The riverbank position that Gao Gou Yu chose was the best terrain he could choose within his sight.

The riverbank position is on a small raised dirt slope on the west side of the official road, backed by the Enyang River.

The position was only a three-sided defense line in the southeast, north and south.

The eastern line of defense was attached to the official road, about a hundred paces long. Therefore, the official road is somewhat concave, so the western defense line is also concave.

One end of the northern and southern lines of defense against the banks of the Enyang River, each about thirty to forty paces long.

As for the west side facing the Eunyang River, there is no defensive line for the time being. The river beach is covered with a thick layer of silt. When the sun shines on the mud, the surface forms a thin earthy yellow mud shell, but if the men and horses step on it, the thin mud shell will immediately crumble, trapping the men and horses into it. Between the river beach and the position, there is also a natural river ridge washed out by the current, the height of which varies from two or three feet to one zhang high. If the thugs came up from the river beach, they had to cross the mud of the river beach and climb the river ridge, so that the Protector Army had enough time to temporarily deploy troops to defend.

Why is the defensive line long from north to south and narrow from east to west?

It is both helpless and intentional. In order to make full use of the role of the official road as a barrier.

The official road is a dirt road that is more than a foot wide, and legend has it that it was built during the renovation of the wooden doorway (Note 1) in the Hongwu year. After nearly 300 years of people trampling on horses, the roadbed of this official road has seriously sunken and turned into a large road ditch two or three feet deep. Once it rains heavily and the water is not drained, the ditch will flood into a small river.

Last year, Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun led the three battalions north to Xinzheng Dam, and they suffered the hardships of this kind of road, and later contributed to the determination of the prince Zhu Pingjin to rebuild the new road from Chengdu to Shunqing.

This type of ditch has an added military advantage: it is a good obstacle fortification if it is slightly repaired according to the requirements of the defense. If the sliver on one side of the defense line is cut into a cliff, the excavated earth is built into a chest wall, and then the cut down trees are nailed into a deer, and the extra spearhead is inserted into a horse rejection, then whether the men and horses want to pass, they will be forced to continue to be exposed to the fire of the defenders because of the wide obstacles.

The western defense line is close to the official road, and the distance from the river bank to the official road is only thirty or forty steps wide, so the north and south defense lines can only resist the river bank at one end, and connect the east and west defense lines of the west defense line at one end.

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On the edge of the noisy position, Yang Mingshi silently watched as several shirtless soldiers struggled forward in the undulating river with bamboo pipes in their mouths. It wasn't until the last soldier climbed to the opposite shore and disappeared into the bushes that he silently withdrew his gaze.

Lord Yang was worried that these soldiers who crossed the river to ask for help would be intercepted and killed by the local rioters, and Cheng Weiguo, who was standing behind Yang Mingshi, knew it very clearly. Cheng Weiguo is a natural thorn, but he has great respect for Yang Mingshi. Ma Gan and Yang Mingshi brought him from the official army to the Protector Army, and they tried their best to promote him from a hundred generals to the commander of a battalion, which was one of the reasons why he respected Yang Mingshi. Yang Mingshi really cared about the life and death of him and these big-headed soldiers, which was another reason why he respected Yang Mingshi.

Seeing Yang Mingshi's solemn expression, Cheng Weiguo tried to relieve him: "Lord Yang, Zhu Gongzi has already thrown the bamboo tube down." Wang Xiang is stationed in Enyang Town, and will receive our letter for help.

and Wang Shengwu to the north. The appointed meeting time was tomorrow morning, so before we arrived tomorrow morning, he would send a horse to contact us. At that time, he must have sent troops from Mumen Town to reinforce him. Twenty miles away, an hour away.

However, as the last general can see, the 18th Battalion will also arrive in Mumen Town ahead of schedule like us. ”

Cheng Weiguo explained, but Yang Mingshi raised another possibility: "What if Wang Xingwu is also ambushed?"

