The quarry is located in the mountains, there is only one road leading to the outside, the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, Qian Zheng and others ride horses first, and the speed is much faster than those house slaves who have fled. Yu Zhilong is not worried that the house slaves will surpass Qian Zheng and the others, as long as they hold the main road to the east, if the house slaves take a detour, the time will lag behind, and they will not have time to call the police.

After about two hours, the team came to a fork in the road, the left went to Hujiazhuang, the right went to Liujiazhuang, the team temporarily rested here, and a few men came out of the roadside, wearing the clothes of the yacha, and it was Qian Zheng at the head.

"Report to a thousand households, I have been secretly observing here since I waited for the horse to arrive, and I have not found any fugitive slaves from the quarry here, and there are no abnormal pedestrians on the road. The subordinates had sent brothers to Hujiazhuang and Liujiazhuang to investigate, and everything was as usual in the two places, the gate of the village was wide open, and the brothers stopped a few farmers on the road, and they replied that those rebels were resting in the two villages, and there was no change. "Qian Zheng stepped forward to report.

"Brother Zhao, it seems that the timing is in my favor, let's set off separately here, see that the sky has arrived, it is estimated that it will soon be the time for them to cook on the fire, while the sky is dark, the other party will not notice, we will strive for a blow to work!" Yu Zhilong was finally relieved, as long as the fugitive slave didn't have time to go back to warn, the matter would be half done.

"Yes, this time it is a siege, four breads raid the village, disguise and deceive to open the door of the village is the key, Yu Xiaoge rest assured, we will take the sunset as a signal, whoever first lays down the village, all use fast horses, two torches as a signal, inform each other." Zhao Shi nodded.

The quarry still belongs to the mountain road here, there are not many acres of land in the area, and the farming in the field is basically over, Yu Zhilong did not meet passers-by along the way, and Yu Zhilong, who was worried about the leakage of the news, breathed a sigh of relief. Although peasant households have been exploited by large households for a long time, because of the concept of the villagers and the relationship between land tenants, poor peasant households or tenants will still take the initiative to return to report to the big households when they encounter mountain bandits or unknown armed forces, and this can easily make these large households more vigilant and organize defenses, thus increasing the difficulty of breaking the village.

Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi respectively led half of the men and horses to break up, and under the leadership of the guide, they changed the path and quietly sneaked to their respective targets. Shi Tou was tied with his hands behind his back, gagged his mouth, and followed Yu Zhilong's team. Zhao Shi took away a few yacha who were willing to join. At this time, it was getting late, the sun was setting, and the two villages in the distance were about ten miles apart, and there were three hills in the middle, and they could not see each other.

Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains has been plagued by natural disasters, and there are more expropriations by the Yuan court and local officials, and the local royal relatives and nobles and gentry are extorted, and the lives of the people are upside down, and thieves and thieves from all over the country are continuous. In order to avoid the robbery of thieves and robbers, more and more villagers live together to form large villages, which are often led by large households and organize rebel armies, in addition to protecting the property and property of large households, but also to defend against the robbery of bandits. After nightfall, all the villagers who had gone out returned to the village, and the gate of the village was generally closed, and it was only opened when the sky was bright.

At this time, Yu Zhilong walked to the right, in front of the village of Liujiazhuang, look at the sky, the sun is about to set, Yu Zhilong ordered Chang Zhi and Hou Ying to lead the team to detour to the back of the village to hide, do not ask them to attack the village together, just monitor the periphery, if someone flees from this direction, all detain, do not follow, behead! The two took the order and left.

Yu Zhilong again ordered Wu Side to lead dozens of cavalry to stand by in a hidden place, and once he captured the gate of the village, he immediately dispatched to smash the big houses in the village. The foot soldiers then followed under the leadership of Baihu. The general structure of the village, the streets, and the location of the large houses have been interrogated by the seized yacha, and Yu Zhilong has shown his intentions on the ground in advance, and told the team in detail about several hundred households and the general flag and the small flag, so that everyone can remember it by heart.

