"Okay, you wait, then the young master, I'll go and set up a raft." After the guard finished speaking, he learned that he had been asking for a while, and his voice gradually faded away. Soon darkness fell back into darkness, save for the chirping of frogs and the incessant sound of insects.

Suddenly, my sister felt a big black shadow beside her, swooping down with the smell and heat of a fierce beast.

Before she could scream, she covered her mouth and pressed her to the ground, and the man roared and tore fiercely and rudely, like a hungry tiger eager to devour her.

Suddenly, there was a muffled sound, something splashed her face wet, and the man fell to the side, and she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and saw the stars in the sky.

The form of a guard appeared in front of him, and he said with some embarrassment, "Are you okay? Put this on." As he spoke, he shoved something like linen into her hand.

The elder sister struggled to get up, and saw that the bright eyes of the guards were suddenly avoided, and she looked down to see that her clothes were torn and messy, and only her belly pocket was still intact.

A burst of shame made her involuntarily curl up again, covering the sackcloth in her hand over her chest. Turning his head, Chen Tong fell to the side naked and did not move. "If you can go, let's get out of here." The guard said.

Ren Erchao looked left and right, on the right were his subordinates, and on the left were the Taoist priests of Qingyuanguan. Everyone lined up and gathered around, no one talking or coughing.

Behind them, three hundred heavily armed regimental trainers were pressed under the leadership of Yang Yi.

In the evening, someone brought a cruel mother-in-law and a little girl to Yang Yi, crying and begging him to save his eldest daughter, saying that he had been kidnapped by bandits in a reed.

After Yang Yi asked carefully, he learned more details from the little girl, and he immediately sent someone to find Bai Yan and the other masters, and asked the little girl to describe the appearance of a bad person. Everyone immediately concluded: It's Chen Tong!

So tonight's plan of action changed immediately. Yang Yi spread a circle of secret sentinels around the reeds, and then the brigade laid out a three-layer iron bucket array on the periphery. Now it's time to close the net.

Suddenly, the person in front of him stopped leaving. After a while, someone sent a message back and asked Second Master Ren to go to the front.

Ren Er was surprised, and brought two henchmen to the front, and there were two people standing there in the moonlight, surrounded by the cold light emitted by various weapons.

"Who?" Ren Er asked.

"Don't you recognize me? Below is the guard next to Chen Shao's family, Li Tiedao!"

"Is that you?" Ren Er was surprised, and the guards beside him immediately nervously stepped forward half a step forward to push the knife out of the sheath.

"Slow, slow," Ren Er looked at the other man, who reached out and took off his hat, exposing his face to the moonlight. "Sure enough, it's you. Iron Dao, haven't you been following Chen Tong all the time?" Ren Er asked, "What about the others?"

"Here." Chen Tiedao threw the package in his other hand over: "I killed this scourge!"

"Huh?"

Someone took the package and opened it, and shouted, "It's Chen Shao in charge!"

"Show it to the white master! Where is his corpse?" Ren Er is still not at ease.

"In the reeds in the back. It's more than eighty steps from here." At this time, there were a few impatient runners running in the direction he pointed.

After Li Tiedao replied calmly, he clenched his fists and said, "Second Master Ren, I don't want your reward, I didn't kill him for money. I'll be thankful for sparing my life!"

Hearing the cheers in the distance, a smile appeared on Ren Er's face: "Damn, you really killed him. But, why? You've worked so hard to get him here, and how many lives you've lost for him!"

"Second master, I was employed by the Chen family, and I said that it would be a three-year term, but in fact it expired last month, and I didn't owe them anything.

Got him here to leave a root for the Chen family, who wants to ...... It's still a wolf cub with a character that wants to eat people.

It is precisely because the brethren died in vain for such a thing that I have to kill him, otherwise how many more people will die and how much blood will he have to put in? Wrong!" Li Tiedao sighed deeply.

By this time the torches had been lit, and cheers were everywhere. People already know that the sin is terrible,

They couldn't sleep, the mosquito bite guy died, and many people ran to see the headless corpse.

In the end, it was Wei Laodao who spoke, so he found a mat to cover it, and asked someone to guard it, waiting for the livestock to come and carry it away.

"Hey, that's true. is such a harmful spirit, how many good women have been harmed, and how many loving couples have been ruined. Now he is dead naked in a nameless reed pond. Really, that's a ......."

Wei Zhengzi sighed for a long time, shaking his head, but in the end, he didn't feel it, and finally didn't say anything.

"The war in the west is over, and now we can concentrate on dealing with Katehanako!" Zhao Jingzi crossed his waist and said in high spirits:

"Hey, Saburo, you know what? I am now beginning to feel what kind of courage and heroism Taizu had when he pacified the world, expelled the Tatars, and restored the Central Plains!"

"Stop, stop thinking, stay safe." Li Dan laughed and pulled him down from the battlements at the head of the city:

"If you shake your body and spread the word that a certain royal family in Yugan City accidentally fell into the city ...... when he was emotional, it would not be heroic, it would be tragic!"

Patting the dust on the corner of his clothes, Zhao Jingzi glared at Li Dan dissatisfiedly: "You can't say something auspicious? On the occasion of this good news, what a downfall in the city, how frustrating!"

