The name of the Persian beautiful girl is Gemma Suena, Fang is sixteen years old, does not know Chinese, but fortunately, Gao Junshan knows a little Persian and can communicate with Gemma Suena in some simple ways.

Since ancient times, Persia has produced beautiful women, and Gemma Suena is no exception. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, a high nose and thin lips, snow-white skin, and the perfect proportion of facial features, like an elf falling into the mortal world, which is breathtakingly beautiful. Gao Junshan learned of her origins from Gemma, a princess of Persia, who was a lover of horseback riding, and was unfortunate enough to get lost after three days of riding alone in the vast wilderness, and met this caravan on the way and was brought here.

Gao Junshan was very sympathetic to her plight, and the urge to be a flower messenger rose in his heart to protect Gemma, so he arranged for this Persian girl to be sent to Jiya.

After this, Gao Junshan made a major overhaul of his troops in order to cope with future battles.

First, the 20,000 cavalry was divided into three cavalry corps by him:

The captain of the first cavalry team was one meritorious officer, with six thousand horsemen;

Captain of the 2nd Cavalry Corps, Red Army Friends, 6,000 horsemen;

Ma Zhi'an, captain of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, 5,000 horsemen.

Cai Zhishan, the captain of the directly subordinate team, had 2,000 musketeers, 3,000 artillerymen, 3,000 archers, 3,000 cavalry, and 3,000 infantry, totaling 14,000 men and horses.

Liu Fangliang, captain of the 1st Infantry Brigade, 8,000 people;

The captain of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, Li Busi, 8,000 people.

The leaders of the child soldiers, Li Hu and Sun Dahai.

Sun Dahai is the son of Sun Jiye, after Sun Jiye died in battle, Gao Junshan took on the obligation to take care of his family, although Sun Dahai was only thirteen years old, because he grew up in the military camp since he was a child, he was also proficient in knives, guns and sticks, Gao Junshan put him in the position of the leader of the children's soldiers, focusing on training.

Ma Zhi'an's 5,000 cavalry team outside the city did not participate in the reorganization, because they served as a guard mission, so they were directly named the third cavalry team.

In Lingtai, Huating, Guyuan and Zhenyuan around Pingliang, Gao Junshan has sent people to open up the joints with heavy money, bribed these local dignitaries, and maintained the original business and trade exchanges.

Sun Yuanhua was an artillery expert in the late Ming Dynasty, and Gao Junshan did not dare to bury this talent, so he was responsible for the production of firearms and the configuration of gunpowder. As for the development of more advanced firearms, it will take time, and there will also be a leap forward in smelting. Therefore, Gao Junshan still focuses on the present and produces more firearms and gunpowder that are urgently needed at present.

To this end, Gao Junshan set up a special arsenal and gathered more than 50 craftsmen in this area, and Sun Yuanhua strictly controlled the production process to produce urgently needed guns, artillery and gunpowder for Cai Zhishan's musketeers and artillerymen.

Of course, Gao Junshan used the neutrino rice-vegetable exchange instrument in exchange for rice, and he also used the herd herd in the Han Wangfu to develop poultry farming to provide the meat needs of the soldiers.

There was no fighting on the Western Front, and it was as calm as stagnant water. Gao Junshan knows that this kind of peaceful day will not last long, he needs this peaceful environment very much, and he must make full use of this peaceful time to build this team well.

On the first day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633 AD), Pingliang City ushered in a festive and cheerful year.

Wealthy families, most of them put on new clothes and hats, dressed neatly, visited relatives and friends, and said goodbye to each other; Poor families, all of them are happy, carry baskets, go to the market to buy melon seeds, peanuts, and magnolia slices, and have a sweet and sweet New Year; Children, everyone has New Year's money.

Gao Junshan's mansion is also very lively, these days, the big and small generals came to say goodbye in batches, and the brother-in-law Liu Fangliang soaked in Gao Mansion every day, amusing the two children of Gao Junshan. Gao Hongbing and Gao Chengjun are already half a year old, both of them are white and fat, with very different personalities, Gao Hongbing is lively and active, and Gao Chengjun is quiet and elegant.

Han Yuyan and Ji Ya were busy entertaining a group of people who came to say hello, and Ji Ya's Chinese skills have improved greatly, and she has been able to use Chinese to converse with people freely.

Because Gemma Suena doesn't speak Chinese, she can only watch everyone laugh, but fortunately, she also likes children, and she either hugs the Red Soldier or the Orange Army all day long, and will go into the kitchen to serve dishes when the meal is served. Festive days also infected her.

Happy days are to pass quickly, unconsciously to the fifteenth day of the first month, on this day every household is full of lights, the streets and alleys are noisy with gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, laughter is connected. Eating Lantern Festival, making Yangge, turning nine songs, watching lanterns, putting lanterns, playing flower poles, Pingliang people are intoxicated with sweet happiness.

The most prosperous and lively Lantern Festival is the lantern parade at night, after dark, the colorful lanterns on both sides of the street are hung high, the fire tower in the middle is connected, the lion, the dragon lantern, the water boat, etc. shuttle in the meantime, laughing and laughing, a faction of leveling.

A few days after the Lantern Festival, an unexpected horse accident caused Gao Junshan to be vigilant about the protection of Pingliang City.

The incident happened on the afternoon of January 24, when Ma Zhi'an's cavalry was patrolling outside the East City Gate, a horse was accidentally frightened on the spot by the sound of a troupe's trumpet, and rushed towards the East City Gate, rushing directly into the city, knocking over several people who were entering the city along the way.

