stubborn thief

Chapter 58
Wangzhuang is on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Xichuan River at the junction of the three counties.

Liu Chengzong and his party walked along the west of the river, and the villages along the way were all withered. Dilapidated cave dwellings and collapsed walls were everywhere, and there were traces of arson.

Just ten miles away, he met two groups of refugees who were fighting to snatch pottery from the ruins.

I also saw a few beggars, kowtowing along the road.

He had also heard the faint cries of help from women in the ruins, but by the time he rode his horse over, the dying nursing mother had died, and only the baby in her arms was left, her face blue from hunger in the swaddle.

A few people can't see this, and they instinctively go on horseback.

After walking more than thirty steps, Liu Chengzong covered his face and scolded: "I'm really your father!"

The four men all moved, they ran back to the ruins, Liu Chengzong picked up the doll, Cao Yao smashed the door panel, and Liu Chengzu made a fire.

Cai Zhongpan rushed out and exchanged a piece of cake for a pot and bowl, and then used a musket to scare away the greedy refugees.

Only cooked half a pie.

Alive.

They continued on the road while crying loudly, only to realize that the Xichuan River did not stop flowing.

An earth dam is across the river. There are green trees beside the dam. The tree hangs a man's trunk. The man's head is on the tree, his intestines are on the ground, and a pile of skeletons is on the ground. , written in cinnabar on the monument.

Wang Tian.

It looks particularly blood red on the loess.

Along both sides of the river, the golden ground can not be seen at a glance, and people don't grow millet, but wheat, which grows very well.

For some reason, Liu Chengzong didn't know any of those skulls, but he stubbornly felt that he should know them.

A few days ago they should have been called thieves, along with those who broke into the Black Dragon Mountain, and a few months to two years ago, they had another name.

People.

Wangzhuang's steward chief doesn't need to repay his credit with his head, so he left them here to intimidate the refugees.

The four of them rode their horses and stood in front of the stone monument for a long time.

Liu Chengzong didn't know what others were thinking, he just wanted to see more of this mature wheat field.

I haven't seen such a delightful sight in a long time.

He believed that even a father who had been upright all his life would want to kill the palace steward when he saw such a beautiful scene.

Until Liu Chengzu opened his mouth and said: "This dam is good, there is no one downstream, and no one will report to the officials with gunpowder bombing the east."

Cao Yao sighed with emotion: "A lot of gunpowder has to be dug to the bottom. One night probably won't be enough. Go up the mountain, don't go inside. This baby keeps crying, and I will invite people later."

Liu Chengzu smiled and said: "Why are you digging a hole? You attack the city? There is no one to defend the city. If you blow up the back door from the main gate, it will be opened. I don't believe that he used the iron gate to break the Wangzhuang."

The four walked from the north bank to the south bank, and then led their horses around the undulating hillside, and finally saw the fort that Song Shouzhen said was difficult to attack.

Liu Chengzong had only one thought: it is good to have money, this can no longer be called a siege, it should be called a fortress.

The earth fort is built against a cliff in the north, with three high walls, a gate in the south, and four thickened turrets, like a small city with four hundred steps.

Outside the fort, there is a fruit forest in the west, a drying field in the east, and an open space outside the south gate, surrounded by ditches on three sides. Fortunately, even if the Xichuan River was dammed, it did not hold too much water, and the road to the ditches was also blocked by dams.

The fort wall is more than [-] feet high, and the idea of ​​climbing is basically unsuccessful, and it is also covered with bricks. Even the amount of gunpowder required to dig a tunnel to blow up the city is prohibitive.

It looks terrifying from the outside.

But when looking at the fortress from the top of the mountain, the walls are not as thick as they seem, about ten feet wide at the bottom and five feet wide at the front.

The actual height of the fort is only about one zhang, two or three chi, and the other eight chi walls are extremely thin. They are wooden walls used to defend against arrows.

Cao Yao's face was troubled: "It's not easy to fight, Chengzu is right, this castle can only be bombed, but there are two gates inside, bomb it again?"

The fort is divided into two courtyards, the front and the back. The front yard has a water well and a large courtyard that receives rainwater. There are more than a dozen servants' houses on the left and right and pigsties and stables. The wall of the hanging flower gate facing the gate in the middle is also high, and the gate is equally thick.

And it looked brand new, either it had just been painted, or the fortress was besieged by the seed management team to frighten the steward Wang Zhuang, and it was new.

The granary should be right under that mountain. In order to avoid decay, it is likely to be a mountain cellar or even a cellar structure.

Liu Chengzu pointed to the cliff against which the fort was backed on the opposite side and said, "Can you hang down?"

"The mountain is not too high, it can be hung." Cao Yao shook his head and said, "But it looks like there are seven or eight feet, but if there is a guard on the wall, hanging down is a living target."

After that, Cao Yao said, "What are you doing, Lion, you'll be right behind you when you go up the mountain... What are you painting?"

Only then did he realize that Liu Chengzong took out a pen and paper behind him and was drawing the composition of the fortress.

In fact, the painting is not very good, but with the help of another memory, the painting is not bad.

He didn't lift his head and said, "I thought earlier that it would be enough to get ten people in a dirt fence, but now it seems that ten people are not enough, and we have to assign people to control the outside village."

"What are you still controlling? Burn a fire." Cao Yao said easily: "It's too late for them to put out the fire by themselves, and they can't take care of us."

Liu Chengzong raised his head, put the pen aside, glanced at the surrounding villages, and said earnestly: "They are all hard-working people, don't embarrass others, the house has already been burned once."

The villages outside the fort did show signs of being burnt down, most likely because the last time the planting team surrounded the fort and set fire to it.

But this fortress is really too difficult for those in the seed management team to fight.

There are many of them, and they will definitely be discovered when they come, and there is no heavy firepower. Relying on two or three hundred armed and hungry people to attack this fortress is tantamount to a fool's dream.

The dam undoubtedly broke through Liu Chengzu's imagination. Liu Chengzong could feel that after seeing the scenery, his brother's attitude had changed significantly.

Just like now, Liu Chengzu was squatting on the edge of the cliff, racking his brains while looking at the fort on the other side of the river, and suddenly said: "What about the sound? fall."

He turned his head and was very happy with the idea, and said, "Or quietly touch it and blow up the gate, and the fortress guards will also be transferred to the front, and the people behind will hang down to take the main house and take the steward."

Liu Chengzong replied: "The front is blocked and no one is allowed to go out. Disarm them, and the fort will be taken."

This kind of fantasy is happy, but it requires too much coincidence to be practical.

In the end, it's the hardest plan to make.

Liu Chengzong almost finished the picture, and said to the three: "I'll draw the place, let's take a look, if there is nothing else that needs attention, you can go to the retreat and look for a few places to store food, one day will be sure Can't go back."

At this moment, Cai Zhongpan, who had not interrupted, said: "Hey, did you see that there are a few people on the opposite mountain, why do I think they want to do the same thing as us?"

After hearing the words, the three of them looked around, and after looking for a long time, they saw a few people with strange behavior in the woods in the mountains, and quickly disappeared on the mountain.

They were not the only ones who had this idea of ​​Wang Zhuang.

Must start as soon as possible!

(End of this chapter)