As soon as the sun set, Li Yang and Jiang Yu sat in the hired carriage and pulled the ordnance from Taizhou Mansion back to the Li family manor in Alan Village, and asked the soldiers to move the ordnance back into the warehouse

Li Yang put his hands together and walked back to the house with heavy steps, and sat on the chair as soon as he entered the house

Song Shiting walked out of the wing room with light steps, and looked at Li Yang a little shyly: Husband, you are back, you must be tired after a busy day

After speaking, Song Shiting picked up the teapot, poured a glass of water, and handed it over

Li Yang put his body on the table and sat up solemnly: Thank you, madam, today I went to Taizhou City where I bought a blacksmith shop, this time thanks to Han Juzheng, madam, wait a few days, I will take you to let the craftsmen forge some beautiful jewelry for you

Song Shiting raised her hand slightly, put it to her mouth, and said with a smile: Husband, I want to go back to Luolun Village to see my father and mother, they raised me since I was a child, and now that I am married to the Li family, the Song family is the only one left, and the two elders are a little lonely

Li Yang stretched out his hand and grabbed Song Shiting's hand: Madam, then you will come with me tomorrow, and when you get to Luolun Village, you will go to visit your father and mother, and I will go to Taizhou City to buy a blacksmith shop, and when I come back, I will pick you up and we will come back together

Song Shiting nodded: Yes

Li Yang looked at Song Shiting: Madam, I have one more thing I want to discuss with you

Song Shiting looked at Li Yang with some confusion when she heard this: Husband, please speak

Li Yang said softly: Madame, I want you to persuade my father and mother, and ask his second elder to move to the manor to live with us, or choose a place they like to build a house nearby, so that my father and mother can take care of each other

Song Shiting nodded excitedly after hearing this

At night, Li Yang gathered Gao Yuan and others in the hall room, looked at everyone and said: How is the recruitment of village guards in each village

Gao Yuan coughed lightly: Now that the village guards have been recruited, they are going to teach them basic killing techniques and defense essentials in the next few days

Yuan Kui sighed lightly: These villagers don't even have a decent weapon in their hands now, we have to find a way to get some weapons for the villagers, we can't let them hold sticks and hoes to guard against the bandits

Li Yang looked at Yuan Kui and said softly: Today I went to Taizhou City, and asked Master Sun to allocate a batch of 300 ordnance bows - 2,000 arrows - 100 knives - 200 spears, and this batch of ordnance will be placed in the manor warehouse

Li Long looked at Li Yang: These ordnance can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need, what should be done with the remaining ordnance

When Li Song heard this, he looked at Li Yang: The boss still has some swords captured during the fight against the pirates in the warehouse, and there are probably more than 500 - more than 100 spears - nearly 100 bows - nearly 1,200 arrows - 100 pairs of iron armor, which were used by the soldiers in the past

After listening to Li Song's words, everyone suddenly realized, yes, how can I forget about this matter, with these weapons, the equipment of the township soldiers is basically the same

Li Yang looked at the plateau: I will also hand over the 100 people who were removed from the brick kiln to you, Dianke Village and Mantu Village are the two villages closest to Maple Ridge, you must not be careless

Gao Yuan said with a serious face: You can rest assured of this

Li Yang nodded: Today I went to Taizhou City to negotiate the price with the blacksmith shopkeeper, and tomorrow I will go to Taizhou City again to deliver the silver, and we will not worry about ordnance when we have our own blacksmith shop in the future

Li Long's stomach rang out, and he smiled a little embarrassedly: Let the brothers laugh today It's really tired, you see that my uncompetitive stomach is gone

After hearing this, Li Yang got up: Let's go to dinner

At dawn the next day, Li Yang helped Song Shiting out of the house, Jiang Yu and a family member had prepared the carriage outside, and Li Yang carefully helped Song Shiting into the carriage: Did Jiang Yu bring the silver?

Jiang Yu raised his hand and pointed to the carriage: the silver has been loaded into the carriage

Li Yang nodded: Then let's go

The family drove the carriage on the rugged dirt road, bumped for an hour and arrived in front of the Song Mansion in Luolun Village, Li Yang raised his hand and knocked on the carriage gently: Madame has arrived

Song Shiting stretched out her hand and lifted the curtain and walked out of the carriage, Li Yang stretched out his hand and helped Song Shiting down from the carriage: Madam, be careful

The husband and wife came to the door and buckled the door, and a maid's voice came from the yard: Who?

