Li Rui pretended to be displeased, pushed his hand holding the gold and silver back into his arms, and then looked at the next old soldier and said: "Uncle Niu, you stabbed a Tartar soldier to death, but Brother Niu Zi was also killed by the Tartar's bow and arrow. ”

As he spoke, he took a pile of broken silver from Wu Meiniang's hand and handed it to the old military household.

"Your brother Niu Zi died in battle, it's fate, no wonder others, with these silver coins, when the Tartars are killed, Li Rui will buy him a good coffin."

The old soldier's eyes were red, and although he said it easily, his trembling hands revealed the grief in his heart.

……

"What's going on?"

"How can you still divide the gold and silver!"

"Do you have any Li Rui?"

The young men from outside the peasant households looked straight and a little confused, so they asked other military households in the fort one after another, and the buzzing continued for a while.

"You want to eat fart, didn't you hear Brother Rui say, Qiusheng and Uncle Niu took gold and silver, which was earned by desperately with the Tartars, if you don't work hard with the Tartars, where can you kill the Tartar soldiers, Uncle Niu's eldest son died in battle." There are military households in the fort scolding and scolding back.

……

"But you have money to kill the Tartars!"

"If you die, you can get an extra thirty taels of snowflake silver, where can you find this good thing?"

"Sun Da Niu's rammer can kill Tartar? Last year, when he grabbed firewood, Li Rui pressed him to the ground and beat him. ”

"If Li Rui kills the Tartars, can they take the silver?"

Since these poor farmers chose to enter the fort, they originally made a plan to live and die with the big reef fort, after all, once the Tartar soldiers broke the fort, they would definitely not be able to live.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation was serious, and the life of these farmers was not necessarily much better than that of the military households, and the temptation of thirty taels of snowflakes and silver was not small for them!

Li Rui listened to the surrounding discussions, and the big stone hanging in his heart finally settled, and looked back at Wu Meiniang.

Wu Meiniang, who was cleaning up the remaining gold and silver treasures with Xiao Wanwan, saw Li Rui looking at her, but she smiled back, and she had a calm and calm strategizing.

Well, this kind of trick to control people's hearts is, of course, Wu Meiniang's idea for Li Rui!

"Brother Rui, Lord Qianhu is here, let us open the door to greet you." At this time, a military household suddenly came over and whispered to Li Rui.

Li Rui was stunned, and immediately reacted, the Qianhu adults in the military household account were none other than Liu Zhenhai, the Qianhu official who led them to attack the wounded Tartar soldiers last night, and the direct helmsman of the Qianhu Office in Wuding Prefecture.

"Brother Qiusheng, the fourth uncle is dead, you are now the general flag of our Big Reef Fortress, go and greet Lord Qianhu."

"Don't be ashamed of Li Rui, whoever loves to be the general flag should go."

Li Rui asked Zhao Qiusheng to take the lead to greet him, but Zhao Qiusheng waved his hand again and again.

The name of the general banner sounds good, but like the military households, there is no food and no land, Zhao Qiusheng really doesn't want to take his father's class, in fact, if it weren't for the Tartar soldiers, he would have to be a fugitive.

"Then let's go together to greet Li Rui and see what Li Rui looks like." Li Rui smiled and picked up Xiao Wanwan and said.

Zhao Qiusheng had no choice but to bite the bullet, and all the military households and peasant households were young and strong, adding up to more than 400 old men, and followed closely.

……

……

Liu Zhenhai, the official of a thousand households, is not a martial artist, but a white and tender big fat man.

He is a hereditary thousand households, he can't fight at all, but he is very good at oppressing the military households, more than 90% of the military fields of the Wuding Thousand Households are in his hands, and he drives the military households like slaves on weekdays, not only does he not give rations to help him farm, but he will be beaten if he does not do well, and the meager salary issued by the imperial court has been coveted by him at this level.

In order to prevent the military from rioting, he even raised more than 50 thugs, all equipped with bird guns and waist knives, and those who dared to make trouble, the light ones were injured and disabled, and the heavy ones were killed on the spot!

Yesterday, the civil official of Haifeng County commanded blindly and ordered him to lead his troops out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Tartars, Liu Zhenhai did not dare to disobey the order, and was unwilling to die, so he relied on the familiar terrain to sneak attack the wounded soldiers of the Tartars and pick up cheap, but he was still killed and defeated.

Today, when he was leading his family to hide around, he heard about the killing of the Tartar soldiers in the Great Reef Fort, and immediately hurried over!

"Have you ever beheaded a Tartar?"

Liu Zhenhai led more than 50 family members into the Big Reef Fort, and immediately asked impatiently.

"Cut off forty-eight." Zhao Qiusheng replied honestly.

"Seriously, take Li Rui to see it, quick!"

Liu Zhenhai was overjoyed when he heard this, and urged Zhao Qiusheng to lead the way.

The imperial court's reward for the heads of the Tartar soldiers is extremely high, if there are really forty-eight Tartar heads, then not only will he not be convicted for losing Haifeng County, but he may also be greatly increased to the rank of knight!

The people came to the place where the tartar heads and the horses were kept.

Liu Zhenhai suddenly had no trace of doubt, and excitedly patted Zhao Qiusheng on the shoulder and said: "Okay, good, defending the land and killing the enemy is meritorious, loyal and brave." ”

"Lord Xie praised, with you coming to help defend the fort, even if the Tartar army comes back, Li Rui will not be afraid."

Zhao Qiusheng looked at the exquisite bird guns in the hands of the family members, and even a tiger squatting cannon, and couldn't help but cheer up.

But when Liu Zhenhai heard his words, his face changed drastically: "Where did you learn that there is a large army of Tartars who want to kill back?" ”

"Li Rui captured a fake Tartar earlier, and he confessed that if these Tartars died, the Tartar army would definitely kill them for revenge." Zhao Qiusheng replied carefully.

Liu Zhenhai's legs were weak, and he almost collapsed on the ground in fright, and hurriedly ordered the family: "Take the Tartar head and the war horse, leave this ghost place, and ...... Take that little away too! ”

As he spoke, he pointed with his fat hand, but pointed at Wu Meiniang, who was following Li Rui.

When he entered the fort, he noticed Wu Meiniang, a bewitching beauty with peach blossom eyes and a goose egg face, who was much more energetic than his concubines, and since he decided to leave at this time, he naturally couldn't let it go.

"Your Excellency, you can't ......"

"Smack."

Zhao Qiusheng subconsciously wanted to stop him, but Liu Zhenhai suddenly turned his face and slapped him to the ground with his wide body and fat body: "What can't you do?" To be a concubine for this official, can she still be wronged, this official has to go back to rescue Haifeng County, and dare to obstruct and kill again, don't ......"

"The cysts that will only oppress Xiangzi are blind with so many good weapons, fence them up~!"

Li Rui handed over Xiao Wanwan to Wu Meiniang, and came out of the crowd by himself, and with his order, more than 100 military households immediately brushed up their knives and guns, and surrounded Liu Zhenhai and more than 50 family members.

"Haifeng County was slaughtered by Tartars last night, who are you going to rescue?"

"Li Rui sees that you, a dog official, want to escape!"