On the prairie, the soil is soft, and the grass spreads like a thick blanket under your feet.

Such a place, according to common sense, is not suitable for building a strong city, because it lacks a solid soil foundation.

However, the Liao State was in its heyday, and urgently needed a capital city that demonstrated the national prestige, although Yanjing was good, it was not the fundamental place of the Liao State after all, and the white mountain and black water were too remote to dominate the vast territory, so in this context, Shangjing came into being.

Shangjing, this huge capital, is like a bright pearl, inlaid in this vast prairie.

It is grand in scale and magnificent, but such a majestic capital city has only four city gates, the Anton Gate in the east, the Dashun Gate in the south, the Qiande Gate in the west, and the Gongchen Gate in the north.

Although the number of these four gates is small, each of them looks solemn and solemn, showing the majesty and bearing of the imperial city.

The construction of this city, can be traced back to the three years of the Divine Book, the initial name of the imperial capital, symbolizing the power and glory of the Liao State, however, with the passage of time, the national strength of the Liao State is becoming stronger and stronger, the name of the imperial capital is no longer enough to show its status, so in the first year of the meeting, the imperial capital was renamed Shangjing, and set up the Linhuang Mansion, becoming the center of the Liao State.

Before the city was built, Shangjing was the territory of the Khitan tribe, known as the "West Building", at that time it was still a desolate place, sparsely populated, but with the establishment of Shangjing, this land began to gradually prosper.

The buildings in the city are scattered, there are Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, and Confucian temples, and the Confucian temples were the first to be established, the Khitan has always shown respect for Confucius and Confucianism, worship Confucian culture, and want to be the same as the Central Plains, taking this as the foundation of governing the country.

In the capital city, there are two landmark buildings, two pagodas in the north and south, the south tower is towering into the clouds, magnificent, the tower body is embedded with exquisite relief Buddha statues and brick decorations on all sides, it seems solemn and sacred, the big Buddha temple under the tower is the incense is prosperous, attracting countless believers to come to worship.

Although the north tower is slightly smaller in scale, it is also delicate and beautiful, and the Buddhist temple under the tower is also full of people coming and going, and it is very lively.

Zhao Ta is still familiar with Shangjing, after all, he has been here and lived, although the four gates of Shangjing are few, but they are more than half larger than the ordinary city gates, highlighting the bearing of the imperial city.

Shangjing is prosperous, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first city in the north, Yanyun goes north, even if you go to Hanhai, you can't find a bigger and more prosperous city than Shangjing.

After a slight rest for a day, the army began to move, carrying out excavation and mountain-building operations.

Governor Li Yanxian did this, Zhu Wu was on the side, the soldiers moved in an orderly manner, the grassland soil was soft, and it was not difficult to dig, and the soldiers waved shovels and hoes to turn over pieces of land, and then transported the soil to the designated place.

Because the soil is mixed with countless weeds and roots, these clods are not easy to slide or scatter when accumulated, but form a stable structure, which is very suitable for raising mountains or building cities.

The excavation site is far away from the barracks, there are three places, each of which has more than 10,000 people moving at the same time, and the soldiers are densely packed, like insects and ants, constantly going back and forth, leaving a coherent trace in the grassland.

At the head of the capital, the breeze whistled by, with the fresh and dry atmosphere unique to the grassland.

Zong Bi was wearing armor and a steel helmet, his eyes were like torches, staring into the distance, he was holding his waist knife, and his expression was a little confused.

In the distance, he saw Qin Jun's figure sometimes clear, sometimes blurred, pushing a cart, coming and going, busy, he frowned, turned his head to look at Wan Yanqi beside him, and asked, "What is this Qin soldier busy with?" ”

Wan Yanqi rubbed his eyes, trying to understand the detailed scene, but the distance was too far, and the Qin army's digging action was not clear, and he could only vaguely see the Qin army bulldozing back, piling up.

"Like...... It seems that grass and soil have been brought from somewhere, and they are piling up in one place. Wan Yan Qi inhaled.

At this time, Xi Yin suddenly exclaimed: "Not good! Did they want to build mountains and attack the city? ”

Zong Han heard Xi Yin's words on the side, his face suddenly changed, he was about to open his mouth to refute, he felt that it was too ridiculous to pile mountains and attack the city, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly thought that the soil of the grassland was soft, which was completely different from the Central Plains in the south and the land of white mountains and black waters.

Zong Han immediately said: "The grassland is not as good as the south of the mountain, nor is it better than the white mountain and black water, the soil and grass are soft and glutinous, it is too easy to dig, and it is easy to pile up mountains!" ”

Zong Bi couldn't help but gasp when he heard this, if the Qin army could really pile up a dirt mountain, then it would definitely no longer be safe to go to the capital wall, and the other party could easily climb the earth mountain, and then attack Shangjing flatly, or even cross the city wall and directly attack the city.

As soon as this idea surfaced, Zong Bili felt palpitations, and he had to come up with a way to deal with it as soon as possible, otherwise the Qin army really implemented this plan, and Shangjing would definitely not be guaranteed.

