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Not long after the red lady returned to the mouth of the valley, Yan Yuanshan and Wen You came over with a convoy and rebel infantry.

"Uncle Yan, you bring fifty people to deliver a cart of corn and a cart of weapons into the valley first. Then stay behind the valley entrance and wait for the refugee leader Guo Dajiang to hand over."

Yan Yuanshan nodded and immediately led the people to follow the red lady's instructions.

The Red Lady directed Wen You and others to build a simple temporary defense at the valley entrance using the carts transporting grain, fences, sheds and other things at the valley entrance.

More than two miles away.

Liu Sheng saw this scene with his binoculars, and his heart moved slightly. He thought to himself: It seems that this red lady is not planning to coerce the refugees to fight, or maybe after understanding the situation in the valley, she knows that coercing the refugees will not defeat the official army.

However, even if Lady Hong conducts defensive operations in a terrain conducive to defense like Taniguchi, it will not be easy for her to fight against Liu Xicai's two to three hundred men with more than three hundred bandits.

If the battle drags on for too long, there might be officers and soldiers from King Chu City coming to support.

The only chance for Red Lady's team to escape now is to give most of the food to the refugees in the valley, and then use carts, mules and horses to speed away.

In this way, Liu Xicai might first pacify the refugees and regain the food in order to save food, and then pursue the Red Lady's team.

Of course, in this case, if the refugees first fight for food and are then suppressed by officers and soldiers, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties...

After the red lady directed everyone to build temporary defenses, she saw smoke rising from the valley entrance and the officers and soldiers were still more than a mile away from the valley entrance, so she rode into the valley.

Within a few dozen steps of entering the valley entrance, Lady Hong saw a crowd of heads more than a hundred steps away. It was estimated that one or two thousand people were gathering here.

Yan Yuanshan led dozens of rebel infantry to guard the grain truck.

Guo Dajiang led more than a hundred young refugees, holding various "weapons" in hand, to guard the narrow road ahead.

At this time, Guo Dajiang was standing on an empty grain truck and preaching loudly——

"...There are nearly a hundred carts of food outside the valley. As long as we defeat the army, not only will everyone be able to eat, but they won't have to be trapped in this valley and starve to death!"

As for now, I know everyone is hungry, but the food cannot be distributed directly to you to eat raw, otherwise many people will choke to death.

Porridge is already being cooked here. As long as everyone doesn’t mess around and don’t rush, I guarantee that everyone in the back will be able to eat porridge.

Of course, the prerequisite is to defeat the officers and soldiers outside the valley - there are not many officers and soldiers, only more than two hundred.

Now, those young men who still have some strength and are willing to fight with the army should come over and eat porridge first! "

In the past few days, Guo Dajiang and others took possession of the noodles sent by the Red Lady and used them for two purposes as instructed.

The first was to distribute them to trustworthy young men, allowing these young men to recover most of their strength in the past few days - the more than a hundred people who were guarding the passage with weapons at this time.

Second, Guo Dajiang and a dozen other people who had a good reputation and a certain prestige in the Refugee Valley secretly used bread and well water to save those who were about to starve to death.

This approach has made Guo Dajiang and more than a dozen people better known in the past few days, and their prestige has been further expanded.

At this time, these dozen people were also standing next to Guo Dajiang.

Coupled with the more than 100 young refugees carrying "weapons" and the 50 people brought by Yan Yuanshan, it has a certain deterrent effect on these hungry refugees who have little strength.

Therefore, although the refugees were a little commotion after seeing the grain truck and smelling the aroma of cooking porridge, many people remembered the kindness of Guo Dajiang and others and took into account their prestige and did not rush over to rob them.

Just still subconsciously approaching the place where the porridge is cooked.

It wasn't until it was about to touch the young and strong spears of the refugees in the front row that it was too late to stop.

Then a man walked out of the crowd and came to Guo Dajiang and said: "I want to eat, and I am willing to fight against the army!"

Guo Dajiang smiled and nodded, "Okay! Let's go to the grain truck!"

"I'm also willing to beat the dog officers and soldiers!"

Another man came to sign up.

In this way, more and more refugees came to Guo Dajiang to express their willingness to fight against the army.

Yan Yuanshan was behind, directing the women to serve porridge to the young men who came over.

Some young people were worried that the porridge cooked here was just plain porridge with several grains of rice. When they came over to take a look, they discovered that it was sticky millet porridge that wouldn’t be poured out even if you inserted chopsticks!

Although the porridge was freshly cooked, the women added some cold well water, so the young refugees could eat it in their own bowls.

When I ate it, I found that it still tasted salty, but it had added salt!

So the food tasted more delicious.

Seeing this scene, the red lady finally breathed a sigh of relief.

What she was most afraid of was that the refugees in the valley would lose control after seeing the food.

