In the city of Shanzhou.

Under the haze of night, the city was in chaos. The deserted streets were filled with groups of heavily armed soldiers, some patrolling teams scattered in the alleys, others fire brigades that had just been transferred from the barracks.

These people carried torches, shouted, ran, or broke into the nearest people's houses, collected pots, buckets, and the like, and rushed to the grain storage place full of water; Or push a series of water hoses and rush to the place where the fire started.

The guards on the enemy towers lit torches, hung lanterns, sounded drums, sounded trumpets, waved flags, directed the firefighters from high places, and were more vigilant in monitoring the movements of the inhabitants in the various districts.

The city was chaotic and chaotic. The guards at the head of the city, after a short period of turmoil, gradually restored order under the strict orders of Li Laobao and other rotating generals. They did not go to put out the fire, but under the urging of a drum and horn, and under the orders of the superiors, whether they were resting in the back or in front of the guards, they all lined up in a nervous and orderly manner, and prepared artillery, catapults, sassalwoods and other things, and all aimed at the city, in case the coalition army took the opportunity to attack the city.

To look at the combat effectiveness of a unit, it is necessary to look at its ability to mobilize in an emergency.

Starting from this standard, the Chahan army is worthy of the elite, although compared to the city, the city seems to be a lot more chaotic, but this chaos is unavoidable, after all, it is a hasty matter, the soldiers need to be mobilized, the various departments need to be coordinated, and the people also need to be pacified, no matter what, at least in a short period of time to respond.

Zhao Heng, Cai Ziying, Hu Linchi, Liu Shangzhen, and Bai Zuozhu had already fallen asleep, and they got up when they heard the sound, and some of them thought that there was a "camp roar", or that the coalition army had begun to attack the city.

"Summoning the drums."

If you don't get three drums, you should be killed by military law.

According to the sound of the drum, the length, and the number of drums, it is divided into several levels, some call more than 1,000 households, and some call more than 10,000 households. Listening to this drum is to gather more than 10,000 households. There were several barracks in the city, located in various directions. The two drums have not yet been completed, and the generals of all the households and above have all arrived in all directions, gathered in the marshal's mansion.

The meeting point is the front yard of Shuaifu.

The walls on both sides of the courtyard are filled with grease torches, which are bright and swaying in the night breeze. In front of the main hall, there was a point of general, and a military judge, all of them stood in armor and according to the sword, and a person came, reported a name, and added a "few drums and a few points" in front of the name of the person who came.

"One drum and two o'clock, the Wuwei army recruited tens of thousands of Hulin Chi!"

"One drum and three o'clock, the Tiger Wing Army will arrive at 10,000 households!"

"Two drums and one point, the divine crossbow army has arrived at 10,000 households of Puxian slaves!"

"Two drums and two o'clock, the Privy Council and the Privy Council have gone down to live in 10,000 households!"

"Two drums and three o'clock, tens of thousands of households in the Jining army Tan Zhe don't arrive."

Although there are only nearly 20,000 garrisons in the city, there are not simply 20,000 households, and there are a total of 60,000 households. Among them, the open-nosed horse and the Fuxian slave are all subordinates brought by Wang Baobao from Juye; Hu Lin Chi, Bai Zuozhu, and Tan Zhebei were the reinforcements brought to Sainchi Taku. In addition to the five of them, there is also Li Laobao, who is also ten thousand households, but he should be guarding the city tonight, so he didn't come.

In these tens of thousands of households, there are military names with place names, such as "Jining Army". Jining Road, Jinning Road, is the fundamental important place of Chahan, based on these two roads, the selection of elite, a total of two tens of thousands of households, respectively, are named after the place, very good at fighting, is the descendant of Chahan. This time, a Jining army was sent, but not all of them were sent, and some of them couldn't leave the Datong front, so only part of them were sent.

Tan Zhebei is the chief general of this Wanhu Mansion.

In addition, the "Zara Sijun" is actually also named after the place. Zaras, i.e. Russia. When Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Mengyuan Dynasty, gathered the brave and fierce people for the pro-army guards, and established a total of eight "guards", during which there was a "Luo Siwei", commanding 10,000 people, stationed in the northern suburbs of the capital.

