This day is very cold, and it is a cloudy day, the cold current has not yet blown through the territory of Shandong, the cold wind is whistling, but there is a joy in Gaojiazhai.

Gao Xunqi, the head of the Gao family, is setting up a banquet, one is to celebrate the thirty ploughing cattle he grabbed a few days ago, although it is worth a few hundred taels of silver, but with more cattle, he will be able to plant more land in the coming year.

Of course, the banquet is more to celebrate the chanting of a good poem, Gao Xunqi has a habit, whenever he sings a good poem, he will put on a feast, invite relatives and friends to let them taste, eat good wine and food, listen to the words of praise, it is simply a great enjoyment of life.

For ordinary people, the banquet is quite burdensome, but for the Gao family, it is a drop in the bucket, even if it is set up a few tables every day, it can be eaten.

In Gao Xunqi's body, it just shows the great surprise of the life of the rich and poor in the late Ming Dynasty.

It's just that this time Denglai was in chaos, Gao Xunqi set up a village in this mountain to protect himself, but he didn't invite many friends to the banquet, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart.

But it was also the Denglai chaos that gave Gao Xunqi a chance. When Kong Youde's rebels were there, he asked his disciples to pretend to be Kong Youde's rebels and rob houses everywhere. As soon as Kong Youde's rebellion was settled, he immediately changed his banner and turned into a bandit. In the past two years, he has earned enough money.

Gao Xunqi has no scruples about this, anyway, it's not just his Gao family who does this, Denglai is in chaos like this, who else cares about them.

The officers and soldiers were too afraid of death to make do with the common people everywhere to get food, and where would they take the initiative to attack and suppress the thieves, and they did not dare to touch a local tyrant like them. Unless it is really the bandits who can't suppress it, the government will report to the court, otherwise you can toss it as you want.

Gao Xunqi is to raise people, naturally he will not make a big deal of it, although he robs houses everywhere, but he never plays the banner of the Gao family, and the government can't find out about them.

Even if you find it, you can't just stuff some silver. It was precisely because he saw through the actions of the government that Gao Xunqi was so unscrupulous, and he robbed the Zhao family's cattle without covering up his traces, and was found by Zhao Yan following the traces.

Gao Xunqi set up a banquet in the village that night to eat and drink, and the lights in the village were not extinguished until the third watch, but the group of people in the dark under the mountain behind Gaojiazhai looked at it and wondered.

In the darkness, there was silence, but there were hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at Gaojiazhai. The men hid themselves at the bottom of the hill and did not make a sound.

"Childe, the lights are out." In the darkness, a voice was extremely low.

"Wait another hour." ……

After the sound, there was silence again.

These people are a group of Zhao family, Gaojiazhai is forty miles away from Zhaojia Village, Zhao Yan took people to hide under the back mountain of Gaojiazhai in the evening, and waited until the third watch, and the time estimate should be 11 o'clock in the evening.

Zhao Yan lay in the bushes and closed his eyes to recuperate, waiting for the right moment.

The terrain of this Gaojiazhai is steep, if you rush up, you will definitely not get any results, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to hit the Gaojiazhai.

After all, the family members in their hands are still in the initial stage of using spears, and their long-range killing and attacking abilities are very low, and the three hundred family members who have just been recruited are still unclear in the phalanx, let alone cannons and muskets!

Therefore, he must be caught off guard, if he does not make a move, he will be wiped out in one fell swoop.

……

In the blink of an eye, an hour has passed, and Gaojiazhai has become quiet.

"Childe, it's time." Zhao Yong pulled the corner of Zhao Yan's clothes beside him, and Zhao Yan opened his eyes and looked at the stockade on the mountain.

"It's now." Zhao Yanmao got up, turned back to Zhao Yong and the three captains and said, "I'll take someone to touch it, and after you succeed, you will first raise the fire to answer ......."

"Good!" The three nodded.

Zhao Yan immediately pulled out a long knife and quietly went up the mountain with more than a dozen family members who did not have night blindness.

The trail in the back mountain is very rugged, taking advantage of the dim sky, stumbling upward, Zhao Yan bites the long knife, and gropes his way forward on the ground with both hands.

There were no sentinels outside the village on the mountain, but Zhao Yan was careless, thinking that there must be someone guarding the village. Zhao Yan rolled on the ground like a civet cat and stuck directly to the fence.

After a while, the dozen or so family members behind him also followed. Like Zhao Yan, he stuck to the fence and listened carefully to the movement inside the walled gate.

It was quiet inside the gate, as if there was no one, but some fires could be seen through the cracks.

Zhao Yan made a gesture to the family and told them to stay where they were, and then grabbed the waist of the fence and kicked it directly, very dexterously turned over the fence, and went directly through the gate of the village.

There was a bonfire burning next to the walled gate, and I saw two people sitting by the bonfire, leaning against a big tree and falling asleep, Zhao Yan carefully grabbed the fence and slowly climbed down from the walled gate, trying not to make a sound.

Touching the door in the middle of the night is really exciting. But it's very dangerous, and if something doesn't go wrong, it will go wrong.

Fortunately, the defense of this Gaojiazhai is very lax, and there is no vigilance at all.

