At the Taihang Juyi Village, four days later, the troops who followed Sun Qing to hunt down Qu Yi came back one after another, but they returned empty-handed. After Qu Yi left Jingxing, he entered Taiyuan County. There were still thousands of county soldiers in Jinyang, the seat of Taiyuan. Sun Qing did not dare to advance lightly and had to lead his troops back.

Sun Qing took Zhang Yan's troops back to report. The leader of the tribe whose family was massacred also returned to his own stronghold. Only the remaining three tribes stayed in Li Gui's stronghold to claim their relatives.

A sea of ​​people filled the aisle outside, and then everyone went back to their own homes.

Zhang Mo had ordered people to divide the crowd into three groups according to different villages, so that it would be easier for the young and strong to recognize their relatives.

Most people found their relatives to some extent, but a few searched the crowd several times but could not find any of their relatives alive, which made them sad and upset.

After working for most of the day, there were still some young and strong men who died in the battle, and the old and weak who had no one to claim them. Li Gui saw that the three leaders were about to leave, and his brows jumped. He rushed over and shouted, "Why are there so many people left here? Are you going to leave them here?"

Years of famine and war had made food more precious than gold. The elderly and the weak simply consumed it. The three generals were definitely unwilling to take these burdens back with them. One of them said, "Agui, you see, our village was looted by that bastard Qu Yi. We haven't yet divided up the property from the attack on Lunu. We'll starve to death if we go back. I'll leave them with you for now, and wait..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Gui shouted, "Da Yu, this is so unkind! Zhang Ping couldn't possibly understand your difficulties. The grain delivery team must have been on the road by now and will be here soon."

This time the thieves have just completed a big scam and haven't divided the loot yet!

"Even if food were delivered, how long would it last for so many people? You've cleared so much wasteland, so there's no need to worry about food. I'll feed them for a while, and then I'll come back to take it back next autumn."

"Next year? Do you think I'm stupid?"

The one called Da Qushuai just smiled apologetically and didn't want to take these people back. The other two also lowered their heads and said nothing.

They didn't take the person away. Li Gui knew that since A Mo was willing to risk her life to save him, she definitely couldn't just leave him here to fend for himself. He subconsciously looked at Zhang Mo.

Saving someone only to end up in a whole bunch of trouble?!

Zhang Mo sneered inwardly and walked forward to look at the three generals. "Since you're so short of food, leave the young men we rescued here with you. Oh, and also the young men whose families were rescued by Juyi Village. Leave them all here and come back next year to claim them."

"How can that be possible?" Da Yu immediately objected. If the young and strong man stayed, he would become Li Gui's man.

"That's right. The young and strong have to go out to work. How can they stay in Juyi Village?" said another person.

Although Commander Qu was unwilling, the bandits who had previously followed Zhang Mo to kill officers and soldiers began to get restless. Many of them, including the young and strong men whose families had been rescued, came forward and expressed their desire to defect to Li Gui.

"You dare to switch sides in front of me? You're looking for death." The python was furious as he saw many of his subordinates rushing forward to climb the ladder.

"You can't come and go as you please, my door?" another general also shouted.

Another one directly drew his knife and snorted coldly, "If you want to climb up the ladder, let's see if this knife in my hand will agree to it."

The moth thieves were not to be outdone, and they all drew their guns and swords. One of the men shouted, "Are you worthy of being my commander? When you rode your horse and trampled on your family, did you ever think about whether I lived or died?"

"Did I have a choice? My wife was in the crowd at that time." Da Yu roared.

Since these people stood up, they were determined to switch sides and would not listen to his explanation. They all started arguing.

"If it weren't for Li Qushuai's men who risked their lives to come out of the city to rescue us, we would have already reported to the King of Hell."

"There are only two hundred strong men left in Li Qu's camp, yet he still dares to go out of the city to rescue people. This shows how loyal and righteous he is."

"If we die in battle one day, will you also abandon our families like trash? Marshal Li Qu is willing to risk his life to save the weak of other tribes, so he will surely treat his own family even better. We are willing to surrender to Marshal Li Qu."

Li Gui never thought that one day he would be flattered by so many people, and he couldn't help feeling elated. In fact, he did nothing but just followed Sun Qing for a trip. These people were saved by the little girl, but the village was named after him, and the reputation was still his.

