20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 636: Handing over the person without killing
The Shenjiadian watchtower has high walls, narrow windows, and shooting holes in the corridors. It was built originally to defend against bandits, and the tenant villagers practiced there day and night.

Hard work pays off. Despite the sudden change, the whole village remained calm and the armed team's actions were carried out in an orderly manner.

Accompanied by the rapid and shrill sound of gongs, the elderly, the weak, women and children rushed into the blockhouse first. Although they were noisy, they did not push or trample on each other.

Children are the most restless and cry endlessly. When they are naughty, adults always scare them: if they don’t behave, the bearded men will come at night and kidnap them.

Now that the bandits really came, the children all cried and begged for mercy from the adults.

Immediately afterwards, several young men from the "Guan Zhi" armed team rushed in with guns, quickly climbed the stairs, ran to the corner tower, and fired snipers from a high position.

Soon, the Shen family, young and old, also ran out of the room.

Mr. Shen was trembling, and he didn't even have time to pick up his walking stick, but in his arms he held a wooden box, which probably contained the deeds to the land. In short, he treated it like a treasure and regarded it as his own life.

The old lady from the second room came to the corridor with disheveled hair, holding a rosary in her hand. When she saw the night view outside the window, she was so scared that she immediately closed her eyes and hurriedly chanted: "Amitabha, may the Bodhisattva bless you..."

"Mom, stop reading and go!"

Shen Zhiye came forward, grabbed his biological mother, grabbed his wife and children, and ran towards the side stairs in the corridor in a hurry.

Unfortunately, both women had bound feet, so they stumbled and staggered all the way, looking extremely embarrassed.

The eldest young lady had no one to rely on and was left alone. In a flash, she was blocked in the corridor by a dozen village women, unable to move forward or backward.

Every watchtower must have a secret passage, but the tenants may not know about it.

It was natural for Young Master Shen to flee in panic, and there was nothing wrong with that. However, Old Master Shen remained unmoved and stood with the villagers in a somewhat stubborn manner.

Although the old man held the wooden box tightly in his arms, he was still able to spare some attention and shouted to comfort everyone:
"Don't panic, folks. Don't be afraid. My tower is impregnable. Chaoshan and his men can handle it. Everyone, be quiet. Don't make any noise. Don't make any noise."

The words of the old country gentleman seemed to have some kind of magical power. Perhaps it was because of the order of hierarchy that had existed for thousands of years. In just a few words, the originally restless atmosphere gradually calmed down, and everyone seemed to have suddenly found some kind of spiritual support.

At the same time, Jiang Lianheng and others also ran over.

The corridor suddenly became quieter.

There was a hint of hostility in the silence.

Although the tenant villagers said nothing, the resentment was already evident in their eyes.

Everyone seemed to have determined that it was these uninvited guests who attracted the bandits outside the window.

It is difficult to offend the public anger. Even when facing the elderly, the weak, women and children, Zhao Guoyan and others still dare not take it lightly.

"Boss Jiang——"

Mr. Shen stood by the window and came to the rescue in time. He waved to Jiang Lianheng and others, "Come on, come on, please come this way!"

Upon hearing this, the villagers reluctantly stepped aside to make way.

"Master Shen, what's going on?" Jiang Lianheng asked as he walked.

"I'm not sure. Come and have a look!" Mr. Shen was also confused. "Since the Haichao Mountain organized the armed team, my village has not been attacked by bandits for many years."

This statement obviously increased the suspicion of Jiang Lianheng and others.

The villagers said nothing, but there were daggers hidden in their eyes, and their behavior became increasingly strange.

Jiang Lianheng walked to the window under the escort of Zhao Guoyan and others, leaned over to take a look, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.

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It was pitch black outside the window, but I saw a group of bandits roaring and galloping on horseback. I couldn't see how many people there were, but I knew that the torches in the horse team were as dense as stars, illuminating the entire Laoye Ridge in red.

Like water pouring on the ground, like fire spreading across the prairie.

The gate of the Lianzhuang Association was closed tightly. Hai Chaoshan led the armed team and stood on the wall to supervise the battle. His three sons served as his left and right arms, and Xiaoqing was guarding the watchtower with a gun.

The rest of the young and strong men in the yard all stood guard behind the door, lined up in a battle array. Since guns were not enough, they picked up hoes, shovels, and dung forks, taking care of each other and never leaving each other.

On the observation tower of the blockhouse, other members of the armed team looked into the distance, observing the movements outside the wall in real time and reporting loudly to the people downstairs.

However, there are more than just these two forces at play.

When Liu Kuaitui's twenty or so soldiers heard the noise, they rushed out from the mud houses in the fields and ran to the gate of the Lianzhuang Association, looking up and shouting:

"Hey - bro, stop messing around and open the door!"

Haichao Mountain was silent, as if it didn't hear anything at all.

Liu Kuaitui was so anxious that he started to curse: "Haichaoshan, fuck your mother! There are at least a hundred or eighty 'horizontal guards' ahead of us. You watched me die without helping me. Are you still a human being?"

