Chen Jisheng looked at the attitudes of everyone in front of him and felt disappointed.
However, he also understood that he was no match for Mao Wenlong. If it were Mao Wenlong who suggested a sneak attack on the tiger bandit camp, even if the generals in front of him were not scrambling for jobs, they would never object verbally, let alone in public.
What happened this time made him more aware of the prestige gap between himself and Mao Wenlong.
"Since everyone disagrees with the sneak attack on the tiger thief camp, let's put this matter on hold for now." Chen Jisheng chose to take a step back.
"The general is wise."
All the people present complimented him in unison.
Chen Jisheng waved his hand to silence everyone's words, and said, "I haven't finished speaking yet."
Everyone fell silent.
Chen Jisheng continued: "Although the tiger thieves have just arrived, we must be prepared for the possibility of tiger thieves attacking at night. I hope that before repelling the tiger thieves, you will wear armor even when sleeping. Once the tiger thieves attack, If you invade, you must immediately board the city."
"General, don't worry. As long as the tiger thieves come to attack, I, Huang Long, will be the first to go to the city and kill the thieves." Huang Long assured Chen Jisheng, patting his chest.
With him taking the lead, everyone else also expressed their determination to kill the thief.
Although Chen Jisheng didn't know whether they were sincere, he still believed that these people would not cause any trouble when guarding Lushun.
The tiger thieves were thieves after all, and he did not believe that these people would join the tiger thieves. After all, even the slave thieves did not buy these generals from Dongjiang Town.
"Cannon, cannon!"
At dawn the next day, the soldiers guarding the city noticed the movement outside the city and immediately screamed and shouted.
In order to guard against enemy sneak attacks, the guards on the city wall, under the supervision of Shang Kexi, had little time to be lazy. It was not until dawn that they secretly slept for a while.
So even though it was daylight now, there were still many guards who were lost in the lake and never came back to their senses.
"What happened?"
Shang Kexi, who had also been squinting for a while, immediately rushed out from his resting place after hearing the shouts of soldiers on the city wall.
At this time, there were already many guards on the city wall gathered at the surrounding crenellations to look outside the city.
Shang Kexi rushed to a crenel in two or two steps, pulled away the guards blocking him, and hurriedly looked outside the city.
In order to see more carefully, he rubbed his eyes vigorously with the back of his hand and wiped away the eye droppings standing in the corners of his eyes.
"How come the tiger thief has so many cannons!" Suddenly, Shang Kexi's face turned pale as a sheet.
At some point outside the city, there were hundreds of cannons.
There are also cannons in the city of Lushun, but there are only eight. And it is because of the importance of Lushun that there are so many cannons. Ordinary forts have no cannons at all.
It’s not that they don’t know that artillery is a weapon for defending the city, but it’s that Lushun is not as important as Ningjin. Good things are sent to Liaoxi first, and Lushun can only get some scraps.
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Even if the special Japanese thieves who joined Lushun captured Lushun, the threat to Ming Dynasty would be given priority, and they would be threatened by Dengzhou. Naturally, they would not be as valued by the court as Liaoxi.
"Dusi, please inform the general immediately." The soldier next to him reminded.
The general in his mouth was Chen Jisheng, the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town.
Shang Kexi, who came back to his senses, said quickly: "Yes, tell the general about the situation outside the city immediately, and you can go. Be quick and let the general make an idea earlier."
Only one soldier was sent back to deliver the message.
The messenger was sent out. Shang Ke turned around happily and looked outside the city again, swallowing involuntarily.
Of course, I was not greedy, but intimidated by so many cannons.
In his opinion, when the slave thieves attacked Ningyuan, they probably had this formation, but now a tiger thief brought out the same number of cannons that the slave thieves had to use the strength of the whole country to scrape together.
You know, when the slave bandits attacked Ningyuan, they had more than 50,000 troops, but according to his observation, the number of invading tiger bandits was less than 10,000.
"Dusi, the tiger thieves have brought so many cannons. We need to think of a way to prevent them. Otherwise, once the opponent fires cannons, there will be heavy casualties in the city." The soldier reminded.
Hearing this, Shang Kexi's face turned bitter and he said, "I don't know what you are talking about, but how can I guard against so many cannons?"
"Then we have to find a way. We can't just watch. Otherwise, when the general comes, I'm afraid he will blame you, Du Si." said the soldier.
Shang Ke sighed happily and said: "Forget it, arrange for someone to prepare it. Try to prepare as many anti-gun items as possible. If it is not enough, just remove the door panels and other things."
"Yes, I will take him here to prepare." The soldier resigned and left to do things.
Not long after they left, Chen Jisheng led a group of generals to the city wall where Shang Kexi was stationed.
"Shang Dusi, are the words you told people to tell you true? If you lie to me even a single word, I will cut off your sacrificial flag." As soon as Chen Jisheng came, he immediately scolded Shang Kexi angrily.
Shang Ke bowed happily and said: "The general dare not deceive the general. If the general does not believe it, the general will come over and take a look and he will know the truth."
With that said, he led Chen Jisheng to the crenel beside the city wall.
hiss!
Chen Jisheng, who also saw the situation outside the city, took a breath of air.
"How could it be so? How could it be so!" Chen Jisheng looked like he didn't want to believe it.
Without him, there are simply too many cannons outside the city.
"General, I'm afraid this city cannot be defended." Huang Long said with an ugly expression.
Cannons are used to defend the city and can be said to be powerful weapons for defending the city, but when used to attack the city, they are also powerful weapons for attacking the city.
Dongjiang Town has been behind the counterfeit gold for so many years and has fought numerous small and large battles, but no one side has ever used such a large number of cannons.
Chen Jisheng sighed with a grimace: "It would have been like this sooner. I should have agreed to your leaving the city to fight yesterday. It's too late to regret it!"
He did regret it.
It is impossible for the enemy to transport so many cannons from the sea at once.
If the enemy had left the city to fight yesterday while their foothold was not yet firm, there would have been no way the enemy could have obtained so many cannons so quickly.
"It's useless to talk about this at this time. General, you might as well think about how to defend the city next." Huang Long was lying if he said he had no regrets, but he knew that the top priority was to defend Lushun City.
Chen Jisheng turned his head to look at Shang Kexi and asked, "Have you done any protection against shelling?"
"The general has arranged for his soldiers to take people to prepare door panels and quilts." Shang Kexi said.
Chen Jisheng said: "You need to prepare more. The enemy has a lot of artillery, and it will be useless if you don't prepare enough anti-artillery items. In this way, you can go to the city in person and find all the quilts from anyone who has them."
Wooden boards are easy to talk about, but not everyone can afford quilts.
Many ordinary soldiers in the city have hay stuffed in their clothes to keep warm in winter. The situation of ordinary people is similar. Only some families with a small amount of wealth will prepare quilts and other things to keep out the cold.
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