Like all famous families, the Yang family has three caves. In Huayin County, the Yang family owns a building complex covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres, and also has their mansions in Chang'an and Luoyang.

Yangjiazhuang at the foot of Schatou Mountain is their ancestral home. This is the root of the Yang family and their most important base. Most of the Yang clan members live in.

Yangjiazhuang is not an open village. Half of it is built on the hillside of Shetou Mountain, and the other half is built in a valley. Since the sixth year of Daye, a wall of 100,000 feet high is built around the village, surrounding the village.

At this time, a fire broke out in several houses at the foot of the mountain. The Yang clan people living at the foot of the mountain were crying and running up the mountain. The women held their children and the men carried their parents. They stumbled and were in chaos, most of them were old, weak, women and children.

Several young Yang family children stood by the road and shouted: "Go to the ancestral hall to hide!"

The Yang Clan Ancestral Hall is a spiritual holy place for all Yang Clan people. In addition, the ancestral hall covers a huge area and is made of bluestone. It is extremely strong. Once a disaster occurs, the ancestral hall will be a place for the clans to hide in order to seek the protection of the ancestors' spirits.

Hundreds of people have poured into the ancestral hall, and there are still continuous Yang clan members coming to the ancestral hall.

However, the night attack occurred in the grain warehouse area in the southwest corner of the mountain. The grain warehouse is located at the foot of the mountain and is also an important building second only to the ancestral hall. It is made of large stones and covers an area of ​​more than ten acres. There are high walls built around it. Usually, more than a dozen servants protect the grain warehouse.

The grain warehouse has nearly 50,000 stones of grain, which is the most important wealth of Yangjiazhuang and the accumulation of bumper harvests over the past few years. At this time, the first month has just passed and it is still far from summer harvest. Once the grain warehouse is looted by hungry people, the entire Yangjiazhuang 350 households will face the crisis of food outage.

Therefore, defending the grain warehouse became the top priority of Yangjiazhuang. Hundreds of Yang family and servants gathered in the grain warehouse to fight desperately against the invading enemy.

In the darkness, dense fire arrows kept shooting from the southwest direction, shooting on the stone wall without causing any losses to the grain warehouse. However, the huge pressure brought by the fire arrows made every Yang clan full of inexplicable fear.

The outer wall dozens of steps away from the southwest has been opened with a large gap of more than ten feet wide. Outside is a forest. Under the half-light and half-dark moonlight, a large group of figures swaying at the edge of the forest, with hundreds of people.

Although no one can see the situation in the mountains and forests, everyone's minds outlined such a picture. Tens of thousands of ragged hungry people were crowded in the mountains and forests, holding cloth pockets and baskets, and everyone's eyes shot like a hungry wolf's light.

"Here's coming!" Someone shouted.

The Yang family members in the courtyard rushed up and rushed to the high wall. There was a circle of wooden frames in the high wall of the grain warehouse. Hundreds of Yang family members stood on the wooden frames and fought fiercely with each other with spears and bows.

Nearly two hundred bandits rushed out of the grain warehouse. They set up stairs outside the high wall of the grain warehouse, bite their steel knives and climbed upwards, fighting fiercely with the Yang family's children on the wall. The screams of being chopped and the wailing before their deaths kept falling from the wall.

The head of the family, Yang Wenxian, was so anxious that he shouted under the eaves of the main hall, "Don't be afraid, hold it down! If they kill us, we will be done."

Perhaps thinking about the reasons for his wife, children and parents, although the Yang family members were extremely scared, they still plucked up the courage to fight these vicious bandits.

At this moment, a muffled sound suddenly came from the gate of the grain warehouse at the southeast end, and then it shook violently, and a piece of dust and gravel fell from the eaves of the door.

Everyone was stunned. The head of the family, Yang Wenxian, suddenly realized that it was the bandits who were fighting around. They were actually trying to hit the door. He jumped up in a hurry, "Go and protect the door!"

Dozens of servants who were closest to the gate drew their swords and rushed over, but before they could reach the gate, they heard a loud bang, and broken wood flew around. The two doors were suddenly knocked open, and the several Yang children standing behind the gate were overturned to the ground by a huge impact.

More than fifty black-clothed bandits with ferocious appearances threw away the wood in their hands, drew their swords and rushed into the courtyard, and fought fiercely with dozens of servants who rushed up.

The continuous bandits rushed in through the gate, and the servants could not resist it. They were killed and retreated step by step. The courtyard was in chaos. Yang Wenxian was so anxious that he stamped his feet and shouted to direct his children to resist, but the resistance was still useless.

Seeing that the Yang family's children were about to collapse, at the critical moment, a tall black shadow rushed from the side, like a strong wind swept into the enemy group, extremely fierce, with a blade slashing, blood splattering everywhere, and two human heads flew up.

The person who came was Zhang Xuan. He had just dealt with Yang Qingming's body and rushed to the grain warehouse. He happened to be attacked by bandits. The situation was critical. Without thinking, he rushed in from the weakest part of the bandits.

