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Later, Song Sanshun and Zhao Yuan taught the Guards how to use firearms and asked them to save fire bombs.

He also sent a firearm and dozens of fire bombs to Lu Jingzhou so that he could protect himself.

After all, he is the governor, so it would be terrible if something unexpected happened here.

A few days later, the Jurchen team arrived.

They first dressed up as Han Chinese and tried to sneak into Baihu Fort in groups of three or two. However, they were stopped by soldiers who had been alert for a long time, and they started fighting.

The soldiers guarding the fort, armed with new types of firearms, directly killed several Jurchens and quickly closed the gate of Baihu Fort.

The Jurchens hiding outside also rushed out from the forest in the distance, with thousands of people armed and iron horses.

They screamed and rushed to the foot of the Baihu Fort wall, lifted dozens of ladders from behind, and tried to climb up the high wall.

The head of the 100 households immediately ordered everyone in the 100 households to go up the wall. Regardless of men, women, old or young, as long as they had the strength, they would use stones and other objects that had been piled on the wall to smash down.

At the same time, he ordered the sentry tower to light a beacon fire to warn hundreds of households around him.

Because each household in Beishan was well prepared and assisted by the firecrackers and five new weapons in their hands, they quickly repelled the first wave of attacks.

But the Jurchens were very cunning. They quickly changed tactics and mobilized a large number of troops to besiege a hundred-house fort, trying to break through one by one.

This trick really worked. Due to the limited guards in Baihu Fort, many real girls quickly climbed up the wall and started a desperate fight with the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty.

When the head of a hundred households saw that the castle was about to be lost, he immediately asked a few gunmen to cover the people as they escaped down the city wall. He led the soldiers to retreat while fighting. With the amulet given by Miss Chang'an, he escaped from death time and time again.

Finally, they escaped into a large courtyard with a high gate. They quickly carried the dry food and water bags placed here, as well as neatly bundled bedding, entered a tunnel, and closed the tunnel entrance.

Then a thick wooden board was pushed up from below to block the passage, and a log as thick as a washbasin was used to hold it tightly.

Even if the Jurchens discovered the secret passage here, they would not be able to break through the wooden door without spending some effort.

And this tunnel was dug by Miss Changan last year, just in case of accidents, and every household has it.

At this moment, it seems that if Chang'an had not had the foresight, everyone in Baihu Fort would have been doomed today.

Dozens of soldiers followed the tunnel out of Baihu Fort and ran quickly into the nearby woods.

The head of a hundred households was the last one to come out of the cave. In order to prevent the Jurchens from chasing after him along the tunnel, he also pried up a large stone to seal the entrance of the cave.

As for the military families in Baihu Fort, they had already escaped before them. The elderly, children and most of the food and livestock were also sent to Qianhu City a few days ago, so the soldiers were not worried.

Afterwards, dozens of people shuttled through the woods and ran around the bend towards Qianhu House.

One day later, they finally arrived near Qianhusuo and saw many Jurchen cavalry wandering around the city.

Hundreds of households and soldiers did not dare to approach, so they had to retreat to the forest, meet up with the escaped family members, and quickly run deep into the forest.

There is also a fortress deep in the mountain forest, which was also built by Miss Chang'an.

The fortress was built on a mountain, with food, water and horses on top. As long as they guarded the plank road, no one could attack it.

When they arrived at the entrance of the mountain road, Baihu blew the signal several times, and the other side of the mountain road responded a few times. Then Baihu led a group of people and approached.

The person responsible for guarding this fortress is one of Song Qianhu's personal guards, and he is accompanied by ten disabled veterans.

At this moment, when I see someone coming, I know that Baihu Fort has been lost.

The guards led people to open the thick wooden door and let people from hundreds of families in.

This is a fortress for refugees and a stronghold for everyone to gather.

Chang'an once told them that as long as the forts could not be defended, they would quickly escape and join here, and then fight back against the enemy.

