In the early hours of every winter day last year, Mingyuezhuang always completed the seamless transition from quiet to noisy.

Li Xiang woke up slowly, his lips were purple, he heard the hustle and bustle outside, and said weakly: "Liu Xiadu and the official army did not cross the river to the north bank, why is there such a noise?" ”

Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli, Cheng Clerk, Zhao Bo and others looked at each other and did not dare to answer. Li Xiang coughed twice, and Li Mengkong hurriedly reported: "The owner of the village is angry, the officials and soldiers made a riot last night......

Listening to Li Mengkong's narration, Li Xiang restored the tragic and absurd human tragedy in his mind.

The two battalion commanders of Xunyang's chief catcher and Shiyan Xiang Army were in a hurry to get out, and instructed their subordinates to set fire to and loot everywhere, and the south bank of the Xiaohe River was on fire.

Liu Xia saw the fire burning, and he was stupid at first. But he is a smart person after all, and after reacting, he immediately stepped forward to negotiate, "The three of them will stop immediately, and after solving Li Xiang, the prefect, the Zhizhou, and Huang Cheng families, as well as the proprietor behind the big business in Mingyueji, will try their best to protect the three." ”

"The three of you are really not afraid of ...... in the future" Liu Xiadu's words were full of threats. If you really get the chicken feathers in Mingyuezhuang, and finally come to the bowl with raw rice, which angers several big people, Xunyang General Capture and the two Shiyan battalion commanders can't stand it.

Liu Xia stared at the chief arrester and the two battalion commanders, anxiously waiting for their answers, and then ......

"Jump!" Liu Xia was knocked unconscious.

A patrol thief in Shiyan Prefecture put away the scabbard, and asked Xunyang if he had any other instructions, and did not forget to praise his own ability, "A few officials are relieved, under this scabbard, discipline him to sleep for three to five hours, and he will not hurt himself." ”

Xunyang always waved his hand, so that the county lieutenant who was familiar with knocking people was at ease, and looked at the embarrassed two Shiyan battalion commanders and said: "I have heard that Shiyan Prefecture City is close to Wudang Mountain, and there have been many strange people and strange things since ancient times. Now that I see it, cough cough, it really deserves its name. ”

"Ahem, where, where."

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, that guy is just familiar, cough cough."

After Liu Xia was gone, the remaining six Liu family relatives couldn't get hold of the villagers on the south bank of the small river. When the officers and soldiers and officials saw this scene, they were overjoyed.

The guards who defected to Liu Xiadu, plus the young and strong people of the Liu clan and the rebel villagers, there were about 300 people. These people have just betrayed Mingyuezhuang, and in the face of old acquaintances on the north bank of the Xiaohe River, they may be weak-hearted. However, in the face of the officers and officers who smashed and looted, they vigorously vented their inner emptiness and resentment.

The officers and officers almost lit a dozen fires and robbed a dozen small buildings and courtyards, but they were stopped by the regularly trained guards and young men, and the two sides began to confront each other. The officer was almost killed by Liu Sheng in the council hall and lost his temper, and now he is only robbing property, of course he will not start a rash fight: how unjust he died!

Liu Xia went to negotiate, and then there was no sound.

"Liu Xia is dead, brothers rush! The people in front of them are richer, especially those with the surname Liu. ”

The Zhuang people who took refuge in Liu Xiadu, whether they were guards, young and strong, old and weak, women and children, lost their fighting spirit, and were almost scattered by the officers and officers who coveted wealth. In the past, the familiar Zhuang people took up arms in groups of three to seven households to defend themselves, as for how many families of the Liu family? Most of the people consciously avoided those people, and said in their hearts: The entire Mingyuezhuang belongs to your families with the most spare money and knows how to enjoy it the most. Now that the catastrophe is coming, of course, it is up to you to attract the officers and officers.

The most solid families in Mingyue Village, such as the Xiong family, the Lei family, the Yu family, the Zhang family, etc., do not have much cash. They closely followed Li Xiang's thinking and pace, paid attention to practicality, and invested a lot of the money and food they earned, sometimes materials, into workshops and Qinling business roads.

Take the Lei family of Lei Chenglei's father and son as an example. Their family didn't have much copper money, and the workshops on the side of the Han River, the core workshops on the north bank of the small river in Zhuangnai, the guards of nearly 20 people, and the caravan of the Lei family employing more than 30 good hands were the greatest wealth of their family.

