As soon as the morning sun rose, the 300 members of the security team stood solemnly on the playground, surrounded by the people who had been drafted to transport supplies and siege equipment. Zhang Chu stood on the high platform in front of the playground and spoke excitedly: "When we were about to starve to death, we united, we won the food to live, and our families also ate, this is not enough, we also want to let the poor people who can't eat like us have food, the landlords and corrupt officials are rich and unkind, and they are clothed and fed, but they refuse to distribute a little food to the hungry and dying poor. The reason why we poor people are poor is not that we are inherently inferior to the rich, it is not that we are lazy, it is not that we are not smart, but because the landlords have seized the land and robbed us of the fruits of our labor. After this victory, we will distribute the land of Zhoujiabao, and those who have made meritorious contributions in this battle and those who have made meritorious contributions in the past will be allocated land. Our team members are able to live a life with land, home, food and clothing. ”

The strict discipline of the security team made the members stand up straight and listen attentively when Zhang Chu began to speak. But when Zhang Chu said that meritorious people can get land, the team members couldn't help but applaud.

Zhang Chu waved his hand to signal the team members to be quiet and then said: "A happy life must be fought for by ourselves, we must not only strive for a happy life, but also have the ability to defend our happy life." This time, see who gets the first land, and see who gets the most land. Good start. The team walked out of the valley under Zhang Chu's orders.

At the same time, Zhou Lianming, the patriarch of Zhoujiabao, was eating breakfast. Zhou Lianming sat at the top of the hall, his wife and concubines and children were carefully accompanied, and several maids went in and out to deliver food. Although Zhou Lianming was only forty years old, because of his shrewdness and ability, his younger brother Zhou Lianqi served as the imperial historian in the court, and he became the patriarch of the Zhou family over the rest of the clan. It has absolute authority in Zhoujiabao, and it is even more important at home. However, Zhou Lianming was not happy at this time. While eating, I thought about the homeless. Zhou Lianmin is not afraid of the outcasts attacking Zhuangzi, the Zhou family is a large household in this area of incense that has lasted for hundreds of years, and has continuously strengthened the defense of Zhuangzi for hundreds of years, heightened and thickened the wall of Zhuangbao, and surrounded all the residents of the entire village into the wall. Outside the wall, the river water was drawn to build a moat river that was more than four meters wide and more than two meters deep, the wall was built according to the terrain, only the front and rear two Zhuang gates entered and exited, outside the village gate was a huge suspension bridge, and the thieves were found to immediately pull up the suspension bridge, it can be said that it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

What made Zhou Lianming unhappy was that his wife Zhou Yang was too jealous and jealous. Although he didn't dare to face him face-to-face, he either beat and scolded the girls he bought, and beat the two girls he just bought to death yesterday. Although it wasn't worth a few dollars, it was also something he spent a long time picking out among the homeless people. Although there are many homeless people who sell their sons and daughters every day, it is difficult to find a few Zhou Zheng, but I have to thank this famine for how could I buy these poor girls at such a cheap price, Zhou Lianming is not afraid of any disaster year, and the food he hoarded will not be eaten by his family for ten years.

After breakfast, Zhou Lianming inspected the Zhuangzi surrounded by his family. Looking at the villagers who were respectful to him, Zhou Lianming was full of satisfaction in his heart, these poor ghosts, all because I planted the land for them, did not starve to death like the homeless people outside. Order the family to order each household to prepare their own knives and guns, obey the orders of the patriarch, and go to the wall to defend when there are thieves attacking the village, if the action is not active, the lord will not rent land to them next year, and the whole family will starve to death.

After the inspection, Zhou Lianming sat down on the gatehouse of the Zhuangbao gate, and the entourage served fragrant tea and tasted it carefully.

A Zhuang Ding ran over sweating profusely and reported: "The master is not good, a team of thieves is coming to Zhuangzi's side, there are hundreds of people." ”

"What a panic, let people pull up the suspension bridge, ring the gong to warn, and let the villagers take weapons to defend the village wall." Zhou Lianming was very dissatisfied in his heart, these minions were really not angry, how many times had they been taught to be calm in trouble, but in the end they were still panicked. Since Zhou Lianming became the patriarch, he saw that due to the disasters for many years, the people rebelled and robbed the Zhuangzi from time to time, so he paid for the purchase of a large number of weapons to defend the village, and also asked the villagers to bring their own weapons to guard against the attack of the chaotic people. In the past, there were also a few groups of displaced people who wanted to fight Zhuangzi's idea, but when they arrived at the village, they saw the high Zhuangbao wall and the heavily guarded villagers, and they all turned their heads to other villages, and no one had taken advantage of Zhoujiabao.

The villagers in the fort heard the sound of the alarm and immediately gathered on the city wall, Zhuang Fort was built according to the mountain, although the walls were built all around, but because of the terrain, there was no place to deploy troops outside the back door and the Zhuang wall on both sides, so to defend only need to concentrate the strength in the direction of the main gate of the Zhuang wall. Sure enough, the team of thieves outside only appeared in the direction of the main gate of Zhuangbao, and it seemed that it was the group of thieves known as the Ming security team.

Zhang Chu had done a careful reconnaissance of Zhoujiabao before leaving, and knew that Zhoujiabao was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but due to the situation, he had to attack this strongest fortress first. Only by defeating Zhoujiabao can other landlords know that their tortoise shells can't protect them, and can they reflect the security team's ability to attack fortifications, which is much smaller than the cost of attacking from those small forts one by one.

When the team arrived, the gate of Zhoujiabao Village was closed, and the suspension bridge was pulled high. There is nothing left to say between the two sides, and the next thing is a battle of attack and defense. Zhang Chu ordered the team to stop and set up camp to prepare the equipment for the attack, the cooking squad raised the fire to cook, and every soldier and auxiliary migrant worker who participated in the attack had a full meal. Seeing the actions of the security team, many homeless people gathered around to see if they could take advantage of the chaos to gain something. At this time, Zhang Chu had the easiest way to break the village, as long as he took out the food, he could gather a large number of displaced people to serve as cannon fodder, and then send people to attack the village after consuming the city's defense equipment.

Zhou Lianming ordered loudly on the village wall: "Don't panic, the first wave of people who come up must be homeless cannon fodder, there is no combat effectiveness, fight again when you see it, save the guard equipment, kill the thief is afraid, and the thief himself will retreat." ”

The members of the security team finished eating at the urging of the team leader, put on their armor, lined up in the distance of the Zhuang wall, and all kinds of siege equipment followed behind, and marched towards the Zhuang wall with Zhang Chu's order.