The day after Fu Zhu and Dian Wei left, Ji Ping was unfolding a map of Jizhou in the study and pondering, now his strength is not enough to meddle in the affairs of Jizhou, but he can cloth.

On the side is an eight-year-old girl Zhen Mi, who is also concentrating on reading.

Youzhou slaughtered the god Sun Zan soldiers and horses south, seeing that the war was about to start, all the people in Jizhou were terrified, and the people of Zhen Mansion were extremely grateful to Ji Ping for staying and facing the danger with them.

Especially the Zhang family and the three sons and five daughters who knew the identity of the princes on Ji Ping's side, they were even more grateful in their hearts, and the other clansmen and subordinates in the palace watched Ji Ping's subordinates busy arranging defense, and they also regarded Ji Ping as their own.

Although Zhen Mi next to Ji Ping is young, she loves to read the most, she reads the current enlightenment book "Urgent Chapter", which is written by Huangmen Ling Shi You, composed of chapters and sentences, and its text rhymes with three words, four words, and seven words, a total of 2,144 words, roughly including three parts, the first part is more than 100 surnames, three words into sentences, and the meaning of the sentence is through.

The second part is "Hundred Things", which describes in turn the names of more than 400 kinds of utensils, more than 100 kinds of animals and plants, more than 60 kinds of human parts and organs, and more than 70 kinds of diseases and medicines.

The third part is "Literary Jurisprudence", including the names of official positions and legal knowledge, and finally uses four-character sentences to praise the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. Wanfang came to the court, and the concubines made orders, etc.

The natural and social knowledge involved in the urgent chapter is very rich, which makes Ji Ping greatly admire the wisdom of his predecessors. He was a human being in two lives, especially in the era of the explosion of knowledge in his previous life. In this era, he was definitely knowledgeable, although he did not study the classics as profoundly as the Confucians. But his insights and insights are more unique than theirs, and in this regard, even the great Confucian Lu Zhi admires Ji Ping very much, thinking that he was born to know.

Naturally, in the eyes of the little Zhen Mi, Ji Ping is almost omniscient, and if he doesn't encounter something he doesn't understand, he will ask Ji Ping to ask.

Just when Ji Ping was explaining to Zhen Mi "pears, persimmons, peaches, dews and frosts, jujubes, apricots, melons, and dumplings", there was a sudden noise outside the house.

These days are tense. Ji Ping didn't dare to be careless, so he closed the book and went out with Zhen Mi, not far from the house, he saw Zhen Yu, the eldest son of Zhen Mansion, after more than a month of his treatment, Zhen Yu's body is still a little weak, and his face is a little pale, but he can stay easily.

When Zhen Yu saw Ji Ping, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Highness." ”

Ji Ping smiled: "Brother Zhen doesn't have to be polite. But what happened? ”

Today's Ji Ping seems more and more gentle, when he first started, he needed to establish his majesty and personally boost the morale of his subordinates, but now he is the king who controls the three counties and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Majesty is self-generated, and there is no need for those formal majesty at all, just do what you want.

But Zhen Yu didn't dare to slack off. Especially the person in front of him was still his savior, and immediately said respectfully: "Your Highness doesn't have to worry about it. It was the convoy that went to Changshan Country to buy grain that was hijacked by thieves, and there were also 600 soldiers in the house. Just send them to retreat the thieves, for fear of missing His Highness's grain delivery. ”

"Thieves? Is it a black mountain thief? Zhen Yu said lightly, but Ji Ping didn't dare to be careless, the thieves in Zhongshan County in this county are either powerful Black Mountain Army or alien races, and none of them can be underestimated.

"It shouldn't be a Black Mountain thief." Zhen Yu hesitated slightly, and said: "Zhang Yan, the leader of the Black Mountain Thieves, is a person from Changshan Zhending, and the Black Mountain Thieves have always been relatively safe with Changshan and Zhongshan, and my Zhen family will also provide them with some food every year, and they will also protect our team." ”

Not a Montenegrin thief? Ji Ping seemed to think of something, and immediately ordered: "Brother Zhen, immediately gather the soldiers in the mansion and prepare for defense." ”

Zhen Yu was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, it's just a little rogue ......"

