Before winter came, it was light rain in Jinzhou.The rain drizzled, but the ground was wet. When the people stepped on it, it was muddy.
On the road, people came to the construction site of Jinzhou City one after another. They were all men, carrying hats or straw hats, carrying hoes and other tools, and carrying packages.
Gao Yanqi rode a horse to the front of the people and asked people to ask what these people were doing.
Someone in the crowd shouted: We brought our own food and came to corvee to build the city!Let us stay.
The court did not forget Hebei and fought twice a year.The villagers were looking forward to the arrival of the king, how could they not do anything to do...
After hearing this, Gao Yanqi was moved, and rode his horse forward, jumped off the horse and fisted and said: Yàn The righteous man is very wise, please accept the bow from me!He also said loudly that this general is Gao Yanqi from Shu, and all the soldiers are from Shu. He heard that the people of Hebei were deeply harmed by the Liao people, so he dared not to enlist in the expedition and expel the Hu people?I'm coming from thousands of miles away...
At this moment, a general came forward and bowed his head to Gao Yanqi's ear and whispered: Your Majesty is here to inspect Jinzhou.
Gao Yanqi immediately turned around and asked: Where did you get there?
The general said: It's coming soon.
Gao Yanqi immediately called Hou Mao, the general, and said: You come to appease the people who came to the camp, but you must register and make a book when you enter the camp.These people generally do not come alone, they all come together in the village and ask their fellow villagers to confirm their identities.
Hou Mao clasped his fists and said: I will understand.
Gao Yanqi immediately took people to welcome the emperor.
...Guo Shao met Gao Yanqi's men on the post road, and a group of people stood off the horse and bent down and fisted and said: Welcome Your Majesty!
No gifts.Guo Shao said.
Gao Yanqiu said calmly again: It’s cold on rainy days, so I will ask Your Majesty to suffocate the dragon body.
Guo Shao nodded and dealt with it.
He rode on a horse in armor and had no cover on his head.
Although the rain fell very little, it soaked the armor and clothes over time. The helmet and plate armor were covered with water droplets, and the water droplets condensed under the brim of the hat dripped down on the face from time to time, full of coolness.
Guo Shao's face was not very good and he said little, and he only said: Take me to see the fortifications of the city.
His tone is very low, but his pronunciation is quite heavy, which sounds so down-to-earth.
Look.Gao Yanqi agreed with his fists and turned around and horse.
The group slowly rode their horses toward a construction site on the river bank. The dark horse under Guo Shao shook his head and threw the water droplets into the air.The ground was muddy, and the horse seemed to express dissatisfaction.
Gao Yanqi pointed to the people in front of him and explained their origins.
After hearing this, Guo Shao praised and said: You must also be careful of spies getting involved.
Gao Yanqiu said: I have already been wary of it.
The group of people circled the city. The circumference of the city wall was not long. Many people were transporting soil in the rain. Some people carried wood and pounded it on the soil wall and shouted and tried their best.
Then people came to a hillside with higher terrain.
An official from the Ministry of Works got off the horse and came to Guo Shao's horse and presented a drawing: The city wall that Your Majesty saw was very small, and this was a temporary fortification, and they all followed the arrangements of the military office.
Guo Shao took the picture and looked at the construction site in front of him.
In fact, what is being built now is not a city wall, but a earth wall, and with a trench outside, it is just a temporary fortification.
Because winter is about to begin, it is more difficult to build a city wall and there is not enough time... The Liao army may have taken the initiative to attack in winter, and its current preparation is for winter defense; there is a place to gain a foothold and stockpile food and troops.
Only when you have established your foothold will you build a city outside the fortification again.An administrative system has been established, and Jinzhou City will be built sooner or later.
Guo Shao reviewed the left and right and said: The earth wall fortifications must be established quickly, and General Gao must send more scouts to patrol the crowd.You are the farthest from Zhuozhou. If Yelu Xiu Ge comes to harass you, he will most likely choose Jinzhou as his target.
Gao Yanqiu and others hurriedly said, "I will obey the imperial edict."
