"Remember it, Chongdao, thank you all the hard way!"

At the entrance of the inner hall of the Daming Prefecture Office, Xu Jiang, Liang Zimei, Ye Zuqia and Wang Qing stood to greet each other.

"It's all a matter of duty, not enough to be a laborious task."

Ji Yi and Wu Haogu, who were nominally the highest commander of Hebei's literary and military affairs, can only hold their tails in front of Xu Jiang's subordinates, and be careful to be an official. He did not dare to have any airs of a boss.

This is probably the most painful part in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Not only did the civil war control the military, but also the civil war control, the large and large, and the internal and external control. In short, it is to drag each other down, and everything is difficult to accomplish.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the later Ming and Qing dynasties were much stronger in decentralizing power. If Wu Haogu was now an official of the Qing Dynasty, then a governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang would not have been able to escape. A rank-level official would not nod and bow to a ticket to a vassal of Taoist magistrate.

Wu Haogu is now not only watched by Ji Yi, the civil servant, but also comforted the four people below, and they also have to offer them like their ancestors.

In addition, Tan Zhen, who was sent from the palace, led the military service in Hebei, and now he rushed from Jiehe Shangshi to Daming Prefecture. However, he did not welcome Wu Haogu in the office of the Daming Prefecture, but waited at the reception pavilion outside the city. Now, with Ji Yi and Wu Haogu, he followed the elderly and highly respected Xu General into the inner hall.

In the inner hall, Xu General was of course the one sitting in the upper head. Although his dispatch was not as good as Wu Haogu and Ji Yida, his official position was the greatest specialist, and he was also the predecessor. His status was much higher than that of the two juniors and his demeanor was even more arrogant.

Even though the Khitan emperor's 100,000 troops had arrived at Xijin Mansion, Xu Jiang's tone was still calm and not hurrying.

"I received a military report the day before yesterday that there were a large number of cavalrymen in the Yizhou area on Nanjing Road, Liaoning. It seems that the Northern Barbarians are likely to invade from Dingzhou Road. I wonder what good strategies are there for Wu Xuanfu?"

Of course, the military newspaper Xu Jiang received was fake. It was sent out from the General Military Office of the Hebei Xuanfu Office controlled by Zhao Zhongge. The purpose was to create a tense atmosphere on Dingzhou Road and Zhendingfu Road...

When Xu General was speaking, Wu Haogu was quietly observing Liang Zimei and Wang Qing. Although these two men also tried hard to maintain the unchanging demeanor of Mount Tai falling from their faces, there was still a worry between their eyebrows that could not be erased.

Their capitals are both on the border of Song and Liao. If 100,000 Liao soldiers rushed over with great momentum, would they die in the Song Dynasty?

"The cavalry of the Northern Territory is strong but the infantry is weak. He is good at field battles and is clumsy to attack cities. In his foolish opinion, if he wants to defeat the Northern Territory, he can only say "build a hard village and fight a stupid battle."

Of course, Wu Haogu was talking nonsense. How could the Liao soldiers enter the invasion from Dingzhou Road and Zhending Road? Wu Haogu had six generals south of Jiehe River, and the militias in Jiehe Shangshi and Cangzhou (Cangzhou militia are mainly alternates to the Knights' family), with a total force of 60,000 to 70,000 (including auxiliary soldiers). Moreover, through Jiehe Shangshi, the tentacles of the Xuanfu Department on the riverside have extended into Xijin Prefecture City.

How dare Yelu Yanxi move the main force to the western front and invade from Zhendingfu Road and Dingzhou Road? Do you still want Xijinfu City?

This Xijin Prefecture City, which is Youzhou City, is an iconic castle in the south of Yanyun Mountain. Once it is captured by Wu Haogu, the powerful people of the states in Shannan will rise up and respond to the Song Dynasty.

However, Xu Jiang, Liang Zimei, Ye Zuqia and Wang Jing didn't know about this principle. Xijin Mansion is a city that Emperor Taizong could not defeat after fighting. How could Wu Haogu, a guy, fight?

Impossible, absolutely impossible...

"Build a tough village and fight a stupid war? What does it mean?" Xu Jiang stroked his white beard and savored Wu Haogu's "Six-character Mantra".

"The so-called hard villages have two meanings. One is to build cities and forts in the important places of the border states. At the same time, the people should be moved to the forts as much as possible and formed militias so that they can defend themselves." Wu Haogu's tone was deep, "and the second meaning means that when the army went out to fight, they should set up the military camps very hard, and when fighting, they should act like a rock-solid posture. It would rather be slower than to build the camps. Whenever the army arrived at a place, no matter whether it was wind or rain, they would first dig trenches and build walls to ensure that the camps were protected.

As for fighting a stupid battle, it is to use troops without seeking surprises or risky things. It is always consistent and hard to break with force. It is important to fight steadily, stupid and slow. Even between two formations, you should pay attention to digging trenches and building blocks, first seeking undefeated, and then seeking victory. It is better to sweat more than to bleed less."

Xu Jiang smiled and said, "What a fool to fight a war and build a tough village. I thought Chongdao you are young and energetic, and you must like to take risks, but I didn't expect that you are so scrupulous. Not bad, not bad!"

Old Man Xu didn't expect that Wu Haogu was fooling him. In his opinion, the Liao army was very powerful and the iron cavalry was invincible! The Song army had no possibility of fighting with them or fighting in formations. Only by using a hard camp and a stupid battle could they compete with it.

