For the Fan family, although the loss of 5,000 stone of grain and 7,000 taels of silver would hurt the flesh for a while, it would not make the Fan family hurt their muscles and bones.

Compared with the loss of money and food, the damage to reputation is the most important.

Dozens of thieves dared to rob his Fan family of money and food, and also killed his brother and two nephews, if he didn't peel the bones of this gang of thieves, I am afraid that the Fan family will not be able to mix in Shanxi in the future, and all kinds of thieves will think that their Fan family is a fat sheep to be slaughtered, and everyone wants to come up and take a bite.

In Fan Yongdou's generation, he not only controlled most of the salt trade in Zhangjiakou, but also broadened other trades, purchasing grain, ironware, cloth, tea, etc. from all over the Ming Dynasty, shipping them to Zhangjiakou, and then selling them to the Mongols and Jianzhou Jurchens in the north.

Doing business with the Mongols can be exchanged for a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and doing business with the Jianzhou Jurchens can be exchanged for a large number of ginseng, both of which are best-selling goods in the Ming Dynasty.

But this business needs a huge network to support, only in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan with the Fan family to buy and sell the relationship of the gentry, there are hundreds of households, from all over the country to Zhangjiakou every year in an endless stream.

When the rogues are everywhere, the road is already very unpeaceful, and if all the thieves want to come up and take a bite, the huge vein of the Fan family may really become a fat sheep to be slaughtered.

This is a scene that Fan Yongdou never wants to see.

Therefore, Mengjiazhuang, a gang of thieves who don't have long eyes, must die!

Especially the one surnamed Qin, not only to take his life, but also to skin him, light his sky lantern, and then hang the body on the gatehouse of Mengjiazhuang to feed the birds.

Fan Yongdou is naturally not afraid of the government's investigation, the surname Qin is just a group of thieves, he is in the name of Xiangyong who followed the army to suppress bandits, the division is famous, and there is Zhenwuwei Commander Cover, who will investigate his crimes?

Of course, there is still a price, just to pay three thousand taels of silver to Zhenwuwei, not including the rewards of those families in their own homes.

For the prosperity of the Fan family, no matter how big the price is, it is worth it.

As for what kind of disloyalty and injustice the surname Qin said...... Heh, who is in charge in this world has nothing to do with him Fan Yongdou, the prosperity of his Fan family is the most important.

What's more, suppressing bandits for the imperial court is not loyal to the Ming Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Fan Yongdou couldn't help but smile and looked at the gatehouse with a smile on his face.

At most, after another hour, Mengjiazhuang will leave no chickens and dogs, and the officers and soldiers of Zhenwuwei will not waste any head in Zhuangzi, which is a piece of military merit.

……

The process of Bashan Hu's capture of Mengjiazhuang has long been seen by the people of the Fan family, and they know that the gatehouse is very difficult to bite, and it may not be possible to beat it down if you pile up three or four hundred heads.

The best choice is to be knocked down by the people of Bashan Tiger and rebuilt the courtyard wall.

There is no glutinous rice in Mengjiazhuang, and the newly laid bricks and stones must not use glutinous rice water.

As a result, the combined forces of the Fan Family Guard and the Zhenwu Guards were divided into three teams, two of which feinted to attack the gatehouse and other courtyard walls, and the other team used the log beams obtained from the town to attack the newly built area.

The coalition army had just approached thirty paces with an iron-clad wooden shield, and on the horse face protruding from the middle of the outer wall, on the two wooden towers temporarily erected in the wall, the sound of bird's guns and bowstrings rang out at the same time, and the arrows and lead ping-pong on the wooden shield, and four unlucky coalition troops were shot by the arrows that came in through the gap, and fell to the ground screaming.

The coalition forces stood still and continued to advance.

When they marched under the corners of the wall and began to fill in the trenches, there were only a dozen casualties, which were almost negligible.

But at this moment, there was a sudden swishing sound in the sky, and hundreds of bricks flew out of the wall like rain, smashing the wooden shields of the coalition army, screaming again and again.

"Raise your shield! Hit the wall on the log! ”

The officer in charge of leading the troops shrank behind the shield and shouted, and as soon as he finished speaking, two bricks were smashed on the shield at the same time, and he was dizzy.

The coalition troops raised their shields and shouted trumpets and began to hit the wall, and the bricks and arrows above their heads were still raining down, and people were screaming and falling to the ground all the time.

The mortar of the wall was indeed not mixed with glutinous rice water, and after paying the price of fifty or sixty dead and wounded, the coalition forces finally knocked down the wall and opened a gap.

Then, throwing down the logs, the shields on them, and rushing in with a swarm.

As soon as they entered the opening, they felt that something was wrong under their feet, as if they were covered with firewood, and there was a strong smell of fire oil.

Before they could react, the guns rang out again, this time like a cannon battle, four bird guns and four three-eyed guns were fired in unison, and the three-eyed guns were tied together and ignited at the same time, banging and banging, and hundreds of bricks were exhaling in unison.

The rainstorm of iron sand in pear blossoms, and the bricks that covered the sky and the sun, made the dozens of coalition troops who rushed in all fall, and the momentum behind them also slowed down.

The coalition forces know that whether it is a bird gun or a three-eyed gun, it will take half a day to reload, and as long as they rush in with the bricks, they can go on a killing spree.

So, when they came to their senses, the coalition troops stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed in with a roar.

This time, the firearms were silent, but the bricks didn't stop for a moment, and there was one more thing: torches.

Dozens of torches were suddenly thrown on both sides, and as soon as they hit the ground, the firewood soaked in fire oil suddenly burned, and a raging fire ignited in the gap less than two zhang wide.

The few coalition troops that happened to be blocked in the gap instantly turned into burning people, and those who had not yet entered the village hurriedly retreated, and those who entered the village could only rush in with the bricks in the sky.

A few steps after rushing out, the coalition troops at the front fell down screaming again, only to find that the ground was full of thistles.

The people behind stepped on the bodies of their companions rolling and screaming, and rushed out of the area covered with thistles, and saw a group of thieves with fierce and murderous faces, dragging long knives like a pack of wolves to pounce on them.

Soon, they fell.

From the first batch of people who entered the village to eat iron sand, none of the more than 130 coalition troops who rushed in survived.

Most of them died under the bricks, and the scene of 400 homeless people throwing bricks in a circle was not unspectacular, even the big children threw them vigorously.

The coalition forces outside the village were stopped by the fire, and none of them could enter.

"The fire doesn't need to burn too much, just don't fill them in the soil and extinguish it, just leave two hundred villagers here, and the others will go to guard the other section of the wall, and clean up the corpses, remember to pull out the thistle terrestris, spread it on the ground again, and pick up some bricks and bring it back."

"Da Niu took twenty brothers to patrol along the wall, and where the defense was tight, he would send people to support, and if there was no large force of attack, he would not use firearms first, and let those guns cool down for a while."

After arranging a few words in an orderly manner, Qin Chuan returned to the gatehouse with a few old bandits from Jiuji Mountain.

Standing on the gatehouse and looking at the enemy who retreated in a hurry, Qin Chuan's face was a little solemn.

In the first wave of the attack, nearly 200 coalition troops were slaughtered, which was not a small loss for the coalition army with only 15,600 men.

But this wave was only easily broken by anticipating that the opponent would hit the gap in advance, and concentrating the defensive forces in advance, piling up firewood and thistles.

The next defense is not so easy, the opponent is estimated to come hard and attack directly.

When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the homeless people who can only throw bricks will be vulnerable.

……

Just when Qin Chuan was worried, another army from the direction of Taiyuan was rushing towards Lou Fu.