"Who are you, why don't you let me sleep at night?"

Wu Cheng is newly married, it’s time for you and me to hurry up and create a new person.

He works hard every day. But today when he was plowing, he was suddenly violently interrupted. How could he not be angry?

"Wu Cheng, it's me. Something happened. Get up and call the militia." Liu Qi's voice with a northern Anhui accent sounded.

Liu Qi and Wu Cheng are very familiar with each other, but their relationship is not a good one, because Liu Qi is the squadron leader of the garrison, which is a standing army, one level higher than the militia.

Wu Cheng was very dissatisfied with him because Liu Qi was not from the Guards.

Until now, Liu Qi didn't know that they actually belonged to the Guards. He only knew that he was from the Red Flag Army.

Wu Cheng also led his militia squadron to compete with Liu Qi's garrison.

Of course, they can't beat the garrison. After all, they are a standing army. They have to train every day and eat military rations.

As for the militia, they only arrange training every now and then during the off-season.

"Captain Liu, what's going on?" Wu Cheng suddenly jumped out of bed. His little wife was still naked at this moment and could only hide under the quilt with a blushing face.

Wu Cheng, wearing a trousers and a single coat, opened the door.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Liu Qi with a embarrassed look on his face.

This was completely different from the Liu Qike he had in mind.

"The Tonghe Fort was lost. The people who came claimed to be the government army. There were hundreds of them. They pretended to be a wedding party and entered the fort. Chen Qisheng, the birdman, defected to the government army. This is all my fault..." Liu Qi quickly said

He told Wu Cheng about the situation.

"Wait for me..." Wu Cheng turned back to the room. He had no time to ridicule Liu Qi at this time.

Tonghe Fort is directly connected to the river and is the most important external communication channel on the island besides the South Gate Pier. Otherwise, there would not be a squadron of garrison stationed there.

Liu Qi actually didn't know how many enemies there were in Tonghe Fort now.

Those who picked up the bride should only be part of the official army. Liu Qi felt that there must be someone waiting on the river.

Only after Tonghe Fort is captured here will the officers and soldiers come to land.

Although there are Red Flag Army patrol boats on the river, there will definitely be blind spots in such a wide river.

The Chen family's fleet can come and go freely, so Chen Qisheng may have already mastered the patrol rules of the patrol boats and revealed them to these officers and soldiers.

In fact, the people from Fengrui Battalion took advantage of the Red Flag Army patrol boat and transported their troops to Tonghe Fort.

At this time, in Tonghe Fort, Ye Guiru, the forward general of Fengrui Battalion, was counting his troops.

"Hurry up, everyone, bring ten days' rations for each person, hurry up, hurry up..." Ye Guiru urged loudly.

This military operation was very risky.

By the time the Red Flag Army's navy reacted, their retreat would be cut off.

Their only chance is to reoccupy Chongming, and then hold on to the city to delay time and allow these Red Flag troops to retreat on their own initiative.

"General, the soldiers and horses have been assembled, what should we do with the prisoners?" one of his subordinates asked.

"What should we do? Of course we should kill them all. They are all traitors. In addition, one person from each household will be appointed as a husband, and let Chen Qisheng lead him to carry supplies for the army." Ye Guiru's eyes flashed with coldness.

These prisoners were mainly from the garrison. They were eating wine in the fort and were captured by the Sharp Battalion without any precautions.

This can't be blamed on them. No one expected that the Chen family's wedding team was actually officers and soldiers pretending to be soldiers.

In Chen Yuru's boudoir, the girl's family also heard the noise outside.

Yuru has a bad heart. She has worked in the General Administration for a period of time. She is not the kind of silly, sweet girl who is ignorant of the world.

"Baojuan, why don't you go see what's going on?" Yuru is a very disciplined girl. Even if she heard the gunshots outside, she still did not lift her hijab without permission.

Just as Baojuan was about to go out, she was stopped by the servant at the door.

"The master has ordered that the young lady stay in the room with peace of mind."

Chen Yuru heard the servant's words and knew that the situation was not good.

Then he took off the red hijab on his head, took off his phoenix crown, took off his Xiapei, and put on the black dress from the wardrobe.

"Baojuan, please put on my wedding clothes and help me deal with it. I want to go out and take a look." Chen Yuru said softly.

She carefully opened the side window of the boudoir and climbed out on a stool.

Her movements were flexible and gentle, and the red embroidered shoes on her feet made no sound when she stepped on the ground.

"Hurry up, each family will send a strong man to carry food and grass for the army. Anyone who comes late will be treated as a bandit and beheaded." A servant of the Chen family shouted in the fort while playing a gong.

When the officers and soldiers entered the city, everything returned to the way it was before, and these people would continue to be vassals of the Chen family.

Although they were unwilling to do so, they still chose to endure it silently.

