"Is that the gang of thieves?"

On the ladder on the side, Liu Xianling asked with a somewhat serious expression.

Li Xiao shook his head, there were still a few miles away, where could he see it so clearly, but he could see that this was a soldier and horse. After all, these are only available in the army. "It's too far away to see clearly, but there are at least 300 people, and there are no less than 100 horsemen, this is a force of soldiers and horses."

Liu Xian Ling naturally saw it, and when he heard Li Xiao say that he was not sure if it was that group, he was a little nervous.

Three hundred people can already be called an army, not to mention two hundred foot soldiers. If you are well prepared, it will naturally be no problem to attack such a small village as Lijiazhuang. Even if they now have fifteen or six hundred strong men, they will not be able to withstand the three hundred troops without defensive equipment.

"What now?"

Under the wall, Li Xiao and several officials such as Liu County Commander and Wang County Lieutenant gathered together to discuss temporarily.

Although County Lieutenant Wang had complained a few words before, he was very bold and brave at this time. He patted his chest and said, "Damn it, there is still an army that dares to come, and Lao Tzu thought it was San Lang's exaggeration." How dare these military scum do such a thing, this is a conspiracy to rebel and make chaos, and they are really not afraid of death. ”

"But don't worry, isn't it just two or three hundred soldiers? My old king has fought the Turks in the northern steppe, Goguryeo in Liaodong, and Tuyuhun and Qiang people in Qinghai. Two or three hundred people are placed on the battlefield, which is not worth mentioning, and it will be gone after a round of arrow rain. I think that back then, when I accompanied Marshal Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo, to conquer the Turks, tens of thousands of troops faced off, which was called a momentum. ”

Lao Wang deserved to be a veteran, first bragged a few words, despised the other party in momentum, and then proposed that he be responsible for commanding this Lizhuang defensive battle.

Li Xiao has no opinion on Lao Wang's desire to command, although he has read many books, and has also seen many major battle scenes in the era of hot and cold weapons, and even wars in the Age of Magic and the Interstellar Age, but those are all in film and television works.

When he first crossed over to the Tang Dynasty, he was already a fugitive who fled after the failure of the Jiangnan Uprising, he had never fought or killed anyone, and now he was asked to command more than a thousand strong men to fight against the three hundred knights, he really had no confidence.

Among the people present, Liu Qiguan was the largest, but he still believed in the professionalism of County Lieutenant Wang.

"There's a county lieutenant of Laowang."

Lao Wang immediately took office and took over the supreme defense command of Lijiazhuang.

"The first thing is to take advantage of the fact that before Zhuangzi is surrounded, quickly send some people out of the village and ride horses to report outside. Report to Chang'an and the nearby military camps, go to neighboring counties and townships, and call villagers to help. ”

Lao Wang's first arrangement, Li Xiao and they were very much in favor. Although the messenger had been sent before, it must have even arrived in Chang'an. But after all, there is a new change in things, "No problem, there are still horses in the village, so I will arrange for someone to report the news." ”

Lao Wang nodded, looked at everyone, and raised a second finger, "Second, I estimate that the thieves must have come for the corn seeds, and once they didn't give up, and they came a second time, this is obviously a lack of preparation before, this time they came prepared, there are more people and horses, and maybe there are more arrows, we have to be prepared." In this, it is estimated that there are some more battles involved, and my old king is too lazy to say, but the corn seeds have to be saved, if the corn seeds are lost, we people here today, especially those of us court officials, are estimated to have to go around without food. ”

It is true that Lao Wang is a Jiupin county lieutenant, and it is not false that he is a veteran who has been injured and retired, but Lao Wang is also very awake at his age, he is a soldier, and he knows that many times, soldiers do not have their own will, they are all assigned by the people who are ordered.

Even the soldiers and horses outside, it is possible that the only one or two officers who really know the task are the first and second officers who lead the team, and the rest of the soldiers are completely following orders.

"If you want me to say, you have to find a way to send the corn seeds away, and send them away. It's not safe to stay here. Wang proposed.

Li Xiao shook his head.

He also agreed with the fact that outsiders were coming for corn seeds, but he disagreed that it was safer to send them away. Not to mention that the thieves have arrived outside the village at this time, maybe the other party has long been guarding against this hand, and it is estimated that there are rangers outside who will intercept the people who leave the village and send someone to report the news, which is a last resort.

You can risk giving away the corn seeds, but you may let the corn seeds go into the hands of the enemy.

Besides, Li Xiao is a person who has space, and no one can find the corn seeds in the space.

"I am also against taking corn seeds at this time, it is not safe." Liu Qi also spoke.

The main book and the county were also opposed.

Lao Wang didn't argue, "Okay, the corn seeds will still be kept by Li Jianzheng himself." ”

"Bring all the archers over to guard the gate, and pile up more wood at the gate of the village, in case they go straight to the gate, especially to prevent the cavalry from breaking into the village."

There are still some archers among the villagers, and although their bows are soft for hunting, they are also long-range weapons.

Let the archers guard the wall next to the gate, and then arrange the pikemen behind the gate to use the wooden planks as shields in front and spears in the back, forming a formation to guard the gate, which can be regarded as a more active countermeasure.

"San Lang, a few riders came first."

Zhang Cong, who had been looking at the wall, shouted Li Xiao, and Li Xiao hurriedly went up to the wall again.

The three horsemen galloped to the end, and the archers on the village wall were nervously stretching their bows and pulling the strings.

"Listen to the people inside, I am Liu Jun, a member of the army in Lanxi Zhechong Mansion, and I am a friend of your owner Li Xiao, after receiving his letter of request for help, I immediately asked our captain to lead the troops to help, and hurried to inform Li Xiao to open the door to greet him."

Liu Jun's voice was very loud, and the people on the wall heard it obviously.

Li Xiao also heard that it was Liu Jun, and after a closer look, he found that although Liu Jun was wearing a suit of armor at this time, which was different from his previous image, he could still recognize it.

"Sure enough, it's Liu Jun."

Liu Qi on the side naturally knew that Liu Jun was a friend of his own son, and he was called the son of Kui Guogong, one of the four sons of Chang'an, by people with good deeds.

"It turned out that reinforcements were coming, and there was a false alarm." Li Xiao smiled and prepared to let people open the door.

County Lieutenant Wang went to stop him, "Don't worry, Liu Jun is Liu Jun, but we don't know if the soldiers behind us are reinforcements, don't let people take the opportunity to cheat the door." ”

Although Li Xiao believed that Liu Jun would not be with the thief, he still respected Lao Wang's command, and thought for a while, "Why don't I go out to meet Liu Jun first, and then you will open the door after confirming the identity of the team behind?" ”

"Yes, but it's risky." Lao Wang is very simple.

"I believe in Liu Jun." Li Xiaodao.

Liu Jun seems to be the son of Kui Guogong, and his grandfather is the late Liu Hongji, the hero of Lingyan Pavilion, and the relationship between everyone is usually very good, Liu Jun can't come to help others grab corn seeds.