Shu Yongjie came to see Rao Qiangfeng in disgrace, the three thousand vanguard army only gathered back half, five or six hundred people fell in the smoke and fire in the reeds, Li Mingfeng led people to kill more than 100 people, and there were seven or eight hundred people who saw that the situation was not good.

Rao Qiangfeng raised his hand and slapped Shu Yongjie to the ground. Half of Shu Yongjie's face was swollen, and his mouth was full of blood, but his mood was relaxed, Rao Qiangfeng was willing to beat himself to show that he had no murderous intentions, although he took refuge in General Rao not long ago, Shu Yongjie knew that this General Rao was not a good master who ate fasting and recited Buddha, Cao Yongduo was defeated and his subordinates fled back a lot, and several people were split by Rao Qiangfeng.

"I'll give you another thousand men, along with the remnants of your soldiers, to sweep Pingshan Town for me, or don't come to see me again." Rao Qiangfeng said coldly. Shu Yongjie knew that this was the last chance, if he couldn't sweep Pingshan Town, it was estimated that he would have to go into exile.

Pingshan Town, Xinqi County, the hometown of the champion, the source of wealth, no one knows, there are more than ten miles away from Pingshan Town, Shu Yongjie felt the extraordinary Pingshan Town, the road is wide and flat, and there are many shops on the side of the road. The air was filled with the strong fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which reminded Shu Yongjie of the Jiang family's perfume industry.

The avenue was empty, apparently the people of Pingshan Town fled when they heard the news that the army was coming, Shu Yongjie touched his face that was still not swollen, and ordered: "Pingshan Town is not far ahead, the army is careful for me, pay attention to the enemy's sneak attack." ”

After suffering a loss, Shu Yongjie didn't want to make a second mistake, and General Rao would not give him a chance to make a mistake again, so he sent five sentinels to report the situation in Pingshan Town like a meteor, and after half an hour, the army could already see the towering champion archway outside Pingshan Town.

Shu Yongjie ordered the army to stop, rest on the spot, and walked for most of the day, but don't let Li Mingfeng wait for work. The 1,000 men and horses newly given by General Rao were quite elite, and they set up a decent formation, with shields on the ground, spears followed, and archers pressed the formation.

His confidant Zhao Dagang galloped out of the town with a few of his subordinates, came to Shu Yongjie and said: "General Yu, Pingshan Town is empty, and the Jiang family is closed and can't see the situation inside. ”

Ran away? That's a joy for all. Shu Yongjie rolled his eyes, Li Mingfeng has four or five hundred people under him, and even if he can win the damage, there are not a few of them, it seems that General Rao will not add people to himself anymore, the soldiers and horses under his command are strength, and if he wants to become a general of the Five Tigers, no one under him can do it.

"Zhao Dagang, you take five hundred people into the town, search around, see if anyone is hiding at home, and bring people over to see me." Shu Yongjie instructed: "Don't move the Jiang family first, wait until the general's soldiers and horses arrive." Shu Yongjie thought to himself, the Jiang family is the hatred of General Rao, and this opportunity to destroy the family and vent the fire should be left to the general.

The effort is not big, Zhao Dagang really caught a few old men and old ladies to come over, and Xiu Lingniang was among them. The round-faced girl Xiuling married in the city, usually she will come to Pingshan Town to work if she has nothing to do, the bandit army is coming, Xiuling has taken her family into the county seat early, Xiuling Niang can not rest assured that the two pigs fed at home, and Mrs. Jiang said okay, and when the bandit army comes, she will hide in the back village. For the sake of the villagers, the two almost became in-laws.

Jiang Huang agreed.

Yesterday Li Mingfeng brought the news that the bandit army was coming, there were originally a few sporadic people in the town who either entered the back village, or left early, Xiu Lingniang thought about going to the back village after feeding the pigs, but the pigs ran out of the circle and ran outside, if someone helped on weekdays, the pigs would soon be driven into the circle, and now there are people in the town, and when she tried her best to drive the pigs into the circle, she was also caught by Zhao Dagang.

"Folks, don't be afraid, where are the Jiang family? Where did the son-in-law of the Jiang family, surnamed Zhang, go with someone? Shu Yongjie tried his best to pose kindly, but his half-swollen face twitched from time to time, which made people look scared.

There was silence to answer, Shu Yongjie smiled: "Don't be afraid, if any of you can answer me a question, I will let him go." Which of you told me where all the people of this town have gone? ”

This question was easy to answer, and an old man boldly responded: "I heard that you were coming, and everyone ran away." ”

Shu Yongjie nodded, motioned to his subordinates, and said, "Let him go." ”

Seeing that the old man disappeared with the agility of a rabbit, the others were moved, and looked at Shu Yongjie with blank eyes, waiting for him to ask questions. Shu Yongjie was very satisfied with this state and said with a smile: "Who knows where the Jiang family has gone." ”

Xiu Lingniang replied first: "The Jiang family has gone to Houzhai. ”

"Houzhai?" Shu Yongjie was stunned for a moment and asked, "Where is the back village?" ”

Xiu Lingniang shook her wit, glanced sideways at those who didn't speak, and said, "This general, can you let me go." ”

Shu Yongjie raised his hand and gave Xiu Lingniang a slap, and sneered: "It's really a bodhisattva, I want to go to heaven if I give you a ladder." Where is the back village, hurry up and say, or I will kill you. ”

When Rao Qiangfeng's army arrived, Shu Yongjie greeted him to the Jiang Mansion in a hurry, while introducing the situation: "The Jiang family hid in the back village, Jiang Anyi's mother, sister-in-law, concubine and a pair of children are all there. Houzhai is five miles behind the Jiang family's house, I took someone to visit it, in the col, easy to defend and difficult to attack, I dare not attack, just wait for the general to give an order......"

