The Yang family, like all famous families, is a cunning rabbit three caves, in Huayin County, the Yang family has a building complex covering an area of hundreds of acres, and they also have their mansions in Chang'an and Luoyang.

Yangjiazhuang at the foot of Shetou Mountain is their ancestral home, which is the place of the roots of the Yang family, and it is also their most important base, where most of the Yang clan people live.

Yangjiazhuang is not an open village, half of it is built on the halfway of Shetou Mountain, the other half is built in the valley, from the sixth year of the Great Cause, the village is surrounded by a five-foot-high wall along the mountain, surrounded by the village.

At this time, several houses at the foot of the mountain were on fire, and the Yang clansmen who lived at the foot of the mountain were crying and running towards the mountain, women holding their children, and men carrying their parents, they stumbled and were in chaos, most of them were old and weak women and children.

Several young Yang disciples stood on the side of the road and shouted, "Go to the ancestral hall and take refuge!" ”

The ancestral hall of the Yang clan is the spiritual holy place of all the people of the Yang clan, and the ancestral hall occupies a huge area, and it is made of bluestone, which is extremely strong, once a disaster occurs, the ancestral hall will be a place for the clansmen to take refuge, in order to seek the protection of the ancestral spirits.

Hundreds of people had already poured into the ancestral hall, and there was still a steady stream of people from the Yang clan rushing towards the ancestral hall.

But the night attack occurred in the southwest corner of the mountain in the area of the grain depot, the grain depot is located at the foot of the mountain, it is also an important building second only to the ancestral hall, it is made of large stones, covers an area of more than ten acres, and there are high walls built around it, and there are usually more than a dozen family members to protect the grain depot.

There are nearly 50,000 stone grain in the grain depot, it is the most important wealth of Yangjiazhuang, it is the accumulation of a bumper harvest in the past few years, at this time the first month has just passed, it is far from the summer harvest, once the grain depot is looted by the hungry people, the whole Yangjiazhuang 350 households will face the crisis of running out of grain.

Therefore, defending the grain depot has become the top priority of Yangjiazhuang, and hundreds of Yang family disciples and family members are concentrated in the grain depot to fight to the death against the invading enemy.

In the darkness, dense fire arrows kept shooting from the southwest direction, clanging on the stone wall, and did not cause losses to the grain depot, but the huge pressure brought by the fire arrows filled the hearts of every Yang clan with inexplicable fear.

Dozens of steps away from the southwest of the outer high wall has been opened a large gap more than ten zhang wide, outside is the mountain forest, in the half-light and half-dark moonlight, only to see a large group of figures on the edge of the mountain forest shaking, enough as hundreds of people.

Although no one could see the situation in the mountains and forests, everyone sketched such a picture in their minds, tens of thousands of hungry people in ragged clothes crowded in the mountains and forests, holding cloth bags and baskets, and everyone's eyes shot a fierce light like a hungry wolf.

"It's coming!" I don't know who shouted.

The Yang children in the courtyard rushed up to the high wall, and there was a circle of wooden frames in the high wall of the grain depot, and hundreds of Yang children stood on the wooden frames, fighting fiercely with spears and bows and arrows.

Nearly 200 mountain bandits rushed outside the grain depot, they erected stairs outside the high wall of the grain depot, climbed up with steel knives, fought fiercely with the Yang family on the wall, the screams of being cut down, the wails before death, and people kept falling from the wall.

The head of the house, Yang Wenxian, was so anxious that he shouted under the eaves of the main hall, "Don't be afraid, resist!" They're all done. ”

Perhaps thinking of his wife, children, and parents, although the Yang family and his family were extremely scared, they still mustered up the courage to fight with these vicious mountain bandits.

At this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound at the gate of the grain depot at the southeast end, and then it shook violently, and a cloud of dust and gravel fell on the eaves.

Everyone was stunned, and the head of the family, Yang Wenxian, suddenly reacted, this was the mountain bandits, they actually wanted to hit the door and enter, he jumped up in a hurry, "Go and protect the gate!" ”

Dozens of family members closest to the gate drew their knives and rushed forward, but before they could rush to the gate, they only heard a loud noise, broken wood flew wildly, the two gates were slammed open, and several Yang disciples standing behind the gate were knocked to the ground by the huge impact.

More than 50 fierce-looking black-clothed mountain bandits threw away the wood in their hands, drew their knives and rushed into the compound, fighting fiercely with dozens of family members who rushed up.

A steady stream of mountain bandits rushed in from the gate, the family members couldn't resist, they were killed and retreated, the compound was in chaos, Yang Wenxian was so anxious that he stomped his feet, shouted and commanded his children to resist, but the resistance was still to no avail.

Seeing that the Yang clan disciples were about to collapse, just at the last moment, a tall black shadow rushed from the side, like a violent wind swept into the enemy group, extremely powerful, the blade slashed, blood splashed, and two human heads flew up.

The person who came was Zhang Xuan, he had just finished disposing of Yang Qingming's corpse and rushed to the grain depot, and happened to encounter the gate of the grain depot being broken by the mountain bandits, and the situation was critical.

Zhang Xuan was decisive and ruthless, splitting two heads, and without waiting for the corpse to fall to the ground, he rushed through the gap between the two, and the horizontal knife pierced the chest of one person, he used the enemy's corpse as a cover, slashed left and right, the cold light flashed, and two more throats were split.

