After three days of examinations and five days of marking, the imperial examination was finally released, and more than 2,300 scholars were on the list and were admitted to the examination.

But the joy of the imperial examination was washed away by the clouds of war, these days the streets and alleys of Jingzhao City are no longer talking about the imperial examination, everyone is solemn, discussing the imminent outbreak of war, for a while, the general of the Jin State Wanyan Lou room has become the focus of attention and discussion of Jingzhao people.

Although the alarm bell of the war rang suddenly, Li Yanqing did not want the war to affect the imperial examination and the enrollment of the school, in Li Yanqing's view, these two things are a century-old plan, related to the future of the three roads in the northwest, as long as the Jin soldiers do not enter the Guanzhong for a day, it will not affect the enrollment of the imperial examination and the school.

"Governor Li, I think it's better to choose the third test paper! The first two are too difficult, and we also have to take into account the more than 500 military references. Their knowledge was slightly weaker than that of the scholars. ”

Li Guang sat aside and said with a slight smile: "The key is that only 1,000 people are admitted to the school, and there are 2,300 people who can pass the examination. ”

"Governor Li, please speak!"

"It is recommended that two hundred and fifty places be allocated to the army, and the third test paper will be used for the examination, and the five hundred military examination will also admit one of the two, and the remaining seven hundred and fifty places will be given to the people, and the scholars who want to participate in the provincial examination will be removed, and almost two and a half people will be admitted to one person, and they will use the most difficult first test paper, so that the interests of both parties can be guaranteed, what does Jingluo think of this plan?"

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "This is a plan for both worlds!" ”

"Then it's decided."

Li Yanqing handed the three test papers to Li Guang, and asked Governor Li for the future, and tried to enroll the first batch of students as soon as possible.

Li Guang was silent for a moment and asked, "Is Jingluo going to Yan'an Mansion?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "The Jin soldiers stationed 30,000 troops on the east bank of the Yellow River in Shizhou, all of them are the elite army of the Jin State, and the Jin soldiers should soon launch an attack on Yan'an Mansion." ”

"Will there be refugees fleeing to Guanzhong?" Li Guang asked worriedly.

"There may be, there will be some people in Yan'an, Yanzhou, Fangzhou, and Danzhou who will flee to Guanzhong, and we must be prepared."

Li Guang sighed in his heart, the resettlement of more than 300,000 Song people who returned from the south of Western Xia had just begun to operate, and there were hundreds of thousands of more refugees, how could Guanzhong bear it.

"Is it possible that Guanzhong will be broken through by the Jin soldiers?"

"I can only say that it is possible, the goal of the Jin soldiers is Guanzhong, but as long as we hold Yan'an Mansion, the Jin soldiers will not dare to go deep alone."

Li Yanqing stood up and said with a smile: "I have made all the preparations, I believe that Jin Bing will definitely hate Shaanxi Road!" ”

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An hour later, Li Yanqing led 30,000 Jingzhao troops to leave Guanzhong and rush to Yan'an Mansion via the Luoshui Road.

Because of the influence of snow, the progress of the Jin soldiers attacking the Song Dynasty was not fast, and this attack on the Shaanxi Road was not the focus of the Jin soldiers, but the Jingzhao Army that contained Li Yanqing was the strategic goal of the Jin soldiers, so the attack on the Shaanxi Road, the Jin soldiers divided their troops into two ways, one was to attack northern Shaanxi, mainly for Yan'an and Suizhou, and the other was to go directly south, cross the Yellow River from Mengjin, raid Luoyang, cut off Hangu Pass, and make it impossible to aid the Central Plains in the west.

Attacking the Central Plains and Shandong was the real goal of the Jin soldiers' winter campaign.

Although it was to contain the Jingzhao army, the Jin soldiers still made a bloody effort to attack northern Shaanxi, and mobilized 30,000 elite cavalry from Datong Mansion to the south, preparing to launch a fierce attack on Yan'an Mansion.

As early as two months ago, Li Yanqing began to prepare for this war, and he ordered the people scattered all over Yan'an Prefecture to be moved to Yan'an Prefecture to govern Fushi County, including Yanchuan, Yanchang, Linzhen, Menshan, and Ganquan Prefecture, and the 200,000 people in the five counties of Yanchuan, Yanchang, Linzhen, Menshan, and Ganquan were all evacuated to Fushi City, and at the same time, the troops and materials of Suizhou and Yan'an Prefecture were evacuated to Fushi County, which was actually the implementation of a strong wall and wilderness for Yan'an Prefecture.

In addition, after Li Yanqing took control of Shaanxi Road, he ordered a major repair of Fushi City, Jingzhao City, Jucheng, Tongguan and Pujin Pass, and strengthened the city walls.

Li Yanqing's strategic thinking is very clear, to build a central fortified city, to the Song army is good at the city defense war to fight against the Jin soldiers, to avoid the cavalry advantage of the Jin soldiers, and at the same time a large number of training village soldiers, improve the ability of the village soldiers to protect themselves, he sat on the Shaanxi Road, he will implement this strategic idea very thoroughly.

At present, Yan'an Prefecture has a population of about 300,000 people, and basically all of them live within 50 miles of Fuzhi Fushi County, and 80,000 joint township soldiers have been formed among the 300,000 people to strengthen the training of bows and arrows and spears.

