The main book of Yongxin County was cut down just last month.

I don't know who did it, but it's a group of bandits, and there seem to be women among them.

There are also black men, holding long sticks, with infinite strength, and their bodies are charred as ink.

This group of bandits came by boat, first robbed the county government, and then hijacked the government servants as coolies, and swaggered to move the money and grain from the government treasury. Then he went out of the city to seize several ships, and in broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, and left.

Li Banghua led more than 200 villagers to abandon the boat and rush here, and the first reaction of the county was to close the city gate.

To put it mildly, Li Banghua was finally allowed to enter the city, but he ordered Xiangyong to be stationed outside the city.

This is also considered to be a rule, and guest soldiers are generally not allowed to enter the city.

However, Li Banghua ordered Yongxinzhi County to hurry up and requisition the ship, but he was dragged and left to do nothing.

There was no grain in the county, and as soon as some autumn grain was collected, it was robbed by bandits.

The magistrate promised Li Banghua that he would help raise grain and grass, but the gentry were all crying poor. Even the ships were only requisitioned for two small boats, and no one wanted to lend the big ships.

"It's too good to deceive my military discipline!"

Li Banghua was hung out for several days, and finally couldn't help but have a seizure.

More than 200 villagers, all the way from Lushui roundabout, along the way can be said to be autumn without any crimes. Under Li Banghua's constraints, he didn't even step on the crops, and the straw he borrowed from the people to make the beds would be returned.

It's so peaceful, so kind, that no one is afraid of them!

"Boom!"

The fifty-year-old former secretary of the military department suddenly drew his sword and came out: "Follow me to the dock to grab the boat, don't kill indiscriminately, kill one person in one boat!" ”

The villagers had already held back the fire and followed Li Banghua to the dock.

Li Banghua was allocated a quota for killing, and only who could kill him. The other villagers did not dare to disobey, but they changed their anger and rushed to the boat with punches and kicks.

After grabbing the boat, leaving some of the villagers to guard bravely, Li Banghua personally led the troops to the outskirts of the county to grab grain.

The first one to be robbed was the thousand households of Yongxin guarding the Thousand Households!

Then he robbed a landlord, and in order to establish his authority, he killed more than ten people one after another.

Li Banghua took grain and grass on the ship, chose a big ship as the ship, stood at the bow and shouted: "Go!" ”

In this absurd world, it really can't be done by abiding by the rules.

The magistrate stood on the city tower, frightened and pale. He didn't just procrastinate, but he really had no food to collect, and he was reluctant to pay for food by himself.

Downstream, one day to Tianhe Town.

There are mountains on both sides of the river, and there is a river in the middle of it, and the villages and towns are mostly along the river at the foot of the mountain.

When night fell, I didn't dare to continue the boat because of the strong currents and some reefs in the river.

Li Banghua did not disturb the people here, and did not choose to stop in the town. Instead, he went a little downstream, anchored and fixed the big boat, and bound the small boat to the big ship, and sent twenty villagers to get off the ship to stand guard, and the rest of the villagers all stayed on the boat to rest.

This gentleman has a very high prestige in Ji'an Mansion, and with his own prestige and personal charm alone, he has made more than 200 villagers obey bravely.

The military discipline of this ragtag army is not too much lost to Zhao Han.

Outside the town, in the mountains.

Inside a large mansion.

"Fourth master, the officers and soldiers are here! A few big boats, more than twenty small boats! ”

Fei Yinghui stood up stiffly, drew his sword and sneered: "You dare to come to send you to death and call the brothers to attack at night." ”

Fei Yinghui doesn't have any similar thoughts, but his approach is very similar to Zhao Han.

This goods first killed the landlord of the town, robbed the landlord's house to live in, and rewarded the landlord's daughter to his subordinates as wives. Even the black buddies Iron Slave were assigned a widow.

Then he divided the land, and he himself was a big landowner, and his subordinates were all small landowners, and he gave the land to many poor people to become yeoman farmers.

Gain a firm foothold in Tianhe Town in an instant!

The terrain here is even more powerful, with mountains on both sides of the river, and cultivated land is either in the mountains or along the river. If an officer or soldier kills them, they will be able to run into the mountains with their legs, and it will be easy to switch between attack and defense.

In the middle of the night.

