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The topography of Xin'anzhuang, high in the north and low in the south, is full of mountains in the north, east and west, mostly marble and quartzite structures, and there are many miscellaneous trees, plus the mountains are not high, but not afraid of landslides and mudslides.

A large part of the village wall in the north, southeast, and east of this is built on the hillside, the slope is quite steep, not to mention, it is impossible to stand, and there is a deep trench between the slope and the wall.

Similar to that "V" shape, it is difficult for a person to climb out if they fall into it.

Therefore, the defense of these three sides is worry-free, and the thieves cannot arrange troops here.

Then there is a river in the southwest of the village, which flows close to the village wall, attracting the river water, and outside the south of the village, there is a deep ditch, which is more than one zhang deep and more than one zhang wide.

In winter, the moat water is half-dry, and it is covered with fine pieces of ice, floating on the moat water.

The main defense of Xin'anzhuang was to the south, and except for the farmland to the southeast and southwest, the rest of the fields were flat fields full of dry grass.

At this time, there was a thick layer of snow on the wilderness.

Yang He and others boarded the south gate, there is a gatehouse here, but it has long been destroyed, during this time, everyone also cleaned up, all the planks and wood that can be used are cleaned up, and the rest are also dismantled, making this side appear more spacious.

Yang He looked at the whole Zhuangnan and the east and west ends of the battlements, the battlement walls were high and thick, which could block the direct shooting of bows and arrows, and if they were thrown, the arrows would fly over the battlement walls.

The same goes for the bird, direct shot, the buckshot is blocked by a thick battlement wall, the projectile, the hit rate of the fire gun is negligible.

Basically, bird guns are rarely ejected, and there have only been a few times in history.

Yang He looked at it, from the outside of the village wall to the ditch, at least more than 100 steps at both ends of the village gate, all of which were quite inclined in style, presumably the people of the original village also thought of the winter defensive setting.

Minister Yang said happily: "Young Master, there is no need to pile up soil, just splash water on it, you can make this piece of ice slope and let those bandits break their legs." ”

Yang He saw the remains of a wooden plank on the trench not far from the right side of the village gate, which fell obliquely into the water, and he muttered: "Do you say, will the bandits dig the earth and fill the trench?" ”

Everyone was pondering, and Qi You said: "Xianggong, this soil is frozen, if the bandits dig the soil, it will be a thankless task, and they may use wooden doors to build trenches." ”

Everyone agrees that the width of this trench is not more than a zhang, and it is not difficult to use wooden planks to erect it, and it is better than digging and filling the trench in winter.

Judging from the traces outside, the last time the bandits attacked Yuanzhuang, they did not dig soil and fill the trench, but built a bridge.

Zhang Zhugong's eyes stared at the suspension bridge, and he said: "Xianggong, you must also be careful that bandits use horses to destroy the suspension bridge. ”

Everyone was shocked, at this time the horse thieves attacked the village, rarely dismounted to fill the trench and climb the wall, they had a more direct and effective method, that is, to use a big rope to connect the iron claw and iron hook, and then throw it to hang on the door of the drawbridge, and then tie the big rope to their own saddle.

Then a dozen horses, or even dozens, or hundreds of horses pull together and pull hard, not to mention the slightly thinner bridge rope chains will be broken, or very thick suspension bridge chains, the chains may be able to withstand it, but the planks below are often torn off.

Judging from the suspension bridge in Honjo, the suspension bridge chain is very thick, but there are traces of damage on the bridge deck attached to the chain, and it was repaired afterwards.

At that time, when everyone entered the village, the suspension bridge was also half-destroyed and erected on the trench.

Yang He's eyes showed a cold expression: "If the bandits come to pull the drawbridge, it is best to concentrate the firearms, birds, and 10,000 enemies in the village, and launch bombardments on this side, and see how many horse thieves and bandits they can afford to die." ”

The 34 horses of the Jiaoshan bandits are now only 31 horses, and by then the 50 bird guns will be concentrated here, and there will be 10,000 enemies who are also ready to destroy more than half of their men and horses in one go, and the backbone essence of the Jiaoshan bandits will be completely destroyed.

