Yanzhou in Xiangxi is still nominally part of the Central Plains, but in fact it is already the southwestern border of Dayue.

Further southwest, there are southern Yunnan and Qianzhou, which are beyond the reach of the imperial court whip and can only carry out the policy of restraint, and more Sichuan and Shu, which garrison troops to contain the two places.

Because of this, Xiangxi is particularly deserted in peacetime, except for a few major cities, other villages and towns are not only few, but also quite far from each other.

At the current point in time when the troubled times are about to arise, Yanzhou is even more deserted, there is no one to see on the official roads, and there are few contacts between the villages and towns.

This gave some people a chance, such as Tangmen, after taking this Liaojia Village, it was not noticed by anyone for half a month. It's really too few people passing by here, let alone deliberately entering the village to investigate.

At dusk, wisps of cooking smoke rose from the houses in Liaojia Village.

However, it was no longer the people of the village who were preparing for the night's meal, they had already become corpses, hastily buried on the slopes outside the village. As for all their belongings, they naturally belonged to these people of the Tang Gate South Fire Hall, who were even more terrible and ferocious than the robbers.

Tang Xi held a bowl of brown rice, and his brows furrowed deeply: "Let the brothers eat this again?" ”

"Deputy hall master, this is also a helpless thing, everything that can be eaten in the village has been eaten, and only this brown rice is left to barely feed everyone." Tang Yan also held a bowl of the same brown rice and explained in a low voice.

They hid and waited here for many days, and they had already eaten the little rations they had brought before, so they could only eat the food hoarded in the village.

Poor people in this village rely on for a living, and can use half a year's food, but these robbers only need half a month to eat it clean. And in their opinion, it's the worst thing, and it's completely out of the mouth.

Tang Xi frowned violently for a while, and then forced a few mouthfuls of rice into his mouth: "Forget it, everyone can bear with it today." Waiting for a while to enter Yanjia Fort is beneficial! ”

"What the deputy hall master said is that at this time, more than eighty percent of the Yanjia Fort has fallen. Just wait for us to arrive, and let them tie up and kill them! Another subordinate chimed in.

These words naturally attracted the applause of everyone again and again, in their opinion, Yanjiabao was already a fish on the chopping board, just waiting for their own door to cut.

Just when everyone was eating and thinking that they should go out later, an eyeliner guarding the entrance of the village hurriedly ran back and reported: "Deputy hall master, an army is coming towards us. ”

"Huh? Do you see what the road number is? Tang Xi suddenly froze and hurriedly asked.

"Look at the banner they played, it is the officers and soldiers of Yanzhou."

"Why did Yanzhou Bing run so far? You're coming at us? Tang Yan asked nervously.

"This can't be, no one knows that we are here, and we have no grudges with the Yanzhou government, what are they doing to trouble us?" Tang Xi shook his head disappreciatively, "If they are passing by, maybe they are going to practice or suppress bandits." Recently, there has been a lot of bandits in the mountains of Xiangxi......"

Woowoo woo –

His words were suddenly interrupted by a loud horn, which immediately made all the Tang Sect disciples present suddenly change color.

One by one, they quickly put the half-eaten rice bowls on the table and the ground, and then quickly got up and picked up their weapons.

Although the Tang Sect is famous for its poison and hidden weapons, if you really want to fight with people, most people still have to take advantage of the weapon. Tang Xi was no exception, he had already put the soft whip on his waist in his hand and shouted: "Follow me out!" Then he hurried out of the courtyard and rushed outside.

Liaojia Village is not large, which allows them to see the changes around them as soon as they leave the courtyard.

And under this look, the faces of everyone in the Tang family suddenly became gloomy.

The situation is more critical than they thought.

As the horn sounded continuously, the officers and soldiers outside couldn't stop waving their flags, commanding this thousands of officers and soldiers to quickly divide into several teams and form an encirclement of the entire Liaojia Village from all sides.

On the high slope ahead, a large banner was waving in the wind, and a well-armored general was looking down on the whole village, and when he saw them coming out, he did not hesitate to draw his sword and point down, and shouted: "Where are the crossbowmen?" Shoot the arrows! ”

With a sound of agreement, not only did hundreds of archers bend their bows and arrows forward on the dirt slope and aim towards the village, but the soldiers and horses surrounded on all sides also quickly divided into ranks, allowing hundreds of archers to move forward quickly and shoot their bows and back.

The bow is like a thunderbolt, and the arrow is like a meteor catching the moon.

Almost in the blink of an eye, countless arrows flew up quickly, and after reaching the highest point, they fell straight down like raindrops, covering the entire Liaojia Village.

"Hurry back! Get inside! ”

Tang Xi immediately shouted, not daring to slack off in the slightest, he had decisively slammed open the door of the house behind him and went straight inside.

He really didn't expect these officers and soldiers to do such a great job.

Their appearance was already unexpected enough, and what was even more unexpected was that the officers and men did not even say the slightest greeting or ultimatum, and as soon as they arrived at the place, they resolutely launched an attack.

This is exactly the trick of officers and soldiers to suppress bandits. And on the premise that it has been determined that there are great bandits who do all kinds of evil here, they will completely ignore the crazy tactics of other casualties.

At this time, Rao is Tang Sect is everyone is a good player, and there is no place for him at this time.

No matter how powerful they are, they have to fight close to people to have a chance, their hidden weapons are terrifying, and the range is far inferior to the bow and crossbow that can attack from a hundred and eighty paces away.

As a result, more than 300 people in the Tangmen South Fire Hall in the village were completely crushed by the arrows and fled in embarrassment, looking for cover, but they couldn't fight back at all.

Whoosh ......

The arrows really kept flying like raindrops that didn't want money.

Those who were slow to react, far from the bunkers of the house, kept falling from arrows. And those who were able to enter the house for a while had to face the arrows that pierced the roof from time to time, or flew in through the doors and windows.

With the sound of screams, no less than dozens of people have been nailed to death by arrows at this time......

Right in front of Tang Xi's eyes, he saw a clansman being pierced through his chest by an arrow, leaning against the wall and convulsing continuously, blood flowing straight out.

At this moment, the bloody scene half a month ago appeared again in Liaojia Village, the same passive side had no room for counterattack at all, and became a lamb to be slaughtered. But the difference is that the tiger wolf before is now a lamb.

Watching the clansmen continue to fall, Tang Xi was really stunned.

He was angry, but more of his emotions were deep doubts - even if he waited for Xingzang to be revealed, how could it be the officials and soldiers who came, not the people of Yanjiabao?

Moreover, why are the officers and soldiers so resolute this time, there is really no room left at all!