The rise of the prince

Chapter 309 Suzhou Navy
The prisoner shook his head: "My lord, there are many people there, and the villain doesn't know Commander Liu's face, and neither does this villain."

Ding Yi waved his hand to send him off, and then he sat upright with a stern expression on his face: "All the returned prisoners are stopped and brought into the army. From today onwards, all males over the age of twelve in the city must be sent to the army. Slack for a while.

If a thief wants to attack the city, he must either climb the wall or break the door. Linyang City is high, and he is not afraid of climbing the wall, but he is afraid of breaking the door, so the inner and outer gates must be strictly guarded.

Especially within the curved wall of the outer gate, a battalion of soldiers must go to the curved wall and the main gate every day to eat and live, guarding day and night! "

"Decree!" The generals and officials below quickly took orders. They could more or less sense the changes in the prefect. It seemed that after learning about General Luzhou, he was even more eager to win?

Thoughts were on their minds, but everyone didn't dare to say too much. People like Ding Zhifu's iron and blood methods knew about it.

The south of Suzhou is densely covered with ferries, and fishing boats can be seen everywhere.

At first, the common people stood up with enthusiasm to resist the imperial army and joined the army one after another, but as many young adults left, when the enthusiasm cooled down, the coldness of reality poured on everyone's head like a bucket of cold water.

The prime of life is absent at home, orphans, widows, old people and children always have to live.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat mountains depends on the water to drink water. Most of the villages along the big river in Suzhou depend on fishing for a living.

Once the mainstay of the family is gone, how can we make a living?

Young children have to bear the burden of supporting their families, and many women have to show their faces, but because of inexperience, tragedies of people will be buried in the vast river every time.

The great river that nurtured many villages was also like a beast of prey during this period of time, and was feared by the people, but they had to continue fishing because they were afraid of returning home. After all, people have to live to live.

There are more than 500 sailors and [-] warships at the ferry. They are under the direct control of Ansu Prefecture, and most of them are from local fishermen. By the beginning of April, they could no longer survive.
The commander of the navy is called Zesheng, who is also a local, so naturally he can't bear to see the people in his hometown so miserable.

He visited Suzhou many times, trying to persuade the magistrate to send some people from other places, but the local government could not send so many soldiers, but it turned out that the magistrate was not there.
He ran continuously, faced many questions from his fathers and villagers, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. In mid-April, he went to Suzhou City to appeal again. After receiving the answer "the magistrate is not there", he privately ordered the disbandment of the navy and let many local middle-aged people go home.

In the end, there were only a dozen or so people left in the Suzhou navy, and the commander of the navy also drank and had fun every day, ignoring defense.

One day if the magistrate finds out, this is also a capital crime for him. If he maintains the navy and kills many fathers and fellow villagers, it is also a crime of death. If he advances or retreats, he will die. He is waiting to die.

The rest of the dozen or so were not locals and were homeless, so they followed him. Xu Guo’s large boats were tied up one after another at the ferry. If you can't get out, how can you prevent the river and block the waterway?
Zesheng sits at the ferry every day, drunk and dreaming. In a trance, he actually sees a huge boat like a mountain. The boat is like a dragon, slender and slender. On the big river, the speed is extremely fast, like the breeze crossing the river.

He was in a daze, thinking it was a fairy ship.

Thinking about how many more gulps he drank, probably because his time was approaching, so he could even see gods, ghosts and immortal treasures.

The big boat of Xu Guo beside the ferry was nothing compared to that one. When he came back to his senses, there were no big boats on the river, so it was really a dream.

With a splitting headache, Zesheng opened his eyes. The lights in front of him were dim, and it turned out to be his father.

Since he disbanded the navy, his newly married wife ran away in fright. His former brothers and friends dared not speak to him. Even the neighbors whom he often cared for closed the door quickly when they passed by. was raised three feet.

Zesheng didn't scold anything, isn't that what human nature is like?
What he committed was a capital crime, even for saving people.
Only the sixty-year-old man never gave up.

"Father, during the day I saw a fairy boat on the river. It was twenty or thirty feet long, like a dragon, coming and going like the wind, and disappearing in the blink of an eye." He covered his painful head and said, "Am I dying soon? Yin Qi is heavy, so you can see some ghosts."

The old father looked at him as if he was looking at something, and said in a muffled voice: "Everyone on the riverside has seen it."

"What?" Ze Sheng didn't react for a while.

The old father said heavily: "You said that boat, everyone by the river has seen it!"

"Then that's not fake?" Ze Sheng was a little confused.

"Of course it's not fake. There are still people on it who can beat the imperial court's banner!"

Zesheng was stunned for a moment, his aching head gradually came to his senses, he got out of bed quickly, and ran outside before he could put on his shoes. As soon as he pushed them away, the chirping of cicadas and birds filled his ears in Xia Ye, and people with torches everywhere panicked Running to tell each other.

"The royal army is here!"

"The imperial ship is coming!"

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Zesheng's mind suddenly buzzed.

The high power of the artillery is also accompanied by high recoil. In the last Lengfengqing battle, the artillerymen of the Shenji Battalion were in a hurry and couldn't find a suitable position. In order to lower the elevation angle of one artillery, the artillerymen directly carried it with their hands and fired it.

As a result, the soldier's hand bones were broken by the recoil. After repelling the cavalry, his mouth and nose were bleeding, his lungs were severely damaged, and he could not live long.

Li Xingzhou only found out about this the next day after the fight. He was in a complicated mood. There would be no victory without sacrifice, so he could only comfort himself in this way.

So this time he found the ideal shooting point first, and then paved the ground with stones to raise the rear to counteract the recoil. In this way, the artillery can shoot directly at the city wall or inside the wall from the hillside without worrying about recoil.

His numerous guards that night marked the ideal shooting position with an unobstructed view.

However, the guns and forts were all ready, but gunpowder was a big problem. Li Xingzhou found that it was not realistic to make nitrate locally, because he had only experienced the rain in the early summer rainy season, and the nitrate content in the soil dropped sharply. Not to mention the need for enough siege.

When he was worried about this, on the last day of the first ten days of May, Qifang suddenly went south from Luzhou city and brought a dozen of his own soldiers to the camp besieging the city.

Li Xingzhou was a little guilty. After all, he was somewhat responsible for Qi Rui's death, so facing the dusty Qi Fang, under nervousness, he inadvertently asked the famous saying that has never been eliminated throughout the ages: "You have you eaten?"

Qi Fang froze on the spot, Di Zhi next to him pulled the corner of his mouth upwards, but pressed his lips down desperately, which was very awkward.

Qi Fang, who had a gloomy face, was also asked there on the spot. He seemed to want to laugh, but thought that maybe it would be more appropriate to curse.
Finally, his complexion changed and he choked out a sentence: "Eat."

Li Xingzhou laughed out loud, Qi Fang's face turned dark.

The atmosphere is much more relaxed.

After that, everyone deliberately avoided talking about Qi Rui in front of her.

But this time Qifang came for something
"The leader is called Ji Chunsheng. He said they are from the palace. They came from Ximen, more than 500 people, probably by water, but because it is difficult to confirm, the princess and I dare not let anyone enter the city." Listening to Fang As he spoke, Li Xingzhou's heart beat faster and faster.

(End of this chapter)