The soldiers on Yang Garrison were all a little overwhelmed, and they looked at each other without moving.

"Quick! Fast! Fast! Yang Shoubei scolded loudly: "Defense, hurry, prepare to line up!" Go some, go cut down some trees in the woods! Be quick! ”

"Brother-in-law," his cheap brother-in-law asked puzzled, "not really, right?" Who else dares to hit us? ”

"Didn't you see the wolf smoke being released?!" Yang Shou scolded impatiently: "Wait a while, their large army will come, if they attack us directly, we will wait for death?!" Go cut down trees! Don't grind! ”

Yang Garrison's subordinates were slowly preparing for defense, and Yang Garrison was constantly urging.

At this time, Gao Mingheng finally got out of the sedan chair, frowned and asked, "Yang Shoubei, what's going on?!" ”

Yang Shou pointed to the smoke and replied: "I am preparing for defense, there may be an army coming over from Qixian County in a while, let's prepare first, just in case." ”

"Just in case?" Gao Mingheng asked puzzledly: "Isn't it the official army who came?" Didn't you say that Qixian had just won a big victory? ”

Yang Shoubei's eyes rolled and began to explain: "That's not easy to say, Li Yan is the general of the township soldiers in Qi County, and he is in charge of the garrison of Qi County. This Li Yan is not a good person, he let people open up the wasteland, and he collects the rent himself, but he does not pay the service money of the imperial court. Also, he forcibly collected land rent from the gentry, he wanted to rebel! Maybe the anti-flag has been erected by now. So let's take precautions. ”

Gao Mingheng knew that Su Jing and Li Yan in Qi County, Liu Xun had already handed over the fold before, and the emperor also praised Su Jing for his good people. And he also had an understanding with Liu Xunji before taking office, so he didn't completely believe Yang Shoubei's words.

Yang Shoubei continued: "Also, this Li Yan is the head of the township soldiers, but there are more than 1,000 people under him now. This is a private expansion of troops, and the heart of disobedience is clearly revealed! ”

Gao Mingheng also scoffed at this accusation, now is the time of trouble, who doesn't want his subordinates to be more. The imperial court also has a tacit attitude towards such a phenomenon, anyway, the excess food and salary do not need to be borne by the imperial court, and it can have enough strength to exterminate the thieves, why not? This is also the purpose of the imperial court to train village soldiers and regimental training in various places, and the imperial court does not have enough food and salary to raise soldiers.

Yang Shoubei saw that Gao Mingheng didn't react, so he didn't say more. Anyway, the nail has already been laid, as long as the squire of Qixian County comes to complain later, he feels that Li Yan will not be able to escape this time.

The soldiers cut down the big tree, and did not decorate it, but dragged it directly with the canopy, and the crown in front of it was placed on the official road. After that, Yang Garrison asked the soldiers to line up behind the big tree, waiting for Li Yan to bring people over.

At this time, Li Yan had already driven over with his troops, and sent scouts to reconnoiter the enemy situation first. When he saw that the enemy was already preparing for defense in the same place, he continued to advance with his troops and went directly to the county border to confront the enemy.

The soldiers marched in three columns, and at the forefront were the sword and shield men and pikemen. After waiting for a distance of two hundred steps from the big tree on the official road, Li Yan ordered his troops to line up and prepare for engagement.

At the captain's command, the soldiers stood in the front row of the column, and the back row was thrown up, changing from a column to a horizontal line. Swordsmen, shieldmen, pikemen, and crossbowmen lined up in rows.

On both sides of the road, there were vacant seats, and the two No. 1 Franky guns were unloaded from the gun carriage by the artillerymen, pushed forward, and entered the gun position. The artillerymen first took aim and fixed the direction, then pressed the wheels of the gun carriage with wooden blocks, and then nailed the iron drill with a crowbar to the square socket of the gun carriage feet to hold the gun in place.

Yang Garrison and their soldiers watched in amazement as Li Yan's troops lined up and prepared. They couldn't believe it at all, this was the township soldier unit in Qixian County that they had left a few months ago. In fact, they had never had close contact with Li Yan's troops at all, but they just habitually looked down on the villagers. I don't know anything about the training of Li Yan's troops, the only thing I know is that Li Yan's township soldiers are powerful with bows and crossbows, that's all.

Gao Mingheng also stood behind the soldiers, watching the rapid and calm deployment of the troops on the opposite side through the gap in the canopy. Although he is a scholar, he can still see what an elite soldier is. At this time, he was sure that the news of the great victory in Qixian County should be true when he heard it in Kaifeng, and with such elite people, it should not be too much of a problem to defeat the thieves.

Yang Shoubei watched for a long time before recovering from the shock. He asked his cheap brother-in-law, "Didn't you bring all the cannons?" How can they still have cannons? ”

"This, this should be the big Frankie on the city wall, right?" The brother-in-law replied: "Those cannons can't be used, and there are nearly a thousand catties, how did they get them?" ”

Yang Shoubei thought for a while, and felt that Li Yan didn't seem to be using these two cannons to scare people, so he didn't dare to try. So he sent someone out to shout.

"We are the troops of the Yang garrison! It was stationed in Qixian County before! Are you under the command of General Lee? The soldiers guarding Yang shouted loudly.

Li Yan looked at the army on the opposite side with a telescope, he found Yang Garrison, so he smiled at Li Zhong and said, "It's really Yang Garrison, I don't know what he came back to do?" ”

Li Zhong took the binoculars, looked at them too, and nodded: "There is also a civil official?" ”

Li Yan asked people to reply: "We are under the command of General Li!" Mr. Li asked Yang Shoubei to come out and speak! ”

Li Yan rode out with ten personal soldiers first, and stopped a hundred steps away from the other party. If the other party releases a cold arrow, he can have time to react, and the other party does not have artillery, as for the shotgun, it can hit this distance and hit him, then he will admit it.

At this time, Yang Garrison was also embarrassed not to go out, so he also rode out with ten guards. He came to a stop ten steps away from Li Yan, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Li! Are you going to rebel?! Even the team patrolling the imperial history dares to stop it?! ”

"Patrol the Imperial History?" Li Yan frowned and asked.

Yang Shoubei said proudly: "That's right! It is the new Henan Governor Yu Shi Gao Mingheng! Gao Xun inspected the place on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and you dared to stop it! You're a kingless! ”

Li Yan frowned and said, "Then why didn't you explain it at the outpost before?" I didn't show the relevant documents either! And also directly broke into the whistle. What does Yang Shoubei mean by this?! ”

"Joke!" Yang Shoubei said arrogantly: "The patrol is out on patrol, and you still need to report to a few sentinels?!" Who agreed to you setting up a post here?! Ben didn't have that rule when he left! ”

Li Yan said lightly: "In order to prevent thieves from violating the border, it is Li's duty to set up a post for early warning and prevention. Since it is Gao Xun who is here, then please press Gao Xun to come out and see it, so as to get rid of Li's doubts! ”