In the night, Liu Xia led more than 700 soldiers to raise torches and marched towards Zhaojiabao, and then Liu Xia asked more than 100 soldiers from a brigade of the Wolf Howling Battalion to guard the gate of Zhaojiabao and not allow anyone to go out.

Then he rushed to the castle with the remaining six hundred soldiers, and the sound of horses' hooves soon woke up many people in Zhaojiabao, Liu Xia didn't care whether he was exposed or not now, because now even if it was exposed, there was no point in it, and there were no other people within a dozen miles of Zhaojiabao, because the range of more than ten miles was his Zhao family's field, of course, there would be no one else.

The interior of Zhaojiabao is not small, Liu Xia does not plan to gather troops to attack all one by one, Liu Xia's main target is the Zhao family's mansion in Zhaojiabao, ninety percent or even more of Zhaojiabao's wealth is in the Zhao family's compound, but for these relatives of the Zhao family who are helping to abuse on weekdays, Liu Xia does not plan to let go, they also have a lot of food in their hands, Liu Xia now does not know how far he will walk, of course, the more food he graaches, the better.

Liu Xia rode on his horse and said to a guard beside him: "You go and find Ma Peng, Niu Chao and that Chen Liu in the city."

The guard said yes and hurriedly rode away.

Then Liu Xia ordered more than 100 soldiers from a brigade of the Wolf Howling Battalion to rob and rob the relatives of the Zhao family who had done evil in the fort, and the last brigade of the remaining personal guards, the Tiger Ben Battalion, and the Wolf Howling Battalion followed Liu Xia to the Zhao family's mansion.

The Zhao family's mansion is in the center of Zhaojiabao, and from the gate of Zhaojiabao can lead straight to the gate of the Zhao family's mansion, so Liu Xia did not take any detours, and has arrived at the Zhao family's mansion in a moment.

The Zhao family's compound is divided into an inner courtyard, an outer courtyard and a backyard, the people living in the outer courtyard are mainly some low-level miscellaneous servants, and the inner courtyard is inhabited by some servants with relatively high status, armed families. There are also some relatives of the Zhao family and the like. The place where the Zhao family has been discussed. The backyard is where the owner of the Zhao family lives, this place is generally not allowed to outsiders to come in, and it is where the men and women of the Zhao family live.

At this time, the Zhao family's mansion was also awakened by the sound of Liu Xia and others' horses' hooves, and the entire mansion was in chaos at this time, after all, now that the enemy has invaded the Zhao family's fort, the Zhao family's mansion will definitely not be able to defend it.

The head of the Zhao family, Zhao Yan heard the chaos outside, and looked at the bright light in the sky, thinking that it was on fire, so he hurriedly climbed down from the warm quilt and the concubine's body, put on clothes under the care of the concubine, and then walked out of the door, as soon as he walked out of the door, Zhao Si, the housekeeper of the Zhao family, hurriedly ran over.

Zhao Sishang ran to Zhao Yan's side out of breath, then took a deep breath, and said anxiously to Zhao Yan: "Master, it's not good, I don't know where the thieves came from actually entered our castle, and now our mansion is surrounded by them."

Zhao Yan's face was shocked when he heard this, he originally thought that the chaos outside might be somewhere there was a fire, but he didn't expect that it was attacked into the fort, he was still very confident in Zhaojiabao, if there was no large number of siege equipment and cannons and other things, it would be very difficult to enter Zhaojiabao, so he hurriedly asked Zhao Si: "Who is coming outside?" How many people came? How did they get in? By the way, is Lang'er back? ”

Where did Zhao Si know this, he just secretly ran to the gate and saw through the crack in the door that there were a bunch of horses riding outside, tall and big, and looking at the torches, it was estimated that there were more than five hundred, and he also heard the screams of other people in Zhaojiabao one after another, thinking that in addition to these people surrounding the Zhao family's mansion, there should be other people in the city, and the calculation should add up to no less than a thousand people.

So Zhao Si said to Zhao Yan: "The third son, the third son, has not returned. Where do you probably live now?"

Zhao Yan was relieved when he heard Zhao Si say that Zhao Lang did not come back, since he did not come back, even if he was killed by these thieves, their Zhao family could keep a stick of incense, but he didn't know that Zhao Lang was already dead at this time.

Zhao Si continued: "Master, there are a lot of people outside now, it is estimated that there are thousands of people, and the small ones don't know how these people came in, it is said that our Zhaojiabao is so strong, if you want to say that you come in without a sound, it is really unreasonable, these people are all on horses, we can't hold it, master."

Zhao Yan also fell silent when he heard this, thought for a while, and said: "You send someone outside, ask those people what they want, money, food, the old man will give them, let them take their things and leave quickly." Zhao Yan was forced to say this, and now there are only 200 people in the entire Zhao family mansion who can pick up arms and fight, the rest are his own wives and children, and some old servants, and there are a group of tall bandits outside, how to fight for them, it is better to eliminate disasters with that little money, after all, Zhao Yan doesn't care about that little thing at all, of course, the premise is not to empty his hometown.

