The noise downstairs made Wang Ze frown, and then the noise turned into a fight, and the sound of weapons colliding could be heard, and then the sound of stairs kicking was heard, which was someone starting to go up the stairs.

Liu Wancheng, the commander of the ironclad battalion in charge of the guard, heard that the seven or eight soldiers under his command did not stop the other party, and immediately stared at each other, and without saying a word, he led people to the staircase.

At this time, the eight soldiers downstairs also retreated upstairs, but all of them had some wounds on their bodies, and it seemed that they had suffered some losses.

These guards are not inferior to each other in martial arts, but they are mainly worried that hurting the other party may cause retaliation and harm to Wang Ze and others, so they did not dare to be ruthless.

And the other party didn't have those scruples, and he was more ruthless, which caused Wang Ze's guards to be injured although their martial arts were better than the other party.

Liu Wancheng glared at a few people and whispered: "You guys really lost my people, go back and clean up a few of you!" Then he shouted to the people downstairs: "I don't know who Your Excellency is, my son-in-law and girl are resting here, and please avoid it!" ”

At this time, I listened to the angry shouting of the people downstairs: "Yo, it's not just a little lady here!" Master, my Hou Anke is the son of this Jian'an County Shou, which one in this Jian'an County doesn't sell my face? I'm going upstairs to see which little lady it is! ”

Saying that, this person was going to come upstairs regardless of the obstacles, and it seemed that he thought that Liu Wancheng would not dare to offend himself when he heard that he was a member of the Hou family.

Liu Wancheng was furious, he also participated in the battle of Qizhou, and he had fought with the Qi army in Jinan City, so he was naturally very bold and not afraid of offending these people.

Seeing that the person in front of him didn't know how to be so rude, Liu Wancheng suddenly raised his 'leg' and kicked the son-in-law named Hou An upside down and flew out.

If it weren't for the fact that there were a large number of subordinates behind Hou An to make 'meat' pads, I was afraid that he would be killed at that time, of course, Liu Wancheng dared to be ruthless because he saw the situation clearly.

Hou An was kicked and flew downstairs, although he was not injured, but he also fell dizzy, and his eyes were starry, and he suddenly felt that he had lost a big face, and he felt that his face was a little unbearable and angry, and said to his more than 20 guards: "All rush up for me, the men are killed, and the 'women' are slaves and maids for me, so that they will not die well!" ”

This Hou An also brought more than 20 guards when he went out of the 'door', according to the power of the Hou family in Jian'an County, he was not afraid of others looking for trouble, and Hou An was Hou Baoying's young son and had always been favored, so Hou An also developed the arrogant habit of having no spare son.

Hou An's guards were also used to following Hou An's prestige on weekdays, and when they saw that their master was humiliated, they immediately 'drawn' out their long knives and rushed upstairs.

Seeing these people rushing over, Liu Wancheng took two steps back, and then 'drawn' his weapons and formed an arc formation with the soldiers under his command.

Hou An's guards rushed up in a swarm, and before they could react, they were knocked off their weapons, and then a fist the size of a sand bowl came over.

It only took a few breaths, and Hou An's guards who rushed up were all put down, and Hou An saw that the situation was not good and wanted to escape, but he was also blocked in the restaurant by Liu Wancheng.

This Hou An's is really a 'lust' and 'obsessive' mind, seeing Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing, they even spoke disrespectfully, but they were knocked down by Liu Wancheng with a punch.

Hou An was knocked to the ground and his mouth was still stiff, and he threatened loudly: "You'd better apologize to me, otherwise let my father punish you nine clans!" ”

At this time, the shopkeeper of the restaurant also came up tremblingly, and he said to Wang Ze with a pale face in fright: "This little man should go quickly!" Otherwise, this Hou Junshou will really kill people! ”

Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Wang Ze asked, "Is he really the son of Jian'an Haoqiang Hou Baoying?" Seeing the shopkeeper's nod, Wang Ze shook his head with a smile and said: "Although Hou Baoying is not a good person, he is also a hero, and he has such a stupid son!" ”

Cheng Xueying said with some worry: "Da Lang, this guy is Hou Baoying's son after all, let's get out of the city quickly, the province is trapped in the city!" Zhu Qingqing also nodded in agreement with Cheng Xueying's opinion.