Guo Shao pointed to the distance in the drizzle and said: When the main city fortifications are built, the township army will reinforce Jinzhou and build a fortress around the city in the northeast, deploying it on two staggered floors as early warning and external defensive fulcrum; the main force of the Jiannan Army is in the center and defending the granary.There are also elite cavalry from the rear of the imperial guards to help protect the safety of Jinzhou.
Everyone agreed, saying that the emperor was planning and strategizing.
drive!Guo Shao kicked the horse lightly and rushed down the hillside. Seeing this, everyone followed him one after another.
Guo Shao entered the fortification area to inspect. He looked very carefully and even asked about the toilet and drainage canal.
There are also food, winter clothes, shelter, etc. for soldiers and civilians.
He came to a straw shed kitchen, picked up a piece of wheat cake from the bamboo basket, and tore one to taste it.
Gao Yanqi hurriedly found a wooden bench and asked Guo Shao to sit on it. So the emperor was in a straw shed, holding a wheat cake in one hand and a branch in the other, and drew on the mud to tell the tactics of the military palace design.
The generals surrounded him and listened, talking from time to time.
Just then, someone outside heard a saying: Your Majesty is in the house.
The veteran general Qin Shitou walked in with a messenger, and the messenger submitted a report with both hands.
Guo Shao put the wheat cake on the chopping board, picked up the report and looked at it, saying: Youzhou has received news that the Liao Dynasty’s Southern Court has been replaced, and Xiao Siwen has been restored to serve as the King of the Southern Court.
The generals shouted: Xiao Siwen is the defeated general under His Majesty!This guy is not his majesty's opponent...
Guo Shao did not comment.
When the late emperor made an expedition in the north, Guo Shao did defeat Xiao Siwen in Zhuozhou; but when he attacked Youzhou at the beginning of this year, he found that Xiao Siwen was very good at collecting information and deploying city defenses in targeted areas, and it was effective.
Guo Shao did not suppress everyone's confidence, so they despise Xiao Siwen; but he did not despise him in his heart.
Guo Shao had never met Xiao Siwen, but from the two contacts on the battlefield, he seemed to be: Xiao Siwen was not as good as the famous generals of the Liao Kingdom, and he did not have enough sense of smell and experience in specific battlefields, but his grasp of the overall situation was beyond the reach of ordinary generals, and he was relatively open-minded and could learn to change his strategy very quickly... I heard that the Liao Kingdom royal family only married Xiao, and the Xiao family was a designated prime minister, so no wonder his strategy was better than other Khitans.
After receiving the report, Guo Shao continued to patrol the place as if nothing had happened.
In a few days, he took the cavalry and walked back and forth along the Juma River, focusing on the construction of the fortifications of the two cities.In early October, he returned to Zhuozhou City where the imperial guards were stationed.
After entering Zhuozhou City, Guo Shao accidentally recognized the house of Doctor Lu's house, and the small courtyard survived and is still here.When Guo Shao was still a military general, he was in the yard of the countries.
He looked sideways and found that there were clothes hanging in the courtyard wall, and someone should have lived... But he was definitely not from the Lu family. Doctor Lu was late and Lu Lan is now in Tokyo.
Things change, and Guo Shao suddenly felt a little emotional for a moment and passed by here silently.He remembered what Lu Lan asked him for, and indeed Xiao Siwen came to Youzhou, but he didn't know if he had brought his family.
After running around the muddy road for several days in the wind and rain, Guo Shao went straight back to the palace.
Zhuozhou is far apart from the cities of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, but you can always find better houses as palaces.Guo Shao took a shower and changed his clothes, and stopped in the bedroom.
It was still drizzling outside. Guo Shao thought of those construction sites and couldn't help but curse in a low voice: Ghost weather!
The inner house was very quiet. From a distance, some guards wearing armor and swords could be seen slowly walking under the eaves. They were in groups of two, silently observing the movements around them.
Near the bedroom, there were only eunuch Wang Zhong and veteran general Qin Shitou.
Guo Shao had not taken Jing Niang to the battle and had been abstinent for a long time, but he still couldn't calm down at this moment, so he couldn't do anything else. He walked back and forth for a while and walked to the map to think about military affairs.
Compared with Yelu Xiu Ge, Xiao Siwen is more conservative.Guo Shao said as if he was talking to himself.
Wang Zhong agreed at the right time: Your Majesty is extremely true.
