At the time of Shen, the sky was cloudy and sunny, and the cold wind gusted.

This is a hidden catalpa forest, in previous years, the catalpa trees are always luxuriant, but this year is different, the leaves seem to have withered overnight, falling one after another, and sprinkled all over the ground.

The mountain road outside the woods can lead directly to the granary of the Zheng family's house five or six miles away, and the carriages and horses transporting grain pull up a long snake on the road, the mountain road is muddy and difficult to walk, and when encountering ravines or steep slopes, the carriages and horses in front and behind lend each other a helping hand, otherwise it is difficult for the carriages and horses of any family to pass smoothly, which is the benefit of organizing a group to transport grain.

In the past few days, the official documents of the state and county governments urging grain have come as fast as snowflakes, or because of the heavy snow that has not been seen in a century, the autumn has turned into the middle of winter, the snow in the north has fallen even more, the displaced people have begun to move south, and many of the local poor people have frozen to death.

The government is in urgent need of food relief and external transfer, in Meizhen, the Zheng family is a wealthy family, the state and county yamen have always handed over the task of collecting grain to the Zheng family, and the Zheng family then arranged for the militia to be responsible for escorting.

When the convoy reached the grove, Lu Yinshi stood on a dirt bag and shouted: "Everyone stop for a while, drink some water, eat some dry food, save up enough energy, go all the way, and finish the last five miles, and today's grain transportation task will be completed." ”

Walking this kind of mountain road, it does consume physical strength, fortunately, this year's leader is particularly understanding, let people take a break in the middle, everyone heard the leader say this, suddenly staggered, sat down on the spot, there are their own drinking water, has drunk it.

"If you want to lead the team to transport grain, when I am an old cow, what is the matter? Righteousness. An elderly man sat down on a stone and said as he looked at Lu Yin.

A young man surnamed Sun replied: "It belongs to my Uncle Lu who is the most benevolent, and there is a shed on the other side of the woods, with rice balls and hot water, which has never been done before." ”

This year's service of the grain transport team is really intimate.

After Lu Yinshi finished explaining, he hurriedly walked over, and saw that the young man surnamed Sun was sitting dry, without eating, and shouted in a low voice: "Hurry up, eat something and cushion the mat, there is a good show tonight." ”

Lu Yin was going to a hidden place in the forest, and Yang Bo and the others were waiting for him, and this was the last meeting before the operation.

The early intelligence collection has been done many times, and Yang Bo himself has also pretended to be Zhou Zheng's younger brother Zhou Fan, and has been to the Zheng family's horse farm and near the Zheng family's compound to do reconnaissance, and everything is ready.

The Zheng family started by taking the Mei family's property, the birds occupied the nestle, and the plum house naturally became the Zheng house, after the Zheng family succeeded, only on the basis of the plum house, another entry was added in the front, and the plum house became the inner courtyard of the Zheng house, and the front yard was the new one, the left is the racecourse, and the right is the granary. In the middle is a straight road paved with bluestone leading to the inner courtyard.

The Zheng brothers are actually also from Orion, in the early years, when the government exterminated the East China Sea pirate Mei Scorpion, Zheng Shicong was appreciated by the nobles, and made a shop in Haizhou, so the Zheng family had a chance to make a career.

Over the years, with the power of Zheng Shicong in Haizhou, the Zheng family can be said to have taken and done many evils in Meizhen, so there are many enemies, and the inner courtyard of the Zheng family is heavily guarded, and it is difficult for outsiders to set foot in it.

For example, the convoy escorting grain can only be under the supervision of the family soldiers, and the grain can be transported into the outer courtyard, and it is impossible to enter the inner house, which can bring Zheng Shidao a little illusory sense of security.

The racecourse was built purely because of Zheng Shidao's personal preference, this man likes to dance with guns and sticks since he was a child, and he won the racecourse from the Mei family, and he usually likes to get a few good horses, bring a few henchmen, and train riding skills in the racecourse.

Imagine what it would be like for the Zheng family to ride on a high-headed horse, run rampant in Meizhen, and gallop by? For the people of Meizhen, there is no doubt that there are 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in their hearts, right? In fact, it is a means for the Zheng family to show off their force value.

As for the effect, the color will be visible tonight.

Yang Bo repeatedly weighed the force value of the two sides in his heart, according to the information collected by all parties, the Zheng family's family soldiers in the family house are about sixty, and the horse farm is said to have more than a dozen family soldiers' 'establishment', but Yang Bo personally went to see it, the so-called family soldiers' main task is to feed horses and herd sheep, and they don't even have a chance to touch the knives and guns, it's not worth mentioning, and the Zheng family never thought that anyone would challenge the Zheng family.

The threat of the Zheng family mainly comes from a fort on the left side of the gate in the front yard, the fort is made of bluestone, the top is a flat top, there is a lookout, and there are more than a dozen firecrackers and archers, firecrackers and bows and arrows are long-range weapons, if Yang Bo does not want too many casualties, he must knock out the fort.

A good news is that the Zheng family's soldiers don't like to use firearms, not to mention the use of firecrackers in this era, and it is very dangerous, and they blow up the chamber at every turn.

Yang Bo is most afraid of firecrackers, although that thing is not accurate, but it will kill you when it hits your body.

On Yang Bo's side, Lu Yin found more than 30 hunters, and only 27 of them could play, they had knives, guns and hunting forks in their hands, and although the hunters also had bows and arrows at home, they had no way to carry them, so they had to give up. Twenty-seven, the number is too small, not enough.

