.Chapter 368 Blooming like flowers

A few days later, Zhang Fangping, Teng Zongliang, Ge Huainin, Zong Shiheng, Di Qing and Zheng Lang gathered in Zhenrong Village.

That is the most important bosses on Jingyuan Road now...

Zheng Lang asked them to sit down, brought out a stack of documents, looked at the words on the bag, distributed them to everyone, and said, "Let's take a look first."

It was the joint defense that he discussed with the old clan. Zheng Lang thought of it, and the old clan provided the consent.

After planning for a long time, Zheng Lang found that the old generation was really useful. With this person by his side, it seemed as if Liu Bei met Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period, and he felt very happy as if he was in water.

Several people started watching.

This joint defense is actually an evolutionary version of the solid walls and clear fields.

Archers play an extremely important role in this.

The specific steps are divided into two parts. The first part is that less than 10,000 enemy troops invade, and the front line is put in. With each village as the center, the archers are the leader, with the imperial army as the main and the archers as the auxiliary, they are hunted and killed layer by layer.

And there are many archers along the side. They have their own war horses, and their speed will not be worse than that of the enemy.

But they will not directly participate, but take out some hunting arrangements, such as digging traps, setting hooks, snatching arrows, and playing whatever is invisible.

Some time ago, Zheng Lang deliberately conducted some targeted training for this.

This possibility is extremely small. Yuanhao's army is not as powerful as expected. He would not only send 10,000 people to invade. That is not called invasion, but to send snacks to the Song army.

This plan is a preparatory plan.

The second part is the formal plan.

The enemy invaded the army with more than 10,000 troops.

Zheng Lang divided the three prefectures and armies of Jingyuan Road into several areas, each area centered on each fortress, and each fortress governs several subordinate villages.

The first line was from Xiaoguan to the middle end of Wuyanxia, ​​which was also the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty. Zheng Lang now voluntarily gave up. But this was a strategic goal, and he did not really give up. He sent scouts to patrol from time to time. The second line started from Tiansheng Village and to the south, and was also the real control area of ​​the Song Dynasty. The third line started from Zhenrongcheng to Dongshan Village. The fourth line started from the central and northern Yuanzhou to most of Jingzhou, and the northern end of Weizhou, and then there was the Jingyuan District military farm area. Once the enemy spread the war to the fourth line, it would be very bad.

Therefore, the decisive battle must be controlled in the area north of the fourth line.

First, we will strengthen the walls and clear the fields. Once the enemy invades, the second line is too close to the enemy. We must quickly evacuate. Lead by archers, carrying precious soft and soft, cattle, horses and sheep. This is a move. As long as the speed is fast and easy to take away, all the heavy furniture will be left and cannot be taken away. Quickly enter various villages and forts.

After entering the fort, the archers immediately cooperated with the Song army guarding the city to participate in the defense.

There must be four conditions for this.

Zheng Lang has actually assigned the quality of the first archer before, including their tasks.

Training is the main focus, unlike other places in the Song Dynasty, who occasionally participated in the construction of villages, paving roads and building water conservancy matters, but with the nature of subsidies, they were given small subsidies, not free labor. In peace, archers could enjoy the new policy of the Song Dynasty and exempt all taxes from their families. However, for these border Fan Qiang, this clause was of little significance, and the court did not collect taxes from them in normal times. Even if they were levied, the quantity was limited. Weapons were distributed and some subsidies were given. The latter was what the Fanzi archers valued.

While enjoying these benefits, these two tasks are the tasks.

Small enemies invade, or some rebellions that surrender to the Xixia mountain village, harassment by some thieves, cooperate with officers and soldiers to wipe out. Large enemies invade, leading their tribe members to quickly enter the village to take refuge, pick up weapons, and stand on the top of the city to resist.

Xixia did not decline, and Zheng Lang sobered up and continued to position the Song army in defense.

With defense as the main focus, these archers can play their roles.

The second is water source.

Most of the villages and villages in the Song Dynasty were built along the river, and they were also for water. There were many flat rivers on the riverside, which was suitable for building cities.

After Zheng Lang arrived at Jingyuan Road, he made a new measure, digging more moats and leading the underpass into the city from the moat. There would be no scale in Nanjing using the Qinhuai River as a moat, but in some cases, it would be better than none. Even if he did not launch an attack this year, Xixia's invasion of Linfu Road this time would be severely damaged. At least it would not recover until after next autumn.

