After Zhou Yiran finished the reward, he began to take care of other aspects.

Life in Zhoucheng is quiet and comfortable, but other novice villages outside Zhoucheng are facing numerous crises.

Zhu Chongba came to find Zhou Yiran, and his face looked panicked.

Zhou Yiran invited Zhu Chongba in and said, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Lord, in Youzhou, horse bandits are rampant! Many villages have been attacked." Zhu Chongba said with a worried look on his face.

Zhou Yiran said: "Where are the specific places where the bandits and horse thieves gather?"

Zhu Chongba said: "Because the world is in chaos and people are living in poverty, many people become bandits. Horse thieves usually appear near various villages to grab food!"

Zhou Yiran nodded and thought to himself: "This may be some pioneers who advance."

Zhou Yiran thought so, but Zhu Chongba said another thing that Zhou Yiran had to pay attention to.

"Lord, because there are many bandits and horse thieves, the people in Zhoucheng have been reduced by one percent, and the people in Youzhou have been reduced by five percent!" After Zhu Chongba said that, Zhou Yiran stood up and strode away. His voice was heard in a melodious voice: "I will send troops to conscript the bandits now!"

If it was the Pioneer's Horse Thief Task, Zhou still didn't care, but after it affected the people's hearts, Zhou still had to pay attention.

Zhou Yiran came to the military camp and immediately ordered Li Yi and Zhao Xiong to lead 30,000 troops to send troops in two groups to encircle and suppress the bandits and horse thieves along the way. The horse thieves and generals tried their best to capture them alive.

Li Yi and Zhao Xiong left Zhoucheng and suppressed bandits along the way.

The gentry in Youzhou was already scared by Zhou Yiran's decisive methods. They originally wanted to teach Zhou Yiran a lesson by resisting taxes, but they did not expect that they attracted Zhou Yiran's army and killed all the gentry after a little resistance.

This time, Zhou Yiran launched a large-scale military force again, which caused the gentry to panic. Now they have long lost the arrogance of the gentry, because Zhou Yiran's troops really attacked them without any mercy.

The sun became more and more vicious, and it felt like it was burning when shining on people. In this way, the wind began to get dryer and hotter. Of course, this is really good for the harvest season. The barley and wheat in the field slowly matured in the hot wind, and the yellow wheat ears looked very beautiful.

As night slowly descended, stars began to flash in the starry sky. At this moment, a group of people appeared near the village. They were holding knives in one hand and horses in the other. Some were holding a horse, while others were two. There were empty bags on the horses. They gently and slowly approached the village.

"Horse thief, there is a horse thief!" A sudden voice came from a distance in the quiet dark night, and even the nearby villages could hear clearly.

"Brothers, get on the horse! Come with me to kill you." Someone among the horse thieves shouted. Then, the ground horse thieves turned over and raised their weapons and rushed towards the village.

"What horse thief is here?"

"Why is it really here?"

"Hide quickly, hide quickly. Don't come out if you don't ask you to come out." A woman told her child.

"I'll go out and have a look," said a young husband to his wife.

For a moment, the village became chaotic. Various sounds suddenly rang throughout the village. Although they had already prepared in advance, the sudden attack of horse thieves still left the farmers at a loss.

"Welcome a weapon and must block the horse thief to the entrance of the village."

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill the village and rob their food!" A horse thief slashed his knife while shouting excitedly. Due to the geographical conditions at the entrance of the village, there were only four or five horse thieves standing side by side to attack, and the people behind could only stare at them and couldn't do anything.

"Everyone pushes up one by one. The injured man retreats. Have you heard it?" The pioneer who commanded behind shouted loudly.

"I know, I know!" The local brave men responded one after another.

Although the horse thief is stronger than the township thief, due to the restrictions at the entrance of the narrow village and the township thief rotated one by one, the two sides were in a stalemate at the entrance of the village. After the township thief rotated for several times, the horse thiefs responsible for the attack were also injured. Moreover, they were exhausted and replaced.

