Dominate the Country

As one of the gateways to Ruzhou, Linru Town is of course also included in Chen Jiajun’s city wall ‘repair and reinforcement’ sequence. A wall with a height of one foot and three people standing side by side is too short and too thin. In Chen Jiajun's design, Linru Town is a strategic support point between Yiyang and Ruzhou City. Its city defense intensity is the highest. Chen Jiajun We will build Linru Town into the second Phoenix Tower, which is unbeatable.

The current city wall of Linru Town is built on a two-foot-high platform foundation, with a series of open walls and closed or semi-closed artillery forts arranged above it. There are three trenches outside the town, and the trenches face the direction of Linru Town. There is also a parapet on one side, with two trenches arranged during it, and a closed fortress arranged on the position. There are also two closed bunkers built on the east, west, north, and south sides of Linru Town.

The scale and space of the bunker are larger than that of the fortress. Five to ten people can be placed in each bunker. Food, water, coal and ammunition are stored in it. Even if Linru Town and the bunker are forcibly separated by the enemy, depending on the supplies of the bunker, With reserves, the people inside can persist in high-intensity fighting for seven to ten days.

The person responsible for the unified combat command of Linru Town and Yiyang City is Chen Jianbai. His battalion is stationed in Yiyang. Linru Town is organized as an independent brigade with two combat teams and a logistics team, with 200 soldiers. The person who came to give the order will be directed and dispatched by him. The chief and deputy commanders of the independent brigade were none other than the two men from Qingtiaoling: Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua.

After the two of them blackmailed Hot Spring Town, they became a follower of the Chen family's army. They caught up in many battles, but failed to make any notable achievements. Moreover, the bandit aura of these two people was a bit too strong. Even if they were wearing Chen Jiajun military uniforms and standing with military equipment, Chen Ming always felt out of place. The reuse was avoided, but it didn't make the two of them cold-hearted. The independent team was upgraded to the independent brigade. They were given two combat team establishments and one logistics team establishment, and were placed in the north. Finally, when the troops demarcated the defense zone, the two of them and the town of Linru where they were located fell under Chen Jianbai.

After all, Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua are old bandits, and the team they lead is at least much stronger than other independent teams and logistics battalion leaders. Linru Town is handed over to them, and Chen Ming is also interested in it. The fierceness in the two people.

The Qing army pressed on the border, and the people in Linru Town fled one after another. There were only more than 200 people from the Independent Brigade in the empty town, and they were reluctant to part with their belongings or unable to leave, and other miscellaneous reasons left Baishi Town behind. resident.

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In Lushan County.

The remaining rookies from the several recruit camps were gathered together, and all the teenagers over twelve years old from the boy camp were gathered in the county seat.

There are not many people left in the former, but there are more than 400 people in the latter, including brothers Pan Mancang and Pan Mantun. Their organizational structure has also changed. It is no longer the third troop of the Boy Scout Battalion, but the first and second troop of the Boy Scout Battalion.

Pan Mancang, who performed outstandingly in the training camp, continues to be his squad leader, but the platoon deputy is no longer there. Seventy percent of the officers above the Boy Scout platoon leader level are adults, and the rest are young people who are fifteen or sixteen years old, close to adults.

Pan Mantun prefers to stay in the city. Because the food here is better than in the children's camp, there are also people who listen to books and plays, and the training is not as intensive as in the children's camp.

It was just a light cross-country trip in the afternoon. Pan Mandun no longer had to tie sandbags to his legs and feet, nor did he need to carry sandbags on his back, so the light cross-country trip in the afternoon was very relaxed. After dinner, they watched another Tatar opera - Chen Jiajun determined the central theme and plot, and then let the talents and other talents caught by him polish it, arranged the singing and opera, and performed it frequently in his own control area. .

The plots of these dramas are different, but the main meaning is roughly the same: corrupt officials harm people. Chen Hui was born in a hereditary family. He had seen a lot and heard a lot about the harmful things officials did. As long as he put his identity as a bannerman on the official's head, that would be fine. Those corrupt officials who were born as bannermen, as well as the wealthy gentry who worked as dogs for these corrupt officials or were complicit in corruption, their images were so hateful after being performed in the form of drama. Once the performance was performed, they quickly became famous in Chen Jiajun's territory. Both the common people and Chen Jiajun soldiers love to watch it. Of course, no one is a fool. The officials in the drama are all bannermen. This is obviously a reference. Therefore, with Lushan County as the center, the people call this kind of drama Tatar Opera.

After watching the Tatar opera, Pan Mantun's energy was so high that he couldn't sleep even when he lay down on the bed. "Brother, I'll give you a chicken to eat."

Pan Mancang glanced at his younger brother in surprise, "Where did you get the chicken?" After a brief pause, he said in a surprised tone: "Didn't you eat the chicken that was given to you this morning?" His tone was already a bit harsh.

"Of course I ate the chicken that I was handed out in the morning. The steamed buns I had for lunch were exchanged for the meat buns from the chef in the kitchen. Brother, eat quickly..." Pan Mantun really wanted to see his eldest brother grow taller. Stronger and stronger. It's best to be like the platoon leader. He's only fifteen years old but already five and a half feet tall. His arms are thicker than Pan Mantun's thighs.

But why would Pan Mancang snatch his brother's eggs to eat? Yes, in Pan Mancang's eyes, this scene means that he is 'robbing' Pan Mancang's property. "Eat it yourself, you are growing stronger now." Pan Mancang used a phrase often said by the cooks in the Boy Scouts.

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In Linru Town, after dinner, the squad leader of the first platoon of the first team did not take a leisurely walk around the area as before, but sharpened his bayonet vigorously. The broad and strong figure sat there sharpening the knife, and the sound of the sharp and sharp blade rubbing against the stone made the two recruits in the class look nervous.

It was obvious that Linru Town was going to go to war, and they were really going to fight to the death.

The older man said to the people around him: "The soldiers may come tomorrow. I told you, when it's time to fight, be smart and don't ignore the formation." But it didn't mean that the younger people would be cunning. If they were found out on the battlefield without working hard, they would be stabbed, and at best they would be sent to a labor camp.

The younger man nodded in agreement: "I remember it, otherwise it would be a pity to be beaten by the military judge because of this."

But the young man thought more, "Brother, there are only more than 200 people in our brigade, but there are tens of thousands of soldiers outside. How can we withstand it? If the town is broken..." The young man lowered his voice very low. But even so, these few words made the older man look around nervously, fearing that someone would hear it.

"Get lost. If you want to die, don't drag me down with you. Do you want to die after saying this? You are shaking the morale of the army. It will be terrible if others hear us." The older man wanted to eat the guy in front of him in one bite. "Don't forget how we got here. More than a dozen men were stabbed because of our brother's betrayal. We will never be able to stand up straight in front of the government in this life. Your braids and mine have been cut off. If we are caught by the soldiers, we will all be stabbed. Don't even think about surviving. Don't be stupid--"