Yasukuni Northwest Lingzhou.

Different from today's Suzhou, Lingzhou was a border state in the early days, and at the beginning of its establishment, it was only a camp, but during the period of Emperor Taizong, Qin Daoyuan, who was the then Zhongshu Ling, was responsible for building a border defense line, which is the basic strategy of today's Dajing military's strategy of 'internal auxiliary and foreign warfare'.

This line of defense also enabled Lingzhou to form a line with the border states of Shuozhou, Liangzhou, Suzhou and Youzhou, forming a defense system with Fengsui Fort as the point and the county capital as the line.

Qin Daoyuan, the father of Zihong, a native of Jiangzhou, the former Zhongshu Ling of the Eastern Jingguo, and the Yuanfu of the Four Dynasties.

According to the official newspaper, Qin Daoyuan was born in a scholarly family since he was a child, and he was a nobleman of Taikang City, and his father Qin Yang, uncle Qin Xun, and uncle Qin Yue had studied in the Confucian Lu Yuan of Dongjing.

After returning from the Tao, he took the 17th high school examination for the virtuous Fang Zhengming classics, and even in the "Xie Yuan, Hui Yuan, Zhuangyuan" three yuan, a sensation in Dongjing.

It is rumored that during the palace examination, Taizong personally went to the invigilation of the examination, and put forward in person the nine major governance points such as 'the rule of the ministers, the reporting and supervision, the world's criminal prison, the border military affairs, the cabinet of the government, the foreign states of the world, the clan vassal king, the loss of finance and taxation, and the way of the Buddha and the devil'.

As for the details of the test papers asked by Qin Daoyuan, the world does not know, because Emperor Taizong sealed the 'Secret True Palace' after reading it, and ordered that 'non-Dongjing Supreme cannot be opened in person', and those who violated the order were all beheaded by the nine clans.

It is worth mentioning that in the ten years when Qin Daoyuan transferred to the military department, he successively built the most complete border army defense system of 'sentinels, garrisons, forts, buildings, and cities' in the Nanjing Dynasty and the 'road, cavalry, post, stack, and battalion' internal army affairs transmission hub channels, which provided a solid foundation for Dajing's annexation of Southern Chu and Northern Qi and the defeat of Qianyan.

In the border defense system built by Qin Daoyuan, the first priority is Fengsui.

Fengsui is also known as the fort, the standing foot soldier is fifty, the water source is based on it, stands at the top of the ridge mountain, if there is an enemy, it will take the wolf smoke beacon fire as the news, spread the information in all directions.

The camp is stationed with the garrison battalion, standing with two hundred strong soldiers, well-equipped, all built by the Tiangong Academy under the jurisdiction of the Great Jing Army, the standard can be called first-class, Mo knife, spear and ring head blade are all fully configured, its combat power is comparable to the forbidden army.

And the camp is to dig the mountain wall to set up the dock village, while setting up the camp and garrison, but also collect the homeless neighbors to stick to it, often gather thousands of guards.

And in the mountains do not pass through the thieves and horses of the land to build a fort, when the army is transferred to the north, only can not cut down Helan Mountain, otherwise the fort will be nearly fifty or sixty miles away from the place of obstacles, but also absorb the woodcutters, bow hunters, often put thousands of guards, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong.

As for the garrison town, it is a small 'military town', which not only has 500 elite cavalry generals, but also 2,000 soldiers to guard, day and night, without interruption.

The periphery of the military town is fortified with battlements, moats and moats dug to reinforce, and the official houses and residences in the city, stables and military camps are all prepared, just like the inland county government, if there is no war, it is a prosperous county town.

In this way, the military town of the county can accommodate more than 10,000 people in the small area, and nearly 100,000 people in the large.

When the Eastern Jing Kingdom had not yet conquered the Western Liang Kingdom, the city closest to the western defense line of Dongjing was the county seat of Lingzhou.

The reason for mentioning Lingzhou is that the descendants of the former King of Xiliang did not live in Liangzhou, the capital of the original Liang Kingdom, but moved to Lingzhou.

Lingzhou Thomas, so it is called the 'horse herding capital'.

The water can live in the island, this place is in the river island, with the water high, but never submerged, so it is called the Lingzhou, after the town is set up camp, the city is built and the government is opened, so it is called Lingzhou.

When the letter from Xu Sheng, the second assistant of Taikang, reached Xu Fu, the military governor of Liangzhou, he was inspecting the military camp at Qinba Pass.

Because Lingzhou is one of the military towns, the Tunbao is set up in camp, and Qinba Pass is the top priority of the 'Thirteen Forts'.

Xu Fu Rongma, who is over thirty years old, has been smiling all year round, not angry and self-assured, and he has not taken off his armor when he naps and rests, but his face is soothing when facing this brother, as if he has a sense of admiration, after all, the eldest brother is the father, not to mention the person who brought him up, he is naturally in awe.

The letter instructed the prince to go north to meet him.

