The Kong Family Courtyard occupies an extremely large area, comparable to the total area of ​​more than thirty ordinary households. It is surrounded by solid white brick walls and can be called a small town in Jiangpu County.

There are nine entrances in total to the front and rear of the house. The main house on each entrance is a large room with eight wide rooms, with six wide east and west wing rooms. In addition, there is a front square, a back garden, an east garden, and a west garden.

It reflects the luxurious style of local tycoons.

Yesterday, Li Jingshu hosted a banquet for Lan Qiao and Bai Xueyin in the bamboo canopy of Kongjiadong Garden.

The wall surrounding the Confucius Mansion is more than nine feet high and one foot thick. The gaps between the bricks and stones are filled with rice paste, making it indestructible. There is also a small tower more than ten feet high at each corner of the wall. The tower was originally a granary.

, the Kong family built a platform on the top of the tower for people to climb up and see the distance. It was also used as an arrow tower and gun tower when bandits invaded.

Now that the officers and soldiers occupied the Confucius mansion, the first thing they did was to place four archers on each small tower to stand guard high up. Zhang Zhongjie then divided out another twenty people to block the back door with heavy objects and debris.

The remaining more than 300 people gathered in the front square to prepare for any unexpected changes that might occur.

Feng Zhenyue walked through the long street under the cover of the rain curtain and found Lan Qiao and others: "Things have changed. Zhang Zhongjie seemed to be aware of the ambush in front of us and hid deliberately."

Bai Xueyin was shocked and said: "What should we do now?"

"Delaying is not an option." Feng Zhenyue said solemnly, "He must have sent people to ask for help while retreating into the Kong family to defend. If we wait for the reinforcements to arrive, not only will we not be able to save Ling'er, but all of us will also be destroyed.

it's here."

Lan Qiao said flatly: "Their messenger who went to ask for help must be intercepted."

Feng Zhenyue nodded and said: "I have arranged for Xu Yang and Wu Yi to intercept and kill anyone once they find someone leaving the Kong family compound."

Murong Ying reminded: "Even if we intercept all the couriers, the capital would have known about Zhang Zhongjie's itinerary. If they didn't wait at the dock for a long time, they would suspect that something had happened to Jiangpu."

"This is what I'm worried about." Feng Zhenyue said with a solemn face, "We can't wait any longer. We must attack immediately to rescue Ling'er before reinforcements arrive."

Lu Xueyu remained calm and calculated: "Assuming that all the messengers sent by Zhang Zhongjie were intercepted by Mr. Xu and Mr. Wu, according to Zhang Zhongjie's original plan, it would take half an hour to board the ferry boat, and another time to get to the other side and disembark.

Half an hour. In other words, after an hour, the officials waiting to receive the prisoners on the other side will notice something is wrong and immediately report it to their superiors. At most, half an hour later, the emperor will issue an order and send the capital's personal guards to Jiangpu.

It will take half an hour for the guards to mobilize the troops, and another half hour to cross the river. We still have two and a half hours to rescue Miss Feng, and then leave Jiangpu."

Being able to calculate their remaining time so carefully under such sudden changes, Lan Qiao, Bai Xueyin and Murong Ying all looked at Lu Xueyu with surprise and approval.

"That's right." Feng Zhenyue patted Lu Xueyu's shoulder and said, "So time waits for no one. I will let Ruhui enter the city now and surround the Kong family mansion."

Feng Zhenyue took out a firework rocket and shot it into the air, but it was extinguished by the heavy rain before it could explode. He took out a spare rocket, first broke the rain with two blasts of palm wind, and then fired the rocket again.

ejaculate.

The fireworks and rockets exploded smoothly, and the Langya cavalry from the north and the south rushed out together, entered the county town from the north and south sides of the long street, and surrounded the main entrance of the Kong family compound in a fan shape.

Feng Yueming rode on a white horse facing the main entrance of Confucius' mansion, raised his sword high and shouted: "Attack"

Zhang Zhongjie stood side by side with the Qianhu in the middle of the front square, and raised his voice: "The enemy is more than twice as strong as ours. If you want to survive, hold this gate for me. As long as we hold on for two hours, when reinforcements arrive, we will make a great contribution."

When the time comes to defeat the enemy, I’ll treat everyone to drinks and meat.”

The soldiers responded loudly, the crowd was excited, and their morale was extremely high.

The prison car that locked Feng Yeling was placed alone in the West Garden, leaving her to withstand the wind and rain. The sixteen soldiers who had just opened the way in front of the prison car were guarding the prison car and did not participate in the task of defending the Confucius Mansion.

These sixteen soldiers were the elites selected from this 400-man team. Now that they were out of sight of their superiors, they immediately relaxed. Some of them got into caves in the rockery to take shelter from the rain, and some took out dry food to eat in secret.

Others who were more daring reached into the prison car and took the opportunity to touch Feng Yeling's feet.

Because the yoke was too high, Feng Yeling tried his best to stay standing and was unable to avoid the intrusion of the officers and soldiers.

She grasped the sledge with her hands and kicked the man's hand with all her strength. However, due to lack of strength, she was caught by her feet.

The soldier laughed loudly and took off one of Feng Yeling's shoes with a simple pull. Feng Yeling was embarrassed and anxious, but couldn't break free, so she had to scream.

Another soldier thought it was funny and went to grab Feng Yeling's other foot.

As the only supporting leg left, Feng Yeling had no room to dodge. Seeing that he was about to be touched by that person, he suddenly heard the sudden sound of wind in his ears, and Lan Qiao flew past the rockery with one man and one sword.

The sword pointed directly at the soldier who attempted to invade Feng Yeling.

The soldier never expected that someone would attack him secretly. He quickly dodged in desperation, but he could not escape Lan Qiao's charged attack.

Lan Qiao's light sword drew a perfect arc and pierced the man's vest. Then he immediately rushed to the side of the prison car and said: "Ling'er"

"Husband" Feng Yeling couldn't help being surprised and happy when he saw it was Lan Qiao. At the same time, he felt ashamed that his other foot was still being grabbed.

She mustered up the courage to fight against the bloody scars on her wrists that were choked by the shackles, and flew up to kick the previous man's wrist with her supporting foot.

The man let go in pain, and Feng Yeling was pulled downwards by the weight of his own body, and then got stuck on several rings of the shackle.

She was so painful that her eyes were filled with stars, but she still insisted on standing firm. She smiled at Lan Qiao and said, "I know, I know, you will definitely come."

Before Lan Qiao could talk to Feng Yeling, three spears immediately attacked him from different angles.

One attacked his chest from the front, one stabbed his left rib from the side, and the most insidious one came from under his feet. A soldier actually stood across Feng Yeling's prison car and swiped his spear from under the car towards Lan Qiao's.

ankle.

Lan Qiao has now climbed to the fourth level of Qiankun Jue, so he doesn't take these ordinary masters seriously. He took extraordinary steps, twisted his waist, dodged the spear coming from the side, and then hit him with an elbow.

The zhenqi burst out from the spear, causing the man to drop the spear.

His shining sword hit the attacker's spear at almost the same moment. The blade cut through the tip of the spear without missing a beat, actually cutting a spear that was more than ten feet long in half from head to tail.

Finally, he stepped on the spear that was attacking his ankle, and no matter how hard the soldier tried, he couldn't pull it out.

"Watch what's behind you," Feng Yeling shouted in desperation when he saw another soldier taking the opportunity to sneak up on Lan Qiao's back.

Lan Qiao turned around like a whirlwind, and the Flowing Light Sword blocked the blow with great precision. At the same time, with a sudden force from his hand, he broke the spear into two pieces.
Chapter completed!