Xu Shiyang slept until the third pole of the sun before getting up, at this time he still felt dizzy, he stuffed his face directly into the cold bucket, and after a few seconds, he lifted it again, shook it vigorously, and then took a cotton cloth to wipe his face vigorously.

It took a while for the young castle lord to barely come to his senses.

Xu Shiyang lifted his long knife, which was the only standard long knife in the dock fort, one of the gifts given to him by his father, and walked out of the small courtyard where he lived, and went straight to the barn.

It was late autumn (the Tartars all came at this time), the harvest had been completed, and the three layers of the idle burghers had surrounded the barreshing floor, and the inner layer of the crowd was the children who acted as pro-soldiers, one by one, with their chests folded and their bellies, carrying fire muskets as batons, responsible for maintaining order.

In the center of the barn, kneeling were the captured Tartars, a total of 21 men, all barebacked, dejected.

When they were first captured, they still maintained the arrogance of the Tartars, and a few of them could speak Chinese, and they shouted and threatened the burghers, but they were beaten with sticks and their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, and now they dare not speak.

The housekeeper in the fort, the old man Hu Lanshan and Hu were pitifully behind Xu Shiyang.

He is the old man of the Xu family, and he was transferred from the second tun of the Xu family (Xu Shiyang's father's tunpu) to the fifteenth tun to serve as a steward, and theoretically he should be regarded as the second person in the tunpu.

But when he went to see the Tartars with food, wine and meat, Xu Shiyang didn't tell him that Tunding would go to a sneak attack.

Although he escaped death during the battle, and he didn't think much about Xu Shiyang after the battle, but after returning home and calming down, the old man began to be afraid - in his opinion, Xu Shiyang didn't care about his life or death at all, or rather, this young wolf just wanted to borrow the hand of the Tartar to ask for his own life!

The reason is very simple, no one likes to have an old man by his side who can restrain him, even if this old man was given to him by his father.

Therefore, Old Man Hu decided that from now on, he would never disobey Xu Shiyang in the slightest, even if he knew that what he was doing was wrong and did not conform to the rules, he would not admonish him.

Xu Shiyang didn't expect this old man to be so careful, he really didn't like Hu Lanshan, but he didn't have to kill him.

That day, Old Man Hu was sent to deliver something to the Tartars, originally because this belonged to Old Man Hu's job - whether it was the Tartars, the Great Displaced People, or the bandits and bandits passing by, he was the one who went to negotiate the price, and all the heroes could talk, who would go if he didn't go?

As for not revealing the battle plan to him, it would be more normal.

Xu Shiyang specially asked him to bring 20 altars of soil to burn, originally to paralyze the tartars, if this old man knew the battle plan, and if he was not careful to reveal it, the 150 militiamen who attacked would die without a place to be buried.

As for whether Old Man Hu will be killed by himself because of this, ......, uh, as I said earlier, Xu Shiyang really doesn't like him.

In this world, it doesn't matter if anyone dies.

Xu Shiyang didn't bother to pay attention to what Old Man Hu was thinking, he shouted at a pro-soldier: "Xu Da! ”

"In!"

The young man named Xu Da hurriedly stood in front of Xu Shiyang.

Unlike other castle owners who like to use brave and ruthless people as personal soldiers, Xu Shiyang has always insisted on using these children trained by himself as personal soldiers, and also acts as his tentacles to control the entire village.

Most of these children are refugees recruited by Xu Shiyang, and they have no parents or elders, so it stands to reason that they have no chance to grow up.

The other castle owners of the Xu family don't like this kind of little cub who never gets enough to eat (when he is growing his body, it is normal), and he has no strength to work, so Xu Shiyang smiled unceremoniously.

When they arrived at the fifteenth tun, Xu Shiyang asked them all to follow their surnames Xu, and then named them with numbers, and the sophomores, three, four, and five slipped down in the order they came.

