In the south of Haozhou City, there is dust within a radius of several miles.

"Hey! Hey...... "Not far away, there were two big men in short clothes carrying a thick wooden scoop, shouting and ramming the earth rhythmically. The strong man carrying the burden walked barefoot while gritting his teeth and wiping his sweat with the dirty cloth around his neck.

The tent was open, and the Haozhou City Tower loomed in the distance filled with yellow dust. Guo Shao is standing in front of a wooden frame, holding a brush and drawing! The drawing was really ugly, but he seemed to be serious, questioning the scouts in detail while adding lines to the paper. He was drawing a rough diagram of the city.

At this time, a few more generals entered the account, and he finally threw the brush in the inkstone, turned around and said: "Build six camps, each of which must be double-layered, and a secret post must be installed and a ranger must be sent out for fifty miles around." ”

"Whoa."

Guo Shao said again: "We just arrived in Shouzhou, and the army is only 20,000. Neither besiege nor siege the city, but occupy the place first, and beware of a sneak attack by the enemy. ”

A ministry general reported: "There is a mudflated land in the northwest of the city, and thousands of Tang soldiers refuse to defend it, not only repairing fences and fortifications, but also digging through Huaishui and repairing the moat!" There is a water village in the north of the city, and there are more than 200 warships. ”

Another general reported: "Hundreds of ** warships have been found in Sizhou downstream." ”

"Send people to watch it from all sides, and leave it alone for the time being." Guo Shao immediately ordered.

After a while, a member of the military general brought several personal soldiers into the tent, and the military general hugged his fists and saluted: "The last general, Qi Stork, the military academy of the right chamber, came to meet Guo Dashuai on the order of Gao Huaide, the commander of the Xiangdu." ”

Guo Shao suddenly smiled kindly, first asked about Gao Huaide's situation, and even asked him if he was in good health, he was as concerned as an old friend...... It's all broken by Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin! Guo Shao didn't get along much with these two people, but he learned a lot from their words and deeds; Especially Zhao Kuangyin, who is considered by Guo Shao to be an opponent in his heart, does not prevent him from learning from his opponent.

But Metropolitan Colonel Qi Stork did not come to contact the feelings between the generals, he quickly got down to business: "When General Li Jixun was appointed as the right wing, he was defeated in the southwest of Tushan, and the last general personally led the troops to participate in this battle. First, when General Li heard that the city of Shouzhou was broken, he was anxious to attack, and then he was lured by the enemy's plan and ambushed; When the defeated army returned to the camp of the Zhou army, the grain and grass were burned by the surprise soldiers. The last general thought that Chai Kehong had already anticipated General Li's movements and was very well prepared. ”

Guo Shao nodded, picked up the pen from the inkstone, and wrote on a broken booklet: Insight into the opponent's intentions, anticipation of the enemy's opportunities, good use of tactics, and good at catching the psychology of the opponent's general.

"You go on."

Qi Stork said: "Our army was defeated because of an ambush. At that time, the various departments were in a hurry, and they did not check the traps under their feet and around them at all, and suddenly the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the soldiers were separated. In a panic, he encountered several elite soldiers led by Chai Kehong, so he was defeated. Later, I saw that they were just a few elite teams, and the others were chasing and killing in a chaotic manner, and the team was not very powerful. We were just caught off guard! ”

Guo Shao wrote and drew in the booklet again, and wrote down the things and his own opinions. Then it was handed over to Zuo You, Yang Biao and other generals for inspection.

All the generals felt that Guo Shao was reasonable. Li Chuyun said: "Chai Kehong is shrewd and good at using clever tricks, relying only on the wisdom of one person, but he is not good at controlling too many people. ”

Guo Shao and the others discussed it, and then asked with a smile: "Then what do you think I have strengths and weaknesses?" ”

Yang Biao said: "Big brother is good at seizing fighters and hitting them with one hit!" ”

Zuo You groaned: "Occupy the righteousness and boost morale." I feel that it is very good that the lord proposed to end the civil war and fight for the people of the world. The ancients said that this is the way to fight injustice with the royal way. ”

Wang Zhang laughed and said, "I'm not talking about Guo Dashuai." Then Li Chongjin said everywhere that Guo Dashuai was soft-hearted and could not lead troops. I really think the lord is sometimes too kind...... Just like the battle to break through Shouzhou City, I'm afraid that the only one who can do it without slaughtering the city is Guo Dashuai......"

Li Chuyun said: "The most important point is that my Great Zhou army is obviously more brave and good at fighting than the Southern Tang soldiers. ”

"I'll tell myself." Guo Shaodao.

The crowd fell silent and listened.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao just said indifferently: "I'm good at archery." ”

"Haha......" Everyone was stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.

Guo Shao did not leave the military general Qi Stork on the right side, and sent someone to send him away. The generals also dispersed, each of them to keep an eye on the construction of their camp.

Haozhou City has not yet been surrounded, there are a large number of troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty outside the city and on the river, and Guo Shao has not looked around for the time being. He honestly stayed in the camp of the Chinese army, thinking about Chai Kehong and other things.

His fingers lightly tapped a few times unconsciously on the board, and he secretly thought: I just said that Chai Kehong is not good at controlling most people, and he doesn't seem to be very good.

At present, although Guo Shao is the commander of the infantry army, he actually personally controls only the left wing of the Hujie army, about 20,000 people, but the scope of the spread is no longer in sight. How the generals of this era control their subordinates, Guo Shao said that he has no way of knowing...... Maybe Gao Huaide, a general of a family, knows that his father will definitely teach his son all kinds of skills; But the general will definitely not have the leisure to teach outsiders by hand.