At this moment, Geng Zhong hurriedly came: "Lord, there are about six or seven hundred horse thieves who have broken through Wuji County and are coming in the direction of Zhen Mansion. ”

Zhen Yu's face immediately became even paler.

Ji Ping's face remained unchanged, it seemed that he had guessed correctly, it should be the alien rout defeated by Zhang Liao in Bingzhou. He had heard Zhen Yu say before that the area around Changshan and Zhongshan was controlled by the Montenegrin army, so there were few other thieves except for the Montenegrin army.

Zhang Liao led his troops to chase all the way to Jinyang a few days ago, and from Jinyang through Jingcheng, it happened to be in the area of Zhending County and Wuji County.

"Good minister, follow me to the gate of the mansion." Ji Ping instructed Geng Zhong, touched Zhen Mi's head again, handed her to Zhen Yu, and said, "Brother Zhen, immediately gather the family soldiers, go to the back door to defend, gather the family members to protect it, and hand it over to me in front, you can rest assured." ”

Zhen Yu nodded, pulled Zhen Mi and hurriedly ran to the backyard. There is only one door in the backyard, and it is not too big, and the people of Zhongshan are fierce, so it is not a problem to guard a door with 600 soldiers.

When Ji Ping and Geng Zhong came to the front of the mansion, Zhang He had already waited with the three hundred Tiger Battalion guards, and more than 100 of Geng Zhong's three hundred ghosts were guarding the gatehouse, and the rest were mixed with the Tiger Battalion in the courtyard.

Soon, Li Ru and Zhang, who was in charge of the Zhen Mansion, also rushed over.

The gate of Zhen's Mansion is also equivalent to a fort gatehouse, although there is no moat and suspension bridge outside the gate, but the door board is thick, and the courtyard wall is tall, which is enough to defend against the rogues.

Ji Ping, Geng Zhong, and Li Ru went upstairs, ready to check the situation, but the Zhang family and the woman also insisted on coming up, after all, this is the Zhen Mansion, and Ji Ping is not easy to refuse.

On the gatehouse, a few people saw from a distance that several horses were coming on the avenue outside, and behind them was a cloud of smoke and shouts of killing.

Soon, when the horses arrived at the gate of Zhen's mansion, they were immediately covered in blood, and they couldn't see their appearance clearly, but Zhang exclaimed: "It's Zhen Yue, this time it is the convoy he leads." ”

Ji Ping also recognized it, this Zhen Yue is a distant branch of the Zhen family, the Zhen family is a family of poetry and books, and cannot do business, and Zhen Yue is responsible for the business travel of the Zhen family, which is considered a cronie.

At this time, the thieves who were chasing closely behind were getting closer and closer, all of them riding war horses and shouting loudly, it was the rout of the alien alliance.

Ji Ping's heart moved, and he instructed the ghost figure of Zhang Crossbow on the gatehouse: "Squat down and hide your figure for the time being." ”

Zhang looked at Zhen Yue and the others outside the door. With a look of anxiety on his face, he exclaimed, "Uncle." Are you all right? ”

Zhen Yue, who was outside the gate of Zhen's mansion, also saw the Zhang family on the gatehouse and called out to the main mother. He looked back at the thieves chasing after him, gritted his teeth and said, "Take care, master!" The old slave led them elsewhere. ”

Zhang couldn't help crying.

Ji Ping couldn't help but admire the loyalty of this old servant, and instructed Zhang He inside: "Junyi, open the door and let Uncle Zhen come in." ”

Zhang's face showed a hint of joy, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Your Highness, this ......" Although she is a woman, after all, she has been in charge of the Zhen Mansion for several years, and she is also quite knowledgeable. knew that once the door was opened and Zhen Yue and a few people were allowed to enter, it was likely that the Liukou would take the opportunity to rush in and put Ji Ping in a dangerous situation.

Ji Ping smiled: "It's okay, it's just some rogues who were defeated by Wen Yuan." ”

Below, Zhang He quickly opened the door, and Zhen Yue and the others also rushed in hurriedly, but they were inexperienced and didn't know how to lose their horses, so they entered the door much slower.

