Mao County, but a small county under the Jiangxi Province of Huizhou County, with a population of less than 50,000, because of the floods for many years, the permanent residents of Mao County also change frequently, many people move out of Lu, and there will be a lot of people from the north or Lingnan who migrate over.

Sun Yiben, the county lieutenant of Mao County, was originally born in the imperial imperial examination, and spent money to get through the relationship and came to Mao County to become a local governor, and he worked for ten years. There were also magistrates who wanted to sue him for his evil deeds, but soon encountered a war between King Huai and the imperial court, he originally wanted to wait for a result to be determined, but who knew that King Daojing came to woo him, so he, who was not a county lieutenant under any power, rightly became the county magistrate of Mao County.

became the county magistrate, which means that Mao County has been recorded under his grandson's family, and in the future, in addition to paying taxes to King Jing, no one can take care of the rest.

Mao County is still in the continuous rain, into the wax moon, the rain is also extremely cold, the fourth day of the lunar month, the sky is sleet with snow, Sun Yi has nothing to do with the gifts given to him by King Jing, are some gold, silver and jade, for a greedy official, there is nothing to count his belongings, than out of the Lu to collect wealth is more interesting. At least that's what Sun Yi thinks.

"Big brother, there are King Jing's cavalry coming over at the city gate, shouting to enter the city." Sun Yun, the head of Mao County, rushed into the county office of Mao County and said hurriedly.

Sun Yun is Sun Yi's younger brother, and in Mao County, most of the officials are also related to Sun Yi.

"King Jing's soldiers?" Sun Yi stood up from his chair. "Didn't tell me why?"

"It was said to be ambushed. Grain convoys. ”

Sun Yi had long heard about the recent disturbances in the Jiangyou area. These mountain bandits are bold enough to fight against the government, and they especially like to rob grain. He didn't know if this thing was true or not, the grain robbery that happened before was far away from Mao County, and Sun Yi didn't expect it to happen at the door of his house this time.

Now that all parts of the country are in turmoil, the city gate of Maoxian County is only open for two hours a day, and now it is not time to open the city gate, so Sun Yi can also stand idly by, after all, this is a troublesome matter. But thinking of King Jing's favor to him, this love cannot but be repaid, otherwise King Jing is likely to doubt his loyalty.

"Open the gates of the city and welcome the cavalry into the city."

In order to show his attention, Sun Yi personally went to meet this group of cavalry, and when he arrived at the north city gate, he found that it was just a defeated remnant army that had been beaten for a long time, and all the cavalry added up to only a few dozen horses.

"Big brother, are you still welcome?"

Sun Yi thought about it. The garrison camp in the city is now under his control, and there are six or seven hundred soldiers plus regimental training. If you make trouble with the mountain bandits, you can forcibly recruit some more, and you can make up a team of one or two thousand. This is the advantage of a soil emperor, he can expand his army to meet the enemy at any time according to his needs, and the rules are set by himself anyway.

"Welcome!"

Under an order, the city gate slowly opened, dozens of horsemen fled into the city in embarrassment, and before the time of tea, the pursuers of the mountain bandits had already arrived under the city, and they shouted at Sun Yi and others standing on the city wall from a distance, and the arrogant appearance seemed to be provoking.

There were about 100 chasing soldiers, all with sabers around their waists, not like the bandits in the south, but somewhat similar to the Hu people in the north. The shouting of those people was too harsh, Sun Yi looked at it and said angrily: "Shoot arrows, a few bandits, just shoot them!" ”

Dozens of arrows were shot sporadically from the city wall, because the distance between the two sides was too far, and the arrows only landed not far in front of these mountain bandits, and those mountain bandits shouted louder.

"Are there any marksmen, come and shoot them all!" Sun Yi shouted.

None of the soldiers dared to respond to this work, a few mountain bandits over there were three hundred steps away from the city wall, although the distance from the city wall was about the same, but the arrow flew so far that it had lost its strength, and in the rainy weather, the mountain bandits had to be shot to death, this difficulty was too high. And this county lieutenant is really harsh, who says it's okay, and he doesn't do it when he turns around, his life may not be guaranteed.

