At this time, northern Shaanxi was already in chaos, with civil unrest everywhere and horse bandits running rampant everywhere.
Before the others could react, a crossbow arrow passed through his chest with a whoosh, and the little leader fell down. The others and the maids immediately screamed and ran towards the door like a swarm of swarms. Some servants
Also tried to close the door.
The cavalry immediately fired a burst of crossbow arrows, directly shooting down the servants and maids who were preparing to cross the threshold. They fell on the threshold, making it impossible to close the door.
A group of people surged into the mansion, and the war horses galloped in directly from the gate. Everyone they met along the way was chopped down with a knife. Wherever the war horses passed, they left dead bodies on the ground.
One hundred cavalry galloped around the walls of Li's Mansion, directly surrounding Li's Mansion to prevent anyone from escaping by jumping over the courtyard wall. The back door was also controlled.
After more than 200 people rushed into the mansion, they began to kill them violently. Mo Zhuo made it very clear that no chickens or dogs would be spared.
Mr. Li slept soundly this morning. He celebrates his birthday today, and many of his disciples and former officials will come to wish him a birthday.
I was sleeping soundly with a few bed-warming maids in my arms. Suddenly I heard a noise outside. The sound of galloping horses, the sound of women screaming. There were also the sounds of people being chopped with knives and screaming.
Old Mrs. Li sat up tremblingly and called Zhusheng in panic. Zhusheng was his bodyguard and was outside the door at this time.
Zhu Sheng hurriedly opened the door and came in, saying anxiously: "Master, what's wrong, a group of thieves' cavalry rushed into the house. I'm afraid they are Wang Jiayin's rebel troops. This is the only bandit bandit nearby.
Master, please go hide in the fort quickly."
After saying that, he called the bed-warming maids to help the old man get dressed quickly and helped him to the stone watchtower in the backyard.
After Mo Zui led people to fight from all sides, he saw that the members of the Li family had abandoned the others and all got into the five-story watchtower built by cutting out tenons from the bluestone and then filling the gaps with molten iron.
The windows of this watchtower are closed with iron bars. There are also iron windows.
The bottom of the thirty-meter-square watchtower is a solid pedestal, ten meters high, and above it is a five-story watchtower. Food, firewood, and water wells are also stored inside. There are cold weapons inside: crossbows, knives, guns, and fire gate guns.
Shotguns and other firearms.
Mo Zuo watched them running into the watchtower crying, curling up the corner of his mouth and smiling disdainfully.
There is really nothing that ordinary bandits can do about this turtle shell, but when they encounter him who is following his master in all the wars, he is simply asking for his own death.
The pirates searched from all sides, came to the watchtower in the back garden, and surrounded him on all sides.
A middle-aged man on the watchtower shouted: "Below are the heroes along the way. Our Li family is willing to offer three thousand taels of silver to ask the heroes to retreat."
Mo Zuo sneered and cursed: "You are sending the f*cking beggar. I am Wang Jiayin's subordinate, and I am rolling mines. If you don't have a hundred thousand taels, don't even think about it."
When Mr. Li heard that it cost one hundred thousand taels, he felt so distressed that he almost fainted.
"You are a good man. Our Li family looks rich, but in fact it has a large population. It has long been empty. We really can't afford so much money. We only have ten thousand taels at most, so why don't you ask a good man to show your respect?" The head of the Li family,
Mrs. Li's eldest son shouted loudly.
"Come out of the watchtower and let me search." Mo Zuo said with a sneer.
Only when they were stupid did they come out of the tower.
Mo Zui looked at these people coldly and ordered: "Tear down all the houses for me, pile the wood under this watchtower, pour water on it, pour gasoline on it, and light it for me."
The pirates immediately began to demolish the surrounding wooden buildings. The houses in this era were all made of wooden structures. They were all mortise and tenon structures. Because iron nails were lacking in ancient times, iron nails were very expensive.
At this time, except for the people in the watchtower, everyone outside had already been killed.
The bodies of these people were also carried and thrown under the watchtower. The base was buried directly. The Li family almost peed their pants when they saw it.
They already understood at this time that these people would not give up.
This is no longer about asking for money. This is about destroying the Li family.
The pirates stepped on these corpses and piled the dismantled wood directly on the outside of the first floor of the watchtower, piling them up layer by layer.
The Li family was frightened to death. They had already seen that they were going to be burned.
They started shooting arrows out of the windows and making firecrackers.
But there were crossbowmen on the rooftops all around, shooting arrows at the windows. Those who were exposed were shot to death. They were suppressed.
Seeing that the demolished house timbers were piling up higher and higher, they had already piled up to three floors. There were only two floors left in the entire watchtower. The female relatives of the Li family began to cry and howl.
Mo Zui's heart was as hard as stone and he remained unmoved. He murmured, "I'm back to avenge you."
After knowing that all the wood was piled outside the watchtower, Yisi Maeyiha, who had his head wrapped in white cloth, came to report. Only then did Mo Desi come back to his senses from the memories of the meeting.
"Can you light the fire?"
Mo Zui looked at the tower that had been turned into a grill, smiled cruelly, and said: "Send someone to climb to the top of the building, pour a hundred barrels of gasoline into it from the chimney and skylight, and then throw grenades into it."
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Everyone trembled all over. This was too cruel. They were going to burn them all into a barbecue.
Barrels of gasoline were poured down, and a strange smell permeated the tower. The people below didn't know what kind of liquid it was. It looked like urine, yellow and squeaky. But this smell made them feel great.
of fear.
As grenades were thrown in one after another, the people who climbed to the top floor quickly ran away. With a bang, the grenades exploded, igniting the gasoline. With a bang, the gasoline exploded, and fire spewed out of the windows of the entire watchtower.
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The fire spurted out of the window and ignited the wood wrapping outside.
The climate here in the northwest is very dry, and the moisture content of wood is very low. This season there is strong wind. Suddenly, the entire watchtower and the wood outside burned violently like a torch.
The fire formed a chimney effect around the stone tower, and flames rose into the sky.
Mo Zui shed tears when he looked at the watchtower that was burned like a volcano and the cries and screams of the people inside.
Ten years ago, Zhangjiazhuang was attacked by bandits because it refused to sell 300 acres of paddy field to the Li family. The entire clan and ancestral home were razed to the ground and burned to ashes.
Ten years later, Zhang Fengxian came back with the pirates and burned the Li family to ashes.
Mo Zhui looked at the fire soaring into the sky and cried as if he had a nervous breakdown. He kowtowed in the direction of Zhangjiazhuang, making his forehead bleed. Tears poured down and he cried.
"Father! Mother! Sister!" Mo Zhui roared, "I have avenged you. Just close your eyes."
Seeing that the entire watchtower was burning red with flames, Mo Zui wiped away his tears and took more than 300 pirates to share the unearthed treasures with everyone.
Mo Zhui cupped his hands and said: "We say farewell today. We are destined to see you again. You should leave the Ming Dynasty immediately and do not come back again, let alone the military camp. Today you have helped me avenge a bloody sea of blood, so I thank you in advance."
After Mo Zui finished speaking, he bowed to the ground, turned around, mounted his horse and ran straight towards the military camp.