Li Gui couldn't help but sigh again. It was a wise move to join the little girl. Not only did he not have to worry about food and clothing, but now he could also get other like-minded subordinates. This was something he had never dared to think about before. With these people joining, his Juyi Village could suddenly become the second strongest village on Jingxing Road.

"I will chop to death all of you disloyal and unrighteous people."

A general was enraged and swung his sword to attack. One of the thieves was caught off guard and was killed on the spot.

Seeing this, the other bandits who wanted to surrender to Li Gui drew their swords and rushed forward to resist. Qu Shuai's personal guards followed and killed them, and the scene suddenly became a mess.

Zhang Mo was very surprised to see that her words had such an effect. She was tempted but finally suppressed her thoughts.

Li Gui came back to his senses from his self-indulgence and hurried forward to stop it.

"Stop, everyone, stop. Let's talk it out. We're all from the same village, why make such a scene?"

Everyone was fighting so hard that no one cared about him and started shouting.

There was already blood on the field. Zhang Mo was afraid of dirtying her own land, so she winked at Xu Chu.

Xu Chu understood and leaped down from the stage. His sword whirred through the air, cutting through several weapons as he shouted, "Stop it, you all! You're treating this like your own home!"

The sound was like thunder, and the noisy crowd suddenly quieted down.

Xu Chu pointed at the three canal commanders and cursed, "If they want to leave, what's the point of forcing them to stay? Aren't you afraid their heads will be chopped off in the middle of the night?"

Da Yu shouted, "Then kill these traitors."

"They were saved by our village. If we hadn't risked our lives to save them, would there still be people waiting for you to kill? You should lead your men away immediately, or else I will ask Zhang Feiyan to take charge."

Xu Chu had a ferocious look to begin with, and the three men were somewhat afraid of him. When they heard him mention Zhang Yan, they knew that if he were to make the final decision on this matter, he would definitely let these people follow Li Gui.

Da Yu took a step back and said, "Then you can take charge of these old and weak people." After that, he snorted heavily and left with his people.

The other two departments also brought their people back.

Looking at the remaining 3,000 young and strong men and more than 5,000 old and weak people, Zhang Mo felt that the trouble seemed to be even bigger. She said that just now just to encourage the three men to take their family members away, not to persuade them to surrender.

These people were able to easily defect to Qu Yi before, and now they have betrayed their headquarters. Their loyalty is really too low.

The Qingzhou soldiers recruited by Boss Cao were also Yellow Turban bandits before. When you are powerful, they will be very loyal, but if you are defeated or short of food, they will immediately rebel and even attack their own people.

When Cao Cao was defeated and fled after being surrendered by Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, the Qingzhou soldiers under his command not only did not immediately protect their lord, but instead took the opportunity to attack and plunder other troops. This shows that they were indeed wild and difficult to tame.

Moreover, now that Lu Bu, one of her own, had infiltrated Dong Zhuo's inner circle, she no longer wanted to assassinate him. She knew that the people she had were enough to protect herself. Why would she need to support so many more? These were over 8,000 people, not just 800! How would she place them? How would she manage them?

Li Gui was already beaming with joy at the sight of so many people who shared the same aspirations. But when he saw Zhang Mo standing there, frowning and shaking her head, his heart skipped a beat. He stepped forward and asked, "What are you thinking about? Don't you want them?"

Zhang Mo explained the reason, and Li Gui said, "This time he was deceived by the government again, and he escaped death. He will never trust the government again. Moreover, the reason he surrendered to Qu Yi before was certainly due to the situation, but the main reason was that he wanted to change his ways."

"Although these people have repeatedly betrayed us, I don't think they have bad hearts. As long as they have a conscience and can be educated, they can still be used. Aren't these people in our village quite obedient now? As for food and shelter, let's all squeeze in. There's still so much uncultivated land in the valley, and winter is a good time to reclaim it during the slack season."

Squeeze in? It's not that simple. Before the autumn harvest next year, the food, clothing and other necessities of these 8,000 people will use up all her savings. She originally thought that since no one wanted the more than 1,000 elderly and weak people, they could be hired into factories to work and have enough food to eat. Now that so many people like her at once, and she is not going to rebel, she really doesn't want so many people.

Zhang Mo was about to ask them to go to Zhang Yan when Du Fei excitedly pointed in the distance and shouted, "Amo, look! Ah Hai and the others are back!"

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