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"Xianggong ......"

Yang He and the others patrolled around the earthen wall of the trench, and when his subordinates saw him, they all kept greeting and saluting.

According to the arrangement of the defense line above and below the city, Han Daxia led the second general army to live on the polder wall, as well as the standard-bearer of the Central Military Department and others. Minister Yang commanded a general army behind the first earthen wall, and then the first and second general deputy generals Han Guan'er and Luo Xianjue commanded the two general killer soldiers, occupying two wings.

Grenadiers, sentinels, and cavalry will also be deployed here, hiding behind the second earthen wall, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

During this period of patrol, the Chinese officer Zhang Songtao also coordinated as a whole, gathered the matter, and reported to Yang He.

At this time, there was nothing to do, Minister Yang and other officers were all leaning against the wall, squatting one by one, gathering in a pile, listening to the ninth master Qian Zhongyong, who had not long been back, chattering, and bursting of laughter from time to time.

To be honest, all the officers like to sit and brag with the ninth master, the ninth master travels south and north, his experience is not rich, he has a lot of potential for storytelling, and he is very attractive.

At this time, the ninth master was holding a pipe, and seemed to be talking about the past of his "Tongzhou Twelve Horsemen", and the listeners all let out bursts of exclamation, and Yang He also heard Han Guan'er's curious voice: "...... Listening to the ninth master say this, is that tartar really stronger than a thief? ”

The Ninth Master said: "It really can't be compared, those Tartars, they all use ten-force bows for foot shooting." Riding and archery also use six to eight force bows, all of which are very fierce. They also have heavy armor, and some of the tartar armor is still three layers thick, the outermost layer is iron armor, the inner layer is inlaid with iron cotton armor, and the innermost layer is chain mail, with a total weight of seventy or eighty catties. ”

Zhang Songtao exclaimed: "I read Shen Zhou's "Labor with Zhibian Army", which said that at the beginning of the country, he joined the army outside the country, and those foreign troops were all carrying 80 pounds of war equipment. Because of too hard work, the armor of the border army now weighs only thirty or forty pounds, and I can't imagine that the tartars will be used. ”

Luo Xianjue also exclaimed: "With such a thick armor, it seems that it can only be hit with cannons." ”

Not far away, Mr. Yang Qian's upper body was wrapped like a mummy, but he couldn't stay in the barracks and came out to hang out.

At this time, he was facing Liao Ye, Zou Ye, and Xiong Ye of the Lian General Mansion, boasting: "...... The thief rushed at once, and with an axe he struck my iron armor. I was furious, so I grabbed the thief's cloak and took him by the hand, and guess what? ”

He said proudly: "The thief was carried around by me, and it happened that a thief smashed it with a stick, and it smashed on the thief's head, and the brain juice smashed out, like tofu flowers...... You've eaten tofu brain, that's it......"

The three soaps wanted to vomit, but they let out bursts of exclamation, and there was a look of adoration in their eyes.

Looking at the relaxed atmosphere around him, Yang He smiled, put it elsewhere, this atmosphere is called relaxation, but if it is placed here, it is naturally a manifestation of confidence, indicating that his subordinates are not concerned about the thieves who may come.

Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, and the others looked at it, and their hearts were relieved, and the rest of Suining was nervous, from the officials to the people, all of them were nervous, but here they were so relaxed and freehand, and they were really people who could defeat the thieves in the wild.

Yang He inspected it, and all the officers saw that they were naturally following, and the defense line on this side had basically been erected, and only part of the trench in front of the first earthen wall was still unfinished. Yang He turned around and saw that the soldiers were in groups of three or five, leaning against the wall, wiping the weapons on their hands one by one, laughing and laughing.

There is also Li Ruwan carrying a plate axe, Qian Sanniang carrying a mace, and the second daughter leaning against a section of earthen wall, as if she was whispering.

Li Ruwan's voice: "...... Sanniang, look at this hairpin, it's so exquisite, it's only two taels of silver to buy, you can buy one too. ”

Qian Sanniang's voice: "It's too expensive to ask for two taels of silver." ”

Li Ruwan's voice said: "What is two taels of silver, you are a rich man now." ”

Qian Sanniang's voice: "If you have money, you can't spend it indiscriminately, you have to save it......"

Turning to the side of the trench, he commanded a large number of strong men to be busy, digging and carrying soil, and a large number of people came and went. These strong men, their number is a multiple of the remaining three, obviously digging trenches and walls, the work is heavy, requires a lot of people, and is very hard.

