A few days after the Spring Festival, a sky-high fire suddenly ignited on the official road of the vertical and horizontal mountains.

In the afternoon of the same day, a galloping horse rushed into the county seat of Shangjun with an exhausted knight on its back, and with it, news spread that was enough to shock the entire county......

The former county governor Liu Shanquan was attacked and killed by bandits.

This Liu Shanquan was originally the county governor of Shangjun County, and as the second-in-command in the county, his rights are actually much greater than the county order. The county order was gilded from above, but Liu Shanquan was an authentic county person.

At the same time, he is also the head of the Liu family in Shangjun County.

The Liu family in this county is the same as Wangjiazhuang, it is a well-known local hero, with thousands of acres of fertile land, and there are industries inside and outside the city. At the beginning of the year, he went to visit a nobleman in the county as usual, but on the way back to his hometown, he encountered bandits who robbed the road.

The smoke that had burned on that section of the official road was billowing out, and the smoke covered the sky, and by the time the officials of the upper county reacted, Liu Shanquan was already dead.

Seeing his opponent die tragically on the way back to his hometown, Xu Da, the county commander of Shangjun County, felt very uncomfortable.

He and Liu Shanquan fought secretly for ten years, and he was always pressed by Liu Shanquan, until last year when he worshiped a certain big man in the county, he gradually eased his anger, and in turn restrained Liu Shanquan, and spit out the evil spirit of the past ten years.

Seeing Liu Shanquan's charred corpse, Xu Da was happy and sad, happy that this opponent was finally dead, although Liu Shanquan was sick at home, but his power in the county was far better than Xu Da, Liu Shanquan was a local hero, with a solid foundation, and it would be difficult for Xu Da to uproot his power for a while.

Therefore, although Liu Shanquan resigned from the post of county leader, Xu Da still could not completely control the county, even if he had close contacts with the Zheng family and other wealthy merchant families, but where could the foundation of these merchants be stronger than these places.

Of course, Xu Da was happy that Liu Shanquan was dead, but unfortunately, the ensuing problems made him very annoying.

As a local figure with a head and a face, he died on the official road in such an unknown way, not only the county was dissatisfied with him, but also those local heroes and powerhouses were also complaining, and he even heard some gossip that Liu Shanquan's death was his will.

This made Xu Da, who had always regarded himself as high, furious, and he vowed to investigate the matter thoroughly and give an explanation to the Liu family and other families.

But what happened next also made the county magistrate cold from the beginning to the bottom of his heart.

Not only Liu Shanquan, but also some other characters who were on the stage were also attacked and killed by bandits on the official road.

In addition, these bandits also attacked the villagers of nearby villages, and even entered the villages in broad daylight to rob. At this time, not only the local heroes in Shangjun County were dissatisfied with Xu Da, but even ordinary people began to complain.

The duty of the county order is to maintain the stability of one party, but this bandit and bandit have all been killed on the official road, if this matter cannot be concluded, I am afraid that the black gauze hat of the county order will not be able to be saved.

For the bandits in the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, the Chinese New Year is no different from peacetime, and if they do not rob the common people and rich merchants, their lives will not be sustained. It is impossible that because of the Spring Festival, they hid in the cottage and did not go down the mountain to plunder their property.

Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, these bandits and bandits poured out of the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges one after another, attacking and killing passers-by on the official roads.

Since Qin Yu went up the mountain, Su Yi really built a blacksmith shop for him as he said before, and arranged for him to be five young and strong thieves as laborers.

With Qin Yu, a blacksmith, the worn weapons in Taohuazhai can finally be repaired, and more importantly, the elite soldiers under Gao Heihu's command have been trained with wooden maces so far, and they have no effect at all.

It would be nice if a batch of mace giant sticks could be made, after Su Yi told Qin Yu about this idea, Qin Yu frowned and looked at the mace seized from the high black tiger guard.

In the middle of the sound, Qin Yu said to Su Yi: "King Su, the production process of this mace is complicated, and there are quite a lot of materials for iron ingots, with only a few of us now, I am afraid it will be difficult to produce it in large quantities." ”

Su Yi's eyes lit up and said, "Then you mean, these maces can be made?" ”

Qin Yu just said that it was difficult to produce in large quantities, and did not say that these maces could not be made.

"Not bad." Qin Yu nodded and said, "It's just that the manpower is ......."

Su Yi waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about manpower, as long as you can make this batch of wolf tooth giant sticks, you want as many strong men as you want in the cottage." "Let's not mention that there are many captives and strong men in Peach Blossom Village now, that is, the bandits of the cottage, and there are many strong people, and there are many people who strike iron for Qin Yu.

"That'...... Then I'll do my best. Qin Yu is also honest, he knows that Su Yi has a life-saving grace for him, and now only by repaying Su Yi's kindness as soon as possible can he go down the mountain with confidence.

This simple young man never thought of staying in Peach Blossom Village, and similarly, this simple young man never thought that from the day he went up the mountain, there would be no chance to leave Peach Blossom Village......

At the same time, in the vertical and horizontal mountains, He Kui's deputy and Ye Bushu were surrounded by a group of well-armed bandits.

This group of bandits is different from the bandits that Peach Blossom Village has encountered before, and their weapons and equipment are particularly sophisticated, especially above Peach Blossom Village. The leader of the bandits straddled the yellow horse, wearing fine iron heavy armor, holding a long knife, and looked at He Kui's deputy with fierce eyes.

Behind him were more than 300 well-equipped cavalrymen, and more than 400 fierce-looking foot soldiers.

The leader of the bandits waved his hand, and the foot soldiers stepped forward one after another.

Seeing this, the deputy shouted urgently, and the three teams quickly dispersed at night, not giving each other a chance to close in.

However, this is useless, the other party is full of hundreds of people, the difference in numbers is too great, and soon the more than 30 nights will be tightly surrounded.

The bandit leader sneered, glanced at a few black shadows in the distance, and sneered: "A group of rat guts bandits. ”

Since the growth of Peach Blossom Village, the most losses are not Scar's sword and shield soldiers, nor Liu Shisan's spearmen, but the night that has been out to inquire for news for a long time, these nights are the elite of the cottage, trained by He Kui in archery, and Scar taught them the skills of fighting in the army.

After experiencing large and small night battles, field battles, and breakthrough battles, these night battles have become the elite of the elite, whether it is in the jungle or deep in the mountains, they can easily deal with the enemy. Su Yi even used the method of training special forces in later generations to train this batch of night soldiers.

He Kui's deputy is named Qi Liu, who was originally a friend of He Kui's neighboring village, has been living by hunting, and has superb archery skills, and was later summoned by He Kui to Taohua Village and has been serving as his deputy.

Qi Liu found out the movements of these bandits, and they went to Peach Blossom Village.

With the previous precedent of Qingfeng Village's attack on Peach Blossom Village, Qi Liu immediately sent several batches of Ye Bu to report the news of the village, and he took the rest of the Ye Bu to attract the attention of the other party and deal with them to delay time.

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