At the end of July, the summer grain returned to the warehouse.

After threshing, the straw is temporarily stacked in the field to dry.

Straw is a good thing for croppers, except for some of it will be used for composting and returning to the field, and the rest will be transported home for further use.

It can be used as a match, can be chopped and mixed with bran and other materials as feed, can be used as a variety of building materials, can also be used as a mattress, etc., has a wide range of uses.

Therefore, the farmers who had finished harvesting did not stop working because the grain was in the warehouse, they continued to plough the fields, apply manure, and dispose of straw until the end of autumn planting, and there was a period of rest.

At this time, the renovation of the main bookkeeper's mansion was completed, and Lu Su took a group of officials to settle in the independent yamen, just waiting for the family members of Dongcheng to come and reunite.

On the morning of the second day of Lu Su's move, when he was sorting out the documents with the officials in the hall, someone outside the mansion suddenly called out to Master Lu, and the eager voice came into the courtyard from far and near.

Mother has arrived?

Lu Su was ecstatic in his heart and strode out.

What is waiting for is not news of relatives, but the invasion of foreign enemies.

The thief Zheng Bao led thousands of people, and he was rushing to the north, and now he was less than ten miles away from Hefei.

Long Xiang, who inspected the cement workshop, urgently summoned the generals of Hefei to discuss countermeasures.

Lu Su was shocked when he heard the news, and said that Hefei had not completely let go, and Zheng Bao had come without warning.

didn't have time to think about it, Lu Su rushed to the Military Sima Mansion according to official business.

Rushing to the front hall of the Military Sima Mansion, Lu Su found that except for Feng Zhong, the rest of the generals had arrived.

"Zijing, come quickly, Zheng Bao's gang is really coming, please send Mr. to retreat from the enemy."

Long Xiang pointed to the position next to him and motioned for Lu Su to come to him and give orders.

Lu Su straightened his clothes, strode to the front of the right, and bowed his hand humbly: "Hefei has been on guard, Zheng Bao is unable to break the city, and the general is already sitting in the city, how can I exceed the dispatch?"

"The enemy is now, please don't push it, we should work together."

Long Xiang frowned and continued to signal, his attitude was very sincere.

"I'll do my best to help, but it's up to the general to give orders."

Lu Su was very persistent, and immediately changed the topic after speaking, "What about General Feng?" His craftsmen are of great use."

Long Xiang replied, "There are thousands of people working outside the city, and they are reluctant to dry the grain and grass in the fields, and they are rushing to the city with all their might.

Lu Su was taken aback, and hurriedly advised: "The rapid march is not far from ten miles, how can you indulge the people to rush the grain and grass? We must bring people back to the city as soon as possible, and set up the city defenses immediately."

"I also think about the people, it is not easy to grow a season of grain..."

Long Xiang smiled bitterly, and then stopped Cao Xuan and ordered, "Quickly send someone out of the city to give an order, and let everyone give up the grain grass and enter the city immediately."

"Yui." Cao Xuan clenched his fists and turned away.

Long Xiang had never experienced a battle to defend the city, and with Lu Su, the governor of the capital, in front of him, he naturally didn't want to take a detour.

So he spread his hands and motioned for Lu Su to continue.

"And then?"

Lu Su saw Long Xiang asking for a plan, so he turned to Tang Yu and Xu Ding to arrange: "The two generals have been in charge of the city defense, and if Zheng Bao besieges the city on all sides, he will implement the original defense plan, if Zheng Bao only attacks one of them, you will listen to the dispatch and rest in rotation halfway, and when the time comes, you will listen to Long Sima's military orders, and now you can deploy according to the plan first."

"Yui."

Tang Yu and Xu Ding hugged their fists at the same time.

Lu Su finally instructed Xu Chu: "General Xu's athletes are the main force, you go down first to assemble the soldiers and stand by, and then you will listen to Long Sima's orders."

"Yui."

"Wait a minute."

Xu Chu clenched his fists and turned around to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Long Xiang.

