After Li Gang left the palace, he presided over the war preparations in his ruling capacity. Orders were passed down, and Cao Guangbi was summoned to come to the staff officer. Cao Guangbi had been waiting for a long time in the Kongbi Publishing House, and he was happy to come at this time. Since the police were reported in Yanshan, the Zhao Guanjia thought about escaping, and it was only at this time that they began to rectify the combat readiness of the Beijing Division.

Bianliang city defense, heavy in the outer city, also known as the national city, is built by Zhou Shizong, the circumference of 48 miles 233 steps. After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin decided to expand Bianliang, because the original city wall is curved and wan, like an earthworm snake ambushing, quite unsightly, so there is a work map of Wenchen Linglu, designed into a boxy, straight and good-looking city, there are city gates on all sides, the longitude and latitude of the fang city are in the meantime, well organized. As a result, Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he saw the drawings, and personally took a pen to alter it, changing the city wall to a tortuous and longitudinal oblique, and commented on the clouds: "Build it accordingly!" "However, it was only slightly increased to maintain the general appearance of the original wall.

Although Wenchen felt that the city wall was built like this, it was very ugly, but he did not dare to disobey it. They didn't know that Zhou Shizong and Song Taizu were all from military considerations, twisting and longitudinal, and all they considered was the convenience of offense and defense!

In the Zhenghe period, our great artist Emperor Zhao Ji looked down on the ugly city wall built by his ancestors. Cai Jing, who has a profound aesthetic cultivation, figured out the intention and asked to expand the city wall so that the palace could be confined to it. Zhao Ji was overjoyed and ordered a eunuch to be in charge of this matter, spending a lot of manpower and material resources to change the city wall of Bianliang to be square and beautiful.

Cao Guangbi was quite clever at this time, and after inspecting the city wall with Li Gang, he was frightened, and said in his heart: "This city wall is so big under attack, how can it be defended!" ”

But the golden soldiers will arrive in a few days, and where is it too late to change the city wall at this time? I had to try to use all the troops and manpower as a stubborn plan, and divide the troops into a hundred steps to prepare for the defense, and in addition to the armor, residents, and subordinates of the box army on each wall, we also used more than 2,000 regular soldiers. Out of the treasury of money and grain, repair the building turret, cloth and hung felt curtains, set up artillery mounts, set up crossbow beds, and transport bricks and stones, torches, hanging wood, prepare fire oil, all the defensive tools, all are complete - Bianliang is located in the place of the four wars, so the ancestors and ancestors have a lot of inventory, although the matter is hasty, it is still enough to deal with the emergency.

In addition, there are subordinate officials, clansmen, and military ministers on the four walls as promotion officials, and all doors have nobles and envoys. He also united 40,000 Ma Bu troops as the front, rear, left, right, and middle armies. 8,000 people have a command, commanding generals, soldiers, generals, etc., and practice every day. In the past, the army lived outside the East Water Gate, protecting Yanfengcang, which had 400,000 stones of grain and grass, and was the place of life and death of Bianliang. Later, the army lived outside the east gate to guard Fanjiagang, the biggest gap in Bianliang. The other left, right, and center troops were stationed in the city in case of emergency.

At this time, although the number of horses in the Bianliang army is large, but they do not practice for a long time, the soldiers can not hold the bow, they will not be able to ride horses, some of the cavalry selected into the forbidden army have never been saddled in their lives, after getting on the horse, as soon as the horse leaves, they are so frightened that they grab the saddle with both hands and lie on the back of the horse and dare not move, lest they fall down. Cao Guangbi secretly complained bitterly, and in desperation, he had to ask Li Gang to choose people who could fight from among them and form another army to deal with the emergency. However, the most defensive generals of the Great Song Dynasty abused their power, and Li Gang could control the generals and mobilize the armies with the ruling power, but it was taboo to select elite soldiers to recombine and train - that was the precursor to the great change in the military system, how to do it! Cao Guangbi also knew that the Great Song family law was like this, and he had to give up when he said it twice and knew that it was difficult.

