In the afternoon of this day, Yang Garrison suddenly came to Qilizhai with more than 100 soldiers, and gathered all the people who were busy in the fields.

Li Yan got the report as soon as possible, so he hurried out to see what the situation was.

"Yang Shoubei." Li Yan arched his hand and said, "What are you doing here?" Where did these people offend the garrison? ”

Yang Shoubei rode on his horse and said condescendingly: "There is no offense. However, a few of the people who farmed the land for me ran away, and I came to look for them. ”

To be honest, Yang Shoubei was a little afraid of Li Yan before, but for a blacksmith workshop, he was willing to pay two hundred taels of silver a year to keep it, so he despised Li Yan by three points. Is it just a blacksmith shop that can sell two hundred taels a year? And recently, he also found out the details of Li Yan, but he is just a small grain store and a small owner, and the grain store has closed down. From this point of view, Li Yan's family has no background, and if there is a background, it is impossible for the grain store to go out of business.

Li Yan smiled and arched his hand and said, "Yang Shoubei, are you mistaken?" These are all people from my village, how can they farm for you? ”

Yang Shoubei sneered, waved his horsewhip, and said, "Yang someone's tenant farmer is not the only one who runs these two days!" I've already run twenty younger. Let's not talk about it before, this time I just ran out, but someone Yang marked them, is there any, you can see it at a glance! ”

At this time, Li Yan was stunned, he thought about it carefully, and found that the two young men who came two days ago seemed to have injuries on their left forearms. One said it was a fall, and the other said it was injured while working. At that time, Li Yan didn't care, but now it seems that this is the mark that Yang Shoubei said, and I don't know what kind of mark it is.

However, the two young men were trained in the village, and although there were young and strong among the farmers who were concentrated, those were the first batch of people to enter Qili Village.

Li Yan arched his hand and said: "Garrison, these are all people from my Qili Village, and there are no tenants who escaped from you." ”

Yang Shoubei did not speak to Li Yan, but ordered: "Someone! Bring me all the young men inside! I'd like to see how long they can hide?! ”

The soldiers of Yang Garrison shouted in the crowd, picked out the young and strong, and lined up in front of Yang Garrison's horses.

"Check!" Yang Shoubei ordered loudly: "If there is a brand of the word 'Yang' on the left arm, pull it out for me!" ”

Li Yan stopped: "Slow! Yang guarded! These are all people from my Qili Village, tenants who are not guarded, you can't check! ”

Yang Shoubei glanced at Li Yan and said lightly: "This can't help you, Mr. Li!" What if~" Yang Shoubei didn't finish speaking, he stopped, looking at the direction of the stockade and was stunned.

The sound of "bang" and "bang" came, Li Yan turned around and saw Li Mu leading the soldiers in a formation step by step. In the front were two rows of pikemen, and in the back were four rows of crossbowmen, each of which was ten men. The border soldiers took their weapons on both sides of the formation, and walked towards this side silently but resolutely.

"You, what do you want to do?!" Yang Shoubei pointed to the formation that came over, and asked with a fierce voice. At the same time, his men hurriedly gathered around his horse, huddled together in a chaotic manner, and pointed their spears and swords against the pressing formation.

Li Yan smiled: "Don't be nervous, we are training." ”

Soon, the formation moved to a distance of thirty steps away from Yang Shou and them, and Li Mu gave the order, "Stop!" "Spear, sit! ”

With a "bang", the two rows of pikemen in front sat down, their spears pointed diagonally at the sky, revealing the crossbowmen behind them. The crossbowmen, on the other hand, were armed with crossbow arrows and aimed at the group of men and horses that Yang was guarding them.

As soon as Garrison Yang saw this formation, he immediately rolled off his horse and hid among his soldiers. shouted loudly: "Li Yan! What are you doing?! Ben is a garrison! There is an appointment from the imperial court! You're a rebellion! I want to punish the nine clans! After that, he shouted at his soldiers: "What are you doing in a daze?!" Array! Array! ”

But his soldiers were trying to retreat. They didn't have shields with them, and in the face of other people's bows and crossbows, whoever came first died first. His soldiers scrambled backwards, arching the Yang garrison back, squeezing him and his horse apart.

"Yang Shoubei, don't be nervous, we have normal training, every day." Li Yan was still as comforted as just now, but at the same time, he also asked the people who were gathered to leave here first.

"Brother-in-law, hurry up and say something soft!" His cheap brother-in-law reminded in a low voice: "We don't have a shield, if we fight, we will suffer." ”

Yang Shoubei scolded angrily: "Waste! How can you not bring a shield?! It's a trip to the city?! ”

"We didn't expect to have this Li Jiang dare to do it." The brother-in-law said with a sad face.

"Where's my horse? Get my horse here! Yang Shoubei ordered in a low voice.

But his men were all huddled together, and kept retreating, trying to get the horses back, but it was quite difficult. His cheap brother-in-law tried several times, but was pushed out of the way by the retreating soldiers, and not only did he not get his horse back, but he was almost squeezed down.

Yang Shoubei angrily scolded "waste". After that, he took a tiptoe look and found that Li Yan's troops did not continue to chase, but still stood still, and it seemed that it was really training. But when I saw the three-edged crossbow shining with cold light on the crossbow, I felt murderous.

"Mr. Lee." Yang Shoubei finally shouted loudly in the crowd: "This is all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." There are no tenants among your people from whom I fled, but it was my people who did not understand the situation and instigated me to come and find me. It's all a misunderstanding. ”

Li Yan gestured to Li Mu at this time. Li Mu understood and ordered loudly: "Good practice!" Now sit down and rest! ”

With a "bang", all the crossbowmen sat down and took off all the crossbow arrows to prevent accidental injuries. The border soldiers on both sides were still standing, vigilantly watching Yang guard them.

At this time, the soldiers of Yang Garrison finally stopped retreating, and the chaos eased a little. Garrison Yang finally asked his own soldiers to bring the horses to him.

"General Li is a good soldier!" Yang Shoubei got on the horse and said to Li Yan: "No wonder you can behead more than 200 thieves, you are really confident!" ”

Li Yan heard the anger in Yang Shoubei's words, so he arched his hand and said: "We didn't know that Yang Shoubei was coming, and we asked Yang Shoubei Haihan." ”

"Yang's memory is not good, let's have a date later!" Yang Shoubei waved his horsewhip, turned his horse's head, and fled with his men.

Li Mu looked at Yang Shoubei, who was retreating, and said with a smile: "Coward! Dare to come and look for trouble! ”

"We're in trouble." Li Yan said helplessly.