Chapter 8: Meng Guiming's Hindsight
The faces of Ba Shanhu and Li Biaofeng and others were ugly, and the gate that was finally broken through was on fire, and the stones that sealed the road inside were burned hot, and this door hole would not be able to enter for a while.
The thieves began to storm the courtyard wall, climbing more and more of the wall, and also removed a few wooden beams from the houses in the town, and after filling in part of the trench, dozens of thieves carried the wooden beams and shouted to hit the wall.
The people of the Meng family became more and more difficult, and from time to time three or five thieves climbed into the courtyard, dodged the thistles and spears, and rushed into the crowd to slash indiscriminately.
When it comes to fighting alone, even a strong miner is no match for a murderous thief.
A few thieves cut down a group of guards, and just when the gap was opened, they saw a group of people coming violently, leading the tall and sturdy man with a long knife that was dangling.
The thieves recognized it, and that group of people was raised by the bitches in Jiuji Mountain, who were fighting against the water.
The son of a bitch raised like a pack of wolves, and with one mask, seven or eight thieves fell.
"Defense!"
Qin Chuan shouted, and then led the old bandits of Jiuji Mountain to continue to kill the next group of thieves.
The clansmen of the Meng family hurriedly commanded the courtyard to go up to fill the gap, and then looked at the back of the group of people with complicated faces.
Qin Chuan led the thieves of Jiuji Mountain to rush back and forth along the courtyard wall, and the pressure on the Meng family's courtyard was reduced a lot.
They finally knew that this group of thieves who pretended to be Jinyi guards and held the master hostage were a group of wolves.
Even the skinny little half-grown boy is a ruthless character who kills people without blinking, taking two short knives and going around like a cat, and going up to give a ruthless blow when people are unprepared.
There is also the little old man with a grin with big yellow teeth, who looks honest and honest, smirking at people one second, and stabbing a knife into someone's chest the next.
As for the leader, the people of the Meng family were even more shocked, only one rushed to kill, and as soon as the blade flashed, the other party fell.
The people of the Meng family began to rejoice that this group of people had kidnapped their master.
The good times didn't last long, a section of the courtyard wall was knocked down by the thieves, the thieves swarmed in through the gap, the guards hurriedly blocked it, Qin Chuan led people to pick up the leaks behind, but all the thieves who rushed out of the defense line died under their knives.
Gradually, the Meng family's nursing home was almost unbearable, and Qin Chuan withdrew to the gatehouse with his subordinates at the right time.
As soon as they withdrew, the defense line of the courtyard was instantly crossed, and the clansmen of the Meng family hurriedly withdrew all the courtyards to the inner courtyard and continued to defend by relying on the high walls of the inner courtyard.
The women and children in the courtyard were burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, asking the Buddha to bless the officers and soldiers of the imperial court to arrive in time.
After breaking the village, the thieves were excited, and rushed into the outer village to rummage for money and grain.
But where thieves rob, there is never a saying of fairness, justice, honesty and self-discipline.
There are many people who hide money privately, and it is impossible for the boss to search his body one by one every time he robs, as long as he does not hide a lot, he basically doesn't bother to pay attention to it.
It is not uncommon for people to turn their faces and kill people because of money grabbing, especially people from different gangs.
As soon as they entered Waizhuang, the people of Huangcongshan broke out several skirmishes with the Liukou in Linxian County, killing and injuring dozens of people.
Compared with the excitement of his subordinates, Bashan Hu, Li Biaofeng and Tongtian Zhu have been black-faced.
According to a rough estimate, they have folded nearly four hundred men and horses, most of them in the gatehouse.
If they were replaced by officers and soldiers, they would have been defeated by the death of 12 out of 10, and it was only because of the temptation of these thieves and rich women that they did not collapse.
There are two or three hundred Meng family guards in the inner courtyard, and there are more than 30 old bandits surnamed Qin and him on the gatehouse.
By the time they were all down, I don't know how many people would die.
