Du Youliang encountered a lot of defeated soldiers and villagers who escaped from Jingyou along the way, and reluctantly gathered more than 100 defeated soldiers, and after gathering enough 500 men and horses, he rushed back to Jingyou Town in a murderous manner.

When I arrived at the entrance of the town, the town was empty, but Dujiazhuang was full of chickens, dogs, pots and pans, and the gang of thieves seemed to be rummaging through his family's belongings.

Du Youliang immediately led people into the town, and when he passed the main street, he saw that several shops of his Du family were smashed to pieces, and the goods in them had already been moved by the thieves, but the houses of those villagers were intact, including the houses of more than a dozen small households, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep were still calling leisurely in the yard.

Even, there were a few women who were so frightened that they couldn't run, they were hiding in the house and shivering, but they were not taken captive by the thieves.

In other words, this group of masked thieves did not rob ordinary villagers, but only came to their Du family.

Du Youliang was furious, brandishing the red spike long sword, and ordered hundreds of villagers to attack Dujiazhuang.

At this time, a row of people suddenly appeared on the gatehouse of Zhuangzi.

"Master Du and the two sons are here, who dares to do it?"

A burly masked thief, armed with a long knife, shouted outside.

"Daddy!"

Du Youliang shouted silently.

The row of people on the gatehouse is his Du family, there are thirty of them, and standing in the middle is his father, Du Yingguang.

There were also his two brothers, several cousins, and a dozen cousins, all of whom were looking at him with pale faces and trembling.

Du Yingguang's face was also pale, but he still raised his head high, and shouted loudly: "You Liang, you hundreds of people can't beat Dujiazhuang, go to Xiwei in Lanzhou Town to move the rescue troops, and ask Lord Xue to send troops to destroy the surnamed Qin, this group of thieves was sent by the dog thief surnamed Qin." ”

The burly thief on the side didn't stop him, but just smiled: "Okay, hurry up and invite the army to destroy the one surnamed Qin, grandpa, it's too late for me to be happy." ”

Then, the burly thief shouted at Du Youliang again: "Du Gongzi, listen well, grandpa, I will not change my name and sit or change my surname, the three cliff kings are just also, and please Du Gongzi immediately withdraw from the army, don't stand in the way of grandpa, otherwise grandpa I will slaughter your family and burn the contents of this box." ”

"Du Gongzi should recognize this thing, it contains thousands of IOUs released by the Du family over the past few decades, and after a fire, the villagers in the surrounding villages owe you the debts of the Du family, but they will be written off."

With that, the burly thief raised an iron box in his hand.

Du Youliang's heart jumped in shock.

It was indeed an iron box for putting IOUs, and his father had the habit of carrying this iron box with him, and he had the habit of taking IOUs out and combing them out at two ends in three days.

These thousands of IOUs are the foundation of the Du family, and with these things, the villagers of Jingyou Town and Shili Eight Townships will obediently listen to their family, mine for them, and fight for them.

It also allows them to collect a lot of interest from the villagers year after year, which is simply a cornucopia, a cash cow.

If these IOUs were burned, the Du family's losses would be great.

Compared with Du Youliang's horror, the hundreds of villagers under him looked at each other and were overjoyed.

Among them, there were many villagers, miners and tenants, and almost all of them owed the Du family money and grain, ranging from dozens of taels of silver to a few buckets of grain, and most of them could not pay it back in their lifetime.

After they die, their children and grandchildren have to repay the debts of the Du family for them, and they have to continue to make cattle and horses for the Du family, and they will never be able to turn over.

Now, they only hope that the thief will burn the IOU and they will be freed.

The burly thief upstairs shook the box in his hand, and said: "If Du Gongzi wants to save your family and retrieve this box, within three days, we will transport 2,000 stone of grain to Tieshigou Mountain, and we will hand over the grain with one hand and the other hand." ”

"Remember, you only have three days, if I can't see two thousand stone of grain, just wait to collect the corpse of your family."

"By the way, Du Gongzi, when you retire, please leave the mounts of your subordinates, as well as those mules and carriages, grandpa, I am short of horses."

After saying this, as soon as the burly thief waved his hand, dozens of thieves stepped forward and escorted all the Du family members away.

"Daddy, Daddy......"

Du Youliang shouted desperately.

"Go to Xiwei, Lanzhou Town, to find Lord Xue......"

All he could hear was the sound of his father drifting away.

Du Youliang's eyes were red, and he couldn't wait to go into Dujiazhuang to rescue his father and two younger brothers, but the vast majority of his five hundred people were newly trained villagers, and they didn't have much combat power at all.

However, he was unwilling to retreat like this.

After thinking about it, Du Youliang decided to send someone to the county seat to inform his mother and a few old people in the family, and asked his mother to take out the silver stored in the county seat, and go to Lord He of Jingle Zhi County, Jingle Wu Family, Zhang Family of Lan County, Hu Family of Dongcun of Lan County, Feng Family of Chijianling, and Lord Xue, the commander of Xiwei in Lanzhou Town, to ask these families to send troops to save his family, and then destroy the dog thief surnamed Qin in one fell swoop.

