The pirates kept roaring angrily, clenching their swords with both hands, desperately chasing all the way, and the soldiers fled desperately with smiles on their faces, and the pirates chased more than 2,000 meters

Honda Mano bent down and put his hands on his thighs, panting and said: Since Ito-sama and these villagers have all run away, I think we should not chase them, go and meet with Ita Ryujin, and then go to settle accounts with them after breaking through Taizhou City

Ito Yuma looked around, threw the sword to the ground, and was so tired that he couldn't breathe, and said: Well, so it's good to send an order to go down and the whole army to support Ita Ryu Manbu

Honda Mano kept pointing his finger at Taizhou Castle and shouting: The samurai of the Eastern Wai are attacking Taizhou Castle with their whole army

There was a trace of tiredness on their faces, and they were panting and marching quickly in the direction of Taizhou with their swords, and the exhausted pirates had completely lost their previous murderous momentum

Li Yang panted and looked at the soldiers around him, and there was a trace of tiredness on his faces, and when he saw that the pirates were not chasing in the direction of Taizhou, he said: Let's rest here for a while, take a breath, and when we are rested, we will rush to the aid of Taizhou City for the second time

Yuan Kui picked up the kettle and took a sip of water and said, "This time, I think I will let the archers continue to attack the pirates."

Gao Yuan sat on the ground and strove the steel knife in his hand and said: In this way, the physical strength of the pirates will be consumed, and the sword and shield men and steel gunners will keep a certain distance from the archers

Li Long said softly: Young master, it is better to leave a few people to send the wounded to a safe place to hide, and bandage and treat the wounds

Li Yang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then do what you say."

Gao Yuan led 150 bows and arrows to Taizhou City, and Yuan Kui and Li Long led the sword and shield men and steel spearmen to follow behind the archers and always maintain a distance of 400 paces

Ito Yuma led the pirates and the Ita Ryushin department to meet in front of the gate of Taizhou City, and the two sides launched a white-knuckle battle in front of the city gate, and the pirates bit the Japanese knives in their mouths and grabbed the ladder with both hands to climb the city wall

The city wall was full of official archers and Taizhou people, and the pirates were just about to climb the city wall when they were killed by flat poles from all directions, and the archers on the city wall kept firing arrows at the pirates under the city

The pirates wielded their swords left and right to defend, shooting the arrows to the ground, and the wounded pirates fell to the ground with blood, struggling in pain and wailing, watching the samurai fall one by one, Ito Ito's eyes were red, and the corners of his mouth twitched constantly

Honda Mano suddenly pointed to the distance not far away and said in a panic: "General, look at that group of villagers again."

Ito Yuma said angrily: How many other Eastern Japanese samurai do we have in Honda

Honda Mano wanted to look around and said, "General, we probably have more than 2,000 Eastern Japanese samurai left, and it seems that the general will not be able to capture this Taizhou Castle."

Ito Yuma raised the sword with his hand and pointed at the soldiers and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order to kill all the villagers."

The fighting spirit of the pirates was a little weakened, and they launched a general attack on the archers not far away with their hands clenched their swords, and Sun Yuanwu, who was on the city wall, saw that the pirates had retreated from the city gate, and all of them rushed towards the group of reinforcements, and Sun Yuanwu immediately understood the intentions of the pirates

Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and pointed at the pirates and said to the archers: "Shoot the arrows with all your might, and you must not let the pirates get close to the reinforcements outside the city."

After speaking, Sun Yuanwu hurriedly walked down from the city wall with a steel sword in his hand, came to the city gate, and led the city guards and the people in the city to kill him, and pursued Haikou with a land

On the side of the Li family's soldiers, watching the pirates rushing towards him overwhelmingly, Li Long held the steel knife in his right hand, turned sideways, raised his left hand and shouted at the pirates: Young master, the pirates have launched a general attack on us

Gao Yuan said in a long voice: "Patriarch, you see that the official army actually took the initiative to go out of the city to pursue Haikou

Yuan Kui snorted and said: Let the stake hand step forward and use the stake to give a stab to the pirates in the charge, and you can kill two or three hundred pirates in this round

Li Yang looked at the oncoming Haikou and shook the steel knife and said, "Okay, then let's also start a general attack on the Haikou Koukou."

