Listening to Lu Jiu's general description of the terrain and defense of Sanhu Village, Mao Taigong asked in surprise, "You said they have catapults?" You have never been in the stockade, how do you see that thing?"

"You don't need to go inside, it's standing on the platform, and you can see it from afar." Lu Jiu stretched his arm out with all his might.

"Huh? On the wall?"

"yes, it's not that big. It looks like half a room."

"Nonsense, how far can a small catapult be thrown."

"About two hundred steps. I saw them practising throwing into the open space outside the city, and I estimated that it would take about 200 steps from the car to the place where the stone landed."

Lu Jiu gestured: "It's a hundred steps to the other side of the river, and you will be beaten within a hundred steps on the other side, so the casualties if you want to cross the river are definitely not small!"

Mao Taigong frowned and hugged his shoulders for a long time before saying, "Then, what can I do to make it easier to fight?"

"The widow said that there was water all around this Leijia Bay, and that there was only a causeway to the south.

This embankment is obscured by trees but it is difficult to see from the outside, so you have to go around Chenjiadun and pass through the shallows of Shujiabu in the south, and then go along the river bank all the way north, and you will see a forest, and on the edge of it is the embankment."

Lu Jiu explained the words that Ma Jiu taught him very seriously, and at that time, the old lieutenant was afraid that he would not understand, so he specially asked He Wei to take him along the embankment.

"Hey, I see!" Mao Taigong patted the arm of the chair in surprise: "It's strange that they are stationed here, dare to love such a secret here!" After thinking about it, he asked, "How wide is this river?"

"Because of the construction of the fort and the dredging and widening, the river is about 70 steps (50 meters)."

"Is it that wide?" Mao Taigong furrowed his brows.

"That's a problem, I don't know how deep it is, if there are crossbows and catapults on the wall, the assault will indeed cause heavy casualties." The captain of the pro-soldier said softly beside him, "It's a loss for Lu Jiu to take a look, otherwise I'll suffer a loss!"

"Well, this trip is a good one, and Lao Jiu has a lot of credit!" Mao Taigong raised his eyes and nodded, and said with some regret:

"I said how did the knotweed flower let me be this pioneer, and sure enough, this bone is not very easy to gnaw. I knew that I wouldn't fight with others that day, and let others take the lead!"

As he was talking, someone suddenly came to report that the Governor had sent a messenger to deliver a letter. took a look at it, and he actually asked himself to immediately send troops to Leijiawan, and he couldn't help but be angry.

After the messenger left, Mrs. Mao slapped the letter on the table, and scolded unhappily: "Mother, he will be the one who beats, and he will be the one who doesn't beat." With this sentence, how many words does Lao Tzu have to spend again to convince the leaders?

One moment I was anxious to enter the army, and the other time I was called to camp, and after only a few days of camping and about to set off, it was just a toss-up!" When he was done venting, he sat there puffing up and didn't speak. Both of them in the room were awkward.

The captain of the pro-soldier probe and whispered, "Great Chief, what the Metropolitan Governor said, this is called a military order, we should move, I'm afraid we have to move."

"I know!" Mao Taigong pursed his lips, turned around and saw Lu Jiu still standing there with his hands crossed, so he beckoned him over and said, "Old Jiu, since you are here, I have to trouble you to make a return order and invite the leaders to discuss the matter.

If you have merit today, go to the kitchen, and say what I said, tear off the leg of the duck in the pot, wrap it up, and bring it back with you!"

"Alas, well, Great Chief!"

Lu Jiu walked out of the kitchen with a lotus leaf bag in his hand, and muttered in his heart: Use two duck legs to pass Lao Tzu, and the good food that he said before will be blown after five days of full food? Phew!

Think of the old lieutenant's face, he clicked his mouth. Well, it looks like it's going to have to be done. Regardless of whether it's true or not, let's put Mrs. Mao's head in the hands of Chief Ma first!

When the Jiang family's team left Shinao Village, the whole village was still immersed in joy.

The smell of gunpowder smoke from firecrackers echoed at the tip of his nose, and the send-off team after the banquet returned to the ship drunkenly to pull anchor and set sail, and the smile on Chen Tong's face gradually faded. When the two boats became black spots, he couldn't wait to pull his legs and leave.

"Fifth brother, you don't have a cave anymore, where are you going?" Chen Ju, the prime minister beside him, asked in surprise. old

Ju's father and Chen Yuanhai are cousins, who followed Chen Yuanhai when he was a teenager and was one of his most effective cadres.

Later, he was separated and became the owner of Shangtang Village, which was attached to Sinophora. Chen Ju's mother is a concubine, and he has been sent to Chen Yuanhai since he was a child, one as a hostage, and the other is nominally Chen Tong's playmate.

This time, he was originally scheduled to stay in the stone brain village, but he didn't expect Chen Tong to return to the village suddenly. Chen Ju was very dissatisfied, guessing that this was because he was not at ease.

