The village wall was built more than three feet high and stopped. The laborers who built the wall were arranged to dig trenches outside the wall. They originally planned to dig trenches four feet deep, so that people could bend down and run in the trenches. Unexpectedly, just after digging less than three feet, water began to come out from below. They had no choice but to build soil outside the trenches to increase the defense height.

With iron tools such as shovels, sheep picks and other iron tools, the excavation progress of the trench is quite good. The laborers in the village can mobilize together and basically dig once a day.

After digging five times, Chen Xun stopped him.

Then, large horses were made of wood, but these horses were not placed on land. There was no code in the south, and there was only one horse army in Guangzhou, so it was not afraid of it. Chen Xun asked someone to tie the horses to stones and throw them into the river around Chenjiazhuang.

Any river that throws large horse-rejected horses can only pass through small sampans, and cannot pass through large boats, otherwise it will be stranded immediately, and even the bottom of the boat will be broken by the horse-rejected horse.

On February 10, support from Chaozhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, closest to Guangzhou, arrived one after another. These branches drew most of their guard forces back. In order to support Chenjiazhuang, they temporarily reduced the scale of trade.

Basically, each branch sent back about fifty people and brought two armed merchant ships, which made the scale of Chenjiazhuang's troops reach 400.

In the following days, support from Wenzhou and Penghu also arrived in Chenjiazhuang.

There were not many people coming from Wenzhou, and there were fifty people. Penghu was amazing. Ke Lei not only brought back ten medium-sized warships and ten small warships, but also brought back three hundred land combat power.

"All of them are veterans, and their discipline is definitely not as good as personal guards, but their courage is absolutely not bad." Ke Lei introduced the land soldiers he brought back.

"You brought so many people back, can Penghu be stable?" Chen Xun asked worriedly. Penghu is one of Chenjiazhuang's retreats, and it is not allowed to be lost.

"The unstable factors are all here." Ke Lei said with a thief smile.

Chen Xun understood that all the pirates who were extremely vicious and guilty must have been executed. The remaining pirates who were guilty and dared to fight and fought were brought here by Ke Lei. Those who stayed in Penghu were "honest people". Including the Chenjiazhuang villagers who had been in this period of time, the long-term workers purchased from the mainland, the proportion of pirates on the island decreased, so it became stable.

"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to conduct discipline training for them. You did a good job this time." Chen Xun praised.

On February 15th, Guangzhou finally started to move.

As Chen Xun expected, the combat power information Le Zhi explained before his death was exaggerated.

This time the battle against Chenjiazhuang, the Guangdong imperial guards did not dispatch it.

The imperial guards were directly under Song Ting and were rotated regularly. The generals and soldiers were not native to Guangzhou, so the officials did not dare to blatantly command these people to seek personal gain for Guangzhou officials, and at most they turned a blind eye to the Guangzhou government's mobilization of the Xiang army.

This immediately relieved half of the pressure on Chenjiazhuang.

However, with the imperial guards guarding Guangzhou City, the Xiang army could be dispatched in full force. According to the movements of the surrounding counties, each county also dispatched 200 people to meet with Panyu (Guangzhou Fuguo County).

Each county has a water connection with Panyu, and the troops gathered very quickly. With the planning for the first half of the month, the mobilization of several counties and Guangzhou was basically carried out at the same time. On the 18th, all the troops gathered in Panyu.

On this day, Chen Xun convened all the housekeepers and water and land officers in Chenjiazhuang for a meeting.

"The total number of infantrymen and sailors in the enemy this time was 3,600, including 800 soldiers in the wings, 1,400 county soldiers, 1,200 baggage soldiers, and 100 warships of all sizes and sizes of the inspection department."

These numbers are roughly the numbers that spies search, and if there is a gap, it means that the upper and lower parts are 10% or 00% wrong.

"According to the size of the ship, the enemy will definitely choose to go to the water route first, and then let the infantry go ashore when approaching Chenjiazhuang and attack it from land and land."

Because the spies did not detect a large number of mules and horses, Chen Xun judged that the enemy would go through water and land, and the supply would also go through water and land.

"As of now, our Chenjiazhuang has 800 land warriors and 30 water warships, and the enemy's troops are more than three times that of ours."

"What suggestions do you have for this battle? Let's say boldly." Chen Xun wanted to brainstorm. If someone came up with a good idea, it would be profitable.

However, seeing that everyone was silent, I guess they were scared by Chen Xun's behavior a few days ago, especially the second uncle Chen Lu, who kept his head down and no one looked at him.

A few days ago, there was something going on in Guangzhou, so Chen Xun called everyone to a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

At the meeting, my father Chen Yi was directly angry: "The right time and place are harmonious, but the right time is not talked about, and the harmony of people is not on our side. Our Chenjiazhuang is a bandit in the government office. There is no place, and there is no danger in Chenjiazhuang. There is no danger in defending the north and east. There are flat grounds on the west and south, and the coasts on the west and south. Officers and soldiers can attack from any direction. This battle cannot be fought!"

Chen Xun was so angry at that time.

Unexpectedly, the war was right in front of him, and his father Chen Yi didn't even have his thoughts with everyone.

After Chen Yi finished speaking, several elders in the clan agreed. The meeting to discuss combat countermeasures almost started to be a meeting to denounce Chen Xun, and Chen Xun had to announce his dissolution.

After the meeting, all the elders and father Chen Yi were placed under house arrest in the East Courtyard.

In the end, Chen Yi was left with a responsibility and helped Chen Xun organize Zhuangmin to do logistics work, otherwise Chen Xun would have to draw people from the eight hundred warriors to ensure logistics.

"Everyone says boldly that I promise not to be guilty of speech." He had a bad start before, but now he can only choose to comfort him.

"We have muskets, bed crossbows, catapults, and grenades. Just fight head-on with officers and soldiers. They will definitely not be able to defeat us." Lu Hui said.

"I can't beat it, but I don't know how many people we can leave in the end, so reckless." Ke Lei retorted.

The people who returned from supporting the branch of other states are now under Lu Hui's jurisdiction. Even the 300 pirates and land warriors were given to Lu Hui. The number of subordinates increased dramatically, which made Lu Hui's confidence burst.

"We are discussing countermeasures. If we fight head-on, we still need to discuss it?" Chen Xun suppressed Lu Hui's arrogance.

Everyone present in Chenjiazhuang has not commanded a battle of thousands of people, and they are all raw. Moreover, with the background of Chenjiazhuang, there is no way to ask for advice, so they can only sit together and work together.

"I think we should first choose a main attack direction, on the water or on the road, so as to concentrate our troops to win a battle first." The person who spoke was a squadron leader of a personal guard named Sun Zheng, an orphan that Chen Xun had been trained since childhood. He had a very smart mind. At least in terms of memory, Chen Xun believed that he was far inferior to him.

The smallest organization of the personal guard team is a small team, with a total of ten people, a captain and a deputy captain of two lower-level officers, a five squadron unit, a squadron leader, two deputy squadron leaders (one civil and one military), and two squadrons are one capital.
Chapter completed!