Xu Wu pointed his finger at Su Laochang, his mouth was trembling but he couldn't utter a word.
He felt that the anger he had suffered for half his life was rushing toward him at this moment, trying to swallow up the last of his sanity.
"Not to mention other things, Qingxi Village is weak, and dozens of women and children were detained by the Hutou Village bandits. They would not dare to offend the Hutou Village bandits. Deng Gui sent Wu Jiang to guard Qingxi Village, but the head of the family not only did not stop him
, and also echoed that fellow Deng Gui, Wu Jiang was also so angry that night that his blood boiled with anger, and he was like this with the head of the family..." Su Laochang took a sip of tea, chewed the tea foam with relish, and sat down slowly with Xu Wufu.
Come forward and say.
"This beast has cheated on us!" Xu Bosong picked up the tea bowl, smashed it into pieces, and cursed, pointing to the sky and the ground, "Does he want to drag the entire Xu clan into the sea of fire? He is so
He is so ambitious that he doesn't care about the clan at all. Has he thought about the Xu family's three to four thousand people, how many people will be killed, and how many orphans and widows will be displaced once the incident happens? "
Xu Zhongyu was so angry that he rubbed his heart, fearing that if he said one more word, he would kick off and go back to the west.
"Xu Wujiang deserves to die!" Xu Wuqi slashed off a corner of the Eight Immortals Table with his knife, and yelled angrily, "I couldn't wait until then, but I was afraid that it would involve the clan; Xu Wujiang is a good bastard, isn't he?
Knowing that the Xu family's ancestors have worked here for nine generations and how much blood and tears have seeped into the soil, how should he face the Xu family's deceased ancestors?"
Su Laochang stared at the knife in Xu Wuqi's hand and said calmly: "The master of the family should not have wronged Wu Jiang and the others for doing the fifteenth today. Brother Wu Qi, it's useless for you to scare me with a knife. If the master of the family
Before the evening of the day, Wu Jiang had not agreed to loan 30,000 kilograms of grain and some iron tools to Shituoling Xinzhai, so Wu Jiang could only use the name of the Xu people in Xiema Mountain to recruit troops and give it a go.
It involves the entire Xu clan, so there is nothing we can do about it, so please forgive me!"
"Is there no room for relaxation?" Xu Wufu stared at Su Laochang word by word and asked.
"If the family wants to complain, let's blame ourselves first for being trapped in a cocoon. But please also understand that if there is a glimmer of hope, Wujiang will not do this," Su Laochang said, "If there is nothing else, there are still people over there at Shituoling.
I have a lot of things to do, so I will take my leave first!"
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Xu Huai sat on the edge of the cliff, wiping the sharp blade with a piece of elk skin; Liu Qiong'er held a polished bronze mirror and looked at the shallow blood stains on her snow-colored face, worried about leaving scars.
As the sun set, a horse stopped under a pine tree not far away, chewing the grass beside the wild road leisurely.
However, Xu Wukun stared nervously in the direction of Lutai Beizhai. He saw a group of mules and horses filing out of the Beizhai gate from a distance, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, put down the feeling hanging in his throat, sat down and said, "What on earth is Xu Wufu?"
Don’t dare to kill the fish and break the net!”
"Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who are wearing feet. Uncle Wu Kun, why are you worried about this?" Xu Huai said with a smile.
"I have been working next to Xu Wufu for these years, watching him travel around the prefectures and counties, watching him deal with his opponents and deal with the unruly thorns in the clan. I always feel uneasy in my heart! Maybe the more I get around, the less I feel.
You must be ambitious!" Xu Wukun said mockingly, and he had to admit that Xu Wufu still had some authority in his heart.
"Since Xu Wufu agreed to our conditions, we should do something for them!" Xu Huai picked up the blue-black iron bag that was placed aside, tied the leather rope around his neck and put it on, and together with Xu Wukun, held it
The horses grazing beside the wild road slowly walked down the mountain.
Passing by Xinzhai halfway up the mountain, Xu Wuliang saw Xu Huai and Xu Wukun walking down the mountain, rushed over and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Pan Chenghu sent many sentries to spy on the north bank of Qingliu River, which is very annoying! Since Xu Wufu has sent food over, we can also do some work." Xu Huai said.
"Yes! Let's go there together." Xu Wuliang waved to the village, and three more people came out wearing armor, holding bows, and leading horses.
Xinzhai, located halfway up the eastern slope of Shituoling, does not yet have any decent defenses. The walls of the rammed-earth village are built with blocks. They are currently only three or four feet high and can be climbed over with a hand.
If Pan Chenghu sends more than a hundred bandit soldiers to bypass the Lu Taibei Village and wade through the shallow water bank where the Qingliu River merges into the Baijian River, he can directly attack the Shituoling Xinzhai. And the more than a hundred small families in the Xinzhai, except for
If you run hastily into the depths of the mountains and forests, you will not be able to resist.
If they don't want this situation to happen, they have to make Pan Chenghu realize that the stone valley in the northeastern corner of Shituoling between Xinzhai and Lutaibei Village is a trap that may cause them to escape without their lives if they dare to get into it.
Forcibly borrowing grain from Lutaizhai not only effectively tied up Xu Wufu so that he would be unable to prove his innocence in the future, but also made Pan Chenghu see the close connection between Shituoling Xinzhai and the Xu people.
At this time, Xu Huai dragged Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun and others to the bank of Qingliu River to suppress the activities of the bandits and sentries, which also had this intention.
