Xinyan Town

Since Zhao Rong left in the morning, the town has been talking nonstop, hoping that Zhao Rong could eliminate the bandits, but also worried that his family would not come back.

"Little Huzi, look over there, is it a team of cavalry?" Xiaozhuzi pointed at the distance on the wall of Beimen Village and said to the people around him.

The three township heroes who were standing guard with Zhuzi looked in the direction that Zhuzi pointed, and saw a cloud of smoke and dust in the distance. In front of the smoke and dust was a team of knights riding horses towards the town.

"No, it's a bandit!" a man said loudly, his voice trembling.

"What are you still standing there? I'll ring the alarm!" a man said sternly. Since the riots in the mountains, towns and towns have been equipped with alarm bells.

"Dangdangdang~"

"Come in quickly, there are bandits!" The alarm bell rang, and the village hero at the town gate on the north side shouted loudly. The originally peaceful townsmen near the town gate were panicked, and the farmers in the distance also threw down their farm tools and ran towards the town regardless of everything.

"Close the town gate! Close the town gate quickly!" Changgen, the leader of the Township Warriors who was on duty today, shouted loudly.

"But there are still people outside!"

"There are only dozens of people outside, but there are thousands of people in the town. Please close it!"

"Damn it, we're still outside, wait and close!"

"Let me in!"

"Help!"

When the alarm bell rang, the people in the town became panicked.

"What's going on? Didn't Zhao Rong and Li Chenfeng go to wipe out the bandits in Wohu Mountain? Why are there bandits coming? Did they fail?" Zhou Li shouted in panic.

"The village chief, it's not the time to think about those things now. It's better to find a way to resist the bandits." Wu Han, who was following Zhou Li, said with a pale face.

"Resist, Zhao Rong, who was originally more than 1,500 young and strong, took away five hundred. Last time, more than 300 casualties were killed or injured, and only seven hundred people were there, not to mention that they were all unarmed farmers. How do you resist?"

"That's better than sitting here. Let's take a look first. Maybe it's not the bandits of Wohu Mountain. There are only more than a hundred bandits of Wohu Mountain. Zhao Rong and the others have 500. Even if they fail, the bandits will not lose without losses. If other bandits can see if they can give them some things and let them go, the other towns will do this."

Zhou Li and Wu Han came out of the house to beat the street. Seeing the crowds full of riots, they couldn't help but tremble nervously.

"Dear fellow villagers, the bandits are here again. If you don't want your wife and daughter to bed, and if your family is destroyed, you will take me a guy and go to the north gate." Wu Han shouted loudly as he pretended to be brave.

"I'll go, I'll fight with these bandits!" A strong man took out a hunting bow, came behind Wu Han, and shouted loudly.

"I'll go too!"

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"Xu He, take a few people to comfort the villagers running around in front of you, explain your identity, so don't make any more trouble."

Xu He led ten people to gallop.

"Let's go, let's go to the north gate!" Zhao Ruo headed straight to the north gate.

"What should I do? They are here!" Several people on the town gate shivered.

"What's going on?" Zhou Li and Wu Han finally came to the wall of Zhenbeizhai with more than 300 people.

"Sir, there is a team of knights coming over there. It's not someone, it's probably a bandit."

Zhou Li, Wu Han also saw a burst of smoke and dust coming straight towards him.

"Can we stop it when we are close to two hundred people?" Zhou Li said involuntarily.

The townspeople around them all turned pale and didn't know how to answer.

"Sir, that's Erniu, Erniu, who went to suppress the bandits with Zhao Rong!" a town citizen shouted.

"I saw the dog, absolutely right, I left this morning."

Zhou Li, Wu Han looked at each other.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

Zhao Rong and his party finally came to the north gate. Looking at the townsmen standing on the north gate with kitchen knives and shoulder poles, Zhao Rong couldn't help but smile.

"Zhao Rong?" Zhou Li said in surprise.

"Zhao Rong!" Wu Han also said.

"What are you doing? You don't need to be so big of a fight! Tell everyone that we have wiped out the bandits' nests in Wohu Mountain, and we have only killed three of us in battle. In other words, from today on, there will be no bandits around Wohu Mountain for more than a hundred miles." Zhao Rong looked at the top of the town gate and said loudly.

"Okay!"

"Very good!"

"Zhao Rong is really good!"

When the townspeople heard this, they immediately cheered.

Zhou Li, Wu Han's face turned red: Damn, even if you win, you will say hello when you come back, which makes us nervous.

"Oh, it turns out that Commander Zhao is back. We thought it was the bandits who are coming again. Open the gate and let our heroes come in!" Zhou Li suppressed his dissatisfaction and said with a smile.

"After you go back, tell us about the situation and the family members of the brothers who have not come back, and let them go with us then. As for the three dead families, Zhao Hai, please bring the money to comfort me. If their families are willing to go with us, take it with you. Everyone will prepare and go back to the mountain in ten days." Zhao Rong turned around and said to more than 80 people behind him.

"Yes, sir!"

