"Uncle, what's wrong with us here?" Lu Yi asked, he was still holding Lu Xun, who was a few years weaker, obviously the hurried Lu Mansion all night and the footsteps outside woke up the two children.

Xia Dade said with a smile: "Your father went out to fight with others, this kid really doesn't pay attention to righteousness, and he doesn't take me with him." But your father said before he went out, let me wait at home, saying that it is very likely that someone will attack Dengzhou Mansion, and the target is our Lu Mansion, you look at it, if no one knocks on the door, I have to make your father look good, doesn't this fool people? You two boys watched it carefully, and stared at your second uncle with wide eyes, how did I transfer troops, hahaha ”

When Lu Bing left, he specially didn't let Xia Dade follow, and told Xia Dade to guard strictly, Lu Bing believed that he was the second brother who was bold and careful to cover the clouds, even though he looked a little naïve, but he was a smart person who was too lazy to use his brain and be wise and foolish on weekdays. Lu Bing asked Xu Yang to inform his uncle Sun Xiao, the prefect of Dengzhou, and asked him to cooperate in everything. And Xia Dade is in command of the Lu Mansion, and his troops are divided into three routes, and the number of 100 elite soldiers in the Lu Mansion is quite a lot, but there are not many, there are more than 300 people. It's hard to say whether it is enough or not, Lu Bing had a certain misjudgment of the number of Xiangma before, but the actual number of people was several times more than the number of judged, so it is not yet known who killed the deer.

The first group of men and horses was responsible for guarding the house, with a hundred people, defending on the periphery of the Lu Mansion, when the Lu Mansion was built, there were arrow towers in each corner of the wall, and there were also guard towers on the side of the wall, equipped with ballistas and bows and arrows, etc., in short, the defense was strong. If it weren't for the frenzied attack of thousands of people, this hundred people would be enough to hold on for half a month. Meng Xueqing also organized the family and the martial artists who took care of the home. Help this group of elite guards to deliver wood and other items under the wall, and carry a single knife or kitchen knife and axe or other handy weapons. Patrolling in the courtyard, if a few thieves break through the defense of the guard tower and the arrow tower, and climb over the wall to enter the Lu Mansion, it is estimated that before they can gain a firm foothold, they will have to let the patrol team composed of family members rush up and hack them to death.

Lu Bing's courtyard wall was built extremely high, and unless a long ladder was used, even if four or five Arhats were stacked, they would not be able to stack it. The wall is also very thick, and in Lu Bing's words, if you bombard it with a cannon, you may not be able to blast it open in two or three hits. Therefore, the patrol team composed of family members and martial artists is not very useful. They were just walking back and forth in the courtyard to reassure the other ladies in the family.

As for the gate that can be used as a key breakthrough, it is even tighter, first of all, the gate is wrapped with two pieces of iron sheet solid wood, and an iron plate is added in the middle. Hold the two planks together and clamp the thick iron plate. A large thick door wrapped in four circles of iron sheet. Even if Lu Bing did not use the pin as the door shaft, but reformed and used the fan blade principle to make the door easier to open and close, the gatehouse still needs two or three people to push together on weekdays to close the door half and half open.

If you want to destroy the gate by impact, it is pure fantasy, and fire is not very useful, and the iron plate will basically isolate the damage of the flames. As for wanting to crash away. Then you have to ask the ten deadbolts behind the gate if you don't agree.

In addition to these people, Xia Dade also left thirty people. As a second wayman. These people are all selected from the elite soldiers, they are only responsible for surrounding the backyard, once the situation is not good, something unexpected happens, escort Lu Bing's family to evacuate Lu Mansion from the secret passage as soon as the army is defeated, and the location of the secret passage will be informed when the time comes. The specific location is only known to Xia Dade and Meng Xueqing, which is enough to keep it secret.

The third way soldiers and horses are waiting at the front gate of the Lu Mansion, on standby at any time, waiting for the news of the spies ahead.

