All kinds of workshops are in full operation, and the soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city work together to protect their hometowns, and under the leadership and protection of the soldiers of the Yong'an Army, they either fill ditches or repair the city walls. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are people coming and going outside the three gates of Ulzhou every day, and most of these people go out under Xiao Yi's order to 'clear the wilderness', and Xiao Yi doesn't want to do this.

However, there is a huge disparity between the enemy and us, although the current strength of the Liukou is uneven, but the current Yongan Army is also mostly recruited.

It is inevitable that there will be some tension in dealing with this kind of big scene, and defending the city is indeed the best way to stop the rogues, and the first thing to consider at this time is the city.

To put it bluntly, Wang Zishun didn't come this time to erode Datong, he came to vent his anger, and whoever was slapped hard at the most beautiful time would not give up.

This is also Xiao Yi's negligence, he only thought about meritorious service, but he didn't think of the possible retaliation of the peasant army.

The prince's purpose is also very clear along the way, which also has some rare situations in the late Ming Dynasty, many Dunwei and Tunbao in Datong are vulnerable, but the Liukou passed directly under their city, and did not have any intention of looting.

Datong did not know the fate of the overwhelming appearance of many slogans, and the rogues from all over the country responded in groups when they saw the arrival of the righteous army.

In order to make a big noise, Wang Zishun accepted all these people, regardless of the good and the bad, so many ruffians, horse thieves and bandits from all over the country turned into peasant armies representing 'justice'.

They waved their flags and shouted, swaggering all the way from Pingxingling to Ulzhou, and Xiao Yi had been scattering at night since the peasant army attacked Pingxingling, keeping an eye on the movements of the peasant army at any time.

Until this morning, that is, on the 20th day of August in the third year of Chongzhen, the latest news was that the front of the peasant army had entered the border of Ulzhou.

Because Xiao Yi had just taken over, Ulzhou was busy preparing for war and quelling the chaos, so he did not establish a routine dun guard, and he could not know the movements of the peasant army.

At this time, in the Guard's Mansion in Ulju City, everyone who came and went was wearing armor, and since Xiao Yi ordered the preparation for war, he made a clear request that from the day of execution, all officers and soldiers in the city must wear armor day and night until the day the battle ended.

And Xiao is naturally responsible as an ethics officer, and he is the first to wear it neatly.

The sound of the nails and leaves colliding with each other echoed in everyone's ears all day long, and everyone was walking heavily, but seeing the fearlessness in Xiao Yi's eyes, his eyes were full of determination.

Different from the original Ethics Mansion, there is a sand table placed here, which clearly marks the mountains, steep slopes, and Zhuangbao within a radius of more than ten miles in Ulju.

The movement of the peasant army also changed at any time, and since the front of the peasant army entered Ulzhou, Wang Dayong spilled all the night.

Almost every once in a candle of incense, a few people galloped into the state city from the south gate and came to the mansion to inform Xiao Yi of the movements of the peasant army in the territory.

At this time, in addition to the generals of the Yong'an Army, some generals of the Yuanzhou City, such as Li Erniu, the official of Tuntian, Qianzong Yuan, Shaogong, and Zhou Ding, the general manager of the state city, who performed well last time, were also present.

Everyone looked at the sand table in front of them, and they all sighed, it turned out that the battle could still be fought like this, and in the past, they were almost blind to the movements of rogues, horse thieves, etc.

Either they were beaten passively, or they were evacuated directly, how could it be that at this time, everyone had a full understanding of the battle situation in their hearts, and they looked at Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi still looked like he was in his chest.

Yuan Shaogong and the others knew Bai Chong'an very well, and if Bai Chong'an was here at this time, I am afraid that he would have been flustered a long time ago.

Xiao Yi also considered, he thought about the results of these days of preparations, the north gate of the state city has never been opened, and the peasant army came from the south, although the situation is urgent, but firearms and artillery are still sharp weapons to defend the city, and they must not be used indiscriminately.

These days, Qi Haoguang, Wang Xiong with a group of craftsmen personally overhauled, 50 copper and iron Franc machine running 8 due to damp, disrepair and other factors can not be used, 42 of the available 5 and 5 were found to be in danger of exploding, and finally available 37 Franc cannons.

Among them, the east and west gates are each equipped with ten, the remaining seventeen are all placed on the south gate battlements, and the rest of the various large and small cannons, dozens of small copper and iron cannons, hundreds of tiger pier cannons, bowl mouth cannons, etc., are also overhauled day and night.

