With the cool evening breeze, Xiao Jiu and his entourage returned to the cottage, this time the grain harvesting process was very smooth, especially when they were leaving, the eager eyes of those people made the group of mountain bandits in Hare Mountain feel for the first time that the original taste of respect was so wonderful.

It was from this day that they really knew what Xiao Jiu usually talked about, the power of the people, what it was.

They used to be like the peasants, just living for the sake of living, but now, there was a fire in their hearts, boiling in their chests.

Perhaps, they can really be like those thieves in the story, hoeing the strong and helping the weak.

Xiao Jiu looked at the smiles on his subordinates' lips inadvertently, and clearly understood that what he saw and heard today had planted a seed in their hearts, and as long as there was the right soil, it would continue to grow.

One day, they will live for their ideals.

When Xiao Jiu and his entourage returned to the cottage, it was already late at night, and after letting everyone go back to their residences to rest, Xiao Jiu also lay on his bed and thought about how to make the next move.

What he did in Jarzi Village today will soon spread throughout Lingshui County, and when those landlords hear the news, they will definitely do everything possible to obstruct the grain requisition.

But since he had already taken the first step, Xiao Jiu didn't want to give up like this, especially the eager eyes of those people, which deeply touched Xiao Jiu's weakest heartstrings.

There will certainly be resistance, but by distributing food to the poor himself, he is also sending them a friendly signal, at least not to be organized by these landlords who own land and form a village-scale resistance.

Thinking about it, Xiao Jiu, who had been busy all day, gradually fell asleep.

Three days have passed, and the people and horses in the cottage have already rested and are ready to go down the mountain again to collect the New Year's grain.

also wanted to train Jin Zi and Zhang Ben's two subordinates, and prepared to let them lead the team, but the trip was not so smooth.

This time, the object was a larger village, a little farther away from the cottage, and when the sky was slightly bright, Xiao Jiu had already set off.

The village is called Xiaozhuang Village, and most of them have the surname Zhuang, hence the name.

There were no big landlords in the village, but there were quite a few small landlords with more than twenty acres of land, and these people, after hearing about what had happened in the village of jars, decided to unite and organize resistance.

Therefore, when the men and horses of Hare Mountain were 100 meters away from Xiaozhuang Village, a feathered arrow shot out from the entrance of the village, grazing the scalp of the gold and flying over, almost piercing the face of the gold.

Xiao Jiu looked at the flying feather arrow, and his heart was also sweating, and he released the arrow directly before he arrived, which was equivalent to showing his attitude: they had the determination to go to war.

Immediately, Xiao Jiu raised an arm, signaled to stop advancing, and after whispering a few words to Zhang Ben, Zhang Ben led a few of his men to leave from the side and rear, while Xiao Jiu himself and Jin Zi continued to move forward.

The man who secretly shot the arrow was a stout young man, one of the richest men in the village, who had first decided to unite against the requisition.

Similarly, the arrow just now didn't expect to kill anyone, it was just showing his strength, wanting Xiao Jiu to retreat, but since Xiao Jiu had already made up his mind, how could he retreat so easily.

If you eat deflated food in Xiaozhuang Village, then you don't have to collect food from other villages.

I can only fight hard.

Xiao Jiu divided the people into two teams, preparing to find out the situation of the village first, if he could capture the leader, this union would be easy to break.

When Xiao Jiu walked to the entrance of the village, more than 20 men were holding farm tools or kitchen knives, looking at Xiao Jiu and the others with serious faces, just looking at their clothes, they didn't look like some poor people.

"The leader came out to reply."

Jin Zi took the lead and took the lead in asking questions, but he was greeted by a silence, and the two groups of people confronted each other like this, and the atmosphere instantly froze.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu slowly stepped forward from behind, threw the feather arrow shot from Xiaozhuang Village on the ground before, and said, "Who shot this arrow?" ”

The crowd remained silent.

"Don't you say it? I hope you don't regret it. ”

After Xiao Jiu finished speaking, he and Jin Zi returned to the side of the Hare Mountain and everyone did not leave, so they were deadlocked.

While the two sides were secretly competing, a sky-high fire burst out in the depths of Xiaozhuang Village, and then the pitch-black smoke erupted upward, forming a column of smoke.

Seeing this, everyone in Xiaozhuang Village, who was confronting Xiao Jiu and his party, was full of horror between their eyes, and then they heard Xiao Jiu's voice coming.

"You and I will face each other for an hour more, and there will be one more fire in the village, give you two a choice, hand over the leader or watch your home burn down, choose one."

As soon as the words fell, in the crowd confronting Xiao Jiu, a stout man roared angrily: "They want to set fire to us, and the villagers fight with him." ”

When Xiao Jiu heard this roar, he directly asked a few mountain bandits with bows and arrows on their backs to shoot arrows at everyone, but these bows and arrows of his own were sharpened wooden branches, and they couldn't poke people at all.

But in the face of dozens of bows and arrows, the group in Xiaozhuang Village could only hurriedly find cover to dodge.

It was still the man who spoke before in the crowd, and he pulled out a bow and arrow out of nowhere, directly at Xiao Jiu, who was in the lead, and shot it towards the front door, this arrow Xiao Jiu had seen before, if he was really shot by this iron arrow cluster, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die.

Fortunately, Xiao Jiu had already prepared, bent down to dodge this arrow, spit on it, and had already made up his mind in his heart that he would not be able to leave him today.

Immediately, Xiao Jiu picked up the machete in his hand, rode forward, and roared angrily: "Cut the one who shoots the arrow, and the rest will not be killed." ”

After receiving Xiao Jiu's order, all the mountain bandits in Hare Mountain looked at the man with the bow and arrow, and the man was suddenly stared at by so many eyes, and his heart also panicked.

When I saw a few villagers who confronted the mountain bandits with me, and saw the panicked expressions on the faces of the mountain bandits when they rushed up, I knew that these timid "villagers" were no longer reliable.

In particular, Xiao Jiu's sentence of disarming and not killing has broken through the psychological defense line of some people, and several people and horses have been cut down one after another by a group of people from Hare Mountain, and the front is immediately in chaos.

As soon as the fight broke out, the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village fell one after another, and these villagers who can only be brave by relying on a large number of people can compare to these people who train every day in Hare Mountain.

I saw that the mountain bandits of Hare Mountain, who knew how to cooperate with each other, kept slashing, and the situation gradually became a one-sided situation, and the leading man who used bows and arrows in the crowd saw that something was wrong, and began to flee for his life.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu shouted at the top of his voice: "The leader has run away, catch the leader." ”

In an instant, everyone in the arms fight turned their heads to look at the man who was running back, and the Xiaozhuang Village Alliance, which had been able to resist for a while, instantly collapsed in morale, threw away the weapons in their hands, and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands.