Yang Muqin was a little depressed, "Is it strange for us to be like this?" ”

"Do you think they look weird?" Beiwei continued to monitor the city wall with a telescope without paying any attention, and said in his mouth.

Yang Muqin nodded on the side and replied, "Of course they are strange, this is the ancients." ”

"That's the problem, you can't understand their aesthetic point of view, and they can't understand your aesthetic point of view either." The voice of He Yayun came from outside the shelter. He is always sprinkled with insect repellent outside to prevent bugs or curious critters from approaching and causing danger.

"Three people will be on duty in shifts tonight, each for four hours." "It's 5:15, it's time to contact the communications center, bring the radio." ”

Yang Muqin quickly rushed to the storage room in the back and took out the radio, the antenna of this radio station is not long, the communication team suggested that the antenna should be shortened to avoid detection, and the antenna hidden in the big tree should be used for signal enhancement.

"This is the forward reconnaissance group, command please reply."

"This is the communications center, and your voice is clear. Transferring command for you. A loud and nice female voice came from the radio.

"I'll go, who's who?" He Yayun's head suddenly came out of the middle of the camouflage net, startling Yang Muqin.

Beiwei couldn't help but glance at him, "How do I know who it is?" Anyway, it's from the communication center, so it must have crossed over. ”

"By the way, who brought two girls this time. I heard that one is his girlfriend and the other is his cousin. ”

"You don't have to worry about this heart," Beiwei let go of the intercom, "People are here to enjoy the blessings of Qi people, not to be a cousin-in-law." ”

"How is this possible?" He Asian Games was a bit dumbfounded. "Would that girl be willing? His girlfriend won't follow him, right? ”

"Why won't you follow him? Do you think that girls have a lot of choices when they come to this ancient world? One is not bound to the feet, and the other does not meet the requirements of the ancients to be knowledgeable, except for these guys who are counting on three wives and four concubines who belong to the same family, can they find a common language? ”

A voice came over the radio. "This is the command center, Li Jieqi speaks. over。 ”

"I'll go, Li Jieqi, why are you doing this? It's strange that people don't fit in. "Beiwei was so thundered that I almost lost the intercom." We have reached the outside of the city, and there is a sign at the gate of the city that says An Yun Cheng, safe An, allowed Yun. The city is small, about two thousand people, and is about thirteen to fifteen kilometers from the beachhead. The garrison of the city was about 100 or less, and the weapons were mainly cold weapons, and I only saw two muskets and one shotgun. There were two small artillery pieces, which looked like Tiger squat guns, deployed on the east gate. ”

"Okay, I've recorded it, you need to keep an eye on what's going on outside the city, we feel that they may launch a crusade against us in the short term, so we have to prepare in advance."

"No problem, there is no garrison outside the city now, the defenders should be inside the city, according to the size of the city wall, it is estimated that there will not be more than three hundred."

"Okay, that's it, please report if you have any new information. End of call. ”

"Okay, call over." Beiwei said and turned off the radio.

"Brother Bei, I said, why doesn't it seem that there is no consciousness of seeing wolf smoke at all?" He Yayun had fully deployed the entire shelter and was holding the naval binoculars he had brought with him to observe the city of An Yun. "There was no panic inside or outside the city, and even the gates were not closed."

"I just heard that after the ancient people saw the wolf smoke, they would flee to the nearby Zhuangzi or the city, and then the city sent spies to the direction of the wolf smoke to investigate, and they would not rush to close the city gate." Yang Muqin said what he had hearsay, but was interrupted by Beiwei, "Look below, is this person wearing the same clothes as the person who attacked us?" ”

He Yayun and Yang Muqin hurriedly turned their heads at the same time to look in the direction pointed by Beiwei, but because modern people's eyes are not very good, He Yayun still had to hurriedly raise his telescope.

A man hurriedly walked on a dirt road, looking at the yellow mud on the legs and feet of this person and the dusty pants, and the red mandarin duck jacket on his body was full of mud, he knew at a glance that this person had walked a long way.

"This man is from the direction of the beach, maybe he is a spy who went to get information." Yang Muqin's eyes were not bad, and he directly judged the direction. Beiwei nodded with satisfaction, "That's right, the clothes this person is wearing should be the uniform of this Wu Dynasty army, maybe one of the people who fled after the failure of the attack on us in the morning, he should have taken so long to get here to prevent an encounter with us or go directly back to the beach to find information." ”

"Do you want to scratch your tongue?" He Yayun immediately went into the shelter to get his weapons. The north latitude head didn't look back, "What are you doing?" Do you want to take care of his food? ”

looked at the stunned He Yayun and Yang Muqin. "It's about half past five in the afternoon," said Beiwei, stretching out his right palm to compare the distance between the sun and the horizon, "and it will be dark in fifteen minutes at most, and we will catch him, and there will definitely be no way to send him back to the beach, so we will have to take care of his meal, and toss something here, maybe he can stir up some trouble, let him go back and report, with the means of communication of the ancients, the messenger will not be sent until tomorrow at the earliest, and the troops can be assembled at least five or six days later." ”

"Five or six days? Then it's time for war, right? "Yang Muqin has been looking forward to this kind of thing for many years, and he is dancing vividly at this time.

