A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 904 Blood and Fire

Swords and arrows tear the night apart,

Rockets light up the night sky.

At Ludao Pier, Brother Seng holds a pot lid in his left hand and a long bamboo spear in his right hand. His arm is tied with several layers of homespun cloth and his eyes are red.

My heart was beating hard.

Brother Seng grew up hanging out at the pier, and he has a lot of brute strength. He doesn't have to fight often when hanging out at the pier, but he has also developed some fighting skills.

But now it is a war after all, which is different from a fight.

Fighting at the pier is not about killing people, but fighting is about killing people.

Ludao Wharf Town has only a simple wooden stake fence, which is similar to the village. Fortunately, some wooden stakes were cut in advance to make some horses.

"Hold on!"

"A small team of three people takes care of each other, and a small team of three people supports each other."

"Don't retreat, anyone who retreats will be killed!"

One hundred elite tooth soldiers posted here in the town, wearing iron armor and holding sharp spears, and carrying long bows and horizontal knives, are like iron towers. They work in groups of ten, leading a hundred strong villagers.

There were waves of thieves shouting in the dark night,

And the sound of boat oars lapping in the waves,

Brother Seng is very nervous,

But those tooth soldiers were very calm and shouted at them from time to time,

There are more than a thousand people in the town, divided into ten battle formations, and then into three formations on the left, center and right. The remaining formation is in preparation behind.

call out,

Sharp arrows pierced the night sky,

"If you capture a thief, you will be rewarded with a reward of one hundred and fifty."

The arrow flew over Brother Seng’s head,

Brother Monk held the bamboo gun tightly and quickly calculated the rewards in his mind. If you behead a thief, you can get three stones of rice. If you capture one alive, you can get five stones of rice. One stone of rice can get up to seven buckets of rice. One prisoner can get seven bushels of rice. Where is Shi Daogu?

He looked around and saw that there were two people on his left and right, both of whom were hired by the island's farms, a young man in his twenties and a man in his forties. They were both from the same village and were from the same village. They are also familiar with each other.

When the Ya soldiers formed the army, they deliberately grouped people from the same village together.

The three of his team are from the same village, and the two teams next to them are also from the same village. They are all from the same village. The team leader is their security chief, a tall man, also from Jiangnan West Road, from Jizhou. He lives in Baqiu, Luling, because his family is poor and he has many brothers.

Chun's thirty-year-old face flashed through his mind. Thinking of her tenderness and the child in her belly, Brother Seng exhaled a long breath,

"Behead a thief and reward him with a hundred dollars."

Although the quality of late rice is better and the price is higher, the most difficult part of growing late rice is water. Summer and autumn are prone to drought and water shortages. Raising rice for that crop of water is extremely difficult, and it often leads to quarrels and fights.

The noisy sound approaches,

The ferocious Longxi Shanyue people's large and small ships docked at the dock. Countless Shanyue people rushed up with various weapons. These Shanyue people were very fierce. The Huang family also issued a reward order. There were heavy rewards for killing and capturing. They promised After taking the Heron Island, loot it as you like.

Fight!

With trembling hands, Brother Seng's breathing became rapid. The harvest of three acres of late rice fields from Qishi Rice required many days and nights of careful service, including plowing, raking, watering, transplanting, tilling, hoeing, harvesting, and threshing. Drying the grain and entering the warehouse,

Every grain of rice is soaked in sweat, and the weather must be favorable.

In this late autumn night, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

He had fought at the pier before, and even the biggest fight was far inferior to this scene.

live!

The rocket streaked across the night sky like a shooting star, and also illuminated the group of mountains coming in like a tide under the night sky.

Beaches, piers, everywhere, and lots of people getting off boats.

After Brother Seng came to Ludao, he also saw the local Shanyue people. Those people were shorter but quite capable. I heard that Shanyue people were more aggressive and fierce.

One hundred coins for a head and one hundred and fifty coins for a prisoner. It seems that we should try to capture as many prisoners as possible. Brother Seng thought to himself, then reached out and touched his waist. There was a rope distributed before the war.

