"Including today, we have to hold on for three days! Within three days, the lord will definitely send troops here!" Qian Qi said with great certainty. This not only wanted to give confidence to his soldiers, but also to give him confidence.

But someone still expressed doubts about Qian Qi's words, and a soldier asked, "Deputy Commander, will you really come?"

Qian Qi nodded again with affirmation and said, "It is definitely true! Have you heard of our adults abandoning their brothers?"

After receiving Qian Qi's affirmation, the soldiers around him seemed to have arrived, and they all relaxed their minds and started to talk and laugh.

It is now the evening of the 14th day of the twelfth lunar month. All day today, the camp continued to attack the three walls of Ningling County. Although the camp finally repelled the repeated attacks of the camp, the losses in the city were also heavy.

The soldiers of the Runing Army had decreased to 450, and the young and strong in the city had also decreased to more than 700. Although Ding Zhubo had mobilized all the males in the city, more than 1,400 males had been added to help defend the city.

However, among these men, there were old men with gray hair and young men who had just changed their baby teeth, which was really useless. Qian Qi could only arrange them behind the second city wall, train them like a gun in the face of battle, and treat them as the final reserve team.

The weapons defending the city were also very depleted. Frequent launches caused more than 30 muskets to be scrapped. When Yu Zilian took away the militia, he also took away all the weapons defending the city in the city, leaving only two swarms and five ten thousand enemies.

Today, five 10,000 enemies were used up in critical moments, and two horns were sent by Qian Qi to the second city wall. Therefore, in the next city guard, the Runing Army will no longer have such a powerful weapon to defend the city.

"Sir! I heard that you were the first to tell me about you. Can you tell me about you?" Yang Wu, the deputy company commander next to him, asked Qian Qi.

"Huh?" Qian Qi was a little confused by the two "adults". So she asked in confusion, "You are asking the old commander!"

Seeing Yang Wu nodding, Qian Qi smiled and said, "I was one of the 200 people who followed the old commander out of the capital. In fact, when I was in Beijing, I was a soldier under the old commander. However, the old commander was the commander of the Nancheng Military and Ma Si. Maybe he didn't recognize me as a soldier at that time."

"How could Lord Dusi leave Beijing at that time?" Just as the rural people nowadays yearn for living in big cities, the people of the Ming Dynasty were also quite yearning for living in Beijing, so Yang Wu could not understand Wu Shigong and Qian Qi's behavior of leaving Beijing to Henan to be military officers.

"I don't know what the old commander is doing! But at that time, only Vice Commander Zhou and I came here with the old commander." Of course, Qian Qi could not tell Yang Wu the real reason why Wu Shigong left the capital. "I was after my father passed away. Thanks to the care of the old commander, I arranged my elder brother and I to the Nancheng Military Commander. But when the old commander left the capital, I was driven out by my family and I couldn't stay in the capital! So I could only follow the old commander!" Faced with a desperate situation, Qian Qi's heart was completely open and she spoke out the hidden pain in her heart.

"Why?" Yang Wu asked strangely.

"I was born to my father's concubine! I was not my mother's biological child."

"That adult's mother is really..., really...!"

"Stop talking about this. I won't talk about my parents' life!" Qian Qi smiled bitterly. "The old commander has always said: The bigger the pattern of a person, the bigger the career he can do! So now we have to do big things now. What's the point of being strong? Have you never studied in cultural classes?"

"Of course I learned it!" Yang Wu also laughed. "But learning to write is much more troublesome than training swords and guns! Besides, the young man also knows that Master Dusi's words are indeed right, but when it happens, as long as anyone is not good to the young man, the young man will still take revenge on whom! This pattern is much smaller than Master Dusi and you, so no wonder you can be a small man."

Yang Wu's words made Qian Qi laugh. He laughed for a while and said, "Actually everyone likes to avenge revenge. I am the same, so there is nothing to be embarrassed about. But for our Runing Army, we have to give up something. By the way, you are the group of people from Northern Zhili who joined the Runing Army. Among those soldiers, you should be the fastest promoted!"

"Sir, don't talk about this topic. When it comes to this topic, all the little one's faces will be thrown to grandma's house." Yang Wu said aggrievedly, "The young one joins the Runing Army with the young one, two relatives. One is the youngest seventh brother. Now he is the company commander in the Runing Army. The other is the youngest brother-in-law of the young one, and now he is the militia leader in the militia. Oh! It is the militia in the Evil Tiger Village! It is the youngest official."

