Chapter 411: Already on guard
The army outside the city pressed on, and tens of thousands of rioting people almost completely surrounded Yongxing County.
The people in the city are in panic all day long. Once the city is destroyed, the lightest consequence is that the little wealth they have in the first place will be looted. The worst result is the loss of life.
Compared to the fear of the people, Lin Rong, the magistrate of Yongxing County, did not care.
He has been on the battlefield.
When Da Chu and Qin were fighting in Xiangcheng, although he did not enter the core battlefield where the fighting was fiercest, he still fought in several corner battles.
He knows what real army combat is like, and has seen the difference between elite soldiers and ordinary troops.
Tens of thousands of people besieging the city?
It seems so powerful, but it can only scare those who don’t know how to do it.
Of these tens of thousands of people who can really fight, that is, the core group of demon sect, there will be no more than a thousand.
The remaining people who follow the booing can help you gain momentum if you win. If you encounter a slight setback, these people will definitely run away.
There are a lot of troops in Yongxing City now.
The five hundred soldiers stationed in Yongxing are the real elite troops who participated in the Battle of Xiangcheng. Although they have been pampered and rejuvenated in Yongxing these few years, they have seen big scenes after all.
And he made a decision very early. As soon as he found signs of rebellion, he ordered all the wealthy families with private soldiers to withdraw into the city.
Whether you want it or not, you have to come.
As for these people's manors and mansions outside the city, they will be gone if they are gone. As long as these mobs are dealt with, they can be built again later.
The old will not go and the new will not come. When the time comes, we can still build it better and more luxuriously.
The conceivable prospect is that
After this battle, countless prisoners will inevitably be captured.
Don’t look at these mobs, they all look fierce at this time. They are evil and arrogant, but once the group they gathered is broken up, they will become as timid as quails and let you manipulate them without daring to complain at all.
By then, the manor in the countryside can be doubled in size, and the villagers there will also need to add more manpower.
Haha, after the battle, everything is available.
As for the required building materials, you can generally just go and demolish the homes of the mobs and get them all ready.
This is a good thing.
With five hundred soldiers, plus the more than a thousand armed private soldiers, does Su Qi, the rebel from the Demon Sect, really understand what fighting is?
Did he still think that the war was a rural fight with weapons, fighting each other, and the greater the number of people, the greater the victory?
What's more, in order to be sure, at the beginning of the incident, he sent someone to the county to report the comprehensive plan to his brother Lin Heng. Isn't his place also short of manpower? Then let the eldest brother send out a force and pull another net around the perimeter, and then capture everyone in one piece.
This is double insurance!
Lin Rong didn’t think there was anything wrong.
The private soldiers in the city still lack some operational concepts of regular troops. In the past two days, some of the most basic battlefield group combat tactics are being popularized to them.
Of course, to deal with the mob outside, these private soldiers only need to follow the leading officers and charge.
In a few days, it will be the day of harvest.
Defend the city?
I will take the initiative to attack when the time comes.
In this way, I can demonstrate my martial arts skills, and my eldest brother, Lin Heng, can openly recommend me to serve in Yong'an County after his promotion.
The eldest brother has gone to Danyang. No matter who takes over Yong'an County, he can only become a chess piece placed in front of the Lin family and be manipulated by the Lin family. If you don't accept it, then let you know why the flowers are so red!
Even the Da Chu family must cooperate well with the Lin family when they come to Yong'an. This is a gentleman's agreement between the big families. Otherwise, wouldn't the world be in chaos?
My territory is my decision!
Zhang Yuan glanced at the brightly lit back hall and listened to the shouting, guessing, punching and drinking coming from there. He swallowed involuntarily and turned around in circles a few times. Finally, it was not He turned around and walked away resolutely.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t.
As the leader of this battalion of regular troops stationed in Yongxing County, the prohibition against drinking alcohol during combat has been engraved in his bones during his many years of military service.
Over the years, Zhang Yuan, who was in his early forties, had seen too many lives lost due to trivial matters.
These people basically died under military law rather than on the battlefield.
Be the kind of person who doesn’t even have a good reputation even after he dies.
So Zhang Yuan kept these lessons in mind and must not make mistakes based on these principles.
He himself has no backing or background, but he was promoted to the rank of captain of the first battalion with a mere sixth-grade Qi control level only because of his last desperate charge during the battle in Xiangcheng a few years ago.
In that battle, he felt that he would never come back.
Because the charge was led by the eunuch chief next to the Queen Mother. He usually looked extremely feminine and spoke like a girl, but that day he was wearing a helmet and armor, holding a big sword in his hand, and looked fierce and murderous. Like chopping vegetables and melons.
The person behind the banner beating drums and cheering was the Queen Mother herself.
In such a scene, Zhang Yuan felt that he would definitely die on the battlefield and had no second choice. The enemies on the opposite side are Qin’s southern town army and the imperial army from Chang’an,
They are all very strong troops.
