"That's it, that's it! Now I can only ask Lu Zu for blessing! Wang Ziwu sighed and asked, "The two soldiers under his command will be stationed at the south gate, and I will send someone to send them as a reward!" Then he got up and left.

Zhou Ping and Chang Zongtian glanced at each other and said, "Wang Tongjun, I don't plan to camp the army and the city!" ”

"Don't plan to garrison the city?" Wang Ziwu's eyes widened: "Then where are you going?" ”

"Outside the South Gate!" Zhou Ping replied: "I have seen the terrain in the last tense, and I plan to build a small village outside the city gate and guard these 800 people here!" ”

"No!" Wang Ziwu shouted loudly: "How can there be a reason not to defend the city, go outside the city to guard the village!" Speaking of this, he felt that his tone was a little too blunt, after all, now he had to ask these guest troops to work hard, and he also thought that Zhou Ping and their troops outside the city were to run away when they saw that the situation was not good, so he coughed and explained: "Two, you don't know, the thieves are now crowded, if the real army arrives, it will definitely surround this Xiuzhou City on all sides, whether it is inside or outside the city." ”

Zhou Ping heard what the other party meant, and said with a smile: "Commander, I waited outside the city for the convenience of escaping, but to better defend the city." As the saying goes: 'If there is an attack and a defense, the party is a true defense; If you only defend and don't attack, it will be empty in the end. This Xiuzhou City is only five or six miles long, what is the difference between the 800 people who are waiting for me and the 800 people who are waiting for us. But if you set up a fortress outside the city, you can shield the city gate, and you can attack when the thieves are tired. Although there are many thieves, they are not trained after all. There are certainly plenty of opportunities to take advantage of. ”

Wang Ziwu looked at Zhou Ping with a firm expression, knowing that it was difficult for him to convince the other party, so he had to turn his gaze to Chang Zongtian and asked, "What does Chang Yu mean by waiting for you?" ”

Chang Zongtian said in a deep voice: "It's not just a coincidence!" ”

Wang Ziwu looked at Zhou Ping, and then at Chang Zongtian, knowing that he couldn't change their decision, he sighed and said: "It's all about it, I hope Grandpa Lu Zu will bless him and be able to repel the thieves!" ”

"Grandpa Lu Zu?" When he came out, Zhou Ping was a little confused and muttered to himself, and Chang Zongtian on the side sneered: "It's Chunyangzi." The official family embraced Taoism. There are many people in the world who believe in this thing. But such a thing as a war can refer to relying on the clay puppets in the Taoist temple? ”

Only then did Zhou Ping realize that the "Grandpa Lu Zu" in the mouth of Prince Wu was Lu Dongbin, one of the "Eight Immortals". As an atheist, he naturally scoffed at those things, but he didn't expect that this prince Wu Nai was a court official. It shouldn't be a fool and a fool in the countryside. How can I believe these things. Come to think of it. He asked in a low voice, "Chang Yuhou, don't you believe this?" ”

"Of course I don't believe it!" Chang Zongtian rolled his eyes strangely, and patted the saber on his waist: "A certain family believes this." If this thing is useful, the imperial court will also use our western army to do something, there are hundreds of Taoist temples in Bianjing alone, and all the Taoist officials in it will be transferred to pacify Fangla. After leveling Fang La, he went to level the Khitan dog and the western thief, which saved the matter of a certain family. Speaking of this, he looked Zhou Ping up and down, and said: "If you believe in this thing, you should say it earlier, Lao Tzu will lead the troops away first, so as not to be unlucky with the kind of soft goods who only know how to pray to God and worship Buddha all day long!" ”

"Naturally, I don't believe it!" Zhou Ping hurriedly replied, he didn't expect this Chang Zongtian to be so spicy, if this guy really left, he really didn't have anything to do with him, after all, the other party was a genuine Western Army, and he was just a ragtag army.

"That's good!" Chang Zongtian nodded: "I don't think so, you at least know that you have a bit of courage to set up a village outside the city, attack and defend it." If, as the king said, he stationed thousands of soldiers in the city, and then he was surrounded by thieves on all sides, and there was no place to move when he fought, it would be troublesome. ”

Zhou Ping was so embarrassed by Chang Zongtian's praise that he couldn't laugh or cry, and he didn't know whether to be humble or something.

"It's been a while since the thieves took Hangzhou, and it must have been a matter of the past few days to fight Xiuzhou." Chang Zongtian and Zhou Ping climbed up to the south gate, pointed to the empty Chengguan under the city, and said: "Later, let the people demolish these houses, and the materials will be used to repair the stockade." By the way, Zhou Prison, how are you going to fix it? ”

Zhou Ping looked at the terrain outside the city gate, roughly estimated the terrain, and said with a smile: "I have a ready-made idea, and I ask Chang Yu to refer to it in detail." Speaking of this, Zhou Ping said to Luo She'er, who was following behind: "You take the painting tube!" ”

As he spoke, Zhou Ping took out a scroll from the painting tube and unfolded it in front of Chang Zongtian. Chang Zongtian couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise when he saw it, and after half a sound, he said in a low voice: "Your picture is so strange, it's the first time I've seen it in my life!" ”

"This is something I figured out by myself, how about you look at the painting?" Zhou Ping smiled and pointed to the plan, section, and elevation on the painting axis, which can correctly reflect the size, shape, and projection of the building, which is the basic skill of a college student in the Department of Architecture. This is undoubtedly an eye-opener for a military man of the Song Dynasty.

