This is a new situation, the news came back to Xiaoyao Valley, and Ma Yucheng and Nangong Yunfei looked highly nervous. The masters of the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce are all hidden in the army, which poses a great threat to the border guards. The martial arts characters flew up and down, and they were not comparable to ordinary martial arts, and they might organize a murder of the commander of the Song army at a critical time.

Ma Yucheng reported the situation to the Military Aircraft Division of the Privy Council through Tianqi Gate, hoping to attract the attention of the authorities. The Military Aircraft Department and the Military Department were shocked when they heard the news, and this is indeed a huge threat to border defense, and the corresponding way is to establish the same organization in each border state to deal with this new situation of combining military and military forces with experts against masters.

Although most of the imperial court were capitulators, and they flattered and paid tribute every year when the Song and Jin were completely evenly matched, this new threat still surprised the important ministers. The Privy Council constantly sent envoys to Xiaoyao Valley to curry favor with the Martial Arts Alliance in good faith and seek a countermeasure. The Martial Arts Alliance no longer defended the Xiaoyao Valley, and the headquarters only symbolically remained in the valley, with Chen Shoupeng in charge. The rest of the people all went to the border state to compete with the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce.

The good players of the Great Song Wulin soon arrived in the border state. Tents were set up all over Huaiyang and Jingxi, collectively referred to as the Protector Camp. Ma Yucheng used the banner of patriotism and protection of the country to call on the martial arts to rise up against Mongolia. He also sent Zhang Wuying to contact the Snow Mountain faction and mobilize the Snow Mountain faction and chivalrous Taoists such as Emei and Qingcheng to defend the Bashu border state.

Since the establishment of the Alliance, the Snow Mountain Sect has not moved, neither participating in any affairs of the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce, nor communicating with the Alliance, and it seems that it belongs to another world entirely, not in the red dust. Of course, outsiders don't know how big the blow of the Jinwaitang split is to the Snow Mountain faction. In order to make up for this shortcoming, Yang Hanfeng, the flying leopard of the Snow Mountain, urgently prepared to build the Shen Yu Hall. He let the gold and silver swords stay in the snow-capped mountains, but he went to the Diaoyu Mountains to establish a camp. He used all the silver taels that the traitors of the court and the Chinese government bribed the Jin State in Tangzhou to form the Shenyu Hall, and the warriors recruited were mainly trained in the art of the war, which was similar to the Yiwu of the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce.

This is the idea that Yang Hanfeng occasionally traveled to Guangnan and got the Xian family's method, and he put it into practice with the business intercepted in Tangzhou. In the past few months, the temple has begun to take shape, and ordinary samurai control the machine, using 12 consecutive beads.

The Twelve Beads are actually a kind of divine weapon, if the operator has a certain skill, a piece in hand, the gods and ghosts are difficult to defeat. And organizing a team and training it into a formation can naturally cause unprecedented pressure on the opponent.

Ma Yucheng passed down the alliance order, the Emei faction, and the Qingcheng faction to unite with the Snow Mountain faction to consolidate the Bashu border defense, and Yang Hanfeng unified the dispatch of forces. The Wudang and Hengshan factions served as the pillars of Jinghu Road, deploying Tang, Deng, and Cai to ensure that there were no accidents on the Xiangyang front.

In view of the fact that Xiangyang is the focal point of the confrontation between the northern and southern armies, the headquarters of the alliance is temporarily stationed in Xiangyang. Some small sects in the southeast went to the border states on the Song-Jin border on the Huaiyang Road to strengthen the defense there.

Everything was properly assigned, Ma Yucheng and several Dharma protectors came to Xiangyang together, accompanied by the rookie top 100 team. The Whirlwind team remained in the Zhongshun Army and continued to assist Wang Jian and Zhang Xiaotian. Ouyang Harrier had no sect and no task, so he simply went to the Zhongshun Army and mixed up with Li Murong.

