Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 69 Feng San said that there were two cities
"You hit a mother-in-law?" As soon as Li Dan returned to the Chinese army, he heard people talking about it, and he didn't understand it for a while, and when he saw Zhou Qin splitting his head, he asked him himself:
"Is it mother-in-law or aunt-in-law? Who's of the family, you dare to be happy like this if you violate discipline? "The difference between one word is big, the mother-in-law may be an unmarried woman, and the mother-in-law must be married.
Li Dan asked this, afraid that he would cause some military-civilian conflict on impulse, which would not be good.
But looking at the hippie smiling faces of these people around him, he suddenly relieved his mind and felt that it shouldn't be too big.
"Hehe, San Lang don't worry, it's okay!" Wu Mao touched his nose next to him and said:
"It's just that Zhou Yingzheng met Hua Arm and brought a girl out for a walk early, and the two talked to each other, and then the woman fought with Lao Zhou. That's it. ”
"Who wins and who loses?" Li Dan saw at a glance the cloth belt wrapped around his shoulder.
"Even if it's a tie." Zhou Qin was embarrassed to be surrounded by so many people, and whispered: "She hit me with a dart, and I smashed her with an axe." ”
"You've used an axe, can you still be a tie?"
"Well, I don't know. It seems to have been smashed on her, not chopped. ”
"Zhou Yingzheng cherishes others and refuses to die!" Some people say that it immediately caused a burst of laughter.
"Whoever said it, there is no thing!" Zhou Qin's face was red.
"Alright, alright, don't make any trouble!" Master Ba waved his hand to silence everyone, and then said:
"Defense, we guessed just now, it is estimated that Zhou Ying is injured by Lou Zishi's concubine, known as Feng Qiniang, who is known as Jin.
The fifth judge came back and said that the reinforcements from Guangxin this time were led by this girl. ”
"Lou thief also has a concubine who can lead soldiers? This is rare! Li Dan suddenly thought that Zhou Qin had injured this girl, maybe Lou Zi would raise troops to retaliate.
"The man was wounded as soon as he arrived, and if it was true, the thief's morale would have been damaged, and I am afraid that he would not be able to attack today. All villages should seize the opportunity to improve the fortifications and actively prepare for war.
I've just walked around the place, and there are a few key points to adjust, as well as a matter of manpower. Come, let's discuss ...... in front of the sand table. ”
Brother Mao waited until Li Dan finished talking about the main things and everyone began to disperse, then pulled off his sleeve robe and whispered, "Feng San is back." Then he looked inward and said to Nunu.
Li Dan nodded, told him to let Feng San wait, and then stopped Zhou Qin, who was about to leave, and asked him not to leave first.
Then let Zhang Cymbal go to Ah Lian to ask for a sewing needle and silk thread.
It turned out that Ah Lian refused to go home, so she was sent to Xishan by Zhang Bo to live in the family surnamed Xu, and then sent five catties of rice to his family, and asked Wu Mao to take time to go over to check the pulse of the old man, perform needles once a day, and eat a pair of herbs, and now the situation has improved a lot.
When Zhang Bo heard that he had the opportunity to meet Ah Lian, he actively responded to the mission and ran there in person. Li Dan entered the account and spoke to Feng San first.
"What about Guangxin and Shangrao? Tell me about it! Li Dan smiled and pulled up Feng San, who was about to salute, and pressed him on the bamboo bench, he was actually quite anxious to understand these situations.
Feng San never returned, and some people began to mumble whether he would slip back to the thief army, or have an accident halfway, and now that he was safe, Li Dan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alas, it's hard to put into words!" Feng San smiled bitterly:
"It's nothing for my subordinates to go all the way over the mountains and mountains. I really didn't expect them to believe what I said, and put their subordinates in prison.