Especially the one surnamed Qin!
Bashanhu and others, who were in a bad mood, were furious when they saw the infighting among their subordinates, and cut off a few leaders on the spot, and then drove these hands with silver taels around their waists to hit the inner courtyard.
It is impossible to tell his subordinates to attack the gatehouse first, there is no money and food on it, and no one will fight hard.
can only break the inner courtyard first, and then slowly clean up the surname Qin.
……
On the gatehouse, Qin Chuan took a sip of water and looked at Meng Guiming, who was sitting cramped and restless opposite.
"Master Meng Zhuang, Zhuangzi is broken, and the people of your Meng family are guarding the inner courtyard with two or three hundred guards, but ...... Sooner or later, the inner courtyard will also be broken. ”
Meng Guiming shuddered for a while, and then buried his head and cried and scolded: "thief, my family is young...... What kind of world is this......"
Qin Chuan frowned slightly.
Meng Guiming's reaction was a bit unexpected for him.
The crying and scolding was more like anger and unwillingness than heartbreak.
There seems to be oddities in it.
Qin Chuan didn't ask any further questions, he just asked people to make a fire to make food, and when they were full of food and drink, they were ready for a bloody battle.
At noon, the inner courtyard broke.
The shouts of killing and the roar of thieves resounded in the air.
It didn't take long for the shouts of killing to turn into screams, followed by the heart-rending cries of the women, and the unbridled lewd laughter.
Qin Chuan knew that the women of Mengjiazhuang were being ravaged by thieves, just like the other day.
At this moment, Meng Guiming was already in a cold sweat, fidgeting, and clutching the corners of his clothes from time to time.
Qin Chuan knew that he was not sad and angry, but nervous.
"Master Meng, do you have any back-ups?" Qin Chuan looked straight at him and asked indifferently.
"Huh?"
Meng Guiming was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head desperately: "No, Xiao Lao'er's Zhuangzi is just such a place, where is there any backhand." ”
Qin Chuan didn't ask any further, only sneered.
Meng Guiming shivered and didn't dare to look up at him.
The inner courtyard was also making fires, and the clanging of pots and pans and the neighing of pigs and sheep being slaughtered could be heard in the distance.
As for the woman's crying, it continued.
Bashanhu discovered a strange thing, the Meng family's more than 30 members of the family all died in a livestock yard, according to his subordinates, when they entered the yard, the family had already died there.
Among them were the bodies of several beautiful women, according to the surrendered guards, Meng Guiming's concubines and several daughters-in-law.
From this, Bashanhu concluded that the family was never killed by his own people, and they saw beautiful women as if they saw treasures.
Moreover, there were only more than 3,000 stones of grain in Mengjiazhuang, but he obviously received news that not long ago, seventy or eighty heavy carts entered Mengjiazhuang, and nine times out of ten they were loaded with grain, and they never went out when they came in.
The seventy or eighty carts of grain are more than 3,000 stones, not to mention that Mengjiazhuang must also have a lot of grain in stock.
Now that the grain is gone, and the Meng family's own family is also dead, there must be something strange among them, someone has taken the lead in front of them and transported the grain away through the secret passage.
It's definitely not the group of people surnamed Qin, they are still in the gatehouse, and that small gatehouse can't hold so much food, not to mention that they can't enter the inner courtyard at all.
According to the surrendered guard, not long ago, a group of strangers followed the grain into the village, and after entering, they hid in the inner courtyard and did not show their faces, and there were no corpses of the group in the courtyard.
Nine times out of ten, that group killed the Meng family's own family and then took the grain away.
Bashanhu asked people to dig up the entire inner courtyard, but they couldn't find the batch of grain, so they had no choice but to give up.
After the men under them had eaten and drunk enough, and the women had had enough, Ba Shanhu and Li Biaofeng drove the remaining hundreds of lazy subordinates to surround the small gatehouse.
It's time to take the dog head surnamed Qin.