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"Go and call Zhou Hong and Wei Zhong."

The two men were actually outside the door, and when they heard it, they went straight into the living room.

Zhou Jinqi said: "Why didn't you two come in directly just now." What are you doing hiding outside! ”

Meng Changjiang was more upright, and said in a low voice: "It's not that I saw that you had a bad face and were afraid of being scolded." ”

Zhou Jin was stunned for a moment, and did not dwell on their opinions, but asked the question of the bandits, and said, "What do you think of those bandits?" ”

Meng Changjiang said: "Ten ** is coming at us. I'm already thinking of ways to prevent it. ”

Zhou Hong said: "Fourth master, I think we should run away, anyway, the matter here is over." We don't need to provoke these inexplicable enemies. ”

Meng Changjiang said: "Although I don't know why they hit us, but judging from the situation we have come all the way, this is by no means something that can be avoided if you want to." ”

Zhou Jin thought about it and thought that he couldn't escape, and it was better to stay here to escape, so he said, "Did they find out that our people were following?" ”

Meng Changjiang said: "No. Otherwise, we won't let our people come back to report the news. ”

Zhou Jin pondered for a moment and put forward an idea: "Defense is ultimately passive, and it is even more undesirable to escape." Let's see if we can take the initiative and grasp the initiative. ”

Zhou Tong said timidly: "But there are more than 100 of them, and we are only more than 20 people." ”

Zhou Hong said worriedly: "Fourth Master, now we are completely sure that those people are coming at us." ”

From the current information, Zhou Jin is indeed not sure that the target of those people is himself, but since he has doubts and does not respond, he is stupid. However, he could not express these doubts, which would be useless in unifying everyone's views in the first place, and secondly in the appearance that he was not assertive.

So Zhou Jin said: "The first time we encountered it was indeed a bandit, and at that time we were ordinary pedestrians in their eyes. The second time we encountered the bandits, they were ambushing us. Their arrival was related to the first time, but we handled it relatively cleanly at the time, which caused the thieves not to understand our situation. The evening was very planned and premeditated, and they got our information. So the third time we almost perished. ”

Zhou Jin said: "These robbers are not accomplices, but they are related. So this time we will be attacked more planned, so the only thing to wait is to perish. ”

After hearing this, the three of them looked at each other, all wondering who we were provoking and what their purpose was.

Zhou Jin looked at the three people with depressed faces and said, "Don't think about who the opponent is, what we want to do now is to take the initiative." So you go and prepare first, and tomorrow we will go to the mountains to have a look, and maybe we can find a solution to this crisis. ”

Early the next morning, Zhou Jin deceived Li Yu and the women to Taihe County in the name of procurement. After lunch, Zhou Jin rented a courtyard for them to rest first, and then asked Zhou Tong to bring two guards to watch. He left them on the grounds that he was going to visit his classmates.

After a lot of effort, when it was almost dusk, a group of twenty-one people arrived at the bandits' cottage. I hid in the woods and observed, but I didn't find a good solution.

The cottage was located in a valley, and the walls of the village were two feet high. There are nine arrow towers on the wall, distributed around the wall, and each arrow tower is guarded by a person. The gate is also made of elm wood wrapped in iron sheets.

Zhou Hong looked at the tightly guarded cottage and asked worriedly: "Fourth master, this cottage is not easy to move." ”

Zhou Jin looked at the internal layout of the cottage, and there was a gatehouse when the gate entered, and then there was a square, and the square should be the hall of the village. To the west of the square is a warehouse, and to the west of the warehouse is a barn.

Zhou Jin thought for a while and said, "That warehouse is a breakthrough. ”

Meng Changjiang continued: "Looking at the situation, it should be a warehouse for grain and grass. But it's too far away from the rest of the world. ”

Zhou Jin turned around and asked Zhou Hong, "Did you bring gunpowder?" ”

Zhou Hongqi said: "Gunpowder? What's the use of not bringing it. ”

Zhou Jin patted his forehead, turned his head to Meng Changjiang and ordered: "At night, when the thieves are asleep, set the warehouse on fire first." Then take advantage of their attention on the fire and deal with the people in the arrow tower. At the same time rush in, be quick. The specific methods of combat are up to you. ”

After Meng Changjiang received the task, the pressure in his heart increased suddenly, this time he was a commander in the real sense, but he didn't know how to do it. He brushed Zhou Jin's words, called Zhang Sicong and Zhao Ruifu over, and the three of them discussed.

Meng Changjiang said: "The key is how we break through into the cottage, the door is very strong, and it is not so easy to open." ”

Zhao Ruifu touched his three-layer chin and said, "After solving the arrow tower guards in the direction of the gate, let people go in." Then open the door. ”

Zhang Sicong thought for a while: "According to the plan you said, you need to solve them before the warehouse catches fire." ”

Meng Changjiang nodded and said, "Yes." In the event of a fire, the guards of the arrow tower are to be dealt with immediately, and our men are to quickly enter the cottage and take control of several main passages. ”

Zhang Sicong looked at the four arrow towers in front of him and said: "You can't guarantee every shot at night, and if you fail, you will be in trouble." ”

This week, he came over to them and said, "Come as you prescribe, don't be afraid of failure." In order to strengthen the hit, you must first familiarize yourself with the habits of the guards in the arrow tower, and then add your self-confidence, I believe that it is not difficult to hit the target. ”

After the plan was formulated, Zhang Sicong took four people to find the shooting point. Zhao Ruifu found a place with a good view and set up his giant crossbow, preparing to set fire to it at night.

