Gao Huiran's mother's home is also in the village.

In Shibi Village, Gao and Huang are traditional big surnames, accounting for more than 80% of the population in the village. The remaining four surnames Du, Hu, Chen and Bian have fled and migrated from outside one after another in the past century. They are foreign households, with few people and relatively weak power.

Fortunately, Gao and Huang tribes are not xenophobic, and their surnames have been intermarried and married for a long time, so the atmosphere in the village is generally quite mellow and harmonious.

Du Yu's grandfather, who had passed away, was also the clan brother of Master Gao who had been in the fifth squad.

The only uncle, Gao Huiran's brother Gao Xiuran, is also a "willing and martial arts" figure in the village (he practiced martial arts when he was young, but he was not able to break through to the martial arts realm even though he was nearly fifty years old; he was enlightened at the age of four and had not won any fame in half his life.), he could barely speak with Mr. Gao Gao Derong, and his family was much more wealthy than the Du Yu family.

But in Du Yu's impression, his uncle's relationship with his family was very dull.

Although the two families are only ten minutes away from walking, they feel very unfamiliar with their uncle and their children. He and his younger brother have never even served their uncle's job. When the family really couldn't make a living, their mother had borrowed rice from neighbors, but never spoke to their uncle.

If someone from my uncle's family came to see his mother for something, they would just stand outside the yard and shout, and they had never even come in the yard.

What's even more strange is that there seems to be no conflict between the two families.

My mother Gao Huiran came here specially this time, probably because she felt that this matter was related to the safety of the whole village and hoped that her uncle would influence Mr. Gao. If it were just their own family affairs, she might not have asked to come.

…

When my mother came back, it was less than three o'clock.

"Mom, what do you say about uncle?" Du Yi looked even more anxious than Du Yu.

"It's done! Your uncle is quite reliable this time." Gao Huiran was breathing heavily because he walked too fast, and then continued: "The Gao family has sent people to inform everyone to bring valuables to hide in the fort, and asked all men over 14 to pick up their weapons and participate in the guards of the fort!"

Du Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

As expected.

Mr. Gao has a great family and a wealthy family, and it is difficult to move. He can only rely on the young and strong people in the village to fight to the death in the fort!

Of course, this is also in line with Du Yu's ideas and the interests of all villagers.

After returning from rebirth, he turned around the fate of being slaughtered in the village and finally took the first step.

Next, we must use the defense of the fort to try to kill the mountain leopards, defeat the bandits, and finally choose the opportunity to conquer or eradicate Fengtouling once and for all, and completely eliminate hidden dangers!

…

When the sunset dyes the sky red.

All the villagers carried large and small bags, like fleeing crowds, gathering from all corners of Shibi Village to the direction of the fort.

On the way, Du Yu and his family met Hu Zheng and Huang Shanhe's family one after another. Due to the friendship between the children, the three families had relatively common language, so soon, the adults and the adults gathered together, and the children gathered together, and had a lot of fun chatting.

What Du Yu didn't know was that Mr. Gao could agree so quickly that all the villagers could hide in the fort and organize the young and strong people in the village to resist. The real hero was neither Gao Zhuo nor his uncle Gao Xiuran, but his old rival Gao Zhan!

When all the villagers entered, the thick iron gate of the fort slammed into a thunderous crack.

Soon, Mr. Gao, surrounded by fully armed servants, appeared in the schoolyard of the fort, and personally announced the defense matters loudly in front of the young and strong village.

According to Gao Derong's arrangement, everyone was divided into three batches.

The first group were Gao Derong's family members, Du Yu and other friends with experience in cricket bandits, as well as several more famous martial arts practitioners in the village. They were treated as main combatants and arranged to defend on the top of the city.

The second group is ordinary young and strong, including Du Yu's father Du Zhongtai. Their main task is to transport defensive materials to the top of the city, transport wounded people under the city, and serve as substitutes for the main force.

The third group was for half-aged young men and healthy women, Du Yu's mother and younger brother. Their main task was to raise supplies under the city, treat the wounded, boil water and cook, etc. When the situation was urgent, they also had to go to the city to help ordinary young men transport supplies and transport the wounded.

…

It's past seven o'clock in the evening.

When the main combatants and young men roughly implemented the defense measures, the dogs arranged in advance at the entrance of the village barked in a hurry.

A servant in charge of alert whispered: "Here you come, the bandits are here!"

Mr. Gao Derong, who was closing his eyes on the Taishi Chair, suddenly opened his eyes and stood up. He listened to the barking of the dog at the entrance of the village, looked at the torches in the distance, and ordered Gao Yuan, the captain of the servant who was following him: "Ring the big bell, let everyone be prepared, don't be confused!"

"Yes!" Gao Yuan bowed and bowed, and left quickly.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of a heavy bell rang out of the fort and echoed throughout the village.

…

Du Yu thought to himself: Without Chen Sangou, who is familiar with the road, the rhythm of Shanbao's attack is indeed different from his previous life.

The arrival time was at least three hours later than in his previous life, and he did not lurk until the second half of the night to start the attack in order to pursue the suddenness of the attack. He almost rushed in.

Gao Derong looked at Du Yu who was standing beside him and said in an uncertain tone: "Look at the number of torches, there are probably two or three hundred people?"

Because he traced the roots, the news that the bandits were about to arrive was heard from Du Yu, so Mr. Gao also brought him by his side to inquire, and was staring at Gao Zhan at this time.

"It's almost the same." Du Yu replied, "Every time Shanbao leads the team out to rob, he will maintain a team of about 300 people."

"The number of people is comparable to that of the young and strong in our village." Gao Derong frowned: "However, those bandits live a life of blood licking from the blade all year round, which is comparable to ordinary villagers! The ones who are truly combat-ready here are only the forty or fifty people on the city wall. This battle is dangerous!"

This is nothing, what is the meaning of combat effectiveness? Can you fight against the other party in the field? If it weren't for this fort, everyone would hurry up and run as far as they can.

Du Yu thought so, but comforted him: "Don't worry, Mr. Gao, although there are many enemies and strong combat power, we firmly have the advantage of geographical advantage. If the enemy wants to climb to the city, they must first welcome the baptism of muskets, bows, arrows, woods and stones! Even if they have the advantage of the number of people, they are just a group of bandits, not a disciplined elite army. If they die a few more, they will probably retreat."

While cheering Gao Derong up, he secretly added in his heart: As long as you firmly resist the mountain leopard and take action personally, then I will be condescending and accidentally shot the mountain leopard, I don’t believe that the bandits of all sizes will have the will to continue attacking!
Chapter completed!