(I made a brain-dead mistake yesterday, it was supposed to be one hundred and twenty-one chapters, but I just made a ghost to write one hundred and thirty-one chapters, such a low-level mistake really shouldn't have happened, damn it!) Stold me with a red ticket! I admit it! Hehe! ）

Looking at Xing Leopard's subordinates who were escorted out of Yuguan, Xiao Tianjian felt a little deflated, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to let his subordinates practice first, but he didn't expect that it was less than half an hour after the fight, and Xing Leopard's people first fought among themselves.

So he had to order a temporary halt to the attack, and watch the movement inside, the shouting and killing in the village lasted for about a cup of tea, and then it quieted down, and soon the door of the village was opened from the inside.

A group of Xing Leopard's subordinates carried a few bloody heads with guns, and walked out of the gate tremblingly, and as soon as they went out, they lost their weapons one after another, knelt outside the gate and shouted that they had surrendered.

And those heads were sacrificed to Xiao Tianjian by them, and after being identified by several of Xing Leopard's subordinates among the recruits, one of them was Xing Leopard's own head, and the rest were also Xing Leopard's cronies, but now they were all cut off by his subordinates and taken out and dedicated to themselves.

This battle is really boring, many of the backhands prepared by the Xingtian Army didn't have time to use them at all, and the opponent surrendered, it felt like a punch went out but hit the cotton stack, it was very weak, it was a little discouraged, and it didn't play any role in training troops at all, which made Xiao Tianjian a little regretful.

However, fortunately, this battle did not cause the Xingtian Army to suffer any losses, and they took Xingbaozi's stockade, which was also a very good encouragement for the morale of the Xingtian Army, and it was also a great help for the future attack on Lijiazhuang.

This time, a total of more than 140 of Xing Leopard's subordinates were collected, more than 100 pieces of various weapons were in a mess, more than a dozen pairs of various armors, more than 30 war horses, more than 30 donkeys and mules, and there was a lot of money and grain.

As for these surrenders, Xiao Tianjian directly screened them, leaving one hundred and ten of them with better physical conditions directly into the recruit camp, breaking up their establishment, and supplementing them to the recruits, so that they could not gather together to regenerate incidents, he was not afraid that these people would not be with him, after all, there were no henchmen of Xing Leopard among these people, as soon as Xing Leopard died, they had to find a new master to serve, otherwise their gang would have nowhere to go, as for the forty or so people who were eliminated, Xiao Tianjian didn't drive them away, let them be incorporated into the soldiers, do some chores, in short, they couldn't starve.

As for the complete reorganization of them, Xiao Tianjian doesn't have this time at the moment, so he can only wait for Li Jiazhuang to be defeated, all the useful materials were copied out and used in the Xingtian Army, and then at dawn the next day, Xiao Tianjian ordered his subordinates to light Xing Leopard's village and burn it into a scorched earth, and Xing Tianjun once again left Xing Leopard's cottage and went towards Lijiazhuang.

Although this battle was not very fierce, it greatly boosted the morale of the Xingtian Army, including the homeless people who came with them, they were all beaming with joy and felt much more confident in the Xingtian Army, which was the biggest gain for Xiao Tianjian.

Although the quality of equipment is very important, in many cases, the quality of equipment does not necessarily determine the victory or defeat of the battlefield, but the most important thing is the morale of the army.

And the small victory in this battle is indeed very timely for the Xingtian Army, which can make the Xingtian Army and others more confident in the future war, which also gives the Xingtian Army an extra layer of guarantee for future operations.

After coming out of Xing Leopard's cottage, there was nothing to say on the road, it was impossible for such a large-scale operation to make Li Jiazhuang not get any news at all, and this battle had already been concerned by various surrounding forces, although Shi Ran dispersed with dozens of scouts, he went out ten miles to control the situation in the places where the Xingtian Army passed, and along the way, he also dispersed several waves of sentinels from various forces who tried to probe the situation of the Xingtian Army, clearing the way for the passage of the Xingtian Army, However, there is still no guarantee that the matter will not be investigated.

Xiao Tianjian knew this, so he didn't care if others knew the news that they sent troops, and swaggered towards Lijiazhuang along the way, and decided to fight with Lijiazhuang in a dignified manner.

In just two days, the Xingtian Army came to the outside of Lijiazhuang, and immediately made the battle clouds in the area of Lijiazhuang, and the scouts on both sides of the road rushed back and forth in the countryside, and the scouts bore the brunt of the outbreak of skirmishes.

Li Jiazhuang knew what the Xingtian Army was going to do this time, so naturally he would not be arrested, and sent a lot of sentinels to monitor and investigate the situation of the Xingtian Army in advance, and it was indispensable that he would first contact the scouts under Shi Ran's command, and as soon as the two parties met, they exchanged hands and chased each other and fought.

In the past, Shi Ran didn't dare to take people to act like this, but now after the two battles of Fanjiabao and Tianlongzhai, the power of the scouts under his command has also been unprecedentedly developed, and several old brothers, including Da Niu, have also been tempered, and their courage is much greater than before, especially a few new scouts who have been supplemented from Wang Tianlong's subordinates, most of them have been doing this for many years, and they are all good hands on the horse, much more experienced than a few of their old subordinates, plus some newcomers who have been recruited, A few of them simply used to stay in the border army at night, because they fled into the interior because of crimes, which was even more powerful.

So now Shi Ran's scout team can be said to be several times stronger than before, and the morale is very high, this time they met the sentinels sent by Li Jiazhuang, they were not stunned at all, and directly pounced on them and fought them.

