Valley Emperor

As time passed, the remaining food in Huangzhu Mountain became less and less. In order to expand the source of food, everyone in Huangzhu Mountain, under the leadership of Liu Bagou and others, started to go up the mountain early to pick wild fruits and dig wild fruits. Wild vegetables, but also organize manual hunting and fishing.

However, the food obtained through these methods is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the thousands of people in Huangzhu Mountain.

As a last resort, everyone in Huangzhushan also began to eat less food. Except for those young adults who need to do heavy physical labor, others have started to eat less.

However, even so, everyone in Huangzhu Mountain couldn't support the autumn harvest in a month's time.

There is even a more important problem, that is, when the summer is busy, although a lot of land was reclaimed at that time, the food planted after the autumn harvest is enough for at least five hundred years to eat next year's summer harvest.

But now there are more than 500 people who have defected from Shuilongzhai, and the food that was originally enough after the autumn harvest has become insufficient again.

That is to say, even if the thousand people in Huangzhu Mountain have survived this month and supported the autumn harvest, they still do not have enough food for the period from the autumn harvest to the next summer harvest.

No matter whether it is near or far, the thousand people in Huangzhu Mountain are not enough for food!

For this reason, Liu Bagou, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren discussed and even quarreled every day, and the focus of the quarrel was whether to go out to collect grain, especially whether to attack Fengjiazhuang.

Before, Huang Xueren, who was wholeheartedly supporting the attack on Fengjiazhuang, sent a few people to sneak out of the mountain, escaped the officers and soldiers who set up cards at various intersections, and went to Fengjiazhuang outside the mountain and several other villages that might have a large amount of food to spy on the military situation.

And successfully brought back important information!

"It is now certain that there is grain in Fengjiazhuang, and there are still a lot of them. Our people have seen Fengjiazhuang's granary full of grain. If we can grab the grain in Fengjiazhuang's granary, even if it is the autumn harvest. When there is no harvest, it is enough to support us until next summer!" Huang Xueren, as always, persuaded everyone to attack Fengjiazhuang.

At this time, Li Xuan asked: "Apart from Fengjiazhuang, aren't there other villages, how much food is stored in those places?"

Of course, it is impossible for all kinds of villages outside the mountains to be Fengjiazhuang alone, and there are many other villages.

But at this time, Huang Xueren shook his head lightly and said: "Our people have also visited several other villages that are more suitable to start with, but these villages are ordinary villages, and we don't want Fengjiazhuang to be just a family business, although other villages have food. , but they are all too scattered and not many.”

"We also got the news that the Ming troops outside the mountain all collected grain from nearby villages, and most of the grain in those villages was taken away by the Ming army. Now outside the mountain, except for Fengjiazhuang, it is estimated that there are only Longhua Town, where the Ming army gathers, has a lot of food!"

"This Longhua Town is a little troublesome!" Li Xuan frowned slightly. If there are many concerns about attacking Fengjiazhuang, then Longhua Town is not an existence that they can provoke.

Why?

Not because Longhua Town is close to the mountains, it has become an important camp for officers and soldiers since summer. There are at least five or six hundred officers and soldiers stationed in it, and these officers and soldiers are regular guard officers and soldiers transferred from the nearby state capital. At that time The officers and soldiers who defeated Fang Dongquan and his party were the officers and soldiers.

If the people in Huangzhu Mountain want to go out to the mountain to 'receive food', it would be a blessing not to meet most of the officers and soldiers. They dared to provoke them to go to Longhua Town to seek death.

"Fengjiazhuang is too close to Longhua Town. If we go to attack Fengjiazhuang, the Ming army will not need a long time to know, and then we will be in danger!" Fang Dongquan has always been firmly opposed to attacking Fengjiazhuang, because he knows better than anyone that rashly The danger of attacking Fengjiazhuang.

This is not to say how strong Fengjiazhuang's own defense is, but because Fengjiazhuang is too close to Longhua Town, and more importantly, to go to Fengjiazhuang, you have to pass through Longhua Town, and you want to sneak to Fengjiazhuang without the officers and soldiers. , is basically impossible.

At the beginning, Fang Dongquan met a large number of officers and soldiers on the way to Fengjiazhuang.

Fang Dongquan knew Li Xuan's worries, but he still said calmly, "If we go to attack a few other villages, can we get enough food to support the summer harvest?"

"It's unlikely!" Huang Xueren replied without hesitation: "After all, the food we need is not a small amount, even if all the food in those villages is collected, it will not be enough for us to eat, and doing so will be really hindering. Your Majesty's holy majesty!"

Hearing this, Li Xuan took a look at Huang Xueren~www.wuxiax.com~ This person even considered whether receiving grain would affect his reputation.

But he also understands this. Whether it is Huangzhushan or Shuilongzhai before, you call them bandits. In fact, they are bandits when they go out, and people when they enter. They are all honest farmers, working in the fields on weekdays.

But when they go out to loot, they will turn into bandits and robbers.

But the bandits also have their own ethics. For example, they know that rabbits don’t eat grass on the edge of the nest, so they basically don’t go to loot some small villages near the mountains. Bandits also need to use these people to obtain supplies from the outside world, especially broken promises and iron tools.

Secondly, these mountain people living on the edge of the mountain are all suffering, haha, they themselves can't eat enough, there will be surplus food and money for them to rob.

Even in some villages outside the mountains, they usually don't do it easily. Even if they do, they usually only plunder part of the food, leaving them rations to survive. This method is a bit similar to paying protection fees.

Although this protection fee is a little less, it will be paid every year. However, if all their rations are taken away, these people will have to starve to death or flee.

These people run away or die, who will they **** next year?

"According to what you said, don't we have any other options besides attacking Fengjiazhuang?" At this time, Qian Mengjiu, who has rarely spoken in such court discussions, also said:

"But the attack on Fengjiazhuang is so dangerous. Does General Huang dare to guarantee that we will succeed? Even if we succeed, how many brothers will not be able to come back alive?"

Huang Xueren said, "I naturally have a way!"