This is a battle that neither side can afford to lose.
In the end, Chu won, and only a few of Zhang Yuan’s team died.
Everyone alive has been promoted and made a fortune.
Like Zhang Yuan's old chief, he went directly to serve in the Huben Army next to the Queen Mother.
And junior military attachés like Zhang Yuan were directly assigned to Yongxing County as garrison captains.
This is a compliment to them. Otherwise, how could such a fat job fall on him, a small officer with no background or background?
As a garrison in the county Leader, there is a high probability that it will not be his turn to fight in the big and bad battles in the future, but the annual salary rewards are the same. The key is that at the local level, other aspects of income account for the majority.
Zhang Yuan only learned this after arriving in Yongxing County.
Now, he has bought a house and land for his family in the suburbs of Danyang. Now he is the pride of the whole clan!
The five hundred people in Yongxing are basically the troops who retreated from the Battle of Xiangcheng.
Outsiders all say that they went through the Xiangcheng War. In fact, people like Zhang Yuan know that these people are just doing soy sauce on the sidelines!
The real elite troops, like his original troops, were almost all wiped out. The remaining ones, the young ones, were all incorporated into the Tiger Army and became the Queen Mother's personal army, like People as old as him were put above the local level.
In the words of Lin Shilang of the Ministry of War, when they go to the local level, they should also remember the grace of the Queen Mother, guard the four directions for the Queen Mother, and train the soldiers, in the hope that they can serve the Queen Mother again one day.
In fact, Zhang Yuan still gets a little excited every time he thinks of the scene when the Queen Mother beat the drum to help the battle.
At that time, the emperor died, and the queen mother was on the battlefield dressed in full filial piety.
White clothes were fluttering, drums were rumbling, and countless powerful crossbows crossed the battlefield and fired at the queen mother on the high platform, although it was just a charge. The startling glance back at that time was still deeply engraved in Zhang Yuan's heart.
But to be honest, he really didn’t want to experience such a scene again.
To be able to survive in that battle, I am afraid that I have exhausted all the virtue accumulated by my ancestor Shiba on his behalf.
Zhang Yuan kept a low profile in Yongxing County. Basically, he only focused on the 500 people under his command, training them silently, and training these 500 people into the best soldiers, which was regarded as loyal to the Queen Mother.
Of course, he would not have any psychological barriers to accepting the money sent by Lin Rong from the county magistrate. That in itself is a reward for people like them.
Even if Zhang Yuan is not familiar with politics, he still knows that after the battle in Xiangcheng, the Queen Mother became the real head of the Chu Kingdom. The former Xiong Chief Assistant and General Xiang retired one after another and returned home.
The empress dowager's current glory is all the result of rough guys like them using their lives and blood!
A garrison soldier who is unwilling to interfere in local affairs, but is willing to collect money, and also does his job well and skillfully, is naturally Lin Rong's favorite.
So I sent money to Zhang Yuan more frequently.
Of course, sometimes Zhang Yuan would not push back if he needed to borrow Zhang Yuan's soldiers to do something. As long as it was not a rebellion, it would not be a big problem.
The cooperation between the two parties was very pleasant.
For Zhang Yuan, the people's rebellion this time was nothing more than an ordinary counter-insurgency operation, not a big deal.
It’s just that the scale of the rebellion this time is a bit large.
He really didn't pay attention to the crowd outside the city.
Even now he has been resurrected.
Going around the top of the city again, no matter whether it is the soldiers under his command or the young and strong people temporarily placed, they are still alert. After all, there are tens of thousands of people outside the city. In this situation, If you still dare to be careless, you are either confident or ignorant.
The enemy has no intention of attacking the city overnight. Zhang Yuan felt that these people were not prepared to attack the city at all. Are they planning to use human ladders? No matter how small Yongxing City is, its walls are still several feet high.
If you can't build a ladder, then you can't cut down some trees, bamboos, etc. Then you can still use it.
Nothing.
Nothing!
Is it possible that you still hope that someone in the city will open the door for you?
You are smart, and the people in the city are not stupid either. There are traps set up at the city gate. If anyone dares to do such a thing, it will have no effect other than losing their lives in vain.
After patrolling the city, Zhang Yuan decided to go back and take a nap.
There is nothing to worry about.
Pushing open the door, it was dark and loud. My family was all in Danyang. I usually only had one concubine by my side. I was too tired today and didn’t want to trouble her anymore. It was proper to have a good sleep. .
Taking off his armor, he threw the knife on the table, took the lighting sickle from the table, and lit the fire with a snap.
Then Zhang Yuan saw a man sitting across the table. people.
With a clatter, the lighter fell on the table.
The man opposite picked up the lighting sickle and lit the oil lamp.
(End of this chapter)