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Wang Zhen stood up, stood with hands folded under the old locust tree, pondered for a moment, and asked Deng Gui:
"What do the families and generals say?"
The thieves suddenly became fierce. Whether Huaiyuan could be defended or not, he had to care about the attitude and morale of the clan and soldiers in the army.
"Xu Huai killed three thieves from Laoyatan in the street and stopped them. Not only did this demoralize the thieves, but it also lifted the morale of the soldiers in the army camp a little. There were even twenty or thirty young men in the market who came to wish them the best.
To help defend the military stronghold with a reward. However, the major clans are still silent, probably thinking of protecting themselves. Although there are more than 160 brave men in the stronghold at this time, I am afraid it is still difficult to withstand the thieves attacking like a tide of insects!"
General Deng Gui explained in detail to Wang Zhen the current inspection of the military preparedness of Si Junzhai.
The thieves in Laoyatan broke into the market and ran rampant, but no one stood up to stop them. Deng Gui knew that his mood was extremely cold at that time. He believed that under this situation, as long as the thieves attacked in large numbers, the inspection department's hundreds of soldiers would be defeated.
Not to mention resisting with all your might, it is not unimaginable to be defeated by the wind.
The appearance of Xu Huai not only slightly dampened the ambition of the stubborn bandits, but more importantly, brought the hearts of the people in the streets and military villages back from the brink of collapse.
From this point of view, Deng Gui had to admire Yashahu who was hiding behind the scenes and really used the limited resources in his hands to the best of his ability.
However, the big surname clan is still too cunning. Unlike the people at the bottom, the bloody courage of the soldiers is so easy to be inspired. They remain unmoved, believing that the situation is irreversible in a short time, and they are still determined to retreat to each Wubao and hold on.
It is fundamental for the imperial army to come to our aid.
Deng Gui had nothing to do about this.
Seeing Deng Gui laying out the difficulties, Wang Zhen pondered for a moment and said:
"Families don't have enough people to rely on, so they don't have to leave people, but they can't lack money and food. And the residents in the market should evacuate to the mountains as much as possible to avoid being disturbed by thieves and bandits. The manpower of the big clans in the market can also be evacuated, but they are in the market
All the money and food must be handed over! You take Xu Huai with you now. Anyone who dares to disobey your order, Deng Langjun, can be punished by Xu Huai! You can also let everyone know that this is my king.
What a bad idea you came up with, you didn’t intend it to be like this, I will do the evil thing!”
"With the words of the Prime Minister, the officials know what to do!" Deng Gui saluted, and then looked at Tang Tiande and Jin Longquan behind him, "Tang Dutou, Jin Dutou, what do you think of what Mr. Wang said?"
Huaiyuan's channel to the outside world has actually been cut off. Deng Gui holds great power in name, and he can kill anyone who dares not to obey.
However, the problem is that the military soldiers in the military camp, from the two generals of Tang Tiande and Jin Longquan, to the five section levels below, the twelve ten generals and the hundreds of soldiers at the bottom, most of them are from the big surname clans.
Now that all the families are retreating to Wubao, Deng Gui really dares to have a tough attitude towards them. He can't even command anyone.
He made every family anxious. He instigated a fool to accuse him of all crimes. It was possible to kill him first.
In other words, if he wants to kill someone, he must have a sharp and formidable knife in his hand. Now Wang Zhen gave Xu Huai this extremely sharp "knife" to him.
"What the Prime Minister said is true. The situation is so urgent. If all the families still dare to shirk the money and food, they should do something extraordinary!" Jin Longquan said without hesitation.
"Yes, yes, what the Prime Minister said is true, true!" Tang Tiande's tone was more hesitant, but his attitude was also in agreement.
The two of them, from a personal point of view, certainly hope to defend the military stronghold.
The title of Dutou is not an important position, but it is prestigious enough in Tongbai Mountain and gives them a strong foundation within the clan, not to mention other practical benefits.
They were used to enjoying themselves and could not imagine what it would be like to escape from the military stronghold and have the rest of their lives be deprived of their positions and punished. Even if they were not punished and punished with death, they would never be able to hold their heads up again. Besides, they were not sure that Deng Gui would not be punished at this time.
