The order to surrender was soon conveyed, and there were bursts of relaxed but deliberately suppressed cheers in the valley, which meant that they no longer had to be frozen and starved to death.

The weapons were tossed aside like garbage, the armor was taken off, and the soldiers were disarmed and gathered by their commanders, and at the edge of the valley ropes hung down, and the surrendered soldiers would climb up them.

At the top of the valley, the veterans of the death battalion were waiting for the battle, and the young men were standing excitedly in the direction of the gap left by the veterans, holding ropes in their hands, and the first county soldier to surrender showed his head from the edge of the valley, looking nervously, using his hands and feet together, and standing tremblingly to the top of the cliff.

"Which way!" A veteran of the death battalion glanced at him with disdain, and with a finger of the big knife in his hand, the startled guy immediately trotted towards the gap, and the two young men happily greeted him.

The guy who climbed up stretched out his hands very cooperatively, and with a bang, a rope was put on his wrist, and soon, the second, the third, and one after the other soldiers climbed up with difficulty, and then they were tied up like a string of sugar gourds, in groups of fifty people, and after they were tied, they were carried to the depths of the mountain.

In addition to the casualties, there were more than 3,500 county soldiers trapped at the bottom of the valley, and at noon the next day, all of them became prisoners of the death camp, and a team of people walked endlessly towards the high mountain flat land that Qin Feng fancied, and now, he needed a large number of manpower to clear this land for him.

Liu Xingwen was the last to get up, his face was ashen, he stood on the top of the cliff, looked at the group of bandit leaders around him, hung his head with great remorse, untied the saber at his waist, held it with both hands, and walked in front of Qin Feng.

"Liu Xingwen, the commander of the Dayue Shayang County Army, surrender to Your Excellency!" His voice was a little choked, he held the knife in both hands over his head, and bent one knee to kneel.

Qin Feng laughed, supported him with one hand, and dragged him up, "General Liu, don't be polite, we will have more opportunities to cooperate in the future, please, General Liu is my honored guest!" ”

Listening to Qin Feng's words, Liu Xingwen showed a smile that was more ugly than crying.

Feng County, Liu Ping Town, Ge Qingsheng's legs were weak, and he was a butt pier, and he sat directly on the cold ground, this period of time, he was so frightened that it was the second time, the first time was when he heard that Qi General Kou Qun was killed by a punch, and he understood that a catastrophe was coming. And this time, it was even worse news, the 5,000 Shayang soldiers who went to suppress the bandits were all wiped out, nearly 1,000 people died, and the remaining 4,000 or so all became prisoners of the bandits.

Poor Fengxian county commander Ge Qingsheng is now a lonely ghost, Liang Da lives in the county, he has a home and can't return home, so he can only take the county officials and Lu Feng gave him more than 100 county soldiers day and night, and go to the countryside to collect grain and grass. Of course, if it sounds good, it is called solicitation, and if it is not good, it is robbery.

In the midst of the cries and curses of grief and indignation, Ge Qingsheng pretended not to hear anything, searched the little food he had from one household to another, and then walked to the next one.

Scraping the ground, he also had to gather enough food, and now, he finally managed to gather tens of thousands of catties of food, but the army that wanted these grains was useless.

Ge Qingsheng felt that two-thirds of his head was not on his neck, and he would fall down at any time if he staggered, although it was said that the defeat of the army had nothing to do with him, but who would have told such a big thing to happen on his territory? This big black cauldron, who will carry it if he doesn't carry it?

Sitting on the ground, without the slightest grace, and regardless of the strange eyes of the soldiers around him, our Ge County Commander cried bitterly.

"Lord Ge!" Looking at the county magistrate who was crying bitterly, Lu Feng couldn't say anything, this county magistrate is good at everything, but he is a little more cowardly, if crying can solve the problem, he would have been louder than him. "Now is not the time to be sad, we have to discuss a way!"

"What else can I think of? The two of us can't keep our heads. Ge Qingsheng said sadly.

"Not necessarily!" Lu Feng snorted, dragged Ge Qingsheng up from the ground, dragged him directly into a room, and unceremoniously drove the original owner of the house out. "Master Ge, this time, there are people taller than us above, what are we afraid of?"

"You're not afraid?" Ge Qingsheng was shocked.

