Everywhere there was the sound of tinkling and repairing the fence of the walled city.

Although Fujiwara Hidego set a fire, he has been operating this Karasawa mountain castle for many years, and in later generations, it is one of the seven famous cities in the Kanto region.

Tangze Mountain City, since it has the Tang character, Lu Ning simply changed its name to New Tang City to commemorate the previous dynasty, as a "city", which is a special administrative region.

This Shimono Kingdom, as a buffer zone, was divided into dependent city lords, but Xintang City, as a front-line garrison, was distinguished from the rest of the counties and was directly managed by Daqi.

The city of New Tang was built by Fujiwara Hidego during the confrontation against the Heishomon Gate, and it was the throat of Hitachi, Musashi, and Shimoso.

The main force of the Xuanfu Battalion also pulled out the camp to the south and was stationed near the Belai Pass on the dividing line between Changlu and Mutsu, echoing the east and west of Xintang City.

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"Gurgling", the clear spring water flowing slowly and hot, pouring into the large stone pond and flowing out from the other side, this small wooden house is not much different from the natural hot spring houses of later generations.

There are many hot springs in Maono, and the most famous ones in later generations are Kusatsu Onsen and Kawaharayu Hot Springs, and Kusatsu Onsen is now quite famous, but it is too far away from here.

But I don't want to, there is also a hot spring in this new Tang City.

The New Tang Dynasty is a mountain city and is only for military use.

Lu Ning turned around, the building on the mountain, it is not a problem to station thousands of military horses.

Now, it's an early attack on the women's battalion and 200 samurai.

Yamashita Town, which should have had a large population, has now fled a lot, and it just so happens that the hundreds of people who have been following them have been divided into the fields under the mountain, and their families will also migrate over.

The difference between this Central Plains building is that this mountain city, military use first, basically does not consider the taboo between the female dependents and the soldiers, such as the Honmaru from the female dependents to go out of the city, but also through the barracks area, Dongying, although the aristocratic women also avoid the taboo to show their heads, but another style, its thinking and Middle-earth are originally different, after all, the female emperor has six people, the last female emperor, but more than a hundred years ago.

Lu Ning was not ready to renovate its layout.

And after turning around, Lu Ning liked the layout of this mountain city very much.

"Lu Bantou, you come!"

Lu Ning was walking around the green lawn of the main pill or the inner village, and happened to be wearing a magnificent kimono, and behind her, there was a female guard holding a beautiful paper umbrella to block the sun, which was really Dongying style.

After Lu Ning reluctantly walked over, Yi Lazy handed him a letterhead.

It was Yang Ye's recital, which was first sent to the Xuanfu camp and then sent from the Xuanfu camp, but it was said that he had led 3,000 troops and horses to break through the Kasuga Mountain Castle in Echigo Province.

Lu Ning smiled slightly, now, the basic plate in the concept, the buffer area, is almost the same as the land country and the Ueno country, but he is not ready to move, otherwise the next step will definitely be a national war with the Dongying people.

Now, at least I still have some excuses, Dewa and Mutsu are exterminating Ezo and attacking the country because Fujiwara Hidego first sent his son to lead the army to attack the Qi people.

Yang Ye led the troops into Echigo, which was also a similar excuse.

Echigo was just right to fight down, and it was originally worried that Shimono Province was only six prefectures, and the dozen or so castle lords who were attached to Dewa and the southern part of Mutsu and participated in the battle of Huixing were not enough, and now they are just moving some of them to Echigo.

and the south and Dongying, if you think about it, sooner or later, you will inevitably fight, even if you don't move now.

However, many of the ministers of Heiankyo did not agree to recruit the army to fight against the Qi people, mainly because they felt that the Qi people might withdraw from the army, even if they negotiated and gave the Qi people some benefits, it was better than fighting a tragic war with unknown outcome and defeat.

But if it is found that the Qi people are divided into the city lords in Kanto and Echigo, not to mention, and even the appointment of the governor by the Qi people to the prefecture is clearly to rule for a long time, then, no matter what the outcome of the war, they will inevitably do their best to fight.

However, to fight against the Qi people, the magnates of Kyoto naturally have to be fully prepared.

Himself, it will take time to digest the northern territories, and truly subdue these southern city lords.

It seems that they followed themselves to attack Fujiwara Hidego, but if the emperor issued an edict to recognize their status as the lord of the castle now recognized by the Qi people, and called on them to attack the Qi people together, it may not be what will happen at that time.

Some of them defect is inevitable, even if they are on the wall, they are all good, and there are few who can advance and retreat with Qi people, and the only one who is sure may be Zhang Zhengxiong of Shibata.

