West of Luya Mountain, Woniu Mountain.

Feng Yilong stood on Woniu Mountain, raised his binoculars, and carefully inspected the situation around the county seat of Xingxian County in the distance.

Feng Shisanying on the side was full of excitement: "Big brother, the surname Qin finally let the eldest brother lead the troops alone, and after conquering Xingxian County, ......"

Feng Yilong put down the binoculars, and shouted in a low voice with a calm face: "Shut up, how many times have you said it, no matter who is before or after, you must call Lord Qin, otherwise you don't know how you will die one day!" ”

Feng Shisanying hurriedly lowered his head: "The eldest brother has learned a lesson, and Thirteen is wrong." ”

Feng Yilong's face softened slightly, rubbed his head, and sighed: "Thirteen, the first military rule of Emperor Guan's army is loyalty, people must not be disloyal and unrighteous, not to mention that this year has passed, you also know what kind of person Lord Qin is, his ability, eldest brother, I can't shoot horses, since we serve him, we can't be half-hearted, eldest brother is for the sake of the Feng family, for your sake." ”

"The battlefield is ruthless, the sword and gun are eyeless, your second, third, sixth and twelfth brothers all died on horseback, if it weren't for their livelihood, they wouldn't have died, and our Feng family didn't have to be horse bandits, now that Lord Qin has shown us a clear road, we should follow him well and smooth the road."

Saying that, Feng Yilong pointed in the direction of Xingxian County, and then said: "In the past, when your eldest brother and I took our Feng family's brothers to this area to do business, we walked so cautiously, afraid of officers and soldiers, afraid of gentlemen and heroes, but from now on, this area is the territory of Lord Qin, we can walk here with our heads held high, in the future, we will lead the army into the Hetao, cross the Yellow River, upright, and upright." ”

After listening to Feng Yilong's words, Feng Shisanying nodded heavily: "Big brother, I remember." ”

Feng Yilong patted him on the shoulder again, and then shouted to the back: "Old Five, you take two hundred brothers to bypass from the north and block people in the area of Dashigou, and you also take two hundred people to go around from the south to the area of Yinshikou, don't let the lords of the villages west of Xingxian County run away, people can't run, and food has to stay." ”

"Remember, we are now Emperor Guan's army, not horse bandits, we must not kill indiscriminately, we must not commit adultery, and we must not rob innocent people."

"Yes."

Feng Wubao, who had a broken arm, and Feng Qiwolf, who had a big scar on his forehead, both gave up their hands to take the order, and it didn't take long for them to order two hundred men and horses each, one south and one north.

"The others will march with me into Xingxian."

With a wave of his hand, Feng Yilong led the remaining 600 Feng Shan battalions, as well as 500 construction teams and 500 people, driving hundreds of mules and carriages, pulling cannons, grain, grass, cement, steel bars, sand and gravel towards Xingxian.

Qin Chuan had expanded his Fengshan battalion to 1,000 troops, and his mission was to capture Xingxian, then sweep northward, capture all the villages and towns between Xingxian and Baodezhou, and finally join up with Liu Youzhu to capture Baode Prefecture.

When they were horse bandits, the Feng family often traded in this area, and they were very familiar with this area, many of which had the eyeliner they had bought before, and even a few horse bandits who often plundered with them.

Long before sending troops, Feng Babiao had already brought dozens of Feng Shanying's brothers to infiltrate Xingxian in batches, and contacted the nails they had planted in Xingxian before, secretly beckoning people, and waiting for the siege of the city to come inside and outside.

The land in this area is barren, the population is sparse, Xingxian is just a earthen city, the city wall is less than two zhang high, the population in the city is less than 3,000, and the defenders only have three classes of officials and two local large households to protect the courtyard and the villagers, plus a piece is less than 500 people.

Moreover, Feng Yilong brought four red-clothed general cannons and four big Franco cannons, a total of thirty small Francophone cannons and tiger squat cannons, and fifty flintlock guns.

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Xingxian County, the county magistrate Fang Lumao was humming a little song to tease the birds in the county office, and a figure suddenly rushed in outside the courtyard, and opened his mouth and shouted: "Master, it's not good, it's not good......"

The bird in the cage was so frightened that Fang Lumao was suddenly unhappy, and scolded with a straight face: "What are you yelling about? If you have something, you will say, if you don't say a two-five-eight, you will go out to get the board by yourself. ”

The person who came was sweating profusely, his face was pale, and he pointed to the outside and said, "Master, there is a group of people from outside the city, and they are preparing to attack the city." ”

Fang Lumao was taken aback: "What? ”

"There is a group of people outside the city, just outside the east gate, there are more than 1,000 people, holding a Fengzi flag, setting up dozens of artillery, and are preparing to attack the city."

"Huh?"

Fang Lumao was so shocked that he threw the birdcage in his hand and hurriedly ran out.

"What about the third class of officials? What about Master Zhao and Master Huang? ”

"The third class of officials and the two masters have rushed to the east gate with their respective guardian townspeople."

"Quick, go and mobilize the people to help defend the city, everyone who works and contributes has something to eat, and then let the two masters donate some food."

"Yes."

When Fang Lumao rushed to the east gate with his entourage in a panic, the earthen wall was already full of people, all of whom were the guards of the third class of officials and the Zhao Huang family.

Seeing the arrival of the county lord, the surrounding people got out of the way one after another, letting Fang Lumao go to the city, and the county officials and the leaders of the Zhao and Huang families surrounded one after another.