When Gao Junshan got the news, he immediately rushed to the East City Gate to deal with the accident, compensated the injured people for the cost of soup and medicine, and ordered the cavalry to apologize to the injured people. What made Gao Junshan feel uneasy was that the frightened horse was able to break directly into the city gate, and if the enemy's cavalry suddenly appeared, like this frightened horse, and broke into the city gate, it must have been able to break in.

Gao Junshan immediately invited Sun Yuanhua, Cai Zhishan, Bailisha, Tian Wenju, and Liu Hongru to discuss countermeasures, and the group climbed the city tower and stood by the female wall to check the terrain outside the city.

Cai Zhishan had rich experience in defending the city, and he was the first to speak: "King Qin, if you want to stop the enemy's cavalry, you can dig a trench under the city and then lay a tripwire. ”

Gao Junshan groaned: "In this way, it is inconvenient for the people to enter and exit the city gate. I wonder if I can build a few protective walls? To stop the enemy? ”

Tian Wenju advised: "It is better not to have a protective wall that is too high, and our archers and musketeers can be arranged behind the wall to snipe the incoming enemy." ”

Gao Junshan nodded: "You can leave a shooting hole on the wall for lookout and shooting, and then dig a tunnel to transport troops." ”

Sun Yuanhua proposed: "We will put artillery and stone throwers on the head of the city, so that it will be a complete city protection system." ”

Gao Junshan led a few people down the city tower, came to the city gate to conduct a field survey, and finally decided on the plan for the city gate protection fortifications.

First of all, at a place ten paces away from the city gate, build a fan-shaped earthen wall, waist-high height, the earthen wall is divided into ten sections, between each section of the earthen wall, leave a width that the cart can enter and exit freely, called an opening, and the earthen wall has a lookout hole and a shooting hole.

Ten more steps, a second fan-shaped earthen wall is erected, and the openings between each earthen walls are exactly staggered from the openings of the first earthen walls. In another ten steps, the third fan-shaped earthen wall was erected, and in the same way, the opening of the third earthen wall was staggered with the opening of the second door.

The purpose of this was to make it necessary for the carriages and horses entering the city gates to turn.

Secondly, inside the second and third earthen walls, tunnels were dug that led directly into the city to facilitate the transportation of troops.

Finally, a moat ten paces wide was dug on the perimeter, filled with traps, and planks were laid at the opening leading to the city gate to facilitate the entry and exit of the people.

Gao Junshan appointed Sun Yuanhua as the technical director of the project, and he drew a general map of the four city gates.

Sun Yuanhua also put forward a proposal to step up the manufacture of defensive stone throwers, the so-called defensive stone throwers, that is, do not require a long range of stone throwers, as long as they can throw a large number of stones, to stop the momentum of the enemy's attack, it is a high-quality defensive stone thrower.

Gao Junshan immediately issued a mobilization order, he naturally became the supreme commander of the construction of the city wall, this operation, mobilized the whole city of the military and civilians, the construction site is very spectacular, especially at night, the whole circle outside the city wall is brightly lit.

Li Hu and Sun Dahai also came to Gao Junshan to receive the task, Li Hu patted his chest and expressed his determination to Gao Junshan: "Lord Qin, our children and soldiers must also make efforts, and we will definitely complete the task assigned by Lord Qin!" ”

Sun Dahai pulled up his immature voice and shouted: "Lord Qin, we have five hundred children's soldiers, and we must also make a difference!" ”

Gao Junshan knew that they would not leave without handing over some tasks to these two little ghosts, so he handed over the task of picking up stones outside the city to the child soldiers, and they only needed to pick them up, and of course the work of transporting the stones to the city tower would be completed by adults.

The whole project was carried out in an orderly manner for two months, and finally completed satisfactorily. And he did two additional things: first, Sun Yuanhua introduced the water of the Jing River into the moat; The second is that Gao Junshan found three groundwater in Pingliang City.

In April of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Sun Kewang and Feng Shuangli, who were collecting intelligence in Qingyang and Fengxiang, sent an urgent battle report: Ma Jinzhong and Hui Dengxiang had crossed the Yellow River and joined forces with Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, in Xizhou, Shanxi. Cao Wenzhao, who had his hands free, led Yang Jiamo, Wang Xingshan, He Huchen, and Yang Qi generals, with a total of more than 20,000 troops, and was coming to Pingliang.

Gao Junshan convened an emergency military meeting in the conference hall, and the left hand row sat in: Tian Wenju, Bai Lisha, Sun Yuanhua, Liu Hongru, and Zhao Shichun; Sitting in the row on the right hand are: Cai Zhishan, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Ma Zhian, Red Army Friend, and Li Busi.

Gao Junshan gave a brief explanation of the current situation: "Cao Wenzhao has recently recruited 5,000 cavalry and is approaching me from Zhenyuan, and is currently stationed in Yangzhuang; Yang Jiamo and Wang Xingshan led 10,000 troops to approach me from Lingtai, and have now arrived in Gaozhuang; He Huchen and Yang Qi's 6,000 men and horses also set off from Guyuan and have now passed the Wating Pass. How our army should respond, please express your opinions. ”

Gao Yigong first expressed his opinion: "King Qin, the official army is the weakest in the three ways, and Cao Wenzhao is the weakest. Don't look at him, he has 5,000 cavalry, but they are all newcomers, and they can't be the same as last year's Guanning Iron Cavalry. I am willing to lead the first cavalry team to Yangzhuang and fight with Cao Wenzhao. ”

As soon as Gao Yigong's voice fell, Liu Hongru spoke against Gao Yigong's proposal.