Zhao Si listened, and hurriedly turned around and left. At the same time, Zhao Yan walked quickly to the front yard of the Zhao family's mansion to organize the armed family, if he couldn't talk, he had to be prepared, and at the same time he was ready to send someone to the county seat to move the rescue soldiers.

Zhao Si received the order and chose two tall and tall family members to accompany him out, at this time he was very scared, but he couldn't help but go out, so he chose two of the most powerful family members to accompany him.

outside

Liu Xia surrounded the Zhao family's mansion, and was discussing with Zhang Yuan and Liu Dazhuang, who had been recovered, Ma Pengniu, Chen Liu and the others how to enter the Zhao family's mansion, and then a head poked out from the small city tower at the gate of the Zhao family's mansion. The layout of the Zhao family's mansion is also built according to the city, but the wall is much shorter, only one zhang high, and the small city gate is naturally not high, because as soon as this head poked out, Liu Xia found it, so he shouted at the head: "Who are you?" Open the door at once and let us in, or we will do it at our own risk".

The man first raised a small white flag, then raised it, and then slowly stood up, this person was Zhao Si, the housekeeper of the Zhao family, and then two tower-like family members also appeared behind him, Zhao Si smiled at Liu Xia and said, "I don't know where you are good men?" The little Zhao Si is the housekeeper of the Zhao family, I don't know if you have a good man to come to our Zhaojiabao and have a noble job? All the heroes must have worked very hard all the way, our lord has made friends, and I am willing to give you two thousand taels of silver, and I hope you will smile."

Zhao Si looked down and saw Chen Liu, and scolded secretly in his heart, it turned out that it was you, the eater, who lured these robbers over, but looking at Liu Xia so many people, he didn't dare to scold them, so he could only secretly remember the matter of Chen Liu bringing Liu Xia and others in his heart.

(2,000 taels of silver, equivalent to more than 1 million yuan now)

Liu Xia listened, grabbed the neighing war horse, and smiled coldly, two thousand taels, two thousand taels want to send us away? The other generals thought the same, looking at Zhao Si's eyes, like looking at idiots, they worked hard to enter Zhaojiabao, but not for the sake of coveting a mere two thousand taels of silver, now tell them to give you two thousand taels of silver to get out, where will they agree.

Zhao Si saw that Liu Xia and the others didn't look at each other, and didn't even look at themselves, knowing that this group of people was afraid that they had a lot of appetite, so he hurriedly said: "Three thousand taels, three thousand taels plus two hundred stone grain, how about you heroes, how about it, my lord said, as long as you heroes withdraw from Zhaojiabao first, three thousand taels of silver and two hundred stones of grain will be served immediately."

Ma Peng couldn't help but shouted angrily at Zhao Si: "Three thousand taels of silver? Send Hanako? Open the door immediately, or don't blame grandpa for being unkind."

Zhao Si listened, and thought that he was originally called Huazi, after all, the clothes worn by Jing Xiao and the others at this time were indeed very tattered, and they really looked like they were called Huazi. But these Zhao Si didn't dare to say it, because he saw that Liu Xia's subordinates had a lot of archers aiming at him at this time, if he dared to say anything unpleasant, it was estimated that he would be immediately shot by the bow and arrow.

Although Zhao Si kept scolding Liu Xia and others for being greedy, shameless and many other unbearable words in his heart, on the surface, he licked his big belly and looked at Liu Xia with a smile.

Liu Xia was not in the mood to negotiate with Zhao Si, after all, Liu Xia had thought about looting all the Zhao family forts before, and where could the three thousand taels of silver given by the Zhao family satisfy Liu Xia's appetite at this time? So Liu Xia immediately ordered to attack the door, and with an order, a lot of bows and arrows began to shoot at Zhao Si, shooting Zhao Si to death on the spot.

One of the two family members behind Zhao Si also died in the chaotic arrows, and the other fled, probably because he couldn't report the news.

When the Zhao family compound was built, it didn't think about being attacked, so the gate was not very strong, and it was soon opened, except for a few small gates that were ordered by Liu Xia to guard the Zhao family compound, others rushed into the Zhao family compound like a tide.

At this time, the family had already run to the inner courtyard to tell Zhao Yan about the scene at this time, Zhao Yan was afraid, but now his eldest son and second son are all disabled, and they can't lead the family to fight at all, and the person who can command these family members here is himself, no way, he can only go into battle by himself, leading two hundred armed family members, and running to the outer courtyard, at this time the outer courtyard has been broken by Jing Xiao, and killed the servants and family members of the outer courtyard, and began to advance to the inner courtyard.

In the past, when this place was rampant with thieves, Zhao Yan spent a lot of money to build armor and weapons for his family, and he used it at this time.

Compared with Zhao Yan's family, Liu Xia's army is like a ragtag army, but when it comes to combat effectiveness, these families are not the opponents of Liu Xia's motley army at all, after all, these soldiers have fought all the way from the battlefield, they are real troops, not temporary combat units composed of these families of the Zhao family.