The atmosphere in the hall was tense as if a match would explode immediately. Ren Changhe's mood was as nervous as a full bowstring.

His whole body was as nervous as a stone, and he didn't dare to move, and after half a meal, he didn't hear any sound from Yang An in front of him, and his heart sank like it was filled with lead cotton cloth, and he secretly regretted it.

I shouldn't have been so deluded that I came here for help.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?"

Just when Ren Changhe thought that his life was not long in coming, Yang An suddenly relented.

Ren Changhe's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly told the whole story.

In recent years, Gaoyao County has been plagued by disasters year after year, and it is no longer as prosperous as it used to be, but after all, there are still more than 10,000 people, which is all thanks to the light of the neighboring Zhaoqing Mansion. Although the soldiers were a disaster, after the Ming army and the Qing army fought, although Gaoyao County changed hands several times and finally fell into the hands of the Qing court, because of the invasion of Li Dingguo's troops, the Qing court exempted the prefectures and counties through which Li Dingguo's ministry passed taxes for three years.

There is no need to pay taxes to the imperial court, and it is natural to be an official in Gaoyao County to be comfortable, and Ren Changhe, as the lord of Gaoyao County, is also a scholar, so he naturally has a good life, and he would not have thought of anti-Qing. But recently, a group of Liaodong Han banner soldiers came to Gaoyao County, and when the Bangzi Han banner soldiers were in the city of Guangzhou, they were under the control of General Wangye, and they couldn't mess around, but now they are out of the city, and when they see Gaoyao County, they are like vicious dogs seeing meat, and they happily pounce on it, and they are bound to tear off a few pieces of meat from it.

In the face of these ferocious Han troops with blue flags, the people of Gaoyao County could not resist, Ren Changhe originally hoped that the green battalion originally stationed in Gaoyao County would stop them, but these people were a nest of snakes and rats, and when the Han army with blue flags robbed Gaoyao County, these green battalion soldiers also took advantage of the fire in the county to rob, regardless of their life or death, after all, they were not locals, who would fight for them.

Since they can't count on the green camp in the city, Ren Changhe and the others can only be prepared to endure the pain and cut the meat, after all, Gaoyao County is still the city of the Qing court, and these Han soldiers with blue flags extort some money at most, and spoil a few women from good families.

But the most terrible thing is that these blue flag Han soldiers and green battalion soldiers have been in the city for two days, and the people of the county town are miserable, and finally broke out, and they rose up and killed a few blue flag Han soldiers, which can stab the hornet's nest, and also made the faces of Ren Changhe in the county government turn pale one by one, and they can't help but scold those people who do it, this is over, and the people of the whole city have to be buried with these people.

The blue flag Han army was furious when he learned about it, and directly defined these people as anti-thieves, and soon gathered troops to chase and kill in the city, and the city suddenly became more chaotic, Ren Changhe, the main Pu, still has a little conscience, although he knew that he couldn't stop the outside thing, but he couldn't stay out of the matter and escape, just as he had no choice but to look at the blue flag Han army and the green battalion soldiers outside in the name of the thief to do the slaughter of the city, after all, the Qing army had not done it before.

At this moment, Zhao Si's subordinates gave Ren Changhe an idea, asking him to come over and ask Yang An for help, Ren Changhe, who was undecided, heard the chaos outside and the screams of the people, and finally made up his mind, accompanied by Zhao Si's people, came alone to ask for help.

Ren Changhe then told Yang An that as far as he knew, the garrison green battalion in Gaoyao County only had more than 500 troops, plus more than 600 people from the foreign Han army with blue flags, adding up to a total of about 1,100 troops.

"I beg my lord to have mercy on the lives of tens of thousands of people in Gaoyao County, and hurry up and send troops!"

Ren Changhe had tears in his eyes, which made Zhao Si and the others around him sigh in their hearts, but there was a trace of admiration for Ren Changhe in their hearts.

Yang An stretched out his hand to help Ren Changhe with deep eyes, and then asked people to lead him down to rest, and then asked everyone, "What did you mean just now?" ”

Wang Wu rubbed his hands and stomped his feet excitedly and said: "There are more than 1,000 people, which is not enough for our Yang family army to beat us now, as long as we attack, how can these clear dogs stop us." ”

"Zhao Si, what do you think?"

Zhao Si was not as excited as Wang Wu, his face was deep and he calculated in his heart, and compared the strength of the enemy and us, and then he spoke: "General, the garrison green battalion soldiers in Gaoyao City are all foreign soldiers, and the defense of the city will definitely not be deadly. ”

Seeing that Zhao Si also agreed with his point of view, Wang Wu couldn't help but pat Zhao Si's shoulder excitedly and said, "He's a girl, I'll just say, fight this group of dogs." ”

Zhao Si frowned slightly, since Yang An handed over the matter of recruiting spies to him, Zhao Si's temperament is now more and more calm, and he is a little uncomfortable with Wang Wu's arrogant style.

"It's still a bit of a hassle, though."

Zhao Si worried: "Don't be afraid of anything else, the only thing you can worry about is Zhaoqing, if we attack Gaoyao City, then it is impossible for the Qing soldiers of Zhaoqing Mansion not to come, will we defend it or not?" ”

"What are you afraid of, when the time comes, we will grab a wave and run away after we take down Gaoyao City, and we can still be entangled by others."

