Lu Xiong asked Wang Xuan to disguise herself as a man and put on armor and follow him. His original intention was to find an opportunity to escort Wang Xuan out desperately when the rebel army stormed Shuangliu Village. However, Wang Xuan was determined to live or die with Shuangliu Village.
Wang Xuan took off the iron armor, showed it to the public as her daughter, and waved the sword to encourage the villagers to fight. Lu Xiong secretly complained, he didn't know how much courage this could inspire from the many weaklings in Shuangliuzhuang to fight to the death, but he knew that the rebel army
Approaching the village wall and seeing this scene, it was difficult not to notice Wang Xuan's identity.
When hundreds of thieves attacked their position, even if Lu Xiong had three heads and six arms, he would definitely not have a chance to escort Wang Xuan to escape.
"Zhao Heng, get ready with everyone, bring my war horses and go out of the stronghold to kill the thieves!" Lu Xiong saw that what had happened, put aside his half-hearted thoughts, and solemnly ordered Zhao Heng and his servants to prepare to go out of the stronghold to fight.
"Master Lu, it is too dangerous to go out to fight in the stronghold. The stronghold wall is built on the embankment, so you can lean on it!" Wang Wenchong dissuaded him when he saw Lu Xiong, who had two frost-white manes, ordered his servants to bring out the war horses and prepare to go out to fight.
In the late years of the previous dynasty, Shuangliuzhuang was still a tidal flat on the bank of the Han River. The ancestors of the Wang family moved here more than a hundred years ago. In order to resist the damage of floods, they organized the tribesmen and other people who moved here to build a circular earth embankment little by little.
Encircling two or three miles of fields in a shallow silt swamp for cultivation and building houses - this circular or square earth embankment is called a dike in the local area, and the fields and villages within the embankment are called dikes.
Fortress.
Over a hundred years later, the Wang clan and nearby people have successively reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of farmland for farming in the north of Xiaoheling. The earliest farmland has also developed into Shuangliu Village where more than 200 families live together.
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After generations of hard work, the surrounding terrain has been silted up layer by layer. The embankment built by Shuangliuzhuang in the early years is no longer needed to resist floods, but it is still nearly ten feet higher than the surrounding terrain.
A solid wall made of stone was built on the basis of embankments. There is also a canal more than two feet wide that goes around Shuangliuzhuang. It usually enters and exits through two wooden bridges on the north and east sides.
Overall, Shuangliu Village is more like a fortress than Hanchuan City, which has been in disrepair.
In Wang Wenchong's eyes, Shuangliu Village can still hold its own for a while.
"Wang Langjun, please be at ease, Lu Xiong has his own sense of proportion!" Lu Xiong said with a smile as he took the black-tasseled spear from Zhao Heng's hand, which had not had the chance to drink blood since he went south from Bianliang.
Dongting Lake has a radius of more than 800 miles, and there are countless large and small lakes in the surrounding counties and counties, connected by rivers and waterways.
When the world was at peace, there were many criminal thieves hiding in Dongting Lake and plundering business travelers. It was also normal for the water village forces who lived near the water and the boat gang forces who made a living by water transportation to collude with the water bandits and lake bandits.
This situation is similar to that in Tongbai Mountain before the bandit rebellion, but it is more complicated and contains more tyrannical characters.
The local government has been unable to eradicate the water bandits and lake bandits hiding in the vast lakes for many years. As long as the water bandits and lake bandits do not make a big noise, they usually turn a blind eye as much as possible.
After the fall of Bianliang, millions of refugees fled to Jinghu Lake. The water bandits headed by Sun Yanzhou united ambitiously to absorb the surrounding poor people who resisted taxes and donations, as well as a large number of refugees who went south and had no way to make a living. Their power was completely
grow stronger.
In the past two years, Xu Wei was ordered to sit on Jinghu South Road, recruit brave men, and train the navy. However, he could only protect the big cities in Xiangtan, Yueli, and Zhuzhou from bandits, but he could not go deep into the depths of Dongting Lake to fundamentally eradicate the lake bandits.
To this day, the Dongting Lake bandits dare to take advantage of the empty defenses on Jinghu North Road and gather thousands of troops to attack Hanchuan. How can they take it lightly?
On the one hand, Shuangliu Village is strong in literature and weak in military affairs. More importantly, there are some young and middle-aged people in Zhuangzi who can be regarded as brave, capable, and astute. They either go to Ezhou Fucheng to make a living, or they are led by Wang Fan.
Be around.
Among those who stayed in Shuangliu Village, in addition to the old, weak, sick and disabled, most of the young and middle-aged people were honest and devoted to farming, or they were dedicated to studying hard and waiting for the imperial examination to be held again.
Wang Xuan stepped forward, which made many young men less frightened, but how could they be expected to immediately turn into soldiers who fearless guns and arrows and fight bloody battles in the face of the murderous bandit army?
When a general leads an army, he pays most attention to the morale of his soldiers, but morale is not so mysterious that it can turn decay into magic.
Lu Xiong wanted to take advantage of the rebels' unsteady foothold in front of the stronghold and kill them off guard. On the one hand, he made the rebels fearful and delayed as much as possible. On the other hand, he gave Shuangliuzhuang Qingzhuang a warning and gave them more time.
To overcome the fear in your heart and stabilize your position.
Although Ezhou does not have a giant lake like Dongting Lake that stretches hundreds of miles across, it is the land of thousands of lakes and swamps.
