The big board of Wu Jun's partial division was raised high, and no matter how he looked, he seemed to be preparing to hit Changqing, but when it suddenly fell, the board hit Jinan's butt!

After being beaten for no reason, the most grief and regretful thing was not Fu Zhenbang, a famous Qing army general who strongly advocated strengthening the Changqing defenders, but Bao Jing, the governor who had just arrived in Shandong for less than a month! So after receiving this news, Bao Jing was so angry that he spit out white foam on the spot, beating his chest and stamping his feet, yelling in anger...

"Oh my God! The earth! I am blinded by lard. When I should listen to Weiping, I listened to Zhonghua. When I should listen to Zhonghua, why did I believe Weiping again? Why did I bet both times right or wrong?! Oh my God, even if you make me bet right once, the situation in Jinan will reach this point!"

Thanks to the strong conscience of the confidant Ronglu, Shandong governor Wen Qian, Shandong regiment training minister Du Qiaoyu and Shandong civil and military officials, who were helping to persuade him, Bao Jing, who regretted that his intestines turned green, did not faint on the spot. After finally calming down, Bao Jing of course quickly asked everyone: "My lords, Wu thief was treacherous and used a trick to transfer Fu Titai's strong troops. Now there are only 7,000 Qing army guards in Jinan City, and there are only more than 4,000 trainees outside the city to use. How to fight the enemy next? What are the tricks do you have?"

"We can only stick to the city." Du Qiaoyu, the Minister of the regiment training, answered first, and said in great anger: "It's a pity that Luo Futai rejected the proposal of the officials two years ago and did not agree to build an outer city outside Jinan to strengthen defense. Otherwise, we would have two walls to guard now, and the prosperous and prosperous city town would not be directly exposed to the sword of Wu thief."

"Brother Hansheng, okay." Luo Bingzhang spoke to Baosheng's chief of staff Liu Rong, and said with great dissatisfaction: "You proposed to build that outer city. The wall is only four feet thick, allowing only two or three people to go by mistake. Even if it is built, how can it be able to block the foreign guns and cannons of the Wu thief army? On the contrary, we have to waste a lot of troops to guard your outer city, giving Wu thieves a large number of opportunities to kill our Qing soldiers in the outer city."

"At least you can block the Wu thief for a longer period of time, it is better than letting the main city be directly attacked." Du Qiaoyu immediately counterattacked. In order to build the outer city wall, Du Qiaoyu had a fight with Luo Bingzhang's confidant Liu Rong.

"Okay, stop fighting." Bao Jing groaned in pain and said hatefully: "If there is a medicine for regret, I should have listened to Weiping at the beginning and concentrated my troops at Gushan Post to resist the Wu bandits. Later, I should have listened to Zhonghua, regardless of Changqing's life or death, and concentrate my troops to defend Jinan."

Du Qiaoyu and Liu Rong finally closed their mouths, and Ronglu said: "Master Futai, the officials believed that the people should be evacuated immediately and let the people outside the city quickly take the fine grains and soft food to leave the streets outside the city, and do not give Wu thieves the opportunity to rob grains and self-sufficiency."

"Yes, that's what we should do." Bao Jing nodded quickly, and quickly sent Zhu Rong, the magistrate of Licheng, to handle the matter. Then he asked Ronglu: "Zhonghua, what's next?"

"Adjust the garrison of the regiment training outside the city, divide the regiment training into two, take back half of the regiment training from the city to participate in the defense of the city, and the other half asked them to go to Qinglong Mountain to garrison."

The new star Ronglu of the bannerman, indeed, had two tricks, so he immediately decided to use the local team training strategy, and then explained: "Putting half of the team training in Qinglong Mountain can play several roles. One is to lure the Wu bandits to attack and pull out the nail we are outside the city. The mountains on Qinglong Mountain are high and dense, the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Wu bandits will never be able to easily take it down. If they go to fight Qinglong Mountain, the team training on Qinglong Mountain can give us time to respond."