"Well, if I don't pour some cold water, you'll have to chant a poem in a while, right?"

"Oh, yes, I didn't expect that."

"Forget it." Li Dan waved his hand as if to drive him away: "Brother, Leijiawan is fighting hotly, that Taigong has already attacked three times, you still have the heart to compose poetry?" He shook his head.

"What if he attacked three times, and didn't he return with a feather?" Zhao Jingzi was disdainful: "If you don't drill your pockets honestly, you have to attack the village thanklessly, and this Mao Taigong is nothing more than that!"

"Not necessarily." Li Dan shook his head: "If his attack on the village is fake, is it possible?"

Zhao Jingzi's expression froze for a moment, and then turned back suspiciously: "You mean...... What is he doing to show us?"

"I don't think he's going to really attack the stockade." Li Dan propped his hands on the battlements and said thoughtfully:

"You see, from the intelligence, that old guy is not a stunned man, he has not seen anything in 20 years of fighting, killing and killing, will he not be able to see that this stockade is a turtle shell, with his more than 1,000 people can't knock it at all? Then why did he insist on attacking the city now that he saw it?"

"Maybe I was forced by Katehanako." Zhao Jingzi thought for a moment and replied.

"Perhaps, but Dong Qi is Tatehanako's favorite general, and after his side lost Tatehanako's side, it was exposed, and the main force of Tatebe must stop to pick him up and help him consolidate his defense.

So I don't think there's a need for Katehana to take Leijiawan immediately, immediately, and now, right?"

"That...... It's also true that Mao Taicheng is attacking Leijiawan, what do you think he means?"

Li Dan patted the battlements beside him: "I had an idea last night, tell me for you to refer to.

You say, could it be that Tatehuazi just made a show to the leaders of all walks of life, showing that he had indeed sent troops, but in fact, he didn't expect Mao Taigong to take the hard bone of Leijiawan soon?"

"Just to hold back the defenders of Leijiawan and not return to the defense?" Zhao Jingzi suddenly had some enlightenment: "He wants to hold us back, and we want to hold them down......."

"Of course, the more enemy troops that Three Lakes Fort holds, the better it will be for us." Li Dan turned around: "So you should still remind Uncle Ma Jiu that the more enemies he destroys, the more painful it will hurt to fight that Taigong, the better!"

We and the government of the south and the north, pulling the lake bandits back and forth, making it difficult for them to take care of both. Doesn't Katehana like to hesitate?

Then let him hesitate, and in the end, he has to move, so as to suppress the doubts of the masters from all walks of life, and if he dares to move, he may show his feet and negligence, so that we can find the weakness and beat him!"

The repair of the Yugan city wall was gradually approaching completion in the days when Leijiawan and Santang Town began, and Master Fan was quite satisfied with the round-up and consolidation of the city wall.

Because the façade began to be painted

The amount of cement has increased significantly, and in order to waterproof, the cement from the wall base up four feet is also mixed with boiled fish gelatin.

The Qian family took the initiative to take charge of the façade project, the supply of cement was the Xu family, and the lime and river sand were handed over to the Wu family and the Zhao family respectively.

After discussing with Li Dan, Li Yan came forward to contract the transportation of materials to various construction sites, and in the process, he came into contact with heavy horse-drawn carts, which carried 30 stones each, which made him excited.

"This carriage invented by Saburo is really a good thing!" He mentioned it more than once. Aunt Cui listened to it and said that since it is a good thing, you might as well join the stock as well.

Li Yan felt that he was an elder who couldn't pull his face, so he asked Aunt Cui to come forward and encourage Li Zhi to mention it to Li Dan. Who wants Li Dan to answer very simply:

"This matter is not in a hurry now, when the manufacture of the chariot to repel the lake bandits will definitely be expanded, and there will be a public offering at that time, and the third uncle will naturally have a chance!" Li Yan was very happy to see that his nephew did not object, and even offered to offer that he would be the first to subscribe to the car in the future.

The ease of the relationship with the third uncle made Li Dan also breathe a sigh of relief, and after Aunt Qian learned about it, she took the initiative to visit Grandma Shu San, and gave her some things, saying that she was grateful to the third uncle for his support to Dan Ge'er and so on.

Li Zhu also went to the county government department to assist in the work and met with his younger brother more, and the relationship between the two families improved significantly.

There are also two pieces of good news that were sent from Wannian Sun Xun this morning, and at the same time arrived 2,700 catties of iron ingots and more than 300 catties of ash powder (manganese oxide) and more than 600 catties of quartz that Li Dan designated.

Sun Xun's people brought Song Xiucai's letter, in which he first said that he had met Lou Liang without dishonoring his mission, but after talking with him, Lou Liang did not reply immediately, and finally persuaded the other party during the second visit.

Lou Liang promised to go to Geyang Yunyun within a month after settling down at home. This made Li Dan both happy and worried.

"I found someone to invite a very learned gentleman to teach, after all, after the child pacified the thieves, he still had to take the road of the imperial examination." Li Dan told his aunt.

