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Chapter 38 Defection

The spring breeze was proud of the horseshoe disease, and tied the captive to the horse. In a good mood, he returned to Qiancun very quickly. After a journey of [-] kilometers, he returned to Qiancun in less than half a day.

Qian Village is changing every day now, and the physical fitness of the two hundred or so people in Huaxi Village is obviously much better. In addition to exercising every day, they can also help the village with something.

And the loyalty of those captured horse thieves was gradually increasing day by day, and several of them had reached the point where they could join the Chongling Army.

"Wow, wow, haha, master, so many people have been captured again!"

As soon as she arrived at the entrance of the village, Zhou Mingyu, who was exercising with the others, suddenly had a golden light in her eyes. She circled around the captives, using her investigative skills to keep detecting the gang of horse thieves.

Li Chengqian turned around and explained to Wang Shun: "Arrange these captives according to the previous arrangement, wait for the village chief to recruit them, then put these weapons into storage, take care of the horses, and carry the rest of the money to the village chief's house."

In the village chief's hall, Li Xiaomeng and his three daughters surrounded two large boxes of silver taels.

Lin Xi realized that she had underestimated the horse thief industry. A group of horse thieves had found so much money, how many horse thieves had been mobilized by the entire horse thief alliance, and how much money had been harvested?

You must know that before the Wanxian Players Alliance dispatched so many villages to encircle and suppress bandits, it took several days, and the final reward for each big village was only a thousand taels of silver.

She suddenly felt that after returning home, she could suggest to her husband to organize a siege team to find trouble with horse thieves. This kind of black and white would bring in money much faster than searching every house, and there was no psychological burden.

Li Chengqian glanced at Li Xiaomeng who was still in a daze, coughed and said, "Okay, these silver coins should be able to greatly ease the expenditure of our village. Village Chief, I suggest you arrange to purchase some weapons, grain, grass and horses. .”

Li Xiaomeng nodded. She basically obeyed Li Chengqian now. Since Li Chengqian joined her small team of village chiefs, the development of Qian Village seemed to have stepped into one big step after another.

Holding a handful of silver in his arms, Zhou Mingyu was a little curious when he heard the words: "Master, including your spoils this time, our horses and weapons have exceeded one hundred. Is it necessary to have so many?"

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "If it weren't for the limited money in the village, the more these things, the better."

He walked to the side, picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and continued: "Don't talk about the long-term, let's talk about the current situation. There are still two horse thieves in Wan County, and they are both teams of hundreds. If you want to take down these horse thieves at a minimum, We need more people."

Li Xiaomeng was a little nervous. In her impression, Qiancun was still weak, and she kept fighting those big villages like this. She didn't know if there would be any consequences.

"Brother Li, this money has been enough for us to develop the village for a long time, so there is no need to provoke them anymore, right?"

Li Chengqian looked at Li Xiaomeng who was a little hesitant and puzzled, and his tone softened a lot, "Village chief, have you provoked them before? Didn't they still send horse thieves to rob us?"

"The world has changed. If you don't take the initiative to attack and strengthen yourself, you will still be bullied sooner or later, and you will even be recruited for disaster."

After Li Chengqian found a chair and sat down, he signaled the girls not to be too nervous, and then told what he saw and heard when he went out this time, focusing on those villages that were destroyed.

"These horse thieves in front of us are simply money-losing boys, and they robbed the weak villages in our county. If we rob them, we are doing justice for the heavens."

"Soldiers in the village also need to be honed in battle. Now these gangs of horse thieves are the best targets for combat. The income is high, the enemy is not strong, and we have moral support. The combination of these factors is the best reason for us to send troops .”

Li Chengqian's tone eased a little, "Village chief, don't you want to grow the village? Right now is the best time."

"Strengthen the village?..."

Li Xiaomeng's somewhat blurred eyes suddenly became firmer, he must have lived too comfortably these few days, and almost forgot his original dream.

"Then everything will be arranged by Brother Li!"

……

After Li Xiaomeng registered the captives, more than a dozen of the more than 40 captives had a loyalty of over sixty.

Li Chengqian recruited these qualified captives into the Chongling Army. At the same time, more than 40 of the elderly and weak villagers in Huaxi Village had achieved strong muscles and bones. Li Chengqian also recruited these villagers into the Chongling Army.

Before, he planned to reopen the first battalion so that it would be more convenient to arrange for the villagers of Huaxi Village, but after thinking about it later, he gave up this plan.

The two Chongling armies of the two villages have been combined into one, which is more convenient for him to command, and he has a vague plan in his heart. Maybe after a long time, the soldiers of Huaxi Village have been with Qiancun for a long time, and they are unwilling to return to Huaxi Village. At that time, Qiancun's strength will definitely skyrocket.

After two days of preparations, the number of Chongling soldiers in Qiancun had reached 150, and the joint attack technique had been practiced decently. At this time, Li Chengqian planned to attack again and deal with the remaining two horse thieves.

……

Qian Village was exceptionally peaceful at night. Chongling troops patrolled the village alternately. Apart from the rustling of the wind and the orderly footsteps of the soldiers, there was no movement in the whole village.

At this moment, several figures from all over the village quietly appeared from their respective houses. They evaded the patrolling Chongling army in the village and quietly sneaked out of the village.

