Xu Shiyang slept until the sun was noon before getting up. At this time, he still felt dizzy. He stuffed his face directly into the cold bucket, lifted it up after a few seconds, shook it hard, and then wiped his face with a cotton cloth.

After a while, the young castle lord could barely wake up.

Xu Shiyang picked up his long sword - this was the only standard long sword in the fort. He was one of the gifts his father gave him, walked out of the yard where he lived, and went straight to the glutinous yard.

It is late autumn (the Tartars are here at this time), and the harvest has been completed. The three layers of the fortress and the three layers outside the three layers of the outside have been surrounded by the glutinous yard. The inner layer of the crowd is the children who act as personal soldiers, each of whom stands up and folds his belly, and holds a fire door gun as a baton to maintain order.

In the middle of the burgundy farm, there were 21 captured Tartars kneeling, all of whom were bare and dejected.

When they were captured just now, they still maintained the arrogance of the Tartars. A few of them could speak Chinese and shouted loudly and threatened the castle people. As a result, they were beaten to the point of being blue and swollen from a stick. Now they dare not speak.

The housekeeper in the fort, Hu Lanshan, the old man Hu was pitifully behind Xu Shiyang.

He is an old man from the Xu family. He was transferred from the second gate of the Xu family (Xu Shiyang's father's Tun Castle) to Shiwutun to serve as a manager. In theory, he should be regarded as the second-ranked figure in the Tun Castle.

But when he brought food and wine to meet the Tartars, Xu Shiyang didn't tell him that Tun Ding would go to attack.

Although he survived the battle and did not think much about Xu Shiyang after the war, after returning home and calmed down, the old man could not stop being afraid - in his opinion, Xu Shiyang didn't care about his life or death at all, or in other words, this young head wolf simply wanted to take his life with the Tartars' hands!

The reason is very simple. No one likes to have an old man around him who can restrain himself, even if this old man was given to him by his father.

Therefore, Old Man Hu decided to never go against Xu Shiyang from now on, even if he knew that he was doing something wrong and did not comply with the rules, he would not advise him.

Xu Shiyang never expected that this old man had so many thoughts. He did not like Hu Lanshan, but he did not have to take his life.

That day, Old Man Hu was sent to deliver things to the Tartars because it was originally the job of Old Man Hu. Whether it was the Tartars, the refugees or the bandits passing by, he was going to bargain for the price. All heroes from all walks of life could say something. Who would he go?

As for not revealing the battle plan to him, it would be even more normal.

Xu Shiyang specifically asked him to bring 20 jars of earth to burn, which was originally intended to paralyze the Tartars. If the old man knew the combat plan and was not careful to reveal it, the 150 militiamen who attacked would die without a place to bury them.

As for whether Old Man Hu will be killed by himself..., uh, as mentioned earlier, Xu Shiyang really doesn't like him.

In this world, no one dies is considered a big deal.

Xu Shiyang was too lazy to pay attention to what Old Man Hu was thinking. He shouted to a personal soldier: "Xu Da!"

"exist!"

The young man named Xu Da quickly stood in front of Xu Shiyang.

Unlike other fortress owners who like to use brave and cruel people as personal soldiers, Xu Shiyang has always insisted on using these children he trained himself as personal soldiers, and also acted as the tentacles he controls the entire village.

Most of these children are refugees recruited by Xu Shiyang. They have no parents and elders. Logically, they no longer have the chance to grow up.

Other Fortress owners of the Xu family don't like this kind of little boy who can never eat enough (it's normal when they are growing up) but don't have much strength to work, so Xu Shiyang accepted it without hesitation.

When they arrived at Shiwutun, Xu Shiyang asked them to follow their surname Xu, and then named them with numbers, sophomore than three, four and five were arranged in the order they came.

This Xu Da was one of the first refugee children to come in Shiwutun. He was rarely honest and obedient. He was full of gratitude and loyalty to Xu Shiyang, who saved his life.

Xu Shiyang has already treated him as a captain of his personal soldiers, so he tried to arrange some trivial matters to cultivate his ability.

"How many numbers can you count when I taught you?"

“By sir, 20!”

Xu Shiyang has been trying to promote Arabic numerals in his own tun castle. These illiterate teenagers did not learn quickly, but were much better than others - if other tunciators could recognize 3, they would be considered diligent in studying...

However, today, 20 is enough, after all, there are only 21 prisoners.

Xu Shiyang pulled out his long sword, walked into the pile of prisoners, chose any one, and slashed it with one knife.

A head with a frightened face rolled down at his feet.

The castle people exclaimed, but it did not cause any confusion - in this world, who hasn't seen hundreds or eighty dead people?

“Now there are only 20.”

Xu Shiyang said to Xu Da:

"You come and queue up for them, and then pick 5 people from it and kill them."

"Kill 5 people?"

Xu Da asked in surprise.

It would be a pity for Xu Shiyang to kill 5 of them in one sentence.

"Kill 5!"

Xu Shiyang coldly repeated this order:

"The remaining people are divided into 3 groups, each group of 5 people, and they will be taken to do heavy work!"

The 20 Tartars are too many for a small trest. If other Tartars attack in the future, it is difficult to say whether they will respond in groups.

Then it would be better to use thunder means directly and shock them now.

Thirteen years ago, the main force of the Great Zhou army went north and fought a decisive battle with the Jurchen Taurus troops pouring in from outside the pass, but ended up being defeated. Less than one in ten survivors of the 170,000 army.

From that time on, all the barbarians from the north: the Jurchens from Liaodong, the Tatars from the grassland, the Dangxiang from the northwest, and other messy Tatars poured into the flower world of the Central Plains again and again, killing and robbing.

The imperial army was defeated again and again, and there was no way for the Tartars, so they had to withdraw from the old capital and cross the south, leaving the entire Jiangbei to the aliens to ruin.

If it weren't for the various Tartars, they would have been in a stalemate. If there was a unified foreign regime in the north - whether it was the Tatars, the Jurchens, or even the Dangxiang, who had the ability to control the fertile land of Jiangbei that was almost unbroken, Xu Shiyang felt that just the bunch of waste snacks in Jiangnan would probably have been destroyed by the Tartars just like the Southern Song and Southern Ming in his previous life, resulting in the sinking of the land in China.

Even if the regime, which was despised by Xu Shiyang, could survive, the military failures of more than ten years had wiped out the self-confidence of the Han people.

The Jurchens said that they were invincible, and the Han people dared not refute because they could not defeat the Jurchens.

The Tatars said that they were invincible in the world, and the Han people dared not refute because they could not defeat the Tatars.

Even Dang Xiang said that they could fight against Han people by one, but Han people dared not refute because they could not defeat Dang Xiang.

There were also Qiang people, Tubo people, Uighur people, Bohai people, Khitan people who were conquered by the Jurchens, and even Goryeo and Fusang pirates who came across the sea to fight the autumn wind while they were in trouble.

As long as they are foreigners, they think they can bite hard on the Han people, and they think that after more than ten years of failure, the Han people dare not resist at all!

The Han people really dare not resist. If the Tartars did not attack the fort and would not force the Han people to a desperate situation, the fort lords who usually had five or six people would only provide women's money and food with both hands, and ask the passing Tartars to give up their hands.

This is also an important reason why Haihuli is so careless - Xu Shiyang paid the life-redemption money like other Han leaders, so Haihuli thinks he is a coward like other Han leaders.
Chapter completed!