In the courtyard of the Wang family, Wang Jizong crossed the high threshold, walked into the ancestral hall, lit three incense sticks, inserted the incense burner neatly, and knelt down and bowed respectfully three times.

Then, his gaze passed through the dense ancestral tablets, and quietly looked at a tablet in the distance.

The tablet reads, "Therefore, the first test is the position of the prince Xi Zengfujun".

It was the spiritual seat of the glorious ancestor of the former lintel of his royal family.

Wang Jizong opened his mouth and read: "I will go to Quantai to recruit the old department, and I will kill Yama with a banner of 100,000." ”

"Ancestor, when you were fully righteous in the past, when you were in the front of the ancestors, were you also in such a poetic state of mind?"

"Jizong once swore to the ancestors that he was self-cultivation and self-cultivation to govern the country and the world, and wanted to be loyal to the Ming court, but the Ming court was rotten, the country was in turmoil, and the enemy was looking at it abroad, and the building would be upside down, not supported by a tree, Jizong was worried and desperate, and he was at a loss, so he devoted himself to cultivating his family, but he kept my Wang family in troubled times."

"However, Jizong's heart to rule the country and the world is not dead, and he got a poem that day, from the mouth of a rebellious thief, his people are like strangers from ten continents, doing extraordinary things, unique and ruthless, and his steps are amazing, his poems are tragic and magnificent, and the heroic sky is cloudy, which makes Jizong agitated and unbearable, and it is difficult to sleep."

"Jizong wants to inherit the will of the ancestors, but it is a rebel thief, the land of China is also full of wild thieves, the leader is rampant, and the heroes will rise together in the near future, and the rotten wood of the Duming Court will fall, and the Jizong has great ambitions, but he is confused and at a loss."

"If the ancestors have spirits in the sky, please give instructions to clarify the will of the ancestors."

Wang Jizong lay on the ground and couldn't kneel for a long time.

A stick of incense was about to run out, Wang Jizong muttered a few times in his heart, and just when he was about to get up, he suddenly remembered a light footsteps outside.

"Husband, something happened to Mengjiazhuang."

Ning stood next to the gate of the ancestral hall and said.

Wang Jizong pressed his sore knees and reluctantly got up, and asked, "Madam, what's wrong?" ”

Ning said: "More than 1,000 soldiers and horses came outside, as if they were going to attack Mengjiazhuang, according to the villagers who were thinking about it, the person who came was Jiexiu Fan's family, the Fan family had transported thousands of money and grain into Mengjiazhuang for temporary storage, and now the money and grain fell into the Qin Governor's affairs, but they were unwilling to return to the Fan family, so the Fan family led troops to attack, and they were bound to level Mengjiazhuang. ”

"Now, all the villagers have fled, and the family has already packed up, just waiting for the husband."

Wang Jizong frowned, and soon became excited again, and turned around and knelt down to bow to the ancestral tablet.

"Jizong thanked the ancestors for making it clear!"

Ning didn't know why, so he didn't ask too much, and just stood beside the gate of the ancestral hall respectfully.

Soon, Wang Jizong walked out of the ancestral hall, rubbed his sour legs, and walked out with the support of the Ning family.

When he went outside, more than 20 members of the Wang family looked at him together.

"Let's put down the softness, the Wang family doesn't have to run away this time."

Wang Jizong's footsteps did not stop, and he continued to walk out as he spoke.

The people of the Wang family never questioned his words, and they never dared to disobey, so they only put down the soft family belongings one after another, and then walked out of the compound after him.

Coming to the edge of the town, Wang Jizong stood still, quietly looking at the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses standing on the mountain beams not far away.

The arrival of this group of men and horses is a clear indication given to him by the ancestors.

If the surnamed Qin escapes this catastrophe, he will recognize him as the master and seek rebellion from the thief.

If the surname Qin dies, he will continue to cultivate the fields and Qi family.

He prefers the former.

Not because he wanted to be a thief, but for the sake of the villagers in Lou Annoy Town, who were harmed like frightened birds by thieves and officers and soldiers all day long.

In Wang Jizong's view, although the surname Qin is a thief, he also has a way to steal, he does not commit adultery, does not kill indiscriminately, does not rob the villagers, and is a good thief.

If it is allowed to gain a firm foothold in Lou Fu, for the villagers, at least ordinary thieves and soldiers will not dare to come to rob Lou Fu.

On the other hand, he knew what kind of goods Fan Yongdou was, and he was also a traitor.

He hoped that the surnamed Qin could slaughter Fan Yongdou, so that the Ming would have one more grain and more people would survive, while the Jianzhou Jurchen would have one less grain.

