The night of Liuzhou City in winter is extraordinarily quiet, the icy cold wind makes people hide at home and do not want to go out, and the soldiers on duty on the inner and outer city walls, as well as the soldiers and guards who are constantly patrolling the inner and outer cities, while tightening their clothes, they can't stop cursing the shellers two years ago, it is the shellers of two years ago that not only shattered the history of Liuzhou City since the establishment of the city, but also made the lords and big families in the inner city panic, in order to avoid such a thing from happening again, Increasing sentry posts and patrols at night became a routine for the soldiers.

It's just cursing and swearing, no one dares to be lazy with the soldiers guarding the city and patrolling, and the commanders who were lazy before they also turned a blind eye to ignore it, but since ten days ago, I heard that the north of the Liuzhou Prefecture was attacked by the chaotic people, and it was connected to several cities, and from the day the news was delivered by the 600-mile fast horse, the commanders urged themselves to increase their posts and patrols like drinking chicken blood, for fear that those chaotic people would suddenly reappear......

If it had been two years ago, people who had such thoughts would have been ridiculed or said to be unfounded; Liuzhou City was considered from a military point of view when it was built, the city has thick walls and is surrounded by water on three sides, coupled with a large number of troops, I really haven't heard of any individuals who dare to attack Liuzhou City after so many years of building the city! However, two years ago, after being shelled that night, no one can be found and no place can be found until now...... No one dares to say that Liuzhou City is impregnable anymore, in front of the kind of artillery that can blow people up...... The walls are no longer a good support for the defenders......

There was a noise on the side of the tower, and it didn't take long for the sound of hurried horses' hooves to resound on the official road, and it was the urgent military intelligence agent who sent the report to the war in the north through this non-stop way to quickly transmit it back, tonight there have been six such fast horses in a row, this frequency and rhythm is the first time to appear, is there any emergency in the north? The soldiers defending the city and the soldiers patrolling along the way all looked at the southeast side of the inner city......

It is said that this kind of internal information will not be leaked to people outside the government, but the rule is that the dead are alive, as long as there are a few more steps in the handling link, it is not difficult to inquire about these military information, and it didn't take long for several houses in the southwest of the inner city to be lit up......

"Master, the latest battle report sent by Liucheng County in the north, this afternoon, the vanguard of the Flower Skin Rebellion has appeared on the outskirts of Liucheng County...... Before evening, the rebel army arrived, without any rest and set up artillery to attack the county seat, and now the east of the county has been invaded by the rebels, and the form is in crisis, and the county officials have sent three groups in a row to ask for help......"

The smiling face Li's personal guard stood in front of his master in a single coat, and the smiling face Li who was disturbed from his dream did not have the slightest sense of blame, and walked out of the inner room without even having time to put on his clothes, and the concubine who was sleeping behind him hurriedly found an outer coat and followed behind him to put on the master.

"Why are these chaotic people moving so fast, it's only been a few days, from Danyang in the north, to Chang'an Town, and the county seat of Rongxian County to now it's all in a mess, it's only been a few days, and Liucheng County is about to fall into the hands of the chaotic people?!"

With the light lit by the glass oil lamp in the room, looking at the continuous delivery of the copy of the newspaper, the smiling Li was shocked by the continuous loss of several cities in the north, although he was not a military general, but he also knew that those places themselves were used as a military point for control, ** nearby ethnic minorities, to put it mildly, how could the defenders inside not be able to fight, even if it was a few hundred pigs, it was enough for the attackers to catch it for a long time!

"What do you think? Could it be that the defenders are in cahoots with the rebellious people? Or is it that the flower skin soldiers under the surname Deng are all divine soldiers? Smiling Li put a few copies of the newspaper on the table with some frustration.

Although the personal guard didn't read the battle reports, he already knew the situation, and replied to his master with a wry smile:

"Sir, I've been asking about these people in the north since that incident two years ago. The firearms of those flower skin troops are sharp, and everyone has guns, although they dare not say that they can all have the ability to wear a spear like Yang in a hundred steps, but there is no problem in shooting people in a hundred steps, and the fall of Gutian two years ago is the best example. ”

"That's not that exaggerated! Look at these battle reports, these rioters were still in the Shapu and Taiping areas in the morning, and they came to the county seat in the afternoon?! I didn't even have to rest and attack the county seat directly, and I took the east of the city before dark in half an hour, are these people still human?! Don't they have to eat, don't they have to rest?! ””

Smiling Li slapped the table and roared** The unhappiness in his heart, the tea that had just been poured out of the kettle on the table was shaken out of the tea bowl, and the little concubine next to him hurriedly stepped forward to comfort the master.

"Lord is angry, in fact, at first I didn't understand why these chaotic people were so fierce and could continue to attack the city and plunder the land, a few days ago I was fortunate to see a stagecoach from Chang'an Town, he had seen the methods of those flower skin troops before sending the letter." The personal guard's words aroused the curiosity of the smiling Li, and motioned for him to sit down and talk in detail.

