Lu Zhao served as the commander of the northern defense line of Jizhou, and Le Cheng was in his defense area, and now that Le Cheng was lost, Lv Zhao could not escape the blame.

  Of course, now is not the time to discuss who should be responsible for the loss of Lecheng, after all, the battle of Jizhou has just begun, and after the state army captures Lecheng, they will not stop here, they will definitely have the next move.

  Lecheng was originally a more important part of the northern defense line, and the loss of Lecheng made the defense line of the Jizhou army collapse, and the situation of the Jizhou army will become more difficult.

  In the city defense system of Jizhou, the defense level ranks first, is Yecheng and Xindu, their city walls are not only higher and stronger than other city walls, and in order to prevent the siege of catapults, Yecheng and Xindu have built inner walls, that is, the structure of the urn city, extending to the entire city, in the city wall, a distance of dozens of zhang, build a second city wall, even if the outer city wall is lost, the defenders can also retreat to the inner wall, defense, to ensure that the city wall is not lost.

  Since the distance between the outer wall and the inner wall is only a few dozen zhang, and it is within the range of bows and arrows, even if the state army conquers the outer wall, it is impossible to use catapults to attack the inner wall, and the inner city wall is relatively safer.

  But just building an outer city wall is already a lot of money, if you really want to build two city walls in each city, the human and financial resources are far from reaching, so after Zhong Hui and Lu Zhao discussed, only in Yecheng and Xindu to build a double city wall defense system, while other counties, the use of a second-level defense system, that is, to strengthen the outer city wall and build an urn city, as for other counties, the use of a three-level defense system, only simple repairs.

  There are indeed a lot of loopholes in such a hierarchical defense system, but limited to manpower and material resources, it is also a last resort, Yecheng and Xin are the top priority in the Jizhou defense system, and they must not be lost, and the county towns such as Lecheng can only be listed as the second level, of course, these cities have also spent a lot of effort to transform, Zhong Hui and Lu Zhao hope that they can block the attack of the state army for a long time, so that at least a large amount of manpower and material resources of the state army may be consumed.

  It's a pity that Le Cheng not only failed to play its due role, but on the contrary sounded the alarm bell for Zhonghui Lu Zhao and them, Xindu and Yecheng are certainly not afraid of catapults to attack, but other counties may not have that kind of strength, Le Cheng is a lesson from the past, and the state army can easily knock on the wall of Le Cheng, so it is naturally not a problem to deal with counties like Nanpi, Zhending, and Lunu.

  It's just that I don't know, what is the next target of the state army, and after Lecheng is defeated, which of the other three county towns will be hit? And what will Lu Zhao do?

  This is too difficult for Lu Zhaolai, after all, he is not a roundworm in Cao Liang's stomach, how could he understand Cao Liang's strategic intentions, Cao Liang has always been known for his tricks, marching and fighting, and there are always unexpected moves, even if it is one of the three, Lu Zhao does not dare to conclude that Cao Liang's plan will be guessed by him

  But even if he really guessed it, what could he do? The northern defense line system was originally fought separately, and there was no such thing as helping each other with horns, and which city could not be defended was all up to oneself and had nothing to do with others.

  It's not that Lu Zhao is unwilling to send troops to rescue, but the key thing is that the Bingzhou cavalry is wandering between the cities, once the Jizhou army leaves the city, it will be mercilessly intercepted and killed by the Bingzhou cavalry, and with their speed, it is impossible to reach another city.

  Now Lu Zhao is in a dilemma, holding on to the city is undoubtedly sitting and waiting to die, and abandoning the city is even more self-destruction, both horizontal and vertical!

  Thinking about the beginning of Zhong Hui's arrival in Jizhou, he was above his head, Lu Zhao was still resentful, trying to get more power from Zhong Hui's hands, Zhong Hui made him satisfied, and handed over the command of the northern defense line to him, for which Lu Zhao was also secretly smug, thinking that Zhong Hui was afraid of himself and took the initiative to hand over the power.

  Thinking about it now, Zhong Hui handed over the power to him, and it was obviously thrown to a hot potato, and the state army went south from Youzhou, and the northern defense line of Jizhou was the first to bear the brunt, and the loss of Lecheng was equivalent to putting Lu Zhao on the shelf to roast.

  Lu Zhao thought about it, and couldn't think of a good way, he could only continue to stick to Xindu, anyway, for the defense of Xindu, Lu Zhao was still relatively confident, Xindu had a double city wall to protect, with 50,000 horses to defend it, it was by no means comparable to a county like Lecheng, no matter what, Lu Zhao must also ensure that Xindu was foolproof.

  As for the other cities, Lu Zhao was a little helpless, after all, the defensive ability of these cities was almost the same as that of Le Cheng, or even inferior to Le Cheng, judging from the efficiency of the Bingzhou army to break through Le Cheng, the possibility of these cities holding on was zero, so they could only ask for more blessings.

  When Lu Zhao was mobilizing men and horses to strengthen the defense of Xindu, he suddenly received a letter from Zhong Hui.

  At present, the Bingzhou cavalry only adopts the means of isolating but not encircling the northern cities of Jizhou, so these cities are not besieged, and large-scale military operations are very easy to be detected by the Bingzhou cavalry, but targets such as messenger exchanges cannot be completely eliminated, so the news channel between Yecheng and Xindu and the county cities has not been greatly affected for the time being.

  Now Lu Zhao is under great pressure here, climbing the city wall of Xindu, and sometimes you can see a team of Bingzhou cavalry roaring past, which makes the Jizhou army defending the city palpitate.

  And the Zhonghui in Yecheng is completely stress-free at the moment, after all, the Bingzhou cavalry has not yet stretched out their hands there, which is quite a bit of a taste of watching the fire from the other side.

  Thinking that he was calculated by the Zhong Society, Lu Zhao had a stomach full of resentment, and at this moment Zhong's letter made him even more angry, and he wanted to tear up the letter, but after thinking about it, he still calmed down, and opened it to see it, but he was overjoyed.

  It turned out that Zhong Hui mentioned in the letter that the imperial court would send reinforcements to rescue Jizhou, and the army dispatched this time was as many as 150,000 people, and the cavalry alone accounted for nearly half.

  As soon as he heard that Sima Shi would personally reinforce Jizhou, Lu Zhao seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, and was completely relieved, with Sima Shi's status and ability, as long as he went out, Jizhou would be saved!