Except for the county town, other places in Yangquan County have been completely empty. The county town is full of crowds, and Murong Yuan is here personally. In a few days, he has organized three thousand young men and used the local arsenal to arm them. There are many textile factories in Yangquan County, so naturally there are more female workers, but there are also many young and strong men on the docks in Yangquan Port.

The only thing that made Murong Yuan worry was that although there were many young and strong people, they had basically not experienced any serious military training. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, there was a complete reserve system and a large number of retired veterans to form a powerful military preparation. The city wall of Yangquan County was not high, just about six meters. Not to mention running horses, there were probably two people standing on the wall. Except for the wider near the city gate building, this was basically the case in other places. In Murong Yuan’s view, it was just a stronger wall.

The only thing that made Murong Yuan happy was that Du Ke, the county magistrate of Yangquan County, was very outstanding. After a large number of people flocked to the county town, he placed these people properly and divided the areas in the city, which were arranged one by one according to the village. In addition to the village chief, there were also officials in the county town responsible for taking care of each area, which made the city full of people, but everything still seemed organized and disciplined, and there was no chaos.

Like Murong Yuan, Du Ke was both from the Beijing University. Wang Ke was Murong Yuan's junior. Both of them were new officials in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, they had many common words. Otherwise, Murong Yuan would not have let Du Ke come to Yangquan as the administrative chief here. You must know that Yangquan was regarded by Murong Yuan as a brilliant resume in his career.

For Du Ke, Murong Yuan is an existence he admires. Although Murong Yuan is not a few years older than him, Murong Yuan's resume is enough to make it difficult for most Ming officials to beat him.

The two stood side by side on the city gate tower, watching the people outside the city who were desperately digging trenches, building chest walls, and setting up various obstacles. There were many people and sometimes many people. As long as they were organized properly, they could play a role in the crowd. In just a few days, such obstacles outside Yangquan City had extended far away. Under Du Ke's organization, everyone in the city worked day and night, regardless of day or night. Since the city wall was not so reliable, they could only work hard on it.

"It would have been a few days left." Du Ke looked quite tired. After all, no matter how young he was, he would not have enough time to rest for several consecutive days, so he would not be able to withstand it.

"If there are a few more days, we won't have to prepare these things." Although we were worried, Murong Yuan's face was unwilling to show it. "General Yan Nanfei, who was stationed at the mouth of Lianghe, led his troops to come over at night. A few days will be enough for him to come. The thunder cavalry in Wanzhou is also rushing to us. If there is enough time, they can arrive. It's not enough to see if there are only some straight girls."

A sharp whistle came from the sky. The two of them looked up at the same time. Several carrier pigeons flew from a distance. After hovering in the air for a week, they flew down like arrows and entered a place in Yangquan County.

Du Ke's face changed slightly: "Monkey King, this is the warning pigeon from Liuye Reef. The enemy has passed Liuye Reef." He silently calculated the time for the carrier pigeon to fly in the air in his heart. "I'm afraid that the enemy will come at most one hour."

Murong Yuan was silent for a moment and said, "When the enemy arrives, it's almost dark. Take back everyone outside the city and prepare for the battle."

Du Ke reached out to call an official and whispered a few instructions, and the official immediately flew away.

"Minister of the County, I ask for a battle in the city!" Du Ke said.

The students from the Beijing University are naturally both civil and military, and just being able to play with pens is not the tradition of students of the Ming Dynasty today.

"Everyone has to prepare for the battle in the city. As a county magistrate, you will naturally not be able to escape. You will still have to take the lead. But now, what you need most is to appease the people in the city and organize the people in the city to provide strong support to the people fighting." Murong Yuandao.

"I understand." Du Ke nodded.

Murong Yuan took a deep breath. This time he brought more than 300 people from the county city and would become the key to this battle to defend the city. Among these more than 100 people, more than 20 guards were his own guards, which were given to him by his father, twenty hawks and falcons summoned by the national security Chen Jian, and some officials with combat experience in the county government, and more than 20 guards temporarily recruited from large merchants in the city. These guards were basically retired veterans of the Ming Dynasty, and their combat effectiveness was not doubted. In the few days after coming here, Murong Yuan had allocated all the remaining people to temporarily serve as officers. He naturally left these dozen guards not because he was afraid of death, but because he wanted to use them as a mobile force. When he had the chance, he could rush out of the city to fight back. These twenty cavalry were all skilled cavalry.

"County magistrate, what is in the sky?" Du Ke, who was about to go down the city, suddenly pulled Rong Yuan, pointed at the sky in panic, and shouted.

