Guangmu City is located on the south bank of the South River of the Great River, and the north is the surging and turbulent river, but it has entered the autumn and winter season, the river of the big river is not so turbulent, and the water level of the river has dropped a lot. The moat of Guangmu Castle brought in the water of the Great River, and naturally the water level also dropped.

After Wang Rong made an inspection, his brows furrowed, and he hurriedly returned to his camp in the west of the city with the four thousand commanders of the township soldiers.

"Hurry up, I'll only give you five days to reinforce the camp for me."

Wang Rong took four village soldiers to inspect the camp, and was a little dissatisfied with this ready-made camp. This camp is the most common wooden tent camp, and it is generally built in places where the enemy situation is urgent or the terrain is not conducive to building a city and digging trenches. As long as there are trees, this kind of camp can be built. It is enough to dig a small pit in the ground where you can stand logs, and it is much easier to cut down trees and erect fences than to build a city or dig a trench, and more importantly, you can quickly build a camp. But the shortcomings are also obvious, it is very simple, except for the arrow tower, the walled wall and the tent, there is nothing.

Wang Rong was going to renovate the outside of the camp according to the construction pattern of the moat. Most of the entrenchments are camps with moats as the main body of defense when time does not allow for the construction of cities.

Wang Rong then to improve, the trench needs to dig three, generally require the bottom of the trench width of one zhang two, the width of the mouth one zhang five, the depth of more than one zhang, the ditch is tied with bamboo sticks, sprinkled with thistle terrestris. The excavated mounds were lined up on the inner shore so that they could rise four or five feet above the ground without the need to build a city. A high wall was built on the inside of each ditch, and obstacles such as deer barricades were placed on the outside.

After Wang Rong's improvement, the amount of work is much larger. Four thousand village soldiers wielded shovels and sweated like rain. And such a slow progress of the project is really a bit embarrassing for our own infrastructure madness, which makes Wang Rong anxiously urge loudly. As the ancestor of Huaxia Erlang, we have to set a perfect example for future generations.

Wang Rong looked at the four thousand chiefs behind him and ordered: "It's too slow to do this, so let's divide it into three shifts, with one thousand people as one shift, headed by the thousand chiefs." The outermost trench was dug first, and the remaining 1,000 men were also divided into three shifts, responsible for providing logistics for the other three 1,000-man teams, such as providing water, towels and other items, and providing torches and lighting at night. ”

"!!!"

The four thousand elders bowed down to receive the order.

Wang Rong continued: "Also, it is not enough to work without rewards, and each thousand-person team must have meat in their meals. ”

The four thousand commanders nodded, following the rules of the army, the working generals should take the lead, the training generals should take the lead, and the combat should also take the lead. So the thousandth chief rolled up his sleeves, tied up his robe, jumped into the first trench that had just been dug, picked up his shovel, and picked it up.

After the implementation of the three-shift system, the progress of the project immediately accelerated, which made Wang Xin feel very satisfied. The speed of digging the trench and erecting the wall is also three points faster than before, and the mass has not fallen in the slightest.

After the genes of the infrastructure madness were stimulated, the villagers gradually became familiar with how to build fortifications after finding the know-how.

"Captain!"

The third thousandth elder saw Wang Rong coming to inspect and hurried up to meet him. The 3,000th chief of the township soldiers of the Western Governor's Mansion is named Han Qian, a burly big fat man, with a beard on his face, and he is very majestic, and he is a fierce warrior who charges into battle. Although he looks simple, he has his own set of methods for building camps, so his 3,000-man team is the fastest.

Wang Rong also greeted him and said, "Is Han Qianchang's ability very strong, the speed of the 3,000-person team is very fast, and when you finish your work, you will add food!" ”

"Thank you, Captain!" Han Qian had talked about Wang Rong with Wumo many times, and for this young captain, Wumo's words were full of admiration for Wang Rong. Although it was the first time for Han Qian to be an errand under Wang Rong, after Wumo's subtle transformation, he had a trace of admiration and fear for the young lieutenant in front of him.

admired because Wang Rong wiped out more than 50,000 people with 1,500 cavalry; The fear is because Wang Rong built the corpses of more than 50,000 people into a Beijing temple. After living for so many years, he Han Qian has seen all kinds of people, but he has never met someone who is so ruthless at such a young age as Wang Qian.

Han Qian was modest: "Thanks to the strategy of the Du Lieutenant, we were able to be so fast according to the Du Lieutenant's arrangement. ”

Han Qian accompanied Wang Wei to inspect the construction site, he bowed and saluted and said: "I take the liberty of asking, is the commander arranging like this just to stick to the city?" ”

Wang Wei looked at Han Qian, smiled, and said, "If I say that it's not just a camp just for defense, can Han Qianchang be credible?" ”

This time, more than 300,000 people went south, and the troops were sufficient. On the side of Guangmu City, in addition to the strength of the three Governor's Mansions, the source of troops is not sufficient, and the young and strong have not undergone long-term military training, so they are not useful.

Wang Rong's division mobilized the people to build military fortresses and fortifications. Let Lin Chong and Zhang Gengxiao be confused, Zhang Genghuang is okay, his army of the Central Governor's Mansion is stationed in the city, and at the same time is responsible for training young and strong. Lin Chong was a little puzzled, he didn't understand, there was a big river to block it, even if the people arrived, they couldn't fly to the river to Guangmu City.

