After finalizing the affairs that were to be carried out with the planters, Han Gang took his leave and left. Chong Jianzhong stayed, and Han Gang's suggestion asked him to undertake the specific work. And Chong Pu said that he was going to send Han Gang, and took the opportunity to run out.

Leaving the main tent, Han Gang did not go back to his residence, but went to the sanatorium under the city.

Even in the middle of the night of Shangyuan, the construction of Luo Wucheng had no intention of stopping at all. A group of people, shouting weakly, stood on the wall of the city wall that had begun to take shape, holding the ropes on the wooden stakes, ramming the newly piled earth one by one, and increasing the city wall little by little. The frame made of wooden planks, the space left in it is filled with loess, and then compacted with piles, which is the common board construction today, and its strength is not inferior to that of masonry.

At every wall, you can see the figure of the rammed people. Not only on the city walls, but also in the places where various buildings are planned in the city, there are people shouting trumpets along with the sound of rammed earth. There were thousands of people on the periphery of the city wall, desperately digging the moat river, and the soil taken out of it was just used to build the city wall and buildings.

According to the calculation method at this time, a citizen who completes a day's work is counted as ten workers. Ordinary walled forts are about 200,000 to 400,000 workers, such as the new Weiyuan fort, which is a structure of double forts and rivers, the new north fort is 400,000 workers, and the expanded south fort is 330,000 workers. And the amount of work in Luowu City is the number of workers in a month for 10,000 people, that is, a total of 3 million workers!

This figure was already a great project in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the number of works was almost the same as the expansion of the state city of Qinzhou - Qinzhou City was a state city with a circumference of nearly ten miles - and it was completed in one month.

Under normal circumstances, the construction of a castle does not require so much manpower. On the one hand, the pressure on management is too great, and on the other hand, the trouble in the supply of grain and grass is enough to drive the officials in charge of logistics crazy. The standard construction period of the normal thousand-step military city is more than 100 days, and it took more than 50 days for Qinzhou to mobilize the whole territory of Qinfeng Road in order to repair Gangu City. But this time, in order to complete it before the Western Xia people counterattacked, Han Jiang and Chong Ge reserved a month of time. That's why they desperately piled up manpower - it took nearly a quarter of the manpower to take soil from the frozen ground in the middle of winter to ram the city walls.

However, as soon as he saw Han Gang, the soldiers and people around him knelt down one after another, and some even kowtowed again and again, and their faces were attached to the ground.

Han Gang has seen a lot of such a scene and doesn't care about it. In Guwei, those Tibetan people who believed in Futu made even more exaggerated things. But Chong Pu was envious, with his status as a ya, the soldiers below did want to bow down to him, but there was no one who was so pious.

In the vicinity of Luowu City, in the minds of more than 30,000 soldiers and soldiers, Han Gang's reputation is excellent. Doctors who save lives and help the wounded, and officials who help the needy can be respected by others at all times. And before Han Gang's arrival, it was actually quite expected - in order to appease people's hearts, Chong Ge publicized Han Gang's deeds to the people and soldiers, which was also one of the main reasons.

Han Gang nodded in return and asked Chong Pu, "How is the situation in Funing Fort?" ”

Luowu City is the core of Luowu's defense line, but there are two other walled forts under construction that belong to the same defense system, and Funing Fort is one of them. Located at the side and rear of Luowu City, it guards the communication line between Luowu and Suide. Now the deputy general of the plantation is in charge of the construction project.

When Han Gang came to Luowu City the day before yesterday, he passed by the side of the Funingbao construction site, but because he was in a hurry to report to the plantation, he was not distracted to see it - procedurally, he had to report to the plantation before he was qualified to inspect the construction site.

Han Gang and Chong Jianzhong have been busy in Luowu City for the past two days, but Chong Pu, who is in charge of the fugitives and the people, went to Funing Fort.

Hearing Han Gang want to ask, Chong Pu hesitated, "...... Zhe Jishi contracted a wind illness last year, and the Son of Heaven sent an imperial doctor to take care of him. Although my life was saved, I couldn't move anymore, but now I am often dizzy, I can't stand the tiredness, and my temperament is a little irritable. ”

Han Gang glanced at Chong Pu, judging from his appearance, the situation in Funing Fort might not be good. However, Han Gang doesn't care, the only thing he can be sure of now is that he will lose this battle, as an official in charge of injuries, he doesn't have the ability to change the situation in a national war at this level, and he doesn't have that mind. He just needs to do his own thing well.

"I forgot to tell the marshal, I want to go to Funing Fort tomorrow to have a look. The number of work there is only one-tenth of that of Luo Wu, and if the people manage it well, it should be completed faster than Luo Wucheng. ”

From the scheduled construction period, whether it is Luo Wu or Funing, it will not exceed thirty days.

When Chong Pu heard that Han Gang was going to Funing, he said, "Yukun, you will go to Funing tomorrow, and send the grain and grass by the way." The grain that was shipped last time, it should be eaten there. ”

"I know." Han Gang nodded, just by the way, he looked back at the old city of Luowu, which was full of stored grain, "Fortunately, the thieves here in Luowu City have hoarded enough grain and grass." Otherwise, if you change to transport grain from Suide, anyone who comes can only be helpless. ”

Chong Pu said with a smile: "The western thief is self-inflicted, originally for the reserve of the southern invasion in the spring, but now it is all cheaper for us." ”

The grain and grass that the Tangut people hoarded in Luowu City was for the purpose of invading the south. If you go out after autumn, you can easily eat the enemy, but if you invade the south in the early spring, you must bring your own rations to prevent the lack of looting.