Lu Fu was also silently preparing, and the officers and soldiers were preparing step by step, and they were not allowed to leave the camp for fear of fornicating with bandits. Most people understand that this is not to go out to fight, but to protect their homeland, but also to protect the Lu family, because the Lu family is the lifeblood of Dengzhou Mansion, if the Lu family suffers, Dengzhou will decline, their family can no longer live a good life, and the children's school is also in vain, the most important thing is that in addition to the military salary, one or two rewards of Master Lu will be gone. Therefore, if you don't look at other faces, even if you look at money, you will try your best to help Lu Fu, raise soldiers for a thousand days and use soldiers for a while, who to sell your life to is not selling, naturally you have to sell it at a good price. In fact, it is such a realistic and cold truth, and it is just like being a soldier and eating food.

It was night, a torch was lit outside Dengzhou Mansion, and then thousands of torches were lit up one after another, after a short period of silence, there was a rude abuse, and suddenly the arrow rose to the sky, the horse was famous for the arrow, the arrow was silent, and after a while, a thousand horses galloped, and the mighty attack on Dengzhou Mansion.

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What the horses didn't expect was that Dengzhou Mansion was attacked so easily, and basically did not encounter any decent resistance, and everyone couldn't help but admire the cleverness of the leader in ordering the night attack. Dengzhou Mansion is now very peaceful, and in the eyes of the bandits, the soldiers are like old cats who have eaten and slept lazily, and they have no combat effectiveness. Everyone was full of interest, salivating over the wealthy Dengzhou, and lamented that coming to attack Dengzhou was not a chore, but a difference in beauty and fat!

Town! Grab money, grab food, grab girls!

The leader of the attack on Dengzhou Mansion is named Xue Qi, he is the leader of the bandits in Yushan, and his debut time is not too long, and he belongs to the son inheriting his father's business. His father's robber career was not very good, and he had been active near Dengzhou all his life, but every time he just pulled up the pole, he was exterminated by the government, but it was a fluke that after so many failures, Xue Qi's father could always escape the pursuit of the government, and he was not caught when he was at the end of the day. Until he died and Xue Qi took over, the number was only fifty, barely included in the ranks of the thirty-six village masters.

When it came to Xue Qi, it was different, Xue Qi used his unique personality charm and fair way of doing things to pull the poor people around him up the mountain and do it with him with all his heart. In the future operation, after seeing blood a few times, those simple peasants also became bloodthirsty thugs, and they followed Xue Qi one by one.

Today, Xue Qi has more than 1,000 people under him, and he belongs to a larger group of Xiangma on the boundary of Shandong. And not bandits who are not in the stream. In fact, for Lu Bing's rise, Xue Qi had long seen it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and he knew that this group of people couldn't move. If it moves, it will be a catastrophe, and the imperial court's suppression of martial arts will follow one after another. But if Lu Bing is not moved, his financial path will be cut off. There are many rules in Shandong Xiangma, and the division of territory is also detailed, so even if Xue Qi wants to take his brothers to change places, it is very rare, and he can only increase the contradiction and be beaten by Cai Longyu, the chief scooper. Therefore, Xue Qi was extremely depressed, waiting for the day of sorrow.

Right now. Xue Qi's opportunity came, and since he got the order from the chief scoop, Xue Qi immediately set off to return to the vicinity of Dengzhou Mansion. pulled the team on the rainy mountain to kill it, and wanted to take this opportunity to vent the depression in his heart. And Dengzhou Mansion is rich, this is a great opportunity to make a fortune, as long as it is robbed like this. Even if you have to give some to the general scoop, you can quickly get rid of poverty and become rich.

The best place to be is not responsible. Even if the government investigates it in the future, this is under the order of the chief scoop leader, and the chief scoop will carry it down, leading the brothers of the entire Shandong territory to live and die together, resist the government's purge together, and are not afraid that someone will come to seek revenge. This kind of good thing made Xue Qi feel that he burned incense every day, and God opened his eyes and immortals to manifest his spirits. Catch a break!

When Xue Qi led the troops into the city of Dengzhou Mansion, he felt that something was not quite right. The surroundings are a little too quiet, although when encountering bandits entering the city, it is necessary to close the door and close the door, and the welcome in the middle of the road is a problem with the brain, but it should not be silent at all.

