Not to mention how Li Ziyu found the people in Fan's Mansion who wanted to put him to death, not to mention Shiyan Town, the situation was becoming more and more tense day by day.

Just when Li Ziyu was rushing to Yidu, Ren Xiaohang and Uncle Ren Changqing were trying their best to delay the arrival of the herald.

At the same time, in all the villages and towns in the border area, they began to recruit troops and prepare for a decisive battle with the Liao army occupying Baishan City.

Almost all the nearby villages and towns were attacked by the Liao army to varying degrees, and all of them were damaged to varying degrees. Because of the timely transfer, there were no major casualties. However, they could not return to their homes, and they spent all day in the depths of the mountains, and there was a shortage of food, goods, and medicines, and many people were already sick.

Fortunately, there are many medicinal herbs on the mountain, and the village doctors can collect the medicinal herbs needed by the patients from nearby. The decoction made from the water of the mountain stream has reduced the symptoms of some patients a lot.

There was not much food, so everyone dug wild vegetables and hunted prey, barely surviving. Everyone doesn't have much money in their hands, but if they have money, where can they buy food now? Shiyan Town is already empty, and other places are too far away, and waiting for food to be transported is also a problem. Because I was in too much of a hurry at that time, I didn't bring out any vehicles at home, and I must have fallen into the hands of the Liao army a long time ago.

Even so, most of the village chiefs and Li Zhengmen of each village also scraped together a sum of money and sent strong villagers to Zhangkou Town to buy food for everyone. There were no transport vehicles, so they bought a small amount of food on their shoulders to maintain the village's two meals a day.

The nearby prey had already heard the sound and hid deep in the mountains, as the days in the mountains prolonged. The prey is getting harder and harder to fight. Young adults can only go into the mountains to hunt together, and they don't always get a harvest.

I still endured this, and the big guy was suffocated in the ravine. I'm going crazy. Therefore, after hearing that the court was recruiting soldiers and the conditions were favorable, they all walked out of the ravine and went to sign up for the army.

It was in this atmosphere that Ouyang Ye signed up for the army with his team.

Of course, Ouyang Ye didn't pull everyone out. The people who joined the army with him accounted for only a small part. Those who remain have their own responsibilities. Those who monitor the Sun family always pay attention to the Sun family's every move; Near the main road to Yidu. It is also arranged that people keep an eye on pedestrians at all times; The shops in Changdong Town and Zhangkou Town were not idle, in addition to making money, they also collected information at any time and conveyed it to Ouyang Ye in a timely manner.

The place to sign up for the army was set up in the square in front of the county yamen in Shiyan Town. For now. The town of Shiyan is fairly safe. Because Ren Xiaohang had already sent a team of more than 500 people, equipped with grenades, and stationed at the north gate of Shiyan Town.

Because they knew that the army guarding the city gate had grenades in their hands, the Sun family, the only one left in the town, did not dare to find trouble in the army at this juncture. Now the Sun family no longer dares to fly in the open, and the door is closed in the Sun family's mansion all day long.

Therefore, the residents who lived in Shiyan Town and temporarily hid in the mountains all returned to Shiyan Town in twos and threes.

It's just that for some reason, Fu Yunzhang and others are nowhere to be seen. I don't know where they are now. Did something happen to you? If you just hide in the nearby mountains, there's no reason not to come back.

Ren Xiaohang asked the residents who had returned from the town. Almost all of them said in unison that they didn't see the prefectural magistrate.

Ren Xiaohang thought of Fu Yunzhang fighting side by side with him when he left, and he was very anxious. He sent many people to investigate Fu Yunzhang's traces, but there was no clue.

Ren Xiaohang already had an ominous premonition in his heart, Fu Yunzhang either fell into the hands of the Liao army or the Sun family. Therefore, he immediately gave a death order, always paying attention to all the movements of the Sun family, and taking action immediately if there was a slight change, without reporting to him again.

He also sent a secret guard who was good at hiding in the mountains where his uncle was stationed, always paying attention to the movements in Baishan City and searching for Fu Yunzhang's traces.

At the same time, he also sent several people along the way to drug the heralds and entourage of the imperial court who were still on the road, and temporarily trapped them five hundred miles away from Shiyan Town.

Ren Xiaohang is now lacking in skills, and he can't wait to divide into several to deal with things by himself. Although there is an uncle behind the scenes, he has to make up his mind for the actual work. Uncle can only play at the last minute, and now is not a good time to show up.

Only in the dead of night will he think of his beloved woman who went to Yidu for him. That kind of unforgettable longing will accompany him to his dreams.

And the most important thing in front of him is to recruit troops, and in the near future, he will have to count on these people to fight with the Liao army.

However, what worries and pities him is that these new soldiers who have joined the army and the battle-hardened Liao army can only be cannon fodder. They can only learn to use grenades before the battle, hoping that they can survive on the battlefield with grenades.

Since joining forces directly with the Lei family, Ren Xiaohang already has a considerable number of grenades in his hands, and it is impossible to equip them all, but one or two of them can be done with one or two per person.

He now urgently needs veterans with combat experience to fill the army, so that he can give it a go. But where is he going to find the battle-hardened soldier now? Time is so tight, facing the Liao army several times his size, the current Ren Xiaohang has no bottom in his heart.

However, for the sake of the clansmen and the people of the Daye Dynasty, he could only stubbornly go to the top. It was in this entanglement that Ouyang Ye came to him with a team of 1,000 people.

This team of 1,000 people is too conspicuous to be noticed. As soon as this group of people appeared, it immediately attracted a lot of discussion among the nearby people who signed up around them, and they subconsciously stayed away from this group of people.

Although these people are dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, the spirit and spirit exuded from their bodies are not possessed by ordinary people.

The most important point is that the thousand of them came together, and when he saw their state and spirit, he seemed to see his own secret guards, which made Ren Xiaohang both shocked and frightened and a little surprised.

He didn't expect that in this small Shiyan Town, there would be such a team hidden. He has been here for a short time, and he has not heard of any bandits harming the people, nor of where bandits occupy the mountains as kings.

So where exactly were they before? What exactly is the origin? Why did you come to join the army at this time? Is it because of the feelings of family and country? Determined to serve the court? So why didn't they disappear when the Liao army attacked before? What is the purpose of coming out this time? These people can't be the dark forces cultivated by some big family, right? When the court is in trouble, do you want to find a place in the army, and then replace the Ren family's hegemony in the army?

It's no wonder that Ren Xiaohang thinks too much, it's really that this team appeared too abruptly! At this critical moment, he had to think deeply.

Although his heart was full of all kinds of questions, Ren Xiaohang didn't show anything on his face, and calmly sat on a simple wooden chair, looking at the burly man with a full beard at the head.

The most outstanding thing about this big man is not his beard, but his own temperament. To that station, it was majestic, domineering and ruthless. However, although he himself disguised it very skillfully, it still revealed the elegance and stability in his bones. (To be continued.) )