If it weren't for the fact that last night, the besieging of the city, Jin, suddenly led some people to the north with the camp, and his subordinates would still be eating in prison in the garrison mansion at this time. ”
"Oh? So did you see the prefectural order and garrison? ”
"I saw it, I saw Guo Xianzun first, but he said that I couldn't be ......trusted with a thief on my face. Count me out of luck! Li Dan couldn't help but laugh, and listened to him continue:
"Later, Sun Shoubei came to pick me up in prison and said that it was all a misunderstanding. He asked us in detail about the situation, the number of baggage, the number of carriages and horses, the number of escorts, the chief officer, and what happened on the road.
The subordinates told him in detail how Lingyan Temple broke the enemy. He was very happy to hear that Fengqi Pass was guarded. But ......,"
He raised his eyes to look at Li Dan: "He said that there are only 800 officers and troops in Guangxin City and more than 1,000 militia groups that have been temporarily put together, and they are barely able to defend the city and are unable to retreat from the enemy.
Now there are more than a thousand thieves left outside the city, and it will be difficult for him to answer us. ”
Li Dan lowered his head and thought about it, and asked, "Does he know about the situation in Shangrao?" ”
"Shangrao is still surrounded by Lou thieves, but he is not besieged to death. Lou Zishi's old camp was in the east of the city, and he sent a general named Yintuo to occupy the commanding heights in the north, Jiyang Mountain, and confront the officers and troops of Fengshan Village.
Recently, there have been enemy naval activities on the Xinjiang River and Fengxi, so the southern waterway has been basically cut off.
According to Sun Shoubei, the enemy naval army had transported hundreds of enemies to land at Longtan Temple on the north bank of the Xinjiang River, cutting off the ferry crossing opposite the Phoenix Crossing, and they could now only cross the Chuxi River from Shimono, and then enter the Jiyang Gate behind the Fengning Palace.
No matter how unruly the road is, the bandits can't cut it off unless they have a way to pull out the water camp! ”
"What, is there still a water camp in Shangrao?"
Feng San patted his forehead, only to remember that Li Dan had never been to Shangrao and didn't know much about it, so he hurriedly got up to find the paper, Li Dan handed him a pencil, and saw him introduce while drawing.
Jinsha Creek comes out from Yushan, is called Raoshui or Rao River in Shili Mountain (also because it is located in the upper reaches of Shangrao River), and joins Yuya Creek, Lingxi, Beirao River, Fengxi, Chuxi River when it comes here, the water volume increases and the river surface is wide, so the mouth of the Chuxi River is called Xinjiang River below.
Shangrao this place name Li Dan read the history of the year, once remembered to appear in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later Sun Quan chose the north bank of Raoshui to build a city, which is the earliest Shangrao City, named after "Raoshui above" for the meaning.
Shangrao has the danger of mountains and rivers and the convenience of rivers. In the north, there are Danxia highlands and peak forests such as Jiyang Mountain, Chashan and Phoenix Terrace that rely on the remaining veins of Yushan Mountain, there are Raoshui and Fengxi in the south, Beirao River in the east, and Chuxi River in the west.
In the Tang Dynasty, the city was seven miles around, and the former Song Dynasty destroyed the city by flooding, and the newly built sub-city was only three miles, which was a military town fortress at all. The Southern Song Dynasty rebuilt and added a water village for war preparation, and the previous dynasty destroyed it again.
To this dynasty rebuilt a twelve-mile city, open four gates, east and south sides have moats, wide two, deep eight.
Xichenghao is very short because the water on the west side forms a natural barrier.
The strongest part of the wall is in the west and south directions, two feet six feet high and two feet three feet thick, and the weakest part of the north wall is two feet four feet high and one foot nine feet thick.
The city is built according to the shape of the mountain and the water, and the shape of the city is like a spoon with a round bottom, which is slightly oval.