At this time, he felt the sound of wind slashing at the back of his head behind him, he did not hesitate, a harrier turned over, kicked the long knife that slashed at the back of his head, the horizontal knife in his hand flashed, and another head rose into the sky, the corpse fell violently, and the blood in the neck cavity sprayed him.

In the blink of an eye, he killed six people, and when the mountain bandits saw that he was extremely fierce, they were so frightened that they retreated, and Zhang Xuan roared loudly, and slew like a tiger like a flock of sheep to the densest part of the enemy group.

Zhang Xuan's entry reversed the crisis, the morale of the family was greatly boosted, and they withstood the attack of the mountain bandits, and many Yang children who were afraid to kill were encouraged and killed from all directions, and everyone was angry and drove dozens of mountain bandits out of the gate.

The morale of the mountain bandits was frustrated, and they turned around and fled to the broken wall in the distance, and the battle at the grain depot was temporarily stopped, only to see corpses all over the ground, especially in front of and behind the gate, more than 30 corpses were piled up, more than half of which were killed by Zhang Xuan.

The painful moans of the injured could be heard everywhere in the courtyard, and Zhang Xuan had no time to take care of the injured, so he hurriedly said to the family members and the children of the Yang family: "Go and carry the grain and block the gate!" ”

A sentence reminded everyone that if the mountain bandits came again, the gate would be the weakest point, and they might not be able to withstand it, and without waiting for the head of the house to arrange, everyone ran into the warehouse, carried out bags of grain, and piled them up at the gate.

At this time, Yang Wenxian, the head of the Yang family, hurriedly walked over, hugged his fists and apologized to Zhang Xuan: "I was rude to Gongzi this morning, please forgive Gongzi." ”

Zhang Xuan hurriedly returned the salute, "The head of the family doesn't need to be polite, I also have Meng Lang." ”

Yang Wenxian thought of the critical situation just now, and couldn't help but be afraid for a while, his heart was also full of gratitude to Zhang Xuan, and he asked again: "May I ask Zhang Gongzi, how should we defend next?" ”

Zhang Xuan didn't want to be modest, he needed to seize this opportunity to show himself, so he pointed to the Yang family and the family members and said: "It can be seen that everyone has received a certain amount of training, but the formation is too chaotic, I suggest that the spear team be in a group of ten, and the head of the family should appoint a captain." ”

Yang Wenxian nodded, he also saw the chaos just now, Zhang Xuan's suggestion was on his heart, he hurriedly called his nephew Yang Qing forward, and ordered him a few words, Yang Qing immediately ran to the formation, and soon, more than two hundred Yang disciples and family members with spears in their hands were divided into ten teams, and designated a team leader, each responsible for a wall.

At this time, Zhang Xuan said loudly again: "Sixty archers are on the roof, shooting down from a high place to cover the spearmen and the enemy battle. ”

This is also an extremely important suggestion, just now the archers were also crowded on the wall, so that the spears could not form a spear wall, not only did the bow and arrow not work, but became the weakness of the defense.

Zhang Xuan originally wanted to let the bow and arrow line up in the courtyard to shoot arrows and shoot the enemy outside the wall with a parabola, but thinking that these Yang disciples were not fully trained, they were likely to shoot their own people on the wall by mistake when they panicked, so it was better to be on the roof.

Jang Hyun turned the situation around in a critical moment, and invisibly established prestige in everyone's hearts, and without the command of the head of the house, sixty archers poured into the lobby one after another, running up the stairs to the roof, each looking for a vantage point, forming a condescending situation.

Zhang Xuan was born in the military, he went to the complicated and simplified, grasped the key point of the problem, and used only two plans to make the defense of the Yang family take on a new look, from chaos to order, and morale was high.

Although Yang Wenxian didn't understand military affairs, he also saw the changes after the formation of the defensive formation, which was similar to the chaotic situation before, which gave him a little confidence.

Yang Wenxian is a person who understands, at this time he will not care about Zhang Xuan robbing the authority of his family master, he wants to hand over the entire command to Zhang Xuan, he knows that this young man is the great benefactor sent by God to save the Yang family.

"Zhang Gongzi, I'll leave it to you here."

Zhang Xuan hurriedly said: "Master of the family, please wait, I still have important things to say." ”

He pulled Yang Wenxian aside, and told Yang Wenxian about Yang Qingming in detail, Yang Wenxian's face changed greatly, it turned out that Yang Qingming was an undercover agent sent by Yuwenshu three years ago.

So Yang Xuangan secretly trained Tiger Benwei in Yangjiazhuang before, and hoarded weapons, Yuwenshu should also know clearly, but he didn't report to Yang Guang in time, but sat back and watched Yang Xuangan rebel, what did he mean, did he have deeper intentions?

"Can't the head of the house think of it?"

Zhang Xuan said in a low voice: "Who arranged the people who came to attack us today?" ”

Yang Wenxian nodded slowly, he also understood, last month Yu Wenshu extorted 10,000 taels of gold from him, but he didn't agree, so he held a grudge and came to take revenge on the Yang family tonight under the guise of being a homeless person.

"The head of the family, the key is not here!"

Zhang Xuan whispered a few words, Yang Wenxian was suddenly stunned, he slapped his head hard, and shouted: "Why didn't I think of it?" ”