Fortunately, the treatment here is good, but Yang He pays out of his own pocket, and the young and strong people who work are paid fifty yuan per day, and they can eat a full meal, as well as one meal of horse meat to eat, and two meals of broth to drink, so although they are tired, the strong men are all elated.

After Yang He designed the engineering defense here, it was also handed over to Lian Fangzheng to take charge of, with the cooperation of the baggage team.

After all, Lian Fangzheng used to be the warden of the workshop, and he had a wealth of experience in engineering, and this kind of "V"-shaped trench and trapezoidal anti-artillery earthen wall involved very complex mathematical knowledge, and the baggage team was not yet able to take charge of it.

Seeing that Lian Fangzheng was commanding, covered in mud, Yang He stepped forward and said, "Lao Lian, how is it?" ”

Lian Fangzheng saw Yang He and others, he first gave a salute to Yang He, and then to Gao Qifeng and others in the county magistrate, and after a glance, he solemnly replied: "Don't worry, my lord, the defense of the low wall and trench can be completed today." ”

He glanced at Yang He, and couldn't help but say: "The adults took out their private pockets, and the people worked very hard. It's just that this is not the right way after all, and adults should still discuss with the county and allocate grain and rice from the county treasury, and don't make a distinction between public and private. ”

Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, turned his head, and Wei Kungang showed a look of schadenfreude, this thorn was transferred to the General Administration of Lian, and the surname Yang had to bear it.

Minister Yang opened his mouth, and he really wanted to go up and teach Lian Fangzheng a lesson, but this kind of literary version of Han Daxia, he also had a headache when he saw it.

Jiu Ye looked at it with a pipe in his mouth, and said that he still admired Lian Fangzheng in some aspects, but he didn't know the occasion and didn't know how to slippery, I'm afraid that no matter how talented he is, life will not be easy.

Yang He remained silent, waved his hand, and asked him to go farther, and he continued to patrol, stepping on the weeds to walk around the entire defense line.

He was farther away, and looked at the city from a distance, and in the flat wilderness, more than a man high, the earthen wall of two hundred paces was blocked fifty paces in front of the polder, except for five gaps, and he could not see what was inside.

And more than a dozen steps behind the gap, there is also an earthen wall blocking it, covering the polder.

Looking at the wall again, all the battlements are also covered, only the polders at both ends of the earthen wall are left, there are two on the left and right, and the hanging buildings of a total of four are more conspicuous.

There are many hanging buildings here, and they are also large, each can span five stacks widely, and each floor can hide more than a dozen people, and the thick logs on the outer wall are stacked in three layers, and they are not afraid of artillery.

Everyone followed Yang He to see, especially Gao Qifeng and others, looking at the earthen wall and ditch in front of them, no matter how close they looked or far away, they couldn't see the situation behind the wall, but they could spy and shoot, which was amazing and eye-opening.

The officers praised, and Luo Xianjue, one of the team officers, said even more happily: "With this earthen wall, we hide behind the wall, and the thieves will come when they come, and we are not afraid to bring artillery." If they attack from both flanks, their cannons will be of no use to us. ”

Minister Yang was also proud, grinning and said, "As long as you don't fight against the enemy in the wilderness, our Gun Array Shield Array is invincible!" ”

Han Guan'er suddenly said, "What if you meet it in the wilderness?" Especially when the opponent has a firearm? ”

Minister Yang was dumbfounded.

The officers of the team couldn't help but argue, what should they do if they really encounter it, Yang He also frowned, at present, he has few firearms, so they are all gunners on the front, and shield spearmen on both wings.

In particular, his heavy shield spear array was borrowed from the Qin and Han dynasties, and the heavy shield array of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only replacing Changge with a long spear.

This kind of heavy shield array is invincible in the front, but it is afraid that the opponent will attack the two wings, especially clumsy, slow movement and other problems, so it is slowly defeated by the relatively flexible sword and shield array.

In the West, the same was the clumsy and sluggish Macedonian phalanx lost to the relatively flexible Roman phalanx, and the clumsy Spanish phalanx lost to the more mobile Gustav side.

Especially now is the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, no matter how strong the heavy shield is, it is useless to encounter firearms, after all, a bird can penetrate the 66 mm thick wooden board leather in a hundred steps.

There are many officers and soldiers who surrender among the thieves, and there are many firearms among them, and if the other side pulls in artillery, it is even more of a target among the targets.

At present, the city is defending, and there is no worry for the time being, but the problem that Han Guan'er said also exists, if you fight against the enemy in the wilderness, you really have to think about what to do.

……

For several days in a row, Suining City was preparing for war to prevent most of the possible retaliation of the thieves.

