Because of the special status of the South City Tower, Jiang Yugang finally found Qi Hong, the commander of the Pingyi Guard, and took the initiative to propose to him that Meng Yangcheng's troops should be responsible for the defense of the South Gate.

Qi Hong was already having a headache about the garrison arrangement at the South Gate, but now Jiang Yugang took the initiative to suggest that he should take on the defense of the South City Tower, which solved one of his problems.

After all, the defense of the South City Tower is a somewhat embarrassing point in the strict sense, because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the south gate of Mengyang City is the point that is the farthest away from the battlefield, and relatively speaking, it bears the least pressure.

However, it is impossible for Nanchenglou not to arrange people to defend, because this is an important place closely related to the war, if the war under Mengyang City progresses to the point of white-hot, Nanchenglou will obviously face a lot of defensive pressure, so it is impossible not to send people over.

How to arrange people to this kind of place is a very troublesome matter, and the person who gives the order has to take responsibility, so Qi Hong is very troubled about the defense of this place.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yugang's appearance quickly solved this headache for him, Qi Hong didn't think much about it, and readily agreed to Jiang Yugang's self-recommendation, after all, Jiang Yugang's current right to speak in Meng Yangcheng has inherited the authority of his boss, Meng Yang's garrison Bai Qianfan to a certain extent, and the decision he made is not a simple hasty act of a low-level officer, but is responsible for it.

On a certain level, this is the reason why Qi Hong agrees with Jiang Yugang's decision.

After Jiang Yugang left, Qi Hong couldn't help but feel that Jiang Yugang acted effectively. He had always been curious about how this guy, who was just a small hundred households, won Bai Qianfan's respect and trust, but he didn't expect that as soon as he came into contact, he would be able to take the initiative to solve problems for himself.

Jiang Yugang had some information that he had not obtained, that is, Bai Qianfan's evaluation and attitude towards Jiang Yugang in front of other senior officers. He simply knew that he had won Bai Qianfan's trust to a certain extent, but he didn't know what Bai Qianfan's attitude was in the eyes of other officers.

In Qi Hong's opinion, Bai Qianfan has already regarded Jiang Yugang as Qu Jingwei's most important talent, and he must not be transferred from other places, and in order to retain Jiang Yugang, he has prepared a position of a thousand households to give him space for development.

A thousand households in the future? Qi Hong sighed in his heart, it's a pity that this Mengyang battle, if it can be won, this small hundred households in the city may have a chance to be among the commanders in the future, but at the moment, maybe they can't even save their lives, and even if they save their lives but can't keep Mengyang City, several commanders will be unable to protect themselves, not to mention the commanders, even thousands of households will be gone.

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Jiang Yugang naturally didn't understand Qi Hong's thoughts, in his opinion, Qi Hong just regarded himself as a small ordinary officer, although he did make thousands of achievements in training soldiers in Mang Castle, but after all, it was only a hundred households, if it were not for a place like the Luchuan battlefield, there would be no chance to establish a Mang Castle, a hundred households and hundreds of households, and the soldiers in charge were only a hundred.

He walked quickly to the long house behind the Nancheng Tower, which is quite a magnificent house, there are several large rooms before and after, and the furnishings inside are not small differences from ordinary people's homes, all kinds of furniture are readily available, and because of the special geographical location of Luchuan, these furniture accessories show the style characteristics of different regions, there are plush ornaments of Assam in the northwest of Luchuan, wood carvings of the Ava Kingdom, and gold ornaments of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, the categories are complex, but without exception they are all boutiques.

Jiang Yuyan didn't know who this house belonged to before the Ming army came to Mengyang City, and he thought that it was probably a prominent officer in Mengyang City. And the location of this house is actually very interesting, because it is against the south city wall, and it is also very close to the south city tower.

Compared with the other city gates, the importance of the south city gate can be said to be the lowest, because the south of Mengyang City is Manggu Mountain, one of the largest mountains and forests in the Luchuan area, and there is only one road for traffic, and the overall strategic value is very low.

Compared with several other city gates, the most critical feature of the South City Gate is security, because it will not directly face the enemy, so the South City Gate naturally has the characteristics of being far away from the front line of the battlefield, and it is relatively the safest side of Mengyang City.

On the other hand, it's actually the special feature that comes with the security that the South Gate has gained because it is not critical and important on the battlefield: escape.

Far from the front line of the battlefield, facing the boundless ancient mountains and forests and the wide and open road leading to Jiangtou City, the South City Gate is the main "back gate" of Mengyang City, from which it is easy to escape and succeed, so as to avoid being besieged in Mengyang City and eventually falling into a desperate situation.

At that time, the Luchuan Army, those soldiers and generals stationed in Mengyang City, thought that many people would escape through the south gate without falling into a desperate situation with no way out.

But if you want to escape from here, there is also a very realistic condition: you must evacuate before Mengyang City is surrounded.

Although the construction of the city wall and other fortifications of Mengyang City is much worse than that of the city in the Central Plains, the area enclosed by the city wall is quite large, which increases the pressure on the defenders to defend on the one hand, and on the other hand, if someone wants to surround Mengyang City, it is difficult to complete a good encirclement network in a short time.

