Zhou Lang thought that he usually studied in the mountains with his friends, and he was so leisurely, elegant and interesting. Now, because of the commotion of the common people from poor families, he had to help the family deal with the troublesome common affairs, and also had to chase down the bandits who stole the food.

, vulgar and boring, he couldn’t help but nodded and said:

"What Dad said is right, we just need to beat him hard, otherwise the common people from poor families will lead some soldiers like chickens and dogs to make trouble on our territory, which will be really annoying. It's best this time

Destroy the king's thief, so that all the rebels in the world will know that our noble clan is not easy to mess with, and they will not dare to offend our noble clan from now on."

After hearing this, Zhou Yushi Zhongcheng's brother knew that the world was in chaos and that the world should really know how powerful the noble clan was. He nodded immediately, discussed with Zhou Yushi Zhongcheng for a while, and then personally led people to find Li Yongjia.

Xiao Yao personally led people to hide some of the food, and ordered those who were not involved in the military training to grow vegetables, go up the mountain to collect firewood, and go fishing in the river. Then he summoned several officers and said:

"I need to go out for something. You insist on training every day. Don't be lazy. On the 23rd, you and your men will disguise themselves as a cargo ship escorting goods. You will hide clothes and weapons in the cargo hold that will make people aware of your identity. Then

Let’s take a boat up the river together and get off the boat at the ancient ferry of Chunjiang River and wait for me.”

A few people were very excited when they heard this, and asked in a low voice: "General, are we going to fight that old thief Wang Shoujiang?"

When Xiao Yao heard this greeting, he was startled and then asked: "Why do you call me general?"

Kasho Ogoro said with a smile:

"The soldiers under Xu Jingqian said that day, now that the world is in chaos, everyone who has soldiers in his hands is called a general. A general comes from a noble family and has a noble status. It is not appropriate for us to call young ladies or girls, but it is better to call us by our names.

It shouldn’t be. In addition, the general is smart and brave, and has saved the lives of many of us, so he should be called the general.”

Several other Jia Zheng echoed incessantly, looking at Xiao Yao with gratitude and admiration.

Although Xiao Yao is a member of the female class, she is so powerful that she led them, who usually only know how to farm and fish, to fight off Wang Shoujiang and save their lives. She also led them to move food from their hometown to save the whole family.

starving.

If such a woman Jiao'e cannot be a general, others will be even less qualified.

Xiao Yao regarded it as an affirmation of himself, and immediately smiled and said: "You can scream if you like. Do you remember everything I said before?"

Wang Wulang and others said in unison: "Remember!"

Xiao Yao then left Yujiang behind, disguised himself, went to the dock to find a merchant ship, and went up the river.

At this moment, Wang Shoujiang is stationed outside the city of Anxian County where the Xiao family is located. He does not enter the city because he does not dare to offend the remaining aristocratic families - the defeated aristocratic families who only have the name of the aristocratic family and no backers all ran away, and the remaining aristocratic families,

They are all related to the super aristocratic family, and he cannot afford to offend them.

Although he had always wanted to destroy Wangjia Village where Xiao Yao was located, Wang Shoujiang knew the importance and repeatedly suppressed the matter, giving priority to sending people to prepare food and increase troops.

He had prepared some food and grass, but increasing his troops was a problem.

Ordinary people's lives are tight, but rather than fighting with him, they prefer to become tenant farmers of aristocratic families, so that they don't have to fight and are protected by the aristocratic family.

As for the tenant farmers who ran away from the aristocratic families, they were now ownerless and were indeed suitable to join his army. However, the aristocratic families who still stayed in An County gave him a clear message that those tenant farmers could not move.

Wang Shoujiang did not dare to offend these aristocratic families, so he felt aggrieved and could only order people to recruit young men further away.

He can't attract many, because the ordinary people and tenant farmers in An County are unwilling to follow him. No matter how far away, it is the sphere of influence of others. He currently does not have enough troops and food, and he does not dare to fight another battle.

Xiao Yao came to Anxian and stayed in the city for two days. After getting to know the situation in the city, he wandered around again, intending to become more familiar with the environment here, so that when a fight breaks out, he could easily lead his men in and out.

As soon as he reached the woods in the northeast corner outside the city, he saw Zhuang Lei being chased by two men.

