Wu Feng immediately issued an order, ordering the five squadrons of the Third Brigade of the Fourth Wing to leave one squadron to patrol on the city wall, and the other four squadrons to guard the four gates, and the common people were only allowed to enter and not to leave, so as to strictly prevent enemy spies from infiltrating and sabotaging.

Then, Wu Feng ordered the officers and men of the Fourth Brigade of the Fourth Wing to work with the escorted baggage soldiers to set up the 20 giant trebuchets on the four walls of Qingyang Mansion City as soon as possible, and to debug them as soon as possible, and at the same time do a good job of defending them. These twenty trebuchets were originally intended to be used to strengthen the city defense of Qingyang Mansion after the war, with a long range, strong lethality, and very powerful power, I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

The few measures taken by Wu Feng quickly had a noticeable effect, and order in the city had returned to normal, especially the bloody heads of several robbers who took advantage of the fire to hang on the gate of the arena, which even more deterred those who wanted to do wrong. Merchants have also opened their shops and are open for business as usual. The restoration of the city wall was also progressing very smoothly, and the enthusiastic people even demolished the things of their houses despite the lack of materials, which touched Wufeng very much. The progress of the moat's cleaning and dredging work is relatively slow, due to the loss of control for many years, many sections have been completely blocked, and it takes a lot of effort to dredge, but with the strong support of the people, some progress has also been made, and it is estimated that it will take two to three days to complete the water supply.

The conscription also achieved very good results, and tens of thousands of people enthusiastically signed up in the afternoon of the same day, and after screening, those who had only children and those who were not physically fit enough were eliminated, and more than 8,000 people still joined the army. On this day alone, more than 12,000 scattered soldiers came to the west of the city to report for duty, and Wu Feng personally received them and delivered them the hot water, food, medicine, tents, and other materials that had been prepared.

When Liang Chongxin returned from the day's search work, Wu Feng immediately had a secret conversation with him, and afterwards, Liang Chongxin and the three squadrons directly under him seized the time to rest, and that night, Liang Chongxin led the cavalry of the three squadrons to quietly go out of the city overnight and disappeared into the night.

That night, Wu Feng ordered the Fifth Brigade to take over the patrol work of the Second Brigade, and ordered Cui Wenxiu to lead the Second Brigade to be responsible for conducting a simple three-day training for the newly recruited more than 8,000 soldiers. He also ordered Mu Lige to act as the agent of the first brigade for the overall work, and to be responsible for the reorganization of the more than 12,000 soldiers who had been scattered and organized, and strive to complete the reorganization within three days. Wu Feng also ordered the Fifth Brigade to draw a squadron, change into civilian clothes, and disperse out of the city to gather intelligence.

After arranging all this, Wu Feng and Xiao Tang, Zhan Zhaobai, and Wei Dongchen checked around, the repair work of the city wall was in full swing, and the cleaning and dredging of the moat also made great progress, Wu Feng inspected it, instructed to deepen and widen the moat, and ordered the herald to transfer the second brigade and the more than 8,000 recruits immediately, and work overtime overnight.

After inspecting all the lots, the sky has revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly. Wu Feng's spirit was still very strong, while the other three were obviously inferior to him, but they all barely held on, "Lord Li, when do you expect the Luope people to attack us?" On the way back to the city to defend the mansion, Zhan Zhaobai couldn't help but ask this question that everyone was very concerned about, Wu Feng thought as he walked, and only after walking for a while did he answer: "The enemy's main task at present is to snatch grain, grass and livestock, I estimate that the enemy has not discovered the abnormality here yet, but by tonight at the latest, the enemy's scouts will be aware of it." The main forces of the enemy forces in Bonan and Guide received the news that it must be tomorrow, and they will definitely have to spend two days to complete the task of grabbing food before returning to the division, and on the whole, our enemy should take action against us in four days. So we have four days to prepare, and we have to make all the preparations within those four days for the coming big war. Wei Dongchen asked another question: "I heard that the lord once said that he had sent people to Taixuanfu and Guanxi and Heshuo counties to ask for reinforcements, I don't know if there is any news?" This was originally made up by Wu Feng casually at that time in order to enhance the confidence of Zhan and Wei, but I didn't expect the two to believe it, Wu Feng replied without blinking his eyes: "It is estimated that it is almost here now, and there will be news back the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”――

Xiao Tang asked another question: "My lord, I'm afraid we still have to prepare some medical personnel, this battle will definitely not end in a day or two, our own troops will definitely not be enough, and there is no need to worry about medicine." "I'm afraid I have to ask the two gentlemen to coordinate this. Zhan Wei and the two hurriedly said that there was no problem-

Back at the Castle Guard's Mansion, it has been taken over by the Bladeless Guards Squadron as a temporary command center. As soon as he returned to the mansion to rest for a while, the guards came to report that the troops who had gone out of the city to reconnoiter had returned and reported the situation. After listening to the report of the reconnaissance unit, Wu Feng learned that the enemy had not yet discovered the changes here, and was concentrating on grabbing grain, grass and livestock in the countryside, and many ordinary people in the township were fleeing in the direction of Qingyang Fucheng to hide.

The second and third days passed quickly in the busy work, the repair and improvement of the city wall has come to an end, and the work of cleaning and widening the moat is also progressing rapidly, Wu Feng attaches great importance to this work, because in the case of the enemy's lack of effective siege facilities, the moat can play a good role in delaying the enemy's attack, can buy a lot of time for the defending side, and will also greatly increase the losses of the attacking side. In the past two days, nearly 6,000 scattered troops of the empire came to report, Wu Feng was very satisfied, although these troops were scattered, but after all, they were soldiers who had undergone formal training, and they only needed to be reorganized without training, and at least they could exert more than fifty percent of their combat effectiveness. Unlike those recruits, who can only barely serve as a logistics and transportation unit after two or three days of training, helping the regular troops to assist in the defense, and by the way, they can also see what the real war is like.

