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    Update time: 2010-03-26

    "We must be cautious in this fashion. Although there are many brave slaves captured in the craftsmen's camp, they are not in line. If they are suddenly pulled out, let alone the issue of rebellion, it is very easy to mess up the position and give the enemy a chance to attack."  Take advantage of this opportunity." Jincheng Camp Captain Leyang Fu said, "Our army is small. If the barbaric nature of these labor slaves is not eliminated, they will not be able to subdue them after they are released. They will burn, kill and loot inside and outside the city, which will probably be a disaster."

    In the past few days of guarding the city, the Jincheng camp, which was originally somewhat alone in the army, has become much closer to the baggage and craftsman battalions who stayed behind. In addition, Xiao Jiuben, who stayed behind in Lanzhou, was originally from Shu, which also caused the Jincheng camp to  Feeling quite close.  The three captains who stayed in Lanzhou each had their own division of labor. Xiao Jiu took charge of the overall situation and was personally responsible for the four city walls. Leyangfu led the sergeants of the Jincheng Camp to be responsible for the security of the city, while Li Jian was responsible for managing the craftsmen's slaves in the camp, building repairs, etc.  To distribute equipment and supplies, food and fodder, the cooperation has been very close these days.

    "This is easy. We only select those tribal warriors who have family members in the craftsmanship camp. These people are concerned about the safety of their families and will not risk rebellion." Li Jian retorted, feeling secretly ashamed in his heart for taking charge of the craftsmanship camp.  , especially after enriching thousands of labor slaves, my mind gradually became darker.  This is probably a common mental illness among prison guards.

    "Let's do this. Lieutenant Li will select the trustworthy and available tribal warriors in the craftsman camp. Five hundred of them will be selected for training first. Later, if external forces are tight again, they will be supplemented in teams of ten."  Xiao Jiu pondered and said, the remaining three battalion captains are all Han, and they are more defensive against the Hu tribe than the captains from Xingu and Yu Furengui, and their ability to control tribal warriors is also weaker.  If you don't have a few, you can only break down the warriors among the slaves into a team of ten for use.

    "If Lieutenant Xin were here, he would probably set up a barbarian dead soldier battalion like An Lushan's 'Yiluohe' as a sharp knife to carry out counterattacks against the Song people." Xiao Jiu thought secretly in his heart, "There is another piece of good news.  I want to inform you that Mr. Chen defeated the 30,000-strong coalition army of the Song Dynasty, Dangxiang, and Tibet at the gate of Liangzhou City. The army is besieging Lingzhou and is negotiating with the imperial court on the condition that the Li family in Dingnan and the Zhe family in Fuzhou surrender."  There was some regret in Xiao Jiu's words. The six states of Guasha, Gansu and Liangling were thousands of miles apart, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, strong horses, and people who dared to fight. In these troubled times of the Five Dynasties, it was the foundation for becoming king and emperor.

    The captains held discussions in the tower until late at night before they dispersed.  Xiao Jiu looked at the Diao Dou lantern in the Song Army's camp in the distance, sighed, and slept undressed on a wool blanket next to the commander's seat without taking off his armor.  The cool night wind filled the air with the stench of boiling gold juice and broken limbs. Every time he heard the sound of drums outside, his forehead, which had long been wrinkled, trembled twice, and his hand tightened on the hilt of the sword.

    In Lanzhou City, a child cried "Wow~" and woke up countless people who were not sleeping soundly. "If you cry again, I will throw you to the military camp outside the city." With the mother's threats, the crying suddenly stopped.  .

    "Mom, don't be afraid. Daddy will definitely come back, bringing the bravest sergeants with him to kill these cowards outside the city." Yu Fuhaishan raised his brows. Although the fifteen-year-old military son still had some embarrassment on his face,  The young man is almost as tall as an ordinary man. He is wearing a short coat sewn from Yu Furengui's old military robe, which makes him almost the same as a strong man guarding the city. He also holds a horizontal sword in his hand and is trying to imitate it.  Yu Furengui's expression comforted his mother Ouyang.

    "Mom is not afraid." Mrs. Ouyang stroked the top of his head. "Before your father came back, there were two men protecting Yu Fu's family." As she said this, she looked lovingly at the sleeping man in the quilt.  Heng's youngest son Yu Fu Yanping.

    "Mom, will Mr. Chen lead troops to defeat these Song people?" As if he realized that he was still a child in the eyes of his mother, Yu Fuhaishan became a little uneasy, and even revealed the anxiety in his heart.  This season is just like the chaotic times of the Warring States Period, when the city was fought for and filled with people, and the land was filled with people and the fields were filled with people.  Even children aged fourteen or fifteen have been exposed to it since childhood and know the cruelty of war.

    Ouyang smiled lovingly, gently opened the window a crack, and pointed to a lantern hanging high on the flagpole of a large house in the distance, which was particularly eye-catching on this roof.  "Did you see that lantern?" Ouyang asked.  "I saw it." Yu Fuhaishan nodded.  "That is the residence of Mistress Mistress. Mistress Master is with us. Master Chen will definitely return to the army to rescue Lanzhou." Ouyang replied affirmatively.  Since the siege of Lanzhou City, the families of senior military officers have known that the main force of the army in the city is thousands of miles away, separated by many obstacles from the various vassal forces of the Song Dynasty. It is almost impossible to smoothly return reinforcements, so the only person they rely on is Chen De himself.  His family members are also in the city, and they live and die together.  After Chen De took control of Lanzhou, he led everyone to do many earth-shattering things. Seeing that Huang Wen also stayed in the city, the sergeant's family members secretly believed that the Lanzhou army could also create miracles this time.

