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Chapter 148 The Recruitment Plan

After feeling emotional, the old village chief pointed out some unspecific details in Xuanyuan's plan and helped Xuanyuan improve the whole plan.

After the exchange, Xuan Yuan asked:

"Is there anything else to discuss?"

"If not, without further ado, act now!"

The old village chief nodded, organized a collective of villagers, and chased in the direction where the soldiers of the tax collection team left.

The large army moved forward at a normal walking speed, and the old village head sent a few hunters with fast legs and feet who were familiar with the terrain to follow the tax collection team far ahead and report the movements of the soldiers of the tax collection team at any time.

Although the old village chief sent out only hunters, the opponents were professional soldiers.

Fortunately, the old village head only needs to know the general direction of the other party.

In addition, there are a large number of cavalry in the tax collection team. The footprints and movements during the march are very obvious, and there is no need to approach them. As long as they are far away on the hills, the footprints and ruts are enough to easily track the opponent, and there is no risk of being discovered.

The vigilance of these soldiers was also very low, and they did not send out scouts in all directions to explore the way.

After traveling for nearly an hour and collecting taxes for an hour, the tax collection team quickly finished cleaning one village and headed for the next village.

The old village head and a group of villagers who received the news from the scouts, led by Xuan Yuan, rushed to the village where the tax had just been collected.

In the village, many villagers can be seen sitting in the courtyard and crying loudly facing the empty houses with four walls.

The village head of this village is a middle-aged man, and he is sitting at the entrance of the village with many villagers with a sad face at this time, as if discussing something.

I saw this group of masked men coming from a distance.

He was so frightened that he hurriedly called everyone to stand on the road, took stones and bricks in his hands, and confronted Xuan Yuan and his party who rushed over.

The middle-aged village chief shouted:
"Where are you bandits from?"

"Our village has been completely ransacked by the tax collection team, and there is nothing of value left. If you don't believe me, you can go into the village to have a look."

Xuan Yuan led the old village head out of the crowd.

The old village head took off the mask on his face, and the other party seemed to recognize the old village head, so the two began to negotiate.

After a while, the village chief followed the old village chief to Xuan Yuan.

The old village chief said:
"This is the village chief of Tiemu Village, and this is the outsider I mentioned to you."

The village chief of Tiemu Village looked Xuan Yuan up and down with a puzzled expression:

"You are the foreigner who can help us snatch people and things back, and make the tax collection team suffer dumb?"

"Can it really be done?"

"We don't have muscle essence now, so we can't help you much!"

Xuan Yuan didn't speak.

Show off the power of Xiao Paji in the old way.

After the other party saw the gigantic little Paji, he collapsed to the ground extremely unbearably, convinced.

After recovering, the head of Tiemu Village was a little worried again:
"Although I can dump the blame on you."

"But after you leave, what if we are settled by the tax collection team?"

Xuan Yuan smiled and said:

"You just need to cover up and grab things, and stand far behind my familiar and make a big show. The one who does it is a monster."

"The soldiers of the tax collection team were robbed by bandits with monsters on the way, so what does it matter to you?"

"As for my reward, it's just as he told you, it's very simple, right?"

The head of Tiemu Village couldn't help nodding when he heard the words:

"That's a good idea."

"Okay, we, Tiemu Village, will also join!"

Seeing this, the old village head asked the other party to organize the villagers in his own village, put on dark clothes and cover their heads.

Wait for the villagers of Ironwood Village to fix it.

The two streams of people merged together, and the number doubled to more than 400 people.

A group of people walked towards the next village in a mighty manner.

that's it.

They followed the trail of the tax collection team at a distance along the way.

As soon as the tax collection team left, they led people to incorporate the village into the robbery team.

The overall number of people has become larger and larger, and the march has become somewhat difficult. Fortunately, they are all managed by the village, and they are all acquaintances, so it will not be too chaotic.

The soldiers of the tax collection team carried a large amount of luggage, goods, and villagers escorted by them.

Therefore, they couldn't walk fast at all, and Xuan Yuan's team could move easily without rushing.

In this way, from dawn to dusk.

The soldiers of the tax team collected taxes from 6 villages in total.

Due to the large number of people in some villages, Xuanyuan and the others continued to incorporate these villages, and the final number has expanded to more than 1500 people.

The hunters sent out found out that the soldiers of the tax collection team stopped, found a high place and started to light a fire to cook and prepare to rest.

The people following behind also stopped marching.

Xuan Yuan took Xiao Paji, randomly found a mountain range with a lot of trees, whipped the trees and small animals running around in them, and prepared enough food for 2000 people.

This also increased Xuanyuan's debt to Xiao Paji to 8 silver coins.

Afterwards, the village chiefs of the six villages were called together, and a meeting was held with candles to start optimizing the marching team.

Arrange for people to bring the elderly and children who are prone to fatigue, and return to the nearest village to light a fire and cook. While resting, they also make portable food and dry food for the army.

Only the young and middle-aged men of each village were left in the team, and they continued to follow the soldiers of the tax collection team, and completely collected the last six villages.

In order not to be discovered by the soldiers of the tax collection team.

This team can only sleep in the wild, and can't live and cook. They can only eat some fruit to pad their stomachs.

Fortunately, the logistics staff who returned to the village will soon make barbecue and meals, collect bedding and cold clothes and send them over overnight.

Surrounded in front of a topographic map, everyone is discussing specific arrangements.

At this time, a village head of Hebian Village, who looked less than 30 years old, couldn't help asking doubts:
"Why don't you take advantage of the night and grab the things back now?"

"Why do we have to wait until the tax collection team collects the taxes from all the villages before doing anything?"

Before Xuanyuan opened his mouth.

The head of Panshi Village, who is full of beards and has lost his muscle essence, still has strong muscles, couldn't help laughing:
"Are you stupid?"

"Doing it tonight, won't those bastards directly target the suspect?"

"Our six villages are the most suspected."

"If you wait for them to collect all the taxes before doing it."

"There are 12 surrounding villages, and there are too many suspects. It is difficult to determine who it is."

"It's safer and there are so many people surrounding them."

"It's hard to suspect the heads of our villages, and they will only mistake it for a large bandit gang coming from somewhere. Their attention is to go to suppress the bandits, not to trouble us."

Only then did the young Hebian village suddenly realize:

"Oh~, that's how it is."

Hear their communication.

Xuan Yuan always has a very strong sense of unreality.

The scope of this world is small, and there are boundaries, and people don't want to look outside the boundaries.

However, judging from the speech in the small world.

They seem to be living in an extremely complete main world. Apart from the royal capital and the 12 surrounding villages, there seems to be a large area of ​​land outside the scope.

[Outsider] and [Bandits from outside], the two concepts can be easily accepted by them as if they were common sense, and no one is puzzled by the contradictions.

I have to say, quite weird.

(End of this chapter)