The situation is still not optimistic, there are still at least 1,000 young people on the city wall, and they are still stubbornly guarding the city under the leadership of the county order.

However, it is gratifying that there is a moat in Lingshi County, and Po Ximu can only threaten the city wall from the drawbridge, while the city gate tower facing the drawbridge is controlled by Xiaoqiangying.

Also, he only has three or four hundred people now, although he has temporarily won the victory in the war, but this city is a big city located between Jinzhong and Jinnan, and it is still where the soldiers and mine supervisors are located, and it is also the hometown of big Jin merchants like Wang Dayu and Wang Dengku, when they see that Xiaoqiang's camp only has this little bit of people, they obviously will not be captured!

As a result, Long 13 had to ask for help from Li Zhanchun and others who stayed in Jiexiu County through the road of Jingsheng Fort.

"Since Po Ximu, who is preparing to attack Jiexiu County, has returned to Lingshi County, then, there should be no large number of enemies around Jiexiu County in a short period of time, let Yuan Zongdi and Wu Dading stay to guard Lingshi County, and the remaining Li Zhanchun Department, He Jinlong Department, plus the old camp of five hundred young people quickly rushed to the south gate of Lingshi County!"

Starting from Lingshi County to Jiexiu County, the road through Jingshengbao was at least sixty miles, and it was still a mountain road that could barely pass a horse, so Long Thirteen had to send five Mongolian teenagers with excellent equestrian skills to quickly go back for help.

At present, the strength of Lingshi County is thin, and one more cavalry is one more strength, but Long Thirteen can't care about it so much, five cavalry, along the way, it is very likely that they will be attacked by the villagers near Jingsheng Fort, and it would be good to have one person who can successfully return to Jiexiu County.

"Leave twenty pikemen at each of the north and south gates, plus ten cavalry, and then send thirty pikemen to the left and right of them to sweep the walls."

"Leave fifty pikemen and twenty cavalry in the city to seize the county treasury immediately, and then open a warehouse to release grain! Enlist the support of a section of the poor"

In addition to the 100 cavalry and 200 pikemen he personally led, the two hundred pikemen who followed Long Thirteen were Bai Wenxuan's two hundred pikemen, and in the battle just now, Long Thirteen's cavalry lost about thirty people, and the loss of pikemen was about fifty.

In other words, he now has four hundred and twenty people left, and if you throw away the slightly injured ones, in fact, only three hundred and fifty people remain!

After making the arrangement just now, there were only eighty-five people left around Long Thirteen!

But he still had thirty cavalrymen and fifty-five pikemen!

He must occupy a place as his barracks!

Without the slightest hesitation, he rushed towards the county town with these eighty-five people!

According to the information he obtained, the Wutai Mountain guerrilla Po Ximu had 1,500 cavalry, and he took out 1,000 cavalry, and those who stayed in the county should have 500 cavalry, just now Stilwell's 100 cavalry was annihilated, and Stilwell himself was captured.

Therefore, there should be 400 infantry troops, and there are 100 people on each side of the city wall, which have been defeated by the Xiaoqiang battalion, which means that there should be 200 infantry troops left in the Daxiaochang barracks!

However, Long Thirteen also knew that even if it was a person like Po Ximu, it was impossible for all the 1,500 troops under his command to be elite, and it was even more impossible to stay in the city, and when they attacked the city gate just now, these two hundred people did not come out, obviously these people were the weakest in the battalion, and most of them were taking care of the baggage.

Cover with a bow and arrow, and then slam a pillar removed from a street shop, and the gate of the barracks opened!

There were no soldiers at the door, but in the middle of the large school field, there were a large number of people dressed as ordinary people, most of them were young women, and the rest were boys and girls under the age of ten!

There were at least three hundred men, and around them were a group of soldiers, old and weak, the old ones at least forty years old, and some of the younger ones less than fifteen years old.

A veteran soldier of about fifty years old shouted: "Don't come, or you will kill all of your men!" ”

"Our people?" , Long Thirteen was very surprised.

