"Is it going to pass over here, why have you waited so long for the convoy to show up?"

"Chief, they've always come every six months. Isn't it yet time? Wait a minute, it's coming. ”

"Confirm that there are only twenty sergeants?"

"At the beginning, there were 100 of them, and then didn't the army go out on the expedition? It became only twenty sergeant guards. ”

"That's good, that's good. Let the brethren wait until they can avoid killing and try not to kill people. ”

It was a trail from Qisi (modern Weibin City) to a village called Shaoting, and the sound of muffled conversation came from the grass on both sides of the road.

The people who spoke were Peng Yue and a man with a stout face and a beard.

The single name of the bearded man is a couplet, and he is Peng Yue's subordinate who has been following the left and right when he was in Juye Huze, and he has the courage to fight three or four prime of life, which is a strong man who can fight under Peng Yue.

Peng Yue and more than 200 people were ambushed here to wait for a convoy, which was one of the convoys in Hengshan County that often went to the countryside.

In Nan County, Hengshan County, and Cangwu County, the three counties under Lu Zhe have always had a policy, that is, every half month, a batch of supplies will be escorted to the villages, most of the time it will be cloth or rattan, and sometimes grain and metal will be escorted. Cloth and rattan were naturally sewn and woven into battle robes, rattan armor, and teng shields, grain was used as compensation, and a small amount of metal was used by the villagers to make their own agricultural tools.

This is one of the many policies that benefit the people, and it is also the most popular policy since its implementation, and villagers can work without leaving their homes, and this is a government-led initiative, which is more popular than the paid recruitment of villagers to go out to work.

As time passed, after the three counties stabilized, the Qianshou who had been hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to avoid the war had gradually returned to their hometowns, and many policies benefiting the people were introduced to the mountains, and most of the Qianshou who did not want to go out also began to return to their hometowns one after another, and Peng Yue's plan to gather people in the mountains was greatly affected.

This is not the main reason why Peng Yue had to rob the convoy in the countryside. The reason why Peng Yue, who had once again grown his team to more than 500 people in the mountains, went down to the mountains to loot was because there was no food in the mountains, and they had no local household registration records, so they had nowhere to return to their hometowns.

In fact, Lu Zhe did not exclude outsiders, and the Qianshou who came from other places would basically be properly resettled, but they were not sure about the attitude of the local government towards them, and they were afraid that after going down the mountain, they would be found out about the past of being thieves in Juye Huze.

Knowing that Suosuo's voice came from the grass, Peng Yue turned his head to see that it was the person he had sent out to keep an eye on earlier had returned.

"Leader, the convoy is coming!" The visitor gasped. A look of excitement: "There are really only twenty sergeants, and there are more than thirty vehicles." However, the vehicle was covered with coarse cloth, and it was impossible to see whether the escort was food or not. ”

Peng Yue, who was a little relieved, ordered in a low voice: "Let the brothers hide, wait for the convoy to pass halfway, and then kill after listening to my orders." He grabbed the guy who was about to jump out, "Remember, let the brethren not kill and not kill." ”

"Hey!" The man answered, and then swooped into the yellow grass and disappeared in a moment.

The number of garrisons in Hengshan County was greatly reduced after the army led by the Lieutenant Gongwei to the expedition. Otherwise, the fixed number of soldiers in each convoy was originally a team of 100 people, but now the number of troops is so insufficient that the escort soldiers of each convoy are not fixed, sometimes it is a full 100 people, sometimes it is a minimum of 20 people. It also depends on what is being delivered.

Hengshan County has been under Lu Zhe's rule for the shortest time, unlike Nanjun, which has a large number of garrisons and often suppresses bandits, and it is not that the convoy in the countryside has not been attacked. Not only are convoys often attacked, but remote villages are often raided by groups of thieves and looting.

During the period when the governor of Hengshan County was basically preparing for war. The army may be ordered to fight at any time, and it is difficult to form an encirclement with a small sortie, so how can the bandits be eliminated? The only way to truly eradicate banditry is to sweep it out on a large scale. Then the number of troops dispatched must not be small, otherwise it is too difficult to clear out the bandits' nature of fleeing if they can't beat them. Banditry is endless, which is also one of the biggest reasons for the slow development of people's livelihood in Hengshan County.

"Xiahou, I seem to see a figure?"

"Where?"

"It just flashed on the low hillside."

"Huh!?"

Xiahou is Xiahou Ying, and after the battle with the Qin army in the north of Ye County, Lu Xuan, Yongya, and Xiahou Ying were left behind, and only Cao Shen and Zhou Bo were taken to Huizhang County to participate in the battle. Lu Juan and Yongya were still in Yan County in Nan County, and belonged to the Yan County garrison dominated by Zhou Wen. And after Xiahou Ying became the chief, he was left in Qisi and became one of the local garrisons of 1,000 people.

"Are there any bandits in Zhou?"

"Isn't it? Paoze has walked more than a dozen times on this road without incident, and Shaoting and nearby villages have not heard of being attacked by bandits. ”

"Be careful in everything, and let your colleagues be vigilant."

"Why don't you stop the convoy and I'll take a team up to investigate?"

