Fei County ordered Zhao Muying to send away the army and let out a long sigh of relief. This period of time was simply like a year, especially after the defeat of the previous official army. Fearing that the cavalry was approaching the city, with more than 200 patrol battalions with ammunition and weapons, they could not hold the county seat of Feixian County, which was broken by the city wall.

Now it's okay, Li Zhenshou personally led the army to conquer and suppress, and he no longer has to worry about the safety of the county.

Zhao Muying was not born in the imperial examination but donated to the class, and he felt that he was a little unworthy of serving as the county magistrate of Fei County. The land here is barren and the people are poor, and it is difficult to make money, and in this way, it has become a problem when to get back the capital of buying officials, not to mention the current crisis.

Zhao Muying has been in office for less than a year, basically not a few days of comfortable days, Fei County is located in the throat of Luzhong to Lunan, and the merchants from the south to the north are endless. Now the officers and soldiers have been stationed in the county twice, and the people eat and chew, and the people are recruited, which not only costs money, but also bother, and cares a little, so that the new town guard makes the adults dissatisfied, and his black gauze hat is afraid that it will not be guaranteed. Now Li Zhenshou personally led a large army to conquer the bandits, which made Zhao County Ling very relieved. This time Li Chun came to Fei County, Zhao County Ling was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, on the one hand, he tried his best, on the other hand, he bothered to raise grain and grass, collect people's husbands, and the silver was spent at a low price, and the treasury was empty. Shandong is now surnamed Yuan, and his cronies and generals are some people who can't be provoked.

Zhao County, who was in a good mood, returned to the county office after sending the army away, sat in the signing room in the front yard for a while, signed and approved a few official documents, and Master Tao, who was in charge of the criminal name, pinched a few files to report to him a few cases in his hand, which were nothing more than trivial matters such as family property disputes, and there were no major cases of torture and murder. According to the rules of officialdom, as long as no one dies, it doesn't hurt if other cases are delayed. He rejected Master Tao, saying that he was tired today, and he would discuss it another day. As soon as Master Tao left, Master Gu, who was in charge of money and grain, came in again to tell about the expenses of Li Chun's army, and after saying a few figures, Zhao Muying felt upset and took Master Gu away. Back in the backyard, he instructed the long entourage he brought from his hometown Shexian to prepare a hometown dish for himself, and after being tired for a few days, he should drink a few glasses of wine to relieve his fatigue.

The Qing system, the county order is not allowed to be an official in the hometown, but the family is brought, the wife was born in a wealthy businessman's family, came to Fei County to live for a few days, and then went back because of the inconvenience of life, but left him a cook brought from his hometown, so that Zhao County Ling can eat the flavor of his hometown at any time.

Waiting for the wine and food to be served, Zhao Muying called Tao and Gu to accompany the two masters, and the three of them drank a large pot of rice wine.

Early in the morning of the third day, a servant told him that his army had caught fire with the thieves. This news made Zhao Muying quite concerned, and asked where the news came from, and the official said that the old money man in the back street fell and injured his leg because he fell down the ravine because he lost his foot, and was sent back, and the news was brought back by the old money head. He said that the army had caught fire outside the autumn village and the fight was lively.

"The army has taken Akimura, right?"

"No, not yet, it's still a few miles away from Autumn Village."

"Well, it is estimated that it has entered Zhengjiazhuang now. Last time, it was the officials and the army who were careless, so that the thieves were caught off guard, the officers and soldiers suffered losses, and Lord Li personally led them, and they definitely couldn't please this time. Zhao Muying said with a smile, "It seems that we have to prepare a few wooden cages, and we are afraid that we will hang a head in this city." ”

This was said early, and at dusk that day, someone rushed to tell Zhao Muying, saying that a thief brigade had been found in the north of the city! Qiu Xiancheng has already led people to the north gate.

Zhao Muying was stunned for a moment and scolded, "Nonsense, right? Where did the thieves come from? They are all resisting the officers and soldiers in Autumn Village. Before I finished speaking, I heard the sound of gunfire!

Zhao Muying didn't care about reprimanding the informant, the gunfire was enough to explain everything! He hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, gather all the officers and soldiers of the defense battalion, and immediately go to the city wall!

At the first time, Zhao Muying only thought of asking for help, he didn't even go to the north gate where the gunshots rang out to observe on the spot, so he asked Master Tao to write a letter, sign his name, hand it to Master Tao, and hurry to Qiu Village! Looking for Master Li Chun! Let's just say that the thieves copied our back road! Two battalion defense brothers were sent to escort Master Tao out of the city from the south gate immediately and rushed to Qiucun.