Dare to kill them to establish your authority.
However, what they hesitated about was that they could not violate the will of the clan.
Clan is the basis for them to show off their power in the Inspection Department.
If Deng Gui really wanted to force the families to hand over the money and food reserves in the market, they would at least not help Deng Gui use force. This would make them stand on the opposite side of the clan.
Otherwise, even if they defend the military stronghold this time, the clan will not deal with them in the future?
Now Deng Gui is using Xu Huai, a fool, to kill people and establish his authority. They hide behind and don't come forward. If the clan really doesn't give money and food and kills one or two people to establish its authority, there will be no blame on them.
"If you don't obey Lang Jun's order, will you be rewarded for killing me?" Xu Huai asked stupidly, holding the knife and tilting his head.
"The reward is based on killing the thief." Deng Gui said.
"Okay! Let me see who doesn't open his eyes today and dares to disobey Deng Langjun's order!" Xu Huai stood up, jumped up, and shouted to the next yard, "Yin Peng, come quickly, let's go and earn the reward."
Silver!"
With Wang Zhen's words as support, Xu Huai and Yin Peng were available, and Deng Gui did not ask Tang Tiande, Jin Longquan or the subordinates to come forward.
He selected more than a dozen of his old soldiers and appointed a scribe recommended from Biyang City to lead them. Together with Xu Huai and Yin Peng, he set up checkpoints on the east road of the market to block the horses.
The men of the big surnamed clan can withdraw from the market, but the money, food and materials must be left behind; when the money and food are sent to the military stronghold, a book will be recorded as a basis for future apportionment.
Xu Huai asked Yin Peng to hitch the carriage and pull it to the sentry post. Butcher Zheng brought Chen Gui with him and brought him a jug of wine and some fat geese to eat.
Xu Huai invited Butcher Zheng, Chen Gui and Yin Peng to drink and eat meat together in the car, and then asked Yin Peng to take Butcher Zheng and Chen Gui behind the checkpoint to keep an eye on the people evacuating the market, while he lay alone in the carriage and slept soundly; others
I dare not find fault with him.
Even though people are panicking and fleeing the unsafe streets, there are still many poor people at the bottom who have nowhere to go, especially hundreds of refugees who have fled from Zhongjiazhuang and Yushanyi.
Deng Gui selected some young men who were not closely related to the major clans and had an innocent life experience. He transported food, bacon, tung oil, bamboo, fur, iron materials and other materials across the river from various shops in the market to the military camp overnight.
Although Huaiyuan does not have a county, Tongbai Mountain is not only vast in area, but also has hundreds of thousands of Dingkou, which is worthy of a large county.
Huaiyuan is the core hub of Tongbai Mountain and a place where materials are distributed. Seven or eight grain stores store grains of three to four thousand dan; there are thousands of barrels of pressed tung oil, and tens of thousands of kilograms of iron materials and various iron tools.
All these supplies were prohibited from being transported back to Wubao, and they were all transported into the military stronghold and hoarded. Even if they were besieged by a large group of bandits for a year and a half, and even if some more refugees were admitted, there was no risk that they would run out of arrows and food.
Although Wang Zhen had not directly commanded the Forbidden Army to fight in the border areas, he was appointed as the judge of the army and the governor. How could he not immediately think of the importance of food and fodder?
Seeing bags of food being transported into the military stronghold and the soldiers on the wall feeling more at ease.
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Xu Huai was left alone in the Huaiyuan military camp, but a fierce quarrel broke out within the Xu family.
"Xu Wujiang, Xu Wujiang, how can you be so confused?" It was also the first time that Su Laochang refused to give face to his son-in-law Xu Wujiang. He pressed the corner of the table sadly, almost stamped his feet, and shouted, "Call in the morning.
You and Wu Liang rushed to Huaiyuan, didn't you make it clear that you would kidnap that reckless guy back even if he was kidnapped?"
"Dad, Wu Jiang must have persuaded him. Wu Kun, Wu Liang, and Xin'an were all in Huaiyuan at the time. Xu Huai refused to listen. How can you really kidnap him back? If you have the ability, let's go and kill that stubborn donkey tomorrow.
