Pengzhou City

At this time, the city has become a hell on earth, and if Liu Ximing comes here again, I am afraid that he will be a little unrecognizable.

The Yuanjiao has been picked up by He Tianlei and others for more than half a year, and all kinds of armaments and materials have been almost prepared.

Now taking advantage of the stall where Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived, a group of people suddenly attacked, Pengzhou City did not get any hints from Jinyiwei, and it was attacked in a hurry before it could resist for a few hours.

A group of sub-sectarians can still control themselves when they enter the city, it can be said that they burn, kill and loot all kinds of evil, not only the big families in the city have been killed, but even the small people in Shengdou have been robbed.

On August 14, Liu Ximing took Yu Yongkai and nearly 3,000 men and horses to merge with He Duan.

He Duan has 2,000 soldiers and horses, and because he is recruiting, his combat power looks quite good.

Although the name is Yu Yongkai, the leader of the hundred households, He Duan doesn't know where the Liu family is tired, so it is up to him and Liu Ximing to decide the matter.

The 5,000-strong army marched along the Jialing River in the direction of Pengzhou, while the Liu family fleet escorted the convoy on the river, and the army had reached the outside of Pengzhou in only one day's effort.

An army of five thousand people came towards him, and the Shuyuan Sect had already received the news.

The Shui Yuan cultists who occupied the county seat even sent dozens of ships to occupy the initiative on the river, who knew that the Liu family's fleet was fully armed.

The Liu family's fleet is now equipped with 12 guns on all large ships, and 8 to 4 guns on small and medium-sized ships, and dozens of ships can already form considerable firepower on the narrow river.

As soon as the shelling fell, the Yuan Sect not only did not take advantage of it at all, but instead abandoned more than 20 small boats and fled back to the city in a hurry.

Liu Ximing's eyes lit up when he received the military report, and it would be simpler to directly let the fleet bombard the city wall at that time.

It's just that he had already agreed with He Duan to wait and see how to deal with the situation first.

The 5,000-strong army directly surrounded Pengzhou City on both sides, leaving only the north for them to escape.

There are only more than 4,000 people in the Yuanjiao uprising, and they barely managed to get together more than 10,000 people by forcibly pulling strong people in Pengzhou City, so there is no pressure on Liu Ximing to guard such a small number of people.

Outside the city, the camp of Longxiang Camp.

The Longxiang camp has built a wooden camp around the south gate of Pengzhou City, and with Liu Ximing's such a Tianzi mule, the logistics of the Longxiang camp are not too simple.

It only took half a day's work to build a camp full of tents with watchtower sentry posts.

Because it was the first time to organize a large corps to fight, Liu Ximing was taking Yu Yongkai, Mu Jingnan and other officer corps to inspect everywhere in the camp.

Huang Zongxi and Dou Yuquan had to quarrel to go to the battlefield to see, and Liu Ximing had no choice but to let them follow the counselor for military affairs.

Of course, it is said that it is a counselor, but in fact, Liu Ximing will not know

Let them point fingers, he knows the virtues of these literati, and it's okay to fight with mouths, and it's better to shut them up when it comes to professional activities like war.

"The construction of the camp must be stable, and it is the first time we are engaged in this kind of war, and we must consider all aspects clearly, and only then can we compile a manual and lay a good foundation for the training of officers in the future."

“…… On the one hand, the artillery arrangement should take into account the firing range and range, and on the other hand, it is necessary to consider the safety of the artillery positions, and once the enemy discovers that the greatest threat comes from the artillery units, he will certainly launch a fierce attack on them. ”

At present, except for the Guards Regiment, which has a special artillery song, the artillery of other units is scattered at present.

Liu Xi vaguely knew that this method should not be right, but he didn't know how to set it up.

He understands that the musket queue up to shoot this thing, and the artillery thing is indeed a little too professional, and he can only pretend to be a few words at this time.

At the end, he looked at Wang Hong and the others who were following the team, "Wang Hong, you have done 100 households in the border army, how is this camp arranged?" ”

Wang Hong's mentality at this time was very complicated, "Second Young Master, please forgive me for my shallow knowledge, I am afraid that the little bit of the ability to march and fight in front of the Second Young Master is not enough to see, all aspects of this camp have been considered, but I am afraid that even the officers and soldiers will not be able to do it better." ”

"It's not," Han Lin replied with some awe, "We even have a square toilet here, how can the border army care about this." ”

"Hahaha", laughing heartily with a group of sub-officers, everyone is more proud in their hearts.

