Jiang Yu returned to his camp tent and changed into a set of black robes, and when it was late at night, he gently lifted the curtain of the camp tent with his hands and scanned it out, several soldiers on duty at night held spears and their eyes were half closed and half open, Jiang Yu picked up a small stone on the ground and slammed it towards the outside of the barracks

"Poof", the soldiers on duty at night woke up from their sleepiness and set up the spears in their hands "What sound"

A soldier took a closer look outside the barracks and found nothing unusual: "Hey, there's no fuss, it's inevitable that there will be some living creatures walking around in this barren mountain range."

The soldiers returned to their respective posts to continue to be on duty at night, and Jiang Yu took advantage of the fact that the soldiers on duty at night focused their attention on the outside of the barracks, and stomped his feet out of the barracks and crossed into the dense forest of Maple Ridge and rushed to Taizhou City

Early the next morning, the sound of war drums sounded, "dong-dong", the soldiers hurriedly picked up their weapons and drilled out of the camp tent after hearing this, Li Yang heard the war drums and picked up the steel knife and walked out of the camp tent in a daze, and saw that the Taizhou army in front of him was wearing iron helmets, wearing iron armor, holding a sharp red tasseled steel gun in his hand, a steel knife hanging on his waist, and the calves and feet were protected by iron plates, which can be said to be armed to the teeth, and they had formed 16 long phalanxes according to the hundreds

Seeing this scene, Li Yang was envious, although the soldiers under his command also had iron helmets and iron armor, but they were never as comprehensive as the Taizhou army's armament, and these were still hidden by himself and his brothers and finally transported back from the battlefield, and many bows, arrows, spears and other ordnance were cheekily asked for from Master Sun

Gao Yuan, Yuan Kui and others also walked out of their tents at this time, and when they saw Li Yangzheng standing aside with a blank face, they came over: Do we have to let the brothers go over as a team

Only then did Li Yang come back to his senses, and "um", let the brothers also stand in a team of 100 people

Li Long looked back at the soldiers and waved his hands and shouted: The brothers are in a team of 100 people - fast

Quickly reorganized the eight hundred-man teams, Gao Yuan and others stood behind the Taizhou army with the team, and Li Yang and Li Pingping stood at the back of the entire team with a thousand township soldiers

Yuan Ji watched the soldiers gather together and walked to the front: The soldiers of the Taizhou Army, the time has come to serve the Zhejiang State and make meritorious contributions

When the soldiers heard this, they shouted "oh-oh"

Yuan Ji put his hands together and saluted Yuan Bin: The general will plead to lead his troops into battle

Yuan Bin waved his hand very satisfied and said: Accurate

Yuan Ji pulled out the long sword hanging from his waist and shouted: The soldiers of the pioneer battalion give it to me

1,000 Taizhou soldiers held blades, carried the ladder, shouted "kill" in their mouths, and launched an attack on Fengshu Village, the bandits saw that the officers and soldiers began to attack, and kept releasing arrows on the stone wall, "whoosh-whoosh", and the arrows shot quickly pierced the iron armor of the official army and killed them on the spot, and the Taizhou army quickly raised the shield for defense, and the "gluck-cuff" arrows shot on the shield

The archer hid behind his shield and fired his arrow at the bandit on the stone wall, and "whoosh-whoosh" was shot so that the bandit fell off the stone wall

Under the cover of the archers, the soldiers erected the ladder on the stone wall of Maple Village, and the archers also advanced to the stone wall to cover the soldiers to enter the city to fight, and the soldiers bit the back of their knives in their mouths and grabbed the ladder with both hands to climb the stone wall, seeing that the Taizhou army was about to attack Maple Village

Suddenly, a group of burly bandits appeared on the stone wall, they lifted the iron barbed wooden stake with great difficulty in pairs and threw it down, the soldiers were smashed down by the rolling iron barbed wooden stake on the ladder and nailed to the ground, the wounded soldiers fell to the ground and struggled in pain and wailed, and the bandit archers quickly aimed at the wounded officers and soldiers under the stone wall and shot them all

Yuanji shouted: All the archers will aim my arrows at the stone wall to cover the brothers' continued descent into the city

The soldiers held the iron shield high in their left hand and grabbed the ladder with their right hand to climb the stone wall, and the bandits picked up the stones with both hands and threw them at the soldiers, and the soldiers on the ladder were hit by the stones, and a stream of blood splashed out, and their bodies fell from the ladder as soon as they leaned