Lin Chong stood on the arrow tower of his camp, looking at the wall of the big camp in the west of the city, which was growing higher and taller than the city wall. He asked his son Lin Zongsui, who was standing behind him: "You say, he built the camp wall so high, what does this western governor want to do?" I heard that he also built three trenches outside his camp, each of which was more than one zhang wide and more than one zhang deep, and the ditch was tied with bamboo sticks and sprinkled with thistles. ”

Lin Zongsui is the same age as Wang Rong, he has a deep understanding of Wang Rong's deeds, even Uncle Wumo admires Wang Rong, and he dare not underestimate this captain of the same age. He thought for a moment and said, "Father, we have been studying how to defend against the invasion of the Bearded Man all these years. In this part of the Fortress, the best way for us to fight the Bearded Man at this stage is to defend, not attack. It's not that it's a question of whether our Dayong army can beat the Bearded People, but it's a question that the other party won't fight a decisive battle with my Dayong at all.

Father, according to the more than 200 years of war between Dayong and the Badman, it can be found that there is an extremely common phenomenon, except for a few special circumstances, most of the defeats of the Badgers are small defeats, and they rarely break their muscles and bones. And the victories of the Bade people are often big victories, and they slaughter our Dayong army for thousands of miles. There are even many battles, all of which were won and then defeated by our Dayong army.

If you widen the scope of sight, you will also find that this phenomenon not only appears in my Yongguo, but also in Ji and Youguo. ”

This was the case with the famous Battle of the Sorghum River in history. In the fourth year of Song Taiping's rejuvenation of the country (the eleventh year of Liao Baoning, 979 AD), in the first month, Song Taizong sent generals to send troops to besiege Jinyang. Subsequently, he went to the front line to supervise the teachers. In March, the Yunzhou Observation Envoy broke through the Longmen Gate in the Western Han Dynasty of the Northern Han Dynasty and captured a large number of people, and then broke the Khitan reinforcements at Shiling Pass in Jinyang.

Then the Song army connected Keyu County, Longzhou, and Lanzhou, and besieged the city of Jinyang, and the armies attacked in turn. Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty came to the city of Jinyang in person and ordered the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty to surrender to no avail, so he ordered the Song army to attack the city with a stone thrower. In May, the Song army broke through Yangma City in the southwest of Jinyang. Song Taizong moved to the south of the city and continued to supervise the siege of the army. There were no reinforcements outside the Northern Han Dynasty, no food and grass inside, the military spirit collapsed, and the Northern Han lord was unable to fight, so he had to surrender, and the Northern Han Dynasty was peaceful.

At the same time as the battle in Jinyang, the Liao State received a request for help from the Northern Han Dynasty, and Liao Jingzong immediately took the prime minister as the capital and the king of Ji as the supervising army, and led the army to help. In March, the Liao army reached Baimaling, where it was first blocked by a large stream, and the Song army was stationed on the opposite bank. The prime minister and other Liao generals thought that they should wait for the rear army and then fight a decisive battle with the Song army, while the supervising army thought that they should lead the vanguard to attack the Song army in a hurry, and did not obey the prime minister's strong advice. The Liao generals lost many of their lives, and the remaining army was surrounded, and the Liao rescuers arrived to repel the Song army.

After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Song Taizong began his riot operation, the so-called gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase. He, the son of heaven, obviously didn't take his words seriously. First of all, his words did not count, and he refused to issue a reward for capturing Jinyang and destroying the Northern Han Dynasty, which made the Northern Han army disheartened, and the generals were reluctant to do it.

Then he drove the Song army to march eastward from Jinyang, crossed the Taihang Mountain, and traveled a long way to attack Youzhou.

In this unstable military spirit, hard work and other unfavorable circumstances, the Song army still won the victory in the first half of the war with its own strength, and defeated the Liao army. All kinds of civil officials and military generals in Youzhou who were interested in the Central Plains returned to the Song Dynasty.

However, under this disadvantage, the Liao State still achieved the final victory, and this victory was only a surprise attack. A surprise attack turned the tide and turned the tide.

In order to better control and control the generals of the expedition, he began to implement the policy of "general from the middle", granting the generals to deal with the strategy, attack and defense plans, or giving the formation map to command the front-line generals to fight.

Song Taizong thought about the war too ideally, and fought the battle of Liao too eagerly. The main reason is that he wants to prove himself too much, and wants to emulate the Gaoping Battle of Later Zhou Shizong to deter the military ministers and establish the Martial Arts, so as to prove that he is more powerful than his brother Song Taizu.

But Song Taizong's ability and position did not match, he only focused on offense and not defense. made the Liao army directly hit his own line with a night attack, and took an arrow with his ass, and then he sat on a donkey cart to achieve the achievement of the god of the sorghum river.

And what does this war say?

It is definitely not how powerful the Liao army is, and it killed the Song army in the crowd of thousands of people and hit the imperial tent of Song Taizong. It was completely the Song army's lack of attention to defense and the Liao army caught a flaw.

A lesson from the past, a teacher for the future. The Art of War: "First of all, you can't win, so that the enemy can win, you can't win yourself, you can win the enemy." ”

Wang Rong knew that the biggest weakness of the Badgers was that they couldn't attack the fortifications. The cavalry could not climb the city walls, nor could they break the camp. Relying on Guangmu City, the camp wall is heightened, the defense is thickened, and the people who want to attack the city have to get off their horses to attack.

And the generals in the army can go out to fight if they want to, even if they are defeated and lost, they can run to the camp and minimize the losses.