The accommodation arranged by Wang Hou for Shen Kuo's family was a small courtyard near the yamen. It's not big, but it's clean.

After Shen Kuo entered the hospital and saw it, he felt quite satisfied. Only then did he accompany the careful invitation to the Hun family, who had been sitting in the green oil car, to come out.

The continuation of the string Zhang is the daughter of his benevolence. In the fourth year of Zhiping [1067], his wife Ye died of illness. Two years later, in the second year of Xining, Zhang Shu, who used to be Shen Kuo's boss, married his daughter to him. is only twenty years old, and he has only been married to Shen Kuo for three years. An old husband and a young wife, young and beautiful, Shen Kuo is obedient to Zhang.

Zhang frowned, walked around the courtyard, but without saying a word, walked into the main room.

Shen Kuo, who had been following behind, breathed a sigh of relief, although he was not satisfied with it, at least the Zhang family had no objection to living in this courtyard. Otherwise, it will make it difficult for him to be a man here.

After a while, Zhang's personal maid came out, but said to Shen Kuo: "Madame said that she was tired, so she had to rest first." Ask the officials to take care of their own business, and they don't have to worry about their families. ”

Shen Kuo nodded again and again, "I'll go to the yamen." ”

After settling down in the Zhang family, Shen Kuo hurried to the state government to take over the work of transporting with the army.

Shen Kuo had heard of Han Gang's name. For Han Gang, a young man who invents more, Shen Kuo is very interested. first analyzed the principle of the artillery car, and then invented a militaristic weapon such as the thunderbolt cannon, which Shen Kuo also admired a little. There are also military chess, sand tables and other things, only three or two years of hard work, has spread all over the world. is not limited to the scriptures, and I think I can be regarded as a fellow believer.

Han Gang personally wrote the manuscript of the military station system in his hand and flipped through it at will. It doesn't look like a twenty-year-old can write at all. I heard that when he first joined the government, he had already written a system about the sanatorium, and even the prince was full of praise. It should not be ignored at a young age.

But Shen Kuo will not follow Han Gang's plan completely, although this system looks complete, but it is not without room for change.

If he doesn't change one or two things, and create another creation, how can he show his means?!

"Someone!" Shen Kuo assigned his subordinates to the local officials, "Quickly move all the account books!" ”

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When Han Gang arrived at the construction site at the front line, Jing Sili had already led his troops to set up the camp as a road.

Just one mile behind Qin Fengjun's camp, more than 2,000 people were busy on a construction site with a circumference of about 600 steps.

This walled fort was named Lintao by Wang Shao, that is, the old name of Didao City, and transferred flowers and trees to this walled fort located at the northern frontier of the Taoshui River Valley.

The Lintao Fort was built to defend against the enemy from the north. At the confluence of the river fifteen miles behind Lintao Fort, another stockade that doubles as a military station is under construction - the name of the Xihe River is registered as Jiehe Fort, which is named after the Jiehe River that flows through the side of the fort and flows into Taoshui.

As soon as the two walled cities were erected, the safety of the valley road leading to Xiangzi City and Kono Fort was ensured. Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty's control of the Taoshui River valley also advanced forty miles northward, that is, downstream.

A team of people shouted trumpets, rammed and excavated, and were busy on the construction site. There is an orderly operation, but only because the commander is powerful. The people who were requisitioned basically had experience in building fortifications, and the Song people never stopped building forts in Guanxi.

This is similar to many later generations of construction workers who came from rural areas, working at home when they were busy and working in their spare time – of course, there was a difference, one for money and the other for day work.

The progress of the Lintao Fort project is very fast.

The trenches outside the wing fort have begun to take shape, and the foundations of the rectangular walls have been laid. The construction of the barracks in the spring is much easier than in the winter. Soil extraction alone can save a lot of labor. The frozen land is like steel, and I don't know how many people's hands have been injured, but if it is the thawed earth, the loess in the ground can be easily scooped up.

Han Gang inspected the camp and looked up at the high ground on both sides. There were several raised platforms made of logs, which were the simplest whistles and were used to monitor for enemy attacks. After the completion of Lintao Fort, those high platforms will be changed to loess rammed and used as beacons.

From the perspective of project progress, Jing Sili has not done badly. There was no situation where Wang Shao and Han Gang were worried that he would not care about the construction work because of his guilt.

Jing Sili heard that Han Gang had arrived, and he quickly rushed over. After a brief description of the cold temperature, Han Gang asked about the latest situation.

"Found traces of the Tibetan rangers?" After hearing a few words, Han Gang immediately asked, "Do you know which part of the Metropolitan Eunuch is the Fan Cavalry?" ”

"The sentinels sent out only saw it from afar." Jing Sili said with some regret: "I couldn't catch a live mouth, I can't figure out which one it is." ”

Han Gang was slightly disappointed, the reaction of the Lanzhou Yu Zang family and even the Western Xia behind them was the top priority, and if it could not be confirmed, it would not be possible to deal with it reasonably and effectively. But in front of Jing Sili, it was inconvenient for him to say what he thought in his heart, so that Jing Sili would think that he was complaining.