"Think beautifully!" Beiwei patted his helmet again. "Five or six days to see what kind of troops can be gathered, if this Wu Dynasty is the same as the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely be in arrears, set off to pull out the silver, in the event of a war may have to mutiny, not a month can not gather troops at all, by that time, our beachhead camp has been established, they run to attack only a dead end. Let him pass. ”

This tongue that was let go was Wu Wenshan, at this time he had been on the road for a long time, since he saw the terrible scene on the beach like opening the world, he only had panic left in his heart, this kind of god-level enemy can only rely on General Liu to lead Annan's Wu Chaotian army to compete with it, the sooner he rushes back to An Yuncheng, the sooner he can let the county commander send a distress document. Once such a terrible group of pirates comes to attack the city, it will inevitably be burned with jade, not to mention such an Anyun City with 2,000 people, even the capital is not necessarily impossible to attack.

After he saw the city wall of An Yuncheng appear in his eyes, he ran quickly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, Yang Muqin smiled and said that the speed was really not much different from Liu Xiang's speed before he changed his head, which made He Yayun and Beiwei laugh together for a while.

"Stop! Where did it come from? The guards at the gate stopped Wu Wenshan and shouted loudly.

"From the Donghaiwei beacon tower, I am the pier chief there."

"I'm still a thousand households here, I have no evidence, take the paperwork and take a look!" The guard, who was not very well dressed, stretched out his hand smugly.

Another guard on the side suddenly recognized the chief. "Isn't this Chief Wutun? It's you who lit the wolf smoke today? ”

"Nonsense, a group of pirates have come to the beach, and now that they have landed, I have to go to the county master to report the enemy." Wu Wenshan couldn't help but lower his body and knocked on his two numb legs.

"Chief Wutun, please come in, don't delay." This guard hurriedly stretched out his hand and invited Wu Wenshan to enter the city gate.

Wu Wenshan hurriedly ran across the city gate and ran directly to the yamen of the county government in the center of the city.

The county government yamen is located in the city, after the east gate enters, it can be reached about 300 steps to the west, and Wu Wenshan, who arrived at the gate of this yamen, couldn't help but look up at this yamen, this yamen heard that it was built in the eleventh year of Wanli, and it was more than forty-five years at this time. He often comes to this Anyun County government office on weekdays, but he has never paid attention to this gate, the two small stone lions at the door heard that it is the craftsmanship of a stonemason near the north gate, it looks lifelike, but the wind and sun have been blowing for a long time, and no one has cleaned it, and many places of the stone lion have peeled off. The door frame is hung with the plaque of "Anyun County Ya", the red lacquer gate is closed, the red paint on the door has peeled off in many places because of the time, and the pillars on both sides are also like this vermilion lacquer gate, and the wooden pillars show a lot of peeling lines.

He walked quickly to the gate and slapped it several times. The door was soon opened, and a soap head stretched out, and was about to be impatiently scolded, when he suddenly found that the person who came was a man in a military uniform, looking at the patterns on his battle robe, he was still an officer, and hurriedly flashed out and asked, "May I ask what is the matter with this military master?" ”

"I am Wu Wenshan, the pier chief of the East China Sea Wei Beacon Tower, and a group of pirates have come from the North Sea, and I am here to report to the adults."

Soap Li was slightly stunned, he knew that the beacon tower had reported wolf smoke all the way this morning, but he didn't figure out how many people had come and what kind of enemies they were, so he hurriedly asked Wu Wenshan to wait in the living room and ran to the backyard to find the county master.

An Yuncheng County's grandfather's name is Zhou Jinfeng, a man of about forty years old, his ancestral home is Hebei, and he is a Jinshi in the forty-fifth year of Wanli. Originally, he wanted to wait in the capital to make up for a real shortage, because he was born in a peasant family with no power and power, and his family had already exhausted his money for studying, and he waited in the capital for three years and did not wait for the real shortage, so he could only find a seemingly most reliable official position to take office, but he didn't hear Henan and Annan clearly at that time, so he was sent to this really poor and remote Annan town An Yun to be the county commander.