The common people feel the benefits of taking charge, but they have not yet developed the courage to resist.

Chen Yuru reached out from the small door of Chen's backyard and happened to hear the shouts of these servants.

She is a very smart girl and immediately thought of her sudden marriage.

This was deliberately arranged by my eldest brother.

It turns out that the eldest brother has long been colluding with the government and the army, and he wants to lead the Chen family to extinction.

No, she had to do something. Chen Yuru thought of her father's instructions during his lifetime.

At a critical moment, who can I trust and rely on in the Chen family?

…

In Baoxi Village, the oil lamps of every household were lit.

Production captain Lu Lin held up a torch and asked everyone to gather and move.

Wu Cheng led the militiamen and young men in the village to set up a defense line based on intersections and the earthen walls of the village.

"Captain Liu, there is no way we can defeat the Qing army, but I can promise to hold them off for half an hour. Within half an hour, these 100 militiamen and I will never leave the village."

Liu Qi didn't think there was anything wrong with Wu Cheng's words at all. It was really unrealistic to rely on a production team's militia to fight against the well-prepared government troops.

"Okay, just half an hour. This time is enough for the old and weak in the village to retreat into the county before the Qing army catches up. I will continue to organize the blockade at the next production brigade. When the time comes, you will retreat to the Youqiao brigade. I will let people

I'll take care of you."

Liu Qi knew that now was not the time to be pretentious. Wu Cheng led the militiamen to guard the village and could easily be made dumplings by the army.

The Qing army is not stupid, they will definitely outflank the village from both sides.

Wu Cheng said it lightly. He probably knew that it would be difficult for his group of more than 100 people to evacuate.

Liu Qi looked at Wu Cheng with eyes full of admiration.

The Chinese have always attached great importance to cultivating the mobilization ability of the grassroots.

The first thing those newly established production teams need to train is emergency gathering.

Especially in war zones, emergency gathering is a skill that every villager must master.

At this time, the people in the village had gathered at the entrance of the village. They were holding their livestock, with only a small amount of grain left hanging on the animals' backs.

The woman had a baby that couldn't walk in her arms, and she carried a cotton parcel on her back, which contained the family's clothes and maybe some saved money.

Half-grown children were holding a straw rope in their hands, with the other end tied around the neck of a piglet. Some children were holding bamboo baskets with ducks inside quacking.

"Let's go..." Lu Lin, the production team leader, lit the torch, and when he saw that all the households had arrived, he immediately gave the order to set off.

The militiamen were still busy at the entrance of the village. Some people looked back to the west of the village. The crowds of people holding torches looked like migrating fireflies in the dark from a distance.

"The wall of Liu Erdan's courtyard is thick, and a wooden frame is set up inside. A small team went over. When the enemy came close to 50 meters, they raised their guns and fired. After three rounds of shooting, they moved to Wu Sanjia in the west and killed Liu Erdan and Wu Sanjia.

A door was smashed out between the courtyard walls."

"And you guys, hurry up and pile the hay in the ditch, and pour all the collected vegetable oil on top."

Wu Cheng tried his best to make sufficient preparations. Their military strength was incomparable to that of the Qing army, but they were fighting defensive battles at home, so they could wait for work.

It was a moonless night, and the night sky in the distance was like an endless black hole.

At this time, a few light spots appeared in the endless night, and then there were more and more light spots.

Not all light represents hope. At this time, Wu Cheng looked at more and more light spots in the east, and felt a sense of despair in his heart.

The knowledge he learned in the escort army made it easy for him to judge the strength of the opponent's troops from the number of these light spots.

Two thousand people, the other party has at least two thousand people, twenty times as many as himself.

Wu Cheng's calves were shaking a little.

"Brothers, for the sake of our families, we have to drag these officers and soldiers in the village for half an hour. Are you afraid?" Wu Cheng shouted, seeming to be encouraging his militiamen, but in fact he was encouraging himself.

Cheer up.

"Don't be afraid, Captain Wu. Didn't you say that the timid will die the fastest?"

"I want to be the bold one and live to the end..."

"There is not a single good person in the army. They commit plunder and plunder, and do all kinds of evil. For the sake of my mother-in-law and my son getting out alive, it's worth dying for me..."

Everyone's chattering replies made a tragic atmosphere permeate the militia.

This is just an ordinary militia squadron on Chongming Island. They participated in training for less than half a year.

Many people got their own muskets in less than a month.

The brand new musket still smelled of whale oil.

When you are scared, hold on to the gun in your hand. The gun is the courage of soldiers.

Every soldier of the Guard, whether a regular soldier or a militia, must shout this sentence loudly when they get their first gun.

At this time, the hundred or so people in the village were like a group of lonely warriors guarding their homeland.
Chapter completed!