At this time, the wind began to become a little stronger, rolling up a cloud of dust, Zong Bi's eyes were firmly fixed on the Qin army who was busy in the distance, his heart was turbulent, he looked at the people around, and said in a deep voice: "The Qin army wants to use a trick to go to Beijing, everyone hurry up and come up with a way." ”

Xi Yin Zonghan and the others glanced at each other, then sat together, and began to think with solemn faces.

"If you can't stop the other party immediately, then you will lose sooner or later." Zong Bi gritted his teeth and said: "Once the earth mountain is piled up, the city wall will be useless, and the other party will advance a little bit, even the strongest city defense will become useless." ”

Wan Yanqi nodded with a sad face: "The other party's move is indeed a trick, and we must immediately come up with a way to destroy it." ”

Zong Han pondered for a moment: "You can send an elite cavalry team to raid the place where the Qin army is digging, disrupt their rhythm, don't fall in love with the war, just harass, so that they can't succeed at all." ”

Xi Yin shook his head: "Since the Qin army dares to blatantly pile up the dirt mountain, they must be on guard, they want us to send troops out of the city, if they attack rashly, they are likely to be ambushed by them." ”

Wan Yan Qi said: "At this moment, the four gates of the city have been sealed, thousands of catties have fallen, the stones are filled to death, it is not easy to open, if you send troops to move the obstacles, open and close the city gate, it will also expose the flaws to the Qin army." ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately fell into deep thought, this is also a problem, after all, they planned to defend it before, and it was closed on all sides, and if they wanted to send troops, they had to reopen, but it was a dangerous thing.

But if you go out of the city and ambush in fear, it is dangerous to stick to the city, and you can't stop the other party from building a mountain and piling up the city, it is no longer as simple as tricky, it is clearly a dilemma.

As the sky was getting a little late, several people did not come up with half an effective plan, and finally they all went down to the city with heavy faces.

On the second day, the excavation and accumulation work was still carried out in an orderly manner outside the city, and Zong Bi couldn't bear it after looking at the city for a while: "Do they plan to keep piling up and not even attacking the city?" ”

Xi Yin said leisurely: "With this method, who will storm the city?" When the earth mountain is taller, it will move forward a little bit, and when it is equal to the first class in the capital, it will be easy to attack, if it is really close, you can come over by taking a wooden ladder and a wooden trunk, so labor-saving, how can you still attack. ”

"No way!" Hearing this, Zong Bi said with a gloomy face: "Wouldn't it be like this, just waiting to lose the city?" I think it is still necessary to open a city gate and go to a sneak attack, so that the Qin army's tricks will not succeed. ”

Wan Yan Qi also said: "What the fourth uncle said is right, I thought about it all night last night, this grassland is not better than other places, not to mention the soil in other places, even if it is soil, where is there so much to dig?" Here is endless, sooner or later the Qin army will succeed, in this case, even if the city is dangerous, you have to sneak attack the other party to try. ”

Zong Han nodded: "You can't sit still, wait until the earth mountain accumulates and form, and then you want to attack, but it's a little late." ”

Xi Yin shook his head: "Attacking at this moment, even if it is called a sneak attack, how do you know that the other party has not taken precautions?" Lay a net of heaven and earth, trap and ambush and wait for us to drill into it, if so, I am afraid that we will be defeated earlier. ”

Zong Bilai said angrily: "Then the god of ceres, you have come up with a way, you have always been resourceful, but now you can only oppose it, and you can't think of a plan, how can I listen?" ”

Xi Yin ignored his annoyance, and said in a calm voice: "I think it's better to wait, Sha Lizhen is already close to Zhao Ta at this moment, if the assassination can be successful, then everything in front of him is no longer a problem." ”

Zong Bi said coldly: "Ceres, you still mention Shariqin, the first three secret reports are all wrong, disrupting my marching deployment and damaging morale, otherwise how could you not even ambush the other party?" I asked you before, you said that he was with Shariqin, and the intelligence may not be wrong, according to the situation you said, I am afraid that Shaliqin has already been recognized by the other party, and he will be arrested and coerced and tortured, so he will ask the informant to deliberately send false information over, right? ”

Xi Yin was noncommittal when he heard this: "Wait a few more days to see, the soil and mountains can not be completed in three or five days, even if the grassland land is soft and the other party has many soldiers, where will it take shape in a month or two?" Even if the height is enough, but the width is insufficient, it is useless, and it is impossible to level the head of the capital. ”

Zong Bi couldn't refute for a while, glared, and gritted his teeth: "Then wait a few more days to see if Sha Lizhi can assassinate Zhao Ta'er......"

Sha Lizhi was in turmoil at the moment, she naturally knew the importance of Shangjing in the Jin Kingdom, and even knew that all the elites of the Jurchens were in Shangjing.

Originally, Xiongguan was in a big trouble, there was no shortage of soldiers and horses, and it could be held for a long time, not to mention that the rear had not fallen into the hands of the Qin army, and it was possible to send reinforcements to relieve the siege, so as not to worry and worry.

