Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Outside Yuejiazhuang, more than 100 tough bandits, led by two leaders, were riding towards Yuejiazhuang on horseback.

As Yue Fei guessed, this group of people came from Mount Mu in the west of Tangyin County.The Mou Mountain Bandit is the largest gang of robbers in Xiangzhou, gathering five or seven hundred desperadoes, occupying the dangerous terrain of Mou Mountain with deep grass and dense forest.

Liu He, the leader of the Mou Mountain Bandit, was nicknamed "Bumping the Mountain Bear". He was a tall man with skilled martial arts skills.He led this group of robbers to run rampant in Xiangzhou, often looting Tangyin, Linli, Linzhang and other counties.

The officers and troops in Xiangzhou City had conquered and suppressed the bandits Mou Shan twice, but they were defeated by Liu He's leaders.

This time, it was not Liu He, the owner of Dazhai, who led people to plunder Yuejiazhuang, but Tao Jun, the third leader, and Jia Jin, the fourth leader of Moushan Village.

"Whoa~ stop, there is unusual movement in that village!" Tao Jun waved his hand and reined in the horse's reins.All the bandits also stopped their horses and surrounded Tao Jun.

"Brother, what did you find?" A big man with short silver hair and a fleshy face approached Tao Jun and asked.This person is Jia Jin, the fourth leader of the Mou Mountain bandits.

Tao Jun's ears moved slightly, and he held his breath for a while, then suddenly drew out his knife, and said to Jia Jin: "People in the village are running away! We have been discovered. Little ones, light a torch and kill us alone. Don't let them go! Fourth brother, you lead people around the village and attack from behind!"

After hearing this, Jia Jin also drew out his knife, and shouted to the young men behind him, "Follow me, little ones!"

Jia Jin rode his horse and circled towards the east of Yuejiazhuang.Behind him, fifty or sixty robbers lit torches and followed him roaringly.

The hundreds of robbers around Tao Jun also lit the torches in their hands, shouting and killing towards the front of the village.

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"Hurry up, hide in the village!" Yue Fei stood at the gate, directing the villagers to help the old and the young to hide in his house.

Among his little friends, Zhang Xian was sent by Yue Fei to inform Yaojiazhuang, while Wang Gui, Xu Qing and others ran into Yuejiazhuang with swords in their arms, and went to support Ximenqing after finding bows and arrows.

Jiao Ting stood by the door with a big knife in his hand and shouted to the panic-stricken villagers: "Folks, don't panic! With me "Faceless" Jiao Ting here, the bandits will kill as many as they come!"

Wang Gui, Xu Qing and others came to Ximen Qing with bows and arrows in their hands, and also wanted to climb up the courtyard wall.

Ximenqing saw them, and said to them: "Wang Gui, I saw dozens of bandits riding to the back of the village. Take your brothers to guard the backyard, suppress the bandits with bows and arrows, and wait for our support!"

After Wang Gui heard this, he ran towards the backyard with Xu Qing and more than ten teenagers.

"Here we come!" Ximen Qing stood on the ladder and saw a group of robbers rushing to the entrance of the village with their knives.

Ximen Qing bent his bow and nocked his arrow, aiming at the robber who was rushing in front, and as soon as he let go, the arrow flew over like lightning.

"what!"

"Ah~"

"Wow~"

Three screams sounded almost simultaneously.

Ximen Qing's arrow hit the head robber right between the eyebrows and pierced his head.Blood and brains sprayed the face of the robber behind him.

Almost at the same time, the other two robbers beside the robber were both shot in the chest by arrows, fell off their horses, and were shot to death on the ground.

Ximen Qing knew that this was the arrow shot by Brother Qiao Yun.He hasn't practiced for a long time, and he can only shoot two arrows in a row.

"Good shot!" Ximen Qing praised, and shot the arrow in his hand at the same time.At the entrance of the village ahead, another robber fell from his horse.

"The high officials shoot well too!" Brother Qiao Yun replied in his mouth, but he didn't stop, and fired two arrows in succession, and two fountains of blood spurted out from the entrance of the village.

In the blink of an eye, six of the dozen or so gangsters who rushed to the entrance of Yuejiazhuang Village first were shot and killed, and the war horses that had lost their owners neighed and ran wildly at the entrance of the village.

The remaining four robbers turned their horses' heads and ran away in fright, but only heard the sound of "swish", and three more robbers were shot in the back and fell off the horse.

Only one robber escaped by chance, and fled from the entrance of the village screaming "Wah-wah" on his horseback, and fled to the leader Tao Jun.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, the bandits who followed the ten bandits also dropped the torches in their hands and retreated to the rear.