However, as far as it seems now, he may not be able to do so, Fan Yongdou hired the imperial court soldiers, a total of fifteen or six hundred people, and the surname Qin is weak, and the newly trained township warriors are embarrassed and useful, and there are only about 30 people who can really fight.

In this battle, Mengjiazhuang is afraid that the chickens and dogs will not be left.

……

Qin Chuan knew that his situation was very bad.

With only 37 old bandits from Jiuji Mountain, and 300 villagers who have just been trained for a few days, it is difficult to defend Mengjiazhuang.

Especially the 300 village warriors who are mostly composed of miners, and the nearly 1,000 homeless people in the village may not necessarily work hard for him.

At this time, he still had a chance to break through, and killed with thirty-seven horses and two horses, bypassing most of the opponent's men and horses, and it was difficult for the other party to catch up with him.

However, he was very unwilling.

With this departure, he will lose the thousands of stone of grain and thousands of silver, the mines of Montenegro and thousands of displaced people, and in the words of later generations, he will return to the pre-liberation period in one night.

He still wanted to struggle.

So, Qin Chuan gathered all the villagers and homeless people, and didn't say much, but only told them one thing: if Zhuangzi was breached, everyone present would die, either killed or starved to death, and if they didn't want to die, they would have to fight with each other.

There was no impassionedness, no crowd excitement, only panic and nervousness.

The desire to survive finally triumphed over panic, and all the homeless people who were more than three feet tall, regardless of men, women, and children, began to demolish the houses under Qin Chuan's command, and he planned to demolish a few houses, and move all the bricks and tiles to the gatehouse and the courtyard of the wall, ready to use them as stones.

There is an arrow tower and a horse face on both sides of the courtyard wall, but this is not enough, the courtyard wall of Mengjiazhuang is not a city wall, but a thin wall, there is no rammed earth standing wall, and people can not stand on it to defend, Qin Chuan simply used those long wooden beams to temporarily build two wooden towers behind the courtyard wall, so that the braver homeless people stood on it and threw stones.

Several large baskets of iron thorns in Mengjiazhuang were removed, and all weapons were distributed to the physically stronger homeless people.

In addition, Qin Chuan also asked people to prepare dozens of bundles of firewood, pour fire oil, and use fire to close the road when the courtyard wall was knocked down.

The focus of the defense was on the wall that was knocked down by the Bashan Tiger last time, and although the wall was rebuilt, all the mortar for the bricklaying did not use glutinous rice water, which was far less solid than the other courtyard walls.

Even if Fan Yongdou couldn't see it, the officers and soldiers he hired would definitely be able to see it.

When Zhuangzi was busy, the officers and soldiers outside had also completed the formation, and one of the cavalrymen rode slowly towards Zhuangzi.

"Listen to the people inside, the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow were ordered to suppress the bandits, only to suppress Huoshui Qinchuan and the thirty-eight thieves under his command, and the rest of the people will not be investigated, if there is a person who captures the leader Qin Chuan, he will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, ten stones of grain, and those who capture the rest of the thieves alive will be rewarded with two taels of silver and two stones of grain, and those who behead Qinchuan will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver and five stones of grain, and those who will behead the rest of the thieves will be rewarded with one silver and one stone of grain."

"Why don't you quickly surround and kill the leader Qin Chuan, or put down your weapons and open the door of the village, and welcome the heavenly soldiers into the village?"

As soon as the man approached on horseback, he raised his voice and shouted incessantly.

The homeless people in Zhuangzi and the villagers looked at each other, and many of them showed unconcealed greed in their eyes.

That's a hundred taels of silver and ten stones of grain, enough to buy a yard on the southern Taiping boundary, and then buy dozens of acres of fertile land.

Who doesn't get excited?

But the heart is moved, but no one dares to raise a knife to kill the gatehouse, the group of people under the Qin Steward all have a strong killing ability, I am afraid that a large number of people will be killed and injured before they rush to the gatehouse.

What's more, the officers and soldiers don't have a good thing, and it's okay if they don't burn and loot everywhere, how can they give such a high reward, and people with a little brain know that the officers and soldiers are fooling them.

After shouting several times, and seeing that no one in the village responded, the knight shouted again, "You brought this on yourself," and rode away.

Not long after, among Fan Yongsheng's group, 300 people stood up, and among the officers and soldiers, there were also about 500 people.

The two teams converged into one place, and then carried knives and guns, and slowly advanced towards Mengjiazhuang.

It's coming.