Chapter 546: Difficult to Travel: The Bandits Are Coming
"Haha, the general laughed."
The village chief said: "Since Zhao Youzhou became the pastor of Youzhou, the military discipline is strict, and the soldiers who dare to rob the people's property will be severely punished, and no one dares to do this for a long time." ”
"Now the thieves have disappeared, and our small village has not encountered robbers for more than a year."
In the past, such a small village was looted by bandits almost every month.
Although most of the bandits are not many in number, the villagers will take the initiative to hand over a little food in order not to cause trouble.
Instead of those vicious bandits, they will not deliberately kill the villagers.
They can't survive either, so they go to be bandits.
And now, there are fewer and fewer bandits in Youzhou.
Zhao Hui was still the secret king of the Youzhou bandits.
That's because the bandits were inexhaustible in the first place.
Even if Zhao Hui wiped out a gang, there would be new ones immediately.
At that time, Zhao Hui chose to secretly control these bandits and set rules for these bandits.
The bandits who disobeyed the rules were all eliminated by Zhao Hui.
At that time, although there were countless bandits in Youzhou, everything was in the rules, they only robbed caravans, and each caravan could only rob once, and the property robbed each time was also certain, which was within the acceptable range of the caravan.
However, in the past few years, the conditions in Youzhou have been getting better and better, and there are fewer and fewer people who can't survive, and there are fewer and fewer people who go to be bandits.
And the previous bandits were also eliminated by Zhao Hui when he found an opportunity, or let them return to the fields.
In today's Youzhou, it is rare to see bandits within a hundred miles.
As long as there are more than 100 bandit gangs, they will definitely be wiped out quickly.
If it was just a dozen or thirty little thieves, they would be careful not to make too much noise, and they would still be able to survive a little longer.
Nowadays, the villagers who cannot live in the city and can only live in villages outside the city have a much higher living security than before.
If it weren't for Zhao Hui, they wouldn't have the life they have now.
They have forgotten Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan.
However, as the village head, he can still know a little about the news from the outside world.
After he finished speaking, he finally reacted and said, "Are you Gongsun Zhan?" Is it the former Taishou of Beiping, the Gongsun Zhan who was defeated by Zhao Youzhou? ”
Although he was finally recognized, Gongsun Zhan's face was even more ugly.
What is the Gongsun Zhan who was defeated by Zhao Hui.
Why only remember his failures, but not his original glory.
The village chief looked a few feet away, and the flag that had not yet been put away.
Under the heavy rain, the flag has been rolled up and stuck to the flagpole, and it is not visible at all.
But the colors can be distinguished.
Just now, because the rain was too heavy, and Youzhou had been very peaceful in recent years, there were no troops from other states coming, so the village chief didn't pay too much attention.
But now looking at the flag in the rain, the village chief can also see that it is different from Zhao Huijun's banner.
Zhao Huijun's banner is triangular and red.
But the shape of this flag in the rain is not visible now, but the color of the flag is red and black.
The village chief's eyes finally showed horror.
He remembered years ago, armies that were even more terrible than bandits.
Wherever many armies passed, not only were the food taken away, but even the men in the family were forcibly dragged away, becoming a small soldier, and they might never come back in this life.
Their village has only just improved in the past few years, and there is a lot of population, so will all the men in the village be taken away again after today?
Thinking of an empty village with only a group of women, the old village chief was very flustered.
When the young and strong men of a village chief are gone, it is difficult to survive in this troubled era, even if Youzhou is now governed by Zhao Hui, it is superior to other states in all aspects.
But how many of the women in the village will remain in the village after losing their men?
And how many people will leave, go to other villages, and marry other men.
It's too difficult for a woman to support a family.
They can only rely on other men.
The village chief only panicked in his heart, but quickly stabilized.
Gongsun Chan appeared here, and he believed that Zhao Hui should have known about it a long time ago.
Since Zhao Hui knew, he didn't have to worry about what Gongsun Zan would do to the villagers.
Dian Wei's cavalry was also in the village, but they did not come into contact with the villagers.
This heavy rain came and went quickly.
It was only an hour before the clouds cleared and the sky brightened.
The bean-sized raindrops turned into sesame seeds, and soon stopped.
It's just that the road has become muddy and very difficult to navigate.
The rain stopped, but Gongsun Chan didn't plan to leave right away.
Want to spend the night in the village.
But Dian Wei soon appeared.
"Gongsun Zhan, the rain has stopped, you can go."
"The soldiers' clothes are all wet, and the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, so let's rest here for the night." Gongsun Chan said, he made a request that seemed very reasonable to him.
But Dian Wei refused.
"This is the village, the residence of the name of the village, not the camp of the army. If General Gongsun wants to rest, please let the army camp outside the village. ”
Gongsun Zhan's face trembled, he didn't know how many times he had the idea of killing Dian Wei.
But just thinking about it, he is not ready to fight with Dian Wei now.
Gongsun Zhan knew that he couldn't make sense with Dian Wei, and he didn't dare to clash with Dian Wei, so he could only withdraw from the village with the army.
Prepare to camp outside the village, he will not be leaving today.
However, before the army left the village, there were shouts of killing outside the village.
"It's a bandit."
"How many people."
"There are more than 300 people."
"Hmph, three hundred people dare to come."
Dian Wei led the cavalry and rushed towards the outside of the village.
But it had only rained heavily, and the road was too muddy for people to walk, and it was also difficult for war horses to walk.
Dian Wei still rushed out with people as soon as possible.
As a general in Youzhou, he originally wanted to exterminate the bandits and bandits.
Now that he happened to meet it, how could he let it go.
Don't say that there are only 300 bandits, even if 30,000 come, Dian Wei will guard the villagers behind him.
Protecting the people has been engraved in their hearts.
Three hundred bandits in other states, probably only on a small scale.
But now in Youzhou, three hundred bandits are already a great force.
A gang of more than 100 bandits will inevitably enter Zhao Hui's eyes, and then they will be exterminated as soon as possible.
The sudden appearance of the three hundred bandits, Dian Wei's first thought was not to let this gang of bandits hurt the people in the village.
So he led his troops out as soon as possible, not giving the bandits a chance to enter the village.
But he also forgot to think about why a gang of 300 bandits suddenly appeared here.
With Youzhou's current intelligence network, unless they have been hiding in the mountains, as long as they dare to come out, they must have been discovered long ago.