Those tooth soldiers are quite experienced.

Longxi Shanyue had also heard about the rapid prosperity of this originally deserted island. Knowing that there were many good things and a large population here, he had long been salivating.

The thieves came ashore, and they made a great noise and touched it.

At night, I only hear sounds and see no people.

One of the tooth soldiers lit a rocket, stretched his bow and fired it.

It turned out that I was working as a platoon worker on the Ganjiang River, and my life was very hard. But when I saw the recruitment order, I signed up and came here, and even chose to be the security guard.

Brother Seng opened his mouth wide and his eyes widened in the dark night.

The village on Ludao also implements the neighbor protection and joint defense system. Four households are neighbors, five neighbors are protectors, and five protectors are the capital. Each neighbor has a chief and security chief.

The joint security of the neighbors is not only for big things like colluding with bandits. Even if the neighbors encounter theft, fights, etc., the people who are with the neighbors must come forward to maintain order, etc., and must not ignore it.

Neighbor guards also have to take turns patrolling and waiting at night.

Brother Seng is the neighbor of their four households, and he usually has a good relationship with the security chief from Jizhou.

The chief security officer, surnamed Song, also came here with his wife and children to farm. At this time, he was standing in front of three small groups of his group. The long bamboo gun in his hand was tied with a piece of red cloth, which served as their group flag.

"Brothers, don't be afraid. The thieves also have two shoulders and one head. We will guard behind the fence with horses around us. When they come up in a while, just stab them with spears."

"Everyone works in a small team of three to look after each other."

"Although it costs fifty more to take prisoners alive than to behead them, before you win the battle, don't think about capturing them alive. Just stab them to death. Stab them to death first."

"One more thing. Before the beating is over, beheadings are not allowed. All beheadings will be done after the beating. If anyone grabs heads or prisoners in a mess and is discovered by the tooth soldiers, their heads will be beheaded."

Song Baochang's words contained a local accent. The dialects of each state in Jiangnan West Province are different. However, Brother Seng is from Jiangzhou, so he can generally understand it. The people in his village are all from Jiangxi. Everyone speaks half native dialect and half I gradually got used to it in Mandarin.

In fact, Brother Seng and his village also set aside some time for training every month, just in case, but I didn't expect that they would actually use it now.

"Here you come, mother Gan!" Baochang Song roared, and his long bamboo spear tied with red cloth was thrust out through the fence.

The spear shot out like a dragon, and Brother Seng followed closely behind, stabbing out with the big bamboo spear in his hand.

This bamboo spear is made of bamboo. Mongoose specially selected a dry moso bamboo as thick as an arm and whittled it into a spear. It was eight feet long and sharpened.

Dried bamboo is specially chosen instead of fresh bamboo because it is harder after drying and can be cut with a horizontal knife. However, if fresh bamboo is used, it will be easily cut with a sharp knife.

"bingo!"

The 20-year-old Xiao Mao behind him shouted excitedly. Song Baochang's gun passed through the fence and stabbed the Shanyue barbarian who rushed in front to his heart.

The spear that Brother Seng followed also hit one.

One side was excited, the other side was screaming.

Song Baochang pulled back the bamboo spear with all his strength. He was so excited that he roared and stabbed again. Brother Seng quickly followed suit and stabbed again. Brother Seng usually had a good relationship with Song Baochang. He knew that Song Baochang's home was in the mountains, his hometown. There are a lot of bamboos and trees, so I used to cut down trees and bamboos to burn charcoal and discharge them, which took a lot of strength.

Bold and courageous,

It is said that their hometown has many mountains and few fields, and they mainly grow rice. They often fight over water, and sometimes there will even be large-scale armed fights based on villages and clans. The men there have been practicing martial arts since they were young.

Every time you fight with a weapon, you have to win, but if you are killed or injured, the clan will follow the old rules to provide compensation for the aftermath.

Compared to the fights that Brother Seng and the others used to fight for lives at the dock, the armed fights between clans fighting for mountains and forests and water were much more ferocious, and people often died.