It would be false to say that he was not disappointed at the beginning, from the bustling metropolis of the capital all the way to Anyuncheng for several months, along the way to the south to the other two small cities of Annan on the road to several small officials were still sick because of the plague, either died of illness or on the way to seek medical treatment and delayed the journey, but he was the only one who actually rushed all the way to Annan and had not been sick, which surprised him. This Anyun City only has a household registration of more than 2,000 people, and there are no entertainment venues in the city, nothing more than two brothels and a gambling house, and I have never been interested in visiting, and there is not even a bookstore in such a city, and my books have to be sent all the way from the capital to this Annan. The county order is not high, and the rice or cloth is issued, and they have to sell it to exchange it for silver, and this poor country can not be too picky, and the silver is often not enough to say, and the price of rice is not very high. The folk customs are quite strong, and there have been several ethnic changes in the past few years, and the most fierce one has rushed directly to the city, if it is not for the solid city wall and the cannon at the head of the city, I am afraid that this small life is also in danger. Looking back at the past seven or eight years, the county lord has not seen how much money he has made, and the treasury is empty, and there is nowhere to display his ambitions, even if he wants to go to the top to move and mobilize a place, I am afraid that the money on hand is not enough.

Just thinking of this, I saw that the soap who was standing at the door today was looking into the house.

"Lord Zhou, it was the Donghaiwei beacon tower that lit the wolf smoke today, and their pier chief came, saying that a group of pirates came from the North Sea, and the momentum was huge, and they wanted to report to your lordship. I have ushered him into the drawing room and invited my lordship to come over. ”

Zhou Jinfeng nodded and waved his hand to let him go down first. Continued to sit behind the desk without getting up.

Judging from the county annals, since the year of Chenghua, pirates have often attacked the sea surface of Annan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, and the North Sea is the "back garden" of the pirates, but this Anyun City has not been a place where pirates like to come, there is no money and no food here, there are not many villages along the way, there are artillery at the head of the city, and ten miles to the west is the Acropolis of Anyunxi Thousand Households. Although the 1,000 military households in the Acropolis are not very capable of fighting, they are also mighty when they come over. Five years ago, when the Cham people rebelled, it was only after hundreds of military households from An Yunxi Qianhu drove them away that they were put down.

Because pirates often harass, the villages along the coast of Guangxi in Annan are often plundered of money, grain and population, even the salt works of the imperial court are no exception, and even more so, some of the farmers and fishermen here even take the initiative to join the pirates in addition to the agricultural work, and participate in the looting and income generation together, so the clean-up work of the pirates is quite difficult, and the two pirates Liu Xianglao and Zhong Bin are particularly rampant in this North Sea, and the power of the imperial court is simply helpless against this. At this time, I don't know which pirate it is, thinking of this, Zhou Jinfeng couldn't help but sigh and shook his head, and walked towards the living room.

As soon as he entered the living room, Wu Wenshan hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed to Zhou Jinfeng, "See Lord Zhou."

This martial dynasty is also the same as the Ming Dynasty's general use of literature to suppress the military, the civil and military officials at the same level meet, and the military attachés have to salute the civil officials, not to mention the gray pier chief.

"Please ...... Oh......" Zhou Jinfeng couldn't remember the name of the pier chief for a while.

Wu Wenshan has been in the army for many years, so he naturally saw at a glance that the adults didn't remember his name this week, and hurriedly responded, "Below is Wu Wenshan, the head of the beacon tower pier in the East China Sea." ”

"Oh, okay, what is Lord Wu doing here?" Zhou Jinfeng nodded and asked.

"A group of pirates came from Beihai in the early hours of this morning, and there is a huge steel ship in the fleet, which has now landed in front of the Beihaiwei beacon tower, and when I went to see it at noon, these pirates were already starting to build the city."

Zhou Jinfeng couldn't help but be furious, "Even if you came here in the early morning, why did you come to report to this official when the sun was setting?" ”

"This group of pirates is completely different from what the villains usually see, except for one, the ships they use in the sea, except for one, can come and go freely on the sea without sails and oars, and the speed is extremely fast, several times faster than the war ships of our Great Martial Naval Army. Especially the steel giant ship, the length of the ship is more than 100 zhang, and the side of the ship exceeds the city wall of Anyun. The landing pirates were all dressed in cardigans, iron hats, and had sharp bird guns in their hands, as well as sharp short swords on them. ”

"Nonsense!" Zhou Jinfeng couldn't help but shout when he heard it. He has seen a lot of this kind of thing, these soldiers do not dare to fight, as long as they encounter the enemy, they often flee from the battle, and when they encounter the commander-in-chief, they complain about how strong the enemy is, and exaggerate the enemy's situation ten times and a hundred times in order to exonerate themselves. "How can a giant ship made of steel float on water? Could it be that there is a witchcraft? What's more, it has to be more than a hundred feet long, and the ship's side still needs to be more than the height of the city wall, how is this possible? ”

