"This is Anyuan Village?" Crossing a short bridge over a tributary of Gangu Water, Han Gang looked at the walled fort that appeared in front of him, a little disbelieving in his eyes.

Wang Sunchen knew that everyone who saw Anyuan Village for the first time would almost have Han Gang's current reaction, and he smiled, "Five hundred steps to the village, nine hundred steps to the city, Anyuan Village is a real five hundred steps." ”

"There is only one step in the north and south, and the east and west are 249, adding up to 500 steps, and this kind of planning is also called a village?!"

Of course, Han Gang is exaggerating a little. No matter how much the stockade is built, it will never look like a line. However, Anyuan Village is indeed narrow from north to south and wide from east to west. The whole village is about fifty or sixty paces from south to north, and the length of the east and west is three times the width of the north and south, which is about a flat rectangle. The walled wall extends down from the hill on the west side and drags it all the way to the beach of Gangushui, blocking the official road.

"Such a village is not easy to defend...... "The east of Anyuan Village is Gangu Water, the south is a tributary, and the two rivers are fifty steps away from the southeast corner of Anyuan Village, which can be used as a moat, but if the party wants to attack, it will only come from the north.

"Third brother, you're wrong." Wang Sunchen had a rare opportunity to teach Han Gang a lesson, and he explained with a smile: "Anyuan Village can't be seen from the outside, and you will know the Tao when you enter the inside." From the outside, it looks like a whole, but in fact, it is divided into two villages. A section on the mountain is the upper village, and a section at the bottom of the valley is the lower village. The lower village is easy to break, but it is difficult to capture the upper village - not to mention the terrain, there are several wells twenty zhang deep in it, which took half a year to dig, never dried up, and was not afraid of the enemy cutting off the water at all. ”

"I see!" Han Gang nodded and was taught. Think about it, how many years of war have been fought and hundreds of thousands of walled forts have been built, if the Song people will still waste manpower and material resources to build an undefensible village, it will be a joke. Anyuan Village has been cultivated into its current form, and it naturally has its own reason, and it is not something that can be judged at a glance at will.

Saying that, the group had arrived in front of the village, inspected the customs defense, and went through a detailed inspection ten times more detailed than Fuqiang City, Han Gang and the convoy were finally put into the village.

As Wang Sunchen said, Anyuan Village is a village that is divided into two. The partition between the two villages is not lower than the height and thickness of the outer wall. The upper village on the west side goes up with the slope, and the lower village on the east side is flat. In the lower village, there are camps and yamen, while the upper village is placed in the military depot and grain hoard, and the fighting is several times that of the lower village.

At this time, the Anyuan Village was boiling, and the village with a circumference of 500 steps did not know how many soldiers and civilians were squeezed in. The main road connecting the north and south gates was crowded with people, and Han Gang's convoy was squeezed into the air.

"I wonder how many people are in the village now?" Han Gang looked back again, and the red flag with the word 'Liu' in the big book was floating high on the wall, "The thousand soldiers of Fuqiang City will not squeeze Anyuan Village like this." ”

"And the people of Daronburg. One-third of Qinzhou's caravans that participated in Huiyi went to Dalongbao to do business. ”

Dalongbao is located in the west of Anyuan Village, along the Gangu tributary in the south of Anyuan Village, seventy miles to the west is Dalongbao - named after the middle of the Fan Long near the place, that is, to reach Longzhong - and along the main stream of Gangu in the east of the village to the north thirty miles is Gangu City.

"The caravan of the Xiang family is also coming back from Daronburg?" Han Gangshang remembered what Zhao Long said, "Yesterday, Xiang's family was in Fuqiang City, and these people only arrived in Anyuan Village today." ”

Wang Sunchen sneered: "Who can compare the news with the Du Xuan family? ”

He asked Han Gang again: "Third brother, do you want to continue to Gangu City, or stay here in Anyuan Village?" ”

Han Gang didn't answer directly, but asked, "Why didn't Fuqiang Liu Zhicheng lead troops to continue north into Gangu?" ”

"Anyuan Village belongs to the Fuqiang City Defense Zone, and Liu Zhicheng has no problem guarding here. But Gangu City is under the supervision of Zhang Laodu, and there is no military order, which one dares to cross the line arbitrarily? ”

Wang Sunchen was born in a martial arts family, and he has been mixed up in the military camp since he was born, but he is clear about the disadvantages in the army, he sneered and said: "Actually, this is also an excuse, it is already an emergency military situation, Liu Zhicheng led the troops to help Gangu, Li Xianggong will not speak, but will be rewarded." Now that the soldiers are in Anyuanzhai, they just want to be stable, and if they don't do much, they won't make mistakes. Liu Zhicheng stayed in Anyuan, and the fall of Gangu City had nothing to do with him, but as long as he left Anyuan Village in the north and took a step towards Gangu City, it meant that he had sent troops to rescue Gangu City. If you fail to save it, you will be punished as one. ”

He sighed: "It's difficult for our martial artists to be promoted, and it took us all our best to get a few levels." But it is easy to demote officials, and if you do something, you will fall down at the third or fifth level. It is not unheard of chasing and degrading more than a dozen levels at a time, and it is not unheard of to be demoted from Chongyi to utility. If you don't give orders, who is willing to put yourself in danger? ”

"It's the same everywhere......" Han Gang also sighed, if you do more, you will make more mistakes, so it is better to wait for your life honestly. A thousand years ago, a thousand years later, the bureaucracy of any era is a general virtue. Human nature remains the same, and so does human affection...... Fortunately, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to get out here.