And pile up the grain and grass in Luowu, the grain and grass in Shannan should naturally be stored in Shannan, and there is no need to transport it to Yinzhou in Shanbei. From Yinzhou to Luowu, this ten-mile mountain road, it is very convenient to ride a horse, but it is troublesome to transport the baggage. The stored grain extorted from the Hengshan Fan Department was first transported over the mountain to Yinzhou for storage, and when the troops were dispatched, they were transported back over the mountain, and the western thieves did not have so much manpower and animal power.

Of course, this is also because the Western Xia people never thought that Luowu City, which was more than sixty miles away from Suide, would be attacked, let alone that it would be breached. At that time, the western thief generals who guarded Luo Wu only remembered to set off beacon fires for help, but they were reluctant to burn grain and grass. And when the city was breached, and then ordered to set fire, just lit the fire, it was immediately extinguished by the Song army, which had been prepared.

"Therefore, wisdom will be eaten by the enemy. Eat the enemy for one minute, and be me for twenty minutes. Han Gang memorized the chapter in "The Art of War", and he also felt honored when he heard that his Lao Tzu was praised.

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In the palace of Xingqing Mansion, Empress Dowager Liang, Liang Yi's brothers and sisters, and a number of important ministers are gathering together to discuss the situation in front of them.

Luo Wu was lost, Hengshan was about to fall, and the news reached Xingqing Mansion the day before yesterday, and the entire small court of Western Xia was stunned by this earthquake thousands of miles away. Empress Dowager Liang, who listened to the government, immediately issued an order to levy all the elites in the country who could be mobilized immediately, but the various tribes were a little disobedient.

All the party clans knew that Hengshan was the lifeblood of the country, but half a year ago, they invaded the south with the whole country's troops, but they almost returned in vain, and the manpower, material resources and morale of the tribes who went to war were greatly depleted. Now the Song people are uncharacteristic and take the initiative to attack. Its momentum is so fierce that many tribes secretly think about it.

But the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibury, the two brothers and sisters, are safe, fortunately they have prepared in advance, if they don't have the current backhand, they will really make trouble.

Liang Yiburi's cronies were reckless, and he was ordered to go to Liao secretly a few days ago, and he had just returned. The news he brought back gave the Liang brothers and sisters the confidence to inform the various clans and important ministers. Because he met the prince of Liao, King Zhao, and got a handwritten letter and a promise from him.

The Great Liao Taishi and Zhao King Yelu Yixin are now the powerful ministers who control the government of the Liao State, which is equivalent to Liang Yi's status in Western Xia. The ministers of the Western Xia Kingdom, of course, will not be unaware. His promise is a hundred times more reliable than the Liao lord Yelu Hongji, who is immersed in the safari.

"I also received the Book of Liao in Great Xia. The Liao State should not allow the Song people to bully me. King Zhao personally promised that if the Song people invaded my borders and wanted to destroy me, they would help me with an army of 200,000! ”

When the Empress Dowager Liang showed off Yelu Yixin's handwritten letter to the ministers in the court that day, her voice was very high.

The Liao State would not sit idly by and watch the Song people annex Western Xia, and this was the message that the Liang brothers and sisters wanted to send to the country.

The Song people may be naïve and hope that the alliance that has been maintained for seventy years will continue to be maintained. But they are also Fan people, but the party members know very well that the covenant is used to tear up, and they signed peace treaties with the Song people more than once, but they have just got the New Year's coin, turn their faces, and go to the Song Realm to loot. The key to maintaining the covenant is no longer the covenant itself, but whether the substantive interests are worth preserving.

Liang Yiburi was very confident that he could be sure that the survival of Western Xia was more important to the Liao people than 500,000 years old coins - and there was no need for the Liao people to really send troops, as long as they made a gesture, would the Song people dare to take risks - and the various party departments and the important ministers of the handkerchief military power also confirmed this through Yelu Yixin's own letters.

In the past few days, the tribal army that has gradually gathered outside Xingqing Mansion has exceeded 30,000, plus the 50,000 standing troops originally stationed in Xingqing Mansion, which has already accounted for half of the normal troop transfer limit in the country. The increasing strength of the army multiplied the confidence of the ministers, and they began to shout for the recapture of Luowu City.

A close servant ran into the hall at this time, and reported loudly: "Empress Dowager Bing, Minister of State, Herriyan, the commander of the Black Mountain Military Division, has arrived outside the north gate with 2,000 headquarters!" ”

Hearing this, the temple was in an uproar.

"Herriyan is also here, he is the slowest one on weekdays, and he will never make a move if he doesn't see the benefits."

"Seeing that he is here, others who are still waiting and watching will also be dispatched."

"Wait two more days, and the strength of Xingqing Mansion will definitely exceed 100,000."

"No waiting." Liang Yibury made a decision, "The Song people are stepping up the construction of Luowu City, and if it drags on for a day, it will be difficult for us to recapture Luowu." Let's go first, let the back self come over! ”