Yang Bo had no choice but to ask Zhou Zheng to pick out twenty young people among the newly accepted refugees in the stone temple, saying that they were young and strong, but they were just generals among the short people, these people were refugees from the north, and they didn't eat until they were taken in by the stone temple for a few days, but fortunately, after Yang Bo's flickering, their morale was not bad, but they didn't have weapons in their hands.

Yang Bo saw that Uncle Lu had rushed over, pressed down with both hands, signaling everyone to be quiet, Yang Bo looked around at everyone, Lu Yinshi, He Qifeng, Sun Jinyi, Zhou Zheng, Mr. Fu, and Mei Tianyou, these key figures were all present, Sun Jinyi was the young man surnamed Sun and his father, he had a daughter who worked as a maid in the Zheng family, and he was unwilling to be humiliated and threw himself into the well and died.

Yang Bo said in a deep voice: "The first team, eight people, Uncle Lu is in charge, I will act with the first team, and again, the first task of the first team is to set fires, before setting fires, you can't show your weapons rashly unless you have to." ”

"Brother..."He Qifeng was anxious, these days, he has been pestering Yang Bo, wanting to go to the first team, Yang Bo just didn't allow it, one is that the knife wound on his leg has not healed, and the other is that He Qifeng is too tall, it is really eye-catching, and it is easy to expose the target.

Yang Bo didn't give He Qifeng any chance, his eyes kicked, He Qifeng was uneasy, and punched an old catalpa tree beside him, and the leaves suddenly fluttered down, Yang Bo could understand that He Qifeng was anxious to take revenge, but now was not the time to be rash.

The task of the first team is to set fires, the risk is actually quite large, in case it is exposed, you can't run away, Yang Bo actually doesn't want to go, but he is known as Yang Bo, the fireman, if you don't go, you can't go.

Arranging eight people, plus Yang Bo's nine people, is also a last resort, the Zheng family only allows a maximum of four carriages to enter the front yard at a time, two people in one car, plus one Yang Bo, is already the limit.

The reconnaissance in the early stage found that in the evening, the carriages and horses wanted to hand over the grain and go home before dark, which was more crowded, which was an opportunity, which was also one of the reasons why the operation chose to be dark.

Uncle Lu's expression was grim, he stood up, and responded in a low voice, "Obey." After Yang Bo signaled, he sat down on the spot again.

"The second team, nineteen people, is in charge of Sun Jinyi, Uncle Sun, the first task of the second team is to control the fort, to ensure that the bows and arrows and firearms do not fall into the hands of the Zheng family, and those who dare to block and resist will be killed. I would like to remind Uncle Sun that the second team can only take action when they see the fire meteor in the sky, and must not rush forward. ”

"After the fort is in hand, you can divide the troops at the opportunity, one part will stay in the fort, and the other will join the first team of nine people to attack the inner courtyard of the Zheng family."

The fire meteor that Yang Bo said was actually a signal flare, for which Yang Bo made a few, and also demonstrated it in advance for Sun Jinyi to watch, and Sun Jinyi was stunned, the fire meteor was called by Sun Jinyi himself, and Yang Bo just adopted it.

Sun Jinyi was ordered to sit down.

"The third team, twenty-one people, is in charge of Zhou Zheng, you don't have weapons in your hands, the third team is a reserve, after the second team captures the fort, they will throw out the captured weapons, you are waiting in front of the fort, don't rush to act, get the weapons in your hands first, the scene may be very chaotic, and Zhou Zheng will decide on the spot."

Zhou Zheng stood up and said, "Childe, after the third team invades the front yard, my people will be handed over to Sun Jinyi, I will go to the first team to find you, after all, it is my duty to protect Childe." ”

Yang Bo hid the revolver and tucked it, so far only He Qifeng knows, others may be speculating, but never seen, even if Sun Jinyi demonstrated the fire meteor, Sun Jinyi only looked up at the sky, and did not know where the fire meteor came from.

Zhou Zheng didn't know that Yang Bo had a magical short gun around his waist, Yang Bo was born with fine skin and tender meat, and he looked like a weak scholar, no matter how you look at it, it is not reassuring.

Hearing Zhou Zheng say this, Lu Yinshi and Sun Jinyi immediately stood up and agreed, without him, Yang Bo looked too much in need of someone to protect, Yang Bo saw that everyone was very persistent, so he had to agree, and he was really thinking in his heart, this is the matter, go back and train your muscles, otherwise, in front of this gang of rough men, it is really not enough to see.

Yang Bo's eyes swept over Mr. Fu, Mei Tianyou and He Qifeng, He Qifeng couldn't hold back on his face now, grabbed the unlucky old catalpa tree, and kept beating it.

Mr. Fu said as he said when playing chess with Yang Bo, he participated in the whole process, but he didn't say a word, as Mr. Lu Xun said, I have never been afraid to speculate on the Chinese people with malice, Yang Bo said in his heart, Mr. Fu is this You Suqing's supervisor?

Mr. Fu was silent, the reason was that Yang Bo refused to take over as the leader of the Spark Sect, Zhou Zheng was originally the bodyguard and messenger of the sect leader of Ma Dai, and now that Ma Daochang is gone, Yang Bo refuses to take up the position of sect leader, so now his identity is a little delicate.

Yang Bo finally said: "Mr. Fu, Mr. Mei, He Qifeng, you wait here first, we will pull out in a while, you find a high place, see the Zheng family on fire, and then get up and go to Meizhen, the wind, no matter who catches Zheng Shidao, I will let people keep it for you, if it goes well, you will have the opportunity to slash Zheng Shidao tonight and avenge your father." He Qifeng was dissatisfied, he was full of thoughts about going to arrest Zheng Shidao in person, but unfortunately Yang Bo didn't give him a chance, and specially reminded Mr. Fu to be optimistic about He Qifeng.