"The wind is really seeping tonight, Wang Letou, are you thinking about your mother-in-law?"

Tao Fu walked past the shivering Wang Leper with a spear, and casually teased him, although it was almost June, but these cold rains were repeated, and it was probably early in the morning at this moment, and it was really cold when he wore less clothes.

"It's not wind...... I'm going to ...... a little solution."

Wang leprosy leaned his head on the wooden fence and looked out again, before turning to leave. Tao Fu wanted to make fun of him for being cowardly, but looking at the firelight, his figure was swaying on the fence and the ridge, and his heart was also cold, and he couldn't speak.

The bandits are coming, and they may really die......

Tao Fu didn't want to die, before he was in the Fengtian Village mine, he was buried in the mine for six or seven hours every time, lived in a grass shed on the edge of the mine, ate gruel and rice bran, and earned less than one or two silver a month.

A few months ago, the fourth brother, who was half-dazed in reading, was smashed open by a stone in the mine. Tao Fu felt that since then, good things have been falling like raindrops. First, he was exempted from the imperial grain, and then he became a furnace worker with everyone, and then the debts were also exempted. Relying on the fourth brother, everyone also avoided the leprosy of the leper woman and withstood the robbery of the homeless. After casting the cannon, all the furnace workers were divided into five taels of silver, and his family's field had long been sold out, for which he was compensated by ten taels of silver, holding that he had not received so much silver for thirty years, and he even moved his mind that had long been numb and indifferent: begging for an aunt, he didn't want to die at this time.

Aunt ...... It's really possible.

Tao Fu was thinking about the rumors of the people in the village, saying that there was a great fortune waiting for them, and the fourth brother was the Bodhisattva, and he was full of thoughts about making a living for them. In fact, he didn't care about what was rich and rich, seeing that Zhuangzi was built, there would be his own small courtyard, and the fields outside Zhuangzi were said to have twenty or thirty acres per household. He was already looking forward to the future, but he definitely didn't want to die.

Damn bandits!

Thinking that he was not lying on the bed, and he had an extra heavy spear in his hand, in the middle of the night, he was still patrolling the fence on this ridge, and the wonderful prospect was also cast a heavy shadow, Tao Fu was furious, and the chill in his heart was dispelled.

"If they dare to come, I won't just use a spear like I did last time!"

His mind was churning, Wang Lezi came back, still trembling, and glanced at the high wall in the west, Wang Lezi sighed deeply: "This wall should have three sides, no, two sides." ”

Tao Fu's warm heart went cold again, followed Wang Lezi to look at the high wall, and nodded mechanically.

This part built by Zhuangzi is centered on a small square, and the north and south are Mengxue buildings and twenty or thirty sets of small courtyards, which are wrapped in a circle of temporary wings. The exterior wall of this chamber is a mixture of brick and stone rammed earth, two meters thick and more than three meters high, and the high windows that cannot enter are opened. Now it is built into a wing, which can be used as a temporary residence and a warehouse.

Unfortunately, the project was so large that only a sixty or seventy pace-long parapet wall had been erected on the west side, and the other three sides were only protected by a trench pile. Zhuangzi is not too far from the river, originally to divert water to irrigate the fields, around the inner circle of Zhuangzi four or five meters wide and one and a half meters deep ditch dug earlier, but now has not led water into the ditch.

Knowing that there might be bandits, yesterday all the people of the village went out and erected wooden fences on the other three dirt slopes, and also arranged for night patrols. The villagers of Fengtian Village were very happy, if it weren't for Li Shi who led everyone to cultivate the fields here, built this Zhuangzi, and insisted on digging ditches and building walls, they would not have any support.

In Yingde, northern Guangdong, there were white-headed red-headed thieves fifty or sixty years ago, and the remnants of the Shang clan made trouble for a while more than thirty years ago, and they have never experienced a big thief in addition. It is even more difficult for young people under the age of 30 to imagine that they can actually kill two guerrillas and defeat hundreds of officers and soldiers. But this news was brought by Mr. Xiao Qian, no one didn't believe it, not only the people of Fengtian Village were terrified, but the workers in Liu Village didn't dare to go back to their own village, so they wanted to avoid trouble here. There are at least high walls and ditches here, and there are hundreds of spears in the village, and there are 13 or 400 people in the two villages together, and 4 or 500 people in Chengding.

The most important thing is that there is the fourth brother Li Shi here.

"Fourth brother is not here today."

Wang Lezi called this title, and the trembling on his body also eased.

"What's going on here? Could it be that you still want the fourth brother to come to the vigil? ”

Tao Fu lost his sentence.

"Why, I just want him to know that we're not lazy......"

Wang Lezi muttered, and then suddenly stunned, and Tao Fu was also shocked.

"There's movement!?"

Knowing that the trembling noise was approaching rapidly, and the light of the torches behind them, the two of them squinted their eyes and looked carefully, and they were suddenly frightened and numb.

A black tide poured out of the night and was rushing towards their wooden fence, and the light of fish scales shone in the black tide, the reflection of the blade.

"Go...... Go to ...... Alert! ”

Wang Lezi's trembling violently.

"What about you!?"

The alarm is the iron bell a few steps behind him, which was made of pig iron left over from the casting cannon before Guan Fengsheng, because it is good iron, and the timbre can be faintly compared with the iron bell of the temple.

"I ...... I can't move......"

