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Five days passed peacefully, yes, five days.

Five days did not see any movement from the government, five days was enough time for the 'Chen family' of Tumenji to completely retreat into the mountains, and five days was enough time for the people of Lushan to know that the Chen family had 'ransacked' Tumenji before retreating into Funiu Mountain, and a large number of Tumenji people fled from their homeland, even the Huang family, the clan relatives of the Chen family.

The Huang family now occupies the Chen family's mansion in the county seat in a grand manner, which is called 'compensation'. Most of the grain and silver they collected in Tumen were taken away by the Chen family, and the old man Huang also went to the county government to sound the drum of grievances, praying that the county lord could bring the Chen family to justice.

The Huang family and the Li family and the Gao family, who were miserable by the Chen family, are now the three most active families in the 'crusade' against the Chen family.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows what these three families are doing, but on the face, Chang Rui still has to appease these three law-abiding gentry. This is the rule, no matter whether the Huang Li Gao family secretly has a relationship with the Chen family, it is a break on the surface. Then Chang Rui can no longer make a fuss about their kinship with the Chen family. Otherwise, if these three families make a fuss again, Wang Jun probably won't be able to cover the lid.

During the five days, Tumenji was more lively than the Chinese New Year, and the Chen family purchased salt, sugar, spices, cloth, cotton, and so on. I don't know how many families in the surrounding ten miles and eight townships came to Tumenji with small carts and flat burdens, and exchanged their homespun cloth, cotton, salt, sugar, grain, vegetable oil and other things for iron, iron, and silver.

The Gao family used these five days to pull away at least 100,000 catties of good iron, and the Huang family took over the situation of the Chen family in Xiangxian, and the latter's reserve of iron could only support until mid-September at most, and there was only one month left. This is also a little bit of reserve after the Chen family's iron production increased greatly in the second half of the year. There is also a part of Xiaonangou, and the batch that the Gao family pulled away is.

The situation in Xiangxian County can be regarded as the compensation of the Chen family to the Huang family. The Huang family should not be able to support it in mid-September, and those characters on the table are not fools, after discovering that the source of iron is cut off, and after discovering that the Chen family's force to deter Xiangxian County has disappeared and returned, there will definitely be a backlash, and how much benefit the Huang family can eat in their mouths depends on their own means.

Five days is also enough time, and some people who are not willing to be bandits are absent from work to settle the bill and leave. These people are all old employees of the Chen family, all of whom are mountain people from the surrounding villages of Tumenji, and they have no understanding of the Chen family's smelting technology, but they are just working hard in the mine. So they belong to the realm of being 'released'. And those craftsmen who have been in direct contact with the Chen family's smelting and iron-making techniques do not want to leave.

On the sixth day, the militia group in Baofeng County began to assemble, and on the seventh day, the militia group that headed for Lushan for the first time entered the land of Lushan County. Chen Ming, who was still staying in Tumenji in the afternoon, received the news.

Chen Ming knew that it was time for the excitement of Tumenji to end.

On the eighth day, the militia group in Jiaxian County also entered Baofeng. Then there was the state city, and finally the people of Yiyang County also rushed to Lushan, and the time was already approaching the end of August.

The weather is getting colder and colder. If you go long for another month, it will snow in Lushan. Unless this year's weather is different from usual.

Wang Jun, Li Zhao, and even Chang Rui all hoped that the Chen family would be wiped out within a month. Therefore, as soon as the militia group in Yiyang County arrived, Li Zhao, who personally came to Lushan to sit in the town, integrated the team, and the number of militia groups gathered in the entire Ruzhou exceeded 800 people. Then he came violently towards the Tumen Collection.

Chen Ming used a monocular to look at the marching procession on the other side of the river in the bushes on the other side of the Yinma River, not that he looked down on the 800 people in front of him, but that these 800 people were really not qualified for him to look up. The loose queue, the noisy march, and the humble and unsightly armament!

Chen Ming believed that he only needed to carry out ten or eight two-pound cannons, and crackle and slam at this team, and then the backbone team wearing cuirass took advantage of the situation to rush again, and if he couldn't catch Li Zhao, the dog himself, he could also catch three or five hundred prisoners.

"This group of miscellaneous things also wants to find trouble with our Chen family, if it weren't for preventing it from getting bigger, it would be easy to deal with them!" Chen Erbao was beside Chen Ming, holding a monocular in his hand, looking at the militia on the other side of the river and sneering. When will these vigilante groups really get in the way? In addition to being obedient, these people are too far worse than the smugglers.

"Let's go back. With this kind of team, it can't beat the Phoenix Stage. ”

The straight-line distance between Xiaonangou and Tumenji is more than 20 miles, and the specific distance is estimated to be not X2, but also X 1.5, in the political territory of the entire Lushan County, Xiaonangou is already the westernmost part of the county boundary. Although the traffic on both sides has been vigorously developed by the Chen family, it is not 'convenient'. As long as the mountain road is too narrow.

There are mountains on both sides, and in the middle is a wide and short river, and its tributaries have cut thin cracks on both sides of the main river path, washing a large amount of sand and gravel into the river.

The Yinma River widens a little bit from Funiu Mountain to the east of the river, and the entire river width of the downstream is more than 15 zhang, but the middle and upper reaches are greatly reduced. The main channel of the real river there is up to three feet wide, and the rest of the place is covered with large and small stones. During the dry season in winter, the extra river channels naturally form a series of puddles and even small pools because of the sudden shrinkage of the water surface and the unevenness of each other. During the summer flood season, the bubbling mountain streams cover the entire river surface.

With the financial, material and human resources of the Chen family in the past, it was impossible to renovate the waterway of the Yuma River. Only small bridges can be built one after another at the place where the mountain streams and streams meet, there are wooden bridges and stone bridges. This continued until last year, when the Chen family launched a wave of remediation activities – renovating all the wooden bridges or replacing them with stone bridges.

And since the early summer of this year, the Chen family has been in Fenghuangtai, a place where three streams converge on the Yinma River.

The magic and magic of nature made a piece of high ground protrude from the center of the Yuma River, and before the rise of the Chen family, two tall plane trees grew on that small piece of high land, so that place was called Phoenix Terrace. It is also because the three streams meet the Drinking Horse River, and when you look at it from a distance, it is like dragging a long feather.

The Chen family set up a sentry post on the north shore of the Phoenix River, using the soil cement fired in their own earthen kiln, there were no steel bars, there were iron bars, plus stones and 50 catties of bricks, the Chen family did not use a month to erect a decent village on the north shore of the Phoenix River, and the Chen family said that it was a township soldier sentry post.

As for the high ground in the middle of the Yinma River, the two plane trees were washed away by a once-in-a-century flood twenty years ago, and the Chen family did not hesitate to use gunpowder to directly bulldoze the high ground. And the slippery piece of land on the left bank of the Yinma River, the Chen family doesn't care about it at all. It was a dead end, and it was less than a mile ahead, and it was the high mountain that came out of Pinghu - the surface of the Yinma River.

Further upstream, the Yuma River flows down against the mountain wall to the south. Going up, there is no such thing as a 'south bank' at all. It can be said that Fenghuangtai is a node of the Yinma River, after the Fenghuangtai, the alluvial flat land of the Yinma River is getting bigger and bigger, until the Tumenji, then go down is the fertile field.

The sentry post was named Phoenix Terrace by the Chen family, and there were no two-pound cannons in it, but there were a batch of tiger squat cannons like wooden and earthen cannons.