The residents of Guanxiang outside the east gate and the south gate have all withdrawn into the city, and are placed in the nest shop built between the city wall and the polder wall, and the smaller market villages outside the city also have people fleeing into the city, and some vacant temples are full of people, but the large market villages are basically unmoved, such as the Guanshan set, the big Li set, the Lingcheng set and so on.

These set villages, the depth of the polder wall will not be worse than Suining County, bows and arrows, muskets, artillery are available, the terrain defense is like the Yong'an set seen before, the outside of the set is all covered with a large puddle, the puddle is buried with sharp wooden thorns and bamboo thorns, and the road surface is hovering between the puddles.

This kind of defense, a large number of people is not useful, and the residents in the collection are of the same race and surname, and they are all of one mind, which is extremely difficult to attack.

After the rise of the thieves, they generally attack the county seats, state towns, and government cities, and they only coerce such local forces to make them pay a little grain and not move their bones.

Generally speaking, if there is no accident, these heroes can survive one dynasty after another, and changing dynasties will have little impact on them.

These local tyrants are also very indifferent to the outside world, some time ago, Yang He's sentinels were not allowed to go in to rest when they passed by these polders, just send a little grain and rice out.

During these years, Suining City also took in some refugees one after another, especially the people of Lingbi County. According to what they said, Lingbi has fallen, Tang Liangrui of Lingbi Zhixian County was killed in battle, and after the thieves scraped the county seat, they razed all four sides of the city wall to the ground.

This is also commonly known as the "shovel city" among the rogues, in the name of preventing officers and soldiers from occupying again, but now there are many bandits and the city wall is destroyed, even if there are some surviving residents, how can they survive?

Not surprisingly, that place will also become one of the countless ruins of the Ming Dynasty, only the streets are full of broken bricks and tiles, ghosts and fires.

According to the earlier plan, these refugees who fled to Suining, Yang He also contained them on the north bank of the Sui River, and after the war was over, they were carefully screened and sent across the Yellow River.

The shelter over there is getting bigger and bigger, guarded by some Xin'an villagers, and some archers are transferred to maintain order, which comforts Yang He that the north bank has been peaceful, and all kinds of production are also being carried out in an orderly manner.

All kinds of defense and various matters are going well, but Yang He believes that there is still a hidden danger that must be eliminated.

……

March 8, North Street.

The streets were filled with hurried crowds, with the occasional car passing by and picking up some dust.

Fourth Sister Sun dressed up with a resolute face, regardless of the fact that this was the time when business was good, the merchant invited the guests, closed her small teahouse, and only went to the West Street Lian General Mansion.

Fourth Sister Sun is a local Gaozuo Jiren, formerly known as Sun Nianhui, of course, because she ranked fourth, she was generally called Sun Siniang earlier, but she married early, and now she is in her twenties, according to custom, outsiders call her Sun Fourth Sister.

Fourth Sister Sun married at the age of sixteen, and she was the son of the owner of the teahouse at that time, Lu Tianlu, known to outsiders as Lu Sanlang, and after getting married, she was called Lu Sange.

The combination of Fourth Sister Sun and Third Brother Lu is quite in line with the plot in the poetry novel, but one day Third Brother Lu was bored and went out, and happened to meet Fourth Sister Sun who was carrying water, and the two fell in love at first sight.

After going back, Lu Sange never forgot it, so his father inquired, and quickly said that the matchmaker was hired, after all, only one of his three sons died and Lu Sange was left, and he has always loved him. After inquiring about the results, the woman is an honest farmer, and she is twenty-eight years old, which is also very suitable.

Fourth Sister Sun's family has nothing to disagree, after all, the man's family is in the city, and there is a teahouse, and after the daughter marries, she can also live a good life.

So the two got married that year, Fourth Sister Sun is a traditional virtuous woman, marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, after marrying Lu Sange, she worked diligently and helped her husband and father-in-law run the teahouse business, although she was not rich, her life was peaceful.

The next year, she gave birth to a son, and in the third year, she gave birth to a daughter, and the small family was full of laughter.

A few years passed in a flash, the son was almost six years old, and the daughter was almost five years old, just when the young couple was thinking about which private school to send their son to enlightenment, disaster struck.

One day, the son was playing on the side of the street, and then turned an alley, just like that, it disappeared in the sight of the fourth sister Sun, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, this small family immediately fell into the verge of collapse, and in order to find his son, I don't know how much money was spent.

