Lin Quan'an was forced to do nothing, and then he realized that the short-haired man's money was not so easy to make, and said: "Your accent is still a bit weird, so it's better to talk less when you go in. [Read the latest chapter]"
When we arrived at the village, the gate was open, with horses blocked in front of the door. There were also several village warriors standing guard, and there were village warriors watching on the sentry tower. The defense is pretty tight. Lin Quanan was familiar with the locals, so he said hello a few times, stuffed some small items, and took Xue Ziliang in.
There were about 200 households in the village, most of them had stone walls and thatched roofs, and some poor ones had walls and roofs made of bamboo. Xue Ziliang was very surprised when he saw them. But he didn't come here for sightseeing, he just remembered the appearance of the road and where he was going. There were no pedestrians in the village, only some old and young people, probably all going to work.
Lin Quan'an was playing the drum of a salesman all the way. When the women saw him coming, they all gathered around to buy some needles, threads and things. Some people who don't have money can exchange eggs and dried powder. After a while, he had a lot of things piled on him. Xue Ziliang followed Lin Quan'an for almost a week, and there was only one gate in the entire village. The village wall is only over three meters high. It is made of rammed earth and stone. It is very solid. There are almost no traces of peeling and erosion. It is almost as strong as cement. There are a few wooden watchtowers here and there on the wall. You can see defensive equipment such as stones and rolling logs piled on the wall, and there seems to be artillery and the like. There are no defensive facilities in the village. The so-called inner wall is just a relatively tall courtyard wall. More than ten households of the Gou family are concentrated in those connected houses. In order to prevent fire, the entire house and the surrounding buildings are The residential houses are separated by very wide streets, and at first glance it feels like a village within a village.
But if you take a closer look, you will see that this house wall is not simple. Although I heard that there are more than ten Gou family houses there, there are only two entrances and exits, namely the main entrance in the south and the back entrance in the north. Facing the street in front is a tall gatehouse. On both sides of the gatehouse are inverted houses with brick eaves. There are gun holes in the back wall, through which blunderbuss and shotguns can be fired. The thick elm door was covered with iron leaves and was nailed with rows of large-headed pig iron nails. It would be extremely difficult to cut it open with an axe. The back door is small but strong, and the wall is made of stones, about four meters high. The stones under the foundation of the wall are not thin.
However, these obstacles are not worth mentioning to the time travellers. Xue Ziliang felt that it was a bit unnecessary to conduct reconnaissance in person. With the little firepower of the military team, it was easy to break Zhuangzi. The only difficulty was how to open the village gate. The gate was made of wood and was very thick. There were also Huge overhead door bars. It would be best to blow open the village gate directly, but the military team does not have explosive equipment, maybe use oil to burn it?
After leaving Zhuangzi, Xue Ziliang returned to the woods and wrote down all the key points he saw in his notebook. He also drew a map of the village. Those who stayed in the woods also took some photos of the appearance with long-focus lenses.
Wang Rui said to Xue Ziliang: "Let's send the reconnaissance plane out to take some information."
Xue Ziliang originally thought it was a bit redundant, but when he thought that the situation in the inner house was not clear yet. After conquering Zhuangzi, it would take a lot of effort to attack the inner house, and the road environment was not familiar, so he agreed. After Wang Ruixiang heard this, he was very excited and went to assemble the large model aircraft.
This thing is so huge that it takes three people to carry it when it is disassembled. Adding a bunch of miscellaneous accessories, fuel, a set of cameras and a notebook to receive signals, a few people quickly installed a large model aircraft. However, There was a problem only after installing it. There is no concrete floor here!
This kind of large model aircraft is no better than a small remote control aircraft. It has to taxi to take off and land. In modern time and space, it is easy to find a flat place. Even in remote rural areas, there are always roads or cement paved drying areas. A playground or grass field that is really not flat is fine, but at this moment these conditions are not available.
It would have been okay to level a piece of land outside the woods, but they had no tools. Secondly, making such a big noise in the open land would definitely attract patrols. In desperation, they had no choice but to pack up their things and go back. The government is over. The first aerial reconnaissance operation ended in failure.
"We must activate a rocket-assisted take-off system!" Wang Ruixiang said hatefully.
"Let's go back and look for opportunities along the way to catch two people!"
"Tongue grabbing?"
"That's right." Xue Ziliang was already familiar with this Chinese slang, "Some things need to be clarified by asking them."
"Sure!" A group of people were gearing up, except for the dejected Wang Ruixiang.
Xue Ziliang divided the people into two groups and lurked in the woods on both sides of the road. This place is not far or close to Zhuangzi, so there is enough time to retreat and avoid accidentally arresting irrelevant people. In order to avoid causing too much disturbance, it was decided to use knives and Wang Ruixiang's short crossbow if necessary.
The weather in Lingao, no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, can be around 30 degrees during the day in autumn and winter. Staying in the woods without ventilation, it is so hot that several people are sweating all over. Although they have applied insect repellent water on their bodies, all kinds of flying insects and mosquitoes are exposed. The flies kept biting them, making the few recruits moan incessantly. Fortunately, more than a month of hard training has cultivated their willpower, and no one is walking around.
