Just when the end of the year was approaching, Yang Yuanwai's mood was surprisingly bad, in fact, during this period of time, Yang Yuanwai's mood was not good.

The news of the Northern Expedition of the Song Army kept coming, and in addition to defeat or failure, the careerists who originally hoped that the Northern Expedition of the Song Army would completely disrupt the Central Plains were undoubtedly disappointed.

According to the news from Yangjiazhuang, Yang Anguo has begun to find a way to go through the door and ask for Zhao'an.

Compared with Yang Yuanwai's unhappiness, Bai Yuanwai's mood is quite good, Bai Yuanwai, who is familiar with history books, sneers at careerists like Yang Yuanwai, in his opinion, even if the world is really chaotic, goods like Yang Anguo, Liu Erzu and the like are just killing talents who open the way for the real dragon, and following these people, in addition to the death of the family, there will be no second end.

Now that the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty is seeing successive defeats, the Huo family, which is about to move, has also stopped, and is no longer forcing the Bai family to have a showdown letter after letter.

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After the New Year, the earth rejuvenated, and the construction site of the new Zhuangzi began to be busy again.

The long wait made the two outsiders gradually lose their patience, but Chen Xian's terrible thunder law made them jealous again.

Therefore, the two staff members thought of a stupid way, he pretended to ask Chen Xian to supply him with more Tang knives, and then sent more people to the construction site of the new Zhuangzi, hoping that Zhuangzi would be repaired as soon as possible, and Chen Xian would leave East Zhuangzi as soon as possible.

Under such circumstances, the progress of the new Zhuangzi project, which was restarted, was sharply accelerated.

In order to complete the construction of the new Zhuangzi before the spring ploughing, Chen Xian selected some people from his apprentices who were related to the stewards on the construction site, visited these stewards and stewards on his behalf, and gave them a lot of New Year's gifts.

Based on the information collected by the apprentices on the construction site, Chen Xian also formulated a monetary reward mechanism in addition to the reward mechanism for Hu cakes, so as to improve the labor enthusiasm of craftsmen and helpers.

Under this three-pronged approach, the construction speed of the new Zhuangzi was like a rocket, and it was miraculously completed on the seventh day of the second lunar month.

The day after the completion of the Zhuangzi, Chen Xian organized his apprentices to use the cart borrowed from Steward Yang to send all kinds of resources from the Chen family's shop to the new Zhuangzi.

In this short period of nearly a year, Chen Xian really praised a lot of belongings, and the accumulated grain alone was more than 300 stones, and the coal and iron purchased through the Yang family and the Bai family caravan were also thousands of catties.

The five carts were busy until the next afternoon, when they emptied the blacksmith's shop.

After the shop was emptied, Chen Xian also took four teams of apprentices, escorted five carts, and drove out of the north gate of Dongzhuangzi and headed towards Xinzhuangzi.

The news of Chen Xian's departure from the blacksmith shop soon reached the ears of Bai Yuanwai and Yang Yuanwai.

When the two officers heard the news, they immediately ordered the men to send the news to the hunters stationed in the woods northwest of Xinzhuangzi.

As early as seven or eight days before the completion of the Zhuangzi, the Baiyang family re-recruited more than 100 hunters and ambushed them in the old place.

The new Zhuangzi is seven or eight miles away from the north gate of the East Zhuangzi, and the heavy-duty cart pulled by the oxen goes very slowly, and it takes more than half an hour.

Chen Xian carried a rifle with a holster on his back, sat on a box in a large cart in the middle, and looked around condescendingly, not at all in a hurry.

For today's attack, Chen Xian is mentally prepared in his heart.

It's not that he's gotten any news, it's because he knows that now is the best chance to do it to himself, at least in the eyes of outsiders.

Thinking of this, Chen Xian looked down at the two mandarin duck formation teams walking silently in front of the convoy, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

Behind the convoy, two other squads of the same mandarin ducks followed.

After a winter of training, Chen Xian now has a full ten squads under his command.

In addition to training eight Mandarin Duck Squads, Chen Xian also trained two squads of crossbowmen to be responsible for cooperating with the Mandarin Duck Array for long-range strikes, which is equivalent to Qi Jiguang's bird gunners who cooperate with the Mandarin Duck Formation.

Chen Xian took half of his strength at this time, and the other half was arranged by him to go to the new Zhuangzi in advance, and the most trusted apprentices under Chen Xian were the ones who guarded the new Zhuangzi, lest he come out of the East Zhuangzi and the new Zhuangzi would be occupied again, then he would be blind.

The handlebars of the five carts, the lookouts standing on the carts, and the guys who followed, were actually crossbowmen, and their heavy crossbows were all placed in special positions on the carts.

Just as Chen Xian was thinking wildly, the lookout hand on the first car suddenly blew the whistle.

With the whistle, five ox carts, four squads, all stopped.

After blowing the whistle, the lookout in the first car stretched out his hand to the front right and said loudly: "About 100 people have been spotted 30 degrees to the right of the front, and they are running towards me." ”

After listening to the lookout's report, Chen Xian subconsciously gave an order, "Thirty degrees to the right of the front, line up in a defensive formation!" As he gave the order, he picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction the lookout was pointing.

With Chen Xian's order, the four squads moved at the same time.

The two squads in front of the cart ran forward more than a dozen steps, facing 30 degrees to the right of the front, in a four-row defensive formation, and spread out horizontally.

The two teams behind the cart ran to both sides of the convoy, and at a distance of more than ten steps from the cart, they also faced the direction of 30 degrees to the front and right, and spread out horizontally in a four-row defensive formation.

The five large cars also drove down the handlebars, facing the front and right thirty degrees horizontally.

The cart came to a halt, and the handlebars loosened the animals, and drove them to the back of the cart, leaving two men to serve as stakes for the horses, so that the animals would not be struck by arrows and run away with the cart and trample their own ranks.

The crossbowmen took out their heavy crossbows from different positions in the cart.

One of them, the lookout and the handlebar of the cattle, took out the heavy crossbow, climbed into the cart, and stacked the boxes in front of the cart to make room for them to stand and wind.

Once wound, the crossbowmen set up their heavy crossbows and aim them condescendingly in front of them.

After the guys took out the heavy crossbows, they rushed forward one after another, ran to the front of the mandarin duck array in front, lined up in two horizontal lines, and after winding, they all knelt on the ground and put the heavy crossbow heads on the ground to save physical strength.

The apprentices were silent, swift and professional, the result of hard training.

In the convoy, only Chen Xian was, and the big car in the middle did not move, but only turned the front of the car to the direction of the enemy pointed by the lookout, so as not to disturb Chen Xian, who was observing the enemy's situation.

Through the telescope, Chen Xian clearly saw that in the endless wheat field, a group of about 100 people, stepping on green seedlings, was running unhurriedly.

The group was dressed in messy furs, some held hunting forks or knives, and some even carried rudimentary, wide wooden shields.

Their running is very peculiar, neither fast nor slow, with a unique rhythm and rhythm, looking at Chen Xian can't help but remind Chen Xian of the professional long-distance runners he saw on TV in his previous life.

Seeing this group of people, Chen Xian immediately remembered the mountain people hunters that Wu Liang and they often mentioned.