Ying Rouyue is a princess, although she often sneaks out of the palace, but there is always no shortage of guards around her, at most she will encounter some small thieves, so she naturally has not experienced border conflicts. Seeing the murderous aura leaking from Jiang Lan's eyes, he was speechless and stayed in place.

Jiang Lan didn't care about this little girl, and casually instructed Wang Yuan: "Find two officials to watch them don't run around, I'll go see what the situation is first."

After speaking, Jiang Lan didn't look at Ying Rouyue, and went straight to the north gate

After a while, Ying Rouyue came back to her senses, thinking that she was frightened by a small county order, and she suddenly felt aggrieved in her heart, and wanted to chase out the theory, but she was stopped by Wang Yuan with two officials.

"Go back," Wang Yuan shouted, "You are not allowed to go anywhere until our boss comes back"

was snorted by wang yuan, ying rouyue suddenly couldn't help it, and just wanted to turn around and let mengshan teach these servants a lesson, when she felt that someone was pulling her from behind, and when she looked back, she saw that it was yan'er

"Princess, there's no need to be angry with these officials," Yan'er whispered

"Yes, princess, due to the sudden position of Tiantai County, it will be harassed by Beiyan from time to time, let's wait and see what the situation is, there is no need to be angry with these petty officials and officials."

Wang Yuan saw them muttering something together, and he didn't have time to care about these people, so he told the two officials to keep an eye on them and not let them run around, and then chased Jiang Lan away.

"What's the situation?"

At the north gate, Jiang Lan asked

"There is a Northern Yan cavalry, which has just crossed the border line and is coming towards us, it is different from before, it doesn't look like it came to loot"

Zhang Meng, the captain of the militia, replied that Zhang Meng was met by Jiang Lan when he went to the field to deal with the batch of war horses he had grabbed, and Zhang Meng was seriously injured at that time.

Because Zhang Meng had previously been a cavalry captain in the army and had a certain understanding of military affairs, he gave up the idea of returning to the army under Jiang Lan's flickering and was saved by Jiang Lan, so he stayed in Tiantai County to be responsible for militia training.

"Have all the people outside the city withdrawn?" Jiang Lan asked

"When I came back, there was a team of sentries left outside the city," Zhang Meng replied

"Let's go, go up to the city tower to see what's going on" Jiang Lan finished speaking and went straight to the city tower, followed by Zhang Meng

Because of the location of Tiantai County, it is often plundered by the cavalry of the Northern Yan, so the city tower is much stronger than some other county seats, with a total of four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and there will be some small light cavalry of the Northern Yan from time to time to harass them in the past, generally they plunder outside the city, rob some farmers' grain, livestock, iron or something, and will not attack the county seat. Therefore, whenever there was harassment by the cavalry of the Northern Yan, Jiang Lan would call the people outside the city to withdraw to the county seat, and then take a part of the militia to set a trap on the return road of the Northern Yan cavalry. At the time of the autumn harvest, there will be some small troops from Beiyan to grab grain for the winter, but why will they suddenly be dispatched in the green and yellow season?

On the upper floor of Tiantai County, Jiang Lan looked into the distance, and there was a wave of dust raised by the cavalry movement floating in the north. At this time, five strong men rode straight to the city gate, they were the sentries outside the city, Zhang Meng beckoned the militia to open the city gate and let them in.

"Boss, something is wrong this time, the camp of Beiyan Muddy Water has begun to move, the army is gathering, there is already a group of cavalry crossing the border line towards our side, their scouts have also been released, we didn't dare to get too close, I don't know how many people there are" The returning sentry said breathlessly

After the truce between the two countries a year ago, the camp of Beiyan did not make a big noise except for a rotation of garrison troops two months ago

"Riding a horse, won't it be only a year after a stable life, you have to start working hard with your brothers again," Jiang Lan thought

Although Tiantai County belongs to Southern Qin, its location is prominent, like a lonely city, easy to attack and difficult to defend, Southern Qin did not garrison here, even the official position of the county commander was self-appointed by Jiang Lan, and the imperial court did not intervene, of course, no one dared to come to this kind of place even if the imperial court appointed it. Tiantai County is more of a strategic buffer for Southern Qin, so it doesn't pay much attention, but as long as the war starts and the two countries are at war, Tiantai County will definitely become a scorched earth. At this time, the cavalry in the distance gradually approached, and it could be vaguely seen that there were about a thousand horsemen, all of whom were cavalrymen in black armor and black armor.

"Let the brothers prepare the fire oil and thunder, and be prepared, this time the Beiyan is not good" Jiang Lan looked at the cavalry gradually approaching in the distance, and commanded the militia beside him without looking back

"Okay, Boss"

"Lao Zhang, what do you mean by Beiyan this time" Jiang Lan turned his head and asked Zhang Meng, although he was a county commander, he had never been on the battlefield after all, and he still habitually looked at Zhang Meng who had been in the army when he encountered this kind of thing

"Beiyan is good at cavalry, good at field warfare, not good at siege, not to mention that they don't carry engineering equipment, it shouldn't be for siege," Zhang Meng replied

"It makes sense, let's prepare first, just in case, the spies of the imperial court should also spread the news to the rear camp at this time, so that the people in the city are also ready, if Beiyan really starts to attack the city, quickly evacuate the people" Jiang Lan said as he sharpened the steel knife in his hand on the bricks of the city wall.

As he spoke, the Beiyan cavalry had advanced to a distance of five hundred steps from the city, standing still, and at the same time two teams of cavalry were divided into two groups of cavalry to go beyond the east and west gates respectively, and at this time Wang Yuan also rushed to the city tower

"Boss, those people are already in the county office, and I will cut a few more Beiyan barbarians if I say anything today."

"Wang Yuan, Zhang Meng, the two of you go to the east and west gates respectively to strengthen the defense, although Beiyan seems to have no intention of attacking the city this time, but it is also abnormal to dispatch so many cavalry, you must be careful to defend" Jiang Lan also didn't care about the little girl in the city, and ordered directly to Wang Yuan Zhang Meng

"Yes"

"Yes"

The two of them took the order and left

Jiang Lan was also a little worried at this time, a thousand cavalry, although there were no siege equipment, but besieging Tiantai County was still casual, not to mention that there were soldiers and horses in the Beiyan battalion, and there were only fifty regularly trained sentinels and more than 1,000 militiamen in Tiantai County, which was really vulnerable in front of the Beiyan army

At this time, a horse from the Northern Yan cavalry rushed out and came straight to the city gate, bending the bow and arrows when approaching the city gate, and an arrow shot straight towards the city tower.

With a "ding" sound, the arrow was nailed to the pillar beside Jiang Lan

", if it's a little bit more biased, Lao Tzu will have to explain it today," Jiang Lan broke out in a cold sweat

Jiang Lan turned his head to look at the arrow, only to see that the arrow was tied with a strip of cloth, and the militia next to him quickly took off the strip of cloth and handed it to Jiang Lan

Jiang Lan took the strip of cloth and saw it

"This time I came only for Qin Rouyue, hand over this person and withdraw immediately, otherwise, the army will come to the city and die."

"Qin Rouyue"

Why is this name a little familiar, Jiang Lan thought, "Isn't it just the little girl who was messing around with herself in the county government just now, what does this have to do with her......