But as soon as the wedding ended, Chen Tong took down his red cloak, and ordered his entourage to take clothes, armor, and weapons, as if he was leaving, which made Chen Ju inexplicable and at a loss.

"Ahyou, have you forgotten your duty to stay behind?" Chen Tong turned around and asked reproachfully.

"No, no......."

"Wouldn't that be good? I'm going to go after my father now, and you keep the door until I come back!"

"Huh?" Chen Ju also drank a lot just now, and now he is still a little dazed and can't react: "You, you don't leave without a hole?" He finally came up with this question.

Chen Tong sneered: "How can a husband pursue success, how can he be greedy for this little pleasure in bed? Besides, it's not too late for me to come back, the Jiang family's daughter won't fly again, what's the hurry? But it would be a pity if I could not catch up with this battle!"

"Ahem, why are you running around like this? It's better not to come back and follow the second uncle directly."

"I'm not coming back, I'm just afraid that the Jiang family will have any misunderstandings and thoughts when they see me gone." Chen Tong stretched out his arms and asked his soldiers to tie his armor, and at the same time said, "Now that the Jiang family is gone, they don't dare to move lightly when they know that I am in the village. Do you understand?"

"Oh." Chen Ju then understood why he came back, and suddenly remembered, "So, what did the bride say?"

"Just tell her that I have a battle to fight, and tell her to wait for me in a few days, and then make up the cave when I come back!" Chen Tong felt that the wild goose in his hand couldn't escape anyway, so he didn't take Jiang Yun'er's feelings into account at all.

He wants to pursue galloping and fighting on the battlefield, in exchange for people's praise and admiration for himself, in fact, this is what Chen Tong is pursuing.

The conquest of women had made him proud and cheerful before, but as he grew older, he found that the admiration of thousands of people was more exciting, and the fear and obedience of several women were insignificant compared to this.

As for the father's desire to quickly let the daughter of the Jiang family conceive the seeds of the Chen family, Chen Tong was a little unimpressed, anyway, sooner or later, why hurry?

He is now obsessed with catching up with his father, and I should be the first person to break into Santang and break the enemy's gate!

Chen Tong turned on his horse and said to Chen Ju, "You talk to my mother and tell him that I am leaving!" After speaking, he turned the horse's head and led a few people to the back mountain from the east gate of the stone brain village.

Chen Ju thought that his wife (Chen Yuanhai's wife) would be annoyed and anxious when he heard this. Who knew that the other party only muttered after hearing this: "This kid's heart is wild, so he can't keep the cave house."

Forget it, anyway, I'll be back in a few days, you go and talk to the second young grandmother, and tell her not to worry. Don't go out in the courtyard for these two days, wait patiently for a few days and he will come back."

"Uh, yes!" Chen Ju's wine strength came up a little, and he was annoyed: These two girls are using me as a housekeeper!

He listened to his wife's voice and understood that the mother and son had already passed the anger, and said that the bride would leave when she arrived at Chen Tong, but the lady didn't expect that her son would not even care about the cave room and leave in a hurry.

Also, his father is on the front line, how can his son still blindly care about his cave night in the rear?

Alas, they are all surnamed Chen, but they are still regarded as foreign surnames! Chen Ju was furious, but he had to swallow his anger and go back to pass the word to the bride.

The girls and the little maids all knew this "young nephew", so no one stopped him when they saw him walking backwards.

Chen Ju came to the new house, and Chen Tong's concubine Xu came out with two girls to ask him what was going on, and when he heard that his wife sent him to pass the word to the second young grandmother, and it was not good for the bride to come out, so he asked a girl to accompany him in.

In fact, Chen Ju has been to this house many times before, but after decorating it into a wedding room, he still came back to it, only to feel that the fragrance was curling, and he was covered with red and gold everywhere

, the aroma made him a little dizzy.

The bride was invited over, bowed a little, and asked, "You were sent by your mother-in-law?" What is it that you want to proclaim?"

Chen Ju repeated the lady's words as they were, and the bride listened to them for a long time, and then said, "Okay, I know."

Chen Ju felt that his cousin could really bear it, so he left the little lady in the empty house and waited, not knowing that he would come back in three or five days, or two or three months.

sighed secretly in my heart, and felt that this little lady's voice was soft, gentle, and quite kind, and she felt more and more pity. Peeking at his size, posture, and bow shoes, he suddenly felt that the room was getting hot.

Jiang Yun'er saw that he didn't speak, and he couldn't see the other party's situation clearly with his head covered, which was very inexplicable.

Just as he was about to open his mouth lightly, he suddenly heard chaos rising from far and near, and someone faintly shouted: "Kill people, break the village, block their ......!"