After the medicine fell down and the pursuers rescued Zhuang Lei, Xiao Yao was puzzled: "Weren't you in the Xiao family's village? How could you be hunted down?"

Zhuang Lei, who was originally tensed up like a wild beast on alert, took a deep breath when he saw Xiao Yao, but the next moment, he immediately knelt down and said, "Please save us, girl, and save the people on Zhuangzi."

Since she can help everyone get food, she must also have a way to save them.

Xiao Yao asked him to get up, and then asked: "Tell me first, what is going on? Could it be that someone leaked the fact that you have food?"

She took Zhuang Lei and the villagers to steal a lot of grain, and told them not to let anyone know that they had grain in their hands. In addition, Zhuang Lei was cautious, so the possibility of being discovered and robbed was low, but it was not impossible.

, after all, Master Zhuangzi has many people, and if one person accidentally let it slip, it is no secret.

Before she left, she had thought of this possibility, so she specially warned her. Unexpectedly, she still failed to guard against it, but human nature has always been like this, so it is not surprising.

After hearing this, Zhuang Lei had a look of resentment on his face, nodded, and whispered the whole story to Xiao Yao one by one - to sum up, some people couldn't bear their children to be so hungry that they couldn't sleep, so they secretly took more from their own share.

Some of them went back to make sure their children had enough to eat. Even though they had been warned a thousand times, the children couldn't help but say that they were full, and eventually they were discovered.

Someone discovered that this matter spread quietly, and the nearby bandits knew about it and brought people to rob them. Zhuang Lei knew the news, distributed the food, and asked the villagers to run away. He took some young people to lure away the bandits, hoping to let the villagers

People can run farther.

In the process of escaping, he was separated from the young people in the village. Although he wanted to escape from An County, there were bandits at every intersection, so he kept wandering around An County. He finally escaped today, but he didn't go far.

He was chased by two bandits.

Just when he thought there was no way to survive this time, he was rescued by Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao sighed: "You should have been more careful." After saying this, he knew that what happened had happened and that nothing he could say would help, so he asked again, "Where did the others go?"

Zhuang Lei said hurriedly: "I fled to the mountains in the north. I don't know if there are any pursuers. If there are, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for too long." At the end of the sentence, his face was filled with sadness and worry.

His parents, wife and children are all there, and I don’t know what is going on now.

Xiao Yao pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "I'll change your appearance. You go find the people in the village who separated from you earlier. I'll go find the people and go to the mountains to the north. Oh, by the way, give me a certificate

Come on, so as not to be misunderstood as a bad person if you find him."

Zhuang Lei was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Xiao Yao and said: "No need for proof. Some of the people who went with you to move food are also there, so I will naturally believe you. In addition, the people who were separated from me may have gone to Wang Shoujiang."

Yes, we agreed at the time that if we couldn't escape, we would surrender to Wang Shoujiang, and we would come back to take revenge when we become a different person in the future."

Xiao Yao raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Is there anyone who has defected to Wang Shoujiang? You go find him quietly and let them find out the arrangements of Wang Shoujiang's army. Then tell me later. Remember, God knows this and you know it and I know it."

You know it, and you are not allowed to tell anyone else."

Zhuang Lei said sternly: "Don't worry, my lady, I have suffered the loss of not keeping secrets, and I will never leak them again."

Xiao Yao was curious: "Aren't you curious about what I want to do?"

Zhuang Lei smiled bitterly and said: "Of course I'm curious. But since it's the girl's order, it's natural and the girl's truth, I'll just listen to you."

After hearing this, Xiao Yao took Zhuang Lei aside, took out the bottles and jars in the bag and gave them to Zhuang Lei as a disguise, and then took him to an inn on the roadside for dinner before leaving.

After separating from Zhuang Lei, Xiao Yao went to the dock to take a boat back south to Wangjiacun. He took the people he had selected with him, pretended to be escorting a delivery ship and went up the river to find the people in the mountains north of Zhuangzi.

After searching for two full days, Xiao Yao saw traces of someone moving on the ground and called out the name of the person who had stolen food with her before.

Zhuang Erlang and others, like Zhuang Lei, were very convinced of Xiao Yao. When they saw her, their eyes turned red, and they knelt down and begged Xiao Yao to save them.

