3

There was a guard in Jieshi City, who was a small infantry captain under the rear camp of the Canglong Army, named Shi Zhi. Knowing that Mo Huan led the troops back to defense, he had already prepared a good meal to catch the wind and wash the dust for him, and personally led people out of the city to greet him. However, Mo Huan's mind was not on these wines and meat, nor did she care about any etiquette, as soon as she saw it, she asked Shi Zhi about the city defense of Jieshi City.

"What is the city equipped with now?"

Shi Zhi touched his head, "Eh...... Now I am the only infantry brigade left, with about 500 heavy armor, 800 light armor, 1,000 spears, 400 swords, and 200 bows and crossbows. The equipment of this thousand people is still rich. There are thirty-two guard towers in the city, eighteen crossbows on the bed, and dozens of rolling wood and thunder stones, and it is no problem to resist a team of thousands of people. ”

As they spoke, they walked to the foot of the Jieshi Castle and saw a wall about two zhang high made of pine, cedar and other wooden mixed with rammed earth. There is a guard tower every 20 zhang on the city wall, and there is a bed crossbow on the city wall every dozens of zhang, and there are soldiers on duty around the guard tower and bed crossbow.

Mo Huan walked in to take a look, and hammered the city wall with his hammer, and the thick wooden stakes at the mouth of the bowl made a muffled sound. She frowned at the sound, "How long has the city been?" ”

"I don't know what to do, and I just took over the city a few days ago."

Mo Huan walked to the city gate again to take a look, and saw that the wooden latch that was more than one person tall that locked the city gate had grown moss, and her eyebrows wrinkled even tighter.

Shi Zhi noticed the strangeness of Mo Huan's demeanor, so he stepped forward and said: "This lock latch has been abandoned, and the new one is still being prepared. Seeing that Mo Huan nodded, his expression eased slightly, Shi Zhi asked again: "What is the matter with General Mo's visit, isn't the young general still thinking about that Shi Fei?" ”

Not long after Mo Huanxin was promoted to general, the first time she heard someone call her general, she reacted a little hesitantly. "Well, although Shi Fei has not been removed, the main reason for bringing troops here is to guard the grain route. The major general of the front line is confronting Dai Ying under Tuhe City, and he doesn't know how many days he can go down, and at this time, there must be no mistakes in the rear grain road. ”

"This general can rest assured, originally it was difficult for Shi Fei to attack my Jieshi, not to mention that there is a general with troops to garrison?"

"Don't slack off."

"I understand that the general should do his best in the end. If the general has any other orders, he will hand them over to the last general to deal with. ”

At the reception banquet, Mo Huan explained his plans for a few days to everyone again, one was to repair the city wall and add antlers outside the city; Then there is the standardized training time, from Mu Zheng to the beginning of noon, and the afternoon is from the beginning to the sunset; Thirdly, it is necessary to patrol with squads and guard the city for thirty miles; After that, there were many miscellaneous things such as forging armor and surveying the terrain, and after some explanations, it was late at night.

"Boss, what is the origin of this girl who fell to the ground today, why is she still a general at such a young age?" After everyone rested at night, the veterans who were originally stationed in Jieshi got together with Shi Zhi.

"This is Yuan Xian's girl's new adjutant, a general."

"It turned out to be a stinky general, and this night was tossed, and the brothers thought he was a very capable character!"

That being said, it should not be taken lightly. After all, it is Yuan Xian's girl's subordinates, and if we offend her, we don't want to mix under Lao Yuan's hands. Anyway, if you die here, you will stay for ten days and half a month, and make do with her and let her go. ”

4

In the past few days, the sky has cleared, and Mo Huan waited for the light ride to investigate outside the city. Facing the Bohai Sea to the southeast, this Jieshi city is on a slightly solid hill in the middle of a tidal flat, and is bounded by the remnants of Songling to the north, in a narrow position in the coastal corridor. If you find out the path in the mountains on the north side, and then set up a checkpoint and a beacon tower respectively, you can get the enemy stuck on the side of the rock.