Lu Feng took out the offer list of the bandits from his arms, "Look, this is the price offered by the bandits, as long as their requirements are met, they will release them." Look, my lord, this person is not related to those big people in our Shayang County, General Liu doesn't need to say it, the Liu family is originally the first family in our Shayang, there are these people, these families are on top, what are we afraid of? If there is something, naturally these guys will be on top. ”

"5,000 people and the whole army were wiped out", is it possible to hide such a big thing? Ge Qingsheng shook his head again and again.

"We don't have the energy to hide it, but the big people in the county town definitely have the energy to hide it." Lu Feng sneered. "I'm going to go to the county town to find the county guard and the people of the Liu family, and throw this burden over, if this matter really explodes, we will certainly lose our heads, but can they escape? This time, we're going to have to work together. ”

"But there is still a Liang Da in the county, how can he hide this matter, can't he hide it, can't he hide it from the Qi people, can't he still hide it from the court?" Ge Qingsheng said sadly.

"Steady him first." Lu Feng pondered for a moment, "During this time, you still have to keep raising food, keep sending it to the mountains, and tell Liang Da that we are sparing no effort to suppress the bandits, and we have forced the bandits to the point where they are almost exhausted, just waiting for the last to take people." ”

Ge Qingsheng opened his mouth wide, "If I send grain into the mountains, who will I give it to, can't it be given to those bandits?" ”

"Of course." Lu Feng nodded and said, "This is also something that can't be helped." ”

"This, isn't this a collusion between officials and bandits?" Ge Qingsheng trembled again.

"My good lord, if you want to solve the current crisis and save the heads of the two of us, it is not only the collusion of officials and bandits, but also the collusion between the upper and lower sides, the left and right! If you don't weave a big lie, how can you get through this? "Lu Feng said." Lord Ge, those bandits are not extremely vicious, they are entrenched in our Feng County, even if we pass this level, it is indispensable to deal with them in the future, Lord Ge, if you want to live in peace, we can only have a good relationship with them, when you send food in, you might as well meet with their big people, and talk about it, so as not to lose the harmony again, now we really have no capital to compete with him, not to mention that we don't have it, and we don't even have the county town. ”

Ge Qingsheng said it one by one, daring to love the collusion of officials and bandits is not a matter of a one-shot deal, and this head-killing business has to be done for a long time.

Looking at Ge Qingsheng's hesitant expression, Lu Feng said again: "Master Ge, you can make your own mind, either do what I say, or you will leak the real situation, and then wait for someone from Yuejing City to clean up and down our Shayang County. My lord, I don't want my family to be exiled and thrown into prison for hard labor. ”

Listening to Lu Feng's threat, Ge Qingsheng cried with a sad face, "What else can I do, I can only do this, Lu Feng, you go to the county town, what if those people in the county town don't agree?" ”

"Hmph, they're just more anxious than we are to reach a deal with the bandits." Lu Feng sneered.

"Okay, then do it, you go to the county seat, I'll send grain to the mountains here, and deceive that Liang Da. But this guy is not easy to deceive, you can just hurry up. Ge Qingsheng gritted his teeth and said.

"Of course, after reporting this matter to the county town, the matter of negotiating with Liang Da and the bandit leaders will naturally be handled by them, and we only need to run errands." Lu Feng sneered, "At that time, even if there is a mistake, we will only be accomplices." ”

Shayang County, now it is the largest city on the southern border of the Yue country, the Qi people crossed the border, the Yue people were defeated and retreated, five hundred miles of rivers and mountains were lost, and they were ceded to the Qi people, the rich families and officials and gentry in these places are naturally not comparable to the small people, of course, they fled quickly, and finally, almost all of them were concentrated in Shayang County, which caused a peculiar phenomenon, and Shayang County was more prosperous than before.

A large number of rich people were concentrated here, and of course, a large number of laborers fled to this place, and the number of people in the cities expanded by almost a third.

The Liu family, the number one gate valve in Shayang County, is deep-rooted, in Shayang, there is a rumor, but if the county guard who goes to Shayang County to serve, if he can't have a good relationship with the Liu family, in Shayang County, it will definitely not last long, and the county guard of Shayang will either become an ally of the Liu family after he arrives, or he will roll up and get out, there is no third way to choose, which can also show the power of the Liu family in Shayang County. The soldiers of Shayang County have always been controlled by the Liu family, and the yamen up and down is full of Liu's disciples and allies.

In such an environment, Mrs. Liu naturally lived a very comfortable life. The old lady Liu, who is over seventy this year, is very well maintained, looks no more than fifty, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, ordinary people will only think that he is a famous good man in Shayang County, a good person, and only those who really know him will know the ruthlessness of this old lady's methods. (To be continued.) )