Time into the fourth day after the war, just after noon, Wu Feng received a report from the reconnaissance force, the main force of the Luo Pei people has arrived near the city of Qingyang Fu, Wu Feng sat on the chair and sighed, the efficiency of the Luo people really can not be underestimated, it was a day and a half ahead of their expectations, fortunately they did not relax, the repair of the city wall has been completed, and the work of the moat will also end in the afternoon, just in time to use-

Ascending the West City Tower, Wufeng looked into the distance, only to see the yellow dust covering the sky in the distance to the west, and it could be seen at a glance that this was the dust caused by the rapid march of the cavalry of the large army. As expected, the enemy still chose the accustomed direction of Xicheng as the main direction of attack. At the beginning, they judged that although the enemy would return to the division from the east, but the west city was the direction of their many attacks, and in their impression, the city wall of the west city was also much more dilapidated, and it was very likely that the enemy would choose the west side as the main direction of attack, so he arranged eleven of the twenty large trebuchets on the west city wall, and only three on each side of the other walls, it seems that his judgment was correct.

Just as Wu Feng climbed the tower to observe the Luo Pei troops, the Luo Pei troops were busy encamping in a group. After receiving the report of the abnormality of Qingyang City from Tanma, Ha Xian, who led the infantry to carry out the task of sweeping and grabbing grain, immediately felt that this matter was unusual, and immediately sent a fast horse to inform Kurdo and Geya, who were in Guide and Bonan respectively, that the two people who had completely defeated the imperial army of the western expedition also felt the seriousness of the matter, and stepped up to complete the task of grabbing grain, and ordered their respective lieutenants to return to the west.

The large camp of the Rope army. After a period of confusion, the troops of Kurdo, Geya, and Hason had finished camping, and the three of them were also sitting in Kurdo's tent. When Tu Da, the general of the expedition to the east, led his troops to return to China first, he appointed Kurdo as the commander-in-chief, and Geya and Haxian as the deputies.

"Haxian, you tell me about the situation first. "Curdo in the center has a somewhat gloomy face, after all, he is the manager, and if something goes wrong behind this, he will bear the main responsibility. "Okay, I'll talk about it first. On the afternoon of the day of the battle, after you led your troops to chase the defeated army of the Tanghe people, I was ordered by the general to lead the infantry to collect grain and grass. The collection task in Qingyang Mansion was also completed smoothly, but the Tanma report found that many small groups of enemies were moving around, and a large number of defeated scattered people poured into Qingyang City, I immediately sent scouts to find out, and found that Qingyang City, which originally had no army to defend the city, actually had a guard force, the number is unknown, and I arranged for several groups to follow the local peasants who fled into Qingyang City to mix into Qingyang City, but until now, there has been no news of these people. "Because Wufeng has taken measures to only allow entry and not exit, and has strengthened the management of city defense, no one is allowed to leave the city without Wufeng's order. Although the fine work sent by Haxian blended into the city, he couldn't leave the city, so he couldn't get the news out.

The three of them couldn't figure out where the troops in the city who dared to fight came from, Geya pondered for a while, and asked his own question: "The Tanghe people's western expeditionary force has been completely defeated by us, and it is impossible to organize it again, and according to our intelligence, there were no city defense troops in Qingyang City before our war, so where did this army come from? How many troops are there?" Geya said the same thing as I thought, so the enemy is likely to be reinforcements later, and if he didn't catch up with the battle in front, there won't be many of them, but this lord is not an easy general, as soon as he enters the city, he knows how to take measures to prevent our spies, and he can also mobilize the local people to resist us, it's not easy. However, he also thinks too highly of his own strength, and he wants to compete with our army with some remnants of the defeated army, plus some ordinary people, which is too underestimating us. Don't think about it so much now, seize the time to rest, send more scouts out to spy on the situation, and when the main infantry arrives tomorrow, it will be their end. Both Geya and Hasian agreed with Courto, and they both believed that in such a situation there was nothing to stop their conquest.

Just when the Luobei people outside the city were gearing up to attack, Wu Feng was also seizing the time to make final preparations. Mu Lige has completed the reorganization of those troops that have been scattered, except for nearly 4,000 wounded and sick, Mu Lige will reorganize the remaining 14,000 people into four wings, and take turns to bring them to Xicheng to familiarize themselves with the terrain, Cui Wenxiu also led the second brigade and more than 8,000 recruits to roll logs, stones, arrows, and arrows for various battles. Boiling oil and other materials were sent to the city, and Wu Feng also ordered the 1,000 boxes and crossbows that had been escorted to be placed on the west city wall, which was also a powerful weapon, but because it took a certain amount of time to re-install the crossbow arrows every time this weapon was fired, it limited the use of power. At the same time, Wu Feng also ordered the troops to demolish the houses along the city wall, and promised to pay compensation after the war, in case they were hit by enemy rockets during the war, causing fires and causing chaos.

The people in the city also knew that the critical time was coming, so they consciously organized themselves and worked overtime to make necessary materials such as dry food and stretchers, and many people took the initiative to sign up as stretcher bearers. The whole city was like a clockwork machine, and everything revolved around the coming war-

At night, Wu Feng and Xiao Tang talked about tomorrow's war in the study of the city guard's mansion, and when Xiao Tang asked about Liang Chongxin's whereabouts, Wu Feng just smiled and did not answer. Since Liang Chongxin returned to Qingyang Mansion on the evening of October 8, no one has seen him, no one knows when and where he went, and he disappeared with the three cavalry squadrons directly under Wufeng.

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