Linxia City served as a military barrier for the Song Dynasty to control the frontier of the Xia Kingdom. Most of the residents in the castle were local servants and military family members. Although the residents and scale were not as good as those of ordinary state capitals in the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, at this time, the city
There are busy soldiers and civilians setting up their luggage, and officers from various branches are looking for and inspecting their subordinates. The soldiers are more agile, and the fences and ditches inside and outside the city have been completed. Although the city's atmosphere can be said to be grand and forbidding.
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Under the rule of Suidezhou, this place is thirty miles away from Kerong Village, forty miles from Weirong City in the west, sixty miles from Suiping Village in the south, and eighty miles from Jiehou in the north. It can also be said that it was in the Song Dynasty.
Xiabian Tingzhai Fort is a place with easy access in all directions. In the following nearly half a month, the troops from the five military divisions on Jingbei North Road, who were driven to the local area along with Xiao Tang and Cai Wei, were also sent from the military division on Yanyan Road.
With the transfer order, they were dispatched to other military strongholds to supplement the troops in other jurisdictions. Currently, the regular imperial army stationed in Linxia City is still commanded by Xiao Tang, but they are still nominally under the command of the supervisor Cai Wei.
Qian Bianjing Forbidden Army, and the third battalion of Western Army troops led by Pei Zhong and affiliated with the Jingyuan Road Marshal Division.
In addition to calling Wu Jie from time to time to boss him around, Cai Ji usually stayed alone in the only decently renovated official residence in the city. Even when he went out to inspect the city, he saw that the city was not full of foul language.
In slang, the soldiers covered in smelly, sweaty and muddy bodies were the Xiang army servants who had been serving as convicts. Cai Chi felt his eyes were dirty after just one look at them, so how could he be willing to have more contact with those vulgar people?
Since Cai Wei, the official supervisor, only wanted to be a hands-off shopkeeper, then only Xiao Tang, the deputy supervisor, could supervise the Linxia City defense fortifications, and dispatch troops and horses according to the orders of the various military commanders of the Western Army.
Military fortresses and other matters.
After this period of getting along, Xiao Tang became more familiar with the rude and rude Commander Pei Zhong. However, the reason why the two began to get close was because Pei Zhong flirted with her after drinking smoke.
The strands of hair at the temples revealed the gold seal on his forehead, saying that he should have been sentenced to beheading for accidentally killing a bully, but Jingyuan Road was also the border between Song and Xia, and it was the time for the border court to employ people, so the county government decided to
He was pardoned from his death penalty. He also said that a person like him would naturally not be able to urinate in the same pot as the officials and dignitaries from Bianjing.
Since Jing was originally the northwest boundary of the Song Dynasty, Pei Zhong didn't know much about Xiao Tang's experience before he was re-employed by the imperial court. However, when he learned that the upstart in the imperial court in front of him was praised by many well-established generals in the Western Army,
He was also sentenced to double-match punishment for killing a bully, and Pei Zhong felt a closeness to Xiao Tang. Later, Xiao Tang also intentionally or unintentionally talked about Sun An and Qiao Daoqing from his Green Forest Brothers (
Pei Zhong only mentioned his lay name, Qiao Lie, who had met him several times. Pei Zhong had also heard about the name of the dragon slayer, Huan Mojun, who was also born on Jingyuan Road.
Tao is like that kind of good man who kills bullies and murders, but it is a pity that he cannot be used by the country.
There are a lot of common topics between the two, and their relationship has naturally become much closer.
Xiao Tang also saw that Pei Zhong was a typical reckless man in the military. He despised the powerful, was outspoken, fought hard and never feared death, but he also had the temper of a donkey.
He couldn't look back. But when the conversation between the two came back to Wu Jiezhi, who was taking orders under his tent, he saw Pei Zhong sneer at him and said: "Xiao Jie is handsome, Sajia is a good and upright man.
, it is said that it is difficult to paint the bones when painting the skin of a tiger. You know the face of a person but not the heart. I didn’t know that that guy was a flatterer. After he was promoted to the Sa family’s tent, I knew that I couldn’t get along with that guy. Although my old Pei is a
You are a fool, but you are always very good at judging people with a pair of tricks.