Li Murong and the others sent the news back to Xiaoyao Valley, but they did not go back, and returned to Wang Jian's army with Zhang Xiaotian. Another battalion was set up next to Wang Jian's tent for the whirlwind team to live in.

The establishment of the state protection camp greatly strengthened the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty. The Pingnan Chamber of Commerce also grasped this change in the situation, and Monk Baoyin's face was very gloomy, and he said, "It seems that the news that we are in the army has been revealed. Last time I heard a noise outside the tent, it was really the work of the Southern Army. ”

Meng Pingnan looked a little anxious, because they did not have as many people as the Great Song Wulin, and their kung fu was not as pure as others. He said: "We can only take our good hands by concentrating and maneuvering along the edge to surprise them." ”

Monk Baoyin said: "It doesn't matter, it's better to be still than to move, I think as long as we don't make any moves, those characters of the Great Song Wulin will not make easy moves." ”

Iled disagreed, saying, "We may not be able to defeat them, so tonight I will go and kick the camp and kill a few of his generals, and it will be easy to ensure that it is easy." ”

Monk Baoyin said: "Don't act rashly, no one can predict the consequences." ”

Ilad was still a little unconvinced, and he hummed and chirped.

In this way, the Protector Battalion and the Resolute Battalion started to play against each other, in fact, as long as the Resolute Battalion does not move, the Guardian Battalion will not move. Although the Yiyong battalion has the ability to assassinate, the national protection battalion is even better, if you dare to kill my generals, I will not leave your generals in the world.

The strength of the Martial Arts Alliance frightened the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce, and the pressure was obvious, but they didn't expect them to hide in the army, and the alliance also followed the army, biting them tightly and not relaxing.

The two sides confronted each other like this, and neither dared to start murder first. As a result, the confrontation lasted for two years, and the armies of the two sides fought from time to time, but the martial arts figures on both sides only monitored each other, and there were no major movements, and they were afraid of playing with fire to check and balance.

But two years have passed, Liu Rufeng finally appeared, he is still the chivalrous face of Yun Mengke in the past, and he is still doing chivalrous deeds everywhere, it seems that he is a chivalrous man, and all people's speculations are vain and imposed on him.

In the two years of confrontation between the two sides, a new force has developed in Quang Nam, and the Bagui Dart Bureau once again feels the pressure. The leader of the new force is accustomed to wearing a mask, and that mask is the mask of the masked man of the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce who is familiar to everyone in the martial arts. A robbery of the dart of the Bagui Dart Bureau happened to meet Liu Rufeng passing by, and the robber fell into the water, and the masked leader was also injured and fled.

This left a mystery to Wulin, and they all thought that Liu Rufeng was not a masked person from the Pingnan Chamber of Commerce, but someone else.

Even Ma Yucheng and the others were puzzled when they heard the news, and they wavered from their previous suspicions. Because Liu Rufeng is still on the move, because there is another masked man, because Liu Rufeng directly fought with the masked man.

But Ma Yucheng didn't have time to explore, he was busy in the Menggong army in Xiangyang.

The Meng family has been a general for generations, advocating martial arts and virtue, advocating chivalry, and attaches great importance to Ma Yucheng, the leader of the alliance, and often accompanies him to inspect defense affairs. In ancient wars, there were many field battles and few city battles. However, since the fifth dynasty Shi Jingjiao recognized the Khitan as his father and ceded the sixteen states of Youyun, so that there was no danger to defend in northern China except for the Yanmen Pass, and the Song Liao mostly dug ditches and planted trees as the boundary, and the defense of the city became very important. Therefore, since the Northern Song Dynasty, those who govern the army and defend have attached great importance to building cities, and the city walls have become thicker and stronger.

With the consolidation of the city walls, the siege equipment also developed greatly, and stone cannons that had never been seen before appeared, which were devastating to the city walls. Ma Yucheng looked at the city defense of Xiangyang and felt that it could not meet the needs of the war situation, so he suggested that Meng Gong make some necessary improvements.