"My lord, what the villain said is true, some of the pirates on this beach drive vehicles that can move quickly and on the ground without the traction of cattle and horses, and there are monsters with huge shovels, and the soil dug up by one shovel is enough for forty or fifty people to dig for half an hour......" Wu Wenshan knew that Lord Zhou didn't believe what he said at all, but he had to continue. If you don't believe me, send someone to the beach to investigate. The villain's team sneaked up on the three pirates on the way back, and the whole army was exhausted, and only if the villain escaped faster could he rush back to An Yun City to report to the adults. ”

Zhou Jinfeng really didn't pay any attention to this Wu Wenshan's words at this time, what this dun chief who escaped from was too much beyond his cognition, just this steel giant ship was completely impossible, not to mention those self-propelled vehicles, wasn't that witchcraft?

"What? Is it your team that is all in the ink or the pirates who are all in the army? ”

"It's the villain's dun army, these three pirates all have a burst of fire in their hands, and a sharp short sword is placed on it, and they are good at technical attacks, and the villain's dun army can't shoot arrows into their bodies when attacking, so ......"

"Okay, you go rest first, and I'll send some people to the beach to check on the situation." Zhou Jinfeng didn't think so, but he just felt strange why this pier chief said that there were only three pirates, and that beacon tower generally had more than a dozen military households, how could he not beat three pirates? Still the whole army? After he asked Wu Wenshan to go out, he called ten people from the history list to go to the beach tomorrow morning to find out the news. Due to the wolf smoke in the morning, the number of people who took refuge in the city also increased, and he had to send more soap to patrol the city, and at the same time notified the acropolis of the thousand households in the west of the city and sent twenty taels of silver. This thousand households still gave face, and sent fifty personal soldiers with two small cannons to help defend it.

Night fell quickly, this late autumn night was quite cool, the people who took refuge dragged their families to drive pigs and sheep each occupied a place by the city wall to open the tattered bed, the smell of pigs and sheep and the musty smell of the cover made the nearby residents quite troubled, but they didn't pay much attention to this, the pirates came, and I don't know how long the pirates will be wanton this time, whether they will attack the city, whether their lives and property can be guaranteed if the city is broken, these problems are bothering all the people in the city.

Night patrols in the city have increased significantly, and many resting people lie on the already small streets, making it even more difficult for them to get off their feet, just like the conductors who pushed food cars on crowded trains in later generations. "Get up, let go, let the military master go over ......"

"Don't you see so many people sleeping here? I'm still walking around here. ”

"You barbarians, the military master is patrolling all night for the safety of this Anyun City, if you are mixed with pirates who open the city in the middle of the night, you barbarians will not die without a place to be buried?"

"How is this possible that there are pirates among us? These are all people from our village who fled together. ”

"The military master is doing things, and he dares to stop him here, come on, drag me to the street and slap my mouth, and let go when I can't speak."

"You people who only know how to exert power on the common people, and you have the ability to fight pirates...... "As he spoke, the stunned young man was already pulled aside by four or five soldiers and smacked his mouth with a wooden plank.

The people next to him all looked at this stunned man who was slapped and no one dared to speak, for fear that he would be accidentally taken away to slap his mouth together. A crackling sound accompanied by the stench of chicken and duck dung in the air made the fleeing people even more unable to sleep.

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At this time, the outer wall of the beach camp has basically taken shape, and a deep moat trench more than one meter deep has been dug around the wall, and if anyone wants to sneak into the camp, there is no way to enter except for the five-meter-wide road that has not been dug at this gate. As for the road that has not been dug up, the original design plan was to build a suspension bridge, but the problem is that there are not enough materials to make the bridge deck, and those wooden planks with different degrees of dryness cannot meet this requirement, so in order to make it easy for construction machinery to enter and exit, the section of the door is simply left undug, anyway, in the face of the fire of the crossing public, no one will be able to rush in from here.

The walls were made of earth to form several lookouts, and the watchmen left on the lookouts, who wore self-made active infrared night vision devices or infrared observation equipment, although the observation distance was only more than 100 meters, but if they could not see clearly, the natives who came could not see clearly. M240 machine guns were erected on the lookout near the door, and Li Jieqi assured the Executive Committee that even if it was the Manchu Eight Banners attacking now, two M240 machine guns would be enough to wipe them out.

At this time, in the wall, the places near the wall are all prefabricated houses, because there is no brick kiln for the time being, there are no bricks to build a house, so only some people can be arranged to live in the prefabricated house. Inside the prefabricated house is a tent camp, and the tents are arranged behind the prefabricated house to prevent the night attackers from throwing fire into the city walls and causing a fire, they did not bring fire trucks, and if a fire is really lit in this camp, there is really no way to extinguish it.