Second, Li Jing began to arrange the arrangements. However, in order to avoid alarming the pirates, the incident of the attack of the pirates was temporarily limited to the top level of the team. The ordinary soldiers below did not receive any reports of the war. The town general's mansion issued a notice saying that all the soldiers, servants, auxiliary soldiers, logistics soldiers, and young men would be mobilized to conduct a joint exercise of soldiers and civilians. The construction site of the city was also on a special holiday, and several workshops were temporarily stopped.

For this battle, Li Jing and Lin Wei and other officers were very nervous about this battle. They conducted defense deductions and discussions over and over again. However, Li Jing and others did not speak out at all. In this battle, Li Jing did not intend to let the ordinary people know about it. To them, it would not help except to simply increase the panic on the island.

The plan for this battle has basically been decided, ambush battle. Li Jing will be the commander-in-chief in Xicheng and command the ambush battlefield. Lin Wei will lead three servant teams into the Shikou Wharf to ambush, preparing to attack the pirates' ships directly, snatch the ships, and cut off the pirates' retreat.

Lin Wu will lead the eleven teams of cavalry that have just been formed to ambush outside the city, responsible for mobile cover, ready to attack or pursue pirates at any time, and be responsible for the contact between the dock and the battlefield in Xicheng.

In order to ensure that this time, Li Jing specially pulled the team of Qiu Shengong to enter the horse, and asked them to prepare a few small boats to go out to sea in the dock area, patrol in Tangwan, and pay attention to the arrival of the pirate fleet at any time. In addition, Li Jing of Ninghai did not let go, and transferred Ninghai to the coast not far from Shikou pier. Once this side started, Ninghai would also drive from behind to the dock, block the pirate's retreat, and attack the pirate ship from the sea.

The main force of this battle was the warriors and Li Jing's servants. In addition, the logistics 700 spear troop and 400 auxiliary soldiers had to participate in the ambush of Ximen. Zhang Hong, Du Zhongwu, Cui Zhiyuan, and Sun Deyan were sent by Li Jing to appease the people of the organization. Although they were hiding these people for the time being, when the war started, everything could not be hidden, and they would have to be brought in to appease the people's families.

After hearing this decision, Zhang Hong had no objection. Anyway, he was positioned as a military advisor, and he would not do anything like doing something like a sword when he went to the battlefield. However, Cui Zhiyuan and Du Zhongwu were a little disappointed. Compared to this behind-the-scenes work, they were actually more eager to fight the sword on the battlefield. They killed the enemy with their own hands, killed the generals and seized the flag, and fought for a military lord, and always gave in. Even Sun Deyan was full of expectations and seemed to be a little excited. After hearing Li Jing's arrangement, he was obviously a little depressed.

The combat deployment has been arranged. Considering that the battle will take place in the middle of the night, Li Jing specially asked the logistics team to prepare a batch of thousand grains immediately. Each soldier distributed two steamed buns, a piece of pork, four boiled eggs, and a pot of boiled water in advance.

Considering that this is a battle of thousands of people, there will definitely be great casualties. Li Jing immediately summoned all the doctors and sent them to Yao Street to invite all the doctors. He also gave in to various pharmacies in advance to purchase a large number of drugs for preparation according to the needs of stopping the wound and stopping the bleeding and disinfection.

The newly convened doctor and the invited doctors were temporarily organized into a medical team, and a stretcher team was transferred for more than a hundred years, and more than a hundred women were dispatched to organize a nursing team. In the city, Li Jing had already set up a military camp for a temporary hospital. Dozens of large pots were boiling water and rolled up white gauze in it to cook.

The medical conditions in this era are extremely poor. Li Jing knew that in a battle, there were not many people who died directly on the battlefield. They survived on the battlefield, but in the end they died due to injuries and infections, they often died twice as many people who died directly on the battlefield. Moreover, even if many people survived, they would become disabled because of inadequate treatment.

This is an ambush battle at home, and Li Jing has the conditions to reduce this loss. He now has access, doctors, and medicine, so he cannot tolerate non-combat casualties.

Li Jing gathered the doctors and nurses of the medical team that he had temporarily summoned and started an emergency lecture. He explained to them the battlefield first aid techniques, such as wound disinfection, bleeding, fixing fractures, etc. Although time was tight, Li Jing still explained a lot of simple first aid knowledge. He knew that in one sentence, he might be able to save a life after the battle. While speaking, he was thinking that after this incident, he must add a battlefield first aid subject to all soldier training subjects and rush to prepare some battlefield first aid kits to equip them.

