Shao Song

Vol 2 Chapter 38: Tight

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Da Song began to exercise military control from north to south.

In Puzhou, Huazhou, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture (Luoyang), Shanzhou, as well as the part of Henan that used to belong to Mengzhou, beacon towers were set up, soldiers patrolling along the embankment of the Yellow River, and the fleet monitoring the opposite side of the river doubled.

The army of the imperial battalion re-counted the number, checked the inventory of all military supplies such as ordnance, grain, war horses, and carried out a unified inspection and clearing of the fort along the river.

In Henan along the Yellow River, family members of soldiers and soldiers, old and weak women and children were persuaded to travel south to the Huaihe River and Nanyang for resettlement.

Envoys and officials from all walks of life, together with Yan Xiaozhong of Zhinanyang Mansion, received orders, focused on rectifying defenses, and moved their cameras. The rest of Henan's military prefectures also received orders from the palace and the capital. , Let them arrange defenses to cooperate with the ministers of the local envoys, not the will of the central government, and they must not violate them without authorization.

At the same time, the imperial court sent a special decree to various places in Kansai, emphasizing the absolute power in Yuwenxu and the special status of Li Yanxian in Shanzhou.

The transportation of materials in Southeast, Jingxiang, and Huainan is also under emergency deployment.

Things seem to be proceeding in an orderly manner, but the center still has its own worries.

After all, no amount of preparation is just preparation. Once the golden man comes over, God knows what the situation will be? Moreover, in terms of military strategy, although the Song Army had imperial troops and horses in Henan, which created a trace of confidence, there were still two huge military holes in front of them, which should not be ignored.

This is the problem of Kansai and the problem of Tokyo City.

From the Kansai side, things are too hasty and hasty.

It is important to know that if you want to be prepared for the military, one is naturally an excellent soldier, and the other is naturally a complete logistics. Kansai seems to have no shortage of these... Kansai is originally recognized as an excellent soldier's land in the world, and there are also A ready-made elite seed force, that is, the elite of the Jingyuan Road with more than 10,000 Jingyuan Road (from this point of view, Qu Duan still did a little bit of personnel); and the economic strength of Bashu is unquestionable, especially Zhang Jun boldly launched Zhao Kai, the deputy financial officer of the People’s Republic of China, led an excellent fiscal reform, making Bashu’s original fiscal plate of more than ten million yuan still growing.

But the problem is that the Kansai Troika will kill Wang Xie in July, and the reunification of the military power will only take one month. Before the central government decided to increase taxes, a considerable part of Bashu's wealth was simply sent down the river to Nanyang... so All the soldiers over there are really insufficiently prepared.

But the old opponent here is Wanyan Nianhan's military deputy and the actual military deputy commander of the West Route Army Wanyan Loushi.

I must say one more thing here. The Wanyan Lou family is a character that cannot be ignored in this era, and also a figure that makes all Song Jun fearful and fearful... There is no way, open the one compiled by Wang Yuan Wang. Booklet, on the pages of this person, you will find that this person is likely to be a slave of the Wanyan family or the head of the servant tribe (the two identities are not conflicting). He fought all the way from Liaodong to Henan. His record is really dazzling. Eye-catching.

The main force of the Liao State was this person who led the minister on the way to the battlefield to change horses, and together with Yin Shuke, he carried out cavalry assaults against the Central Army of the Liao State nine times in a day and was defeated; this man was the main force of the 30,000 cavalry in Xixia supporting the Liao State The continuous division of troops and the rapid attack continued to collapse; Fan Zhixu’s 200,000 Western army reinforcements were scattered by this person with ten Meng'an; in the battle of Taiyuan, he and Yinshu could defeat hundreds of thousands of reinforcements one by one. .

It can be said that he participated in almost all of the main main battles during the rise of the Golden Army, and he was always responsible for the hardest and hardest battles, but he was always invincible.

It is really invincible.

