After more than ten days, a large number of people cut down trees on Longshan, dig up stones and transport them back, the logs on the Longshui River continue to float down the river, in the south of Weizhou 20 miles the people rushed to repair a simple wharf, dozens of people stood in the chest-deep river water to intercept the wood that drifted down, and then the convoy pushed by the horse-drawn people on the shore was sent to the city along the official road.

In order to save the time of coming and going, Su Jin asked Ge Huaimin to send hundreds of military logistics soldiers to cook and eat on the spot on Longshan, and at night the people set up simple tents to rest on the mountain.

After nearly half a month of such a big work, a small square in the south of Weizhou City is already piled up with a mountain of wood, and large stones are also piled up in a mountain, where women, children, old people and children sort out and classify the trees, cut off the excess branches, and classify and stack them according to their size and thickness.

At the same time, on the third day of felling and taking stones, the urn city of the north city gate also began to start, the ant-like people dug the foundation and rammed the earth and began to build an urn city with a length and width of more than 20 zhang around the north city gate, the strength of the people is great, the foundation has been dug after seven or eight days, and the wall of more than one person high has been built; It's just that because Su Jin and Ge Huaimin are not very concerned, the design of the city wall of this urn city is nearly a zhang shorter than the main city wall, and the width has shrunk by half, because the urn city is actually how much of a role it can play, and both of them have no bottom in their hearts.

The reason why we want to build an urn city is to hope that it will help the city defense, and more importantly, Su Jin's words: the people are idle and idle, and finding something to keep everyone busy can reduce the pressure on public security, and can also take the opportunity to distribute some wages and food to the people to calm the people's hearts.

Su Jin's plan is that as long as the western thieves do not come to disturb them, they will take advantage of the summer time to get more wood and stones back to the city, and when the river becomes less and the weather becomes colder after the autumn is cool, not only is it not easy to cut down wood and take stones, which will delay the construction progress of the houses in the city, and the northwest in winter is naturally very cold and severe, not only need to shelter the house from the wind and snow, but also need to burn a lot of charcoal for heating, which must be prepared in advance.

On this day, Su Jin, Ge Huaimin and others came to the foot of Longshan to inspect the site of logging and stone extraction, and at a glance, the trees on the slopes east of Longshan had been cut down, leaving only dwarf shrubs and small trees growing on the bare slopes. Su Jin couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, the serious soil erosion in the northwest in later generations was due to the destruction of vegetation, it seems that this also has its own credit, but Su Jin does not have too much sentimentality, in this era, these resources are irreplaceable, can only be taken from nature, and it is a big deal to call people to plant trees in the future.

"Lord Su, I see that the wood and stones are almost the same, should we withdraw people to the city, the scout team has sent an alarm in the past few days, the western thieves have gathered about 100,000 troops and are ready to go, and they don't know the direction of the attack yet, but the defense in the city can't be relaxed for a moment, I think it's better to let the people go back, and I have to wait for the whole army." Ge Huaimin said.

Su Jin knew that Ge Huaimin wanted to shrink the four or five thousand soldiers sent out to guard the people back into the city, after all, there were only 20,000 soldiers in Weizhou City, this time in order to ensure safety, Ge Huaimin sent five thousand people to patrol and guard day and night, and the soldiers were also a little tired, and if the big war came, they still needed to rest for a few days.

"It seems that a great war cannot be avoided, well, in three days the minfu will be withdrawn, and in the last three days; In addition, General Ge, I don't know much about military matters, but since you and I are guarding Weizhou City together, I have to talk about some things, I hope you don't be surprised. Su Jin said politely.

"Lord Su said it, there is no need to be so polite, I said it a long time ago, everything is based on the orders of the adults, and my old Ge follows the adults."

Su Jin said with a smile: "Then I will say it bluntly, according to my understanding for so many days, I think there are still loopholes in our city defense of Weizhou, as far as I know, there seems to be no walled city north of Weizhou, in fact, we will concentrate everyone in Weizhou City, that is, we will abandon a large area of in-depth defense, and if the western thieves do not come, they will come to the city, and there seems to be no delay in the middle, right?" ”

Ge Huaimin said: "That's true, this is also no way, only Weizhou Jiancheng can be defended, can only rely on this place to resist the enemy, in fact, to be honest, even Weizhou City may not be able to hold on, but what we need is to hold on and wait for help, once the war starts, just hold on for more than ten days, Huanqing Qinfeng and other reinforcements will come to support the siege, hold on for ten days or even a few months I am still very sure." ”

Su Jin pondered: "Actually, this is a passive strategy, I'm not saying that Lord Fan's strategy is not good, in fact, Lord Fan's method is very right, but for my Weizhou, it is completely possible to build a walled city in the narrow area of Longshan Pass north of Weizhou." ”

Ge Huaimin was stunned and said, "What's the use of that?" The small walled city could not stop the attack of the army of thieves at all, and it was just a waste of manpower. ”

