Late that night, after all the core leaders received Nie Zheng's order, in the next few days, the entire Yangzhou City was completely plunged into martial law and busy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The four city gates of the east, south, west and north, each of which was fortified, were garrisoned by 4,000 dragon and tiger rebels.

In addition to the 4,000 Dragon and Tiger Rebels, Nie Zheng also ordered Jia Xiufang to issue a proclamation to inform the whole city, saying that Sang Kang, the king of Dayue, was about to lead a large army to attack the city, so that Baoyang Prefecture could successfully repel the Dayue coalition army, so he would recruit 20,000 strong men in the city to join the city defense and assist the Dragon and Tiger Rebels in each city defense to defend the city.

This is a mandatory requisition order, and the people in the city cannot refuse it at all.

Basically, every household in the city must draw an adult male, but the Si Ya Factory will give these strong men who assist in the war an additional amount of silver.

I have to say that Jia Xiufang does have some means in the area of governance and security.

I don't know what method he used, but in just one day, he successfully carried out a successful ideological education for the people in the city, saying how the Dayue people were so cruel and brutal, how Sang Kang exploited and oppressed our Han brothers after occupying Annam, and how our Han compatriots have been suffering and fiery under the bloody rule of those Dayue foreign invaders for so many years.

Finally, Jia Xiufang led a group of literati officials who could speak well and eloquently, and carried out propaganda and warnings on various occasions in the city, calling on everyone to work together this time to defend Yangzhou and defend their homeland, and at the same time, they also deliberately released rumors in secret, saying that Sang Kang led hundreds of thousands of troops to come this time, not only to raze Yangzhou to the ground, but also to slaughter the city for three days, killing hundreds of thousands of Han people in the city.

Although the people in the city were full of panic about the arrival of the Sangkang army, they knew in their hearts that this time they must assist the Dragon and Tiger Righteous Army to hold the city, and they must not let the Dayue people break through Yangzhou, otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable......

In short, under the leadership of Jia Xiufang, the group of literati officials in the Siyachang have posted notices everywhere in the past two days, using national righteousness to move those Han people with affection and reason.

Anyway, according to Nie Zheng, Jia Xiufang is fooling the people and brainwashing the people, but his methods are relatively clever, so he can make those people's blood boil and their fighting spirit high.

When the notice of the Si Ya Factory to recruit strong men to guard the city came out, for a time, the people in the city were like clouds, and the people in the city all rushed to sign up, and in the end, the number of people who came to sign up was as high as 40,000, which was more than double the 20,000 people who were recruited at the beginning.

This result made Nie Dashuai and other leaders of the Dragon and Tiger Army overjoyed.

It seems that under the national righteousness of resisting foreign invaders, the local Han people are still very enthusiastic.

With tens of thousands of strong men in the city joining the city defense, in an instant, the city defense manpower of Yangzhou City suddenly became sufficient.

Taking advantage of the fact that Sang Kang's army had not yet arrived in the city, the leaders of the Dragon and Tiger Army, who were guarding the city defenses everywhere, began to actively strengthen the deployment of armed firepower, prepare the strongest firepower, and give those Dayue Waikou who dared to attack the city a fierce head-on attack.

In the next few days, the administration and Xu Shijie, who were in charge of the entire Yangzhou city defense, were the most busy and their soldiers and horses.

A large number of arms and weapons were deployed inside and outside the four major city defenses in the east, south, west, and north.

In particular, under the walls on the left and right sides of each of the main gates, many long trenches were dug, as well as a large number of military fortifications.

Within these trenches and fortifications, a large number of light and heavy machine guns were deployed.

At present, Nie Zheng has a total of more than 800 heavy machine guns of various types. Light machine guns of various types, up to two thousand units.

Basically, nearly 3,000 light and heavy machine guns were deployed under the walls of the four main city defenses.

In addition to these light and heavy machine guns, there were also 800 rocket launchers, 1,200 mortars, and grenadiers, all of which were distributed to the various city defenses in proportion.

