The old patriarch and others' eyes lit up after hearing this. Although they didn't know what the specific implementation would look like, they saw that Li Yi seemed confident, and most of the panic in their hearts disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The old patriarch praised even more: "Fortunately we have stones, otherwise we would have started a mess before this war even started. Just go ahead and arrange all the matters in Lijia, big and small, and we will also

We will fully support you.”

Zhang Qianyi and Zhao Renchang next to them didn't say anything. In fact, Li Yi was the one who made the final decision on all matters in the village. The three old guys just helped to take care of it. What Li Yi wanted to do, based on his prestige in the village, who else could do it?

Do you have any opinions?

After asking a few questions, the three old patriarchs were a little sleepy and yawned one after another. Seeing that everything was almost arranged, Li Yi quickly asked them to go back to rest, leaving Wang Jin and other Yongying company commanders to discuss the matter.

As soon as the three old men left, Li Yi's gentle face suddenly turned gloomy and said: "Look, how should we deal with the thieves this time?"

How to deal with thieves?

Zhang Mingde and others didn't know why Li Yi asked this, and Zhang San even said: "Batalion Commander, we will fight how you tell us to fight. Although we have few people, with you here, we won't be afraid of them anyway. When the time comes, we will fight."

If we kill these thieves and attack their lair like last time, we will definitely be able to collect some food and property. It will also allow us to survive for a while longer."

Li Yi glanced at Zhang San coldly and said in a deep voice: "Haha, you are quite confident. You have already thought of dividing the thief's property. But I am afraid that you have the life to think about it, but you have no life to take it."

Zhang San's expression was suddenly stunned, and he looked at Li Yi at a loss, and said: "This... why is this lifeless?"

"There are eight hundred thieves. They are all ruthless bandits who have been burning, killing and looting for a long time. They live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. They are not as easy to deal with as you think. Otherwise, without us taking action, Baoding's guardsmen would have been there long ago.

Destroy them and take away their money." Li Yi said.

"Then, what you just said to the old patriarch..." Zhang San murmured, lowering his head and not daring to look at Li Yi's expression.

Although Li Yi is usually pleasant-looking and polite to everyone, inside Yongying, he is like a demon. Not only Zhang San, but also Zhang Mingde, who has the highest status in Yongying, dare not offend him.

Li Yi smiled lightly and said: "I was just trying to appease the old patriarch. War is not their business. Since we have established Yongying and sworn a blood oath to protect our fellow villagers, we should do the bloody work and worry about it."

.Now I want you to think about how we should deal with these thieves."

Li Yi asked with a serious face.

I don’t know since when, the people of Yongying and even Anxin have become like this. On the one hand, they work hard to manage their new home, but on the other hand, they don’t think about the future path. They only know that there is no hope.

If you have reservations, do as Li Yi said.

Li Yi believed that if he led Yongying troops to attack the county seat, the entire people of Anxin would rebel with him, and he believed that he had done the right thing until his death.

This kind of unreserved trust moved him, but he was also very distressed. Because a person's power is limited, what he wants is for everyone to unite and contribute their strength and wisdom to create a beautiful world together.

home instead of just blindly following your own arrangements.

Li Yi believes that these villagers who know benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust, and these people who adhere to thousands of years of etiquette, are the true masters of this world. His own method of feeding and clothing them is only to solve their urgent needs.

The way forward is for them to make decisions, and I am just the sword and gun for them to realize their ideals.

He knows that he can't change that much now, but he must try his best to change the minds of the people around him. The first one is Wang Jin and the leaders of the brave camp, so that they can learn to think and use their intelligence.

Li Yi regained his composure and said: "Brother Zhang, what do you think we should do? The thieves will come tomorrow night, and we don't have time to waste."

Li Yi started with Zhang Mingde, because he was born in the military, knew some things about military training and combat, and could also read a few words. His status in the Yong camp was second only to Li Yi.

Hearing Li Yi's question to him, Zhang Mingde felt happy and sad at the same time, and said: "There are eight hundred thieves and we only have two hundred. We are outnumbered and there are many enemies. It is definitely not advisable to face the enemy head-on at this time. We can only use a strategy like the battalion commander said."

But I can’t think of any strategy.”

What he said was the same as not saying anything. Li Yi frowned immediately when he heard the words. He looked at Zhang San, who had the most flexible mind among the people, and asked him to get up and talk about what strategy he should use.

Zhang San stood up, scratched his head and thought for a while, and then said cautiously: "I heard that the book said that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms contained a section of the Battle of Chibi. Liu Bei and Sun Wu burned Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army with a fire.

Thinking about it, we should also attack with fire. When the thieves come, we will burn them to death."

Li Yi was slightly surprised. He didn't expect Zhang San to be really talented. Just hearing that Mr. Shu mentioned the Battle of Red Cliff, he came up with the good idea of ​​fire attack, which was very close to his own idea.

I have heard before that the ancient Japanese watched China's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when fighting wars. As for the culture of the Three Kingdoms that has endured in Japan for a long time, and has been made into various film and television and game works during peacetime, it seems that there is some truth to it.

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Seeing everyone frowning and scratching their heads and thinking hard, a smile reappeared on Li Yi's originally heavy face.

He posted repeatedly, not only to let them come up with solutions, but more importantly, to keep them in the habit of thinking. Otherwise, they would have to rely on themselves for everything. What would they do when he was no longer by their side?

"Zhang San's idea of ​​a fire attack is very good. You should get together more often to discuss it. Next, I will tell you what each of you should do tomorrow. This matter is related to our life and death. Everyone

You must prepare well and don't slack off at all." Li Yi said seriously.

The rest of the people also put away their expressions and nodded heavily.

"Don't worry, battalion commander, although we don't have much ability, we can still do some small things well," Zhang Mingde said.

"Hey, these thieves dare to provoke us, they are really impatient. I must make them suffer."

Although they faced bandits several times their own, Wang Jin and others were not afraid at all, but were full of fighting spirit.

This made Li Yi very satisfied. He originally thought that people in the late Ming Dynasty had lost their blood. Most people were greedy for life and afraid of death, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. But after the last time the refugees went crazy and fought for their lives with the bandits, and this time

Everyone was full of fighting spirit, and he thought he was wrong.
Chapter completed!