The news that the entire village of Linjiazhai was slaughtered by thieves soon spread to the county, and when he received this report, Lu Jinxi, the magistrate of the county, sat on the ground with his ass on his face.

More than 100 people in a village were slaughtered by thieves, and such a big tragedy was spread out to him, but it is conceivable that his future is basically over.

The short and chubby Zhao Xiancheng also hurriedly came after hearing the news, and when he saw the dejected appearance of Zhixian, he hurriedly comforted, "Master, the top priority now is to report to the city immediately, and at the same time ask the guard to send troops to suppress the bandits." In addition, we also had to immediately convene the three classes of officials and the county people, and ask Mei Gong to send a township group to search for the thieves. ”

"The thief is not stupid, he has done such a big case, I am afraid that he has already escaped." Lu Zhixian sighed faintly.

"Master, no matter whether the thief escapes or not, we have to take action if something so big happens." Zhao Xiancheng carefully reminded the magistrate.

When Lu Zhixian heard this, he also understood the sound of these words. Yes, what is needed now is remedy, even if the people of Lin Jiazhai can't be saved, he still has to take action, so that the prefects, guards, and patrols above know his remedy, and at the same time, he also wants to let the squires and people below know his behavior.

"Yes, yes, Zhao Xiancheng, you are writing an excerpt now, and report the case to the prefect's yamen and the sub-guarding yamen and the sub-patrol yamen. The county should go to Shenzhuang immediately and ask Mei Gong to send the township to search for the thief. By the way, the horse team of Chunjiang Gongzi and Liu Jiye seems to be stationed in the Queen City, right, they are the closest to Lin Jiazhai, you send someone to the Queen City immediately, let them go to Lin Jiazhai to deal with the aftermath quickly, and let them immediately search for the traces of the thieves. ”

Although Zhao Fatzi once suffered losses under Li Chunjiang and Liu Jiye, he has not forgotten who is behind the scenes. At that moment, he reminded Lu Jinxi in a low voice, "Master, the horse team of the prince of Chunjiang has only been established for more than a month, but I am afraid that it will not be able to be used." Besides, the prince of Chunjiang is the son of the Li family, in case he is sent out and he really encounters a thief, in case something is delayed, I am only afraid"

Lu Jinxi slapped his forehead, and then he came back to Li Chunjiang, who was not the head of an ordinary township army. At the moment, he had no choice but to say, "Forget it, you don't need to let them search for thieves, send someone to notify them, let them stay in the queen city, and protect the queen city from thieves." ”

After Zhao Fatzi and the magistrate rushed to Shenzhuang in a sedan chair, he immediately called the master bookkeeper and asked him to write an excerpt report to the prefect and the sub-guard, the sub-patrol road, and the Huangzhou Wei, and he himself called the sedan chair man and rushed to the queen city in person in a sedan chair.

Zhao Fatzi rushed to the camp of the Queen's City horse team, and saw the nine-headed bird flag flying high in the camp from a distance, full of majesty.

"People stop coming, the military camp is heavy, and idlers are not allowed to enter."

The sedan chair was stopped in front of the camp gate, and several villagers stood in front of the gate to block the way. The sedan chair man originally wanted to scold, but when he saw the cotton armor nailed with copper nails on the other party's body, the bird gun in his hand, and the horizontal knife on his waist, he swallowed the words back into his stomach one by one.

"Brothers, this official is a county magistrate in the county, and there is an urgent official to come, please pass through your two captains, Li and Liu." The fat man lifted the sedan curtain, rolled his eyes and glared at the sedan chair driver, and then said to several heavily armed villagers with a smile. Rao is a fat man, and when he saw these gatekeepers for the first time, he couldn't help but jump in his heart.

He didn't expect that this villager soldier would have such good equipment.

One of the guards entered the camp and returned a moment later.

"Please follow me."

In the camp, on the school ground, Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun each wore a cotton armor. The custom-made version of the cotton armor is made of cotton pads, lined with silk, and the outside is reinforced by copper nail bubbles, and at the same time, on the chest and back, there are fist-sized round mirror-like bronze mirrors. With an eight-petal iron helmet and a copper belt, it is very majestic.

On the playground, six teams of the left and right flags lined up neatly, and the two flags' directly subordinate family squads and artillery teams were also in place on one side. The military dungeons of the middle flag, the night is not closed, the drummers, as well as the doctors and veterinarians are also ready to go.

All the soldiers wore cotton armor, bright helmets, and iron mesh boots.

The soldiers' helmets are covered with red tassels, and the flag guns held by the team leaders have small red flags fluttering, and small red flags are also inserted on the helmets, which are neat and orderly, and the top and bottom are distinct.

When the county Cheng Zhao Fatzi followed the guards to come over, he happened to see this neat and solemn scene, looking at the fluttering flags, neat armor, and the birds, long knives, bows and arrows, he couldn't help but be speechless.

It turned out that when he met those guards at the door, he thought that they were the Li family's family members, just a few special elites. But he didn't expect that this nine-headed bird and horse team, more than a hundred people, were all such heavily armed elites, especially when he actually saw six cannons.

I saw that nearly 100 people were divided into more than a dozen queues, but there were only six queues in the middle, with twelve people in each team. The men, fully armed, stood straight and statue-like on the field, and none of them looked at each other.