On the fifth day of the first month, Bianliang began to prepare for the war, and by the eighth day of the first month, the battle equipment was initially prepared, and Guo Yaoshi's forward had already taken the position of Mu Huogang. Cao Guangbi was furious when he heard that the guards of Mu Huogang fled without a fight, and thought that if these generals were in the Han Department, they would all be dealt with by military law! But at this time, the soldiers who fled had long since disappeared, and even if they wanted to punish them as an example, they would not be able to arrange for them to do it!

Although Bianliang Hu rode and roared under the city, Cao Guangbi knew that their biggest enemy was not Zong Wang, but Zhao Huan!

On that day, Li Gang thought that the emperor had made up his mind, so he went out of the palace to prepare for war, but who knew that the next day it was rumored that the emperor was going to escape, and even the god card in the temple had been moved out. Li Gang was discussing with Cao Guangbi how to place the catapult at that time, and when he heard the news, he hurriedly rode into the palace and arrived at the Xiangxi Palace, where he saw that the guards had all been armoured, the carriages used to escape had been lined up, and the six palaces were all placed next to the car and ready to be moved - Bai Shizhong arranged these things, and the efficiency was much higher than Li Gang's arrangement of war preparations!

Li Gang saw such a battle, and also knew that Zhao Huan was not the master who dared to fight and defend after all, and he really felt like death in an instant. Cao Guangbi said on the side: "The Jin soldiers are near, and now it is too late to support the emperor to transfer to Luoyang and Chang'an to order the world, so I have to be caught up by Zongwang's light cavalry on the road." At this time, they either defended Bianliang and sought victory, or abandoned the capital and scattered. In a hurry, Li Gong cheered up! As a last resort, there is only one way to coerce the people! ”

Li Gang was old and spicy after all, and he only hesitated for a long time before he calmed down, because he shouted loudly and said, "Who are you waiting for?" ”

The guards were touched by Li Gang's passion, and they all shrugged and said: "We are the Great Song Forbidden Army!" The world's elite! ”

Li Gang said loudly: "What a great Song forbidden army, the elite of the world!" When this country is in danger, are you willing to abandon the country and flee with thieves such as Xuetong Guan and Zhu Mianna, or are you willing to die to defend the sect? ”

The families of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty were all in Bianliang, and in this case, Hu fled from the emperor, and the family members could not be taken away no matter what. ”

Li Gang was relieved, left Cao Guangbi outside the palace, and forced the palace marshal Wang Zongchu and others to see him, and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty has promised the ministers to stay yesterday, and now I will resume the abstinence, for some reason!" ”

Zhao Huan couldn't answer, and Li Gang said: "Now that the love of the six armies has changed, and the parents and wives of the forbidden army are all in the capital, how can they give up their families and follow Your Majesty on patrol?" In case the forbidden army disperses and returns to Beijing halfway, who else will protect His Majesty. And the captives are imminent, once the Jin people detect that His Majesty is not far away, they will inevitably chase after him with light soldiers and horses, and His Majesty will have neither strong troops nor high walls, how to resist? This has been said very plainly: Emperor, you just want to escape, and now you can't escape! It's not as safe on the road as in the city!

No matter how confused Zhao Huan was, he finally understood when he heard this, and ordered him to quit. Li Gang turned his head and shouted to Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan and the others: "The Holy Lord has made up his mind, and if you dare to dissent, behead!" Bai Shizhong trembled with fright and didn't dare to say anything.

Li Gang came out of the Xiangxi Palace, and announced that the guards all bowed and shouted long live, and the sound was majestic. Li Gang persuaded Zhao Huan to go to the imperial tower to see the soldiers, but Zhao Huan had no choice but to allow him. At that moment, the Son of Heaven drove to the Xuande Gate, and the chiefs, hundreds of officials, and soldiers were clustered in front of the building, and Zhao Huan worked for a long time, so that the soldiers looked at the face of the sky, and then descended to ask the soldiers.

Li Gang and Cao Guangbi discussed dozens of inspiring words, wrote them hastily, and ordered the cabinet officials to read them out. Every time you read a sentence, the soldier promises. After reading it, the six armies wept with emotion. So the decision was made.

Since then, the geographical advantages, people and talents required for Bianliang's war defense have been barely completed, and at this time, it has been several months since Bianliang received the news that the Jin soldiers intended to invade the south. For months, it was all wasted!