The next morning, the Yang garrison in the city finally knew that there were thieves outside the city, and no matter where he was attacked at this time, he first sent his subordinates to the city wall and guarded the county seat first.

At this time, the thieves in the village were ready to leave. They just killed a few peasants who resisted, and the others did not move, there was no ****, but they robbed the peasants of their food and livestock. Nearly half of these peasants chose to join the ranks of the thieves, while the rest had to fend for themselves.

The thieves had no interest in the county town with the city walls as protection, and they continued to sweep outside the county town, intending to grab something and leave.

Although Yang guarded his grange in the east of the city, he did not plan to go out to the rescue. His men knew that if they fought the thieves outside the city, it was very possible to collapse without a fight. The county owed them three months' salary, but his subordinates really owed them half a year. The old rule of officialdom, money passes through the hand, how can it be done without rubbing a layer of oil?

And the tenants in the grange of Yang Shoubei's family, after the thieves came, tied up the steward of the grange and the four family members, and opened the door to welcome the arrival of the thieves. These tenants had long been fed up with the exploitation of Yang Garrison, so they all joined the ranks of the thieves and strongly demanded to attack the county seat.

But the leader of the thieves was sober and did not attack the county seat, but continued to go around the city, going around the city to the west.

"Oh, it's better here than the east, and it's all cultivated fields." The big boss 'Meng Zhang Fei' said with a smile: "What kind of land is this?" I am sure that the family background is not thin. ”

The newly joined tenant replied: "The land surrounded by wooden stakes is Li Gongzi's land, the south is near the river is the Zhou Wangfu, and the north is the county king's mansion. ”

"Li Gongzi? What's the matter? How big is it? "'Meng Zhang Fei' asked with interest. At this time, he had already changed into a horse, which he had taken from the grange guarded by Yang.

The tenant replied: "Li Gongzi is a township soldier general, he is a good person, and he has supported many people." These lands were originally abandoned, but Li Gongzi asked people to open them up again, and then let the people who fled the famine plant them. We didn't have a chance to escape, or we would have been here a long time ago. ”

"I see, I didn't expect there to be good people among the officials." 'Meng Zhang Fei' said with a smile.

"Su County's order is not bad, but he is more timid." The tenant said again.

"Big brother, there's a stockade ahead!" While he was talking, one of his subordinates came running and reported: "There are earthen fences and trenches, and the people inside are already on guard." ”

'Meng Zhang Fei' immediately ordered: "Ready, let's go and lay down this stockade, get the things, and let's go back." Look at these fields, they are all well planted, and there must be a lot of things in them. Brothers should compete for the first place, and those who are in the first village will have wine and meat! ”

"Don't fight," the tenant immediately reminded, "This village belongs to Li Gongzi." Li Gongzi's soldiers are very powerful, and he has defeated several bandits, so the big boss should not take risks. ”

"What about it?!" 'Meng Zhang Fei' said disdainfully: "Can he be better than 'Gao Chuangzi'?" Township soldiers only. ”

The tenant said cautiously: "Then we will not participate in the attack on the stockade, please allow the chief." ”

'Meng Zhang Fei' waved his hand and said, "I didn't want to rely on you originally. Go and wait until we have taken down the stockade, so that we can get you some weapons too. The one who followed me 'violently flew' can't make people look shabby. ”

The new tenants left the group and retreated more than a hundred paces from the group, far away from the wounded. The two wounded were wounded during the attack on Huang's Grange.

At this time, Li Yan and his soldiers were already ready. They knew that there were thieves coming last night, but there was no interest in Li Yan in the east, so they didn't make any moves, but only strengthened their vigilance. Unexpectedly, the thieves did not attack the county seat, but came to the west, and I don't know what these small thieves want to do.

There are 100 soldiers here in Qilizhai, Li Mu took more than 100 soldiers to Duzhuang, and he also brought a lot of crossbow arrows, so there should be no problem in defense.

"Shout! Let them open the door and surrender! "'Meng Zhang Fei' ordered: "Let them hand over a hundred stones of grain, we will leave immediately without any offense." If you don't hand it over, you're welcome! ”

The loud-voiced thief stepped forward to shout, and at this time, the second child began to line up the team, so as to directly attack the location of the gate of Qili Village. They didn't have a long ladder, so they could only attack the location of the walled gate.

Li Yan looked at the thieves who were gradually lined up, and frowned: "These guys should be old bandits." Either the official army threw himself over. Prepare the brethren for a bad battle! ”

Hearing the thief's shout, Li Yan ordered: "Open the door and go out to line up!" ”

The gate of Qilizhai slowly opened, and the soldiers slowly went out of the city. After getting out of the wall, quickly lined up. The first row were soldiers with large shields, followed by two rows of pikemen, and then five rows of crossbowmen. Each crossbowman carried a round shield, which they attached to their left arm and quickly formed a formation. And their crossbow strings are already on the line, and they can fire them as long as they put them on them.

'Meng Zhang Fei' frowned and looked at the soldiers in Qili Village, a little surprised. Because the speed of these soldiers was too fast, he prepared to line up first, but when he was still in a chaotic formation here, these village soldiers who came out later had already formed a neat phalanx.

"Okay, no?!" 'Meng Zhang Fei' asked unhappily.

His men quickened the pace of the formation, and finally formed a phalanx, but the platoon was crooked. The first three rows are also sword and shield men, the back three rows are spearmen, and the next three rows have no unified weapons, waist knives, long knives, crossbow arrows, and so on. And at the end there is a row of archers.

There are more people who 'Zhang Fei', so the phalanx discharged is much larger than Li Yan's. This is a large and a small phalanx, it seems that the big phalanx has a better chance of winning, but Li Yan didn't think that he would lose, and 'Meng Zhang Fei' didn't seem to think that he would win easily.

So the two phalanxes confronted each other silently. The distance between the two sides was eighty paces, and the white gas formed by the breathing of the soldiers in the queue filled the ranks, as if the phalanx was in an illusion.

The first to be unable to hold on was 'Zhang Fei', who commanded loudly: "Brothers, rush with me!" Go get the food! After shouting, he raised his shield and moved forward, and his men followed him, and in the process of advancing, they basically completed the adjustment, and walked side by side with their eldest brother.