Ziren didn't know whether the other party was friend or foe, and after hearing the news, he didn't dare to be careless and hurriedly gathered his subordinates. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoChangning Fort only has a city gate in the south, and after gathering the people, he quickly led people to the south city to guard.

From a distance, the people who came were already less than a mile away from the city. And he was constantly whipping the horse, without the slightest intention of slowing down. Cui Desheng saw that the situation was not good, and constantly suggested that Ziren take the lead in opening a warning shot.

Lei Zhenwei, the small flag officer in charge of firearms in the fort, also took a few soldiers to move out of a Franco, because Zi Gong had already been prepared, it was loaded in a short time, and he was waiting for Ziren to give the order to open fire.

In his early years, Ziren was in the Great Berdinke Gong Battalion, and he had carefully studied this Furlong cannon. I know that this kind of artillery is a kind of breech artillery that I copied after the Ming Dynasty captured it from the Portuguese during the Jiajing period.

However, when this cannon is fired, the gunner's cooperation requirements are very high, and the child and mother guns must be tightly fitted, otherwise the fire leakage will reduce the already distant range, and it may also injure the gunner.

Seeing that Lei Zhenwei and a few people were quite experienced in handling this cannon, Ziren was overjoyed to find that there was such a person under his command, and he was a little distracted, and he was already less than a hundred steps away from the city.

Ziren recognized at a glance that the leader of the cavalry was an old acquaintance Li Dequan, so he made up his mind and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to extinguish the fire rope to avoid misunderstanding.

"But Ziren in the city? Hurry up and take the fort gate, Li has an urgent military situation to tell! Li Dequan also recognized Ziren at this time, and shouted at the city while lowering his horse's speed.

"What are you still doing in a daze, quickly open the city gate and let Brother Li in." Seeing that Li Dequan's face was serious, Ziren didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly ordered someone to open the city gate, and then replied to the city: "Brother Li is a little quiet, and I will let people open the city gate." ”

Seeing the gate open, Li Dequan quickly led his men to rush in. At this time, Ziren saw that after Li De's whole body, there was another group of people following him.

"Ziren quickly close the city gate, don't ask Mengnu to take the opportunity to break into the city." At this time, Li Dequan had already run to Ziren's side, took a few breaths and continued: "Brother, in order to save effort, when I came to pass through the Hetao grassland, I bumped into the Mongolian Tatars who were assembling. I wanted to get closer to talk about it, but I was targeted by this group of grandsons, and I was so embarrassed to chase me. ”

Seeing that Mengnu was attacking again, Ziren didn't care to ask more, and immediately ordered everyone to wait along the line. Wait for the enemy to come within range of the firearm, hear your own command and then open fire to retreat.

The Mongol Tartars were very cunning, and when they came to a distance of about a mile outside the city, they stopped, hid out of the range of our firearms, and kept probing around the city.

At this time, a "boom" was heard, and the gun position of the Furlong machine was instantly enveloped in a burst of gunsmoke.

The bronze Furlong cannon of Changning Fort weighed no more than 300 catties, and because it was a rear-loading gun, it had poor air-holding performance and could not accumulate more fire gas in the barrel. Even if it is cast from a high position with the help of the city wall, its range is only about 200 steps at most.

The cannonball flew far and smashed headlong on the ground, causing no substantial damage to the Mongol cavalry, except for a puff of dust.

Seeing the enemy coming to the city, Ziren was thinking about countermeasures in his heart. Seeing that someone did not listen to the order and fired indiscriminately, he hurriedly went over to check. It turned out to be a young soldier under Lei Zhenwei, who was nervous about the invasion a few years ago, and accidentally lit the fire rope for a while.

"You bastard! If you don't listen to the order again, I won't give you food tonight. The person who fired the cannon was Lei Zhenwei's only son, Lei Tiedan, Lei Zhenwei scolded his son, and said to Ziren with a face full of shame: "Lord Ding, this child is still young, you can spare him this time." ”

"Lord Ding, their father and son, they have made meritorious contributions to resisting the invasion of Mengnu years ago, for the sake of my old Cui's face, don't blame them." Cui Desheng had a good relationship with Lei Zhenwei, and knew that it was a big crime not to listen to the orders of the officials when he was in battle, so he also came over to help intercede.

Now that the enemy is present, Ziren does not want to punish his subordinates at this time, and cause internal discord. whispered a few words of reprimand to Lei Tiedan, seeing that this kid was already red, and he did not repent much.

Fortunately, after the opponent besieged the city for a few turns, he realized that Changning Fort was already heavily defended, and he did not rush to attack, and slowly began to retreat to the west.

Seeing the enemy retreating, Ziren's face was still solemn. pulled Li Dequan and inquired about the reality of the enemy.

After some exchanges, I learned that Li Dequan and Li Dedi, the former guard in the fort, were sworn brothers. After Li Dequan guarded Taiping Fort, he wanted to take Li Yongfang's mother and son away and stay by his side so that he could take care of them.

As a result, as we passed through the steppe, we noticed that a large number of Mongol Tatars were gathering, numbering about a thousand, and that men and horses were constantly coming from the north to join them. Li Dequan was discovered by the Monnu too early, and the exact number and intentions of the enemy are unknown.

Looking at the posture of the Mongols, they are going to attack in a big way. Ziren immediately asked Cui Desheng to select eight soldiers who were good at horsemanship, and divided Ding Bi, Wang Mingqiang, Wang Xuedao, and Tang Yaoshun to accompany them, each with two horses, and rushed to pick up the personnel of the subordinate pier.

Before leaving, he specially told his subordinates to urge the pier to withdraw to Changning Fort as soon as possible. Don't take too many bottles and cans in the pier, it's important to save your life first. Only when the grain is discarded, it is either set on fire or poured with feces and urine, and it must not be left for the tartars.

After the sentinel rode away, due to the unknown situation of the enemy, Ziren first fired three beacons and three cannons, according to the thousands of people to attack, to warn the surrounding forts, and at the same time began to arrange various defensive matters in the fort.

Ziren divided the more than 90 able-bodied men from 16 to 50 years old in the fort into two teams and handed them over to Cui Desheng and Han Shiyong to lead.

As long as the men in the military household are incomplete, old and infirm, as long as they can move, they will all show signs and hand them over to Ding Youcai to lead them to carry rolling logs, stones, arrows, blades and other things to the four city walls, and serve them as early warnings.

Women between the ages of 16 and 40 in the fort also organized themselves to fill all the water tanks and buckets in the fort to prevent the Mongol Tatars from firing rockets to harass them, and to go into battle to kill the enemy as a last resort.

Ding Shoutie was responsible for leading the craftsmen in the fort to transform the wheelbarrow into a Saimen knife cart, and then create some horses, thistles, iron nails and other things.

Li Dequan and more than 20 horsemen and horses under his command expressed their willingness to help defend the city, and after Ziren thanked Li Dequan, he placed them in the center of the city to respond, and galloped to help all sides at any time.

Zhou Daqi and his men went to the south gate with Ziren to guard, and at the same time began to burn the golden juice of the city guard. Lei Zhenwei's Furlong cannon was also placed at the south gate. Everyone in the fort knew that the enemy did not dare to delay at present, and the preparations were completed by noon.

Ding Bi, Wang Mingqiang, and Tang Yaoshun, who were sent out to meet them before, all returned. Seeing that Wang Xuedao was the only one missing, Ziren couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

At this time, a soldier with a broken arm came to report that there was a fire burning at Tongjiadun west of Changning Fort. Ziren knew that something was wrong, and immediately led his subordinates to check.

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