There were sporadic people walking around on the road, but there was no one worth catching. After a long time, I saw a small sedan with a green cloth sail coming up the road. A man who looked like a gentleman was lying with his back stretched out. Followed by about a dozen servants and servants, there was another maid-like figure, holding a package in her hand, walking beside the sliding pole.
Ye Mengyan was a little nervous, so he quickly crawled over and asked Xue Ziliang: "Captain, a big guy is here!"
Xue Ziliang nodded. It was obvious that he was a big shot in Goujiazhuang, and maybe it was Gou Da himself. Apart from the guide, we have four people on our side, so we have a good chance of winning.
He thought for a moment and saw Lin Quan'an. The hawker was shocked - every time this short-haired man looked at him like this, it was bad. Sure enough, Xue Ziliang called him over again.
The person sitting on this sliding pole is none other than Gou Xunli, the second son of the head of the Gou family, the leader of the underworld in Lingao County who lives in the city. He recently received news that the pirates from Bairentan have arrived at the Ma Niao Salt Farm. This Gou Xunli had read some books, had been in charge of government affairs in the county town, and had handled litigation for many years, so he was very knowledgeable. He knew that the Ma Niao Salt Farm was a big source of wealth for the county, and his brother Gou Xunyi spent a lot of effort to control the salt farm. The thief Kun sent a small team to the salt farm, needless to say, to grab this piece of fat. A few days ago, I heard word from people in the yamen that the thieves sent people to see Master Wang and wanted to take over the salt class. Gou Er knew something was wrong and quickly ordered the sedan chair to go back to the village - countermeasures must be taken as soon as possible.
He is different from Gou Xunyi. The modern saying is that his appearance is not that ugly. He always knows that there is room for error in everything, so even though he is a feared and powerful figure in the county, his reputation is not too bad. In contrast, Gou Xunyi is a tyrannical figure who takes both the right and the wrong, fearing that his bad deeds will not be adequate or cruel enough. Gou Xunli was a little worried about his eldest brother. This pirate Kun Hai was not an ordinary little bandit. If there was a conflict between the two parties, the Gou family would definitely suffer a big loss.
Gou Xunli planned to persuade Gou Xunyi and send people to talk to the thieves as soon as possible to transfer some of the interests of the salt farm and make peace with each other to make money. He guessed that the bandits wanted to stay in Lingao for a long time. They are powerful, and if they can climb up, it may not be a bad thing to suffer a small loss in front of them. Just as he was thinking about this idea, thinking about how to convince his grumpy big brother, the slide suddenly stopped, he opened his eyes and asked, "What's going on?"
The head servant came back and said: "There is a hawker on the road who wants to complain."
Gou Xunli cursed: "Asshole." He thought that it was probably the servants of the village or the village yong who robbed the vendors. These gangsters knew how to be lawless, and they didn't understand the reason why rabbits would not eat the grass beside their nests. He waved his hand in disgust: "Drive him away."
As they were talking, suddenly a bowstring sounded on the roadside, and a crossbow arrow was inserted into the bearer's neck. His eyes rolled, and both the person and the sedan fell to the ground. The group of people suddenly became a mess.
With a whistle, four people rushed out from the roadside, all waving bright short knives in their hands. The guard's servant had no time to draw the knife, and his neck was wiped and he fell to the ground, with blood pouring out from his neck. . This incident happened so fast that people couldn't react. Several servants were so panicked that they even forgot to draw their swords. Instead, they picked up their scabbards and slashed at the people who came by.
Ye Mengyan didn't have time to recall the feeling of killing someone for the first time, when he saw a servant with a ferocious expression rushing toward him waving a sheathed knife. I couldn't help but take a few steps back, tripped over the corpse on the ground, and fell to the ground - I felt a sense of fear, mother, I'm going to die! He felt confused in his heart, but he subconsciously thrust out the knife in his hand. The sharp knife pierced the opponent's stomach like cutting tofu, and easily lost the handle. Ye Mengyan watched the man in front of him with his eyes wide open. He slumped down with a distorted face, and something like intestines flowed out from under his body. His heart suddenly turned upside down, and he spurted out all the compressed dry food he had eaten for lunch in one mouthful. The shot was far and accurate, hitting the person who was lying under the sedan in panic. The maid's face was so frightened by the scene before her that she couldn't move. The little girl was struck by this sour and smelly "**". She couldn't tell that she was ugly and Yinmao, so she fainted from fright on the spot.
Although there were many servants, they were unprepared. Four of them died in one attack. Arrows kept shooting from the grass. Everyone was not interested in fighting and ran away. Six corpses and two wounded were left on the ground, and three prisoners were captured alive, including a maid. Unfortunately, the man on the slide ran away the moment the sedan fell down, moving as fast as a rabbit.
Xue Ziliang ordered that the wounded and women should be left alone, and that the prisoners should be tied up and left quickly. Ye Mengyan saw that the girl had pretty features and insisted on taking her away. Xue Ziliang felt bored for a while, so he had to ask a prisoner to carry the girl on his back, and the group quickly retreated. After all, these people were not professional soldiers. After killing people, they couldn't help but panic. They drove the prisoners all the way without even feeling tired. Xue Ziliang saw that the faces of the team members became very bad, so he quickly contacted Bairencheng through the radio and asked them to send a car to meet them. When they returned to the camp, before they had time to complete the handover and write a report, several people had already vomited.
