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In the forest opposite the North Cliff of Mopanling, Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an, Xu Wukun and Han Qi watched a group of people pass through the canyon at the foot of the mountain in silence.

This came from Taibaiding. More than 300 people were worn out in armor and had a blue-black cloth scarf tied on their arms as a sign.

To Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an, Xu Wukun and others who are familiar with the bandits in Tongbai Mountain, you can tell at a glance that this is the Black Turban Army under the command of Zhong Changqing, the blue-eyed wolf.

Zhong Changqing is a child of the Zhong family, but Xu Huai and the others would never think that the thieves in Hutou Village were plundering to Zhongjiazhuang in large quantities. Zhong Changqing led the Black Turban Army to rush to reinforce at this time.

It is true that Zhong Changqing is a child of the Zhong family. At first, his family was quite good, but he lost his father shortly after he was born. His widowed mother pulled him until he was seven or eight years old, but he was falsely accused of adultery by his clan members. He had no chance to appeal to the government, so he was the clan members.

Sink into the pond and execute it.

Zhong Changqing was driven out of Zhongjiazhuang by his clan members as a child, and his land and houses were divided up. He was left on the streets for several years. Later, he was adopted by Ji Zitong, a former bandit in the Black Turban Army.

Zhong Changqing was brave and cruel. After his adoptive father Ji Zitong died, he was promoted to the chief of the thieves of Taibai Ding, so he led the Black Turban Army to repeatedly plunder Zhongjiazhuang.

If the Black Turban Army can basically be filial to the villages around Taibaiding, it will not harass you, but the great plunder of Zhongjiazhuang is often killing people and setting fires.

The Zhong clan has much fewer people than the Xu clan and has weak financial resources. However, there are nearly a hundred armed merchants in the village. After all, Zhong Changqing, who has a deep hatred, repeatedly attacked and forced him.

After Guo Caoling's death, Pan Chenghu, who joined Hutou Village, and Chen Zixiao raised flags without any scruples, claiming to rob the rich and help the poor, and recruited soldiers and horses more vigorously. In just a few days, hundreds of people made a living in Tongbai Mountain.

The young people who were struggling to settle down and defected.

Ten days ago, Xu Wufu sent someone to touch the background of Hutou Village. It is roughly estimated that Hutou Village only has four or five hundred thieves. Xu Huai, Xu Wukun and others do not want Chen Zixiao, Pan Chenghu, Wu Qi and other thieves from Hutou Village today.

There were already seven or eight hundred thieves who were pulled out to attack Zhongjiazhuang.

What they didn't expect was that under the planning of Zheng Hui and others, Hutouzhai had joined forces with the Black Turban Army of Taibaiding.

At this time, Zhong Changqing led 300 thieves, and it was obvious that he had confiscated the retreat of Zhongjiazhuang.

After the Black Turban Army's troops passed, the whistle detectives scattered on both wings also took them back. Xu Huaicai, Xu Xin'an, Xu Wukun, and Han Qi carefully placed behind them and touched towards Zhongjiazhuang.

The Mopanling where Zhongjiazhuang is located has a steep terrain, especially the entrance has dangerous cliffs and broken walls, which are difficult to climb.

Zhongjiazhuang built a solid village wall at the mountain pass to prevent bandits, but after passing the mountain pass, about 700 or 800 families scattered in the valley, unlike the Xu family who gathered to live in four solid villages.

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Xu Huai and his friends touched the near Zhongjiazhuang Valley and hid in the woods. From a distance, they saw that in addition to the soldiers and horses of Hutouzhai had gathered in front of the Mopanling Pass; in addition, there was a group of more than 200 people,

A brown and yellow flag was erected on the left side of the Black Tiger Banner in Hutouzhai, but there were thieves under the Yellow-faced Tiger Gao Xiangzhong, who was the Yellow-faced Tiger in Shixizhuang.

The thieves from Hutouzhai and Shixizhuang rushed into the mountain pass, attracting the defense of Zhongjiazhuang to the front, and then Zhong Changqing, who was familiar with the terrain of Mopanling, led the thieves directly into Zhongjia from the rugged path.

In the hinterland of the village, seeing this deployment, Xu Huai also knew that Zhongjiazhuang, which had not been prepared in advance, was doomed this time.

Even though we could see the fate of the Zhong family at this moment, Xu Huai did not withdraw quietly.