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"The town of Mumen is on the west bank of the river. The 18th Battalion marched on the west bank of the river, and it was unlikely that it would be ambushed.

Besides, there are the 3rd and 14th regiments on the other side of the river!

The last general remembered that the war briefing said that a battalion of the 3rd Regiment had arrived at Xingchang (now Jiulong Town, Wangcang County), which was only twenty or thirty miles away. Now the thieves are surrounding us, and we are surrounding the thieves, and this is a mille-feuille with a sandwich between the inside. General He dared to camp near the river, and he also took a fancy to this. If the local tyrants dare to surround us, we will come to a center to blossom and wipe out the Yuan thief and his gang! ”

"Since this is a place of death for us and the Soil Tyrants, the Soil Tyrants will attack more fiercely and fiercely! We are fighting against the water, and there is no way back! It's a place of death and then life! ”

Yang Mingshi thought about the appearance before the Battle of Yuxi, read this sentence again, and then turned around and waved his hand to Cheng Weiguo vigorously:

"Instead of sitting and talking, you should get up and do it. Let's go and see the soldiers digging the fortifications! ”

The soldiers were seizing the precious time that the cavalry company had bought for them and frantically reinforcing their positions.

The position was littered with dug mud blocks, grain bags filled with dirt and severed branches. Iron pickaxes and sapper shovels swayed with the swimming figures, shouts and shouts came and went with the sweat.

The widespread armament of pickaxes and sapper shovels put the Protectors two to three hundred years ahead of their time. Platoon, shooting, stabbing and earthwork have become the four major skills of the National Protector Army's key training as early as the Songlin Mountain training camp. Since the Northern Sichuan Operation, another item of blasting has been added, which is collectively known as the five major infantry techniques.

In the civil work regulations of the Protector Army, two soldiers, one with a pickaxe and the other with a shovel, cooperated with each other to dig a square pit two feet wide, two feet deep, and three feet long in ordinary soft soil in two quarters of an hour. The area was a soft valley with a flat dam and no stones underneath the soil, which made the construction of the Protectors even faster. Half an hour passed, and the riverbank position had taken shape.

Cheng Weiguo accompanied Yang Mingshi to inspect and supervise, while proudly boasting about his troops:

“…… There are quite a few veterans in our battalion, and like the last general, they all crawled out of the pile of dead. One sweat, half a life, they all understand this truth. There is no need for us to supervise the overseers, as soon as they reach the designated area, they will immediately shout at the cubs to dig trenches and build breastwalks!

Lord Yang, you see, the carts of the baggage company are arranged in a line, the wheels are nailed and then buried in the soil, and it immediately becomes a fortification. The spare sacks and baskets were loaded with excavated soil and immediately formed a breastwork. The big trees were cut down into barricades, and the small trees were cut down into deer. The short spear and spearhead are stuck diagonally into the ground, which is the rejection of the horse in front of the breastwork. The mud here is all the sand brought in by the river, and it is very soft. It doesn't take an hour for the camp to be impregnable......"

"Camp Commander Cheng, don't be careless!" Yang Mingshi admonished with a calm face. At this time, he walked to the northeast corner of the position, and found that the fortification structure here was somewhat famous.

"This is the protrusion of the fortress!" Cheng Weiguo triumphantly drew a circle along the spearhead-like protruding fortress line with his fingers, and then pointed to the official road that was recessed on the right side:

"The protruding horn protrudes three zhang, and the widest part of the middle is two zhang. The two head cannons are placed back to back in the middle, the widest part. In this way, the thugs rushed up, and the cannons were fired diagonally...... Boom, one shot pierces dozens of layers! ”

"It's good, it's good, but ...... In case the local thugs rush here first......" Yang Mingshi pointed to the fortress at his feet.

"Rush here first?"

Gao Gou Yu came out from behind the two of them.

"The thugs rushed here first. I can't wait! Come and die!

