In the famine, others ate Guanyin soil, but he had space to build a farm.

Their recuperation in the mountains lasted for several days. During this rare quiet time, unexpectedly, a soldier responsible for intelligence reconnaissance rushed back.

"Marshal Lin! Generals! The situation in Daxiguan has changed!" The soldier who brought the news reported to everyone breathlessly.

"What happened in Daxiguan? Didn't they say that most of the troops have been sent to defend the king?" Tie Feng asked with concern as soon as he heard the news.

"We just learned that the army led by General Ye Cheng is preparing to leave Henan County and march to Kyoto to defend the king! However, these troops who have lived in the local area for a long time have become accustomed to laziness. In addition, their superiors have not paid their salaries, so the soldiers are not willing to go and die! You must know that fighting those barbarians is not as easy as dealing with ordinary peasant soldiers!"

"Not only that, those soldiers mutinied on the way! General Ye Cheng can only take a part of the elite troops to continue to Kyoto, and send the remaining soldiers back to Daxiguan to prevent us from breaking through here!"

"In this case, those troops will most likely return to Daxiguan soon! If I want to pass through Daxiguan, I must hurry up!" Tie Feng couldn't help but become anxious after hearing this.

"That's right! Currently there are only about 5,000 defenders at Daxiguan! But if that group of soldiers arrives, the number may increase to at least 10,000!" added the soldier in charge of reconnaissance.

"Have you found out who the commander of that army is?" Lin Kunlun asked in a deep voice.

"The general commanding the troops this time is Zhou Kai, whom we met in the Northwest Army!" the soldier reported at this time.

"I didn't expect it to be him! He's our old friend!" Tie Feng smiled softly when he heard this. He looked down on Zhou Kai completely. After all, he had always been defeated by him.

"We can't be careless! He has almost 10,000 men under his command now! If I attack us now, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to cope with it! We'd better recruit more soldiers and train them in advance to be prepared!" Mu Feng reminded at this time.

"In this way, we can send some people to keep an eye on that side. If Zhou Kai makes any move, we can respond at any time!" Lin Kunlun also thought it made sense. If Zhou Kai suddenly came with a large army, they might not be able to win with the current forces. The best way is to send a group of people to guard the road that Zhou Kai must pass through from Daxiguan. At least they can give early warning.

Lin Kunlun felt that he had underestimated these ancients. In his original plan, he led his troops to fight from the east. Enter the economically developed areas in the east, and use the money and food there to recruit more troops. In this way, it showed a trend of prairie fire. It's a pity that his army has been blocked in Northwest County. He didn't dare to rush into Henan County. After all, the disaster in Holland County was not serious. And because Ye Cheng's management army's combat effectiveness was obviously higher than that of Northwest County. The only choice now is to temporarily hide in the mountains and forests and train soldiers.

Lin Kunlun and his men didn't want to cause trouble for the time being, but some people found them. In fact, due to the unrest during this period, no matter how large the rebel forces were, many places had bandits of all sizes. These people hid in the mountains and robbed some of the surrounding big families or passing grain teams. They didn't dare to fight with the government soldiers. Originally, Lin Kunlun and his men had nothing to do with these people.

Lin Kunlun couldn't rely entirely on the food in the space. Although the food in his space grew very fast, he only used a small part of the space to grow food. After all, growing spiritual herbs and the like was its main goal. So the food for these thousands of people couldn't rely entirely on the space. The food in the space could only be used as an emergency. In order to solve the food problem, he sent out small teams to act as small merchants to purchase food in places that were not affected by the disaster or were less affected. Fortunately, the counties they captured brought them a lot of money. It was enough for them to buy some food. He originally thought that this plan was perfect. With the food that continued to grow in the space and then replenished, it would be enough for them to recruit soldiers and train here.

But that night, Lin Kunlun was awakened from his sleep. "Marshal Lin! Marshal Lin! It's urgent!" A hurried voice sounded in Lin Kunlun's ears, waking him up from his deep sleep.

Lin Kunlun suddenly opened his eyes and saw a messenger standing at the door of his tent, waiting anxiously.

"What's so urgent?" Lin Kunlun quickly stood up and asked in a deep voice.

"Marshal Lin, one of our transport companies at the foot of the mountain encountered a group of bandits. They were so numerous that we couldn't resist them! They killed many of our brothers! Only a few brothers ran back to report the news!" the messenger reported breathlessly.

Lin Kunlun frowned upon hearing this. He knew that although the individual combat effectiveness of these bandits was not strong, they were numerous. If they were not dealt with in time, they might cause a lot of trouble to their team. Moreover, they had transported these grains from far away. It would not work if they were such cheap bandits. What's more, those bandits had killed their team members.

Lin Kunlun got up immediately and found the middle of the camp. At this time, Tiefeng and his men had already arrived. He saw several people who had escaped back. The leader of them was someone Lin Kunlun had seen before. It was Feng Yunshan, the man he had sent out to purchase food and grass.

All they could see was Lin Kunlun kneeling on the ground. Lin Kunlun stepped forward and helped them up.

"Now tell me slowly, what happened?"

Feng Yunshan led a grain transport team of less than 40 brothers to a county town miles away in the east. The drought was not that serious there. They paid a high price and bought some grain from the landlords. A few days ago, he led brothers to escort the grain back. On the way, they were intercepted by a group of bandits. All the livestock, money and things were taken away, and several of them were injured or killed.

Feng Yunshan certainly couldn't just let those people take away the food for no reason! So he sent people to inquire about the bandits nearby! It is said that those bandits are from the Black Eagle Village. Due to the drought, the Black Eagle Village has a lot of people, now there are as many as seven or eight hundred people. Of course, the dozens of people under Feng Yunshan can't go up the mountain to grab the food back. He thought that he was the strongest volunteer army in the entire northwest. I went there in the name of the volunteer army. Those bandits will definitely return the food to them. So he personally led people to the Black Eagle Mountain to prepare to negotiate with them.