Due to the imminent arrival of the governor of Monan, Meng Sen, the magistrate of Qingsong County, hereby ordered that the concrete city wall should be built within ten days.

Therefore, the county government increased the remuneration of workers, and for this reason, Xin Qingdong worked harder than before.

He arrived early in the northern part of the city, and quickly carried the bags of cement to the city wall, and whenever he was resting his breath, he would see how the masons built the city wall, and he did not understand why these masons from the south now built the city wall by mixing all kinds of stones and earth and pouring them into a three-dimensional space framed with wooden planks and iron bars.

But Xin Qingdong had to admit that the construction of the city wall in this way was really fast, much faster than rammed earth, and it would be as hard as iron in just a few days, he had tried to use a knife to chisel completely unbreakable, and even he had seen the guards bombarded with artillery, and it was difficult to blow up this kind of city wall with no brick joints and smooth throughout.

Xin Qingdong carried a bag of cement again, he couldn't help but glance at the mason again, he was very envious that they could get twice as much as their own salary, and even if they were in a hurry, the official of the county government would personally come to comfort them, he really hoped that he could become such a person.

What made Xin Qingdong even more envious was the guards officers and soldiers patrolling the city, he had been in Qingsong County for so long, he already knew that these guards officers and soldiers were the most respectable warriors in the empire, even the most ordinary soldiers were officials, and they were as noble as those who were raised in the county government, and they were also the most unapproachable, although they sometimes behaved very close to the people, but Xin Qingdong saw with his own eyes that they would cut down the herdsmen who did not follow the rules.

Therefore, Xin Qingdong didn't dare to approach them, he could only take a look from a distance.

But at this moment, a Guards soldier holding a telescope on a high platform suddenly shouted: "Enemy attack! ”

And Xin Qingdong, who was away from this guard soldier, couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, he instinctively wanted to find his horse and sword, but found that he had become a Han people, without a horse and a sword, he no longer had the responsibility to protect his homeland, and the empire had a special army to protect his homeland and the safety of the people.

The dull bells rang incessantly, and the sound of neat footsteps came, and a hundred or so officers and men of the Guards ran up the city walls.

"Go away!"

Xin Qingdong was pulled behind him by a Guards soldier, and for the first time he realized that he didn't have to rush to the front.

Gradually.

In the distance, a clear shadow of the Tartar cavalry had appeared.

The leader is a thousand-commander named Kulie, Xin Qingdong knows him, and even clearly remembers that it was this person named Kulie who snatched his woman, but in order to survive, he chose to forbear, after all, Kulie is the nephew of the Great Khan, and he is a member of the Golden Family that he can't afford to provoke.

But now he understood that these people were not noble men, but robbers who had committed the most heinous crimes.

Looking at those Tartar cavalrymen with hideous faces and greedy eyes, Xin Qingdong felt for the first time that these guys were so annoying.

He looked at these guards officers and soldiers with solemn expressions, and his heart was a little more steady, and he really hoped that these guards officers and soldiers would be able to repel these Tartar cavalry.

Because he didn't want his peaceful life in Qingsong County to be broken.

Not only Xin Qingdong, but from the moment the Tatar cavalry of the Karaqin Department appeared, all the residents of Qingsong County felt the pressure, and they all hoped that the officers and soldiers of the Guards stationed here could repel this group of Tatar cavalry.

This has become their home, they have paid their sweat and hard work here, and they do not want the appearance of the Tartars to destroy all the fruits of their hard work.

The only thing they could rely on was the armed forces of the Guards and the merchants in the city.

Meng Sen, the magistrate of Qingsong County, immediately activated the emergency plan, he was already prepared for the day when he would encounter an enemy attack, so from the moment the bell rang, he hurriedly ordered people to block the city gate.

Meng Sen is not a scholar in the traditional sense, he has rich military experience from the Guards, and from the moment he learned of the enemy attack, he did not feel fear and fear, but a trace of excitement.

He knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold in this grassland, and if he wanted Qingsong County to grow steadily in this vast grassland, it was not enough to rely on a strong city wall, but he still had to use the enemy's head to build the strongest city defense, so that Qingsong County could truly achieve peace and prosperity.

The total number of officers and soldiers of the Guards in Qingsong County was only more than 300, 200 infantry, 100 cavalry, and all of them were the B troops of the Guards, but according to Meng Sen's current observation, the approaching Karaqin cavalry was about 2,000 cavalry.

Therefore, although Meng Sen believed that he could hold the county seat of Qingsong, he did not take it lightly, and ordered a hundred infantry to go up to the city wall to assist the merchant groups in the armed defense.

And he himself personally led a hundred infantry and a hundred cavalry out of the city to meet the Karaqin cavalry, and he had to go out of the city to meet the battle, because the main city of Qingsong County had not yet been completely built.

The Karaqin cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the horse's hooves made a thunderous sound on the green grass, and the people who were shocked panicked in their hearts, as if they couldn't lift it in one breath, and the silver swords were so cold that people seemed to be frozen, and they just wanted to burrow the whole person into the city wall.

Many of the people met the cavalry for the first time, and they began to regret coming to this pass, even Xin Qingdong was a little apprehensive at this time, looking at the guards of no more than a hundred people, he could hardly believe that they could block those warriors with strong physique on the grassland, and they only held firearms, even if there were cavalry, they were only a hundred or so people.

But he didn't expect that these guards officers and soldiers did not feel panicked, but calmly waited for the appearance of Kulie, especially that the prince actually went into battle in person, didn't it say that the Han officials didn't know how to ride horses, how could this prince still hold such a heavy sword.

Kulie, the commander of the Karaqin Division, came with his own cavalry, and when he saw that there were only a few hundred Ming troops in front of him, he was even more relieved, and he took out a short bow without hesitation, ready to start shooting, but he also knew that the Ming army's firearms were sharp, so he kept changing directions, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to disperse the attack.

The infantry of the Guards also began to shoot, and the Chongzhen 22-style rifled gun quickly shot out one lead bullet after another, and could shoot non-stop, one after another, and these Karaqin cavalry fell one after another.

Kulie did not expect that he had killed and wounded hundreds of horsemen before he could rush within two hundred paces, he couldn't help but be shocked, and in line with the principle of running if he couldn't beat it, he immediately led his subordinates to quickly turn around and kill in other directions, while the cavalry of the Guards personally rushed up under the leadership of Monson at this time.

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