The archers continued to fire arrows at the bandits on the stone wall, and the dense rain of arrows suppressed the bandits on the stone wall and did not dare to show their heads, and the soldiers also took this opportunity to attack the stone wall and fight with the bandits

Yuan Ji leaked a slight smug smile: The siege cone is out of battle, and the soldiers will take the maple village for me before dark

Ten strong soldiers lifted the siege cone with a strong force, and this siege cone was a log weighing 800 catties, and the front was inlaid with this 100-pound cone, and they lifted the siege cone and rushed towards the walled gate

Yuan Ji looked back at Li Yang: You can also lead people to attack

Li Yang shouted: Brothers, let's go

After leading eight teams of 100 people out of the barracks, Li Yang waved his long knife and shouted: Brothers, rush

After hearing this, the eight hundred soldiers raised their blades and waved them continuously, shouting "rush-kill-oh-oh" and rushed to the maple village, and the shouting attracted the attention of the big boss of the maple village, Hengqi: Sister, you see that your husband has led the soldiers to kill, and I will hand him over to you to deal with

When Heng Yan heard this, he looked at Li Yang and said viciously: Give him to me, don't worry, let him have no return today

Hengqi smiled slightly when he heard this: Sister, are you really willing to kill him?

Heng Yan picked up a spear and took hundreds of bandits to target Li Yang's group, seeing that the brothers were about to rush to the stone wall of Maple Village

Li Yang said to Gao Yuan-Li Long and other brothers: Attack Maple Village to make a fierce attack, but don't hurt the killer, as long as someone on our side is injured, immediately fall to the ground and scream

Gao Yuan said with a half-smile and a serious smile: Don't worry, we all understand this, after all, the second master of this maple village is your wife

Li Long held back his laughter: Yes, we will master the proportions, as long as the bandits don't kill us, then let's pretend to show General Yuan and them don't let people find fault with them

Li Yang said softly: Yes, that's the case

Yuan Kui raised his hand and pointed to the right: There are relatively few Taizhou troops over there, let's attack

Li Yang nodded: Okay

The soldiers came to the stone wall, and nearly 100 Taizhou soldiers were climbing along the ladder to the stone wall

Li Yang said to a sergeant: Brother, you should be a little tired after fighting for a long time, why don't you retreat and rest for us to attack

The sergeant thought for a while: It is true that my brother is a little tired, so thank you for your hard work

Li Yang led the soldiers to climb the ladder to the stone wall, Heng Yan saw it and asked the bandits to stop throwing stones, put the officers and soldiers up and blocked them on the wall, and led the soldiers to climb the stone wall and fight with the bandits

Yuan Ji was very satisfied when he saw this scene in the camp, and said to Yuan Bin, who was sitting on a handsome chair watching the battle: Uncle didn't expect Li Yang and them to attack the wall so quickly, and his nephew could break through this maple village when it was dark

Yuan Bin leaked a smile: Yuan Ji must not be careless, let the soldiers do their best to launch a fierce attack

After Li Yang boarded the wall, the bandits were all stunned when they saw it, because when the second master Hengyan married him, the people in the entire Maple Village could be said to be well known, but now he actually led the officials and troops to fight, and the bandits didn't know whether this battle should continue for a while

Li Yang shouted: Kill

The soldiers shouted "Kill", constantly waving the steel knives in their hands left and right on the wall, and did not push forward further, Gao Yuan and Yuankui-Li Long and others rushed to the front and took the initiative to hit the steel knives in the hands of the bandits with the steel knives in their hands

Some soldiers even threw steel knives and iron helmets to the ground, and then pounced on them and fought with the bandits, the two sides brandished steel knives and slashed together is a splash of fire, a soldier and a bandit pushed each other with the handle of the gun to compare their strength, the soldiers and bandits saw that they all went over to help, and finally dozens of snatching handles pushed together

Heng Yan saw Li Yang rushing up quickly and shouted: Look at the gun

Li Yang immediately raised the steel knife in his hand, only to hear a "bang", and his hands felt a huge pain, trembling slightly

Heng Yan's face was angry: You still dare to lead troops to attack Maple Village, today my aunt and grandmother are going to kill my relatives in righteousness

