The guards at the checkpoint saw that everyone was beaten, and they were shouting and saying that they wanted to save people, but on the other hand, they did not move, and no one really wanted to save them, so they were beaten and only watched the excitement from the sidelines.

A carp jumped up, patted the dust on his buttocks, snatched a gun from the hands of a nearby guard, and stabbed at Xibao with a loud roar. Li Mao hugged Xibao, turned on the spot with his left heel and left axis, gently dodged the shot, and threw a whip on his right leg, kicking the tax head's buttocks.

The tax head and his people crawled on the ground with guns and gnawed on the loess.

A few of the guards couldn't help but laugh, and the tax collectors forced their laughter too.

This tax head is also considered a number of people in the local area, and today he was humiliated in public, and he had nowhere to put this face, so he got up and spit out the loess in his mouth, and while drinking and ordering the tax collectors to copy the guys to help, he went to grab the bows and arrows on the guards.

The guard refused to give him a bow and arrows, and while the two families were tearing, a feathered arrow was shot in the air, impartially, and passed through the middle of the bow that they were arguing about.

The two of them were taken aback together, let go together, and fell to the ground.

The arrow was sudden, and the head was okay, Li Mao flashed his eyes, but saw a group of people coming from the direction of the ferry, one on horse, and the rest on foot. Looking at the outfits of the people, you can know that they are the border troops guarding the front line, these people are unkempt, their clothes and armor are mixed, and the weapons in their hands are varied.

When Xibao saw this group, his face turned pale, his fists were clenched, and he roared in his mouth, and he suddenly became angry.

The Broken Peak Fort where she lived was often invaded by foreign invaders, in addition to the fierce steppe nomadic tribes, the rampant horse bandits, and these Tang border troops dressed like beggars.

The grassland tribes come and go like the wind, as long as they guard the camp, there will be no big losses, the horse bandits are a little more difficult, but as long as they are careful and patient, they can also deal with it, and the most difficult thing to deal with is these officers and soldiers like Hanako, who know both field warfare and siege, and they will suffer their big losses if they are not careful. Several of Xibao's closest relatives and friends were killed at the hands of the border army, so she couldn't help but hate.

She was like an angry leopard, trying to pounce and bite the enemy to death, but her arm was grabbed by Li Mao and she couldn't move at all. Although Xibao is a woman, she grew up in the cavalry team since she was a child, advocating force, she has been working hard like a man since she was a child, and her strength is amazing, not to say that ordinary women are not opponents, and she can also put over a few idle men with her bare hands.

However, Li Mao's hands were like iron hitting steel, and she couldn't pull them away.

"They've attacked the cottage and killed a lot of us."

Xibao gritted his teeth and struggled fiercely.

"Gravel Peak is in the Zhenwu Army Defense Zone, and it is not them who attack the cottage, they are the Tiande Army."

Xibao couldn't tell what Zhenwu Army and Tiande Army were, she just recognized the banner of the Tang Army. After repeated failed attempts, Xibao let out a wolf-like roar: "You are in league with them, and you are my enemy." ”

Li Mao said lightly: "When you go out of the grassland, you have to listen to me, as a knight, how can you not obey military orders?" ”

Xibao was speechless, before leaving, the three elders were afraid that she would come up brute force in the future and not listen to Li Mao's words, so they forced her to take the names of her dead parents and brothers and swear that she would never act rashly. Xibao swore a heavy oath, she is a trustworthy person.

"You are alone, there are six of them, they have long and short swords, they have bows and arrows, how can you win. As a commander, are you qualified to act so recklessly? ”

After receiving Li Mao's reprimand, Xibao was convinced, she glared at Li Mao fiercely, and stopped making trouble.

The man who fired the arrow to warn the tax collector was a thin young man, about fifteen or sixteen years of age, who rode on a tall white horse, dressed in a scholar's green robe, and surrounded by six heavily armed men on his left and right.

One of them, a thin black soldier, with a pair of watery peach blossom eyes, was grinning at Li Mao.

Li Mao felt that this person was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

"What is the crime of openly beating a tax collector?"

The cold-faced young man on a white horse said coldly.

"What is the crime of openly beating a tax collector? Say you, big man, oh, and that fierce bearded woman. Peach Blossom Eyes repeated the young man's words, and then ordered the other five soldiers on behalf of the young man: "Surround them first." ”

Li Mao and his entourage had more than 70 people, more than 200 horses, and more than 70 bows, and there were only seven people, one horse, and seven bows to surround them, including the young man on horse.

The young man on the white horse glanced at the peach blossom eyes, wanted to say something, but couldn't help but say nothing.

Li Mao took out the tax payment voucher in the territory of the Zhenwu Army and handed it to Qin Mo, who handed it to Peach Blossom Eye, who handed it to the young man on horseback. When Peach Blossom Eye took the voucher from Qin Mo's hand, she glanced at him with watery eyes.

Qin Mo shuddered and hurriedly retreated.

Li Mao asked in a low voice: "This person looks familiar, do you have any impression?" ”

Qin Mo replied: "If I remember correctly, this guy is Yang Qi who was used by you as an army." ”

"Yang Qi? How could it be such a coincidence? ”

"No book can be written without coincidence."

"However, I have the impression that his eyes are not so big and not so watery...... Watery. ”

"What watery, he has eye disease."

"Ah......h

The "peach blossom eye" is Yang Qi, and the boy riding the white horse is Yan Gui, the only son of Yan Li, the new defense envoy of the Tiande Army, and the assassin of Fengzhou.

After Yang Qi Chongjun arrived in Fengzhou, because he had a helping brother, he became a team leader at the beginning, and soon became the team leader, and then learned to fight, fight mountain warfare, and fight less and less, and made a name for himself at the foot of Yin Mountain, and was promoted to the head of the capital at the beginning of the year.

Yan Li was appointed from Huazhou to Fengzhou, and there were no reliable warriors around him, he was a literati who didn't like the way in the army, and the old people in the military government reprimanded him. Not long after Yang Qi joined the army, the aura of the soldier on his body was not very strong, he was dignified, could talk and do things, and he and Yan Li's wife were fellow villagers, fellow villagers, so he named Yang Qi.

With such an order, Yang Qi returned to the military mansion from the Yin Mountain. With the friendship of fellow villagers, Yang Qi quickly became familiar in front of Mrs. Yan, and with Mrs. Yan's appreciation, Yang Qi finally came to work and became the archery teacher of Yan Li's only son, Yan Gui.

A while ago, Mr. Yang took the students to the Yin Mountain to learn more, and he just came back this day.

The group had just crossed the Yellow River, and when they heard the noise on the side of the tax card, they came to check, but they didn't expect to bump into Li Mao and his party. Li Mao's face has not changed much in recent years, and Yang Qi recognized it at a glance.

For Li Mao, Yang Qi is a love-hate relationship, hating him for filling himself into the army thousands of miles away, leaving his relatives to come to this bitter cold place to defend the border, what he loves is that if Li Mao hadn't brought him here, he is probably still in the countryside at this moment, and his military status today is naturally impossible, and he doesn't know where the future is going.

With this contradiction in his heart, Yang Qi did not rush to recognize Li Mao. (Dissertation College)