Li Banghua was sleeping in the cabin when he was suddenly awakened by the sound of shouting and killing, only to see countless torches lit up on the shore.

A few of the villagers who were on guard on the shore were hacked to death by thieves, a few were so frightened that they jumped into the river to escape, and a few fled back to the boat with a few fast feet.

The villagers were so frightened that they closed their anchors and cut ropes, and the boats left the place as soon as possible.

In the dark, a large boat unfortunately ran aground, and several small boats capsized in the rushing river.

Li Banghua was resentful, but there was nothing he could do, he had to use a slender man to row back, and no slender man could be found here.

Why?

Because the slender man is Fei Yinghui's person, and he has already divided the land, he occasionally makes a cameo as a thief to rob Yongxin County.

"Fourth master, catch a live one!"

A villager was brought to Fei Yinghui, and he was already paralyzed with fright.

Fei Yinghui personally interrogated: "Who brought the soldiers?" ”

"Li Shangshu." Xiang Yong replied honestly.

"What's that? Chancery? ”

Fei Yinghui thought that he had heard it wrong, he just occupied a poor village and town, it was nothing more than robbing the county government of money and grain, and he could use Shangshu to personally lead the troops to suppress it?

Xiang Yong explained: "Master Li of Jishui, Li Shangshu. ”

Fei Yinghui had a strange face, he had traveled to Bailuzhou Academy. At that time, Li Banghua was dismissed at home and was invited to teach at the academy, and Fei Yinghui listened to it for a few months.

In other words, Li Banghua is Fei Yinghui's teacher.

Fei Yinghui hurriedly asked, "How could Li Shangshu lead the troops here?" ”

Xiang Yong replied: "There are thieves in Luling County...... There are righteous people, kill the landlord and divide the land, and make a big battle. The governor is leading the troops to clean up, and Li Shangshu is leading us to copy the back road. ”

Fei Yinghui was incredulous and muttered to herself: "What did that kid do?" Summoned Li Shangshu and the governor. ”

After speaking, a sword slashed Xiang Yong to death.

On the morning of the next day, Fei Yinghui arranged for manpower to go upstream and downstream to set up a sentry post around the clock, and once the officers and men were discovered, they immediately rolled up and went into the mountain.

As for Li Banghua, who was attacked inexplicably, he counted the number of people at dawn, and was so angry that he wanted to kill the bandits in Tianhe Town!

There are more than 230 townspeople, and there are only more than 190 left at this time!

When he landed in Huangjia Town, Li Banghua immediately sent people to investigate the enemy's situation, and he led his troops to rest on the river beach for a while.

The spies quickly returned to report that there was no one inside or outside the town.

Li Banghua frowned, he led his troops around in a big circle, and it took twenty days before and after, but he still pounced?

Li Banghua walked up the stairs and came to the door of the inn, where there were still billboards for corn and sweet potatoes.

When he led the troops to the outside of the town and passed by a few private houses, Li Banghua was thoughtful.

The houses were all mud walls, plastered with propaganda slogans: Everyone has a field to cultivate.

Then they came to a private house: there was a house for everyone.

Next, there are many colorful slogans -

Everyone has clothes to wear.

There is something for everyone.

The elderly are sent to their deaths, and the children are fed.

The widow remarried quickly.

If you don't let your child study, you need to pay a penalty.

All fields, such as the noble and the low.

Li Banghua sat cross-legged on the ridge, looking at "all the fields, waiting for the noble and cheap" and was stunned.

Although the Li family is a big family, Li Banghua was born poor.

His father and son were both admitted to the juren, and they spent too much money on studying. The family's more than a dozen acres of land are not enough to spend, and even the travel expenses to Beijing to catch the exam are not enough, so he can only walk from Jiangxi to Beijing on foot with his father - the acres of land in his village are occupied by several local families, and even if he is admitted to the examination, no one will come to donate the land.

Li Banghua knows very well how hard the peasants at the bottom are, and he himself has gone to the fields to plant.

Suddenly, Li Banghua really wanted to meet Zhao Han and talk to the thief face-to-face. He wanted to persuade the anti-thieves that this is not the case with Datong in the world, and that he should work hard to become an official in the imperial examination, and then rule the country and level the world with the Qi family.