After Chahan raised the army, he originally brought all the children of Henan, and later with the expansion of the territory, the scope of influence of the influence was also expanded, not only Henan, Jin, Hebei, Shaanxi of all ethnic groups of strong men to join the army, and even affected Hebei, many descendants of "Luo Siwei" also came to join the army, the number was not much, less than 1,000, it was a thousand households, and then some other people were added, together with 3,000, set up a 10,000-household mansion, modeled after Kublai Khan's name, it was also called "Era Sijun".

Bai Zuozhu is a fellow of the Privy Council, according to which he should be a civil minister, but he is different from Cai Ziying, Zhao Heng, Liu Shangzhen and others, he can be civil and martial, and not long ago, he just served as the army of ten thousand households.

This is for these two ten thousand households.

As for the two armies of Tiger Wing and Wuwei, they are named after the United States. "Tiger Wing" is a cavalry, and "Wuwei" is a foot soldier.

As for the crossbow, it is named after the weapon, and most of the soldiers in this army use long-range weapons such as crossbows and firearms.

- It is not uncommon for the whole army to use the same weapon, even crossbows and firearms. There is no need to say much about the previous dynasty, only to say that there is a Yuan generation, when Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Mengyuan Dynasty, had set up a "crossbow army thousand households" under many camp heads, the so-called "long skills must be practiced", specializing in the palm of the stretch and bending, there is a kind of "boot car kamikaze crossbow", it is said that it can shoot more than 800 steps away, more than two miles.

Chakhan Timur expanded the "Thousand Households" into "Ten Thousand Households".

However, in fact, among the armies, this force had the smallest number of troops, only about 2,000 people. Strictly speaking, it is not enough to reach the level of 10,000 households, and it takes three or four thousand people to go down to 10,000 households. It's just that, on the one hand, because of the great power of crossbows and firearms; On the other hand, because of the high cost of strong crossbows and firearms, they have been upgraded and can be regarded as "ten thousand households". It is all composed of strong crossbows and firearms, and the lethality of long-distance can be imagined. Therefore, although this army is not as famous as the Lancers and Ironclads, it is actually a huge threat to the coalition forces.

During the Battle of Juye, Zhao Guo suffered from this army. After the attrition of the battle, the Divine Crossbow Army of 2,000 people still has 1,400 or 500 people.

When the generals arrived, the generals and military judges retreated to both sides and sang in unison: "All the generals of all armies have arrived on time." Please raise the general's account! ”

The doors opened.

Two columns of gun-wielding armor soldiers rushed out, until they were lined up at the gate of the courtyard, and they all wore long tassels on their pockets, which were both majestic and brightly colored, especially by the firelight, under the heavy night, they showed a murderous aura, and when they stood still, they all put the handle of the gun to the ground and shouted in unison: "Please raise the general!" ”

The generals have already stood up according to the level of their military ranks, and they also bowed down and clenched their fists, saying, "Please raise the general's account!" ”

Wang Baobao was in high spirits and strode out of the hall.

Point generals, military judges, generals, and sergeants saluted at the same time.

The generals said loudly: "The summoning generals are sounding the drums, and the last generals are coming at the order, I don't know what military orders there are?" Please give the general the order! ”

"Generals, excuse me, please get up."

Wang Baobao stood on the steps of the entrance of the hall with his head held high, dressed in fine armor, with a cloak on his shoulders, cowhide boots on his feet, and a short sword in his hand, looking down on everyone from a high place, without saying a word of nonsense, and said succinctly: "You should have seen that the red thieves used trickery to set fires and tried to burn the grain of our army. In order to extinguish the fire and prevent the thief army from taking advantage of the situation to attack the city, Dashuai and Yan Gong have gone to the granary and the city head separately. Stay here Ben will! Beat the drum of the summoning generals and call you to come, just for one thing: the granary has been burned, the city is in chaos, and at this moment, the army must not be in chaos! There must be no chaos in the city! ......, military order. ”

Hearing this, the generals' expressions were different, but they all quickly returned to normal, bowed down and said, "Please give the general an order!" ”

"Nose Horse."

"The end will be."

"After receiving the order, go back to your camp, and while pacifying the soldiers, you will be responsible for the pressure of Xicheng. Tell the people that they are not allowed to disturb, and if anyone is outside, they are to be returned to their homes. If you dare to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, kill them on the spot! ”

"No!"

