Seeing that they had arrived outside Daxing County, the rebels had put up a posture of resistance. Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo did not attack, but instead stationed the army outside the city. This immediately aroused He Xini's doubts.
In the big tent.
Li Dingguo and a group of generals opened the curtain and walked in, followed by He Xini.
After everyone sat down, He Xini stood up impatiently and asked:
"General Li, the situation is so clear now that the rebels occupying Daxing County are absolutely impossible to surrender. Why don't you let the army attack the city?
Instead, the army was stationed outside the city? "
After hearing what he said, Li Dingguo smiled slightly, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Lieutenant He County, I know that you are in a hurry, but don't be anxious yet."
His words almost stunned He Xini on the spot. He knew he was in a hurry, but he still told himself not to be anxious. What were these words?
However, Li Dingguo's next words made him slowly calm down.
"It's not that I won't attack the city, it's just that the army needs to make some preparations before attacking the city.
Now that my army has just arrived and I don’t have any siege equipment in hand, is it possible for the soldiers to attack the city with their bare hands?
They are just some rioters, and they are not worthy of allowing the Japanese army to carry out such a life-changing attack at the cost of huge casualties. "
He Xini calmed down. He also knew that the other party would not allow his troops to make such useless sacrifices.
But can we have siege equipment if we stop?
Unless they want to build it first!
Not to mention whether there are craftsmen who can build it, the problem is time. How long will it take for them to build it?
"General, you want to build siege equipment now? I'm afraid it's too late, right?" He Xini said.
Li Dingguo smiled and shook his head: "He County Lieutenant is joking. The attack on the city is imminent. How can we build it in time?"
"If they are not made now, where will the siege equipment come from?"
Li Dingguo smiled slightly and said: "You don't have to worry about this, Lieutenant He County. Our army has craftsmen accompanying the army, and the spare parts of various siege equipment have come with the army.
We only need to give the general one night to let the craftsmen assemble the parts of various siege equipment. We can attack the city tomorrow morning.
Moreover, we have clearly laid siege to the city, but we did not attack it for a day or a night. This can also bring great psychological pressure to the chaos in the city. It is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, why not do it? "
Hearing this, He Xini finally breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he had a back-up plan. No wonder he did this.
He immediately relaxed.
Different from the relaxed waiting on their side, at this time on the city wall of Daxing County, the rebels who had been prepared to resist the siege of the Japanese army waited for a long time and found that the opponent did not attack!
Not only did they not attack, they also set up camp not far away. I was immediately stunned!
What is the other party trying to do?
Could it be that you want to block their door?
But, this doesn’t look like it. There’s no reason to block the door, only the east gate, right?
There is no one guarding the north, south, west, and south gates. They can leave at any time.
On the east gate city wall, looking at the Japanese troops who had begun to camp in the distance, Huanggang, as the leader of this riot, had long known that their actions would definitely lead to an encirclement and suppression by the army.
But he is not afraid!
As a local, he knew very well how capable these troops of the local court were!
Not only are there not many people in the water, but the imperial court is also dragging down military pay. Even if the imperial court asks them to suppress them, I'm afraid they won't be able to do anything. At most, they will just pretend.
Besides, he didn't expect that he would actually be able to ignite all the nearly 200,000 miners in this riot. Now he was riding a tiger and was in trouble, but with 200,000 strong men under his command, he felt very confident.
Even if the imperial court sends troops, he is confident that they can stop them. They are 200,000 people!
One person can drown the imperial soldiers in northern Hunan with just one spit, right?
but!
What he didn't expect was that the imperial court had indeed sent troops, but they were not the old soldiers from northern Hunan, but the elite soldiers in front of him, all in armor!
Apparently they were all transferred from outside the county, and there were quite a few of them, seemingly endless.
As the old saying goes, once a person passes, there are no limits!
There must be tens of thousands of people at least!
Looking at this military dog, he was quite worried at first, but the behavior of this military dog really made him unable to understand.
After his side clearly refused, the other party did not directly attack the city, but instead began to camp on the spot!
They were actually setting up camp! Or camp under their noses!
Not only is this weird, it’s ignoring them!
"Boss Huang, what do you think is going on here? Why don't these officers and soldiers attack the city?"
The leader of another mining area next to Huanggang looked at the scene in front of him with puzzled expression, turned to Huanggang and asked.
The current structure of these 200,000 rioters is very chaotic, but generally speaking, they are led by Huanggang, who was the first to riot, followed by the secondary leaders who took the lead in rioting in various mining areas.
They serve as the middle force of this rioting people, and Huang Gang is the commander-in-chief, jointly controlling the rioting miners who are now venting their anger and dissatisfaction.
Huang Gang also shook his head when he heard this, and then said:
"I don't know the specific situation, but the officers and soldiers are cunning. Maybe this is their way of confusing us. As soon as we relax, these officers and soldiers will immediately start to attack the city, catching us by surprise!"
After hearing Huang Gang's explanation, the others immediately felt that it made sense, and they all agreed:
"That's right! What Boss Huang said makes sense. These officials are so cunning. They often say one thing and do another. When someone died in the mine, the mine owner was still unwilling to pay compensation. We reported it to the officials, but the officials didn't. It’s here, but what’s the use?
They reprimanded both parties, asked the mine owner to provide compensation and then left.