As far as the eye can see, the winter wheat seedlings are lush and green, and Li Banghua likes it for a while.

Looking at it, Li Banghua stood up abruptly and scolded loudly: "Don't step on the wheat seedlings!" ”

A villager said: "Sir, this is the wheat seedlings of the anti-thief, it is good to destroy them all." ”

"Fart!"

Li Banghua said angrily: "A thief is a thief, a crop is a crop, how can the crops planted be destroyed?" Whoever destroys the wheat seedlings again, will be dealt with by military law! ”

The villagers looked at each other, and they all felt that this Mr. Li was too pedantic.

But no one dared to disobey, and each ran to the houses in an attempt to search for the goods that had not been taken with him.

Just when Li Banghua was about to withdraw his troops, a spy suddenly came to report: "Sir, the thief has gone down the mountain!" ”

Li Banghua was stunned, and then drew his sword and shouted: "Erlang, follow me to kill the thief!" ”

……

Pang Chunlai has been leading people into the mountains for more than 20 days, and the villagers are clamoring to go back and hoe and top fertilize the winter wheat planted before entering the mountains.

If you don't go back to work, you'll delay the harvest!

Moreover, the weather is getting colder and colder, and if it is delayed, it may snow, and then people and animals will definitely freeze to death and frostbite.

Due to the retreat of the officers and soldiers for many days, Zuo Xiaoliang has already returned with the villagers in Xuanba Village, which is a little downstream on the other bank. He settled, crossed the river into the mountains, and ran to find Pang Chunlai.

As soon as the two of them combined, they thought that the officers and soldiers would not come again, so all the villagers of Wuxing Town also began to descend the mountain.

The spies sent by Li Banghua into the mountains happened to collide with the spies sent down the mountain by Pang Chunlai.

The spies on both sides, only more than ten steps apart, stared at each other with big eyes, and were so frightened that they went back to report the enemy's situation.

"Don't panic!"

Although Pang Chunlai's eyes are not good, he knows the outline of the terrain.

He immediately ordered: "If we drag our families and mouths, as well as grain and livestock, we will definitely not be able to outrun the officers and soldiers." Withdraw to the mountain beam behind and block the food and supplies together as a barrier. Gather the stones, the young and strong will go first, and the women will also go up, and protect the old and the weak and the livestock! ”

Li Banghua took more than 190 villagers and hurried to the mountains, where he was greeted by improvised fortifications.

Sacks and baskets filled with food, as well as wheelbarrows and other supplies, were lined up as a barrier against the enemy. Both men and women, as long as they had the strength, picked up hoes and poles, and brought many stones to be thrown down.

Each family was sent a young man to serve as a soldier, and Chen Maosheng's mission team also took some away, and there were very few young people left, most of them belonged to the old and weak women and children.

Pang Chunlai's eyes widened, trying to see the enemy clearly, but he only saw some shadows shaking.

Zuo Xiaoliang held his hoe high and shouted to boost morale: "Fellow villagers, the dog officer is here with troops and wants to snatch our land and food." Do you say yes? ”

"No promise, no promise!"

The old and weak women and children shouted in unison, and although they were afraid, they were even more afraid of losing their land and food.

Moreover, the terrain was also favorable to them, and the officers and soldiers could only attack head-on.

Zuo Xiaoliang shouted again: "Kill the dog officer!" ”

"Kill the dog, kill the dog!"

The villagers shouted louder and louder, even children of several years old, as if it was a funny thing.

Li Banghua's face was extremely complicated, he was loyal to the monarch and served the country, diligent in government and loved the people, but in the end he was dismissed by the emperor and returned to his hometown, and he was scolded as a dog official when he was reprimanded against thieves.

"Uncle, they are all old and weak, women and children, young and strong at most three or four hundred. They don't have any serious weapons, as long as our soldiers use their lives, they can fight in a fight. Li Banghua's nephew advised.

Li Banghua was silent.

First, the other party occupies a favorable position and has high morale, can it really fight down?

Second, most of the other party are old and weak women and children, and it is very glorious to kill them all?

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Banghua said to his nephew: "If you go to persuade them to surrender, you will say that as long as they return to the government, they will not be blamed for their past crimes." ”

The nephew immediately climbed up the hill, and before he could speak, several head-sized stones rolled down.