After several days of siege battles, the outside of Jinju has changed a lot. In addition to the longer wall, which was built more solidly and thickly, there was a long ravine in the west of the city that connected to Fenshui from under the city wall, and a mountain of earth in the east of the city was piled up to the same height as the city wall.

It is already midsummer, and Fenshui should have ushered in the flood season, but this year's climate is unusually hot and rainless, and the water flow of Fenshui has not increased significantly, so that the siege method of passing through the canal and diverting water to irrigate the city has little effect.

The only effective way to siege the city at the moment was to attack Jinju Fortress from Tusan Mountain in the east of the city, and each elite soldier could jump onto the enemy wall after a fierce battle. Although the enemy army slaughtered the Wei soldiers on the city wall at any cost every time, their own casualties were also increasing day by day.

After the siege war here fell into a stalemate, Li Tai did not keep defending the city, he handed over the task of commanding the siege to Liang Shiyan and other generals, and he himself took this opportunity to inspect the surrounding area on the spot.

The war here in Jinzhou City has not made much progress, but Wei Xiaokuan's efficiency in doing things after going north is quite high, and he has already chosen a place to build the city and started to build it, so Li Tai simply went north to investigate. When he arrived, the generals in the north had been waiting by the bank of Fenshui for a long time.

"This city is really steep, it's hard for you to take it from a quick attack!"

When he looked up and saw the Yong'an City built on the top of the hill, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh lightly, and looked at Gao Le and other forward soldiers and praised him.

Gao Le and the others were praised by this, and they couldn't help but smile, and when they led Li Tai to visit the plateau, they talked about their previous attack on the city, especially the number of phoenixes that integrated the strategy and execution were praised by the focus.

Li Tai looked at a number of phoenixes with a smile on his face in the entourage, and he was also quite relieved in his heart, pointing at him and sighing: "I still remember that the old Changle Gong often regretted the failure of the Battle of Pishan in the old years, and now the young generation is brave enough to chase the title of father, magnificent thief, there are such heroic deeds, enough to comfort the heroic souls of the ancestors!" ”

After hearing this, several Feng hurriedly crossed their hands and said: "The last general has inherited the Lord's grace and teaching for a long time, and he should be more loyal and diligent to serve the Lord!" At present, it is only within the reach of the border city of thieves, and before entering the heart of the thief's nest, he will fight Jinyang in the coming day, and he will fight harder to kill the thief! ”

The two of them couldn't help but be envious of the masses, and He Ruobi, who followed behind his father, frequently looked at his own Lao Tzu, hoping that he Lao Tzu could also seize the opportunity to praise his deeds, and also let Tang Gong look at him differently, so as to break into the three guards. However, He Ruodun was very calm, and just waved his hand to signal his son to be calm and wait for the right time.

The location chosen by Wei Xiaokuan to build the city was not the Yong'an City on the wall, but moved more than ten miles to the northwest, located in an area between Gaobiling and Jiqiyuan.

"Although the location of Yong'an City is dangerous, although the city has to be built here, it has not been concise. It is inconvenient for troops to advance and retreat here, and it is even more difficult to take care of the surrounding garrisons. If it is attacked by a strong army, it will inevitably be broken separately, and it will be difficult to stay for a long time. ”

Wei Xiaokuan, as the world's first-class tower defense master, naturally has his own set of methods and experience in choosing the location of the city, and he did not pursue to set up the new city in a dangerous place, but a place where it is convenient to advance and retreat and take into account all sides.

The scale of this new city is average, the circumference is only a few miles, the city wall has been rammed a few feet from the ground, there is a rudimentary shape of a city, and then the inner wall and some other buildings are built with the rocks of the local materials near the left near the mountains, under the labor of thousands of soldiers, it only takes a few days for this city to be roughly built, and the initial needs of the garrison are met, and then it can be gradually improved according to the needs.

"After the city is built here, you can rely on it to lay out the defense line. The two mountain trails are rugged and difficult to travel, and it is not convenient to get in and out of supplies, so you don't need to be stationed all the way, and you can choose two or three dangers along the way......"

Although he is good at defending the city, Wei Xiaokuan is not actually keen on building a fortress, especially for the aimless and indiscriminate repair of the city, and he has a clear opposition to it, believing that this is not of great significance except for the loss of people and money.

Long before Li Tai's arrival, he had already made many trips to and from the Bird Mouse Valley, and finally decided to build a garrison in the southern area of the middle of the Bird Mouse Valley, garrisoning about 100 troops, in addition to monitoring the movement in the valley, but also responsible for burning the bridge and retreating when the enemy army was attacking.

Because in his opinion, the cost of stationing in the Bird Mouse Valley is too great, the distance of nearly 100 miles from north to south, the efficiency of message transmission before and after is very low, and the pressure of personnel consumption and replenishment of supplies is very great.