The large and small ditches and river branches are basically connected. These are also flood drainage channels specially left by local people to build fields.
Shuangliuzhuang is surrounded by a ditch more than two feet wide and connected to the surrounding river lanes. Thieves' boats can enter, so it is not just them guarding the two wooden bridges that can stop the thieves from advancing towards the village wall.
Lu Xiong led Zhao Heng and a dozen other servants out of the stronghold. However, they crossed the wooden bridge on the north side and hurried to the more than 100 advance bandit troops two or three miles away. However, they did not rely on the strength of their numbers to rush forward in one fell swoop, but quickly walked towards the road.
The sides fan out.
But he saw an imposing man in leather armor, holding an iron rod, standing barefoot in the middle of the road, looking coldly at Lu Xiong, and asked: "The king has the military power in Jingbei, and he has thousands of generals under his command."
, Shuangliu Village, where the Wang family has lived for a long time, can only send a bad old man like you out to fight?"
Seeing that the rebels were indeed well prepared and well-trained, Lu Xiong secretly complained, but kept silent. He just put his spear under his arm and secretly peeked at the flaws in the enemy's formation.
Behind the imposing man there were dozens of elite men wearing armor and holding bows, but he waved his hand slightly, walked forward alone barefoot, pointed the iron rod at Lu Xiong, and said: "Come on, you fight me alone. If you defeat me, I will lead the army."
If you withdraw, you will not harm Shuangliu Zhuangqiu; if you are defeated, order the people in the village to open the door and surrender, there is no need to increase casualties!"
Lu Xiong would rather die in battle than negotiate any terms with the thief general. He signaled Zhao Heng and others to press the formation behind him. He drove his horse forward and stabbed away with a long spear like a dragon. It roared like a cold light through the air.
, and went towards the left chest of the big man. Ordinary thieves fighting alone may not be able to block this stab, but the big man flipped with a stick and suddenly moved from stillness to movement, just like a storm suddenly rising and an iron rod struck.
Several afterimages shot out in front of him in an instant. The tip of the stick reached behind him at an unimaginable speed and accurately hit the spear that was stabbing him.
The front end of the spear held by Lu Xiong swayed like water waves, releasing the huge force. Not only did the spear's power not stop, the spear blade also drew an arc at a faster speed, stabbing the man's side armpit like a maggot attached to a bone.
And go.
The iron rod in the big man's hand was swung forward in a crisscross motion. His body was like an ape, and he avoided Lu Xiong with every wrong step and seemed sure to get stabbed.
Lu Xiong knew that such a good warrior could not bully someone with the height of his war horse, and he did not want the old horse that had been with him for many years to suffer any unexpected consequences. His body was like a wild goose flying sideways, and his spear was dancing like flying flowers, covering the big man in a frenzy in the shadow of the spear.
In the middle, there is no way to hurt the horse.
"It's said that Wang Du has two spearmen under his command. Judging from your hair and beard, it's probably not Wang Kong. It must be Lu Xiong."
Although the imposing man could only parry for a while and was in a strong position, he laughed loudly and said,
"I didn't expect that you are so young and have such spear skills. The world's heroes are indeed not limited to Dongting. Today, Jiang Ang, I want to see how much strength you, an old man who is willing to serve as a lackey of the government, can maintain such a fierce spear.
Undefeated!"
Lu Xiong was also frightened when he heard the imposing man claiming his name.
Lu Xiong is basically in a semi-reclusive state now. Except when Wang Fan needs to contact Chushan, he will ask him to come forward. Most of the time, he stays with Wang Xuan and doesn't care much about other things. But he also knows that after Sun Yanzhou's power grows,
, named himself General Tianxiang, and gathered a group of bandits to march across Jinghu Lake. He had thirty-six generals under his command, and Jiang Ang was one of them.
As one of the thirty-six generals of the Dongting Lake Bandits, Jiang Ang was only the vanguard general in the attack on Shuangliuzhuang at this time. It is conceivable that the water bandits who raided Hanchuan must not be taken lightly. At the same time, it is not difficult to speculate.
The water bandits have a very big plan this time.
Lu Xiong's spear skills have reached the realm of immortality, but at that time he was sixty-seven years old, and it was one thing that his strength could not be sustained. After all, the power of the spear in his hand was slightly inferior to that of his prime, and he had lost the ability to destroy everything with one shot when he was in his prime.
Biting and angry.
And Jiang Ang is indeed a rare expert. Although he can only parry in a short period of time, he can still hold the door and not be broken by Lu Xiong's gun.
Lu Xiong's thunderous spear power could not last long, and his power quickly turned from prosperity to decline.
Zhao Heng had been training Lu Xiong for a long time, but when he saw something was wrong, he disregarded the rules of fighting alone, led a dozen elite servants, swarmed up, forced Jiang Ang back, and rescued Lu Xiong, who was panting like an ox and had to submit to his old age.
"Is this the hero of Shuangliuzhuang?" Jiang Ang stood in the middle of the road holding a stick, and did not let his men chase him. He laughed loudly and said, "I will allow you to escape like bereaved dogs. If you don't open the door and surrender after a stick of incense,
, Grandpa, I will kill you all today! By the way, I have long heard that the daughter of the Wang family is as beautiful as a flower, and no other girl in Ezhou can match it. I also asked the Miss Wang family to freshen up well. It is not in vain for me, Jiang Ang, to attack personally.
