Cui Yanjin and the others on the top of the city tower were really ecstatic when they saw Yang Xianmao come back safely. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf something happened to the prison army, then he, the commander, could not escape the blame. At that moment, he hurriedly ordered to put down the drawbridge, Guo Shouwen and Li Jilong each led a strange army and cavalry out of the city to guard around, and Cui Yanjin led people out of the city to greet him, and introduced Yang Xianmao to Mozhou.

Yang Xianmao waved his hand to Cui Yanjin and the others who were full of anxiety and said, "I'm sorry, I'm worried about you, I just suddenly have something urgent to deal with, and I don't have time to tell you, it's just a private matter, you don't have to be nervous." ”

After Cui Yanjin escorted Yang Xianmao back to the yamen, he whispered to Yang Xianmao: "I got the urgent military information, the Liao army participated in the siege of Mozhou's 50,000 army, led by Yelu Xiuge, and came to participate in the siege day and night. In this way, there will be 110,000 Liao troops outside the city. We have urgently reported the situation to the emperor and asked for reinforcements. ”

Yang Xianmao frowned, this Yelu Xiu brother is really haunted, and he came to Mozhou to make trouble again. Mozhou has a total of 20,000 or 30,000 horses, and it is still a bit difficult to deal with the enemy's 110,000 Liao army. At that moment, he said to Cui Yanjin: "Are there any soldiers and horses from nearby states and counties rushing to reinforce me?"

Cui Yanjin shook his head and said: "The area around Guannan has the most soldiers and horses in Mozhou City, and the other prefectures and counties are relatively small, and the defenders are not tens of thousands. It's good to be able to hold his own city, but I'm afraid that he won't be able to divide his troops to come for reinforcements. Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize a large army from the rear to rush over. ”

Yang Xianmao nodded and said, "Okay, then we will stick to the city and wait for help." Anyway, the emperor's request to us is to stick to the city, instead of finding a way to repel the Liao army, so it's okay for us to hold it for a while, right?"

Cui Yanjin smiled and said: "Although we only have twenty or thirty thousand people, we are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, many of them are soldiers who participated in the battle of Mancheng, and they are all your old subordinates. In addition, our walls are strong, and there is plenty of food and grass, so it is no problem to defend him for a few months, and we will definitely be able to wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

Yang Xianmao nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then you should quickly deploy defenses for defense, I don't know much about military affairs, and it all depends on you." ”

Cui Yanjin smiled and said: "Lord Yang, you are too modest, you have fought all over the city, you are famous all over the world, and you are well versed in the art of war, how can you say that you do not understand military affairs? The soldiers all hope that there will be a majestic general like you to lead the troops, so that they can win a big battle." ”

"You're really putting gold in my face, hehe. ”

Cui Yanjin said that Yang Xianmao had worked hard all night and rested early, so he said goodbye and left.

Yang Xianmao returned to the inner office, closed the door, and immediately took out the new armillary sphere from the storage bag, took out the booklet, and checked the weather conditions against the data on it.

The armillary sphere data shows how the weather has changed for each of the last three days, and it shows that the first and second days will still have a northerly wind with moderate winds. However, there will be a big snowstorm on the third day.

In the past three days, there was no south wind that Yang Xianmao hoped for, and he was a little disappointed, so he took the armillary sphere and the others back into the storage box.

As soon as he cleaned up, someone knocked on the door, and when he opened the door, it was Princess Xuan'er, who pouted and looked at her with a small mouth, "Where did you go last night?"

"I'm out and about, it's a bit personal. ”

"Why didn't you take me? Am I a burden to you? Why did you dump me twice? Last time, although my father had a holy decree to you to rush back urgently, this time there was no father to call you, right? Why didn't you call me? Is there anything unsightly that you have to avoid me? You have agreed, you will take me wherever you go, you want to take me all over the world, why don't you call me when you go out?"

Yang Xianmao really couldn't think of a suitable reason to explain why he wasn't called a princess for a while, so he could only say curtly: "I...... , I see that it is late at night, and I am afraid that you will fall asleep and delay you, and you will just come back after going out for a walk. There is a Liao army outside the city, for fear of danger, so I didn't call you. ”

"I don't care, I came to the border city to see you fight with the Liao army, to see that you are not as brave as your father said, but you are unwilling to take me, what is this like? Next time you want to sneak out again and don't take me, I will report to my father for punishing you, and if you don't obey your father's holy decree, you will be punished for a crime of resisting the decree. ”

Yang Xianmao saw her take out the posture of a princess, so she could only smile bitterly, and arched her hand and said, "Okay, princess, Weichen will never dare again." I'll definitely take you next time. Huh"

When Princess Xuan'er said this, she suddenly lowered her head again and began to sniff, her eyes were red, and tears fell one by one.

Yang Xianmao couldn't figure out why she was so fierce before, but now she was crying again, and hurriedly said, "What's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"

Xuan'er sobbed and said, "I know, you think I'm a burden, so you don't take me anywhere." If that's the case, then, then you leave me alone, I'll play by myself!"

With that, Xuan'er twisted her body, stomped her feet and ran out, and the maid lark also glared at Yang Xianmao and ran out after her.

Yang Xianmao chased out of the door and was about to explain to the princess, but Li Jilong came and said that Cui Yanjin had asked him to discuss the matter of defense. Yang Xianmao had to find another time to talk to the little princess about this matter.

