Since ancient times, defending the city has never been a simple trap and a lonely city, in that case, it is actually easy to be breached, the real strategy of defending the city, has always been centered on the city, building a large number of positions on the periphery positions, realizing both offensive and defensive, so that the defenders have a chance of winning.

For a veteran like Yue Zhongqi, he knew this truth, not only in the city under heavy troops, but also in Huangshiji, Shipai Town and Changfeng Ridge have arranged soldiers to guard, mainly relying on the remaining veins of Huangshan Mountain, layer by layer to build blocking positions, in order to achieve the purpose of delaying the offensive of the Ning army.

If you want to attack Anqing City, the location of Huangshiji is very critical, the green camp garrison Li Guangcai here was originally a native of Anhui, and has been stationed here, with more than 800 people under his hands, he will inspect here every day, but it is only an inspection, and the rest are not seen at all.

On this day, Li Guangcai carried a box to Huangshiji, and many scattered green battalion soldiers saw him and called him honestly, but Li Guangcai looked preoccupied and didn't want to deal with it at all.

Until a slightly short soldier saw Li Guangcai, he got up from the ground with some excitement, shouted loudly, and then diligently relieved some of the food brought by Li Guangcai, and said: "Big brother, it seems that there is more wine and meat these days. ”

Li Guangcai wiped his hands, then glanced at the rest of the soldiers, and then carefully advised: "I heard that the Fu Han army is coming, and the adults above will give us people more sweetness, you can take it to eat and drink." ”

"When the time comes, when the battle starts, run quickly, and surrender if you hear it, if you really can't do it, but don't dare to say this to others, you just need to know it yourself."

When the short soldier heard this, he also responded, and then opened the food box, saying that it was a good wine and good meat, but in fact it was a pot of muddy rice wine, plus some meat that I don't know what it was, but it also made the soldier eat with a mouth full of oil.

After the other soldiers on the battlefield saw this scene, they watched from a distance, swallowing their saliva silently, not to mention eating meat and drinking wine, even the thin rice soup was not enough, and some even went out to rob the merchants and passers-by who passed by.

In fact, most of the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion stationed on Huangshiji are natives of Anqing, and they do not want to squeeze the township, but since the first battle of Jiujiang, thousands of soldiers have fled back from Jiujiang, plus some soldiers from Zhejiang, it is almost difficult for these nearly 20,000 people to get adequate logistical support, and some soldiers often starve to death.

Because of this, the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion on Huangshi Rock are not polite, and they don't care about the so-called fathers and villagers, if they don't have food, they will go down the mountain to loot, kill people and set fires, not so much soldiers as bandits.

Huangshiji is like this, not to mention other places, since the battle of Jiujiang, there are probably thousands of defeated soldiers who fled all the way to Anqing along the Yangtze River waterway, and now these soldiers have become the defenders of Anqing one by one, but the shortage of materials and the abolition of military discipline have made Yue Zhongqi have no good solution, so he can only be careful with one side, and let the local soldiers guard the outer defense line, and let the foreign soldiers guard the city to achieve mutual balance.

Yue Zhongqi's plan can't be said to be wrong, but in the process of realization, he has repeatedly found that it has changed, at least many of the original plans have now been lost. Therefore, the morale of the army was in turmoil, strictly speaking, before Yue Zhongqi came, many targets understood their situation very well, and they had no fighting spirit in their hearts.

Li Guangcai sighed while watching the short soldier eat: "We don't know if we can survive this battle, as long as one of you and my brothers survives, it will also be earned, and then our mother will have to rely on the survivors to take care of it." If we both die, then there is no hope for our mother. ”

"No matter what, at least one of our brothers must survive, otherwise we will be ashamed of our ancestors."

The short soldier gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Brother, don't worry, if you really want to fight, I have to protect you to the death, and you are indispensable at home." ”

While the two brothers were discussing, they heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and as they got closer and closer, a green battalion soldier ran in directly, out of breath, and shouted loudly: "Lord Shourong, the Fu Han Army.... The Fu Han Army is coming! ”

This news startled the short soldier, and the bowl in his hand fell to the ground, this news was too bad, but it was a little unresponsive.

Li Guangcai hurriedly said: "The Fu Han army has arrived? How many miles are left? ”

"About... Less than five miles..."The green battalion soldier who delivered the message was also quite flustered, and he also stammered when he answered, but after a while, his heart slowly calmed down.

Hearing this, Li Guangcai first felt relieved, and then became nervous, there are still ten miles of land, and it should be too late to think about it. However, Li Guangcai knew in his heart that just relying on his hundreds of people, I was afraid that he would not even be able to make a splash, and he had no other choice but to ask Anqing for help.

As for a few days, maybe a day, maybe two days, maybe a week, maybe forever.

Thinking of this, Li Guangcai sent his younger brother to Anqing City, even if he couldn't see Yue Zhongqi, he had to let others send reinforcements first, and stabilize the situation first, but the other party still had ten miles of land, and it should be enough time to come. If there really aren't any reinforcements coming, then it's not bad that his younger brother can escape.

It's just that after doing all this, Li Guangcai began to worry in his heart again, the possibility of them being treated as outcasts is still very high, if Yue Zhongqi doesn't send troops in time, I'm afraid the chance will be really slim.

Fighting, fighting, always comes very quickly, so that people don't have time to react. In just an hour, the Fu Han army arrived at Huangshiji and surrounded all the Qing soldiers.

At this time, there was already a battle on the Huangshi Rock, because both sides did not invest heavy troops, strictly speaking, it was only a part of the vanguard to fight an outpost, both sides understood each other's situation very well, so there was no too much nonsense, and there was a lot of gunfire for a while.

With the roar of artillery fire, dozens of Fu Han soldiers held bayonets and attacked the Qing soldiers, and the battle of Anqing City, which started from Huangshiji, officially broke out, and the result of this battle was very critical, directly determining the fate of the Qing court and the Fu Han army.

Both sides are waiting, waiting for that moment of truth to come.