The wall of the Tiger Prison City is high and wide, the rammed earth builds the foundation, the bottom is thick, the Guo wall is the first to pull up, and will be two zhang. On both sides of the pass, there are urn cities, and the sentry towers are arranged strictly. There is no grass outside the city, and there is almost no commanding height, which makes it difficult for people to get a glimpse of the reality inside.

Outside the wall, there are deep rejecting horses, several columns in front and back, and there are trenches of different depths within the range of the arrow tower at the head of the city, which can not only block the approach of large siege equipment, but also delay the march of the enemy who is attacking in a big disorder.

On both sides of the city, the city should be taller and wider, and the galloping road should be flat, which can be matched by foot and riding to achieve the purpose of deep control of the road.

The old Tiger Prison Pass has long been destroyed by the chaos of the Eight Kings and the disaster of Yongjia, and the current Guancheng is based on the old city repaired by Zu Ti, and the two Zhao Zhao fought for hegemony and built their own buildings, and finally reached the scale of today.

Probably because the Tiger Prison Pass is too famous for winning on the spot, although the two Zhao also fought in Luoyang, but there are not many battles in the Tiger Prison that really focus on the Tiger Prison, and most of the cases are just used as a channel. Therefore, during this period, the Tiger Prison Pass City was not baptized by the tragic war, but was repeatedly built and repaired.

Although the Huainan army had entered the Tiger Prison a few months earlier, it mainly focused on the small city of Guangwu near Xingyang, and pushed the battalion forward to build fortifications. Of course, these fortifications are difficult to compare with the majestic Tiger Prison Pass, but they are just some simple trenches, earthen stacks and fences, which are not enough to exert too much defensive power, but they can greatly restrain the actions of the Peach Leopard army outside the Pass.

Guo Yu had a high reputation in Xingyang, and since the Huainan Wangshi marched northward, tens of thousands of people have returned, especially after the Wangshi achieved a great victory in Liyang and the main force was transferred to Xingyang, it set off a wave of villagers to annex the upsurge. Moreover, the people who came to take refuge are no longer the villagers who were really struggling to make a living, and many villagers led their children to wear armor and join the army.

However, Guo Yu did not feel happy because of this, and he was a little anxious. Because the purpose of these townsmen who came to take refuge was not simple, joining the army was just a pretext, and more people were explicitly or implicitly signaling that they wanted to join Guo Yu's family, and some even simply entrusted their family business to each other.

But how could these people be so selfless, they just wanted to take advantage of Guo Yu's prestige to wantonly embezzle the countryside while the order of Xingyang had not yet returned to peace. Looking at the list of family inheritances listed by those people, there are very few goods and goods, and large quantities of land and property abound, which is simply shocking.

Guo Yu is also privately summing up, if he accepts all those who are protégés, almost half of Xingyang will be assigned to his name. What's more, some people even classified the small ferries built by the Huainan Army in Guangwujian as their ancestral property, and even took the trouble to select a few elderly villagers as proof.

This is simply absurd! These townsmen are nothing more than thinking that Wang Shi has been absent from this township for a long time, and many old books and regulations do not exist, so they deliberately make a lot of nonsense, in order to be able to share the township property with the generals of Wang Shi.

Similar phenomena are not uncommon, when the Huainan Army recovered several counties in southern Henan earlier, there were also township tyrants who did so, and there were really Huainan generals who were confused for a while and colluded with those township sects to obstruct the Governor's Mansion from creating Tuntian.

As for the result, it was particularly bad, and the leaders of the capital were shown to the public, even including several old Zhaowu troops under the command of the original governor. There were also a group of village tyrants who were dissatisfied with the domineering of the Governor's Mansion, so they fled north with their families and joined Chen Guang's rebellious army, and eventually either perished with Chen Guang or were completely reduced to captives and hard labor.

And the attitude of the Governor's Mansion has always been that there is no tolerance for this kind of action! Even Chen Gui, the uncle of Chen Kui, the old sect of Yingchuan and the in-law of the Shen family, was chased by Kuyishan because of this, and he lost his face and gained nothing.

In fact, the Governor's Mansion has always treated the subordinate officials of the prefecture, especially the generals of the Huainan Army, very well. In addition to the most basic income, there are also meritorious food obtained from the accumulation of merit, which is directly discounted from the tun as food, and there are various financial subsidies on festivals.

The first-class officer of the first-class lieutenant of the front-line combat unit, even if it is not counted as an additional reward for military achievements, the most basic salary plus subsidy, the monthly income can reach 30 stones. Every time a job is upgraded, the income rises significantly. To reach the level of Guo Chen, the accumulation of various items such as the entry of Yulu is nearly a thousand stones!

And the most important thing is that the generals of the Huainan Army still have an advantage, that is, they can fold their property into the Dingcang as shares, and through the expansion of the Dingcang's business, the input has increased significantly.

The foundation of Dingcang lies in the commercial channels it mastered, as well as a large number of tuntian, workshop, mining and metallurgical industries controlled by the Huainan Governor's Office. This kind of behavior of privately connecting with the village tyrants to swallow up the rural property will itself damage the interests that they have gained, and they will also stand on the opposite side of the entire Huainan military system, and at the same time violate the ban of the Governor's Office, which is simply foolish.

At this time, Guo Yu realized that the governor was unwilling to let him guard Xingyang, which in itself was a kind of protection for himself. If Guo Yu accepts the contributions of these people, he will undoubtedly defy the law and destroy his future. But if you refuse completely, it will greatly damage the nostalgia and bear the name of coldness.

