Ten miles north of Lancheng, the lion's roar.

Zhang Bingshan and Zhang Shijing's father and son stared wide-eyed, looking at the mountain beams on both sides of the Lion's Roar Valley not far away, trying to find something from above.

"Master, this lion's roar can't go, several of the sentinels sent out by our family have never returned, and there must be an ambush ahead." A steward beside him persuaded bitterly.

Zhang Shijing pouted, "If there is an ambush ahead, why can the prince and others pass over unharmed?" ”

"The princess and the princess are empty-handed, but we are carrying dozens of truckloads of money and food."

"The prince and the princess will definitely send a large number of sentinels, two thousand soldiers and horses over the mountains and valleys, why didn't they make the slightest movement?"

"This ...... I don't know about this little one. ”

Zhang Shijing pursed his lips again and didn't continue to ask.

Zhang Bingshan looked at the torches of the Ming army in the distance, and looked hesitant.

The 2,000 Ming troops led by Wang Dehua went out of the city one step ahead of them, and they did not bring any baggage, and they were in a hurry to flee for their lives, and they couldn't take care of the Zhang family and other big families behind them.

The Zhang family had to transport dozens of carts, and after entering the haystack ditch, the mountain road was difficult to walk, and they soon fell far behind.

Seeing that Wang Dehua's Ming army had successfully passed through the Lion's Roar Valley, there was no sound, but among the sentry horses he sent out, a few of them never came back, and they didn't know if something happened or they ran away.

Zhang Jishan couldn't understand, if something happened, why didn't the two thousand Ming troops in front of him move at all?

"Dad, in my opinion, those sentry riders should have run away when they saw our family in trouble, maybe they ran to the surname Qin." Zhang Shijing, who was on the side, suddenly pouted and said.

Zhang Jishan pondered for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully, "Shijing is right, those ungrateful dogs should have run away." ”

"Father, let's go quickly, don't be caught up by the surnamed Qin, but we will suffer."

"Yes, yes, go, go, go, go."

Under the urging of the father and son, the Zhang family's team continued to drive and advanced into the lion's roar.

It was followed by the teams of several other large families, and there were also many carts full of money and grain.

When he entered the Lion's Roar Valley and climbed along the long gentle slope to Luya Mountain, Zhang Jishan suddenly felt a slight tremor coming from the ground, and when he was puzzled, the tremor suddenly became bigger and bigger, as if something was knocking on the ground.

"Did the earth dragon turn over?"

Zhang Shijing, who was on the side, also muttered suspiciously.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Shijing's face suddenly changed.

"Cavalry, it's cavalry."

The steward who had advised them not to enter the mountain valley just now also changed his face greatly, and he opened his mouth and shouted.

"Quick, fast, fast, fast...... Woman and child into the middle of the car formation, fast, fast ......"

Zhang Bingshan's face turned pale, and he kept jumping and shouting, and the conductors drove the mule and horse-drawn carts together.

Zhang's family is the leading local wealthy family in Lan County, with more than 600 people, mostly women, Zhang Bingshan himself married an eight-room concubine, his son Zhang Shijing is twenty-five years old, and has also married five rooms, and other men basically have three or five rooms, the old and the young add up to almost 400 women, and nearly 100 children under the age of fifteen.

In addition, there were three hundred maids, all the women and children combined, about eight hundred, and when these people heard that the thieves were coming, they immediately screamed and cried and shook the sky.

This cry made the women and children of several large families cry as well.

For a while, the cry shook the heavens and the earth, and even Tang Linxian, who was standing lonely at the head of the city ten miles away, could hear it.

After the ambush in the Lan River that night, there were only about a hundred of the Zhang family's guards left, and there were many subordinates such as the horseman, but these people couldn't hold knives, and they didn't have anything to do when they went to the battlefield.

The convoys of the other families behind were a little far away, and it was too late to merge the mules and carriages together, so they had to fight separately.

In this case, if there are more than 200 enemies, they will definitely not be able to stop them.

When the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, Zhang Bingshan, Zhang Shijing's father and son, as well as a few stewards and hundreds of family guards below, their faces became more and more ugly.

Listening to the roaring sound of horses' hooves, the other party is definitely not only two hundred, but five hundred is possible.

Those families have long been in a mess, and they have not been able to put the mule cart together for a long time.

Zhang Bingshan and Zhang Shijing were so angry that they waved their horsewhips and kept urging.

"Those who go along are born, and those who are against them die!"

At this time, on the northeast hillside, an indifferent cold drink suddenly came out.

The people of the Zhang family seemed to have been pricked by needles, and their scalps were numb in shock, and several women were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, struggling for a long time and not having the strength to get up.

A bold guardian threw the torch over, and saw a vague figure on horseback standing on the hillside, holding a large gun in his hand, and vaguely seeing two eyes reflecting the firelight, which looked particularly strange at night.

At this time, a shout came from not far to the east: "Lord Qin never kills innocents, let alone women and children." ”

The people of the Zhang family were startled again, and after throwing the torch over, they saw that there was also a shadow of a horse riding there, and a bow and arrow were still in his hand.

"Those who put down their weapons live, those who kneel down to accept the surrender live, and women and children live!"

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"Death to those who hold weapons, death to those who resist, death to those who run around!"

