It was very cold this day, and it was another cloudy day. The cold current had not blew past Shandong. The cold wind whistled, but the Gaojia Village was filled with joy.

Gao Xunqi, the head of the Gao family, was holding a banquet to celebrate the celebration of snatching thirty oxen a few days ago. Although it was only worth a few hundred taels of silver, with more oxen, more land would be able to grow in the next year.

Of course, the banquet is more important to celebrate the celebration of chanting a good poem. Gao Xunqi, who was born in a juren, has a habit of chanting good poems. Whenever he recites good poems, he will hold a banquet, invite relatives and friends to taste it, eat good wine and dishes, and listen to praise. It is a great enjoyment in life.

For ordinary people, the banquets that are burdened by a lot are a drop in the bucket for the Gao family. Even if they are placed on a few tables every day, they can still bear it.

Gao Xunqi showed a great surprise in the lives of rich and poor families in the late Ming Dynasty. It is said that the rich family smelled of wine and meat, and the road was frozen to death.

However, this time, the great chaos in the landing, Gao Xunqi set up a village in the mountains to protect himself, but he had not invited many friends, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.

But it was also a great chaos in Denglai, which gave Gao Xunqi a chance. When Kong Youde was in trouble, he asked his disciples in his clan to pretend to be Kong Youde's troubled soldiers and robbed families everywhere. As soon as the Kong Youde's rebellion was settled, he immediately changed his banner and turned into a bandit. After two years, he made him earn enough money.

Gao Xunqi had no scruples about this. Anyway, it was not the only one of the Gao family who did this. Denglai was in such chaos, so who else would care about them?

The officers and soldiers were afraid of dying, so they were just right to look for the people to collect grain everywhere, so they would not take the initiative to attack and suppress the thieves, and they would not dare to touch a local tyrant like them. Unless the bandits were really unable to suppress them, the government would report to the court, otherwise you would do whatever you want.

Gao Xunqi was a juren, so he naturally would not make things worse. Although he was robbing the family everywhere, he never used the banner of the Gao family, and the government could not find them.

Even if you find it, what if you put some money in it, you can get it done. It was because of seeing through the actions of the government that Gao Xunqi was so unscrupulous that he stole the ox from the Zhao family and did not cover up his traces. Zhao Yan followed the traces and found where he was.

Gao Xunqi held a banquet in the village that night. The lights in the village did not go out until the third hour, but they wondered the group of people in the darkness below the back mountain of Gaojia Village.

In the darkness, there was a quiet area, but hundreds of pairs of eyes were staring at Gaojiazhai. These people were silent and hid at the foot of the mountain without making a sound.

"Young Master, the light is out." In the darkness, a voice was pressed very low.

"Wait for another hour."...

After this sound, it became quiet again.

These people are the servants of the Zhao family. Gaojiazhai is forty miles away from Zhaojia Village. Zhao Yan took his people to hide at the foot of the back mountain of Gaojiazhai in the evening and waited until the third update. The time should be 11 o'clock in the evening.

Zhao Yan lay in the bushes, closed his eyes and rested, waiting for the right time.

The terrain of Gaojia Village is steep. If you rush up, you will definitely not get any results. By then, you will be shocked to the Gaojia Village and it will be difficult to capture Gaojia Village.

After all, the servants in his hands are still in the initial stage of using spears, and their long-range killing and attacking abilities are very low. Moreover, the 300 servants who have just recruited are still not well-trained in the square formation, and there are no cannons and muskets!

So he must be caught off guard. If he doesn't take action, he will be wiped out in one fell swoop.

...

In a blink of an eye, an hour had passed and Gaojiazhai became quiet.

"Young master, the time is up." Zhao Yong pulled the corner of Zhao Yan's clothes beside him. Zhao Yan opened his eyes and looked at the village on the mountain.

"It's now." Zhao Yanmao stood up and turned around and said to Zhao Yong and the three sergeant leaders: "I'll take people to touch it. After success, you can raise the fire to get it..."

"Okay!" the three of them nodded.

Zhao Yan then pulled out his long sword and quietly walked up the mountain with more than a dozen servants without night blindness.

The path behind the mountain is very rugged. With the dim sky, it crawled upwards. Zhao Yan bit his long knife and groped on the ground with both hands.

There were no sentries outside the village on the mountain, but Zhao Yan was not careless. I thought there must be someone guarding him in the village. Zhao Yan rolled on the ground like a spirit cat and stuck it directly on the fence.

After a while, the dozen servants behind him also followed. They stuck to the fence like Zhao Yan, listening carefully to the movements inside the village gate.

The village gate was very quiet, as if there was no one, but some fire could be seen through the gap.

Zhao Yan made a gesture to the servants, asking them to stay where they were. Then he grabbed the fence's waist and exerted force, kicked up directly, flipped over the fence very skillfully, and flipped directly through the village gate.

There was a bonfire burning beside the village gate, and there were two people sitting by the bonfire, leaning against a big tree and sleeping soundly. Zhao Yan carefully grabbed the fence and slowly climbed down the village gate, trying not to make any noise.

Touching the door in the middle of the night is indeed very exciting, but it is very dangerous, and it will make a mistake if it is not bad.

