stubborn thief

Chapter 501

Three days.

It took a total of three days for the Marshal's Army to occupy and capture 32 fortresses around Liangzhouwei.

However, at this stage of the war process, Liangzhou City, which has gathered remnants and defeated generals from all walks of life, is determined to defend it. The surrounding fortresses either surrendered in anticipation or the defenders have withdrawn into the city, which cannot be called martial arts.

With the disintegration of the entire Liangzhou Road defense system, there is only a lonely ancient city of Liangzhou standing on the Wuwei Oasis, fully armed and full of vigilance.

Although Wuwei City in the Han Dynasty was destroyed by war, Liangzhou City built in the Tang Dynasty is still an important town in Hexi.

Yongchang City in the west of Liangzhou has a circumference of seven miles and 230 steps. Three minutes and 230 steps on Saturday.

As for Liangzhou City, there are 180 steps and 36 miles around the city, and the height of the city is five feet and one foot; there are five big towers on the city, and [-] watchtowers and patrol shops; the moat is two feet deep, three feet wide, and four pontoon bridges; There is an urn city, and a Guancheng was built on the east wall of the city. The entire city wall was covered with bricks in the second year of Wanli.

At noon on May 28, the sun hung overhead like a ball of fire, scorching the entire oasis with smoke.

On the Arrow Tower of Wengcheng on the west wall of Liangzhou City, Gu Tianshou, the leader of the Ximen Patrol, is sitting on the second-floor window sill. On the surface, he holds the shackle tightly and observes the enemy's situation intently, but in fact his eyes are blank, and his thoughts have long drifted to the sky.

People experienced extreme tension, and gradually relaxed because they couldn't see the enemy in the tension. As the leader of the patrol, Gu Tianshou could see this.

In his field of vision, he saw only one battalion, but one battalion was scattered and two camps were set up. There were still very few people working in the camp, and most of them rode horses to the fields.

Hong Chengchou’s pamphlets focused on two requirements for the selection of patrol officers. One was to be physically strong, diligent, and cautious, and the most important thing was to have a fortune.

He is not from Liangzhou, but from Lintao. It is a bit embarrassing to say that his father, Gu Huai, was the commander of Lintao who was not actually assigned, but was actually assigned as the head of Liangzhou to prepare the imperial capital.

This kind of operation is very common, ranging from side shifts to Beijing shifts.

This mother came out to work, and the family is gone, where can I go to reason?
Fortunately, Liangzhou has its own people. The 180 Lintao banner troops who stayed in Liangzhou earlier were busy introducing jobs to everyone. In name, they were off work. In fact, no one went home. They all simply looked for a living in Liangzhou. .

There are also three difficulties in the work, one is urging shifts, the other is paperwork, and the third is schedule arrangement, which is entirely based on brain work.

But in the eyes of Gu Tianshou in Liangzhou City - they are all trash.

These [-] small remnants of the defeated generals do not belong to each other, that is to say, Hong Chengchou's official position is high enough and his authority is strong enough, so that he can control them submissively, trust each other on the city wall, and treat each other equally, so as to avoid possible incidents in the city. Civil strife, do a good job of strengthening the wall and clearing the country.

"Oh." Gu Huai sighed, raised his finger and pointed to the army of the Marshal's Mansion who had begun camping four or five miles away, and said with relief: "I said the enemy army, we have been looking forward to it for a month, and he finally came... I just want to I'm afraid he won't come."

So far, they haven't smashed a single brick of Lanzhou City.

In this high pressure state, no matter what order Hong Chengchou gives, it will be shot like an arrow, but the bow that no one can draw fully is kept stretched, so that the bowstring is as stretched, and the bow will turn over when it is broken.

There is almost a consensus among the generals defending the city in Gu Huai. Now that Hong Chengchou is gone, the soldiers and civilians of Liangzhou have been in a tense state of defending the city for a month. To be honest, they are almost unable to withstand the pressure of fighting against the air. .

Li Hongsi, the deputy general who lost the melee in Ganzhou, Zhao Zhirui, the bare-handed general who was defeated in Suzhou, Lin Chengdong, the Ganzhou general who lost his heavy equipment in the car battalion, Tang Mingshi, a guerrilla who suppressed barbarians, and countless capitals, Qian Zong, Commander, Ba Zong, Qian Hu... There are officials everywhere, and the army has expanded to more than [-].

In the blink of an eye, Liu Chengzong broke through Jiayuguan from the west again. From Liu Chengzong's perspective, it was a difficult problem for strong generals. Although the eastward march was fast, it was not easy.

When Liu Chengzong was in Ganzhou City for half a month, the soldiers and civilians in Liangzhou City were not idle, not to mention the complicated wall clearing and immigration. They are all in the city, and it has been a whole month now.