Drag me back!" Although Su Di was also anxious that Xu Huai was in danger, at this time everyone was aggressively attacking her husband, so she could only complain to her father.
"Without the support of Xu Huai's father who came to Lutai Village, our family would have died of hunger long ago, and your brother Su Mi would not have had a chance to be born! Xu Huai would have had three advantages and two disadvantages. If you call me Jiuquanxia, how would you go to see his father?
?" Mr. Su stamped his feet and said.
"What good can Xu Huai do by staying in the army camp, apart from making the rebels think that we are secretly communicating with the army village? No, we must bring this idiot back tomorrow!" Xu Wuqi said angrily.
"I'm afraid it won't be Xu Wuqi's turn to make the decision." Liu Qiong'er was also annoyed that the bastard always did unexpected things, but at this time she could only stand by Xu Wujiang's side.
"Do you have any room to speak? Do you really think the so-called Yaksha Fox can scare anyone?" Xu Wuqi raised his foot and kicked the table down, rolled up his sleeves and was about to take action.
"Xu Wuqi, what do you want to do!" Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang stood up and protected Liu Qiong'er from behind, shouting angrily, "We in Jinshagou Village don't need to look at your face to act!"
"Jinsha Gou Village? What a Jinsha Gou Village! Do you really want to end your relationship with the Xu family?" Xu Wuqi asked angrily.
"Now that the military stronghold is destroyed, the Xu family can defend Yuhuangling, but have you ever thought about how many of their disciples will be killed or injured before the imperial army comes to rescue them?" Xu Wukun said.
Xu Huai's decision was very risky, and they were worried about it, but they had already seen Xu Huai's firm will.
Since the facts cannot be changed, they can only make every effort to ensure that Xu Huai's plan is implemented more thoroughly, instead of letting Xu Waqi, Su Laochang and others hold them back here.
"Xu Wuqi, when did you become as timid as a mouse?" Xu Wuliang sneered unceremoniously.
Seeing Xu Wuqi's forehead veins exposed, he became really angry. Xu Wufu grabbed his arm and said in a deep voice: "I think what Wu Kun and the others said is not unreasonable. Furthermore, even if Xu Huai does not go to the military camp, even if
Chen Zixiao, Zhong Changqing, Pan Chenghu, Gao Xiangzhong and others don’t think that we are in secret communication with the military camp, and they may not come to attack Yuhuangling - there is no point in entangled with Xu Huai, a reckless guy!"
"There is no point in staying in the military stronghold like Xu Huai. We must have a secret communication with Deng Gui. Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others can stay in the military stronghold and stay with Deng Gui. However, these two idiots themselves
You are greedy for life and afraid of death, but you tell idiot Xu Huai to die!" Xu Wuqi shook off Xu Wufu's hand and sat aside angrily.
"What did you say?" Xu Wukun, also known as Xu Wuliang, also called Xu Wuqi, was annoyed and asked.
"You said to yourself, what's the point of keeping Xu Huai in the military camp, apart from being manipulated by Deng Gui? I'm not allowed to talk about the stupid things you have done?" Xu Wuqi scolded, thinking about it,
Angry, he raised his foot and kicked the elm wooden bench in front of him into two pieces.
Xu Wuliang, Xu Bosong, and Xu Zhongyu didn't care about Xu Huai's life or death at all. They thought about what Xu Wujiang just said, but it made some sense.
After waiting patiently for Xu Wuqi, Xu Wuliang, and Xu Wukun to hold back their quarrels for a while, Xu Wufu said in a deep voice: "Now that the matter has come to this, Deng Gui has finally grasped this matter and told us Xu
The family is involved, if you go to ask for him tomorrow, you probably won’t be able to get him back from Deng Gui, so you should think more about how to deal with this situation!"
"How else to deal with it? These idiots have given away such a big deal. Of course we must be prepared to reinforce the Huaiyuan Army Stronghold at any time. Otherwise, when the bandit army becomes stronger and breaks through the Huaiyuan Military Stronghold, the next one will come.
Attack Yuhuangling!" Xu Wuqi said angrily.
Xu Wuqi's tone was harsh, but the fact was that he still advocated a more positive attitude to deal with it. Listening to what he said, although Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang were holding back their anger, they could hold back their anger and did not express it.