Considering the existence of Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing in the team, Wang Ze decided to go out of the city first and send the two 'women' to the boat at the dock outside the city first.

"Xiao Langjun, what should I do with this guy? Kill or release" Liu Wancheng pointed a knife at Hou An on the ground, making Hou An tremble with fright.

"Phew, bastard!" Liu Wancheng smacked Hou An contemptuously, "You have to be beaten to feel cool!" ”

Wang Ze looked at Hou An on the ground and said with a smile: "Hou Gongzi and I are still of great use, how can we not entertain well!" Let Hou Gongzi wait with me to be a guest on the ship! ”

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Less than half an hour later, the team surrounded the restaurant, and it turned out that Hou An's eldest brother Hou Wei knew about his younger brother Hou An's abuse and came to the rescue.

As the eldest son, Hou Wei is still very fond of his younger brother Hou An being so favored by his parents, but at this time, the wealthy family has always paid attention to the harmony and filial piety of the children in the family.

This time, his younger brother Hou An was bullied by a group of sea fangs, and if he was indifferent to it as an elder brother, his reputation would definitely be damaged, and he would be blamed by others.

Although Wang Ze and the others have already left, the shopkeeper of the restaurant is unlucky, if it weren't for the fact that this restaurant is the property of the local surname Lin, otherwise the restaurant will be burned down.

After all, the Lin family is the surname of the county, and there are thousands of children plus tens of thousands of dependent displaced people, plus the Lin family also has several 'friends' of the powerful forces, and the Hou family is not easy to make enemies with the Lin family.

That's it, the shopkeeper of the restaurant also took out hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle the matter, looked at the distant Hou Wei shopkeeper shook his head, and muttered: "What a group of disaster stars!" ”

When Hou Wei hurried to the dock outside the city, there were few people on the dock except for the soldiers guarding the 'gate' of the city.

As soon as the dozen or so soldiers on the dock saw Hou Wei coming over, a chief said to Hou Wei: "The eldest prince, just now the young prince was plundered out of the city 'gate' by a group of strongmen, and we dare not chase after the young man for fear of hurting him, and the sea fang has already gone away by boat!" ”

Hou Wei looked in the direction pointed out by Nashichang, and the Jiangkou could still see the other party's fleet that had gone away, but he could faintly see black spots, and it seemed that even if he sent a navy to chase after him now, he couldn't catch up, and the angry Hou Wei took a whip to 'pump' the trees by the river, and 'pumped' off a few pieces of bark.

At this time, a person cowered in front of Hou Wei, Hou Wei saw that it was one of his younger brother Hou An's 'guards', and he shouted angrily: "My brother was taken away by the sea fang, but why are you okay?" ”

The guard thought to himself, Mom Lao Tzu was beaten and bruised all over, this will be nothing, so he thought in his heart, but he still said: "Back to the eldest son, the little one was put back by those sea fangs to deliver the letter!" Here's a letter from the other party! ”

As he spoke, the guard took out a letter from his arms, and then the guard next to Hou Wei took it and handed it to Hou Wei.

After reading the letter, Hou Wei threw away the letter, and said angrily: "This group of sea fangs actually bullied my Hou family, isn't it on Haiping Island!" Go back to your home and ask your father for a talisman to exterminate these sea fangs! ”

Saying that, Hou Wei galloped towards the Hou Mansion, and someone next to him picked up Wang Ze's letter, and the naval army of Jian'an County also sent a letter to prepare for the expedition in advance.

Hou Baoying was also very angry after seeing the letter in his hand, since Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos' ten years ago, Jian'an was a big 'chaos', and he finally mastered the power of Jian'an County, and was appointed by Emperor Liang Yuan as the county guard of Jian'an a few years ago.

