Lei Zhi sat shirtless in front of the fire, munching on the pickled venison he had snatched from Ah Ju's house. He ate happily, and his face was full of satisfaction: "Since you are here, you are not allowed to leave." In the future, you will live here with me, and we will still be the same as before, I am your man, and you are my woman. ”

……

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Tianhao walked into Huanche Village with several guards and met the leader Xiongkui.

After a simple greeting, Tianhao directly clarified the meaning: "Ah Ju is the woman who was changed from your village last winter." Three days ago, she returned to Huanchezhai to visit relatives. Now that the appointed time has come, she has not returned, and there is no news. ”

Xiongkui, who is nearly sixty years old, is very tall, nearly three meters. Hair of different lengths looks like grass, black and white. A large beard grew under his nostrils, and it was uncomfortable to have his breathing passages blocked, but he preferred this savage shape. The broad shoulders and muscles continue to degenerate with age, and the abdomen is no longer as flat, round, and bulging as it was when they were young.

"The woman in your village is gone, what does it have to do with me?" If it weren't for the fact that the other party was also the leader and equal to his own identity, Xiongkui would not have met Tianhao at all. He looked down on young people in his heart, especially Tianhao, who was handsome in appearance and women drooled for a long time.

The other party had a tough attitude, and Tianhao was not interested in arguing with him about the details: "Someone saw Ah Ju enter the Huanche Village, and he hasn't come out since." ”

"Who saw it? Let him stand up. Xiongkui raised his bearded chin, and his arrogant eyes looked at Tianhao condescendingly: "Lao Tzu has been the leader for so many years, and I have never heard that the woman who has been replaced will come back." Boy, the guy who told you about this must be blind. ”

The people around burst into laughter.

A fierce light flashed in Tianyan's eyes, and he wanted to touch the battle axe that was stuck diagonally in his back with his back, Tianhao reached out and firmly clasped his arm, staring at Xiongkui's gaze with a cold gaze.

"I'll give you three days to hand them over. Otherwise, you do so at your own risk. ”

Leaving these words, Tianhao turned around and walked out with people in stride.

"Phew! The hairy boy who has not dried up actually said such things to me. Looking at his back, Xiongkui spat fiercely.

If it were a different time and place, Xiongkui would have already directly ordered Tianhao and the others to be arrested. But now it's different, he doesn't have the confidence.

Ah Ju is indeed in the stockade.

Lei Zhi's bastard boy locked her up and gave him a large piece of cured meat and several pieces of dried fish. I don't know how those people in Panshizhai got it, the taste of venison is really good, the slices are roasted and chewed in the mouth is very delicious, and there is a special aroma. Dried fish is the same, gnawed off with a trace of teeth, the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes, much more delicious than slimy and bloody animal meat.

Lei Zhi is a person in the village, and Ah Ju used to be the same. Although there is no reason to deduct the woman who was replaced, Lei Zhi's kid was right: there were a lot of women sold in the village last winter, and he didn't think about it by himself, and there were so many men left that he couldn't even find a mother-in-law. It's rare for a Ju to come back, and I can't let it go. Besides, who knows what it will be like this winter? If it still snows as heavily as last year, I'm afraid I'll have to resell the detained Aju as goods.

Cut her face a few times with a knife, and no one would recognize her if she broke her face. If not, gouge out an eye and knock out half of her teeth. As long as you don't hurt your hands and feet and don't delay doing things, no one will dislike it, and the price is only a little less than that of a normal woman.

……

The darkness blinded the eyes and sealed the secrets.

Early in the morning, when Ah Ping yawned, stretched his waist and stood up, and swept the outside of the village with his usual lazy gaze, the flying line of sight seemed to see something, forcing him to turn his body that had turned sideways again. His gaze focused on the target in the distance, and his eyes suddenly widened, and his pupils narrowed instantly.

There are two hills in the north of Huanche Village, and there are obviously more things on the originally bare mountain tops.

No matter how good the vision of the Northland barbarians is, they can't compare to a telescope. Ah Ping squinted his eyes and stood there staring for a long time, finally realizing that they were several heavy ballistas.

Who would carry that kind of thing up the mountain?

The doubts in my mind grew deeper and deeper, and I heard the sound of footsteps hurrying up from downstairs. The elder Uncle Hong rushed over, slapped him in the face hard, and reprimanded him with nervous anger: "Are you blind in the eyes of the dog? So many people outside the stockade can't see it? Go to the top of the tower and blow the horn and alert the stockade! ”

This can't be blamed on Ah Ping. There were only a few windows in the tower, and his attention was all focused on the north side, and he didn't think that there would be problems outside the stockade.

A long line came from the south. Heavily armed, they formed a military formation in an open field about 100 meters from the gate of the Huanchezhai Gate.

