The corn in Mopan City has matured, and no one can be seen through the dense green gauze tent. When you peel off the leaves, you can see the golden corn cobs, which are growing gratifyingly.
It's the best harvest time.
Just when Zhang Yi was mobilizing personnel to cooperate with Li Guaizi in picking corn, he received an important piece of information. The village owners of the Thirteen Evil Villages all ran to Tianma Village, not knowing what they were plotting.
Zhang Yi immediately held a meeting of the People's Alliance to discuss countermeasures.
"Now that they can't grab anything and have no food to eat, they are planning to grab corn." Song Laohei said without thinking.
"Master Song is right. According to my understanding, the northwest king Liu Kai no longer supports the various copycat villages. The evil people's village is at the end of its rope and plans to use troops against Mopan City." Xiaolong said, while he was busy with internal affairs, he also paid attention to Follow the dynamics of various copycats.
"Okay, let's take this opportunity to catch them all." Xiao Han said.
"Yes, these thieves jumped out to die on their own, no wonder we beat them!" Niu Ben said, patting the table.
"My sworn brother also planned to launch troops after harvesting the corn, but the thieves wanted to take advantage of us while we were harvesting the corn. Damn it, just beat us." Shi Gandang said.
Everyone agrees that this battle must be fought.
Originally, Zhang Yi had always maintained restraint. Since he killed General Cao, he has not provoked another war. He only deterred and warned those copycats and spent his time on economic development.
One of the reasons for doing this is that he wanted to observe the development of the overall situation and avoid getting involved in chaotic struggles, allowing external forces such as Liu Kai to take the opportunity to intervene.
Now it seems that the situation is much better than he originally imagined.
The Mopan City area is a buffer zone sandwiched between Greater China, Little China and Old China. None of the three countries will easily send troops to upset the balance of the situation and start a war.
In comparison, Liu Kai was more ambitious. He had worked hard for many years and won over many copycats. He not only wanted to defeat General Cao, but also wanted to annex this area.
Unfortunately, he did not get the support of the major families in the Kingdom of China. Those families were stubborn and content with the status quo, and did not approve of external expansion.
For Zhang Yi, this is an extremely favorable situation.
This does not mean that the crisis has been resolved, but that he will be able to let go of the affairs of this region for a long period of time.
"Everyone," Zhang Yi said, "we understand the external situation. The three major powers have no signs of mobilizing troops for the time being. Liu Kai wants to extend his hand, but he is more than willing and unable to do so. In this case, I Look, we can take action to unify this land and river, develop it as quickly as possible, and win a foothold in troubled times."
Applause burst out immediately, and Zhang Yi made a major decision.
That is to unify all cottages.
This is something that even General Cao has not been able to do, but everyone is convinced that Zhang Yi is capable enough to accomplish this great thing.
Next, start strategic deployment.
Zhang Yi pointed to the map of mountains and rivers in the area and expressed his thoughts.
"To deal with the remaining 30 copycats, we can use a variety of methods, and negotiation is one of the most effective methods. Our development in the past two months is obvious to all. Needless to say, the owners of each copycat know that Mopan City Now people can not only have enough to eat, but also have meat to eat!"
Everyone laughed, it was a fact.
"However, we must resolutely attack and suppress the evil people's stronghold. We must use force to get rid of the bandit leaders who are full of crimes and eliminate those evil thieves whose hands are stained with the blood of the people. Only by doing this can we punish evil and promote good and uphold justice. .”
"right!"
Everyone nodded, especially the village owners who had suffered from banditry for many years.
"The most difficult thing is to attack the cottages head-on. Since our brothers drilled holes and climbed over the walls to capture two cottages, every cottage has now raised its walls. If we want to find such a good opportunity, that is It’s very difficult.”
Zhang Yi smiled and said the current actual situation. Everyone present nodded. It was indeed true. All the cottages had strengthened their defenses and plugged the loopholes.
"Unexpectedly, thirteen copycat families actually got together and conspired to attack Mopan City. They made a fatal mistake."
"Yes, Brother Yi, without the protection of the village wall, they are just a bunch of rabble." Xiaolong said with a smile.
"Then let's have a field battle and eliminate these stupid thieves!" Niu Ben said, gearing up.
"I've been eating a lot lately, so it's time to exercise." Shi Gandang said, twisting his neck.
Everyone laughed and everyone was eager to try.
"Fight when it's time to hit, don't waste our corn." Li Guaizi reminded.
"After the meeting, everyone mobilized to harvest corn overnight. They had to move quickly and not make any noise," Zhang Yi arranged. "From today on, everyone must strictly keep secrets and not leak any news. Mopan City will remain in a normal state, and we will Act like you don’t know anything.”
Zhang Yi specifically emphasized that the work of harvesting corn was completed overnight, leaving the outer ring of corn untouched, creating the illusion that it had not been picked yet. The reason for this was to fear that once the war broke out, the evil people would jump over the wall and burn the corn field. , that would be tragic.
In addition, in addition to the 1,000 standing army, Mopan City secretly gathered another 1,000 soldiers. If the weapons were insufficient, they would use wooden sticks and farm tools.
In addition, each of the 25 cottages sent out 100 soldiers, so there were 2,500 combatants.
According to the experience of the village owners, the strength of the Thirteen Villains' Village is only over 2,000. They still have to leave people to defend the village, so it is impossible to send out all the troops.
In other words, we have 4,500 people and the enemy only has more than 2,000 people, forming an absolute advantage of two to one.
"This dumpling must be wrapped well, and the filling cannot be exposed." Zhang Yi said with a smile, this is a big battle that we are determined to win. "We are absolutely sure of victory, but we must reduce casualties as much as possible and catch the enemy by surprise."
To achieve this effect, confidentiality is the most important thing. Wait for the enemy to attack Mopan City, and then be surrounded on all sides so that they have nowhere to escape.
Zhang Yi ordered Xiao Han to lead the archers and infantry. After picking corn tonight, they would carry enough food and water for three days and lurk in the green gauze tent.
Niu Ben and Shi Gandang each led 200 cavalry and were stationed at the foot of the mountain. Their horses did not take off their saddles and their men did not take off their armor, so they were ready to attack at any time.
The owners of the remaining 25 villages kept it secret from the outside world and mobilized their troops to the five villages closest to Mopan City. After seeing the beacon fire rising in Mopan City, they mobilized together to surround the bandit soldiers of the thirteen evil villages from all directions.
Zhang Yi judged that the enemy would launch a sudden attack under the cover of night. In order to prevent unnecessary misunderstandings between friendly forces, he unified the question and answer command, which was "justice" and "win".
After the deployment was completed, everyone stood up to take orders and went to prepare.