Li Yang pushed the steel knife with all his strength, and his face was flushed: Hengyan, you put away the gun first and listen to me

Heng Yan pressed the spear in his hand down fiercely: What is there to say

Li Yang said softly: Hengyan, you misunderstood me, I have already told your brother what I should say last night, if you don't believe it, go and ask

Heng Yan is fierce: You still want to lie to me

Li Yang was kicked out by a sudden kick, and the protective wooden board on the wall was broken with a crisp "click", and Heng Yan stabbed Li Yang with both hands on the spear, seeing that the sharp spear was about to stab himself

Li Yang shouted softly: Madam, I can't help myself

As soon as Heng Yan heard Li Yang call himself Mrs., the suppressed anger in his heart disappeared in an instant, and he stabbed the steel gun in his hand through Li Yang's ear and pierced the protective wooden board behind him with a slight lift

Li Yang left a drop of sweat on his forehead and swallowed and spit, thinking that fortunately I am clever enough, otherwise my life would be explained here today, Heng Yan pounced and grabbed my collar with both hands, and raised his hand is punch

Yuan Kui, who was not far away, saw it and asked Gao Yuan in a low voice: Do we want to go over and help him

Gao Yuan glanced at Li Yang and Heng Yan and sighed lightly: The matter between husband and wife, we brothers don't have much to say, don't worry, Heng Yan won't embarrass him too much, at most, he can't die if he punches him a few times

Yuan Kui nodded slightly when he heard this, and thought about it too

Li Yang looked at Heng Yan: Madam, you really did it

Heng Yan smiled slightly and continued to swing his fist: The harder I beat you, the better it will be for you to go back

I don't know how many punches Hengyan punched and she finally stopped, maybe she was tired of fighting, she shouted loudly: I caught one of the generals of the official army, and the brothers imprisoned me

Yuan Kui saw that he found a reason to withdraw and shouted: Brothers, kill me, rescue the patriarch, let's withdraw

At this time, Yuan Kui shouted like this, believing that even a fool could hear the intention, Li Long and the others with the soldiers did not waste much effort to save Li Yang, and at this time Li Yang had been beaten by Hengyan and fainted

Li Long and Li Hu carried Li Yang and withdrew to the camp, Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui led the soldiers to fight with the bandits and retreated not long after, Yuan Ji stepped forward to look at Li Yang who was fainting, and when he saw that there were more than two hundred wounded soldiers behind him, he pulled his face and didn't say anything but waved his hand impatiently

The battle between the Taizhou army and the bandits lasted until the night, and the soldiers were exhausted after a day of fighting

Li Yang felt the pain all over his body, slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw Gao Yuan and the others sitting aside, he asked: Why am I here, how many people were injured in the first battle today

Gao Yuan leaned into Li Yang's ear and said: After you were knocked unconscious by the second lady Hengyan, it didn't take long for a few of us to withdraw back with more than 200 lightly injured brothers

Li Yang sat up: Then did Yuan Guitar say anything when you came back

Li Long said softly: He didn't say anything, but he looked a little unhappy

Li Yang raised his head and stood up with a light sigh: I will go to General Yuan's place to report today's incident, we can't let people find fault with it

Yuan Kui got up: Okay, let's go see the injured brothers

When he came to Yuan Bin's camp, he was discussing something with Yuan Ji looking at the sand table, Li Yang bowed and saluted: His subordinates meet the general

Yuan Bin glanced at Li Yang and said angrily: What's the matter

Li Yang glanced at Yuan Ji with his spare eyes, he didn't even look at himself with a gloomy face on the side, and when he saw this scene, Li Yang knelt on the ground: The adult's subordinates came to ask for guilt, and today his subordinates underestimated the enemy, but I didn't expect that there was such a strong person as Wuyi among the bandits

Yuan Bin's face softened a little after hearing this: You don't have to blame yourself too much for this matter, the Maple Ridge bandits are so strong and unexpected, it is also beyond my expectations and General Yuan's staff, today the Taizhou army and the bandits killed more than 200 people and injured nearly 500 people, I am discussing with General Yuan how to attack Maple Village next, you go down first to heal the wounds, and then I hope you can do your best when you fight

Li Yang got up and saluted: The subordinates thanked the adults, and the subordinates retired first

In Taizhou City, Jiang Yu came to the yamen of the state capital and asked to see Lord Sun, but a government official stopped him: This is the yamen of the state capital, and the idle people are not allowed to enter

Jiang Yu looked at the officer: I have an urgent military situation to report to Lord Sun

The officials were a little skeptical: what is the emergency military situation?

