Li Yuxi, a tobacco merchant, received a very grand welcome from Puli County.

First of all, two ships ran aground on the reef in the last mile before entering the port, causing a ship accident, and 14 ships carrying supplies collided in a string in the bay due to the proximity to the harbor.

Many of the sailors who disembarked safely were choked by the indissible smell of gunpowder and sulphur in Puli City.

The atmosphere immediately became heavy, Li Yuxi frowned and looked around at the familiar faces that greeted him, sniffling and asked, "The battle is fierce?" ”

To be honest, the contrast brought to him by this city is very serious, obviously there is an atmosphere of the end of street fighting on the streets, but the soldiers defending the city do not seem to have experienced any tragic battles, especially the Daming sailors who can be distinguished by looking at their looks and physique, and their faces are ruddy, not at all like the appearance of a long-term siege.

The guards looked at each other, and Joseph stepped forward to clasp his fists and said with a smile: "Father-in-law, Captain Li defended the city properly, and the enemy army has never been able to break through the city; Captain Allen patrols the city very well, and Tuyi can't rebel; The Tailong Wei of the Alan country should command the envoy to lead the army of 500 to come to the aid, and now the commander leads the troops to contain the enemy in the western suburbs, and another 100 households lead the army out of the eastern suburbs, and these days there are also grain and grass from the Ailan country. ”

"The smell of gunpowder smoke in the city is the artillery battle set off by Cao Zhixian to clear the plague before, and there are too many of them, and they will not be dispersed for a while and a half - now that you are here, the hearts of the children are settled."

Li Yuxi, the earliest tobacco seller, personally ran this route, until the route was clear, and then he sent the company's escort captain to lead the fleet alone, and most of the captains who escorted the cargo were his righteous sons, and everyone felt that they were treated by relatives.

Josepha only said a few words, telling Li Yuxi a very important information, the current military power of this city is in the hands of Li Changlai, the Tuyi head Alan Muming is in harmony with the Tu people, and there are also Beiyang troops from Ailan Kingdom outside the city.

It is in response to the sentence that the temple demon is windy, and the water is shallow.

Li Changlai knew that this person was the best at biting meat from other people's hands, and he was very thick-skinned.

He opened gold mines in Luzon, and Li Changlai used his own military ships to transport them; He grew tobacco in Muye, and Li Changlai used his own military ships to sell it; But he always looks like he is independent and disliked...... These are all jobs that can make money, everyone rushes to do them, why should they give it to you, but they don't know how to be grateful if they give it to you, who can treat him.

After coming and going, Li Yuxi was reluctant to do business with him.

Li Yuxi is unwilling to let Li Changlai take charge of Puli's military power in his heart, this kind of person can't gain power, he will always feel that what makes him gain power is his own talent, not the help of others, and he will not open the door to others at that time.

The tobacco merchant is not here to seize power, he has a way to deal with everyone.

He smiled and arched his hand to everyone, and said: "Li heard that the plague in Puli County won the hearts of the people in Muye, and was pushed by the people to hold an independent matter to ask for help in Asia. ”

Saying that, Li Yuxi looked back and stretched out his right arm to show the ship that was unloading on the dock, and said: "Now the baggage is being unloaded, thanks to your death-defending, this can last until Li comes to help, now that the reinforcements have arrived, you can sit back and relax, whether it is city defense or out of the city field battle, you don't have to worry." ”

Li Yuxi's arrival did bring a lot of crisis to Li Changlai, especially the wrestlers who unloaded goods at the port.

They wore the most common and simple earth-colored Jinghai clothes in Asia, without a hairband, their hair was very short, they could only tie a small bun on their heads, their foreheads were surrounded by a circle of black cloth, and they wore ancient ring-headed knives, hanging crossbows, oblique shuttle darts, large shields, javelins, spears and hooked sickles.

There were also people who carried huge crossbows on their shoulders, and each person, with or without a crossbow, had a wooden barrel around his waist to cut out the medicine arrow.

