Wufeng immediately issued an order, ordering the fifth squadron of the Third Battalion of the Fourth Regiment to leave one squadron to patrol the city walls, and the other four squadrons guard the four gates respectively. The people were allowed to enter but not leave, and strictly prevent enemy spies from intruding into the city to destroy—

Then, Wufeng ordered the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Battalion of the Fourth Regiment and the escorted baggage soldiers to set up the twenty giant catapults on the four walls of Qingyang Fucheng as soon as possible, and to do a good job in defense. These twenty catapults were originally intended to be used to strengthen the defense of Qingyang Fucheng after the war. They had a long range, strong lethality and very powerful force. Unexpectedly, they could come in handy so quickly—

The measures taken by Wufeng quickly had obvious results. The order in the city had returned to normal, especially the bloody heads of several robbers hanging on the gate of the field, which shocked those who wanted to make ill intentions. The merchants also opened the shops and opened their business as usual. The work of restoring the city walls was also very smooth. The enthusiastic people even demolished their own houses in the absence of sufficient materials, which moved Wufeng very much. The cleaning and guidance of the moat was slow. Due to years of mismanagement, many areas were completely blocked and needed to be diversioned. However, with the strong support of the people, some progress has been made, and it is estimated that it will take two to three days to complete the water.

The recruitment also achieved good results. Tens of thousands of people signed up enthusiastically that afternoon. After screening, those only children and those who were not in good health were eliminated, and more than 8,000 people still joined the army. The troops led by Liang Chongxin went out of the city to search for the broken troops were even more impressive. On this day alone, more than 12,000 broken soldiers came to the west of the city to report. Wufeng personally received them and delivered the hot water, food, medicine, tents and other materials that had been prepared were sent to them, which moved the soldiers and expressed their willingness to obey the arrangements and fight with the enemy again.

When Liang Chongxin returned from searching for the day, Wufeng immediately had a secret conversation with him. Afterwards, Liang Chongxin and three direct squadrons seized time to rest. That night, Liang Chongxin led the cavalry of three squadrons to quietly leave the city overnight and disappeared into the night.

That night, Wufeng ordered the Fifth Brigade to take over the Second Brigade to patrol, and ordered Cui Wenxiu to lead the Second Brigade to conduct simple training for more than 8,000 newly summoned soldiers for three days. He also ordered Mulige to act as the comprehensive work of the First Brigade, responsible for reorganizing the more than 12,000 soldiers who were broken up, and strive to complete the reorganization within three days. Wufeng also ordered the Fifth Brigade to draw a squadron, change it into civilian clothes and scatter out of the city, collect information-

After all this was arranged, Wufeng, Xiao Tang, Zhan Zhaobai, Wei Dongchen and the other two checked around. The restoration of the city wall was fighting at night and was in full swing. The cleaning and guidance of the moat also made great progress. After Wufeng checked, he instructed the moat to deepen and widen, and ordered the messenger to transfer the Second Battalion and the more than 8,000 new recruits to come up and work overtime overnight.

After checking all the locations, the sky was covered with white fish belly. Wufeng's spirit was still very strong, but the other three were obviously not as good as him, but they all held it reluctantly, "Mr. Li, when will Luo Beiren attack us?" On the way back to the city to guard the mansion, Zhan Zhaobai couldn't help asking this question that everyone was very concerned about. Wufeng walked and thought, and walked a while before answering: "The enemy's main task is to seize food, grass and livestock. I guess the enemy has not discovered the abnormality here yet, but at the latest tonight, the enemy's scouts will notice it. And in Bonan, the main forces of the enemy's troops in Guide received the news that it must be tomorrow.

It will definitely take two days to complete the grain grabbing task before returning. In summary, our enemy should take action against us in four days. So we still have four days to prepare, and we must make all preparations within these four days to deal with the upcoming war." Wei Dongchen asked another question: "I heard from the Lord that people have been sent to Taixuan Prefecture and Guanxi, and Heshuo County requested reinforcements. I wonder if there is any news?" This was made up by Wufeng at that time to enhance the confidence of the two Wei people. Unexpectedly, the two believed it, and Wufeng replied without blinking: "It is estimated that it is coming now, and the news will come tomorrow and the next day."—

Xiao Tang raised another question: "Sir, I'm afraid we have to prepare some medical staff. This battle will definitely not end in one or two days. Our own troops are definitely not enough, so there is no need to worry about medicine." "I'm afraid we have to ask the two gentlemen to coordinate this." Zhan Wei and the others quickly said that there was no problem-

When he returned to the city guard's mansion, it had been taken over by Wufeng's personal guard squadron and became a temporary command center. As soon as he returned to the mansion for a rest, the guards came to report that the troops who were leaving the city to reconnaissance were back and there was a situation report. After listening to the report of the reconnaissance force, Wufeng learned that the enemy had not discovered the changes here yet and was concentrating on snatching food, grass and livestock in the countryside. Many ordinary people in the village were running away to the direction of Qingyang Prefecture City. It is estimated that the situation here will not be hidden for long. It seems that the preparations must be accelerated.