What Sun Yi is most afraid of is that there is an accident in Mao County, this is his territory, and he can't take it back if he loses it, Sun Yi gave an order: "Transfer all the people in the city who can shoot arrows and garrison the north city wall." ”

Sun Yun immediately nodded in agreement, and a military adjutant on the side said: "County Lieutenant Sun, we are condescending, the arrows are farther than those bandits, we can't shoot them, and they definitely don't dare to get close to the city, if they easily transfer troops, I'm afraid of ......."

He was just halfway through his sentence when he suddenly heard a loud bang, and it turned out that the city wall seemed to have been hit by something, and a broken brick jumped up. Sun Yi was not small in shock, and quickly lowered his head and the cat was in the battlements, while a few soldiers who couldn't dodge had their heads blooming, and fell to the ground or moved twice and whined, or groaned in pain on the ground.

"Is this still a problem? Hurry up and bring in troops! ”

Although the war in the north is raging, but now the entire Jiangjiang region is very peaceful, except for these bold mountain bandits, Sun Yi is afraid that they will come to make trouble, but he still came.

Several cavalrymen then went up to the city wall, and it was the cavalry of King Jing who had just been welcomed into the city.

"County Lieutenant Sun, these bandits have demon methods, and the means of killing people are endless. There are a lot of heads that fall off before they see what's going on! ”

These cavalrymen were not lightly frightened by the mountain bandits, and the description was exaggerated, but it was a true thing that their grain transport team was ransacked, and when Sun Yi learned that more than 2,000 regular troops were not the opponents of these mountain bandits, he was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground.

"No, you must defend the city and send more troops!"

The entire garrison camp of Mao County was almost transferred to the north city wall by Sun Yi, and the arrows continued to shoot down, but they couldn't hurt the one hundred and ten mountain bandits, and as soon as they raised their hands, someone on the city wall would inevitably fall. Later, the soldiers of the garrison battalion on the city wall all became frightened birds, and as soon as they raised their hands, everyone instinctively hid behind the battlements, only to find that they were just shaking a shot, and only to hear the laughter of those mountain bandits.

Sun Yi hid behind the battlements and was frightened, and said in his heart why didn't these mountain bandits retreat, could it be that the mountain bandits still couldn't attack the city? I have never heard of such a ridiculous thing before, living in the city means that you will not be patronized by mountain bandits, which is why the rich have to drill into the city these days, or the manors are all deep walls, just to prevent robbers.

On the north side of the city, the two sides were exchanging fire in the air, and suddenly a soldier came in embarrassment to report: "County lieutenant, county lieutenant, no, those bandits suddenly rushed up to the city wall from the direction of the west of the city, and when they opened the city gate, they all poured in, and there were four or five hundred people!" ”

"Really?"

Sun Yi ignored the danger in the back of his head, and stood up directly, with an incredulous expression. It's only been less than half an hour, and Mao County has been lost?

"Really, county lieutenant, I'm afraid that Mao County won't be able to save it, those mountain bandits will kill people when they see them, and they are extremely cruel! The stick in his hand emitted a fire, and the man from afar lay down, and he couldn't see clearly. County Lieutenant, you ...... Let's run for your life. ”

Sun Yi wanted to flee for his life, but unfortunately it was too late, and he saw those masked mountain bandits riding horses galloping quickly between the streets and alleys of Mao County, and they were rushing towards the north of the city.

"The thief wants to make money...... Sun Yi panicked, and instinctively ordered, "Discuss it with them, if you want money, food, or a woman, you can be satisfied, don't hurt your peace, and don't lose your life in vain!" ”

The soldiers were chilled when they heard this, and when they encountered mountain bandits, this county lieutenant didn't want to resist, so he actually wanted to surrender? And said don't hurt your life, can other mountain bandits reason with you? The woman of his own family was robbed up the mountain, and what faces will these old men see in the future! (To be continued......)