But Qin Jun came up with a way to dig a mound of earth to build a city, but it made Shangjing absolutely unsafe, Xiao Lizhen didn't know how long it would take to complete this digging mound of earth, he only felt that with so many people and horses, I am afraid that it will be completed soon, and then Gu Shenzong Hanzong Bi and others are afraid that they will be in a catastrophe.

She thought that if she wanted to save Shangjing, I was afraid that there was only one way to assassinate Zhao Ta, Zhao Ta was in turmoil, where was she still in the mood to attack, and she would definitely withdraw her troops, but although she was with the army at the moment, she didn't have the opportunity to get too close to Zhao Ta, Zhao Ta was surrounded by generals like clouds, and it was definitely easy to fail to assassinate him, and he had to be close to him.

Do you really have to follow what Ceres, and the guys said, between the beds, before you can start?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but have a fever on her cheeks, she was a girl who had never been out of the pavilion, and she went to Zhongjing in a hurry this time, and no one taught her how to seduce and tempt the other party, where did she understand these things?

Huo Xuanji came in with a curtain at this time, holding a plate of cleaned wild fruits in her hand, and put it on the table: "Eat." ”

Xiao Lizhi glanced at the berries in her disc, and then at Huo Xuanji, a little stunned, until this time she didn't understand the relationship between this woman and Zhao Ta.

said that it was a dependent, but it was not like, whether it was dressed or the tone of voice with Zhao Ta, it didn't seem like that kind of relationship, but it seemed that there were more sisters, if it weren't for the age difference, she even suspected that the other party was Zhao Ta's daughter.

Xiao Lizhen reached out and picked up a red fruit, gently put it in his mouth, thinking about how to put some words out of this woman's mouth, even if he really wanted to dedicate himself, he couldn't make Zhao Ta suspicious.

"Miss Huo, you, are you also from Tokyo?"

Looking at Xiao Li's lame stubble, Huo Xuanji said "hehe" and did not reply.

Xiao Li suddenly felt a little bored, in fact, she was a person who was not good at words, but at the moment, there was really no way, so she had to continue stubbornly: "By the way, Miss Huo, are you from the Qin State Clan?" ”

Huo Xuanji glanced at Xiao Lizhen unexpectedly, and said in her heart Are you stupid, the Jurchen sent you to be an undercover assassin, and that person really has no brains.

"My surname is Huo, and Zhao Ta's surname is Zhao!"

"I, I didn't expect these ......" Xiao Li was happy in his heart, the other party has always been silent, and finally spoke at this moment, which is considered a plan.

"By the way, what is Your Majesty doing?"

Huo Xuanji frowned: "Where do I know what he did, and he didn't go over, you want to know your own house to see." ”

"May I go to see Your Majesty?"

"Zhao Ta said that you can walk around the neighborhood and go to see him if you have something." Huo Xuanji said lightly.

"Then I'm ......" Xiao Lizhen looked at the light that came through the curtain cracks, at this evening, it was not dark yet, it seemed to be a little early, she hurriedly changed her words: "I don't have anything to do, I just want to talk to him about the appearance characteristics of my childhood sweetheart." ”

Huo Xuanji: "Hehe! ”

Xiao Lizhen stopped talking this time, thinking in his heart that when the night came up after a while, he would excuse himself to go out, and then try to Zhao Ta's big tent.

After the two finished eating the small red berries on the plate, Huo Xuanji said, "It's dark." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Lizhen was stunned for a moment, thinking that the other party had found something, and suddenly became a little flustered.

"If it's okay, don't light the candles, just lock the tent and rest." Huo Xuanji added again.

Xiao Lizhi breathed a sigh of relief: "I, I'll go out for a while." ”

"What are you going out for?"

"I, I'm going to move my fists and feet."

"I'll go with you!"

"No, no, the unique martial arts I practice are not easy for people to see."

"Not easy for people to see? Dirty? Hehe! ”

Xiao Li escaped from the big tent, and said in his heart that this Huo girl was really difficult, she didn't say it coldly, she usually didn't talk much, but when she opened her mouth, it didn't sound good, and she couldn't answer.

Looking at the moon in the sky, Xiao Lizhi breathed a sigh of relief, she looked not far away, Zhao Ta's sleeping tent was over there, and after calming down, she walked over.

When he met the patrol soldiers on the road, he seemed to recognize her, and he didn't stop her, but he came to the front of Zhao Ta's big tent in a moment.

There were two people standing guard in front of the tent, one recognized it, the other didn't recognize it, and they recognized that the one they had seen on Jinguo Street at the beginning was Bai Zhan.

Bai Zhan said: "Miss Lizhen came to find Your Majesty? ”

Xiao Lizhen nodded subconsciously, but he didn't know how to speak.

Bai Zhan said: "Your Majesty has told you that if the girl is here, you don't need to be polite, you can see him directly." ”

Xiao Li hesitated slightly, but finally made up his mind, reached out to open the curtain, and walked in.

(End of chapter)