From this aspect, Brother Seng is not as fierce as Baozhang Song.

There are more conflicts between Longxi and Shanyue. Not only are they competing for mountains and rivers, but plundering, kidnapping, and trafficking often occur now, and they fight for it. Most Shanyue people also maintain the habit of hunting.

But today we have a fight,

However, Song Baozhang and Brother Seng stabbed two first.

The defensive side occupies a geographical advantage and is waiting for work.

Not only did Shankoshi fail to catch him off guard, he was stabbed and caught off guard.

Xiao Mao shouted excitedly, "Two, two stabbed."

He also held a bamboo gun in his hand, and he stabbed outside, but he couldn't hit anyone after several shots.

Suddenly there was a sound breaking through the air,

A short hardwood spear was thrown violently. The sight was not good in the dark night. Xiao Mao heard the sound from far away and then felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. His whole body was driven back by a huge force.

After taking a few steps back, he fell to the ground.

There was already a short spear stuck in his left shoulder, which penetrated directly.

Blood flowed,

The pain is excruciating,

Xiaomao felt as if he was going to die, and his head was in a daze.

Brother Seng pulled him up and said, "Xiao Mao?"

"Brother Seng, am I going to die?"

Brother Seng took a quick look and found that he only injured his left shoulder. "It's okay. It's just a small injury." After he checked it, it was just an ordinary short wooden spear. "You retreat to the back. There is a doctor there who will help you." Take out the spear and bandage it to stop the bleeding."

Xiaomao finally came to his senses and said, "Brother Seng, help me peel it out. I can still do it."

"Listen to me and go to the back to deal with it. If you can still fight, come back."

After saying that, Brother Seng turned around and continued fighting.

A few arrows shot out,

Brother Seng quickly lifted up the round pot lid. Although this thing was not a serious shield, it was not bad when faced with Shanyue's arrows. With two clicks, two arrows hit the pot lid.

Putting down the lid of the pot, Brother Seng took the bamboo spear, gritted his teeth and stabbed Shanyue who rushed up through the fence again.

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The Red Fort on Foxtail Mountain behind,

The troops here did not go down the mountain for reinforcements, but were just quietly paying attention to the battle at the dock.

In the Red Fort, Wu Huaiyu had just finished a battle.

Asang thoughtfully brought water and wiped Wu Huaiyu gently with a towel.

The shouts of killing from the bottom of the mountain came faintly with the wind,

"My husband is so powerful," Asang said. She didn't know whether she was talking about Wu Huaiyu's bravery just now, or whether she was talking about how calm and powerful he was when fighting outside.

"There's nothing to worry about. The advantage is mine."

"There are only three hundred tooth soldiers on the island, and the rest are local warriors. Can they withstand Shanyue's attack?"

Huaiyu smiled, pulled Asang into his arms, and slapped her on the butt, "These people on Ludao Island are villagers. Do you think those Shanyue who attacked are really elite warriors?

The rebels in Shanyue are just some Xidong barbarians who usually farm, hunt and fish. When Huang's horn blows a bronze drum, they come to plunder."

They are all militiamen, so there is nothing to be afraid of. There are many people on Wu Huaiyu's side, and they have an advantage in fighting at home.

"I'll take a nap first. This is just the appetizer. The excitement is yet to come."

Wu Huaiyu really lay down and fell asleep, and soon he made a sound. Asang looked at him, how could he sleep?

In the middle of the night,

The harbor suddenly burst into flames, lighting up half the sky.

Asang hurriedly woke up Wu Huaiyu, "Ms. sir, something happened. There was a fire at the pier."

Huaiyu opened his eyes, rubbed his face, and said calmly,

"Oh, our second move is ready,"

Asang's eyes widened in confusion, and Huaiyu explained with a smile, "I have made arrangements a long time ago. When these thieves' boats arrive, I will have people bring kerosene and dive under the water..."

A fire lit up the night sky,

They also burned all the boats in Shanyue, big and small. Now, Shanyue who came to the island has no way to retreat.

(End of this chapter)