"But the Liao cavalry is strong, and Hebei is mostly flat ground, and there is no danger to defend. If the Liao cavalry breaks in and walks around, will the connection between our strong cities and villages be cut off and defeat them one by one? Even if they are not defeated, they will starve to death even if they are hungry."

The objection was that Liang Zimei, the governor of Dingzhou Road and the sanction of Dingzhou Road, was also an unlucky guy who made Xiang shit for Shi Nai'an. In fact, he was not Cai Jing's son-in-law at all. He was a very old man, with white hair and beard, and in good spirits. He was one year older than Cai Jing. How could he marry Cai Jing's daughter?

I don’t know if it was to echo "Water Margin", later historians also charged him with a ridiculous crime, that is, when he was appointed as the Transportation Author of the Riverside, embezzling three million public funds to buy pearls from the Liao Kingdom, causing the Jurchens to rebel... I don’t know if there is any connection between these two things? It’s just that Wanyan Aguda raised his troops seven years after Liang Zimei stepped down as Transportation Author of the Riverside.

"The Grand Secretary, the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom is not indestructible."

Liang Zimei had a position as a Grand Secretary in the Hall of Principal Affairs, so Wu Hao was called him "Grand Secretary" in ancient times.

Wu Hao Ancient Dao: "Although the Khitan is a country of Liao, it has a population of only 200,000,000, and is addicted to Buddhism. Most of the strong men have ordained monks. They can serve as military troops and practice cavalry and shoot, but only 200,000 to 300,000. Among them, the elite are the 100,000 iron cavalry of the Palace Treasure Army, and one less is killed!

Therefore, the method of breaking the Liao cavalry is to build powerful crossbows and then equip them to the military and civilians on all sides of the border. Because the powerful crossbows are very powerful, they can both shoot from a long distance and break armor. If you use feces poison to contaminate the arrowheads, the injured person will be infected and die."

"Military and civilian?" Liang Zimei touched her beard, "Will the militia baojia be given to military crossbows?"

Although the Northern Song Dynasty attached great importance to the construction of militia, it also controlled the weapons of militia. Baojia Ding Zhuang was not allowed to be equipped with five types of weapons such as military crossbows, armor, spears, horse scepters, and equipment. It can only be used for weapons with insufficient lethality such as bows, arrows, swords, shields, and short spears.

The bao armored militia equipped with this "low power" weapon cannot deal with armored cavalry and heavy infantry.

Of course, if those Baojia militia trained themselves to the level of "Wanyan Ganda", they could also use bows and arrows to kill the Khitan cavalry.

"It must be rationed!" Wu Haogu said with certainty, "Most of the Hebei militias are not aware of war formation martial arts. It may take several years to make them use bows and arrows well. Yelu Yanxi will not wait that long!

Moreover, once the city and fortress on the edge are not defended, the captured strong men by the river will become a powerful weapon for siege in Yelu Yanxi. At that time, the Khitan cavalry will drive our people of the Song Dynasty to attack our Song Dynasty city!"

He looked at Liang Zimei and said with a worried look: "For example, if the city of Dingzhou has been disrepair for a long time, the defenders are just two generals, and there are many vacancies and they have long been displaced... If the Khitans attack, it would be great if 6,000 people could go to the city. But the 6,000 people were not satisfied with the city walls in Dingzhou. Besides, there are also Beiping, Wangdu, Tang County, Xinle, Wuji, Quyang and other counties under Dingzhou to defend, and dozens of towns and forts to guard. How can militias and people defend without the need for the militias? How can militias and people not have strong crossbows and paper armor? How can they kill the Liao bandits? If all the counties and castles in Dingzhou are destroyed and only one state city is left, how should the Grand Secretary defend?"

Only one state city is still able to defend? Liang Zimei squinted her old eyes and looked at Wu Haogu, thinking: You are the ones who harmed me! Yelu Yanxi just wanted two or three million, wouldn’t it be enough to give it to him? Now, if we really hit Dingzhou, will this Grand Secretary escape or defend himself?

Ji Yi, who was standing aside, interrupted: "The remarks are reasonable... Although the national laws do not allow the people and Baojia to hold military crossbows, armor, spears, horse scepters, and costumes, but they are in a hurry to follow the power. I think it is better to report together, and let the army of the states along the river beside the river to make a special case."

Ji Yi said this, but everyone turned their eyes to Xu General Xu, who was the most senior of all the people present. Xu squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and nodded: "Although there is something wrong, there is no way. But there are many military states along the riverside, including Cangzhou, Xin'an Army, Bazhou, Baoding Army, Qingzhou, Xiongzhou, Mozhou, Shun'an Army, Baozhou, Dingzhou, Zhending Prefecture, all of them are on the border. If they all provide crossbows for militia, where can we find so many powerful crossbows in a hurry?"

"The weapon room of Xuanfu Department can be built." Wuhao Ancient Road, "In addition, not only must it be given a strong crossbow, but paper armor and leather helmets are also indispensable. Armor not only protects the body, but also gives soldiers courage. The spears used to deal with cavalry must be somewhat a bit, otherwise the militia will not be able to leave the city."

While talking, Wu Haogu thought: Why should there be 100,000 militias in the seven states, three armies and one government? And the rest of the Hebei prefectures cannot be prepared at all. The powerful crossbows, paper armor, leather helmets, and long spears needed are not small quantities, which is a big deal!
Chapter completed!