They look like Miao people, but everyone knows that they are not Miao people, and Miao men wear at most a pair of earrings, and these people not only wear earrings, but also have tattoos on their faces and bones in the middle of their noses...... These people are Makino Baojia compiled by Yang Zhaolong of Makino Zhixian County.

Li Chang could see clearly that these people were hired by Li Yuxi, and letting them take over the city defense was tantamount to giving up Puli County to Li Yuxi.

He arched his hand and said: "Brother Li led the troops to come to the rescue, I am grateful to the chief of Puli, now you are tired of traveling and driving, first invite the soldiers to enter the camp to rest, I have ordered the camp to prepare wine and food to catch the wind and wash the dust, let's go to the yamen first, so as to inform the enemy army outside the city one by one." ”

Li Yuxi smiled here, and a person flashed out behind him, wearing the old Beiyang cuirass, and hugged his fists and said: "You don't have to worry about my soldiers, in the Lower Jinjiang Fleet, Admiral Du Kelu, my deputy Admiral is in Asia to specialize in the attack and defense of the city, and from now on take over the defense." ”

Don't look at Du Keyu's words are very hard, in fact, he sounds good as the admiral of the Jinjiang fleet, and the actual military position is the general flag of the Oriental Military Government, under the military system of the Oriental Military Government, the company's Liujia Fleet and the deputy thousand households of the local thousand households are at the same level, and the admiral of the Thousand Fleets is half a level lower than the hundred households, which is set up to facilitate the command system of the escort fleet and the regular army to face the war together.

In other words, Ying Ming, a hundred households of the Oriental Military Government, could command this fleet on the spot when he entered the city.

This is the case at sea, regardless of whether the merchants or the immigrants are all ordinary people; Even if it's a militia, you have to listen to the regular army.

As soon as these words came out, Li Changlai really lost his temper, and he couldn't clearly say that he wanted to be a toast here.

The commander over there had already assigned the tasks of the troops, and the people who should go to the city and the people who should be stationed in the city were stationed in the city, and then there were soldiers who went to the leaders of the merchants and soldiers who defended the city to inquire about the situation, and all their deployments were replaced in a short time.

Even when Cao Changqing, Li Yuxi, Li Changlai, Josepha and others entered the yamen, before the banquet began, the Iroquois soldiers of Makino Baojia had already made seven trips.

One by one, the orders were immediately executed with the issuance of the notice to the Yamen.

First of all, it was stipulated that the entire city was under the management of the sergeants of the Oriental Army, and the houses at the entrances of each street were requisitioned by Makino Baojia, and twenty-five people were stationed in each street.

Those who let people out of the street were beheaded together with their armor.

Immediately afterwards, the guards at the city gate were not replaced, they were all Alan Muming's men, but the armament was unloaded, and it was arranged to defend the city lightly, and two Makino armor were set up behind him, saying that it was to prevent the city gate from being taken away by the inside and outside, in case there was a change.

The city was divided into ten neighborhoods, and on the one hand, the guards of each street gathered the people, so that they could express their grievances and resolve their enmity against each other; On the other hand, each dug a large pit, buckled it with an urn, and set up a ground listening to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels.

At the same time, it was stipulated that no one in the city was allowed to raise poles, spears, or percussion instruments on the rooftops, and all the people who knew astronomy were sent to the yamen to be raised, and they were not allowed to move around.

The guards and guards of the streets and alleys have another mission, which is to extinguish fires, even if the neighbors' houses are on fire, the people are not allowed to run around, and the wealthy households in the city are even more restrained and strictly guarded.

They also dug a well every 100 steps in the city, and dug a culvert in the direction of the harbor to catch up with floating objects such as fish maws and put them in the well to observe the water level.

All the orders were issued in a very short period of time, so that Li Changlai and the others in the yamen were not in the mood to eat at all.

Defend the city, defend the city, where are so many moths?