It would be better if they came to pull the drawbridge.

Everyone was fascinated, imagining the situation when the bandit horse team came over, and their own birds fired in a row, killing them and wounding them.

Zhang Zhujing probed his brain outside the wall, and he proposed that in addition to splashing water on this side of the trench, should he also splash water in front of the Zhuang wall?

For example, the entire fifty steps of Zhuangnan was watered and frozen, so that the bandits came over and broke their legs.

Qi Youxin said: "The proposal of the second brother Zhang is very good, but this amount is very large, we must first shovel the snow, burn all the dead grass, and then carry water from the river and water it all...... I'm just worried that the bandits will spread the grass, and the field will be full of grass, and they will even cut down the crop poles......"

Everyone was originally moved, but then after listening to Qi Youxin's words, they dispelled their thoughts, the ice was slippery, and then they could just walk on the grass.

After all, there is a lot of dry grass in the wilderness, there are many bandits, and there are crops half a mile and a mile away from the crops, and if they destroy their crops, it will be more than worth the losses.

Yang He said in a deep voice: "Defend the wall well, as long as you guard the village wall, my village will be invincible." ”

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The whole Xin'anzhuang was in full swing, the team of 520 people, except for 87 children and children, the rest of the young and strong men, young women, as well as men and women, the old and weak, all participated in the defense, a large number of rolling wood and stones piled up on the side of the wall.

The trenches were cleaned and water poured on the inside, so that the walls were slippery and icy slopes on which people had to break their legs.

Even this piece of the wall is splashed with water, slippery and hard, comparable to a concrete wall.

The grass factories were set up on a thick village wall, with a thick thatched cover and a fire pit inside, which could shelter from the wind and snow, and could also be used to bake the fire, which was used for the soldiers guarding the wall to rest, and also to pile up some supplies.

Yang He has stipulated that from today onwards, there must be people on the wall 24 hours a day to guard the wall, among which the young and strong guard the village gate, the old and weak men guard both ends of the wall, and the young and strong women patrol the remaining walls.

Nei Yanghe personally commanded the battle in Zhuangmen, and the old and weak and women were commanded by Qi Youxin, Sun Zhaodi and others.

Everyone had received the news that the bandits were coming, and they were shocked at first, and then Yang Xianggong issued a series of orders, and their hearts settled down again.

There is no way out for everyone to retreat, bandits and rogues are all things that exterminate humanity, and if you don't want to end up with the people of Yuanzhuang, you must defend with one heart.

Everyone made all kinds of armor, and the bandits threatened not only firearms, but also bows and arrows, so hanging households was indispensable.

Qi Jiguang called the hanging soft wall the first important thing to guard the battlements.

Mao Yuanyi also said: "The hanging curtain of the hanging household, all the important things at the battlement, without these two, the thieves and thousands of crossbows are fired together, and there is no station in the city." General Cyret was hit by six arrows in the face, and Gai Shao was also missing. …… Now it is proposed to make a wooden frame for each stack, two feet inside, planted on the city, a rotating shaft is outside, close to the edge of the two walls, with a covered grid, can be built with a felt blanket or with a futon, all wet with water, directly cover the battlement, arrows can not enter. ”

Without this kind of equipment, sharp arrows could be fired from the city, and the soldiers in the city could not gain a foothold.

Therefore, important battlements, such as both sides of the Zhuang Gate, need to be suspended.

As early as when entering the village, Yang He asked the military quartermaster to make a hanging household, about dozens of planes, which were all placed on the wall at this time.

There are holes on the outward side of the hanging household, you can peep into the movement outside, and there is a structure similar to pushing the window sill, after pushing it open, because of the angle problem, it is not afraid of throwing outside the city, and the bow and arrow are not easy to shoot into, but the soldiers behind the hanging household can shoot arrows according to this.

Of course, if it weren't for Yang He to say, many people would not know about this simple and sharp device.

