Yuan Rui successfully used the escape channel of Jihe River and used the five big boats of Jijiazhuang to transfer the temporary residence of Mrs. Lu, the Duchess of the Kingdom, and Miss Meng, as well as thousands of old people, women and children in Zhuangzi to the ship, which can be regarded as a temporary solution to the most difficult problem, but the greater difficulty is still to come.

This time is not as good as last time, there are still hundreds of officers and soldiers to support, and now there are more than 200 people who can be used in the entire Zhuangzi.

Although after half an hour of chickens and dogs, the people turned away, but there was really not much time left for Yuan Rui to do so.

Ah Niu bought them half an hour's time, and during this time, the eldest brother took Zhuang Ding to make simple preparations.

In the past two years, under the suggestion of Yuan Rui, Jijiazhuang has made some improvements to the defense of Zhuangzi, first of all, to strengthen and increase the height of the polder wall around Zhuangzi.

Moreover, Yuan Rui imitated some later practices, and arranged a lot of thistles on the polder wall to prevent climbing.

The trap behind the polder wall was upgraded, not only by rearranging the bamboo nails, but also by putting a little water in it and adding oil to it.

For the ancestral hall, Yuan Rui made special reinforcements for the ancestral hall, and also made more preparations, what fire oil, crossbow arrows, and bamboo guns, just to turn the ancestral hall into a fortress.

Now that it proves that these things were really not done in vain, Yuan Rui is somewhat confident.

"County Lord, if the target of the bandits is us, then the people who go to the county town will be able to come back with reinforcements, but I don't know how many there will be, but no matter what, we must be prepared to hold out for at least two hours." Looking at the county lord who stayed strongly, he was very helpless.

"I explained to him, after reporting the letter to the county town, I went to find the second son, and then went to the Xu family's shop to gather people, even if there were no officers and soldiers, there were also one or two hundred people as backup, it should be enough," the county lord is more confident, she is very trusting of her own soldiers and family members, and those bandits cannot be compared with the real border army elite.

Yuan Rui's arrangement worked.

Although it was dark and the road was not too good, it was only half an hour, and this group of bandits came to the gate of Jijiazhuang.

The night was very silent, most of the moon hung in the sky, and there was no light or sound in the whole Jijiazhuang, calm and comfortable.

The smiling tiger let all the pirates hide in a secluded place first, and through the dim moonlight, they looked at the surrounding environment, and there was nothing unusual about it, and then they came to the polder gate with a few people.

The smiling tiger looked at the two heavy wooden doors nailed, which could be smashed open by brute force with a cart, but the movement was too great, and if it was not done well, it would cause chaos in the entire Zhuangzi.

At that time, the more than 300 people will not be able to surround the entire village at all, once the key person escapes, this time it will be in vain, and the best thing is to quietly touch in.

The smiling tiger gestured to a few pirates on the side, and they immediately took the hooks and walked under the polder walls on both sides, and in an instant three or five hooks went up.

A few people rubbed a few steps and pulled the rope to the polder wall, but as soon as their hands grabbed the edge of the polder wall, it hurt so much that Xuan didn't scream, and three of them fell directly and fell into a mess.

The smiling tiger was startled, hurriedly stepped forward, and asked softly, "What's the matter, there is an ambush?" ”

"In charge, there is thistle terrestris on the wall, pricking your hands," one of them held back the pain and raised his hand to tell the smiling tiger the reason.

"Damn, quick, get two cowhides," the smiling tiger scolded, and now everyone is fine.

Several people turned into the village, opened the polder, and more than 300 sea bandits entered the village lightly.

The smiling tiger called over a subordinate who had come to investigate the situation, briefly asked about the layout of the Zhuangzi, clarified the location of the Yuan family, and instructed everyone to quietly touch the Yuan family along the stone road in the Zhuangzi.

From the smiling tiger to the outside of the polder, Yuan Rui and the others could see it clearly. On the roof of the main hall of the ancestral hall, Yuan Rui and the county lord are standing there, the location here is good, and it is relatively high, and you can see the road of the polder gate completely.

All this was arranged by Yuan Rui, and when it was arranged, even several pro-soldiers who had experienced the border battle were admired, and they didn't expect that such a young scholar could have such a strategy.

This time is different from the last time, Yuan Rui did not arrange for someone to sneak attack outside, it is undeniable that sending some people to sneak attack outside will definitely have an effect, and it can also cause damage to the bandits, but Yuan Rui does not want to do this.

These people may not be able to come back if they go out, even if it is one for one, one for two, Yuan Rui will not do it, these are all his own brothers, and one less can die is one.

Therefore, Yuan Rui's arrangements are almost all here in the ancestral hall, he is the same as everyone else, it is inevitable to work hard, but you have to be able to fight, and you must fight skillfully.

As long as you hold the ancestral hall here, at most two hours, the reinforcements from the county will come, so the key is time.

Yuan Rui asked all Zhuang Ding to be ready, don't make any noise, when, the pirates are killed, just reappear, whatever tricks the bandits do in front of them, ignore them.