Xiao Qian heard that he was overjoyed, and said that it was great, it doesn't matter how much money you spend to invite your husband.

Li Dan sighed secretly in his heart, because he vaguely remembered that Ge Yang had fallen into the hands of the rebels in history, but he didn't remember when.

So he wrote a letter to Sun She (Tie Linglong) who stayed in Geyang and Sheng Huaien to Guangxin City, telling them about asking Lou for forgiveness, and at the same time asking them to give necessary care.

In a letter to Sun She, he instructed him to send several capable and astute brothers to pick up Mr. Lou.

Tell him that there are a lot of traitors roaming around Geyang, and if the safety is immeasurable, there is no need to force Mr. to set off immediately, or sit and watch the situation, or change the route and go directly to Wannian to contact Sun Xun.

Another piece of good news is that the replacement of the people of Raozhou has left Wannian on the road, and Sun She reported that it is estimated that around the time of receiving the letter, these people will be able to arrive in Geyang, and their mission will be over.

This news made Li Dan ponder for a while. Although he hoped that Sun She would bring people back to Yugan as soon as possible, if there was a team of thousands and hundreds of people, even if only half of them were left, it would be a great help to him.

But from a strategic point of view, this group of people going directly to Yingtan will be more helpful to uproot the layout behind the enemy of Ren'an.

According to the reports of Sun She and Su Bitou, the number of members of the Chashan Society in the team has exceeded 20%, and such a relatively united team should not be weaker than these people brought back by themselves in terms of combat strength.

Li Dan finally told Sun She in the letter that except for a small number of troops to protect the return of the people, the main force should enter the vicinity of Yingtan to establish a camp and wait for the opportunity to move.

This victory in Santang not only annihilated the 2,000 lake bandits who came to attack, but also killed the Chen father and son who had been doing evil in Huxi for many years, and greatly boosted the morale of the naval army, district teams, regimental training, inspection sub-divisions, and even militia township Yong who participated in the war.

More importantly, by cutting off the claws of the western flank, Li Dan could devote himself to dealing with Tatehanako and others in the east, avoiding a two-front battle.

He is now asking Zhao Jingzi to transfer back some of the troops participating in the battle, and under the condition that Jinxi Lake and this side form a tacit understanding, Da Baiyan should immediately return to Huxi and sweep away the remnants of the pro-stone brain village forces, so there is no need to leave too many defenders in the west.

Yang Yi, Zhou Qin, and Yang Dayi are all retreating, Liu Qi

With the support of Shenbu and Ruihong Township, the district team is ready to be transferred to Tangxi to station, and cooperate with the inspection division to completely block the land communication channel from Hudong to Huxi.

This time, all the troops involved in the war made a small fortune. Zhou Qin captured twenty-seven boats!

The armor and weapons of all units were replaced, and in addition to the capture of beheadings and prisoners, each combatant received a minimum of one penny of silver, and each unit directly facing the enemy army was given an additional penny and five cents, so the morale was not low.

Especially after seeing the blood, although Yang Yi only said that it would be a draw, the embarrassed Liu Qi did not dare to take it seriously, and finally invited the sentry chief to his other courtyard for a big meal, and since then he no longer has a contempt for the team training.

A small number of the nearly 1,000 captives captured were screened and killed, and the rest were sent to Gubu to cut trees, saw wood, and dig coal.

Although Li Dan and Fan Xianling reached a tacit understanding and did not announce the news for the time being, the city defense group Lian and Xiangyong suddenly changed their new weapons, which made many people guess.

Everyone in the city guessed that it was a big victory, but when they ran to ask the group practitioners, they shook their heads blankly and said they didn't know.

Eh, no matter what, anyway, it must be where these guys are winning, otherwise how could they have so many weapons all at once?

In fact, not all of the weapons that were reissued were seized this time, and many of them were newly built part of the "military industrial base" run by Li Dan in Yujiazhai under the auspices of Tang Kai, especially the easy-to-build guns and spears, and more than 400 were delivered.

Tang Kai also handed over 300 sets of rattan helmets and bamboo armor. Although the defense is weaker than the iron armor, it is stronger than nothing, at least it can make novices who have never been on the battlefield more courageous, and the degree of injury can be greatly reduced.

What people can see most with the naked eye are the catapults erected on the city walls, and more than a dozen have been erected on each wall, where operators and villagers practice how to aim, adjust angles, launch and reset every day.

Each unit has a veteran of the regiment training as the "commander" of the car, shouting loudly and directing everyone to repeat each action back and forth.

Out of the corner of their eyes, they often glanced proudly at the idlers watching on the road under the city, and shouted:

"Sweat more before the war, bleed less during the war!" We have all inspected and said: only when the artillery is well trained can the infantry have courage. Lao Tzu is this guts, do you remember them?"

Li Dan quietly found Aunt Su in Chunxiang Building and arranged for her to send the girls out to various training grounds and construction sites to "watch the excitement".

Aunt Su said what kind of idle thing is this, you should give a serious job. Li Dan laughed and said that this was a serious messenger.

The key is that if there are one or two little ladies in the crowd, it will be fatal, and these sweaty men will be more energetic, shouting louder, and more diligent!