Chapter 194 Looking at each other

In the lobby of Shimen County, a young man in his early twenties was sitting in a green robe and black veil. He was sitting on the seat wondering what he was thinking, silent; but the people next to him were chattering and talking nonstop.

The young magistrate named Wang Yu, and his fame is just a student. Not long ago, he thought that his qualifications were limited and there was no hope of progress in the field of science, so he ordered some to become an official.

With such fame and fortune, he naturally can't wait for any good place to become an official. It's good to be a magistrate in a remote southwest, at least a seventh-rank official.

When he came to Shimen County, Huguang, he brought several people. At this time, Master Liang, who was standing behind him, was the shopkeeper of his family's shop. He had some experience in dealing with the officials in his hometown and was his own, so he was brought to Shimen County to assist in being an official, and finally he was his own.

The case was not tried today, mainly for a strange thing.

The person under the seat was inspector He. Seeing that they were crowded, the officials did not dare to come forward to stop him. While sending people to stare at him from afar, they rushed back to report the news.

Where did you come from?Can you identify the identity with a flag?

Master Liang saw that the magistrate of the county hall did not say anything, so he asked for him. After asking, he said to himself, "I have seen the recent official documents, and no one wants to pass through the border... In addition, there are important criminals in the prison, so we cannot take it lightly."

Inspection Officer He replied: They walked along the Lishui River from west to east, and their teams were purged, unlike the refugees.There is a flag with a yellow-bottomed vermilion bird flag.

A green-robed official next to him interrupted: If you hold such a flag or a royal family member, can you be the king of Han?Recently, there is news that the King of Han has gone south and many places have surrendered...

The King of Han was in the east, how could he come from the west?

Master Liang said angrily, even if the King of Han had already arrived in Huguang, why didn’t the Yuezhou Prefecture, Changde Prefecture and other places come, but instead sent people to our small county. Isn’t this fart taking off your pants?

The green robe man turned black and he stopped arguing.

Master Liang said: I think the Lord of the Hall should make some preparations quickly and pay special attention to the main criminals in the prison. If we lose, we will not be able to hand in the office... Should we invite the two Jinyiwei lieutenants from the hall to come over and discuss matters together?

At this moment, a Zaoli ran to the door of the lobby. Master Liang made a gesture. Zaoli quickly stepped in and knelt down and said: "Report to the hall master, the young man went up and asked the crowd. They said they were soldiers of Yongding Guard and were sent by Shangguan to Yuezhou Prefecture. They asked what they were going to do. The officials couldn't explain clearly, so they had to ask Shangguan or Huguang Dusi.

It's so strange!Master Liang said.

At this time, the magistrate Wang Yu picked up his pen, dipped it in cinnabar and wrote the card ticket. After writing one, he said: Immediately send people to various parts of the county to recruit volunteers and weapons from all generations to guard the county.

An official from the Liufang Military Department hurriedly came forward to receive the ticket and rushed to arrange the staff.

Wang Yu said again: Send Kuaishou to investigate the whereabouts of the team, and report it once every hour.In addition, Wang Dianshi went to invite the Jinyiwei Captain to speak in the hall.

An official on the left said: Do you want to send someone to the mansion and report the letter to Shangguan?

Master Liang said: Although the Jinyiwei came from Changde Prefecture nearby, the prefect of Changde did not control our Shimen County and had to go to Yuezhou Prefecture.Yuezhou Prefecture is east of Dongting Lake, and you still have to take the water route. I don’t know when the letter will arrive there!

Wang Yu turned around and said: I still have to report the letter. He said that there were more than 100 soldiers in the jurisdiction. He did not know the origin and had not received a letter consultation.Master Liang came to write this official document and also wrote a copy to send it to Cili County Government, asking them if there were unknown people passing through the border and how they passed through.

yes.After hearing this, Master Liang had no choice but to agree.

After a while, two Jinyiwei lieutenants and several soldiers came to the lobby. The two lieutenants were not wearing armor, nor were they wearing flying fish clothes, and were dressed in common scarves and hats.

Wang Yu got up to greet him, asked someone to bring a chair, let the two of them take a seat in the lobby, and told the story again.

The Jinyiwei Captain who sat in front and held up a ball with his robe said: More than 100 people came to Shimen County, most of them wanted to rob the criminals. As long as Magistrate Wang ordered martial law for a few days to prevent spies from entering the city, it would be foolproof.We will not escort the criminals to Changde for the time being, so as not to be robbed halfway, and it is safe to stay in the county jail.

Another younger lieutenant said: The Ministry of War was going to send people to transfer troops from the garrison to assist in handling the case, but for some reason it had not arrived yet, and it might have been delayed.Before this, we just need to find out the details of the rioters.

Wang Yu wanted to ask casually if it was the influence of the Han King's rebellion, but he immediately realized that these people were Jinyiwei from the capital, so he resisted not mentioning sensitive topics.

He changed his words and said: This official has issued a license ticket and recruited a township to come to the county government to consolidate the city defense.At that time, General Li and the officials and the people will be invited to fight the enemy together.

The captain of the big-bellied Jinyiwei heard the magistrate call him a general, and said in a big way: You are too nervous, and the city defense is too much. Send people to the city gate to watch it tightly. Don’t let the bandits sneak into the city.In addition, the county government jail cannot be cut off, so we often patrol the site.

Wang Yu was just a civil servant, but he didn't understand military affairs. When he thought that the county town had city walls and strong soldiers, he felt a little relieved.

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The next morning, Zhang Ning's men were traveling along the north bank of the Lishui River, and the county town had already appeared in sight.

