In early spring, Fengzhou was busy dividing the fields, and the new land was still located in the northern part of Jiuyuan County, which was located on the north bank of the South Yellow River, and it had little room for development in the south, but there was a large area of land in the north.

Compared with the last temporary change to running and grabbing the field, this time the division of the field has resumed the original plan, which is decided by lottery.

In fact, grabbing the field will produce many drawbacks, such as someone will secretly pull out the stake the night before, or send a family to squat in the favorite field, and pull out the stake directly once it starts, so this method can only be used once, and it is to catch everyone off guard, and after using it once, it can not be used again.

The lottery is relatively fair, and everyone relies on luck, and whichever land is drawn is that land.

In the wilderness north of the city, a wooden platform was erected, and in the middle of the wooden platform were placed two large iron boxes, both of which were wooden sticks with plots written on them, and each family sent a representative to draw a lot.

There was already a long queue in the audience, each holding the household card, stretching his neck to look at the people above to draw lots.

The lottery is very fast, the two big iron boxes are divided into two kinds of black and red signs, the black sign is a hectare lot, the red sign is a hectare and a half sign, the rules are very clear, regardless of the family composition, at most only one and a half acres, such as having two sons or three sons, such as having sons and daughters, and then for example, the son has a family, but the daughter has not yet married, etc.

You can't divide five hectares of land just because you have five sons, that's not good, each household has a ceiling of one and a half hectares, and there are only two ways to get more land, either split the family or join the army.

The lottery is very fast, everyone queues up like flowing water, and then goes to register after drawing lots, of course, you can also go to see the land first and then come back to register, before registration, you can also exchange signatures between each other, so there are not many people who go to register, after getting the signature, everyone runs to see the land first.

The government has considered it very carefully, and in order to prevent someone from altering the wooden sticks, it has also specially numbered each wooden stick, and each wooden stick corresponds to which piece of land is clearly written in the land register.

"Next!" The presiding officer shouted.

A stout man in his thirties ran to the stage in a panic, and an official looked at his household card, pointed to the red box and said, "Go draw a red lot!" ”

The man reached out and drew a red stick in the box and asked, "Do you want to register now?" ”

The official smiled: "You can register now, and you can come back to register after going to see the land, it's up to you, you decide for yourself." ”

"Then I'd better go and see the land first!"

The man hurried down, and the official shouted again: "Next! ”

Another middle-aged man ran onto the wooden platform.......

Guo Song was not far away to check the lottery process, this is the second batch of immigrants, counting the batch last autumn, there are already 7,000 immigrants willing to settle in Fengzhou.

Xue Changshou asked Guo Song on the side: "It is estimated that starting this year, the military families will migrate one after another, which side of land does the envoy plan to give to them?" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "I plan to settle the military family in Feng'an County and Yongfeng County, Fengzhou has enough land, don't worry about it at all." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of eagle chirping in the sky, Guo Song looked up, and saw the fierce son hovering quickly above his head, Guo Song suddenly felt bad in his heart, the fierce son must have found something?

He stretched out his hand, and the fierce son retracted his wings and fell, landed on his arm, pecked him on the arm a few times, and then flew off into the air and flew to the west.

Xue Changshou also knew Mengzi better, and he hurriedly asked, "Could it be that Mengzi has discovered the enemy's situation?" ”

Guo Song nodded, "I'm worried that Xue Yantuo will come over in early spring, so I asked Mengzi to patrol near the Yellow River in the west, which is the boundary of its territory, and it should have found an enemy." ”

"Is it a sentry scout, or a large force of enemy troops?" Xue Changshou asked again.

"Judging by its hurried appearance, there should be quite a few troops, at least a few thousand."

Guo Song immediately said to Xue Changshou: "After the lottery is over, stop dividing the fields, and then implement a state of emergency and notify everyone to enter the city!" ”

The state of emergency is an early warning plan implemented in Toyoju, and when the main force of the enemy army attacks, all people, including Feng'an County, must immediately move into Jiuyuan County, mainly by lighting beacon fires and sending people to nearby villages to inform them.

Xue Changshou nodded, "I know!" ”

Guo Song immediately turned the dock and ran towards the barracks with a few people everywhere.

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Guo Song galloped all the way into the barracks, he ran directly to the big account along the horse road, and asked, "General Li Ji is here?" ”

"Returning to the envoy, General Li went to the county military office."

Guo Song then ordered the soldiers: "Beat the drum!" ”

The Weizhen drum is an emergency order to gather generals, and when the military camp is sounded, it will also be sounded on the head of the city, and the sound can reach thirty miles, and the soldiers within thirty miles will immediately rush to the military camp when they hear the drum.

It is necessary to inform not only the soldiers in the city, but also the soldiers who are plowing the fields in the army.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

If the thunderous megatron drums in the sky sounded, the thirty megatron drums placed on the city's head also rang at the same time.

Soldiers who were busy everywhere rushed to the camp from all directions.

Half an hour later, Li Ji also took Liang Wu from the military camp back to the camp, and more than a dozen Zhonglang generals and Lang generals in the big tent gathered in one tent.

