In Fuqiang Village, Sang Yi stood on the watchtower, holding a telescope, looking at the enemy troops gushing out from the mouth of the Sandu River, and said to Xu Qian, the Marquis of Youyu, who was beside him, without looking back: "Sure enough, as the commander expected, it was the party's 'Bubazi' who came to attack the city first!" ”

Xu Qian raised his binoculars and looked at it for a while, and said, "Commander, when the enemy is not in battle, do you want me to take the cavalry out to kill for a while?" Frustrate the front of the thief army, so that they dare not get too close to the walled city! ”

Sang Yi shook his head: "Forget it, the festival marshal has repeatedly instructed that as long as you defend the first day, don't fight hard, and let the thieves gather here as soon as possible." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info We are facing the river on both sides here, there are all bows and crossbows in the village, there are enough arrows, and the thieves are not good at attacking the city, so let them attack for a day." We have gathered all the boats on the Wei River, and they have nowhere to go. ”

At this time, the sun is rising, and the sun is slanting down from the nearby hillside, shining on the Wei River. The dead grass on the side of the road was covered with frost, and the frost splashed on it, as if it had snowed.

The appreciator was buried on his horse, looking at the Fuqiang village not far in front, and his brows were tightly locked.

Fuqiang is called the village, because there are too few subordinate households, in fact, this is the ancient Jicheng County, one of the earliest places in Chinese history to set up county governance, so far for more than 1,000 years. Jicheng was set up and abandoned, abolished and set up, to the second year of Sui Daye, the county was moved to the current place where the two rivers converge, and Wude changed Jicheng County to Fuqiang County in three years, and there are more than 400 years. The ancient city is still there, and in recent months it has undergone large-scale repairs, and this Fuqiang village is second only to Qinzhou City in scale for hundreds of miles.

The Dangxiang army, like the surrounding Qiang tribesmen's army, is conducive to field warfare and is not good at attacking cities. The journey was long and rugged, and it was impossible for them to bring siege equipment. But the Fuqiang village in front of them, they had to attack.

When the Sandu River came out of the valley, the river was close to the cliff to the east, and they could only walk on the west side of the Sandu River when they marched along the valley road. Coming out of the valley road, it is on the north bank of the Wei River, with the Sandu River in the east, the mountains in the north, the mountains in the west, and the raging Wei River in the south. No matter where they go, they must capture Fuqiang Village and cross the Wei River and the Sandu River. In fact, north of the Wei River is the loess Liang ravine, the valley road is cut out by the river, the earth rotates, the river will inevitably stick to the east side of the valley road, not only Sandu River, but also the nearby Wating River.

The appreciator naturally doesn't understand this truth, and he doesn't need to understand, he just needs to capture Fuqiang Village.

Three thousand "Bu Bazi" rushed out of the valley and finished the formation five miles away from Fuqiang Village, and there was silence for a while.

Looking at the sturdy Fuqiang village in the city not far ahead, everyone's hearts were beating drums, not knowing what they would face. This journey was smooth sailing, except for those siege troops who fled in Gangu City, and did not encounter any obstruction from the Song army. The march went so smoothly that the party members forgot that they were attacking from afar, until they saw this Fuqiang village.

After the troops were put in order, the rewarders were not in a hurry to arrange the siege of the city, but called their henchmen and soldiers, and ordered: "You should divide a group of people to investigate along the Wei River to see if there are any boats available to cross the river. Divide a team of people to investigate the Sandu River channel behind the valley to see if there is a place to wade through. In addition, 2,000 people were arranged to go to the mountains to cut down trees and prepare to make siege equipment such as stone cannons and ladders. The rest of the Zhan Zhan will set up camp around here, and they must set up camp before dark! ”

And they all took the command, and went every man. The appreciator called the deputy general and said to him: "You bring your own two moving troops, and try to attack the city from this side first." There were no Song troops along the way, and maybe there were no heavy troops stationed in the city. ”

When the words are spoken, those who appreciate them bury themselves and do not believe it. Fuqiang Village is such an important place, and there are newly established three divisions, which will inevitably be heavily armed. The only hope is that the Song army defending the city has no fighting spirit, so it is better to abandon the city and flee early.

Sang Yi was on the watchtower, and kept using a telescope to observe the movements of the invading party army. Seeing a party of hundreds of people lined up neatly, he slowly leaned towards the city, turned his head and said to the new soldiers beside him: "Go to inform Du Yuanji in Xicheng that there are only hundreds of enemies who come to attack, and only use bows and crossbows, and only use boiling oil when they get to the city wall." We must kill and injure more party members, but also don't let the other party see how strong our city is! ”

The soldiers took the order and turned to go.

Xu Qian said: "Military master, in case of accidents, do you want me to go to Xicheng to guard?" ”

"No, the party has not yet attacked the city on a large scale, and they can hold it. You stay here, in case the thieves who come to attack really have any unexpected moves, when the city is in danger, you take people out of the city to rush and kill. Whether the city can be defended or not, not to see how strong the city is and how difficult the city gate is, but to see whether the city has the ability to counterattack the enemy. The right army you bring is the key to defending the city, as long as you can go out of the city and kill a few more times, the siege will naturally be solved. ”

The most taboo defense is to defend to the core, to counter-charge to charge, and to respond to the overall defense with local offense, so as to be impregnable.

