Chapter 2565 Guizijuan pre-dinner order, a small war

  Passing Dingxing, the group speeded up and soon arrived at Zhiqingyuan County, Baoding Prefecture.

  This is considered to be the base camp of the Xuanfu army, while the main force of the Jizhen army is mainly concentrated on the front lines of Gu'an and Yongqing.

  As soon as the governor's yamen was erected and all staff were in place, Feng Ziying began to get busy.

  It is now the end of August, and I am afraid that this battle will be fought one after another, and there will be no room for rest.

  Feng Ziying also recharged her energy and began to actively plan how to win this battle.

  Actually, in Feng Ziying's opinion, Qingyuan is not a good place for a base camp, as it is too far away from the front line.

According to his thinking, it is best to advance the base camp directly to Zhending City, but it is too dangerous there. The surrounding Huolu, Gaocheng, and Wuji are all gathered by Bailian rebellious troops. Once Zhending is besieged, how will this battle be fought? ? The whole situation becomes passive.

  In addition, Zhending was too far away from the Bailian Rebel Army in the east, which was inconvenient, so it was finally placed in Qingyuan City.

"We need to fight the first battle first, but before that, we need a pre-dinner snack." Feng Ziying glanced at Ma Kongying, "Although there are not many rebellious troops around Yizhou, they are difficult to deal with, and they directly endanger the Liang Dao must be resolved decisively, what happened to Zijing Pass?"

Ma Kongying said with a bitter face: "Temporarily let Shilu go to act as an agent for the defense of Zijingguan. I have already arranged a battalion of troops to advance from east to west. At present, this chaotic army seems to have sensed that something is moving north. Laishui There was news from the side that there was a small group of rebellious troops, probably their vanguard, and they wanted to sneak north,..."

"Don't worry, there are three to five hundred people in Laishui and they can hold on for a few days. Let Laishui become a bait and let it bite the hook. We will attack from east to west and wipe them out completely. How to fight, Kong Ying, don't know Do you need me to teach you?" Feng Ziying said with a smile: "I will give you five days to resolve the battle, is it okay?"

  Ma Kongying raised her chest, "Don't worry, my lord, if you can't win this battle, then Kong Ying, the deputy commander in chief, will come to an end."

  August twenty-two.

Standing at the head of the city of Laishui County, Hou Shilu looked at the disorderly army swarming from the west, and glanced calmly at the earth-colored guard officer next to him, "What are you panicking about? I'm still here, and there are three hundred of me , they can't get in."

  In order to attract this rebel army to attack, as soon as Hou Shilu arrived in Laishui, he took the initiative to send more than a thousand civilians and guards from Laishui County to search northward, and went straight to the suspicious formation set up by the Laishui rebel army.

  The rebellious army had many eyeliners in Laishui City, and they all saw and confirmed with their own eyes that the Laishui Guards and Minzhuang swarmed out of the city and headed for the Juma River in the north of the city.

   It is said that a Laishui rebellious army was found there. Of course, there must be a rebellious army, but it was done on purpose.

  The news spread back to the main force of the Laishui Rebel Army in the western mountainous area, and immediately aroused joy.

"Old fox head, can we fight this battle?" A bearded man stood up with a copper hammer in his hand, with black hair on his chest and belly, and his eyes were wide open. There are only four hundred people strong, and the other three hundred masters came from Dingxing to transport grain. I have seen it with my own eyes. Stone food, just enough for us for a while,..."

"What are you panicking about? King Kong Nu, it's not someone else who is in charge of hosting this time. It's Governor Xiao Feng, who is now the governor of Hebei. Do you know how many people he killed in Shaanxi? How many girls were beheaded in Liaodong? What a savage?" The thin-faced but muscular middle-aged man subconsciously stroked his whiskers, "It stands to reason that he should pay attention to food supply, but maybe the situation in the south is too urgent, so he hurried down?"

"Old Hutou, you have already said that the little supervisor Feng will take thousands of us in his eyes. He usually leads an army of 100,000, or a frontier army. How can he value us? You just Don't be suspicious, and there is an internal response in Laishui City, we can just break through the city and grab enough." The bearded man said in a deep voice: "We must hurry up, we can't let the officers and soldiers at Zijing Pass react, and Yizhou City also If it’s too late, if we break the city and rob us, we’ll run to the southwest and hide in Wuhui Mountain.”

  The people in the underground are also talking all over the place.

  According to the detailed news, Feng Ziying has already passed Qingyuan City and is going straight to Zhending City in the southwest.

   "Okay, let's set off this afternoon. We should discuss it with the city in the evening. Let's use fire as a sign. We will take Laishui City and evacuate within a day. We can't stay long." The thin-cheeked man finally made up his mind.

  The night was dark.

  When the torch was raised at the top of the city, thousands of rebels finally rushed towards Laishui City from all directions.