"Go ahead."

The open-nosed horse saluted and turned to leave.

"Stop in vain!"

"The end will be."

"After receiving the order, go back to your camp, and while pacifying the soldiers, you will be responsible for the pressure of the East City. Tell the people that they are not allowed to disturb, and if anyone is outside, they are to be returned to their homes. If you dare to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, kill them on the spot! ”

"No!"

"Go ahead."

Bai Zuozhu also saluted and took the order to leave.

Next, he ordered Hu Linchi and Tan Zhebei to be responsible for the bombing of the two urban districts in the south and north. Because of the large number of non-commissioned officers in the two of them, they were ordered to send some of them to assist in extinguishing the fire. The two generals were also ordered to leave.

"Fuxian slave!"

"The end will be."

"You don't need to be responsible for the bullet pressure in the city, after receiving the order, quickly bring your sergeant to the Shuaifu and be responsible for the guard."

"No!"

Strong crossbows and firearms are good for long-distance combat, not good for close combat, and are used to guard the marshal's mansion and prevent chaos, just right. Fuxian Nu also took the order to leave. After the military order was passed, the generals left, and the courtyard was suddenly quiet. However, Wang Baobao did not return to the hall and still stood in place. He clutched the short sword at his waist tightly, with no expression on his face, raised his head, looked into the city for a while, but saw that the firelight reflected half of the night sky.

The city is chaotic, and the courtyard is quiet.

The night wind blows the torches, and sometimes there is a "crackling" sound, which means that the grease is burning. This marshal mansion was a requisitioned house of the rich in the city, and there were trees in the courtyard, but they were all cut down; But because of Wang Baobao's preference, a few bamboos planted outside the window of the main hall were retained. At this time, the wind passed and rustled.

Point generals, military judges, and two teams of dozens of soldiers were lined up on both sides of the courtyard, silent.

Seeing Wang Baobao standing on the steps with an expressionless face, he plucked up his courage and asked, "General, do you have any other orders?" ”

"Juye was defeated, defeated by my carelessness of the enemy, and fell into the trick of Zhao thief to lure the enemy. Chengwu's defeat was also due to our carelessness in underestimating the enemy, and I didn't expect that Zhao Thief would have the courage to send light cavalry to go deep into the hinterland of our army. The defeat of Jinxiang was my carelessness against the enemy, and I didn't expect Zhao Thief to launch an offensive so quickly! The loss of Sheep's Horn Village is still my carelessness! I never expected that the Wu thief would be so fierce, and he didn't expect that the Zhao thief would send Fu Youde to run at night for a long time, blocking Babusha, so that he didn't dare to take a step out of the village. If you make a mistake, how can you be wrong again? Not only is it wrong again, but it is even three wrongs. Not only three mistakes, but even four mistakes! In vain, Wang Baobao thinks very highly of himself, but is it really just 'on paper', so unbearable? Good! I know my mistake and change it, can't I? I will defend the city, and I will not move. Zhao thief repeated his old tricks again, and lured me at night, I don't chase it, Li Laobao doesn't chase it, isn't it okay? ......, why did you burn my military rations! ”

"General,......。

After saying so many words, Wang Baobao's tone did not improve much, and his expression did not change much, his face was still pale, but the anger contained in his words and tone could be heard by anyone. His fingers on the hilt of his sword turned white, and he repeated in a low voice: "Why did you burn my military rations!" ”

"General."

With a "boom", his short sword was unsheathed, and the edge flashed, dazzling eyes. He gritted his teeth and said: "Step by step,......, step by step!" It's too deceitful. ”

"General!"

"Those who plan to be poisonous are better than those who run out of food. Now our army's food is burned, but the thief's army has a steady stream of food. It was easy for Nishihara to swear and save morale; After tonight, it's bound to fail! Swallow thief, swallow thief! 'Siege the city for ten days, and then a general attack'? Do you want to wait until I am almost exhausted to take advantage of my low morale to fight me again? I don't want to call you wishful! Tomorrow, I will fight you to the death. ”

"Fight to the death?"

The general turned his head and glanced at the military judge, both of whom were surprised. He hesitated for a moment and said, "But general, will the marshal agree?" ”