Song Shiting said softly: Xiaocui, I am about to open the door

With a "squeak", the maid opened the wooden door, and as soon as she saw Song Shiting, she excitedly shouted into the courtyard: Master-Madame, Miss is back

Song Jiaping and Wang Ruofang hurriedly walked out of the house when they heard this, and Song Shiting trotted over quickly as soon as she saw her father's mother, and plunged into her mother's arms: Father and mother, I miss you

Wang Ruofang hugged Song Shiting in her arms, nodded with satisfaction and patted her with her hand: Silly child, I miss you too

Li Yang gave a salute to the second elder outside the door: Daddy

Song Jiaping looked at Li Yang: Child, why don't you come in

Li Yang said respectfully: Dad, I won't go in, I have to go to Taizhou City to buy a blacksmith shop, and yesterday I have agreed with the blacksmith shopkeeper to pay the silver today

Song Jiaping nodded: Oh so, then you can go

Li Yang leaned over and looked at Song Shiting in the courtyard: Madame, I'll pick you up when I finish buying the blacksmith shop

Song Shiting looked at Li Yang and nodded slightly

Li Yang and Jiang Yu took a carriage to the door of Ma's blacksmith shop in Taizhou City, where Han Juzheng had been waiting for a long time

Han Juzheng stepped forward to salute: Brother Li is here

Li Yang hugged his hands and gave a salute: This time I have you to work

With that, they carried the box full of silver coins into the blacksmith's shop

Ma Sanyi stopped what he was doing when he saw Li Yang and the others coming, picked up a piece of linen cloth and wiped his hands, with a smile on his face: The two sons are here

Li Yang looked at Ma San and raised his hand and pointed to the box full of silver coins: Ma Zhang, this is the 4,000 silver coins that have been negotiated, you can count them

Ma Sanyi couldn't close his mouth when he saw Bai Huahua's silver coins, and waved his hand to signal the craftsmen to come over and help count the silver coins

After a while, the craftsmen counted the silver coins, and after confirming that they were 4,000 silver coins, Ma San handed over a piece of paper: This is the deed, and this blacksmith shop will be yours in the future

Han Juzheng stretched out his hand to take the deed and looked it up and down, and after making sure that it was correct, he nodded lightly to Li Yang, and Ma San went outside to find a few porters and left the blacksmith shop with a box full of silver coins

Li Yang took out 10 silver coins from his sleeve and quietly stuffed them into Ouyang Xiu's hand, he said with a look of surprise: "What are you doing here, boss."

Li Yang said respectfully to Ouyang Xiu: "Seniors, you and the craftsmen help me count the blacksmith shop to see how many belongings there are, and when the inventory is finished, please take the craftsmen to find a tavern to have a good meal, and you and the craftsmen will have to worry more about the blacksmith shop in the future."

Ouyang Xiu smiled and said: Good to say-easy to say

Li Yang looked at Han Juzheng: Juzheng is leaving, let's find a place to have a drink

Han Juzheng listened: Okay, Brother Li, let's not get drunk today

And in the dense forest of Maple Ridge, Zeno led 500 bandits to kill Dian Ke Village, and the bandits were discovered by a villager as soon as they arrived outside the village, and quickly picked up the gong and kept beating "Bang-Bang" with a frightened face: The bandits are coming-the bandits are coming

As soon as Gao Yuan and Gao Lin heard the sound of the gong, they quickly led the soldiers to rush to the outside of the village, and Gao Yuan drew his steel knife and waved it forward, shouting: "Prepare to meet the enemy in front of the shield wall."

With a sound of "Drink", a hundred sword and shield men quickly stepped forward, placing the shield on their chests with their left hand and half-riding to form a shield wall, and holding the steel knife tightly with their right hand and preparing to stab forward

Gao Lin shouted: pikemen ready

With a "drink" from behind the shield wall, a hundred pikemen clenched their spears tightly in both hands and swung forward to prepare for a spurt

Gao Yuan shouted: Archers are ready to listen to me

The 100 archers "drank" and drew their bows with both hands and held them high at an 80-degree angle

Gao Lin whispered: Brother should quickly send someone back to the manor to ask the patriarch for help

Gao Yuan sighed lightly: The patriarch went to Taizhou City today, and it is estimated that he should not have come back yet, so he first sent people to Lanxi Village and Xilan Village to ask the two brothers Yuankui to bring people to support

Gao Lin nodded and turned to a cavalryman: Go to Lanxi Village and Xilan Village to ask for reinforcements

Gao Yuan shouted: Brothers, we were able to repel the murderous pirates outside Taizhou City, and today we can also repel these bandits

Hundreds of bandits shouted "Kill-rush", holding wooden shields in hand, holding steel knives in their hands, and rushed towards the soldiers

When he was about 150 paces away, he swung his steel knife down and shouted: "Archers, release arrows."