Cui Yanjin discussed with Yang Xianmao about the deployment, but Yang Xianmao just listened and basically didn't give any opinions. Because he doesn't understand, he can't command blindly. However, it is just the opportunity to learn about the specific deployment of military defense on the spot.

After the discussion, Yang Xianmao went to find the princess, but the princess closed the door and disappeared. Yang Xianmao went to the snake fairy aunt's house to speak.

Yang Xianmao proposed that if Brother Yelu Xiu personally attacked the city, he hoped that the snake fairy Gu could fight against Brother Yelu Xiu with him.

The snake fairy aunt said that her main duty was to protect the princess and not help them defend the city, but since Yang Xianmao asked for it, she should repay Yang Xianmao for saving her life. When the time comes, she will help Yang Xianmao face Yelu Xiuge. This made Yang Xianmao feel at ease. Otherwise, Yelu Xiuge is an eighth-level powerhouse, although Li Jilong is also an eighth-level powerhouse, plus Guo Shouwen and Cui Yanjin, he should be able to deal with it, but what he is worried about is that if the Liao army sends a large number of strong people, he is afraid that Li Jilong and they will not be able to deal with Yelu Xiuge, so at this time, burying the powerful chess piece of the snake fairy Gu as a backing, you can be more assured.

In the following two days, Cui Yanjin, Guo Shouwen, Li Jilong and others stepped up their deployment and sent people to dig deep and dig a wide ditch outside the city. And they added logs, stones, and bows and arrows to the city, and set up cauldrons. Prepare large quantities of crude oil. When the time comes, you can ignite the burning and pour it down, scalding to death and scalding the Liao army besieging the city.

The young and middle-aged people in the city were organized as reserves, mainly involved in transporting rolling logs and stones for defense, arranging for women to transport and care for wounded soldiers, and delivering food and water to the front-line soldiers. At the same time, patrols were organized to maintain law and order in the city, so as to prevent the enemy from setting fire or poisoning to avoid civil unrest.

On the third day, when I got up in the morning, I saw dark clouds covering the top, as if they were about to crush the mountain city, and then the wind began to blow from all directions. With the goose feathers and heavy snow, mixed with the chaotic storm, it poured down into Mozhou City.

The inside and outside of the city were suddenly plunged into a blizzard. The storm blew the military flags on the city tower, and even directly broke some of the flagpoles, and disappeared with the whirlwind swept into the air.

The soldiers defending the city either hid in the city tower, or curled up behind the battlements, but the vigilance was still very high, although the blizzard was raging, they still looked at the movement outside from time to time to see if there was any Liao army taking advantage of the chaos to sneak attack.

The sentries deployed on the city gate tower were even more like javelins, standing in the storm and looking around, closely guarding the vast snowfields around to see if there was any abnormality, especially in the direction of the Liao army camp ten miles away.

In the past few days, the Liao army no longer came to call for battle, nor did it retreat, and of course the Song army would not take the initiative to attack, so it was deadlocked. The Song army also knew that the Liao army was waiting for reinforcements to arrive, and they were afraid that they would start attacking the city after joining forces.

He is now raging in a blizzard, undoubtedly helping the Song army a lot, such a blizzard is very unfavorable to the Liao army besieging the city, the arrow towers they erected, the cloud ladders they erected, will be blown down by the wind. Therefore, they will not brave a snowstorm to forcibly attack the city. But don't take it lightly.

When the blizzard appeared, Yang Xianmao stood in the patio in surprise, looking at the broken snow falling from the sky, feeling the chaotic cold wind rolling in all directions, blowing his clothes and belts in all directions, and his hair was scattered, but his heart was ecstatic. Because he got a baby, a baby who can predict the weather.

Three days ago, data from the new armillary sphere predicted a snowstorm on the third day. Sure enough, the blizzard came as scheduled, and it was raging enough.

I can't see that Zhang Sixun, a student of Si Tianjian who talks long-winded and has a toothache, is really a genius, and he actually invented such a wonderful instrument that can really predict weather changes. This thing is a treasure that can predict the heavens.

Yang Xianmao immediately discovered the important military role of this new armillary sphere. In ancient warfare, the weather had a great influence on the combat of armies in the age of cold weapons. In the military books that Yang Xianmao read during this time, many famous battles of the previous generation were benefited from or frustrated by the weather.

One of the most famous examples of the war is that when Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, led his army to defeat Liu Bang and besieged him by the Suishui River, he could have eliminated Liu Bang in one fell swoop, but suddenly a strong wind blew, rolling up sand and dust, covering the sky and the sun. In this way, Liu Bang took advantage of the wind and dust storm and successfully escaped from the encirclement of the Chu army with dozens of followers.

If you have this treasure who knows the weather, won't you be able to use the weather to help you fight? The winning rate will definitely be greatly improved.

Yang Xianmao was excited by this idea, and he decided to wait for the end of this great war, return to the capital, and immediately reward Zhang Sixun, a student of Si Tianjian, and buy him a new and better armillary sphere that he was making now. And he was required to keep it absolutely secret, for which he could give him a heavy reward, and even ask the emperor to recommend him as an official. But you must not let it out, lest it be taken by the enemy.

Cui Yanjin sent to guard Yang Xianmao and the maid who served him saw him standing stupidly in the snowstorm, tilting his head and smirking, he couldn't help but look at each other, he didn't know what evil the general had fallen into, but no one dared to come forward to disturb him.