When has Zhao Fatzi ever seen such a troop, even if it is the elite horse team of Shen Zhuang Meigong's regular barracks, I am afraid that there is no such neatness.

"All the rest is settled!" Liu Jun shouted.

More than 100 people responded at the same time with a neat roar: "Tiger! At the same time, everyone's right foot stepped heavily on the ground at the same time, and then stood still, Zhao Fatzi and the palanquin drivers felt startled, as if the whole ground had just trembled.

Liu Jun turned around and saluted Li Chunjiang, "The nine-headed bird and horse team of the Baoshengbao Township Regiment in Macheng County has been equipped, please show it to Mr. Bai!" ”

Li Chunjiang has also been in a state of excitement and shock, he didn't expect that during the time he was tracking down the bandits, Liu Jun had actually trained the nine-headed bird horse team to be so neat, far beyond his imagination and expectations.

After a while, Li Chunjiang reacted, and the strict team in front of him was his soldiers, his nine-headed bird and horse team. He nodded a little excitedly, "Good, good, good." He said three good words in a row before he regained some excitement.

"Brothers of the Nine-Headed Bird and Horse Team, you are all the township warriors of my Macheng County, and you are the soldiers. At the beginning of our establishment, it was to protect the countryside. And just last night, a group of inhuman robbers, a group of livestock, they ransacked Linjiazhai and slaughtered it all. You say, "Can we tolerate it?" ”

"Can't!" Everyone in the audience shouted in unison.

Liu Jun swept through the crowd and shouted, "I didn't hear clearly, be louder." ”

"Can't!" More than 100 people shouted loudly.

The roar shook the sky, and Li Chunjiang was very satisfied.

"Yes, we will not tolerate it, and we will punish these animals, and we will destroy them. Today, we will send troops against these inhuman thieves, and tell me, are you afraid, are you afraid? If someone is afraid, someone is afraid, then stand up now and you can stay. ”

Everyone stood on the field like javelins, and no one was afraid to give back.

"Very good, very good. Since everyone is willing to go with me to suppress the thieves, then I also make a reward. For each thief killed, a reward of 20 taels of silver is given, and for every thief wounded, a reward of 2 taels of silver. If you can capture the thief alive, you will also be rewarded with 20 taels of silver, if you can kill or capture the leader of the thief alive, you will be rewarded with 40 taels, and if you can kill or capture the head of the thief alive, you will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver! ”

The heartbeats of the villagers in the audience began to accelerate. The reward is no longer a few cents of silver during the usual training, but a few taels, dozens of taels or even a hundred taels. Such a reward can really make him work hard for it.

"In addition, those who are injured in the battle formation, each with minor injuries will be rewarded with two taels of silver, and those seriously injured will be rewarded with five taels. If he is disabled, he shall receive a pension of twenty taels. If he dies in battle, he shall be given a pension of fifty taels of silver. ”

As soon as this compensity came out, it relieved everyone's worries more and more, and strengthened their desire to fight desperately.

"I won't say much about the rest, everyone on the battlefield depends on their performance, the silver has already been prepared, and those who have the ability can earn it by their ability!"

Liu Jun took a step forward and said in a loud voice, "Disbanded now, give you a quarter of an hour to sort out and prepare, and assemble and set off in half an hour." ”

Zhao Fatzi remembered the purpose of his coming at this time, and hurriedly ran towards Liu Jun and the others.

"Chunjiang Gongzi, Jiye Gongzi, please stay."

"What kind of wind blew Zhao Xiancheng here?"

Zhao Fatzi wiped the sweat on his forehead and hurriedly said, "Two, are you going to suppress bandits?" ”

"Didn't Zhao Xiancheng just see our troop mobilization with his own eyes?"

"No." Zhao Fatzi hurriedly said, "Those thieves are fierce, don't risk your own lives." ”

Liu Jun said, "Just now, Zhao Xiancheng also saw the momentum of my team's equipment, what do you think?" ”

"It's very powerful, it's hard to imagine that these people were just hunters, farmers and even monks a month ago."

"Since you think they're good, there's no need to say anything more. If Zhao Xiancheng is willing to go along, he is very happy. If you don't want to go, please do your own. Liu Jun was not polite to Zhao Fatzi.

Because the troops were only thirty miles away, there was no need to carry much baggage or anything like that, and it was enough for each person to carry a bag.

What's more, each person also has a horse, so this time the army is actually very easy, and it can be regarded as a light march. The heaviest guy, that is, the six tiger squat guns, is only thirty-six pounds in a squat, and he can be directly mounted on a mule, and he doesn't even need to use a car.

Each man carried another three days' rations, thirty arrows for the archers, and thirty tubes of rationed gunpowder for the birdmen, which were enough for a battle.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and the soldiers of the various teams were all ready and regrouped.

Liu Jun asked the captains and captains of each team to go down and check the equipment of the soldiers of their respective teams, and after finding that there were no omissions, he ordered the whole army to set off. In the end, only a few horsemen were left to guard the camp, and the rest of the group set off together.

The left flag is the front team, the middle flag is in the middle, and the right flag is in the back. In addition, if they do not collect at night, they will ride horses to explore the road in front, and there is the discipline of patrolling the march of the military prison back and forth.

Although Zhao Fatzi didn't want to get involved in this matter, he finally thought about it and followed the team in a sedan chair.