The Qing soldiers have not yet arrived, according to the spy report that does not collect at night. There is also Xinzhuang, there are 70 or 80 households, more than 400 mouths, plus the villagers of nearby Yizhuang have fled into Xinzhuang, a total of nearly 100 households, more than 500 mouths.

However, Jingbian Fort and Dongjiazhuang Fort are young and strong. Some of them were organized into a new army, and Wang Dou organized the remaining men in Shubao, with a total of nearly 2,000 young and strong auxiliary soldiers, including some old and weak men.

The newly moved military households, plus the existing military households. These men and women squeezed the old and new forts of Shunxiang like sardines in cans, and they could no longer stuff people. The newcomers, too, were urgently organized. They were led by the heads of the officers in their forts, and they assisted in the defense of the city. There is strength in numbers, and there is a strong organization. In just one day, the excavation of the trench pit outside the city of Shunxiang Fort has begun to see the scale.

After Wang Dou made a tour of the outside of the city, he was slightly relieved, and he entered the city and came to the city wall.

At this time, the walls were defended by several of his sentinels. Wen Fangliang and Sun Sanjie led their troops to defend the south gate of the old fort and the city walls at both ends, Zhong Tiaoyang and Fu Chao led their troops to defend the two city walls in the northeast of the old fort, and Han Zhong led his troops to patrol various places in the city.

Shunxiang Fort originally had four inferior soldiers, about 1,000 troops. In the battle in the past few days, the soldiers of Shunxiangbao suffered a total of 140 casualties, of which nearly 100 were killed, and most of the casualties were in Han Zhong's left outpost and Han Chao's right outpost.

There were 249 sentries in Shunxiang Fort. One hundred and forty casualties were imposed, and one sentry had been disabled. Fortunately, 249 Zhong Tiaoyang's mid-sentry sergeants were moved, so that there would be no shortage of guards and soldiers in Shunxiang Fort.

On the thirteenth, Wang Dou implemented a pure spear team and a fire and prosper team in each outpost. After two days of reorganization, the Korean Dynasty and the Korean Central Committee reorganized two teams of full Huorui soldiers, both of whom were veterans. As for the pikemen of the two teams, each team was supplemented with a large number of young and strong auxiliaries.

Sun Sanjie's outpost sergeant also suffered 25 casualties, and two teams of full fire commanders and one full pikemen were reorganized, all of whom were veterans. The remaining captain of spearmen was also supplemented with a part of the auxiliaries.

The sergeants of the two teams of 120 soldiers in Dongjiazhuang suffered more than 30 casualties when guarding Dongjiazhuang, and they were also adjusted to the fire mirror team and the spear team, and after adding some people from the auxiliary troops of Shunxiang Fort, they were all transferred to Huiyao Fort, led by Gao Shiyin and Yang Tong.

Wang Dou had already instructed Li Maosen to lead the craftsmen of Shunxiang Fort. There were also some young auxiliaries who helped. Repair all of this armor and patch some thick blades of iron at the holes in the armor that have been broken. Once repaired, the armor is fully usable. Although some of them are not pretty, it is better to have armor than no armor.

The same goes for shields.

In terms of fire mirrors, the Shunxiang Army's fire system is also very sufficient, and after replenishing some of the fire chips that were damaged a few days ago, there are still more than 100 Huorui stocks in the warehouse of Shunxiang Fort.

Except for one of the captured Qing sabers and guns for the use of the soldiers, most of the rest were used by the young and strong auxiliaries in the fort.

Wang Dou and the others decided to take advantage of defending the city. Use muskets and artillery to deal severe blows to the Qing soldiers outside the city.

In addition to the hanging soft walls, the horses that were originally located at many battlements were also moved, although these horses had the effect of hindering the Qing troops from entering the city, but the disadvantages of hindering their own operations were also obvious. Most of those rejected horses were arranged on the outside of the city wall trench, and on the inside of the south gate of Shunxiang Fort, dense rejection horses were also arranged.

After moving away from the hanging household and rejecting the horse, Wang Dou and others increased the number of rolling logs and stones on the city wall, and the fire pots made by "fierce fire oil" were also many on the side of the city wall defended by each team of soldiers. In addition, the auxiliaries on the city wall were also equipped with a large number of ramming rods, forks and other objects to overturn the ladders that the Qing soldiers relied on.

Not only that, but according to the method said by the monk-born officer, more than a dozen bells were made in various city walls, which were used to knock them down from the city with a ram after the Qing soldiers set up the ladder probe.

In terms of defense, Wang Dou was generally satisfied. What worries him is the use of artillery.

On the 13th, Wang Dou asked for a batch of artillery equipment from the state city, connected to the original artillery of Shunxiang Fort, and now Shunxiang Fort has a total of 15 copper and iron cannons, 23 small copper cannons and small iron cannons, and 15 tiger squat cannons. There is also a large amount of rocket equipment, etc. ().

Most of these cannons were erected at the south gate and the city walls at both ends, with only one pair of Franc machine bronze cannons, one small copper cannon, and two tiger tail cannons erected at the west gate of the new castle.

According to Wang Dou's estimate, the Qing soldiers mainly attacked from the south gate, even if they attacked the rest of Shunxiang Fort. The guns were all light and mounted on gun carriages, and there was a large amount of manpower in the fort, so it was perfectly timely to carry these guns to the rest of the city walls.

Wang Dou's main concern was the manpower problem of artillery. After the artillery of the state city arrived, the gunners did not follow, and Shunxiang Fort only had an artillery team of more than 50 people. Strictly speaking, there were only about 20 gunners, three gunners for a pair of bronze cannons, two gunners for small cannons, and the rest were sergeants for the guard.

Who will shoot the guns that are being moved? This was a serious problem, and Wang Dou could only disassemble all the artillery of this team, including the artillery sergeants who were guarding. Each person was responsible for a cannon, and each of them selected a few auxiliaries as assistants to urgently teach them the knowledge of fighting guns.

It's just that what the shooting will turn out at that time, this is unknown.

Worried about the gunners, Wang Dou went down the city wall. At this time, the streets of Shunxiangbao were noisy, crowded with people, and the streets were full of young and strong auxiliaries who went out of the city to work, as well as a large group of auxiliaries who were busy transporting the equipment to defend the city to the city. Wang Dou walked on the street, although the fort was tense and busy, but it was not chaotic and panicked, everywhere was orderly, and each team was young and strong, and someone led it. I also know what I want to do, it seems that the ability of Lin Daofu and others is still very strong, in a short period of time. Organize the military households that moved into the fort.

Seeing Wang Dou coming, the soldiers in the fort saluted him respectfully, at this tense juncture when the enemy was coming, Wang Dou was their backbone, Wang Dou was calm, and their hearts were settled. Although the shoe army came a lot of people. However, as long as everyone works together, this Shunxiang Fort can still be defended.

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Old White Cow: I didn't come back until the afternoon, and there was another chapter in the evening.