Lying on the bed in the guest room, his wife and children were already asleep, but Li Yan did not feel sleepy for a long time.

Even now, Li Yan is really sleepy, but he is not sleepy.

His mind fluctuated.

Lieutenant Huo Yuanjie, after knowing their identities, did not hide Li Yan's side knocks. As long as it is what Li Yan asks, or what Huo Yi wants to know, Huo Yuanjie knows everything and says everything.

Especially the treatment of the soldiers under Uncle Liu Huang, Huo Yuanjie, as a beneficiary, naturally advocated it even more.

It's just that Uncle Liu Huang is so generous to the soldiers under his command?

Li Yan did not doubt this. A disabled veteran can cheat, but Shangyongcheng and other places naturally don't know about Huo Yuanjie's veteran, if they cheat on this point, it is easy to be exposed.

Li Yan is thinking more about it now, is Uncle Liu Huang doing this, is he benevolent by nature, or is he buying people's hearts?

has served as a warden in Xiangyang for many years, how to figure out people's hearts, how to figure out the intentions, this is his Li Yan's forte.

Regardless of whether Uncle Liu Huang is benevolent by nature or in order to buy people's hearts, Li Yan feels that it is very good for this future lord to do this.

Not to mention the soldiers' desire to serve the death, even those talents left behind in the mountains and wilderness, when they knew that Uncle Liu Huang treated the soldiers well, they would inevitably come to vote. I haven't seen the Huo family in Nanjun, and I haven't received a solicitation letter from Uncle Liu Huang, have you all come to vote for Uncle Liu?

So at this moment, Li Yan felt a little pressured.

If Uncle Liu Huang has too many talents, wouldn't it be a little difficult for him Li Yan to get ahead?

It's not that Li Yan doesn't have confidence in himself, it's just that if there are too many talents who defect to Uncle Liu Huang, everyone is a talent, and they are all showing their strengths, and it is really difficult to distinguish who is superior and who is inferior for a while, in this case, how can he Li Yan quickly excel?

Fortunately, he Li Yan had Uncle Liu Huang's handwritten solicitation letter in his hand, and the military advisor Zhuge Kongming personally came to solicit him, and now he rushed over early, so I don't think there will be too fierce competition, right?

Silently thinking about these thoughts, Li Yan couldn't sleep for a long time.

Suddenly, Li Yan's ears were separated from the bed, but he heard the sound of horses' hooves.

The sound of the horses' hooves was five or six miles away, and it seemed that there were five or six horsemen, and their direction seemed to be coming towards the desecration of the water.

Some scouts in the army, or some experts, could hear the sound of horses' hooves ten miles away when they put their ears to the ground. Even the more powerful ones could hear the approximate number of those knights from the sound of horses' hooves.

Although Li Yan is a civil official, he still knows how to listen to voices from the ground.

"Oh no, it's not going to be bandits, is it?" Li Yan felt a little bitter in his heart.

In the middle of the night, suddenly five or six horsemen came straight here, Li Yan would not think that this was Uncle Liu Huang who came to pick him up Li Yan.

Li Yan got up and put on a thin layer of cowhide armor under his coat.

This thin cowhide armor was still bought from the army by Li Yan's warden for so many years. It can block swords, but it doesn't have much defense against bows and crossbows. However, in times of crisis, can you always protect yourself?

Without waking up his wife and children, Li Yan took his sword and quietly came to the door of the guest room.

If there were really bandits attacking this township at night, he Li Yan wouldn't be ready to be killed!

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Li Yan gathered behind the door of the guest room, waited quietly, only to hear a sound in the courtyard, but it was not the bandits attacking, but the veteran lieutenant seemed to have heard the sound of the horses' hooves, and was ordering those young men.

Because Li Yan and Huo Yi's family stayed overnight in Lizhong, Huo Li Chang let these young men in Lizhong also rest in the courtyard. It is not only to protect the safety of the two distinguished guests' families, but it also does not mean to be close to the surveillance.

Of course, this last thought is just a precautionary measure.

Now, hearing that the five or six horsemen were coming straight into the water, whether Huo Li Chang suspected Li Yan and Huo Yi was not known for the time being, but Huo Li Chang woke up the young men as soon as possible, and seemed to be preparing to organize a defense or something.

"Erdan, big cow, there are two old trees at the entrance of the village, you two are crossbowmen, rush over now, climb those two old trees, occupy the commanding heights, once those five or six horsemen break in, you can condescend and kill them."

In the courtyard, Captain Hori was dispatching troops.

Before retiring, Captain Horry was a chief, who used to be in charge of ten small soldiers, and had the privilege of seeing how those generals mobilized their troops. Therefore, dispatching these young men now is a piece of cake for Chief Horry.

"Dog, go ring the bell at the entrance of the village right away."

After the two Gongsun families were ordered to leave, Horry Changyou assigned one person.

There are bandits coming, and ringing the bell at the entrance of the village is a must, which is a warning to the villagers in the whole village.

When Horry heard the sound of horses' hooves, it was not that he didn't want to ring the bell to warn, but that the alarm bell was at the entrance of the village, and it took time for him to rush over. With this time, he also needs to organize the defense of the young people.

There were only five or six horsemen who came, and Huo Li felt that he was not without the strength to fight with these seventeen young men in the house.

The key lies in the two dogs and the big bulls.

If the two crossbowmen could shoot the two first, Captain Horry would be more sure to keep the attackers behind.

"The others are holding spears, come with me to the entrance of the village and line up the guns!" Huo Yuanjie took the remaining fourteen spearmen and went straight to the entrance of the village, and the sound of "dodo" crutches knocked on the ground, and it was also heard far away in the middle of the night.

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At the entrance of the village, Ergou and Da Niu hid in the shade of the tree, and their crossbows had already been loaded, waiting for the enemy to come.

Of course, they have only been training for more than ten days, and they have not yet experienced the formal drills in the army, nor have they experienced battles, so it is inevitable that they will be a little nervous at this time. However, in order to surround the village, they still tried to stare at the darkness outside the village.

In front of the two big trees, in the open space at the entrance of the village, two rows of gunmen organized into a thin gun array, and they were also waiting quietly.

Not far from the entrance of the village, a bonfire has been lit.

This is not only a warning, a warning to the villagers, but also a warning to Shangyong City.

Of course, the role of the campfire is more for lighting in the dark. Later, once the visitor steps into the lit range of the campfire, this will allow the two crossbowmen in the tree to find their target more accurately.

"Chief Hori, but there are bandits attacking at night?"

Huo Yuanjie had just arranged the defense, and Li Yan and Huo Yi also hurried over.

At this time, the villagers in Lizhong were awakened by the alarm bell, no one was noisy, no one was noisy, men, women and children were all holding a thing, or a hoe, or a bamboo stick, or anything, all concentrated on the threshing floor in the village.

Later, once Horry is unable to stop the bandits, they will be the last force of resistance.

In order to protect the food at home, the villagers are determined to die!

The villagers are ready to fight to the death, Li Yan and Huo Yi naturally can't stand idly by, whether it is to clear their suspicions, or to teach those bandits a lesson, they must also fight at the forefront.

The sword in Li Yan's hand and the heavy crossbow in Huo Yi's hand are not comparable to the guys in the hands of the young people.