After all, he helped him avenge the killing of his whole family, this young man, he is not good at hypocrisy, he has always been loyal, Huixing joint battle, he is really desperate, some other city lords, many of them will save their strength, there are many small tricks, if it is not for their own pro-army to break through the Fujiwara Xiuxiang main formation, they will rush up to grab the merit, just rely on them, Huixing joint battle is a losing game.

Zhang Zhengxiong was also transferred to Hanoi County, the richest county in the center of Shimono Country, as the lord of Hanoi City.

In the buffer zone, Lu Ning did not change the county to a county, except for the place name with a strong color in Dongying, which was slightly changed, the rest of the place names have not changed.

And now, what we have to prepare for is a big battle with Dongying.

However, the garrison in the north is not easy to mobilize, after all, they are all just conquered places, and the people's hearts are unstable, if a large number of military horses are mobilized to the front line, they are afraid of a fire in the rear.

The best result is that Dongying people and horses come in batches and break them individually.

Having said that, the Dongying people are used to fighting nowadays, and it is natural to say that tens of thousands of horses are directly recruited from various powerful forces in the south, and even with the addition of peasant soldiers, it is no problem to recruit hundreds of thousands.

However, the terrain is not suitable for large-scale operations, and in addition to logistical problems, there is a question of whether the powerful in various localities are willing to have someone to command them in a unified manner.

If you really want to invest tens of thousands of troops in a battlefield, today's Dongying people don't have this habit or condition.

After all, it was in the Warring States Period five or six hundred years later that the northeastern region of Dongying was completely occupied and developed, and the population of Dongying swelled by three or four times.

However, the location of this New Tang City is important, and it depends on whether Yang Ye can transfer two battalions of troops to guard it, relying only on the female battalion and the samurai and the surrounding city lords, how can it feel a little empty.

Lu Ning was pondering, but he heard Yi lazy and said: "Since it has been checked here, it is safe, you Xuanfu pawn, if you can't summon it, or if you have an emergency military situation, don't go in and out of this pill casually." ”

Because the layout of the walled city of Dongying is different from that of the Central Plains, it is prepared for small-scale battles, so some of the names are changed to the Central Plains language, and it always feels that some words do not reach the meaning.

Yi was too lazy to say it, and Lu Ning didn't bother to pay attention to her, so he turned around and left.

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The second layer of the pill is the second layer of the inner village outside the main pill, and the third layer of the inner village is the third layer of the inner village.

The Konshomaru, Minamimaru, and Ninomaru, which are connected to the Honmaru, live in a women's camp.

Sannomaru, who lives in Lu Ning, has nine heavily armored soldiers, twenty Ezo auxiliaries and two generals.

In fact, because it is a mountain city, it is built according to the mountain situation, and the layout of the Central Plains walled city is completely different, such as this Sannomaru, which is a slightly flat hill that is shorter than Ninomaru, and the actual area is not as large as Ninomaru, and Sannomaru extends out according to the mountain, and there are long pills, tennomaru, golden stone pills, north pills, stone mountain pills and so on.

In fact, each pill can be regarded as a layer of defense, and the terrain is different from the adjacent pills, such as the Tennomaru and the Ishiyama Pill, both of which are built on slightly higher mountains, and can be used to support the defense of Sannomaru with various throwing equipment.

Therefore, it was really difficult for Lu Ning to find suitable Central Plains words to replace these Dongying style titles for a while, even if he used Zhai instead of pills, it didn't feel so appropriate.

But in any case, this new Tang City can be said to be impregnable in dealing with small-scale attacks.

An attack of a few thousand people, with a combat strength of a few hundred people, should be able to defend relatively easily, and if many people attack, Yamashita will not be able to exert it.

And as long as before the autumn of this year, the Dongying people did not attack in a big way, and there was more food in the mountain city, even how many Dongying people were not afraid to come.

This is also the reason why Lu Ning ordered the Xuanfu battalion to still hold the easternmost front, and if the Dongying people attacked, they must break through from the direction of the eastern front plain, where they must be guarded by the most elite soldiers.

On the contrary, this New Tang City, as long as there is food and drink, I feel that I am alone, and it is no problem to block thousands of military horses in Dongying.

And there is no shortage of water on the mountain, not only does the main pill have spring water, but there is a very low terrain under the mountain where the Tenmaru is located, and there is a large cooking well that has been dug, but if you don't break through the three no pills, you can't go to the well at all.

This walled city, built according to the mountain, is indeed ingenious, and it is not due to the painstaking management of Fujiwara Hidego, a wise man, for decades.