Finally, the available capital was placed on the battlements of the three city walls to assist in defending the city, according to Wang Xiong's report last night, all preparations have been completed, and Qi Haoguang is responsible for leading people to strengthen the three city gates, which are also ready.

And the three Shenwei General Cannons, each of the three city walls is naturally one each, the power of this cannon is huge, and Xiao also believes that it will definitely be effective.

After pondering for a long time, Xiao Yi suddenly asked, "Master Li, how is the recruitment of Minyong?" ”

Li Erniu was also thinking about how to stop the peasant army, Xiao Yi's sudden question startled him, he said: "Back to the adult, after receiving the order of the adult, he immediately went to do it, under the call of the adult, the military and civilians everywhere have signed up enthusiastically, and now 3,612 people have been recruited, according to the requirements of the adult, all are young and strong people with families." ”

He continued: "The people have already issued the armor and ordnance in the warehouse, and there are no more armor weapons in the warehouse, but continue to recruit the people? ”

Xiao Yi shook his head and signaled that there was no need to recruit any more, the Yong'an Army had its own workshop to build the Tiger Gun, and the armor and weapons of the officers and soldiers in the warehouse were naturally piled up there.

These are also put away, and it is enough to take them out and let these people use them, after all, most of the rogues have no armor and weapons.

Xiao Yi will never let the people who have no weapons and armor help defend the city, if it really comes to that time, it will definitely be the time when all the Yongan army is killed.

Although Xiao Yi and the others in the treasury were not eye-catching, they were all property for others, so even Bai Chongan was very reluctant to send a part of Xiao Yitun Fort at that time, and Xiao Yifa's clothes and armor and the matter of the people were soon spread to the Acropolis.

Garrison Zhao Ming and Bingxian Nie Kegang were very surprised when they heard this, and they were also surprised that Xiao Yi's courage would actually issue these clothes and armor to Minzhuang.

But Zhao Ming was also worried about whether Xiao Yi would be able to hold Ulzhou City, so he sent an official letter asking Xiao Yi to recruit more people and not to send out more armor and weapons, to which Xiao Yi only agreed.

Li Erniu said it soundly, and the root cause was not because of Xiao Yi's call, or because of his generous treatment of their family, but everyone who participated was rewarded, or rice and noodles, or silver, meat, and Xiao Yi's 'generosity' almost spent his last grain and silver.

Since then, almost all the income from the last time has been used up, and Xiao Yi has very little silver taels in his hands, except for the grain and rice needed to defend the city, the rest of the food is not much, this time it can be said that it is a back-to-back battle.

However, Xiao Yi has no regrets, as long as these can be exchanged for victory, no matter how much it takes, it is worth it.

Xiao Yidao: "These Minzhuang are preliminarily organized into three battalions of A, B and C, Li Erniu, Yuan Shaogong, and Zhou Ding, the three of you have contributed to assisting the officials to quell the chaos last time, and you are ordered to be the battalion officers of the three battalions of A, B, and C, and lead the people to help guard the three gates of the south, east and west!" ”

Xiao Yi's words were understated, but they revealed the trust in the three of them, Li Erniu and Zhou Ding glanced at each other, and they both saw the joy of rising up from their respective eyes.

The battalion officers of the first battalion, although they are not front-line soldiers, can actually lead thousands of people, and everyone still wears armor, and these newly recruited people are supervised and trained by the old soldiers of the Yongan Army, which is much stronger than the original officers and soldiers.

Although Yuan Shaogong is the general manager of Qian, due to the open and secret battles in the state city, he has never led the actual number of officers and soldiers, and this time he can actually lead a battalion of thousands of people, although it is only a strong people, which is enough to make him happy.

The three of them stepped forward at the same time and said, "The subordinate official receives the order, and he will be crushed to pieces!" ”

Xiao Yi stepped forward, patted the shoulders of the three of them, and said with a smile: "You don't have to break your bones, just follow this official to kill the thief." ”

Li Erniu and the three nodded, grateful to Xiao Yi in their hearts, Xiao Yi was ruthless to the enemy, but he was kind and trusting to his own people.

Then he replied: "Follow the lord, kill the thief!" ”

Even Li Erniu admired it from the bottom of his heart, a Shangguan like Xiao Yi didn't know how much stronger than Bai Chong'an! (To be continued.) )