In the early morning in Shanglin, the weather was thin and cloudy, a pillar of black smoke rose in the air near Shanglindu, the sound of horses' hooves trampling on the stone street was like an urgent war drum, the village was full of burning, looting and wailing and begging for mercy, and the streets were also scattered with the corpses of the villagers who were cut and killed.

Zhao Neng was wearing cotton armor decorated with copper and iron nails and inlaid iron sheets, and a pair of sharp eyes stared at the vermilion door of the Lin family's mansion as if they were in nails. There are many mansions and manors on the north bank of Shanglindu, but the mansion of the only Lin family can paint the door vermilion to show wealth.

Although the sneak attack on the township camp was successful, a fire burned the Wangxiang Building where the second son Lin Xuzong and his wife and concubine lived, and defeated the sword archers of Shiliang County on the north bank of Shanglindu, but the actual harvest was not much, and the Lin family mansion was not captured at this time.

Since the first thing to solve the threat of Xiangyong on the south bank, Zhao Neng led the people to sneak attack Xiangyong and garrison the camp first. The township camp did not guard against him, watching him bring people back, and asked people to immediately notify the second son Lin Xuzong to come; When a fire suddenly broke out in the direction of Luoyang Lake, Lin Xuzong and the townspeople who stayed in the forest were defenseless and caught his way. Those horse thieves who were once the second son Lin Xuzong's heavy money and private support were bought and controlled by Zhao Neng for half a year, and they were merciless to Xiangyong, and they also attacked Wangxianglou in the south of the township camp at the fastest speed, killing and looting another fire to set Wangxianglou on fire. The first fire they saw in the direction of Shanglin was the township camp and the Wangxiang Tower. At dawn, the sky was as dark as ink, and I don't know how many villagers were killed by a sudden sneak attack, and how many villagers escaped by taking advantage of the chaos. However, Zhao Neng did not dare to divide the troops to make a sneak attack on the Lin family's mansion, at dawn, the men and horses he carried were concentrated on the south bank to sneak attack the township camp, the township camp and Wangxiang Tower were ignited, and the north bank was all alert.

Although the sword archers of Shiliang County were also defeated immediately, there was no decent force to resist on the north bank, but most of the rich families on the north bank were deep mansions with thick walls and high walls; These families closed the door tightly, and organized the guards and servants to resist, and they had to hold on until reinforcements arrived. Although there are not many people in these mansions, Zhao Neng does not have the time and enough manpower to storm these mansions one by one. He wants to concentrate his forces to attack the Lin family's mansion, capture the Lin family's mansion, rob the gold, silver and jewelry, the sixth lady and the seventh lady are all the best in the world, and there are many beautiful people among the maids and maids.

As everyone knows, after Zhao Hu, Sun Jingtang and others were attacked on the south bank, they reconnoitred that there were also several enemy ships blocking the ferry, so they immediately took the opportunity to retreat into the Lin family's mansion and joined the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve in one place. The other people in the Lin family's mansion were in a mess, several ladies were all six gods, and the six ladies still wanted to hold the little prince to chase Lin Zonghai for shelter, but Gu Yingsleeve had always been used to being in charge in the Lin family's mansion, and the servants and subordinates also obeyed her orders. Knowing that it was Zhao Neng who led hundreds of horse thieves to attack the township camp on the south bank, Gu Yingsleeve immediately decided to tie up Zhao Neng's father Zhao Changshan for interrogation, only to know that on the day Zhao Hu got married, Zhao Neng had secretly sneaked back to Shanglin, Zhao Changshan had been taking care of Lin Tingxun, who was bedridden and unable to speak or move, and could not get out in advance, so he agreed that when Zhao Neng led people to attack the Lin family's mansion, he would open the gate of the Lin mansion while the chaos was in full swing. When Zhao Neng led people to besiege the Lin family's mansion, except for a small door, the Lin family's mansion was filled with heavy rice bags behind the other doors, and they were ready to defend.

