Han Pu and Han Ning's two uncles and nephews whispered in private, Li Yanzhao didn't know anything. His current understanding of the situation is still mainly at the military level, like the political level, and he is not lacking in consideration, but with his upright nature, he cannot appreciate those subtle political wisdom.

In the early morning of the next day, the elite of Liangzhou, who was stationed outside Guangwu City, after breakfast, under the leadership of the main general Han Pu, pulled out the camp and headed south to Jincheng County. There were also more than 1,000 Guangwu soldiers who escorted ordnance and supplies.

After Han Pu accepted the batch of ordnance that Guangwu County had rushed to make, he found out the next morning that with the transportation capacity of the baggage soldiers in his army, he could not transport the newly accepted batch of many ordnance. As a last resort, he had to send someone to spread the word to Guangwu Taishou Xin Peng, asking him to send some county soldiers to assist.

In this way, Li Yanzhao and Zhao Chengzhi led their respective subordinates to push carts and escort ordnance to the army.

The elite troops of the state administration are also roughly composed of cavalry, infantry, and crossbowmen. However, the number of cavalry was relatively small, about 2,000 men. The remaining 8,000 are about 3,000 foot soldiers and 4,000 crossbowmen. In addition, there were a thousand baggage soldiers. At this time, together with Li Yanzhao and Zhao Chengzhi's subordinates, he was walking in the middle of the army.

Li Yanzhao looked at the deployment of the elite troops in Zhouzhi, and still felt that Han Pu was not as hopeless as rumored. The method of marching and arranging the formation is secretly combined with the art of war, and the cavalry is in the outpost to scout and reconnoitre. The foot soldiers and crossbowmen were divided into two parts, one after the cavalry of the front army, and one after the baggage of the rear army. In the event of a surprise attack, you can use a crossbowman to protect your baggage without losing it. It's pretty good.

Among the baggage of the Chinese army, there were not only large carts escorting grain, grass and ordnance, but also some carts escorting bundles of iron armor. It's just that it looks extraordinarily large. Li Yanzhao looked at it for a moment, only to see a hideous iron horse-head mask next to a pair of iron armor on a cart.

The two black holes on the mask seemed to be watching him, making him feel more and more uncomfortable the more he looked at it, anyway, he knew that it was a vest outfit. He simply turned his head and concentrated on assisting the soldier beside him to drive the carriage that he was sitting in.

In this era, there are many heavy loads. In order to save horsepower, horses are usually mounted on baggage escorts during the march. The cavalry sentry around, and after the enemy situation is reported, the commander of the army will recall the cavalry if he feels the need to use the equipment and heavy cavalry, and put the horse on the equipment to prepare to meet the enemy.

Guangwu is only more than 70 miles away from Jincheng. However, in this team, there was too much baggage and grain, and it was in the middle army, and the slow marching speed of the baggage seriously dragged down the whole army. So from the early morning to the beginning of the hour, this army arrived at the destination Jincheng County.

However, Jincheng was built in Henan at this time. It is a small square city more than ten miles long in a week. The height of the city is no more than two zhang, and the thickness is not more than a zhang. Although it occupies the important place of the Great River, its defense is not enough to be attacked.

When Li Yanzhao crossed the river before, he had passed through Jincheng several times, so he made a fragile comment in his heart about the seat of Jincheng County.

The army reached the north bank of Jincheng County, but at this time, there was no place to cross the river. There is a small wharf and several ferries on the north and south banks, which were built by the order of Xin Fujun at the end of last year in order to facilitate cross-strait communication.

Seeing that it was getting late, and the sergeants were already exhausted after another day's trek, Han Pu ordered the whole army to go to the mountains and forests on the north bank to cut down trees and set up a village, and the Huotou army buried the pot to make food. An adjutant general was also appointed to take charge of military affairs. He himself took a few of his attachés and went to the pier on the north bank, and prepared to send a ferry to send them across the south bank, and prepared to enter the city to meet the Taishou.

After leaving some people to take care of the baggage in the same place, Li Yanzhao and the rest of the soldiers picked up knives and axes and went to the mountains and forests to cut wood. He also has a little understanding of the method of logging and setting up a village, but he can't talk about any experience. At this time, watching these elite soldiers of the state rule do this, it also happens to give him a chance to learn.

At this time, most of the sergeants were cutting trees in the forest, and the shouts of "facing the mountain down" and "turning the mountain down" came and went. It was to prevent it from hitting the rest of the sergeants who were busy around them. After cutting down a tree, I saw that the soldiers skillfully used their knives and axes to remove the excess branches and leaves from the tree. Then the end of the tree was sharpened, and several sergeants came from the side, carried the wood on the ground and left.

These sergeants also selectively selected trees of the thickness of the left and right sides of the bowl to build the village. After observing for a while, Li Yanzhao also picked up the axe and led his subordinates to choose a tree with a thick bowl mouth, and then swung the axe.

With the rhythmic sound of "duh, duh" logging, a symphony resounded one after another in the forest, accompanied by the sound of trees falling to the ground one after another, playing a compact movement in this forest.