Ma Yucheng believes that since Xiangyang has first become an anti-Mongolian base, its loss and defense are related to the luck of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is necessary to make plans for long-term peace and stability.

He advocated the construction of a long horizontal wall outside the city gate, which was the weak point of the city's defenses and the breakthrough point for the enemy to enter the city. In order to delay the deployment of the enemy's forces outside the city gate, a horizontal retaining wall was built five feet away from the city gate. In this way, even if the defense outside the city fails, and the enemy soldiers are under the city, it will be inconvenient to attack the city.

At the corner of the city wall, Ma Yucheng saw that the corner of the wall had been repaired in many places, so he asked Meng Gong: "Why is the brick in this corner different from other places?"

Meng Gong pointed to the geographical situation and said: "The corner of the city is the most difficult to defend, the part is prominent, the enemy is easy to bombard with stone cannons, and because of the long distance, the stone cannons on our city cannot hit the enemy. ”

Ma Yucheng didn't figure it out for a while, so he said to Meng Gong: "How can this be?

Meng Gong said: "I am about to rely on the master of the Ma Alliance, of course I have to explain it to you in detail." He and Ma Yucheng walked to the southeast corner of the city wall and pointed: "For example, if the enemy attacks this corner with stone cannons, and erects a cannon on each side of the southeast side, then the east and south walls of the city will be threatened by enemy artillery within twenty or thirty meters from the corner." The enemy soldiers can use the cover of the stone cannon to carry out the battle on the city, but the stone cannon on our city cannot threaten the enemy artillery, and unless the cannon is picked up on the corner of the city, the battle can be fought at an equal distance. ”

Ma Yucheng suddenly realized: "I see!" He pondered carefully and said: "What if the square right-angled city corner is cut off twenty or thirty meters on each side and changed to a circular one?"

Meng Gong laughed loudly and shouted repeatedly, "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! In that case, if the enemy attacks the corner of the city, it is necessary to move the cannon forward twenty or thirty meters to the defensive range of the stone cannon defending the city!"

Meng Gonghao did not hesitate, and immediately organized people to rebuild the city wall, cutting the four corners of the city to right angles and changing them into streamlined ones. In the later battles, it really reduced the threat of enemy artillery and became the most important defensive measure for Xiangyang City to stand majestically. The right-angled corner has always been the main target of the enemy's shooting, and this change makes the enemy's attackable targets disappear, and it is easier to strike at the besieging enemy.

On the city wall, Ma Yucheng saw that there were many new bricks on the pheasant moat, and asked General Meng Gong: "Why are the bricks on the pheasant moat different from the old and new?"

General Meng said: "This mountain-shaped pheasant moat is easy to look at and observe, and the horizon is broad, but it can't withstand the stone cannon attack, and the defense ability is poor." Not only was the area of the bullet large, but after the stone cannon hit the three teeth, the whole mountain tooth was easy to collapse. ”

Ma Yucheng frowned and said, "Can you remove the mountain teeth?"

General Meng smiled: "Remove the mountain teeth, is that still a city wall?"

Ma Yucheng said: "Of course, it is a city wall, but it is changed to a flat-headed low wall, and an orifice is set up in the wall for arrows and cannons to shoot, which does not hinder the lookout and battle, and is not easy to be destroyed by the enemy." “

The array arch felt reasonable, so the Xiangyang city wall was all removed from the mountain teeth and built a flat-headed low wall.

The two stood on the city wall, looking far away, Ma Yucheng still felt that the city defense was too thin, and Meng Gong repeatedly studied, and finally decided to build a lower city wall on the side of the moat, dig another obstacle trench in the wall, and build another wall on the side of the obstacle trench, two years of work, the transformation of Xiangyang City into a solid city defense with three walls and two moats in depth and multiple protection systems. The original main city wall increased in thickness and height, and Xiangyang became an impenetrable fortress on the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and withstood the impact of the Mongolian iron cavalry for six years.

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