"What's going on?"

Li Tai ran back to the manor from the hillside, found Li Zhusheng, who was gathering his troops, and pointed to the villagers gathered on the west side of the boundary stone and asked.

"After mowing the grass, we have to plough the land, and after ploughing, we have to divert water to water the fields, so I sent a few people to the canal to check the water potential, and they were chased and beaten by the villagers. Three escaped, and two were captured and beaten by them. ”

Hearing Li Zhusheng say this, Li Tai's face suddenly fell, and he saw that there were hundreds of villagers gathered outside the boundary stone, one by one, waving their canes and constantly scolding, and the two of their own tribes were tied up in the crowd and beaten with spit.

"Lead me!"

When Li Tai saw this scene, he was already furious, and he directly shouted the order, and soon the strong men who were working everywhere gathered.

Seeing that all the troops were holding bows and knives, Li Tai groaned for a while before saying, "Don't use sharp blades, distribute sticks." Go to the disease, the head of the goose, the filial piety, get on the horse, and recapture the companions first! ”

Li Tai turned over his horse, did not take the horse lance handed by the ministry, picked up a long stick and rushed straight towards the crowd opposite. Li Quji and a few others also rode their horses to follow, while Li Zhusheng shouted in the rear: "Rush to the left formation!" A good boy who picks up his life in the battle array, how can he allow the thieves to cause harm! ”

The villagers on the opposite side were proud of their strength, but they didn't expect the masses in the countryside to be so strong, and they were still shouting and scolding, and when they saw Li Tai rushing with a cane, they immediately panicked.

"Folks, take out the blood of Kansai Erlang and kill these foreign thieves who invade my country!"

A strong villager who led the team raised his hoe and threw it at Li Tai, who was rushing on a horse, and Li Tai was about to shake the stick and stab it until he got closer, and the stick shook slightly, sweeping the man's armpit.

With the power of the club and the horse's momentum, the man was swept away. As soon as the long stick in Li Tai's hand was horizontal, more than a dozen villagers on the road ahead were swept down. The momentum of the good horse under his crotch has not waned, and the villagers who have no time to dodge have been knocked out one after another.

Seeing his ferocity, the people on the back road also fled left and right, and soon the battle of the villagers was cut through the middle. Li Qujian and a few others then rushed up, consciously riding their horses to the north, although only a few horses, but the momentum was unbearable, and soon the battle of the villagers was cut out of a gap several feet wide.

"Those who abandon the rod do not chase, but those who bear the rod chase and beat!"

Li Tai returned from the back road to the fields, and the villagers who fled in the fields became even more chaotic, and the sticks and snakes in his hands were like snakes directly picking at those villagers who were still wielding their canes. There were four or five brave villagers who were still waiting to be contained, but before they could get close, they were knocked down by him one by one with a wave of their staff.

"Uncle Nine's leg was broken by this foreign bandit!"

A cry of grief sounded in the chaotic battle of the villagers, and the villagers who had been scattered showed their indignation after hearing the voice, and gathered together one after another.

At this time, Li Zhusheng also led his troops to rush up, and smashed all the way from the chaos of the battle on the left road, and the villagers who had just gathered were rushed again.

Although there is no tragedy of broken limbs and broken arms and flying flesh and blood in the township fight, when it comes to hedging in the battle array, where are these rabble villagers who are the opponents of Li Tai's tribes.

Most of these people are veterans of the army, accustomed to life and death, but there are voice orders to guide, there are battles without retreat, although there are not many members, but the momentum is not the villagers can be. Soon, the battle of the villagers of hundreds of people was scattered, and although the father and son were close to each other, they could not cooperate seamlessly in this chaotic scene.

Soon the townsfolk fled in terror, and with the first there was a second, and the battle of hundreds of people was scattered in an instant.

At this time, the tribes have also played a real fire, although some villagers are begging for mercy, but they will inevitably be added to the fists and kicks.

Seeing that the villagers no longer had the courage to gather, Li Tai stopped his horse and ordered: "Clean the site, collect the farm tools and prisoners, if there are injured people who are delayed, and those who are not injured dig a ditch!" Distribute bows and arrows, and shoot those who dare to come closer, regardless of death or injury! ”

In addition to the villagers who had fled, there were more than 50 people left behind, either exhausted or injured.

Seven or eight villagers with broken bones were dragged back to the pastoral camp, and the remaining forty or so who were able to move were all driven to the canal, where they were intimidated and scolded by the troops, and one by one the frightened souls did not possess their bodies, or wielded hoes, or used their hands and feet together, to dig a big hole in the canal.

"Dig from here, all the way to my field. Stand up if you want to die, dig hard if you don't want to die! ”

Li Taylor stood in the middle of the field, his face blue and roared.

From the bottom of his heart, he doesn't want to be an enemy of his fellow villagers, but that doesn't mean he has to tolerate everything.

It is now late spring and early summer, and the villagers have already cultivated their fields in time, but these villagers still gather to prevent their families from drawing water from the canal, which is no longer a water grabber for their livelihood, but simply to exclude them as outsiders.

Is it tolerable, or is it intolerable?

The villagers gathered on the left did not have the courage to regroup for the time being, and those captured villagers could only dig ditches with force under the intimidation of bows and knives.