Seeing off Master Tao, Zhao Muying hurriedly led people to the north gate. The county seat is very small, the north and south are not long but Li Xu Road, and they arrived quickly, and they got on the city wall, and saw that many people were behind the battlements, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads. The official who led the way made Zhao Muying bow down, "The thief shot accurately, and he has already killed a brother in the defense camp__"

Zhao Muying almost climbed to the bottom of the North Gate Gate and saw Qiu Xiancheng, who was a local and good at military affairs, and he caught the training of the defense camp in peacetime. At this moment, the sky was dark, and he couldn't see Qiu Xiancheng's expression clearly, but Qiu Xiancheng's voice was anxious, "County Zun, it's not good, this guy is a thief with a cannon." I'm sure they must have gotten the news from somewhere, flashed past the official army brigade, and took a small road to attack our county seat! ”

"You say they have cannons? How do you know the way? ”

"Just now, the thieves shouted, let us open the city and surrender! Otherwise, the cannon will be fired! ”

"Nonsense, where did they get the cannons?" Zhao Muying resolutely did not believe it.

"I forgot last time, the officers and soldiers lost the cannon__" Before the words fell, I saw a flash of red light in the north, followed by a deafening loud noise, half of the city gate tower collapsed, and half of the tile smashed on Zhao Muying's shoulder.

The thieves really fired! And the first shot hit the castle tower!

Zhao Muying was horrified! He couldn't care about discussing with Qiu Xiancheng how to resist, and ran down the city wall like a rabbit, and just as he arrived at the city, there was another earth-shattering bang, and a cannonball hit the city gate, which immediately blew a hole in the iron-clad city gate.

"Oh my god." Zhao Muying was completely frightened, and all the instructions to defend the land were thrown out of the clouds, regardless of his subordinates, he ran back to the county government in one breath, took his own customs and defense message, and immediately ran out of the south gate with the personal entourage.

"Master, the city can't be defended, but are you going back to your hometown?" Feel free to ask.

Excited by the cold wind, Zhao Muying calmed down, it was impossible to escape home, if you want to save your head, you must go to Li Chun!

So, Zhao Xianling, who had never walked at night, stumbled to Qiu Village in the biting cold wind with the support of his relatives. It is estimated that Li Chun's army has occupied Zhengjiazhuang at this time.

"Bring me a good guard, that's my lifeline, master!" He kept telling him to follow him. Yes, if you keep the seal and go to the official army instead of simply fleeing for your life, you may be able to resolve the responsibility of defending the territory. If he loses the city and then loses the guards, he is afraid that he will only have a dead end.

Until the sky brightened, Zhao Muying finally found the official army, the official army did not enter Zhengjiazhuang, and was still outside the autumn village. Knowing that he was the county magistrate of Fei County, two soldiers sent him to Li Chun's "headquarters".

From Fei County to Zhengjiazhuang, follow the main road, and you must pass through Qiu Village. The terrain east of Autumn Village is narrow and dangerous, and after Autumn Village, the mountain calms down. Therefore, in the previous battle against the new army, Long Qian chose the main battlefield of the ambush battle in the narrowest and most dangerous section of the road east of Autumn Village. Because once the official army occupies Akimura, it becomes difficult to block the attack, and it becomes easier for the enemy to divide and detour.

This terrain was noticed by Li Chun as well as his officers, Li Chun sent Cai Chengxun's "surprise soldiers" to raid Zhengjiazhuang, but the main force he brought needed to beware of being ambushed again. Therefore, on the morning of the second day of the new year, the troops left Fei County and marched westward along the main road, and the two flanks sent scout squads as much as possible to carry out powerful reconnaissance, and they must not suffer the same losses again. In this way, Li Chun's march was very slow, and by dusk on the first day, Li Chun had only walked thirty-five miles, set up camp in an unknown mountain village, and resolutely refused to walk at night.

The village is built on a hillside and has only about a dozen households. Li Chun drove the villagers who had not escaped the official army to the two caves and took them into custody, and his headquarters entered the village, and most of the troops camped in the wilderness for the night. First, Li Chun needs to give Cai Chengxun time to intersperse, and second, he is not willing to fight at night with possible bandits.

