Let's talk about Li Aniu again, although he has a tendon in his brain, he is not stupid, he is a filial son, and he wants to go back to Xiao Li Zhuang to see his mother.

Du Wei is a little unbearable, not to mention that he may not be able to find the pirates when he goes back, if he encounters a pirate coming to the county seat on the road, he will definitely die.

Stopping Li Aniu, who had to go, Du Wei had an idea.

"Ah Niu, you see that we are too few people now, and we have to go to the city to defend, just now the county government asked us to notify the nearby villages to take refuge, can you help, go to the Zhuangzi on the side and tell them."

Ah Niu didn't think about it so much, looking at Du Wei's embarrassed look, he readily agreed, he was originally here to report the news, and it doesn't matter if he reports more, he just finished reporting the letter and will go back.

Du Wei pointed out the road to Ah Niu and told him to go to Jijiazhuang in the southwest of the county, and a road to go directly to it, and after reporting the letter, it was less than ten miles east to Xiaolizhuang.

Li Aniu readily agreed, and went straight to Jijiazhuang from the west gate.

Yuan Rui finally felt better, slowly stomped back into the house, according to the current hour, it is estimated that it will be the second time, that is, four or five o'clock in the future, he has heard the rooster crow, he is not sleepy, he took a book, word by word.

There was a knock on the door, Yuan Rui raised his head and said, the door is not closed, come in.

Looking at Uncle Wang who walked in, he smiled and said, "It's so late, did it disturb you, I'm fine." ”

"Young master, people from the county and the Lu family have come, saying that the bandits are coming, and I want you to prepare quickly." Uncle Wang looked a little anxious, the clothes he was wearing were covered with water, and there were a few places that were not covered at all, and the clothes inside were wet.

Yuan Rui stood up suddenly, probably because of his initial recovery, his eyes were black for a while, and he hurriedly supported the table with his hands.

Everything in the dream seemed to come back to my eyes, blood and water everywhere, and dead bodies everywhere.

The incident seems to have been resurrected, and the accounts of bandits attacking and disturbing the coast are beating word by word, constantly separating and constantly putting together.

For a while, he didn't recover, and he didn't understand whether the dream was a dream or a reality.

Yuan Rui rushed to the front yard with Uncle Wang, looked at the two people who came to report the news, and hurriedly learned more about the current situation. It's a pity that both of them reported the news, Ah Niu can still say a little, and the servant of the Lu family doesn't know anything.

Yuan Rui knows that the current information transmission is still the most traditional kind, not to mention that it takes a few days for the state capital to get below, even if it takes half a day for the county to come out, this is still a special visit, and it has been more than an hour, which is also rare.

Yuan Rui asked Uncle Wang to take the two of them to rest, and asked Dashan, who had already come to the front yard, to hurry up and inform the fifth uncle and eldest brother. Here Ah Niu still wanted to hurry home to take care of the old lady, Yuan Rui took advantage of his free time and chatted with Ah Niu again.

After listening to Ah Niu's words, Yuan Rui admired it very much, a rare good young man who is righteous, loyal and honest, and a filial son, who ran for a few hours in a row, regardless of fatigue, still thinking about his mother, which is rare.

Yuan Rui still comforted a few words, "Ah Niu, it's almost dawn, you have been running back and forth for dozens of miles on a muddy road, your clothes and shoes are soaked, and when you rush back like this, you can't go home, you can only stay in the wilderness, if you don't do it well, you will catch a cold, if you are sick, you will take care of your mother, or your mother will take care of you!" ”

Yuan Rui knew that Ah Niu was a straight person, so he added.

"In this way, wouldn't it be better if you could take a hot bath with me, change into clean clothes, eat some hot meals, and then bring some clean clothes and dry food back to your mother, so that she can also be fed and clothed."

Now Ah Niu listened, this son is good, and he is really thoughtful.

Seeing that Ah Niu agreed, he even thanked him, but Yuan Rui didn't talk to him politely, and arranged for Uncle Wang to lead him to settle without mentioning it.

Yuan Rui looked at the serious expressions of the fifth uncle and the eldest brother, and knew that it was difficult for them to come up with a way to deal with it for a while.

"Big brother, you are the head of the family, and now the situation is very critical, whether to guard or hide, you can have an idea."

"The most important thing now is that the situation is uncertain, only that the pirates have landed in Tonghai, and nothing else is clear, if they are all hiding, where can they hide?" The fifth uncle still said first, "Guard, these people are the ones at home, and they can't keep it!"

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the patriarch, now it's about to dawn, you can let some of the old and young people withdraw to the west of Jintan first, according to the county, even if the bandits come here, they won't go to Jintan." Yuan Peng thought about it for a while, but he still had a decision, in the end, he had seen it on the scene often, and his emergency response ability was good.

"Others, I'll discuss with the patriarch, gather the young Zhuang family to guard the polder gate and polder wall first, as long as we hold on for a long time, the pirates will have to retreat."

Yuan Rui still admires this big brother, the matter is handled just right, not extreme and not conservative.

Yuan Rui was about to echo his eldest brother, but suddenly, a thought flashed in his mind. "Big brother, fifth uncle, I have an idea, I don't know whether to say it or not."

"At this time, don't be polite, what do you have to say when it's critical," the fifth uncle is also straight.