"Good, good, good!" Chang Zongtian praised three times, and his gaze at Zhou Ping also became respectful: "When a certain family was in the Western Army, what they did the most was to cover the people to build a city and build a wall. The terrain is rugged, the water source is scarce, and the army is inconvenient, so if you have repaired the stockade in advance and occupied the dangerous place of water, you will be invincible first. But the most feared thing about repairing the village is that it is not accurate, it will be repaired in 15 days in advance, but when it arrives at the location, the people are not enough, and it has not been repaired in 20 days, and the western thieves are forced to come up, but the army has no walled city to rely on, and a bad thing is that the whole army will be annihilated, and tens of thousands of soldiers and people will be gone. With your drawings, it is clear how many people, how much time, and how many materials are needed for a stockade, and even a fool can figure it out. Speaking of this, Chang Zongtian shook his head and sighed: "If there had this thing in the early years, how many fewer people would have died!" ”

"Then why don't you bring more people?" Rochelle on the side interjected.

Chang Zongtian rolled his eyes strangely and sneered: "You are stupid! Where do you come from to bring more people to eat and drink? You pull it out? “

"You-!" Luo She'er's face suddenly turned red, and Zhou Ping coughed and said: "She'er, the west is not like the Central Plains, it is densely populated and rich. The terrain was rugged and there were very few people, and every grain of grain and forage had to be brought in by men on horseback, and there were ten more people in front and ten people behind him. ”

"Well, Prison Zhou, you are a person who understands!" Chang Zongtian gave a thumbs up: "It's much stronger than those big turbans, I know the difficulties of fighting, I won't mess around, and I won't take the lives of our martial artists seriously!" This time, it seems that Wang Dutong did not choose the wrong person! ”

"Chang Yu Hou praised it!" Zhou Ping smiled slightly: "I am shallow in the army, and there are many things that are not as good as waiting for you, please mention more!" ”

"Well said, well said!" Speaking of this, this Chang Zongtian had a little more smile on his face, and his black face looked a lot more kissable, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the drawing, and asked: "Zhou Prison, the style of this walled city is so strange, a certain family has never seen it, and I hope that the prison will explain." "The original shape of the village is different from the appearance of most of the walled cities at that time, the bottom is the south gate of Xiuzhou, three sharp corners stretch out to the outside, and the gate of the village at the root of the sharp corners, showing an irregular polygon.

"It seems that there were no fortifications in the style of such a fortress in the Song Dynasty." Zhou Ping thought secretly in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "This is what the younger brother saw from an ancient book, so he took it out, and asked Yu Hou to mention it." ”

"Don't dare to mention it!" After seeing Zhou Ping's new drawing method, Chang Zongtian's attitude changed greatly: "I think these sharp corners have a bit of horse face. ”

"This Chang Zongtian is really fighting an old battle in the west!" Zhou Ping praised in his heart: "I can see the key point at a glance." "It turns out that generally speaking, in ancient sieges, the focus of the battle between the attacking and defending sides is the city gate, because the city gate is the most convenient way of transportation inside and outside the city, only by controlling the city gate, the attacking side can put a steady stream of troops into the city, and at the same time cut off the possibility of the defender through this city gate to counterattack outward. Therefore, all kinds of fortifications such as urn city, horse face, watchtower, sheep and horse wall are generally set up near the city gate, and the advantage of Zhou Ping's walled city is that if the enemy wants to attack the walled gate, it must fall into the firepower on both sides of the sharp corner, and the walled gate will be well protected.

"Yu Hou is really a clear-eyed person!" Zhou Ping stretched out his hand and drew on the drawings and said: "If the thieves attack the village, they will inevitably rush to the gate of the village, and at that time, ten thousand crossbows will be fired on both sides, and no matter how many people come, he will not be able to come and go!" ”

"Yes, yes! That's exactly what it means! Chang Zongtian rubbed his hands and asked, "But what if the thieves besiege the sharp corners?" ”

"How big is that sharp corner, that is, there are 10,000 thieves, and there are only a dozen of them that can be used, even if they capture the sharp corner, there is a watchtower behind, and then use a horse to block it, dozens of strong crossbows are shot, and even the gods are shot to death!" Speaking of this, Zhou Ping paused: "It's just that this kind of camp requires more manpower than ordinary ones!" ”

"What are you afraid of!" Chang Zongtian said with a smile: "Behind it is Xiuzhou City, and tens of thousands of people can be mobilized at any time, are you still afraid that the king will not give it to you?" You don't have to worry about the materials or anything, you can really tear down the houses inside. ”

"Tear down the house?" Zhou Ping was taken aback by Chang Zongtian's words: "This is not very good, right? ”

"Yes!" Chang Zongtian looked taken for granted: "The houses in this Xiuzhou city are built everywhere, and many houses are attached to the root of the city wall. This Wang Ziwu has also been in Jiangnan for a long time, and he even forgot to defend the city and demolish the house first, and he will be reminded later in prison, so as not to be too late. (To be continued......)