If the people of the original village are concerned, there will be no hanging house when they guard the wall.

There are buckets of water on the side of each hanging grass factory, and if the bandits attack with fire, the water can be used to extinguish the fire, and even when the bandits climb the wall, if they do not raise a shield to cover it, a bucket of water will be poured down to make them feel cold.

In this cold weather, if your clothes are soaked, you can imagine the pain and consequences.

Then there were forks and strikers piled up on the wall, which were used to deal with the bandits' long ladders, and the ladders came up, and they could be held against them with the forks, and then they were knocked out of the ladder by ramming them with the strikers.

Yang He can be sure that the Jiaoshan bandits do not have the kind of high-level ladder with a flying hook at the head of the ladder, and as soon as they lean up, they can hook the city wall, and they can't knock it down no matter how they hit it.

After all, they are still bandits, and they can't make such high-grade equipment, at most some rudimentary long ladders.

Then everyone made ash bottles, which is also a sharp weapon for guarding the wall, but the production is simple, find some clay pots and porcelain bottles, and put the quicklime ground into powder and seal it.

There were many quicklime farms, and many large and small jars were found, and everyone rushed to work, and hundreds of them were soon made.

Then put the city head one by one, these things are simple to make, but they are one of the weapons to defend the city, and there is no antidote if you are hit.

Quicklime into the eyes, cleaning with water is worse, only vegetable oil is used, but Jiaoshan bandits come, will there be vegetable oil?

Throwing down a gray bottle must have blinded a few bandits.

The 200,000 enemies purchased by Yang He were also transported to the wallhead grass factory, all of them were extremely huge, made of pig iron on the outside, and there were iron thistles, gravel, broken iron and other things inside, and after igniting the fuse, they were thrown down, and the bandits and ghosts would cry wolf howls, and they would be seriously injured if they did not die.

In this bitterly cold weather, even a small insignificant wound can eventually become a fatal wound and kill them.

Yang He asked the medical hall and the nurse's hall to also prepare, and after entering the village, the stretcher of the medical hall, all kinds of small scissors, gauze, and bandages were prepared, but the medicine was insufficient.

Once the war began, their fire pit would be lit and bandaged at any time, and the fire kang in the nurse's hall would also be lit 24 hours a day to provide the best care for the wounded.

Yang He patrolled the village wall, the wall was full of Zhuang people preparing for war, coming and going, they all had thick winter clothes, men's winter felt, women's rabbit hats, and thick gloves, which could keep warm in the cold weather.

There are grass factory fire pits all over the wall, which can also be baked.

Because horse meat is eaten during this time, there is a lot of horse oil, and when everyone goes out, they are coated with thick oil on their faces, which can prevent the skin on their faces from being torn by the cold wind.

Yang He patrolled the wall, seeing that both men, women, and children were full of energy, and he also heard Sun Zhaodi's shouting: "Old and young ladies are more energetic, be careful, see clearly when the time comes, be careful not to let the bandits touch it...... Don't be afraid to touch it, use the spear in your hand to pierce the thing that they the woman......"

The screaming laughter of the women over there, the laughter of Hu Cheng, Zeng Youyu and others beside them, and Yang He's face also showed a smile.

Although Sun Zhaodi's words are rough, he has the power to lift his spirits.

They can't understand these illiterate women's words, and they don't understand them, and they don't as good as these coarse but powerful words.

Seeing that they were all wearing thick cloaks, lying rabbit hats, gloves, waist knives or spears, round shields, bright faces, and powerful manners, it was obvious that the abundance of food and clothing during this period had nourished their bodies.

Coupled with the fact that they are very energetic, these women with big shoulders and round waists will not be weaker than men when they work hard.

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For three days in a row, Yang He was preparing for the defense of Xin'anzhuang, but the Jiaoshan bandits did not appear.

Everyone was a little strange, Yang He asked Han Daxia again, and after hearing the experience of the four people at that time, his heart moved, could it be that the Jiaoshan bandits mistook them for officers and soldiers, and then wondered, thinking that there was a large number of elite officers and soldiers around?