In the past year, the river water nourishes the soil and is also full of living water, which will change the structure of the groundwater. The enemy besieged the village and had the labor to cut off the moat water and fill it with soil. The city can also use the method of digging wells to take groundwater as drinking water.

A very important one.

This year, when the battle in Linzhou almost caused major problems due to water, it was precisely because of the water that Dingchuan Village was defeated next year.

But Zheng Lang from Dingchuan Village has not moved, because it was a deliberate lack.

The third is food.

Once residents enter the village, they will carry a large amount of livestock. However, it is a pity to use it for food. There is a shortage of food now. If there is no shortage, they plan to sell for a bucket of wheat for fifty cents and a bucket of millet for thirty cents, which is considered a sky-high price. When the goods are truly circulating, a cow can be sold for three shreds of money when it arrives in Chang'an, which can be exchanged for one hundred buckets of millet. But how much meat can a cow cut?

In fact, with the emergence of the Market Change Law, a large number of livestock have been circulated continuously to the Central Plains with commodity trading.

Therefore, all villages must prepare food. This year, there are some difficulties. After next autumn, the food in the military farm will rise, and the supply from the court will ease. Then all villages will get sufficient food preparation.

When the new grain comes up, the old grain can be traded and exchanged with the foreigners for items and brought back to the Central Plains.

Now everything is invented, and it is still difficult to implement this joint defense plan. But if it can be implemented, Zheng Lang is afraid that it will be announced in advance. God knows whether Yuan Hao will attack Jingyuan Road in a crazy way after he comes back regardless of his invasion.

The fourth is that there must be a powerful scout team. If it is like the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the enemy will find Haoshuichuan ambush, and no one knows it. Then no matter how rigorous the plan is, it will lose its meaning.

Zheng Lang came to Jingyuan Road and quickly made up for the loophole. His importance to the scout was almost outrageous.

Then there is the third line, which takes longer time. According to the situation, you can use livestock to bring food back to various villages and villages in moderation.

In short, everything is to reduce Yuanhao's supply source, especially food.

Unless Yuanhao launches an attack from one village to another.

However, after the implementation of joint defense, each village will receive a large number of people. Not only are there archers among the people, but some people can organize it and use it as temporary militias. Its strength is much stronger than the simple Song army defense before.

Then every time Yuan Hao breaks through a village, he will suffer a lot of losses.

At the same time, it also extends the time of the attack. The Song army in other places is not a vegetarian, and Yuan Hao will have a headache at that time.

For local Qiang people, this is also a measure to protect their lives and is also more popular.

As for the fourth line, act according to the situation.

Once the battle situation spreads to the fourth line, the situation will be in danger. Unless Yuan Hao ignores the consequences and forcibly breaking to the fourth line. As long as the main army of the Song Dynasty is undefeated, the consequences of Yuan Hao entering the fourth line will be very serious. Once the back road is blocked, Yuan Hao's army will be unreturned.

This is the plan for this year.

There are still plans next year, and by next year there will be markets and grain, the situation in Jingyuan Road will be better.

Then he asked the court for a large number of **, in addition to the necessary roads, he blew mountains and digged up ridges, so that the entire Jingyuan Road could form a very small closed space.

This inspiration was inspired by the Tang Dynasty's policies. In order to prevent the people from moving, some prefectures deliberately destroyed the roads to prevent people from leaving the country. This is a regressive policy, but the borders are different from the Central Plains. The borders are mainly defense, and these closed small spaces will make Yuan Hao even more trouble.

On the main road, the Song Dynasty had a village fort defense. Even if it was broken, there was no passage around it. The Song Dynasty would use the terrain to make defense or encircle it at any time to trap its army here.

Once the plan is implemented, Jingyuan Road will be more difficult to attack than Huanqing Road.

"Why is it not implemented this year?" Teng Zongliang asked.

This method is good.

"There is no financial resources and lack of money everywhere. The court's finances have already been in crisis, and we cannot count on the court. Besides, it is just a theory. The overall terrain of Jingyuan Road is not as good as that of Fuyan Road, and even worse than Huanqing Road. So the main task this year is to cultivate farmland and train military forces." Zheng Lang sighed in his heart after he said that.

