After consulting with several officers on Wednesday, he finally summed up a few lessons: "It seems that we can no longer defend the barricades, otherwise we will die in vain, and in that case, no amount of militia will be gathered."

And if there are a few more such battles, I am afraid that those militias will no longer be able to follow our orders and take to the streets. Judging from today's battle, instead of letting them hold their spears behind the barricades, it is better to let them stand in the houses on both sides of the street and then completely destroy the road.

In addition to the spears issued to the militia, we should also equip them with a large number of weapons, I think the three-eyed guns are good, although they are not as powerful and range as the arquebus, but the warehouses in the city are very well stocked, and the construction is simple, and the blacksmiths in the city can make them temporarily.

We can easily use it in a room by shortening the handle of the three-eyed guns, and two or three three-eyed guns can block a room. Close-range * hits, even if you can't kill people, can make people lose their combat effectiveness. ”

Su Ran also echoed and said: "That's true, training them on how to use firearms, about half a day is enough." And it was much easier to hide in a room or wall and set firearms than to hold a spear to stop the Tartar cavalry charge. * The sound of explosions and smoke can at least strengthen the courage of these civilians.

As for the complete destruction of the streets, I already had some ideas after watching the charge of those Tartar cavalry before. I think we can dig trenches crisscrossing the streets, up to a depth of half a meter, and then build about half a meter of earth barriers every 15 steps between the two barricades... This would limit the Tartar cavalry from charging through the streets.

As long as the Tartar cavalry is limited in speed, the * weapons on both sides will be used to the fullest. Then it was time to deal with the invasion of these Tartar armorers, and I felt that most of the doors facing the street should be sealed, leaving only a few entrances and exits, and then the passages between the houses should be opened, and the plan for the defenders to retreat should be arranged.

In this way, we would not have to fight against the strongest cavalry of the Tartars, but only against a small number of Tartar armor soldiers who were fighting for houses. However, the Tartar armor soldiers are skilled in martial arts, and fighting in a small room may not suffer much, and when the time comes, it may become a simple exchange of human lives. ”

Wednesday said disapprerovingly: "Even if it becomes a human life exchange, it is better than just being beaten and not fighting back now." We don't have so many veterans who are constantly dealing with the Tartars, and as long as we can get the militia to play a role, even if it's ten for one, it's a good deal.

It takes half a day for a civilian to learn to use a firearm. It will not take more than a day or two for them to learn to use firearms as they are ordered. And if the Tartars want to train an armored soldier, they will not succeed in three or five years, we have so many civilians to train, and the Tartars and us cannot afford to spend human lives.

Next, I was even more worried that the Tartars would change their tactics after suffering this loss. Therefore, in addition to readjusting the battle plan, we also have to closely monitor the movements of the Tartars..."

With the end of the battle on Ximen Avenue, Zhao Shujiao, who was standing on the tower of Ximen City to observe the battle, also put down his binoculars. When Wednesday Wei proposed this plan to defend the city, he still had some doubts in his heart.

And Wednesday's posture of completely ignoring the interests of the local gentry when implementing this plan has angered these local gentry and big families. It's just that Wednesday Wei is from the capital, and Zunhua City is the logistics and transfer base of the Great Wall defense line in Jizhou Town, and the power of the border town is stronger than that of other inland cities.

Especially at this moment of the post-Kim invasion, Wednesday Wei, who came down as a herald of the staff headquarters of the base camp, has already brought the order of wartime military control. In the past, the local gentry relied on the big households, and Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua, also temporarily lost the right to interfere in the planning of the war.

At this moment, in the name of the later Jin spies, he slaughtered more than 300 troublemakers who opposed the plan to defend the city, and raided more than a dozen households that refused to hand over food and supplies and secretly supported the big troublemakers.

In the eyes of some people, the Tartars may not necessarily ruin their families when they break through the city, but the city defense policy formulated by this Zhou staff officer from the capital first took away the food and materials in their hands, as well as the slaves driven by the family, which is really too much.

The gentry in Zunhua City were immediately elected together, and Jia Weijian, who was idle at home, and Ma Sigong, who was registered as the secretary, were the principals, and petitioned the governors Wang Yuanya and Zhao Shujiao, demanding that Wednesday's behavior of harming the gentry be stopped, and that the city defense policy of harming the people of Zunhua should be stopped.

Jia Weijian is the son of Jia Yingyuan, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, and is the former staff of the Ministry of War. When he was in office, he was very greedy, which was not a big crime, but he saw that Wei Zhongxian was powerful, so he took refuge in the eunuch party to suppress the Donglin party. After Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu were driven out of the capital, he quickly changed his court and wanted to join the Donglin Party.

However, he was too shameless in his previous work, and the Donglin Party people despised him very much, and the Donglin Party felt that they were looking forward to the recovery of their side, and everyone was thinking about how the official positions in the DPRK and China should be distributed after the Donglin Party returned to power. These party members, who have been suppressed by the eunuch party for so long, naturally want to get a beautiful job to soothe the frightened days in the past few years.

There are already a lot of Donglin party members, and when Wei Zhongxian is powerful, whoever the officials below want to suppress, they will generally directly buckle the hat of a party member. Therefore, when Wei Zhongxian lost power, it was already difficult to distinguish between the real Donglin Party and the officials who were suppressed by the Eunuch Party as Donglin Party members.

