Chapter 142 Night

"Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures!" When Zhao Yu heard this word, he couldn't help but show a gloomy face.

If Diaoyu Dao is a thorn in the hearts of the Chinese, then Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is a wound on the Song Dynasty that cannot be healed.

Losing the defense of Yanshan, the most famous pass of the Northern Song Dynasty in Hebei is the three passes, as long as the three passes are not lost, basically the Liao State will not be able to threaten the Song Dynasty. Question: Where are these three levels built?

The more famous Waqiao Pass in the three passes is built on the saline-alkali ground of the depleted rivers and lakes. The ground level pressure of rivers and lakes is lower than in other places, otherwise it would not be possible to store river water. Originally, it was more difficult to defend on the plains, but now it is still defending in such a place, and its defense power is weak.

Thinking about it makes people feel heartache, shaking his head, Zhao Yu diverted from this uncomfortable topic. "Zigao, you send someone to Mulingguan to inform them, and let them arrange a camp for the king's soldiers and horses to rest in!"

Qian Yanyuan promised and went down to discuss with Zhao Yingwu and others. It didn't take long for two riders to ride away with red pennants on their backs.

It was really Wangshan running a dead horse, and you could see Muling Pass from a distance, but when you really walked to Mu Ling Pass, it was already dusk. What made Zhao Yu even more angry was that when Zhao Yu came to Muling Town, he learned that this Muling Town guard did not have a place to rest in the city, but said that Muling Pass was small, and let Zhao Yu's iron armor be stationed in a military camp five miles away.

Zhao Yu! Naturally, this defender didn't dare to offend, so he just arranged a place for Zhao Yu and a dozen pro-soldiers to live!

And the military camp where the iron armor capital was stationed has a long history, it turned out to be thirty years ago! Thirty years ago, it was the Battle of Lanyuan, and this camp was built according to the situation at that time. This battle of Lanyuan is also the famous alliance of Lanyuan in the history of the Song Dynasty, when the war just started, Song Zhenzong was frightened by the long drive of the Liao State, and he was bent on moving south. Naturally, it is impossible to run away without saying a word, so you have to be prepared. So he built a camp five miles northwest of Muling Pass to strengthen the defense of Muling Pass, but the war ended with the alliance of Lanyuan, and this camp did not play its role.

Now that it's over, this camp that played soy sauce in the war is naturally useless, and the garrison slowly withdraws. Although it was built in response to the war at that time, and the defense was quite strong, no matter how you say it, it has been thirty years, and it has not been repaired during this period, so why not make Zhao Yu angry?

Zhao Yu immediately rode his horse to Muling Pass, found the guard, and turned into a hair dryer and roared.

The guard was just a small commander, and he could withstand Zhao Yu's roar. But in the end, he was able to call the shots and let a hundred people enter Muling Pass, which was his biggest concession.

The reason why so few people can only be allowed to be stationed in Muling Town is because Muling Pass is too small. On the other hand, Mulingguan is densely populated. As a strategic point, Mulingguan is naturally the only way to go through the merchants from the south to the north, but the small Mulingguan has a population of 600 households. Don't look at 600 households, the minimum number of people in the county was 500 in the Song Dynasty.

In other words, as long as there is an order from the imperial court, this Muling Town can be upgraded to Muling County. A place called a town, but in fact a county population, plus a valley between two mountain ranges, the place is very narrow, and the guard will not have a place.

Zhao Yu was also helpless, knowing that there was no way for the guards to do this, it was not good to drive the people out of the city and lead the troops to seize the houses, right? In desperation, he ordered the iron armor stationed outside the city to move to an abandoned camp five miles away.

In order to make up for his image in Zhao Yu's mind, the guard of Muling Town naturally let Zhao Yu rest in Muling Town with a flattering face, and hinted at some activities that made people feel happy.

Zhao Yu unexpectedly refused. This incident also made Zhao Yingwu and Li Lizhong a little surprised, because Zhao Yu's understanding did not seem to have the term "sharing weal and woe" with soldiers.

On the way to the abandoned camp, Zhao Yingwu was more casual because he was Zhao Yu's hair, and he couldn't help but ask: "Lord Wang, what's wrong with you today, why don't you rest in Muling Town?" ”

Zhao Yu glanced at Zhao Yingwu and said with a serious face: "Everything must be distinguished!" Yingwu, although you see that this king does not share weal and woe with the soldiers on weekdays, he lives in the camp. Why? Because that's the only way to be a group! It's like the big families and tenants in the village, although their lives are very different, they are all from this village, and if there are thieves, they will all be united. If a homeless man from Bianliang City came to this village, although he lived a similar life as a tenant, do you think the tenant would agree with him? ”

Zhao Huanwu was very ignorant when he heard it, and nodded as if he didn't understand.

Zhao Yu didn't say it again, if you understand something, you understand, if you don't understand, it's useless to say more.

During the conversation, the Iron Armor and his party had unknowingly arrived at the abandoned camp.

Although it was dark at the moment, and Zhao Yu could only rely on torches for lighting, he could still see that the camp was very dilapidated. After entering, what made Zhao Yu feel more relaxed was that the situation in the camp was better than Zhao Yu expected. Barracks or something, although a lot of them have collapsed, but some of them are still usable. The most important thing is that this camp was originally stationed with 4,000 soldiers and horses, but now Zhao Yu only needs to garrison 300 people, pick and choose, how can he find a house that can accommodate 300 people?

In units of fifty people, the various departments searched for a place to live in the camp. Because it was late at this time, and the soldiers were very tired after a day's march, they boiled some hot water to make do with dry food.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhao Yu's explicit stipulation, during the march, no raw water should be drunk, and all of them would be found out, and fifty military sticks would be beaten first, and then the Shengjie army would be expelled. I'm afraid that the soldiers of the ironclad capital don't want to be so troublesome.

In fact, it is precisely because of Zhao Yu's regulations that in ancient times, a large number of soldiers went out to fight, and a large number of situations of water and soil adaptation were greatly reduced. Although many people noticed that there were very few soldiers in their army who were not accustomed to the soil, and the situation was relatively minor, but knowing it, none of them thought that the reason for this was drinking boiling water.

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