As soon as they left, the mine owners stopped giving it, and they didn't care. Instead, they said that they had already mediated it and we had to deal with the rest ourselves. Isn't this just fooling us and muddying the waters? "
"That's right! That's right! What's even more disgusting is that the mine owner didn't give him any compensation. When we wanted to beat him, these officials came very quickly and indiscriminately arrested those who were about to take action but had not yet done so.
What is the crime? They already want to take action!
What the hell kind of crime is this?
This is clearly showing favoritism to those mine owners! "
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore. It's all over. Now we have hung up all these treacherous ghosts to dry their bacon. Only one county lieutenant ran away and didn't know where to hide.
That kid is so fat that he could probably lose thirty or forty pounds of oil!
He was in charge of most of the government officials, and he was really right to name himself He Xini!
Whenever something happened to him and his yamen, he knew that nothing could be accomplished by making peace with the mud. If I caught him, I would throw him into the mud and soak him for three days and three nights, so that he could reconcile with the mud. Play! "
"Okay, okay, what are you talking about? Is now the time to talk about this?
Back to the topic!
Those officers and soldiers don't know what they are doing. Just like Boss Huang said, let's keep an eye out and notify everyone so that the brothers can stay vigilant and prevent the other party from making sneak attacks! "
"Okay! Got it!"
"knew!"
"got it!"
…
The topic that had been sidetracked finally returned to the journey, and everyone promised to keep their brothers vigilant to prevent the other party from launching a sneak attack.
Huanggang also stood on the city wall with a solemn expression for a while before getting off the city wall.
As the boss of the rebels, now that they have occupied the entire Daxing County, he still has a lot to deal with.
Especially when he first came in, he immediately took people to the weapons warehouse and the warehouse where the defense supplies were located.
As a result, the weapons warehouse was okay. Although it was not big, it stored a lot of weapons.
Huang Gang was very excited at first.
But when he picked up a weapon and was about to test its hardness, the knife heard two clicks as soon as he picked it up, and the knife broke in half in an instant!
Looking at the gaps again, they were all corroded.
Huang Gang didn't want to believe it at first, so he took his men and rummaged through the entire weapons arsenal. In the end, the equipment they finally scraped together was only enough for five or six people. The rest were all shoddy and shoddy products, and they were released again. It's been so long that it can't be used at all.
The city defense supplies warehouse is very straightforward, so empty that even rats don't want to come here to take a look.
Now that the army was approaching the city, and the battle hadn't started yet, he had to summon his brothers to quickly prepare supplies.
Time passed like this little by little. Although the weather in April was not clear and clear, it did not rain at least.
It’s just very windy!
At this end, the Ping Japanese army was busy arming the siege equipment they had brought.
On the Daxing County side, a group of rebel guards stood on the top of the city to be wary of the Ping Japanese Army on the opposite side. As a result, after so long, the Ping Japanese Army had no desire to continue attacking.
Until night, the spirits were too tense during the day. At night, the rebel guards who had been vigilant all day relaxed unconsciously when they saw that the officers and soldiers had not attacked the city all day long.
When the rooster crows, the world becomes white!
At dawn, the crow of cocks woke up the guards who were dozing on the city wall.
Rubbing his eyes and looking down, sure enough, the group of officers and soldiers still did not attack. They found a new position and lay down and turned around. The soldiers guarding the city fell asleep again.
As one of the leaders, the leaders of each mining area also found a more comfortable place to sleep. They stayed until midnight last night and saw that the army really had no intention of sneak attack. They were the first ones to fall asleep. The rooster had just crowd. Neither woke them up.
At this moment, Huanggang, who had been busy all night, led his people to the city wall again. After working all night, he finally made a batch of city defense materials. As soon as they were made, he immediately hurriedly rushed send over.
What he didn't expect was that as soon as he reached the top of the city, he would see his men sleeping in a twisted state.
I told them to be vigilant last night, and that's how vigilant they turned out to be.
Fortunately, the army did not attack the city last night. If the army had attacked the city in the middle of the night, the city would have been destroyed in their current state!
Thinking of this consequence, Huanggang became very angry.
He kicked a guard who was standing on the base of the battlement next to him.
"Get up! Get up! I asked you to defend the city. Is this how you defend it?"
Kicking all the way forward, many of the guards who had just fallen asleep were woken up again by him, and they stood up to defend the city with sleepy eyes.
Huang Gang, angry, went all the way to the place where the leaders he had just inquired about slept.
As soon as I arrived, I saw the leaders each holding a huge wine jar and sleeping soundly!
Good guy, it turns out they not only slept, but also drank!
Yesterday, I was working hard to get supplies to defend the city. This is how they were on duty!
Huang Gang felt unbalanced and suddenly became angry. With a sonorous sound, he instantly pulled out a long knife that he had snatched from the officer's hand from his waist.
One person hit him hard with the back of the knife!
"Ah! Who attacked me secretly!"
"It hurts! Fuck your mother! That little thing!"
"Mom, what a bastard, believe it or not, I will chop you to death!"
When the leaders woke up from their slumber after being severely beaten, they were cursing and angrily looking for who had attacked them while they were sleeping.
When they came together, they saw Huang Gang who was looking at them angrily.
Thinking of Huang Gang's instructions before leaving last night, and then thinking of the actions of themselves and others last night, several people were instantly ashamed and did not dare to look directly into Huang Gang's eyes.
Huang Gang shouted angrily: "It's me! I beat you! Why, who wants to chop me to death? You can come now!"
I asked you to defend the city. Is this how you defended it? !
Don't wait for the army to make a sneak attack. Wouldn't it be better for me to send you on your way myself? "
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(End of chapter)
