"There are many people in the Xu family." Luo Daoren, who was sitting in the middle of the top, squinted his eyes and thought about it: "I heard that this time they have gathered nearly 10,000 people, and they are invincible." ”

The Xu family actually sent less than 4,000 troops, but in order to deter the enemy and other forces, the external propaganda was 10,000.

"Shopkeeper, where did the Xu family go to find nearly 10,000 people?" Yan Shun hurriedly said: "I think it's just fake news released by the Xu family to scare me, it's good that there are 5,000 people in his family, these scholars are just wilting!" ”

"Five thousand people are not a lot, and there are only two thousand five hundred Ding Zhuang in total on our mountain, only half of them." Liu Gao, the second master, continued: "I think, it's better to guard the gate of the village." Wait until they retreat, and we will go down the mountain when we plough in the spring next year, which is the way to win. ”

"Yes, the fourth and fifth, you don't have to rush." Luo Daoren echoed the opinion of the second master: "Whether it is 5,000 or 10,000 people, with so many soldiers, the Xu family will definitely not have much grain and grass, as long as we hold it for 3 or 5 days, the Xu family will definitely retreat!" ”

"But, if the Xu family goes all out to attack a cottage, what should we do?"

This is the reason why Yanshun Wang Ying wants to take the initiative.

There are a total of 2,500 bandits on Fulai Mountain, divided into five cottages, the cottage of the Luodao people has 800 bandit strongmen, Yanshun has 500, and the other three cottages have only 400 strongmen.

After dividing the population of Zheng Tianshou, the number of troops in Yanshun Wang Ying's cottage increased to 500 people, which is enough in normal times, but this time, if they still defend their own cottages separately, it will be a disparity of 1 to 10, in this case, the walled wall is not so reliable.

What's more, the Xu family has some captives in their hands that can be used to lead the way. In addition, some of them are already familiar with the roads of Fulai Mountain, and they can't even count on the advantage of being familiar with the geography.

Yanshun Wang Ying felt that if everyone really went home to defend their respective cottages, there was a high probability that it would indeed be as Luo Daoren and Liu Gao said, the Xu family would besiege for 3 or 5 days, and then retreat because of the lack of food and grass.

But before that, the possibility of the Xu family breaking 1 or 2 villages is still very high. Even if only one is broken, it can only be one of the two unlucky eggs.

Bandits are like this, if Haoqiang at least has blood ties as a link to ease the contradictions between various forces, the entanglement of interests and confrontation between bandit leaders will only be more difficult to reconcile.

Those fools who really believe in the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, one counts as one, and now the grass on the grave is higher than that of people, well, it's not right, I'm afraid that most of them don't even have a grave.

"If you are afraid that the Xu family will concentrate on attacking a cottage, then it is better for you to move here first."

The second shopkeeper Liu Gao said compassionately:

"Let's concentrate on defending two cottages, then the Xu family will burn two empty villages at most, and you will go back when they retreat."

Hearing this, Yan Shun Wang Ying's face changed.

As soon as Zheng Tianshou died, his cottage, subordinates and property were divided among the other four shopkeepers, which is enough to explain the problem.

The two of them ran to Luo Dao and Liu Gao's village to ask for refuge, even if they were not annexed, they would definitely be stripped of their skin.

Then, it still takes money to rebuild the cottage, and I don't know when I will have to wait to restore my strength, let alone have the opportunity to expand my strength.

If they agreed, the two of them would lose the opportunity to catch up with Luo Daoren and Liu Gao, and would always be pressed down by the big shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper.

"Big treasurer, you really don't agree with the field war?" Yan Shun said in a cold tone: "I hurt the hearts of our brothers, but I can't make up for it!" ”

"What do you want if you can't make it up?" Liu Gao said in a cold tone: "Do you still want to vote for the Xu family?" ”

"Not necessarily!" The stout Wang Ying jumped up suddenly: "Want to swallow our brother's property? It also depends on whether you Liu Gao has this appetite! We voted for the Xu family to fight the mountain gate together, and you Liu Gao was the first to die! ”

"Then I'm going to kill you now!" Liu Gaoqi pulled out his sword, and the old bandits under the two also unsheathed their swords.

"Stop! Stop! ”

Seeing that a fire was about to break out, Luo Daochang had to stand up and ease the situation:

"It's all my own brothers, and the trouble will make the Xu family see the joke!"

"It's better to see a joke than to be shoveled by someone else." Yan Shun showdown said: "Big shopkeeper, I leave my words here, otherwise we will go to work with the Xu family together, otherwise, our brothers will have to fend for themselves!" ”

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Sending troops is a very troublesome job.

In particular, no one in the Xu family actually had the experience of commanding thousands of troops to advance towards a goal, so no matter how much preparation was made in advance and how much they conceived, the troops still formed a long snake formation.

Walking at the front of the line was Xu Shisong's department, which was most eager to fight, because the old master of the Liang army was not suitable for participating in the war, so he actually commanded the militia of the two dock forts, and only in terms of numbers, he belonged to the strongest part of the dock fort owners.

It's also reassuring for him to come as a striker.

It was Xu Shiyang who was the defender of the whole army, and he was also responsible for protecting the safety of the large convoy.

Then, the troops of the other castle lords of the Xu family were sandwiched between the two, and they were scattered for nearly 10 miles, so that when the excited Xu Shisong walked to the city of Juzhou, Xu Shiyang had just left the north gate of 1 Tun and .......

This is really a tragedy, if the other party has a strong army, it doesn't need much, as long as one hundred and ten elite cavalry, it will definitely be able to defeat Xu Shisong, and then roll over the entire Xu family's army one by one.

Fortunately, the Xu family's opponents this time were bandits, and there were no troops capable of performing such a task, so the road from the first tun to Juzhou City was quite calm.

The head of the family ordered Xu Shisong to camp in Juzhou City and wait for the follow-up troops.

15 or 6 miles west from Juzhou to Fulai Mountain, no matter how unknown Xu Mujiang was, he would not let the team use this posture to hit the bandits' mountain gate.

At this time, the city of Juzhou has long been ruined, although it still has the name of a county seat, but the population living in the city has been very scarce, there are statistics of only about 150 households, all belong to a large family surnamed Fan, they use a corner of the old city wall, circle a settlement.

In addition to the fact that the two walls are brick and stone city walls, this Fan family settlement area is actually not much different from the dock fort outside the city, so places like the Xu family like to call this place Fanjiatun.

The main fields of Fanjiatun are outside the city, close to the Luoshui River, and it is relatively easy to irrigate, so the yield is good, and this Fanjia has become one of the famous and powerful dock forts.

However, no matter how powerful it is, it is just a dock fort, covering an area of only about one-tenth of the old Juzhou City, as soon as Xu Shisong arrived, he unceremoniously occupied the remaining dilapidated houses in the city - there are some broken walls in the city that can block the wind, and camping here is naturally much stronger than camping outside the city.