Yuan Rui didn't expect that these people were not here to rob, but to seek revenge on him, otherwise, Yuan Rui's arrangement would become more targeted.

So when I saw that these bandits did not go to the nearby houses to search, but went directly to their homes, they were shocked, and they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the county lord, their eyes full of doubts.

The county lord gave him a blank look, ignored him, and said in his heart, you don't know, how do I know, see what I'm doing.

The pirates slowly walked away, although Yuan Rui couldn't see it, but he knew that soon these people saw that Yuan's house was an open space, and they would be ready to show up, and they wanted to attract these bandits to Jijiazhuang.

Sure enough, in just a quarter of an hour, many pirates slowly appeared in sight again, and this time it seemed that the leading pirates were a little flustered, constantly probing the houses on the side.

Time passed for another moment, seeing that it was almost time, and now that he hadn't even noticed anyone, the smiling tiger was indeed a little anxious, and it shouldn't be.

Such a big Zhuangzi, thousands of people, in such a short period of time, no matter how you think about it, you can't do it cleanly.

At this time, several pirates came to the ancestral hall, thinking of looking through the small window to see the situation inside.

At this time, the family members in ambush inside launched, and several spears quickly pierced out of the window hole, only a few pops, oops, and several pirates were instantly assassinated under the windows of the ancestral hall.

This is also one of Yuan Rui's arrangements, the ancestral hall is built of heavy stones, in addition to a gate in front, there is also a two-foot square window on each side of the door, and the wooden strip and iron rod are horizontal in the middle.

Yuan Rui arranged a few family members behind the window, always paying attention to the movement outside, and asked them to pay special attention to protection, not to attack head-on, but to use the side cross to kill the enemy.

The smiling tiger now knows what happened, and it seems that the people in Zhuangzi are hiding in the ancestral hall.

His heart sank, and he had a bad premonition, it was nothing that he lost the opportunity, and if the person he was looking for was not here, he would be unlucky.

Now there is no chance to regret it, no matter what, I can only open the ancestral hall first, and then see how lucky it is.

He didn't delay any longer, and while letting people check the surrounding environment, he was thinking about how to find a breakthrough.

Yuan Rui and the county lord immediately saw the difference between this group of pirates, they were not at all like the bandits who attacked blindly, nor were they as chaotic as the bandits, they acted with a strong sense of purpose, and they also had a very offensive discipline.

"County Lord, judging from the situation just now, these people should be running for me, and looking at their style, I can be sure that these people are not bandits, they should be pretended to be officials and soldiers."

"There should be an accident in the DPRK and China, and there is something big about it."

The county lord can see much farther than Yuan Rui, and combined with the news that Sister Meng brought back last time, the county lord's heart flew to the capital all of a sudden.

These officers and soldiers were much stronger than the bandits, and they saw that the terrain and environment were not favorable to them, and they also saw that it was not easy to break through in the front, so they directly put the target on the side.

The materials used in the front hall and the back hall of the ancestral hall are not mentioned, which is very real, and the stones are tightly sealed, and it is too difficult to open them from the outside.

On the side are several wings built by using the courtyard wall, which are relatively shorter and easier to do.

In particular, there is a gap of several feet wide between the back hall and the side room, which is a good breakthrough.

Yuan Rui also knew, and deliberately arranged a few capable people in this place, and also made a big trap.

Of course, it was too late to dig a deep pit, so I simply dug a little, sprinkled a lot of thistle, and saw the soybean oil stored in the ancestral hall, and sprinkled a little bit in it.

The pirates focused on the courtyard wall, which was several feet wide, and there were dozens of people on one side.

They brought a few ladders, climbed to the wall and jumped down without hurrying, and a few pockets containing unknown things were thrown down by them and put on the ground.

Seeing that it was wrong, a few Zhuang Ding who were hiding on the side hurriedly ran out and poked at the wall with bamboo guns.

Seeing Zhuang Ding come out, several pirates standing at the head of the wall did not panic at all, and actually took out a few crossbow arrows from behind and shot at several Zhuang Ding.

Where did those Zhuang Ding experience this kind of thing, they couldn't dodge it at all, they were shot to death and fell to the ground.

Yuan Rui, who was hiding in a high place, and the county lord saw it clearly, Yuan Rui knew that he was careless this time, and he would have known that they had all escaped.

I thought it was still the same as the pirates last time, and I felt that I could fight it somewhat, and if the reinforcements from the county town came in time, I could still encircle and annihilate these bandits in Jijiazhuang.

It's too much to take for granted, it's useless to say anything now, the key is to block the bandits.

Yuan Rui no longer wanted to lure the enemy deeper, at this time, it was important to save his life first, and he quickly gathered a few personal soldiers to him.

"The other party is not a simple bandit, you should know, these Zhuang Ding alone can't stop it, so we can only make a surprise move. Here, there are more than fifty water guns, the simplest kind, you should be able to use. ”

There are several large vats in the ancestral hall, which are filled with water used to fight fires, of course, in order to prevent fire, there are dozens of water guns made of bamboo on the side, the power is still very large, and it can rush to a distance of more than ten meters.