Su Jin shook his head and said: "No, it seems to be so, but in fact, this is an active defense strategy, think about it, if the soldiers of the Western Thieves can't drive straight in, if they are under the city of Weizhou, they must first conquer the walled cities along the way, what does that mean to us?" ”

Ge Huaimin was puzzled: "What does it mean?" ”

Su Jin was a little ridiculous, it seems that this Ge Huaimin is brave but doesn't like to use his brain, Su Jin doesn't think much about the detour, so he said: "It means that we have plenty of time to deal with it, if the Xixia soldiers are blocked and delayed on the road for more than ten days, we can know the news early, then we can ask the reinforcements to arrive in advance, without having to stick to the help, one less risk of the reinforcements being intercepted halfway, and you can also take the initiative to set a trap to catch him off guard, the West Thief thought that we only had 20,000 people, But in fact, when they arrived at the city of Weizhou, we already had an army of 50,000 or even 100,000, wouldn't that make them chaotic? ”

Ge Huaimin said slowly: "It seems that there is some truth, but at present, when the situation is tense, it will take at least a few months to build a walled city to defend against the enemy, and I am afraid that it is inappropriate to say these things at this moment." ”

Su Jin said: "I don't mean to build now, but to say that it must be built in the future, to build more than ten camps in the north of Weizhou, layer by layer of cover, forming a cross-strangulation trend, the west thief soldiers do not come, if you come must first consume sharp energy and energy on these walls, just like the ripples of the lake, the initial is very imposing, but after layers of obstacles, it is the end of the strong crossbow under the city of Weizhou, how important is the morale of the two armies, I don't need to say it." ”

Ge Huaimin's eyes widened and said: "This is not bad, the Western Thief soldiers give me the feeling that they are very imposing, and our soldiers are much more demoralized compared to them." ”

Su Jin said: "That's because they haven't experienced too many blows, every time they come to my Song realm to disturb them, it's like walking in their own backyard, they don't come to attack the strong city, and we don't dare to go out to fight, so they disdain my Great Song soldiers; Duoduo establishes a mutual support network of walled cities, a small group of western thieves will work together to annihilate when they enter the country, and the attack of large groups of men and horses can be blocked layer by layer, giving the main city behind enough time to prepare, this is what I mean. ”

Ge Huaimin pointed tall and said: "Lord Su's insight in the war is also stronger than mine, my old Ge is convinced, I just think that the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, but I will never think of a way to demolish the opponent's morale and combat the opponent's arrogance, this should be a plan to attack the heart." ”

Su Jin smiled: "Don't brag about me, I'm just speculating, it's not easy to say, but it's not a loss for us, it's nothing more than the manpower spent on building a walled city, they destroyed us and built it again, anyway, we have a lot of ......"

Ge Huaimin said: "Idle is also idle......"

Su Jin laughed and said, "Yes, being idle is also idle." ”

Su Jin said again: "The walled city can't be built now, but you can build the beacon tower in the north first, that doesn't need much effort, just send two cavalry to wait every day, at least we can know the enemy's movements faster, and we don't need to wait for the news of the scouts every day, if the direction of the attack is Weizhou, at least we will know the news a hundred miles away." ”

Ge Huaimin said: "I'll do it immediately." ”

Su Jin put forward several suggestions, and talked about it, but it also solved a lot of doubts about military affairs in Su Jin's heart, and Ge Huaimin was also impressed by Su Jin's keen observation, many places that he had never thought of at all, as soon as Su Jin brought it up, he suddenly realized, which not only convinced Ge Huaimin, but also made Ge Huaimin embarrassed.

The two rode out of the mountain pass, and rode forward from afar, shouting from afar, "Where is Lord Su?" Where is Lord Su? ”

Su Jin was startled, and he was very anxious when he heard the shout, could something not happen?

Ma Han said in a loud voice: "What are you shouting about? The prefect is here? ”

The cavalryman said in a loud voice: "Please go back to the palace quickly, someone has come to the capital." ”

Su Jin was first surprised, and then rejoiced: "It's finally here, it must be the emperor's holy decree that has arrived." General Ge, let's go and take the order quickly. ”

Ge Huaimin's brain buzzed, if the holy decree arrived, it was also the time to judge his fate, Su Jin naturally understood his mood, patted him on the shoulder and said: "General Ge, the ugly daughter-in-law will eventually see her in-laws, I will do everything I can for you, and the emperor will not punish him too much; In fact, if I say something you don't like, you dare to act and dare to be a real man, and you don't need to think too much at the moment. ”

Ge Huaimin sighed and said: "Master Su's lesson is that let's go to the order immediately, I only ask the emperor to let me make meritorious service, now that the war is about to start, I really want to prove my loyalty and repentance to the court in this battle, but I beg the emperor to give me a chance to prove it." ”

Su Jin laughed, whipped the horse and galloped away.