Zhangyuan Village, the mansion of the Fan family.

"You guys, go clean the yard and clean it up." Fan Hu was shy with a round belly that had just eaten and drunk, and shouted at a group of long-term workers in the livestock shed as he walked out.

"Fifth master, didn't you just sweep it yesterday?"

Fan Huchan's eyebrows raised: "I don't want to eat anymore, do you?" Yesterday was yesterday, and I have to sweep it all over today, so why don't you hurry up? ”

The chief worker in the barn hurried out, and took out a broom from the corner of the house to sweep the yards that did not even have a leaf.

"Humph! A lazy person who eats all day long and doesn't work. ”

Fan Huchan scolded a few words later, then shook the paper fan, went out with a dozen or so nursing dog legs, and walked towards the arrow tower at the entrance of the village.

After the summer grain was harvested and the seeds were sown, the long-term workers had no work to do, and the family members all moved to Zhangjiakou Fort, and most of the mules, horses, and livestock were driven out to transport grain.

Yesterday, someone ran back and said that there was another group of rogues in the Mianshan area, and it seemed that they were going to fight Jiexiu County, but now the village has been sealed, and no one is allowed to come in, so as not to mix in the rogue and spy on them.

Fan Huchan is very afraid of rogues, afraid of those who eat people and don't spit out bones.

But he didn't dare to leave the Fan family's mansion, if he wanted to leave like this, if the Liukou burned down their Fan family's mansion, he wouldn't be able to eat and leave.

I hope Liukou doesn't come to Zhangyuan Village.

Guarding at the entrance of the village were the village warriors trained by the Fan family and the Zhou family, a total of 200 people, who took turns to guard around the village day and night.

Fan Hu gave birth to the entrance of the village, and after scolding a few villagers who were lying on the ground and sleeping soundly, he climbed up to the arrow tower next to the gate.

On a hot day, there are no human figures in the farmland and wilderness outside the village, and there is no root in the hair, and the direction of Taiyue Mountain in the distance is also ......

Looking at it, Fan Huchan's face suddenly changed greatly.

An army suddenly appeared in the direction of Jiebei Mountain, heading straight for Zhangyuan Village, and the dozens of horsemen who started looked at the two sides to separate, looking like they wanted to surround Zhangyuan Village.

"It's coming, it's coming, hurry, knock on the gong, gather everyone in the village, hurry." Fan Hu was so anxious that he shouted repeatedly.

Hearing his words, the villagers present looked out, and then they also changed color.

On the arrow tower, a broken gong sounded rapidly.

The whole village was soon in chaos, with exclamations, shouting, screaming of women and children, and so on.

All the nurses, village warriors, and long-term workers of the Fan family and the Zhou family rushed to the head and end of the village to guard the entrances, and all the tenants in the village, and the strong men of the villagers' families who had their own fields also came out with hoes and sticks to help guard the village.

The Fan family and the Zhou family only have 100 nursing homes, 200 village warriors, plus long-term workers, tenants and villagers, adding up to less than 700 people.

There aren't many people on the other side, it seems that there are only more than a thousand people, and they should be able to hold it.

When the group approached, Fan Huchan's brows furrowed again, that group of people didn't seem to be rogues, but Ming Army, and the big flag had the word "Qin" written on it.

He did not relax his vigilance because the other party was a Ming army, and in these years, it is not uncommon for the Ming army to rob the township and kill the good and take the lead.

Sure enough, after the Ming army arrived at the entrance of the village, they set up a formation, and some of them went around the back of the village, looking like they wanted to attack it.

The villagers and villagers in the village were all pale, and the women and children were even more chaotic, crying and shouting.

Fan Hu settled down, opened his mouth and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the army is in chaos, the village will not accept outsiders, and the lord of Jiexiu County also said that all villages should be fortified, regardless of the official army or bandits, they are not allowed to enter the village, please go to other places to camp and rest." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall and majestic general came out of the group of officers and soldiers, and slowly approached on horseback.

It was only after walking fifty steps away that the general stopped and shouted: "Listen up, the people inside, I am Qin Chuan, a guerrilla general in Shanxi, at the end of last year, the Fan family colluded with foreign enemies, lured Jiannu into Lou Nu, and killed dozens of my personal guards, today I am here to clean up the Fan family." ”

"Don't worry, I only kill the people of the Fan family, only burn the Fan family's house, including the Fan family's long-term workers and tenants, etc., all of them will not commit any crimes, when attacking the village, you just need to stay in your own house obediently, and if you don't have a house, find an open place to stay."

"A quarter of an hour later, there are still people who help the Fan family guard the village, and if they find death for the Fan family, they will all be killed."

With that, the general turned his horse's head and walked back slowly.

Fan Hu's face turned white.

