"This Luan Tingyu, they are cavalry, but they walked behind us!"

Xu Shiliu said in a dissatisfied tone:

"I've seen the training of the two of their precious cavalry, third brother, they are about to dismount, that is, to be used as 20 foot soldiers. I don't think we're going to wait for them! ”

Xu Shiliu lost face with the new army, and changed the appearance of Xu Shiyang's nostrils facing the sky, which would look down on Luan Tingyu and Sun Li's cavalry infantry again.

"You know they're cavalry." Xu Shiyang smiled and said: "Cavalry has the use of cavalry, even if it is inferior cavalry. ”

"Wait for them to come, and when they come, let's go meet the lords of the dock fort around here."

……

Somewhat different from Xu Shiyang's initial prediction, the reinforcements of the local dock lord were only about a little more than 1,000, and there were 25 dock forts from 3 families.

The water and soil on the Rizhao side are weak, and the scale of the dock fort is usually a little smaller than that of Juzhou, but it is not as good as 25 dock forts to make up 1,000 people, it seems that this support army is not particularly active in rescuing Rizhao Port.

In other words, they appeared here just to prevent the Japanese from scattering and plundering while attacking Rizhao, affecting the spring ploughing that is now underway.

After all, not every family has ships to trade, and the families that don't have sea ships have little to do with the family that controls Rizhao Port, so they don't care too much about whether they will be attacked by the widows.

Of course, there are more positive ones.

For example, the Wang family, who live seventy or eighty miles east of Rizhao, is not involved in maritime trade, but because they have an in-law relationship with the Xu family (Xu Shiyang's biological mother is from this family, that is to say, the Wang family is Xu Shiyang's uncle's family), and the Xu family has 5 boats in Rizhao, which is deeply involved, so the Wang family is obviously more concerned about rescuing Rizhao than the other two.

It's just that the Wang family also needs spring ploughing, and even if they bring out all the people who can temporarily put down their farm work, it will only be 500 people.

Fighting outside the war consumes their own grain and grass, and they are still worried about their family's fields, and a single Wang family really does not dare to take the initiative to attack at least 3 or 4,000 Japanese pirates, so they can only gather with the other two reinforcements hedgehogs, which can be regarded as holding back the Japanese forces for Rizhao.

The Japanese also seemed to know that they couldn't grab anything in the inland areas, and the Wubao soldiers did not take the initiative to attack, and they didn't bother to come over to fight, but only sent a few hundred people, stuck a few roads, and confronted the Wubao soldiers, and their main force was still besieging Rizhao, and there was a great momentum of vowing not to give up until the goal was achieved.

When Xu Shiyang was meeting with the reinforcements, several core castle masters of the three families were getting together to discuss their next move.

Compared with the Xu family, who had to use a foreign surname, the owners of these three local wealthy families were basically people with the same surname and family, so it was easy to divide them into three factions with distinct banners.

"We can't drag it out like this!"

In the place where everyone was discussing, a lord surnamed Ding couldn't help but stand up and shouted:

"I can't afford to delay the farm work at home, I think this widow won't be able to beat the sunshine for a while and a half, even if it is defeated, they don't have the time to scatter and loot, I propose, let's break up and go back to their respective homes!"

The Ding family was far away from Rizhao and had no relatives or economic ties with the port, so this time the troops were sent purely to prevent the Japanese from taking Rizhao and plundering them in private.

Seeing that the sun had been shining for a long time, even if the Japanese invaded the port, they would not have much strength to plunder in the countryside, so several Ding family members were clamoring loudly, wanting to disband the reinforcements and go home to take care of the more important fields.

"Big brother of the Ding family, even if the widows don't plunder this year and taste the sweetness, how do you know that they won't come again next year?"

Wang An, the second lord of the Wang family, said loudly:

"If you don't take advantage of the fatigue of their division veterans this year, they will be the second Tartar from next year, how much grain does your family have to pay tribute to them every year?"

"Hehe, Wang Er, don't think we don't know." The boss of the Ding family sneered and said: "Your family is in-law with the Xu family in Juzhou, so you are so active for the five boats of the Xu family, right?" ”

"Don't forget, those widows, in the final analysis, were attracted by Xu Muze, and now the Zhang family who dragged the sunshine has suffered for them, why do you want to drag our Ding family into it together?"

This is too heart-wrenching, and it sounds like there is some truth - the Japanese are indeed because Xu Muze leaked wealth and felt that the Xu family's fleet and Rizhao Port had oil and water, so they came to plunder.

In fact, even the Wang family is quite dissatisfied with Xu Muze now.

The meeting scene was a little deserted, and the Wang family felt unreasonable, so they did not continue to argue with the Ding family.

Another local Haoqiang, surnamed Bao, who is neutral between the two families, hopes to end this rebellion as soon as possible, just like the Wang family.

Bao's family is only less than 20 miles away from Rizhao Port, and the Japanese invaders are coming from day to night, and they dare not be as sure as the Ding family that the Japanese will not loot them after breaking the sunshine.

It's just that they have some disagreements with the Wang family on how to end this rebellion.

"Can you send someone to contact the widow?"

A castle lord surnamed Bao whispered:

"The Xu family caused the matter, let the Xu family solve it themselves, their family has 5 ships, give half to the widows, and let the widows withdraw the army?"

"Nonsense!" Wang Ping, the boss of the Wang family, stood up and scolded: "Let's not talk about whether 2 or 3 ships of cargo can satisfy the appetite of the widows, if they come again next year, whose ships will you give to the widows?" ”

"The matter was provoked by the Xu family, and then let the Xu family make a big fuss?" The lord of the fort surnamed Bao stiffened his neck and shouted: "Why do we want to send troops to protect the property of the Xu family?" ”

"I didn't know that our family was spending their own money to mess with that."

A cold voice rang out.

The lord of the castle surnamed Bao turned his head sharply and looked at the person who spoke.

At this time, Xu Shiyang was riding on a war horse, with his back to the evening glow, looking back and forth at these local castle lords with an unkind gaze.

The local dock castle owners were all dazzled by the sunset, and they couldn't see Xu Shiyang's expression clearly at this time.

However, in a trance, they could squint and barely see a strong warrior in iron armor looking straight at them with a horsewhip in his right hand, and the dazzling sunlight spread on the strong man's body, as if he was draped in a golden cloak.

Twenty-three heavily armed cavalrymen lined up in two horizontal formations (20 cavalrymen, Luan Tingyu, Sun Lijia and Xu Shiliu riding a pack horse), like a pair of huge wings, spread out behind this god-like horseman, faintly forming a charging formation towards the local castle lords.

"Who are you!?" The castle lord surnamed Bao shouted in disbelief.

"Shi Yang?" However, Wang An was the first to react, and called out in surprise: "You are Xu Shiyang, the cub of the little sister!" ”

"Second uncle." Xu Shiyang nodded lightly to Wang An on the horse, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Xu Shiyang said to all the dock castle owners present:

"Gather your men, and I'll take you to kill those pirates."