Guo Shao glanced at him, lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and a kind of intuition surged in his heart: the Liao army will launch a large-scale counterattack in winter!
Many times, Guo Shao relies on his intuition, just as the accuracy of archery is based on his feelings.
It was a subtle thing, and there was no reason to judge, but he believed in its reliability... But his mood was not very good recently. He captured this intuition from the dark, but could not be confident.
Perhaps, it can be inferred in this way: if the Liao army wanted to use light cavalry to harass it, Yelu Xiuge would be better at using troops than Xiao Siwen; and at this time, he suddenly replaced Xiao Siwen, which might be accumulating some big noise!
Guo Shao looked up at the window. The extremely low drizzle sound made the surroundings look even more peaceful... as if dead silent.
Yes, the Zhou army on the Hebei front of the refusal of Ma this time has been very disturbing, but the Liao army is really too quiet!It was so quiet that people didn't believe that the Liao people would sit idly.
The tranquility before the storm.
Guo Shao looked at Qin Shitou: You can contact the people of the Military and Cao Si. If you have any news, please let me know immediately.
Qin Shitou hurriedly said: The last general follows the order and releases a few brothers in the Yizhou Branch of the Military and Cao Si. You will know what happens soon.
Guo Shao said again: There may be news coming to Beijing recently.
Qin Shitou was unclear and looked at Guo Shao in awe... Several times Guo Shao foresaw a small matter, and Qin Shitou found that he was very accurate, but Qin Shitou couldn't figure out how the emperor knew.
If the Liao Kingdom wanted to mobilize a large army to move south in winter, it might be that the number of troops gathered everywhere was very large. As long as the people in Shangjing could see some signs with their eyes.
Guo Shao was thinking about everything in his mind. He had been exhausted for several days but had no sleepiness. He was always in a state of tension and excitement.
He was a little worried, worried about something missing; he was also a little looking forward to it, every time he spent a contest, the entire layout could be further ahead!
So I seemed a little impatient and wanted to see the upcoming results as soon as possible.
He sighed and came to his senses. There was nothing to do around him. Time was still passing slowly bit by bit, calm and composed. This was destined to be a long process.
On the road, people came to the construction site of Jinzhou City one after another. They were all men, carrying hats or straw hats, carrying hoes and other tools, and carrying packages.
Gao Yanqi rode a horse to the front of the people and asked people to ask what these people were doing.
Someone in the crowd shouted: We brought our own food and came to corvee to build the city!Let us stay.
The court did not forget Hebei and fought twice a year.The villagers were looking forward to the arrival of the king, how could they not do anything to do...
After hearing this, Gao Yanqi was moved, and rode his horse forward, jumped off the horse and fisted and said: Yàn The righteous man is very wise, please accept the bow from me!He also said loudly that this general is Gao Yanqi from Shu, and all the soldiers are from Shu. He heard that the people of Hebei were deeply harmed by the Liao people, so he dared not to enlist in the expedition and expel the Hu people?I'm coming from thousands of miles away...
At this moment, a general came forward and bowed his head to Gao Yanqi's ear and whispered: Your Majesty is here to inspect Jinzhou.
Gao Yanqi immediately turned around and asked: Where did you get there?
The general said: It's coming soon.
Gao Yanqi immediately called Hou Mao, the general, and said: You come to appease the people who came to the camp, but you must register and make a book when you enter the camp.These people generally do not come alone, they all come together in the village and ask their fellow villagers to confirm their identities.
Hou Mao clasped his fists and said: I will understand.
Gao Yanqi immediately took people to welcome the emperor.
...Guo Shao met Gao Yanqi's men on the post road, and a group of people stood off the horse and bent down and fisted and said: Welcome Your Majesty!
No gifts.Guo Shao said.
Gao Yanqiu said calmly again: It’s cold on rainy days, so I will ask Your Majesty to suffocate the dragon body.
Guo Shao nodded and dealt with it.
He rode on a horse in armor and had no cover on his head.
Although the rain fell very little, it soaked the armor and clothes over time. The helmet and plate armor were covered with water droplets, and the water droplets condensed under the brim of the hat dripped down on the face from time to time, full of coolness.