Before Wang Lezi finished speaking, the air was low and hissed, and with a poof, a feather arrow suddenly nailed to Wang Lezi's face, and poured a piece of fishy heat on Tao Fu's face.

It wasn't until another sound of breaking the air passed by his ears, and half of his face was shaved numb, that Tao Fu came back to his senses. He turned around and ran towards the iron bell, the first step felt extremely heavy, and there seemed to be countless thoughts in his heart, but the second step was light, and the chaotic mind was crushed by an incomparably clear thought: sound the alarm, the fourth brother can save me......

Stepping into the third step, Tao Fu felt that his vest was pierced by a red-hot iron thorn, and he was also hit by an arrow, and was carried by the remaining momentum of the arrow, and threw himself forward to the ground.

If you can't save me, you can save everyone......

The pain burned such a thought, and he exerted all his strength, and at the moment when he was about to fall to the ground, he raised the spear in his hand.

Bell ——!

Tao Fu was planted on the ground, and the iron bell was also struck by his spear, and in the silence of the night, the bell rang unusually loud.

Zhuangzi boiled, and a large number of villagers rushed out.

I don't know how long later, looking at Zhuangzi from the river bend, the fire was soaring, and several sampans carrying the young guards were rowing towards the other side of the river. On one of the sampans, Li Xian frowned, and the anger in his eyes was connected with the firelight.

If you really come, I don't know if the villagers can withstand it......

Knowing that Yang Chun had occupied the Xunxun, he was preparing to resist the bandits. Although Yang Chun seemed to have forgotten him during this period of time, he buried his head in opposing the officers and soldiers, but Li Xian did not dare to slack off. On the same day, he was stationed in the Zhuangzi and assigned to supervise the man-made fence of the village. After keeping watch all night and seeing no movement, he returned to the mine the next day, and pulled the young guard from the training camp to the mine to live, ready to support Zhuangzi at any time.

According to his judgment, Yang Chun was very scheming, Lian Yong, who had killed Peng Hu earlier, was just a small test, and then attacked and harassed Xunhuan, attracting the town standard battalion soldiers and Peng Hu's revengeful father to go to the rescue, and was ambushed by Yang Chun halfway outside the town, and finally took Xunhuan into his pocket.

It can be inferred from this that Yang Chun will most likely not come to him for trouble now. Crossing the river from Xunhuan, it would take a day for one or two thousand bandits to clean up and stop. It will take another day to walk from the south bank of the Lianjiang River to him. His Zhuangzi is in a remote place south of Yingde, even if he flattens the Zhuangzi that day. Whether it is to return to Xunhuan or to attack the county seat, it will take two or three days. In total, he would waste four or five days on this trip, and it was estimated that he was surrounded by officers and soldiers at this time.

Yang Chun was born in classical history and was very familiar with the reaction speed of officers and soldiers, so Li Xian decided that Zhuangzi would not be attacked by the bandits for the time being.

But sending a team of people to take revenge is a convenient thing, and it is nothing during the day, what Li is afraid of is that the bandits will raid at night. For this reason, he repeatedly warned Guan Tian and the others that they must pay attention to the night patrol, and at the same time tighten the string in their minds, ready to react at any time.

Li Xian believes that with the experience of dealing with the displaced people last time, the villagers will no longer be lambs to the slaughter. From the mine to Zhuangzi is only a river and a mile road, which can be reached in about ten minutes, and he can ambush the bandits, so he did not stay in Zhuangzi. But looking at the fire, it seems that many houses have been set on fire, Li Xian is worried, and secretly scolds himself for being too negligent, a lot of things can happen in ten minutes, and he really shouldn't be so risky.

"This is your first battle, let me see if you are worthy of yourself."

took the young guard door to the shore, Li Xi didn't talk nonsense, so he said this in a deep voice. The teenagers responded with heavy gasps, a mixture of nervousness, fear, and excitement.

"The thieves didn't attack Zhuangzi!"

Yu Hanyi ran back, and the report he brought made Li Xian breathe a big sigh of relief.

By the light of the fire, I faintly saw that there was a dense crowd of people on the south side of Zhuangzi, and the shouting and cheering continued. Li Xian's heart was nervous again, this was not the unexpected battle of the walled fort before, he had no guns in his hands, his subordinates were all teenagers, and the number of people was not necessarily superior, and he was not sure whether their will could withstand this battle.

Turning to look, he saw dozens of pairs of eyes staring at him, the firelight fluttering, but these eyes were clear and eager, waiting for him to order. Li Xian was relieved, he had made so many preparations, and he had spent so much effort, what else did he have to worry about when he was taking the test? The weights have been lowered, and all that can be done now is to drop the dice......

"Wu Ya team left, Hu Hanshan team right, two rows, horizontal formation! Jia Hao's team went around to the east of Zhuangzi! ”

Li Xian gave an order, and the fifty-six teenagers were divided into three groups and followed the order. At this moment, they had lost the cumbersome equipment they had before, and the short swords and wooden sticks had been spliced together into spears and carried on their shoulders, and they were in a row of ten, hurrying forward.

Li Xi followed between the gaps between the left and right teams, in front of him, Yu Hanyi, Xu Hanchuan and another thin boy Zhang Hanjin were all holding waist knives and rattan cards, covering Li Shi's figure tightly, their weapons were Li Xi from Xiao Sheng, this small four-person guerrilla team was responsible for taking care of the rear of the two teams.