"Hearing the informant's statement, I suddenly had an idea, this group of bandits went to this small Li Zhuang first, Tonghai people know that this small village has dozens of families, and they are all farming for a living, there is nothing valuable to rob at all, indicating that this group of bandits is not familiar with Tonghai, this is one. Second, Ah Niu mentioned that this group of people couldn't speak clearly, which also confirmed this, and at the same time, the county had already arranged all the regiments, and the Lu family even went to the city. According to the current defense, it is the kind of bandits who want to attack and occupy Tonghai at once, and that is all delusional. What's more, these pirates are completely unfamiliar with the sea, and they don't come from looking for a way to die. ”

"I think there is a high probability that this group of bandits will attack Tonghai County, they have no road at all, so there will be no other planning, and there is a high probability that there will be an ending, that is, the head will break and the blood will flow, and the arm will be broken. At this time, the danger is the greatest, this group of pirates is gathered to be easy to do, I am afraid that they will be scattered, burning and looting everywhere in the county, the common people are defenseless and weak people, once they encounter them, it will be heavy casualties, this is what we want to prevent. ”

Seeing that the fifth uncle and the eldest brother kept nodding, Yuan Rui said a new idea.

This is thanks to some things that Yuan Rui just remembered, in history, the bandits have plagued the coast for hundreds of years, according to the current time and space, it is only the beginning of the bandits, but hundreds of people share a share, in the next few decades, with the corruption of coastal officials, the combat readiness of officers and soldiers is relaxed, the ranks of pirates are getting bigger and bigger, consuming nearly half of the military expenditure of a certain dynasty, directly accelerating the demise of the dynasty.

At dawn, the people of Jijiazhuang had actually cleaned up for almost an hour.

Before dawn, Yuan Peng pulled the patriarch up, and the patriarch, who was sleeping in a daze, was very dissatisfied with waking himself up at this time.

But when he heard that the pirates were coming, he didn't even feel a trace of sleep, and he didn't bother to wash, so he immediately called all the elders to discuss how to deal with the bandits.

The villagers over there are still seizing all the time to clean up, first of all, they put all the valuable small items, calligraphy, paintings, and antiques in the cellar, which are not easy to find together with the grain and sundries.

It's okay if those big items don't move, they can't be pulled away, and it's okay if they are chopped up. There is also some gold and silver, etc., which cannot be left casually, but can only be carried with you, in case it is not robbed by the bandits, and it is troublesome for other people with unclean hands to take it.

Finally, people, old and young, women and children, needless to say, first hide in the ancestral hall, other places are more unreliable, and then gather the young and middle-aged people who can do it, the polder gate is blocked, dig a pit in the soil in the polder wall, insert a lot of bamboo sticks in it, and then spread people on both sides of several village roads, pull up ropes, and each person has a sharpened bamboo pole. This kind of defense, the people in the village are familiar with the road, this is how they did it when dealing with aliens, of course, dealing with bandits, mountain bandits are also like this.

The people of Jijiazhuang still have time to clean up, and the county town is actually frying, and Nanmo's Li is waiting for General Liu and the officers and soldiers left behind, and he does not delay, explains a few words, and pulls the two juniors to go straight to Tonghai County with a carriage.

Wang Zhixian finally put his mind at ease, the county seat is worry-free, which is a gratifying thing at this time, but he is also worried, these bandits will not be able to enter the county seat, and they will definitely go to the surrounding villages to scourge.

But he has no way to send people out, there are only hundreds of militia groups in the county, and the defense of the city still relies on some large families to keep it.

But it's not a matter to keep shrinking in the county, and now it's dawn, and the bandits don't know how to do evil outside! If you can't protect the safety of one party, then what kind of official will you be?

Looking at Wang Zhixian's anxious appearance, the county Cheng and the lieutenant who were still on the side had no choice, they had no soldiers in their hands, and they couldn't go down if they wanted to, so they might not challenge the pirates single-handedly.

Seeing that it was almost noon, several people were still at a loss, and when they were anxious, the official came to report that there was news of pirates in Nanmori and were waiting outside the county yamen.

Wang Zhixian hurriedly asked people to bring it in quickly.

Li Zheng also tried his best this time, he didn't care about horsepower at all, it was the biggest thing to go to the county seat to report the news first, what was it to run and kill a horse, for the people in his village, more than 100 officers and soldiers died.

The muddy road of more than 30 miles took more than an hour to reach the county seat.

After listening to Li Zheng's report, Wang Zhixian's heart tightened, a large number of pirates were killed and wounded, fortunately, there are officers and soldiers chasing behind, which can somewhat alleviate the unscrupulous bandits. But this gang of bandits didn't go to the county seat and went to the countryside to huhuo people, this is too terrible. Where can these honest people withstand the brutal pirates, and I don't know how heavy the casualties are!

Several people were looking at the county map while planning, and another official came to report, and Lu Ergongzi brought someone to see him.

The magistrate hurriedly asked people to come in, and after a while, Lu Ergongzi came to the lobby with a person, "My lord, the grass people have an emergency. ”

Wang Zhixian saw Lu Ergongzi's heroism with his own eyes yesterday, not to mention those bandits, not to mention fighting him, they couldn't even touch the corners of his clothes, and the two weapons were elusive, and the pirates who beat them were full of urine, and at that moment, more than 20 of them died under his hands.

Wang Zhixian also knew that it was not polite, so he hurriedly asked Lu Ergongzi to make it clear.

"My lord, this is the family I sent to Jijiazhuang to report the news, he brought a letter back from Jijiazhuang, I think it's a good idea, you can try it." The second son hurriedly took out the letter.