Of course, he had heard the name Qin Chuan, and it was this person that the people who came back from Zhangjiakou Fort talked about the most.

The people who robbed their Fan family of food and killed their Fan family were scheming and ruthless.

Now, I have found my hometown.

He must not be allowed to come in, and he must not be allowed to come in. Sogou Library

Thinking of this, Fan Huchan shouted to the crowd downstairs of the arrow: "Don't be afraid of him, big guy, he is only a thousand soldiers and horses, he can't get in, when the county lord leads the troops to come, he can't eat and walk." ”

The crowd below had already stirred, and now they looked at each other, not knowing whether to run home or stay here.

Fan Huchan shouted again: "Folks, officers and soldiers are not a good thing, there is no shortage of things to do to kill good and meritorious deeds, if he is beaten in, the big guys will have to die, he will kill everyone in our village, use your head as the head of the rogue to invite merit, and will rob your food, sleep with your women, kill your baby, and then burn your house, folks, you must not let him come in." ”

"Yes, you can't let him come in, otherwise everyone will die, think about your wife, think about your baby, the food you just harvested will also be snatched by him."

"He's only a thousand people, we have a wall, an arrow tower, and the big guys work together, he can't get in."

Several members of the Fan family also shouted.

"Don't worry, big guy, there is our Zhou family and the Fan family's nursing home, and he is just a guerrilla general, so he can't help our Zhangyuan Village." The people of the Zhou family also shouted.

The Zhou family is also a big local family, although most of the grain has been transported away, but the Zhou family's mansion is still there, and they are also afraid that the officers and soldiers will come in to kill people and set fires.

Hearing these words, the originally commotion of the crowd gradually calmed down.

No one ran home, they all waited nervously behind the gate and the fence with hoes and sticks, bricks and stones, etc.

Outside the village, Qin Chuan listened carefully to the noise inside, then shook his head and sneered, and said, "Put all the tiger squat cannons on the table, after entering the village for a while, the Zhou family's house will also be burned." ”

"Yes."

Twenty tiger squat cannons were quickly moved up and placed eighty paces away from the entrance of the village.

The faces of Fan Huchan and the others on the arrow tower changed greatly.

However, he was silent, and whispered a warning to the guard on the arrow tower not to make a sound, and then secretly ran down the arrow tower himself.

The villagers and villagers under the arrow tower didn't know that there were cannons outside, and they were still waiting nervously.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly.

Those villagers and villagers suddenly heard someone outside the village shouting "fire", and soon heard a loud "boom, boom, boom".

Immediately afterwards, the door panel in front of them seemed to have been hit by a huge stone, with a loud bang, and the arrow tower above their heads was splashed with sawdust, and several unlucky Fan family guards screamed and fell down, and the broken hands, feet and intestines were killed all over the ground, and the villagers and villagers below were sprinkled with blood.

The power of the Tiger Squat Cannon is not great, but twenty cannons fire at the same time at a distance of eighty paces, and that firepower can knock the ghosts and gods out of.

Xiang Yong and the villagers were beaten blind, until someone shouted "artillery", and then they hid under the nearby wall.

When another round of artillery rang out, the four arrow towers next to the gate had all collapsed, and the large wooden door had also been pierced with several holes.

The villagers began to panic.

After the fifth round of gunning, the large, tattered wooden door collapsed, and the logs behind it against the gate also rolled to the ground.

The only defense facilities at the entrance of Zhangyuan Village were a few tattered horses, a trench one zhang wide, and a masonry wall behind the gate less than one person high.

Soon, the masonry wall was also knocked down.

The sound of artillery outside the village stopped, and some dared to look out, and the officers and soldiers outside were moving the artillery forward, and under the cover of a row of large shields, they were advancing towards the entrance of the village step by step.

"Listen to the people inside, I'll say it one last time, anyone who helps the Fan family guard the village and is willing to die for the Fan family will be killed, you still have time to run now, and there will be no chance when the village is broken."

The general named Qin Chuan shouted towards the village again.

"I can't stop it, I can't stop it......"

One of the villagers, whose faces turned pale and muttered to himself, suddenly got up and ran to his house without his life.

"Run, anyway, they're looking for the Fan family."

"I don't want to lose my life for the Fan family."

With the first, there will be the second, and there will be the third and fourth.

Soon, Xiang Yong and the villagers scattered in a hurry and ran away, and even many nurses of the Fan family and the Zhou family ran away in the crowd.

The nursing home that remained at the entrance of the village, the two families combined were less than 50 people.

Fan Huchan wanted to shout a few more words, but he opened his mouth, but he couldn't shout anything, and finally sat on the ground, muttering vigorously in his mouth.

"What should I do?"

"What should I do?"