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"Empire Hegemony" Chapter 884
The city of Jingyang Mansion was very busy, and the soldiers of the tentative sixteenth banner regiment were moving bundles of arrows, thick horizontal logs, stones and other defensive materials to the top of the city.
Acting Banner Chief Wang Cheng led his guards along the city wall to patrol, and the soldiers guarding everywhere saluted one after another.
Seeing the soldiers standing guard everywhere, Wang Cheng kept asking them to be vigilant.
When Wang Cheng walked to the southwest corner of the city, an officer greeted him with strides.
"The humble job has seen Mr. Banner Leader!"
"How, when can the gap be completely repaired?"
Seeing the officer approaching, Wang Cheng pointed to the gap in the city wall that was damaged by the war.
"Master Banner, it is estimated that it will be repaired tomorrow." The officer replied after thinking about it.
"There are so many nights and dreams, can it be repaired within today?" Wang Cheng frowned.
The officer said in embarrassment: "Master Banner, I don't have enough manpower. Brothers don't have time to catch their breath these days."
Wang Cheng saw the soldiers who were covered in dust with sandbags, and also saw that they were very tired.
"If the restoration is completed within today, how many people will be needed?" Wang Cheng asked.
"At least five thousand people."
"Okay, call the Third Banner Battalion and let them help repair the gap."
There is such a gap in the city wall of Jingyang Mansion, which is a huge loophole for their defense.
But Wang Cheng couldn't mobilize all the soldiers, so he had to reserve some of them to preserve their strength and be ready to fight at any time.
"Thank you, Captain Banner!"
Hearing that Wang Cheng wanted to transfer a banner battalion to help, the officer was also very grateful.
"I'll come back tonight. If it's not repaired, I'll ask you." Wang Cheng warned.
"Please rest assured, Master Banner, even if we are exhausted, we will definitely complete the repair within today!"
"Okay, go get busy and hurry up."
"No!"
Wang Cheng, the temporarily acting head of the Sixteenth Banner, patrolled the defense lines and gave careful instructions to the leading officers.
Seeing Wang Cheng, the acting head of the banner, walking around, gave many soldiers a reassurance, and their hearts were more at ease.
When Wang Cheng walked near the West Tower, he suddenly turned his gaze to the distance, where two scouts came galloping on horseback.
"Master Banner Leader, you are our scout." An officer said.
Wang Cheng ordered: "Go and ask what's going on."
After an officer responded, he quickly went down the city wall, and soon brought two scouts who were busy with dust to the city wall.
"Master Banner Leader, we found a group of rebel scouts in Wangjiawan!" A scout Qingqi reported with fists folded.
"A rebel scout ranger?"
After hearing what the scouts said, the expressions of the surrounding generals became serious.
"See clearly?"
"See clearly."
"There were more than a dozen of them, all of them with one man and two horses. We didn't dare to fight. When we saw them approaching them, we withdrew." The scout continued.
Wang Cheng judged that the rebels would arrive at Jingyang Mansion in a few days, but he didn't expect them to come so soon.
Now that the rebel rangers have appeared in the suburbs of Jingyang Mansion, it means that their large army is not far from Jingyang Mansion.
"Send all the scouts out to find out the movements of the rebels as much as possible!" Wang Cheng ordered in a deep voice.
"The First Banner Battalion immediately went to the city to guard!"
Following Wang Cheng's order, the atmosphere in Jingyang Mansion suddenly became tense.
They already knew that hundreds of thousands of rebels were coming towards them, and everyone in the provisional Sixteenth Banner Regiment was quite nervous.
Now that they heard that the rebels were approaching, their hearts were also suspended, knowing that they were about to encounter a fierce battle.
In the evening, the vanguard of the rebel army arrived outside the west gate of Jingyang Mansion. This is a pure cavalry force with a strength of two to three thousand people.
The Southern Army area did not produce horses, so the Southern Army did not have an organized cavalry unit at the beginning. Except for the scouts in the army, the nobles were left to raise some war horses.
?Although Hao Hao, the right marshal of the rebel army, was expanding his army unscrupulously, the cavalry under his command was quite limited.
He managed to scrape together five thousand cavalry, and some of the horses were of inferior quality.
This time, the cavalry he sent as the vanguard also hoped to take advantage of their speed to raid Jingyang Mansion.
But people are not as good as heaven, Jingyang Mansion is now heavily guarded. Although the cavalry of the rebels are very mobile, they are not good at attacking the city.
Seeing the Qinghe Army temporarily forming the Sixteenth Banner Regiment, which was waiting in full battle at the head of the city, the rebel cavalry general who led the army also cursed secretly.
They rode their horses and galloped around the city, and shot some arrows at the top of the city threateningly, but found no loopholes in the defense, so they could only return angrily and left Jingyangfu City.
Although the cavalry of the rebel army only wandered around the city of Jingyang Mansion, they still made the defenders feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
After the rebels left, some officers suggested sending out scouts to investigate the movements of the rebel cavalry, but the prudent Wang Cheng refused.
It was already dark, who knows if those rebel cavalry really left, or if they just indulged in lust.
If they were hiding in the darkness outside the city, as long as they opened the city gate, they would be able to rush up, and the Jingyang Mansion would definitely not be safe.
"The first banner battalion is responsible for guarding the city wall tonight, and the second banner battalion will rotate early tomorrow morning."
No one knew how far the rebel brigade was from Jingyang Mansion, so Wang Cheng asked a banner battalion of 5,000 brothers to guard at night to prevent the rebels from sneaking in.
In fact, seeing that the raid failed, the forward cavalry of the rebel army had already rode their horses to the villages and towns around Jingyang Mansion.
The surrounding villages and towns have been swept away by the rebels, and there are burned ruins everywhere.
Wang Cheng knew that this place would become a battlefield, so he further fortified the surrounding villages and towns to evacuate the people to the east.
However, there are still some lucky people. When the Qinghe Army responsible for the evacuation left, they secretly returned home. After all, it was hard to leave their homeland.
They also had their own little plan, that is, once the rebels really came, they would hide in the mountains and forests.
It is precisely because of their luck that they escaped the looting and massacre of the rebels some time ago, but they did not escape this time.
When the rebel cavalry arrived swiftly, it was too late for them to escape from their residence and hide in the forest.
The rebel cavalry were unable to raid Jingyang Mansion, but for these undefended villages and towns, it was as if no one had entered.
That night, the rebels looted and massacred the villages and towns around Jingyang Mansion. Many lucky people fell into a pool of blood, and at the same time, a considerable number of people became captives of the rebels.
In the early morning of the next day, the common people connected by ropes were dragged to the city of Jingyang Mansion by the rebel cavalry.
? Seeing those people who were in a state of distress being driven to the base of the city by the rebels, the defenders at the top of the city rushed to report to Wang Cheng, the deputy head of the banner. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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