The Jiang family has been repairing over the years, working the subtleties, the buildings and pavilions are gorgeous and abnormal, and every grass and tree is ingenious, Rao Qiangfeng's footsteps keep walking in, and he came directly to the bottom of Zhushan. Looking up at the verdant mountains, Rao Qiangfeng said: "It is said that the Jiang family has good feng shui, and only then will there be three yuan and the first champion." The world has said that this bamboo mountain of the Jiang family is a treasure land of feng shui, and it protects Jiang Anyi all the way, and the general will dig up the feng shui of the Jiang family today. Someone came, cut down all the bamboo for me, and cut it up by the roots. ”

Zhushan is the feng shui treasure of the Jiang family, but it comes from the mouth of Master Hongping of Anlong Temple, who does not know that Master Hongping is a senior monk of Mingpu Temple, and the senior monk will not tell nonsense. People who have the opportunity to come to Jiangfu want to see this feng shui land with their own eyes, and some people also set up bamboo mountains in their own yards, hoping to get some blessings, hoping that someone in the family will be like Jiang Anyi, and then save a gold and silver mountain to come back.

The Jiang family protects this bamboo mountain very well, but unfortunately today it was a military disaster, the bamboo was cut off, and it is not easy to dig out the bamboo roots.

It was not early, Rao Qiangfeng asked people to continue to planing bamboo roots, and Shu Yongjie led them to Houzhai. From a distance, the village is located in the mountains

In the embrace, the walled wall made of bluestone is as high as three zhang, and it is impossible to see how thick it is from the outside, but the figures on the wall, which is more than two miles long, there are at least three or four hundred people guarding the wall, and Rao Qiangfeng estimates that the walled wall is at least two zhang wide.

There is a moat in front of the wall, Shu Yongjie introduced: "The water in the moat is living water, from the mountain waterfall, according to the last general to explore, the village can accommodate more than 3,000 people, Jiang Anyi's brother-in-law is that Zhang Zhuang's Zhuang advocate is born to be a good hand, the Jiang family's Zhuang Ding has about 500 people, with the stone village to defend, I am afraid it is not easy to attack." The Jiang family produces gold and jade liquid, which is a distillery, with tens of thousands of stone grains on weekdays, plus a natural mountain spring, and the people inside do not worry about eating and drinking. ”

"Can you find out where the back village leads, and what is the way out?" Rao Qiangfeng asked.

Shu Yongjie asked about the situation of the village from Xiu Lingniang and others, but the back village of the Jiang family is an important place, how can ordinary people know the secret, seeing Rao Qiangfeng's question, Shu Yongjie replied: "The last general asked, before the Jiang family built the village, this was originally a mountain col, there was a pool of pond water in it, and many people in the town had been to swim and fish in it. This col is surrounded by cliffs, and there is no road to other places, so it is a place of execution. ”

Rao Qiangfeng smiled cruelly: "The turtle in the urn, the Jiang family wants to defend against danger and dream." Send the order to go down, camp in front of the wall, and attack the village with the general early tomorrow morning. ”

The next day, Rao Qiangfeng saw the solidity of the Jiangjia back village, and more than 100 lives were put into it, but the moat was not even filled. The rain of arrows shot from the wall of the village did not mean to stop, and it seemed that the Jiang family had stored enough arrows in the wall.

In the evening, in the Jiang family's mansion, Rao Qiangfeng summoned the generals to discuss.

Judging from the situation of today's attack on the village, it is impossible to capture the stone village in half a month. And the Heavenly Army entered the territory of Dezhou, and it was impossible for the court to sit idly by, not to mention that it was the home of Jiang Anyi, the assassin of Huazhou, who attacked Huazhou, and the soldiers of the Dezhou Mansion were powerless to help, but Anton and Annan were very likely to come to the rescue after ten days. At that time, the soldiers will become tired soldiers, and they will steal chickens and rice.

Rao Qiangfeng said: "Within five days, we must take the back village, even if I use people to fill in the back village, I will fill in the back village." ”

Everyone was silent, everyone had seen the solidity of the back village, and the Jiang family was not short of arrows, so if they wanted to rush hard, they might lose their lives. The walled wall is high enough, and it is separated by a moat, and the siege ladder cannot be handed up, and it is also cut down, and the back village of the Jiang family is even more difficult to fight than the palace city.

Rao Qiangfeng's gaze fell on Shu Yongjie, who was cowering, and said, "General Shu, you are resourceful, but what good ideas do you have?" ”

Shu Yongjie is both proud and embarrassed, the general looks down on himself, and he will definitely be optimistic about his position in the Heavenly Army in the future, but the Jiangjia Houzhai is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the general lets himself go, and he is afraid that he will be more auspicious.

The point will be pointed to himself, Shu Yongjie stubbornly said: "General Yu, it is difficult to attack the back village of the Jiang family, tomorrow we must first let people fill in the moat with soil bags, and then think about it in the long run." ”

Rao Qiangfeng sneered and said: "I'm afraid that General Ben won't be able to wait for the long term, Shu Yongjie, give you three days, if you can't capture Houzhai in three days, then don't bother you, General Ben will come in person." ”

Shu Yongjie secretly complained, it seems that the sequelae of his loss of soldiers in the reeds have not been eliminated.