100 archers fired arrows at the same time, and the arrows shot out quickly, and the bandits in the charge raised the wooden shield with all their strength to defend, and the "groan" arrows shot fiercely at the wooden shield

100 archers launched the second round of salvo "whoosh-whoosh" arrows shot out quickly, flying down, "click" a broken sound, sharp arrows shot through the wooden shield, a stream of blood splashed out of the arrows, the bandits behind the wooden shield shot through more than a dozen bandits killed on the spot, the bandits who were shot and wounded covered their wounds with their hands and screamed "ah"

The archers drew their bows to the full, and unleashed a third salvo of "whoosh-whoosh" arrows that shot the bandits in the front row to the ground

When the bandits were about 50 paces away from the soldiers, Gao Yuan looked at Gao Lin: Gao Lin quickly retreated to the village with his archers, and ambushed them to meet us

Gao Lin nodded and waved his hand and shouted: "The archers come with me."

The 100 archers turned around and ran into the village of Dian Ke after Gao Lin

Gao Yuan clasped his steel knife in both hands and shouted: Prepare to meet the enemy

The bandits who charged with all their strength collided with the soldiers who were strictly defending, and the bandits waved their blades and slashed wildly, and the steel knives slashed on the iron shield with a "pop", and the soldiers gritted their teeth and pushed the bandits with their shields

Gao Yuan shouted: Push

The sword and shield hands "drink" violently outward, and pushed the bandits out, the moment the bandits were pushed out, the moment the bandits were pushed out, the bandits in the front row were pierced head-on, and a mouthful of blood spit out from their mouths, and the sword and shield hands pierced the steel knives of the bandits, and violently collected a stream of blood from the wound, and more than 30 bandits fell in a pool of blood

The bandits also kicked the iron shield with their feet, constantly wielding steel knives and slashing, several bandits grabbed the iron shield and dragged a soldier out, several bandits quickly surrounded it and killed it, and in a blink of an eye, several soldiers were cut and fell to the ground and screamed

Gao Yuan slashed a bandit to death with a swing of his steel sword, and shouted: Quickly retreat to the village with his wounded brother, and the pikemen will come forward to meet the enemy

The pikemen clenched their spears with both hands and kept stabbing forward, and the oncoming spear bandits had no time to dodge, and a stream of blood splattered sharp spears and pierced the bandits

More than 20 soldiers worked in pairs to lift the wounded soldiers from the ground and retreat to the village, the sword and shield men kept the shield wall close together, and retreated step by step, and the pikemen kept stabbing the spears in their hands and retreated step by step to cover the retreat of the sword and shield hands

Gao Lin withdrew with 100 archers to the village of Dianke, raised his hand and pointed to the roof of the house and shouted: "Go to the roof, you guys hide behind the house."

50 archers climbed to the roof with ladders, squatted down and drew their bows with both hands to aim at the bandits outside the village, and the "whoosh-whoosh" arrows shot out quickly and knocked several bandits over, and Gao Yuan withdrew to the village with his brothers under the cover of bows and arrows

Gao Yuan shouted: Find something to block the entrance to the village

Gao Lin led more than 30 soldiers to the village and found 8 wooden carts, which were pushed by the soldiers to the entrance of the village and lined up, leaving a gap, and then tried their best to tear down the wooden carts into a wooden wall

Gao Lin shouted: Big brother

Gao Yuan looked back and quickly retreated towards the wooden wall with the soldiers, the bandits also chased after him, the two sides fought together in the gap of the wooden wall, the sword and shield hand pushed the wooden wall with the iron shield with all his strength, Gao Yuan and Gao Lin continued to wave the steel knife in their hands to chop and stab, more than a dozen soldiers shouted "Drink" and pushed the wooden cart with all their strength to plug the gap

More than 80 bandit archers fired their arrows "whoosh-whoosh" arrows at a rapid pace, killing several unsuspecting archers on the roof, and the bows and arrows of both sides began to fire at each other

The messenger cavalry found Yuan Kui and others in Xilan Village, and the anxious cavalry fell off their horses and panted and said: Oh no, the bandits are attacking Dian Ke Village, and the two Baichang of Gao Yuan and Gaolin are leading their brothers to fight with the bandits, and the Bai Chang of Gao Yuan sent me to ask for reinforcements

Yuan Kui stepped forward and helped the cavalryman up: How many bandits are there

The cavalry swallowed and spit: about four or five hundred

Yuan Kui looked at the cavalry: "Brother, you have to go back to the manor and inform the patriarch of this matter."