The 180 or so bandits were not scary, what was scary was that they all rode horses. This alone was enough to show how powerful this gang had become.

The key point is that the horses of Liu Kuaitui and others had been brought into the manor to be fed.

I dare not even imagine what the miserable situation of the infantry and cavalry is like right now.

Hearing the sound of horses approaching, Liu Kuaitui became flustered and shouted again: "If you won't open the door, then just give us our horses back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier next to him whispered, "Hey, why waste your time talking to him? If he won't let you in, just break the door!"

"you dare!"

Haichaoshan had sharp ears. When he heard this, his eyebrows immediately turned fierce and his eyes flashed with ferocity.

At the same time, the sound of bolts being pulled "click-click" could be heard from the top of the wall.

Liu Kuaitui shouted sternly: "Haichaoshan, we are soldiers, do you dare to challenge and fight with Zhang Zhenshoushi?"

"You can fucking love whoever you want!" Hai Chaoshan refused to give in. "If you dare to break down the door, I'll shoot you first!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Kuaitui could not help but weigh the situation in secret. He realized that he had no advantage in terms of time, place, and people. He began to retreat in his heart. He did not dare to engage in a fight, nor did he dare to disobey the military order. He had no choice but to stretch his neck and shout to the top of the blockhouse:
"Boss Jiang, you saw it all! It's not that we brothers don't want to help, it's that this boss is forcing him to not open the door, and is using the brothers as cannon fodder. Brother first--"

"boom--"

Before he could finish his words, a gunshot suddenly rang out from the top of the wall - it was Xiaoqing who fired!

Liu Kuaitui shrank his head in response and was about to get angry and curse when he suddenly realized that the girl's gun was not aimed at him.

"Which mountain are you from?" Xiao Qing asked loudly in the distance, "Do you know about the Shenjiadian Village Association? If you know what's best for you, get out of here!"

Liu Kuaitui turned his head to look, only to find that the bandits in the distance had surrounded the blockhouse in a formation of geese, and were less than a hundred meters away from the blockhouse.

Flames shot up into the sky, the scenery was swaying, and the bandit leader's face could not be seen clearly.

The entire Laoyeling Mountain suddenly fell into deathly silence.

After a moment of silence, a suggestion suddenly came from the gang: "Pan Dao, Pan Dao?"

"If you have to fart, just fart!" Xiaoqing shouted again.

The sound was so clear that it could be transmitted over long distances without being distorted.

The gang was silent for a while, and the armed team held their breath, pricked up their ears, and waited for the bandit leader to reply.

After a long, long time...suddenly there was a noise in the horse team, and a Hu bandit was seen walking slowly towards the gate of Lianzhuanghui alone.

Hai Chaoshan and others immediately put their index fingers on the trigger, concentrating their attention and not daring to relax at all.

The bandit rode his horse closer and first looked up at the tower inside the wall, then looked at Liu Kuaitui and the others, then grinned and said to himself, "No wonder they are so arrogant!"

Seeing this, Liu Kuaitui knew that he could neither fight nor run away, so he simply raised his martial arts spirit, clasped his fists towards the man, and said, "Brother, thank you for your hard work!"

Bandit Hu was a little surprised. He raised his chin towards him and asked, "Are you a soldier?"

Liu Kuai Tui chuckled and said, "Online."

"Give me your number!"

"Boss, where does your 'flying all over the sky' come from?"

Bandit Hu nodded, but did not reveal his plan. Instead, he raised his hand and pointed at the Shenjiadian armed team and asked, "Is it the company flag?"

Liu Kuaitui curled his lips and said, "That guy on the wall is my grandson, I don't know him!"

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Hearing this, the bandit couldn't help but smile knowingly, and suddenly changed the subject and asked Hai Chaoshan and the others, "There's a Jiang Lianheng in Fengtian, is he here with you?"

Hai Chaoshan's brows tightened, and he suddenly felt a bit resentful. He immediately asked, "How can I say it here? How can I say it if I'm not here?"

"So that's it?"

There was a gleam in Hu Fei's eyes, and his secret joy was beyond words.

Liu Kuaitui's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad feeling. He hurriedly approached him with a playful smile and asked, "Brother, what do you want to see Boss Jiang for?"

Unexpectedly, the green forest shoulder-to-shoulder who was chatting peacefully just now suddenly turned hostile and glared at me and cursed: "Get out! Is it your turn to ask questions?"

After saying that, the bandit shouted at Haichaoshan on the wall:
"Our big boss 'Lao Mang' has something to say: Call Jiang Lianheng out to discuss things. We need to discuss something with him face to face! Hand over Jiang Lianheng, and our two families will live in peace. Just treat it as us brothers passing by your place. We won't smash your kiln or destroy your fields. We will just remember your kindness so that we can meet again in the future... If you don't hand over Jiang Lianheng, our two families will fight to the death tonight, and we brothers will massacre the Shen's store with blood!"