However, Xue Qi is very confident, he is a sudden attack, and the reserve army is now seriously laid off because of the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers of Dengzhou Wei are also a little far away, not to mention whether they can win the rescue on these two sides, it is the time delayed on the light road, and it is too late to rob Dengzhou twice, so Dengzhou Mansion is almost an empty city except for hundreds of defenders.

So although Xue Qi felt a little confused, he still ordered to move on, just to let everyone pay attention to the left and right. Handsome and so arrogant, let alone soldiers, the bandits didn't take Xue Qi's words seriously, and still entered the city casually, their eyes constantly scanning to see whose house was ready to rush in and grab it first.

The team of thousands of people drove into Dengzhou, and Xue Qi saw that there was no decent resistance at all, so he ordered: "Give me orders, brothers, start robbing, I will give you half an hour, and gather here in half an hour, there will be a moment of violators beating thirty with a cane, if there are people who are more than one stick of incense late, they will be killed." ”

In fact, Xue Qi's heart was a little empty, he saw all these strange scenes, and his mind was constantly thinking about various possibilities. There are a few weird places, the first is when he was on Yanyin Mountain, Lu Bing's calm and calm expression, he was obviously going to fight the Dengzhou Mansion where Lu Bing's family was located, and he wanted to rob the Lu Mansion, why was Lu Bing not nervous at all, it was really cold-blooded and ruthless plus calm and calm, or there was something else hidden. The second is that the things I just saw and thought about did not meet with decent resistance. Now when I come to the city, there is such a big commotion, and the houses on both sides are still silent, no woman screams and the baby cries, and even the sound of chickens and dogs is very rare.

Even so, Xue Qi still ordered to enter the city and loot, the original plan was to attack the Lu Mansion first, and then rob it at will, so that the Lu Mansion had too many good things, lest the military discipline be messed up after the robbery, and the army would be disorganized and undisciplined after a while. So now Xue Qi temporarily changed his strategy, he didn't see the strategic factors, but he was thinking about maybe there were some strange things in the Lu Mansion that could protect the Lu Mansion, so Lu Bing was not worried.

In this case, if there is a possibility that you will return in vain, it is better to loot first, and you can't send troops in vain. Based on this consideration, Xue Qi changed his strategy.

Xue Qi didn't expect Lu Bing to have an ambush, but he didn't think it was likely, or even not. is still the same sentence, he and Lu Bing knew the news that the chief scoop commander was going to attack Dengzhou Mansion at the same time, and Lu Bing was surrounded by the chief scoop commander's order, and it was impossible to pass the news out. So there is only one possibility, that is, he has been prepared, but in Xue Qi's opinion, where is Lu Bing so godly.

And this is just a speculation, Lu Bing is just a resigned person, even if he has some strength, it is impossible to mobilize the strength of the Dengzhou Guard and the Reserve Army because of unwarranted speculation. Of course, this was just wishful thinking on the part of Xue Qi, who obviously underestimated Lu Bing's true strength.

"Newspaper, big boss, there is no one in the surrounding houses!" After ordering the plunderers to scatter, a small leader ran back and clenched his fists to report.

Xue Qi was taken aback and shouted: "It's not good, we may have fallen into the scheme, hurry up and send the order down, assemble and prepare to evacuate." At this moment, the open gate of the city suddenly slammed shut, and a jack gate fell directly above the city, firmly blocking the way of retreat. And there were also many screams of bandits around, all of whom were people who broke into the houses and were ready to loot, and after a while, minions ran over and cried: "Big boss, there are many soldiers and horses in ambush behind the house." ”

The bandits were in a mess, Xue Qi shouted and gathered everyone, and he couldn't help but wonder why the soldiers and horses on both sides were only ambushed and did not attack, but at this time, he didn't think too much, so he had to order first: "Don't panic, his grandmother's, this must be Lu Bing'er's trick, they will use the plan if they don't have enough troops, let's take down the Lu Mansion in one go, this is the order of the chief scoop." "If you defeat the Lu Mansion, you can take hostages, even if someone stops you, you will also listen to Lu Bing's call to come, just kidnap his family, and you will definitely be able to open a way to live.

Behind Xue Qi's gallop, the bandits followed and shouted in the direction of the Lu Mansion they had discovered, and suddenly fell into a deep pit, and with a bang, the people fell down. (To be continued......)