On the flat ground outside Lijiazhuang, after several scouts and sentinels from both sides met, a conflict immediately broke out, and they chased each other and fought each other.

Although the sentinels of Lijiazhuang had the courage to protect their families, they could not bargain for anything after encountering the scouts of the Xingtian Army, and as soon as the two sides fought, they were immediately killed and dismounted, so they did not dare to collide with the scouts of the Xingtian Army again, and turned their horses and fled to Lijiazhuang.

Shi Ran led the scouts to chase to the outside of Lijiazhuang in one go, only then was Zhuang Ding on the wall of the village shot his feet with a bow and crossbow, and had to restrain the horses, let go of the sentry released by the Lijiazhuang who fled in the wilderness, and demonstrated outside Lijiazhuang with great might, and then returned to the formation.

Xiao Tianjian reined in outside Lijiazhuang, raised his hand to stop the footsteps of the generals under his command, and after a series of orders from the officers of each company were issued, Xingtianjun stopped outside Lijiazhuang.

The personnel of the baggage team and the recruit battalion do not have to worry about other things for the time being, and immediately began to camp outside the west gate of Lijiazhuang, there are many craftsmen among them, don't look at the battle to kill the enemy is not very good, but to do such civil engineering, but each is very good, plus many people in the new barracks are peasants, used to doing farm work, digging ditches, taking soil, burying piles is not a problem, and the Xingtian army came this time, the baggage team brought enough tools for them to use, so it didn't take long to set up a camp outside Lijiazhuang, Let the Xingtian army be stationed in the camp.

Like this kind of thing, Xiao Tianjian is not very experienced, but Yan Chongxi and others under his command are very good, under their guidance, the camp of the Xingtian Army is quite properly arranged, and all kinds of facilities can be said to be readily available, which saves Xiao Tianjian a lot of energy.

Just when his subordinates were busy setting up camp, Xiao Tianjian led several of his officers to ride horses to a high (long live harmony) post outside Lijiazhuang, and stopped to look at Lijiazhuang.

After looking at the situation of Lijiazhuang, Xiao Tianjian still couldn't help but gasp, this Li family is really rich, Lijiazhuang alone covers an area of hundreds of acres, the scale is comparable to a small township, it can be seen how strong the financial resources of Lijiazhuang are to complete the construction of such a scale, and the Liujiazhuang and Fanjiazhuang they attacked before, compared with the Lijiazhuang in front of them, it is simply a small thing, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

Lijiazhuang is not like other Zhuangzi to build according to the risk, it is completely built on a relatively flat slope, although it does not seem to be dangerous, but in essence, such a place has a great advantage, no matter from any direction to attack Lijiazhuang, it must be in a state of upward attack, it is not easy to gain an advantage, and Lijiazhuang also has several roads comparable to official roads leading to various places, the traffic is extremely convenient, in the periphery of Zhuangzi, there is a village wall as high as two zhang, even if it is compared to the city wall of Huangyang County, Not much inferior either.

Most of the village walls of Lijiazhuang are made of local soil mixed with lime and rammed earth, which is extremely solid and solid, and there are few layers of city bricks wrapped outside, which makes the village walls of Lijiazhuang a little more solid.

Looking outside, although you can't see the thickness of the wall of Lijiazhuang, but you can build the wall so high, and the thickness of the bottom is at least about about a zhang, that is, a person with strong financial resources like Lijiazhuang can build the wall so thick and solid, and replace it with other big households, if you want to build such a solid wall, I am afraid that the financial resources alone will not be able to hold it! It's no wonder that the Li family would choose such a place to build a village, and they didn't care too much about being besieged by the rebels!

It is not enough to be such a thick and tall Zhuang wall, on the Zhuang wall of Lijiazhuang, every few dozen steps, an arrow tower will be built, the arrow tower of the Zhuang wall is protruding, just from the flank to protect the Zhuang wall, to give the enemy close to the Zhuang wall a great threat, including the four corners are equipped with tall arrow towers, in addition to defense, can also be used as a lookout, it can be seen that at the beginning of the construction of the Zhuang wall of Lijiazhuang, there are masters from the guidance, which greatly strengthens the defense ability of Lijiazhuang, so Zhuang wall, even compared to the city wall of the county, It's already a lot of concessions.

The reason why the Li family can have such financial resources, in addition to the fact that their family has annexed a large amount of land for so many years and generations, the Li family is also the largest local grain merchant in Fengxiang, controlling nearly half of the grain transactions in Huangyang County and even Fengxiang Mansion.

Especially after the chaos in Shaanxi, these rich people were even more reluctant to sell grain, and even pushed the price of grain to the point where it was unbearable, and even some families with solid family backgrounds eventually went bankrupt, while the Li family made a lot of money because of someone in the court, and became the richest family in Fengxiang Mansion.

This is not counting, the Li family over the years, but also secretly involved in the sale of illicit salt, here ten miles and eight towns of the common people eat salt, basically are also sold by the Li family, the price of salt is their family has the final say, and no one is allowed to buy salt from other channels, once found that someone does not buy salt from their Li family, they will kill people secretly at every turn, but also get a lot of wealth.

This is also the reason why the Li family was able to stand in the territory of Huangyang in such a troubled world, and was not conquered by the displaced people's army, the key is that they have used the ill-gotten wealth to raise a large number of Zhuang Ding Xiangyong over the years, helping them to guard the Zhuangzi, so that they did not suffer from military disasters.

This time, Xiao Tianjian brazenly attacked Lijiazhuang, although it was because of the great loss of Lijiazhuang's strength in the battle of Tianlongzhai, but to a certain extent, Xiao Tianjian still had a great risk in doing so.