Li Hu waved the steel knife and shouted: Brothers, kill

The archers used their bows and arrows to suppress the charge of the pirates from a distance, and the two hundred stakemen charged at the front with 3-meter-long stakes with both hands, and the pirates in the charge held their swords with both hands and waved them left and right to shoot down the arrows

But the oncoming staker pierced it with a stake, and the flesh and blood were splashed everywhere, and the Haikou behind him rushed up quickly and pressed the sword on the staker's neck, and the stakeman turned his body slightly and fell into a pool of blood

Li Long clenched the steel knife with both hands and kept slashing left and right, shuttling through the Haikou and shouting: The staker hand let go immediately after piercing the Haikou Kou

More than 90 shield-bearers ran forward and knocked the pirates to the ground with their shields, and the upside-down pirates swung their swords at the soldiers in panic, and the other hand held the ground and kicked backwards with both feet

The steel gunners ran forward and picked up the steel guns and stabbed at the upside-down pirates, and a stream of blood splashed on the faces of the steel gunners, and the steel gunners pulled out the steel guns violently, raised their hands and wiped the blood on their faces, threw the blood on their faces, and threw it to the ground, and then rushed to the front of the pirates and continued to stab before stopping the pirates from advancing

Several Haikou gulks shouted in their mouths, raised their swords with both hands, and slashed at Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu shuttled through the pirates, and his body continued to rotate 360 degrees, wielding a long sword, only to see the blood seal throat splashing everywhere the sword light went, Jiang Yu fiercely swung the long sword and split a sea coward with a sword

The surrounding pirates were all pale, as dead ashes, holding their swords tightly with both hands, moving their feet, changing their positions, and not daring to step forward for a long time

Sun Yuanwu led the Taizhou defenders and the people to launch an attack in the rear of the pirates, and the people on both sides completely surrounded the pirates, and the officers and soldiers fiercely brandished steel knives to slash at the pirates, and the people picked up the flat shoulders and brandished hoes to beat the pirates to the head and blood

The pirates began to retreat and huddle together

Honda Mano held the sword in both hands, looked around and said in a panic: "The situation of the general is not good, let's withdraw quickly, otherwise the whole army will be wiped out."

Ito Yongzhen said with a very reluctant look on his face: Give me all my strength to kill this group of villagers, if it weren't for their Taizhou City, we would have captured it a long time ago

At this moment, Ida Ryujin led several Eastern Japanese warriors to rush towards Li Yang's seat

Yuan Hong shouted: Patriarch be careful

As soon as the words fell, Yuanhong rushed over with a steel knife, but was killed by several Dongwu warriors who waved their knives and stopped the way

Idalongzhen stepped forward quickly, clenched the sword with both hands, and stabbed Li Yang with all his strength, shouting: Suffer death

Li Yang stood there a little at a loss in the face of the sudden attack, and stood there stupidly, watching the Japanese knife stabbing at him, at this moment, Li Pingping suddenly appeared, stood in front of Li Yang, and grabbed the oncoming Japanese knife tightly in his hand, Ren Yida Longzhen was indifferent no matter how hard he shook his hands

Blood dripped down the knife and dripped to the ground, Li Pingping's face was flushed, he endured the pain and roared angrily

Li Pingping raised the hammer and slammed it down with a loud shout, killing Idalong's real head on the spot like a broken watermelon

Li Yang looked at the pirates and found that there were two very gorgeously dressed samurai in the middle of the pirates, who had been surrounded and protected by dozens of Dongwai warriors, and if I guessed correctly, those two people should be the leaders of the pirates

Li Yang took the bow and arrow from the hands of the soldiers, leaned back, drew the bow with both hands, and with a whoosh, the arrow shot out quickly, and shot across the sky towards the leader of the sea bandits

Ahh

Honda Mano stepped forward and grabbed Ito Yuzane, and waved his hand and said: The whole army retreats