On the third day of October, Mo Huan has taken more than 100 attendants to the north side of Jieshi for more than 70 miles, where the terrain has changed from gentle hills to tall mountains, and the mountains are full of hugging pines and cypresses and dense surface vegetation. There are no people on the way, sometimes there are clear springs flowing out of the mountains, animals flickering and flickering, and birds singing gracefully but there is no trace of them. If it is said that the mountains and forests are secluded, and the health and cultivation of immortals, this place may be regarded as a good place, but Mo Huan has no intention of enjoying the scenery here.

"Is the general going north? I saw that this place was no longer accessible to ordinary people. At the time of the lunch break, the soldiers who were traveling with him were tired, so someone came to persuade Mo Huan to return to the city.

However, Mo Huan didn't say a word, but looked at putting his fingers to his lips, and then continued to eat. This scene made some veterans instantly alert.

"General, is there a situation?" Someone close to whispered.

"Don't you think there's something that's been following us?" As soon as Mo Huan asked, many soldiers around him nodded slightly. "Go on, don't alarm them first."

After a brief lunch, Mo Huan suddenly dismounted and said to everyone: "If you want to go to Xiaoxie, go quickly, and I will also think about it myself, which of you wants to follow me back and not kill him!" As soon as he laughed, only a dozen people remained on the horse. As for Mo Huan, she said that she was going to Xiaojie, but in fact, she hid her bow and walked to a remote place, found a crooked neck tree and climbed up, observing the surrounding situation.

After half an hour, the scattered soldiers came back one after another, and a few army commanders who understood Mo Huan's meaning ordered the team to continue marching while making a secret signal. Mo Huan saw the team moving on the tree, so he began to scan the surrounding situation, and after a while, he saw a few vegetation shaking on the opposite hillside. She raised her bow and raised her hand to see an arrow, only to see a long arc, and after hearing a scream, something rolled down the mountain, and then there was a commotion in the mountain forest, and I don't know how many people ran with their lives on the hillside.

Seeing this, the cavalry under the mountain also raised their bows and crossbows, but the mountains were densely forested, and many people still ran over the hillside after a random shot. Mo Huan jumped off the crooked neck tree, slid down the hillside to the bottom of the mountain, and got on the horse in a few steps. "Chase!"

Suddenly, a cloud of dust rose from the mountain, and hundreds of birds in the forest flew in all directions in fright. However, when the peak turned around, Mo Huan suddenly reined in the horse, "Don't chase anymore!" Seeing that the rest of the people were puzzled although they were reining in together, she explained: "The terrain here is not familiar to you and me, not to mention whether we can catch up, if we encounter an ambush, we will definitely be lost here." To be able to follow you and me so far, there must be Shi Fei's camp between the mountains and forests. ”

Everyone returned to the place where they had just shot, and saw that several people who had rolled down from the mountain were wearing the white shirts of the Northern Feng Army, but after a closer look, Mo Huan was suddenly shocked. "This dress is new!"

"How's the new one?"

"Shi Fei's army has just been defeated and is in the mountains, how can there be these new clothes? And looking at the clothes and the clothes on his body, there is no doubt that he is indeed Shi Fei's subordinates. There are only two explanations for this situation, one is that there was originally a stronghold set up by Shi Fei in this mountain, which was used in case of defeat. If that's the case, it's fine, it's just that you can't pull out this nail for a while. There is also a possibility that Shi Fei has already come to reinforcements at this time. ”

"And they're coming for the rocks?"

"It's not clear at the moment, but now that we've scared the snake, you and I need to return to Jieshi as soon as possible, ready to fight in Cage City at any time."

5

Due to the detour of the mountain road, it was already night when Mo Huan and the others detoured out of the mountain road. Wearing the stars and the moon, a line of fast horses galloped under the moon, and the sound of horses' hooves was not in the sound of the wind and waves. When he arrived at the foot of Jieshi City, the night guard was already on duty, so he heard the sentry at the city gate ask:

"Who's coming?"

"General Mo Huan under the tent of General Chilong."

Seeing Mo Huan take out his waist card, the sentry turned around and shouted: "Open the city gate!" ”

The gates creaked open, and the cavalry rode in. However, when he crossed the city gate, Mo Huan suddenly caught a glimpse of the mossy lock latch that the city gate soldiers were carrying.

