Liu Xin and Zhao Yun led hundreds of soldiers to kill them on the cliff. After they gathered together, they found that only three of them were slightly injured. The bandits killed more than 120 people and captured more than 400 people. The remaining people ran down the mountain and were blocked by Huang Xu's troops.

They retreated, but they all knelt down and begged for mercy!

It is said that the soil and water support the people, and the characters of the people in different places are very different. When the guards behind Liu Xin saw these bandits looking like this, they looked down on them. In Youzhou, the refugees would choose to fight first, and the other party was their number.

Nearly ten times.

Liu Xin and Zhao Yun took the captives down the mountain and inspected more than 1,600 captive bandits. Among them, three were seriously injured and 82 were slightly injured. Most of them were injured by falling due to crowding when going down the mountain.

He asked a personal guard to tell Cheng Yu that the large army should continue to move forward. The captives were still trembling with fear when they saw Liu Xin's personal guard cavalry. Liu Xin handed all the prisoners to Cheng Yu and asked him to escort the prisoners on their carts. For a time, they were marching faster.

Quite a few.

In the afternoon, we came to [Changnan Lake]. This [Changnan Lake] can be said to be very famous in Shu County, because it is surrounded by bandit dens, and it can be said to be a paradise for bandits.

There are many rivers and lakes in the northwest of Changnan Lake. When the officers and soldiers attack here, the bandits and bandits will all retreat to the northwest of Changnan Lake. The officers and soldiers dare not pursue them too deep and there is nothing they can do against them.

[Changnan Lake] is surrounded by plains, and you can occasionally see sparse cultivated fields here. This area covers hundreds of thousands of acres at least, so people often flee here when they can't survive.

Anyone who escapes here will inevitably be oppressed by bandits and water bandits, so everyone calls this lake [Changnan Lake], which means that coming here is the beginning of suffering. It will be difficult for you to be good, and the bandits here

The oppression is much more severe than that of the government.

There was a group of thieves in the distance, looking at the large army behind Liu Xin from a distance, as if they were considering whether to attack them. Zhao Yun led the cavalry to chase them, but they did not know to leave within 200 steps of them. As a result,

Zhao Yun showed no mercy and led his cavalry in a charge. In less than two quarters of an hour, he dispersed more than 2,000 bandits, killed more than 500 enemy troops, and captured more than 700 people.

Legend has it that [Changnan Lake] has hundreds of bandit dens in the west, and the number of bandits exceeds 100,000. In the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, when Liu Bei captured Chengdu, he also launched multiple campaigns against the bandits here, but Liu Xin did not care about the bandits here at all.

worry.

The next day, the bandits came more and more, and half of the bandits did not dare to go against the officers and soldiers. One reason was that their weapons and equipment were far inferior to those of the officers and soldiers, and the other reason was that they did not want to offend the officers and soldiers. Everyone was in peace and exploited together.

No matter how good the life of the people is, fighting against each other will only lead to losses for both sides.

At noon, Liu Xin arrived at the destination of his trip. This is a small basin ten miles east of Changnan Lake. It has abundant water and grass and a flat terrain. There are mountains as a barrier in the south. There are only rugged mountain roads in the east and a rugged mountain road in the west.

It is a large river connected to [Changnan Lake], and there is only a flat river in the north. If bandits in the [Changnan Lake] area want to attack here, they can basically only attack from the north.

This is the place Liu Xin selected after discussing with Cheng Yu, Huang Xu and others. The basin area is about 40,000 acres, and the reclaimed wasteland can feed at least tens of thousands of people.

As long as Liu Xin establishes a foothold here, he can slowly develop all the plains on the east side of [Changnan Lake], clear out all the bandits around [Changnan Lake], and then slowly wipe out all the bandits in the southern part of Linqiong County. This area

The area was enough for him to establish a large county.

