Liu Xuan was engrossed in guarding against the pursuers behind him, and was a little discouraged by Liu Qi's trouble, and scolded without looking back: "What the hell are you calling blind, haven't you seen a few feet high earthen wall?" ”

"Whoever screamed nonsense, see for yourself, I'm afraid it's not two feet high!"

Before Liu Xuan could turn around, the middle-aged man in the brocade robe in the car suddenly poked his head out of Liu Xuan's side, and when he saw the village in front of him clearly, his lips trembled slightly and roared: "Yes, yes, yes, this village will definitely be able to block it." ”

The three of them looked over together, and saw that the wooden wall was really about two zhang high, and more than a dozen people were standing in the middle gate looking at them, Liu Qi excitedly quickly flicked another whip to speed up, but after those people saw the carriage accelerating, they actually made a gesture to close the gate, which made Liu Xuan anxious.

He stood upright against the wind, and shouted in his belly: "Don't close the city gate, there is ...... in the car"

The man inside didn't wait for him to finish, but grabbed him and said, "Don't leak the news, lest others have bad intentions." ”

Liu Xuan's face froze, so he had to shout again: "I'm waiting to be chased by thieves, please let us in." ”

The group of people at the door was the people of Long Xiangqu, Liu Xi's order to get the collection of newspapers hurried to the gate, he climbed the wooden watchtowers on both sides of the gate, relying on his eyes after being transformed by the space, clearly saw the process of the carriage being pursued.

Mu Jingnan kept urging under the watchtower: "Second brother, close the city gate quickly, it's too late, who knows if they are in a group." ”

"Look at them like this, it shouldn't be a fake, let them in first, and see if they know something."

Liu Ximing thought about it carefully and shook his head and ordered, he really saw that the knights who were chasing behind were indeed shot off their horses, it was a cavalry, and a few people were willing to put in such a big effort, and even a few people couldn't make any big waves.

"Close the gates, close the gates, phew, thank goodness, I finally got out alive."

When the three people in the carriage saw that the villagers had left the door, they were surprised one by one, and they rushed over like a lightning speed, and immediately beckoned them to close the door as soon as they ran into the door.

Before they could even out their breath, dozens of bamboo guns were immediately aimed at them, and a young man in a bamboo helmet stood behind and shouted: "Put down your weapons and get out of the car." ”

Liu Xuan glanced around and saw that there were hundreds of people densely packed around the gate, so he had to put all the bows and arrows and waist knives in his hands on the car.

As soon as the three of them got out of the car, several soldiers in armor came and held them down, and took out ropes to tie them. Liu Xuan and Liu Qi were taken aback, and kept struggling: "What are you going to do, we are good people." ”

The young man who shouted just now said in time: "If you are a good person, don't move around, and only after tying you up can I go to see my young master." ”

When the brocade-robed man heard him say this, he hurriedly persuaded his two subordinates: "The situation is urgent, see their leader first." ”

Liu Xuan and the others stopped struggling, and the group led them to the bottom of the watchtower next to them, only to see a masculine young man who was also wearing a bamboo helmet crawling down from the upstairs, turning his head to look at them and saying:

"The identity of the people outside the city is unknown, so I have to wronged you first, I don't know how to call a few people, what to do for a living, where did they come from, why did they come here?"

Liu Xuan and the others all looked at the brocade-robed man, only to hear him nod and say, "It's inconvenient to salute with your body, please forgive me." Ben, under the surname Liu Ming Jianhou, these two are my servants Liu Xuan, Liu Qi, we and others are passing merchants, when passing through this place, they actually encountered the gang of thieves outside the city to plunder, most of our guards were lost in the chaos of the army, panicked to your village, and asked for shelter one or two. ”

Long Xiangqu, who was surrounding Liu Ximing, was immediately shocked, it turned out to be a thief.

Liu Ximing coughed twice to signal everyone to be quiet, and continued to ask the three people: "Mr. Liu, do you know how many people there are in these thieves?" ”

"I'm afraid of no less than a few thousand"

Liu Jianhou's face was full of bitterness, Liu Ximing scolded in his heart when he heard it, I grass your grandma, what kind of fucking world is this, the thieves have come wave after wave, and they don't let people farm well.

Liu Ximing grabbed Liu Jianhou and asked a few more words about the thieves, and when he was almost done, he waved his hand and said: "Take them down first, find a few little guys to take care of them, and mobilize the whole village Ding Zhuang, all of them to Lao Tzu to come to the city gate." ”

Liu Qi was anxious all of a sudden, and struggled to shout loudly: "How dare you do this, my master is ......"

"Shut up, is this the place to talk about this?" , Liu Jianhou hurriedly interrupted Liu Qi.

Liu Ximing glanced at the three masters and servants, knowing that these three people must have something to hide, but now he was all focused on the thieves who were about to come, where was there time to take care of them.