"Oh?" Qian Qi was a little surprised, "All the leader of Evil Tiger Village is your relatives? Then why didn't you introduce me to me when you came to Evil Tiger Village with me last time?"

"Sir, the young man blushed when he said that. The young man was uncomfortable when he saw the entire regiment commander. When he first arrived in Runing, the young man wanted to get married, so he borrowed some money from the entire regiment commander's house. But unexpectedly, the entire regiment commander gave the betrothal gift for his marriage to the young man, and now the entire regiment commander is a bachelor. Alas——!"

When Qian Qi heard some interesting things between his subordinates, he laughed out loud, and then he persuaded: "The whole leader is very good, and he won't take these old and dirty things to heart! I think you are too careful!"

"Of course, the entire regiment commander is nothing. But the young man feels guilty when he sees him!" Yang Wu also accompanied Qian Qi and said with a smile, "Actually, the entire regiment commander is okay. The young man is most afraid of seeing the entire aunt!"

The two of them laughed even louder. After a while, Yang Wu asked again: "I wonder if our Runing army can repel these hundreds of thousands of Shaanxi bandits this time."

"That's certain!" Qian Qi replied without hesitation, "If you want to say who I, Qian Qi, admire the most in my life, it must be our adults. When the old commander first arrived at this Qianhou, he wanted no one, no money, no horses, no weapons, but in just seven or eight years, he broke out the overall situation of our Runing Army. Also, you have never had much contact with the old commander. The old commander is really good to us! People are really willing to work hard for him. In the future, when you have the opportunity to join the old commander's personal army, follow the old commander more and learn more from him, and you will know how wise and powerful the old commander is!"

Yang Wu's eyes showed a look of yearning, but then his eyes became darker and he said with a little discouragement: "I don't know if this Ningling County can be kept. I don't know if I have the chance to study with Lord Dusi."

"The loss is a bit big, and the five company commanders have killed and injured two people." Qian Qi has no need to hide his own people. "If this continues, the soldiers guarding the outer city wall may not be enough. But it's nothing. We just need to hold on to one night to stay and then immediately retreat to the second city wall. The distance between the city walls there is much shorter, and the people guarding the city are basically enough.

However, although the third city wall has been built in the county government office, the city wall was built according to the wall of the big house, and its strength cannot be compared with the city wall at all, so it cannot play any role. Therefore, the second city wall is also our last line of defense.

Besides, the space behind the third city wall is too small, and it cannot accommodate so many people in the city. Who will give up then? So you must keep it here in the second city wall tomorrow and the next two days."

"Then the family of Yu County Magistrate Yu still occupies such a big place in the county government! Can they drive them all out!" When talking about Yu Zilian who took the militia away, Yang Wu was very angry.

"I know you are angry about your company commander being seriously injured. But didn't I tell you just now? There must be a pattern! A pattern!" Qian Qi cursed with a smile, and then Qian Qi explained again, "Besides, Yu County Magistrate also went to fight with Shaanxi bandits with the militia. If he wanted to lead his troops to escape? Humph!"

After a while of silence, Yang Wu finally asked the most worried thing in his heart: "Sir, do you think the main force will really arrive within three days?"

Qian Qi heard this question a little tricky, and from the bottom of his heart he was unwilling to deceive his brothers who fought side by side with him. So after thinking for a while, Qian Qi Zhanyan smiled and said, "What does it matter whether or not they come or not? Our family and children are all by the old commander. With the care of the old commander, their wealth and glory in the future will be destined. What are we going to worry about?"

After hearing Qian Qi's answer, the soldiers around him burst into laughter. There was always endless tragic sounds in the laughter.

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To the expectation of the Ru Ning army guarding Ningling County, the camp attacked at night on the 14th day and night. After three consecutive attacks of the camp, the defenders who were short of soldiers were finally attacked by the camp on the fourth time.

Fortunately, because the four gates of Ningling County were blocked by sand and stone at this time, the camp could not flow in large quantities from the city gate. Therefore, after some soldiers from the Runing Army were blocked from behind, most of the soldiers guarding the city and Qingzhuang retreated to the second city wall under the leadership of Qian Qi.

However, due to the hasty retreat, a cannon from the outer city wall had no time to be destroyed and fell into the hands of the camp. However, the intercepted soldiers also lit the arson points that had been set up between the two walls, forming a fire wall to prevent the camp from attacking with the flow. This also caused basically the houses between the two walls to be burned.

The more than 200 soldiers of the Runing army who were intercepted were all killed. Among them was Yang Wu, the deputy company commander of the Guide Army. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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