After going out for a long time to eat and sleep in the open, Guo Shao slept soundly. When I woke up, I found that it was dawn, so I quickly got up and washed, and when I walked out of the bedroom, I called "Doctor Lu" twice, but no one answered.

Suddenly he saw a thick bowl and a plate on the table in the hall, and when he went up, he saw a bowl of porridge and a cake and half a plate of pickles in the plate. Guo Shao picked up the chopsticks and took a piece of pickle and tasted it, feeling that it tasted good; It seems that the salt in the Liao-ruled area is very cheap, and the cost of changing it to pickles in the interior is not low, because the official salt is very expensive.

Guo Shao ate the rice without pressure, but he was not full, so he had to prepare to eat two more flatbreads in the barracks. He packed up and went out, only to see Lu Chengyong waiting there.

Guo Shao said: "Call someone in and wash the dishes." Shut the door of the hospital to Dr. Lu. ”

"Yes." Lu Chengyong immediately arranged manpower.

A sturdy two-wheeled carriage leaned on the side of the road, and Guo Shao got into the carriage from behind, because there were two large wooden wheels on both sides, and there were only two wheeled cars. The front and rear riders escorted Guo Shao's car and went straight to the north, heading for the Chinese army. There are wooden windows on both sides of the carriage, and as long as you sit up straight, you can see the wheels turning, and the wheels are really large.

A group of cars and horses walked through two streets, and Guo Shao suddenly felt that a person on the side of the road was very familiar. When I turned my head to take a closer look, I saw that the person was the daughter of Doctor Lu Shen I met last night, and she was sitting on the side of the road and rubbing her feet with her hand and a basket in her hand.

"Stop!" Guo Shao slapped the wooden board in front of him. The groom hurriedly reined in the horses, and the carriage moved forward more and more slowly, until the carriage leaned forward slightly, and finally stopped.

Guo Shao lifted the bamboo curtain from behind and walked down, but saw that the girl had already stood up. He couldn't help but think of the meal he found on the table in the morning, and the old man who was Doctor Lu probably couldn't cook, so he immediately walked over with good intentions and greeted, "Mrs. Lu, what's wrong with your feet?" ”

He looked up and down, and saw that she was in her twenties, maybe only eighteen, dressed very plainly, with dark cloth clothes, her hair tied with a piece of floral cloth, and her body tightly wrapped, and her appearance was not at all amazing, but her face was white, and her hair was combed to reveal a smooth forehead.

Unexpectedly, the lady of the Lu family didn't pay attention to Guo Shao at all, as if she didn't hear it, and walked away, but the pace under her feet was a little lame. Seeing this, Guo Shao said in his heart: It's either scratched or worn out of the skin, right?

He said, "Where are you going, take my carriage, and I'll drop you off." ”

Lu Niangzi still ignored it, and followed the side of the road without saying a word. Seeing this, Guo Shao said in his heart: Hey, the little girls are quite stubborn! Where did I offend her?

Guo Shao suddenly remembered what happened last night, Lu Niangzi said inside that she would not let Guo Shao live in her house, and later found that Guo Shao heard it...... That's probably the case. Otherwise, everyone knows each other without grievances, and there should always be two sentences of greetings and kind words...... Guo Shao's invitation to her to take the car is also a good intention, and in ancient times, there was an allusion to inviting a young woman to not squint in the same car.

But she didn't appreciate it, and Guo Shao had no choice, so she didn't bother to pay attention to it at the moment, and got into the carriage again. Lu Niangzi on the side of the road walked slowly, as if she didn't know Guo Shao at all, and she didn't even look at it.

The groom drove slowly on the road for a while, and Guo Shao knocked on the wooden plank in front of him and said, "Let's go." ”

"Smack!" With a whip, the carriage picked up speed again.

When Guo Shao opened the bamboo curtain behind him to look, he saw the lady of the Lu family drop the basket and sit on the side of the road again.

…… When it came to the big tent of the Chinese army, several generals came to pay a visit. Li Chuyun came in with a sergeant he didn't know, and the sergeant stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Yesterday, the lowly rank was ordered to go to Qigou Pass, and wanted to cross the river from the pontoon bridge to the south to contact the people of the Privy Council. Unexpectedly, on the road, a company encountered the light cavalry of the Liao army, and was surrounded and intercepted by them, and more than a dozen people were killed. ”

Li Chuyun said: "The south of Zhuoshui is suddenly full of Khitan light horses, which seem to have been released by Xiao Siwen after entering Gu'an in the east. It seems that the batch of grain that should have arrived in the past few days may not be able to come, and it will definitely be disturbed by the Liao army's light cavalry on the road. ”

At this time, another general said: "I have to ask Zhang Guanghan (stationed in the left compartment of the Longjie Army in Qigou Pass) to send someone to repair the Yongdao Road." The predecessors did the same thing when they defended the city and ensured the smooth passage of grain. ”

Guo Shao asked, "How to repair Yongdao?" ”

The general said: "Dig wide ditches on both sides, build earthen walls and fences, and send troops to guard them." ”

After hearing this, Guo Shao turned out a map and a ruler, compared it on the map, shook his head and said, "Repair fifty or sixty miles of fortifications? How long will this be fixed? Are we planning to stay in Zhuozhou for a year and a half, or two or three years? ”

"The procession of grain trucks is very long, and when you walk up, there is always a place where the guards are thin. The ranger attack is to pick the weak, and if he can beat it, he will come up and shoot the soldiers, and if he can't beat it or if he encounters the god arm, he will run; It's really annoying, and it can make an army tired and miserable. Li Chuyun said, "There are only a few tactics of the Liao people, and the constant attack of light cavalry is their common trick. ”

"Xiao Siwen......" Guo Shao pondered for a moment and said, "This person has just arrived in Gu'an, and he has begun to shoot. It seems that we don't have to be polite, we can start competing with him now. We don't need to build Yongdao defense, use cavalry against cavalry, mobile against mobile, and dispatch cavalry to hunt. ”

While referring to the map, he said: "The southwest is Qigou Pass, and we can send cavalry to divide the troops into two ways; The main force moved south along Zhuoshui from the east, and after scattering, they marched to Qigou Pass together to force the encirclement, and cleared the wandering Liao cavalry......"