The next day, the third day passed quickly in the busy work. The restoration and improvement of the city walls had come to an end. The cleaning, guidance and widening and deepening of the moat were also progressing very quickly. Wufeng attached great importance to this work, because in the lack of effective siege facilities for the enemy, the moat can play a good role in delaying the enemy's attack, gaining a lot of time for the defense side, and greatly increasing the losses of the attacking side. In the past two days, nearly 6,000 imperial scattered troops came to report. Wufeng was very satisfied. Although these troops were disbanded, they were soldiers who had been formally trained. They only needed to reorganize them without training, and at least they could exert more than 50% of their combat effectiveness. Unlike those recruits, after two or three days of training, they could only barely serve as logistics and transportation troops to help the regular troops to assist in defense, and by the way, they could also see what the real war is like.

Time entered the fourth day after the war. Just after noon, Wufeng received a report from the reconnaissance force. Luo Beiren's main force had arrived near Qingyang Prefecture City. Wufeng sat on the chair and sighed. Luo Beiren's efficiency was really not underestimated. It was a day and a half ahead of his expectations. Fortunately, he did not relax. The restoration of the city wall has been completed. The moat work will end in the afternoon, just in time.

Up on the west city tower, Wufeng looked into the distance, and saw that the yellow dust in the distance of the west was covered with the sky. At first glance, you could see that this was the sandstorm caused by the large cavalry marching. As expected, the enemy still chose the direction of the Xicheng, which he used to be, as the main attack direction. At the beginning, he judged that although the enemy was going back from the east, the Xicheng was the direction of their attacks many times. In their impression, the walls of Xicheng were much more broken, and there was a high possibility that the enemy would choose the west as the main attack direction. He would have arranged eleven of the twenty large catapults on the Xicheng wall. On the other walls, only three were arranged on each side. It seemed that his judgment was correct.

Just when Wu Feng climbed the city tower to observe the Luobei troops, the Luobei troops were busy setting up camps. After receiving the horse exploration report on the abnormality in Qingyang City, Haxian, who led the infantry to carry out the mission of robbing grain, immediately felt that the matter was unusual and immediately sent a quick horse to inform Koldo and Geya in Guide and Bonan respectively. The two men who had completely defeated the imperial expedition army also felt the seriousness of the matter, stepped up the completion of the grain grabbing task, and ordered their respective deputy generals to lead the main cavalry to return quickly.

Luobei's army camp. After a turmoil, the troops of Koldo, Geya and Hasian had completed the camping work, and the three of them were also sitting in Koldo's tent. When the general Tu Da, the expedition leader, led his troops back to China first, appointed Koldo as the head coach, and Geya and Hasian as the deputy-

"Ha first, tell me the situation first." Kurdo, who was in the center, looked a little gloomy. After all, he was the head coach. If something went wrong here, he had to bear the main responsibility. "Okay, let me talk first. On the afternoon of the war, after you led your troops to chase the defeated troops of the Tanghe people, I led the infantry to carry out the food and grass collection task at the general's order. The collection task at Qingyang Prefecture was also completed smoothly, but the horse Explosion report found that many small groups of enemies were active everywhere, and a large number of defeated scattered and poured into Qingyang City. I stood up

I immediately sent scouts to find out that Qingyang City, which had no troops to defend the city, actually had a guarding force. The number was unknown. I arranged for me to enter Qingyang City in several batches with the local farmers who fled into Qingyang City. But until now, there has been no news for these people." Because Wufeng took measures that were only allowed to enter but not leave, and strengthened the city defense management. Without Wufeng's order, no one could leave the city. Although the memorial sent by Haxian had been mixed into the city, he could not leave the city, so the news could not be spread.

The three of them couldn't think of where the troops that dared to fight in the city came from. Geya pondered for a long time and raised his own question: "The Tanghe people's Western Expedition troops have been completely defeated by us, and it is impossible to organize them again. According to our information, there was no city defense force in Qingyang City before this war. So where did this force come from? How many troops are there?" Kurdo, who had been thinking hard, finally spoke: "What Geya said is the same as I thought. So the enemy is likely to be reinforcements later. If they did not catch up with the battle ahead, there would not be many, but this general is not an Yi person.

As soon as he entered the city, he knew that he would take measures to prevent our spies and mobilize local people to resist us. It was not easy. However, he also looked down on his own strength too high. Just because some defeated soldiers and some ordinary people wanted to compete with our army, it would be too underestimated. Don’t think about it so much now, hurry up and rest, send more scouts to spy on the situation. When the main infantry force arrives tomorrow, it will be their end." Geya and Hassian also agreed with Kurdo's opinion. They both believed that under such circumstances, no one could stop his own conquest-

Just as Luo Beiren was ready to launch an attack outside the city, Wufeng was also hurrying to make the final preparations. Mulige had reorganized the troops that had been broken up. Except for nearly 4,000 wounded and sick, Mulige reorganized the remaining 14,000 people into four corpses and took turns to familiarize himself with the terrain in the West City. Cui Wenxiu also led the Second Battalion and more than 8,000 new recruits to roll wood, rocks, arrows, oil rolling, etc. for various combat purposes.

The materials were sent to the top of the city wall, and Wufeng also ordered the thousand escorted crossbows to be placed on the west city wall. This is also a powerful weapon, but since this weapon takes a certain time to reinstall crossbow arrows every time it is fired, it limits its power. At the same time, Wufeng also ordered the troops to demolish the houses of residents around the city wall, and promised to compensate after the war to prevent being shot by enemy rockets in the war, causing fires and causing chaos-

The people in the city also knew that the critical time was coming, so they consciously organized themselves, working overtime to make dry food, stretchers and other necessary supplies. At the same time, many people actively signed up to serve as stretchers. The whole city was like a machine full of clockwork, everything revolved around the upcoming war-
Chapter completed!