Guo Shao's face was not very good and he said little, and he only said: Take me to see the fortifications of the city.
His tone is very low, but his pronunciation is quite heavy, which sounds so down-to-earth.
Look.Gao Yanqi agreed with his fists and turned around and horse.
The group slowly rode their horses toward a construction site on the river bank. The dark horse under Guo Shao shook his head and threw the water droplets into the air.The ground was muddy, and the horse seemed to express dissatisfaction.
Gao Yanqi pointed to the people in front of him and explained their origins.
After hearing this, Guo Shao praised and said: You must also be careful of spies getting involved.
Gao Yanqiu said: I have already been wary of it.
The group of people circled the city. The circumference of the city wall was not long. Many people were transporting soil in the rain. Some people carried wood and pounded it on the soil wall and shouted and tried their best.
Then people came to a hillside with higher terrain.
An official from the Ministry of Works got off the horse and came to Guo Shao's horse and presented a drawing: The city wall that Your Majesty saw was very small, and this was a temporary fortification, and they all followed the arrangements of the military office.
Guo Shao took the picture and looked at the construction site in front of him.
In fact, what is being built now is not a city wall, but a earth wall, and with a trench outside, it is just a temporary fortification.
Because winter is about to begin, it is more difficult to build a city wall and there is not enough time... The Liao army may have taken the initiative to attack in winter, and its current preparation is for winter defense; there is a place to gain a foothold and stockpile food and troops.
Only when you have established your foothold will you build a city outside the fortification again.An administrative system has been established, and Jinzhou City will be built sooner or later.
Guo Shao reviewed the left and right and said: The earth wall fortifications must be established quickly, and General Gao must send more scouts to patrol the crowd.You are the farthest from Zhuozhou. If Yelu Xiu Ge comes to harass you, he will most likely choose Jinzhou as his target.
Gao Yanqiu and others hurriedly said, "I will obey the imperial edict."
Guo Shao pointed to the distance in the drizzle and said: When the main city fortifications are built, the township army will reinforce Jinzhou and build a fortress around the city in the northeast, deploying it on two staggered floors as early warning and external defensive fulcrum; the main force of the Jiannan Army is in the center and defending the granary.There are also elite cavalry from the rear of the imperial guards to help protect the safety of Jinzhou.
Everyone agreed, saying that the emperor was planning and strategizing.
drive!Guo Shao kicked the horse lightly and rushed down the hillside. Seeing this, everyone followed him one after another.
Guo Shao entered the fortification area to inspect. He looked very carefully and even asked about the toilet and drainage canal.
There are also food, winter clothes, shelter, etc. for soldiers and civilians.
He came to a straw shed kitchen, picked up a piece of wheat cake from the bamboo basket, and tore one to taste it.
Gao Yanqi hurriedly found a wooden bench and asked Guo Shao to sit on it. So the emperor was in a straw shed, holding a wheat cake in one hand and a branch in the other, and drew on the mud to tell the tactics of the military palace design.
The generals surrounded him and listened, talking from time to time.
Just then, someone outside heard a saying: Your Majesty is in the house.
The veteran general Qin Shitou walked in with a messenger, and the messenger submitted a report with both hands.
Guo Shao put the wheat cake on the chopping board, picked up the report and looked at it, saying: Youzhou has received news that the Liao Dynasty’s Southern Court has been replaced, and Xiao Siwen has been restored to serve as the King of the Southern Court.
The generals shouted: Xiao Siwen is the defeated general under His Majesty!This guy is not his majesty's opponent...
Guo Shao did not comment.
When the late emperor made an expedition in the north, Guo Shao did defeat Xiao Siwen in Zhuozhou; but when he attacked Youzhou at the beginning of this year, he found that Xiao Siwen was very good at collecting information and deploying city defenses in targeted areas, and it was effective.
Guo Shao did not suppress everyone's confidence, so they despise Xiao Siwen; but he did not despise him in his heart.
Guo Shao had never met Xiao Siwen, but from the two contacts on the battlefield, he seemed to be: Xiao Siwen was not as good as the famous generals of the Liao Kingdom, and he did not have enough sense of smell and experience in specific battlefields, but his grasp of the overall situation was beyond the reach of ordinary generals, and he was relatively open-minded and could learn to change his strategy very quickly... I heard that the Liao Kingdom royal family only married Xiao, and the Xiao family was a designated prime minister, so no wonder his strategy was better than other Khitans.
