When Zhou Nan arrived at the playground, Lao Zheng Tou had also rushed over from the study. I saw Gao Yuan arranging for the people of the Tiger Guard Capital to guard everywhere in the playground. Then he went to the treasury to carry bows, crossbows, and arrows. Zhou Nan saw Gao Yuan's arrangement, and knew that there must be something urgent, so he asked Gao Yuan what was the matter, Gao Yuan didn't wait for Zhou Nan to ask carefully, so Zhou Nan and Lao Zheng Tou said: "The person sent to the intersection of the mountain came back to report, saying that it was found that hundreds of officers and cavalry were coming in the northeast. I was worried that it had something to do with our cottage, so I hurriedly sent someone to find the two of you, just in case. ”

Lao Zheng Tou also knew that Zhou Nan had shot the Liao cavalry at the foot of the mountain that day, so he also frowned and remained silent, and Zhou Nan said helplessly: "I was still found by someone." ”

Gao Yuan rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "If you dare to attack my worry-free village this time, you must also pass my level." ”

After all, Lao Zheng Tou was old, and said to Gao Yuan: "It is better to avoid it or to escape, the people do not fight with the officials, although our worry-free village is strong, but if there are thousands of people, where can we live with one or two hundred people?" ”

Zhou Nan also nodded, the three of them discussed, or sent people to secretly observe on both sides of the road up the mountain, if they really came to the cottage, call the police in time, and the mountain could also prepare as soon as possible.

For a time, the Tiger Guards and the Eagle Guards were concentrated in the playground, and people were sent to patrol all the main roads secretly, and the gate of the village was closed, and they were ready, and Lao Zheng Tou asked people to go to the village to notify them door to door, so that each household would contribute a laborer, and listen to the bell in the village, and then go to the playground of the village to listen to the dispatch without delay. These things were often done during the previous exercises, and for the people of the Family Care Society, they were already familiar with the road, and they almost didn't need to give orders from Gao Yuan, and they took their own actions. Only the people who were summoned one after another, nervous, did not know what was going on outside the village, whispered to each other, or moved the arrows, rolling logs and other things stored in the stone house next to the playground to the inside of the wall.

According to Lao Zheng Tou's meaning, most of the people in the Tiger Guard Capital have not yet gone to the wall, and only more than a dozen people are standing on the wall, watching and guarding and passing on news. Judging from the outside of the cottage, you will not see everyone in the cottage holding guns and preparing for war.

Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan stayed on the playground, and after half an hour of anxiety, a soldier suddenly ran down from the wall of the wall, and reported to Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan: "Report to the master of the big village, the master of the second village, there is a rumor from the bottom of the mountain that a team of officers and soldiers is riding horses, and a cavalry leads the way in front of the head, and when he walks to the old crow ditch, he stops. ”

Gao Yuan said to Zhou Nan: "I'm afraid I can't hide." Zhou Nan nodded, he knew that Lao Yagou was a north-south ravine, a ravine, and a road, and the ravine was easier to walk than the slopes on both sides of the ravine. After the old crow ditch, there is only one place to go. The officers and soldiers can go to Lao Yagou, and nine times out of ten they are coming to Sanssouci Village.

Gao Yuan immediately let people spread the word, concentrated the people in the village, and asked the tiger guards to prepare for battle. Zhou Nan also tacitly put the people of the Eagle Guards on the lonely mountain between the walled gate and the south wall. Although there are fewer people, the lonely mountain is only a small hill that is not high, and the people of the Eagle Guards on the mountain are enough to go up and down.

Before the people in the village gathered in the playground, Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan heard the whining horn from the bottom of the mountain.

"It's coming!" Gao Yuan held a knife in his hand and said in a deep voice.

After a while, Zhou Nan saw a group of horse-haired cavalry rushing up at the bend of the mountain road from the wall, although Zhou Nan fought with the Liao cavalry that day, but the situation was urgent, and he did not look carefully. Standing on a high place today, I carefully saw the outfit of the Liao cavalry. I saw that the Liao cavalry were all dressed in short robes with round necks and narrow sleeves, wearing tight pants underneath, long leather boots on their feet, belts around their waists, holding bones or long axes in their hands, and carrying quivers at their waists. The man in front of his head was wearing an iron helmet on his head.

The Liao cavalry rushed to the gate of the village in a moment, and saw a strong man holding a blade on the wall, shouting in Khitan for the leader wearing an iron helmet, and a cavalryman on the left took a few steps forward and shouted in Chinese: "The people on the village listen to the truth: we are the vanguard army in front of the tent of the king of the four armies, you dare to shoot the warriors in our army, let go of the gate quickly, abandon the weapon and surrender, if not, slaughter your cottage." ”

Gao Yuan leaned down on the walled wall and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are grass people in Yi County, Xijin Prefecture, who have paid rent and grain for generations, where do we dare to do such a crime?" I think the military master misunderstood. ”

As he was talking, with a "whoosh", a carved iron arrow shot at Gao Yuan's door, and Gao Yuan's knife blocked upwards and flew the arrow out.

The man who shot the arrow was the leader in the iron helmet, and he was holding the bow in his left hand, with a proud face and a cold look in his eyes, as if the arrow had been shot at the most ordinary wild thing in the field. Seeing Gao Yuan holding a knife in his hand, he was able to knock his arrows away, the leader of this official army is Agu Zhe's subordinates, and he has always been proud of his archery skills, and today he wanted to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the man who answered on the wall of the wall, and secretly shot this person to death, so as to take down the cottage in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect to be easily picked away by this person. I couldn't help but be furious, and shouted in clumsy Chinese: "You must be a thief!" ”

Zhou Nan almost felt Gao Yuan's anger, and only felt that Gao Yuan would order the people of Tiger Guard to fight back. But Gao Yuan held the arrow stack in one hand, and the other hand holding the knife hung down, and said to the cavalry outside the gate with a smiling face: "All the military masters, the villains in the village are all peaceful and good for generations, just because the bandits are doing evil, so they set up a village gate to protect the old and young of the village, not the thief." Please be aware of it. ”

Zhou Nan secretly praised that Gao Yuan had a hot temper on weekdays, and today he knew that the situation was like this, so he had to make compromises. It's not a character who blindly shouts and kills.

The Liao cavalry outside the gate of the village suddenly made a noise, the leader shouted, and the Liao cavalry on the horse bent their bows and arrows one after another, shooting at the wall, and the arrows rained like flying for a while.

This formation, the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Capital are accustomed to practicing on weekdays, and they all cover their bodies behind the arrow stacks without waiting for Gao Yuan's orders, and at the same time support the wooden shed on the inner side of the wall, which forms an inclined plane above the arrow stack. This is the aerial protection that Zhou Nan asked the craftsmen to do after repeated drills, just to resist the damage of arrows falling from above the wall. At the same time, someone erected a thick wooden shield between the arrow buttress and the arrow buttress, and the shield was erected on the wall, the width was exactly the width between the arrow buttresses, and in the middle of the shield there were four gaps about three fingers wide and about one foot long, just so that the bow could be placed in the gap to shoot arrows outward. Such a design just protects the soldiers of the Guardian Society within the wall, so that the soldiers of the Guardian Society do not have to worry about injury.