It was Li Yanxian’s military miracle in Shanzhou that was only achieved after this person turned to Guanxi and northern Shaanxi; it was as hastily as last year, this person also led his army to swallow Yan'an prefecture steadily and forced to surrender the three states of Hewai. , Can be called impeccable.

Han Shizhong and Yue Fei have never encountered this kind of character in history. It is hard to say if they encountered it. Anyway, the people who have to use in front of Zhao Guan’s family have encountered this person, such as Zhang Jun, Li Yanxian, Qu Duan, and Yang Yizhong. It's all his defeated generals...Of course, this statement is not accurate enough. The accurate statement is that these people were all the remnants of the defeated generals of Wanyan Loushi at the time, and they were not worthy of being called the defeated generals.

At that time, the Song Army's tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops, by this Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshu can be the main partner of the Jin Guoxi Road Army, repeatedly defeated more and less, and it was beaten again and again. The reason why Zhang Jun, Li Yanxian, and Qu Duan were able to become important military officials of one party was mainly achieved by gathering the defeated troops after the withdrawal of the troops from the Wanyan Lou House.

Not only that, but the old partner of this man and Yinshu kept on conquering all the way. They captured King Xi alive, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom, and even Yelü Dashi (after being the leader of the Jin Jun for a few days, they managed to escape. )...It’s not good to say that if it weren’t for Jingkang’s change that he was not under Tokyo, this person might have achieved what was done before in Chinese military history, that is, having captured four emperors of the great powers.

Such an opponent, leading the main force of the Golden Army, but facing the weakest part of his family, who is not worried?

As for Tokyo, there is no need to say more. Tokyo is too far ahead. Once the Jinjun crosses the river, it will be another Tokyo siege. The four words Tokyo Siege almost made Da Song suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Therefore, I don't know if Kansai is worried, or because of being in it, the entire Dasong Center, after entering a state of combat readiness, has written about the defense of Tokyo City, and everyone's focus is also on it.

Putting aside the inevitable panic at the beginning, as the city gradually re-adapted to military control, Tokyo, which had a population of 300,000, suddenly produced an unexpected explosive force around the city's defense construction.

The new prince’s old rules are undoubtedly the Tokyo vassal and the core of the city defense system. He who concurrently serves as Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Kaifeng Prefecture Yin also basically obtained most of the imaginable authority, so with his orders and the center With the unanimous cooperation of the officials, the entire Tokyo quickly began to be militarized and fortified using Nanyang as the template.

Countless coal fuels were transported from various places in the Central Plains, most of which were sunk into the newly excavated artificial lake in the Golden Water Gate of the imperial city, and a small part was directly sent into the brick kilns with fireworks everywhere outside the city.

The brick kiln uses coal and temporarily felled woods around Tokyo as fuel to produce solid bricks day and night.

Of course, this kind of bricks cannot be compared with the materials of the Tokyo city wall, but it is enough to build a simple and practical sheep horse wall outside the city, and build countless brick walls inside the city to form a Nanyang-style partition army. Build an arrow tower and a dark fort.

The three-story city walls were all reinforced and thickened. The gates with towers everywhere turned into military fortresses. At least one city (a hundred-man team) was stationed there. Ten water gates were the defensive focus, and all of them were retrofitted. A double-layer iron-net sluice was built, and soldiers and horses sent by Liang Shanbo assisted in the management and disposal.

However, the most eye-catching is the three rivers that pass through the city...For the convenience of reinforcements, and to continue to properly defend around the river after the outer city is broken, the Cai River, Bian River, and Guangji River that pass through the city are fully covered. Dredging, broadening, and deepening, this work started before, and now it hasn’t stopped.

In late August, after this kind of work reached a climax, even Zhao Guanjia, who had recovered from his illness, had been with Wang De, the four-wall defense agent of Bianjing who had led the army back to the city, to go to the river to carry the soil, go into the water to plan the mud, and asked Mrs. Wu In the palace, a few palace ladies accompanied by a group of scouted Tokyo chefs boiled water and cooked rice on the riverbank.

