Maoxian is just a small county town under Lianzhou County, Jiangxi Province, with a population of less than 50,000. Due to years of floods, the permanent residents of Maoxian have also changed frequently. Many victims will move out, and many people from the north or Lingnan will migrate here.

Sun Yi, the county magistrate of Mao County, was originally from the imperial examination in the court. He spent money to break up relationships and became a local chief in Mao County. He worked for ten years. In the past ten years, Mao County has long become his private kingdom, and his corruption and abuse of power have a bad reputation in the local area. Some local officials once wanted to sue him for his evil deeds, but soon encountered the war between the King of Huai and the court. He originally wanted to keep his life alone and wait for a result to decide to belong, but who knew that King Jing came to win him over, so he, a county magistrate who was not under any force, became the county magistrate of Mao County with justification.

Becoming a county duke means that Mao County has been recorded under his Sun family. In the future, except for paying taxes to King Jing, no one can take care of the rest.

Mao County is still in continuous rain. As the twelfth lunar month enters, the rain is extremely cold. On the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the sky is covered with snow. Sun Yi is doing nothing and fiddling with the gifts given to him by King Jing. They are all gold, silver and jade. For a greedy official, counting his own belongings is more interesting than going out to make money. At least that's what Sun Yi thinks.

"Brother, there are cavalry from King Jing coming over the city gate and shouting to enter the city." Sun Yun, the chief prisoner of Mao County, rushed into the county government office of Mao County and said hurriedly.

Sun Yun is Sun Yi's younger brother, and in Mao County, most of the officials also have relatives with Sun Yi. The Sun family, which was originally prosperous in the north, moved to Mao County because of Sun Yi's power.

"Prince Jing's soldier?" Sun Yi stood up from the chair, "Didn't you tell me the truth?"

"It was said that he was ambushed and from the grain transport team."

Sun Yi had long heard of the recent troubles in Jiangyou area. These bandits were brave enough to fight against the government and especially liked to rob food. He didn't know whether this happened because the robbery of grain had been far away from Mao County. Sun Yi did not expect that this time it happened at his doorstep.

Now all over the country are in war. The gate of Maoxian County only opens for two hours a day. It is not yet time to open the gate, so Sun Yi could have kept his back. After all, this was a troublesome thing, but when he thinks about King Jing's favor to him, he must not be repaid. Otherwise, King Jing would probably doubt his loyalty when he turned back.

"Open the city gate and welcome the cavalry into the city."

In order to show his importance, Sun Yi personally went to greet the cavalry. When he arrived at the North City Gate, he found that it was just a defeated army that was beaten and survived. All the cavalry were only a few dozen cavalry. From a distance, he had seen the pursuers of the bandits approaching this side.

"Brother, are you still welcome?"

Sun Yi calculated that the city's garrison battalion is now under his control. There are six or seven hundred soldiers and regiment training. If there are bandits, he will forcefully recruit some and a team of one or two thousand can be formed. This is the benefit of a local emperor, and he can expand his army and fight the enemy at any time according to his needs. Anyway, he sets the rules himself.

"welcome!"

With a command, the city gate slowly opened, and dozens of cavalry fled into the city in a panic. In less than a cup of tea, the pursuers of the bandits over there had already arrived at the city. They shouted loudly from Sun Yi and others standing on the city wall from afar, and their arrogant appearance seemed to be provoking.

There were about a hundred pursuers, and there were sabers on their waists. Unlike the bandits in the south, they were somewhat similar to the Hu people in the north. The people shouted so harshly. Sun Yi looked at them and said angrily: "Shoot the arrows, a few bandits, just shoot them to death!"

Dozens of arrows were shot down from the city walls in scattered spaces, because the distance between the two sides was too far, and the arrows just landed not far in front of these bandits. The bandits shouted louder.

"Are there any sharpshooters? Come and shoot them all to death!" Sun Yi shouted.

None of the soldiers dared to live like this. The bandits over there were at least three hundred steps away from the city wall. Although the distance from shooting down from the city wall was similar, the arrows had lost their strength when flying so far. In the rainy weather, it was too difficult to shoot the bandits to death. And this county magistrate was really harsh. Who said that it was OK, but he couldn't turn around and his life might be difficult to save.

What Sun Yi was most afraid of was that there was an accident in Mao County. This was his territory. If it was lost, it would not be taken back. Sun Yi gave an order: "Call all the people who can shoot arrows in the city and station them in the north wall."

Sun Yun nodded immediately and a military assistant adjutant said, "Prince Sun, we are condescending, the arrows are farther than those bandits. We can't shoot them, and they definitely dare not approach the city. If they are easily mobilized, they are afraid..."

Halfway through his words, he suddenly heard a sound of explosion. It turned out that the city wall seemed to be hit by something, and a broken brick jumped up. Sun Yi was shocked and quickly lowered his head and cat inside the battlement. Several soldiers who could not dodge had their heads bloomed, fell to the ground, either moved twice and died, or moaned in pain on the ground.

"I still say it's okay? Touch troops here quickly!"

Although the war in the north was rumbling, the entire Jianggan area was now peaceful. Apart from these bold bandits, Sun Yi was afraid that they would come to make trouble, so he even came.

Several cavalry then went up to the city wall, and they were the King Jing cavalry who had just been welcomed into the city.

"Sun County Magistrate Sun, these bandits have magic tricks and killing methods are emerging one after another. Many of them fell off their heads before they saw what was going on!"

These cavalry were frightened by the bandits, and the description was exaggerated, but it was a true matter for their grain transport team to be looted. When Sun Yi learned that more than 2,000 regular troops were no match for these bandits, he almost collapsed to the ground in fright.

"No, you must defend the city and mobilize more troops!"

The entire Mao County garrison battalion was almost transferred by Sun Yi to the north city wall, and arrows kept shooting down, but it was not even injured by the hundred or ten bandits. When the other person raised his hand, someone would inevitably fall down on the city wall. Later, all the soldiers of the garrison battalion on the city wall became frightened birds. When the other person raised his hand, each of them could instinctively hide behind the battlements. After hiding, they found that they were just a fake shot, and they only heard the laughter of the bandits.

Sun Yi hid behind the battlements and was frightened and thought to himself, why did these bandits not retreat yet? Could it be that bandits still want to attack the city? I have never heard of such absurd thing before. Living in the city means that they will not be patronized by bandits. This is why the rich people have to go to the city these days, or the manors are all deep walled villages, just to prevent robbers.

The two sides exchanged fire across the air on the north side of the city, and suddenly a soldier came to report in a mess: "County lieutenant, county lieutenant, it's not good. The bandits suddenly rushed up to the city wall from the west direction of the city. When they opened the city gate, they rushed in. There were at least four or five hundred people!"

"really?"

Sun Yi ignored the danger behind his head and stood up, looking incredible. In less than half an hour, Maoxian was lost?

"Really, the county lieutenant, Mao County is afraid that it will not be able to save it. Those bandits will kill everyone when they see it. They are extremely cruel! The stick in their hands emitted a fire, and people from afar lay down. No matter how dead they die, they can't see clearly. County lieutenant, you... should you run away quickly."

Sun Yi wanted to escape, but unfortunately it was too late. He saw the masked bandits riding horses and galloping between the streets and alleys of Mao County, rushing towards the north of the city.

"Bandits seek wealth..." Sun Yi was panicked and instinctively gave an order, "Discuss them carefully. If you want money, food, or women, you will be satisfied. Don't hurt your kindness, and don't lose your life in vain!"
Chapter completed!