Fortunately, her hard work over the past few nights worked, and there was no chaotic situation where refugees were snatching food.

She then said to Yan Yuanshan: "Uncle Yan, officers and soldiers, we are not far from the entrance of the valley. Once these refugees are young and strong, we will immediately distribute weapons to them and bring them out to help guard the entrance of the valley."

Yan Yuanshan nodded, "I understand."

The red lady took another look at the young refugees who were devouring millet porridge, and then beat the horses out of the valley.

She knew very well that even if these young refugees ate a bowl of millet porridge, they would be able to regain at least half of their strength.

More people may only be able to recover 20 to 30% of their strength.

If such a person uses farm tools as weapons to fight against the army, he will definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

But even if a few hundred young men died, it would still be better than two or three thousand refugees in the valley slowly starving to death.

As long as the official army is defeated, she will do her best to keep the refugees in the valley alive, especially the young and strong family members of the refugees who died in the war.

When Lady Hong came to the mouth of the valley, she saw that the army had arrived more than a hundred steps away, but they did not attack immediately.

She hurriedly looked towards the hills next to her.

Fortunately, Yang Heqing has returned with his people.

Although a few people were injured, their hands were not damaged.

She then shouted: "Second brother Yang, lead the people to guard the hill on the left. We can't let the officers and soldiers attack from the mouth of the valley!"

"I understand!"

Yang Heqing responded and sent a dozen elite men down to listen to the Red Lady's command.

Lady Hong also dispatched thirty rebel infantry to the hill on the left to listen to Yang Heqing's command.

She took a dozen elites and thirty rebel infantry up to the hill on the right side of the valley entrance.

Wen You took the remaining more than 100 people and used temporary fortifications to guard the entrance of the valley.

More than a hundred steps away, Liu Xicai looked at it for a while and couldn't help frowning and scolding his mother.

"Damn, this red lady really has some skills. She actually knows how to arrange troops."

The terrain of this valley is not dangerous, and the slope is not steep, so Liu Xicai had just prepared to dispatch men to attack from the hills on both sides to the entrance of the valley. Although he was born in the wild, he also knew that it was better to attack low places.

Unexpectedly, Lady Hong, a female bandit who had only been righteous for half a year, also understood this and assigned people to stand on the hills on both sides of the valley entrance.

After watching for a while, Liu Xicai smiled.

He pointed at the people at the fence at the entrance of the valley and behind the cart, and said loudly: "Did you see the faces of those people? They are obviously nervous and scared. What does that mean? It means they must all be weak soldiers among the bandits!"

Now follow my orders, the first team, the second team, and the third team, go straight to the valley entrance and attack fiercely. Behead one level and get a reward of ten taels of silver!

The fourth and fifth teams are ready. Once the bandits on the hills on both sides come down to support me, they will immediately rush up the hills for me! "

"Order!"

Although most of these officers and soldiers were once righteous bandits, after surrendering to the government with Liu Xicai, they had killed countless rebels and bandits in the past two or three years, which gave them a certain psychological advantage.

Although temporary defenses were built at Taniguchi and guarded by more than a hundred bandit infantry, they were not cowed at all.

Three teams of soldiers (150 people) received the military order, shouted, and rushed over like wolves and tigers!

Each team under Liu Xicai has swordsmen, archers, and spearmen, and the ratio is not fixed. It all depends on the preference of the captain of each team.

In the end, it's still the same thing as bandits.

There was no one to teach him, and Liu Xicai was not eager to learn. If he actually formed a team of swordsmen, spearmen, and archers, he would not be able to command well, and his subordinates would not be able to demonstrate their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, when the officers and soldiers rushed forward at this time, they also fought like bandits.

The archers fired their arrows at a distance of twenty or thirty steps. The swordsmen rushed over and were ready to climb over the carts and fences, while the spearmen followed and waited for opportunities to stab them randomly.

At first glance, it looks like a simple mandarin duck formation, but in fact it has no rules!

On Wen You's side, many simple wooden shields were prepared, which blocked many arrows.

But when the official sword players climbed over the carts and fences, they had to stand out from under their shields to stop them.

As for the archers and spearmen working with the sword players to kill the enemy while blocking the enemy's bows and arrows - an operation that even the officers and soldiers in front of them cannot do, how could they do it?

Both sides played disorganized.

But as Liu Xicai said, these people led by Wen You were indeed weak soldiers. Their psychological quality and individual combat skills were not as good as those of the army soldiers. This random fight soon caused casualties.

And the number of casualties increased rapidly - most of them were shot by arrows, not fatal, or even seriously injured, but they lost their combat effectiveness.

In just ten breaths of time, several fierce military sword players were able to climb over the cart and the fence!

Thanks to [There is a Green Onion] for the 500 starting coin reward!