Fortunately, Gaojiazhai’s defense is very relaxed and he is not vigilant at all.

Naturally, the people of the Gao family will not be vigilant every day. Now that the Kong Youde Rebellion has been quelled, Gaojiazhai will not be threatened by the rebels. Moreover, the terrain of Gaojiazhai is so dangerous that even the rebels dare not attack. As for the bandits, they are the same. Who dares to touch them without eyes?

Jumping to the ground, Zhao Yan quietly touched him.

The two guards seemed to be sleeping, but they were not sleeping soundly. Zhao Yan didn't care about that much and directly touched the back of the big tree, covered the mouth and nose of a guard, and smeared the guard's neck with a long knife.

Blood spurted out from the guard's neck with a "swish!" and splashed onto the face of another guard.

The guard's face became hot, and when he heard a slight noise, he opened his eyes in confusion and immediately saw Zhao Yan in the shadow. He was shocked and shouted: "Who?"

No one answered him, Zhao Yan slashed directly with a knife, and with a click, the guard's head was slashed in half.

Without caring about so much, Zhao Yan quickly turned around and opened the village door.

The servant outside the door felt tight when he heard the movement inside. When he saw the village door being opened, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Zhao Yan said in a deep voice: "Send a signal."

A servant quickly lit a torch and waved it to the bottom of the mountain a few times.

Within a moment, hundreds of torches immediately lit up at the foot of the mountain. Under the illumination of the torches, Zhao Yong and the other three rushed up the mountain with their servants.

"Who?" A loud shout came to the village, and more than a dozen people in disheveled clothes rushed out. When they came to the back door, they immediately saw Zhao Yan and a group of people. They were shocked and shouted at the top of their throats: "Bandits are fighting, bandits are fighting..."

Suddenly, it was as if it was stabbed in a hornet's nest. The washbasin and gongs were ringing. The people in the Gaojia Village were awakened by the noisy sound. The soldiers of the Gao family rushed out of the room with their weapons.

Seeing that Zhao Yan had only a dozen people, he rushed up with a scream.

The situation is urgent, and the servants at the foot of the mountain will not come up for a while. They must stick to the reinforcements at the foot of the mountain. Zhao Yan shouted: "Line up and level the gun."

More than a dozen long spears were immediately laid flat, forming a straight line blocking the village gate, and the enemy had already rushed to the front.

"Kill~!" Zhao Yan suddenly stabbed the spear in his hand and pierced an enemy's chest. Hearing the order, the servant beside Zhao Yan's side stabbed the spear out in a conditioned manner and stabbed the enemy who rushed forward to the ground.

"Kill!" Zhao Yan pulled out his spear and continued to stab. A spear stabbed by, and five or six more enemies fell down.

The benefits of spears were fully demonstrated at this time. As the saying goes, one inch long and one inch stronger, the people from Gaojiazhai were stabbed to the ground without rushing to Zhao Yan and the others.

There was no formation, and he rushed forward with no armor on his body. He was like stabbing and dying.

When the Gao family was in a hurry, they were shocked when they saw the tribe members who had fallen to the ground in front of them. The team rushing forward was stagnant, and they were heading forth one after another.

"Don't be afraid, they only have a dozen people, let me kill the thief..." A voice shouted in the team, but as soon as the man finished speaking, a loud shout immediately came from behind the village gate.

"Kill!!" The shouts of killing were filled with sounds, and the people in Gaojiazhai looked panicked. Fire lights appeared one by one from the path behind the mountain, and a group of servants holding spears rushed up.

The servants who rushed up immediately lined up in the queue, and soon formed a square array.

"Go forward!" Zhao Yan pointed his sword and shouted loudly.

The spear in the square formation was like a hedgehog, rushing towards the Gao family's children in front. When the Gao family saw this formation, their faces were even more panicked. Before they had time to escape, they could only run into each other.

Blood was splattering, and the Gao family fell down during the assassination. Seeing that the situation was not good, the person behind turned around and ran away.

The scene was a little chaotic, and Zhao Yan shouted: "Zhao Yong."

"Here." Zhao Yong replied loudly.

"Take people to block the front cottage gate, no one is allowed to leave."

"yes."

"Lin Yi."

"exist."

"Take half of the men to guard the back mountain village gate."

"yes."

"Wang Wenyue."

"exist."

"Take people to kill the enemy in the village, and those who resist will kill."

"yes."

Zhao Yan quickly distributed the mission, raised his long sword and shouted: "Kill~!"

The Zhao family members rushed into Gaojiazhai like wolves and tigers. The Gao family members were in no shape and were about to collapse when they touched the Zhao family. After a while, a cry sounded in the Gaojiazhai...

Just when the outside was in chaos, the drunk Gao Xunqi was finally awakened. Hearing the noisy sound outside, he shouted in panic: "What's going on? What's going on?"

"Master, the bandits have entered the village." Gao Xunqi's concubine hid in the bed tremblingly.

"What! It's going against the sky." Gao Xunqi burst into anger, and he was drunk and turned off the bed, pulled out the exquisite sword and rushed out...

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There is another chapter in the early morning!

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Chapter completed!