Chapter 209: Heaven Collapses (15)

"It's coming, it's coming." The officials of Dagu Town were a little excited when they saw the fleet faintly emerging in the distance.

The news that the Liao army broke through the border and entered the pass had already been obtained, and the Tianjin guards were very close to Jingshi City. Both the common people and the town army of the Jinmen guards were very worried that the Liao army would hit the Jinmen guards.

After the news that the army of King Qinwang of Liaodong passed through the Jinmen guard and would leave a group of soldiers to garrison Dagu Town, it was unintentionally given a boost to Dagu Town.

There are two essences of the imperial army, the first is the Liaodong region in the northeast of the empire, and the representative armies of the Liaodong region are mainly the private soldiers of the Liaodong town army and the four major families of Liaodong. The other is in the northwest of the empire, and there are two main armies represented in the northwest region of the empire, one is the well-known Qin army, and the other is the Ganzhou town army that was reborn after Peng Chaodong's purge.

The armies of these two places are elite wherever they are pulled into the empire.

Moreover, not long ago, Liaodong defeated the Liao army and beheaded 50,000 people, and the news of the great victory had already blown like the wind all over the northern regions of the empire. The Tsu Gatekeeper is no exception.

The magistrates of the Jinmen Guard attached great importance to this Qinwang army from Liaodong, and the civil officials of the Jinmen Guard also put aside the contemptuous attitude they had always had towards the warriors, and paid attention to the movements of this Qinwang army, hoping that this Qinwang army could arrive at the Jinmen Guard as soon as possible.

Liu Shu, the commander of Jinmenwei County, even personally led people to feel Dagukou, and went to the shore to welcome the arrival of this mysterious Qinwang army. He was already looking forward to this Qinwang army.

If the Liao army breaks the border and enters Beizhili, if the Liao army attacks Jinmen, Liu Shu, who is the commander of Jinmen Guard County, has three endings: the first is that Liu Shu bravely resisted the enemy and died in battle, and as long as the Great Zhao court still exists after his death, the court will commend him. Although Liu Shu loves the people, he spares his life even more. If Liu Shu was asked to make a choice between fame and fate, Liu Shu would not hesitate to choose fate over fame.

When people die, everything is empty, and people are gone, so what's the use of keeping a good name?!

The second ending is to abandon the city and flee, this method can survive for a while, but when settling accounts in the future, Liu Shu will inevitably be stabbed, not only will he be stabbed, but Liu Shu will be forever detained as an escaping official, and his reputation will be ruined. This is the next resort. A shrewd person like Liu Shu would not choose to take this path of disrepute.

The third ending is also Liu Shu's most desired ending. This ending is that Liu Shu repels the invading Liao army. After the war, with this feat, Liu Shu can be described as a pair of fame and fortune.

Although the idea is good, Liu Shu knows very well that the Jinmen guard Zhenjun is like the bird virtue of the turtle grandson, relying on them to defend the city, once the Liao army invades the Jinmen guard, the day when Liu Shu will be ruined is not far away.

"What's the noise?" Liu Shu pushed aside the officials who were blocking him and asked, "Where is the fleet?" ”

The officials in front of them gave Liu Shu a way and gave Liu Shu a good vision.

Liu Shu really saw a fleet of boats appear on the sea, but after reaching the sea, the fleet did not continue to move forward, but put down a few red horse boats from the big boat, and several people rowed the red horse boats towards Dagukou.

The crowd standing on the Dagukou Fort turned their eyes to them. They thought the red horse boats were going ashore. The officers of the Jinmen Guard Town Army even sent non-commissioned soldiers to the coast to meet the red horse boat to land.

It's just that a few red horse boats just cruised on the shore for a while and then rowed back to the big boat, and did not go ashore.

These red horse boats were sent by He Tengxiao to the shore to observe the hydrological characteristics of the shore, and the territory was Ke Dinghai.

After returning to the boat, Ke Dinghai rubbed his somewhat frozen hands and took a breath of hot air on his hands. Ke Dinghai is a native of Jinling, and he has not been in the Northland for a long time, this is his first winter in the Northland, and he has not fully adapted to the climate in the Northland.

"There's sea ice on the shore." Ke Dinghai wanted He Tengxiao to report that he led a team to observe the hydrological situation on the shore of Dagu Town, which was a condition to confirm whether there were ships moored at the Dagu port.

"Can the ship stop directly on the edge of the ice and disembark directly at the edge of the ice?" He Tengxiao asked.

Ke Dinghai shook his head, and his tone was very affirmative: "Absolutely not, the ice is very thin, there are so many of us, the ice can't help us to step on it, I'm afraid that before many people get off the boat, the ice surface has collapsed." It's dangerous, we can't just park the boat at the edge of the ice. ”

What Ke Dinghai said is not unreasonable, but there is still a big ship with 800 materials here, and since there is sea ice on the shore, this big ship with 800 materials naturally has nowhere to put it.

He Tengxiao looked at the soldiers and civilians at the Dagu Port, and thought of an idea to seek the assistance of the soldiers and civilians at Dagu Pass. They were asked to cut through the ice and remove a section of the place where the ship could dock.

He Tengxiao passed on the message to the soldiers and civilians of Dagukou on the shore through Wen Kelong, and the soldiers and civilians of Dagukou were very enthusiastic. Liu Shu, the commander of Jinmenwei County, was also very cooperative, and brought the people in the mansion to dig the ice.

Tens of thousands of people, young and old, simply stepped forward and began to dig ice without saying a word. The strength of the large number of people, coupled with the high efficiency of this ice chiseling, the command of two hours chiseled out a section of the coast without sea ice, which could be used by He Tengxiao's fleet to moor.

"The soldiers and civilians of the Jinmen guard are very enthusiastic." Ke Dinghai was shocked by the enthusiasm of the Jinmen guards and civilians. How efficient it is to carve out a section of the ice-free coast in a few hours to provide a mooring point for boats!

"If you were a soldier or civilian of the Jinmen guards, you would be so enthusiastic." Zhang Yuyang teased Ke Dinghaidao, "The Jinmen guards are weak, there is not much hope to be able to hold the Jinmen, the Jinmen is the necessary place for the Liao army, the Liao army is nine out of ten likely to attack the Jinmen guards, the local town army can't count on it, can only count on us, the guest army of King Qin." ”

"Don't interrupt here." He Tengxiao stopped their conversation, raised his monoculars and looked at the shore, all the ice on the shore was smashed, fortunately, the weather was not so cold, the ice formed was not thick, as long as a little force could break the thin ice surface, it was as easy as breaking through the window.

Ke Dinghai also held up the monocular that He Tengxiao gave him and observed it, the monoculars are still rare, He Tengxiao has no way to put them into production on a large scale, the existing several monoculars are polished by skilled craftsmen little by little, the output is pitiful, and there are not a few monoculars in the Xiao Riding Camp.

In addition to the core figures of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming were the only grassroots officers equipped with monoculars. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the two of them are He Tengxiao's only 100 sailors.

"There are some ice floes along the coast, but the ice floes are not big, there are no rapids, and our fleet can anchor on the shore." Ke Dinghai observed the situation on the shore through a telescope. The ice on the coast is fragmented, and there are some scattered ice floes floating on the surface of the sea, which are of small mass and do not pose a threat to the navigation of ships.

Wen Kelong took the Shi family's men on the shore and waved the flag to He Tengxiao, indicating that the shore was safe and the ship could be moored on the shore. (To be continued.) )