"If the Wu bandits ignore Qinglong Mountain, then our Qinglong Mountain regiment can play two other roles. One is to restrain the flanks of the bandits when the Wu bandits attack the city, so that the Wu bandits dare not attack the city with all their strength. The other is to attack when necessary to respond to General Fu Zhenbang's army and cover Fu Titai's elite troops back to Jinan for reinforcements."

"Yes, yes, we should leave an army in Qinglong Mountain to restrain the Wu thieves to facilitate the reception of Weiping back to Jinan. Hansheng, you are the Minister of the regiment training, so this matter will be left to you." Bao Jing nodded again, and adopted Ronglu's proposal without thinking, and then asked quickly: "Zhonghua, what about next?"

"Then of course, I will be ready to defend the city with all my might." Rong Lu replied with a wry smile, and comforted him: "Mr. Futai, don't worry, Jinan is a famous city for thousands of years. The city is high and the trenches are deep, the city is well-preserved, and the fortifications are complete, and the food and grass are also abundant. It can compete with the Wu thieves for a long time. As long as we are united and work together to defend the city, there will definitely be no problem in defending Jinan for a long time."

Bao Yun nodded again, but his expression was not very confident. Fortunately, Liu Rong stood up in time and bowed to Bao Yun and said, "Please rest assured that although the students have never been on the battlefield to kill the enemy, they first followed Zeng Guofan and then Luo Ruzhai. They have experienced countless battles and are very familiar with the formation, the division of armor and the defense of the city. As long as the Fu Tai Gong trusts the students and asks the students to help dispatch troops and arrange specific defense details, then the students will guarantee that Jinan City will become imperfect in your hands, so that the Wu thief army will have no choice but to take advantage of it."

"That's great." Bao Jing was overjoyed and said, "But Mr. Meng Rong, your words are a bit too much. When will I not trust you? If I cannot trust you, how could I let you continue to command the shogunate of the Taiwan Organs? Just do this. From now on, Mr. Meng Rong, as long as you think it is right, you can take action first and then report, and arrange it first and then tell me."

Liu Rong quickly thanked him, but hummed in her heart: "Can you trust me? If you trust me, what is the matter of guarding the Gushan Post and whether you should divide your troops to strengthen Changqing? Just ask me your opinion!"

He was slandering, but because of his salary and money from Baoyan and his extreme dislike of Wu Chaoyue's personality, Liu Rong, a real old man from the Hunan Army, still stood up and helped Ronglu to provide advice for Baoyan, handle various specific defenses, arrange troops to defend the city and arrange reserve teams, transport various city defense materials to prepare for war, and rush to build simple and practical city defense equipment, and offer the list to safeguard the people and encourage the people to participate in the city defense. He used his rich military experience to help Baoyan and Ronglu, who were just on the battlefield, avoided countless detours, and quickly arranged the Jinan city defense in an orderly manner without any omissions.

In addition, Liu Rong, who had collected and studied the tactical habits of the Wu army with Luo Bingzhang, also adapted to local conditions and suggested that Baoyan send soldiers to block the most susceptible enemy Qichuan Gate and the Lishan Gate, the East Gate, which were most susceptible to the enemy, without giving the Wu army a chance to blow up the city gate directly into the city. He also prepared enough sandbags inside the Huibo Gate and the Ximen Liyuan Gate, which could completely block the city gate at any time. At the same time, in order to be cautious, Liu Rong also suggested that Baoyan send people to bury landmines in the urns of the two northwest gates to prevent the Wu army from breaking through the outer gate of the urns and directly threatening the safety of the inner gate, and gaining enough time for Qing soldiers to block the inner gate corridor.

Only one of the Wu army's siege tactics made Liu Rong more trouble, which was to dig holes and bury medicine directly on the city wall. Because he had never seen or experienced this tactic with his own eyes before, Liu Rong broke his head and couldn't figure out how Wu army could dig holes of sufficient size on the hard city wall in a short time, and buried hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder that could directly blow down the city wall? So Liu Rong, who had no experience in this, naturally could not think of any good methods and means to effectively prevent and restrain Wu army's tactics.

