(Thanks for the calm and composed reward!)

After the night came in the twelfth lunar month, the little heat left by the sunlight during the day had already been blown away by the cold wind. Li Jing stood on the village wall wearing cold iron armor, opened his mouth and blew two balls of white heat in his hand, and then took the bowstrings and wound the corner bow without any rushing.

On the village wall, pine grease torches were burning, and torches were pierced on the village wall, illuminating the entrance of the village like daytime. Lin Wei was the commander of the Beicun Head, and was loudly assigned the soldiers from the left Yidu to hang bowstrings and prepare feather arrows. Fortunately, Li Jing had always asked his soldiers to carry weapons wherever they went. Today, the subordinates of the left Yidu came to pay their birthday to Li Jing, but they did not forget to bring horizontal swords, spears, and bows. Although everyone had just drunk a lot of wine, they all splashed their faces with cold water, and looked serious and stepped on the ladder to climb all the important positions in the village wall according to Lin Wei's instructions.

Lin Wuze and Wang Chong brought a team of men and more than 200 of their brothers and relatives to guard the East Gate. Fortunately, the people from the left Yidu brought about 600 young and strong people today. Although these people had no weapons, they temporarily held shoulder poles, wooden poles, and wooden guns, but they were quite powerful. In addition, Li Jing temporarily transferred the guards of the officials and gentry, and sent them to the village wall, and those who only brought sticks were assigned to the village wall to serve as a reserve team.

In addition, Li Jing immediately asked Cui Decheng, Chishan Town, to send six people to ride horses back to Chishan Town to bring reinforcements. Even other villagers and women, Li Jing, mobilized them to boil water under the village walls, boil oil, and transport some stones and wood to make every effort to prepare.

Today I was shocked three times a day. Although I was a little scared at the beginning of the first two times, it was later confirmed that all the guests who came to pay their birthday wishes. But this time, there will be no false alarm again.

Li Jing, Cui Zhen general, Song Xi ten generals and county magistrate Huangfu Zheng both stood on the village wall. Under the night sky, just in front of Wangli Village, a fire dragon was winding towards him. The countless torches seemed clearer in the wilderness, as if countless stars in the sky were reflected in the wilderness of the night.

Soon, the countless torches had reached a hundred steps in front of the village. With the light of the fire, Li Jing and others clearly saw the face of this uninvited team. There were thousands of people, and there were a sea of ​​people lined up at the Bei Village of Wangli Village. Under the torches, Li Jing clearly saw that there were old people and children coming, and more were dressed in rags and hungry and thin-faced young men and women.

These people are authentic refugees and hungry people. Apart from the numbness and hungry eyes on their faces, there is nothing that makes people feel threatened. But on both sides of these people, there are thirty or forty men riding war horses, steep horses, and even mules and donkeys. These people are obviously the bandits mentioned by the people who came to repay them before. They all hold various weapons in their hands, some with horizontal knives, some with long spears, and some with long sticks. Only a few of them carry bows and arrows.

In addition to these dozens of "knights" who were obviously the main force of the bandits, behind the dense refugees, there were about a hundred infantry holding swords, guns and sticks. These people were not all green and strong like those "cavalry", but were mainly young and old, and even had gray hair and tall teenagers. Apart from the weapons in their hands, these people were not armed at all, and they didn't even see a shield.

The thieves on foot kept making all kinds of strange screams behind, waving weapons to move the hungry people to Wangli Village. The thieves riding horses and donkeys were only running back and forbidden from escaping. At this time, the hungry people also saw the high village walls of Wangli Village, and the rows of torches shone under the light of the torches. The guards on the wall were even seen wearing bright armor and official uniforms. Looking at the dazzling soldiers, many refugees began to cry and refused to move forward.

They were all hungry people in Wendeng County. In the past few days, they heard that one of Wangli Village became a general and came back to the village to celebrate his mother's birthday. They also heard that the general was very generous, saying that when he saw many hungry people on the way home that day, he took the food to everyone, and finally took them in. When the hungry people who were hungry and almost died of hunger heard the news, they rushed to Wangli Village from all directions.

But they never expected that a few days ago, a group of bandits came to Shizigou near Chishan, with a number of more than 100 people. These bandits were bandits from the coastal areas of Wendeng County. They also heard that Li Jing Fugui returned to his hometown and brought back the village with only twenty carts of goods. He also heard that Wang Li Village had eaten meat and drinks every day in the past few days. These bandits could not bear the temptation, so they invited several villages beside them to join forces to do the business and rob Wang Li Village.

Five villages joined forces and gathered 150 people, and then quietly rushed to Chishan. When they arrived at Shizigou, they just heard that the officials and gentry in Wendeng County were going to pay their birthday to Li's mother and were preparing gifts. When the bandits in the lead heard the news, they simply hid in Shizigou for a while, wanting to wait for Li's mother's birthday to catch everyone in one go. Later, a bandit suggested that Wangli Village was too close to Chishan Town, fearing that they would not be able to take Wangli Village for a while, but were bitten by the soldiers of Chishan Town. Then a bandit offered a plan, saying that many refugees were also heading towards Chishan. They proposed to surround all the refugees who came, and then they would take them together to fight Wangli Village, using these refugees as cannon fodder. After a few days, the bandits actually carried nearly a thousand refugees.