"Five Steps Down" Tao Jun was directing the young men under a big tree outside the village to enter the village to kill people, set fires, and rob money and food, but he saw chaos ahead, and the young men retreated in defeat.

Do something stupid!How could these fellows be so useless that they couldn't beat a few farmer farmers? Tao Jun chopped off the branches around him with a single knife, and stared viciously at the retreating bandits with his pair of triangular eyes.

The bandit who narrowly escaped dismounted and squeezed into the crowd, came to Tao Jun, threw himself on the ground and reported: "Boss Tao, something is wrong! There are archers in the Yue Family Village! The brothers who rushed to the front with me They were all shot!"

"How many people are there?" Tao Jun asked.

"I don't know! In the darkness, I can only hear the sound of arrows flying, and in the blink of an eye, nine brothers were shot to death. I guess, there are at least ten or twenty archers in Zhuangqian!" The man was still in shock. The robber replied to Tao Jun.

"Several archers scare you? Little ones, the target on the horse is too big, so they all get off the horse and attack! Immediately bring shields, bows and arrows to me! Those with shields are in front, and those with bows and arrows are behind. Scatter and attack from the small roads of the village, shoot the archers in that village to death, and show off the majesty of my Mou Shan!"

Under Tao Jun's command, the thieves assembled more than 30 shields, gathered dozens of thieves with bows and arrows, extinguished the torches, and rushed to the entrance of the village for the second time.

"Go around to the back of the village and tell Leader Jia that there are archers in Yuejiazhuang defending us. I will hold the archers of Yuejiazhuang here, and ask Leader Jia to take the opportunity to rush in and steal their way!" Tao Jun told a robber beside him.

The robber got the order and rode around to the back of the village.However, not long after the robber disappeared, a horse galloped from behind the village, but it was Jia Jin who also sent someone to report the news.

The bandit who came reported to Tao Jun that there were more than a dozen archers defending the backyard of Yuejiazhuang, and they were in a stalemate.Leader Jia hopes that Leader Tao can quickly enter the villa and break the deadlock.

Oh? This Yuejiazhuang is not a big manor, unexpectedly there are dozens of archers!In this way, there must be a lot of property in this Yuejiazhuang, it is a fat sheep!

Tao Jun looked at Yuejiazhuang greedily, took a cavalry shield from his horse, and rushed towards the village with the rest of the robbers.

Tao Jun is wearing armor, and he only needs to protect his face with a cavalry shield, and the archers can't do anything to him.Tao Jun is determined to use the big knife in his hand to personally reap the lives of those hateful archers.

Ximen Qing and Brother Qiao Yun guarded the wall and shot down more than ten robbers.But because of the darkness of the night, we could only aim with a little moonlight, and the robbers held up their shields to cover them, so it was no longer possible for every arrow to hit the vital point.

Under the cover of shields, the robbers dispersed and rushed into the village from roads and trails.

Chapter 284 Fighting Yuejiazhuang

"Have all the villagers hid in the village? The robbers have already entered the village, so the gate must be closed." Jiao Ting asked Yue Fei.

"Wait a little longer, there is still one family that has not arrived." Yue Fei stretched his neck and looked out while counting the villagers who walked into the village.

"Here we come! That's Aunt Zhao and his son!" Yue Fei pointed forward with his hand.

Jiao Ting looked up, and saw a thin man walking towards the gate with an old woman with white hair on his back.

"No! The thieves are coming! You wait to guard this place!" After Jiao Ting gave orders to the attendants around him, he rushed out with a knife.

Behind the thin man with his mother on his back, a few robbers surged out from the darkness, brandishing knives and caught up with the thin man.

The first robber gave an evil laugh, raised his knife and slashed at the back of the white-haired old woman.

"Looking for death!" Suddenly a thunderous voice sounded beside the robber.A big man suddenly appeared between him and the white-haired old woman in front of him.

The robber felt a chill on his wrist, and saw his hand holding the knife fly into the air.It's a pity that he didn't have time to scream in the future, the knife flashed in front of his eyes, and his head had been split in two by the big man in front of him.

The big man who came out suddenly was Jiao Ting. He swung his big knife and slashed left and right, and quickly killed the few robbers who were chasing him to the ground.

After killing the robbers, Jiao Ting looked back and saw that the thin man hadn't run far with his mother on his back.Jiao Ting cursed in a low voice, rushed up, whispered something to the man, snatched the white-haired old woman from his back onto his back, and rushed towards the gate like flying.