"Although those flower-skinned soldiers wear bells and whistles, they are extremely difficult to identify if they are mixed in with the grass and trees, which brings them an innate convenience for launching a surprise attack. The second is that these people have sharp firearms, and they are shot down even under the armor of the platoon of guns, and the heavy charge of the bird guns of the Flower Skin Army is quite fast, after several consecutive rows, most of the defenders are either shot down or run away without morale...... But we knew all these things two years ago, and there was only one thing that I realized after listening to it this time......"

"The stagecoach is riding a horse from Chang'an to the county seat of Rongxian County, when he ran out, he saw that there were pursuers chasing out, although he was not a fast horse along the way, but it was not slow, he spent half a day to arrive at the county seat of Rong County, and soon after, not far from the county there were also those flower skin soldiers who followed and entered, these flower skin soldiers did not ride horses, completely legs and feet all the way to the place, it can be seen that these flower skin soldiers are well-trained."

"Wait......" Smiling Li suddenly found something in the guard's words and interrupted him: "There are sixty or seventy miles from Chang'an to Rongxian, even if I can gallop to the flower skin army within a day, but I will travel a hundred miles to the general, those flower skin troops will not be so stupid...... And didn't the defenders of Rongxian County see that these flower skin troops were exhausted after a long run? ”

Although Smiling Li is not a soldier, but he also knows the meaning of the phrase "traveling a hundred miles to the general", in ancient times, the march and combat was actually between ten and thirty miles a day, in addition to the repetitive and complicated process of pulling out the camp and setting up the camp It takes a lot of time, and the key point is to ensure that the physical strength of the soldiers cannot drop too much because of the march. This Chang'an Town is so far away from the county seat of Rongxian County, although the Huapi Army can reach it quickly in a day, but it must also be exhausted, which is completely the rhythm of sending people to the head......

"Master, that's the main thing in the future; The defenders of Rongxian County naturally saw that those flower skin troops were out of breath, and under the great joy, the Rong County defenders did their best, just to give these flower skin troops a head-on blow, but what was the result? The Huapi army is rushing for dozens of miles to attack Rongxian, and it is absolutely true that the Huapi soldiers are tired and tired, but if they go into battle to fight, it is to send them to death, but it is more than enough for them to line up with guns and shoot medicine......"

"Hiss......"

Although the personal guard has not finished speaking, the ridiculous Li has already understood what is behind and what the other party wants to express to himself: because of the sharp firearms, the Huapi army does not need to consider retaining physical strength like the traditional army under the long-distance attack, so as not to have physical strength to fight when it is raided, and in ancient times, no physical strength and no morale are the same fate. But the Fur Army is different, they will not fight you, no matter how tired they are, as long as they have the strength to raise a gun and shoot, it is enough to kill the brave general......

And the next thing is easy to guess, the defenders of Rongxian County are pouring out of the nest to prepare to fight the water dogs, but they didn't expect that the opponent's platoon of guns and guns don't need much physical strength at all, and most of the defenders who went out of the city were killed and wounded in a few rounds of crackling rounds, and then the flower skin army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, and the retreating defenders were involved in the county town of Rongxian County, the soldiers in front rushed in front, and the soldiers in the back threw the kind of black lump that could explode in the back, and the defenders had no intention of resisting under this battle formation, No wonder the county seat of Rongxian County was captured so quickly......

I understand how Rongxian was captured, and I also understand how sharp and terrible those flower skin troops are, Smiling Li can't say anything, if it is replaced by other rebellious people Smiling Li will naturally not be so speechless and worried, merchants are rarely attacked no matter where they are, because the rebellious people also need to keep the commercial channel to trade materials and sell the looted things, but the flower skin army on the other side is different, their leader is the young man surnamed Deng in the mountain village, I have a grudge with the other party because of Liu Mazi's affairs......

Gently waving his hand to let the tired personal guard go down to rest, the smiling Li let the tired concubine go back to the room by himself, he used the hot water kettle he collected at a great price in Guangdong to refill himself with hot water, and then adjusted the wick of the glass oil lamp to make it a little weaker; These things are produced in that mountain village, although they have spent a lot of money around several bends, but they are really easy to use, if they didn't covet Liu Mazi's relationship at the beginning, and didn't have a grudge with the mountain village, then they can not only spend so much less money, but also how much money can they make through these things......

Sitting alone in the room, smiling Li wanted to be quiet and analyze the current situation, so as to judge the ultimate intention of these flower skin troops, so that he could find the most correct way to resolve the current crisis. He protected Liu Mazi and coveted the mountain village, and he had taken two wrong steps to form a beam, but this beam has not developed to the point where it cannot be resolved completely, and the other party has not been able to judge one or two of his movements in the past two years, so this is the next way he wants to go...... But you can't make a mistake again...... (To be continued.) )