After making a decision, Du Youliang called a few cronies and explained that when he was about to send people out, the burly thief dragged a crying young man and appeared on the gatehouse.

"Du Gongzi, you don't seem to have listened to grandpa's words, let you withdraw from the army, you are still grinding here, do you want to block grandpa's retreat, and then move rescuers to attack grandpa and me?"

The burly thief said coldly, and then the knife fell in his hand, and the young man's cry of pain suddenly stopped.

Before that was done, the thief took out another stack of IOUs, handed them to the torch and lit them, and threw them down the gatehouse.

"Du Gongzi, after a quarter of an hour, I will kill two in one go, and three in another quarter of an hour, until you retreat."

"Remember, leave all the horses behind, if you dare to take a horse, grandpa, I will kill a person, and burn a stack of IOUs."

The burly thief threw his head out, turned and walked away.

Du Youliang was furious, it was one of his cousins who had just been killed, although he was not very close to him, but it was also his Du family, and there were even one or twenty IOUs that were burned, which were all silver and food.

After only a moment's hesitation, Du Youliang decided to retreat.

He didn't dare take that risk.

If the young man in the clan is killed and the IOU is burned, the elders in the county will never spare him.

Not only did he retreat, but he also left behind more than fifty mounts and all the mule and horse carts.

There are only more than 140 horses in Dujiazhuang, and only his family's nursing home is qualified to ride horses, and he only brought about 50 horses with him on this trip, and more than 20 nursing homes scattered out are also on horseback, and there are about 70 horses left in Zhuangzi, and now they must have fallen into the hands of thieves.

After leaving Jingyou Town, Du Youliang recruited a few spies, took a few horses, took a few cronies with him, and rode to Jingle County.

The dozens of nursing homes and more than 400 villagers walked to the county seat in the back.

It's past noon, and the sky always gets dark very quickly in winter, and it will be dark in two hours.

Jing is more than fifty miles away from the county seat, and he can only walk forty miles at most in two hours, and this group of people is going to be unlucky.

……

Du Youliang just walked on his front foot, and the burly thief in Dujiazhuang ...... That is, Luo Daniu, the first fierce general under the command of the Great Steward of Qin, immediately sent dozens of horsemen, together with the Guan Emperor army in Shitanling, to clear the nearby Du family spies and pull out all the eyeline.

Immediately afterwards, Luo Daniu personally led a hundred horsemen, covered his face, put cotton cloth on the horse's paw, and made a detour from the north to chase Du Youliang's hundreds of villagers.

Of course, Qin Chuan would not let Du Youliang's people return to the county seat safely, he just didn't want to fight the other party head-on, and wanted to avoid casualties as much as possible.

In the case of superior mobility, a night raid is the best approach.

He didn't want to kill those Xiangyong, he just wanted to destroy the fifty courtyards and drive hundreds of Xiangyong back to Jingyou Town.

At that time, the chief steward of Mengjiazhuang Qin and the Lou Fu patrol made Lord Qin defeat the thieves on the road, rescue hundreds of innocent people, and temporarily settle the people in Lou Fan Town.

At this moment, Lord Qin, who loved the people like a son, sent Emperor Guan's army to search for the fleeing Jingyou villagers, and brought these people to Lou Fu Town to accept the protection of his Lord Qin.

This trick is called drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle.

After all the surrounding Du family spies were cleared, Lord Qin sent Liu Youzhu to lead a hundred Guan imperial troops, covered his face, swaggered into Jingyou Town, and met the masked thieves there, and then loaded all the things that the Du family could move away onto mule-horse carts and chicken carts, and transported them out of Jingle in a mighty way, bypassing Montenegro and transporting them to Shentai Peak Dazhai in Xiaowen Mountain.

At the same time, Mengjiazhuang sent another 100 horsemen to clear the area from Black Mountain to Shentai Peak to open the way for the grain transportation team.

Most of the grain of the Du family was stored in the county seat, and there were originally only 800 stone of grain in Zhuangzi, of which 500 stone had already been transported to Shitanling to Qinchuan, and only 300 stone was left in Zhuangzi.

But the Du family has a lot of iron tools, there are thousands of pieces, weapons, farm tools, cauldrons, cattle, sheep, mules and horses, green salt cloth, etc., there are also a lot of miscellaneous things.

The biggest gain is the box of IOUs, as well as Du Yingguang's family of thirty young and strong.

Qin Chuan moved everything that could be moved, even the mahogany furniture that the Du family had saved for several generations also moved a lot, more than fifty mule carriages, two hundred chicken carts, and they were full.

It is not unreasonable that the peasant rebel armies of all dynasties like to fight big households, and the wealth of money and grain in various places is concentrated in the hands of the gentry and big households.