Xiao Yao said softly: "Take me first to see how many people there are and what the situation is now. Then I will consider how to get down the mountain."

Zhuang Erlang nodded hurriedly, because Xiao Yao went to where the villagers were hiding.

Because there was food, the people in the village did not starve. However, they did not know the condition of their relatives and were afraid of the pursuers. Everyone was worried and frightened, and looked haggard. One or two fell ill because of this.

Seeing that the situation was not serious, Xiao Yao stayed that night and discussed the route down the mountain with Wang Wulang and others. Early the next morning, he escorted more than 200 people down the mountain together.

After going down the mountain, Xiao Yao asked Wang Wulang to take the men in charge of him to sail the boat, while he took the other commanders and men to the river, went south along the river, and found a place where it was easy to anchor and take the boat. Once the ship came,

Then we took a boat and went straight to Wangjiacun.

Now everyone's eyes were on Wang Shoujiang and the defeated Xu Jingqian, so Xiao Yao successfully brought them to Wangjiacun.

Together with Yu Jiang and Aunt Wang, Xiao Yao settled down the two hundred people, and then Xiao Yao took the people and took the boat straight to An County again to prepare for the upcoming battle.

At this time, Wang Shoujiang felt that food and grass could last for a while, but people were still in short supply, so he avoided targeting Xiao Yao and the people he brought with him.

If he sends troops to attack Wangjia Village and force Xiao Yao to surrender, then the people in Wangjia Village will become his prisoners. He will add them to his command. Not to mention the increase in strength, he will at least have one or two hundred more combat capabilities.

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In addition, there are other villages along the river.

The more Wang Shoujiang thought about it, the more he realized that there were many benefits to doing this, so he ordered his personal guards to summon the deputy general and captain to come over and prepare to discuss the matter.

However, when someone called him, before he could say anything, the scouts quickly came to report that Li Yongjia was leading an army to attack and would arrive in An County soon.

Wang Shoujiang's expression suddenly changed: "This old man, how dare he! Has he lost his mind?" After careful questioning, he found that the scout had indeed seen Li Yongjia leading the army coming, and it was not hearsay, so he immediately put down the attack on Xiao Yao.

Then he discussed with the deputy general and others how to repel Li Yongjia.

Captain Zhang said: "We have more troops than Li Yongjia, and we have enough food and grass for the time being. We are waiting in An County and are not tired from the long journey. On the contrary, Li Yongjia's army is rushing and exhausted. By then we will be waiting for work and we will be able to hit Li Yongjia hard!"

Duwei Yang said: "Three thousand Yue Jia can swallow up Wu. We told the soldiers that there was insufficient food and grass, and this was a last-ditch battle. As a result, morale increased greatly, and coupled with the leisurely waiting for work, Li Yongjia was seriously injured."

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The deputy general nodded and expressed his opinion: "Since Li Yongjia and Xu Jingqian are good friends, their personalities are naturally similar. Xu Jingqian saw the people's indecisiveness and was ultimately defeated. This must be the same for Li Yongjia. It's better, we still think

The old method is to force Li Yongjia to dare not attack, and we will send people to outflank them and destroy them?"

Wang Shoujiang said with a smile: "You are right. Even if Li Yongjia's temperament is not like that of Xu Jingqian, there will be no harm in doing this. If we find out that Li Yongjia and Xu Jingqian have the same temperament, we will definitely win this battle."

On the afternoon of the second day, Li Yongjia's army approached An County, ten miles away from Wang Shoujiang's army, and they were in a confrontation.

At Shen Shizheng, Li Yongjia's army began to tentatively attack.

However, as soon as the army approached Wang Shoujiang's army, they saw many civilians in front of Wang Shoujiang's army on the opposite side.

Xu Jingqian looked carefully and saw that they were all old, weak, women and children. He was furious and said to Li Yongjia: "Brother, on that day, Wang Shoujiang also used such despicable tricks. This thief is extremely vicious and regards human life as nothing. We must kill him."

He eliminates harm for the people!"

Li Yongjia also saw it, his face was gloomy, but he still asked Xu Jingqian to calm down and whispered: "Act as planned."
To be continued...