It has been seven or eight years now, and no one dares to provoke him, and those who offended him before have all been thrown into the rolling Min River to feed the fish.

Unexpectedly, today someone kidnapped his most beloved young son Hou An, and wrote a letter to ask him to 'hand' over 5,000 taels of gold.

The meaning of the eldest son Hou Wei Hou Bao should be very clear, that is, to take the opportunity of exterminating these sea fangs to kill people with a knife, so that Hou An can be killed by the sea fangs, so as not to threaten Hou An's position.

However, Hou Bao should not break this, because although Hou An is his favorite son, if he agrees to the request of these sea fangs, he is afraid that the Hou family's status in Jian'an County will be challenged from now on.

In addition, Hou An himself is a gentleman, even if he dies, it will have no effect on the Hou family, but Hou Wei's scheming makes Hou Baoying very satisfied, after all, how can you not have a little scheming to control the power of a county?

Thinking of this, Hou Baoying squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth word by word: "It seems that I, Hou Baoying, haven't made a move for a few years, and now someone can't sit still!" ”

Saying that, he said to his eldest son Hou Wei: "Wei'er, pass on my order to let the navy prepare for battle, and at the same time require the sea ships of all major clans in the city to go out with the navy!" Half of your infantry will defend the city, and the rest will go with the navy! ”

Hou Wei was stunned for a moment and said to Hou Baoying: "After all, my father has not led the army for several years, and the wind and waves on the sea are strong, so it is better for my father to sit in the city and let the children go to conquer this group of sea fangs!" ”

Hou Baoying said with a smile: "After all, you are young, and it is not clear that you have only exterminated some bandits in the past few years, and the battle on the sea is not clear, and Jian'an County is our foundation, I am afraid that some people in the city will not be able to bear it this time!" Having you in charge of the county town can also make your father feel more at ease! ”

With Hou Baoying's order, although the major wealthy families in the city were not willing to send their own sea ships to accompany the Hou family's naval army, but now the power of Jian'an County is in the hands of the Hou family after all, and they are more or less afraid of the prestige of the Hou family's military power.

I don't know if I am afraid of Hou's revenge or patting Hou's sycophants, the surname Lin is the one who sends the most sea ships among the many powerful people, at least more than 20 of them are his family, accounting for one-fifth of the powerful ships in the county.

Seeing these sea boats, there were even some fishing boats of different sizes, but Hou Baoying still looked at all this with a smile, and it was also Hou Baoying's temptation to let the county send sea ships to go on the expedition together.

Since the murder of Emperor Yuan of Liang, and then Chen Ba first replaced Liang with Chen, Hou Baoying's ambitions further expanded, and he attached himself to Wang Lin in an attempt to overthrow the Chen dynasty and then gain a greater position in the new dynasty.

In order to achieve this step, it is first necessary to have a certain degree of mastery of the powerful in Jian'an County, and Hou Bao should be prepared to start by collecting these powerful 'private' soldiers.

Seeing that the powerful in the county did not dare to disobey their orders and sent all the sea ships to help in the war, Hou Bao should be very satisfied with his prestige, and then look at the Jian'an Navy he has established in the past ten years, although it is worse than the Chinese army and naval division of the imperial court, but the number of hundreds of warships makes Hou Bao proud of himself!

On the second day, more than 200 ships came to Haiping Island, where Wang Ze and others temporarily docked, and Hou Baoying also knew that the island was not small and not far from the mouth of the Minjiang River.

It had once been occupied by a group of pirates and plundered merchant ships, only to be annihilated a few months earlier by the Liang army that had driven them out.

"I can't imagine that this group of sea fangs is actually on this island, this sea flat island is flat and easy to attack and difficult to defend, and according to Hou An's guards and the confessions of some people on the dock, this group of sea fangs will not exceed 200 people, as long as we surround the island, then this group of people can only be captured." Hou An stood on the only 5,000-stone ship of the Jian'an Navy and pointed out the country.

"Oh no, Lord Commander, those sea fangs are gone!" A tribal burner came to report the news to Hou Baoying.