Guo Song was looking at the map of Hebei in the big tent, he believed that Zhu Tao had received the news and was hurrying back, and Yao Jin led an army to chase and kill him.

At this time, Xindu County should be taken down, it is not difficult to occupy Xindu County and even Jizhou, the difficulty is whether the people return to their hearts, after all, the people of Jizhou have lived under the rule of the feudal town for several generations, and they are very indifferent to the monarch and the imperial court.

At this time, the soldier reported in the tent: "Your Highness, an old man has come outside, claiming to be the head of the Lu family, called Lu Jingliang, asking to see His Highness!" ”

Guo Song was stunned, then overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up and invite him in!" ”

Guo Song really didn't expect Lu Jingliang to come, he just entered Youzhou, he came, which shows the eagerness of the Lu family.

Guo Song personally walked out of the big tent to greet him, at this time, Lu Jingliang came under the guidance of the soldiers, Guo Song greeted him with a smile, "Welcome to the camp of the Lu family!" ”

Lu Jingliang hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Jing Liang has always wanted to come to Chang'an to meet His Royal Highness, but I didn't expect that the first time we met was in Youzhou, Jing Liang was very ashamed!" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Although it is the first time to meet the head of the family, the Lu family has already shown its existence in Chang'an, isn't Lu Lun, who joined the army in my office, sent by the head of the Lu family?" ”

"Your Highness is right, it's better to be famous than to meet, and it's better to meet than to have a heart-to-heart, Your Highness's trust in the Lu family, the Lu family has always remembered it."

"Let's go into the big tent and say, 'The head of the house, please!"

"Your Highness, please!"

The two humbly walked into the big tent, sat down at the small table, and a personal soldier came in and served them tea.

Lu Jingliang served as a scholar in the Great Calendar year, and once did the military department, and later was implicated by his brother Lu Qi, and served as the assassin of Langzhou, which is today's Changde in Hunan, and offended Song Chaofeng, Song Chaofeng offered slander in front of Li Shi, saying that the Lu family supported Zhu Tao, Li Shi listened to the slander, and was ready to belittle him to Lingnan again, Lu Jingliang resigned and returned to his hometown in anger.

"Your Highness's strategy this time is very exciting!"

Lu Jingliang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Successfully transfer Zhu Zhu's main force to the south, use Yao Jin to drag him, and His Royal Highness will attack from the side and smash the old nest, if nothing else, Zhu Tao Youzhou City should not be able to be saved." ”

Guo Song smiled faintly: "The city wall of Youzhou is tall and wide, and the moat is very wide, it is not easy to capture it!" ”

"It's really not easy to attack, there were originally only 10,000 troops in the city, Lu Jinsuo led 10,000 troops to retreat to Youzhou before, and thousands of people fled back in Yizhou, now there are about 23,400 people in Youzhou City, more than 500,000 stones of grain, more than 200,000 people, the circumference of the city wall is more than 40 miles, the city wall is four zhang high, and the city head is as wide as two zhang and five feet, it has just been renovated and rebuilt ten years ago, and more importantly, the people in the city are more supportive of Zhu Tao, and the morale is high."

"Who will the Lord be?"

"It should be Lu Jinsuo, but this person has nothing to do with the Lu family, he is actually a descendant of the Goguryeo people, he wants to have a relationship with the Lu family, but he has a bad character and was rejected by me."

Guo Song picked up the teacup and took a sip and said with a smile: "The head of the Lu family traveled one hundred and fifty miles to come to me, not just to introduce the situation of Youzhou City Defense!" ”

"Of course not, the capture of Youzhou City still requires internal and external cooperation."

"Is there a chance?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"Of course there's a chance!"

Lu Jingliang smiled slightly: "More than 20,000 people alone can't defend Youzhou City, Lu Jinsuo has begun to recruit a large number of people, he asked people to bring a message to me, hoping that the children of the Lu family and the Lu family's protector Ding will also enter the city to participate in the defense." ”

Guo Song immediately understood, and he hurriedly asked, "How many people are there in Lujiazhuang?" ”

"Eight hundred!"

Guo Song took a few steps with his hands in his hand, and immediately ordered: "Let Zhang Yun come to see me immediately!" ”

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Youzhou City also received a flying pigeon message from the Yizhou defenders, and learned that tens of thousands of Jin troops were coming to Youzhou, which made a rumor in Youzhou City, Youzhou was originally Zhonglang General Liu Changgan, after Lu Jinsuo withdrew to Youzhou, Zhu Tao specially sent an eagle to order Lu Jinsuo to stay in Youzhou, and appointed the strategist Jia Shu as a military advisor to assist Lu Jinsuo.

Jia Shu is still a little talented, he knows very well that 20,000 people need logistical support, to go to the city to fight, and the troops are simply not enough, so he suggested that Lu Jinsuo recruit tens of thousands of people to help defend the city, and at the same time ask the major giants to summon the Zhuang Ding distributed in the manors outside the city into the city to assist in the defense.