Li Yanzhao kept swinging the axe, and in most of the day, he had already cut down four trees one after another, but at this time he was already a little tired. The hand with the axe is also not as obedient as it was at the beginning. After several axes in a row, they didn't hit the same point, so Li Yanzhao, who was quite frustrated, simply threw the axe to Shao Lei on the side, told him to continue, and he went to the side to rest.

The sergeant who delivered the timber dropped it on the edge of the camp and returned on his own to continue transporting it. The soldiers who stayed behind in the camp moved the timber to the place where the deputy general had chosen to set up camp, and then naturally two people stepped forward and pointed the sharpened timber downward. Leaning against the camp wall that has been nailed out more than ten feet.

Behind the camp wall, a strong sergeant stood on a makeshift mound of earth behind the wall, wielding a sledgehammer and nailing the pointed wood into the earth in one fell swoop.

Li Yanzhao carefully watched these sergeants set up the village, and then silently memorized these procedures one by one in his heart.

More than 10,000 soldiers were busy cutting down trees and setting up villages, and in the camp, the firehead military office, which had already begun to make fires and cooking, also began to waft curling smoke. When the army was busy, a wooden wall of the camp that had begun to take shape had been erected.

Seeing that the outer wall of the camp had been erected, the adjutant general ordered the troops to stop, and each of them took them back to the camp to prepare for dinner. After a hasty meal, the soldiers began to set up their tents again. After another half an hour of busy work, the prototype of a large-scale camp has appeared on the north bank of Jincheng County.

The soldiers, who had been tired all day, lined up the sentry table under the arrangement of the commanders of their respective teams, and then the non-commissioned officers who did not need to patrol the sentry for the time being returned to the camp tents, undressed their armor, and fell asleep. A whole day's travel, coupled with the work of setting up camp at night, had already drained most of their strength.

Li Yanzhao also led his subordinates at this time into the camp tents arranged for them. Li Yanzhao ordered Liu Jiwu's department to arrange manpower to patrol the sentry tonight and guard the baggage, and then took the rest of the soldiers back to the tent to rest.

The next morning, Han Pu mobilized another 5,000 soldiers from the camp and built a pontoon bridge along the great river of Jincheng. After that, these 5,000 soldiers were ordered by Han Pu to enter Jincheng County and assist in the defense of Jincheng with the county soldiers. The remaining 5,000 soldiers stayed on the north bank and continued to fortify the camp.

For seven days in a row, Li Yanzhao's troops and Zhao Chengzhi's Guangwu Army infantry soldiers all followed the elite soldiers of the state to build additional camps. Seeing the large camp on the north shore in front of him, with the efforts of himself and the rest of the soldiers, he erected the gate, the inner wall, the mezzanine earthen wall, the arrow tower, the watchtower, etc.

In addition, a large number of rejected horses and other materials were prepared. Thinking about his own words, Han Sima still listened to half of it, looking at the situation in front of him, it was to build this camp on the north bank into an impregnable fortress.

Not only were the soldiers building more camps, but they were also digging a number of wells in the camp in case of an enemy siege. The place where the grain was stored in the camp was located near the left side of the Chinese army. There were three wells on the side of the granary. And the granary is made of clay. It can prevent the enemy from throwing and igniting the grain and grass to the greatest extent.

In the granary, he hoarded enough for five thousand soldiers to feed for two months. Today, this battalion has been firmly nailed to the north bank of Jincheng like a nail, and together with Jincheng County, it has become the first line of defense to guard Liangzhou.

Not only the soldiers on the north bank, but also the Jincheng County on the other bank also sent soldiers to take soil from the river and transport it back to the city to raise the city walls. With the concerted efforts of the military and civilians in the city, Li Yanzhao looked at the Jincheng County on the south bank, which was originally slightly dilapidated and seemed to be blown down by the wind, and was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

By the time Li Yanzhao and Zhao Chengzhi had completed their assistance task, the earthen wall of Jincheng on the south bank had been increased to about three zhang. The battlements of the female wall in the city are also beginning to take shape.

Looking at the rejuvenated Jincheng County on the north bank, Li Yanzhao nodded solemnly and sighed: "Han Sima's high wall and deep fortress are very good, but looking at this behavior, I am afraid that we are destined to be trapped in a corner!" ”

Liu Jiwu, who was on the side, heard Li Yanzhao sighing to himself, and he was puzzled, so he asked: "Didn't the hundred people have set up camp with Han Sima Yan, the north bank, and the south bank to protect the gateway to Liangzhou?" ”

Li Yanzhao turned his head and glanced at Liu Jiwu a little lonely: "I'll make a plan with Han Sima." Half a strategy is an offense, and a half strategy is a defense. Han Sima only accepted half a strategy and guarded Jincheng. It is that the north and south sides of the strait echo each other, and if Liu Zhao resolutely attacks in the future, it may be difficult to resist. Alas, in the dark, there is a fixed number, that's it, that's it. ”

looked at Li Yanzhao with a disheartened look. Liu Jiwu didn't say anything anymore, turned his head and glanced at the towering city wall on the south bank again, with a look full of doubt, with Li Yanzhao and the soldiers who drove the mule and carriage back to the camp, walked out of the camp on the north bank, and headed towards the road back to Guangwu County.