The cavalry nodded: I'll go

When Yuan Hong heard this, he shouted to the soldiers under his command: Brothers hurry to Dian Ke Village

Yuan Kui got on his horse: Yuan Hong, let's set off with the cavalry first, and let the brothers follow as soon as possible

After saying that, Yuan Kui and Yuan Hong rushed to Dianke Village with 10 cavalry horses, Yuan Kui secretly thought in his heart, Brother Plateau, you must hold on, brother, I am rushing to bring people over

In Taizhou City, Li Yang was chatting happily with Han Juzheng's tavern, and suddenly felt a little restless, thinking that this might be because he was a little drunk and didn't take it too seriously, but this feeling became stronger and stronger, making people uneasy, and always felt that something was going to happen

Han Juzheng looked at Li Yang: Brother Li, have you encountered anything annoying, if there is a place where I can help, you can manage it

Li Yang sighed lightly: Juzheng, I may have drunk too much today, so it's better to come here first today

Han Juzheng nodded slightly: It's okay

After separating from Han Juzheng in the tavern, Li Yang and Jiang Yu quickly got into the carriage and said to the coachman: Hurry up and go to Song's house in Luolun Village

Jiang Yu sat in the rickety carriage and looked at Li Yang: I saw that you were fine just now, why did you suddenly become unscrupulous

Li Yang sighed lightly: Jiang Yu didn't know what was going on, and I suddenly had an ominous premonition in my heart

At this time, Li Yang thought to himself in the carriage, madam, don't let anything happen to you

When the carriage arrived in front of the Song Mansion in Luolun Village, Li Yang jumped down from the carriage and ran to the door, reached out and grabbed the door knocker and hurriedly buckled the door

A girl's voice came from inside: Who?

Li Yang shouted softly: It's me

As soon as the maid heard this, the door opened, and before the maid could speak, Li Yang hurriedly ran into the yard, Song Shiting persuaded her parents to move to Alan Village to live together in the hall, and when she saw Li Yang approaching from outside, she got up and greeted her: The husband came back so soon

As soon as Li Yang saw Song Shiting, he was a little relieved and said with a smile: Madam, I miss you so much, so I rushed back as soon as I finished buying the blacksmith shop

Song Shiting's little face flushed when she heard this, and she shyly raised her hand and gently slapped Li Yang, who smiled and gently slapped Song Shiting with her arm

Song Jiaping coughed lightly on the side

Li Yang came back to his senses at this time: Daddy

Song Jiaping looked at Li Yang: Is it smooth to go to Taizhou City to collect the blacksmith shop today?

Li Yang said respectfully: Dad, everything is going well, you see this is the deed of the blacksmith shop

Song Jiaping stretched out his hand to take the deed and looked it up and down, and handed the deed back without saying anything

After seeing Song Shiting, Li Yang's heart only calmed down for a moment, and he still had an ominous premonition in his heart, but he couldn't think of anything that would make him so uneasy for a while

Li Yang got up and gave a salute: There are some things to do in Daddy's Manor, and Song Shiting and I will go back first today

Song Jiaping nodded: Yes

Li Yang and Song Shiting took a carriage to Alan Village, and as soon as they arrived at the manor, a man's voice came: The young master is not good

Li Yang sat in the carriage and raised his hand to lift the curtain and said: Something is wrong

A soldier stepped forward to salute: the patriarch Maple Ridge bandits are attacking Dian Ke Village, Gao Yuan and Gao Lin are leading their brothers to fight the bandits, and Yuan Kui and Yuan Hong have already brought people to support

When Li Yang heard this, he "chuckled" in his heart: how many bandits came

The cavalry coughed lightly: about four or five hundred

Li Yang shouted to the manor: Gather all the brothers and go to Dian Ke Village to rescue

The sound of a gong sounded in the manor, and the soldiers quickly picked up their weapons and gathered outside the manor after hearing this

Jiang Yu said softly: If Li Yang sets off with a large army, it will take two hours to get to Dianke Village, so it is better for us to lead the cavalry to Dian Ke Village in less than an hour

Li Yang nodded and shouted: "Cavalry brothers set off with me, and the rest of the brothers should rush to Dianke Village as soon as possible."

Song Shiting shouted softly: Husband, you have to be careful

Li Yang looked at Song Shiting and whispered: Madam, don't worry, go back first

After speaking, he and Jiang Yu led 10 cavalry to gallop to Dianke Village, thinking that my battalion is mostly infantry, and once it encounters an emergency, it will not be able to support quickly, it seems that I am going to form a cavalry

You must hold on to the plateau, I am coming with my brothers to support

"Drink-drink"