August 28, the camp in the west of the city.

More than 3,000 newly recruited brave men and 2,000 militia groups changed into standard armor and were also issued with knives, guns and weapons.

If you don't look closely, it's no different from the regular army.

Immediately, according to the system of the Eastern Guard, Yongzhuang was organized into eight battalions.

Zhao Mengqi used the staff of Jiedu Mansion as officials at all levels of the Yongzhuang Battalion, and quickly built an organizational structure.

After two days of special training, the combat effectiveness of this brave battalion is definitely not good, but it looks decent.

Chen Wei was in charge of the militia group, and the officials were basically the children of his family and cronies, as well as the sons and nephews of other gentry.

Chen Wei had the experience of forming militia regiments on many occasions, and he never lost his ability to train troops and fight wars, and it only took a very short time to organize four battalions according to the traditional military system.

This kind of powerful landlord armament, in fact, is not bad in combat effectiveness, often appears in emergency times, but it is easy to become a private army, so most of them will be disbanded afterwards.

On the evening of the 29th, all the Yongzhuang battalions entered the city and garrisoned the city walls, replacing the two Dongwei battalions and one horse battalion that had originally defended the city.

In other words, Fuzhou City will be defended by a battalion of horses and eight brave battalions.

And Zhao Mengqi will take a Ma Si battalion, two Dongwei battalions, and four militia battalions, a total of less than 3,500 people, to rescue Quanzhou.

Speaking of which, if these soldiers and horses are the elite of the border army, it is really not a few, and the last time Chen Wei quelled Yan Mengbiao's rebellion, he only transferred 3,500 Huai soldiers.

But Zhao Mengqi's three thousand and a half is up for debate, at least Pu Shiwen and Liu Qingzhu scoffed at it after they got the news.

"Is this King Yan arrogant or stupid, with this little soldier and horse, he wants to rescue Quanzhou?"

"Hehe, among these soldiers and horses, only the more than 300 soldiers of Ma Xingsi can fight, and the others are not worth mentioning, if King Yan really dares to come like this, it will be completely a sheep in the mouth of a tiger."

"No... They also transferred troops from Gutian, it is said that there is a special service team, and it is easy to subdue 10,000 people, there should be something, let's not be too careless. ”

"According to the time, Gutian's soldiers and horses will arrive tomorrow at the latest, in that case, King Yan will have nearly 5,000 soldiers, we are less than 9,000, the advantage is still superior, but it can't be foolproof, if we let King Yan take advantage of the chaos to get out, we will fall short."

"Brother Pu is reasonable, then let's send a pigeon letter to Quanzhou as planned, and let the white-eyed Jiao come to support."

"Wait, I always feel that this is probably not so simple, King Yan was very cunning in the past, how could he suddenly be stunned this time?"

"You mean, King Yan is using a trick?"

"For the time being, I can't say, whether he really wants to rescue Quanzhou, when he will set off, by land or by sea, it's still uncertain, let's use static braking, and wait to confirm that he has moved, and then it's too late to make arrangements."

"Well, if he doesn't move tomorrow, then it's almost certain that he is delaying the army, and he is basically waiting for the reinforcements to arrive before acting, in this case, we have to let Quanzhou strengthen the offensive......"

So there was nothing to say all night, and on the thirtieth day of August.

The sky was still hazy, and Zhao Mengqi took the guard squad straight out of Fuzhou City and went straight into the camp.

Before the hour arrived, the camp sounded an unusually earth-shattering drum horn, presumably gathering troops and horses.

Sure enough, soon after, the gate of the camp was opened, flags were unfurled, and teams of soldiers came out.

In the middle of the procession, the banner of King Yan was raised, and King Yan himself rode a black horse, in the sanitation of more than a dozen personal cavalry, walking proudly.

They passed east under the city of Fuzhou, and then, in full view of everyone, crossed the Min River and headed south.

On the Dading Mountain on the south bank of the Minjiang River, six people looked at the official road at the foot of the mountain, and after a careful observation, they all became excited.

Immediately they quickly wrote down the information, grabbed two pigeons from the pigeon cage, tied them to the letter box and released them.

Then, they planned to leave two people to continue to guard the official road, and the others moved to the other side of the mountain to join up with the accomplices who were monitoring the mouth of the Min River.

But before he could go far, he was surrounded by more than a dozen people.

The four spies were shocked and drew their short knives, "Military Intelligence Division!?" ”

"Yo, I know a lot." Lin Fa swayed out from behind a tree and threw a net bag in front of the four spies.

"You should want to see these people, you see how caring our military intelligence department is, and we have already brought them here, so you don't have to take the wrong road."

Seeing that the five heads in the net pocket were the accomplices in charge of monitoring the Minjiang estuary, the spies realized that every move of themselves and others had already fallen into the eyes of the Military Intelligence Department, and they couldn't help but despair.

This suggests that the MID was completely deliberate in letting them release pigeon letters.

The spies' face turned pale in an instant, and he also knew that the Military Intelligence Department did not kill himself and the others immediately, so he must have other plans, "What do you want?" ”

"Which of you is in charge of sending pigeon letters, and he can live." Lin Fa didn't bother to talk nonsense.

The head of the spy sank his face, "It turned out that he wanted to use the pigeon letter to send fake news, hehe, dreaming!" We'd rather die than ...... Yes! ”

A dagger stabbed him in the back, "I'm sorry, I don't want to die yet!" ”

The spy head turned his head in disbelief, "Stone... Three...... You, you're crazy!? You don't... Die, your whole family... It's all ...... Die! ”

"Lao Tzu is alive to have a home!"

