"Lao Peng, what's going on? Breaking down the door so early in the morning?"
Mr. Zhu put on a white underwear and came out of the room with his eyebrows rubbed.
He drank the most last night, and now his head not only hurts, but he is also a little confused.
"We'll talk about it after County Lieutenant Zhao comes out."
As soon as Mr. Peng finished speaking, County Lieutenant Zhao came out of the next room.
Different from Mr. Zhu's casualness, County Lieutenant Zhao was already neatly dressed when he came out.
Her hair was also combed meticulously.
"What's wrong?"
County Lieutenant Zhao frowned and asked.
The frown was not because he was dissatisfied with Mr. Peng, but because he knew that Mr. Peng would not knock on the door early in the morning if there was nothing extremely important.
"I just got the news that Jin Feng sent people to attack Heishuigou, Hutoushan and Shuanghump..."
Mr. Peng quickly recounted the news brought by Mr. Feng.
"Is Jin Feng crazy? There are only a few of him, but he actually started war on three of our families at the same time?"
Master Zhu became angry when he heard this: "Sir, we have always given in and he has been used to it. Let's take advantage of this opportunity and join forces from the three families to massacre Xihewan directly."
In recent years, there has been a lot of internal fighting among several groups of big bandits, sometimes fighting for territory to the point of losing their minds.
But now a common enemy appeared, and they decided to join forces without hesitation.
"Can you use your brain when you talk?"
County Lieutenant Zhao glared at Mr. Zhu irritably: "Lao Peng just said that our people were blocked by Jin Feng's people! What did you use to massacre Xihewan? With your mouth?"
"I have investigated and found that the total number of veterans and female soldiers in Xihewan is only a few hundred, and half of them have gone to Guangyuan to work as escorts. Jin Feng is currently struggling to make up two to three hundred people."
Mr. Zhu was unconvinced and said: "The total number of bandits in our three families exceeds 2,000. Why does he block us?"
"Just because he is Jin Feng!"
County Lieutenant Zhao said: "Have you forgotten how Iron Can Mountain disappeared? At that time, Jin Feng only had a few dozen men in his hands, but he still destroyed Iron Can Mountain!"
"That's when the idiot from Tiegongshan fell into Jin Feng's trick and plunged into the big hole dug by Jin Feng. But this time it's different. Sir, your black ditch, Lao Peng's double hump, my Hutou Mountain
, which place is not easy to defend but difficult to attack? It is impossible to defeat it without dozens of times the number of troops!"
Lao Zhu said confidently.
"This is the fatal thing. Bandits choose their lair. They all want to find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, such a place also has a fatal flaw. As long as the road down the mountain is blocked, no matter how many people are in the mountain, they will not be able to get down.
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County Lieutenant Zhao said: "Jin Feng doesn't have to attack the mountain at all. He only needs to block the road down the mountain. If time goes by, the bandits will starve to death in the mountain!"
"Then let's see who can survive who!" Lao Zhu said: "I don't know where you are. Anyway, my Hutou Mountain has plenty of food. The bandits on the mountain can eat it for a year."
In fact, this is also a situation that often occurs in wars in the cold weapon era.
The defenders built strong walls and clear the fields, and held the city firmly, while the attackers besieged the city and refused to give an inch.
Generally speaking, unless there is a huge disparity in military strength, no one can do anything about the other, it just depends on who can hold out longer.
In his previous life, when Jin Feng was studying history, he had seen that for a war fortress that a certain military strategist must fight for, the attackers and defenders faced off for three years. In the end, the defenders ate up all the food supplies and had no choice but to go out and fight the enemy to the death.
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But at this time, the soldiers had been hungry for three years and had lost their strength and fighting spirit. However, the attacking party could obtain supplies at any time and wait for work. The result of the battle can be imagined.
"you……"
County Lieutenant Zhao sighed and did not want to talk to Master Zhu anymore.
"Lao Zhu, you think too simply. Jin Feng went to the battlefield with Lord Qing and brought back many heavy crossbows. As long as he sends a few people to set up a few crossbows at the intersection, the mountain can be sealed!"
Mr. Peng explained: "With Jin Feng's financial resources, it is not easy to feed a few people. A little leakage from the cracks of your fingers is enough to feed several people for a lifetime. How can we survive him?"
The reason why a wealthy gentry became a wealthy gentry was because the family had many local clansmen and no one dared to offend them, and they gradually became the overlords of the whole country.
Some of the top gentry families in Dakang have been passed down for longer than the Dakang dynasty.
After all, no matter who is the emperor, someone needs to manage the people at the grassroots level.
And the squire and wealthy family are the best candidates.
Although the Zhu family and the Peng family do not have such a long history, they have been passed down for nearly two hundred years. You can imagine how many people there are in the family.
The tribesmen are not only their fists in the countryside, but also their burden.
Most of the annual grain obtained from bandits every year is distributed to the tribesmen, so the tribesmen will support him.
Once he loses this food, he will soon lose the support of his tribe.
Mr. Zhu is not a fool. He just drank too much last night and his mind is still a little unclear. But now that Lao Peng reminded him, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Then...what should we do?"
Mr. Zhu grabbed County Lieutenant Zhao's sleeve: "Sir, you are the County Lieutenant, you can definitely stop Jin Feng..."
"Jin Feng is a noble man. He wants to fight bandits. Who can say no?"
County Lieutenant Zhao said irritably: "Okay, I'll go back and find out what happened!"
After saying that, he left in a hurry.
"Lao Peng, do you think Mr. Zhao doesn't care about us?"
Mr. Zhu asked with a grimace.
"Probably not. We are all in the same boat now, and Mr. Zhao will not deal with Jin Feng alone and let us take advantage of it. He should really go back to understand the situation."
Master Peng shook his head and said,
"Lao Peng, you said that we have no enmity with Jin Feng. He makes his fortune and we live our lives. Isn't it good for everyone to live in peace and harmony? Why does he insist on holding on to us?"
Mr. Zhu rubbed his eyebrows and said.
"Master Zhao said he was a madman, but now I understand that he is really a madman!"
"Who would dare to provoke thousands of people with dozens of people if he wasn't a madman?"
Mr. Zhu sighed: "Lao Peng, I have to go back quickly. If you have any news here, remember to send someone to tell me."
After a while, the two also took a carriage and returned to their respective sites.
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A few days ago, the bandit suppression team in Xihewan went around suppressing bandits and passed by many villages. Many people knew about this and were paying attention.
In fact, ordinary people have no hatred towards the bandits who block the roads, because ordinary people seldom go out, and even if they do, the bandits don't look down on the few coins in their arms.
What the common people hate the most is the big bandits who collect the annual grain.
Knowing that the Xihewan Bandit Suppression Team was suppressing bandits everywhere, the people looked forward to when Jin Feng would take action against the big bandits.
Then, passing merchants and hunters spread the news that the three bandits were besieging Xihewan.
For the people, this news was even more joyful than the Chinese New Year. They rushed to tell each other and only had to beat gongs and drums to celebrate.
One word spread to ten, and ten spread to hundreds. In just five days, the news spread almost throughout Jinchuan County.