Now everyone in the Jingyuan Road Commandery Department knows that Wu Jie specializes in infiltrating and visiting powerful people. Now you can see that he is deliberately trying to please the dandy named Cai. Although he used to be very brave when he went out to fight, but
The Sa family is a straight man and a straight woman, and I have always looked down on such little bastards who do things behind the scenes!"
Naturally, Xiao Tang had only heard what Pei Zhong said about Wu Jie's family. The evil was so great, who could bear it? Perhaps Wu Jie was indeed very ambitious in pursuing fame and power, and his habits in dealing with people were indeed inconsistent.
There was something wrong with the frank and rough men in Shaoxi's army, but Xiao Tang would not despise someone like Pei Zhong because of this.
It was probably dinner time at this time. In the mountains and forests by the river outside Linxia City, soldiers were fetching water and chopping firewood. There were already a few smoke curls rising from the city. Although the conditions in the city fortress were relatively simple, there were still
Jun Jian shot Fat Girl's wild sheep in the nearby mountains and forests, and roasted it for a long time before serving it. The roasted sheep was golden in color, with crispy skin and fresh meat, and a strong smell of meat suddenly came from the tent. Pei Zhong called out again
A soldier who was a butcher passed by and took out a carving knife, skillfully carving the meat along the shoulder blades of the lamb, and placed the tender pieces of mutton on a plate.
"It just so happened that Wu Jie was called over by the guy named Cai, otherwise it would have turned off the Sa family's appetite."
Pei Zhong saw Hua Rong, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong and others who were accompanying Xiao Tang walking into the tent. He grinned and said: "Xiao Jieshuai, if you have good meat, you must have good wine. Now.
We are not marching out on an expedition, we are just waiting at the fort in the rear, and even eating some wine does not constitute a violation of military regulations."
Pei Zhong did not wait for Xiao Tang's approval. His posture seemed to be caused by alcohol addiction. However, before Xiao Tang could say anything, he suddenly heard loud noises outside the tent. Xiao Tang was startled and immediately rushed outside the tent.
They rushed to find out what was going on, but Hua Rong, Xiao Jiasui and the generals from the Bianjing Forbidden Army each stood up with clanging armors and followed Xiao Tang out.
When a group of generals rushed out of the tent and came to the wall of Linxia City, they saw bursts of thick smoke coming from the direction of Hengshan not far away to the west. When the soldiers who were fetching water from the river started to stir up a commotion, they saw
Dozens more soldiers who were collecting firewood rushed out of the mountains and ran out of the woods, running as fast as they could in the direction of Linxia City.
Just when Xiao Tanggang realized that the Xia army really dared to take risks and cross the barriers of high mountains to sneak attack the Song army's rear military stronghold, he suddenly felt that the surface of the city wall seemed to tremble, and suddenly there were a large number of Xia soldiers and horses.
After rushing out of the forest, a moment later, there were mountains and plains all over the west, and as far as the eye could see, enemy troops like wolves and tigers were rushing toward the city!
The soldiers of the Song Army who were collecting water and cutting firewood outside the city saw that the situation was not good, and they immediately turned around and ran away. However, the arrows that covered the sky behind them suddenly attacked, and all the soldiers of the Song Army who were escaping slower were shot.
Be like a hedgehog!
"It's a surprise attack by summer thieves! Hurry up and close the suspension bridge! Hurry and close the city gate!"
A cry suddenly rang out in Linxia City, and Xiao Tang couldn't help but gasped when he saw this. Although he had also expected the possibility of the Xia army making a roundabout attack here, the enemy army came by such a coincidence.
Several soldiers and horses were dispatched in the city to rush to other military strongholds, and Xiao Tang came to kill him before he could join any main force of the army!
Seeing the Xia Army's troops emerging from the deep valleys of Hengshan Mountain like a tidal wave, they seemed to be trying to crush all the obstacles in front of them! Not only the generals transferred from the Bianjing Forbidden Army were dumbfounded,
Even Pei Zhong, the warden of the Jingyuan Road who always boasted that he dared to fight and kill, was dumbfounded and stood blankly on top of the city for a while.
At this moment, everyone on the wall heard Xiao Tang shouting decisively: "The Xia thieves came over the mountain to attack, and most of the troops should be infantry. Commander Pei immediately mobilized his troops to protect the city and defend the city.
The rest of the generals also quickly went to order the troops and horses, and they all listened to my orders and acted. Anyone who is negligent in the slightest will be killed without mercy!"