The horse thief who was in charge of command later saw that this was not possible. If this continues, when will it be done? If they have a long time, they will be in trouble. They thought that they would have successfully attacked the village, and then robbed the food and left. But they were prepared in advance, but now they can't attack. What should we do?

The pioneers in the village were standing in charge of command and were relieved to see the situation outside the village. Although they were a little dark and could not see clearly. However, from the black shadows outside, it can be seen that the number of horse thieves was definitely within one hundred. Now there are more than 300 village warriors and many villagers here. Therefore, it should not be a big problem to defend the village.

"The brothers in front of them retreated and led them to the outside of the village entrance to a wider place." The leader of the horse thief ordered. Then the horse thief began to attack and retreated. When the village man saw them slowly retreating, he stopped moving forward. He just stood at the entrance of the village. "You must never stay away from the terrain at the entrance of the village entrance, this is our barrier."

At this moment, people carrying some things appeared behind the crowd, and those things were shocked. The horse thief leader was shocked when he saw it, "Did they know we were coming for a long time?" But this thought flashed and the horse thief leader ordered: "Brothers, prepare to rush in with me." As he said that, the horse thief leader retreated, knocked the horse hard, and rushed forward. When the horse ran to the township hero, he jumped up and jumped over the township hero and entered the village. The few who were moving the horse thief to the front entrance of the village, they saw the horse thief jumping into the village. When he was surprised, the horse thief's knife had already been cut off. Then the horse thief jumped into the village one by one.

"Hurry, stop them." The pioneer behind shouted at the horse thief who was rushing in. At this time, the township heroes who were waiting for the reception behind turned around to deal with the horse thief who rushed into the village. The horse thief did not entangle with them, but ran towards the village while wielding a knife. In this way, the township heroes had to chase the horse thief. The horse thief did not blindly lead the village to move around, but turned around from time to time and waved a few swords at the township heroes who were chasing over, and watched the other township heroes follow and continued to run. Looking at the horse thief's skillful movements, it was obvious that this was their usual trick.

For a moment, the situation in the village became even more chaotic.

"The village chief asked the villagers to put all the horses on the way to the village. They quickly took up their weapons and wanted to deal with the horse thieves. Otherwise, they would have cut all the people we brought, and the village would really not be able to be protected." A villager said.

"Okay...good...good!" The pioneer said with a stutter. Originally, the pioneer thought he could resist the horse thief, but he did not expect that the township hero had already killed or injured a hundred people, while the horse thief had not injured ten people.

Just as the horse thief rushed like a village, there was a strong vibration in the distance, which was the sound of the horse's hooves.

The horse thief was shocked and looked at the source of the sound, and saw the banner of Li swaying.

The horse thief said intimately: "Not good!"

Such a large group of people should be at least ten thousand people. How dare they resist this hundred or ten people?

The horse thieves were well expected, but they had no way to resist because the soldiers were all at level 20, so they could not resist the first-level horse thieves. They could only deal with these hundreds of horse thieves, more than ten soldiers.

"Retreat! Retreat!" the leader of the horse thief shouted, but Li Yi's men marched very fast, and in the blink of an eye, he surrounded the hundreds of horse thieves in the center.

"Submit or not?" A sergeant under Li Yi shouted.

The horse thief was rebellious. Although he saw that he was surrounded, he still relied on his courage to scold him.

Li Yi once ordered all the soldiers and generals to kill them if the horse thief is not tamed.

Seeing that the horse thief did not surrender, the soldiers shot the hundred people into hedgehogs and left no living mouth.

Li Yi's army continued to advance, looking for other horse thieves, and only a hundred horse thieves were left here.

The villagers and pioneers in the village walked out and admired them very much when they looked at the dead horse thieves and the army leaving.

Li Yi's troops swept past, and the horse bandits were unstoppable, and Li Yi's troops did not lose a single person.

The pioneers in the village ordered people to lift the thief's body far away and buried it deep, recalling the team of people who had just passed.

Majestic and mighty, not comparable to those of the country warriors under his command. The pioneers thought about when and when would they have such a team of soldiers?
Chapter completed!