readx;? Chapter 7: The Edge of Dust (5)

The straight-line distance between Taojiazhuang and Lijiazhai is less than thirty miles, but there is a mountain bag that is not too short in the middle, so it is not far, it does not take two or three hours, but it does not want to reach the destination. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And as long as a few scouts are placed on the top of the mountain, the wind and grass at the foot of the mountain can be seen clearly. Therefore, not far from Taojiazhuang's team leaving the village, the news has reached the ears of Li Youde, the owner of Lijiazhai, in time.

"It seems that my old brother is quite bloody?" Regarding Taojiazhuang's reaction, Li Youde didn't feel anything else, waved his hand and ordered the scout to retreat, and sneered and commented.

"If he was really bloody, he wouldn't have been a turtle with a shrunken head for so many years!" Gao Shun, the owner of Gao Jialiang, was one of the first villagers to follow Li Youde's banner, pursed his lips and said with a sneer. "Now that he's poked his head out, don't expect to retract this time. Our Lianzhuang Club has been established for so long, there must be something decent to sacrifice the flag!"

"It's a pity that those descendants of Taojiazhuang have a few bodies and bones that are quite strong. If you can subdue it and polish it a little, you will be a good farmer!" Xu You, the owner of Xu's nest shop, was relatively kind-hearted, shook his head, and said with a little unwillingness.

"Three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged people are! If you don't kill him, the surrounding Zhuangzi will inevitably follow suit!" Gao Shun is most unaccustomed to Xu You's appearance of wanting to take people's money and not wanting to see blood, so he glanced at him and retorted loudly. "Besides, these people surnamed Tao are also from the same ancestor, and they break bones and tendons with each other?

"That's, that's!" The rest of the castle owners and village owners who were forcibly incorporated into Li Youde's banner nodded in agreement. No one took the lives of hundreds of men, women and children in Taojiazhuang as a thing.

"I don't want to deliberately leave trouble, I'm worried about the government, so I can make trouble!" Xu You couldn't find any supporters, his face was slightly red, and he reminded stubbornly.

"Then Sun Shan himself turned out to be a bandit, what qualifications do you have to manage us?" Gao Shun turned his head and continued to pout and sneer at him, "Besides, in previous years, there were armed fights in various villages for water and land, and the government never turned a blind eye. Even if there are a few more deaths this time, it will be Taojiazhuang who came to the door first, no wonder we are ruthless!"

"That, that ......" Xu You still felt unsteady in his heart, but his scalp was numb by Gao Shun's laughter, and he muttered a few words, and took the initiative to lower his head.

"If Tao Zheng is willing to surrender, we don't need to kill too many people!" As the head of the meeting, Li Youde couldn't let Gao Shun make a decision for himself, thought about it, and made the final adjustment, "If Tao Zheng is dead, others are willing to put down their weapons and become slaves, you can also consider leaving them alive." But all the fields in Taojiazhuang, whether they are mountain fields or paddy fields, not a single acre can be left for them. Afterwards, a few of our Zhuangzi will give the most points according to how much they contribute, and who will take the lion's share. ”

"But with Li Huishou's words, it will be decided!" the castle lords were overjoyed in their hearts, and bowed down in unison.

For them, the most important thing is to be able to divide the land of Taojiazhuang. Anything else may be left out of consideration. Most of them are irrigated land near the river, and the yield per mu is the wasteland that everyone has worked so hard to cultivate, one in the sky and the other in the ground. Even the original cooked land in each village is not comparable to the fields of Taojiazhuang. After all, the closer you are to the river, the easier it is to irrigate, and even in the event of a drought, at least half of the harvest can be saved!

"Then I'm not welcome! How to fight later, who is in the way, who is flanking, who is going to block Taojiazhuang's retreat, the old man has made a very clear arrangement in the morning. Everyone will lead their respective men to the woods in front of the village to ambush now, let's wait a while when the people from Taojiazhuang come from afar and are tired and half dead, and catch him off guard!" Seeing that the morale was already available, Li Youde stood up and waved decisively.

"Yes!" the castle lords and the village owners took the order, and after a while, they were already on the way to enter the village, and the traps were arranged. A large group of people tied their mouths, horses tied their mouths, and quietly ambushed on both sides of the road. Just waiting for the young men of Taojiazhuang to arrive, they rushed out coldly and ended the battle in one go.

Who would have expected that from three o'clock in the afternoon, until the sun went down, the prey that should have fallen into the trap a long time ago, but it has not arrived. But swarms of mosquitoes and cows, taking advantage of the cooler weather in the evening, all came out of the grass. Flying around the head of the ambushed soldier, he sucked a mouthful of blood, leaving a big red and itchy bag.

The brothers under the command of the lord of the castle and the owner of the farm were all ordinary peasant boys. How could he have endured such torture for a long time with his limited training? After a while, he could not support it at all, and he got up from his hiding place one after another, and whipped around with flies made of weeds. Now, I can no longer count on the prey to take the initiative to drill into the trap, as long as the people in Taojiazhuang are not all deaf, they must be two miles away, and they can hear the abnormality on the road ahead.

"Erlang, what about your scouts, why haven't you sent back the news yet?" Li Youde, the mastermind of the whole thing, was also bitten several big bags on his forehead by mosquitoes, itching and annoying, and ordered someone to call his youngest son, who was in charge of monitoring the enemy army, and questioned loudly.

"Half, didn't you just come back half an hour ago?" Tao, the people from Taojiazhuang had already arrived at the top of the opposite mountain, and at that time, they were hitting the top of the mountain!"

"That was half an hour ago, and it's been another half an hour!" Li Youde glared at his son a few times and roared sharply, "Send someone to investigate again, in half an hour, people have already walked down the mountain!"

"Yes!" Li Jin didn't dare to talk back to his father, and immediately trotted to assign scouts. After a few breaths, he ran back in a hurry, "Grandpa, grandpa, it's not good, it's not good, Taojiazhuang, the people of Taojiazhuang stopped on the top of the mountain and didn't leave!"

"Not leaving?" Li Youde was slightly stunned, and a knife-like chill shot out of his eyes. "Is it the scout who said that they dare to love them for more than half an hour, and they have not moved on the top of the mountain!"

"It was the scout who came back to say it, I was just about to go over and send someone else, and our scout will send the latest news back!" Afraid that his father would use him as a punching bag, Li Jin took a few steps back and couldn't wait to add, "They were afraid that they would be discovered by the people in Taojiazhuang, so they deliberately took a detour when they went down the mountain, so they came back a little late." They, they said, there was a sudden dispute between several villagers in Taojiazhuang and Tao Zheng, and no one could convince anyone, so they could only let the team stop at the top of the mountain for the time being!"

"Hmm-" Li Youde frowned, suspicious of the news that the scout had returned. According to the information he had, although Tao Zheng was timid in his usual work, his prestige in Taojiazhuang was quite high. In any case, it should not be that the daughter was snatched away by others, but he couldn't even do the little thing of mobilizing the young people in the Zhuangzi to ask for someone.

"Grandpa, grandpa, second uncle, please go back!" Just as he was puzzled, the voice of his nephew Li Shun came from his ears again, panting, revealing a fake panic, "Huyan, the big boss of Huyan has sent someone." Said yes, said he wanted to borrow some military rations from us. The second uncle hesitated for a moment, and was scolded by them pointing at his nose. If you don't go back, you might make a fuss!"

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