"Oh, by the way, starting tomorrow morning, you have to go to the threshing ground to train. If anyone doesn't go, he will be considered as leaving the team and will not have to follow me in the future. Have you heard of it?"

"I heard it!" More than eighty people said in unison.

"Congratulations to Commander Zhao for successfully exterminating the bandits in Wohu Mountain and reporting to the county, that would be a great achievement." Zhou Li said to Zhao Rong with a smile.

Zhao Rong handed the horse to Xu He and said with a smile: "Everywhere is the credit of the two adults. I'm just running errands."

To wipe out a group of bandits, you can receive a reward of 1,000 taels of silver in the county. Although it is not that much, it will not be much less. More importantly, it can be appreciated by the county. Zhao Rong naturally did not care about this, so he pushed the credit to Zhou Li and Wu Han.

"What about the other people? Why didn't they come back?" Wu Han asked in surprise when he saw Zhao Rong bringing only 160 or 70 people back.

"Oh, that's it. After we wiped out the bandits, there were more than a hundred homeless and poor women in the mountains. I couldn't rest assured. In addition, on the east side of Wohu Mountain, there was a group of 500 bandits on the Wild Boar Ridge more than 20 miles from Wohu Mountain. The townsmen at the foot of Wohu Mountain were afraid that after the Wohu Mountain was gone, these bandits would travel west and begged us to protect them. So I left the people there."

"What? You left the township heroes in our town in Wohu Mountain to protect the townsmen there?" Wu Han asked angrily. He originally wanted to draw the people in Zhao Rong to form a new township hero.

"No, the township heroes in the town have all returned, and the rest have fled to our town by other villages and towns. Now they don't want to come back. What can I do?" Zhao Rong replied helplessly.

"You..." Seeing Zhao Rong pretending to be helpless, Wu Han couldn't speak for a long time.

Zhou Li hurriedly said, "General Wu Han is also worried about the safety of our town. You leave everyone there. What if we encounter bandits again?"

Zhao Rong smiled and said, "The southeast of Xinyan Town is Le County, and there will be no bandits. The southwest of Yanping Town is Yanping Town. It is a big town. There are many village heroes. The bandits will not come from that direction. There are only Wohu Mountain in the north, and I have now flattened it. So except for the Wild Boar Ridge at the eastern end of Wohu Mountain, no bandits will come to harass the place. Besides, even if we come, we will come from Wohu Mountain."

"Although those young and strong people were not from Xinyan Town, their families were still here, so I don't believe they wouldn't come." Wu Han said angrily. Without subordinates, how could he order the entire town?

Zhao Rong said lightly: "Those young and strong people asked me to send their families to Wohu Mountain. There are a lot of barren land there, many of which were abandoned by them. Now the bandits have gone, and they hope to return to their hometown. I believe that Commander Wu will not stop him."

Wu Han wanted to say something, but Zhao Rong continued: "They said that if anyone dares to be them, they will kill anyone. They are not even afraid of bandits, so what are they afraid of? The ninety people who came back with me this time are responsible for this matter."

Wu Han's face turned pale: Yes, these guys have even killed all the bandits, let alone the others?

Zhou Li's face turned pale, but said, "Okay, is Commander Wu also considering the safety of the town? Since that's the case, let them deal with it themselves. If we have trouble here, we also hope Commander Zhao will help."

Although Zhao Rong said that the young and strong man wanted to leave, neither of them was foolish. Both of them understood that Zhao Rong wanted to gather people and establish a town on his own. After all, being the leader of the town was much better than being under other people's hands, especially when the superiors had no time to take care of themselves.

"It's okay! Then I'll go home first. My mother is still worried about me." After saying that, Zhao Rong turned around and left.

"Sir, Zhao Rong is too presumptuous and doesn't take us seriously at all." Wu Han said with a stern face.

"I don't take us seriously, but what are you going to do? Didn't you see that his subordinates have gathered more than 500 people? These more than 500 people have fought with bandits. Can you do anything to him?" Zhou Li said with a gloomy face.

"But sir, there are a lot of people in the five hundred people and their family. That's a lot of money. Just give it to Zhao Rong, this little bastard?" Wu Han said unwillingly.

Originally, from the 15th year of Wuxuan, the northeast of Youzhou was repeatedly invaded by northern ethnic groups, and the mountain bandits were in trouble. The court was busy exterminated the Central Plains and rebelled the people, and was unable to take care of the north. However, the three prefectures in Youzhou were lost. So he ordered that the towns under the prefectures in the northeast of Youzhou were exempted from taxes and used townships to defend against mountain bandits. The townships in the northeast of Youzhou could not receive taxes, but now the court did not collect them, so that each township would collect some of them to form township warriors. In addition to resisting bandits in this town, the township warriors would be transferred to the border army at any time to supplement their soldiers. The court thought that it could not only reduce the survival pressure of the people, but also increase the reserve force of the border army.

Originally, the court's policies were good, but when they came down, they became tools for officials to acquire money. If the county wanted it, it would be replaced by those who were willing to give it to the village chief. The people's taxes were not small at all, and most of them were taken away by officials, and only a small part was used as the food and salary of the township heroes.
Chapter completed!