Before Fang Lumao could ask about the situation, he saw someone riding a horse outside the city, and when he reached a few dozen steps away, he raised his voice and shouted: "Listen to the people in the city, I am under the command of the Shanxi guerrilla general Qin Chuan. ”

"Not long ago, Lord Qin found out that Fang Lumao, the county magistrate of Xingxian County, Zhao Kaifang, and Huang Rendong colluded with bandits to bring disaster to the township and kill the people.

"Please also ask all the fellow villagers to open the city gate quickly, welcome the righteous army of Lord Qin into the city, eradicate the evil, Jingping Township, if not, don't blame me for the ruthless artillery fire and the lack of eyes."

"Remember, folks, you only have a quarter of an hour to wait."

After shouting this, the man turned his horse's head and returned to the formation.

At the head of the city, Fang Lumao's face was pale, and cold sweat broke out.

Of course he knew the name Qin Chuan, he was a famous butcher.

Isn't the court sending troops against him? How could he still have the spare time to attack Xingxian?

Isn't he afraid that the court will end his lair?

Zhao Development and Huang Rendong on the side were shocked and angry, pointing outside the city and scolding.

After a quarter of an hour of cursing, the army outside the city suddenly moved.

About 600 people, pushing dozens of artillery pieces slowly approached.

Seeing those artillery, Fang Lumao couldn't help but shudder, Xingcheng originally had a few tiger squat cannons, but Xingcheng had been captured by the Liukou the year before last, and those cannons had already been taken away by the Liukou, and he had been in office for two years, Xingxian County had not suffered any big thieves, so the imperial court had not added firearms to Xingxian.

With so many artillery pieces on the other side, how can they withstand it?

Feng Yilong knew the situation in Xingxian County well and knew that there was no artillery in the city, so he asked Feng Shanying to advance straight to a distance of one hundred paces, then planted the artillery, and aimed at the weakest section of the earthen wall.

Soon, nearly forty large and small cannons erupted in unison, and the whistling shells were concentrated diagonally on that section of the wall.

Among them, the four red-clothed cannons were the most powerful, and they were even more powerful at a distance of a hundred paces, and although the earthen wall had a certain slope, the shells of the red-clothed general's cannons could always lift up a large pile of dirt when they hit the slope.

There was only one round of shelling, and the earthen wall was visibly recessed into a large area.

The second round of shelling soon followed.

Fang Lumao was at a loss in the city, trembling.

Others are equally at a loss as to what to do.

They didn't have a cannon, they only had material for beating.

The earthen wall is not covered with bricks, and sooner or later it will be collapsed.

In the third round of shelling, it was proposed to spend money to buy peace.

After a few simple discussions, the Zhao family and the Huang family agreed, and the family took out 500 stone of grain and 500 taels of silver, and then Fang Lumao and the county officials contributed a part of it, and scraped together enough 2,000 stone of grain and 2,000 silver to let the other party withdraw from the army.

However, they put a messenger down with a hanging basket, and the messenger ran over and shouted for a while, and then ran back and told them that the other party had said that the city would be broken and the two families of Zhao and Huang and the county government would be confiscated.

Fang Lumao, Zhao Development and Huang Rendong trembled even more.

The three of them gathered together and whispered a few words, and then unanimously decided: escape.

Immediately, they said that they would go back to the city to mobilize the people, found an excuse to leave the city, and then went back to their respective homes, packed up their soft clothes, and sneaked out of the west gate with their wives and children.

The escape of these people could not hide from the others, and soon, the officials of the county government, the merchants in the city, and even the officials and the village warriors of the courtyard also slipped out of the west gate.

Feng Yilong did not block the west gate, but let the tanma over there, Fang Lumao and Zhao Kaifang, Huang Rendong and others just left the city, Feng Yilong received the news, and then sent Feng Shiyi Eagle and Feng Shisanying to lead two hundred horsemen to chase over, and Feng Wubao, Feng Qiwolf and others who bypassed in advance to block people blocked those people, and a bag of soft could not get away.

After the defenders in the city were dispersed, Feng Babiao, who had already infiltrated the city, led the people in the city to open the city gates, Feng Yilong led the army inside, quickly controlled the four city gates, and began to raid the homes of large households to appease the ordinary people.

The 500 construction team that came with the army also began to get busy, collecting wood everywhere to build formwork, recruiting labor in the city, and began to rebuild and rebuild the city.

They had to scrape off the floating mud on the surface of the city wall, pour a layer of reinforced concrete one foot thick on the surface, and build a reinforced concrete pillar every seven steps, and build a new horse face every fifty steps, so as to form a frame city wall with rammed earth in the middle and reinforced concrete on both sides.

Although the reinforced concrete on the surface is only one foot, the middle is compacted earth, and the degree of solidity is not inferior to that of other military forts.

Moreover, on this basis, a hollow city wall will be poured on it, the wall is one foot five inches thick, and the cannon holes and gun holes will be opened.

The reinforced concrete and part of the sand and gravel were transported from Lan County, and the other part of the sand and gravel was directly fished from the Weifen River on the edge of Xingcheng.

The entire project is planned to be completed within 30 days, and there is no Ming army near Xingxian, so Xingxian will not be threatened during this time.

After completion, the height of the entire city wall will reach three zhang, and it will become a small earthen city into a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At that time, Feng Yilong would leave 400 Feng Shan battalions to garrison here, and recruit 600 reserves on the spot in Xingcheng to assist in the defense.

He led the 600 Fengshan battalion to the north to sweep and destroy all the big households in all the villages and towns north of Xingxian.