Therefore, although Gu Tianshou has [-] people under his jurisdiction, they are called patrolmen in name, but in fact they are all business owners with shops on the three main streets in the west, east and south of Liangzhou City.

Gu Tianshou didn't think much about it at first, he just thought of himself as unlucky, he was not a squadron, he was completely serving as a guard for his father. Wuju made it easier to work.

It is also known as the squad army as the saying goes, but it belongs to the frontier defense squad army. The guerrilla generals who came to Beijing were to support the important border defense towns during the autumn defense. There are two foremen like this to prepare for the defense. There are two on Ganzhou Road and two on Liangzhou Road. There are two foremen in Liangzhou, one from Lintao and the other from Gongchang.

Four or five miles away, let alone a small number of people and horses in sight, even the queues looked like little bugs, but the dense black clouds like a swarm of bugs still made the entire Liangzhou city tense.

The [-] defenders in the city were watched by two patrolmen. The defenders had to take turns day and night, and the patrolmen also patrolled alternately day and night. The uprightness report.

Therefore, it is normal for military households to buy and sell by force, to pick quarrels and stir up trouble, and even to commit crimes on the way to work.

Since the seventh day of March, Jiayuguan was ignited, and the Banjun and Minzhuang stationed in Liangzhou at that time were training in the barracks outside the city.

Last year, there was a small problem. Gu Tianshou's father, Gu Huai, led the 120th squadron to Liangzhou. They walked tremblingly on the road, but they arrived on time anyway... He led the squadron and asked for 300 troops.

But the problem did not lie in the number of soldiers, because when they got off work the year before last, 180 banner soldiers did not return to Lintao. They simply found a job in Liangzhou and went back to work in the fall, so the number of troops was sufficient.

They are all wealthy families, rounded up to sixty trumpet Ximenqing.

But since the war in the west started, a wave of remnants of defeated soldiers swarmed towards Liangzhou, Gu Tianshou felt that he had seen all the officials he could see in his life.

Liangzhou is the rear of the two battlefields of this war. Its military strength was evacuated at the beginning of the war. All the soldiers who could fight were brought into the Zhuanglang battlefield by the commander Ding Shaoyin. The people staying in the city were civilians. The squadrons from Zhuanghe Lintao and Gongchang had a total strength of just over [-] troops, and the guard was Liu Shaozong, the deputy commander in chief.

But now that Hong Chengchou has gone to Ningxia Zhongwei, Gu Tianshou is unavoidably worried about the fate of Liangzhou City.

The most embarrassing thing is that all the soldiers and civilians in the city know that this booklet is very correct. If you want to hold the city, you really have to do it like this, but there are no enemies!
Now the enemy is coming, problem solved.

All of these are scored for the foreman Bei Yuguan. Every year, ten points are deducted, two points are deducted for criticism, five points are deducted for suspension of salary, and eight points are deducted for demotion to the army.

Patrol is not a permanent position, neither a battalion nor a guard nor a civilian, but a title of duty. Patrol means patrol, and police means guard. It is common in the teams temporarily selected by the gentry in the Ming Dynasty when they encountered bandits and defended the city.

Hong Chengchou was very targeted towards the peasant army. He knew very well that those who had no money were easily turned by Liu Chengzong. Even ordinary self-cultivators with some land were not reliable, let alone laborers, craftsmen, government servants, civilians, and soldiers. Received wages and military pay.

Gu Tianshou was no exception, he hurriedly lifted the shackles and ran down the watchtower, looking for his father, Gu Huai, who was in charge of guarding the city wall.

A war, all in vain.

There are [-] defenders, [-] squad troops, [-] civilians, and [-] patrolmen in the west city. Gu Tianshou is the leader of these [-] patrolmen.

It is true that there is no rule that the governors of the three sides must stay in Liangzhou City, but if you run away at this time, you are more or less a bit of a dog.

The autumn grain was burned, the houses were demolished, and everything that could be transported into the city was transported into the city. The soldiers slept in the city for a whole month. , what is the reason for doing this?
Just to toss people?
The most important thing is that when the soldiers complained and complained, the general thought it was not my fault after listening to it, I was also the one who was tossed; the poor people complained and complained, and the gentry master thought that the younger generation of my family would not be able to eat enough to eat and lose their meat all day long.

As he said that, he couldn't help but shook his head in doubt, and then asserted: "No, they are showing me weakness, blatantly luring the enemy, that is, luring us out of the city to fight."

In the end, everyone looked at the pamphlet of defending the city in unanimous agreement. He was the only one who tormented us, and he ran away.