Xu Wufu and others knew that Zheng Hui and others had a bad intention in Hutou Village, but they made up their minds to build Yuhuangling, Shituling, and Xiema Mountain into iron walls, and asked Zheng Hui and others to retreat when they saw the difficulties and dared not

Lead the bandits to nuisance.

Under this mentality, Xu Wufu's reconnaissance of Hutou Village was superficial, let alone arranging people to penetrate directly into Hutou Village and become spies.

Xu Wujiang was in Xiema Mountain and Xu Huai was in Jinshagou, and he had too limited personnel to use, so he had always lacked understanding of the situation inside Hutou Village.

This time, we are close to observe the combat effectiveness of the Hutouzhai bandits and how good the opportunity to join forces with Shixizhuang and Taibaiding Black Turban Army, how could Xu Huai missed it?

Although Zhong Changqing led the bandits to attack secretly from the back mountain, the Hutouzhai bandits attacked the mountain pass where elite tourists and clan soldiers were defending the mountain pass by Zhongjiazhuang before noon.

The terrain on both sides of the pass is steep and difficult to climb. A dirt road extends from a distance. There is a valley entrance about seven or eight meters wide in front of the mountain, but it is blocked by a thick village wall that is nearly two meters high and built with bricks and stones.

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If outsiders want to enter Zhongjiazhuang, this is the only way to go.

Although there are still trails on the back mountain of Mopanling, it is winding and entangled, with dense forests and dangerous roads. Without internal villagers leading the way, others can't touch it.

At this time, Zhongjiazhuang obviously did not expect that Zhong Changqing had led his troops to touch the back mountain from this trail.

The troops of Gao Xiangzhong, the yellow-faced tiger in Shixi Village, did not move, mainly to observe the formation; the 700 or 800 thieves in Hutou Village, except for two hundred people stationed on a slope as reserve team, the others were divided into five teams, with swords

Mainly shields, carrying cloud ladders, taking turns to attack the defense wall of Zhongjiazhuang Pass.

In addition to the conspiracy of attacking the village walls, nearly half of the bandits were wearing various armors, which made the combat effectiveness of the bandits surge.

It can be seen that in addition to helping Chen Zixiao train the bandits, Zheng Hui and others had also secretly transported a batch of soldiers from outside to Hutou Village.

In the entire Zhongjiazhuang, there may be less than forty pieces of inferior leather armor, not to mention that the two sides have a larger gap in the equipment of swords, guns, bows and crossbows.

The thieves from Hutou Village surrounded the village wall. In addition to shooting at the wall with long bows, there were thirty or forty god-arm crossbows in turn. It has been a while since they watched the crossbows practice.

This invasion of Zhongjiazhuang was more like a drill for the thieves in Hutouzhai, and the powerful force was shown in front of the two thieves in Taibaiding, the Shixizhuang, which was invited to join forces.

After several rounds of offensives, hundreds of people were killed and injured in the military camp of Zhong clan. Even if Zhong Changqing had not led his troops to plagiarize from the back, it would be hard to imagine that Zhongjiazhuang could hold on until nightfall.

Zhong Changqing climbed the back mountain from a small road and appeared in the sight of the people of Zhongjiazhuang. The defense of the mountain pass collapsed directly. The thieves from Hutou Village grabbed the wall of the village, but did not rush into the valley, but opened the gate of the village.

The thieves in Shixizhuang were let in the first place to burn, kill and loot; some thieves in Hutou Village wanted to take advantage of the chaos to go in and loot, but died under the sword of the supervising team. The order was much more orderly than expected.

Not to mention Xu Wukun, Xu Xin'an and others were also extremely silent when they looked at the scene in front of them.

It is obvious that the attack on Zhongjiazhuang was just a small attempt at the Hutou Village thieves, either to train troops or to win over Shixizhuang, and to win over the Taibaiding thieves.

After Wang Xiaocheng left Tangzhou, although the bandits in Tongbai Mountain gradually recovered their vitality and made trouble from time to time, they rarely made big moves, let alone join forces to attack a large village like Zhongjiazhuang.

Over the years, the counterfeit bandits and the clans of the big surnames have maintained more restraints on each other. No one can destroy each other, and everyone has to tolerate the stalemate of each other.