The prince taught us hand in hand in the pine forest mountain, this is called side fortification!

Overseer, look down at the trench below, how deep is it? A full foot, and there is still a foot or two of water oozing out of the bottom! The front of the fortress is sharpened, and a tiger squat cannon is placed. When the thugs attack here, they can only go down to the ditch and climb the fort wall, so that the back and side of the waist are lit to the defense lines on both sides!

There is a fortress here, a fortress on the south side, two sides are clamped, three sides are covered, four cannons are cross-fired, plus eight tiger squat cannons. The thugs rushed up, and they had to fill the ditch with corpses first!

Soil thugs, they like to play that ...... Crowd tactics. Lao Tzu didn't dig elsewhere first, but dug here first, just to prevent the hands of the local tyrants! ”

"Crowd tactics? Interesting! ”

"The prince said it in the pine forest mountain! Songlin Mountain, does Lord Yang know? That day, the prince of the world reviewed the whole army in Songlin Mountain, heh, heh, that momentum! What is the True Dragon Prince? ”

Gao Gou still had a little sense of secrecy, and he didn't shake out the core secrets of last year's Songlin Mountain military parade.

“…… I remember that Shizi personally inspected the civil work of Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun's third battalion one day, and asked them what to do when they encountered the crowd tactics of the local tyrants? Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun didn't understand it at the time, so Shizi taught us this method by hand, saying that it was specifically to deal with the tactics of the sea of local riots! ”

Yang Mingshi twisted his beard and thought for a long time, and seemed to understand.

Chen Youfu is in Changping Mountain, and the hexagonal towers of Jincheng Walled City are like a copy of this fortress. The main fire was not on the front, but on the sides. The thugs were so close to the side wall of the camp that they couldn't find a place to hide, so they could only stand up and be beaten. But it was not easy to remove the bastion:

The fortress itself was a key fortification, and the front was sharp, and the superior forces of the attacking side could not be spread at all.

Outside the mountain, outside the green mountain building, there are also high-ranking people on top!

Yang Mingchang, who prides himself on his love of studying military books, sighed and beckoned Cheng Weiguo to move on. But before he could move his steps, a figure dressed in a coarse linen garment, with a turban stained with mud, and a face covered in oil, sweat and dirt, broke into his eyes.

"Master Mei, you...... How can I ......?"

Mei Pengxin, the new magistrate of Nanjiang County, who went north with the army, fiercely hugged his foot and stepped the portable sapper shovel into the dirt. He slammed the handle of the shovel with both hands, shifting the weight of his body. As soon as the shovel head was pryed, a shovel full of dirt left the ground.

"Lady Mei......?"

"Lord Yang, you scolded well the day before yesterday!" Mei Pengxin replied without raising his head, "Those who know the times are Junjie!" What are the current affairs? It's just shoveling mud! The lower officials want to use a shovel of mud to measure how to be a handsome man in the world! ”

"Mei-sama, you ......"

Yang Mingshi regretted a little at this time, would he scold too hard that day and confuse Mei Pengxin, a nerd?

"The Art of War: Death and Resurrection!" Mei Pengxin picked up a shovel of mud again, and the corners of his mouth pulled out an extraordinarily hideous, "Mr. Die First!" Mr. Die First! The thugs are late, and there is no place to die! ”

That's right, Mei Pengxin's hideous reminded Yang Mingshi and Cheng Weiguo. Both of them were a little puzzled:

It's been more than an hour, and the local thugs have neither attacked nor left, has there been any change?

Note 1: Mumen Road, also known as Xiamen, is located in the southwest of Tianshui, and Zhang He (HE), a famous general of the Wei army during the Three Kingdoms, died of an arrow. Because there is a town in the Enyang River Valley in Sichuan called Mumen Town, the local government hyped up the Enyang River Valley as an ancient Mumen Road, and constantly invented historical sites in the surrounding area, which is bullying tourists without culture. The book is just wrong.

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