In the current situation that the war only needs to block the enemy army in Jinyang, there is no need to bear such a large defensive cost, only need to hold the port here, the enemy army is naturally difficult to come out, but because of the long time over the rugged mountain road and the consumption has increased greatly, in the second half of the year, the vigor is gone.

Therefore, the defense here only needs to radiate to the second half of the Bird Mouse Valley, and no matter what the enemy attacks in the thirty or forty miles of mountain passes, the army in the south will have enough time to make a suitable response.

Of course, this arrangement is based on the condition that the officers and men stationed here can fully perform their garrison duties, but if the soldiers themselves neglect their duties, no matter how solid and solid the defensive line is arranged, and no matter how much it costs to defend it, it will be difficult to prevent the enemy from coming south.

Li Tai also recognized Wei Xiaokuan's idea very much, all he needed was to stop the enemy army in Jinyang from coming south now, and after the war developed further and some of the goals set in the early stage were achieved one after another, then he would not only take a defensive position here, but even take the initiative to seek a decisive battle in the Taiyuan Basin, so he didn't need to spend too much money to establish a solid defense line here.

Since formulating this series of strategic plans, Wei Xiaokuan has been the main staff officer, and he has a deep understanding of Li Tai's intentions and needs, and he has cooperated with each other tacitly in the course of the operation.

After the defense of the Bird Mouse Valley was finished, it was time to reach the Thousand Miles Path. In fact, although the thousand-mile trail is short, the traffic situation is worse than that of the Sparrow Mouse Valley, and it is not suitable for the whole station.

But Wei Xiaokuan had just turned to this topic before he had time to elaborate, He Ruodun suddenly jumped out from behind with an object in his hand, and Li Tai was suddenly happy when he saw it, it turned out that what this guy was holding in his hand was a staggering young man.

"Thousands of miles of paths have been in and out of the minister, since the lord asks, the minister is willing to explain in detail!"

He Ruodun took advantage of this topic to catch his son out and give himself a chance to speak first.

Li Tai nodded after hearing this, and motioned for him to continue, but He Ruodun didn't say anything, raised his hand and patted He Ruobi, who was barely standing firm, and then said: "There are many things to see and hear on the way, and I don't know where to start for a while. But the child also goes in and out of the mountain road with the minister, and he can tell the Lord in detail! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and gave his son a look, signaling that this was the right time to express himself.

He Ruobi naturally couldn't imagine that the timing of what he Lao Tzu said was so embarrassing and hardcore, and when everyone present, especially Tang Gong, the idol in the young man's heart, also looked at him, this unprepared young man suddenly became even more cramped.

He clenched his fists with both hands, forced himself to calm down, and then said: "Qi, Qi Lord, the last general and Xiaomin have indeed traveled thousands of miles from their father to attack the thief domain, and the people in the north of the thief mountain are quite complicated. Before the army advances, it is enough to hold the southern end of the valley ridge, and there is another passage in the middle to quandering through the Bird Mouse Valley, and it is also necessary to be prepared.

But, but General Wei said in the foreword about the Bird Mouse Valley, Xiaomin felt that there was still more to do. This summer's drought, the river canal water dissipated, the small people into the Bird Mouse Valley, the Fenjin water flow is not abundant, or because of the preface, but it is also necessary to prevent whether the thief army set up a weir upstream to block the flow of water. If the thieves set up a weir on the top and wait for the rain to break the embankment, the downstream Fenshui will inevitably flood and this situation must be prevented......"

The kid stumbled at first, but soon became smoother, and at the end he threw out a question that even Li Tai didn't realize. After hearing this, Li Tai was stunned for a moment, then looked at Wei Xiaokuan and said, "Does such a hidden worry exist?" ”

After hearing this, Wei Xiaokuan nodded and said: "This summer is indeed dry and rainless, but the weather changes rapidly after the summer, and when the ministers were planning for defense, they really didn't take this into account. ”

As he spoke, he turned to look at He Ruobi, who had raised this loophole, and said without concealing his appreciation: "This young disciple has clear knowledge, detailed thoughts, and is really talented!" ”

He Ruodun originally frowned secretly when he heard his son's free play, and when he saw Wei Xiaokuan's praise, he couldn't help laughing and said: "This son is just raised in the door, and I have only gradually felt that he has a little bit of endowment inheritance in recent years, but his talent is still very considerable, and he planned to dedicate himself to the Lord after some training, but after thinking about it, when it comes to training talents, words and deeds, who in the world can compare to the Lord?" Therefore, I simply went to the Lord and begged the Lord to adopt the disciples and give them two meals! ”

"Pray Lord take me in!"

After He Ruobi heard this, he also had the courage to pounce on his knees and shouted to Li Tai.

Li Tai was already pleased that He Ruobi had already shown good endowment characteristics at a young age, and he couldn't help laughing when he heard this, he stepped forward and pulled up this still somewhat immature famous general, looked at the young man's nervous expression and smiled: "Young and strong talents, if you don't enter my door, where can you stretch your ambitions?" Talent dedicates me, fame and fame, it is the top and bottom get together! ”