Zhang Xuan was decisive and ruthless, slashing two heads away. Before the corpse fell to the ground, he rushed through the gap between the two people and pierced a person's chest with the help of the enemy's corpse as a cover. He slashed left and right, and the cold light flashed by, and the throats of the two people were cut off.

At this time, he felt a wind sound behind him slashing at the back of his head. Without hesitation, a kite turned over and kicked the long knife that slashed at the back of his head. The horizontal knife in his hand flashed, and another head soared into the sky. The body fell down with a bang, and blood from his neck sprayed all over him.

In the blink of an eye, he killed six people. Seeing that he was extremely fierce, the bandits were so scared that they retreated one after another. Zhang Xuan roared and killed the densest places like a tiger or a flock of sheep.

Zhang Xuan's entry reversed the crisis, and the morale of the servants was greatly boosted and resisted the attack of the bandits. Many Yang's children who were afraid of being killed were encouraged and came from all directions. Everyone acted in anger and drove dozens of bandits out of the gate.

The bandits' morale was frustrated and they turned around and fled to the distant wall. The battle in the grain warehouse temporarily stopped. Only corpses were everywhere, especially more than thirty corpses were piled up in front of and behind the gate, more than half of which were killed by Zhang Xuan.

The painful moans of the injured could be heard everywhere in the yard. Zhang Xuan had no time to take care of the injured and said to the servants and the Yang family's children: "Go and move the food quickly and block the door!"

A sentence reminded everyone that if the bandits come again, the gate will be the weakest point, and they may not be able to withstand it. Without waiting for the head of the family to arrange, everyone ran into the warehouse, carried bags of grain out, and piled them up at the gate.

At this time, Yang Wenxian, the head of the Yang family, hurried over, clasped his fists and apologized to Zhang Xuan: "I was rude to my son this morning, please forgive me."

Zhang Xuan hurriedly returned the greeting, "The head of the family doesn't have to be too polite, I have something to do with a romance."

When Yang Wenxian thought of the critical situation just now, he couldn't help but feel scared. He was also full of gratitude for Zhang Xuan. He asked again: "Mr. Zhang, how should we defend next?"

Zhang Xuan didn't want to be modest. He needed to seize this opportunity to show himself. He pointed to the Yang family's children and servants and said, "It can be seen that everyone has received certain training, but the formation is too chaotic. I suggest that the spear team have a group of ten people and the head of the family will designate a captain."

Yang Wenxian nodded, and he also saw the chaos just now. Zhang Xuan's suggestion was about his heart. He quickly called his nephew Yang Qing forward and told him a few words. Yang Qing immediately ran to the formation. Soon, more than 200 Yang's children and servants holding spears were divided into ten teams, and a team leader was appointed to be responsible for a wall.

At this time, Zhang Xuan shouted again: "Sixty archers go up to the roof, shoot down from a high place, and cover the spearmen to fight against the enemy."

This is also an extremely important suggestion. The archers were crowded on the wall just now, making the spear unable to form a spear wall. Not only did the bow and arrow not play a role, but it became a weakness of defense.

Zhang Xuan originally wanted to let the bow and arrow line up in the yard to shoot arrows and use parabolas to shoot the enemy outside the wall, but he thought that these Yang's children were not fully trained, and they might accidentally shoot their own people on the wall when they were in a panic, so it would be better to be on the roof.

Zhang Xuan reversed the situation in a critical moment and invisibly established prestige in everyone's hearts. Without the order of the head of the family, sixty archers rushed into the lobby and ran from the stairs to the roof, looking for favorable positions, forming a condescending momentum.

Zhang Xuan was a soldier. He was a simplified person and grasped the key points of the problem. He used only two solutions to make the defense of the Yang family's children completely renewed, from chaos to order, and morale was high.

Although Yang Wenxian did not understand military affairs, he also saw the changes after forming a defensive formation, which was completely different from the chaotic situation before, which gave him a little confidence.

Yang Wenxian is a sensible person. At this time, he would not care about Zhang Xuan stealing the authority of his head. Instead, he wanted to hand over the entire command to Zhang Xuan. He knew that this young man was the great benefactor sent by God to save the Yang family.

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

Zhang Xuan hurriedly said, "Principal, please wait, I have something important to say."

He took Yang Wenxian aside and told Yang Wenxian in detail about Yang Qingming. Yang Wenxian's face changed drastically. It turned out that Yang Qingming was actually an undercover agent sent by Yu Wenshu three years ago.

So Yuwen Shu should have known clearly about Yang Xuangan secretly training the Hu Ben Guard in Yangjiazhuang and hoarding weapons, but he did not report to Yang Guang in time, but instead sat on Yang Xuangan's rebellion. What did he mean? Does he have a deeper intention?

"Can't the head of the family think about it?"

Zhang Xuan whispered: "Who will the person who came to attack us today?"

Yang Wenxian nodded slowly, and he also understood that last month Yuwen Shu blackmailed him 10,000 taels of gold, but he did not agree, so he held a grudge and took revenge on the Yang family tonight under the guise of refugees.

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