The Liu clan who wants to seize power is very different.

The seven Liu families separated from Li Xiang early, bent on squeezing more value from privilege. The copper money they earned began to improve their lives in addition to operating backers, looking for in-laws, and arranging back roads outside Mingyuezhuang. Especially the descendants of the Liu family of the seven households, who haunt the Washe Qinglou all day long, have the ambition to keep up with the sons of the gentry and big families.

In Mingyue Village, the small buildings belonging to the seven Liu families are exquisitely arranged, and the gold, silver, copper coins, and silk and satin accumulated by the seven Liu families are also the most. The elderly people of the Liu family often look at their own warehouses with smiles and smiles, thinking: When can they take away the property of those sluts and put it all in their own treasury, so that their children and grandchildren will not have to suffer.

The seven Liu families did not grab other people's property, and their own property could not be kept.

Zhang Qingping and Yang Yingdong stood on the north bank of the Xiaohe River, stunned at the firelight on the south bank and the scene of the death match in the smoke and fire.

Yang Yingdong had never seen such a scene, and touched a few steel guns given by Tang Guohao up and down, feeling a lot more at ease, "Those people, what are they doing?" If you want to fight, you can't take down the entire Mingyuezhuang first? ”

Zhang Qingping remembered the scene of the rebellious soldiers crossing the border when he was in his hometown in Cangzhou, and laughed strangely, "The two commanders of the officers and soldiers must have their own considerations, so they indulged in the looting of their subordinates." The back hand prepared by the public middle school is useless. ”

Zhang Qingping looked at the Zhuang people who were carrying important materials behind him, and thought: You don't need to move things, right? The other party made a mess of chicken feathers, and Mingyuezhuang didn't need to rebel. Unless...... The owner of the village is bent on taking advantage of the situation to raise troops.

Aunt Lei's mouth was wide open, but Tang Guohao's family next to her had no intention of reminding her. Two middle-aged women with thick hands and feet felt the heat of the fire on the south bank, and only felt that their hands and feet were cold.

Tang Guohao's family shivered and asked Aunt Lei: "Lei, sister-in-law of the Lei family." The things of the core workshop, yet, are they still moving to the back mountain? ”

"Move, of course. What if the Huang Cheng family doesn't give up, and the government also regards us as rebels? Aunt Lei forced herself to make a strong woman posture and replied calmly.

Lei Cheng and Tang Guohao, one is good at iron-making and the other is good at armor-making, and they complement each other in their public ministry and their own business, so the two are very close. Aunt Lei remembered Tang Guohao and asked Tang Guohao's Hun family: "How is Brother Tang?" ”

Tang Guohao's Hun family is just an honest woman who can't read big characters, and she was a little choked up when she heard the words, "The little brother of the medical and health department said that he would be able to raise it for two days." Fortunately, the eldest brother of the Liu family acted quickly, otherwise the child's father would ...... "Liu Sheng killed too fiercely, and actually saved Tang Guohao, who was tied into a zongzi, I have to say that it was an unexpected joy.

Aunt Lei escorted the last convoy to the back mountain.

Fifteen two-wheeled vehicles pulled dead shafts, gears, iron felt, heavy hammers and other objects, dragged by large animals, accompanied by rhythmic iron whistles, to several dug holes.

As the convoy traveled away, the fighting and screams from the south bank grew louder and louder......

After arranging the position of the straight bow team, and also trying to shoot a few arrows in front of each team, I had a number in my heart, and then Da Niu approached the big voice and asked in a low tone: "There is an infighting in the south." If the Zhuang people who took refuge in Liu Xiadu want to cross the river, do we really want to release arrows? In the past, I looked down and didn't look up, it's all old knowledge! ”

The loud voice hid the armor in his robe, and knocked the shield with a single knife, "Just listen to the orders of Zhang Qingping and Yang Yingdong." What if you don't let go of the arrows, let those people rush over, and the officers and soldiers also take advantage of the chaos to cross the river? They betrayed the owner of the village once, and then they will unite with the officials and soldiers who crossed the river to make a rebellion, don't you want the lives of the whole family? ”

The bull's eyes widened, unable to refute. He was about to turn around and leave, so that he could command the straight bow team to fight back at any time, when he realized that the expression of the loud voice was wrong.