This Xu Da is one of the first homeless children to come in Wuxiantun, and he is rare to have an honest personality, very obedient, and full of gratitude and loyalty to Xu Shiyang, who saved his life.

Xu Shiyang already regarded him as the captain of his own soldiers, so he was arranged to do some trivial things as much as possible, which could be regarded as cultivating his ability.

"How many numbers can you count?"

"Back to your lord, 20!"

Xu Shiyang had been trying to implement Arabic numerals in his fort, and these illiterate teenagers didn't learn very quickly, but they were much better than the others—other bunkers could recognize 3 and they were considered diligent learners.......

However, today, 20 is enough, after all, there are only 21 prisoners.

Xu Shiyang took out a long knife, walked to the pile of prisoners, chose one at random, and slashed it down.

A frightened head rolled down at his feet.

The burghers let out a burst of exclamation, but it didn't cause any confusion - who hasn't seen a hundred and eighty dead people in this world?

"Now there are only 20 of them."

Xu Shiyang said to Xu Da:

"You come and line them up, and then pick 5 random people from there and kill them."

"Kill 5 people?"

Xu Da asked in astonishment.

Of the 20 strong laborers, Xu Shiyang had to kill 5 in one sentence, which is a pity.

"Kill 5!"

Xu Shiyang coldly repeated this own order:

"The rest of the people are divided into 3 groups, 5 people in each group, and pulled to do the heavy work!"

20 Tartars is too many for a small fort, and if other Tartars attack in the future, it is difficult to say whether they will respond in droves.

Then it's better to use thunder means directly and shock them now.

Thirteen years ago, the main force of the Great Zhou army marched north and fought a decisive battle with the Jurchen Tartar army pouring in outside the Guan, and the result was a crushing defeat, with less than one survivor of the 170,000 army.

From that time on, all kinds of barbarians in the north: the Jurchens from Liaodong, the Tatars from the grasslands, the Dangxiang from the northwest, and other chaotic Tatars, poured into the Huahua world of the Central Plains again and again, killing and plundering.

The imperial army was defeated again and again, and there was nothing they could do about the Tartars, so that in the end they even had to withdraw from the old Jingnandu, leaving the entire Jiangbei to the alien tribes.

If it weren't for the fact that the Tartars from all walks of life were also inextricably fighting, and if there was a unified foreign regime in the north, whether it was the Tatars or the Jurchens, or even the party items, which had the ability to control the fertile land of Jiangbei, which was almost terra nullius, Xu Shiyang felt that the waste dim sum in the south of the Yangtze River would have been destroyed by the Tartars like the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty in his previous life, causing Shenzhou to sink in the land.

Even if the regime that Xu Shiyang contemptuously called the Southern Zhou could survive, the military defeats of the previous ten years had already worn away the self-confidence of the Han people.

The Jurchens said that they were invincible, and the Han people did not dare to refute it, because they could not defeat the Jurchens.

The Tatars said that they were invincible in the world, but the Han did not dare to refute it, because they could not defeat the Tatars.

Even when the party said that they could fight the Han people with one against five, the Han people did not dare to refute it, because they could not defeat the party item.

There are also Qiang, Tubo, Uighur, as well as the Bohai and Khitan who were conquered by the Jurchens, and even crossed the sea to take advantage of the chaos to fight the Goryeo and Fuso pirates in the autumn wind.

As long as they are foreigners, they all feel that they can bite the Han people hard, and they all feel that the Han people dare not resist at all after more than ten years of failure!

The Han people did not dare to resist, if the Tartars did not attack the dock fort and did not force the Han people into a desperate situation, those fort owners who usually had five people and six people would only offer women's money and food with both hands, and ask the Tartars who passed by to raise their noble hands.

This is also an important reason why Hai Huli is so careless - Xu Shiyang handed over the ransom money like other Han leaders, so Hai Huli felt that he was a coward like other Han leaders.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that Xu Shiyang's body was inhabited by a soul from another world, this soul was in his youth before the time crossing, loved military and history, and was a typical nationalist.