The aroma of meat from the bottom of the mountain seems to have reached Litou Mountain.
"Brother, the food on the mountain is only enough for about ten days. The chickens, sheep, etc. have been eaten long ago, and the brothers have not seen meat for several days."
The person who spoke was Zhu Chongmu, the fourth son of the Zhu family who was in charge of money and food. The head of the family knew that firewood and rice were expensive, and he was the only one on the mountain with the deepest frown. Zhu Chongjiu was also in a depressed mood. Isn't it just for the sake of the Five Zang Temple?
The bandits ran out of food. As a senior bandit, he couldn't afford to lose face. He thought of Qingcheng again.
Qinghe County is a major grain-producing county. If we can capture Qinghe City again, rob the Qinghe County granary, and then attack other wealthy landowners, we will have thousands of tons of grain. This food was enough for him to spend a while, eating a bowl of white rice and feeding the birds in the mountains.
If he takes a few older girls and younger wives up the mountain, will the days of immortality be possible? He thought of Dou Ying, who could sing, and Yun Feier, whose daughter had just grown up...
He drooled all over the floor. But seeing him slam the table, "Tomorrow, I will lead you down the mountain again. The grain, poultry, livestock, and women there all belong to me!"
"Brother, don't be impulsive."
Zhu Chongshui, the second eldest son of the Zhu family, offered words of advice. He was as pale and beardless as Zhu Chongjiu. But he is tall and slender, and his scribe's appearance is somewhat bookish.
He is Zhu Chongjiu's dog-headed strategist, and he often holds back bad news for Zhu Chongjiu.
"There are three thousand officers and soldiers stationed in the city. If we attack by force, even if we can finally capture the county seat, we will suffer heavy losses. Killing one thousand enemies will cost us eight hundred. This is not a worthwhile deal."
"If we don't go down the mountain to get food, we will all starve to death." Zhu Chongmu said angrily.
"Oh, it's a pity that we are new here and all the faces are new. Otherwise, we could send someone down the mountain to check and see if the officers and soldiers are still there."
Zhu Chongzhu, the third son of the Zhu family, sighed.
"If the officers and soldiers are not here, we will make a comeback immediately; if they are, we will find out their defense situation and conduct a night attack. We may not be able to capture Qinghe City again."
"In the past few years, we have walked out of Yebogou, traveled across the world, and fought many battles with officers and soldiers. How often have we not beaten them to pieces?"
Zhu Chongmu's eyes suddenly lit up, "Third brother is right, who are we? We are nobles with royal blood. There are only three thousand officers and soldiers. I will pee them to death."
"However, although we are all strangers, we can pretend to be merchants from other places and enter the city! Now is the grain harvest season, so we will disguise ourselves as grain merchants and enter the city. We will pretend to be selling grain and actually find out what is real in the city."
While he was gesticulating, he was looking at Zhu Chongshui, as if he was laughing at him as a military advisor who was helpless in the face of difficulties, and that he was not as good as a person who was in charge of food and drink.
Zhu Chongshui ignored it selectively, pretending he didn't see it.
Zhu Chongjiu approved this plan, and the remaining question was who to send into the city.
"It's better for the third child to go." Zhu Chongshui said.
"He has always been in charge of money and food. He has a good understanding of the quality, price, and origin of food. He can handle it calmly even if he is questioned by officers and soldiers."
Zhu Chongmu opened his mouth to fuck the eighteenth generation of Zhu Chongshui's ancestors, but suddenly he remembered that he and he were from the same mother, and fucking his ancestors meant fucking his own ancestors, so he held it back.
Because Zhu Chongjiu was present, he suppressed the urge to strangle Zhu Chongshui to death.
But the anger in his heart was hard to calm down.
Qinghe City, which had just been looted by bandits less than half a month ago, must be heavily guarded. His unfamiliar face and foreign accent must be the focus of the officers and soldiers' investigation. If you are not careful, he may stay at the foot of the mountain forever!
There were hundreds of people on the mountain, but Zhu Chongshui insisted on letting him go. Wasn't this asking him to die? I'm just a little smarter than you, so I thought of a way to raise food first. Why the hell did you ask me to die in revenge for your personal vengeance?
What about the promised sibling?
Has the brotherhood of more than thirty years been fed to the dog?
He is not afraid of death. But he would rather die on the road of robbery. At least this way of death is not aggrieved, and he can still be a good man eighteen years later!
"Okay, the third child will enter the city tomorrow, go and prepare." With a wave of his hand, Zhu Chongjiu set the tone for major military decisions.
Although Zhu Chongmu was unwilling to do so, he couldn't twist his thigh with his arm. He had no choice but to call a few of his brothers and ask everyone to prepare separately and follow him down the mountain early tomorrow morning.
The next day, Zhu Chongmu pretended to be a grain merchant, and several other bandits pretended to be waiters, pulling the carriage down the mountain. Before they left the mountain pass, they were discovered by spies sent by Kong Fang.
The spies did not alert them and immediately returned to the city to report. Kong Fang got the information and felt happy and nervous at the same time.
The county soldiers under him are all civilians who have just put on military uniforms. No matter how good the soldiers are, it is impossible to train them into brave and capable soldiers in more than ten days.
He remembered that he had watched a TV series in his previous life, in which the commander said that the best training ground is the battlefield, and the best training method is to go to the battlefield and fight the enemy with real swords and guns.
After a battle, the surviving recruits are veterans, and the soldiers who have seen blood are qualified soldiers.
Although this method is cruel, it is the best quick method for elite soldiers.
So what he wanted most was to have a good fight with Zhu Chongjiu while Luo Wenpeng and his soldiers were still in Qinghe. Of course, he couldn't be stubborn and take the initiative to attack Litou Mountain, because doing so would be tantamount to death.
He had been waiting for Zhu Chongjiu to come and give him his head.
He ordered the gatekeepers to let the bandit spies into the city, and then sent a few clever county soldiers back to the people to look for opportunities to "leak" the information that there were only thirty officers and soldiers guarding the county.
After arranging everything, he immediately summoned Luo Wenpeng, Fang Shiqing, and Fang Shiyi to discuss matters. He told them one by one about the bandits' descent from the mountain and his plans.
Luo Wenpeng looked at the county soldiers outside the tent with deep worry, "Our county soldiers are all new recruits, and Zhu Chongjiu's people are all desperadoes. There is a huge disparity in strength. If we start a war rashly, our chances of winning are very slim."
Fang Shiqing reveals her bellicose nature
. "Senior brother, you can't say that. He, Zhu Chongjiu, is not trivial. If we plan well, even if we cannot destroy him, at least we can hurt him and make him understand that the people of Qinghe are not easy to bully."
Kong Fang was very happy when he heard that Fang Shiqing and Luo Wenpeng had different opinions. He said in a false voice: "The war is about to begin. Lieutenant Luo must not destroy his own prestige and the ambition of the Changshan bandits!"
"You..." Luo Wenpeng was choked and rolled his eyes.
"Senior brother, don't be angry, don't be angry, it's just a joke."
Kong Fang gave up when he saw that he was good, and did not dare to step on Luo Wenpeng again. After all, this battle has to rely on him and his soldiers as the main force.
If the county soldiers under him were not led by his Bai Zhan personal soldiers, they would be just a bunch of rabble. Not to mention suppressing bandits, if they could not be hunted by bandits, it would be smoke from their ancestral graves.