The pirates panicked and began to flee desperately, and Li Long and others led their soldiers and Taizhou defenders to pursue the pirates

Ito Yong turned his head and looked at Li Yang viciously and shouted: Today's revenge with one arrow must be doubled back one day

Li Yang glared at Ito Yuzhen and shouted: Okay, I'll wait for this, if you dare to do it again one day, Young Master Ben, I will shoot you in the other eye

Ito was helped by the pirates and turned and fled

Seeing this, Li Long shouted: Brothers, don't let the pirates run away and kill me

Li Yang raised his hand and said: Forget it, don't chase it, hurry up and treat the wounded

Sun Yuanwu looked at the reinforcements not far away and wanted to step forward to thank him, but after walking a few steps closer, he took a closer look at what Li Yang was talking to a few people, which made Sun Yuanwu's face surprise and he thought that it was really him, last time he said goodbye to Lancun in just a few days, but I didn't expect him to organize such a large team of family soldiers

Li Yang saw that Sun Yuanwu was walking towards this side, so he took the initiative to step forward quickly, hugged his hands and said: I have seen Master Sun in my late life

Sun Yuanwu looked at Li Yang, who still knew some etiquette, and said with a hint of relief on his face: Well, this time you can relieve the siege of Taizhou City, and your Li family in Alan Village has made great contributions

Sun Yuanwu then looked at Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui and the others

Li Yang said respectfully: Lord Sun, you have won the prize, this time you can relieve the siege of Taizhou City, the whole battle is well commanded, and the villains are just close to their meager strength

When Sun Yuanwu heard this, a satisfied smile leaked from his face, and he thought to himself that he didn't expect that this young master of the Li family was still a person who was not proud of his achievements, it seemed that I had wronged him before

General Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and pointed to the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield not far away and said: You brought these people

Li Yang said softly: My lord, these people are composed of villagers from Geshe Village, Gotu Village, and Alan Village

He introduced Gao Yuan, Yuan Kui and others to Sun Yuanwu Yiyi

Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui and others said: The villain and others have seen Master Sun

Sun Yuanwu nodded slightly and said: Originally, the government should reward you well for making this great achievement, but now that the border war is tight, there are not many silver coins in the treasury of the state capital, and when the border war is over in the future, the government will definitely compensate you

Li Yang said with a smile on his face: I thanked the adult in that evening, and there are two things that I want to ask Master Sun for help

Sun Yuanwu had a trace of doubt on his face and said: You can talk about it

Li Yang said softly: My lord, now the three families of the Gao family in Geshe Village-the Yuan family in Getu Village and the Li family in Alan Village have been merged into one, and I want to apply to the official family to become a second-level family in my later life

The family is divided into 10 levels in the Mingsiya continent, and after the family reaches certain conditions, it applies to the government to get a certificate, and the size of the family can be judged by looking at the family level, and this level of family promotion to the second level of the family must first have two first-level families to be attached, and then pay 600 imperial silver coins to the official family as a handling fee, of course, the official family will not take this money in vain and will reward the second-level family with a thousand acres of land

Sun Yuanwu coughed lightly and said: Well, the Li family has indeed met the conditions for upgrading the family, and it is not difficult for you to take 600 silver coins to the prefect's yamen to go through the formalities, and the government will set aside a thousand acres of land for you near Alan Village, you can talk about this second thing

Li Yang said respectfully: Your Excellency has nearly 4,000 acres of uncultivated wasteland in the north of Alan Village, and I implore you to allow Alan Village to buy these lands from the officials

Sun Yuanwu looked at it when he heard this, and thought to himself if this young master of the Li family was stupid to buy wasteland that could not be cultivated, and now that the treasury of the state capital was empty, it was better to sell these useless lands to them to enrich the treasury

Sun Yuanwu said happily: This time, the Li family could not get a reward for relieving the siege of Taizhou due to the emptiness of the silver treasury, so the government made an exception to reward 1,000 mu of wasteland in Alan Village at one time, and the remaining 3,000 mu of wasteland together with the family upgrade paid a total of 2,000 silver coins

Li Yang was very happy when he heard this, and said: "I have thanked Master Sun for my late life, and I will go back and ask people to prepare silver coins and send them to the prefect's yamen."