The loud voice stared straight at the south bank.

The guards on the north bank of the small river also noticed the scene on the south bank, and they all stared wide-eyed. After seeing the man's face clearly, many of the guards bowed their heads and clenched their weapons in silence.

On the south bank of the small river, a woman walked out of the smoke and dust of the fire. The woman was twenty-eight years old, petite and lovely, and walked to the riverbank so nakedly, bright red blood flowing from her intimate parts to her thighs and then to her calves. With every barefoot step, there is an extra bloody footprint on the riverbank. Empty eyes swept across the river, and when she spotted the figure of the loud voice, her eyes had a glimmer of brilliance.

He couldn't hear any sound in his loud voice, and he only saw the small mouth of the girl surnamed Liu on the other side opening and closing, as if she was saying something.

The weapon with a loud voice slipped from her hand, and she opened her mouth wide to tell her to hide, but she couldn't say a word, and there was only "ho-ho" in her voice...... Ho, ho, ho, ......", and he was about to walk into the river. Da Niu and the others yelled beside him, trying to sober him up, but there was only the slippery figure on the other side of his vision.

Two guards who knew each other stepped forward and were pushed away by the loud voice, and the loud voice's combat skills temporarily turned into instinct. Three more guards came up and worked hard together to bring the loud voice to the ground.

The girl on the other side of the strait once fell in love with a loud voice, and the two families once talked about marriage. However, the Liu family wanted more, so the girl surnamed Liu was limited by her parents and prepared to be used as a tool to climb the high branches.

The loud voice that fell to the ground struggled frantically, and the snot and tears were mixed together. The dirt underneath him was stained with some stickiness.

Seeing that the big voice began to foam at the mouth, his eyes were dilated, and the seven or eight guards who were familiar with him, most of them were brand heads, even chiefs and other characters, and they were quickly exchanging opinions on the side.

"Don't say anything else. Liu Tingting must die, if she continues like this, her loud voice will be stimulated stupidly! ”

"Could it be that in front of him, shoot the humiliated Liu Tingting to death? Will the brothers still make it? After a while, will the loud voice ......?"

"I have a solution, let's ...... There are so many people, and it's a concentrated shot again, and everyone doesn't know if they hit or not, no problem, right? ”

"Hey! Don't say it sooner, hurry up. ”

Zhang Qingping and Yang Yingdong certainly saw the changes here. The two didn't come over, leaving it to a group of young people to solve it on their own.

The three straightbow squads were moved to the front of the big voice, and the view of the big voice was blocked.

The three squad leaders stepped forward, each shot two diamond-shaped barbed arrows, and after reading the results, they set the value before they began to officially command.

Several disheveled officials and soldiers, one of whom was still the head of the official army, rushed out of the smoke screen with a smile, wanting to pull Liu Tingting back and continue to have lewd fun. Seeing the movement on the north bank of the small river, several people were obviously stunned.

The three straightbow squad leaders quickened the pace, and the 83 straightbowers in total changed all kinds of mistakes in the past, and nothing went wrong at this time.

"Fifty steps, ready!"

Hearing the command, the straight archer pulled the bowstring a few times, and the sound of 83 pairs of bamboo and wood bow tires sounded on the north bank of the small river.

"The second straight bow squad, in front, take the arrows."

"Fifth straight bow squad, right one, take the arrow."

"Eighth straight bow squad, first on the left, with arrows."

More than eighty straight archers shot at once, just to kill the humiliated girl.

The pre-dawn darkness hit, and on the north bank of the small river, a sense of helpless ritual enveloped all the defenders and villagers.

The loud voice looked through the gap between the straight archers and observed the girl on the other side, and he vaguely understood Liu Tingting's words, only eight words: "I hate to go with Brother Ji." ”

"Ahh Ahhhhh......h

Under the early morning light, the sound of roosters resounded through the chaotic Mingyuezhuang.

"Loose!"

Eighty-three straight archers let go of their three fingers.

The shaft of the arrow was suddenly exerted by the huge force exerted by the bowstring, accelerating in the left and right twisting, and only after leaving the straight bow did the amplitude of the left and right twist be weakened, and the sounds of "woo~" and "buzz~" were mixed to form a harmonious sound that only a standardized bow and arrow can have.

Liu Tingting smiled and opened her arms to welcome the end of her life in the morning light.