Outside the west city wall is a dotted water pool, and the wall is also built according to the situation to appear tortuous, meandering, roughly arc-shaped, and the west gate is on the corner where the arc begins to close to the north;
The north wall is built on the high slope but is relatively straight, and even the north gate is built with the north pass, and the road from the north pass leads directly to the Guangxin Mansion, and a small part of the north wall is folded to the northeast and then bent to the south to form the east wall;
The east wall is curved like a semicircle, the city gate and the urn city are at the apex, the east gate is directly connected to the county government, the general's office, the Central Military Administration, and the drill ground located in the four gutou (the place where the four springs converge), and then the north of the front street is the Confucian Temple, and there is the grain hall of Guangxin Mansion in the south of the street, and the official grain of the boat in the moat outside the gate enters the east urn city and enters the east gate after landing, and then unloads it to the grain hall;
Continue south to the tributary of the Beirao River to join the southern wall; Most of the southern wall was built along the tributaries of the Beirao River, which served as a natural moat.
Nanmen Street is also the most prosperous, connecting Canghang Street in the east, Nanmen Market in the west, and going to the government in the north. The wharf outside the door is made of stones, and the cable pillars are forested and thousands of sails are moored in the peaceful season, which is magnificent.
After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he thought that it was not easy to capture Shangrao, and decided to canonize the fifth son of his younger brother King Zun as the king of Fengning, but the palace was built in Shangrao, which was also the only prince in this dynasty whose fief and palace were not in the same city.
King Fengning is the two-character king who is sealed by the city, that is, the prince of the county, who is below the prince and above the king of the county.
The first king of Fengning was a gentle gentleman and did not want to disturb the people, so he chose to build a palace on the east side of Nanhu and Longtan Lake outside the city.
The local officials reciprocated, and very "intimately" built a circle of city walls outside the palace city wall, and then folded to the south along the east bank of the South Lake and connected with the northwest corner of the old city wall, forming a sandwich city of 40 zhang at the widest point and 20 zhang at the narrowest point.
The newly opened city gate is called Fengqing Gate, which is the North Point Gate in the mouth of the people.
In this way, Shangrao City as a whole seems to have added a handle and become a long-handled spoon. At present, there are twenty-four miles of all the city walls in Shangrao, of which half of the city is occupied (the other half of the city is accounted for).
The reason why Lou Zishi placed the old camp in the east was because the terrain here was open and the battlefield could be opened, and it covered the communication between Shangrao and Zhejiang.
The disadvantage is that not to mention the flat river here, but also the low hills are gentle. The other party looked at the top of the platform and knew his own command and dispatch well.
On the high ground to the north, he sent his men to set up a village, cutting off the connection with Dexing.
However, judging from the fact that the Fengshan Fort on the North Mountain was not captured, it was either the official army that took advantage of the terrain, or the enemy army on the north road did not do its best?
There is a moat in the south of the city, and 200 steps away is the South Gate Port (wharf). The place was too narrow to arrange troops, so the thieves only had a naval army to garrison and guard the pontoon bridge.
And the west is full of ponds and marshes, and lakes are not suitable for battlefields, so it is only necessary to put hundreds of people in Longtan Temple, let them patrol at the same time, and cut off foreign exchanges in the south and west directions.
Although the main city is only six miles away from Guangxin County, across the Zhuxi River, this road is not safe because the enemy occupies Longtan Temple close to the west gate and can go deep into the west.
Therefore, Sun Shoubei said that he would no longer use the Phoenix Ferry in the south, but cross the river from Shimosaka. Feng San used to commit crimes back and forth, and he knew these two fat cities well.
He told Li Dan that the river had made a bend in Shimosaka because every time it flooded in previous years, flooding the low-lying western part of Shangrao, forming countless pools of water of all sizes.
However, due to the high terrain on the left bank, the water has formed a stable channel under the cliff wall after many washes, and many reed ponds and shoals have been silted out on the right bank.
An official in the Tang Dynasty opened the Longtan Lake for flood discharge and water storage, and it also became an important source of water supply for the city.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to prepare for the invasion, the Xinjiang Naval Division was established. In order to facilitate its training, a water camp was established in Shangrao, and Longtan Lake became a school field, and the high terrain was the barracks where soldiers and generals lived.
The former Chaoshui camp was abandoned, and Longtan Lake became a popular place for scribes to visit again.