    In a pavilion under the lantern, there is a baby on a small bedHuang Wen, who was sleeping soundly and had just returned to her room, gently pulled her little finger out of the child's mouth and said softly: "Bite your finger for fear that the little girl's teeth will become crooked and she will not be able to marry when she grows up." However, Zhou Hou  He hummed: "My sister is such a virtuous person, but that person is actually cruel enough to leave you mother and daughter in this dangerous place."

    After Chen De attacked Hexi, he originally had a chance to take Huang Wen and others to Hexi. However, he was worried that the sergeant's family members were all in Lanzhou, numbering thousands of people. If Huang Wen and her daughter were taken away, Xingu,  What about the families of Yu Furengui and other officers?  If the families of officers are taken to Hexi, what will happen to the families of grassroots sergeants?  The Sixth Army in Hexi has already absorbed a lot of fresh blood. It is the critical time to rely on the old sergeants to assimilate the newly attached Guiyi Army and Uighur soldiers into the system. Once the sergeants become resentful, they may not wait for the enemy to attack, and their own military morale will be damaged.  They broke up, so Chen De insisted not to take his family out of Lanzhou first.  To escort thousands of soldiers and their families to the west, nearly ten thousand troops were required. In the area of ??the Four Battles in Hexi, so many troops and horses could not be sent back for a while, so they had to make a last resort, attack Lingzhou and negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty.  Chen De explained all the ins and outs in detail to Xiao Jiu, who stayed behind in Lanzhou, and Xiao Jiu also reported it to Huang Wen.

    "Let my sister stay in Lanzhou, so I can apologize to my sister on behalf of my husband." Huang Wen smiled softly and did not defend Chen De, but it made it difficult for Zhou Hou to continue talking.  Since the Song army besieged the city and the two armies fought, more and more wounded sergeants and strong men have been injured. Huang Wen has vacated most of the commander's rooms to accommodate the wounded soldiers, so that she and Zhou Hou could only live in a crowded room.  inside the room.  Not only that, as a mistress, she personally led many officers, officers' families and women in the city to bandage and change dressings for these wounds, and asked for various medicinal materials from the craftsmen's camp. Among the soldiers and civilians of Lanzhou during the siege, although she  You can't fight on the city wall, but it is like a anchoring stone in everyone's mind.  The injured who were groaning in pain due to lack of medical treatment would grit their teeth and endure it when she passed by.  The situation that was originally panicked due to the army siege of the city became orderly because of the existence of this "mistress".  This situation gave Xiao Jiu, who stayed in Lanzhou, the illusion that it was not him but his wife who stayed in Lanzhou. She often reported on the situation of the military and civilians inside and outside.

    Even Queen Zhou, who used to be aloof and arrogant in the past, has increasingly felt that Huang Wen has a kind of temperament that makes people feel friendly but dare not violate her. "Perhaps this is why everyone in Lanzhou is willing to follow her to the death."  That's why I'm here." Zhou Hou used to be a proud and arrogant woman, but now she feels a little ashamed.

    Compared with Lanzhou, which is constantly attacked and killed, Lingzhou is much peaceful outside the city.  In the atmosphere of peace talks, neither the Song army sparsely scattered on the city wall nor the Han army who exercised every day under the city wall seemed to have no intention of fighting.  Every day I heard the golden drums being drilled in the Han camp, it was when the Song army was changing the guard. "Don't look at the barbarians from Hedong, the troops are quite orderly!" The bored soldiers of Hujie on the city wall joked to each other as they watched the Han army perform drills.

    "You don't understand this. How much money and effort are given? Their military salary is twice that of ours. There are dozens of civilians below to wait for them. When the person named Chen sits in Longting, everyone below him is  Chickens and dogs ascend to heaven." He Ping, the captain of the Tiger Army, said while lazily wiping the crossbow machine, looking down at the city with envy.

    The soldier who spoke at first was named Su Ling. Hearing this, he couldn't help but asked: "Old He, I heard that Mr. Dong recommended the man surnamed Chen to be the governor of Shuofang. If we also come under his command, the treatment will at least be the same.  Those Hedong barbarians below the city should be treated as equals."

    He Ping thought seriously for a while, shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, first come, first served, I'd be satisfied with half of them."

    Although the reserves in Lingzhou City were quite sufficient, there were always some shortages of supplies. Lin Zhong suggested to Dong Zunyi that during the peace talks, the Han army should allow the Song army to send 300 people out of the city every day to purchase chickens, ducks, vegetables, fruits, medicinal materials, etc. from nearby villages.  Chen De granted the order with understanding and actively expanded the number of Song troops allowed out of the city to 500 people per day.  Not only did the Song army in the city not want to fight to the death with the Han army, but many of the Han army's soldiers and their families were also in Lanzhou, hoping that the two families could negotiate peace, so they took turns going out of the city to have a look, and there were also a lot of interactions between the Song army and the Han army.  Each other understood some of their respective situations.  As a result, the Longwei Army, Hujie Army, and Tongyuan Army, all the real soldiers of the Forbidden Army, were envious of the treatment of the Han army under Chen De.

    The Song army was idle in the city, but the Han army outside the city was not idle. According to Chen De's instructions, the Han army began to check household registrations in each village, and methodically made preliminary preparations for organizing the loose Han people outside the city into shade households.

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