Bandits are different from ordinary people, and they can't talk about it if they want to. Over the past few days, the two sides have sent people back and forth to negotiate many times, and finally it was decided that each side would send two people and two horses to negotiate in the wilderness.

Zhang Chu and Li Yi rode to the negotiation site, and saw that the other party really only came with two people and two horses. The leader is in his forties, and he looks powerful, so he should be breaking through the sky.

"You've crossed the line!" Breaking through the sky, he also came up directly and said straight to the point.

"We are Daming security guards, we want to ensure the safety of the party, and no bandits are allowed in Yanchang County." Zhang Chu's words did not mean to negotiate at all.

"What kind of security guard, you can't deceive people, you did the things in Wenta Village, and being caught by the court is the same as losing your head." Breakthrough Tian was very angry.

"You bandits, either immediately abandon the darkness and surrender to us, or wait to be exterminated." Zhang Chu was unceremonious.

"Good! I'm waiting for you! "Break through the sky and get angry, and turn the horse away.

Zhang Chu watched them fly away, and the dust raised gradually dissipated before he said to Li Yi, "It's time for us to work." ”

Li Yi was very puzzled: "Captain, why did you come up and scold him and run away, if you have such a tough attitude, why did you ask him to talk in the first place?" ”

"I need time to prepare, but also to find out about their situation, go, inform the team, target poplar ditch, and eliminate them." Zhang Chu urged the horse forward and said.

Breakthrough day brought people back to the cottage, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, I wasted several days of negotiation back and forth, and I ran to the wilderness to meet Zhang Chu, and in the end, when I met, I said such aggressive words, I couldn't help but be angry, and scolded Zhang Chu in the house. Be sure to contact other cottages to kill Zhang Chu and the others first, and break through the indignant thoughts.

Breakthrough Tian was angry in the house, and a minion outside ran in and reported: "Chief, there is a group of people blocking the outside of the gate." Breaking through the sky and climbing the wall, I saw a team of people outside, it seemed that there were more than 200 people, each armed with knives and guns, led by the hateful Zhang Chu, at this time Zhang Chu was shouting below to break through the sky.

Although Zhang Chu has a lot of people, Breakthrough Heaven is not afraid, Breakthrough Heaven has been operating this cottage for some time, building a solid stone wall, and there are more than 100 people in the cottage, all of whom are bandits, and there is no problem in keeping the cottage. Find an opportunity to attack, maybe you can defeat Zhang Chu and them. Hearing Zhang Chu's loud shout, Breakthrough Heaven wanted to kill him immediately.

"If you can't negotiate, you'll attack my cottage, do you still talk about morality? They came and shot him with bows and arrows. Breaking through the sky said hatefully.

Immediately, a minion who was good at shooting opened his bow and shot at the place where Zhang Chu shouted outside the village.

At the sound of the bowstring, several feathered arrows were shot at Zhang Chu, who was still shouting outside to break through the sky and surrender.

The other thieves on the cottage all went to the wall to see the results, and after seeing it, everyone was full of contempt for Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu fully demonstrated what it means to be greedy for life and afraid of death, not only stood in the place where the bow and arrow could not be shot, but also erected more than a dozen large shields more than one person high in front of him, these big shields may have been transformed from the door panel, erected in front like a wall, seeing the feather arrows flying Zhang Chu immediately let the shield come forward to protect himself tightly. And Zhang Chu still shouted non-stop behind the shield, saying that he would surrender as soon as possible in the breakthrough day, otherwise he would not be left behind, and his mouth was full of words, and all kinds of threatening words came out frequently, and he didn't stop for a long time. Breaking through the sky and seeing that he couldn't shoot Zhang Chu, he jumped to his feet and scolded: "I'm tired of you bastard who doesn't talk about the morality of the rivers and lakes." ”

Zhang Chu finally shouted that he was tired, and the big shield was withdrawn, revealing two small counterweight trebuchets behind him, and the security team showed their teeth.

Breaking through the heavens couldn't help scolding in his heart, Zhang Chu was really a treacherous villain, chattering in front of the village just to install these two broken things. This is nothing to be afraid of, the wall is made of stones, Zhang Chu's trebuchet is too small, it can't throw too big stones, it won't collapse the wall, the wall can't enter the cottage in Zhang Chu, and after a long time, Zhang Chu and others will only have to retreat one way, and then take the opportunity to chase and kill, who surrenders to whom is not necessarily. So he ordered the minions on the mountain to take refuge, and to watch to prevent the security team from taking the opportunity to climb the wall.

The trebuchet was activated, and two black balls flew over, but they did not hit the wall, and flew far into the cottage. The bandits laughed at the security guard's stupidity at the wall.

