The news that the entire village of Linjiazhai was massacred by thieves soon reached the county. When he received this report, the magistrate Lu Jinxi sat on the ground, his face as if dead.

More than 100 people in a village were massacred by thieves. Such a big tragedy was spread to his hands. But I imagine that his future was basically over.

After hearing the news, the short and fat county magistrate Zhao rushed over. When he saw the magistrate's despair, he hurriedly comforted him, "Master, the most urgent task now is to report to the city immediately and request the garrison to send troops to suppress the bandits. In addition, we must immediately summon three yamen runners and the county's central civil servants, and ask Mei Gong to send a village group to search for the thieves."

"The thief is not stupid. If you commit such a big case, you may have already escaped." Magistrate Lu sighed.

"Master, no matter how thieves escape, we have to take action when we have such a big deal." Zhao County Magistrate carefully reminded the magistrate.

When Magistrate Lu heard this, he understood the meaning of this sentence. Yes, what is needed now is remedy. Even if the people from Linjia Village can no longer be saved, he still has to take action to let the prefects above, guard the way, patrol the way, etc. know his remedy, and at the same time, the gentry and the people below know his behavior.

"Yes, yes, yes, Zhao County Magistrate, now you write a memorial to the prefecture and the sub-guarding yamen, and the sub-guarding yamen. The county will immediately go to Shenzhuang and ask Meigong to send a village to search for the thieves. By the way, Mr. Chunjiang and the horse team of Liu Jiye seem to be stationed in the Queen's City, right? They are closest to Linjiazhai. You send someone to the Queen's City immediately and ask them to go to Linjiazhai to deal with the aftermath, and ask them to search for the traces of the thieves immediately."

Although Fatty Zhao had suffered losses under Li Chunjiang and Liu Jiye, he did not forget who was in the backstage. He immediately reminded Lu Jinxi in a low voice, "Master, Mr. Chunjiang's horse team has only been established for more than a month, so I am afraid it is not enough to use it. Besides, Mr. Chunjiang is the young master of the Li family. If he sends him out and encounters a thief, what if there is something wrong, I am afraid..."

Lu Jinxi slapped his forehead and then recalled that Li Chunjiang was not the leader of an ordinary village soldier. He had no choice but to say, "Forget it, there is no need to let them search for thieves. Send someone to inform them and let them stay in the Queen's City on the spot and protect the Queen's City from being violated by thieves."

After Fatty Zhao and the magistrate rushed to Shenzhuang in a sedan chair, they immediately called the chief clerk to ask him to patrol the prefect and the sub-guards, and the Huangzhou garrison station wrote a memorial report. He himself called the sedan chairman and got into the sedan chair and rushed to the Queen's City in person.

Fatty Zhao rushed to the Queen City Horse Team camp and saw the nine-headed bird flag flying high in the camp from afar, full of majesty.

"The people who come will stop, and the military camp will be in the important places, and the idle people will be exempted from entering."

The sedan chair was stopped in front of the camp gate, and several township heroes stood in front of the door to block the way. The sedan chair owner wanted to scold him, but when he saw the other party's cotton armor with copper nail guns, the bird gun in his hand, and the horizontal knife at his waist, he swallowed his words back to his stomach.

"Brothers, I am the county magistrate of the county. If you have urgent official duties, please pass by you, Li and Liu." The fat man lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, glared at the sedan chairman, and then said to the fully armed village warriors with a smile. Even the fat man couldn't help but feel a sudden jump when he saw these gate guards at the first glance.

He did not expect that the village soldiers had such good equipment.

A defender entered the camp and returned after a while.

"plz follow me."

In the camp and on the school ground, Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun each wore a cotton armor. The customized version of the cotton armor was made of cotton pads, lined with silk, and copper nail bubbles were used on the outside to strengthen defense. At the same time, on the chest and back, there were also a heart-protecting bronze mirror like a round mirror of fists. It was very majestic with eight-petal bright iron helmet and copper belt.

On the playground, six teams of the left and right flags lined up neatly. In addition, the two directly under the flag managers and artillery teams were also on one side. The military prisons of the Zhongqi were not taken at night, and the drummers, doctors and veterinarians were all ready to go.

All the soldiers were wearing cotton armor, bright helmets, and iron mesh boots.

The soldiers were wearing red tassels on their helmets, and there were small red flags flying on the flag guns held by the team leaders, and there were small red flags on their helmets, neatly and orderly, with clear top and bottom.

When the county magistrate Zhao Fatty came over with the gate guards, he happened to see this neat and solemn scene. Looking at the flying flags, neat armor, and the bird guns, long swords, bows and arrows, he couldn't help but be shocked.

It turned out that when he met the guards at the door, he thought they were servants of the Li family, just a few special elites. However, he did not expect that the nine-headed bird horse team, with a hundred people, were all so fully armed elites, especially he actually saw six cannons.