After the team was exposed, there was no resistance along the way. He led a few people to the suburbs of the county town first and climbed a small hill to observe the situation in the county town on the spot.

It is estimated that the circumference of the county wall is about ten miles long, the hilly terrain and the city is extremely irregular, barely like a rectangle with east-west long and narrow north-south. The mountains are high in the north and water gates are close to the river in the south.

The city wall is simple and about one meter high, with some of the bread bricks outside, most of which are rammed earth, and six gates of all sizes. Although the county town is surrounded by water, there is no moat, which should be the reason why the artificial river that was sieged in the siege is too expensive.

At this time, Chen Gai, the Zuo General Banner, rode up and came up. This man was ungrateful and polite. When he came up, he said directly: Most of the sentry flags sent out from the north have returned. There is no movement near the nearest one-san and two offices. There is a mountain in the north, and it is difficult to walk on the road. Even if the garrison really wants to send troops here temporarily, it will not be able to arrive for several days.

Zhang Ning said: The mainland garrison guards are probably OK, but it is very difficult to send troops around.I remember that the military system of the garrison in this place is eight parts of military farming and two parts of garrison. In recent years, it has been extremely burdened and has a lot of escape, and its combat effectiveness has been that way.

Chen Gai touched his forehead: It is obvious that there are not many soldiers in Shimen County. How many guards do you think there are here?

Zhang Ning said: There should be no place like Shimen County. It is mainly the village warriors recruited from the civil service. They are good to maintain public order, but they have no combat effectiveness in field battles.Our focus is to score the goal, and rush in flat ground can reduce casualties.The command team continued to drive into the southwest small gate and lined up.

Chen Gai went over to pass the order, and Zhang Ning led Lao Xu and others down the mountain to wait for the troops.

There were no artillery in the city, and the whole team stopped to line up a mile near the southwest gate.

The soldiers are lined up in front and formed four deep square formations, and the miscellaneous soldiers are at the back; the weakness of this formation is that the miscellaneous soldiers are not good at fighting power, but with the military strength of Shimen County, it is impossible to send a strongly mobile cavalry to attack from behind.

Wei Bin, the left and right chief flags, and Yao Erlang came to the side of the team to talk to Zhang Ning, which was considered a small meeting before the war.

Zhang Ning didn't say much, just said: The mountains in the north are not conducive to the expansion of the square formation and cannot reflect the firepower advantage; the river in the south is facing, and we have no ships.Only this southwest small gate has a flat terrain.So we still follow the original plan and exploded the southwest gate in one go. As long as we break the door, there is no wall city, and we will succeed when we rush in.What else do you have to say, now.

Zhang Chengzong, the right general flag, said: We are short of gunpowder. If we are not buried, it will explode, and we will not be able to break the door in a short time.Please see, firepower can be crossed on both sides of the city tower. One is to prevent rockets, and the other is to prevent oil from pouring down from above.

Zhang Ning nodded and said: In a while, ask the soldiers to pay more attention, and fight first to see the situation. If they fail, cut down trees and make equipment.Everyone is in place and prepare to attack the city!

Reload ammunition, and each team checks the fire!Wei Bin shouted.

Zhang Ning handed the reins of the horse to Song Hu behind him, and looked up and saw a young man wearing an official uniform and a black hat on the city tower caught his attention.

The official was also looking at Zhang Ning. The two of them looked at each other from a distance, and they couldn't see each other's appearance clearly.

A voice shouted on the old city tower: Who is coming?Zhang Ning didn't ask someone to pay attention to him. It was of course impossible to make the county magistrate surrender to Xiancheng at this moment, so everything is nonsense.

A few fires were lit up above, and the smoke rose and the fire was in sight. I observed that the smoke seemed to burn firewood, but I didn’t know what it was to make a fire.Maybe it's a fire that is convenient for rockets?

The flag teams in front of the formation were shouting and talking loudly, and the atmosphere gradually became tense.

If you see a large number of enemy soldiers raising their crossbows, you will follow the order to protect your face with a shield.You can't panic after raising the gun. If you don't hear the order, whoever fires will be itchy!If you don’t listen to orders, you will be whipped, but you will lose your head.Don’t blame me for disobeying my neighbors, retreating and being beheaded after ignoring the neighborhood, and don’t think about the thirty taels of pension.If you want to die, you will die...

Wei Bin looked back at Zhang Ning. Seeing Zhang Ning nodding, he shouted: Beat the drum and prepare for the war!

Dongdongdongdongdong... The small trumpet's skin drum was not strong, but the rapid drum sound also played a role. When the order was ordered to walk in a row, the drum beats gradually slowed down and became one with the pace.

Zhang Ning stood on the flank and watched the team move forward silently. There was no expression on his face, but he obviously felt his heartbeat accelerate.

The second time he went to the battlefield, he still lacked experience in ancient wars, and the combat plan was also formulated according to common sense logic. He himself did not know what the result of the battle would be. However, after asking Lao Xu, who had worked as a general and fought, the plan was not too much wrong.

When the four square arrays advanced more than 200 steps, arrows began to be fired on the city tower, but the arrows only penetrated far away to the ground in front, which exposed the range of the arrows on the city tower.

Set up a solid...the first column, raise the shield and move forward!Wei Bin shouted.

The troops then removed the round shield that was temporarily behind them and protected them on their heads.

The range of bows and arrows shot in the city is farther than that of muskets, so everyone can only attack within the range of bows and arrows.

The two sides tentative contacts began one after another, and the battle was near.