Li Jing has been watching the bandits seriously. Although the bandits had carried thousands of refugees, they were foolishly preparing to attack the back of Beicun Gate. But they were already very calm and said to General Cui Zhen, General Song Shi and others: "Although I see the thieves, they are not in order. In my opinion, I plan to lie all the excellent soldiers here and send Qingzheng to the east gate. First, we only send some village Ding Qingzheng to the village wall to make the thieves not knowing what I am. Then we ambush all the archers under the wall, and gather all the mules, horses and donkeys to think that they are strange soldiers. When the thieves bully me and lure them to the wall, they let all the archers suddenly attack and attack the thieves riding horses. After the thieves are in chaos, they open the village gate and ride horses out. I see that there are only a hundred bandits. As long as they kill a group of bandits, they will escape without courage. Then, although there are many refugees, they don't have to be afraid!"

Song Wen and Cui Zhen generals were both higher than Li Jing, but today they were guests and Li Jing was the master. Although there were many young and strong people in the village, the most important thing they could use was Li Jing's 100 subordinates. Therefore, Song Wen and Cui Zhen generals were also very straightforward, and there was no intention of replacing cervical blisters.

"Just thieves and some refugees who were brought in. They must have not expected that Ji Yu had 100 well-equipped subordinates. Just fight as you want, and we will escort your formation."

Li Jing drew 60 archers who could shoot well and divided them into twenty teams, and stipulated that each three were a team. After he issued the shooting order, each three team aimed at a target and shot. He also asked them to shoot specifically those riding horses, not those refugees. These people all bowed their bows and arrows beside them, bent down and lying on the wall to wait for the orders. Behind these archers, Li Jing specially selected 300 people from the young and strong men they brought, each with long poles, pot lids, and large wooden boards standing behind them. He just waited for the refugees to come up and deal with them with long poles.

In addition, Li Jing, the commander in the city, was handed over to Song Xi and Cui Zhenzheng, and he and Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Wang Chong and Xiao Shitou, as a team of cavalrymen, temporarily borrowed the village's war horses, horses, and horses of the guests. There were still many horses left, and Han Zhi, who took the initiative to join the war, led twenty servants of the Han family and thirty servants who were temporarily borrowed from other officials and gentry.

Looking at the village who was ready to go, the county magistrate Huangfu Zheng, who had retreated to the ladder and only half of his head was exposed, sighed: "General Li is such a lion and a rabbit. With this movement, not to mention that there are only a hundred bandits outside the city, even if there are really thousands of bandits, they will have to return in vain."

However, Cui Zhenjiang was still very interested in drinking with Song Xi. He swallowed the wine in his mouth and wiped the wine from his mouth. Cui Decheng curled his mouth and said, "In fact, there is no need to be such a trouble to deal with these people. Once the village gate is closed, everyone will sit behind the wall and listen to the play and drink. At most, the soldiers in Chishan Town can be killed. At that time, these thousand attacks will not be enough to kill."

Li Jing's arrangement is indeed a bit like killing chickens and using a ox knife. At the gate of the East Village, Li Jing, Lin Wei, Wang Chong and Lin Wu were all fully armed, wearing armor and holding spears. According to the plan, after the archers launched the first wave of attacks, Li Jing and the others led fifty cavalry out of the east gate and walked around the bandits behind the bandits to strangle the bandits who drove away the refugees. When the bandits were in chaos, Han Zhi led fifty cavalry out of the north gate and left. At that time, two teams of cavalry attacked the bandits and defeated the bandits in one battle.

Next to Li Jing, his wife Wang Guiniang and Wan'er were standing next to Li Jing, gently stroked his armor, and looked at Li Jing with some concern. Both women were just country women. I heard that the bandits of thousands of years had already felt weak and their feet were trembling. Although the husband looked relaxed, they were still full of worry. They tried to persuade Li Jing not to take action in person, but they could not say anything when they were on their lips.

Li's mother and Xiao Han were both advised to stay at home. Although they were full of worries, Li Jing's heart was full of expectations. This battle was as Cui Decheng said, but it was the same if he didn't fight. It was so close to Chishan Town that as long as he could not go out, the Chishan Army would be gone after a while. However, Li Jing was not willing to do this, and even said that this battle was what he was looking forward to.

There can be rewards when fighting, but Li Jing’s battle is not for the rewards for military merits.

His purpose in this battle was to review, both to inspect the soldiers of the Left Yidu who had trained for more than a month, and also to use this battle to review the young and strong men who were determined to join Shamen Town. For Li Jing, it was impossible for him to accept all of these young and strong men who came to join the army. Since that is the case, let him use this battle to review the young and strong men, let the battle eliminate the inappropriate ones, and let the battle choose the most suitable recruits to follow him to Shamen Town.
Chapter completed!