In the wind and snow, several heroes from Qinglong Camp, with anxious expressions on their faces, hurried back on horseback.
Fearing that something might happen, Xu Mu would ask Wei Feng to send several men and horses every day to patrol thirty miles away in front of Mati Lake.
Once a disaster is discovered, report it immediately back to the village.
Xu Mu frowned and stepped out of the house again. Several riding sentries dismounted their horses and spoke quickly without taking a breath.
"My boss, something bad is going on! Outside the road, there are broken troops!"
"Speak slowly, what's wrong?"
"The officers and soldiers were killing the rebels, but for some unknown reason, a large group of broken soldiers suddenly escaped and headed towards Horseshoe Lake."
Listening, Xu Mu frowned. He didn't want to think about the problem now. The most important thing at the moment was how to defend Zhuangzi.
"how many people?"
"About two thousand."
"Go, go into the back mountain to find your leader, and ask him to lead people to get the horses immediately."
"Don't worry, boss." The sentry who reported the news hurriedly ran to the back mountain.
Xu Mu's face darkened. If the 2,000-man rout was not handled properly, the entire Zhuangzi would suffer.
"Chen Sheng, let the mountain hunters gather. If there is an iron bow, take it first and kill the enemy."
Xu Mu's intention is to equip more than a hundred mountain hunting archers with an iron bow, but in today's situation, even if he has a private soldier notarized, the official shop may not be able to sell such a large quantity.
He had offended all the official offices in several nearby cities.
The best way is to build it yourself, but where can I find iron now? In troubled times, food, iron, and salt are the most precious things.
"In addition, call all the villagers outside into the village."
Because the winter snow came so quickly, the brick-burning had to be stopped, and the entire Xujiazhuang was only surrounded by half a circle. It was previously planned to use cement, but considering the high temperature required for calcining quicklime, it was too harsh, so we had to think of another way in the future.
However, if you only need to defend half of the wall, I guess it won't be a big problem.
"Xu Lang, what happened?" Jiang Caiwei, who was keeping accounts, came over with Sister Lian and several other women.
"Nothing. Caiwei, go watch the people in the village and don't let them run around."
"The slave family is going now."
"Brother Mu, Brother Mu, I'm back!" Si Hu didn't care about eating the steamed cake anymore. After giving it to several children, he also went to the cleaver and hurried to Xu Mu.
"Follow me to the stairs."
Walking calmly, Xu Mu frowned and walked towards the sentry tower.
The three old men who were having a drink saw Xu Mu approaching and hurriedly picked up the wine bowls and peanuts and stepped out of the way.
"Three seniors, why not take a rest."
"I'm afraid that if you piss me off, I'll draw my sword and fly down." Zhuge Fan said angrily.
"I fight with my son."
Chen Datie remained silent, twisting the peanuts one after another and throwing them into his mouth.
Xu Mu sighed helplessly. The three old men in front of him didn't seem to be ordinary people, so he had to give up.
"My boss, I saw the army was defeated."
Gongou, who was on the top of the building, suddenly spoke in a grave tone.
Xu Mu frowned slightly, lowered his head and saw that Wei Feng, with a figure of nearly 500 riders, began to mount his horse with swords.
More than a hundred mountain hunting archers were also divided into three columns. Under the command of Chen Jiaqiao, they raised their bows high.
There were also dozens of young men from Zhuangzi, who had knives and swords, but who had no swords to carry sticks. They carefully blocked the walls of Zhuangzi to prevent the defeated army from rushing in.
"The defeated army of two thousand people should be regarded as an appetizer."
At some point, Jia Zhou walked over.
"Mr. Wenlong."
"My lord, those who have the strength in numbers will definitely want to fight quickly. They are just ordinary people who are fighting and robbing. If they can defeat the first wave of force, there is nothing to fear."
In fact, Jia Zhou was not wrong. The army that is about to collapse before us, in the final analysis, was just a miserable man who could not survive.
But there is no way, everyone has to live. This is the case in troubled times. Every piece of stability, peace and joy is created with one knife at a time.
"My boss, Wuli." Gongou said calmly and picked up the little Wan Gong in his arms.
"Raise your bow!" Chen Jiaqiao raised his sword and pointed far away.
Behind him, three teams of more than a hundred mountain hunting archers began to twist arrows with cold faces.
Wei Feng let go of the hand that tied his robe and armor, and then lowered it, stroking the southwest-maned horse under his crotch several times. Finally, he raised his head coldly.
"Raise the knife!"
There are too many people, which is not conducive to the enemy with long guns. At this time, for the boss to get close, long swords are the most useful.
The newly joined thirty or forty young men were riding horses. Their expressions were a little hasty at first, but when they looked back at Zhuangzi a few times, their eyes suddenly became determined.
Sister Lian and dozens of women also carried wooden long bows on their backs and climbed to the heights of Zhuangzi.
"This place is where we will settle down and live our lives. There are family elders above and wives and children below. I, Xu Mu, asked if I could take a step back!"
"Don't retreat!"
Countless voices roared through the wind and snow, causing frost and snow to fall from time to time in the nearby bare forest.
Xu Mu was very satisfied and raised his eyes again, looking coldly at the two thousand defeated troops that were about to rush towards them.
Obviously he could escape north along the official road, but he wanted to rush into the small road to seek death. He really looked like a soft persimmon in Xujiazhuang, Matihu Lake.
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"The defeated army rushed to Horseshoe Lake." Youwen walked back to the carriage, his voice couldn't stop being happy.
Not far away, the general who had put away his sword began to greet several captains, preparing to divide the money.
"Zizhong, I just said that there should be no problem with this matter. The defeated army of two thousand people can't even gather the private soldiers of a thousand people on the other side of Horseshoe Lake."
"What did the assistant general say?"
Lu Zizhong was still worried. He had encountered too many things about the chain suddenly falling off.
"The general said, wait for about half a day before collecting the body." You Wencai laughed.
"I can't wait." Lu Zizhong paused and suddenly showed a slightly nervous expression, "Uncle Third, why don't you go and break off a dead willow branch."
"What is Zizhong going to do?"
"Whip the corpse!"
Lu Yuan was startled, then burst into laughter.
You Wencai, who was beside him, also laughed loudly, but before he could laugh a few more times, he immediately stopped talking, tightly wrapped in his black robe, and ran into the wind and snow.
"What, what?"
A figure on horseback came coldly from afar. Even the general who wanted to share the money frowned and stopped, walked up and gave him a fist.
"Silver Knife Guard, a certain family is polite."
Gu Ying looked coldly and did not answer. He only raised his head and looked around several times.
"The Marquis wants to ask, how was the battle with the defeated army?"
"There were some defeats...the army was defeated in such great force that we couldn't stop it, so we escaped for a while."
"Where did you escape?"
"The snow is too heavy and I can't see clearly."
Gu Ying sneered, took out the sheath of his long knife and cut into pieces the bird's shoulder of the general in front of him.
"You should know who I am. Could it be that I can't remember clearly the time when Shang Fangjian killed one hundred and twenty-three dog officials? Or is it that I followed the Marquis back then and won the rank of Zheng5 with amnesty for my military exploits? Silver Sword Guard, you can’t count?”
"Silver Knife Guard is Ma, Horseshoe Lake!"
Gu Ying returned the knife and turned his attention to the carriage next to him. Lu Yuan, who was just getting out of the car to break the dead willow branches, was completely hit.
"Mr. Lu, take more tonics these days, otherwise, my little boss will really beat you to death in the next round."
Lu Zizhong, who was sitting in the carriage, his eyes glazed over and his whole body began to twitch inexplicably.