There is a two-person high mulberry forest outside the village, which is just hidden for everyone.

Because of the transportation of stones, the quarry still raised some mules and horses, Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi took the ones that could be ridden, added five to two, divided into two parts, and temporarily found some subordinates who could ride and fight, and temporarily organized them into a cavalry as an assault force.

Yu Zhilong had already changed into a set of yacha clothes, asked people to bring Shi Tou, untied the rope, took out the cloth head of the plug, pointed to Liu Jiazhuang in front of him, and asked, "Do you know where that is?" ”

"Yes, yes. I don't know what the master commands? Despite opening your mouth, the villain should do the work of dogs and horses! Shi Tou glanced up at Liujiazhuang in front of him, and quickly turned around and smiled. Earlier, Yu Zhilong ordered people to tie those angry house slaves and yacha to a wooden stake, and let the drivers stab them to death with daggers, which really frightened Shi Tou. Each of these two thousand people stabbed and stabbed down, what is the difference between him and Ling Chi? In particular, the resentment of the old, weak, sick and disabled people behind is by no means weaker than the former, many people take the initiative to pick up daggers, and stab at those house slaves and others who ride on their heads as a prestige, and those bitter laughter that is crazy because of the revenge falls in Shi Tou's eyes, which is tantamount to madness. Fortunately, Shi Tou's abdomen has been cleaned, otherwise he would not be able to get rid of the excrement and urine flowing together.

"Now give you a chance, do a good job, don't die! Otherwise, —"

"Ye put a hundred hearts, you see, there is nothing that our family can't do!" Shi Tou's head was like a chicken eating rice. At this time, that can be used to pick the fat and pick the thin! Even the sword mountain and the sea of fire have to be hard-headed.

Yu Zhilong looked at Shi Tou's clothes, stretched out his hand and brushed the wrinkled corners of his clothes everywhere, so frightened that Shi Tou didn't dare to even say that he didn't dare to dare to, he spoke in his mouth, but his body didn't dare to move. Yu Zhilong put a head hat on him, straightened the crown, and covered his messy bun. Tell Shi Tou: "It's very simple, let's go over together, you are now Shi Tou who has returned from the quarry, and you have something important to tell the county official." Now that the night is about to fall, I am ready to fight here, and I will return to Linqu County later, do you understand? ”

"Clearly, I have something important to return to Linqu County, and I will rest here for the time being." Shi Tou agreed again and again.

"You are the head of the government, take out some and send it! On the road ahead, if a flaw is revealed, I will be the first to kill you! Yu Zhilong pushed him forward and motioned for the old brother in the clothes of the yacha to follow him forward.

The sun was setting, and several volunteers at the gate of the village saw that it was getting late, and the farmers in the village had all returned and were ready to close the gate. The sharp-eyed saw seven or eight yacha walking towards the walled gate, and when they got closer, they found that the first one was Shi Tou. Because Shi Tou often went to the quarry to station, every time he passed by, he asked for some wine and food, and the volunteers in the village were quite familiar with him, and he was a good student every time.

"Shi Ye is so interested! It's getting dark today, why don't you stay in the quarry, but you have arrived at us? A small leader greeted him and smiled.

Yu Zhilong pushed Shi on the back of his head, "Hugh is noisy, the lord has something important to go back to the county seat today to tell the county lord, and now he wants to fight here, if you know each other, go to the restaurant to prepare a table for the lord, as long as the lord is happy, I can't reward you with a piece of silver." Shi Tou hurriedly reprimanded the little leader, ignored him, raised his head and entered the gate with his hands behind his back. The little boss laughed and accosted, "The matter of the master must be a big thing, the small one dare not delay, so I will go to the restaurant to prepare, but this village door has to be closed first, and when you go out after you run out, the little one asks Master Liu to give you the order to open it again." ”

Master Liu recruited hundreds of rebels to protect the village, he prepared a case file in the county government, and sent silver, and the government named him a thousand households, allowing him to recruit soldiers, but did not provide him with provisions. Because it is a righteous army, and its combat strength is relatively weak, it has no outstanding achievements, and the imperial court and county do not attach much importance to it.

