"When will the imperial army arrive?" In the county seat of Guishan County, Pan Anping, the magistrate of the county, looked forward to the early arrival of the imperial army.

Pan Anping is nearly forty years old, and his appearance is ordinary, so he can be ordinary, perhaps because Guishan County is very close to Huizhou Fucheng (Fucheng enters Guishan County ten miles to the east), Pan Anping does not dare to make some big moves in Guishan County, and he is barely a county that abides by his duties.

But this is not of much use to the people under the rule, the big landlords should squeeze and exploit the common people will still do this, but Pan Anping will not blame the big landlords, if Pan Anping is hostile to the big landlords, then he will not be able to be the magistrate for long.

Since there were riots in Yongan County and Haifeng County, and the rioters also captured the two county seats, after the news reached the territory of Guishan County, Pan Anping immediately sent someone to report the news.

In Pan Anping's view, the chaotic people who were able to capture the county were not comparable to ordinary rebels, the county city wall was as high as two or three zhang high, and the city gate was closed, how could the chaotic people with farm tools rush into the city.

The rebels are close at hand, and Pan Anping has no doubt that the rebels will definitely enter Guishan County, and even attack Guishan County.

After getting the news, the big landlords who lived in the manors outside the city took their families into the county to take refuge, and some even thought that Guishan County could not resist the chaotic people, so they fled directly to Huizhou Fucheng for temporary refuge.

But as the magistrate of Guishan County, Pan Anping can't escape, give up the people under his rule and escape, even if Pan Anping has a little relationship with it, this is also a big crime, dismissal may be the lightest punishment, and it is more likely to be killed directly, no matter how serious it is, the family will also be implicated.

Before the rebels did not come to Guishan County, Pan Anping could send his family away, but he could not leave.

Can't leave Guishan County, Pan Anping thought about how to resist the chaos that would come over without knowing when, if he could successfully block the chaos people who attacked Yongan County and Haifeng County, this is Pan Anping's merit, and after eliminating the chaos people, he might be promoted.

It's just that there are too few Ming troops in Guishan County, mainly the county defenders, plus the patrol division, the strength is only a few hundred, it is said that the number of chaotic people is tens of thousands, and this strength alone cannot hold the county seat of Guishan, Pan Anping soon set his sights on the big households.

Basically, the big families have guards, and the guards of all the big families are gathered together, more than the Ming army, if you talk about personal force, the personal force of the guards of many large families is stronger than that of the Ming soldiers.

The Ming army, the guards of large households, and the young and strong people who were recruited, soon, the guard strength of Guishan County has exceeded 1,000, but Pan Anping feels that this person can no longer stop tens of thousands of chaotic people, and now Pan Anping can only look forward to the court army coming over quickly.

"My lord! Oh no! The thieves are coming! ”

Just when Pan Anping was thinking about when the imperial army would come, the Ming soldiers hurriedly ran into the county government to inform Pan Anping of the arrival of the People's Army.

"God will kill me!" Pan Anping cried out in his heart.

Outside Guishan County, 4,000 people of the People's Army led by Fang Nan have surrounded Guishan County on three sides, the firearms troops and artillery have already set up their artillery, and the soldiers armed with tiger head guns have lined up and are ready to launch an attack on Guishan County.

Holding the eight-fold mirror, Fang Nan looked at the city wall of Guishan County, and could see that there were hundreds of people gathered on the east city wall, Fang Nan's eyesight was far beyond that of mortals, and he could clearly see that most of the people had frightened and frightened expressions on their faces.

Fang Nan judged that the main force of the Ming army would come from the west, and Huizhou Fucheng and Guishan County were two very important cities, and the People's Army was mainly engaged in sports warfare.

Taking Guishan County also has some benefits for the People's Army, if necessary, it will be defended by the city at all times, and the 4,000 troops in Fangnan can resist more than five times the enemy, but in this way the People's Army will be relatively passive, and the Ming Army will send tens of thousands of people to surround Guishan County, and it is very difficult for the People's Army to break out of the encirclement.

Helplessly, the KPA is too small and too weak, and every step must be cautious, and the KPA cannot afford to lose.

Now the People's Army is about to launch an attack on Guishan County, Fang Nan's plan is very simple, if it can be relatively easy to capture Guishan County, then take it directly, the People's Army can not exceed 200 casualties, if the enemy guarding Guishan County is very tenacious, and the People's Army needs to spend a lot of money to capture the city, then Fang Nan intends to besiege but not attack.

There are not many firearms in Guishan County, and it seems that there is little threat to the People's Army on the surface, but stones, wood, and boiling oil will definitely be prepared on the city wall, and when the People's Army soldiers rush to the city, these things will be smashed down from the city wall, giving the People's Army great damage.

Next, Fang Nan planned to make several attempts to attack Guishan County.

"Command the artillery company, target the enemy on the city wall, two rapid fire!"

"Yes!"

The herald rode quickly towards the artillery company with Fang Nan's order, and soon, Chang Chai, the commander of the artillery company, received an order from the governor.

"Prepare the artillery positions, target the enemy on the wall directly in front of you, load the cannon!" Chang Chai quickly gave an order to the twelve gun emplacements of the artillery company.

"One gun emplacement is ready!"

"The second artillery position is ready!"

……

"Eleven gun emplacements are ready!"

"Twelve gun emplacements ready!"

"Ignition, fire!" Chang Chai pulled out the Yanling knife and shouted.

Hearing the order of the company commander, the twelve soldiers lit the fuse one after another, and then left the gun a certain distance, covering their ears with their hands, and staring at the cannon with their eyes.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Suddenly, with the light of fire and black smoke, twelve solid shells were fired from the twelve Franc cannons, and they smashed at the target seven or eight hundred meters away.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

There was a loud sound from several solid cannonballs hitting the city wall, and many wall tiles were smashed by solid cannonballs.

Burst!

There were solid shells that "accurately" hit through a row of enemies, and the shells passed through the enemy's body, leaving a hole in the mouth of the bowl, and the dead could not die again.

There are also shells that fly relatively high, directly over the city wall and into the city, I don't know whose roof is broken, and may even hurt ordinary people.

The Franc cannon is indeed the most advanced artillery of this era, but because of the airtightness problem, the firing range is not good, and the accuracy is not good, but it is enough to scare people.

On the city wall on the east side of Guishan County, there were only a dozen people who were hit by cannonballs or hit by shells that shattered the wall bricks, but it brought unimaginable panic to hundreds of people on the city wall.

"Dead! Dead! ”

"Wow! Wow! I want to go home. ”

"The thief has cast a demon spell, run!"

……

The cries and wails on the city wall were chaotic, and some young men who were afraid of death ran directly under the city wall, and the untrained "recruits" were useless!