There are many so-called gentlemen, including Teng Zongliang, who are still capable, such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi, and Yin Zhu. Once they arrive at the place, they will be like fish in water, and each of them can achieve good political achievements.

But when I entered the dynasty, I was confused.

Hearing the financial pressure, Teng Zongliang could not speak.

"You may have heard of the battle of Linfu Road. Yuanhao suffered heavy losses in this battle. In order to build morale, they will recover in the autumn next year and launch an attack on our dying direction. Fulin Road may conduct another test to see if there is any force to resist after Fulin Road passes by them and urges them to rush to get rid of it. If so, they will stop attacking Fulin Road in time, then there will be only three places left. Huanqing terrain is complex, and Fan Zhongyan is also in charge. Yuanhao dare not take this risk and launch an attack on Huanqing Road. Then there is Yanfu Road. I built several villages in Yanzhou last year and each other.

Joint defense was formed, Fan Zhongyan re-established several camps. However, a theoretical joint defense, so this year the Xixia army still rushed to the city of Yanzhou. This will stimulate Pang Ji. I have already received news that Pang Ji is repairing the fort again. In fact, this Xixia attack was to cooperate with Yuanhao's attack, delaying the Fulu army, and preventing them from rushing to support Fulin. Twenty or thirty thousand enemy enemies want to take down Yanzhou City? Do you really do it by Yanzhou City? Once the forts are built one after another, and with the terrain north of Yanzhou, it is not easy to attack Yanzhou. Then only our Jingyuan Road is left."

Zheng Lang said this and hung up the big map and said, "Everyone, look, although there are mountains on our Jingyuan Road, the overall terrain is flat, and there is almost no danger to guard except the ancient Great Wall. But this ancient Great Wall..."

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "Don't take it seriously. Unless it is carried out for major renovations, many city walls pass through Longshan. I don't know how much manpower and financial resources will be spent on the overhaul, and it's not worth it."

And after the renovation, troops must be sent to garrison.

Once the Song Dynasty was cultivated, it was very likely that this Great Wall would be used as the boundary after the Song Dynasty, and Zheng Lang was even more disliked.

Unless the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were taken back and the Great Wall was repaired, it would have the function of preventing the nomadic people from going south. In fact, if the Qing people entered the pass, if it were not for the help of Wu Sangui, would the Ming Dynasty be so easy to destroy the country? As for Li Zicheng, that man, like Huang Chao and Fang La, was purely a bastard.

If you have a genital scattered, learn from Chongzhen, and you will be defeated and die to apologize to the world.

He also said: "Unless we forcefully destroy the road from now on, the village construction will be completed. But the finances cannot keep up and there is no time left, so we must take precautions. This is for you."

Ge Huaimin asked: "Why leave it to me?"

"Linfu Road is dangerous. I want to lead my army to launch a sneak attack on Xixia, so you can take a look at Weizhou City." Zheng Lang said lightly.

Now that his conflict with Ge Huaimin is intensified, he is not afraid of ten thousand, but he is afraid of something. If all the military plans are announced, if Ge Huaimin takes revenge and secretly sells out information to the people of Xixia, this battle will be in danger.

Teng Zongliang was ignorant, and Ge Huainmin thought that Zheng Lang was still launching a small-scale attack like he was attacking Baibao City.

As for using tens of thousands of troops?

Ge Huaimin's mouth showed a hint of sarcasm.

After a while, Ge Huaimin began to attack. Zheng Lang continued: "For this sneak attack, I have to draw 10,000 troops from Zhenrong Village and Deshun Army. Some troops must be filled from the rear to coordinate the defense of Zhenrong Army and Deshun Army."

Then start mobilizing the army.

Ge Huaimin laughed and said, "Zheng Zhizhou, it's just a sneak attack. Does it require 50,000 troops? Let me go, five thousand people are enough."

If you want to go, 500,000 people are not enough!

Zheng Lang said lightly: "Deputy Envoy Ge, do you want to compete with me for command?"

You are more powerful than Xu Huaide, but I am not Zhang Kang!

The old clan frowned. Zheng Lang was a civil servant and the top leader. He was the emperor's favorite minister. Although Ge Huaimin had a great background, he had no choice but to deal with Zheng Lang.

However, the disagreement between generals and ministers is ultimately a hidden danger.
To be continued...