The people of the Gao family will naturally not be vigilant every day, now that Kong Youde's rebellion has been pacified, it is impossible for Gaojiazhai to be threatened by the rebels, not to mention that the terrain of Gaojiazhai is so dangerous, even the rebels dare not attack. As for the bandits, so are they, who dares to touch them without long eyes?

Jumping to the ground, Zhao Yan quietly touched it.

The two guards seemed to be sleeping, and they didn't look like they were asleep, Zhao Yan didn't care so much, he directly touched the back of the big tree, covered the mouth and nose of a doorman, and wiped the long knife directly over the doorman's neck.

Blood "snort~! A thud erupted from the doorman's neck and splashed in the face of the other doorman.

The doorman's face was hot, and when he heard a sound, he opened his eyes in confusion, and immediately saw Zhao Yan in the shadows, and was immediately shocked, and shouted, "Who?" ”

No one answered him, Zhao Yan slashed directly at him with a knife, and with a click, the guard's head was split in half.

Caring about it so much, Zhao Yan hurriedly turned around and opened the gate of the village.

The family outside the door heard the movement inside, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the door of the village being opened, Zhao Yan said in a deep voice: "Send a signal." ”

One of the housekeepers hurriedly lit a torch and waved it a few times down the mountain.

Within a moment, hundreds of torches were immediately lit up at the foot of the mountain, and under the light of the torches, Zhao Yong and the three of them rushed towards the mountain with their families.

"Who?" A loud shout came from the village, only to see more than a dozen disheveled people rushing out, and when they came to the back door, they immediately saw Zhao Yan's group of people, and they were shocked, and shouted at the top of their voices: "The bandits are coming, the bandits are coming......"

Suddenly, as if a hornet's nest had been stabbed, there was a chaotic sound of basins and gongs and ping-pong, and the people in the Gao family village were woken up by this noisy sound, and the soldiers of the Gao family rushed out of the house with weapons.

Seeing that Zhao Yan only had a dozen people, he immediately rushed up with a scream.

The situation is urgent, and the family under the mountain will not be able to come up for a while, so they must stick to the reinforcements under the mountain, Zhao Yan shouted: "Array, flat gun." ”

More than a dozen spears were immediately flattened, forming a straight line to block the gate of the wall, and the enemy had already rushed in front of him.

"Kill~!" Zhao Yan stabbed the spear in his hand and pierced the chest of an enemy. Hearing the order, the family members beside Zhao Yan reflexively stabbed out the spear and stabbed the enemy who rushed forward to the ground.

"Kill!" Zhao Yan drew his spear and continued to stab. A faction of spears pierced, and five or six more enemies fell.

The benefits of the spear were vividly demonstrated at this time, the so-called inch long and inch strong, the people of Gaojiazhai could not rush to Zhao Yan at all, and they were already stabbed to the ground in front of them.

There is no formation, pushing and shoving, and there is no armor on his body, it is simply a stab to death.

The momentum of the people of the Gao family was blocked, and when they saw the clansmen who had fallen to the ground in front of them, they were suddenly shocked, and the team that rushed forward was stagnant, and they were indecisive.

"Don't be afraid, there are only a dozen of them, kill ......the thieves with me," a voice shouted in the ranks, but as soon as the man's words fell, a noisy shout immediately sounded behind the gate.

"Kill!!" The shouts of killing were pervasive, and everyone in Gaojiazhai looked panicked. I saw the firelight appear from the path behind the mountain one by one, and a group of housekeepers with spears rushed up.

The family members who rushed up immediately lined up in the middle of the line, row after row, and soon formed a phalanx.

"Forward!" Zhao Yan drew his long knife and shouted loudly.

The spears in the phalanx were like a forest, like a hedgehog, crashing towards the children of the Gao family in front. When those Gao family disciples saw this formation, their faces were even more flustered, and before they could escape, they collided with each other.

Blood was splashing, the children of the Gao family fell in the assassination, and the people behind saw that the situation was not good, so they turned around and ran away.

The scene was a little chaotic, and Zhao Yan shouted, "Zhao Yong." ”

"Yes." Zhao Yong replied loudly.

"Take someone to block the front cottage door, and don't let anyone go."

"Yes."

"Lin Yi."

"Yes."

"Take half of the men and horses to guard the back cottage door."

"Yes."

"Wang Wenyue."

"Yes."

"Lead people to kill the enemy in the village, and kill those who resist."

"Yes."

Zhao Yan quickly distributed the task, raised the long knife and shouted: "Kill~!" ”

The Zhao family rushed into Gaojiazhai like a wolf, the children of the Gao family had no formation, and the Zhao family collapsed at a touch, and after a while, a cry sounded in Gaojiazhai......

Just when there was chaos outside, the drunken Gao Xunqi was finally awakened, heard the noisy sound outside, and shouted in panic: "What's the matter? What's going on? ”

"Master, the bandits have entered the village." Gao Xunqi's concubine shivered and hid in the bed.

"What! It's the other way around. Gao Xunqi was furious, drunkenly rolled out of bed, drew out the exquisite saber and rushed out......

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