Arriving at the south side of the basin, Liu Xin first sent a hundred guardsmen to establish the best defensive point on the mountain road. This would be a key point for them in the future.

Zhao Yun led the cavalry to patrol the basin area and told Liu Xin that he found many bandits here. They made a living by cultivating fields and grazing animals. In other words, they were a group of bandits.

Liu Xin asked Zhao Yun to confiscate all the livestock, and then brought the bandits to him. As a result, he found that these bandits were all thin and looked at him with dull eyes. There were only about 200 of them, and they had obviously been there all the time.

Life is not easy living among this group of gangsters.

After all these people were included in the captive team, Liu Xin and the craftsmen he led inspected the terrain, and then began to take out tools and let the prisoners make adobe bricks. To transport the green bricks from the brick kilns outside Chengdu County, at least Liu Xin's second

A group of people arrived, and now he needed a simple urn city that could provide a safe place for more than 6,000 of them to settle down.

Early the next morning, everything was ready and the construction plan was finalized. Wu Jiang took 1,000 craftsmen and two thousand captives to make adobe bricks. The tools for making adobe bricks were very simple and they brought many.

It's just that it generally takes a long time to dry mud bricks, at least a week.

Huang Xu led five hundred servants. In the past, the craftsmen were building the foundation of the Wengcheng. This time they planned to build a small Wengcheng with a diameter of 50 feet. After it was completed, it could accommodate about 3,000 people. It should be able to resist some ordinary bandits.

Cheng Yu was responsible for the logistics arrangements for all personnel. He asked some generals to take the captives to the back mountains to cut firewood and let the women among the common people cook. At the same time, at Liu Xin's request, he built chicken coops and [incubation rooms] and [chick-rearing rooms].

】, when the second batch of people arrives, even if the Wengcheng cannot be accommodated, the chicken coop will have to be built.

"Zilong, what's the situation around here?" Liu Xin stepped forward and asked when he saw that Zhao Yun had brought 180 cavalry, 200 guards, and 500 servants to escort hundreds of prisoners back.

"Lord, I have almost completely explored this area. Sixty miles east of here is almost the official road to Jianwei County. Therefore, Linqiong County sends troops to clear out this area every year, especially the basin we are in.

Linqiong County also tried to build a township here, but it failed because it was often harassed by bandits. What we need to worry about is the bandits in the northwest of [Changnan Lake]. According to these prisoners, the number of bandits is

There are tens of thousands of them." Zhao Yun returned to Liu Xin and said.

It is unlikely that there are tens of thousands of bandits. Linqiong County will be in danger if the opponent is that strong. These bandits are likely to be a combination of many cottages, and they include the old, weak, sick and disabled. You must know that the scale of bandits is getting bigger and bigger

The more obvious the huge target is, the greater the risk of being wiped out.

Only the bandits like the Taishan County, Black Mountain Bandits, and Qingzhou Yellow Turbans that the officers and soldiers dare not eliminate can have tens of thousands of troops. They are no longer bandits, they are forces opposed to the imperial court. If there are many people, they have to eat, Linqiong

The bandits in the southern part of the county have not yet become powerful. What do so many people gather together in this mountain to eat?

"Zilong, you are worried about the situation of mountain bandits within a ten-mile radius. Our second group of troops will arrive in Chengdu County in another month. We need to build the framework of this urn city within one and a half months. Only with the city wall defense can we feel at ease outside the city."

The climate here is much better than that in Youzhou when it comes to cultivating land. If we can grow one season of sweet potatoes this year, our pressure will be much lighter," Liu Xin said.

It is difficult to transport grain from Xiandu County, Changli County to Shu County, and it is impossible for Liu Xin to transport all the grain to Shu County.

Each of the six large ships can only transport 10,000 shi of grain, which is less than 100,000 shi in one trip. It is too difficult to transport grain from Nanjun to Yizhou, so Liu Xin can only arrange some people to be in Nanjun first, and wait for him in Shu
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