Guo Song solemnly said to everyone: "Mengzi just brought news, it may have discovered the enemy's situation." ”

Guo Song asked Li Ji again, "Is there any news from the scout?" ”

The Fengzhou army also deployed more than a dozen scouts in the area on the east bank of the Yellow River, and if the enemy army was found crossing the river, they would also send an eagle letter to inform Jiuyuan County.

Li Ji bowed and said, "I have sent someone to the Eagle Tower to confirm, and there will be news soon." ”

As soon as Li Ji's voice fell, a soldier at the door of the tent reported, "Enlighten the envoy, the Eagle Tower is urgent!" ”

Sure enough, Guo Song stepped forward, took the eagle letter from a soldier, opened it and read it: "This morning, two thousand Xue Yantuo cavalry began to cross the river!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, just now there were still people who doubted Guo Song's fierce son, but now everyone is convinced, worthy of being called a scout general, it is really psychic, not an ordinary eagle can compare.

Guo Song was also slightly stunned, why are there only two thousand cavalry?

Li Ji knew more about Xue Yantuo's army, and he bowed down and said: "Xue Yantuo attacked Lingzhou, and many times he sent the vanguard over, and the vanguard was generally two to three thousand cavalry, and the main force of the enemy army was about two days away from them. ”

Guo Song nodded slowly and said: "The other party sent two thousand cavalry over first, and they are not worried that it will arouse our vigilance, indicating that they have no intention of sneaking attack, that is, they are ready to attack Fengzhou in a big way, this time they should be fully prepared and carry baggage, if they carry baggage, their main force will not cross the river from the west, but from the shallow water beach, the river is very wide on the shallow beach, but the water is shallow, and the baggage can come over, so how should we deal with it, I want to hear everyone's views." ”

Guo Song's eyes fell on Zhang Sen, Zhang Sen was the deputy guard of Baiting back then, although he was born poor, but he was very smart and strategic, Guo Song was deeply impressed by his understanding of the strategy of the Shatuo people.

"General Zhang, tell me what you think?" Guo Song smiled at Zhang Sen.

Zhang Sen groaned and said, "First of all, we have to determine how many troops the other party has?" Only then can there be countermeasures......"

Li Ji next to him immediately said: "The total strength of the other party should be 20,000, which is ten times that of the vanguard army, which is the practice of Xue Yantuo's army. ”

Zhang Sen nodded, and continued: "It is estimated that the humble position should be about 20,000, and Xue Yantuo's strength is only 50,000, if it exceeds 50,000, he will have a decisive battle with the Sijie Department, and the loss of 15,000 people in the autumn of the previous year, then there are still between 3 and 40,000, considering that they still have to stay in the rear, then the possibility of sending 20,000 people is the greatest, and the humble position suggests that we fight a defensive counterattack, we will concentrate all the troops of the three towns in Jiuyuan County, plus the militia group, our army will also exceed 20,000, we will first use the advantage of the city to weaken the opponent's forces, When it is weakened to about 10,000 men, we can concentrate our army and defeat them while their morale is low. ”

"General Li Qian, talk about it!"

Guo Song's eyes turned to Zhonglang General Li Qian, he and Li Ji have the same surname, and they are both Zhonglang Generals, so Guo Song called the two of them by their names.

Li Qian bowed and said: "The humble post agrees with General Zhang's analysis, and the humble post adds one more point, we should ask Lingzhou for help, the Shuofang army of more than 20,000 people, plus our army, is already twice the size of the other party, if the Shuofang army copies the other party's back road, the two armies are flanked, Xue Yantuo's army will inevitably be annihilated, this is a good opportunity, so that Jun Dang immediately asked for help from the Jiedu envoy." ”

Guo Song didn't speak for a long time, he and the new Shuo Fang Jiedu made Li Huaiguang's relationship very bad, when Li Huaiguang took office last year, he went to Lingzhou to visit him, but Li Huaiguang unceremoniously asked himself to swear allegiance to him, and to make a blood alliance, but he was rejected by himself, and the two sides broke up unhappily.

Then Li Huaiguang stuck his neck in various links, overturning Duan Xiushi's various promises to himself, only five ships were built in Fengzhou, and the warehouses were not built, not to mention the roads, except for the military salaries, which were directly allocated to Fengzhou by the imperial court, other belongings were stuck by him, making Fengzhou and Jiedu Mansion almost unhooked.

At this time, he asked Li Huaiguang for help, whether he was willing to send troops or not was still a big problem, even if he sent troops, he was the leader, don't expect him to cooperate with Fengzhou to fight.

Guo Song didn't consider Li Huaiguang for the time being, and then asked Zhao Yunlun again, "What about General Zhao's opinion?" ”

Zhao Yunlun bowed and said: "The humble post also agrees with General Zhang's idea, but Li Huaiguang can't count on it, we still have to rely on ourselves, and the humble post suggests that we should concentrate our forces first, completely annihilate the vanguard of the enemy army, and buy time for the people to move into the city." ”

Zhao Yunlun and Zhang Sen's plan coincided with Guo Song's ideas.

Guo Song nodded, "It seems that it has become a consensus to completely annihilate this vanguard army, so let's discuss it specifically, how to kill this army?" ”

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