Xiongkui, who got the news, hurried over and stood on the wall, he saw a scene that made him tremble.

Men lined up at the front of the line. They wore armor and carried steel axes and shields. The Ox Clan has the most sophisticated forging skills of the northern barbarians, and their tall and mutated bodies are strong enough to carry heavy armor. It was a real armor, head, shoulders, arms, chest, abdomen, thighs...... Nearly all parts of the body were covered, and the massive tower shield that rose above the head stuck into the ground, forming a formidable metal wall.

Women made up the other half of the formation. Sturdy women are also warriors on the battlefield. They wear half-body armor and pay special attention to the defense of the chest and back. They were armed with daggers and shields, along with three muskets each.

One-on-one, Xiongkui is not afraid. When it comes to weapons and equipment, there are also blacksmiths in Huanchezhai, which are also well-made.

What frightened him was the number of people in the first place. According to rough estimates, there were at least five hundred people in this military formation.

"I've just counted, it's six hundred and twenty-eight." A trembling voice from his cronies came from his side: "Chief, there are too many of them. ”

The cool morning breeze brought a piece of freshness, stimulating Xiongkui's brain from chaos to clarity. It was a terrible feeling that he had been woken up from his bed, let alone being here to see such a horrific scene.

Older people have an instinctive contempt for young people, and Xiongkui is no exception. Yesterday, Xiongkui didn't care about the few cruel words thrown down by the young leader of Panshi Village when he left. Who wouldn't be brave and ruthless? Dealing with wild beasts in the surrounding mountains and forests every year, desperately fighting, struggling to survive in blood and death, who will be intimidated by verbal threats?

Let me hand over someone within three days, how old are you?

The year before last, Xiongkui went to Panshi Village. At that time, there were less than 300 people in Panshi Village. Last winter, it was the priest of Huanchezhai who brought people over to do business, and it is said that the population of Panshi Village has not increased much, that is, it is in the early 300s.

Now there are more than 600 attacking teams outside the stockade, where did they get so many people?

What's even more terrifying is the military formation they arranged.

Xiongkui had been to Suolong Pass when he was young, and even the most elite barbarian army there was not as neatly arranged as these people in front of him. The tower shields in front of them are very neat, and there seems to be no gaps between them. The helmet and shoulder helmet protected everything so tightly that even the most astute archers could not find a flaw. In the face of such a tightly protected "turtle shell", even if his side occupies the advantage of the walled wall and shoots arrows condescendingly, it is difficult to cause damage to the other party.

He saw Tianhao, the young boy surrounded by tower shields on all sides, standing on the side of the military formation.

The angry Xiongkui raised his hand and pointed to the position, and let out a rough and furious roar: "Boy, what do you want to do? ”

Roaring for a long time with a loud voice can tear the vocal cords. Tianhao made a simple drum horn out of thin iron sheet early. He looked around warily to make sure there weren't any archers or anything like that, and only then did he poke out a little from the tight protection of the tower shield and make a sound large enough for everyone on the other side to hear.

"Hand over my people, or don't blame me for being unkind."

Delivered?

Xiongkui had never thought about such a thing.

The muscles on his old face twitched slightly, and his expression was distorted by surprise and anger: "It's all said that you are mistaken, this is Huanche Village, and there is no one you want." Besides, didn't you say you had three days yesterday, so why did you ...... early this morning?"

"I've changed my mind." Tianhao interrupted him coldly: "Immediately hand it over, there is no need to discuss." ”

"Yard, if you have the ability, you will attack it!" Enraged, Xiongkui was like a hungry beast, and he slammed his fist on his chest a few times like a male adult gorilla: "Come on! How many people are there? I haven't used a knife for a long time, so let me cut off a few more heads to have fun. ”

Tianhao gave him a contemptuous look and gave the order to retreat. The entire military formation followed the orders of several ten-man leaders, maintained a neat and uniform pace, pulled out the tower shield, and retreated in order. There was no noise in the whole process, and the archers standing on the tower could not find the flaws, and the villagers of Huanchezhai who saw this scene opened their mouths one after another, and they couldn't close for a long time.

Xiongkui heard his cronies muttering in a shocked tone when he heard his cronies beside him: "...... How did they do it? ”

This is also the biggest question in Xiongkui's mind.

……

When the first stone fell from the sky and hit the tower, Xiongkui knew that things were going to be in trouble.

The people of Panshi Village had a geographical advantage, and they took advantage of the night to carry heavy ballistas to the top of the hill and condescendingly threw stones at them. Four ballistas bombarded in turn, one moment a flood of rubble, the other a huge and hard rock.

The tower on the north side of the stockade was smashed down. Even thick logs could not withstand attacks from the air. The combination of height and speed, as well as the weight of the stone itself, adds up to a terrifying and terrifying lethality.