Liu Jianyu's military order immediately raised the uneasiness in the entire Yongchuan City to another level. The common people no longer call themselves "fearful" but panic.
Signing up the city gates on all sides is equivalent to martial law in the event of war. If you want to enter or leave the city, you must have a special road guide issued by the Yamen. A curfew has also been implemented, and no one is allowed to go out on the streets at night. In addition, food control was even stricter, and the army even forcibly took into its own hands the official warehouses that were originally under the control of the yamen. They were responsible for presiding over the ration sales distributed by the government officials to the people in the city.
Facing the questioning from the City Lord's Mansion, Liu Jianyu's attitude was extremely tough. Directly throwing the first-hand military report in front of Feng Mingyuan, Feng Mingyuan was speechless.
Even if the city lord's palace is like this, the yamen will not dare to say anything.
In fact, he was not the only one who made the same move as Liu Jianyu. Anyone garrisoned in a certain city would choose the same move in the current battle situation.
At this time, cities without garrisons were already preparing to disperse and relocate.
On the city wall, for the first time, Bai Lang led his 500 swordsman brothers to participate in Liu Jianyu's army drill in full dress.
At present, Liu Jianyu's troops have not been fully supplemented. There are currently more than 7,600 people, which is still far from the full complement of 9,300 people. It's not that the higher-ups don't add more manpower to Liu Jianyu, but that there aren't that many recruits for Liu Jianyu to choose from. However, the three thousand additional people transferred from the Ministry of War Yamen had arrived about ten days ago.
Originally, the brothers in the swordsmanship hall under Bailang should start practicing as auxiliary soldiers. After all, although their personal strength is good, they do not have any military formation foundation, and they are both auxiliaries and soldiers, so it is safest to start with the auxiliary soldiers.
However, due to the shortage of soldiers, Bailang and his brothers from the swordsmanship hall were allowed to skip the auxiliary work and go directly to the city wall to practice the skills of the soldiers.
"Yunyan's barbarians are tall and strong, and they cannot fight alone. Moreover, when they rush to the wall, they will have good hands in front of them. They are wearing thick armor and a steel shield. Ordinary weapons cannot hurt them. Only gold water and mulberry wood can be used."
Shimu Bailang knows, but what is Jinshui?
Just when Bai Lang was confused, Jin Shui appeared on the stage. To be precise, it was the smell of gold water that appeared first, and then Bai Lang saw that it was a large copper vat that was as high as two people's arms and was placed on a stand. A familiar stench emitted from it.
Shit and piss? !
Everyone is aware of the stench of feces and urine, especially in public dry toilets. In summer, the smell can stun people's eyes, and the wind can turn them upside down.
The "military leader" who was in charge of the training on the city wall began to show the spectators how to use gold water.
"Golden water can be collected from the city, and the effect will be better after hoarding it and fermenting it. When you want to use it, boil it, then divide it into small tanks and pour it down. This thing is much hotter than water after boiling, and this thing It is poisonous, and even if you get a little bit of it, a blister will quickly erode, and it will 99% cause fever. Even Yunyan's barbarian will have a hard time surviving."
Bailang felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. He didn't expect that Jin Shui would use such a vicious method.
Subconsciously, Bailang stretched his head and looked under the city wall. The city wall was four and a half feet long! It's an extra foot and a half taller than originally planned. It's probably the news coming back from the front line. This gave Yongchuan City, which was hidden behind the Hong Dynasty, some time to do more defense. Now 30% of the city wall has been repaired, and the rest will be completed within a few months.
It is said that most of Yunyan's barbarians are less than one foot tall. Facing a city wall of four and a half feet, they can at least block those Yunyan soldiers who are not warriors and warriors with lower grades.
Bai Lang thought about it from his perspective. He was really shuddering when he thought that if he attacked the city, the golden water trees on top would fall down like this.
But then think about how dangerous Pengshan Pass is, which is dozens or hundreds of times better defended than Yongchuan City. But it was still broken. Can this city really be defended until Yun Yan's army comes?
While Bai Lang was thinking wildly, the military leader on the city wall began to introduce various equipment and methods that needed to be known about the city wall.
For example, the wood cannot be smashed vertically, but must be smashed horizontally, and the wood needs to be smeared with a thick layer of fire oil, which is a special kind of fire oil that is specially prepared and has a paste-like consistency.
When the number of cedar trees dropped exceeds 20, rockets will be fired to ignite the thrown cedar logs. Otherwise, the accumulated wood will easily become a stepping stone for the attacking party, shortening the advantage of the high ground of the city wall.
Another example is the timing and methods of using large crossbows and bed crossbows. There are also some wonderful uses and some experiences of female walls.
The last and most important thing is how the battle formation on the city wall should be conducted.
For several days, Bailang barely left the city wall, and the same was true for the five hundred brothers under him. Fortunately, compared to other soldiers, they had never been exposed to these things, but their advantages as warriors allowed them to quickly master these things. Anyway, they are all killing, but with some more different tools, and they are already familiar with each other. Although they bumped into each other at the beginning, they became familiar with each other after three or four days, and they were no better than those picked from the recruit camp. The soldiers are worse, and even better.
Another half month passed before Bai Lang had time to leave the army and return to Ma Sheng Alley to deal with the affairs in the knife shop.
"Zu Dao, there was a batch of goods sent from the dock. It was sent by the man named Wang Lin. There are not many things, the size of a three-foot wooden box." Liu Xu hurriedly came to Bailang's small courtyard, and at the same time, he also A wooden box was carried in by two guards.
Bai Lang waved his hand to dismiss the guard, and then opened the wooden box in front of Liu Xu. Inside was a copper plate wrapped side by side.
He took out a plate and circled it in his hand, which was larger than a normal serving plate. It was covered with various casting patterns and symbols.
"Zu Dao, is this the legendary magic weapon used by Qi practitioners? The magic plate?"
"That's right. To be precise, it's a defensive and illusion disk. There are six sides in total, but it costs a lot of money!" Bai Lang took the disk and inspected each side while answering Liu Xu's doubts.
Liu Xu was in charge of the money in the knife shop, so he naturally knew how ridiculously expensive the six-sided magic weapon was. At the same time, after getting in touch with Wang Lin, I learned that my knife maker had started a black market business on the wharf of the industrial park, setting up a platform to collect tolls, and the money he earned was already higher than the old way of earning money at the knife shop now. , which is not much better than the Kuang family’s businesses in the industrial park.
"With these things, Yang Xiu and the others can start to get familiar with them. In this way, they can also have a way of knowing the combat power of the swordsmen at the Qigong level."
After chatting for a while, Bai Lang saw that Liu Xu seemed to be hesitant to say something, so he smiled and said, "Master Liu, is there anything else?"
"Yes, Zu Dao. I want to tell you, Zu Dao, something about the family members in the sword shop."
(End of chapter)