In the afternoon, Li Jing ordered that the four camps outside the city should be transferred to the city from the entry of the military police. To the outside world, it was only said that it was for the drill needs, but at this time all the soldiers had distributed armor, weapons, and boiling water. Even the auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers who had been involved in the repair of the city had all sent out their battle robes and uniforms, equipped with spears and swords. A tense atmosphere was brewing over the town. Now the military police were about to move them into the city again, and many sensitive people had guessed something, but they did not make trouble or make noise.

No matter what happened, in their opinion, there were generals and soldiers standing in front of them. The crowds were very assigned to each other, and they did not say much, nor did they ask to take away the belongings in the camp. They just silently lined up according to the requirements of the gendarmerie, and then lined up to enter the city. After entering the city, there were still some gendarmeries inside, which would draw out the young and strong among them, either to the logistics team, or to the guard team or to the stretcher team.

Compared with those families, the auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers who had newly distributed military uniforms had completely different feelings. Although they had been recruited as soldiers before, they were eliminated from the combat troops after training. Although they were still not soldiers, they could only be auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers. Usually, they could pass by in a brand new red uniform.

The same soldiers, the soldiers were well-fed, and each meal was full of meat. Each team killed a pig, and there were also mutton and wine from time to time, and they ate rice. In the winter, there were often fresh green vegetables. But they were different. Until now, even a set of military uniforms were not delivered, and they were still wearing various gray-brown clothes. When one team entered that station, it felt uncomfortable to see. Although the food was usually eaten, it was a few Yao who could only eat a meal of meat, which was incomparable to the soldiers. In the morning, the soldiers were trained, but now, they had to go to the city building in the morning and afternoon.

Soldiers are worse than soldiers, and the people are not like civilians. These things have already been filled with anger. Now I finally have a chance. Although the team leader and the deputy team leader came back to the town general's mansion for a meeting, they have been reluctant to tell everyone what happened. But when they saw the brand new military uniforms sent down, they didn't have to go to the construction site, and they even sent all the spears down. Everyone knows that it is probably going to fight.

After waiting for so long, I finally waited for this. Although the auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers were able to be promoted to the war soldiers, they had to be assessed every six months, which was too long. However, if they could kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions in the battle, they could be promoted to the war soldiers immediately. This was an opportunity to change their destiny in one step. They were excited to hold the spear and the sword's fingers turned green, and their hearts were trembling.

As the city gradually became darker, Shamen Town began to quiet.

All the incoming camps outside the city moved into the city. The soldiers, servants, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics soldiers were already on standby, and even the rest of the young and strong men were summoned to standby.

It was getting dark in the first month of the year. As the sun set, it was already pitch black in the blink of an eye.

The cold land was frozen, and the cold wind whistled by from time to time. Shamen Town was like in the past, with dogs barking and geese roaring from time to time. From a distance, the lights in the camp outside the city were lit and the lights were everywhere on the city. In the usual Shamen Town, when it was dark, everyone started to turn off the lights and go to bed. But now, although the lights were turned off one by one, they were not asleep.

All the incomings were waiting. At this time, Li Jing had already given the incoming orders, saying that a pirate would come tonight. However, Li Jing did not give in to five hundred pirates, but just said that a group of pirates would attack, so that everyone would not worry.

Lin Wu led more than 100 people to ride a horse and a mule hiding at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. He sent a group of twelve riders to and from the docks and castles in turn, reporting the latest information to Li Jing at any time.

It was fine until the second update at night.

Near Shikou Wharf, Qiu Shengong and his men passed by five small fishing boats floating quietly on the sea near the wharf. There was no light on the boat, and he was wrapped in a leather robe, squatting on the bow of the boat like a statue, and patrolling the sea near the wharf.

Just as the crowd was almost stiff by the sea breeze, a little bright light finally came out in the fog in front of the pier.

"Here, come!"

The god Qiu Shengong moved and immediately stood up and looked into the distance. Sure enough, a fleet of ships broke out from the fog. The lanterns hung on the ship illuminated the fleet's figure. He carefully counted the number of ships, one, two, three, eighteen, all of which were about three hundred stones. The three in the middle were larger, the Mingzhou-type pointed keel sea ships of the same type as the Ninghai, with at least one thousand five hundred stones.

The number of ships in the fleet was inconsistent with the information, not thirteen but eighteen, exceeding five. Is it an information error, or is this fleet not a pirate fleet? Qiu Shengong was confused, but saw that the fleet had begun to slow down and was slowly approaching Shikou Wharf. Qiu Shengong had a good look, and clearly saw many inlets and weapons rushing out from the decks of the large ships in the dark.

He changed his face and had confirmed that this was the one-eyed Dragon Pirate Fleet from Liaodong.
Chapter completed!