But the black ball landed, the cottage was on fire, it turned out that the trebuchet was throwing a wine jar, the wine jar was filled with "gasoline" specially prepared by Zhang Chu, when the wine jar was set on fire, the wine jar fell to the ground, the fragments splashed, and the fire immediately burned more and more. Break through the day and immediately put out the fire. The security team outside continued to throw wine jars into the cottage unhurriedly. It was almost winter, the grass and trees on the mountain were orange, and soon the whole poplar ditch was shrouded in thick smoke, and the fire of the security team was not only difficult to extinguish, but also caught fire when it touched something, and the bandits saw the steel knife on fire, and then turned red. The bandits in the village scurried around, looking for a place to hide, but the trebuchets of the security team, which were not accurate, were still throwing wine jars one by one, and there were more and more places on fire. Under the smoke and fire, the sky can only be opened and run out of the wall, and the security team outside the wall is waiting there with spears in hand, and there is no other way but to surrender.

Although he surrendered to break through the sky, he still scolded secretly in his heart: "Zhang Chu, you treacherous villain." ”

After collecting the prisoners, it took a lot of effort for the security guards to control the spread of the fire, and the fire was completely extinguished after burning for three days and three nights.

Zhang Chu finally had a serious talk with Breakthrough Sky. After the conversation, Breakthrough Tian and several leaders in the cottage left with a little food, and promised that Zhang Chu would not appear within the confines of Yanchang County.

The other bandits were not so lucky, and the security team escorted the captives and supervised them to clean up the ruins of the cottage and build houses to rebuild it. Moreover, Zhang Chu also posted notices in various villages, asking the villagers to accuse the bandits of the crimes, and later some villagers really came to accuse the bandits on the mountain of murder and arson, Zhang Chu found out those bandits, unceremoniously killed their heads, and those who had other crimes were supervised to work, saying that they had to work for a certain period of time before they were released, and those who had no bad deeds were incorporated into the security team.

When the news of Zhang Chu's burning of Yangshugou spread, the other bandits were under great pressure, and they had to make a choice after scolding Zhang Chu for not paying attention to the morality of the rivers and lakes. Many bandits fled Yanchang County, and some bandits surrendered to the security team, and the ground security in Yanchang County was very good, and the people finally did not have to worry about the harassment of bandits.

The morale of the security team has been greatly boosted and the intensity of training has increased. A new cottage has been added to Yangshugou, and the two places can be connected to each other, and more people have a place to stay. The security team members found scattered coal pieces in the ravine when cleaning up the mountain forest that had been burned by the poplar ditch, indicating that there may be coal mines nearby, Zhang Chu who received the report immediately sent people to look for them in the valley, and later found several suspected coal mine sites, after a few days of hard excavation, there is a small amount of coal that has been dug out, looking at the coal Zhang Chu finally made up his mind, this winter is easier.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there was not much grain, and if you want to develop and grow, you can't do without food, and after arranging the affairs in the cottage, Zhang Chu began to collect grain again.

Zhang Chu ordered Yang Liu to be responsible for finding reliable civilians and shrewd soldiers in the security team to form a grain purchase team, and the silver obtained from the bandits came in handy at this time. The grain buying team disguised itself as a grain vendor and rode a donkey to buy grain in the city and nearby county towns. One donkey per person, two long pockets. Often, 10 to 20 donkeys travel in groups, not afraid of encountering sporadic bandits or small groups of villagers to stop and rob. This kind of small grain dealers in this kind of small grain dealers already existed in Shaanxi, commonly known as donkey sellers, so the government did not suspect it. Yang Liu: They went out many times and bought some food.

But this was not enough in Zhang Chu's opinion, and Zhang Chu decided to borrow grain from the rich families in the surrounding forts, and if he encountered resistance, he would make an example of him. At that time, because the government was unable to send troops to encircle and suppress, the landlords still heard that the security team had broken through Wenta Village and burned Yangshugou, and they were frightened and did not dare not borrow. However, it is common for people to intercede and borrow more and give less.

Zhang Chu sent spies in advance to find out the situation of the rich households in a certain village or village, and then sent a capable team to this village, and the team sent someone to send a letter to the village at night, or to put a few shots with a short musket outside the village, shout for a while, light the firewood stack, and paste the letter on the door of the village when leaving.

These letters were all written by Zhu Xiucai, and the content was basically the same.

The letter reads:

××, the rich owner of ×× Village, learned from the investigation of the Daming Security Team:

Just because you are rich and unkind, and thousands of people hate it, the security team specially asked for ×× taels of silver, ×× of wheat, and ×× of miscellaneous grains to protect the territory and the people. In addition to the three days, within five days, the money and grain were gathered together and sent to the ×× place for delivery.

If it is delayed, it will definitely break through Zhuangzi, burn Er's houses, kill Er's people, and leave no chickens and dogs!

The following payment is for the Daming security team.

Some of the landlords resisted, some asked people to intercede, and in addition, they sent money and grain according to the amount agreed by both parties.

For the landlords who refused to pay, Zhang Chu and they set fire to several small villages, and after that, more landlords were willing to lend grain.

And Zhang Chu did not preach morality, and the notoriety of landlords and bandits also spread.

Zhang Chu can't manage so much, and now he is planning the next development plan.

Zhang Chu looked at the piled up grain, full of hope for the future, and was in a good mood. At the same time, Ma Zizhou, the magistrate of Yanchang County, was full of depression.