Li Chuyun said: "The key is that Gu'an is too close to the east, once we disperse the encirclement, I am afraid that we will be counterattacked by Gu'an reinforcements behind us; After dispersing, he was even more powerless to be the enemy of the Liao cavalry. ”

Guo Shao said: "The Liao army has a large number of men and horses from the east, we can retreat to Zhuozhou on the north road, and Qigou Pass on the south road, it is difficult for the enemy to surround our cavalry to death." As soon as Xiao Siwen's large group of people comes, we will run; As soon as they retreated, we continued to encircle and suppress the rangers on the southern plains of Zhuozhou. ”

After hearing this, everyone thought it was feasible. Li Chuyun said again: "There is also the army led by the Khitan Lord on the North Road, which is about one hundred and eighty miles, and it is also a great threat, so we must always pay attention to their movements. ”

Zuo You listened and said: "Once the Khitan Lord's army goes south, we don't have to do anything, it's the right thing to hurry back to the city to defend the city." ”

Guo Shao groaned: "Therefore, the grain road cannot be broken, and more grain must be hoarded, once it is surrounded, the more grain it can keep, the longer it can be kept...... If the Khitan lord's army goes south, it may not mainly care about us, but will focus on the main force of the Great Zhou to the south of the Juma River. ”

After discussing for a while, Guo Shao immediately ordered Qi Tingxun, Yang Biao and others to stay in Zhuozhou to monitor the movements of the main force of the Liao army in the north; He also summoned the cavalry to prepare, and decided to send the cavalry in the early morning of the next day.

He ordered Luo Yanhuan to go west and besiege the north of Qigou Pass. I ordered more than 1,000 cavalry to prepare...... There were nearly 2,000 horses, but there were only more than 1,200 knights. The Hujie army has a scarcity of war horses, and it is impossible for one person to be equipped with two horses, but since it is a mobile battle, the war horses will inevitably be damaged, so they have to give some reserve military horses to each department to supplement the loss of horses.

He would be dispatched before dawn in the morning, and Guo Shao spent the night in the barracks that night. He was so focused on fighting Xiao Siwen that he didn't care about anything else.

…… After nightfall, Doctor Lu couldn't help muttering in the hall when he saw that Guo Shao hadn't come back yet: "Could it be that the general was too careful when he heard those words last night, thinking that our Lu family was not hospitable and did not welcome him?" ”

In front of her father, Lu Niangzi said: "It's better not to come!" At first glance, he is not a good person, and he has nothing to do, and he is either a traitor or a thief. ”

"Shut up!" Doctor Lu suddenly said in annoyance, "You person, why are you suddenly speaking so harshly?" ”

Lu Niangzi bowed her head and said, "Originally, I was not wrong." ”

"If he doesn't want to live in our house anymore, he has to say it." Doctor Lu took out the gold ornament in his arms and played with it for a moment, "The general is from a big family and knows how to count etiquette...... There were guards living next door, so the old man went to ask what was going on. ”

Old man Lu went on a trip, and when he came back, he saw that the little lady was still grinding medicinal herbs with a wooden spoon in the hall, so he said, "The work will be done during the day tomorrow, and the courtyard door will be closed." ”

The little lady said, "Dad, what about General Guo?" ”

Old man Lu said: "I said that I was going to fight tomorrow morning, and I might come back in a few days, or maybe a day." ”

"Where to go to war?" The little lady asked curiously.

Old man Lu said: "I don't know very well, I asked for my father, and the general only said a few words, saying that Xiao Siwen, the king of the Southern Courtyard, is here, and he may fight with Xiao Siwen." I hope that the Great Zhou army will win, and don't let the Liao people take Zhuozhou back...... General Guo's illness is just right, and he is about to go on the expedition, alas. ”

So the little lady put away the things in her hand and went to fetch water to wait for the old man.

The next morning, before dawn, the little lady was woken up by the sound of horses' hooves, and she wore her middle coat and her hair loose, so she quietly walked out of the hall with a wooden stool, climbed up the stool and looked out at the wall.

I saw that the torches were bright on the street, and a large number of horsemen rushed by. Although the little lady was very wary of the tall man, she couldn't help but be curious to see what he was doing.

There were too many cavalry on the road, and they kept passing through the road in front of the gate, and they saw the iron armor glittering in the torches, clanging and clanging, but they couldn't see people clearly. But at this moment, he suddenly saw a general riding in front of him; And when the general walked in front of the Lu family, he turned his head to look here, and immediately found the Lu family's lady with half of her head exposed on the wall.

The military general is not, so who is Guo Shao? Lu Niangzi didn't pay attention, so she accidentally fell off the stool, and she snorted in pain, and hurriedly rubbed her back with her hands.

Her face flushed suddenly, and she thought of the embarrassment of waiting to meet again...... He actually found himself peeking at the wall. She sat on the ground for a while, and then thought, "The sound of horses' hooves is so loud, I am only looking at the cavalry, and not specifically at him."

At this moment, Old Man Lu also came out, saw his daughter by the wall, and hurriedly advised: "Don't open the door, there is chaos outside, who knows who you are?" Don't forget how your mother died back then! ”