The little leader bowed down and asked the officials to enter the village, Zhang Luo asked Shi Tou to sit down, turned around and reprimanded a few volunteers around to close the gate of the village first, and then confessed to Shi Tou, when he went to the restaurant in front of him to prepare a banquet, this banquet money is naturally funded by the old man Liu in the village every time, and of course a few small money from the banquet discount fell into the purse of this errand boss.

Yu Zhilong looked around the walled gate and arranged it, the walled wall was all made of adobe, occasionally mixed with wooden piles buried in the ground to strengthen the resistance of the earthen wall, the height of the walled wall was about three and a half zhang, two zhang wide, there were two volunteers on it to patrol with knives, the walled gate was made of thick wooden planks up to four inches thick, and only four volunteers were ready to close the walled gate in front of them.

Yu Zhilong, Qian Zheng and a few other people looked at each other a few times, and saw that the little leader had run away, turned to the front of Shi Tou and bowed his hand and said: "Adult, the little ones will stay on this wall to watch the wind, if there is any wind and grass, the villain will immediately report to the adult!" ”

"Well, well, you're so careful, tell me immediately if you have something." Shi Tou didn't expect that Yu Zhilong would take the initiative to salute in public and ask him for instructions, but he didn't know how to express his position for a while, and saw Yu Zhilong squeezing his eyes at him, and squeezing his mouth at the wall, knowing that he intended to be on the wall. Shi Tou reacted, and squeezed out a sentence, Yu Zhilong immediately led the two people along the steps behind the gate of the wall, and climbed the wall. Qian Zheng glanced at the brothers behind him, and said loudly to the four volunteers next to the door: "Since you brothers happen to catch up, a few of us will help the handle, and let's close the gate together." Come on, come on, don't just watch, come and help these brothers! Qian was waving at a few of his companions.

"Don't dare to work for the official, the small one will do it himself." When these volunteers had seen such a close to the people, a smile appeared on their faces with excitement.

The four volunteers pushed the gate of the village with their legs and feet, and began to exert force, followed by Qian Zheng and a few other officials to help. The two gates gradually closed under the vigorous push of everyone. A few volunteers were still exerting their strength, and suddenly there was a sound behind them when the steel knife was unsheathed, and then I felt a pain in my back, and a steel knife went straight through my heart, and several volunteers fell down with their eyes wide open, and they couldn't imagine that the old man who was still smiling just now became his own ghost in a blink of an eye!

Qian Zheng and the others deceived and killed the four volunteers, and the steel knife stirred in the body, and pulled it out, bringing out a stream of blood. Then I heard a few fighting sounds and screams on the wall, but it was Yu Zhilong and they succeeded. Qian Zheng hurriedly opened the gate of the village again, ran out of the village alone, waved left and right at the road, Wu Side saw clearly in the bushes in the distance, whistled, turned over the horse, led about 30 horses to drill the mulberry forest next to the road, and went straight to the gate of the village.

Mu Chun and several hundred households hurriedly ordered their respective subordinates who were squatting on the ground behind them to stand up, and after following Wu Side's cavalry, Yu Zhilong had already confessed that the flag bearer must follow his own hundred households, and the flag would go with the people.

Before the capture of the village, in order to prevent the team from being unfamiliar with each other and causing poor communication, Yu Zhilong specially drew the streets and main buildings in the village according to Shi Tou's confession, pointed out the goal of each team, and the map was basically drawn according to the size described.

Seeing Yu Zhilong holding a branch and drawing circles on the land, a map basically made in proportion was quickly presented on the ground, and Yu Zhilong's explanation was also orderly, the old brothers were not surprised, but the new leaders were surprised, and it could be seen that Yu Zhilong was able to write and martial arts, and these people couldn't help but be more convinced by this big leader.