Chapter 7: The Fate of the World (Five)

The straight line distance between Taojiazhuang and Lijiazhuang is less than thirty miles, but there is a mountain bag that is not too short in the middle. Therefore, it is not too far. It takes two or three hours to reach the destination.

As long as a few scouts are placed on the top of the mountain, the wind and movements at the foot of the mountain can be seen clearly. Therefore, the Taojiazhuang team has just left the village not far, and the news has reached the ears of Li Youde, the leader of Lijiazhuang.

"It seems that my old brother is quite bloody?" Li Youde didn't feel anything about Taojiazhuang's reaction. He waved his hand and ordered the scout to step down, sneering and commented.

"If he was really good at being a turtle, he wouldn't have been a turtle that had been so many years!" Gao Shun, the owner of Gaojialiang, was one of the first people to follow Li Youde. He curled his lips and sneered. "Since he leaned his head, don't expect to shrink back this time. Our Lianzhuang will be established for so long, so there must be a decent thing to sacrifice the flag!"

"It's a pity that the young people in Taojiazhuang have a few of them with very strong bones. If they can be conquered and polished, they will be a good farmer!" Xu You, the owner of Xujiawoshu, was relatively kind-hearted, shook his head and said with some reluctance.

"It is hard to find a toad with three legs. There are many people with two legs! If you don't kill him, the surrounding villages will inevitably follow suit!" Gao Shun disliked the most because of Xu You, who wanted to seize money but was unwilling to see blood. He glanced at him and refuted loudly. "Besides, these Tao people are also from the same ancestor, breaking bones and tendons between each other. If the grass is cut and the roots are not eradicated, it will inevitably leave hidden dangers!"

"That's it, that's it!" The other few of the castle owners who were forcibly included by Li Youde nodded and agreed. No one took the lives of hundreds of men, women, young and old in Taojiazhuang seriously.

"I'm not trying to leave any troubles on purpose, I'm worried about the government's side, so I'm using this to attack!" Xu You couldn't find any supporters, his face turned slightly red, and he gritted his teeth to remind him.

"Sun Shan himself is a bandit, what qualifications do you have to care about us?" Gao Shun turned around and continued to sneer at him. "Besides, in previous years, the government never ignored the government. Even if there were a little more people dead this time, Taojiazhuang came to him first. No wonder we were ruthless!"

"Then, that..." Xu You still felt uneasy, but Gao Shun's scalp was numb. He muttered a few words and took the initiative to lower his head.

"If Tao Zheng is willing to surrender, there is no need to kill too many people!" As the leader of the association, Li Youde could not let Gao Shun make a decision for himself. He thought about it and made the final adjustment. "If Tao Zheng died, others would be willing to put down their weapons as slaves, and they could also consider leaving their lives. But all the fields in the Tao family, whether mountain fields or paddy fields, cannot be left for them. Afterwards, our farms will be based on how much they contribute, and who will take the big head if they contribute the most."

"But with Li Huishou's words, he made a decision!" The lords of the forts were delighted, and bowed down and agreed in unison.

For them, it is the most important thing to divide the land in Taojiazhuang. The others can be ignored. Most of them are irrigated land near the river, with a per mu yield of wasteland that everyone has worked hard to open, one in the sky and the other underground. Even the original mature land in each village is not as good as the land in Taojiazhuang. After all, the closer it is to the river, the more convenient it is to irrigate. Even if there is a drought, at least half of the harvest can be saved!

"Then I'm not polite! I'll fight later, who is blocking the front, who is flanking, and who will block the retreat of Taojiazhuang. I have made it clear in the morning. Everyone will now lead their respective men to the woods in front of the village to ambush. Let's take advantage of the people from Taojiazhuang coming from afar and are half tired to beat him off guard!" Seeing that the morale was available, Li Youde stood up and waved decisively.

"Yes!" The lords of the fort and the villages took the order and left. In a short while, they had already stopped the trap arrangement on the road they had to pass into the village. Everyone held their heads and tied their horses to their mouths, and quietly lie on both sides of the road. Just waiting for the young and strong men in Taojiazhuang to arrive, they rushed out and ended the battle in one breath.

Unexpectedly, after midday, when the sun sets, the prey that should have fallen into the trap has not arrived for a long time. However, swarms of mosquitoes and cows took advantage of the cold weather in the evening and all came out of the grass. They flew around the ambush's head, sucking cold, and then sucking a mouthful of blood, leaving behind a big red and itchy bag.

The lords of the castle and the brothers under the lords are ordinary farmers. With limited training, how could they endure such torture for a long time? After a while, they could not hold on and climbed up from their hiding place, making wild weeds into flies and sucking them around. Now, you can no longer expect the prey to rush into the trap. As long as the people in Taojiazhuang are not all deaf, they will definitely be able to hear the abnormalities on the way forward.

"Erlang, why haven't your scout sent back the message yet?" Li Youde, the mastermind of the whole matter, also bit several big bags on the forehead by a mosquito. He was itchy and annoying. He ordered people to call his youngest son who was responsible for monitoring the enemy and questioned loudly.

"Half, Half an hour ago, didn't you just come back? Tao, Taojiazhuang people have already reached the top of the mountain opposite. At that time, they were playing the top of the mountain!" The second young master Li Jin was startled, and quickly lowered his head and reminded him loudly.

"That was half an hour ago, and it's half an hour passed!" Li Youde glared at his son fiercely and roared sternly, "Send someone to inquire again. In half an hour, the person has already walked down the mountain!"

"Yes!" Li Jin did not dare to talk back to his father, and immediately jogged to assign scouts. After a few breaths, he ran back in anger, "Grandma, grandma, it's not good, no, Taojiazhuang and Taojiazhuang people stopped on the top of the mountain and stopped leaving!"

"Don't leave?" Li Youde was slightly stunned, and a knife-like cold shot out from his eyes. "Is it the scout said? It turns out that they were on the top of the mountain for more than half an hour!"

"It was the scout who ran back and said it. I was just going to send someone else. Our scout sent the latest news back!" Fearing that his father used him as a punching bag, Li Jin took a few steps back and couldn't wait to add, "They were afraid that the people from Taojiazhuang would find out, so they deliberately took a long way when they went down the mountain, so they came back a little late. They said that a few fellow villagers in Taojiazhuang and Tao Zheng suddenly had a dispute. No one could convince anyone, so they could only let the team stop at the top of the mountain for the time being!"

"Well——" Li Youde frowned and was skeptical about the news that the scout came back. According to the information he had, although Tao Zheng was timid in his daily work, he had a high prestige in Taojiazhuang. In any case, his daughter should not be snatched away by others, but he could not even make the decision to mobilize the young and strong people in the village to come and ask for people.
Chapter completed!