Chapter 464 The Pirates Are Coming
While Zhou Yunshu was busy arranging arrangements for the disaster victims in Yuncheng, she also sent people to establish contact with her own village and Dongchuan.
In case either side is attacked, the nearest village or patrol personnel can provide support as soon as possible.
The influx of disaster victims brought Zhou Yunshu a lot of new people. The combination of new and old people worked better than she had expected, and it also greatly alleviated Zhou Yunshu's pressure on hiring.
The pirates that Zhou Yunshu had been worried about were discovered by the patrol team sent by Yuncheng at night.
The patrol team saw a large number of torches and discovered that a large number of pirates had come ashore.
The team leader immediately sent two people back to Yuncheng to report, and the rest of the people were divided into two groups. The group with the best legs and feet kept an eye on the pirates' traces, and the rest of the people dispersed to notify the nearest village and other patrol teams.
When Zhou Yunshu was woken up and heard the pirates rushing towards Yuncheng, she was not afraid. Instead, she felt a sense of security that they had finally arrived.
She immediately stood up, put on her soft armor, and rode towards the city wall with Wu Gui, Kang Jingyu and others.
When they arrived at the city wall, not only the wall and the people inside the city were on high alert, but even the people outside the city were on high alert.
Zhou Yunshu didn’t distribute the rice porridge for nothing.
Instead of letting these victims fight for the pirates, it is better to let them do things for you.
Before the pirates arrived, Zhan Chuan shouted outside the city: "Women and children should retreat to the west city. Anyone who kills a pirate will receive five catties of grain for each ear, and ten catties for two ears. If killed in battle, the families of those killed will receive twenty catties of grain."
As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the people outside the city lit up and cheered again and again.
The man who had tried to rob the convoy excitedly said to his eldest son beside him, "We're worth twice as much as the pirates!"
"Yes, where's my hoe? I need to sharpen it quickly!"
"Mom, take the children to West City and I'll earn food for you!"
"Master, I'll stay too. Let mother take the children away. Kill one and we'll earn ten kilograms of food. Even if we drag one of them to our deaths together, we can still earn fifty kilograms of food for the family!"
Such words were heard everywhere at the city gate.
Yuncheng has been distributing porridge to them, which can only prevent them from starving to death, but it is almost impossible for them to have a full stomach. However, if they can get food by killing bandits, they are willing to give it a try.
Wu Gui sighed almost inaudibly as he watched children around ten years old leading younger children towards the west gate under the city wall, while slightly older children and women stayed behind with weapons.
"Yun Shu."
"Um."
"If they win, should we give them a celebration party?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the disaster victims under the city wall, who were full of fighting spirit, and nodded, "Open."
When Zhan Chuan received instructions from Zhou Yunshu and said that there would be a celebration banquet, cheers were heard again outside the city gate.
The pirates, who were still two or three miles away from Yuncheng, frowned as they heard the faint cheers around them.
What’s going on? What the hell is that sudden cheering sound in the middle of the night?
The pirates stopped their march at night, and the leader said to the people beside him with a stern face, "Go and see what's going on."
"It's the boss."
After the cheers died down in Yuncheng, everyone squatted on the ground holding their weapons.
There were only a few scattered fires outside the city, which could barely illuminate some people around, and the rest of the victims were all hidden in the darkness.
Even on the city wall, there were a few armored private soldiers standing with a few torches lit. It looked no different from the previous Yuncheng.
The spy waited for almost a quarter of an hour but found no movement inside or outside Yuncheng. He suspected that the cheers he had heard before might have been an illusion.
The spy, who thought he had figured out the ins and outs of Yuncheng, ran towards his own team.
The pirate leader listened to the spy's report and still had some doubts. "Are you sure?"
"Boss, I'm sure!"
The spy said confidently, "Although Cloud City seems to have more people than when we first came here, there were no refugees at the gate of Cloud City before. Now there are quite a few refugees at the gate of Cloud City, and it looks like..."
The spy thought for a moment and gave the pirate leader a number, "It should be at least seventy or eighty!"
This is because the spy himself said a little more.
"But those disaster victims are so hungry that they can't even stand up. If we go over there, we'll just kill them at will!"
The pirate leader looked towards Yuncheng and asked, "On the city wall?"
"There are people patrolling the city walls, but not many, not as many as the last time we came."
This spy has been comparing the current Yuncheng with the previous Yuncheng. In his eyes, a Yuncheng occupied by unknown people is not at all comparable to the previous Yuncheng under government control.
Although the food, gold, silver and jewelry in it may not be as good as those in the previous Yuncheng, it is generally better than nothing.
"I always feel like there's something fishy going on."
The pirate leader still felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
He didn't have much education, and he was able to become the pirate leader now because of the internal struggle after the old boss died five days ago.
Although he had not read many books, his intuition was very accurate and he trusted his intuition very much.
Especially when he walked here, his heart became more and more uneasy. He always felt that there was a bloodthirsty beast lying in the direction of Yuncheng ahead. If they rushed over, they would only become their meal.
"The boss?"
"Boss, just one word from you and we brothers will rush over and show those mainlanders how powerful we are!"
"Boss, please say something! We brothers haven't had a full meal in several days!"
The chattering of the people around him gave the pirate leader a headache. Just as he was about to agree, his military advisor suddenly said, "Since everyone hasn't eaten enough, why not eat first?"
The young man had his head covered with a black cloth and sounded young.
"It's only Chou hour now, so a meal will only take a little over an hour."
"The military advisor is right!"
"Or let's eat something first!" someone agreed, touching his stomach.
The pirate leader breathed a sigh of relief. It was good to be able to take a breath. He really felt that something was wrong in Yuncheng.
"Okay, let's eat first. After we're full, we can do something big to him!"
But as the saying goes, the first effort is strong, the second is weak, and the third is exhausted.
Not to mention that the pirate leader was already hesitant, just say that after people have eaten their fill late at night, they just want to sleep.
When the pirates were eating pancakes in the middle of the night, the pirate leader's military advisor came to him with a piece of meat pie.
He looked at the pirate leader with a frown on his face and said, "Boss, do you have any concerns?"
The pirate leader looked at his military advisor, remembering how he had saved his life during the civil strife, and opened his heart to him again, saying, "It's not that I have concerns, but I'm just very nervous. I always feel that Yuncheng is not that easy to attack."
The military advisor smiled nonchalantly, "Since the boss doesn't trust spies, why don't I go and spy on him for him?"
"I'm good at martial arts. Even if I climb over the city wall, no one will notice me."
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