Nearly a hundred people were divided into ten queues, but there were only six queues in the middle, each with twelve people. These people were fully armed and stood straight on the field like statues, with no one whispering to each other.

When did Fatty Zhao see such a unit? Even the elite cavalry of Shen Zhuang Meigong's official barracks are not so neat.

"Stay calm!" Liu Jun shouted.

More than a hundred people responded loudly at the same time to a neat roar: "Tiger!" At the same time, everyone stepped heavily on the ground with their right feet and then stood firm. Fatty Zhao and the sedan chairmen were both shocked, as if the whole ground had just trembled.

Liu Jun turned around and bowed to Li Chunjiang, "The nine-headed bird horse team of Baoshengbao Township, Macheng County has been equipped. Please tell me!"

Li Chunjiang was also in a state of excitement and shock. He did not expect that during the period when he was chasing the bandits, Liu Jun had already trained the Nine-Headed Horse Team so neatly, far exceeding his imagination and expectations.

After a while, Li Chunjiang realized that the strict team in front of him was his soldiers, his Nine-Headed Birds Team. He nodded excitedly and said, "Okay, okay, okay." He said three good things in a row before he recovered his excitement.

"Brothers of the Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team, you are all township soldiers in Macheng County. When we were established, we were to protect the countryside. And last night, a group of inhuman robbers and a group of beasts looted Linjiazhai and slaughtered all there. Do you think we can tolerate it?"

"No!" Everyone in the field shouted.

Liu Jun swept through everyone and shouted, "I didn't hear it clearly, just shout it louder."

"No!" More than a hundred people yelled.

The roar shook the sky, and Li Chunjiang was very satisfied.

"Yes, we must punish these animals, and we will wipe them out. Today, we will send troops to suppress these inhumane thieves. Tell me, are you afraid? If someone is afraid, someone is afraid, then stand up now and you can stay."

Everyone stood on the field like a javelin, and no one was afraid to give in.

"Very good, very good. Since everyone is willing to go with me to suppress the thieves, I will also set up a reward here. For every killing a thief, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver, and for every injured one thief, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. If you can capture the thief alive, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. If you can kill or capture the leader of the thief alive, you will be rewarded with forty taels, and if you can kill or capture the head of the thief alive, you will be rewarded with hundred taels of silver!"

The heartbeats of the village warriors off the field began to accelerate. The rewards were no longer just a few cents or silver in normal training, but a few taels or dozens or even a hundred taels. Such rewards could indeed make him fight for it.

"In addition, each person who is injured in the battle formation will be given two taels of silver for minor injuries and five taels of serious injuries. If he is disabled, he will be given twenty taels of pension. If he is killed in battle, he will be given fifty taels of silver for minor injuries."

As soon as this pension was released, it even more relieved everyone's worries and strengthened their desire to fight to the death.

"I won't say much about the rest. Everyone on the battlefield depends on their performance. The money has been prepared. Those who have the ability can earn it based on their ability!"

Liu Jun stepped forward and said loudly, "Dissolve now, I will give you a quarter of an hour to organize and prepare, and gather in half an hour to set off."

Fatty Zhao remembered his purpose at this time and hurriedly ran towards Liu Jun and the others.

"Young Master Chunjiang, Young Master Jiye, please stay."

"What wind blows County Chief Zhao?"

Fatty Zhao wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly said, "Two, are you going to suppress the bandits?"

"Didn't the county magistrate Zhao just saw our mobilization with his own eyes?"

"No." Fatty Zhao hurriedly said, "Those thieves are fierce, don't take risks with you."

Liu Jun said, "Justice Zhao has also seen the momentum of our team's troops and equipment just now. What do you think?"

"It's very powerful, it's hard to imagine that these people were just groups of hunters, farmers and even monks a month ago."

"Since you think they are very good, there is no need to say anything more. If County Chief Zhao is willing to go with him, I am very happy. If you don't want to go, please give in." Liu Jun was not polite to Fat Zhao.

Because the troops were only thirty miles away, there was no need to carry much baggage, and it was enough for everyone to pack a bag.

Besides, everyone still has a horse, so this time the troops were actually very easy, and they could be regarded as light-fitting. The heaviest guy, the six tiger squat cannons, was only thirty-six pounds, and could be directly mounted on a mule, without even using a car.

Each person carried rations for three days, the bow and knife hand carried thirty arrows, and the bird gunman also carried thirty tubes of quantitative gunpowder. With these, it was enough to fight a battle.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and the soldiers of each team had already finished their assembly and gathered again.

Liu Jun asked the captains and sergeants to go down to check the equipment of the soldiers in their respective teams. After finding that there were no omissions, he ordered the entire army to set off. In the end, only a few grooms were left to guard the camp, and the rest of the team set off together.

The left flag is the front team, the middle flag is in the middle, and the right flag is in the back. If you don’t collect it at night, you will ride a horse in front to explore the way, and there will be a military prison patrol the team back and forth.
Chapter completed!