"If you descend to Lord Qin, you will have food, clothing, clothing, and farming, and those who have the ability can be paid as officials, and those who have no ability to work as coolies will also have the money, and those who want to read and write can also go to school."

Suddenly there were shouts all around, and they were still loud in the cries of a group of women.

This is the twenty people led by Zhao Wu who did not accept the night, and ambushed in this area early, cooperating with Liu Youzhu to rob the road.

Seeing that the people of the Zhang family were in a mess, he appeared and shouted, before Liu Youzhu arrived, let the people of the Zhang family continue to be chaotic, and it was best to make some people surrender directly.

Their shouting had a great effect, and one of the Zhang family's guards suddenly knelt on the ground, threw away the weapon in his hand, and shouted, "Don't kill me, I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender." ”

With the first, there was the second, and soon more than a dozen guards threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

"Kill them quickly, you can't descend, as soon as you descend, it's all over, you can't descend ......"

Zhang Bingshan was so anxious that he jumped vigorously, and kept shouting in his mouth.

Zhang Shijing also drew out a long sword that carved dragons and phoenixes, and shouted, "Release the arrows, release the arrows and kill them, quickly!" ”

Hearing this, several nurses hurriedly drew out their arrows, and as soon as they bent their bows and arrows, they heard a "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air, and suddenly shot out more than a dozen arrows in the dark, piercing those courtyards into hedgehogs.

The shadow holding the big gun urged the horses to roar down from the hillside, holding the big gun and pointing directly at Zhang Shijing.

This gunman is none other than Liao Sangun.

"Stop him, quick, stop him......"

Zhang Shijing's face turned pale with fright, and he hid behind a group of nurses in a trembling state.

There were several guards who stood in the way of Liao Sangun's gun, trying to block him with a gun array.

But there were a few more sounds of breaking through the air, and the guards fell to the ground screaming with arrows stuck in their bodies.

Liao Sangun was like entering a no-man's land, and went straight into the crowd, and after picking up a few nursing homes, he arrived in front of Zhang Shijing in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Shijing's face turned pale, and he staggered back while raising the exquisite long sword in his hand.

Liao Sangun's wrist flicked, and the big spear swept by the side of the long sword like a poisonous snake, flew a little faster at Zhang Shijing's throat, and quickly retracted.

Zhang Shijing seemed to have his neck suddenly broken, his head drooped, and he fell to his knees with a pop, clutching his throat with both hands.

In the shadow of the torches, scarlet blood gushed from his fingers, and he couldn't lift his head, pulling it like a dead chicken.

"Jing'er ......"

Zhang Bingshan saw that his heart was broken, and he ran over with a rolling belt, holding his head.

Zhang Shijing's neck had been broken, there was no expression on his face, but his eyes were full of horror, and his mouth was gurgling in his throat one by one.

"Ah...... Ah......h

Zhang Bingshan cried heartbreakingly.

His wife, his wife, his wife, and several other female relatives also cried and screamed, and staggered and ran over.

Liao Sangun knocked over a few more courtyards that tried to block him, chiseled through the crowd, stabbed a pair of people, and then turned the horse's head, and then looked at the Zhang family indifferently on the other side.

Zhao Wu slowly approached with a bow and arrow in his hand, and shouted coldly, "I'll say it again, follow the life, and the rebel will die!" ”

"Descend, I wish to surrender, I wish to surrender ......"

"I am willing to surrender, don't kill me."

"I am willing to serve Lord Qin."

The guards of the Zhang family had long been frightened by the sharp archery skills of this group of people, as well as Zhao Wu's sharp marksmanship, and they threw down their weapons one after another to tell them to spare them.

This time, no one stopped them anymore, the people of the Zhang family knew that the general trend had gone, and Zhang Bingshan only hugged Zhang Shijing, who had not yet breathed, and cried.

The 300 Wudang battalion led by Liu Youzhu has already entered the range of 100 steps, and they are holding high their swords and guns, shouting in unison, "Follow life, and the rebel will die!" ”

As soon as the people of the next few big families saw that the Zhang family was finished, they suddenly became more and more chaotic, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, some were paralyzed on the ground and wept bitterly, some climbed towards the mountain beams on both sides, and many people with mounts galloped towards Lancheng.

On the tower of Lancheng City, Lao Huang, who had just climbed up to the city tower, grinned with a mouthful of big yellow teeth, clasped his fists at Tang Linxian, and shouted with a smile, "Xiaomin has seen Lord Zhixian. ”

Tang Linxian thought to himself that you are a fart little people, but he said humbly in his mouth, "The old gentleman is polite, Tang is a sinner, and he deserves a big gift from the old gentleman." ”

As he spoke, he secretly glanced at a man next to him who was talking to Zhao Renyin in a low voice, this person should be Zhao Gengzi, the head of the Zhuang class in Jingle County.

Lao Huang smiled again and said, "Lord Zhixian, those people who are fleeing back from outside are still of some use to our family, Lord Qin." ”

"Tang understands."

Tang Linxian said, and shouted downstairs to the city, "Open the city gate and welcome those big families into the city." ”

"Yes."

The north gate of Lancheng creaked, and soon the gate opened, like a huge Pixiu mouth that only ate and did not vomit, to greet the old men and sons of those big families who had fled back.

Those old men were moved, the county magistrate Tang really loved the people like a son, and they were all in a situation now, and they were willing to take the risk of opening the city gate to take them into the city.

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