Sun Yuanwu nodded slightly, and Li Yang bowed and retired

Gao Yuan asked Li Yang with a puzzled face: Why did the patriarch buy wasteland that could not be cultivated

Yuan Kui also looked at Li Yang intently, in fact, the question of the plateau is also the question in everyone's heart, who will spend a lot of money to buy a field that cannot be cultivated at all

Li Yang smiled slightly and said: Although the wasteland cannot be cultivated, but it can burn bricks, this time the Haikou attacked, Geshe Village-Gotu Village were destroyed, we need a lot of green bricks to build a home, if we buy it with rich businessmen, it will cost a lot of money, it is better for us to open a brick-burning workshop, not only for our own use, but also to sell the green bricks to others in the future to earn some money

After listening to Li Yang's explanation, everyone understood, and everyone took their shoulders and dragged their tired bodies to support the wounded and began to return to Alan Village

In a heavily guarded barracks about 50 miles away from Taizhou, a soldier dressed in embarrassment and tears cried and said: General Pang, your brother Pang Peng was attacked by the Li family in Alan Village outside Taizhou City, and General Pang Shen led 100 brothers to fight to the death but did not reach the Li family, and there were many thieves, and finally because he was outnumbered, General Pang Shen died tragically under the butcher knife of the Li family

The soldier was crying as he spoke, raising his hand from time to time to wipe the tears from his face

When Pang Shan, the Taizhou guard, heard this, his eyes were flushed, he raised his hand and slapped it on the table, saying: Pang Peng, you died so unjustly, you can rest assured that I am a brother, and I will let everyone in Alan Village bury you

When the soldier heard this, he said with a frightened face: The general now has nearly 1,000 soldiers from the Li family, and they rushed to the aid of Taizhou City not long ago to defeat Haikou and dare to leave

Pang Shan stood up violently, stretched out his hand and grabbed the steel sword, and said: That general happened to exterminate Alan Village on the crime of killing officials and soldiers with the intention of rebellion, and ordered the whole army to march quickly towards Alan Village

The soldier stepped forward and flattered and said: The general is wise

Speaking of this, Pang Peng was originally a general in Taizhou, but he accepted Zhang Da's money because of greed and promised the Zhang family to destroy Alan Village with the help of Haikou, but he didn't expect that more than 300 Haikou people attacked and were completely wiped out by Alan Village

Pang Peng's plan was to pretend to be a Haikou to attack the village along the way, seize money and beautiful women, just by the way, eliminate the Alan Village, the Li family blamed all the notoriety on the Haikou Kou, it seemed that this was a seamless plan, but by the wrong Li family, they were all destroyed by a sneak attack on the Haikou Kou

On the side of Alan Village, Li Yang and Gao Yuan and others returned to Alan Village, and the villagers ran out to greet their relatives when they saw their relatives return safely and far away, and the family hugged each other tightly after the reunion, crying bitterly and glad that they could come back alive

The villagers watched as the bodies of their loved ones were carried back, slumped on the ground, and cried loudly, grabbing it with both hands and shaking it vigorously

Li Yang said with a trace of sorrow on his face: Li Long, how many casualties have we had

Li Long sighed and said: Young master, the soldiers killed 186 people in the battle, wounded more than 130 people, and captured 800 Japanese knives and 1,000 silver coins

Li Yang said to Li Song: The second child took out 1,000 silver coins in the silver vault and paid 1,000 silver coins, and distributed them together, and the deceased gave 5 silver coins to settle down - the injured ones were given 3 silver coins, and the other soldiers were given two silver coins each, and tomorrow you brought 2,000 silver coins to the Taizhou prefect to receive the family certificate and the title deed of 4,000 acres of wasteland

In the future, the families of the deceased will be supported by the Li family, so that they can do what they can without worrying about food and clothing, and their children will be sent to the academy to study in the future