"Good!"

This escort was with Xiahou Ying as the main officer, and another chief named Chi Jian as the deputy. And the person who spoke to Xiahou Ying just now was a Wu Commander, whose name was Jia.

Xiahou Ying is the first time to be a chief official, and she has no experience, so she is naturally careful in everything. He asked A to take five people to investigate first, walked to Chi Xuan, and said, "A just saw a figure flashing in the grass, and I ordered him to take someone forward to check." ”

Chi was still wondering why the convoy in front of him stopped, and as soon as he heard Xiahou Ying's words, he immediately subconsciously looked at the grass on the left and right.

The materials they escorted this time were cloth and grain, the cloth was sent from Nangun, and the red linen cloth was heard to be cut into a new robe for the robes to change their clothes, and everyone was talking about changing the black robe into a red robe, and I heard that the Lord would hold a government opening after the victory of Huizhang County and returned to Nanling City, and it seems that there is a connection between changing the robe and establishing the shogunate.

The mass production of red robes was a matter that had been agreed upon when the Qin army went south, and it was Lu Zhe's 3,000 pro-army who first changed into red robes, and after the first battle with the Chu State, the whole army was once again put on the agenda. In order to save the construction period and aspects, Nanling purchased the cloth and sent them to the counties, so that the heads of the counties could get benefits from this matter again.

Xiahou Ying and Chi were discussing how to arrange the formation of the carriages and horses, and there were several roars in front of them, obviously they were really ambushed.

"The people, chariots and horses form a circle, and the soldiers select one person to go back to report the attack, and the rest are lined up to fight!"

The distance between their location and expectation is only fifteen miles, and they can invite reinforcements in half an hour if they run a little faster, but they don't know how many people are ambushing them, but now it is not wrong to use the carriage to arrange defenses, and they can't let Minyu and the carriage retreat and pull out the formation.

The figures of the first class six appeared at the front of the road, and they were chasing at least a hundred people behind them as they strode wildly, and among the people chasing behind them, a strong man with a full beard was constantly shouting "wow, wow", and shouting something.

"Colleagues, be optimistic about your position." Xiahou Ying felt that he was too unlucky, and the delivery of supplies led by others was not attacked, but when he led the team, more than 100 people came to ambush. However, he did not lose his square inch and led people to pounce, and the most important thing he should do now is to hold the convoy.

"Shi Chang, these people are Hengshan wild bandits, and there are many people behind them, who are running from the side to cut off our back road!" A shouted as he ran.

If you want to say why it is clear that it is a wild thief in Hengshan, it is not that Jia has any fiery eyes and knows at a glance, but that when the bearded strong man named Lian rushed out, he yelled "The righteous man of Hengshan is here, and the people who come are not coming down quickly", but he didn't know that Peng Yue's face darkened when he heard it.

Isn't it to make a name for himself to come out and rob, isn't it to tell the officers and soldiers where their nest is? Peng Yue really wanted to seal the mouths of his subordinates.

In addition to the one person who ran back for help, the nineteen soldiers and forty people suddenly became confused when they heard that there were still many people running to the rear.

"What's the panic, it's just a group of wild thieves with wooden forks, hurry up and circle the carriage and horses!" Xiahou Ying's expression is calm, but only God knows if she is really calm in her heart.

After a while, the six people of the first class ran back to the convoy to rendezvous, and the bandits who were chasing them did not rush straight up when they were about ten meters away from the convoy, but stopped and shouted at the strange guy in their hands to order Xiahouying and the others to surrender.

In this kind of narrow road, the convoy wants to be pulled into the grass on both sides if it wants to circle around, and in addition to the ground of the road is quite tight, the surrounding land is basically sunken by the wheels, and the defense of the circle after tossing for a while has not been made, and the convoy has signs of self-chaos.

Xiahou Ying obviously also discovered her mistake, this is a rainy south, not a northern area, and it is not easy to pull it out once the soil is soft. Fortunately, the bandits didn't know why they just shouted and didn't attack, otherwise it would have been bad.

"Hey! On the other side, the leader said that he didn't want to kill, so you should leave the convoy and flee for your lives! Lian's voice was not small, and his roar was to suppress the cries of nearly a hundred people.

At this time, Peng Yue also led people to surround the back road of the convoy, and more than 200 people were blocked one after the other, and Xia Houying could see that Xiahou Ying was sweating on his forehead under the cold swishing cool breeze.

Peng Yue was also looking at the somewhat chaotic convoy, he saw that the sergeants guarding the convoy were lined up in two teams, and those people were a little confused and also abandoned the carriage and gathered together, although the sergeant was full of nervousness, his eyes were firm and there was no sign of collapse, although the people were flustered and did not run around, in addition to looking down on the officers and soldiers who ordered indiscriminately, he admired the sergeants and the people.

"Juye Peng Yue is here, we only seek wealth and do not kill ......"

"Ugh! Opposite is Peng Zhong? ”

Halfway through Peng Yue's speech, Xiahou Ying shouted, and Xiahou Ying even shouted Peng Yue's alias, which made Peng Yue couldn't help but be stunned. (To be continued......)