The more he walked around this mountain city, the more Lu Ning was amazed.

Of course, this kind of mountain city cannot survive in the Central Plains, first, it does not protect the people; Second, the catapult will be smashed down, no matter what exquisite structure you have, it will be sloppy; Thirdly, even if there are a large number of archers, it is not difficult to break through this kind of walled city at all.

However, Lu Ning really likes it, and feels that if the Dongying people attack in a big way, relying on the ravines, slopes, and dangerous places of this walled city, he can simply turn into a thousand people, right?

After wandering around in amazement, Lu Ning returned to Sannomaru.

Nagamaru, Tennomaru, Kaneishi Maru, Kitamaru, Ishiyamamaru, etc., lived 200 samurai, in fact, there is also a place called Shinimaru, which should have been used by Fujiwara Hidego to train young samurai, and now he also lives in samurai.

Sannomaru is a flatter hill shorter than Ninomaru, which was trimmed by Fujiwara Hidego, and it is necessary to bypass the Sannomaru platform from more than ten meters below, and go up the wooden ladder to enter Sannomaru, if the enemy comes to attack, not only the top of the head is at the foot of the opponent, but people can't climb up, the wooden ladder is taken down, and the gate falls, and the opponent's wooden ladder can't be so long, it is as high as the Sannomaru platform and the fence that is two people high.

Of course, if you really want to say that for this city, for the Dongying people, bring a lot of fire oil, burn the fence when they see it, and if the fire oil is enough, the opponent's defense force is insufficient, not that this city cannot be attacked, but the East Ying people basically do not have this kind of combat tradition, especially now, they are famous generals, and they rarely have the thinking of group combat.

On the Sannomaru platform, a row of Dongying-style grilled wooden houses is the residence of Lu Ning and other thirty-two people.

Twenty Ezo auxiliaries lived in a slightly crowded room, Lu Ning, nine soldiers, two generals, four people lived in one room, and there happened to be one more room, Lu Ning lived in one room by himself, no matter what, if he squeezed a room with these multiple soldiers who didn't necessarily take a bath for many days, Lu Ning really couldn't stand it.

After several battles, whether it was nine soldiers or two generals, they simply worshipped Lu Ning as a god, so Lu Ning was special, and they also took it for granted.

Nowadays, those who speak the Central Plains language are more stammering, and there are two more generals, Wang Shengzhong and Wang Minxing, Lu Ning calls them "two kings", and this flower name has gradually spread.

The standard of three meals a day for the Qi army is very remarkable in today's Dongying.

Lunch is taro and fish, both steamed, true Japanese custom, the ingredients are cheap, and no firewood is wasted. After all, rice is a luxury ornament, and only the wealthy class can enjoy it, although it is said that the lowest-level samurai in the New Tang Dynasty City, and it is also a privileged class, but after all, it has not gained a firm foothold here, and the ingredients are still better saved, not to mention that Yamashita Town is about to migrate to follow Lu Ning to fight in large quantities, and the grain rent that Lu Ning is ready to extract is less than that of the heroes of Dongying.

The nine regular soldiers, all from the northern tribes, were conscripted into the army and ate and drank well, so they were already strong and more muscular, and now they did not see animal meat for a few days, although there were fish to eat, but it was completely different from the satisfaction brought by animal meat.

Yes, a few guys frowned sadly, and the bearded man Madashan sighed, "Chief, I, in my mouth, fade out of the birds!" ”

I learned this.

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Bear with me, I'll take you hunting tomorrow." ”

To the north of the mountain city, there is a vast mountain forest with a lot of prey.

However, Yang Ye proposed to transport some domestic animals to be raised, Lu Ning now understands what he means, and it is better to say that he has few people in the Xuanfu camp, and often goes hunting and meat, but the Zhendong Army can't solve the meat problem like this.

Speaking of which, the Toei people used to raise pigs in history, but now they have become extinct, and it was not until the Meiji era that they flourished again.

It's not just pork, Japanese people don't eat animal meat nowadays, but they do eat hunting game.

Lu Ning has always eaten lightly, but he forgot this section.

Hearing Lu Ning say that he was going hunting, several pawns immediately cheered.

Ezo slaves, as long as they have food, they eat a lot, three meals a day, a lot, before being recruited by the Qi people, they have never had such a life where they can eat every day, they have long been satisfied, no matter what to eat.

The two kings served the generals, and their lives were also improved compared to before.

Only the Xuanfu soldiers from the northern tribes, they originally had some small identities in the tribe, otherwise they would not have grown so strong, and they ate vegetarian and fish every day, so they naturally couldn't stand it.