The mountain wind was howling, and the lights of the Lianzhuang Association suddenly flickered.

When Liu Kuaitui heard this, he quickly stepped forward and said with a low smile, "Brother, what a hatred and resentment! Boss Jiang is not a simple man. The Jiang family is a powerful figure in Fengtian!"

"Is this Fengtian?" asked the bandit Hu with a sneer.

"Uh...brother, I'm not trying to pressure you. The newly appointed Suining garrison commander, General Zhang Xiaokun, is Boss Jiang's sworn brother. How about...you think about it again?"

"Suining garrison commander?" the bandit asked recklessly, "Where is he? In this tower?"

Liu Kuai Tui was at his wit's end.

The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. The gang only cares about what is in front of them, not what is behind them. Now that he can't call anyone, it's useless even if he says something fancy.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, the bandit suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked on the spot: "Why, do you guys want to protect Jiang Lianheng?"

As he spoke, he gestured behind him twice, then asked, "How about... a shell?"

Liu Kuaitui was so intimidated that he lost his temper.

At most, he had only twenty men under his command, while the enemy had a cavalry of nearly two hundred men.

Trying to hit a rock with an egg will never lead to success.

The only feasible way is to unite the flags and villages, rely on the terrain, and hold the blockhouses, and perhaps they will be able to resist.

But now that he had been turned away, he naturally had no confidence in convincing the armed forces in Shenjiadian.

Sure enough, when he was about to look back, Haichaoshan had already given the order.

"Second brother, third brother!"

"father?"

"We at the Shen's store won't get involved in these nasty things. Bring people to take Boss Jiang down and hand him over to them!"

"Haichaoshan, how can you be such a jerk!" Liu Kuaitui couldn't help but get angry, looking up and scolding, "Do you still understand the rules? Do you have any sense of brotherhood? If you borrow my land to stay overnight, then I am half your own. Boss Jiang is your guest, so you can sell it whenever you want. Aren't you afraid that God will strike you to death with thunder?"

"The Lianzhuang Association is protecting the Shen family store, not Boss Jiang." Hai Chaoshan has a clear conscience.

"Hey, if you dare to hand over Boss Jiang today, General Zhang will chop off your head tomorrow, believe it or not?"

"That's a story for later. I only care about the present!"

No matter how hard Liu Kuaitui tried to persuade Hai Chaoshan, he remained indifferent. The second and third brothers did not delay and immediately led their men into the blockhouse.

Inside the blockhouse, Jiang Lianheng naturally heard the conversation outside the window.

Not only him, but also the elderly, weak, women and children in Shenjia Store heard it, and then looked at him, urging him silently and viciously...

These villagers seemed to have suddenly shed their human skins. They were no longer honest or cowardly, but instead became fierce, cunning, vicious, and calculating. Even Zhao Guoyan shuddered when he saw them. He wished he could strike first. Only by killing them and getting rid of this group of people could he regain peace of mind.

Of course, it was just some kind of self-preservation instinct.

Jiang Lianheng was relatively calm, looking out the window in silence.

Mr. Shen didn't know what to say.

"Dengdengdeng..."

The second and third sons of the Hai family rushed over with their men. Zhao Guoyan and others immediately prepared for battle, but it was useless. Except for Zhao Guoyan, the guns of others had already been handed over to the Lianzhuang Association.

"Boss Jiang, do you want to leave on your own, or should we ask you to leave?"

Zhao Guoyan, Yang Lazi and others immediately protected Jiang Lianheng behind them, glaring at him and threatening him: "If you dare to move, just try!"

The second and third brothers were fearless and sneered, saying, "Boss Jiang, I thought you were a respectable man!"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard a muffled "thump" sound, and saw a village woman taking the lead and kneeling down, crying and begging:

"Boss Jiang, you were the ones who recruited those bandits. Your life is precious, and ours is worthless. But there are so many people in the Shen's store. Look... look at my child..."

Soon after, several village women followed suit and knelt down.

Jiang Lianheng knew very well: at first he would beg you to leave, but if that didn't work, he would force you; and if that didn't work, he would probably kill you.

After thinking about it, he said coldly: "There's no need for this. I'll just leave."

Zhao Guoyan and others hurried forward to dissuade him, vying to suggest: "Boss, why don't you let me go out first and see what they say?"

"Forget it!" Jiang Lianheng shook his head and glanced at the villagers of Shenjiadian. "It's more dangerous inside this blockhouse than outside!"

Mr. Shen suddenly raised his hand, hesitating for a long time, and then said: "Boss Jiang... you see, this matter is really not very good... let's put it this way, if it involves money, I will help you to cover it first, saving your life is the most important thing!"

Jiang Lianheng smiled and said, "Old man, you are very particular. I appreciate your kindness. I will remember your favor."

After saying that, he strode down the stairs under the strict guard of the second and third sons of the Hai family...

(End of this chapter)