After Liu Yu arranged for two people to escort Xu Yue away, he summoned all his personal guards and brigade commanders to his tent.

Liu Yu told everyone his plan to capture Xia Mi City first.

After listening to Liu Yu's words, more than 20 people present knew that this meant that Liu Yu's plan to establish his own business before was about to be implemented.

Some people feel confident in taking down the Lower Mi City, some feel that it is too dangerous to go deep alone, and some are actually afraid that doing so will offend Liu Bogen.

For his confidants, Liu Yu asked them to speak frankly about their real concerns or suggestions. Liu Yu told them that he regarded them as brothers who share life and death from the bottom of his heart. After all, this step to seize Xia Mi City

Chess is related to everyone's vital interests. No matter what they say, Liu Yu won't mind and he will answer everyone's concerns.

"What if the refugees and churchgoers don't obey our orders outside Xiami City?"

"What should I do if I can't win quickly and be surrounded by Jin troops or powerful private soldiers?"

"Also, what if after we capture Xia Mi City, Duke Yin immediately follows us and attacks us in a rage?"

All of a sudden, Liu Yu's personal guards and confidants all expressed their concerns.

After listening to several major questions, Liu Yu began to patiently explain them to them.

He promised that the refugees who arrived in Xiami City would obey orders because of the food Liu Yu brought, because from last winter to now, more than 10,000 refugees have been suffering from hunger and cold for half a year. In the winter, Beihai County also provided food relief

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But after the beginning of spring, the Jin government had stopped all relief operations, and the wealthy locals in Beihai County also tried to annex these refugees and become serfs. These refugees who were unwilling to become serfs were on the verge of desperation and were on the verge of an explosion.

Just a leader.

The walls of Xiami City are short and the troops are weak. Moreover, the defenders of Xiami City must have known that Liu Bogen led most of his troops to attack Jiaodong City. They must not have thought that they would attack Jiaodong City with only a thousand people.

Moreover, the Beihai County soldiers who were rushing to aid Xiami had been delayed to the west of Weishui by Xu and other local tycoons. Liu Yu felt that he was 80% sure that he could attack Xiami City in one blow.

As for Liu Bogen, whom everyone is worried about, falling out with him afterwards, Liu Yu also thinks that it is basically unlikely. Today's Donglai rebels are not already powerful enough and have no room for expansion.

Although Liu Bogen will definitely be dissatisfied with Liu Yu's unauthorized actions, even if Liu Yu successfully recruits the refugees in Xiami City, his military strength will only increase to 10,000 at most. Liu Bogen's power will continue to grow and will not be here.

Shi Shi and Liu Yu completely fell out.

After listening to Liu Yu's words, the people present had heard Liu Yu's words about setting up his own business and looking for a way out early, and at that time thought he was just complaining after drinking, but now they saw that Liu Yu was serious about his attitude.

Everyone knows in their hearts that if the robbery of Xia Mi City is successful, the status of everyone present in the Donglai Army will be greatly improved, which means that they can lead more soldiers, distribute more gold, silver, and silk, and they will be able to fight every day.

I can have wine and meat, and I can sleep with more and better-looking women.

I am really excited when I think about the benefits, but after all, I will offend Liu Bergen, so I am still a little uneasy.

Liu Yu took a look and understood that there must be people who "just want to eat meat like thieves and don't want to take risks like thieves." Fortunately, Liu Yu was prepared and knew that some people would definitely need to push them.

Liu Xuan glanced at Dong Ping and winked at him quietly. Dong Ping immediately understood.

"I'm afraid of you. If you don't take advantage of such a good opportunity to get rich, do you still want to go back and live by looking at the eyes of those wretched people like Sun Li?!" Dong Ping suddenly said loudly.

With Dong Ping taking the lead, other interested people expressed their support one after another, and only one or two people were coerced by the public opinion and agreed.

Liu Yu said on the spot that if this was the case, then everyone was now truly brothers who shared life and death. He immediately arranged to prepare wine and make an alliance with everyone through blood.

Afterwards, Liu Yu mobilized the entire army and began to organize the troops, armor and baggage, and after preparing for Xu to send food, he hurried to Xia Mi City.

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Xia Mi County, Xu family's manor.

Xu Yan, the patriarch of the Xu clan, had a majestic face full of anger.

In the early hours of this morning, soldiers from the Buqu family escaped and brought bad news. They said that the camp in Jiaoshui River was attacked by thieves at night. The soldiers from the Buqu family were defeated and the camp and boats fell into the hands of the thieves.

Soon, at noon, Xu Yue, the steward of the Jiao Shui camp, was sent back by two cavalrymen.

In front of the patriarch Xu Yan, Xu Yue certainly couldn't say that it was because of his cowardice that he was afraid of death, allowing the Donglai thieves to kill more than a hundred of him with only a mere twenty people.

Xu Yue told the patriarch Xu Yan that during the night attack, he resisted with all his strength and killed several thieves with his hands. However, there were so many thieves in Donglai, with four to five hundred people, that he was unable to fight. He resisted until the end and was outnumbered. He was defeated.

He was killed by the Donglai thief Liu Jixing.

"Since you were captured alive because you were outnumbered, then I will give you five hundred more soldiers and you can go and take back the water village." Xu Guang said coldly after listening to Xu Yue's words.

Xu Guang was very angry with his clan brother Xu Yue. He had entrusted him with important tasks because he had experience in consulting on military affairs for Sima Jiong in the Prince of Qi's vassal mansion. Who would have thought that the Donglai bandits would be sent to him just one day after they showed up?

The water village was lost.

When Xu Yue heard this, he knew that Xu Guang was doubting himself, and said loudly, "As long as there are enough soldiers, there is nothing wrong with taking back the camp. But five hundred soldiers are not enough. The Donglai thieves attacked last night

There are four to five hundred people, but today there are no less than four thousand thieves coming from the east side of the pontoon."

Xu Yue thought that the number of Donglai thieves was at least two thousand anyway, which was definitely more than the five or six hundred private soldiers of the Xu clan. It was definitely impossible to rob the water stronghold with fewer attacks and more. No matter how bragging he was,

It doesn't matter.

Xu Guang still wanted to speak, but was stopped by the clan leader Xu Yan. Xu Yan knew that the matter had come to this, and the Donglai thieves were willing to let him back. They must not want to fight with him anymore. Since he wanted to make peace, he would look at the other party's conditions.

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When Xu Yue explained the conditions proposed by Liu Yu, both Xu Yan and Xu Guang were a little surprised. The conditions were probably too low.

The strength of the Lai army and the number of soldiers were a suppressive advantage for the Xu family. The conditions that should be put forward should not only ask for a sky-high price, but also be a request that the Xu family can reluctantly comply with.

With an absolute advantage but only such a low requirement, there are only two possibilities. The first is that the strength of this group of thieves may only be the four or five hundred people who attacked the camp last night, which is not enough to have an overwhelming advantage. The second is that

The second possibility is that this group of thieves did not come here to plunder money and food, but had other purposes.

Soon Xu Yan himself overturned the first possibility, because according to the description of Bu Qu who escaped back, they all saw a large number of Donglai thieves crossing the river from the pontoon today, and some of them were smart enough to count the number of thieves.

There are at least a thousand people.

That left only the second possibility. This group of thieves had another plan. But Xu Yan thought about it and finally felt that this group of thieves was probably not planning on his own Xu family, that's all. Now there are tigers in the east and wolves in the west.

As for what this group of Donglai thieves are planning to do, I don't bother to think about it. I just agree to this group of thieves for only fifty thousand kilograms of grain.

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Chapter completed!