It is located more than 30 miles away on the southeast side of Jinjin, and there is a river that is not very wide. Compared with the rolling river, this small river is only as small as a hair, and it is less than ten feet wide at its widest point, and it is even more flying horses in the narrow places.

Although the river is not big, it is like a jade belt in the wilderness, and it also irrigates hundreds of hectares of fertile fields that can be called fertile fields. In late summer and early winter, the farming is the most busy, and in the early morning, before the sky is light, some farmers have already left their residences wearing stars and moons, walked into the fields with hoes in their hands, and began to work hard.

This stronghold was not an ordinary village, but a cantonment for the Hebei Liu. The scale of the cantonment is not large, 50 or 60 households, and the surrounding more than 100 hectares of land and the reed ponds and forests between the two river bays are the scope of their production and labor.

Although the scale of the cantonment is not large, it is also stationed with more than 20 sergeants, led by a sergeant, which is more than enough to guard against bandits in the countryside and wild beasts in the suburbs. However, after all, the scale was limited, and there was no special construction of a strong and tall dock wall, but a circle of fences was erected around the house, with a high arrow tower watchtower at the left and right entrances and exits, to defend the dozens of houses in the village.

Shi Chang, a stout man of nearly forty years old, with a hideous scar on his chin, was in a bad mood after watching the village sentry in the middle of the night, and was just about to doze off when he was woken up by the sound of the villagers knocking to open the fence.

"You toiling ghosts, didn't I tell you that the wild has not been peaceful recently, and Tian has slowed down for a few days in advance!"

Shi Chang poked his head out of the watchtower, pointed to the villagers below who were about to go out to work, and scolded angrily. But the villagers did not retreat, with a slightly flattering smile on their faces, but they looked at Shi Chang so fixedly, it seemed that they did not open the door, and they did not intend to retreat.

Seeing that these villagers scolded and couldn't go back, he also felt helpless, and after a little hesitation, he still let people open the fence and let the villagers out, but he didn't forget to tell him viciously: "If you notice the movement, you will run back immediately, those jackals in the wild will kill people without blinking, but they will not care about a few miscellaneous seedlings in your field!" Lost my life, nothing......"

The villagers just laughed, and when they saw that the fence was finally opened and they were allowed to pass, some of them were full of clumsiness and thanked Shi Chang, who waved his hand and urged them to go back quickly.

More than 100 villagers went straight to the farmland at the bend of the river, and then began to remove weeds and pinch seedlings to prepare the fields. Strictly speaking, these lands, farm tools, and the subsequent harvest do not belong to them, they only plough on their behalf, and then all the harvest must be collected in the big camp, and then they will be given a certain ration according to the Dingkou.

However, this does not mean that they will get nothing after years of hard work, as long as the harvest reaches a certain number, they will be officially naturalized as households under the jurisdiction of Xingtai County, and they will be eligible to be granted land by Ding. All parts of Henan are full of fertile soil, as long as you can get acres of land, and then work hard for a few years, you can completely settle down, take root and reproduce here, away from the ghost land of Hebei.

At this time, it is the most important thing in farming, and if they neglect farming at this time, the autumn harvest will definitely be far less than expected, and they may have to settle down a year later. At this time, how can these villagers stay in their houses willingly, looking at the barren acres of land that have been worked for half a year?

After the early morning, the sun gradually climbed and the weather became hotter, and the villagers were sweating one by one, and their already tanned faces flushed. Some of the children were already crying in the heat, but the adults had no time to care for them, or chased them into the shade of the trees or stuffed into the canals and ponds to soak in the river.

In the morning, although the chief did not like them for not listening to the teachings, he still had two large bamboo buckets full of cold soup and told them not to return until night.

In the afternoon, the farmers continued to work, the weeding work was half done, and the irrigation was also carried out simultaneously. Although the body is already very tired, the corners of his mouth are really happy to see those green and strong mushrooms and grain branches seedlings that are still growing happily under the scorching sun.

Suddenly, there was a faint sound in the distant suburbs, and the sound seemed to come from the sky, and many old farmers subconsciously raised their eyes to look at the cloudless sky, and their brows furrowed.

Thunder is not a good sign at this time, as if it rains unseasonably, the fields will become muddy after being soaked in the rain, and they are no longer suitable for hoeing. If the weeds are allowed to rot in the land for a few days, they will inevitably divide up more of the fertility of the land and affect the harvest.

"Not thunder, not thunder......"

After another moment, the voice gradually became clearer, and the old farmer listened for a long time, and the corners of his mouth opened to reveal a heartfelt and cheerful smile.

However, at this moment, two figures suddenly rushed to the other side of the field, and the two of them waved to the farmers in the field while running, and shouted: "Return to the field, return to the field...... Thieves invade the border! ”

It's not thunder, it's the sound of horses' hooves!

Hearing the warnings of the guards, the villagers finally showed a look of horror on their faces, and they could no longer care about manipulating the grain seedlings in the fields, grabbed the farm tools, held their wives and children, and then started to walk towards the village. But even at this time, they still can't bear to trample on those vigorous and well-growing soybean seedlings, and prefer to go around a distance to go up the ridges.