Lu Jinsuo accepted his suggestion, and he sent someone to inform the dozen or so wealthy clans in Youzhou to withdraw to the city, along with their Zhuang Ding, of course.

These wealthy families are basically Zhu Tao's relatives, including his in-laws, the maiden families of his wives and concubines, etc., they got a lot of money and land in Zhu Tao's hands, and gradually became the new wealthy families in Youzhou.

Only the Lu family is more special, it is a famous family in the world, and the children are all over Hebei Youyan, the Lu family and Zhu Tao cooperated, so that Zhu Tao could firmly rule Youzhou, so the Lu family's family property and manor have always been protected by Zhu Tao, and Zhu Tao also specially approved him to have his own Zhuang Ding like his relatives.

A team of wealthy Zhuang Ding entered the city one after another, and his family and property also entered the city;

In the afternoon of this day, more than 20 carriages of the Lu family also entered the city, which were all Lu clansmen living outside the city, including Lu Jingliang, the head of the family, followed by a blue-clothed spear army behind the carriage procession, which was the eight hundred Zhuang Ding of the Lu family, they all wore blue samurai uniforms, and everyone jokingly called them the blue-clothed army.

This blue-clothed spear army was led by the general Lu Chang, Lu Chang was one of the few generals in the Lu family's children, he had served as a lieutenant general in Liu Qia's army, more than thirty years old, burly, and powerful, Zhu Tao wanted to recruit him several times, but he refused politely.

At the head of the city, Lu Jinsuo looked at this majestic blue-clothed spear army, he nodded and said to the city gate general Daniel Zhang: "No wonder Wang Ye has always attached great importance to Lu Chang, just look at this army, the army is neat and murderous, and a Zhuang Ding army can actually be trained comparable to a regular army, which is too rare." ”

"Since the general has taken a fancy to it, why don't you let them join the Youzhou Army?"

"The Lu family may not be willing to agree, but it should be okay to use it as a militia group, and I will talk to Lu Jingliang about it later."

At this time, a soldier ran over and said, "General, the head of the Lu family is invited!" ”

Lu Jinsuo's great-grandfather had been a steward in the Lu family's manor, so he changed his surname to Lu, after Lu Jinsuo gradually developed, he wanted to join the Lu family tree several times, but was unsuccessful, although he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he still did not dare to slack off on the Lu family, and hurriedly ran down the road to the city.

A gorgeous carriage stopped at the city gate, the curtain had been opened, Lu Jingliang smiled and said to Lu Jin: "Congratulations to General Lu for his promotion!" ”

"I am loved by the old prince, and I am ashamed of my humble position."

"In this way, the Lu family school will hold a celebration in May, and all the Lu protégés and Lu children from Hebei will participate, does the general have time?"

Lu Jinsuo was suddenly overjoyed, this was hinting at himself! The Lu family is going to accept himself, and he understands in his heart that this is because of his promotion, the Lu family is still relatively snobbish, but then again, which family is not snobbish?

He hurriedly bowed down and said, "The head of the family is invited, how dare Jin Suo not come?" ”

Lu Jingliang nodded, "The general will be officially notified then." ”

At this time, Lu Chang stepped forward and asked, "Family master, will the blue-clothed kid go directly to the old mansion?" ”

Lu Jingliang asked Lu Jinsuo casually: "The general summoned all the Zhuang Ding into the city, how are you going to use it?" ”

Lu Jinsuo hurriedly said: "The army is relatively small, temporarily incorporated into the army, if the Lu family is unwilling, you can negotiate!" ”

Lu Jingliang pondered for a moment and said: "After all, they are just Zhuang Ding, let them go to the city to fight, I'm afraid it's not suitable, if they patrol the city, guard the door, maintain law and order, etc., I don't think the problem is too much, what does the general think?" ”

"No problem!"

Lu Jinsuo agreed, "It will be used as an internal service army." ”

Lu Jingliang continued: "However, I'm afraid that the outsiders of the Lu family will not be able to command, so it is still commanded by Lu Chang, and it is best not to disperse." ”

Lu Jinsuo hesitated slightly, the military advisor told him that the family army must be commanded by their own generals, not by themselves, to prevent them from eating inside and out.

But he couldn't help but give the face of the head of the Lu family, he thought for a while and said: "Generally, I send a general to command, but since the head of the family has a request, then I will arrange a deputy general, can the head of the family see this?" ”

Lu Jingliang glanced at Lu Chang, Lu Chang nodded, and Lu Jingliang smiled and said: "It's okay to be a deputy general, and I won't make it difficult for the general." ”

Lu Jinsuo waved and called Daniel Zhang up, "From now on, you will also be General Lu's adjutant general." ”

Daniel Zhang was really reluctant, but there was no way, so he had to pinch his nose and agree, "Obey the order!" ”

Lu Jinsuo also asked Daniel Zhang to take Lu Chang and eight hundred soldiers to the barracks to rest, and by the way, he had to change into the leather armor of the Youzhou Army.

Lu Jingliang and Lu Jinsuo exchanged a few words, and then took the clansmen to Lufu.