The autumn defense was very successful, and it was time to go home after the Chinese New Year. Gu Huai stared at each other. Lanzhou and Lintao were captured by Liu Chengzong's puppet general Wang Wenxiu.

The last itinerary is the place where troubles are most likely to arise. In theory, as large as the troops entering Beijing from various towns, and as small as the border defense squads in the towns, they should act collectively according to the capital and guards. They are separated, and commuting to and from get off work is at their own expense.

If it wasn't for this war, Gu Tianshou would have taken the martial arts exam this year.

"I reckon that all the soldiers camping now are surrendered soldiers. They must have ambushes nearby. Once we leave the city and leave the moat and the protection of the gun guards, the oasis will be flat everywhere, and the battle will definitely be against me."

There is no North Street because the northwest of Liangzhou City is a wide storage warehouse for storing grain and taxes, and a large pasture for storing army horses and grass.

If Liu Chengzong's army hadn't appeared near Liangzhou in another five or six days, the city might not be able to hold it, and they needed an enemy.

This surprised the young patrol chief, he wondered, "Big, what are you talking about?"

"Rebel Bocheng!"

When Gu Tianshou ran to his father's defense area, Gu Huai was holding a binoculars in one hand and patted the crenel with the other, with indescribable excitement and relief on his face, and he still muttered: "It's coming, it's coming."

Ordinary guards also turn a blind eye and close their eyes. Does the weak soldier matter to the guards?It saves the military households from picking quarrels and provoking troubles on the way to work, and the banner army can still earn two money, which is worry-free.

On the northern part of the west city wall, there is a defense area a hundred paces wide, with a total of 74 crenels, and the guard of these crenels is Gu Huai.

Every year when the squadron was supposed to return to their hometown after get off work, many townsmen stayed in the capital to find a living, and later spread to the border defense, and developed this habit.

Slowly, the reflections in the phantom rising in the distance became clearer and more numerous, and soon the sound of horns sounded on three sides of the city at the same time. Gu Tianshou knew that he was right, but he didn't say anything, because the city The shouting from the head one after another has already said everything he wanted to say.

"Don't look, mob." Gu Huai glanced at his son, and said, "A rogue is a rogue, it's fine if you don't have a horse to ride an ox, and there are people who carry a hoe and push a plow. How can you beat Zongbing Yang with such a thing? Died on the high platform?"

This is like a bow, which was drawn from the moment Liu Chengzong broke through. In the news of Yang Jiamo's death in battle and the successive fall of Gaotai and Ganzhou, the bow was drawn to its fullest due to fear.

Gu Tianshou asked for binoculars from his father, and only then did he see the appearance of the enemy camp. Looking around, he wondered, "Big, why is there only one battalion?"

Only then did Gu Tianshou realize that even he himself was distracted, not to mention the other defenders, each of them would feel slack after waiting for a long time.

At this moment, his thoughts were suddenly pulled back. In the phantom of the rising heat in the distance, there seemed to be a tiny reflection flashing past his eyes, but when he looked closely, he couldn't see anything clearly.

The reason for urging the squad is that the residences of the guards are scattered, and it is necessary to ensure that they gather on time and go to work on time; the documents are also very complicated, including the number of troops in the squad, the date of departure, the date of arrival, and the appearance and characteristics of each squadron.

Strictly speaking, Liangzhou City has been tense for nearly three months.

I never expected that Yang Yanchang, Zhang Yingchang, and He Renlong are all very powerful generals. The God of War in Yan'an, General Huzi, Mizhi Haoqiang, the elite soldiers of the third battalion stationed in Lintao, patronizing themselves every day to destroy themselves, that is Don't do anything serious!

This is an official position similar in size to the general guard, and its duty is to take soldiers to and from get off work. They go to Liangzhou to work in autumn and return to Lintao after work in spring.

Being strong means being able to open a sixty-pound bow; the standard requirement is that the flag army must serve in person, and no one can be hired to replace it;

Anyway, even if he can't perform martial arts, it won't delay his meritorious service on the battlefield. At that time, they all thought that the imperial court would definitely recover Lanzhou, and it would take two or three months to regain Lintao.

This is a very hard job, and the ability required has little to do with force. There are three requirements, one is strong, the other is straight, and the third is full.

After that, Gu Huai turned his head and said relaxedly: "But there is also a little advantage. I think they are all wearing the burqas of the guards. Tonight, the ghost soldiers went out to kill them for a while, just to lure the ambush soldiers out, so that they can kill each other. , know that our Liangzhou city is not a soft persimmon!"

"But big, they're like, like..."

Gu Tianshou didn't listen to his father's words, he still looked through the binoculars with a very complicated expression on his face: "It seems that they really came to plant the land, and they have already planted it!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)