Hare Hill Cottage, Council Chamber.

Xiao Jiu was still sitting on the main seat, surrounded by a group of Hare Mountain bandits led by Zhang Ben and Jinzi, and at this time this group of people were looking at the young man kneeling on the ground.

That young man was Li Zheng, the youngest son of Li Gui, the chief of Lijia Town, crying about the kidnapping of Li Gui and his eldest brother.

"I deceive people too much, dare to tie people up on our territory, so I will take people down the mountain to chop up these miscellaneous pieces." , Jin Zi, who was a little impatient, took the lead in speaking, listening to Li Zheng's crying, and instantly went up, and Zhang Ben on the side also echoed loudly.

At this time, Hare Mountain is in the limelight, it is the time when the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, the gold has been holding back a belly of anger since the last time he was injured in Xiaozhuang Village, and there is no place to scatter it, and now Li Gui, the God of Wealth of the cottage, was kidnapped on his own territory, how can he bear it.

Zhang Ben also became more and more inflated after the strength of the cottage grew, and he was worried that the day's training was useless, thinking that it was time to knock on the forces around the cottage.

The other mountain bandits in the hall were infected by the emotions of the two, and the scene boiled instantly, only Lao Ma frowned and looked at Xiao Jiu, who had been expressionless.

"Quiet."

At the exit of Xiao Jiu of the main seat, the hot hall gradually quieted down, and everyone looked at Xiao Jiu together, only then did they remember that the real person in charge of Hare Mountain had not yet expressed their position, so they all shut up.

When the hall was silent, Xiao Jiucai looked at the kneeling Li Zheng, and slowly spoke: "Are your father sure that he was tied up at the mouth of the eagle's beak?" ”

Li Zheng heard Xiao Jiuzheng ask himself, and replied: "The day before yesterday, my father and son drove back from the county seat, and when they reached the mouth of the eagle's beak, they were directly robbed by a few strongmen who came out. ”

Xiao Jiu looked at this crying Li Zheng, thinking that he was also frightened today, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Did your father mention my Hare Mountain?" ”

Li Zheng stopped crying when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "I said it, my father said that it was your old friend, but those thieves said that they were from a foreign country and didn't know what Hare Mountain was, so they only let me take fifty taels of silver to ransom people at the mouth of the eagle's mouth." ”

After listening to Li Zheng's words, Xiao Jiu couldn't help frowning.

Stranger? Could it be that these outsiders dared to kidnap people casually without inquiring after hearing about Hare Mountain? If it's a passing rogue, I'm afraid it will probably kill people directly.

deliberately let one go and let him ransom people with money, if it weren't for the fact that the leader of this group of people was a reckless man with an iron head, there must have been fraud in this matter.

But Li Gui still has to be saved, not to mention how he has a relationship with Xiao Jiu, this Li Gui has always acted as an intermediary between Hare Mountain and Li Jiazhen, if this bond is broken, I am afraid that it will affect the trust relationship between the two parties.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Jiu made a decision in his heart, and then arranged the division of labor.

When Jin Zi heard that he was going to take his own team to inspect Hare Mountain, he pouted slightly, and couldn't help but feel that Xiao Jiu was making a fuss, but Xiao Jiu's order couldn't be refuted, after all, even his own life was saved by Xiao Jiu, although he was not angry, he still honestly took his life.

Xiao Jiu ordered twenty minions with Zhang Ben, rode on the horse and took Li Zheng down the mountain, and went straight to the eagle's beak twenty miles away.

Xiao Jiu and his entourage had just left the range of Hare Mountain, but several figures appeared in the forest at the foot of Hare Mountain.

"In charge, there was a young man on a horse in that group of people just now, if you can't figure it out, it's Xiao Jiu of Hare Mountain, won't you rob it directly?"

A mountain bandit wearing a shabby felt hat asked respectfully to the scar-faced man next to him, and the scar-faced man just shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to rob this group of people directly, and if I miss one of them and run back to the mountain, then Hare Mountain will be on guard." ”

"We are here for food this time, and without food, Xiao Jiu will become a duckweed, whatever we want."

After the man finished speaking, he raised the machete in his hand, swung it a few times in the direction of the hare mountain cottage, and commanded fifty or sixty men who were squatting here to advance along the forest.

Walking in a wooded area is not easy, not only to avoid the messy branches, but also to be on guard against poisonous insects hiding in the shadows.

But the group of people in front of them are all experts in the mountains and forests, exchanging chopping and cutting the way in front, and in less than two hours, they arrived at the back mountain not far from the cottage.

The group of people who made a detour from the woods, counting the walking time, knew that they were about to approach the Hare Mountain cottage, and they couldn't help but slow down their pace and constantly watch their surroundings.

As the group of four or five approached the stockade, one of the men at the front of the road fell to the ground, and then let out a scream.

It turned out that the man stepped on a trap arranged in the woods, and the soles of his feet were instantly pierced by sharpened wooden thorns, and the whole person fell to the ground after a wail, moaning continuously.

When the scar-faced man at the back of the crowd saw this scene, he instantly cheered up, greeted left and right, and quickened his pace to rush out of the forest.

And the gold in the cottage, because he received Xiao Jiu's order, was leading people to patrol within a hundred and ten meters around the cottage, and happened to be wandering around the forest at this time.

After hearing the scream coming from the forest, he instantly raised his vigilance, whispered a few words to a person next to him, and asked him to gather everyone in the cottage, and he took more than a dozen men who came with him to prepare to inquire into the forest.

In the end, the two groups of people looked at each other when they were separated by a distance of 100 meters, and the double hair that met was not nonsense, and after the scarface man gave an order, the group of people killed directly towards Jinzi.

Seeing that the other party was numerous, Najin Zi knew that he was preparing to attack the cottage, so he took a few of his subordinates who came with him and ran towards the outside of the forest without looking back, kept running, and kept shouting loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

When the gold ran to the wall of the cottage, the copper bell used for gathering in the village had been ringed, and the crisp sound instantly spread throughout the cottage, and the people in the entire village were quickly assembled.

Jin Zi and several people dodged into the stockade, and the pursuers behind followed closely, and the people of Hare Mountain gathered, and at this time they all leaned against the one-man high wall, standing inside, drawing their bows and shooting arrows outward.

The group of thieves who sneaked up also began to fight back after dodging the first volley, shooting arrows at the cottage with their bows, and when the rain of arrows stopped, the scar-faced man led by him waved his big knife and roared in his mouth: "Brothers, kill them all, grab food and money." ”

Then there was an earth-shattering shout of killing towards the stockade, and the people who had just gathered in Hare Mountain had not prepared before, and they were a little nervous looking at the rushing crowd.

Jin Zi, who had returned to the village, commanded everyone loudly, and determined the position in groups of three as usual during training, preparing to fight hand-to-hand with this group of enemies who attacked the cottage.

Jin Zi, who held a knife in one hand, was even more brave, and took the initiative to meet the rushing thief, and the big knife in his hand was slashed at the door of the head, and the Hare Mountain side was instantly driven, and the morale was greatly increased.

And Lao Ma, the other leader of the cottage, also took three of his men to the door of the granary at this time, each holding a tung oil torch in his hand, as long as the front defense line was breached, he would order the grain to be burned directly, and he would never cheapen the enemy with the grain in vain.