So I play chess

Chapter 114 City Defense
Just now when the two of them were talking, Zhi Xia Ben came back once, and after listening to a few words at the door, he went back again.This will come back again, with an extra wooden box in hand.

"I just felt that the eldest lady is too generous. I don't know if they need it or not, but you guys need it. Do you think it's enough to keep these?"

Zhixia opened the box and showed it to Li Mao. There were several carefully sawn and even polished lightning strike wood neatly placed inside.

Li Mao smiled and said: "Miss Zhixia is thorough in everything, but this box is a bit small, if there is a bigger one, maybe it will be enough."

Zhixia said: "I didn't think about what you said, but since the lightning strike wood can ward off evil spirits, I want to leave a piece for the eldest lady and you, yesterday's thunder was too evil."

At this point, Li Mao still had some questions to ask, so he turned to Wen Gu and said, "Miss, what I said before..."

Wen Gu knew what he was going to ask, so he immediately became nervous, and quickly stopped his words: "I will talk about this later, I only trust you a few, take care of yourself, we will go to Lianzhou later, there are some things that require you to come Handle."

Li Mao understood that Wen Gu didn't want to talk about it at this time, so he didn't ask further: "The matter of the city defense, I wonder how the eldest lady has arranged it?"

Wen Gu breathed a sigh of relief: "Chuyang Guan led the Dingyi army to come to Tongcheng, so many things happened earlier than originally expected, and Zhou Dutong took the lead in the defense of the city."

Ding Yijun's actions made Li Mao nervous, so Wen Gu told him the general situation of the day.

Ding Yi's army has thousands of soldiers and horses on this trip, if it is said that they are here to chat, no one will believe it.

Moreover, as Wen Gu knew, Tang Mingyi was dead, so it was impossible for Chu Yang Guanguan to be tolerated in the Southern Chu court.

Originally, she wanted to hide this news for a while, but when Tang Xianyao dealt with Chuyang Pass, many things would naturally be resolved.

But the situation is different now, there must be a reason for Chu Yangguan's abnormal behavior, or this action has already been decided, or there is some secret information channel between him and Tang Mingyi, or even now he knows the truth.

But no matter what, there are only two roads waiting for him.

One is to bypass Tongcheng directly and go north to Yu Kingdom.However, Beiyu's many troops and Dingyi's army have been attacking and defending each other for many years. If he seeks refuge in Beiyu, he may not be able to be accepted in Beiyu's court, and his situation will not be better than before in Nanchu.

Even without considering these things, once Chuyang Pass surrendered to Yu, then Tongcheng at that time, with Liangzhou in the north and Dingyi in the south, would become the Liangzhou of that year again.

It is even very likely that Chuyang Pass will take Tongcheng first and present it as a gift.

If this is not the case, Chuyangguan may also go another way.

He has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, and occupies a county. He can even send troops from Dingyi to attack Tongcheng first, and then take Liangzhou.

Because of the war in the east, Nanchu and Beiyu were afraid that there would be too much tension in Liangzhou, so they would not easily take action on this place.

But if Chuyangguan insisted on sending troops without considering the situation in Southern Chu, Liangzhou would definitely not be able to resist.

No matter how you think about it, a war cannot be avoided in Tongcheng.

Therefore, Wen Gu had these advance plans.

All other matters in the city have come to a standstill for the time being, and Jin Wan will lead the other relevant people to deal with the aftermath of the matters related to the Sun Mansion.

Due to the absence of the prefect Liu Zhu, and the "Driving Doctor" who temporarily commanded Tongcheng died unexpectedly, Zhou Tong logically formed the remaining [-] Liangzhou Army, the original Tongcheng defenders and newly recruited soldiers from the refugees. The [-]-five Tongcheng Army dispatched for temporary defense of the city.

Li Xun's role after entering the city was also brought into play at this time. Although he had entered the city not long ago, under the arrangement of Wen Gu and Liu Zhu, most of his work was related to city defense, and it was quite effective.

First of all, there are eight knife carts, each with the same width as the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and several feet high. There are several layers of knife holders in front of the carts, and each layer has twelve special pig iron long blades.If an enemy breaks through the city gate, it will be filled with knives and carts, which is enough for the defense of the city gate.

Then there is the horse dough building.

Tongcheng was originally in an awkward position, but it was only a buffer between Liangzhou and Dingyi.From the general consideration of the Southern Chu Dynasty Hall, once Beiyu acquired Liangzhou and then went south, Tongcheng would only resist for a while, and Dingyi would be the main line of defense.

Because of this consideration, although the previous prefects of Tongcheng also built city defenses, they did not do their best.There are only eight horse dough buildings on the four walls, which are better than nothing.

According to Wen Gu's idea, Li Xun originally wanted to build another 24 buildings. However, although there were refugees coming into the city as supplementary labor, no matter the materials, money or man-hours, it was not enough to cope with such a huge project.

What's more, these 24 seats are only barely used temporarily. If the effect is really to be achieved, I'm afraid it will be more than doubled.

After weighing the balance, Li Xun changed his method again, and simply built twelve high-rise buildings inside the city wall, distributed in the middle of the city wall and at corners, specially for the archers to look out.

Coupled with the repair and reinforcement of the city walls and gates, this is all the city defense measures that can be achieved in less than a month.

At the same time, the [-] Liangzhou Army pretending to be bandits outside the city and the [-] Liangzhou Army who just left the city to "suppress bandits" will also gather as soon as possible to collect as much earth, stone and wood as possible raw materials nearby.In order not to let the Dingyi army obtain the materials for building siege equipment too easily.

After Wen Gu finished talking with Li Mao, the latter also felt that the young lady's arrangements were basically sound, but he still had some concerns: "Earth, stone and wood materials can also be obtained from nearby villages and towns. If the opponent cannot attack for a long time, they will definitely go to various counties to get them. The Dingyi army may not be less vicious than the Huaiyang army when they fight, and Chuyang Pass is no better than Shen Jing, but it will be difficult when the time comes."

Wen Gu nodded and said: "I also have the same worries, but I didn't think of a good way. Tongcheng can't accommodate so many people."

But Li Mao said: "Miss is not helpless, but kind-hearted."

Seeing that Wen Gu was silent after finishing speaking, he continued: "Now, thanks to the turmoil caused by the Sun family and the Zheng family, the rice grains of the seven counties around Tongcheng and the huge amount of money from these families are all in the hands of Lao Zhao and the others. If you use this as a foundation, choose a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, station troops to support the people, and then demolish the houses in other places, you can eliminate some worries."

Although this method is simple and easy to understand, Wen Gu just shook his head slightly.

Li Mao saw her like this, so he said it directly: "Miss thinks that there was no war in Tongcheng, and the people can still live and work in peace and contentment for a while. When our Liangzhou army came, it has already attracted a lot of trouble, and I don't want to add any more troubles." ?”

Zhixia, who had been listening all this time, was suddenly a little annoyed at this moment: "Why did we attract right and wrong? Yang Wantang will not talk about it. Nan Chu and Bei Yu will come here sooner or later. Whether it is Liu Zhu himself or someone else, Whoever can defend Tongcheng, I'm afraid he won't even defend it, so he should run away and ask for it."

(End of this chapter)