All walks of life have some skills and some perceptions to do well, and they have to rely on the experience of their predecessors and their own experience. No matter how gifted a person is, he or she cannot be born to do something.

Guo Shao thought about it and decided to change the status quo with his own ideas. Establish a simple command system with heralds and military orders as an attempt.

…… (Guo Shao found someone to carve eighty-eight wooden seals, and then selected hundreds of "soldiers" from the lower camp who were eliminated by the elite regular army to form heralds.)

These soldiers are equivalent to the tun soldiers in Tuntian, they have no military pay in peacetime, and they are told that after becoming a herald, they are the regular establishment of the Hujie Army, and they are treated the same as the officers and soldiers of the army, and there are many people who are willing to join. However, Guo Shao personally led his generals to review these soldiers, and they were not required to be brave and strong, as long as they were clever and said a few paragraphs for them to repeat, as long as they immediately made the general idea clear, they were qualified.

Then each person was issued with three command flags and planted on their backs to distinguish the soldiers from the battle.

After making preparations, Guo Shao summoned dozens of generals from the left chamber to the Chinese army to discuss matters. First take down the wooden seal and let them see it, there are two kinds of seals.

The first twelve pieces, six for military generals and six for the Chinese army, each with only one word on it, "loyalty, bravery, martial arts, faith, righteousness, and victory", were issued to military colonels. The second type issued 38 pieces, which were addressed to commanders, were engraved with two characters, "Loyal A", "Loyal B", "Loyal C", and so on.

Guo Shao said: "On the eve of every battle, I draw lots. Whoever you catch is whichever you catch, you must not reveal your own seal, and you must not ask others. If there is an emergency and it is too late to draw lots, the words caught last time will be based on it. ”

"All ministries must affix their seals when they report on the military situation and when the Chinese army issues military orders. If the words do not match, the military order will be invalid and can be ignored. ”

"Of course, the first word of the commander is loyalty, bravery, martial arts, faith, righteousness, and victory, and after drawing lots, it may be different from the words of the military capital school. It is necessary to remember how many times the military newspaper was sent that day, and write the number each time to prevent the military order and the military newspaper from being lost halfway. ”

Guo Shao appointed Zuo You as the marching counselor on the spot, responsible for writing and receiving military orders; He also ordered Qin Shi to be the commander of the heralds, responsible for commanding and sending the heralds, and organized the remaining dozens of people under him into the herald team to eat military salaries; Luo Mengzi still led a team of 300 people.

Qin Shi was the old pawn who led his troops to escape during the attack on Shouzhou, and was almost ordered by Li Chongjin to correct the law on the spot; Later, Guo Shao interceded and was spared...... He also made meritorious contributions during the siege of the city, and those who survived after half of the people died were exonerated from their crimes. His son was originally the head of the capital, but he was burned to death by the fierce fire oil, and Qin Shi was directly appointed by Guo Shao as the head of the lower camp; Later, he has been following Guo Shao and is loyal, so Guo Shao now trusts him very much.

It is said that the Iron Cavalry has been screened and eliminated, and they are all brave men. However, some of the people that Guo Shao wanted to eliminate were reorganized into the forbidden army system, and he didn't seem to care about who he was.

No matter what, even if the soldiers who were eliminated by the forbidden army were better than the old men in Wuzhen Town. Therefore, Guo Shao did not dislike it, as long as it was a soldier, he would accept it. ）

…… Guo Shao took out a batch of flags embroidered with tiger patterns that he had brought to the "show" last time, asked someone to embroider the numbers of each army, and then sent them to everyone.

In the several camps that were built for a while, there were tiger flags flying everywhere, although it was a bit nondescript, but it was quite domineering, and it seemed that the tiger had become the symbol of the tiger army...... The Hujie Army originally had nothing to do with the Tiger, because it was not called the Hujie Army before, and the name was changed after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty; Just like the Iron Cavalry used to be called the Little Bottom Army, it's just a different name, and the people are still the same as before.

Soon after, Gao Huaide led the right carriage to Haozhou.

Gao Huaide found that the camp and fortifications had been repaired by Guo Shao, so he saved trouble and directly stationed the army in the built camp.

Tens of thousands of people, town soldiers, and township soldiers transferred from Shouzhou arrived in Haozhou one after another, and for a time there were more and more people outside Haozhou. Guo Shao then ordered the construction of two siege fortifications to begin.

** According to the soldiers, the Zhou army did not move, and the soldiers worked all day long, preparing all kinds of equipment.

In mid-October, the emperor led the inner hall straight, the east and west classes, and the elite soldiers of the crane control army to Xinghaozhou. found that there was a ** garrison on the northwest river beach, and immediately ordered the east and west bands to command Qi Tingyi to attack**.

Qi Tingyi is called "Qi Camel", he really took his soldiers to ride a camel and rushed across the moat outside the Nan** fortifications, and then the army covered and killed, broke the fortifications outside the Southern Tang City, and captured 3,000 people.

Chai Rong was overjoyed and promoted Qi Camel to the left side of the Hujie Army to fill the vacancy of the left side of the school.

Guo Shao once served as the colonel of the left wing, and later Jianjie was promoted to the commander of the military division, and the original position has been vacant, but this time he was sat on by the "Qi camel". The emperor himself ordered it, and there was no way to disobey it.