"So what do we do?" Wang Sunsin asked, "Do you want to continue to Gangu, or stay in Anyuan for the time being?" ”

Han Gang groaned.

If you don't go to Gangu immediately, stay in Anyuan Village and wait for the news, the excuses are ready-made, and there will be a result in a day or two at most, so it's safer. What's more, he was now on the street, and he was seeing several baggage teams that he had seen in Fuqiang City and were preparing to go to Gangu, and they had no intention of going north. The punishment is not to blame, everyone is the same, and no one has anything to say. Even if Chen Ju wants to find trouble, whether it is Wu Yan or Wang Hou, there are enough reasons to help him solve it.

Thinking of Chen Ju, the corners of Han Gang's mouth twitched, revealing a contemptuous smile - now that he has offended Xiang Bao, he has made friends with Wang Shao's ya, and has the exploits of Pei Guzhong's battle, and his reputation will inevitably reach the desk of Li Shizhong, the envoy of the Economic Strategy. No matter how Li Shizhong felt about him, he would not tolerate Xu officials bullying a scholar who already had a heavy name. A few days ago, Chen Ju was still a luxury figure for him, but now, it is no longer a problem.

Back to the question of going or not going. If you arrive in Gangu on time as scheduled, you do take a risk, and the rewards are just as rich. Gangu City is in danger, all the generals retreat, and no one dares to help. But at this time, a yaqian arrived in Gangu City with more than 30 people escorting military supplies, which was a glorious performance. At the same time, it can also get the attention of Zhang Shouyue, the No. 3 military general on Qinfeng Road, just enough to block the possible attacks on Xiang Jia.

His thoughts stopped here, and Han Gang laughed self-deprecatingly. They all arrived at Anyuan Village, only thirty miles away, how not to fight to the end? Instead of pinning the hope of saving themselves on Wu Yan and Wang Hou, it is better to make Xiang Bao and Chen Ju dare not touch themselves through their own efforts!

He jerked his head up and looked north. Under the sun, the wolf smoke was still billowing in the west. He turned back again, dozens of trusting glances waiting for his decision.

Ha Lu smiled, Han Gang turned around and took the lead, "Let's go!" Go Gangu! ”

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The night is like ink.

Walking under the night sky, there is no light around. Except for the torches in the hands of the people, which illuminated the surrounding ground a little, so that the procession would not go to the official road, there was no light source that lit up the starlight.

One foot deep, one foot shallow, on the official road that is not very smooth, along the way, all the people were intimidated by Han Gang, and they didn't have too many complaints about his decision, and they didn't dare to complain.

When they left Anyuan Village, they were blocked by the prison officer for a while, and the speed of the baggage team was two hours slower than expected. Originally, he was supposed to arrive at Gangu Castle before 5 pm to 7 pm, but now it is close to 7 pm to 9 pm, and he has not seen the shadow of Gangu Castle.

At nightfall, the cold wind in the valley became even more bitter, and it kept pouring into the placket of the clothes. Lying in the car, the body will become stiff as ice in the blink of an eye, and even the wounded have to get out of the car and walk to warm themselves up.

Wang Sunsin sniffed and leaned towards his beloved horse walking beside him. The cold wind blew for a long time, and his body became numb, and he secretly scolded the prison officer guarding the north gate of Anyuan Village in his heart, but he didn't have the strength to scold out loud. However, he still held the war bow in his right hand, and the three tribes in the valley all showed signs of instability, and after entering the Gangu, as long as he left the walled city, he clenched the longbow. Even if he had to switch to using his left hand to control the string because of his injury, Wang Sunsin still had the confidence to shoot all the long arrows in his quiver into the vital point of the thieves who blocked the way.

Han Gang walked behind Wang Sunsin, and the peaks on both sides of the valley blocked most of the night sky, and only a long line of night could be seen. The night of the Song Dynasty was no better than a thousand years later, and in the era of his birthplace, even in the middle of the night without stars and moons, the sky was still glowing with the light reflected by the ground lights. But at this time, except for the dim torch and the few stars, there was no glimmer of light between heaven and earth, which was the purest black.

As the procession progressed, the darkness in front of him was constantly dispelled by the torch, while behind him was covered by the darkness that surged around him. The creaking of footsteps and axles echoed monotonously in the valley. Just like the entire world, only they are the only ones left. Only the occasional shrill howl of the night owl in the wind made them realize that there were other creatures nearby.

From Anyuan to Gangu, it's only a thirty-mile road, how long will it take?!

Mu Ran looked down at the road illuminated by the firelight, and Han Gang walked forward step by step. The road ahead was dark, and he walked for an unknown amount of time, but he still did not reach Gangu, and his mood gradually became low. In the darkness, the emotions that had been suppressed seemed to come out of the mud at the bottom of the river, stirring his mind turbid.

Han Gang couldn't help but wonder if the decision he made in Anyuan Village was correct, whether Gangu City was still in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, and even thought of his parents and Han Yunniang who took refuge in his uncle's house in Fengxiang Mansion.

PS: As we get closer and closer to Gangu, Hangang's journey is coming to an end. But in the darkness, there are still shadows.

Today's third update, collect red tickets, collect.