Hebei West Road, Xiangzhou, since the fall of Yecheng since the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the well-dressed scholars moved into Guanzhong to live, and the handicraftsmen, merchants, and musicians mostly moved to Yecheng, the social structure is complex, the people's risk is scheming, the social atmosphere is sluggish, and the wealthy and powerful households are frequent.

Linzhang County, outside the south city, Xujiazhuang.

Xu's generations of Xu officials, is a famous family in the county, 100 hectares of fertile land, thousands of tenants, most of the village is surnamed Xu, thousands of households, counted around ten towns and eight miles of a big village.

The Jin people went southeast, burned and looted all the way, attacked the city, and everywhere they passed, they were all ruined. Xujiazhuang was lucky to escape.

Although the Jin people have not been lucky, they have come and gone like the wind, since the autumn moon invaded the Song Dynasty last year, and left in March this year, the middle is only half a year index. The Jin people retreated, and the places of Cizhou, Xiangzhou, and Daimyo in the south of Hebei were under the rule of the Song people. However, most of the government is concentrated in the city, and the countryside outside the city is mostly uncontrolled.

In the early morning, the whole field was still shrouded in silence, and Xu Wenchao, who got up early, walked around the field, looking at the field, a pile in the east and a pile in the west, and there was not much wheat field left.

After the scourge of the Jurchens, only two or three percent of the good fertile land remained, and it seems that there will not be much silver left this year.

However, although it is only two or three percent, the price of grain can be increased by five or six times for him, so that it will be about the same as in previous years.

I heard that the price of grain in Xiangzhou has risen to 40 Wen, which is five times that of the previous year. It seems that the Jurchens going south are not all bad.

"Outside the staff, the wheat owed by the Xu Liujia is now five stones. With such a small harvest this year, it is estimated that their family will not be able to pay it back!"

The words of the little guy next to him were exchanged for a cold snort from Xu Wenchao.

"If no one owes the grain back, my Xu family will drink the northwest wind! And when there was no grain to return, they took his land. His daughter is 12 years old, not too young, and she can also be used as a mortgage!"

The little guy was frightened and nodded frequently. The two walked for a while, Xu Wenchao suddenly turned his head, frowned and asked, "Did the people who came to the village to borrow grain the day before yesterday inquire about their ins and outs?"

The little guy shook his head and said, "The time is too short, and I haven't found out for a while." However, the villain looks at these people unkindly, so you should be careful outside!"

"I'm afraid! In Xiangzhou, as well as in this Linzhang County, who doesn't know the reputation of my Xu family! ”

Xu Wenchao said fiercely, and his words were full of disdain.

"Say what kind of anti-Jin rebels they are, and they want to borrow some food. It's good to say, it's not a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return! My Xu family's food didn't fall from the sky, why give it to them! Anti-gold, it's a matter of concern to my Xu family!"

"Outside the staff, these people are fierce and vicious, but I am afraid that there will be other sources. The officers have driven them out, and if they gather a crowd to commit crimes, I am afraid they will ......."

The little servant's submissiveness made Xu Wenchao's face pale, he rolled his strange eyes, and roared loudly: "There are also two or three hundred villagers in my village, and there are fifty or sixty archers, and there are not a few men with good martial arts.

Seeing that the sky was already bright and there were more farmers in the fields, Xu Wenchao stopped the saliva flying, waved his hand and said, "Hurry back, I don't want to see these poor ghosts!"

Xu Liang followed behind the staff and walked on the way back.

As a strong party, there are hundreds of villagers, and there is no shortage of outlaws, and there is the government as the backing, and he is also a public person, black and white, so why not be afraid of a few people who pretend to be gods and ghosts!

Seeing Xu Wenchao coming, the peasants nodded their heads one by one, and hurriedly stood on the side of the road, vacating the road for Xu Wenchao to walk alone.

Xu Wenchao held his head high, walked a few steps, suddenly stopped, and said to a farmer who nodded on the side of the road: "Zheng Wu, your family's arrears should be repaid."

Zheng Wu immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again, and said in his mouth: "Xu Yuanwai, please forgive me a few more days, there is no rice in the villain's house." Ask for mercy!"

"Give you three days, and if you can't get it, I'll take your land!"

Xu Wenchao walked away, leaving only Zheng Wu who was still kowtowing frequently on the ground.

"Get up, Zheng Wu!"

The people next to him persuaded: "King Xu Yan has already gone away, even if you kneel a thousand more times, he won't see it." Hurry up. ”

Some people also sighed: "Zheng Wu, who made your parents sick, the whole family depends on yourself." When you meet King Xu Yan, you are the nemesis of your life! ”

Suddenly, the onlookers no longer paid attention to Zheng Wu, but raised their heads together and looked towards the post road in front of Xujiazhuang.

The top helmet and armor, the thousands of horses roll up the flat post, it is overwhelming!

The rumbling thunder, mixed with billowing smoke and dust, a team of unknown knights rushed wildly and rushed straight to the door of Xujiazhuang.

Immediately, the knights were all dressed in armor, riding spears and long knives in their hands, and holding bows and arrows, and they were fierce, but they did not shoot at the villagers.

Xu Wen ran into the village gate breathlessly, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up the suspension bridge, close the village gate, and don't let strong people in!" ”

"Outside the staff, there are so many folks outside!"

"Need to talk nonsense, close the door!"

Under Xu Wenchao's sharp reprimand, the villagers hurriedly pulled up the suspension bridge and closed the gate, and at the same time, the noisy gong "Bang Bang" sounded.