This time Zhongjiazhuang was easily captured. On the one hand, it was Shixizhuang. The two thieves from Taibaiding were likely to rely on Hutou Village from then on. The bandits obtained tens of thousands of chunks of money from Zhongjiazhuang.

With tens of stones of food, the strength will become stronger. On the other hand, other stubborn bandits who have been dormant in the mountains and forests for many years and have long been holding their grass in their hearts. If they hear about this, they will inevitably be ready to move.

Even if these stubborn bandits will not be attracted by Hutouzhai, as long as they walk out of the deep mountains and forests, recruit soldiers everywhere, lure and win over those young and strong people who are devastated and unable to make a living, they will be called Tongbai Mountain.

The situation became even more chaotic and bloody.

In the past, the clans and the clans of the clans were restrained by each other, and the clans of the clans were relatively restrained by the invasion of nearby villages, mainly for extortion of money and goods. However, the two thieves from Shixizhuang and Taibaiding rushed into the valley from the north and south, and it was obvious that they were no longer restrained.

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Looking from a distance, I saw the thieves breaking into the valley. When the village people resisted, they would add up their bows. Soon, more than a dozen houses on both sides were set on fire, and black smoke rose up. The thieves

There is no stop or restraint in chasing women...

Xu Huai gritted his teeth, and tiny veins on his cheeks were twitching and beating slightly.

Xu Xin'an exhaled a bad breath and said, "Deng Gui had sent someone to stare at the movements of Hutou Village before. Maybe he was organizing the village soldiers to come to Mopanling at this moment!"

They did not have enough manpower to stare at Hutou Village at all times, but Xu Xin'an was responsible for scouting and ran to the coast of Paohu River every now and then to take a look. He had long noticed that Deng Gui had sent someone to stare at Hutou Village at Hutou Village.

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Seeing the valley was messy, Xu Xin'an still hoped that the military camp could send troops to attract the attention of the bandits, so that ordinary villagers in Zhongjiazhuang would suffer less harm.

Xu Xin'an did not complete the transformation from soldiers to bandits.

"Let's go!" Xu Huai said gritting his teeth.

Deng Gui sent someone to keep an eye on Hutou Village. After Guo Caoling's death, he was worried that Zheng Hui and others would secretly control Hutou Village to make big moves, but everything was just to protect themselves.

To be honest, Deng Gui can organize the village soldiers on a larger scale and strengthen the defense of the military camp, so it is difficult to avoid limiting the increasingly fierce bandits to the west of the Baijian River, even if he has great power.

At this time, it was neither realistic nor wise to expect Deng Gui to send troops from the military camp of the Huaiyuan Inspection Office to rush to send troops, but to let these bandits commit less evil in Zhongjiazhuang.

Hutou Village suddenly made the news so loud and made it so full of secret preparations. This was beyond his expectations. He had to consider that if the Huaiyuan Inspection Office military camp could not block the bandits in Baijian River.

To the west, how much role can the Xu family’s deployment in Yuhuangling, Xiema Mountain and Jinshagou play?

Hutouzhai, Shixizhuang and Taibaiding three bandits were already 1,300,000. They captured Zhongjiazhuang and seized a large amount of money and grain, and made the momentum bigger. They could predict that the bandits would be short.

It will further expand within time.

Three or four thousand or even five or six thousand bandit soldiers crossed the Baijian River and rushed to the Yuhuang Ridge. How should Xu deal with it?

Once the bandits swept through this time, Zheng Hui and others hid behind the scenes to plan and secretly sent a large number of soldiers and armor, which was actually more fierce than when Wang Xiaocheng came to the governor of Tangzhou twenty years ago - he had seen it before

I lowered Zheng Hui and looked down on their ruthlessness and cruelty at their use of all means!

Just as Xu Huai turned around and wanted to quietly withdraw from the other side of the woods with Xu Xin'an, Xu Wukun, Han Qi and others, Hutouzhai stayed at the outside of the valley and served as a reserve team, with several riding horses

It was rushing out, maybe it was the setting sun that was just right, shining on the face of the man in the lead, and Xu Huai vaguely saw the outline of his face.

At this moment, a faint current seemed to flow in his mind, and a passage suddenly flashed:

"In the first year of Jianhe, the emperor avoided the enemy and wanted to go to Nanyang. At that time, Chen Zixiao, a great enemy in Huai, raised troops to gather troops to block the Tongbai Mountain Road, and general Han Shiliang destroyed it..."
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