Shi San sneered, exerted force on his wrist, slammed the dagger and pulled it out, and then took advantage of the fact that the other two accomplices were at a loss, quickly swung the dagger and cut the throats of the two of them.

Throwing away the blood-stained dagger, Shi Sanpu knelt down, "The villain is willing to surrender, and the big official will do what he says." ”

Lin Fa looked at Shi San coldly, with a little jealousy in his eyes, and finally held back his murderous intent, "Get up, from now on, take your life by yourself, don't give me a reason to kill you......"

They then immediately went to get rid of the last two spies and left the big top mountain with the pigeon cages.

Half an hour later, the two pigeons flew to the island of Dongxiaobei, one hundred and thirty miles to the south.

After Pu Shiwen and Liu Qingzhu carefully read the pigeon letter, a smile of surprise appeared on their faces.

"Wow! It's really here...... Normally, they should be able to reach the north bank of Hagilu Creek by noon tomorrow. ”

"Hahaha, let's get on the boat."

"Don't worry, send a letter to Quanzhou first, if there is no accident, they can also arrive tomorrow."

Soon two more pigeons took off from the East and West and headed south, and then more than 40 ships that stayed between the East and West islands set sail and swooped down at the mouth of the Hagi River twenty-six miles to the northwest.

After flying more than 160 miles, the two pigeons landed in the Pu family's mansion in Fashigang, Quanzhou.

A group of people had been waiting for a long time, and when they got the news, they did not hesitate to send someone to inform Pu Shisi in Nanguan Port.

At this time, the city of Quanzhou has been surrounded by nearly 100,000 bandits, and has been attacked for two whole days, facing the crisis of breaking the city several times, and the soldiers have suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

The west gate of Linzhang Gate and the south gate of Deji Gate are the key attack directions of bandits, and the damage to the city wall is extremely serious.

There were corpses lying in wait outside the Deji Gate, estimated at no less than 5,000, most of whom were civilians who had been captured by pirates.

Thirty zhang away from the city, there are more than 20 trebuchets, which are constantly throwing dozens of pounds of stones at the city wall, and the manpower responsible for operating the trebuchets is naturally the people.

It's not that the defenders don't want to destroy these trebuchets, but no matter how many they have destroyed before, the pirates can immediately rush a large number of craftsmen to repair them.

There were a large number of houses in the towns and on the docks, and there was no shortage of materials at all, and as for the craftsmen and the common people, they were not worthy of pity, and if they died, they continued to drive out a batch.

On the contrary, the defenders were soft-handed, and later, as long as they did not come to annex the city, they were too lazy to kill again.

Fortunately, the Silla Castle was built not long ago, and it was built strong enough, and although it was smashed into potholes, the main body was still strong.

Today, from dawn, the pirates began to launch a stone-throwing attack, which had been smashed for more than two hours, and the more than 400 defenders at the head of the city did not dare to show their heads easily.

The trebuchet finally stopped, but the defenders became even more nervous, for it meant that the pirates were about to rush to the city and climb the city.

Zidali looked through the mutilated battlement, and saw that sixty feet away, seven or eight thousand pirates were already lined up, and more than 6,000 people were holding large wooden shields and carrying long ladders, some of them were at the head of the queue, and some were sandwiched between the pirate ranks.

"These sons of bitches raised them! …… Brothers, all cheer up and prepare for battle, don't be soft later, otherwise once the city is broken, with the ruthlessness of these bastards, the people in the city are probably in danger! ”

The soldiers clenched their bows and crossbows in their hands and responded with strong spirits.

And Qian Long was still sitting in the corner of the female wall, and said in a muffled voice, "Send someone to ask for reinforcements, it is estimated that Haikou is going to do his best this time, and it is difficult for us to bear it." ”

"Reinforcements ......" Qi Dali hesitated and asked, "There aren't many people left in Luocheng and Zicheng, if they are transferred again, in case there is civil strife......"

Although the outer city is short of troops, the inner city has always had to retain a certain number of troops.

First, it is to prepare for emergencies, and secondly, it is also to serve as a reserve force, and it is necessary to rush over to support wherever it is critical.

"About five or six hundred."

Qian Long didn't move, just to retain his strength, and even spoke a lot quieter, "Where can I manage so much now, if this place is breached, then everything will be over, hurry up and ask for help." ”

Zidali nodded with a wry smile, summoned a small soldier, and was about to give an order, when he heard someone shouting, "Command, Haikou seems to be retreating......"

Hearing this, Qi Dali looked at him in disbelief, "Nonsense...... Belch! The pirates are really retreating, and the thieves are begging, they won't attack the city?! ”

When Qian Xiaopang heard this, he suddenly stood up, holding on to the battlement and looking at it, he was also full of surprise, "Mother, I really retreated..."

Then he seemed to think of something, and was suddenly stunned, "Could it be, could it be that His Highness really wants to come to the rescue, but where is the soldier in his hand?" ”

Under Qianlong's watchful eye, the pirates retreated all the way to the harbor, and then began to board the ship, and the full ship sailed directly out of the dock and out to sea.

In the end, Qian Long estimated that there were about 5,000 pirates, who left in more than 30 large ships.

At this time, he was even more sure of his thoughts, these pirates were definitely going to intercept King Yan.

As a result, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to the north, his heart full of worry.

However, most of the pirates left, which only eased the pressure on Dejimen, but the bandits from other directions were still attacking the city, and Qian Long didn't think much about it, and rushed to Linzhangmen with two hundred soldiers to support.

Some people died, but not completely......