Seeing the wolf-like knights coming on horseback, the villagers in the field ran towards Xujiazhuang like a tide, and halfway through, they felt that they were about to be caught up by the knights, and the gate was slowly closed, and the villagers scattered and fled.

On the wall of Xujiazhuang, there are already full of villagers who have come to watch at this moment, many people are anxious to stomp their feet, and some people are rushing to open the door, shouting loudly: "Open the door quickly, my father is still outside!" ”

The knights did not chase the fleeing people at all, and did not even shoot a single feather arrow, but came straight to the village.

Dong Ping was wearing iron armor, and under the support of a group of knights in iron armor and guarding the top, he kept beating his horse until he stopped at the gate of the village forty or fifty steps.

The Zhuang guests on the wall are all heavy-faced, and the momentum of thousands of troops and horses is indeed difficult to breathe and extremely depressing.

Although Xujiazhuang has gates, high walls, and moats, it is only a manor, not a city. That trench turned out to be only an ordinary thief, and I never thought that the other party could be a large group of cavalry.

However, even if the other party can casually ride through the trench, he will have to face the shots of the archers on the wall, and it is not easy to break Xujiazhuang.

Under the gaze of Xu Wenchao's father and son and the villagers on the wall, one of the knights on the other side slowly beat his horse over, stood still by the trench in front of the drawbridge, and said loudly:

"Listen, the people on the wall, we are only looking for trouble with Xu Wenchao, and we have nothing to do with you. Hurry down from the wall, don't stop our army from entering the village, if anyone dares to be our enemy, there will be no mercy!"

Xu Wenchao's face turned pale, and his body trembled slightly. He pointed to the knights below and said in a trembling voice: "Pass the word, as long as you can repel the bandits, you will be given ten catties of food per person!"

His second son, Xu Liang, was young and vigorous, usually unruly, and shouted loudly: "You birdmen, give you a thief's guts, if there is a kind of you who will attack and call blindly!"

He turned his head and shouted loudly to the Zhuang guests around him: "Shoot me, shoot this birdman, kill their sharpness!"

The bankers looked at each other and were silent, but few of them picked up bows and arrows.

"Petty officials, more things are better than less, these strongmen, it's better to mess with less!"

Among the bankers, someone whispered.

"You're a bunch of fucking shit!"

Xu Liang snatched the bow and arrow from the hand of an archer next to him, reached out and pulled out a feather arrow from the archer's quiver, stretched out his bow and aimed it at the knight below.

"Lao Tzu will show you that Lao Tzu is not so easy to be bullied!"

Xu Liang shot a feather arrow, and the opposing knight opened the feather arrow, turned around and hit the horse backwards and retreated.

Xu Liang shot the second arrow, but it was useless, and the knight had already beaten his horse and left.

"Dismount, grenadiers, blow the gate open for me!"

"The archers dismount and press the archers on the wall for me."

"Once the gate of the village is blown open, the rest of the people will rush to the village with me!"

Dong Ping gave an order, and hundreds of grenadiers dismounted, picked up their shields, and walked forward.

Behind them, the archers were already drawing their bows and arrows, moving slowly forward.

Feathered arrows roared outside the walls, and several of the bankers on the wall immediately fell, and one of the knights fell, but it was not fatally wounded.

The knights fired arrows, and the bankers on the wall were suppressed and couldn't raise their heads. The other party's earth-shattering thunder was thrown over again.

The explosion of "Tong, Tong" continued to sound, and the die-hard elements on the wall near the gate immediately screamed and fell.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the wall and around the wall were already in chaos, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the dead and wounded were screaming everywhere.

"Xu Yuanwai is dead!"

Someone shouted loudly.

Xu Wenchao's legs were blown off and he lay in a pool of blood wailing. His second son, Xu Liang, covered in blood, fell to the side, angry and convulsive.

Some of the bankers had already turned around and fled off the wall. Although Xujiazhuang also has twenty or thirty archers, and usually boasts of extraordinary martial arts, but today when he encountered hundreds of archers and hundreds of grenadiers on the other side, under the opponent's only one round of attacks, he suffered heavy casualties and was drenched in blood, and he had already been frightened.

Several grenadiers stepped forward and hurried to the gate of the village, where a boxy explosive bag was stuffed under the gate, and the explosive bag was ignited.

The gate was shattered and shattered, and grenadiers and archers swarmed in, followed by the drawbridge.

The knights outside the village beat their horses one after another, and easily followed the drawbridge into the village.

From outside the village to inside the village, the resistance is minimal.

Xujiazhuang has been completely controlled by the knights. Xu Wenchao's house was easily attacked, and all the people in the family were concentrated in the courtyard.

More than a dozen knights galloped in Xujiazhuang, shouting loudly: "Everyone closes the door, they are not allowed to go out, everyone is safe, this matter is only related to Xu Wenchao!"

Other knights shouted: "If anyone dares to attack the cavalry, there will be no mercy!"

The knights shouted loudly outside, and the villagers of Xujiazhuang closed the door tightly one by one, and there was silence outside for a while.

In Xu Wenchao's house, all the men, women and children in the courtyard were pale and trembling.

"Check the grain immediately, and leave the rest alone!"

Dong Ping was expressionless and issued a military order.

Just a Xujiazhuang, a land of projectiles, dares to pluck the feathers on the tiger's mouth, which is really beyond his strength.