It is still the secret language of the neighbors, it may be the work of deception in the city, they often work together with the beggars from other places, one to find a target, the other to act, with fruit cakes with medicine, to lure children and children to eat, children and girls are dumb and speechless, so they are taken away.

Fourth Sister Sun's son has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and such a target is the favorite of those scammers.

One day, a neighbor came back from Huai'an Mansion and told him that he seemed to have seen the son of Sun Sijie, but his hands and feet were broken, crawling on the ground and begging, miserable.

Because there were green-skinned sticks guarding the surroundings, he didn't dare to ask about the action, but just came back to inform the news.

Sister Sun's family didn't care about the teahouse business, and the whole family rushed to Huai'an Fucheng, but they didn't see it at the location explained by the neighbors, but after making the money, there were merchants around and told them that they did see this poor child nearby.

There are more than one or two children with such disabilities, all of whom are clear-eyed, and because of this contrast, they are more able to attract pity and beg for more money.

Fourth Sister Sun was in tears at that time, crying silently, her poor child was so well-behaved, but she suffered such misery and suffering.

After two years of searching, the family also suspected fraud in the city, and a lot of evidence can show that the disappearance of some boys and girls in the city is inseparable from them.

After returning to Suining, Lu's father sued some people who had deceived the county government, and the result was the beginning of a nightmare.

Which of these green-skinned stick forces in the market has no backstage? As a result, Lu's father was convicted of false accusations, fell ill in the county prison, and when he was buried, his whole body was bruised, and none of them were intact.

Only a month later, Lu Sange was beaten by several splashes on the street, especially with a rod to the ribs of the chest, Lu Sange was fine at that time, but soon after, he began to vomit blood, and he had been wailing in pain for three months, and finally vomited blood and died.

The neighbors told them that this might be the work of the gangsters in the city, and that they were all in league with those fraudsters.

Then not long after Lu Sange was buried, her daughter disappeared again......

Another few years have passed, these years, Fourth Sister Sun washed her face with tears, tenacious life, she is twenty-seven years old this year, but it looks like she is forty years old.

It seems that someone has instructed that no one beats her teahouse idea, but every month there is always a stick and a green skin who comes to the door, shouting and scolding, and taking away most of the hard-earned money she has worked hard every month.

Even Fourth Sister Sun's body was defiled and toyed with by these people, but she endured it, just so that one day, she could avenge this sea of blood.

Year after year, finally, the opportunity came.

Yesterday, a noble person came to the door and secretly instructed her, saying what to do, so that she could avenge her blood and hatred.

Thinking of that warm and kind young face, Fourth Sister Sun's heart swelled with determination, the reason why she lived until now was to see the day when the enemy died, and she wanted to seek justice for her son, her daughter, her husband, and her father-in-law.

For this day, the sword is on the neck, and the axe is coming, and she is not afraid!

She walked towards the West Street Lian General Mansion, her steps were firm, her weak and pale face was just calm, and some neighbors looked at her in surprise.

All the greetings were heard, Fourth Sister Sun was like a spring breeze, she was just walking, and before she knew it, she arrived at West Street, and then a few calls sounded in her ears.

"Hey, Fourth Sister Sun, where are you going, the teahouse business is not done?"

"Alas, why don't you reply, Lao Tzu asked you?"

But when the three sticks saw her, they shouted and scolded, and when they saw that Fourth Sister Sun ignored her, the eyes of the three of them were even more fierce, and their faces were angry.

Fourth Sister Sun stood suddenly, she suddenly pointed to the three sticks, the corners of her mouth showed an extremely gnashed look, and she scolded loudly with all her might: "You three pickled dirty goods, there are gods in your heads, your retribution has arrived!" ”

The people around them all seemed to see that the faces of the three ground sticks changed even more, and before they could jump up, there was a loud sound in the iron armor in front of them, but it was Lord Yang of the Lian General Mansion, who came out with his iron armor guards.

Then I saw Fourth Sister Sun rushing over, and with a pop sound, she knelt down on the street, and a terrible shout resounded through the sky.

"Wronged!"

Fourth Sister Sun walked forward on her knees and shouted fiercely: "Wronged! ”

Her voice was extremely fierce, like a cuckoo crying blood, which was moving.

For a while, people coming and going on West Street were all looking at her, and countless people came around to watch.

Fourth Sister Sun walked on her knees, moving on the street step by step, even if her hakama was worn out and blood gushed out, she didn't care.

"Wronged!"

Fourth Sister Sun shouted loudly, the desolation inside was intense to the extreme.

Watching her move step by step, shouting step by step, the three ground sticks suddenly felt cold all over their bodies.

An indescribable horror came over me.