Anping Town is the easternmost town in the defense circle of Yan'an Prefecture, about 50 miles away from Fushi County, including about 3,000 villagers around, Anping Town has trained 500 joint defense township soldiers, the equipment is not bad, wearing ink-coated cloth armor, wearing a Fan Yang hat, each soldier has a spear and a pair of bows and arrows, and some soldiers are also equipped with homemade short knives.

Cloth armor first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, is made of fine weaving cloth, but the production process is not simple, first brushed more than a dozen layers of soil paint, and then repeatedly soaked in oil and then dried, its toughness is no less than leather armor, ink-coated cloth armor has always been the equipment and armor of the Central Plains army, experienced a large number of production in the Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, there is a large backlog in the capital ordnance supervision warehouse, Li Yanqing will transport at least 500,000 pairs of cloth armor to Jingzhao Mansion, re-paint can be used.

The alarm had already been issued, and the people of Anping Town had evacuated to Fushi County, and only 500 joint defense township soldiers remained, who were very familiar with the nearby terrain and were not afraid of the Jin cavalry.

The chief commander of the 500 township soldiers was a general of the Song army, named Zheng Ping, a native of Duncheng, a veteran with more than ten years of military experience.

Zheng Ping was given the task of leading this township army to harass the rear of the Jin soldiers and attack the Jin soldiers' grain search team.

At noon, 500 village soldiers were squatting in a ravine to rest, when a sentry suddenly shouted overhead: "There is a situation in the distance!" ”

The soldiers who were dozing off stood up one after another, and Zheng Ping ran up the hill above him and looked into the distance.

I saw that in the snowy field in the distance, a thick black line was speeding towards this side, judging from the size of the black line, there were about 3,000 people, and it could be seen that they were all cavalry, and then looking back, there were no more large troops.

The team is getting closer and closer, and it is getting clearer and clearer, Zheng Ping finally saw clearly, it was indeed the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, and he immediately shouted: "Immediately release the pigeon letter to inform the county seat, and the vanguard of the Jin soldiers has been found, about 3,000 cavalry." ”

Several carrier pigeons fluttered into the sky and flew in the direction of Fushi County.......

Fushi County is the seat of Yan'an Prefecture, and it is also the largest county seat in the north of the entire Shaanxi Road, with a circumference of more than 30 miles, in the long-term war with the Western Xia, Fushi County has always been the logistics center of the Song Army, operating for nearly 100 years, Fushi County has undergone three reconstructions, the city wall has become tall and solid, especially in the third reconstruction of 30 years, the introduction of Qingshui River has dug the moat, so that Fushi County is also surrounded by a wide moat.

After Li Yanqing sat in Jingzhao Mansion, he spent 500,000 yuan to renovate and repair the interior of Fushi County again, and built a large number of refugee houses in the county.

The reason why Yan'an Mansion has become a bridgehead to resist Jin, the main reason is that the passage between Qin and Jin, the Yellow River separates Qin and Jin, from the south of Yan'an Mansion is the famous Qin-Jin Grand Canyon, both sides are high mountains, even if the Yellow River freezes in winter, it is difficult for the army to cross these steep mountains, only in the south of the Qin-Jin Grand Canyon there is a gap, that is, the famous Pujin Pass, so the traffic before the Qin and Jin Dynasty either took the Pujin Pass and Tongguan in the south, or went to Yan'an Mansion in the north.

Yan'an Mansion naturally became an important passage for the Jin soldiers to enter the northern part of the Shaanxi Road, and from a geostrategic point of view, the Jin soldiers captured the northern part of the Shaanxi Road, which broke the current stalemate between Song and Xia, and it was easy to change.

Li Yanqing also saw through this, so he reduced the defense center of the Song army in the north of Shaanxi Road to a point, which was Fushi County.

As long as the Song army firmly controls this city, it is like a malignant tumor on a person's body, and the military power can be extended from this point to the entire area at any time, and the same is true for the Jin soldiers, if they do not pull out the point of Fushi County, they will be cut off by the Song army, and finally the enemy will be defeated on the back, so Fushi County is a hurdle that the Jin soldiers cannot bypass.

At present, in addition to the 15,000 troops led by Wu Jie, Liu Jian also led 10,000 troops to the county seat, bringing the garrison in the county seat to 25,000 people, in addition to 50,000 joint defense township soldiers, as well as Fushi County and 300,000 people who were withdrawn from all over Yan'an Prefecture.

In addition, Li Yanqing personally led 20,000 troops to garrison Duncheng, more than 100 miles to the south, echoing Fushi County from afar.

The city is in full swing to build fortifications, hundreds of cauldrons are put on the head of the city, constantly boiling water, when the water is boiled and poured directly on the city wall, it will soon condense into ice, which is an important advantage of defending the city in winter, in the defense of Tokyo, an inch thick ice is enough to resist the explosion of earth-shattering thunder, but also make the siege very difficult.

In addition to boiling water at the head of the city, the Song army also deployed more than 300 fire cannons at the head of the city to launch the earth-shaking thunder, which can shoot the sky-shaking thunder weighing forty pounds with long iron thorns to a hundred steps away, this kind of earth-shaking thunder with long iron thorns is a sharp weapon to deal with the siege nest car, as for the siege ladder, it is enough to deal with the flying fire thunder.

25,000 troops and 50,000 joint defense township soldiers turned the defense of Fushi County into an iron bucket.

At the head of the city, Liu Jian was staring at the east from afar, he had just received a pigeon letter from his subordinate Zheng Ping with flying pigeons, and about 3,000 cavalry from the enemy's vanguard had appeared fifty miles away, and the Jin soldiers had finally arrived.