The few figures were very familiar with the movement of the patrol team in the village. They reached the gate of the village with ease, turned over the fence of the village, and then rushed out of the village at a very fast speed.

Wang Ermazi was one of the horse thieves captured last time. He also came from the same village as Qian Minghao, but what ordinary people don't know is that the village head of Mingwang Village had kindness to him.

So when he was captured, he wanted to find a chance to escape from Qian Village and return to Mingwang Village, and at the same time bring back everything that happened in Qian Village, so that the village could find a chance to avenge Qian Minghao.

However, he was slightly injured before, and he and other villagers were disrupted by the people of Qian Village, which made his plan run aground again and again.

As more and more people surrendered to Qiancun, Wang Ermazi was extremely anxious.

He recovered from his injuries in the past two days, and when he was planning to escape, Li Chengqian took people out. He couldn't help but wonder what the general who captured him before would do, so he waited patiently for another two days.

Two days later, unexpectedly, Qian Village captured another group of horse thieves, and among the horse thieves were some of his own compatriots. At this time, Wang Ermazi couldn't stay any longer.

Qian Village's surveillance of himself and others was not strict. Wang Ermazi took the time to meet with those captives. They had just surrendered to Qian Village, and their loyalty was not very high. Moreover, they were treated well in Mingwang Village before. The future of Qiancun was still unknown, so they hit it off and planned the defection.

Escaping was much easier than expected. When they converged on the official road outside the village, Wang Ermazi counted the number of people. The dozen or so people who had conspired before were all there, and he felt a lot relieved.

The few people didn't dare to stay longer, and after identifying the direction, they planned to flee in the direction of Xiling County in the southeast overnight.

Li Chengqian led twenty or thirty Chongling troops, standing quietly on a small hill not far away.

When he returned to Qian Village, he found that many horse thieves had already been incorporated into the Chongling Army, indicating that their loyalty had reached a qualified level.

At that time, he became curious about the remaining horse thieves, and took a moment to use the Heaven's Secret Technique on the remaining captives, and found that there were a few captives whose loyalty was still in single digits, so he couldn't help being very curious.

He didn't alarm these captives. This group of captives had such low loyalty that they would always become a disaster for the village, but he had no evidence to prove their loyalty. Even if Li Xiaomeng and others knew about it, the other villagers didn't.

In order not to cause riots in the village, he asked Wang Shun to arrange a few smart guys to watch them secretly.

Sure enough, something went wrong with this monitoring. After I came back, a former prisoner named Wang Ermazi was secretly walking around the streets to visit other prisoners. This was definitely to cause trouble.

Just when Li Chengqian was hesitating whether to arrest this group of people directly with the momentum of thunder, this group of people was about to run away today!
Li Chengqian was actually relieved at the moment. At least this group of people did not have any impact on the village, and they also ran away secretly, obviously not wanting others to find out.

Although it didn't cause any damage to the village, Li Chengqian didn't plan to let them go. Firstly, Qiancun's strength should not be exposed, and he planned to keep a low profile on the legendary points. Second, he just happened to be able to use this group of people to experiment with chasing fugitives. Can you harvest legendary points?

"Wang Shun, let's do it. Remember, a lion fights a rabbit with all his strength!"

Wang Shun's body became stronger and stronger. He straddled a big horse, nodded when he heard the words, and clasped his fists at Li Chengqian. Then he waved his hand and led the other Chongling troops down the mountain on horseback. .

All the horseshoes were tied with cotton cloth, and the sound of stepping on the soft ground was not obvious.

It wasn't until the Chung Ling Army was almost behind Wang Ermazi and the others that Wang Ermazi and the others reacted, but by this time it was already too late.

The Chung Ling Army rode on horseback and quickly surrounded the fleeing villagers.

Wang Ermazi looked at the Chongling army riding tall horses and holding knives, his eyes were cloudy and uncertain. He probably couldn't fight hard, and wondered if he would have a chance to break through.

"Bang bang bang..."

While Wang Ermazi was still hesitating, the villagers around him fell to their knees and begged for mercy.

Wang Ermazi was startled, a little confused, there was no chance...

When Li Chengqian arrived, the fleeing villagers knelt on the ground. Only Wang Ermazi stood there blankly. He carefully identified this person and found out that this person should be the leader who planned the escape.

"Is it because we, Qian Village, are not entertaining you well? Or is someone bullying you? Why do you want to run away?"

The kneeling villagers looked at each other, and then Qiqi turned his attention to Wang Ermazi.

Wang Ermazi felt the eager eyes around him, and his heart sank. Looking at the young and handsome Li Chengqian in front of him, he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "General, I planned this escape. General, please don't blame others."

After a while, he continued: "Qian Village is actually pretty good. The village chief is kind, and the other villagers didn't discriminate against us. It's just that I have been favored by others. After I was captured, I always wanted to escape back to my village."

Li Chengqian was startled, is this still a loving and righteous villager?What a pity, what a pity, being affectionate to other villages is being unrighteous to us.

"Wang Shun, if you tie up these people, the leader will be treated as a deserter, as for the others."

Li Chengqian thought for a while, and then looked at the expressions of the remaining people who yearned for numbness, and couldn't help but soften in his heart.
"Others, look at it, let the village chief send it down tomorrow."

"Yes!"

Wang Shun cupped his fists, turned around and waved his hand, the Chongling army tied up several people like a hungry tiger.

(End of this chapter)