After thinking for a moment, Li Yi ordered in a deep voice: "All the students of the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall and all the officers and soldiers of the Caoyun Division will immediately rush to defend the city. All officials, officers and men, etc., shall immediately take their positions and shall not leave their posts without permission. ”

"In addition, immediately pass on my order, immediately order someone to inform Jian Zheng, all the horses of the Ningzhou battalion, do not have to rush back to Ningzhou to defend, immediately march to Pingyang Pass, and gallop to the aid of the Pingyang Pass defenders. In addition, scouts were immediately dispatched to warn the various customs guards, especially the Yuezhou Guard, which was closest to Ningzhou, and immediately dispatched some elite troops to move closer to Ningzhou. ”

After Li Yi gave these orders, he sat on the Taishi chair, still amazed in his heart.

Before that, Wei Jing had discovered a few mountain trails, although the precautions had been strengthened, but Songyang Mountain was so big, there should be more than these mountain trails. If the enemy sneaks in through these paths, I am afraid that it will not be detected at all in a short time.

Moreover, the enemy took advantage of the night to cut the pass and seize the lock, and the purpose has been clearly revealed, and now the Dayi Ningguo has lost patience, and Yunnan has torn its face, and it is already a sure thing that it will become an enemy.

Today's plan is to defend Ningzhou City and rush to Pingyang Pass, if one accidentally loses Ningzhou City, the whole Yunnan will fall apart.

As soon as Li Yi thought of this, there was a report from outside the door, and a scout reported loudly before entering the hall door: "Commander Qiqi, the enemy has approached the city, and there are about two or three thousand men and horses gathered at the west gate, and they are cutting down trees as ladders, preparing to attack the city." ”

Li Yi stood up and waved his big hand: "General He, except for the necessary people left behind, the rest of the people will go to the city with me to defend, Lao Guo, you quickly arrange it, leave you and Guo Xiaoshuang and other thirty personal soldiers, and the rest will go with me to defend the city." ”

Everyone agreed, and they all hurried out to make arrangements. Li Yi asked Nanfang to bring a soft-armored robe, binoculars and a shotgun that had not been used for a long time, and after putting it on, he stepped out of the door with a shotgun on his back.

At this time, Guo Zhun had already gathered more than 100 personal soldiers, all of whom were leading their horses and waiting outside the door to get ready.

Li Yi was about to get on the horse and go out, and a few people had already rushed outside the door. When I turned my head to look, I saw that Lin Yi, Qiu Feng, Sun Chengye and others had all come to the mansion.

Lin Yi shouted loudly: "Dashuai, the enemy is not good, can you risk the arrow stone yourself!" Yunnan has you as the backbone, and these offensive and defensive matters will be handed over to General He. ”

Li Yi nodded and said: "I just went to the city to observe the enemy's situation, so as to plan for the next step of arranging troops, how can I be injured by the enemy so easily." The enemy is strong, and I don't have any good ideas, so since you are here, come with me to the city to have a look."

Lin Yi and the others nodded in agreement, and rushed to the west gate with Li Yi.

The sky was already slightly white, and when they climbed the west city wall, Gao Chang and others were nervously arranging on the city wall. As soon as he saw Li Yi coming, he hurriedly approached and saluted: "Report to the commander, the three hundred officers and soldiers of the city guard have all been in place, and the west city gate has been arranged with two bed crossbows and one hundred and twenty crossbows. Due to insufficient preparation, there is still a lack of a large number of rolling wood stones, and Lord Qian is preparing below. ”

"In addition, the personnel of the vigilante army have not been rectified yet, and Commander Zhao is arranging for the vigilante army to come to assist in the defense."

Li Yi nodded, looked under the city wall, and saw that about three hundred meters away from the city wall, the number of black pressure people was innumerable, because the sky was still a little dark, even with a telescope, it was impossible to see how many people and horses the enemy had.

Li Yi took a look at the surrounding terrain with a telescope and found that in addition to the mountains in the south, it was a tributary of the Panjiang River, and if the enemy wanted to attack from there, he would not be able to use it at all, so there was no need to send more men to defend the south. The north side, like the west side, is a plain forest, and if the enemy is numerous, both sides must be the direction of the enemy's attack at the same time.

However, there are only more than 300 city guards and more than 200 volunteer police sergeants in this city, which is equivalent to the ranks of the reserve militia, and its combat capability is difficult to compare with that of the regular army.

In addition, there are three or four hundred officials in Qian Shitang who have no combat effectiveness, and even if all the personal soldiers of the Xuanfu Embassy are sent over, there will be about 1,000 people in total. In the face of enemies several times their size, how to defend this city is a lot of trouble!

Li Yi walked to the side of the two bed crossbows at the city tower and asked, "How many such bed crossbows do we have in Ningzhou?" Is there anything on the north wall? ”

Gao Chang hurriedly replied: "Our Ningzhou's original bed crossbow has long been decayed, this is still added when expanding the armament a while ago, due to limited military spending, and there is no threat of war, Heningzhou only added these two, General Jian let them be arranged on the west city wall." ”

"It's just that we have too few long crossbow arrows, and we only have twenty of them, so it's too late to make them. The most worrying thing is that this crossbow has not been used once! ”

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but smile slightly bitterly, in this way, no one can use the bed crossbow yet! Training doesn't seem to have kept up.

Alas! Our Yunnan is still too poor, just two bed crossbows and twenty iron feather arrows, even if someone can make it, how much effect can it play!

Li Yi turned back to Lin Yi and said: "Our defensive strength is too thin, although the enemy only has two or three thousand people rushing to Ningzhou City now, but if Pingyang Pass can't stop the enemy, the army of Dayi Ningguo will continue to come, and when the time comes, once the enemy's strength has an overwhelming advantage, our Ningzhou City will not be able to defend at all." What do you think we should do? ”

Lin Yi was pondering, and when he saw Li Yi asking, he hurriedly spoke: "Since the enemy has already reached the city, he must have made up his mind to take Ningzhou as soon as possible." Our Ningzhou soldiers are outnumbered, and even if we urgently recruit officers and soldiers from Yuezhou Wei and Baiwu Pass to assist in the defense, I am afraid it will be too late. ”

"In my opinion, the direction of the enemy's attack can only be the west and north walls, so we should strengthen the defense in these two directions. In addition, although the terrain in the south is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it should not be taken lightly, and it is best to arrange dozens of soldiers to guard. ”

"Ningzhou currently has limited troops, and it is really powerless to rely on less than 1,000 people to defend the entire Ningzhou. I think the marshal should quickly give an order, everyone in the city has the responsibility to defend the land, three out of two, two out of two, immediately recruit the young strong men in the city, part of them to participate in the defense of the city wall, and part of them are responsible for carrying rolling wood, stones, bricks and tiles to the city. ”

"And the old, weak, women and children should also be quickly organized, cook for the officers and soldiers defending the city, cook and transport them to the front. Only with the participation of the whole people can we have the confidence to fight a war and be sure of victory. ”