As for some other rifles, shotguns, submachine guns and countless other miscellaneous light individual weapons, there are also a large number of deployments up and down each city gate.

With so many arms and weapons, the entire Yangzhou City, inside and out, was simply built like an iron pass by Nie Zheng, and its strong defense power was not an exaggeration to describe it as impregnable.

Now everything is ready and ready to wait for the arrival of the enemy......

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Today is the sixth day that Nie Zheng ordered the whole city to prepare for war.

During these six days, the entire city of Yangju was under martial control during the day, and after dark, a curfew was imposed.

In order to prevent those Da Yue spies hidden in the city, they took the opportunity to cause trouble, Yi Zixuan has been arranging an elite team during this time, from morning to night, day and night in various areas of the city to train and inspect, as long as they find people with suspicious identities, they will be quietly controlled and examined.

Anyway, before the war is over, those suspects who have been arrested are basically under house arrest, and unless they can confirm their innocence, they will not be released in a short time.

In the past two days, the weather has suddenly cooled, and the sunny days that have lasted for many days finally ended yesterday afternoon.

Since yesterday afternoon, the sky has been cloudy, and the wind has been blowing a little strongly, blowing everyone's body cold, which makes the Dragon and Tiger Rebels, who have been accustomed to the warm climate, suddenly feel a little chilly.

Because, the weather in the south has changed a little too fast.

Yesterday morning, I was still wearing a single coat and a coat, and I was sweating all over my body, but in the evening, I had to wear a small padded jacket outside to be able to go out.

With such a large temperature difference, it is estimated that there will be no such special climate in other places except the south.

At this moment, it is noon.

Nie Zheng had just had lunch with Shen Hongyu, and now he was back in his bedroom, ready to take a lunch break according to his custom.

Slowly removing his robe, he took two pillows, leaned high on the head of the bed, looked up at the window, the sky outside was gray, and at some point, it actually rained lightly above the gloomy sky.

His eyes were cast out the window, but his mind was thinking about something else.

In the past few days, he has sent several scouts out of the city to investigate the news, because Sangkang, the king of Dayue, has already gathered more than 100,000 troops in Zengzhou, which is 300 miles away.

Now, after such a long time, there has been no movement on the enemy's side, which makes Nie Zheng very puzzled.

You must know that hundreds of thousands of Yue troops plus 100,000 Han enslavements poured into Zengzhou, and the daily consumption of grain and grass by these hundreds of thousands of horses is a huge astronomical amount.

The longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the war, and it will easily reduce the fighting spirit and morale of the Da Yue people.

With Sangkang's eloquence, it is impossible for him not to understand this truth.

But after Sang Kang led the army into Zengzhou, he kept his troops moving, what is the intention of this?

Zengzhou is far from Yangzhou, if you march rapidly, it will be a five-day trip at most, and Sang Kang has not led his troops to attack for a long time, is it that he has any other conspiracy?

In the past two days, Nie Zheng has discussed many times with Yi Zixuan, Jia Xiufang and other think tanks, and everyone is puzzled, and they don't understand what kind of medicine is sold in Sang Kang's gourd.

There is no anomaly on the enemy's side, and this is the biggest abnormality.

Faintly, Nie Zheng felt that something was wrong in his heart, so in the past two days, he has been emphasizing to Shi Zheng, Xu Shijie and other leaders that they must be vigilant, must be cautious, and beware of the enemy's sudden night attack or any tricks.

Several batches of scouts were sent back, and many letters and newspapers were sent back, without exception, and in each letter, they told Nie Zheng that everything was as usual in Zengzhou, and there was no change.

Hearing this result, Nie Zheng's heart became more and more confused.

Sang Kang led an army of more than 100,000 people in Zengzhou, what did he want to do? Could it be that he is waiting for the right moment?

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng exhaled deeply, and a trace of inexplicable worry arose in his heart.

(To be continued.) )