Jiang Yu's eyes glared slightly: The battle to encircle and suppress the bandits in Maple Ridge is unfavorable, so I have come to ask my lord to send troops to support

When the official heard this: You wait here for a while, and I will go in and report to Lord Sun

After a long time, Jiang Yu walked back and forth anxiously outside the yamen, and with a "squeak" sound, the door opened, and the official came out of the palace: Lord Sun let you in

The official took Jiang Yu to Lord Sun, Sun Yuanwu glanced at Jiang Yu and asked: Who are you, I heard that someone came to report that it was not good for Fengshu Village to suppress bandits

Jiang Yu said softly: My lord, my name is Jiang Yu, I am the guard of the Li family patriarch of Alan Village, and my family patriarch sent me to ask for help

As soon as Sun Yuanwu heard this, he asked: It was Taizhou Guard General Yuan Bin who led the troops to encircle and suppress the bandits, why did he send someone to ask me for help?

Jiang Yu said: My lord, before I left, the patriarch said that this is related to the lives of thousands of people within a radius of dozens of miles from Maple Ridge

After hearing this, Sun Yuanwu analyzed this matter in his heart, the main general Yuanbin did not send someone to ask me for help, but Li Yang sent someone to come, this is likely to be Yuanbin, who had just been promoted to Taizhou Guard, suffered a defeat, because of his own face, so he refused to ask me for help, and the guerrilla army led by Li Yang suffered heavy losses in the battle of the bandits, so they had to ask me for help, once the official army failed to encircle and suppress the bandits, the bandits were bound to go down the mountain to retaliate, and then those villages under the Maple Ridge Mountain would be brutal. Unexpectedly, since the matter has reached this point: someone who came immediately gathered 1,000 state guards to rush to Maple Village with the mansion

In the early morning of this day, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the camp tent, Li Yang and others walked out of their respective camp tents out of curiosity, and saw that it was the Shaoxing army and the Ningbo army that they had also attacked, and a burly man with a dark figure walked out, he was wearing an iron armor and holding a battle axe: I am the Shaoxing guard Niu Yongnian, leading the Shaoxing army to exterminate the Maple Ridge bandits

As soon as the words fell, a polite general walked out from behind the Ningbo army, he was wearing a suit of armor and holding two hammers in both hands: below was the Ningbo pioneer Gongsun Leopard, leading the Ningbo army to encircle and suppress the bandits in Fengshuzhai

Yuan Bin greeted the two and saluted: Yuan Bin, the new Taizhou guard

Niu Yongnian looked at Maple Village: The Taizhou army has been fighting with bandits for several days, and it should be tired, so the elder brother Lao you ordered someone to make way for us to lead the troops to attack Maple Village

Yuan Bin smiled and said: The two of you led the soldiers to fight hard with the bandits in the dense forest for several days, so why don't you let me invite you to drink some wine today

Gongsun Leopard looked at Yuan Bin with a smile: Brother Yuan, you are too polite, in my opinion, this wine is waiting for us to break through the Maple Village and drink it

After saying that, Niu Yongnian and Gongsun Leopard took their respective soldiers and horses, passed through the Taizhou military camp and began to attack Maple Village, Yuan Bin and Yuan Ji have been watching from a distance, at this time the hearts of the two are very complicated, both hope that they will fight and do not want them to fight, I hope they want to fight is to consume the strength of the bandits, once they really break through the Maple Village, then these days they will be busy in vain, do not want them to fight is to wait for their recovery to break through the Maple Village, so that the credit for encircling and suppressing the bandits in Maple Village will belong to the Taizhou army

More than 5,000 people of the Shaoxing Army and the Ningbo Army fought fiercely with the bandits of Fengshuzhai for a whole day, and instead of attacking Fengshuzhai, they killed nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers and wounded more than 1,000 people

At nightfall, Sun Yuanwu rushed to the Taizhou military camp with 1,000 state guards and gathered Yuanbin-Yuanji-Li Yang together

Yuan Bin looked at Sun Yuanwu: Lord Sun, you came just in time to hand over the state capital guards to the last general, and the last general immediately led troops to attack Maple Village

General Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and stuck his beard: Isn't there any other way than to attack, General Yuan, have you calculated how many Taizhou troops will die to break through this maple village, how much settlement money will be distributed, how much silver will be spent to replace the ordnance after this battle, and how much silver is in the silver treasury of Taizhou City, I don't say that you should know

Yuan Bin reacted after hearing this, he was too reckless to ask Lord Sun for the command of the state guards: it was the last general's negligence for a while

Li Yang thought that the time had come, so he stepped forward and bowed: There are some things that my lord's subordinates don't know whether to say or not

Sun Yuanwu had a straight face: You said come and listen

Li Yang looked at Sun Yuanwu: My lord, under the leadership of General Yuan, the soldiers and the bandits have been fighting hard for several days, killing countless bandits, and they are about to break through the Maple Village

After hearing this, Yuan Bin said: This is a way, but the bandits are cruel, who dares to go

Li Yang smiled slightly: If you don't abandon your subordinates, you are willing to go

Yuan Bin was a little surprised: You go alone

Li Yang said softly: I am afraid that the humble official position of Lord Hui's subordinates is unconvincing, and my subordinates implore General Yuanji to go with me

Sun Yuanwu looked at Yuanji: Yuanji, how do you see this

Yuanji Shili: I wish to go back to my lord's subordinates

Yuan Bin said softly: Yuan Ji, you have to be careful

Li Yang shouted: Jiang Yu

Jiang Yu walked in from outside the camp tent, "Lord Yuan, don't worry, if something is wrong, I and this guard will fight to the death to protect General Yuan's safety," After listening to Li Yang's words, Yuan Bin was a little relieved

Li Yang-Yuanji-Jiang Yu came to Fengshu Village, and when the bandits saw that it was Li Yang who briefly inquired about their intentions, they asked them to lead them to see the big boss Hengqi

Hengqi sat on a wolfskin chair and played with a sharp knife in his hand, and when he saw Li Yang and the others, he pretended not to know: What is the matter with you coming to my maple village

Yuan Ji looked at Hengqi with his head held high: I am Yuan Ji, the acting general of Taizhou, and I came here this time to recruit you Fengshu Village

Hengqi sneered: Why can't we defeat us, you want to recruit us, it's really a shame that you came up with it

Yuan Ji was a little unhappy when he heard this: There are nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers here under this mountain, and I advise you to get acquainted and surrender obediently

Heng Yan slapped the chair violently: You are quite crazy, come on, pull them all out and cut them down for me

More than 20 bandits surrounded us and put knives around our necks

Li Yang shouted: Wait, you are also a righteous person, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about these brothers, if you resist, your brothers will only die

Taizhou prefect Sun and the guard general Yuan are good-hearted people, can't bear to see the people of Zhejiang in the dead and wounded to look at you to turn back is the shore, specially sent the acting general Yuan and I to come to surrender, this is an opportunity and hope that you can think twice

Li Yang glanced at Hengqi, and Hengqi immediately understood: If we want to surrender, we can do it, but we have to agree to three conditions

Yuanji became a little expectant: You said that as long as it is not too much, I can call the shots

Hengqi has a pair of eyes: First, the official family wants to give amnesty to the remaining nearly 3,000 brothers in my Maple Village, second, we must not hand us over to Shaoxing Mansion and Ningbo Mansion, we will be naturalized in Taizhou, and third, we must give us land to make a living

Yuan Ji hesitated a little after hearing this, Li Yang whispered to Yuan Ji: My lord, I have tens of thousands of acres of land in Alan Village to accept them, you only need to consider the first two

After listening to Li Yang's words, Yuan Ji said very happily: Okay, then let's make a decision

Hengqi raised his head and laughed: Good brothers, let's go out of the village and surrender

Yuan Ji and Hengqi took nearly 3,000 bandits to prepare to surrender out of the village, and when the gate of the village opened, Niu Yongnian and Gongsun Bao led the officers and soldiers under their command to rush in, and the unsuspecting bandits were killed nearly 100 people in a blink of an eye

Hengqi scolded: I didn't expect you to be so despicable

Li Yang's eyes were full of anger: Yuanji, what's going on

Yuan Ji said with a blank face: I don't know

Heng Yan shouted: Brothers, let's be fooled, pick up the guys and fight with them