Xu Huai, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others slowly descended to the bottom of the valley. At this time, Su Laochang was leading the team of mules and horses from Lu Taibei Village and entered the stone valley from the other side.
Thirty mules and horses, each with a large bamboo basket hung on both sides of the saddle, were so heavy that they could transport tens of thousands of kilograms of grain to Xinzhai for storage in one trip.
Xu Huai reined in his horse and stopped on the high ground. Xu Wuqi was in charge of leading the team on the other side of Lu Taibei Village. He came closer and glared at Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun. He scolded Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun in an unkind voice: "You two have done a good job!
"
Threatening to drag the entire Xu clan into trouble, Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun had a guilty conscience and lowered their heads not to look at Xu Wuqi.
Xu Wuqi also hated that these two people had completely turned to Xu Wujiang. He didn't want to waste any more words with them, so he led the team of mules and horses to go to Xinzhai on the rugged mountain road.
Mr. Su often came over to rest his strength.
Xu Wuliang asked: "Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and his son are not evil, are they? Why do you ask Xu Wuqi to be responsible for escorting? Is it a fraud?"
"I'm not afraid of this," Su Laochang shook his head and said with a smile, "At this time, I ask you to enter Beizhai and start a killing spree. Do you want to do it? This Xinzhai in Shituoling is full of women and children. No matter how much Xu Wufu hates it in his heart,
There was no way to order the tribesmen to kill each other. At the end of the day, he secretly ordered Xu Wuqi to imprison all the women, children, and children. However, if Xu Wufu really dared to do this, it would only make Wujiang and the others unable to retreat, so they could only make a decision.
The final decision dragged the entire Xu clan down!"
Xu Wuliang thought about it. Even if Xu Wufu made some irrational decisions in anger, he could not cover the sky with one hand and make the people obey his orders indiscriminately.
"Xu Wufu didn't agree to your help in driving away the bandits and sentries, but he didn't object either," Su Laochang said, "but I think he was mainly angry and couldn't wipe his face and asked Xu Huai to take action."
Although the Xu family has nearly fifty armed villagers every day, and each of them is not much weaker than the elite thieves, these villagers must be trained separately, and the clan soldiers with different equipment must guard each village separately.
They couldn't spare too many manpower, so they went out of the stronghold to suppress the elite sentinels and cavalry of the thieves.
Although the Xu family gathered 600 tribesmen, they had to guard each village separately. During the day, they also needed to send troops to protect the tribesmen who went to the pastures to cut grass and feed the mules and horses in the pens. However, the 300 thieves were concentrated in Shangliu Village. In fact,
This weakened Xu's military advantage to the greatest extent.
When it comes to field combat capabilities, rural soldiers and village warriors are still slightly inferior to bandits and bandits.
This situation is not favorable to the Xu family, but should we concentrate our clan troops to attack the traitors entrenched in Shangliu Village?
Xu Wufu obviously would not take this step easily.
Don't be so impulsive, just do a simple calculation and it will become clear.
By surrounding and annihilating Pan Chenghu's bandits in Shangliu Village, the Xu family might receive a reward of one or two thousand guans from the prefecture and county, but even if the Xu family were victorious, they would have to endure at least hundreds of casualties, and they were still among the elite of the tribe.
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Which one is lighter and which one is more serious? Don’t you still understand?
At the moment, the best way for Xu is to limit the activities of the traitors and sentinels and compress the space for Pan Chenghu's troops to move.
Does Pan Chenghu really dare to stay in Shangliu Village where there is no danger to defend for a long time, and wait for the prefecture and county to mobilize a large number of officers and soldiers to suppress it?
As long as Pan Chenghu loses his composure and leads his gang of thieves to flee elsewhere, the Xu family will be able to survive this crisis safely.
When it comes to restricting the activities of bandits and sentinels along the Qingliu River, there is probably no more suitable candidate than Xu Huai.
Although in the eyes of the clansmen, Xu Wuqi's sword, archery and riding skills were not inferior to Xu Huai's, Xu Heng was incompetent. Xu Wufu relied heavily on Xu Wuqi to take charge of the defense of each village. How could he dare to risk leading his troops out of the village to fight against the bandits?
Exploring entanglement?
The mouth of the Qingliu River where it merges into the Baijian River is nearly 100 feet wide. At this time, the water level has not yet risen, and most of the creek bed with piles of rocks is exposed outside the water.
Seeing Xu Huai, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others wading directly from the mouth of the stream to the north bank of Qingliu River, Xu Wufu stood on the wall of the North Village and said to his youngest son Xu Chen: "You and Zhou Jing each lead a team of cavalry out.
But be careful, just drive out the thieves and enemies, and don’t compete with that reckless guy for credit!"
Xu Wuqi is trustworthy, but Zhou Jing and others are still hesitant when it comes to matters involving Xu Huai. Xu Wufu is worried that they will make the same mistake as Xu Wukun.
However, except for Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing and other veterans who had returned from the Jingsheng Army, the entire Xu family was useful in commanding clan troops - Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu, Xu Wuqing and others were better at managing various businesses.
This is mainly because Xu Wufu relied too heavily on Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun, Zhou Jing and others. Xu Wujiang, Xu Sihu, Xu Xin'an, who were considered rising stars, were squeezed out by him to join the Inspection Department, which eventually caused such a mess.
The eldest son, Xu Heng, was usually fierce and would not dare to go to the village wall at critical moments. Xu Wufu was filled with disappointment. At this time, he could not control his mother-in-law's crying in the house, so he could only treat his 18-year-old son with a hard heart.
Xu Chen was pulled out to learn how to lead clan soldiers...