Fortunately, Liu Rong also had a capable assistant named Ronglu. When discussing this with Ronglu, Ronglu said without long calculations: "For Wu Zhe's move, we can only use fire attacks to make the people in the city more precautions. When we found that Wu Zhe was poaching the walls under the city, we immediately threw firewood and gunpowder that had poured tinder oil to burn. Fortunately, our gunpowder was very sufficient, and Jinan city was full of old houses. If it really didn't work, we could dig the old wall bricks on the base of the house and boil the nitride. The nitrate powder was put directly into the barrel and it was not far away, but it was enough to attract fire."

After thinking about it, he found that there was only this method. Liu Rong nodded and said, "It's all that is the case. Fortunately, we have only repaired the Jinan city wall this year. It's not that easy for Wu Zhe to dig a big hole that can blow down the city wall."

During the busy preparations, the front team and main force of the Wu army's partial division had already arrived at the city of Jinan. What surprised the old military officer Liu Rong was that the Wu army placed the open terrain and many civilians without paying attention to the southern suburbs of Jinan, which did not pay attention to it. They actually chose the camp outside the Ximen Liyuan Gate in Jinan, and set up a camp between Wulongtan and Baotu Spring in the northwest of Liyuan Gate, and immediately strengthened the ground near the city wall at that location and built anti-aircraft artillery fortifications, as if they wanted to establish an artillery position at that location and directly bombarded the city of Jinan.

"How did Wu thieves choose to set up a camp between Baotuquan and Wulongtan? Are they still building a cannon-blocking earth wall? They plan to launch an attack directly from that location?" Rong Lu, who was in battle for the first time, also saw something wrong and said in surprise: "But the terrain there is not wide enough, so it is difficult to expand its troops? Also, the moat there is relatively wide, and there are Wulongtan and Baotuquan blocking the road. The Wu thief army's advance route is not wide enough, which will only make them tie their hands when siegeing?"

"Does Wu thief want to play the world again? He feinted the north bank of the Liyuan Gate to attract our attention and take the opportunity to sneak attack our city gate?"

In amazement, Ronglu and Liu Rong both had such suspicion at one time. However, for the sake of caution, Ronglu and Liu Rong immediately suggested that Baofeng strengthen the defense there. In addition to strengthening the defenders' forces, they hurriedly added ten long-range heavy artillery to the city section, which was placed on the city facing the Wu army camp, and were always guarding against the Wu army's troops to attack.

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Look at the reaction of the Wu army. Although it was far below the city, the Qing army moved cannons to the city and deployed them to the wall section where the army was preparing to launch an attack. Such a big noise still could not be hidden from the eyes of the Wu army scout. However, the news came to the front and back of the Wu army's partial division commander Hu Huaizhao who was formulating the siege tactics with He Qinghan. The old sparrow on the battlefield Hu Huaizhao was not afraid of rejoicing, and laughed: "Move cannons to the city? Move cannons to the city? Baofeng Old Man, you really think that you didn't help me enough, so you should do me a big favor!"

After laughing, Hu Huaizhao decided to accept the generous gift from the Qing army in Jinan on the spot. He immediately sent people to send the battalion officers of the two new battalions, asking them to lead the headquarters team composed of almost all newly surrendered soldiers to immediately prepare for night battles and some necessary things, and just wait until it was dark and then acted according to the plan.

During the winter day, before the Wu army's camp was built, the sky was already dark in Jinan. I felt that the Wu army was tired from afar and could not launch an attack overnight. The Qing army soldiers who were not on duty in Jinan also gradually fell asleep with peace of mind. However, when the second update was approaching, the Qing army in the northern part of the Liyuan Gate suddenly heard dense gunshots, as well as gongs and shouts from afar. The Qing army deputy general who was on duty in this section of the city wall quickly jumped up and raised his telescope to look closely. He saw that there were few torches in the wilderness in the distance, and many figures could be seen. Nasuken did not dare to hesitate, and immediately shouted: "The thief army is here, call the gong and call the police, and prepare for artillery!"