At the third moment of the first month, the clouds were thick, the autumn wind was bleak, and there was no light. Zhou Jin's guards quietly approached the gate of the cottage, and quietly waited for Meng Changjiang's instructions.

In order to be able to complete the task, Zhang Sicong planned to solve the guard at the front door by himself. After afternoon observation, Zhang Sicong found that the time for the changing of the guard was three hours, and the current batch of guards started at the beginning of the hour and ended at the ugly time. The arrows on both sides seemed to have drunk and slept, and the two guards on either side of the gate would look out of the village every half hour.

At present, Zhang Sicong and another shooter have aimed at the place where the guards may come to the head, and if they miss a blow, they will inevitably alarm the bandits in the whole village. Both were nervous and waited patiently.

The guard of the arrow tower on the left stood up, stretched his waist, and shouted to the right: "Zhang Cannon, it's so fucking cold tonight!" ”

The man on the right stamped his foot and said, "Damn, it's November and I haven't let anyone light the stove." Can it not be cold. ”

Outside the wall, Zhang Sicong and another shooter pulled the trigger after they finished speaking, two nails cut through the autumn wind, and two porphyries shot into the guard's body at the same time. Meng Changjiang has been staring at the arrow tower, but in his position, he didn't know that the guards had been solved. At this time, he could only wait for Zhao Ruifu to set fire to the warehouse.

Zhao Ruifu was not far from Zhang Sicong, and after Zhang Sicong hit him, he immediately shot out the oil, and the warehouse burst into flames. Meng Changjiang, who was at the door, saw the fire and immediately took action, and after a while, a household guard climbed in and opened the door.

The sound of gongs had already sounded in the village, and it turned out that the guards of the arrow tower had sounded the gong before they were killed.

At this time, Zhao Ruifu launched the second oil and lit a fire to the east of the stockade. For a while, the whole cottage was like daylight, and the thieves who had just fallen asleep rushed out of the house to check the situation.

I don't know who shouted: "The water is gone, it's all burning, run." ”

The bandits, who didn't know what was going on, followed the others in the direction of the square. But when they encountered Zhou Jin's guards at the intersection, the bandits were stunned at first, who are these black-clothed men with crossbows? When he reacted, the other party had already started shooting, and heard the other party shouting: "If you want to live, squat down with your head in your hands!" ”

When the bandits saw that someone had been shot and killed, and that there was no one to direct and not be a well-trained soldier, the herd effect had an effect. After the first person did so, the rest of them also squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, and let the guards tie them up.

Meng Changjiang's side did not go well. He led the three of them into the room at the back of the hall, where the bandit leader lived. The leader had already woken up when the warehouse was set on fire, and Meng Changjiang rushed over and just collided with him, and without saying a word, he started a fight.

The two were entangled together, and the guards on the side couldn't intervene. After five or six back and forth, when Meng Changjiang took advantage of the thief's head to pay attention to the border guards, he swung his upper body to attract the opponent, and then swept and kicked the opponent's ankle. The thief lost his balance and took a few steps back. When he tried to attack again, several nails shot into his body, and he took one look at his body and fell down reluctantly.

The battle was soon over, and the disobedient were killed, and the obedient squatted in the square.

Zhou Jin asked people to count the number of people and found that there were no casualties, and the bandits had been escorted over. asked Zhou Hong to take a dozen people to clean up the cottage items.

Meng Changjiang looked at the fire in the warehouse and said, "Fourth master, we have to get out of here quickly, the fire will soon burn here." ”

"Wait for Zhou Hong to finish counting and leave."

"Are these people dealt with and sent to the government?"

"It will cause trouble if you send it to the government, not to mention that I don't plan to hand over the dirt in this village to the government." Zhou Jin continued: "Let them expose each other, and if the crime is extremely heinous, it will not be kept." ”

Meng Changjiang said: "I'm afraid these people are all guilty. ”

Zhou Jin shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, just ask." ”

So Meng Changjiang began to let these captives expose each other, and soon identified ten criminals, who were pulled aside and killed.

Meng Changjiang returned to Zhou Jin's side and said, "Fourth Master, I found out that ten have been killed, and the remaining more than eighty people were either coerced or have not killed anyone. ”

Zhou Jin smiled and said, "Wait a minute, take them separately and take them to the woods." Whether they can live depends on their luck. ”

After a while, Zhou Hong counted a large amount of belongings before the fire came, packed four large boxes, and carried them to the square. It was loaded directly onto two large carts. Zhou Jin saw that everyone had returned, so he led everyone to leave the cottage.

Coming to the door, Zhou Jin stood at the door and waved his hand to the fat man Zhao Ruifu in the distance, and the fat man immediately set up a few more fire oil in the cottage. So the fire in the cottage became even bigger, and the sound of bangbang was endless.

Zhou Jin asked Meng Changjiang to take the captives to the mountains, and he himself led a pair of people to rush out of the mountains.

At dawn, they arrived outside the mountains and waited for a quarter of an hour, and Meng Changjiang also rushed back.

Zhou Jin asked, "There are no problems, right?" ”

Meng Changjiang said: "It's going well, those people are very honest and don't look for trouble." ”

Zhou Jin smiled: "If you can get by, they are all ordinary people, how can there be so many outlaws." This harvest is good, and the money problem you are worried about has also been solved. ”

Meng Changjiang didn't react at first, and then remembered that Zhou Jin wanted to expand the manpower, so he asked happily: "How many silver taels did we get this time, Fourth Master?" ”