Although the Xihe Society had already transported a batch of new tea to Jiangning, there were still more than 50 members of the Xihe Congregation who stayed in Shanglin with Sun Jingtang. At that time, Luoyang Lake also had a fire, I don't know how many rogues poured into Shiliang County, Sun Jingtang didn't dare to run away at night, Zhao Hu sent someone to find him, so he took people to abandon the boat and hide in the Lin family's mansion. The ten military guards left by Lin Tie to Zhao Hu and the more than fifty Xihe congregations led by Sun Jingtang became the main force to defend the Lin family's mansion, in addition, Gu Yingsleeve also organized servants and fifty or sixty people to participate in the defense. The ten guards left by Lin Tie to Zhao Hu all carried longbows, Zhao Hu led them up the ladder to the high ridge of the main house to defend them, and Zhao Nengtian led people to come suddenly when it was bright, and shot several people to them immediately. Zhao can make people find ladders to climb the wall to attack, Zhao Hu and they are condescending, while shooting arrows, and can command the Xihe congregation and the servants of the forest house to take sharpened bamboo poles to stab under the wall, horse thieves lose soldiers, occasionally one or two horse thieves jump into the courtyard, and Sun Jingtang also leads people to besiege and kill.

The seventh lady, Gu Yingsleeve, personally guarded behind the door of the mansion, and asked Zhao Neng's father Zhao Changshan to be tied up, knelt behind the gate, and held a knife to him, where he asked him to scold Zhao Neng for being a traitor. Seeing that Zhao Neng was indifferent, and asked people to demolish the house and lift the beams and pillars to hit the door, she asked Zhao Changshan to hang and throw the body out of the wall, and let people shout inside the door that Zhao Neng betrayed the master and caused his father to commit suicide and apologize. He also executed the other inner ghosts who had been attracted by Zhao Changshan and Zhao Neng's father and son, and threw the corpses out of the wall.

Zhao Neng didn't expect the Lin family's mansion to be so difficult, the key was that Zhao Hu led ten martial guards and Sun Jingtang led more than fifty Xihe congregations to hide in the Lin mansion in time, which he didn't expect. His horse thieves saw that the forest house was difficult to gnaw, and the people inside were not weak in their will to fight, and their defensive quality was very strong, so they had no intention of attacking. Although Zhao Neng promised to capture the gold and silver treasures of the forest house, and the ladies were allowed to rape, but they also had to have their lives to enjoy, at this time, someone rode over and said that the main gate of a large household in the east had been knocked open, and dozens of people rode there to "help" at the moment, and Zhao Neng could not restrain it.

When he was expelled from Dongyang last winter, Zhao Neng was not too far from Dongyang, and he was a horse thief in the northeast area of Haozhou Mansion on the west bank of Hongzepu and south of the Huai River. Zhao Neng wanted to get rid of the control of the Lin family, and used a pseudonym in the Liukou place in Haozhou, and never contacted Lin Xuzong. But the most combative people in this tributary Makou are the people Lin Xuzong brought out to him at the beginning, these people are the masters of the mother who have milk, and they also make Lin Xuzong the most difficult to master.

The nearly 100 people left by Zhao Neng's side were all his newly recruited men, and his other subordinates were scattered everywhere to rob homes and houses, in addition, there was a strict lineup of cavalry about fifty people quietly guarding in the alley, the leader was a black-faced young woman, about twenty-four or five years old, tall, and also very strong, wearing bright red armor, carrying a horse chopping knife behind his back.

This young woman is Liu Miaozhen, the sister of Liu An'er, the chief leader of the 21st Water Village in Hongzepu. The Lin family raises private soldiers, likes to recruit high-rollers with strong martial arts, Zhao Neng can be regarded as well-informed, but the strong arm strength can open three strong bows and shoot arrows at the same time The fierce woman has not yet seen, Liu Miaozhen has been powerful since she was a child, and her brother Liu An'er learned swordsmanship and the art of war. Hongzepu is united in the water village, and Liu Miaozhen is ranked seventeenth.

Liu An'er has the intention to do something, in addition to uniting the Hongzepu Water Village forces, he also unites the Liumakou and Shanzhai forces on the west bank of Hongzepu, and Zhao Neng is also the other way.

Liu An'er's original plan was to attack the Qin family fleet after it left the Dongyang Mansion and entered the depths of Hongzepu. In the depths of Hongzepu, the waters are vast and the lake is shallow, and large ships such as Lou Chuan are greatly restricted in such waters, and the small boats of Shuizhai can play a greater advantage, and they do not need to fill in human lives to storm Qin Chengbo's ship. Because Liu An'er sent a large number of ships to sneak into the Shiliang River to block the back road of the Qin family's fleet, he did not attach much importance to the soldiers and horses in Shiliang County, but he had to take into account the threat of the Shanglinli Township Camp with warships to the people and horses of Shuizhai, so he asked his sister and Zhao Neng to each lead a team of cavalry to Shanglin to contain the Shanglinli Township Camp.