Therefore, if you are suspicious, you must first find out if there are any officers and soldiers stationed around?

There is only one explanation, otherwise it is difficult to explain why the Jiaoshan bandits have not moved in the past few days.

But it's okay to give yourself more time to prepare.

In the past few days, in addition to defense, he has also stepped up the training of young people, and the square is full of the roars of everyone and the sound of platoons.

Unite to defend your homeland.

The wounded basically returned to the team, even if Wang Zhizhi, whose left arm was broken, still asked to join the battle and kill the bandits.

Yang He bought twenty sets of iron armor, and in the distribution of iron armor, except for himself and the scholar Minister Yang, one set each, that is, to form a commando team.

The selected people, Han Daxia, Chen Qiuao, Hu Chengcheng, Zeng Youyu, Zhang Chugong, Zhang Chujing, Zhang Songtao and others, as well as him and Minister Yang, are related to the life and death battle based on the manor, and he must take the lead.

The three brothers of the Zhang family all asked to be selected into the commando, and Hu Zhiyi and Han Guan'er also wanted to join the commando.

But Yang He rejected Zhang Chuxun, Hu Qiyi, and Han Guan'er, and agreed to Zhang Chugong and Zhang Zhujing.

The two of them were equipped with iron armor, and then they were holding winged tiger guns, and they were carrying large knives behind them.

The winged tiger gun is very sharp, the battle is like a six-pole bird gun, they can also use the winged tiger gun far away, and use the big knife closely, Yang He considered it, and felt that the team should be equipped with firearms, and finally agreed.

There were also eleven sets of iron armor, selected from the wounded and unhindered, as well as the brave people in the killer team, and finally equipped with a commando team of twenty people, with thick iron armor, eight-petal hat and iron-pointed helmet, and a thick cloak on the outside.

Their weapons are not limited, and they are easy to use, but the short-handed ones all have round shields in their hands.

If the bandits come to attack, the commando team in heavy armor is also used as a reserve, if the wall is in a hurry, save the wall, if the village gate is in a hurry, save the village gate, and finally see the opportunity to counterattack.

Defending the village is not Yang He's style, if the situation is right, he will also kill out of the village, giving the bandits a strong shock.

No matter how many thieves are killed, the thieves will still have the psychology of contempt.

Killing a thief out of the village is better than killing a thief in the village, and it is better than killing a hundred thieves in the village.

There are also Guan Feng and Hu Yansheng, who have just joined the team, because of their outstanding performance, they were awarded to Xin'an Gong with a single-headed bullet.

Together with Zhang Zhugong, they became the sharpshooters of the team, specializing in fighting the leaders of bandits and tough old thieves.

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In the past few days, Yang He also contacted Deng Patrol and Ambassador Deng outside the village, but Deng Guan had already escorted the supplies and left the station for many days.

There is a time limit for the delivery of military supplies that they transport, and it is obvious that all kinds of goods cannot be stored in the warehouse for a long time.

Deng Sheng sighed, he contacted the surrounding villages early, but although the leaders were polite, they were also full of resentment towards the Jiaoshan bandits, but when it came to the joint dispatch of troops, they were pushing back, obviously afraid of the bandits and their retaliation.

The slaughter of Xin'an Yuanzhuang spread all over the surrounding area, and it also frightened the courage of the villagers.

Unless Xin'anzhuang shows its strength, these people who have formed a village to protect themselves in the troubled times would rather live in steal for the lives of the Zhuangren's relatives than act rashly.

So coming and going, Yang He was facing an isolated situation at this time.

However, Inspector Deng also hesitated and said that if the bandits came, he would definitely lead the patrol archers to participate in the battle and prevent the "Li Zhuang" tragedy from recurring.

This made Yang He a little warm, and he finally wouldn't be without a trace of assistance.

Of course, he was full of doubts about the combat effectiveness of these people in the inspection department. (To be continued.) )