She turned back in an instant and shouted at the city gate soldiers: "What are you carrying!" ”

The soldiers at the city gate were stunned when they heard this, and the cavalry who had originally returned to the city also reined in their horses and gathered over. Seeing this, Yuan Xian jumped off the horse, "You follow me out!" She shouted to the cavalrymen, and then to the soldiers at the gates, "Wait for me to go out, bolt this door, and then give me the strength to resist it." ”

Several city gate soldiers looked at each other, but from Mo Huan's expression, they also knew that she was not a child's play, so they had to follow what she said, wait for everyone to leave the city and bolt the door, and then a row of people resisted the city gate. Seeing that the time was about the same, Mo Huan taught everyone to form a phalanx about the width of the city gate. "Come, rush in with me!"

After the order was given, more than 100 people rushed to the city gate with all their might, and at the same time rushed to the city gate with their shoulders and backs. Mo Huan originally thought that the door latch would break without breaking with such an impact, but he didn't want to rush up, and the entire city gate fell down with the door frame, and it was also thanks to the cleverness of the soldiers inside, otherwise they would all die under the city gate.

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, and then looked at the broken door frame, which was actually made of rotten white pine wood. Mo Huan walked outside the city again to see the newly consolidated city wall, and the gaps in the wooden stakes could be stretched into her hands, she immediately held one and pulled it hard, and saw that the wooden stakes more than a zhang high instantly came out of the rammed earth, and the foundation below was less than three inches deep.

The noise of the city gate attracted Shi Zhi, who had already rested, to come out to check the situation, and when he saw the wooden stake that Mo was holding and the city gate lying on the ground, he instantly understood what the situation was, so he immediately pulled down his face: "Who is in charge of repairing the city gate, bring it to me!" ”

After a while, I saw a small officer still wearing pajamas being escorted by several soldiers, crying all the way, and when I saw Shi Zhi, he shouted "leader" and begged for mercy. Shi Zhi signaled to those soldiers and directly escorted this person to Mo Huan. But Mo Huan had been in the orphanage and Xiacheng after all, and he was very clear about this situation.

She ignored this little officer, but directly asked Shi Zhi: "When I leave the city, I will give you full authority to repair the city defense?" ”

Shi Zhi saw that Mo Huan was not so easy to dismiss, so he also hurriedly bowed and apologized, "It's a lowly and blind person, and he actually used such a useless person to repair the city gate, please ask the general to punish the crime of ignorance and ignorance." ”

"This hob meat!" Mo Huan scolded silently in her heart, but she also knew that if he wanted to clarify the responsibility for this matter, he would really not investigate him at most, at most he would be demoted and dismissed. And he has been so mixed in the army, all the orders of his boss seem to be painless to him, so he must have a backer in the army, so he is afraid that he will be promoted back if he is punished by the front foot. What's more, he still has a thousand soldiers under him, although it is not much, but if he is really instigated, it will also pose a great threat to the defense of the city.

"You will be at your disposal." Mo Huan said to Shi Zhi, and then said: "It's just that I have repeatedly emphasized that although Jieshi City is in the rear, it is a necessary place for our army to transport grain, and if this city falls, the battle ahead will inevitably be tight." Therefore, if someone continues to cheat and play tricks in the matter of city defense, it is no different from collaborating with the enemy. I will not report today's incident, and I will no longer pursue responsibility, but only you and other responsible people will repair the city gate before tomorrow's three poles, otherwise it will be severely punished according to military law! With that, she brushed her sleeves away.

Seeing that Mo Huan had already walked away, Shi Zhi went up and gave the little officer a slap. "Didn't you say that you should settle this one first? How can things go wrong in front of you? ”

"Isn't it a new latch that hasn't been made yet, and the wood hasn't landed, so you can't let this aunt see that there is not even a latch, right?"

"Alas, I think about the latch, you first find a way to block the city gate, don't let people knock it off." As he spoke, Shi Zhi untied the binding on this person, and then said earnestly: "If you encounter this kind of mold, you can hide a little, and after you finish cultivating tomorrow, you will go back to stay first, or go offline to rest, and then come back after this while." ”