Different from the old-style army, Liu Ximing has always emphasized the joint construction of the military and the people in Longxiang Camp and Liujia Village.

He just put forward an idea for many system norms, and then everyone will make up for it later, plus various team building means, Liu Ximing dare not guarantee anything else, but the unity and sense of ownership of Longxiang Camp must be unique in this year.

"Report, the gate of Pengzhou City has opened, and some troops have begun to assemble at the gate." , a sentry's voice came loudly.

Liu Ximing looked at Yu Yongkai and the others with some surprise, "Shui Yuanjiao is quite bold, damn it, go upstairs and have a look, so that the troops will start to be vigilant." ”

A group of people went directly to the watchtower at the gate of the camp, and after a while, hundreds of people from the Yuan Sect had already walked out of the city gate.

It's just that some people in front of them walked in an orderly manner, and the more they got to the back, the more chaotic they became.

Mu Jingnan was a little eager to try, "Second brother, let's fight, how about training soldiers?" ”

"It's a bit of a conflict with our strategic goals." , Liu Ximing remembered his discussion with He Duan, and was a little uncertain.

Huang Zongxi was wearing a Chu color round neck and big sleeves, looking quite strategic, and laughed directly when he heard Liu Ximing say this.

"Virtuous brother, as the so-called good fighters seek to be in power, if we want to hold on, why not beat the thieves first, then they will be timid when they hear the war, and they can only retreat into the city, wouldn't it be easier for us to encircle them?"

"That's the truth", Liu Ximing thought thoughtfully.

The gang of thieves of the Yuan Sect still wanted to rush from their own side, could it be that they only had Yu Yongkai here.

If they don't hurt them today, maybe they will come to trouble twice in three days.

Thinking of this, Liu Ximing had made up his mind, and he looked at Yu Yongkai and the others.

"Pass my order, the Guards Regiment, the First Regiment, and the Second Regiment will go into battle, and the new regiment will press the formation in the rear, remember, you must tell the whole army that you can only defeat the enemy, and you must not pursue it into the city."

"Whoa"

Yu Yongkai, Mu Jingnan and others were a little excited, and it was difficult to reply with their fists.

Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot

A cheerful and sharp military horn sounded over the camp, and the Longxiang battalion, which had already been prepared, began to walk out of the camp with neat steps.

Although the Yuan Sect came out of the city earlier than the Long Xiang Battalion, the Long Xiang Battalion completed the array arrangement directly, and a group of people were still looking for the team everywhere in a chaotic manner.

Liu Ximing couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene through the telescope, and he became much more relieved about the upcoming war.

After almost a quarter of an hour, the Yuan Sect had finally completed the whole team, and a leader-like figure appeared at the back of the team and shouted orders.

The team of nearly a few thousand people began to move slowly towards the Longxiang battalion, and Liu Ximing clearly saw that there were still a lot of archers in this group, thinking that the equipment was seized from the county arsenal.

At this moment, he couldn't sit still, the Long Xiang Battalion was a treasure to him, and it was not worth it to cause casualties in the hands of these people.

He shouted loudly towards the bottom of the watchtower: "Prepare to fire"

"Prepare to open fire", the order was conveyed layer by layer to the artillery positions arranged in the rear.

"Boom Boom"

The soldiers and horses of the Yuan Sect had only walked out of a distance of less than two hundred meters, and the forty-eight fire eagle cannons roared in unison.

Between the flickering of the fireworks, forty-eight eight-pound projectiles flew at high speed towards the artillery firing boundary area that had already been marked by the Longxiang Battalion, and knocked out forty-eight bloody paths in the crowd of the Yuan Sect with an indomitable attitude.

"Enemy attack!"

It was almost after the cannonballs had penetrated the entire queue that there were all kinds of heart-rending shouts from the ranks of the Yuan Sect.

The queue, which was already walking crookedly, suddenly became more chaotic, and thousands of people were scurrying around in this open space outside Pengzhou City like headless flies.

Some people wanted to run back, and some people didn't realize what was happening and still planned to move forward, and the team suddenly began to disconnect.