Liu Miaozhen and Zhao Neng didn't think of directly attacking the township camp at first, their two cavalry together were only more than 200 people, while the Shanglinli township camp had more than 700 township warriors, with good equipment, diligent training, and strong combat effectiveness. They want to sneak attack the Lin family's mansion on the north bank, disturb Shanglinli, and contain Shanglinli Xiangyong here.

After dusk last night, the Qin family's fleet set off north after a slight pause in Shanglin, and Lin Jian and the Dongyang gentry insisted on escorting them out of the country, which greatly surprised Liu Miaozhen and Zhao Neng. At the same time, Lin Zonghai took away nearly half of Shanglinli Xiangyong, and Liu Miaozhen decided to change her plan at the moment and decided to make a surprise attack on Shanglinli to completely remove the threat here.

What Liu Miaozhen and Zhao Neng didn't expect was that before the Qin family's fleet left the Dongyang Mansion, the water battle broke out in Luoyang Lake in advance; It was dark, and it was more convenient for them to sneak attack the township camp in concealment, but they had to cover the people and horses in the Shiliang River, and they couldn't do it in advance, until the fireboat in the direction of Luoyang Lake burned up, they sneaked into the township camp and Wangxiang Tower, but they didn't expect to be out of the Lin family's mansion.

At this time, a fast horse galloped over, and a man who looked like a fisherman rode a horse to the front and reported the password and his name as if he was rolling, and walked to Liu Miaozhen to report: "Tell the seventeenth master, Luoyang Lake flag is victorious, Qin Chengbo to the big boss, the third master, and the nine bosses to join forces to kill, but Dongyang prefect Shen Rong, Tong Judge Lin Tingli, Lin Tie and others all took the Dongyang and the four fast oars in the forest to break out of the encirclement, there are 400 soldiers to break through, the Dongyang sails very fast, the brothers fought all night, and they didn't have time to pursue, Be careful! The big boss also instructed some to be especially careful of Lin Binding. ”

"thief!" Zhao Neng spat viciously, he never thought that there were more than 3,000 troops in the combination of the various water villages, and more than 1,000 fishermen were temporarily invited to participate in the battle, and there were more than 200 large and small ships such as Mengchong warships, big Wupeng, river boats, loach boats, etc., and in Hongzepu, where the forces of the various water villages had a geographical advantage, they could not leave Lin Tie here, and even brought them more than 400 fresh troops to escape, so how could he not hate? He even folded his dad in this time!

Liu Miaozhen frowned, she knew that her brother's subordinates were not without warriors who could fight to the death, and finally killed Qin Chengbo and asked her brother to lead people into battle with Wu Shiyi and Sun Gongzi, which shows the tragedy of the water battle in Luoyang Lake, the most fundamental thing is that the water battle broke out in Luoyang Lake in advance without following the established plan.

After a while, the sentinel released by Liu Miaozhen also came back to report that the big ship was coming from the north of Shiliang River, less than three miles away from here. The soldiers are in chaos, and I don't know how many villagers escaped last night, Liu Miaozhen has limited manpower, and she doesn't dare to put the sentry too far.

"Master Zhao, what do you think we should do?" Liu Miaozhen asked Zhao Neng, although she was the main person on this trip, but Zhao Neng was three times as many people as her, and she naturally wanted to ask Zhao Neng's opinion when it came to ideas.

The Lin family's mansion couldn't be captured, and the father hanged the seventh lady to slander himself to apologize, and asked Zhao Neng to retreat willingly. At this time, a strong enemy is coming, and it is too unwise to storm the Lin family's mansion at this time, Zhao Neng clenched his fists, almost pinching his nails into the flesh, he asked: "When will the big boss and the other masters be able to rest and send troops to the forest?" ”

"I don't know about this, I have to send someone to contact Luoyang Lake again......" Liu Miaozhen knew that the night was hard, and the Shuizhai forces would suffer heavy casualties.

"Lin Jian returns by boat, when he gets off the boat, we can take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, otherwise Shanglin will always be a threat from the south," Zhao Neng said, "We will not have more than 250 elite cavalry, and we are afraid that he will have 400 weak soldiers......"

Liu Miaozhen nodded, she didn't retreat when she was a little strong, and asked Zhao Neng to immediately collect the horse thieves who were scattered around the forest to rob houses.