The same is true for defending a city, if there is no mobile force in the city, and the enemy cannot go out of the city to kill the enemy, the city will become a dead city, and no matter how strong the city is, it will be breached one day. The culmination of the ancient theory of defending the city is a stereotype at the turn of the two Song Dynasty. His book "Records of Defending the City" reverses the previous theory of building high walls and closing the city gates, but proposes that the city walls should not be too high, and it is advisable to cover the stone cannons, and the city gates should be opened as much as possible, so as to facilitate the defenders in the city to go out of the city and rush to kill.

Xu Ping's military theories came from the ears and eyes of his previous life, and he learned the combat style of the army in his previous life. When defending, we should pay attention to counter-charge against charge, attack against attack, and maneuver against maneuver, and not to stubbornly defend and consume forces in inconsequential places, but to form a local superiority as much as possible, to destroy the enemy's vital forces with an offensive war of annihilation, and to eat the invading enemy little by little. In this way, in addition to the need for the city to be stable, the defense of the city emphasizes that there must be enough reserves in the city to be able to detect the enemy's weaknesses at any time and attack them, which coincides with the old practice more than a hundred years later.

Creating defensive opportunities in the offensive and finding offensive opportunities at any time in the defense is a qualified army.

The party army is getting closer and closer to Fuqiang Village, but it is still as silent as death, as if it is an empty city with no people. This silence made people panic, and even the party 'Bu Bazi' who was slowly approaching felt that his scalp was numb.

The party and military system is based on tribes, and the number of people in the same establishment is different, and it is difficult to be uniform. Roughly speaking, it is divided into copying, moving, and heading. The copy is the most basic unit, composed of one to eight regular soldiers, with a varying number of negative guards, one of whom is an auxiliary master, who temporarily fights on behalf of the regular army when he dies in battle, and still passes on to the children of the regular army after returning to the army. Dozens of copies form a migration, based on the principle of the same clan, if a clan has more than 60 copies, the leader can appoint his own children as the leader in 30 copies, not for a migration. If the number of copies is too small, it will be merged with other ethnic groups to form a class, and the class will be at the same level as the migrant. The number of migrates is combined into one item, and the number of people is different.

Analogous to the military system of the Song Army, the relocation of the Party is the most basic establishment unit, similar to the command of the Song Army. However, the number of people is not fixed, between one capital and one commander, with less than 100 people and nearly 500 people at most.

The two relocations led by the adjutant general who came to attack were about 700 people, and they said that they were leading the main army, but in fact they still included the auxiliary master. The party and the main army are equipped with official horses, bows, swords, guns, spears, armor, etc., and they do not necessarily carry all of them with them in battle, and those that are not needed are carried by the subordinates. 'Bu Bazi' is mainly based on foot combat, marching on horseback, but on foot when fighting.

One mile away from Fuqiang Village, the deputy general began to reorganize the army again, and at this time there was still no sound in Fuqiang Village, which made the deputy general's heart hairy. Normal battle, at this time the city should be full of drums.

After reorganizing the troops, the party army continued to move forward, and the more they left Fuqiang City, the more panicked they felt.

The adjutant general licked his chapped lips and whispered to the soldiers beside him: "Wait within 300 steps of the city ahead, you listen to my orders, immediately blow the horn, and the whole army rushes!" The crossbow arrows of the Song army are powerful, and when we reach the city, the crossbows will not be able to shoot us! ”

The soldiers clenched the horn tightly in their hands, their faces turned pale, and they promised heavily.

At this time, the sun had risen, and there was no wind at all, only the heavy footsteps of the party troops beating on a withered yellow earth. The frost had melted, and it turned into dew that hung on the dead grass and slowly dripped to the ground.

The soldiers only felt that their mouths were dry, and they silently counted the steps they had taken forward, and their hearts were pounding like thunder. The lieutenant general of the siege did not ride a horse this time, otherwise he would have become a conspicuous target, and he would have been shot into a hedgehog by crossbow arrows before he could get under the city.

Seeing that it was about three hundred steps away from the city, the soldiers held back their beating hearts and said in a low voice: "My lord, three hundred steps!" ”

The adjutant licked his lips again, looked up at the still dead silence of Fuqiang Village, raised his right arm high, and shouted: "Rush with all your strength, go to the city, gather at the city gate, and smash the city gate!" ”

A low horn spread in the withered yellow earth, and the party army rushed towards Fuqiang Village as if frightened.

Du Yuanji stood on the gatehouse, his face sinking like water, looking at the party 'Bubazi' who rushed over like ants, and said to Li Chengqing, the Marquis of Youyu, who was beside him: "You go to the city wall, listen to my horn sounding here, and all the soldiers are ready." Wait until the drums sound, and the bows and crossbows fire arrows together. If there is a crossbow that does not open or shoot, slash! If you can't shoot enough arrows with a drum, slash! ”

This is the law of the forbidden army when fighting. The crossbow is more powerful, but it takes a long time to open and load the arrow, and a crossbow is issued, and this space needs to be filled by the archer. So a crossbowman fires one arrow, and an archer fires three to ten arrows. It will be arranged before the battle, and what is this number, there are as many arrows in front of the archer, and a drum must be shot, otherwise it will be a capital crime.

Li Chengqing answered the promise with his hands crossed, and quickly left the city tower and inspected the city wall.