open sea

Chapter 1292 Defense
Tobacco merchant Li Yuxi received a very grand welcome from Puli County.

First, two lucky boats ran aground on the rocks in the last mile before entering the port, causing a ship accident. Fourteen ships carrying supplies collided into a string in the bay because they were too close to the harbor.

Afterwards, many sailors who disembarked safely were choked by the indispellable gunpowder smoke and sulfur smell in Puli City.

The atmosphere immediately became heavy, Li Yuxi frowned and looked around at the familiar faces who greeted him, sniffling and asked: "The battle is fierce?"

To be honest, this city gave him a serious sense of contrast. Although the streets were filled with the atmosphere of the end of the street fighting, the sergeants defending the city did not seem to have experienced any tragic battles, especially the Ming sailors who could be distinguished by their appearance and physique. They all had ruddy complexions, not at all like those who had been besieged for a long time.

All the guards looked at each other, and Josepha stepped forward, cupped his fists and smiled, "Father, Lieutenant Li defended the city well, but the enemy has never been able to break through the city; The Tai Longwei Commander also led five hundred troops to help, now the Commander leads the troops to contain the enemy in the western suburbs, and another hundred households lead the army out of the eastern suburbs, these days there is still food and grass brought by Ailan Kingdom."

"The smell of gunpowder in the city is from the firecrackers fired by Caozhi County to eliminate the plague. There were too many firecrackers, and it won't go away for a while—now that you are here, the children's hearts will be settled."

Li Yuxi, who was the first to sell tobacco, ran this route in person. He didn't send the captain of the company's escort to lead the fleet alone until he found out the route. Most of the captains of the escort were his adopted sons. Everyone felt that Treat yourself well.

Josepha just said a few words, telling Li Yuxi the key information. The military power of this city is now in the hands of Li Changlai. The Beiyang Army came.

Just in response to the sentence that the little demon in the temple is strong and the water is shallow.

Li Changlai knows that this person is best at eating meat from other people's hands, and his skin is very thick.

He opened a gold mine in Luzon, and Li Changlai used his own warship to transport it; he planted tobacco in the pasture, and Li Changlai used his own warship to sell it; Son, everyone is scrambling to do it, why should I give it to you, but I don’t know how to be grateful if I give it to you, who can treat him.

After coming and going, Li Yuxi was unwilling to do business with him.

From the bottom of his heart, Li Yuxi was unwilling to allow Li Chang to take over the general military power. This kind of person could not gain power. He always felt that what made him gain power was his own talent, not the help of others, and he would not give others much convenience Door.

The tobacconist is not here to seize power, he has a way of dealing with everyone.

He smiled and bowed to everyone, and said: "Li heard in Muye that Puli County's control of the plague won the hearts of the people, and was recommended by the people to hold an independent event to ask for help from Asia. Immediately, I asked Yang Gong, the county magistrate of Muye, to issue an official document to approve Li. A certain soldier was recruited, and only three thousand subordinates came across the sea to help."

Speaking of which, Li Yuxi looked back and stretched his right arm to show to the unloading ship on the pier, and said: "Now the luggage is being unloaded, and it depends on you to fight to the death to defend, so that we can last until Li comes to help. Now the reinforcements have arrived, everyone. You can sit back and relax, no matter whether you are defending the city or going out to fight in the field, you don’t have to worry about it.”

The arrival of Li Yuxi did bring a lot of sense of crisis to Li Changlai, especially those wrestlers unloading cargo at the port.

They wear simple earth-colored Jinghai clothes, the most common in Asia, with no scarves on their heads. Their hair is so short that it can only be tied in a small bun on their heads, their foreheads are surrounded by a circle of black cloth, and they wear Wearing the ancient style ring-shoulders, hanging crossbows, slanted spears, javelins, spears and hooks on a large shield.

There are also some people who carry huge crossbows on their shoulders. Regardless of whether they wear crossbows or not, they have wooden barrels cut out of their waists to make out arrow barrels.

They look like Miao people, but everyone knows that they are not Miao people. Miao people wear at most one pair of earrings. These people not only wear earrings, but also have tattoos on their faces, and bones in the middle of their noses... These people are edited by Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of Muye County. The practiced Makino Baojia.

Li Chang could see clearly that these people were hired by Li Yuxi, and letting them take over the city defense was tantamount to handing over Puli County to Li Yuxi.

He cupped his hands and said: "Brother Li led the troops to rush to help. I am very grateful to the chief official Puli. At present, everyone is exhausted by boats and cars. Please invite the soldiers to the camp to rest. I have ordered the camp to prepare wine and vegetables to catch the wind and cleanse the dust. Let's go to the yamen first." Well, let me tell you about the situation of the enemy troops outside the city."

Li Yuxi smiled, and a person flashed behind him, wearing an old Beiyang breastplate, clasped his fists and said, "You don't have to worry about my soldiers, I am the admiral of the Jinjiang Fleet, Du Kelu, and my deputy admiral specializes in city attack and defense in Asia. Take over the defense now."

Don't look at what Du Kelu said very harshly. In fact, he sounds good as the admiral of the Jinjiang Fleet. His actual military position is the general flag of the Dongyang Military Mansion. The deputy Qianhu is at the same level, and the admiral of the Qianli Fleet is half a level lower than Baihu. This is set to facilitate the command system when the escort fleet and the regular army face a war together.

In other words, Ying Ming, a hundred households of the Oriental Military Mansion, can command the fleet on the spot when they enter the city.

This is the case at sea, regardless of merchants or immigrants, they are all civilians; even militias have to listen to the regular army.

After saying this, Li Changlai really lost his temper, and he couldn't say clearly that he wanted to be a chieftain here.

The admiral over there has already assigned the tasks of the troops. Those who should go to the city should go to the city, and the garrison city in the garrison city, and then there will be soldiers who will go to the leaders of the merchants and soldiers who are guarding the city to inquire about the situation. They were all replaced.

Even when Cao Changqing, Li Yuxi, Li Changlai, Josepha and others entered the yamen, the Muye Baojia Iroquois soldiers who came and went to report messages had already run seven times before the banquet started.

The orders one by one are executed immediately with the announcement of the Yamen.

First, it was stipulated that the entire city was under the management of the sergeants of the Dongyang Army Mansion. The houses at each street were requisitioned by Muye Baojia, and 25 people were stationed in each street. The letter system was implemented in the city. No one was allowed to travel without a letter.

Those who let people out of the street will be executed together with Baojia.

Immediately afterwards, the guards at the city gate were not replaced. They were all members of Alan Muming, but their weapons were removed and they were arranged to defend the city with light armor. Earn the city gate to prevent changes.

The city is divided into ten neighborhoods. The garrison guards in each street call together the common people, let them complain about their grievances, and let them resolve their grievances; To prevent the enemy from digging tunnels.

At the same time, it is stipulated that no one in the city is allowed to hold poles or spears high on the roof, and is not allowed to play percussion instruments.

Another mission of guarding Baojia in the streets and alleys is to put out fires. People are not allowed to run around even if the neighbor's house is on fire.

They also dug wells every [-] steps in the city, and dug dark ditches towards the harbor, and made fish bladders and other floating objects and put them in the wells to observe the water level.

All the orders were issued in a very short time, which made Li Changlai and others in the yamen not in the mood to eat at all.

If you defend the city, you must defend the city. Where did so many moths come from?

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)