"Zijing, the last time we were in Chengde, we found that Yuan Shu's soldiers were as weak as chickens, and it is expected that Zheng Bao's command is also a rabble, and it is a bit condescending to use Zhongkang's tiger and wolf athletes to defend the city?"

Lu Su said with a smile: "Don't worry, no matter whether Zheng Bao's people are chickens or dogs, let's use the city to consume their sharpness first, and then go out of the city when the other party's morale is low."

Kill and get a great success."

"It's okay, Zijing is thoughtful, Zhong Kang will go to assemble and stand by first."

"Yes."

Before he tried the knife in Chengde, Xu Chu did not have the slightest damage.

Long Xiang had never seen such a strong soldier, so after getting this strong team, his heart was a little swollen for a while, but fortunately he was woken up by Lu Su in time.

After Xu Chu left, Long Xiang asked Lu Su again: "Uncle Zhong's craftsman camp has a lot of people, where do you plan to put them?"

Lu Su replied: "First as a substitute to transport war materials, and then replace them one after another when the defenders in the city are damaged."

"What if the Craftsman's Camp is also lighted?"

"If you want to continue to defend, then you can only recruit the men in the city to go to the city, but they are not trained, and the casualties should be very large, so usually..."

Lu Su did not continue halfway through his words, although there were nearly 20,000 people in Hefei at this time, it was just right to feed more than 2,000 soldiers.

Blindly expanding the army is easy to break the balance of payments, and Lu Su has always instigated Long Xiang to recruit troops, because the grain in the official warehouse in Hefei has been kept above 100,000 for a long time, and it is a pity not to raise soldiers.

Long Xiang's thinking is the same as the saving thinking of later generations, as the so-called food in hand is not panicked, and there needs to be enough food to hedge risks.

He doesn't have a thick foundation like Yuan Shu, nor does he have the support of a scholar like Cao Cao, others can be defeated again and again, and Long Xiang only needs to lose once The game is over.

Seeing Lu Su's solemn face, Long Xiang smiled and comforted: "I just assumed, but in the future, the craftsman battalion can be expanded, and the construction of more than 1,000 people in Hefei is not enough."

"Yunqi knows it in his heart, Lu Su won't persuade much, Zheng Bao and the others will go to the south gate, the general can go to the city tower to sit in the town first, and I will come to meet after I take care of the affairs in hand."

"Now that the deployment is complete, what does Zijing want to do?"

"Although the army has been deployed, the food and materials for defending the city during the war must be continuously dispatched, and they must be arranged first."

"It's fine."

Military workshops in Hefei have been set up, but due to objective reasons such as the scarcity of craftsmen, the output of defensive materials such as arrows is very small.

At this stage, we still have to rely on Long Xiang's ideas, and rely on throwing bricks and stones as the main weapons.

It is not easy to make bricks in the kiln, and Long Xiang is the master who has lived a hard life and knows how to thrive, and he is reluctant to use the finished bricks as a weapon.

The bricks that were brought to the city walls were scrap bricks, i.e. half-cut bricks that were damaged during firing and transportation, and scrap materials from the demolition of old houses.

After putting on his clothes and armor and about to leave the house, Long Xiang found Qiao Ling holding Qiao Rui's saber and following behind him with a serious face.

Long Xiang looked at it and persuaded him earnestly: "Gongzi usually follows it, even if Hefei is going to fight now, Yashi will not have long eyes at that time, so it is better to stay at home and be safe."

Practicing basic skills is boring, Qiao Ling listened to Chen's advice, and likes to follow Long Xiang around, looking like a son-in-law who can't make big things.

But there are exceptions, at this time, in the face of scare, Xiaoqiao Ling is not afraid at all.

"Yunqi is so underestimated, I am the only boy in the Qiao family, how can I learn from my daughter's family to hide in the boudoir? My father can go into battle to kill the enemy, little arrow, what is there to fear?"

Long Xiang nodded appreciatively, after all, his heart was General Qiao's species, and there was still some blood in his bones.

He didn't want to dampen Qiao Ling's enthusiasm, so he nodded and agreed: "Childe insists on this, then take care of yourself, I won't be able to take care of you later."

"Hmm."