Therefore, from the beginning of the war until Mengyangcheng was completely surrounded, there was a certain amount of time, and Jiang Yugang estimated that this time might be about a quarter of an hour, and if he retreated, he would be able to withdraw a considerable number of troops from Mengyangcheng.

It's just that although this kind of retreat seems to have a considerable amount of time to spare, it must also be judged in a short period of time, once Mengyang City is completely surrounded, if you want to break through at that time, you will have to face much higher difficulty and danger.

Therefore, from the perspective of security, it is best not to set up the command center in a dangerous place like the North City Tower, nor in a place where all directions are not close to the center of Mengyang City, but to build it near the South City Tower, and once the situation is found to be bad, immediately carry out the evacuation.

Jiang Yuyan realized one thing when he first entered the house near the Nancheng Tower, this was a house used for escape. Think about it, what kind of uneasy mood the commander of the Luchuan Army, who once lived in it, waited for the military situation in this exquisitely decorated room, and then rushed out of the door after hearing the unfavorable news.

He tried to feel the mood of the commander of the Luchuan Army at that time, and suddenly he couldn't help but smile, this is such a dramatic place, again and again at the same time, ushered in the same master with the same idea.

Jiang Yugang must admit that before receiving the news of reinforcements from the Mansi Zhai camp, he had been thinking about the method of withdrawing troops from Mengyang City and how to escape in the event of an accident that could not be withdrawn as soon as possible.

And even when he waited for the unsafe military situation from the barbarian temple village, he was still hesitating.

Reality is cruel, and all fantasies must be based on the basis of reality, Jiang Yugang certainly wants to defend Mengyang City, but under the huge power gap, he must also consider how to deal with enough situations, rather than simply going all the way to the dark.

If the news of the reinforcements is true, it is naturally the best, but as Jiang Yugang, who single-handedly established the intelligence system of Mang Castle, he deeply understands how reliable the information brought by his subordinates, who can almost be said to have received cultural baptism.

In the past, almost all important information had to be independently verified by many aspects before it could be used as evidence of military judgment, but now Meng Yangcheng no longer has that opportunity, and he must make a choice.

Believe in reinforcements and defend Mengyang City; Or go conservative and keep the troops of Mangkaku.

He thought that when he decided to set off from the castle tower to the main camp of the South Castle Tower, he had made up his mind to defend it, and decided not to make too many arrangements in the South Castle Tower, but to focus all his energy on the defense of the North Castle Tower, but when he really walked into the main camp of the South Castle Tower, he realized that he was vacillating.

With each step, it became more and more difficult, and at the end it almost stopped.

"Warlord?" Li Zhong saw Jiang Yuyan stop his pace and asked.

Jiang Yuyan shook his head: "I'm fine." After answering, I couldn't help but fall into confusion for a while.

He finally hesitated at this moment, he hesitated in the face of an arrangement that could be regarded as an accident, and he once thought that he would not hesitate so much when he came to the strange era and strange space of the Ming Dynasty.

But he still hesitated, because the accident happened. Almost a week ago, a clear request for help was sent, but on the eve of the war, he still couldn't get an accurate message, and Jiang Yuyan did think of such an unexpected occurrence, but when it actually happened, he felt that it was difficult to bear.

"Lord, who are we going to see?" Li Zhong looked at the camp tent in the distance, it was a gorgeous complex of camp tent and house, even if it was a first-class person in the courtyard of Mang Castle, there was no such residence.

Jiang Yuyan finally sighed in his heart: "See an array commander and..."

"Array Command?" Li Chong was a little puzzled, the array command is the officer level in charge of hundreds of people in the Mang Castle troops, it stands to reason that it is the same as Jiang Yugang's current actual official position of 100 households, but Li Chong is one of Jiang Yugang's close guards after all, and his status in the Secret Academy can be said to be super first-class, because he can directly contact Jiang Yugang, so he can know some of the most critical secrets.

With Li Chong's identity, there are really some commanders who don't really value the relatively front-line commander of the array command, and what he values more are those officers who can get Jiang Yu's full trust.

"And Aumma." Jiang Yugang still said who he wanted to meet. Aouma, once Jiang Yugang was the key figure in the affairs of Nansangzhai, relying on Awuma's popularity, Jiang Yugang successfully achieved the goal of gaining the trust of the people of Luchuan in Nansangzhai, and finally gradually won the hearts of the people of Nansangzhai and drove away the forces of the Luchuan army in Nansangzhai.

Later, according to the model of Nansangzhai, in the entire Manggu Mountain, Jiang Yugang kept repeating the things of winning the hearts of the cottage people, organizing the cottage people to fight against the Luchuan army, and finally took control of Manggu Mountain and established Manggu Castle.

In this process, Auma is a figure who has made great achievements. Regardless of whether Auma himself was aware of Jiang Yu's plan or not, Jiang Yugang still attached great importance to Aouma.

He even considered whether to get rid of such an influential figure as Aouma, but after getting along with Aouma's father and daughter, he did fully realize Aouma's personality, and this is a person who can be appointed. Whether it is personal relationships, prestige in the cottage, or his own excellent military qualities and personal basic abilities, Auma has become the best of the soldiers from Luchuan.