After Taizu Longxing, Shangrao became the place where the Northern Expedition army trained and prepared for war, so the revival of the water camp even built a circle of barracks along the mountain wall, but I didn't expect it to become the acropolis of Shangrao now.
"But ......, why can't the three thousand sailors go out of the Longtan Pass to expel the fleet on the water of the thieves?" Li Dan was puzzled.
"It's not that it can't, it's that it can't be done." Feng San spread out his hands: "The big ship is moored at the South Gate Wharf, and it is either destroyed or captured." There are only 20 or 30 sampans left in the village. ”
"Oh!" Li Dan understood that the officials and soldiers must not have expected the bandits to rush over so quickly, so that the water camp ships were still swaggering and docked by the river.
After grabbing the pontoon, they grabbed the pier in their hands, so that now only sampans are available in the water camp. Even if there are ten people on each sampan, this amount of troops is not enough to stuff people's teeth.
"Shangrao originally had a battalion of 3,700 soldiers, as well as the royal guards.
After being besieged, 1,200 soldiers from Guangxin were recruited from Guangxin, and the guards, family members and young men of the big families in the city were recruited, and a regimental training of 3,500 people was set up.
So defending the city is not a big problem, but it is difficult to attack. Feng San said.
Li Dan nodded. According to the regulations, the prince of the county can set up a guard, about 1,200 people, and set up one for 1,000 households. This team is equivalent to people's own families, and they eat the salary of the royal palace.
"Nearly 10,000 people are guarding the city, not including the water village, and it seems that it can still be defended for a while. Let's talk about the situation of Guangxin. He said.
Guangxin and Shangrao across the river, located between the barren ridge, pine ridge and Xiabanpo, is just a small county town with a circumference of five miles, but now it is the focus of everyone's attention.
Guangxin Mansion got its name because of it, but time flies, and now it has become a little brother, and Shangrao has become the seat of government instead.
Guangxin and Shuizhai and Shangrao City are like three fulcrums, which give Lou a headache. Feng San told Li Dan that if Fengqi Pass and Guangxin County could not be captured, Lou Zishi would basically not be able to conquer Shangrao.
"When I was there, he claimed to have an army of 100,000, but he had less than 20,000 in his hands. He must have lost and consumed now, and the number of people should be less than 20,000! ”
"Doubling is surrounding. We have 5,000 here, and Guangxin still has 1,000 people left, so he will have 14,000 or 5,000 in his hands. Li Dan nodded:
"If you can manage to break through the enemies of Fengqi Pass and Guangxin, the Lou thief will definitely retreat in horror!" Then he turned to Feng San:
"I wanted you to rest, but the war is urgent, so let's go on the road. You go to Zhao Xianfu and ask him for two detectives to be companions, to investigate the situation of the enemy in Shangrao, as well as the situation in the army of Lou Zishi.
If you can, it's best to check the layout of the enemy camp in Guangxin, as well as the enemy's garrison in Longtan Temple. ”
"The defense wants to kill them?"
"It's not time yet, so prepare for the future." Li Dan solemnly patted his arm: "Send someone with you, you have to teach them well, they will all be your subordinates in the future!" ”
Feng San was surprised for a moment and knelt down: "My lord, my subordinates have only been attached for a few days, can you believe me?" ”
"Get a good night's sleep and set off in the evening. I believe in myself, in my eyes. Li Dan pulled him up:
"The man has gold under his knees, so you don't have to kneel to me from now on, just cross your hands and speak. I know that you are bitter in your heart, and you are not convinced when you see others doing well.
But people should strive for strength, rely on ability and loyalty, and do not rely on crooked ways, cleverness, and calculation.
Here are my words to you. Just remember, I'll keep you rich! ”
Then he looked at Feng San with tears in his eyes: "I'll give you a new name."
In the past, there was a big tree general Feng Yi in your surname Feng, I think you will be called Feng Shen in the future, see if you can catch up with the wealth he earned for himself, and leave a legend for your surname Feng in the future! ”