Chapter 505

However, among them, the border army and the village warrior each accounted for fifty percent. However, my border towns and townships are all good men who have been fighting with the Western Xia barbarians all the year round, although they are not as elite as the border army, and they also lack strong armor to protect themselves, but at least the garrison of the walled fort is definitely a good hand. ”

"At present, the four walled forts of Qinggang Gorge, Shentang Fort, Anbian City and Jiuyang Fort on the border with Western Xia are in danger of being raided by the Western Xia army at any time. Therefore, I thought that in order to be comprehensive, we should patrol the border this time, and it is better to go from the south and the north......"

After that, Zhi Keshi looked at Wang Yang with a blank eye, and that Ma Shang also set his eyes on Wang Yang, for fear that this paranoid thing would have to go to the border first to appreciate the five border fortresses that are now easy to get out of trouble.

After Wang Yang thought about it for a while, he saw the expressions of Ma Shang and Zhi Keshi, and smashed his mouth. "General Zhe, you are familiar with the geography of this Huanzhou, so naturally it is up to you to arrange it, and Wang has no objections."

"That's good, then let's take a look at which walled fort to start with......" Zhi Keshi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Wang Yang so upright, there were more than 20 walled forts in Dingbian Army and Huanzhou, in addition to the five closest to the border, there were also seventeen walled forts, even if it only took a day's work.

It's been going around for more than half a month, and by that time, if the Western Xia army is really going to invade Huanqing Road, then there should be news.

If the Western Xia army invaded, then, with the barrier of the five border forts, their patrol team could calmly withdraw to the hinterland of Huanzhou.

If more than half a month has passed, the Tanguts have not launched an attack, it is very likely that they will not attack again. After all, after the weather enters late autumn, it is absolutely unrealistic for the Xixia people to take the entire Huanqing Road before the severe cold comes.

Moreover, the harsh wind and snow and extremely low temperature in the north are very frostbitten and frostbitten, and a large number of Western Xia soldiers who slept in the wilderness are very good.

However, before going out to patrol the border, Wang Yang took the limelight first, because Huanzhou was closer to the Western Xia border than Gyeongzhou, and the Xia and Song borders have always been unstable, after all, the Empress Dowager Liang and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of the Western Xia Dynasty are typical war maniacs, and in order to divert the class contradictions in the country, they will point their troops directly at the Great Song Dynasty.

And this Huanqing Road is the most commonly attacked place, so although the city of Huanzhou, which has stood for more than 100 years, has not been captured by the Western Xia army, the city wall has been in war for a long time, and it seems mottled and cracked everywhere.

And the cement brought this time, in addition to the distribution of 100 carts to Han Zhongyan, the rest of the cement was all brought here by Wang Yang, just to show the repair power of this so-called Yuanyou cement.

A large amount of cement mortar was poured into the cracks of those city walls, only after a day's scene, to the next day, the cement mortar has solidified, its hardness, so that those special to visit the generals to see what is called a rock.

They all expressed to Wang Yang that the various walled forts they were stationed in often had such damage, and hoped that Wang Yang could provide them with some of these magical building repair materials.

However, Wang Yang did not give it directly, but told these generals that when he went to Zhuzhai Fort, he would leave a certain amount of Yuanyou cement according to the situation of each walled fort.

As for those partial vans that had already vacated the goods, Wang Yang did not stay, but prepared to bring them with him when he patrolled the border, except for the more than 200 partial vans that went to Yan'an Mansion.

Wang Yang still has 500 side vans in his hands, which are transported by 500 people.

This kind of assignment really makes Zhe Keshi, who is ready to go out to patrol the border, a little confused. Wang Yang told the general that this was a tool he had designed that could be used to transport goods in peacetime and be used as a walled city in wartime.

Zhe Keshi looked at the strange-looking partial van, and directly hehe......

I really can't see that this kind of small two-wheeled vehicle, which has a high carriage on one side and a low carriage on the other, can at most support two or three people squatting or lying down.

However, the other party is the supervisor who invented the Great Song Dynasty Yuan Youjia and Yuan You crossbow and the clairvoyant mirror, what he likes to do, naturally he likes it, as long as it does not hinder the important task of patrolling the border, just treat this Wang Jian army as if he occasionally bragged about failure.

"Since you want to bring Wang Jianjun, then bring it, I just hope they don't delay our trip too much." Zhe Keshi finally made such a statement.

After following Zhang Qi's order, Zhi Keshi picked up a thousand elite border soldiers from the border army and the Yuan Youjia soldiers of that battalion to protect the two supervisors, and now even the 500 side vans have become protection targets, which really makes Zhi Keshi's mood not very beautiful.

But it can't be helped, but compared to the eunuchs and eunuchs I saw in the past, or the civil officials and supervisors who can't see themselves in their hearts.

Wang Yang and Ma Shang's affinity and kindness are already too good to deal with, and the other party only has such a little request, but there is nothing that cannot be satisfied.

Moreover, with these 500 partial vans, there is no need for the soldiers to carry their own baggage, and they can all be piled up on these partial vans.

What's more, if you just want to transport some consumables such as arrows and crossbow arrows to the various forts, five hundred vehicles will naturally not have the slightest problem.

So in the early morning of the third day, this baggage team left Huanzhou City like the patrol team of the baggage team, and first marched south. The first target was the town of Malyeong, which had been passed by the army before, on the border with the walled city of Gyeongju.

Although it is known as a town, in fact, it is a typical military fortress, compared to the more densely populated Gyeongju, there are almost not many ordinary people and people in the whole Huanju.

Even in Huanzhou City, I am afraid that the total number of local people will not exceed 20,000, and most of the rest are merchants and travelers, so that the money and silk in the hands of those soldiers who have been stationed at the border for a long time can have a place to spend.

And in Maling Town, which was guarded by 500 border troops and village warriors, in addition to a few hundred households, there were only dozens of vendors. Maling Town is built on the bank of Maling Water, backed by the towering Maling Mountains, it is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack, and even if there is an enemy who breaks through this Maling Town, sorry, fifteen miles to the south, it is a larger fortress: a fortified city guarded by two thousand border troops and townsmen.

Although the defenders of Maling Town were only 500, there were five stone-throwing carts on the wall facing north, and all the dwellings within the wall did not look like private houses, but more like a single blockhouse.

According to the appropriate version, even if the wall is broken, the soldiers can still rely on these buildings in the wall to defend it.

Looking at Maling Town, where the terrain is intricate, Wang Yang also had to sigh that although the defensive battle in the Cold Weapon Era is very different from the defensive war in the future Firearms Age, there are also many similarities.

For example, bunker-like houses are the best platforms for crossbowmen and archers to shoot at their enemies. Such a walled fort structure, even if it is in the middle of the gunpowder age, I believe it will definitely play a good defensive role.