And the rogue in the back saw the door of Zhen's mansion open. Shouted even more frantically, rushed over, and the first wave of rogues immediately set up bows and shoot arrows.

Zhang He and several Tiger Battalion guards in the gatehouse were keenly aware of the opportunity, after Zhen Yue and a few people came in. He quickly parried a few random arrows and closed the door.

"The thief wants to release the arrow, and quickly stick to the wall!" Gatehouse. Ji Ping's complexion changed, and he hurriedly shouted. Seeing that Zhang and Li Ru were still stunned, they pushed them close to the wall. Geng Zhong and they are experienced, they see the opportunity faster, and they have already prepared their defense.

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

As the thieves shouted, a wave of arrows shot in.

Dozens of feather arrows were inserted in the gatehouse and landed on the side of Ji Ping and the others, but fortunately they were close to the wall and were not afraid of shooting. And Zhang He and the Tiger Battalion below have already made a good defense in the past few days, and they have defended against the chaotic arrows against the door panels.

Soon, hundreds of thieves gathered outside the gate of Zhen's mansion, shouting loudly: "Wow, the beauty of the Zhen family, open the door quickly." ”

"Open the door quickly, if you don't open the door, we will kill them all!"

"Haha, beauty."

Ji Ping heard those chaotic alien accents and words, the most of them were beauties, he couldn't help frowning, these rogues seemed to have come to Zhen's Mansion in a targeted manner.

At this time, Geng Zhong was about to order the ghost crossbow arrows to be fired, and Li Ru hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the thieves are all horse thieves, once they can escape, it is not easy to pursue, you might as well let some people in first, let the people ambush and kill, and then cut off their back road with crossbow arrows." ”

Ji Ping nodded, and at this time, the thieves outside released a rain of arrows, and when they saw that there was no one to defend on the gatehouse, they began to slam the door and rush the door.

Ji Ping took the opportunity to take Zhang and Li Ru down the gatehouse and instructed Zhang He: "Junyi, you don't have to guard the door, put those rejected horses and wooden stakes in the courtyard, and prepare for battle." ”

Zhang He immediately understood what Ji Ping meant, and quickly asked some of the horses and wooden stakes blocked under the gatehouse to move back and block the road in the courtyard to prevent the war horses from rushing directly into the courtyard, and more than ten tiger guards quickly tied tripping ropes on the wooden stakes on both sides.

And Zhang He led the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion to stand on both sides, covered by door panels, holding short halberds, and entered the battle state, and the mixed hundred ghost shadows also opened their crossbows, and there were also a hundred ghost shadows hidden behind the rockery and stone screen in the courtyard as the last line of defense.

Open! Open! Open!

The gate was soon knocked open, and the thieves screamed, and rushed in, but after six or seven miles, the horses in front were caught on a stumbling rope, and the horses turned on their backs.

More and more thieves rushed in from behind, and in an instant, they were huddled together.

Zhang He shouted: "Kill!" ”

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

The mixed ghost first shot crossbow arrows, and then the tiger guards threw up the door and killed them with their halberds.

In close combat, the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Battalion's personal guards was by no means worse than that of these alien rogues, not to mention that they still took the lead, and a few scattered thieves who rushed over were also shot by the ghosts behind the rockery and the stone screen.

Yes!

Woo!

The roar of the thieves turned into a terrible howl in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, there were corpses in the courtyard, and Zhang's face was pale and he wanted to gag when he saw not far away.

Ji Ping is very calm, he is no longer the young man who first arrived, and he has also experienced more bloody scenes.

Most of the thieves in the courtyard died, and the rest wanted to cry and scream to escape, but the excited and crowded rogues outside the door soon realized that the situation was wrong and hurriedly retreated.

On the gatehouse, Geng Zhong immediately ordered a hundred ghosts to shoot at the thieves who wanted to escape outside the door in three waves, and soon the thieves crowded outside the door also fell.

In the courtyard, Zhang He led the tiger battalion to kill all the hundreds of thieves who rushed in, and Geng Zhong's crossbow arrows on the gatehouse had already been spared, and he immediately gave an order: "Rush out and kill the thieves!" (To be continued......)