The matter of the prince's suppression of the northern land was only known to the high-level military and political leaders of Dajing, and it was not leaked, but he already knew that his brother's special advice naturally had other deep meanings.

After pondering for a while, he became clear about it, his brother was the second assistant, and his words and deeds would affect Yasukuni up and down.

Now that the Xiao Party and the Zhang Party are opposed, as the leader of the Northern Land Department, Xu Sheng needs to be dormant even more, and he can't take his head easily, and even when facing the admonition of the ministers and the impeachment of the imperial history, he will take off the crown to show his fear.

If Xu Sheng no longer contacted the crown prince Xiahou Chun regardless of it, it would definitely make the Taikang Dynasty more and more treacherous, which was not Xu Sheng's original intention.

But Xu Fu is different, he is just a border general, although he has 5,000 border troops in his hands, but because the food and salary are controlled by the imperial court, he can't set off big waves, so he won't attract attention.

This is also one of the reasons why Dongjing is assured that the military generals are in charge of the army, that is, the governor has military power, but has no financial power and the right to transfer troops.

Xu Fu groaned, the brother's meaning is obvious, the prince must help him go north, this is a battle for the country, but also a dispute between parties, once Xiahou Chun dies and the Xiao Party comes to power, then the two brothers Xu Sheng and Xu Fu, who are princelings, will have no future.

Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows, and the sentence in the letter, 'The prince is fortunate to be in the eastern capital, and he will be sharp in the view of a thousand autumns' attracted his attention.

He muttered to himself, "Isn't this guy restless?" ”

is also a military general and governor, Xu Fu knows Qin Rui's unfathomable depth better than anyone else, if he Xu Fu is the 'Liangzhou Tiger', then Qin Rui is the 'Eastern Capital Crocodile'.

The tiger is not angry and self-threatening, and the mountains and forests are roaring; The crocodile is cruel and indifferent, and is very good at hibernating.

He subconsciously looked south, since he became famous as a pit killer, there was no more information, and he had been dormant in the east for nearly ten years.

His eyes were complicated, and there was a trace of worry, and now the situation in Taikang is complicated, once there is any turmoil, this eastern capital crocodile may not set off any storms.

Maybe there will be a death roll and trap Taikang in the pass.

After pursing his lips for a while, the governor of Liangzhou, who had been blown by the yellow sand desert for nearly ten years, sighed lightly, and then looked at the letters for a few moments, and then muttered to himself:

"It is said that the tiger father has no dog, and His Majesty has endured nearly thirty years for the thousand-year-old plan of Dongjing, so what about you, the prince, is it really just an embroidered pillow as the rumors say?"

After thinking about it, he knocked lightly, the door of the tent was opened, and a partial general in the armor of a lieutenant stepped in.

His name is Hua Yuanhua, Liangzhou Army General, born in a gambling house since childhood, so he is addicted to gambling, and was found by Xu Fu by chance, and found that he was a 'brave and courageous' man, and he fought a tough battle that called a death, and the first battle was the battle of fame.

Ten years ago, more than 200 rangers in the sky rode a certain beacon fort in Nankou, and Hua Yuanhua, who was the leader of the scouts at the time, captured this information and took ten horsemen under his command to hunt the cloud thieves.

In the end, relying on the strength of not being afraid of death, after paying the price of eight people killed in battle, one severely disabled, and Hua Yuanhua being cut off one ear and one arm, he actually annihilated 200 rangers, which made him famous and ranked among the 'top ten Guoyi captains' of the Liangzhou Army.

Since then, this guy has actually changed his sex, and he will not go to the gambling house anymore, and change his gambling life!

Its classic saying is: How can a manly man have no gambling, but a certain family has disdained small gambling in the streets and alleys. If you want to gamble, you have to gamble your life, and gamble your life for tens of millions of people.

Cheng, then the marquis worships the prime minister; If you lose, you will die!

Are you willing to gamble with me?

In the following ten years, this person was promoted from a border pawn to a general of the Liangzhou Army, and he was Xu Fu's real right-hand man.

But at this moment, he looked aggrieved, and Xu Fu turned a blind eye.

After enduring it for a long time, Hua Yuanhua finally couldn't hold it back, "General, why did you remove me from my post this time?" ”

Xu Fu glanced at him, and swept his cold gaze, "Take your son to attack the enemy camp, you can't think of it, if you don't remove you, don't you want to reward you?" ”

Hua Sheng, the eldest son of Hua Yuanhua, is only ten years old.

As a general, in order to temper his ten-year-old son, he only took a few guards to attack the enemy camp of 1,000 people.

Is there anyone crazier in the world than him?

After a little consideration, Xu Fu stared at Hua Yuanhua and instructed, "There is something you need to do today." ”

Hua Yuanhua suddenly looked solemn, knocked on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "Please show the general!" ”

"Go south to pick up the prince, and then help him calm Youyan!" Xu Fu's eyes were gloomy, and he said lightly.

Hua Yuanhua looked up in astonishment.