As long as a person is alive, there is always hope for a comeback. Now it seems that Miss Chang'an is really good at predicting things.

Baihu sighed and sent scouts out to detect the movements of the Jurchens. If there was any abnormal movement, they would immediately go out to fight.

At this moment, the Beishan Guards Station was surrounded by more than 10,000 Jurchen cavalry.

However, they could only look at the city and sigh, because the guard city was more than four feet high, and there was a moat outside that was three feet wide and more than ten feet deep, which was simply impregnable.

Chang'an also spent huge sums of money to hire people to build this, just to prevent this day from coming.

After all, it was her family's territory, and even for her own safety, she had to spend the money.

"The Jurchens have already established the Zhen Kingdom in Jianzhou, trying to take northern Xinjiang as their own."

Lu Jingzhou stood on the city wall and looked at the Jurchen cavalry: "This is the last level. If we can't hold it, we have no choice but to retreat to Guangning."

The final hurdle he mentioned was not just Beishan Guard Station, but the entire Guangning Line. There were about ten guard posts, and Beishan was just one of them.

Song Erxiao looked solemn.

If that happens, my daughter will be in danger.

"I don't know if the reinforcements will arrive." Song Erxiao counted the flags outside the city and estimated the number of Jurchen cavalry.

There are many large flags and dozens of small flags in the Jurchen team, and the number should be no less than 10,000.

There are only three hundred soldiers in the city. Even if some middle-aged people are included, the number is less than three thousand.

There were two to three thousand old, weak, women and children, but they could not participate in the battle at all.

Lu Jingzhou said slowly: "Judging from the number of Jurchens, other guard posts should also be besieged. Guangning is not optimistic. If the team is recruited from Shanhaiguan, it will take at least a month to arrive."

He turned to Song Erxiao and said, "As long as we hold on for a month, reinforcements should come."

"Keep it for a month?" It shouldn't be difficult, right?

Song Erxiao was unsure, but when he saw the moat surrounding the city, he became hopeful again.

Lu Jingzhou added: "In this month, pay attention to the Jurchens digging canals to release water, and beware of their sneak attacks at night.

Song Erxiao nodded: "I will explain this matter and let people take turns to patrol."

"If the reinforcements never show up, how are Song Qianhu going to respond?" Lu Jingzhou asked his doubts.

Song Erxiao frowned: "Then just keep watch."

Is it possible that I can still escape and ascend to heaven?

"There are more than five thousand people in the city, and they consume a lot of food every day. Even if you have a granary, it is not enough for so many people to live in vain." Lu Jingzhou pointed out the key point mercilessly.

Song Erxiao was stunned.

Yes, so many people need to eat. If they are besieged by the Jurchens and their food and grass are cut off, how long can they hold on?

Chang An, who had been listening, said: "Then let's grow more vegetables from now on, reclaim all the places in the city, and plant fruits and melons."

It happens to be the end of March now, so it shouldn't be too late to plant seeds.

Lu Jingzhou smiled and said, "That's a good idea. It will be hard work for Chang'an."

Speaking of which, Lu Jingzhou also brought hundreds of guards, and these people also needed to eat.

At the same time, they are also the main force defending the city, and will take turns patrolling like the city defenders in the future.

So Chang'an summoned the women and children in the city to open up wasteland and cultivate the land.

In these lands, she planted cantaloupes, Japanese melons, winter melons, loofahs, etc., as well as eggplants, radishes, and courgettes.

Fortunately, she brought enough seeds and a complete range of varieties. In addition, the people in the city also had vegetable seeds, so she could barely plant all the land in the city.

Here in Chang'an, wasteland is being opened up for farming, and over there the city defense has been put into action.

The Jurchens first shot arrows and set off firecrackers on the city. Then they carried long tree trunks to erect a tall tree tower. Then they pushed the tree tower to the moat, knocked it down, and tried to build a bridge.

Wherever they could get what they wanted, the defenders on the city shot arrows and set off muskets at them.