"But isn't this just ignoring the people in the city, if we leave, they will definitely be retaliated against by the Qing army."

"I said I was going to fight ......"

"Can't fight, can't fight ......"

The small council hall instantly turned into a vegetable market, and the sound of people arguing with each other was eye-catching.

Listening to the quarrel of everyone present, Yang An gently patted the table, cleared his throat and said, "Okay!" ”

As soon as Yang An spoke, the following immediately fell silent, and they all looked at Yang An in unison.

"This battle is going to be fought!"

As soon as Zhao Si heard Yang An's words, he immediately said with a hurry: "General, this ......"

"Calm down, listen to me."

Yang An raised his hand to stop Zhao Si, but the next thing he said made the smile on Wang Wu's face disappear.

"Not only do we have to fight, but we are still holding on to Gaoyao County after we fight."

Seeing that everyone was a little hesitant, Yang An opened his mouth to explain: "Recently, you have led the Yang family army to fight the Qing army everywhere, all according to what I said to lure the enemy army, the method of exhausting the army, the results are good but they have never captured a city, which inevitably makes the Qing army look down on us, thinking that our strength is insufficient, and the Yang family army has attracted the attention of the Qing army, the stockade is no longer safe, if the Qing army presses the border, then we are wrapped dumplings, and sooner or later it is the food in someone else's pot, so we need a city to garrison and recuperate, At the same time, it deterred the Qing army. ”

When everyone heard this, they thought about it carefully, and there was no objection to Yang An's decision, Wang Wu hurriedly asked, "Then I don't know when to set off?" ”

"The soldiers are fast, immediately assemble the team and set off to Gaoyao County."

After everyone received the order, Yang An smiled and said to Zhu Defei: "Then please trouble Uncle Zhu to make preparations for the transfer of personnel." ”

"Don't worry, leave it to the old man, then the old man, I wish you a victory!"

The high-level people have made decisions, and Yang An paid special attention to cultivating their unified thinking when training the soldiers, and all actions were under command, and morale was naturally there.

In order to achieve the effect of the raid, every citizen encountered along the way was forcibly tied into the army, so that no one of these civilians would report to the Gaoyao Green Battalion, so that the Green Battalion in the city could be prepared. Although he did not take the high-ranking garrison green battalion in his eyes, it was always good to have fewer casualties, and if it was a strong attack with hard knives and guns, it was inevitable that someone would die in battle.

The march was fast, and by the time they reached the outskirts of the city, more than a hundred soldiers were left behind because they could not afford to march hastily. After arriving at the place, the rest of the soldiers were no better, either leaning against the forest to gasp, or holding a spear to pounce their heartbeats, or sitting on the ground and refusing to move, thousands of people hid in the woods and no one bothered to speak, if it were not for the occasional cough, I was afraid that people would have the illusion that these men were dead.

It is also thanks to the fact that Yang An was trained in later generations when he was in Luoding, and deliberately made pulling training a training item for soldiers, otherwise I don't know how many people would be tired on the march these days. Although more than 100 soldiers were left behind on the road, Yang An was already satisfied. Looking at the black pressed head, these are all their own elite soldiers!

"Brothers, prepare for the siege!"

After a short break of about half a pillar of incense, Yang An ordered the troops to prepare for battle, and after hearing the order to prepare for battle, some of the old soldiers couldn't help cheering, because in their opinion, the high place not far away was waiting for them like a girl who had stripped off her clothes, and she didn't even think about whether this girl would resist, as long as they rushed up, they could live happily.

Most of the soldiers who experienced the Battle of Deqing were also confident in capturing Gaoyao City, and they all had relaxed smiles on their faces when they regained a little physical strength, and their pre-battle preparations had been completed, and they could attack Gaoyao City after just waiting for an order.

However, some of them were not happy on the faces of the strong men captured in the village and the Qing soldiers who surrendered under the attack of the Yang family's army, although these young and strong recruits who were ordinary people not long ago had participated in the front camp for a month, but after all, they had not participated in the battle, and were only responsible for logistics and cleaning the battlefield in the army, and it was the first time to attack the city garrisoned by the green battalion soldiers, and the apprehension in their hearts could be imagined. Many people instinctively thought that after the siege of the city, would the Yang family army use them as cannon fodder for the first batch of sieges, if that was the case, I was afraid that most of this little life would be buried in this high-ranking city.

It is very difficult to capture the city in broad daylight, if there is no gunpowder, Yang An naturally does not dare to consider attacking the city during the day, because he does not have many troops to consume, but with gunpowder, coupled with Yang An's experience in training them in blasting, he naturally does not have to wait until night to attack the city, on the contrary, he can't hold back the effect of wanting Yang Jiajun's first actual combat blasting.

After the order to attack was issued, the teams began to assemble, led by the general flag and the small flag, towards Gaoyao City. Looking at the Gaoyao city wall, which was not too big two or three miles away, the front camp held their breath, especially the newcomers who were even more nervous.

"Attack!"

"Brothers, rush!"