After receiving the report, Guo Shao continued to patrol the place as if nothing had happened.
In a few days, he took the cavalry and walked back and forth along the Juma River, focusing on the construction of the fortifications of the two cities.In early October, he returned to Zhuozhou City where the imperial guards were stationed.
After entering Zhuozhou City, Guo Shao accidentally recognized the house of Doctor Lu's house, and the small courtyard survived and is still here.When Guo Shao was still a military general, he was in the yard of the countries.
He looked sideways and found that there were clothes hanging in the courtyard wall, and someone should have lived... But he was definitely not from the Lu family. Doctor Lu was late and Lu Lan is now in Tokyo.
Things change, and Guo Shao suddenly felt a little emotional for a moment and passed by here silently.He remembered what Lu Lan asked him for, and indeed Xiao Siwen came to Youzhou, but he didn't know if he had brought his family.
After running around the muddy road for several days in the wind and rain, Guo Shao went straight back to the palace.
Zhuozhou is far apart from the cities of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, but you can always find better houses as palaces.Guo Shao took a shower and changed his clothes, and stopped in the bedroom.
It was still drizzling outside. Guo Shao thought of those construction sites and couldn't help but curse in a low voice: Ghost weather!
The inner house was very quiet. From a distance, some guards wearing armor and swords could be seen slowly walking under the eaves. They were in groups of two, silently observing the movements around them.
Near the bedroom, there were only eunuch Wang Zhong and veteran general Qin Shitou.
Guo Shao had not taken Jing Niang to the battle and had been abstinent for a long time, but he still couldn't calm down at this moment, so he couldn't do anything else. He walked back and forth for a while and walked to the map to think about military affairs.
Compared with Yelu Xiu Ge, Xiao Siwen is more conservative.Guo Shao said as if he was talking to himself.
Wang Zhong agreed at the right time: Your Majesty is extremely true.
Guo Shao glanced at him, lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and a kind of intuition surged in his heart: the Liao army will launch a large-scale counterattack in winter!
Many times, Guo Shao relies on his intuition, just as the accuracy of archery is based on his feelings.
It was a subtle thing, and there was no reason to judge, but he believed in its reliability... But his mood was not very good recently. He captured this intuition from the dark, but could not be confident.
Perhaps, it can be inferred in this way: if the Liao army wanted to use light cavalry to harass it, Yelu Xiuge would be better at using troops than Xiao Siwen; and at this time, he suddenly replaced Xiao Siwen, which might be accumulating some big noise!
Guo Shao looked up at the window. The extremely low drizzle sound made the surroundings look even more peaceful... as if dead silent.
Yes, the Zhou army on the Hebei front of the refusal of Ma this time has been very disturbing, but the Liao army is really too quiet!It was so quiet that people didn't believe that the Liao people would sit idly.
The tranquility before the storm.
Guo Shao looked at Qin Shitou: You can contact the people of the Military and Cao Si. If you have any news, please let me know immediately.
Qin Shitou hurriedly said: The last general follows the order and releases a few brothers in the Yizhou Branch of the Military and Cao Si. You will know what happens soon.
Guo Shao said again: There may be news coming to Beijing recently.
Qin Shitou was unclear and looked at Guo Shao in awe... Several times Guo Shao foresaw a small matter, and Qin Shitou found that he was very accurate, but Qin Shitou couldn't figure out how the emperor knew.
If the Liao Kingdom wanted to mobilize a large army to move south in winter, it might be that the number of troops gathered everywhere was very large. As long as the people in Shangjing could see some signs with their eyes.
Guo Shao was thinking about everything in his mind. He had been exhausted for several days but had no sleepiness. He was always in a state of tension and excitement.
He was a little worried, worried about something missing; he was also a little looking forward to it, every time he spent a contest, the entire layout could be further ahead!
So I seemed a little impatient and wanted to see the upcoming results as soon as possible.
He sighed and came to his senses. There was nothing to do around him. Time was still passing slowly bit by bit, calm and composed. This was destined to be a long process.
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