Li Tieniu is a simple and honest person, in his heart he really wanted to challenge Xiao Yan, but he just kept silent.

I only know how to train those five thousand soldiers to death.

Before dawn tomorrow morning, I will take the team to run [-] laps on the city wall of Xiaojindao first.

Then, the three major steps and various practical trainings for fighting on the battlefield were bombed in turn.

Let everyone complain endlessly.

No one complained of suffering or tiredness, Xiao Yan spent a lot of money on them, each person spent close to one tael of silver every day just on food.

For breakfast, each person is guaranteed to eat two eggs, steamed buns and porridge to keep them full.

At noon and evening, the average person has half a catty of meat for one meal, and one catty for two meals, and rice is enough.

In addition, there is unlimited supply of fruits and vegetables.

As for weapons and armor, etc., the cost is even greater.

Xiao Yan has no other requirements for the troops, the only thing is to train hard in peacetime and fight bravely in wartime.

That's it!

Therefore, although everyone felt that Li Tieniu had a lot of training, they still persevered and persevered.

After the painful period of the first few days, I have gradually adapted to it these days.

Xiao Yan knew what people like Luo Dahu and Li Tieniu wanted. They just wanted to practice in actual combat, find a strong opponent like the Eastern Japanese pirates, and show off their training results.

There is nothing wrong with this.

However, he finally rejected it.

On the one hand, the imperial court has sent a powerful force of 50 to various places to exterminate the Eastern Japanese pirates.

If you start now, even if you kill all the pirates in the East, not only will they not be grateful to you, they may even beat you up and say that Xiao Yan took the credit.

This is so unbeautiful!
On the other hand, Xiao Yan was certain that although the imperial army had a large number of people, it might not be possible to deal with these pirates in a short period of time.

The imperial army is too large, and its actions are not as flexible as the small group of Eastern Japanese pirates.

Human pirates can't beat you, won't they run away from you?
Therefore, temporarily suppressing the fighting spirit of one's subordinates and waiting for the right time to send troops, maybe the suppression at this time can be turned into a substantial increase in combat power.

This principle is like a spring. Within a reasonable range, the harder the suppression, the stronger the rebound.

Everything is business as usual on Dajin Island.

The fishermen on Taihu Lake hardly dared to go fishing after hearing about the presence of Eastern Japanese pirates.

The number of people in Suzhou City has also increased. People in the city dare not go out of the city, and people from outside the city continue to flock into the city.

For a while, Suzhou City was overcrowded.

The prices of rice, flour, grain, oil, meat, vegetables, etc. have risen sharply.

Many poor families no longer have access to hot meals.

The good law and order in the city is gradually falling apart.

Behaviors such as theft, robbery, and fighting are increasing day by day.

What troubled Xiao Yan the most was the 20 troops stationed outside the city.

In the past few days, he has repeatedly asked to enter Suzhou City to be stationed.

It was rejected by Xiao Yan.

Just kidding, the city of Suzhou is only that big, and the population is already overcrowded. If there are another 20 garrisons, it will be chaos.

"Zhang Xiaojia, send more people to strengthen the patrol of the four gates of Fucheng!"

Xiao Yan couldn't help but feel a headache when he looked at the various documents placed on the copybook.

What is written on the paperwork are all trivial and trivial matters.

"My lord, we don't have enough manpower, Zhang Butou has already gone to participate in the patrol in person!"

Xiao Yan rubbed his sore eyes, "Oh! I know!"

Then he closed his eyes and meditated for a while, got up and said: "Prepare the sedan chair, I will go to the south gate of the city!"

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The South Gate, one of the four major city gates of Suzhou Prefecture, was once a symbol of dilapidation and poverty.

There is no other reason, because of the bandits in Taihu Lake.

In most of the villages outside Nancheng, because of this reason, all the villagers who are able have moved into the city, and those who have no ability have moved to other places farther away from Taihu Lake.

The outside of Nancheng became a barren land, and there was not a single living person in eight villages.

An Yuanhou Zhao Anguo's 20 troops were arranged to be stationed outside the southern city.

Seeing Xiao Yan's sedan chair, Xue Feng, the chief banner guard of the south gate, came up to him from a distance.

"Master Hou, what are you doing all the way here? If you have anything to do, you can just give me an order, and I will report to you at the magistrate's yamen!"

The sedan chair fell to the ground, and Su Yu lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.

Xiao Yan stepped out of the sedan chair, "It's nothing serious!"

Then he pointed to the outside of the city and asked, "Has there been any disturbance these two days?"

Xue Feng immediately put on a bitter face: "Master Hou, Marquis Anyuan sends people to yell at the door every hour! Eighteen generations of my little ancestors have been scolded all over!"

Su Yu asked: "Then did they insult my young master?"

Xue Feng shook his head, "That's not true!"

Xiao Yan walked up the tower: "Did they do anything else?"

Xue Feng thought for a while, "I asked our Suzhou government for food and grass! They also said that they would provide meat and so on."

Ascending the tower, the field of vision suddenly widened.

Looking to the south, you can see a vast expanse of white water, which is Taihu Lake.

"Hmph! It's a beautiful idea!"

Xiao Yan said with disdain.

At this time, there was a loud noise outside the city gate.

Immediately afterwards, someone shouted and cursed: "You bastards from Suzhou Mansion, I came all the way from the capital for what? Don't you know?"

Another voice: "It's not that the old men are guarding this city gate for you, your Suzhou Mansion has already been breached by the Eastern Japanese pirates!"

Another voice said, "You don't know what's good and what's wrong, you don't even let grandpas enter the city!"

"That's right! Not only are the grandpas not allowed to enter the city, but they also serve us with good wine and good meat. It's just life and death!"

"Master, I would like to advise you, our Marquis Anyuan is very angry, and the consequences will be very serious! You'd better send some beautiful girls to calm our Marquis! Otherwise..."

Xiao Yan was filled with anger when he heard that, he probed down and looked down, there was a large open space not far from the city wall, where the army of Marquis Anyuan Zhao Anguo was stationed.

The big soldiers in twos and threes sat around together, not knowing what they were doing.

Looking outside the gate of the city, more than a dozen officers and soldiers were pointing at the gate and yelling.

"What else?"

Xiao Yan said coldly.

Hearing someone talking on the tower, more than a dozen officers and soldiers raised their heads at the same time.

Seeing a young face, he immediately showed disdain and contempt.

One of the officers and soldiers was very arrogant, and said arrogantly: "Otherwise, what? Boy, are you brave? How dare you talk to me like this?"

It had been a long time since no one dared to talk to Xiao Yan like this.

The officer went on to say: "It's okay to tell you, if our Marquis Zhao is not happy, not only you country bumpkins will lose their heads, but your shitty champion Hou Xiaoyan, right? He will also be in bad luck!"

An officer next to him said, "Our Marquis Anyuan is a big man, go back and tell you Marquis Champion, let him take care of you!"

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