Therefore, Guo Yu has been very annoyed recently, soaking in the frontline positions all day long, in the name of patrolling, avoiding meeting those villagers who came to ask for help. At the same time, he sent people to the Xingyang camp several times to ask the governor to be able to adjust the defense.

Ask yourself, these Xingyang villagers cared for him with their old feelings, and he also made a lot of sacrifices for the countryside here, and he had previously fought to defend it in front of the governor, so he missed the battle of Hebei. Now although the main force of the Wang Division is advancing westward, the Tiger Prison Pass is still not the main direction of attack. It can be said that in order to protect the countryside of Xingyang, he took the initiative to give up the opportunity to hunt on a large scale this time.

On this day, Guo Yu patrolled to the front line on the west side of Guangwu Mountain, looked at the heights, and suddenly found that there were many people in the battle line, and at the same time, most of the originally planted fences had been pulled out, and the trenches had also been filled.

Seeing this scene, Guo Yu suddenly frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Who is cruising in formation?" Damage Prevention? ”

When the commander heard this, his expression was quite strange, but he still stepped forward and replied: "It is the general's general, and the words are on the secret order of the general......

After Guo Yu heard this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he said angrily: "Which self-proclaimed is my general, quickly enter the battle and capture it!" The drum order disperses the crowd in the formation, and those who do not disperse after two drums will be shot and killed! ”

When the soldiers saw this scene, their hearts were awe-inspiring, and they didn't dare to slack off. Soon drums and trumpets sounded in the camp behind the line, and more than 100 Huainan soldiers rushed into the line.

Not long after, as soon as Guo Yu returned to the camp and sat down, several Xingyang villagers were brought into the tent. There was still a smile on the faces of these people at the beginning, but when they saw Guo Yu sitting on top with a pale face, the relaxed state soon disappeared, and they all became restrained, and bowed forward and said, "The unknown lord summons ......."

"Wait, I and a few village sages have not been so polite. Now that we see each other in the army, we might as well be brief. ”

Guo Yu was in a bad mood at this time, and naturally it was difficult to care about any feelings, so he said with a cold face.

When those people heard this, their expressions changed, and before they could speak, they saw that the soldiers outside the tent had already set up a Huainan soldier commander who was tied with his arms behind his back and rushed into the vicinity, and the commander was the captain of the camp here, and his face was panicked at the moment, and as soon as he walked in, he was busy grabbing the ground with his head, and exclaimed sadly: "The general spares his life, and the last general really doesn't know...... It's just a few of them, it's they who secretly ordered the general......"

Several Xingyang townsmen were originally panicked, and they offended Guo Yu somewhere, but when they saw this scene, they breathed a sigh of relief, and after looking at each other a few times, one of them stepped forward and smiled: "It turns out that Guo Hou is calling each other, and what he did is here." I really don't blame Camp Master Feng for this, it's just me and other villagers......"

"Yes, Wang Shi is heading north this time, Guo Hou deeply misses the old feelings, and in order to protect us and other Xingyang villagers, he has to lead the army to besiege the tiger prison, so that all the people of our township are in danger of slaves and thieves. But Guo Hou missed Liyang's great achievements because of this, even if Guo Hou didn't say anything, we and other villagers also felt sorry for Guo Hou. ”

It seems that they feel that they and others are really wholeheartedly planning for Guo Yu, and they are worried about other villagers fighting for merit, so these people hurriedly replied: "Tens of thousands of people in Shikan are still defeated by Wang Shi, and the remnants of the peach leopard army are not to worry, because we and other villagers are self-measured, and we are willing to lead our children to fight for Guo Hou, and directly win the Tiger Prison Xiongguan, so as to win the first merit of Heluo!" ”

"The nostalgia is enthusiastic, and I don't want Guo Hou to be left behind. We have recruited thousands of villagers, all of whom are bloody and brave warriors, and we don't need to move lightly from the king's armor, just to bulldoze the way forward, and we will definitely dedicate the tiger to Guo Hou in the future! ”

Hearing these people's bold words, Guo Yu was already so angry that he gritted his teeth. He still underestimated these villagers, thinking that these people were at most just using his name to swallow up some rural property, as long as he didn't respond and cooperate, they wouldn't be able to turn up any storms, but he didn't expect these people to be so bold that they even dared to meddle in the Huainan military!

Why is he unwilling to be left behind in his own merits, he is nothing more than calculating for himself, seeing that Wang Shi is unstoppable, he wants to use his power to seek some merit. But how can Huainan military prestige be so easy to borrow? The army of the peach leopard on the other side is definitely not the rogue bandits whose cognitive limit is these townsmen!

At this time, Guo Yu was so angry that he didn't even know how to scold these bold townsmen, and immediately asked people to capture all these people in the tent, and then searched out the token talisman for mobilizing the troops from each of them, and the envoys of each army mobilized their respective troops, and at the same time ordered the Huainan Army to assemble to the front line immediately.

Taking advantage of the rapid adjustment in the camp, Guo Yu led a hundred soldiers from the camp to the front line, looking solemnly at the Tiger Prison Pass City a few miles away. At this time, a large area of smoke and dust had been raised on the side of the Tiger Prison Pass, which was clearly a sign of a cavalry attack!

Seeing this scene, Guo Yu knew that the enemy had already planned to attack, so he could react so quickly. At present, the defense in front of the battle has almost been bulldozed by more than half, and if he gathers his troops here again, he will directly face the strong impact of the enemy's cavalry. At the moment, he didn't have to hesitate too much, and immediately sent another order to the battalion: "Give up the middle battalion, and the side camp will reorganize the army and wait for battle!" ”