The sound of horses' hooves approached quickly, and a large cloud of smoke and dust could already be seen rising into the sky, and the birds, birds, foxes, and rabbits that usually fled flexibly under the pursuit of the peasants were now panicking and jumping, or crashing into the weeds and being bound, and then being trampled directly into meat sauce by the iron hooves.

Obviously, those knights did not have the military appearance of the king's master, and the grain seedlings in the fields that were more precious than their lives in the eyes of the villagers were undoubtedly weeds in their eyes, and hundreds of galloping horses roared through the fields, and the fields that carried the peasants' hard work for a whole year and the wishes of their lives after that were all in shambles.

The knights galloped and roared and laughed wildly and uncontrollably, and the kind of sound only increased the pressure they put on the countrymen, who had not yet arrived, and the cowardly had been paralyzed to the ground and slaughtered.

But the peasants had some courage, and they finally ran back into the fence a moment before the knights rushed to the front.

At this time, more than 20 guards had already climbed the arrow tower, and they were waiting for battle with solemn expressions. Nashi Chang stood in the middle of the fence with a knife, his face solemn pointed at the villagers who had just escaped and were still alive and shouted: "The men go up to the wall with their canes, and the women, the old and the children return to the house to prepare for the fire!" ”

By this time the horses' convoy of several hundred men was barely a mile away from the fence, and the sound of the horses' hooves had slowed down, not because they were afraid of the guards on the tower or were kind-hearted to spare the villagers, but because beyond the fence there were lush thorn vines, which were blooming with purple flowers, and the branches were covered with sharp, blue-tinged thorns.

This kind of thorn is called the horse horse, the thorn is poisonous, can directly pierce the horse's fur, once it is broken in it is not easy to pull out, the wound will also be infected with poison and fester. No matter how strong the horse is, it will not dare to rush directly into this deadly thorn bush.

The horses stopped and began to rein in the procession, and at the same time someone stepped forward and shouted into the fence to surrender or kill, but they were answered by a few crooked arrows. These arrows were very weak, and they were obviously shot from agricultural earth bows, and their lethality was limited, but they were enough to show the hearts of the people behind the fence.

"Kill!"

At the sound of the order, the horse team was also assembled, and rushed straight to the fence along several gaps in the horse bush for the villagers to enter and exit.

A few angry roars rang out from within the fence, and a dozen feathered arrows flew out, but the lethality of these feathered arrows was limited, and the charging knight raised his blade and fell to the ground. This is not surprising, after all, if these guards really had the arm strength to hold a strong bow, they would not be placed in such a situation.

The arrows were light enough to kill, but two simple stone throwers each threw stones the size of a human head, and directly smashed several knights to the ground, making the other party's charging array look a little chaotic, and some war horses subconsciously jumped left and right and fell into the thorn bushes on the left and right, wailing and rolling, and even the knights wailed.

But this kind of obstruction effect is limited after all, and at a distance of more than twenty zhang, those knights rushed through, and at the same time the knights on horseback were also shooting with their bows. These knights were much stronger than the guards inside the fence, and their horse bows were even more powerful than the guards' rift shots, and the sound of arrows falling to the ground soon sounded in the fence.

"It's a thief, a thief from Hebei!"

Shi Chang drew his sword and stood behind the fence as he commanded the villagers to shoot sharp short spears made of bamboo and wood. The villagers were still a little flustered, but after hearing Shi Chang shout about the origin of these thieves, their faces showed bitter hatred, and one by one they seemed to be crazy old cows, grabbed those short spears cut out between the busy farming, and shot them desperately outward.

Although the fence was not high, and it was made of turf and mud, the supporting stakes were solid, and there were prominent spurs to resist horses, and although the knights rushed under the fence, they were quite helpless in the face of a hedgehog that was shrunk into a ball.

Hundreds of villagers in the fence are strong men, headless and brainless to throw short spears outward, although these bamboo and wooden tools are not highly lethal, but at such a close distance full of strength thrown out, if it happens to be pierced in the face, neck and other vital places, it is enough to kill people.

The knights came violently, but they hadn't even rushed into this seemingly simple and abnormal fence, and had already left more than a dozen lives outside, and the captain of the team was extremely ashamed, and personally dismounted and led more than a dozen elite soldiers to form a formation in front and back, approaching the fence step by step with a big shield, and then slashed with a knife.

Although there were also wooden spears and wooden spikes in the fence to obstruct them, the stabbing on the captain's armor was not a problem at all. Soon a gap was cut in the fence, and the knights dismounted and rushed to it, and the chief in the middle roared, and led the remaining dozen or so guards to wave their swords and kill, but there was a big difference in strength between them, and I saw a strong soldier behind the commander on the opposite side stabbing with a spear, and the captain was like a thunderbolt, and a fist-sized blood hole appeared in his chest!

"Kill all these southern thieves!"

The soldier commander stepped into the gap, saw the villagers who had withdrawn from Queen Cang, and said viciously. He was ordered to plunder people and goods, and these raw mouths were all required for strong labor at the moment, but the death of more than 20 of his men in this inconspicuous village made him feel very ashamed, and he decided to wash this place in blood, leaving only the goods and goods.

However, these Hu pawns were killing near the fence, but smoke was billowing from the village, and the old people who had retreated into the village earlier waved shoddy wooden sticks, and they rushed out without fear of death: "I'd rather die in Henan and turn into a powerful ghost than go to Hebei to be a thief and a minions!" ”