Long Xiaoshi on the side said: "Big boss, this Po Ximu is from Xinzhou, when he went all the way south, he must have encountered the righteous army who broke into the vicinity of Taiyuan from the northern end of Guji Mountain, their number was too large, it was impossible to completely cover the old camp, so a large number of family members fell into his hands."

"Most of the young men were killed by him to invite merit, and then some young women and good-looking children were taken captive and followed him south, and he put these people in the barracks, apparently to insult his generals!"

Long Thirteen was furious, and he rode his horse to those people, "Give you one last chance, lay down your arms and surrender within ten breaths, or you will die a miserable death!" ”

As he spoke, he took off his bow and arrows.

The bow and arrow he had brought with him from the ferry in Wubao County, the composite bow system, about one stone force, weighed fifteen catties, and he took out three arrows in one go and held them in his hand.

The old man didn't seem to be afraid, and he continued to shout: "Wait and lay down your weapons immediately, or these family members will be killed by us!" ”

"Whew......"

"Whew......"

"Whew......"

Sun Xiurong ignored him, bent his bow and shot arrows, and shot three arrows in one go!

One of the arrows killed the old soldier on the spot, and the other two arrows also killed the two people around him, which immediately frightened the Ming army who remained in the barracks.

"Da Da Da ......"

After shooting these three arrows, Long Thirteen did not stop, holding a riding spear in one hand, and rushed towards the remaining Ming army!

Twenty steps!

Ten steps!

Dragon Thirteen will hold the longer cavalry spear high!

Five!

"The King's ......."

Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore and knelt down after shouting.

And then the second, the third......

In the end, Hulala knelt down near the family of the rebels!

Dragon Thirteen helped a young woman to her feet.

"Which family of the rebels are you waiting for?"

The woman was petite and weak, and had a pair of small feet, she was definitely not from a poor family, most of them were robbed by thieves, but since she became a family member of the rebels, he Long Thirteen had to treat them in this name.

"I don't know ......"

"Oh, I am also a member of the Righteous Army, originally the third leader of Zhao Sheng's Department of Lighting Lamps, and separated from the Lighting Brigade, an independent battalion, called 'Xiaoqiang', and the big boss of the Xiaoqiang battalion, Dragon Thirteen"

When the woman heard this, she cried: "We are the family members of the big boss who is not muddy, and the slave family is his wife, and when he passed through Taiyuan City, he was attacked by the guerrillas of Shanxi Town, Taiyuan Wei, and Wutai Mountain, and soon separated from the main force...... Boom"

Long Thirteen nodded, "Okay, the non-muddy master has gone to Liaozhou now, you can't go back there, it's better to follow my camp."

"Thank you, big boss"

Long Thirteen returned to the group of Ming soldiers who were still kneeling and shouted, "The young are divided into a pile, and the old are divided into a pile!" ”

The group of Ming soldiers didn't know what Long Thirteen only had to do, but they were afraid of his obscenity, so they had to do it.

Long Thirteen said to a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, "What's your name?" Where are the people? Coming out as a soldier at such a young age? ”

The man replied tremblingly: "Back to the king, my name is Wang Lai'er, a military household of Wutai Thousand Households, my father is sick, and I have to replace him."

"Oh? You and others are all from Wutai Thousand Households? ”

"Yes"

Long Thirteen walked to the other side and asked about an old soldier in his forties.

"Where did you wait, where did they all come from?"

"Some of us are from Guguan, and some are from Wutai."

Long Thirteen nodded, and returned to the young men, "Pick up your weapons and kill all those old pawns!" Otherwise, you wait for the old and the young to stay! ”

As soon as these words came out, the old ones suddenly became agitated, and after being shot by a few more arrows from Long Thirteen, they became honest again.

After a while, I saw a shout coming from the young man's pile, and someone rushed towards the old man's pile with a short knife, and then pulled a person from it, and stabbed him in the chest with a knife, and screamed while stabbing hard, "Tell you to stab me in the ass!" Tell you to stab me in the ass! ”

With the appearance of this person, one teenager after another rushed towards those veterans with knives and guns!

The veterans naturally resisted, but after all, they had no weapons in their hands, and at first they fought with the teenagers, but later they all fell.