"How is the preparation of the dragon song? Hurry up and line up, what are you still doing? ”

Sending these people away, Liu Ximing hurriedly yelled at Yu Yongkai, Mu Jingnan, and Li Jingsi, the three tun chiefs, Yu Yongkai hurriedly turned around and roared: "Long Xiang bends the whole team, and the watchtower continues to stay." ”

Long Xiangqu is also a trained team, it took more than ten minutes, hundreds of people were all assembled in front of the door, Yu Yongkai and other tun chiefs and captains reported the number of people, turned their heads to report to Liu Ximing: "Report to the chief, all 469 people in Long Xiangqu have arrived, but only half of them have armor, and the new 341 people have only practiced for a month, I am afraid that they will not be able to use it." ”

Long Xiangqu originally had 359 people when he recruited for the second time, but after nearly a month of training and elimination, there were still 341 people left.

Liu Ximing felt that reality had given him a slap in the face, knocking him dizzy, life really won't unfold the way you imagined, it will only secretly be an old yin to you.

In fact, not to mention the problems mentioned by Yongkai, there are only about 60 muskets at the moment, and even the previous batch of people have only been trained for less than 4 months, how to fight the enemy.

Fortunately, there is still a city wall, and in addition, more than 100 people before Long Xiangqu have drunk the space spiritual water for almost four months, and their physical condition has also been greatly improved.

The cadres of Liujia Village were busy in the city for about a quarter of an hour, and the large army of thieves outside the city still had not arrived.

However, the cavalry under the city gathered more and more, Liu Ximing counted, there were almost 7 or 80 people, this group of cavalry kept cruising at a distance of forty zhang from the city wall, while shouting and scolding the village, Liu Ximing listened carefully, it was nothing more than some threatening words such as "hurry up and open the door, otherwise you will slaughter the whole village".

"Second brother, let's fuck it first, we have muskets, let's clean up the gang outside the city first."

Li Biao listened to these people scolding indiscriminately, and couldn't help but say.

Liu Ximing glanced at him, continued to stare at the distance and said: "What's the panic, our Long Xiang is a smoothbore gun, and it doesn't have a chance to hit it, but it alarms the thieves." Besides, it doesn't necessarily have to be a battle, this gang of thieves is so big, I don't believe that the officers and soldiers don't know, maybe they see that our walls are high and the city is deep, and turn around and go to other places? Aren't you trying to provoke people like this? ”

Li Jingsi nodded in agreement: "What the second brother said is very true, I remember when the second brother taught us, war is a continuation of politics, only if you can't get it politically, everyone will resort to force, and the thieves crossing the border are just for money and food, and they may not be able to send them out of the country." ”

Mu Jingnan picked his head on the side and felt a little remorseful in his heart, I also know this, why didn't I think about it just now.

"Hahaha, there are a few of you who are reliable, it is much easier to defend the city than to attack the city, we have more than 400 people, plus Ding Zhuang in the village, there are almost more than 1,000 people, and it is not necessarily impossible to defend it."

Liu Ximing looked at the backbone of his subordinates and sighed, and at the same time said to Zhang Yuanlong on the side: "Yuanlong, you have only been through the battle formation, and you will learn more from Yongkai and their gang in the future, we are classmates, you don't fall too far behind." ”

Zhang Yuanlong nodded desperately with a grateful expression, usually no one in the Zhang family in the school paid attention to him, how could he be like this as a captain, his subordinates were comfortable with dozens of people, plus Liu Ximing even paid silver, he had already followed Liu Ximing with all his heart.

However, the defense of Liujia Village also has its own problems, because it does not dare to build a city wall, the village can only build a row of wooden walls, unlike Fucheng, these cities have steps to go up the wall, and now they can only shoot through the reserved shooting holes, and the distance to defend is too long, about 2.5 kilometers, and the manpower is also greatly insufficient.

Thinking of this, Liu Ximing hurriedly arranged for Wei Jingguo to say: "Jingguo, you go to the cafeteria to find my uncle and cousin, and ask them to bring Ding Zhuang from the village, and all the other old and young go back to the dormitory to stay." ”

Wei Jingguo immediately ran to give the order, and after a while, Chen Yiding and Liu Xihe brought the remaining 700 or so men over, looking down at the black head from the watchtower, and seeing that everyone was a little bolder, we are not nobody, this battle may be won.

Liu Ximing waited for Chen Yiding and Liu Xihe to go up to the watchtower, pointed to the thieves outside the wall and said: "At present, there are thousands of thieves, we only have such a city gate under our feet, I am afraid that the thieves will storm here, I will take Long Xiangqu to guard here, and I bother you two to take a hundred people to take bamboo guns to guard the two ends of the river, where there is silt, the thieves can't rush over, you just need to take a gun and stab them down, I will send a team of Long Xiangqu people and horses to teach you how to form a formation." ”