At the front gate, the old owner of the village was observing with people, and Li Ren and they escorted the girl and the old woman to the gate of the village. Liren watched for a long time, but no one turned their heads to look at them.

Rihito was a little depressed, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey!! Anyone? If someone says something, look back. ”

The old owner and the people in the village were concentrating on the wooden wall of the village to observe the scene outside, when suddenly someone shouted behind him, turned his head to see how his wife and daughter were tied up. After taking a closer look, a few people on the side didn't know each other, so he came back to his senses and hurriedly led people down the wall to surround Liren and others.

Liren confronted the old village owner with the blood knife, and the old village owner spoke first: "Where are you from, why are you tying up my wife and daughter?" Let them go. ”

Li Ren was not afraid of danger and said: "We are the Vermilion Bird Army, and we have come to find you bandits this time, why do you rob the grain in the village under the mountain?" ”

The old village owner said questioningly: "Vermilion Bird Army? I haven't heard of it, you said that the food in Shixi Village is right, in order to survive, there is so much food in the village, why can't we grab it? Are you here to erect beams today? As soon as the old village owner finished speaking, a minion next to him hurriedly said in the ear of the old village owner: "Village master, the Vermilion Bird Army is a group of evil gods who have just washed Wangjiazhuang in blood, I heard about it when I was buying wine at the bottom of the mountain." ”

After listening to what the old village owner said, he felt a stirring in his heart, and immediately changed his words and asked: "Little brother, you don't know if it is the Vermilion Bird Army that washed Wangjiazhuang a few days ago?" ”

Liren smiled "haha": "Ming people don't do dark things, we are the Vermilion Bird Army that bloodbathed Wangjiazhuang a few days ago, why don't you surrender quickly." ”

When the old village owner heard this, he burst into flames: "Well, who do you think you are, you want us to surrender, you want to be beautiful." After saying this, the old village owner regretted it, because his wife and children were still in the hands of others. Quickly let go of my wife and daughter, lay down your weapons, or blame us for being ruthless." ”

Li Ren listened: "Hehe! It's strange to see someone who doesn't want to die today, why did I let your wife and daughter go, and why did I lay down my arms? You're ruthless, okay! Come on! Even your wife and children will cut it together. I'll kill at least a dozen of you while you cut us. Liren looked behind the old village owner and said contemptuously, "The bow and arrow behind you, don't say that I didn't tell you, you can't do anything with me." How do you do it? ”

After listening to what Liren said, the old village owner was in a dilemma. The minions around him spoke: "Old village master, don't worry about us, Miss and Mrs. are important." We have been with you for so long, and you have not lost us, we are content. You'd better think about the lady and the lady. ”

The old village owner is like an old man in his twilight years, but he said to Liren strongly: "In this way, you let go of my subordinates, I will fight alone with you, you win and we surrender, you lose and you let go of my wife and children." ”

Rihito immediately said, "Okay! Don't go back. ”

The old village owner laughed: "Please put it." He pulled out the single knife on his waist and walked over to Rihito.

Li Ren still carried the Flame Blood Knife, and watched with a smile as the old village owner walked in front of him and posed, but he didn't move. The old village owner asked: "Why hasn't the little brother come out of the knife?" ”

Lixin said: "The old village master, you do it first, the junior will let you have three knives, you invite first." ”

The old owner of the village was very heartwarming: "Why do you look down on my old man, that's good, I'm welcome." ”

After saying that, the old village owner stabbed Li Ren three times, and Li Ren just dodged one step left and right and dodged.

As soon as the three knives were finished, Li Ren was not welcome, the hot blood knife was swung out, and it hit the old village owner's knife directly, "click" the old village owner's knife was broken, and Li Ren took advantage of the situation to use the knife to block the old village owner's neck. The old village owner said decadently: "I lost." ”

All the people of the village, young and old, put down their weapons and covered their faces with their hands and cried loudly.

After Liren took over the cottage, he found out that these were really the original villagers of the old village owner, and they were overwhelmed by the government's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so they went up the mountain to become a bandit.

Now that Rihito is determined to reform this bandit-like organization, he ordered Li Yong to make a special register and assign everyone's responsibilities according to their strengths, abilities, and ages. The older ones and the women are in charge of logistics, and the young ones have been trained to become professional warriors, and it took half a month to integrate the original bandits who came from the mountain and the mountain, and got a total of 356 young fighters and a total of 815 logistics people.

On this day, Zhang San, a spy sent to the county seat, came back in a hurry, and when he came to the Juyi Hall and saw Liren, he said: "Boss, there are a lot of soldiers in the county seat, I inquired, they were sent from the state government to exterminate our Vermilion Bird Army." ”

Rihito sat on the top spot and pondered and said, "How many people are there?" Did they set off? ”

Zhang Sanyan said: "There are about 1,000 people in total, and they haven't set off yet. ”

Liren stood up and walked left and right and said to Zhang San: "Immediately beat the drum and gather the generals." ”

Zhang San came outside to find the drumsticks and beat them on the big drum in front of the Justice Hall.

In the county seat, the county government was full of lanterns, gongs and drums were noisy, and the county magistrate personally greeted the 1,000 officers and soldiers led by General Chen, the capital of Huizhou, from five miles away from the county seat.

Before coming to the county office, the county lord said respectfully to General Chen: "General Chen, you have come from afar, and you should have held a banquet directly in this mansion, but because this mansion is small, it may be difficult for more than 1,000 officers and soldiers led by the general to sit down. Therefore, the small county held a banquet in the three restaurants of the county to entertain the sergeants, and invited the general to accompany the county to the banquet in the humble mansion. The general said yes? ”

General Chen hugged his fists and smiled at the county master: "Zhang Zhixian, the last general is a guest from afar, and everything is arranged by Zhang Zhixian." ”

Zhang Zhixian said happily: "That small county is disrespectful. Then please: "General Chen, please!" ”

General Chen strode towards the county office.

At the banquet, the magistrate and the general each bowed down and sat down. During the banquet, General Chen asked: "Zhang Zhixian doesn't know where these bandits came from?" Can the 200 officers and troops of the imperial court be wiped out? ”

Zhang Zhixian looked helpless: "The general doesn't know, this group of bandits calls themselves the Vermilion Bird Army, there are more than 500 people, and they act ruthlessly and leave no room for survival. That Wangjiazhuang was baptized in blood because he offended them, and the whole family didn't even have a baby. Ay! It was all a mistake in the county's decision-making, and General Li's life was ruined in vain. ”

The more General Chen listened, the more unpleasant he became: "Why is there no one left in the whole family?" Zhang Zhixian nodded and said: "Yes, after they killed people, they also set fire to the house, and they were all burned to black charcoal." ”

"He acted so ruthlessly." General Chen slapped the table angrily: "If you meet so-and-so, so-and-so will definitely make them pay for their blood debts." Hum! ”

Zhang Zhixian saw that it was almost there, and immediately said, "Hehe! General, let's not talk about such a bad scenery, and look at the song and dance prepared for the general in this county. ”

General Chen immediately smiled: "Very good! Very good! Then thank you, Lord Zhixian. ”

Singing and dancing together, the banquet suddenly sang and danced. The magistrate and the general are not happy to push the cup and change the lamp.