  Hou Shilu took a deep breath. In order to paralyze these rebellious troops outside the city as much as possible, only 400 guards and minzhuang were kept in the city, while the other guards and minzhuang were already 50 miles away by the Juma River.

  Gain has too many white lotuses in Laishui City. If you don't do this, it will be difficult to cover people's eyes and ears.

This also means that the four hundred guards and Min Zhuang, together with the Xuanfu army disguised as a grain transporter, must resist the siege of the rebellious army that night, hold back these rebellious troops, and fight for Zijinguan and Yizhou, The reinforcements from Dingxing felt that they had won time.

  This is more than 4,000 rebellious troops, five times larger than our own. What's more important is that the fighting power of the 400 guards and Minzhuang is untrustworthy.

  Laishui has only two city gates, the east and the west, and the west gate will become the focus of the siege of the rebellious army.

   "Leave a hundred strong men to help us guard the west gate, and organize some common people to help patrol the city wall. The remaining three hundred strong men will guard the east gate. Although we expect them to focus on the west gate, we must guard against it."

  Hou Shilu also knew that he could only gamble on this one.

Ma Kongying entrusted him with this task, which meant that he had no choice. Governor Xiaofeng was very dissatisfied with the situation of the battle, and within five days he had to deal with the gang of chaotic troops in Laishui, Yizhou. These rebels come out of the mountains to fight?

  The three hundred elites brought by Hou Shilu, except for one thousand self-generated firearms fighters, the other two hundred are sword and shield soldiers.

Considering the large number of rebels, if all 300 people use firecrackers, although a wave of blows can cause a lot of damage to the opponent, but once the rebellion relies on the superiority of numbers to break through and overwhelm them, it will be easy for the enemy to rely on a wave of ferocity. The offensive collapsed.

Use a hundred gunfire soldiers to snipe from a long distance, try to block the momentum of its attack as much as possible, and then use two hundred elite soldiers on the top of the city wall to compress them into a relatively narrow range by virtue of the advantage of the city wall's terrain, so that the gunfire can fully Unleash the power of shooting, and then the sword and shield soldiers can also continuously launch countercharges to completely defeat the opponent's momentum.

   This is the only feasible strategy after several demonstrations and deduction.

  But all this is a theoretical deduction, and after all everything is based on deduction, you can only know it after playing it.

Laishui City has the Juma River flowing nearby. Considering the importance of the location of Laishui City, it is located in the center of Yizhou, Dingxing, and Zhuozhou. A moat was formed by specifically drawing water from the Juma River around the city.

   It's just that the moat is not wide, and no one is too deep. If you want to build a wooden bridge or fill it with soil bags, it can be realized in a relatively short period of time. Of course, this requires enough manpower.

  Hou Shilu was a little nervous. According to the news from the scouts outside, all the rebels had swarmed in, and they would arrive at the city within two quarters of an hour.

   "Who? Don't come near!"

"Master Jun, we are here in the county government office. It's been a hard night. The magistrate asked us to bring you some wine and meat pancakes. Look, they are all steamed out of the pot. Let the brothers eat first while they are still hot." Going,..."

   "County government?" The sentry officer looked coldly, but Hou Shilu looked suspiciously.

  I have already said hello, and I am not allowed to use military orders. Even if someone from the county government comes, I have to report first. How could so many people come to deliver food all at once?

   But the leader was a squad leader of the county government. Hou Shilu had met him several times and had dealings with him. He was a very humble and shrewd character, but he always felt that he didn’t talk much.

  This is too suspicious to be possible.

   "Let them stop, we have to check, they are not allowed to approach, otherwise..." Hou Shilu ordered subconsciously.

   This idea just popped up, and before he could react, dozens of people swarmed from the edge of the city wall, shouting and holding torches, and rushed up.

  Hou Shilu's heart sank, before the enemies outside arrived, the insiders in the city came first.

   Fortunately, he was well prepared. Thirty gunners had already ambushed on both sides of the stairs in the upper city. The order had been issued since he ascended the city. Anyone who dared to approach the city stairs without his order would be shot.

   Obviously, this group of people had planned it long ago, and they have been hiding in a big house near the city ladder, and they were not exposed even when the guards in the Laishui County Yamen were cleaning up.

  When Hou Shilu came to Laishui, Feng Ziying specifically reminded them not to trust the people in the government offices in these places. Many of these local snakes secretly communicate with the White Lotus Sect, and may betray their own information to the other party at any time.

  So he just watched the clean-up and search by the Laishui County Yamen officials, but remained highly vigilant.

   As expected.

  Hou Shilu took two steps back and waved his hand violently.

   During the dialogue between the two sides, thirty heavy gunners were already in place.

With a wave of Hou Shilu's hand, the rebel army who had just had time to rush to the entrance of the city stairs saw a cluster of bright red sparks blooming suddenly in the dark night, followed by "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" The crisp sounds sounded one after another.

  The pungent gunpowder smoke filled the dark city.

  (end of this chapter)