It is still half a month before Li Zicheng goes to Shanhaiguan, which means that military pay will be paid in half a month. But what should I do in this half month? You can't let a group of new recruits from the Jinyiwei go hungry, right?

After leaving the palace, Gao Wencai mentioned to Zhao Peng: "Brother, you have a good relationship with the flag. Why don't you borrow some grain and grain to buy it? If you want to pay it back, we will give it back with two silver."

"Brother, I can't. Although I have a good relationship with Yaoqi, he is a thief after all. We are officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. How can we owe the thief a debt? We should seek other plans as the best." Zhao Peng was unwilling to owe Hao Yaoqi a debt.

Gao Wencai felt that what Zhao Peng said was reasonable: "If you say it is reasonable, we should find another solution, but what good solution is there?"

"Go to the former Pavilion Lao Daofu (Li Sancai)'s house to borrow food." Zhao Peng came up with a solution.

Li Sancai, the Minister of Revenue in the Wanli Dynasty, once served as the rich official position of Governor of the Grain Transportation. This guy was originally from Shaanxi, but his family moved to Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou. Although the grave grass was more than one person tall, his family was still a famous gentry in Tongzhou. This guy was rich enough to rival a country during his lifetime. Now the family property left is definitely too much to spend at all. It can be said that Li Sancai's family property will only be more than Chen Yan, not less.

"Jiannu invaded and thieves entered Beijing. Who knows whether the Daofu family was affected by the thieves?" Gao Wencai said worriedly.

"I can't control so much, let's go and have a look first. The thieves with such great strength probably had already been hiding from the capital when Jiannu came! The thieves did not really control Tongzhou this time, and the former Daming County Magistrate of Tongzhou was not replaced. I guess the Li Sancai family would not be affected." Zhao Peng said without hesitation. He had already determined that the Li family was the big fat sheep. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the counties and villages around the capital had basically become places where no one would take care of them. When would he not slaughter the fat sheep?

"Let's send someone to inquire first." Gao Wencai said.

Not long after, the spy sent back came back, describing the situation of the Li family he saw, and also drew a picture of the Li family.

Zhao Peng looked at the sketch and gasped: "This is not a big fat sheep, this is simply a porcupine covered with barbed bodies! Leopards want to eat porcupines, but they are often stabbed to death by porcupines!"

The sketch shows that the Li family at this time has become a village. One side of the village is facing a canal, and ditches are dug out on three sides, leading the canal water into the ditch, forming a moat on all sides. There are high village walls on all sides, and there is an entrance on the west side. To enter the village, you need to enter the village through a suspension bridge. Above the village wall, there are arrow towers, high platforms, and even a fort!

"I heard that since the Jiannu invaded the enemy in the second year of Chongzhen, the people of the Li family were afraid and spent a huge amount of money to build the city. The Jiannu invaded and robbed the enemy and robbed, so they could not capture such a city." The spy reported.

"As a result, I'd better take someone to find out what happened." Zhao Peng said.

Zhao Peng personally took the twelve Jinyiwei and went to the Li family in Zhangjiawan to spy on the information. When he approached the Li family village in Zhangjiawan, he could see clearly the appearance of the Li family village. The closer he was to the city wall, the more Zhao Peng felt that the village was solid and thick, as if the entire city wall was built on a large soil platform up to ten feet high. The moat was dug on one side towards the canal, and the moat was dug on three sides. The moat was three feet wide, and the water introduced into the canal filled the moat. After getting closer, you could clearly feel that these moats were at least ten feet deep, and there was still a hidden mechanism at the bottom of the river.

The Lijiacheng Village is a hundred feet long and wide, with a circumference of four hundred feet. The two-meter-high wall is built on a one-meter-high soil platform, which is two feet high, and it is three feet in total. The outside of the wall is wrapped with solid blue bricks, and the soil platform under the wall is also reinforced with blue bricks. Moreover, there are raised arrow towers every fifty steps along the wall. The bottom of the arrow tower is made of bluestone, and the upper part is a solid closed blue brick arrow tower, which is densely covered with shooting holes. The top of the arrow tower is a flat-top building, and there are female wall warheads around it. With these raised arrow towers, no matter where they attack the city, they will be attacked by firepower on three sides.

There are obviously turrets in the village wall that are higher than the village wall, with cannons installed on them, but the distance is far away, so I can't see what kind of cannon it is.

Seeing such a structure, Zhao Peng gasped: No wonder the Later Jin invaded several times and had no choice but to deal with the Li family. The Jurchens invaded the enemy only ran away for the sake of robbery and did not carry red barbarian cannons at all. At most, they only brought small cannons such as Franchise and tiger squat cannons. How could those small cannons be able to open such a city? So the Jurchens could only give up the Li family.

How can we blast such a city? The red cannons can be blasted, but the red cannons are too heavy. It will be too much to transport the Red cannons here to transport the Red cannons here. It will cause suspicion from the Shun Army. If you carry the general cannons to bombard them, it will probably be difficult to blast them for a month. Even if you transport the Red cannons and blow the city cannons open, you still have to cross the moat. With the few people in your hands, it will take more than ten days to fill out a section of the moat!

Zhao Peng decided to be polite first and then soldiers. He took the twelve Jinyiwei's guards to the gate of the village in a swaying manner, raised his head and shouted to the top of the city tower: "Is this the mansion of Master Li Ge?"

An angry roar came from above: "Get out of the catholic dog! Mr. Li has passed away for more than 20 years, so don't bother with you!"

Zhao Peng replied: "I am Zhao Peng, a thousand households of Jinyiwei. I escort His Royal Highness to Nanjing. However, my brothers have not yet entered the grain of rice for a few days. I hope the head of the Li family will be kind and borrow 500 stones of food from me. When the king's army recovers the capital, we will return the food twice as much!"

"Bah! How could the Li family allow you to be arrogant and domineering! Get out of here, if you don't get out, you will shoot an arrow!"

Zhao Peng was unwilling to lose his brother, so he still didn't want to do it. He still advised him with kind words: "The northern land is in the hands of thieves, and the Li family supports it independently. Can we keep hiding in the city and not going out for a long time? It would be better to lend us food to return to the south. In the future, we will definitely lead a large army to fight the Northern Expedition to recover the capital!"

A sneer came from above: "Don't use the thief to suppress us! If the thief wants to attack, it's all right! The Li family is full of righteousness and can be regarded as a thousand troops, so why not be afraid of it! The thief is aware of it and get out of here, otherwise they will shoot an arrow!"

"Swoosh swish swish swish" a sound of arrows, and a round of arrows flew out from the city, most of which were pierced in the mud in front of Zhao Peng. Two arrows still hit Zhao Peng, but he was wearing three thick armor and the arrows could not penetrate.

Seeing the fire on the top of the city, Zhao Peng knew that the Li family would fire the gun next. He didn't think that the thick armor on his body could block the fire of the gun, so he hurriedly took the twelve brothers away.

"Hahaha! The eunuch ran away! I was using thieves to suppress me!" A burst of crazy laughter came from above.

"Thief? Bah! Come when you want to come! Jiannu has invaded five times and has not yet captured the Li family. What are the thiefs? Hahaha! Can the thiefs be even more powerful than Jiannu!"

These wealth-guarding slaves were simply unlucky. The Li family, which was rich enough to rival the country, refused to borrow 500 stones of food. If they attacked for force, they would definitely not have enough people. Judging from the Li family's city wall, even if they used cannons to open the walls and fill the trenches, they would lose at least thousands of people. Zhao Peng was unwilling to sacrifice his brothers to waste the battle against the Li family's city wall. What should he do?
Chapter completed!