After about a moment, the ground of the big school field was full of red, and about a hundred veterans all lay on the ground, and only thirty-four of the seventy or eighty young soldiers remained.

"Okay, you wait now for my Xiaoqiang camp"

Long Thirteen looked at them coldly, and then said to a pikeman sentry beside him: "You take twenty people plus those teenagers to guard the camp."

After saying that, he walked out of the camp with the rest of the troops.

Along the way, they kept seeing the families of wealthy families and the scoundrels in the city who took advantage of the chaos to rob everywhere.

In the middle of the night, another ride flew in the distance.

"Big Boss"

"How?"

"The county treasury has been taken!"

"How much grain is there?"

"At least 10,000 stones!"

"So what are you waiting for? All to the poor in the city! ”

......

Not long after, more than a dozen horsemen beat gongs and drums and shouted in the streets and alleys of the city: "Divide the grain, divide the grain, and those who are interested will go to the county treasury immediately to collect it!" ”

At first, no one paid attention to it, but in the end, hunger overcame fear, and as one person came out, soon a large area of Hula came out, and finally Long Thirteen counted it, and there were at least two thousand households!

Each household was given five stone of grain!

Don't underestimate these five stone grains, at the end of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it can fully meet the needs of a family for a year!

On one side of the county treasury, led by Long Xiaoshi, ten tables were opened in one go.

Recruitment of Junior Soldiers has begun!

And near the North City Gate, the Xiaoqiang battalion repelled Po Ximu's attacks many times, and after recruiting five hundred teenagers, He Jinlong and Omubu also arrived!

In addition to these two hundred horsemen, there were five hundred young men.

Long Thirteen's heart was completely put down.

At night, the whole city was dark, except for the county town and the school field.

"Big Boss"

Long Xiaoshi shouted excitedly.

Long Thirteen smiled: "Isn't it quite rewarding?" ”

"Yes, since the second master arrived with two hundred cavalry and five hundred young men, the signs of imminent movement in the city disappeared without a trace."

"According to the confession of the county magistrate, this Lingshi county is where the Jinnan Bingbei Road is located, and it has jurisdiction over the entire Fenzhou and Lingshi County and Ningxiang County under Pingyang Mansion, but this Bingbei Dao is not in the city at this time, but went to Pingyang Mansion."

"There are several nitrate caves on the mountains near Lingshi County, and there are pyrite ores, so this place has become the only place in Shanxi to make gunpowder, and the gunpowder produced is specially supplied to the Shenji Battalion."

"They extracted sulfur from pyrite and smelted iron, so this place also became a place to supply Shenji Battalion firecrackers and tiger squat cannons, and every year they needed to provide Shenji Camp with 100 good firearms and 10 tiger squat cannons."

"They were originally going to send these firearms to the capital as soon as spring begins......"

"How many craftsmen are there?"

"There are about 100 households refining nitrate in the nitrate cave on the mountain, and it is said that there are specialized craftsmen from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, about 50 households refining sulfur, and more than 200 households engaged in mining and iron smelting."

"Well, immediately draw two hundred people from the newly recruited young soldiers and those Ming army prisoners to practice firecrackers, by the way, since it is a soldier's road, it is where the arsenal is located, what is the gain?"

"Yes, it is for the 1,000 sets of summer clothes of the Ming army that were transported for the training of the Poxi pastoral department and the county regiment, including 50 sets of leather armor, 50 pairs of bows and arrows, spears, goose feather knives, bowstrings, and a number of arrows."

"Also, in Wang Dayu and Wang Dengku's house, there are a lot of gains, in addition to tens of thousands of taels of silver, there are also a lot of grain, salt, cloth and other things"

"What about Po Ximu?"

"Because Lingshi County is stuck on the passage of the Bird Mouse Valley, he can't pass, so he has to go back, now in addition to struggling to take Jiexiu County, is to retreat to the northwest into Hot Spring Fort or Fenxi County more than ten miles in the north, most of them are Fenxi County, not long ago Zijinliang and others occupied the county, this county is still empty"