To Liu Yaoben's surprise, more than half of the 100 dead soldiers sent out finally returned to the fortress at Guandaokou, which made the soldiers and generals assembled at Guandaokou all surprised, and welcomed these returning warriors into the camp like stars holding the moon.

Although almost all of the people who came back this time were wounded, they still insisted on returning to the camp and attacked the official and military camp with more than 100 people.

In this way, it is needless to say that the encouragement of the Xingtian Army has been swept away.

Specifically, Liu Yaoben couldn't find out how much loss the stealing of the camp brought to the officers and soldiers this time, but one thing is for sure is that after the successful attack on the camp that night, even at the official road crossing nearly ten miles away, he heard a huge roar from the direction of the official and military camp, it must have been caused by these people blowing up a lot of gunpowder of the officers and soldiers, and it is probably impossible for the officers and soldiers to die less, and the scouts and meticulous work even saw from a distance the next day that the officers and soldiers carried out a lot of corpses from the camp and buried them in a place outside the camp. It can be seen that the losses suffered by the officers and troops this time will definitely not be small.

Seeing that so many brothers could step back and forth among the 10,000 officers and soldiers, and still be able to return here safely, many soldiers and generals who were a little worried were also relieved, and abandoned the last trace of fear of this road of officers and soldiers in their hearts, and began to prepare to repair the officers and soldiers who dared to come to them for trouble.

The biggest gain of the success of this stealing camp is not how many officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and how many officers and soldiers were burned, but this operation bought Liu Yaoben two precious days, so that they took the opportunity to strengthen many of the fortifications that had already been built, improved the defensive capability of the fortifications, and at the same time delayed for two days, grabbing two precious days for the arrival of future reinforcements.

The reason why there is a name for an official road crossing here is because this is the place where two official roads meet, it is a fork from Shaanzhou to Lushi and Yongning County, the terrain is very important, and it is also the north gate of Lushi County.

At the beginning, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Lushi County, if it weren't for the incompetence of the defenders and officials of Lushi County, as long as they sent not too many troops to intercept the Xingtian Army here, they would have been able to buy a lot of preparation time for Lushi County, but those officials of Lushi County would rather choose to abandon the city and flee, and finally did not grasp such an opportunity.

But in the hands of the Xingtian Army, there will be no such a situation again, when Xiao Tianjian sent Liu Yaoben back to the Lu clan to sit here, he said very clearly, that is, Liu Yaoben personally sat at the official crossing, resisted the attack of the official army, and ensured that Lu County was not lost.

For this reason, as soon as Liu Yaoben returned to Lushi County, he immediately led his troops to stationed in Guandaokou Village, and mobilized the Lushi County Township Barracks, and at the same time recruited many displaced people who gathered in Lushi County, and worked here day and night, built an earthen fort, and stuck it at Guandaokou.

The assault earthen fort was not too large, the walls were only a little more than a foot high, the main body was made of rammed earth, and the interior was reinforced with felled logs, which was not too strong, but it was basically enough.

Slightly strange is that the ground inside this earthen fort is much higher than the outside, which is also because the original Guandaokou Village would often flood the village in the summer due to heavy rainfall, and later the villagers who lived here simply raised their village year after year, and then gradually made the foundation of the small village too high, avoiding the threat of flooding the village because of the flood here.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian seized Lushi County a few years ago, he valued the geographical importance of Guandaokou Village, persuaded the remaining villagers in this village, and moved all of them to Lushi County, and a year ago, he arranged for a company of troops to be stationed in Guandaokou Village.

In addition to the relocation of the people, Guandaokou Village also preliminarily built a chimney pier, once it was found that there was an attack by the official army, it would light the wolf smoke to warn in the direction of Lushi County, after several months of operation of this company stationed here, in fact, Guandaokou Village has initially possessed the scale of a simple fortress.

After Liu Yaoben was ordered to come back to guard the Lu family, he personally sat here, commanding thousands of people to work all night, relying on the characteristics of the original village's high terrain, and encircled a low wall around the village on the spot, which looked more than one zhang high from the outside, but inside he could see the outside by standing on the ground, which was equivalent to expanding the entire Guandaokou Village into a military fort.

The internal area of the fort is the area of the original village, the original villagers lived in the earthen houses after Liu Yaoben arrived, all were demolished, a barracks were built on the spot, and before the arrival of the official army, enough to support 2,000 people to eat half a month of food was transported from Lushi County in the fort, in addition to some of the garrison guns captured when Lushi County was occupied also removed from Lushi County, transported to the Guandaokou fort, and erected on the fort.

This fort also has a very surprising feature, the four corners extend outward four small forts, from the small fort can easily block the four sides of the fort, this trick Liu Yao was originally learned from the Yangcheng Shuangfeng Zhai fortress wall, the prominent four small forts just played a role similar to the fort, although simple, but once the enemy attacked, the four corners of the fort, can play a very important role.

In addition to these, Liu Yaoben also raced against time to command Minzhuang to dig a trench along the fort that was more than one person deep and two feet wide, and planted a lot of sharpened wooden stakes in the ditch.

Don't look at the rush of time, but after this repair, the Guandaokou Fortress still has a considerable defensive capacity, if they are given enough time to operate, maybe there will be two years down, and a pass may be formed here.

When he learned the news that the official army had set off to force the official road crossing, Liu Yaoben ordered the township soldiers and people who were busy working outside the fort to evacuate from this place and evacuate back to Lushi County, and all the soldiers and generals who were originally outside the fort also withdrew to Baonei, with his order, the two fort doors of the fort were closed with a bang, and the drawbridge was quickly pulled up, thus cutting off the connection between the fort and the outside world.

A group of soldiers and generals who taught a battalion also quickly gathered in the fort, and after receiving their tasks, they rushed to the fort wall one after another, and began to be nervously busy, bundles of throwing guns were carried to the foot of the fort wall, boxes of packed ammunition were also placed behind the artillery, and dozens of large iron pots were also propped up by the soldiers in the fort, lit the fire and poured water into the pot and burned it.

In short, in order to defend the official crossing this time, Liu Yaoben mobilized almost all the resources that could be called upon, and did his best to make all the preparations, just waiting for the official army to attack.

(A new year begins!) In the past year, you have always accompanied me and spurred me on, so that I have come to this day! There are no other rhetoric, this year is still to keep the previous good habits, and strive to ensure that every day is constantly updated, to create a myth that is constantly changing! Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you will continue to support me in the new year! Thank you very much! ）