Murong Yuan looked up and saw a few black big guys flying in the distance towards the sun. Unlike Wang Ke, he was overjoyed, "Reinforcements, our reinforcements are here. That is our airship, the Ming airship."

Murong Yuan's status is much higher than Du Ke, so he naturally knows a lot of things that Du Ke doesn't know. This airship is one of them. After the successful development of the airship, it has not been announced to the public, which means that some secret configurations are provided for the army. Yang Zhi, as the highest military command organization in the entire Chu area, also equipped four airships. This time, Yang Zhi sent them all out at one time.

The Ming Dynasty did not equip such airships on a large scale, mainly because the Ming Academy of Sciences was committed to installing steam engines onto airships to solve the power problems of airships. If the earliest airships were produced too much, they would inevitably fall behind again.

"Is this our reinforcements? The guy flying in the sky?" Du Ke asked a little confusedly.

"What's so strange about this? Are there several departments in our Peking University who teach those strange things?" Murong Yuan glanced at this fussy junior. "Have you seen someone jumping down from the rooftop with a pair of wings on himself?"

"I've seen it, my legs are broken." Du Ke smiled.

"Don't be stupid, hurry up and find a piece of open space, ignite the wolf smoke, and guide the airship to the ground." Murong Yuan looked at the airship flying closer and closer, "and quickly told all the officials that this is a magic weapon sent by His Majesty the Emperor to support us in defeating the enemy. Don't panic, don't be afraid."

Just now, Murong Yuan suddenly thought that even Du Ke was a little scared. Those ordinary people should not cause a commotion.

Du Ke also reacted suddenly and rushed out, "I'll make arrangements right away."

Facts have proved that Murong Yuan’s worries were very correct. When the airship flew over Yangquan County, the city was indeed panicked. If it weren’t for the people sent by Wang Ke in time, I would have been afraid that the city would be in chaos.

But the subsequent reaction was beyond Murong Yuan's expectations. The shouts of Emperor Long Live were heard everywhere in the city. Obviously, this guy who could fly in the sky beyond everyone's imagination gave everyone in the city an incomparable confidence to defeat the enemy. Since His Majesty the Emperor had sent reinforcements personally, the invading enemy would naturally not have any good ending.

For a while, the city became more confident. This was naturally a good thing for Murong Yuan.

He hurried to the landing area of ​​the airship chosen by Du Ke, where a gust of smoke rose up. After a while, the first airship arrived. After slowly lowering the height, a rope hung down. Murong Yuan immediately directed the people to pull up the rope and slowly pulled the airship in the air down.

Seeing the first person walking down from the airship, Murong Yuan couldn't believe his eyes.

"General Yang."

Yang Zhi, who had a beard, looked much more majestic than before. He was wearing armor and carrying his huge black sword, and strode to Murong Yuan and nodded at him: "Looking at your arrangement in the air, it's not bad."

Murong Yuan bowed and said, "Thank you, General. I feel relieved when the general is here. I wonder how many reinforcements we have come?"

Yang Zhi laughed: "Don't think too much. It takes time for the large army to come here. I was afraid that there would be too late, so I brought the airship over. Not to mention, this thing is flying in the air without being restricted by the terrain, and it is indeed much faster."

"Are these people the only ones?" Murong Yuan looked at the more than a hundred people walking down from the four airships that landed, and said in a disappointment.

"What, I think it's too little?" Yang Zhi glared.

"No, no, General Yang alone can stand up to thousands of troops." Murong Yuan said quickly.

"Don't flatter me. I can't stand thousands of troops alone, but I brought good things." Yang Zhi said with a smile. Murong Yuan looked at Yang Zhi's eyes and saw some huge boxes being lifted from the airship with difficulty.

"Four cannons." Yang Zhi whispered. "There are also a large number of grenades and other things. This time, in order to support you, I have taken out all the assets of the Shangjing left-behind office."

"Is it really an artillery?" Murong Yuan said in surprise and joy.

"Of course. Then the artillery bombarded him, and then let the airship fly into the air and throw grenades from above and blow him up. If you don't believe it, you won't be confused by these naughty girls." Yang Zhi laughed and said, "Have you ever seen such a weapon? I'm afraid that you will think it's a punishment for heaven!"

Murong Yuan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. With these things, he felt that the pressure was greatly reduced.

"General, just now, the warning message came from Liuye Reef. I am afraid that the enemy will arrive when it gets dark."

Yang Zhi nodded, "Ning Zeyuan was still one step slower and could not intercept them at sea. What a pity, even if Yangquan County won this time, he still suffered a lot of losses."
Chapter completed!