Although Jia Weijian is the son of the former military department Shangshu, Jia Weijian himself is not an outstanding talent, and his reputation in the military department is not good. Accepting him not only gave him a seat where he could arrange his own party, but also an opponent who competed with the party for vacancies in the imperial court.

Therefore, the Donglin Party did not hesitate to refuse Jia Weikey's refuge, but Jia Weikey wanted to take refuge in the Donglin Party, and the betrayal of the eunuch party colleagues was spread. The remnants of the eunuch party in the court naturally did not look down on this slippery man who saw the wind and steered the rudder, so they instructed the party members to participate in a few copies of him.

Jia Wei, who had too a flexible brain and wanted to change the door when he saw that the situation was not good, made himself a two-way street, and had to resign and return to his hometown to live.

He and Ma Sigong, the two of them who returned to Zunhua to visit relatives, can be regarded as the highest gentry leaders in Zunhua, and they are naturally the most opposed to Wednesday's overly radical strategy of defending the city. The local gentry were not responsible for defending the territory, so they were not willing to live and die with Zunhua City.

However, Zunhua magistrate He Tianqiu, Baoding magistrate Li Xianming, Zunhua magistrate Xu Ze and former magistrate Wu Qiqian supported Wednesday's implementation of the extraordinary law. They felt that holding Zunhua was the first priority now, and if Zunhua was lost, they and these local officials would either be martyred or surrender, and there was basically no third way to go.

None of them are Zunhua natives, and if they surrender to Houjin, their families and clansmen in their hometown will be implicated, so these officials don't want Zunhua City to be lost.

Now that Wednesday Wei has proposed a hopeful way to keep Zunhua, and he has taken the risk of offending the local gentry to the forefront, so that these local officials do things without suffering the resentment of these local gentry, these local officials will naturally not accuse Zhou Wei of not doing it at this time.

What's more, according to the order conveyed by the General Staff Headquarters of the base camp, the civil officials in Zunhua City have now lost the right to interfere with Wednesday's plan to defend the city, and they are even more reluctant to offend Wednesday. The only thing that could stop Wednesday from acting was the one authorized by the base camp, Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Jizhou Town, the supreme military and political head in Zunhua City.

As a military attaché, although Zhao Shujiao enjoyed the power of the previous aspect, the political reality of the Ming Dynasty's long-term use of civil and military affairs also made him a little trembling between his actions, and he did not dare to infringe too much on the governor's authority. However, when the Houjin army appeared outside Zunhua City, the governor Wang Yuanya began to sit in the governor's yamen and did not come out, and heard that he prayed to God and worshiped Buddha in his room all day long, and completely put on a posture of resignation.

Wang Yuanya's behavior made Zhao Shujiao basically unable to count on the governor to share the burden of defending the city with him. Although Wednesday's plan to defend the city offended the local gentry, it stabilized the confidence of the soldiers and civilians in Zunhua City to defend the city. At the very least, after the families of the soldiers defending the city were admitted to the city, the morale of the officers and soldiers defending the city was much higher than when they first heard that the Houjin army had broken through.

And the materials that Zhou Wei collected from the local gentry and merchants also made Zhao Shujiao have a large number of materials that can be used to reward the soldiers, so that he can use these materials to better motivate the morale of his subordinates and muster up the confidence of the soldiers to keep Zunhua.

Because of this, Zhao Shujiao finally adopted a perfunctory attitude towards the local gentry, and did not give orders to prevent Zhou Wei from carrying out his plan to defend the city.

However, Zhao Shujiao's pressure on the local gentry was not unmoved. He was also anxious to know whether the method he came up with for offending the local gentry on Wednesday would have any effect. Therefore, after hearing that Houjin sent troops to test the attack, he hurried to the West Gate Tower to watch the battle.

Now seeing the results of the battle on Ximen Avenue, Zhao Shujiao was a little relieved. As long as Wednesday Wei could use the militia formed by the young men of Zunhua to delay the pace of the Houjin army's direct attack on the Zunhua city wall, he could use this result to prevaricate the local gentry who had been complaining to him all day long.

On the other hand, he also had more time to rectify the defensive deployment in the city, so that the Ming army in the city had a time to adapt to the war, which was the best news for him at the moment. Zhao Shujiao greeted the generals around him and took them back to his yamen to continue to deploy the defense tasks in the city.

The Houjin army sent three tentative feints in the morning, but two roads suffered setbacks, and only the eastern one had been testing the firepower of the two Ming army fortresses, but it did not suffer much damage.

In the afternoon, Houjin was again replaced with a new attacking force, except for the feint attack force in the east, which did not change, and the Houjin offensive force appeared in the north, northwest, west, and southwest directions.

Each attacking team consisted mostly of two or three Niulu, and these troops did not continue their attack along the avenue leading to the city gates. Instead, the alleys and houses on the outskirts of Zunhua were separated and cleared, and in one afternoon, nearly 1,000 young people were driven out of these houses on the periphery, killing hundreds of resisting militiamen.

Standing on a tall building outside the west gate to observe the movements of the Houjin soldiers, Zhou Wei and the others watched these Houjin soldiers escort the young men of the brigade away, and their faces were a little unpleasant. Wednesday suppressed his anxious mood and pretended to be relaxed and said to his colleagues: "These Tartars are really cunning, and our arrangements are still a little careless.

Tonight, let the militia of each defense area also carry out internal connection and external closure of the outlying houses, and we must not let these Tartars eat all the young and strong people in each block one by one..."