After the alarm gong sounded, the Qing army in this section of the city immediately entered a state of alert. Ten long-range cannons and mountain-splitting cannons with a range of not far away also loaded and filled ammunitions and installed fuses. The direction where the torch had shaking before quickly appeared again, allowing the Qing army to see the dense figures of Wu soldiers. Nasuken did not hesitate and shouted again: "Aim at the Wu thieves' queue and fire!"

Boom! Boom! Ten heavy artillery of the Qing army that could reach that position fired one after another, and ten shells blasted the Wu army's figure. The sound of the shells falling to the ground immediately came from that position. But unfortunately, several torches of the Wu army disappeared quickly, making it impossible for the Qing army soldiers such as Nasuken to see the effect of the artillery attack clearly.

The Nian Army had fought against the Taiping Army in the southern part of Jiaodong and Shandong. Nasuken had a lot of experience in the battlefield. He dared not waste ammunition too much. He just let the artillery fire another round of shells and stopped firing, and then continued to wait for the Wu army to make other reactions. But unfortunately, after waiting for half an hour, the Wu army stopped making any movement. On the contrary, Baoyan sent someone to ask about the situation, and Nasuken introduced the truth. Then, as soon as Baoyan's envoy left, several red lanterns suddenly appeared under the city and galloped quickly, allowing Nasuken and the Qing army on the city to vaguely see some Wu soldiers. Nasuken quickly ordered the firing, and ten Qing artillery that had loaded ammunition early opened fire together and bombarded again to discover the location of the Wu army.

In the next hour, the Wu army's torches, lanterns and other lighting objects appeared three times, exposing the Wu army's position in two different positions. The Qing army fired fire and bombarded each time, but never waited until the Wu army launched an attack. Finally, it was after Liu Rong and Ronglu came to this position to understand the situation, Liu Rong, who was very familiar with the war history in these years, woke up and said, "Can they be a scarecrow? When Changmao attacked Jiangning, he once set up a dummy on Lion Mountain outside Chaoyang Gate to lure the Qing army to fire, and deceived Jiangning General Xianghou at that time to waste countless gunpowder."

"Scarecrow?" Nasuken said in surprise: "It's impossible? Those Wu thief soldiers have different positions..."

Before he finished speaking, Nasuken praised himself for his mouth and said annoyedly: "Pig! I am a pig! The scarecrow doesn't grow legs, but the Wu Ni bandits have feet. Once the torch lantern is destroyed, the light scarecrow can establish a new fake position as soon as it moves."

"It seems that Wu thieves want to play the tactics of exhausted soldiers." Ronglu came to the correct conclusion and said: "Using fake positions to deceive us into firing can not only waste our ammunition, but also consume the physical strength and morale of our defenders. It can also suddenly come true in the ten false ways and catch us off guard."

"The Wu thief army can sweep the world and be invincible, but it is not without reason." Liu Rong sighed, and then said with a wry smile: "Unless we risk going out of the city to fight, we can only follow the Wu thief's tired tactics. Fortunately, the Wu thief's food and grass problem is their fatal injury. As long as we rotate properly and let the city guards take turns to rest in time, it is not too difficult to survive this level."

It was reported by Liu Rong that it was night that the new Wu army recruits from the two battalions took turns to fight, either with straw dummies, or with small groups of people, or shouting, gongs and drums, and ran to the moat to attack, trying every means to disturb the Qing army in the city, and did not give the Qing army a chance to rest with peace of mind. They also forced the Qing army to fire bombardment many times, suppressing the rampant momentum of the Wu army's feigned soldiers.

Fortunately, the Wu army focused on harassing this wall section was not too wide. The Qing army had the advantage of geographical location. Only half of the battalion opened its eyes wide and could guard against the city. If the remaining half of the battalion could still rest with peace of mind. When it was dim when the sky was dawn, the two Wu army recruits who were also exhausted could only end the feint attack and go back to the camp to sleep. Although the Qing army was very painful, they also spent the first night after the Wu army came to the city.

"Damn Wu thief, you are immoral and short-lived. When you attack the city, let's see how I deal with you on the city wall!"
Chapter completed!