In this warm atmosphere, the Guangji River, commonly known as the Wuzhang River because of its five-zhang width, has long been seven or eight-zhang wide, and this width is basically the same as the width of the bridges on the river. It was only at the two ends of the water gate that it was closed again.

Needless to say, Bianhe River, looking at the Qingming Shanghe River map, you can know how wide the river is. After being cleaned up at this time, the water is shimmering, and it is sighing.

According to the old rules, the excavated soil built a high dam, brick walls, and artillery positions on the inside of the river. By then, it would be an excellent line of defense that can be defended by several layers.

Not to mention the continuous production of artillery carts, soil pellets, stone bullets, and gunpowder packs at Daxiangguo Temple from the beginning.

Here we must praise Zhao official family again. This official family was not sick every day before, and running to Daxiangguo Temple all day was not for the food and drinks of others... Long ago, at his advice and assistance. Next, the counterweight artillery carts here in Daxianggong Temple have been divided into several fixed models, and each of them strives to use unified weights and measures to produce'standard accessories' that meet the'standard' as much as possible.

The benefits of the primary assembly line are self-evident.

One is naturally to improve efficiency, one is to ensure that the artillery on the battlefield can be repaired quickly, and the other is to facilitate transportation.

This is Zhao Guan's main project this year after failing to try artillery in the first place...It's not a high-tech, but it's absolutely practical. The key is that the benefits of doing this can be understood and recognized by everyone.

In short, the whole city is in full swing.

However, as the days passed, the passion faded a little, followed by exhaustion and numbness.

From the beginning, Zhao Guan’s family dug a whole day of river mud, and then developed to move a whole day of bricks...Sometimes, I might feel that I was too worthless as an emperor. I found a job before crossing, and came here before I got a job. As a result, I have experienced such a high-intensity labor of moving bricks. Which one has his own suffering?

And so tired, returning to Yanfu Palace at night, I didn't have any strength... After eating a snack from Pan Xianfei, lying on the bed, I would basically soon fall asleep soundly smelling Pan Fei's body fragrance.

Sometimes he stayed with Mrs. Wu, and Mrs. Wu, who was equally tired, often cried secretly in the middle of the night, wondering if he was crying and why he married the wrong person? As a result, half of the year is spent cooking and boiling water, and the other half is studying and martial arts...At this time, Zhao Jiu is completely numb next to him even if he wakes up, and has no energy to comfort him or lose his temper.

But what is after the numbness?

The answer is expectation.

It sounds absurd, but the fact is that August is over, September is about to end, and September is about to end... With the city defense refurbishment activities praised by the officials of the Northern Zhao Dynasty as "forty days after autumn", the victory came to an end. When people like stereotypes can't think of a way to add something, others don't know, anyway, Zhao Guan's house is starting to look forward to it.

Looking forward to the north.

But to his disappointment, Fengyan never lit up, and the golden man never arrived.

Moreover, this kind of non-coming is not false... After Ma Kuo and Ma Zichong fled into the Taihang Mountains last year, they gradually began to move south to avoid the core ruled areas around the Jin Army and Yanjing, but they filled the gap of Wang Yan's Eight-character Army and joined Henan Province. Contact was regained. According to the latest intelligence from Ma Kuo, the Jin Army did not even mobilize, at least none of the Meng'an and Mooke who were placed in various places in Hebei were mobilized.

Entering October, winter officially arrived, Ma Kuo’s latest return was clear, and Jin Jun did not move.

This is of course a good thing. At the very least, it can allow the Kansai side to step up the use of this precious time and organize a large-scale army with Sichuan and Shu's autumn grain this year.

However, correspondingly, in order to prevent the Henan side from causing unnecessary tension and slack due to the long-term high tension, which led to the success of the Jin army’s raid, Zhao Guanjia discussed with Zaizhi, the capital, and the Privy Council. He took the initiative to let go of some of his nervous postures, and ordered all places to be rushed while maintaining military control to ensure that the soldiers can take turns to visit relatives and take vacations to ensure normal life in the city, but be careful of spies and raids...and so on.