"Just think of it as someone from the Yu Zang family," Han Gang chuckled, "In the north of Xizhou, only they will take the trouble to watch our official army." ”

Jing Sili laughed twice, "That's what Bao Yue said. ”

"What about making appointments?" Han Gang asked.

It is said that Bao Yue, the second leader of the Qingtang Dynasty, should be leading his clansmen to confront the Yu Zang family in the north here. Why is it that only Jing Sili came over, but he didn't?

"There is another family near the left that is unstable, and he led his army over this morning."

When Han Gang heard this, he shook his head and smiled: "What is unstable!" It's just that the squeezing is too much, and the Tibetan tribe in the north of Xizhou has been miserable by his group of people from the Qingtang Dynasty. ”

"What Bao is doing, Yu Zang Huama is also doing, and he is doing it even more excessively." Jing Sili sneered, "This group of Tibetan people should be sharpened well." ”

"I don't have time to teach him a lesson now, and when I finish cleaning up Mu Zheng, I must ask him to be a little more restrained. …… It is just right to make the Fan in this area return to my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Suppressing razing with razing, and then mediating in the middle, and ensuring that the forces of all parties can check and balance each other, are all tricks that the Han people have used for thousands of years. Jing Sili didn't think it was strange, he had known about the Tao for a long time, and without the connivance of the Xihe Economic Strategy Division, how could he have the courage to make a promise?

"When did Wang Jingluo start attacking Hezhou?" Jing Sili threw the matter of the contract aside and asked Han Gang.

"We must wait for the Lintao Fort and the Knot River Fort in the rear to be completed, and the grain road to stabilize, so that we can continue to move forward in one go."

Han Gang pointed to the construction site on this side, "The construction progress of Lintao Fort has only been seen below, and it will take about half a month to complete." Once the castle is completed, you will be able to go to the castle to join Wang Jinglu and them. ”

"Why, don't let me guard the people of the Yu Zang family here?" Jing Sili sneered mockingly. He couldn't see Wang Shao's thoughts, he was sent here to guard, and Jing Sili, who wanted to establish a meritorious career, had already endured a stomach full of depression.

Han Gang lowered his head slightly, and did not argue with Jing Sili: "Wang Jingluo plans to fight a decisive battle in Hezhou City, and the help of the capital eunuch is indispensable. ”

In front, Wang Shao commanded the Xihe Army to take the lead and occupy a strategic advantage by capturing Fort Kenuo. After stabilizing the transportation line in the rear, the next step is to attack Hezhou City with all our might. To deal with Mu Zheng's men and horses, as well as the reinforcements that Dong Yu may send, the thousands of Xihe troops in Wang Shao's hands alone will definitely not be enough, and it is necessary to bring up the reinforcements from Qin Feng and Jingyuan.

Compared with Jing Yuanjun, Qin Fengjun and Wang Shao looked closer, but he was also Qin Fengjing's witty text to appease the division, and he had done things for several years. Moreover, Han Gang's popularity in Qin Feng's army is not comparable to leisure. Therefore, the soldiers in Jing Sili's hands, Wang Shao will definitely use them, and they will not always be left behind to eat ashes. On the contrary, Yao and Yao Lin's people have a lot of places to be assigned, but they can't be gathered and used.

"But beware of Yu Zang Huama. Whether it was the Battle of Weiyuan the year before last or the Battle of Lintao last year, the rebellion of the Tubo people entrenched in Lanzhou all sent troops to help. This time, it is definitely necessary to intervene. ”

As Han Gang was talking, several sharp horns came from the high platform on the mountain, with a hint of urgency in his hurry. Soon, the scouts who had been sent to the front also rushed back, crossed the camp in front, jumped off their horses in front of Jing Sili, and reported urgently: "Metropolitan Supervisor, Jiyi, there is an army coming from the north." They are all cavalry, and the momentum should be around three thousand. ”

Jing Sili looked at Han Gang. In the north of Xizhou now, there is only Yu Zang's family that can send 3,000 cavalry. Even if it is a rampant and domineering contract, there are too many places to defend, and it can only bring out less than 2,000 cavalry.

Han Gang shook his head helplessly, this really can't be regarded as his crow's mouth, "What should come will always come." ”

Smoke and dust swept through the sky with the sound of earth-shattering hooves.

Han Gang and Jing Sili had already rushed back to the camp in front. Nearly 10,000 troops were in battle in the battalion that stood across the river.

There is a large army garrison camp in front of the garrison, a fence is even more cut off the entire Taoshui valley, and the construction site behind is still working as usual—I don't know how much efficiency they have left.

Thousands of troops and horses galloped in, arrogant to the sky. This army rode until it reached the outside of Qin Fengjun's camp, and only after a hundred steps did it stop.

"Two thousand."

Han Gang has also been on the battlefield a few times, but he has not been able to practice the ability to count the number of enemy troops at a glance like Jing Sili. And another skill of a veteran like Jing Sili is beyond Han Gang's reach.

"I can't see the thief's fighting spirit. Most of them don't fight, they just come to harass. ”