard that there are already three villages and the team has expanded to about 3,000 people." Speaking of this, Luo Feng thought about how long it would take to avenge his father, and he couldn't help but look melancholy.
Ran Santong sighed heavily, "Hey, luckily their village is far away from us, otherwise I'm afraid our Hexi village would also be robbed by them."
"So the current militias must not be disbanded and must be managed uniformly." Luo Feng insisted.
"Okay, it's up to you, go ahead and do it." Encouraged by Luo Feng, Ran Santong finally made up his mind to form a professional militia, manage it uniformly, and pay wages on time.
The villages in Hexi are very wealthy and it is easy to support 500 people, but the problem of housing these 500 people needs to be solved.
At Luo Feng's suggestion, Ran Santong built two rows of houses on both sides of Hexi Square for the militiamen to stay. He also set aside a piece of land, built a wall, and enclosed the two rows of houses together to form a training ground. After the training ground was built, Luo Feng went to the training ground every day to train militiamen.
February of the year 211 of the Central Continent Calendar.
Militias are prevalent in various villages. In order to support the militia, some villages have exhausted their financial resources and cannot pay wages, causing the militia to rebel. After some militiamen ran out of money, they directly looted the villages and fled to various places. Some people gathered together and occupied the mountains and forests, relying exclusively on robbery to make a living. born.
On a high mountain near the Forgotten Cave, there are more than a hundred exiled militiamen gathered. The leader is named Hatton. He is 1.92 meters tall, has a huge body, a round waist and thick arms. He holds a pair of hands weighing 240 meters. A ten-pound iron octagonal hammer stands on a protruding rock in the mountain.
"This mountain has no name. It will be ours from now on." Hatun's voice rang like a bell in the mountains, "Let's see what mountain we call it."
Everyone below looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what the mountain should be called. Besides, since Hadun didn't speak, no one below dared to speak nonsense.
"Since no one knows about it, let me call it Wangshan." After saying this, Hatton burst out laughing, and his laughter shook the birds in the mountain forest away.
"Okay, okay, okay." There was a burst of cheers from below.
"Then we will stay here from now on." Haddon ordered the people below to put away the money and goods they had just plundered, and began to cut down trees and build houses.