At this time, the girls in the courtyard and the house also heard it, and everyone was in a daze, and a family member stumbled at the gate of the courtyard with a flat pole in his hand, shouting:

"There are thieves attacking the village, and they have already rushed into the gate, so take the bride and run! Hide it, hide it!"

Before he could finish speaking, there was a "whoosh" sound, and he had an extra feather arrow on his back, and the man fell. Suddenly there was a mess inside and out, and the concubine had long since disappeared.

Jiang Yun'er stayed in the house at a loss, and in the blink of an eye, there were only two girls left to marry.

Who knew that these two were taught by the finless porpoise since childhood, loyal and somewhat brave. Immediately went to the luggage and drew his sword, and shouted, "Miss, quickly dodge, let's stop the thief!"

"Hide? Where are you hiding?" Jiang Yun'er was also anxious at this time, and ripped off the hijab on her head and shouted.

"I—I know there's a place."

Hearing the man's voice, Jiang Yun'er was startled, and then remembered that the person hadn't left yet, and was sent by his mother-in-law to spread the word, and it seemed that he was still a relative of the Chen family. "You—Where do you know where you can hide people?" She asked with a trembling voice.

I didn't expect to encounter such an unfortunate thing on the first day of marriage, Jiang Yun'er didn't even know which direction her current house was facing, let alone anything else!

"I know, sister-in-law, come with me!" At the moment when Yun'er tore off his hijab, Chen Ju saw that the soft and beautiful face suddenly showed the courage of a hero to save the beauty, and he strode out of the door.

As soon as I went out, I heard the sound of the wind in my ears, and a girl shouted: "Be careful!" , with the back of the knife in his hand, he "snapped" an arrow.

"Miss, let's go!" Another girl screamed. She saw a few guys shouting "There are women here" at the gate of the courtyard, and immediately greeted them with her companions.

The situation is critical, and there is no time to think about it. Jiang Yun'er shook off the obstructive big man, lifted her skirt and ran behind Chen Ju. She has lived in a peaceful environment around her father since she was a child, and she has never experienced such a situation.

Jiang Yun'er was flustered, desperate, she couldn't even care if her skirt was scratched, she just watched Chen Ju's back run forward.

Finally, Chen Ju opened a small, low door, beckoned her in, and then got in himself, closing the door with his backhand.

At this time, Jiang Yun'er could take care of looking around. It turned out to be a firewood and straw house. The area is very small, about half the size of a room.

There seemed to be no window, and when the door was closed, it was very dark, and only some light came in through the gap between the wooden panels.

On the wall on the side of the door were stacked bundles of twigs and stacks of chopping wood. There was something behind them, like the bed frame of a step-by-step bed. But there were no bed boards, and bales of straw were piled up.

"Sister-in-law." Chen Ju called her softly, pointing behind her back and then at the top. Jiang Yun'er turned around and saw that it was a broken table, and she instantly understood.

Chen Ju pulled out an old chair and let her step on the table, and then heard the straw on it sound for a while, and then there was no movement, he also got on the table, first carefully put the chair back in place, and then propped it up on the top of the bed frame with both hands.

In the dark, he smelled the scent of incense on Jiang Yun'er's body, hesitated, and carefully lay down next to her.

It turned out that the wooden planks on the top of this bed were covered with a thick layer of straw. "How do you know about this place?" Jiang Yun'er asked with some surprise in the dark.

"In the past, I used to play crazy in the yard with my fifth brother, oh, it was Chen Tong. It works well to hide here when you don't want the adults to find you, and I've never been found in this house." Chen Ju laughed as he spoke:

"But after I turned fifteen, he suddenly stopped playing with me, saying it was a child's trick. Alas! Only I sometimes come and lie down on it, quietly."

As soon as Chen Ju finished speaking, suddenly there was a sound of someone shouting and weapons colliding outside, and he hurriedly "shhh

The door slammed open, and an iron spearhead reached in and shook it a few times, and then someone stuck out to look, "Hey, that little girl's skin is obviously coming this way!"

"Rotten fish, do you have any there?"

"No, it's all firewood and branches."

"Come here, scour these rooms!"

"Oh!" The rotten fish withdrew the iron spear and was gone. Outside, I quickly remembered the sound of pots and spoons "crackling" on the ground, presumably those people searching the room next to them.

Jiang Yun'er propped up her body slightly and looked down, seeing that there was no movement, she lay down on her back with her arms weak, and said softly, "God bless, I hope they don't come back!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a rush of footsteps, which frightened Jiang Yun'er and closed her eyes. Footsteps passed by the door of the room, as if someone was talking in the courtyard, and then a voice said loudly:

"Come with me, you guys!" Then there was a jumble of footsteps accompanied by the collision of weapons, and he passed through the door and left.

"Are they all gone?" Jiang Yun'er asked, and suddenly heard someone talking in the courtyard, so frightened that she covered her mouth.

The people outside kept muttering and didn't know what to say, and the two people in the room couldn't hear clearly, like two men arguing.