Li Song picked up his fingers, and muttered in his mouth: There are not many grains, oil, salt, herbs, and cloths in the old family, and I happened to go to the city to buy them, and I roughly calculated that after buying these things, there were more than 2,800 silver coins left in the silver treasury

Li Yang said a little tiredly: Second brother, then you can go back as soon as it is still early, bring more silver coins, and buy them back if you see what you need

Li Song nodded and hurriedly returned to his room and changed into a set of relatively shabby agricultural clothes, Li Song walked out of the room with Li Long and more than 30 family soldiers dressed as fleeing villagers and rushed to Taizhou City with silver coins

Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Zhou sisters were carefully bandaging Li Pingping's wounds, he always had a simple smile on his face, and his eyes looked at Li Yang, and when he looked at him like this, Li Yang suddenly felt that he owed a lot to this younger brother

Li Song, Li Long, and others were far away on the way to Taizhou when they saw a group of thousands of officers and troops coming in a long line

Li Long's face looked very frightened, his hands tightly grasped the package, and said softly: Second young master, let's hide with thousands of silver coins on us

Li Song nodded his head slightly and hid in the barren grassland on the side of the road with everyone, as the ranks of the officers and soldiers got closer and closer to him, Li Song and the others lay in the grass and did not even dare to breathe, for fear of alarming the group of officers and soldiers

A soldier whispered: "This time the people of Alan Village are unlucky

Another soldier whispered: "Hey, who told them to kill the general's own brother, the general is going to wash Alan Village with blood this time, so don't get blood on our brothers' hands, just take the opportunity to get some gold and silver."

The soldier said helplessly: This is the only way

After saying that, the two soldiers turned around and quickly caught up with the officers and soldiers, and gradually left

Li Song and the others changed their expressions after hearing about it in the grass

Li Long said in a panic: Second young master, you take the silver coins and these family soldiers and hurry up to Taizhou Mansion to find Master Sun for help, I rushed back to Alan Village from the mountain road to report to the young masters, if it is late, I will not be in a hurry

Li Song said simply: Okay, Li Long, then you have to be careful

After speaking, Li Song led his soldiers and began to rush to Taizhou City, while Li Long went into the woods and ran with all his might, but Li Long's body was very tired and he still gritted his teeth and ran

I was really tired, so I picked up my pace, and after I slowed down, I continued to run, and Li Long, who was out of breath, secretly decided that I must not stop, even if I fought for my life, I would go back to report to Alan Village

Late at night, after eating and drinking enough in Alan Village, everyone was lying on the ground enjoying the comfort, Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou were busy for a day, and the two were so tired that they sat on the ground and fell asleep against the wall, Li Yang gently walked to the side of the two sisters and covered them with a thicker cloak

Jiang Yu sat on the ground outside the village gate, leaning on the wooden door, holding a long sword in his hand, holding his arms up, dozing off once, opening his eyes and looking around, and fell asleep again after a while

Li Yang walked up to Jiang Yu and whispered: Jiang Yu is really thanks to you in Alan Village this time, you can get away with it, and Alan Village will be your home in the future, don't wander around

Jiang Yu looked up and saw Li Yang and said: I am an ominous person

Just as Jiang Yu was talking, his ears moved slightly, and he immediately got up, pulled out his long sword, and said: Someone is running over not far ahead

Li Yang looked into the distance and took a closer look, wasn't that Li Long, didn't he go to Taizhou City with Li Song, why did he come back by himself, could it be that he was attacked by Haikou

Li Yang and Jiang Yu quickly ran towards Li Long, Li Long dragged his heavy body forward step by step, and fell to the ground when he saw a smile leaking from Li Yang and Jiang Yu's faces

Li Yang stepped forward to support Li Long, Li Long stretched out his hand and held Li Yang's hand tightly, and said weakly: "The young master is not good, the official army has come to wash our Alan Village in blood, the official army wants to avenge our killing of the pretending Haikou officials and soldiers outside Taizhou City, and the second young master has gone to Taizhou City to ask Lord Sun for help."

After saying that, Li Long fainted