The county lord also knew at this time that this game was not easy to break today, so it was not wrong to let her go first, but Yuan Rui still wanted to stay, so she shouldn't be.

"County Lord, you go first, I have to give them a big gift before leaving," Yuan Rui urged the County Lord.

"That's not good, you have to go together, don't bother me."

The county lord didn't do anything at this time, he didn't believe Yuan Rui a little, for fear that something would happen.

Yuan Rui saw through the crack in the door and saw that the courtyard had indeed reached a very dangerous point.

At this time, several of the pro-soldiers guarding the courtyard were all injured and couldn't move, and more than 30 members of the Guogong Mansion had already fallen half, and the rest were all injured, not to mention their own Zhuang Ding, who couldn't play any role in the courtyard at all.

At this time, without delay, he ordered to the two soldiers on the side, "Call the signal and let all the people in the courtyard enter the house." ”

He turned to the county lord and said, "County lord, aunt, hurry up, we will follow later, don't block the road." ”

"You can let them go first, I'll wait for you to come along," the county lord didn't care.

Yuan Rui was helpless, this aunt was really not easy to serve.

"Ignition," Seeing his own people in the courtyard slowly retreat into the house while resisting under the cover of Zhuang Ding's bamboo gun, Yuan Rui shouted to his own soldiers.

At this time, the two soldiers quickly took the torches to the back door of the hall, and stretched out into the gutter under the eaves, and with a pop, a fire broke out in the gutter instantly, and burned everywhere along the gutter to the courtyard.

This is Yuan Rui's last means of saving his life, he blocked the water outlet in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, poured all the fire oil in the gutter, once the bandits entered the courtyard, this is the blockade line, and it was also explained to several pro-soldiers in advance.

The whole courtyard burned all around, and all of a sudden, the light in the courtyard increased greatly, and the group of pirates who came in appeared in the light, and the soldiers who entered the house became a dark party.

The blades in the hands of the pirates were too short to hurt the people in the house through the fire, and the people in the house took advantage of them, and the long bamboo guns kept stabbing at the courtyard, and the pirates were immediately hit by a thousand critical hits, and dozens of people were directly stabbed.

"County Lord, I have also seen this gift, you can go quickly, it won't last long here."

Yuan Rui still hurriedly urged the county lord, this method looks bluffing, but if you really say how effective it is, it is also unrealistic, it is just to take advantage of the poor vision to catch you off guard, at most half a moment, your own people are really going to escape.

"Don't worry, let me take another look, Yuan Rui, I just want to know, where did you learn these scoundrel methods."

The county lord was pleasantly surprised and did not forget to tease Yuan Rui, this nerd is really not simple.

"Hey, county lord, what are you talking about, what is a scoundrel play, is this Tao Luo!"

"Cut," the county lord gave him a blank look, "It's just a small road, and it's not on the stage." ”

Yuan Rui really couldn't do it, so he really played Laipi, and he didn't avoid suspicion, and directly pushed the county lord to the entrance of the cave.

"You, you, what are you doing, let go," the county lord suddenly became angry, and he didn't know why!

"County Lord, County Lord, reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming," shouted a few of the family members near the front wall window.

"Really, I'll take a look, I'll see, you let go, I'll take a look," the county lord was suddenly happy, turned around and pushed Yuan Rui away, and ran quickly to the window.

At the last moment, the reinforcements arrived, and they finally lived up to Yuan Rui's expectations.

When the soldiers rushed to the county seat to ask for help, they were desperately on the road, he was an old man in the Guogong Mansion, and he knew what was at stake, if the county lord was hurt, he would die and could not redeem himself.

In less than twenty miles, he rode a sturdy war horse, the matter was critical, and it was not the time to cherish horsepower, so it only took half an hour to reach the county gate.

The soldiers held the warrant of the county lord, and it was an urgent official business such as the robbery of the bandits, and the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly opened the door to let the soldiers enter the city.

This pro-soldier is also a relatively flexible person, while going to the county government to explain the situation, he asked the soldiers guarding the city to go to the Lu Mansion to report the news, which was also instructed by Yuan Rui in advance.

When the soldiers arrived at the county government to explain the situation clearly, Lu Ergongzi also came to the county office with a few of his subordinates.

The magistrate discussed with the lieutenant who guarded the city, since he could not be sure whether the bandits were coming to the county seat or robbing everywhere, the troops in the county town could not be moved, and the target to prevent the bandits was the county seat.

But the county lord is also in trouble in Jijiazhuang, if the county lord has a good deal, even if he guards the county seat, the two of them will be a capital crime.

Lu Ergongzi was very anxious after listening to the report of his own soldiers, and then looked at the magistrate, they hesitated, and they were angry, but he also knew that the magistrate had its own difficulties, after all, tens of thousands of people here could not be left alone.

Lu Ergongzi made a suggestion, he has a family at home, and hundreds of darts who walk the rivers and lakes every day, and these people can be used to deal with the bandits.

He didn't have to worry about people, but he didn't have horses, he wanted Zhixian to provide him with all the horses in the county, so that he could quickly rush to Jijiazhuang to rescue.