But when nearly an hour had passed, the southern country road was dusty, and a group of nearly a hundred knights was galloping through the fields.

Li Tai had already expected this, and the soil dug by the villagers was ordered by him to be piled up into a trench, and when he saw the group of knights approaching, he ordered again: "Line up behind the ditch and distribute bows and knives!" ”

"You and other out-of-state villains are taking my words yesterday as a rumor!"

The team of knights rushed quickly, and the leader was the warlord Zhou Changming that Shangyang saw yesterday, but at this time he was no longer an old peasant with mud on his trouser legs, wearing half-body iron armor, holding a long knife, the horse bow was horizontal in front of the saddle, the Hulu arrow was hanging from the waist, and the horizontal knife was immediately in front of the ditch, and the halberd pointed at Li Tai and roared angrily.

"Lord Zhou Shu save my ......"

The villagers who had been coerced to dig the ditch also shouted loudly when they saw the help coming, and some people fled over the ditch.

Li Tai was also holding a horse lance at this time, ignoring the fleeing captives, and only met Zhou Changming's angry gaze and sneered: "In the battle of Bishan a month ago, tens of thousands of thieves in the east can't stop me from returning to righteousness!" Daxingtai announced the reward on the battlefield, and gave me Shiwu acres of land and make a living in Kansai. The thieves and villains prevent me from diverting water to cultivate, which is not different from cutting off my vitality!

Zhou dares to cross the line of this ditch, and today he will share life and death! If my husband dies, I will die, if this township does not bleed, I will live up to my ancestors! Come, fight! ”

Zhou Changming heard Li Tai's shouting, and his face became quite ugly for a while. As the lord of this township, of course, he put guarding the local people first, but when he heard Li Tai's shouting, it seemed that the villagers were the first to provoke.

Although Shangyuan is located in the countryside, it is also close to the suburbs of Huazhou after all. Hearing Li Tai's declaration, Zhou Changming inevitably wanted to throw a mouse.

At this time, several villager captives also escaped over the ditch, begging Zhou Changming to rescue and take revenge.

Zhou Changming's mind turned for a moment, and he asked in a deep voice: "Why did you make trouble?" ”

"Yes, it is the Zhao Party Commander of Yuanxi, and the Lieutenant of Shi County, they sent slaves to tell the township, saying that these foreign country thieves are arrogant, and they want to punish the villagers for the crime of privately moving the boundary stone, and they will also expand the garden to Luoshui...... Call on the villagers not to allow them to use water, and suppress the arrogance of these outsiders......"

Several villagers didn't dare to hide it, so they told the reason for the incident in a trembling voice.

Zhou Changming's face turned even more pale after hearing this, and he said angrily: "You can plant acres of land, just hoe the grass with peace of mind, and do a lot of congesting the canal!" If the field cannot be planted, and the land does not come out of it, how is it different from murder? The ancestral nostalgia is to teach you to bully foreigners like this and kill people in wasteland! ”

"We—How dare we? It's just that the big families in the township, they, they don't like outsiders to take root in the township...... The few families who moved the boundary stone without permission are all poor villagers, and I really can't bear to see them sent to death by officials. ”

"Shut up! Get home quickly and don't cause any more trouble! ”

Zhou Changming scolded angrily again, drove away these villagers, and then turned over and dismounted, hugged Li Tai across the ditch and said: "This Langjun, today's chaos is unreasonable for my villagers." Regardless of the good or evil of the hometown, the land is always innocent, the people's food is the foundation, and the waste of farming is evil. Previously, the public land was abandoned, and the poor villagers couldn't bear it, so they stole it...... If Lang Jun has me in his eyes, then I take the liberty of arbitration, the harvest of the encroached land, half of the compensation for the loss, three years, the matter is decided in the township, no need to go through the public, what does Lang Jun want? ”

Li Tai's liver was furious, and it was not for the fact that the countryside was invaded by the villagers at all, and after hearing this, he said: "Although I am a visitor from a foreign country, I also know that the villagers have a hard time making a living. The field is short and long, so I don't feel at ease. But this villager guards the canal and cuts off the water, disturbing my livelihood, and I can't bear it! ”

When Zhou Changming heard this, he couldn't help but have a good impression of Li Tai in his heart, and after a little muttering, he said: "I led the villagers here, and I knew that the mistake was in the villagers. The township is still upright but does not protect the evil, there is a mistake to admit, so he and the township soldiers help Langjun to repair the canal into the garden, do not mistake the farming, and Xie Langjun Gaoyi donates the land to the poor households in my township! ”

Many disputes and battles are not resolved only by force. Hearing Zhou Changming say this, Li Tai also changed his opinion of this arrogant lord who still felt arrogant yesterday.

He handed the horse lance to the tribe, turned over and dismounted, pointed to the ditch and said: "This matter is indeed the fault of the villagers, and the lord of Zhou Shu is willing to help him, so I will laugh and accept it." Don't make the township soldiers do it in vain, when the canal enters my garden, there is a gift of thanks. As for whether the villagers invaded the land or not, I had been in the township for a short time, and I didn't know or ask. ”

When Zhou Changming heard this, he took a step back and bowed to Li Taishen: "I saw it for the first time yesterday, it was rude and offensive!" In the future, we will live in this township, but Lang Jun has something to offer, and he will never refuse! ”