After this battle, Li Yan adjusted the deployment of his troops, preparing to build a large barracks in the south and north of the city to concentrate his troops, and if something happened, he could quickly send a large group of men and horses to reinforce him.

At the checkpoints at the main intersections, new ones will continue to be built to cover all the major intersections. Firewood, grass and water were stored there, so that in case of an enemy attack, beacon fires and wolf smoke could be set off in time.

The recruits also stopped training and began to work and build barracks. These recruits have undergone simple training and have a certain sense of obedience, and the masonry work does not require much technical content, and can be quickly mastered under the guidance of craftsmen.

Some of the recruits were sent to burn bricks. Qi County has just rebuilt the city wall two years ago, the city wall is all covered with bricks, and the brick kilns are ready-made. The demand for bricks is still very small, and ordinary people are thatched houses, so this brick kiln is also in abandonment, but it will not be long before it can be used if it is cleaned up.

Qixian County is in full swing in the construction of barracks, and Yang Garrison is escorting the new patrol to the imperial Shi Gao Mingheng patrol all over the country. He received a report from his family that 20 percent of the grain had been forcibly expropriated from his land in Qi County, and that the person who had forcibly requisitioned it was Li Yan, who had taken over his place to guard Qi County.

Is this worth it?! A little boss actually grabbed his head! Just when he was thinking about what reason to find and ask the governor Li Xianfeng for his life and take the troops back to Qixian County, Gao Mingheng took office.

Gao Xunji is an outlier, unlike the previous Liu Xunpress, who stayed in Kaifeng and waited for the end of his term. Instead, it is necessary to conscientiously perform the duty of patrolling and going to various places to patrol and press. But because there are now thieves everywhere, he had no choice but to ask Li Fengxian for protection.

But no one wants to go to this kind of mission, but this also just gives Yang Shoubei the opportunity to leave Kaifeng. So he took the initiative to apply for this task, and after waiting for a while, let Gao Xunpress get ready, and then escorted Gao Xunpress out of Kaifeng with the troops.

Although Yang Shoubei was anxious to return to Qixian County immediately to clean up Li Yan. But looking at the official sedan chair carried by the four people, he had no choice but to walk slowly.

The curtain of the sedan chair was lifted a little, and the middle-aged official inside stretched out his head to look out, and then stomped his foot inside, and the sedan chair stopped. His servant immediately opened the sedan curtain, and Gao Mingheng slowly got off the sedan chair.

"What's going on?!" Gao Mingheng said angrily: "Who told you to change the path?!" ”

"This~" The palanquin man didn't know how to answer.

Yang Shoubei got off the horse, hugged his fists and said: "Gao Xun pressed, it was the idea of the last general." ”

"Bold!" Gao Mingheng reprimanded: "The behavior of this is also something that a small guard of yours can intervene in?!" Turn! To the east, go to Kaocheng! ”

Yang Shoubei explained with a smiling face: "Gao Xun, it's not a lowly and arrogant position, it's really a bad road now." The humble post turned out to be guarding Qi County, and he was familiar with it. Moreover, Qixian County recently won a big victory, defeating the giant bandits 'Yilong' and 'Yuan Laoshan', so Qixian should be safe. Elsewhere, it is not known whether it is safe or not. You're here to patrol places, not to hunt down thieves. If you encounter a large group of thieves and bandits, these hundreds of people will not be able to protect your safety. ”

Gao Mingheng gritted his teeth and endured it, and finally agreed with Yang Shoubei's opinion, and went to Qixian County first as the first stop. That is, now there are many thieves, if in the peaceful season, a military general like Yang Shoubei dares to be so disrespectful to him, the master of Jinshi, then he will kill Yang Shoubei in vain.

But now he has to endure it, he came all the way from the capital, he knows the tragic situation in various places, and he also knows the rampant bandits in various places, if he doesn't listen to this Yang Guard, he really encounters thieves, then he will be in danger. He wants to contribute to the court and do something practical for the people, but he has to live first.

When Gao Mingheng got into the sedan chair again, and when the team continued to go south to Qixian, Yang Shoubei was also riding on a horse, smiling smugly. According to the imperial history, officials from all over the country, from the governor to the vassal king, which one is not afraid? But now that he can manipulate this course of action according to the imperial history, a sense of accomplishment in his power arises spontaneously in his heart, and his heart is indescribably happy.

They walked on the road for a day, spent the night in a large village, and waited until the next day to reach the county border of Qi County. Yang Shoubei wanted to change Gao Mingheng to a carriage and take a sedan chair, if he really met a thief, wouldn't he be looking for death? But he searched all over the village, but could not find a carriage. There is a big car, but people don't sit on the high patrol, let alone the patrol according to the imperial history, even he, a military general, will not do this kind of transportation with no identity.

Fortunately, the road was relatively peaceful, and the original hungry people also went to other places to beg, and some went to the mountains and forests to lay grass. So they arrived at the county border of Qixian County very smoothly. But they were blocked by the rejection of horses on the official road.

"Who are you?" The soldier behind the horse asked loudly.

Yang Shoubei wondered, he had only been away for a few months, and Qixian County had become like this, and someone dared to rob him!

"Who are you?!" The soldiers beside Yang Shoubei asked loudly: "Dare to rob the road?!" Don't want to die?! ”

The soldiers looked at Yang guarding them, there were quite a few of them, there were hundreds of them. So he made a gesture to his companions and asked them to get ready to set off the beacon smoke. He replied loudly: "In order to protect the security of the county, we have been ordered to be on duty here to prevent being attacked by thieves. Since you are an officer and a soldier, do you have any evidence for the adjustment of defense? ”

"Bold!" Yang Garrison's personal soldiers scolded loudly: "This is our garrison lord!" You dare to stop the questioning?! Immediate release! ”

"That's not good, without evidence, how do you know that you are not pretending to be a thief?" The soldiers still had no intention of letting go.

Yang Shoubei frowned, waved his hand, and ordered: "Take it!" ”

The soldier saw that Yang Shoubei had the intention of making a move, so he immediately asked his companion to light the fire. The dry firewood is all called oil, and it is just a little bit. After that, I covered the wet firewood and immediately there was thick smoke.

The soldier fired a crossbow bolt at the feet of the soldiers guarding Yang, buying his companion a moment's time. After that, he rode quickly to the county seat with his companions. Only Yang guarded them, who was a little puzzled, and watched a thick smoke billowing up.

Yang Shoubei was the first to react, and immediately ordered: "Go and put out the fire!" ”

His men hurriedly moved away from the horses and went to the back of the post to pick up the wet firewood on it. The smoke immediately became smaller, and the other soldiers began to extinguish the fire with water.

"Look, General!" One of the soldiers pointed to the south and reminded, "There are several wolf smokes." ”

Yang Shoubei looked at the wolf smoke rising to the south, and felt a little panicked. He knew it was a warning and didn't know what was going to happen next. So he didn't dare to go any further, and immediately ordered: "Prepare for defense!" ”