Li Chun looked for the people who were captured and released after sending troops with Cai Chengxun last time, and inquired in detail about the place where the last ambush took place in this area, he did not dare to be careless, and sent at least a dozen search teams with sheds as a unit, and carefully searched this area, and did not find any hostile situation. Only then did he rest assured that he would bury the pot and cook and settle down to camp.

The two battalions he led, nearly 900 officers and men, and more than 100 men who had been temporarily recruited from Fei County, froze all night in the bitter cold wind, causing the soldiers and junior officers to complain. The officers of the battalion had a house to shelter from the wind, and ordinary soldiers could only find shelter to keep warm. These two battalions were transferred from Qingzhou and belonged to the guest army, and they were even more dissatisfied. The two battalion officers asked to march overnight several times, but Li Chun refused.

"Unless a certain person is cowardly and cautious, it is really a thief and cunning, and our army can no longer make any mistakes," Li Chun said to the two battalion officers, "After dawn tomorrow, our army will slowly press towards Qiu Village, occupy Qiu Village first, and the battle will be easy to fight." ”

The next day, the troops continued to advance westward, about six or seven miles from Akimura, when gunfire rang out from the front, and then it was reported that the bandits had built fortifications, judging that they were numerous. Li Chun relaxed and said to the two battalion officers, "That's right, let's look at the two of you next." The dignified new army, are you still afraid of fighting the thieves head-on? Defeat the thieves in one go and occupy Akimura. Create momentum and attract enemies! ”

The battle began east of Akimura. One or two attacks were fought back, and it was reported that the thieves had built complete field fortifications, with strong troops and firepower, and were definitely the main force of the thieves.

Li Chun was not discouraged by the two tentative offensive defeats, "Great. That's it. Don't just attack from the front, attack in a roundabout way, and let them take care of one thing and lose the other. But don't scare them away. ”

The battle that began on the morning of the third day of the new year became more and more intense, and the battalion that took the lead in attacking failed both in the frontal assault and in the flank detours, and the officers and soldiers were aroused to be aroused, and the battle with a feint and the nature of baiting the enemy turned into a real assault, but by sunset in the afternoon, six successive attacks were all failures. Even a brief breakthrough was driven out of position by the fierce counterattack of the bandits.

In the nearly one-day battle, the officers and soldiers suffered nearly 80 casualties, and most of the infantry was wiped out.

Li Chun became anxious, he had seen the situation of the attack, and it must be said that the training of the Qingzhou troops was even worse, and the attack was seriously lacking in discipline. Only once did he finally rush into the trench guarded by the thieves, but he was suddenly repelled by the thieves' sudden counter-charge. White-knuckle fighting, Li Chun saw that scene. remembered the white-knuckle fighting that his old subordinate Cai Chengxun kept mentioning, and it seemed to leave a terrifying memory for Cai Chengxun. Now, the officers and troops were still outnumbered by the thieves' hand-to-hand battles, and were quickly defeated, and the only decent attack was to leave at least ten corpses and the weapons and ammunition they carried with them in vain.

This group of enemies is so fucking stubborn! But that's okay, the thieves are all gathered on the front line of Autumn Village, and when Cai Chengxun's interspersed detachment starts from behind them, the end of the enemy will come!

In the evening, Li Chun made a truce. He was anxious to hold a meeting with officers and above to study and analyze the bandits' defensive warfare today, and the officers had no idea of underestimating the enemy, and they praised the bandits for their clever fortifications and the arrangement of their firepower points; the most peculiar thing was that they dared to wait for the attacking troops of the officers and troops to approach their positions before firing, and the shooting was rapid and accurate, causing huge casualties to the officers and soldiers. There were quite a few sharpshooters among them, who were specifically aimed at the commander, and they were very demoralizing. To put it mildly, this group of enemies is not like bandits, it is simply a formally trained officer and army, and in some places it is more powerful than the officer army, such as the way of shooting, such as the use of reserves__

If there used to be an element of belittling the enemy and thus ridiculing the Yizhou troops, now it is gone.

One way or another, it was decided to increase forces tomorrow to break through the enemy's positions. Calculating the time for Cai Chengxun to march into the army, it will start tomorrow at the latest, and this side must capture Qiucun, compress the enemy army back to Zhengjiazhuang, and then gather and annihilate it.

However, in the early hours of the morning, Li Chun received two batches of reports in a row, and a large number of thieves quietly ran to Fei County! The second batch of news was personally sent by Zhao Muying's county order, he said, the city has been broken, and Fei County has been lost!

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