At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Xian's team arrived outside the east gate of the county seat.

When he was seven or eight miles away from the county seat, Chen Xian had already asked the soldiers to form a battle formation in a company.

Four battalions and sixteen companies, formed sixteen small squares, in two columns, and walked in the wheat fields on both sides of the road.

On the road between the two columns was an artillery convoy of two companies.

The county seat, which had already received a summons from Zhuangzi along the way, had already closed the city gate and pulled up the drawbridge, and the city gate tower outside the east gate was already full of people wearing official uniforms at all levels.

After arriving at the county seat, Chen Xian began to line up three hundred meters away from the east gate of the county seat.

Because his team had already formed a battle formation according to the company, the formation was very fast.

First, the artillery convoy listed two horizontal formations at the optimal range of about 300 meters from the city gate.

The carriage pulling the cannon ran to the designated position in turn, then turned the head of the car and aimed the muzzle of the cannon dragged behind at the gate of the county seat.

Because of the usual training, these artillery trucks were one after another, and in just a few minutes, they changed from one column to two horizontal lines.

After the artillery truck arrived at the designated position, the artillerymen quickly unloaded the cannon from the gun truck, the gunners were responsible for installing and debugging the cannon, and the musketeers who protected the gun unloaded the horses pulling the gun cart and pulled them to the rear of the artillery position to take care of them, and then they cooperated to push the carriage next to the cannon to facilitate the ammunition and hinder the enemy cavalry charging the artillery array.

At the same time as the artillery formation, the infantry did not sit idle, and the eight companies on the left side of the road lined up two lines in front of the left front of the artillery line, and the eight companies on the right side of the road lined up two lines in front of the right front of the artillery line.

In just ten minutes, a team of 3,000 people completely completed the formation, standing quietly in the open space outside the city, and the mess left behind by the panicked escape of the market at the gate of the city, making this army full of a smashing atmosphere.

The county officials on the tower of the city gate, the county lieutenant and other county officials looked at the army outside the city, even if they didn't know the soldiers, they could feel the power of this army, and the county lieutenant who knew a little bit about the soldiers was directly frightened with cold sweat, pale, and almost fainted.

The county official grabbed the sleeve of the county lieutenant and said in a hurry: "County Lieutenant Li, what are you doing standing stupidly, quickly dispatch archers and people to defend the city!" ”

County Lieutenant Li turned his head to look at the county order with a sad face, and stammered: "This ...... Such elite soldiers...... We...... Fear...... Fear...... Even...... Can't stop it! ”

The county commander hurriedly said: "With a city wall more than one zhang high, how can it not be stopped?" ”

At this moment, there seemed to be someone waving a flag in front of the artillery array in the distance, booming......

Twenty shells flew towards the city gatehouse.

In fact, these twenty cannons were all aimed at the city gate, but most of the first cannons were not accurate, some hit the wall, some carried the city gate tower, and some blind cats grabbed the dead mouse and hit the target with the first shot.

A few shells hit the towers and sent the wooden tiles of the simple and weak towers of the county seat flying, and some officials were injured immediately.

The county commander ran down the city wall under the support of several generals, and the city wall was down, and the county order looked back, but saw that the city gate that had been hit by a few shots had been smashed to pieces, and he was stunned.

Thundered......

There was another burst of cannonfire, and this time about seven or eight shells hit the city gate, tearing down almost the entire gate.

The cannonballs that passed through the gates of the city bounced around the city, smashing a few unlucky ghosts standing behind the gates into a cloud of pulp, and smashing several grass houses behind them.

The prefectural commander pulled their frightened lord and avoided the danger zone behind the city gate and hid behind the city wall.

Looking at all this in front of him blankly, thinking of the consequences of losing the county seat, the county magistrate suddenly collapsed to the ground and roared loudly: "Bai Shijie hurt me!" ……”

It turned out that the blockade of Yiyuan was done by Bai Shijie with the warrant of Wanyan Chengzong's Mansion Yin to arrange for this county commander to take the lead.

There is a county order on the official side, and there are the top few Huo families in Laiwu County to promote it, Chen Xian, an outsider, wants to use ordinary means to break such a blockade, naturally it is in vain.

After more than a dozen rounds of shelling, the east gate of Laiwu County was directly collapsed, this kind of mud filled with mud, the thickness of the earthen wall is only more than two meters can not withstand the shelling at all, not to mention the cannon, even the trebuchet can collapse.

After the gates were blown down, the shelling stopped, and the battlefield suddenly fell silent.

The old men who had been patrolling the east gate before, except for a few unlucky ghosts who had been killed by the brick fragments that had been blown away by the cannonballs, had already fled from this terrible place.

Some people returned to the yamen or mansion to wait for death, some people changed their clothes and hid in a remote house, wanting to escape the catastrophe, and some people packed up their soft clothes and prepared to escape by night, the reason why they had to wait for the night was because they were afraid that they would run out now and be chased and killed by the cavalry in the group of bandits.

The county magistrate, Chen Daoquan, was the one who went back to the yamen to die.

This county master is a Jinshi of Taihe for five years, he has been serving as a county magistrate in Laiwu for two years, this person is not a strong person, the family is just solid, the first two years after the Jinshi is a petty official in Beijing, there is no oil and water, and it is not easy to release the county order, and the time is not long, although he tries his best to be greedy, after all, the foundation is too thin, and there is no one available, and the family general recruited from the old family is loyal and reliable, but he has no ability, and at this critical juncture, there is nothing to do.

Just when the county magistrate was disheartened and sat and waited for death, suddenly a family general ran in with a roll, and one of his heels threw himself at his feet, and he didn't even bother to get up, so he shouted loudly: "Master, master...... The thief retreated, retreated......"

The county magistrate stood up, grabbed the general, and said, "What are you talking about, you are telling the truth!" ”

Although the general was uncomfortable by the old man's sudden and amazing strength in the neck, he ignored it, and said with a happy face: "It's true, I saw it with my own eyes, after the cannon collapsed the city gate, I only said that the thieves were going to enter the city, and I planned that as long as the thieves entered the city, I would come to report to the master, but the left and right and so on did not see the thieves enter the city, and the little one I had the courage to climb up the city wall to take a look, but I saw that the team of the thieves had already driven away, and when I looked, they had already gone far!" ”

Chen Xianling was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and shouted: "Heaven will not stop me, heaven will not stop me!" ”

When Chen Xianling was crying and laughing, a man suddenly came to report, "Master, the shopkeeper of the Li family came to congratulate the master on his victory and repelled the thief, this is a gift list." ”

Chen Xianling, who was in ecstasy, was in a better mood when he heard this, and reached out to take the gift sheet to look at it, only to see that the gift list was written in a burst and said that it was fifty taels of real flowers and silver! This is not a small amount, Chen County Ling came to Laiwu to take office, and he has not received such a big gift a few times, so he subconsciously looked at the gift list.

When Chen Xianling saw the words on the payment clearly, he suddenly felt a cool air rushing to the top of his head.

I saw that the inscription was written, Li Gongliang, the Zhuangzi of Yiyuan West, and there was a small word "Chen Xian" next to Li Gongliang's name.