After the edict was issued, it was not clear elsewhere, but a city as big as Tokyo suddenly fell into a strange state...no one knew what to do.

Winter is undoubtedly the slack season for farming. There is nothing to do. Because of the need to guard against spies, both military and civilian materials are generally separated in the city. The city is completely divided into square areas. Although ordinary people are at home, they are very busy. It's difficult to get in and out of the area easily... Those who have strong men and sergeants at home can receive a ration and a coal (basically), but sauces, linen, etc. have to pay for the official purchase.

In other words, business activities have basically stagnated... One comes and two goes, and people naturally panic.

In this regard, Zhao Guan’s family can only learn some of the routines in the high-end web articles, let these people organize a Cuju team according to the military workshop, and directly set up the Cuju field on Yudao and Dongxi Street, so that each defense will take turns in odd and even days. Develop and participate in Cuju.

However, this situation lasted for a month, including after dealing with the unimaginable things like reselling sauces at high prices, lax government officials, cuju fights, and so on.

By November, Jin Jun still did not move.

At this time, in addition to further opening up the city of Tokyo, Zhao Guan's house...usually several workshops are connected together to develop together, and the entire city is divided into seven or eight independent large regions and small cities to carry out activities...and it is somewhat uncontrollable.

In fact, all kinds of rumors have been spread at this time. The people below say that the Jin people have not dared to go south after the Yanling-Changsha battle last year; while the officials and many Wonju students who stayed in Taixue did not dare to go south. There was a lot of discussion, saying that it was the death of the king's first brother, the former Taizu Aguda, and the current wolf master Wanyan Wu Qimai vying for positions.

There is definite evidence for the latter. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the central government accidentally learned this information from a Korean businessman. It was said that it was Emperor Jin’s brother, that is, he had been ill before he was versed in Ban Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Xie. Heavy, and then failed to recuperate in autumn, so he died. After that, the central hub immediately sent Shaoqing Wang Lun of Hongtong Temple to go to Korea to find out the information.

Now after three months of walking, Wang Lun has successfully returned and brought definite information, which confirmed the death of Wanyan Xieye, and confirmed the fact that the Jinren seemed to have internal struggle reserves.

But to be honest, Wanyanxie also has such an important Zhao Guanjia and several princes are suspicious, and the Jin Jun has never given up military service in autumn and winter because of the death of an important person or internal disputes.

Relatively speaking, Liu Ziyu, who was appointed by the Privy Council to take part in the military affairs, put forward a view. He believed that it was not necessarily the effect of the Changsha World War last year. It is likely that Emperor Song's serious military management and deployment after the Mid-Autumn Festival It has the effect of being a soldier without a fight.

In short, many people mean that Jin Jun should not come this year.

In this regard, Zhao Jiu and the masters of course will not relax here, but they cannot suppress the increasingly active and loose atmosphere below.

Many people began to suggest that a small area should be opened to the city~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to restore a certain degree of commercial circulation... Their reasons are very good. During the previous large-scale serious military management, many city defense soldiers and delivery officials were quite satiated and slackened people’s livelihood. For real examples, the common people have a hard time.

In the beginning, the officials of Zhao and the chief executives did not agree, but as more and more people submitted letters, and there were more and more slack and corruption caused by the closure of the city, some people even suggested that the patrol should be lifted and the military workshop should be completely removed. Later, under pressure, the center temporarily agreed to open the city in a small area and allow reliable caravans to enter the city.

Facts have proved that commercial activities are the key to urban residents. With the opening of the gates in a small area and the restoration of commercial activities, the city of Tokyo almost quickly regained its vitality. On the contrary, the strong men and military workshops became insignificant.

But as the city regained its vitality, some mess began to come up again... In late November, an official wrote a letter, asking for a queen in the name of the special season and comforting people.

To tell the truth, Zhao Guan's family is a little dumbfounded.

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