At this time, the magistrate and the lieutenant were relieved, as long as they didn't take the people away, the horses didn't matter, and they wouldn't need it when defending the city anyway.

Besides, the second son went, no matter whether the bandits went to Jijiazhuang or not, they always had this intention.

The second prince quickly called out the manpower and gathered nearly 200 people, and there were not enough horses, plus the Lu family's own, there were less than 100 horses.

He could only divide the people into two groups, he rode a fast horse with some good hands, and a family member ran slowly with the rest of the people, so it took more than half an hour, and the second son rushed to Jijiazhuang with more than 100 people at the time of crisis.

Later, several people were afraid, not the second son, although they could escape, but the loss was too great.

Later, Yuan Rui was laughed at by the second son for a long time, every time he encountered something, the second son said that he couldn't say Yuan Rui, and always used this incident to scold Yuan Rui.

If it was really according to Yuan Rui's early plan, the reinforcements would arrive in two hours, and the daylily would be really cold.

After the second son arrived, he completely turned his hands around, and the more than 100 pirates who had already fallen into the courtyard were suddenly in chaos.

The space is already narrow, the enemy in the courtyard has not lost its combat effectiveness, and there is such a group of wolf-like dart players outside the courtyard, and now it is impossible to retreat.

The only pity is that the rest of Jijiazhuang has no combat effectiveness, and they can't hold off the pirates.

The smiling tiger can do that the captain still has two brushes, and he looks at the situation and breaks out directly from the gap.

Although the second son also brought hundreds of people, he was in a hurry when he came, and he didn't make any arrangements, and he didn't know where the bandits were when it was dark.

In addition, the terrain is not too familiar, and I don't know what gap to plug, in the face of the sea bandits who broke through, not only did not stop them, but also lost a few manpower.

When they waited outside, the combat effectiveness of the dart players alone was not said, but in the face of the officers and soldiers in the formation, if they wanted to completely encircle and prevent them from breaking through, they really couldn't do it.

Although the smiling tiger finally escaped with more than 100 people, it left a huge hidden danger, and none of the dozens of seriously injured who were stabbed and burned on the field at the entrance of the ancestral hall did not run, and all of them were captured alive.

But although he won in the end, Yuan Rui couldn't be happy.

Not counting the hundreds of pirates who were captured alive, only 57 pirates were actually killed on the spot this time, including more than 30 who were burned to death.

In other words, after fighting for more than an hour, there were more than a dozen pirates killed head-on.

Looking at his side again, twenty-seven people died in Yuan's Zhuangding, thirty-five people died in the county lord's family, four of his own soldiers died, and even seven of the Lu family's darts who arrived later died, which is not comparable at all.

The trouble of Yangzhou bandits once again appeared in the court.

When the army department presented the losses to King Huai, King Huai Haoxuan did not plant it from above.

The biggest losses were the 50 ships of military equipment transported by Songjiang to Bingzhou and Youzhou, 13 of which were robbed by the bandits, not to mention, and five large ships sank into the Tonghe, relatively speaking, the hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded seemed so small.

Then there is Dacang, a small city that has always been used as a base for coastal bandits, all the materials were looted by Xu Dajia, tens of thousands of catties of grain plus thousands of weapons in the army, and of course, countless gold and silver belongings of the local people.

It can be said that this robbery of the pirates disrupted some of the next arrangements of King Huai, and made some plans at the border pass fail.

"When I see this movement, I don't know what you think." King Huai's face was gloomy.

Today is a small court meeting, and more than 30 ministers are standing below and looking at each other, all of whom are the main responsible persons of various departments of the DPRK and the Central Committee.

Looking at these ministers who lowered their heads and didn't say a word, King Huai couldn't help laughing, "It may not be more difficult to fight pirates than to fight flower thorns, more difficult than feeding the people of these thirteen states, and more difficult than laying down these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains!" ”

"Lord Wang, the trouble of the bandits is not in defense, they are suppressing, they come and go too fast, and they can't feel the shadow at all," Li Shuming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, stood up at this time, and the Ministry of War has studied the most about the trouble of bandits, "Lord Wang, the Ministry of War is doing countermeasures in this regard, and there is no effective method at present." ”

"Yangzhou Shangjuan, according to the practice of previous years, it is the period when a large number of pirates have landed, how to deal with it, is it just a let the pirates loot and captive!" King Huai is angry and doesn't fight in one place, so many people really eat dry rice, there is no way.

"Lord Wang, seeing that winter is about to begin, can you first make a simple and direct countermeasure to block the mouth of the river." At this time, Xu Lian, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, also stood up.

"What do you mean, not letting all ships pass?"

"Lord, that's not it, during the day, merchant ships still pass as usual, but at night, the river can be blocked."

"This is not a short-term solution, what do you think?"

"Lord Wang, I also have a message here, which was sent by the little girl," At this time, Wei Guogong also stood up and said something.

"Two days ago, hundreds of pirates went to Jijiazhuang to rob on the way to robbery, but after Yuan Zhongshu's precise arrangement, with one hundred and ten Zhuang Ding, most of the robbed pirates were annihilated."