Wednesday replied disapprovingly: "Naturally, there is no fate, but if we can keep Zunhua City, then Jiannu will inevitably be defeated, and all the land owned by the 36 departments should be returned to our country, and then are you afraid that there will be no land to grant land?" ”

Qu Neng looked at Wednesday with some surprise and said, "What if we fail to defeat Jiannu and Zunhua is lost?" ”

Wednesday Wei suddenly smiled and said: "If Zunhua is lost, I will definitely be no longer alive, and this problem will give the court a headache." ”

Qu Neng was suddenly speechless, and he said after a while: "Your courage is too big, I hope Your Majesty will not cut off your head after knowing what happened here." ”

Wednesday Wei replied with confidence: "As long as I can keep Zunhua City and frustrate the spirit of the Jiannu army, Your Majesty will naturally protect me, I am convinced of this." ”

"I hope so." Qu Neng immediately stood up and said to Wednesday: "The matter here is over, if Staff Officer Zhou still needs anything, just let Mr. Liu, who is guarding here, come over and report it." Now that the military situation is urgent, the subordinate will first go to the main town to give orders and prepare to defend the city. ”

Zhou Wei hurriedly got up and saluted back and said, "You go, if there is any order from Zhao Zongzhen, you can inform me at any time." I'll be here today, and I'll settle the affairs of the Security Department first..."

After Qu Neng left Wednesday's residence, he hurried to the General Administration near the North Gate and reported Wednesday's measures to Zhao Shujiao.

After Zhao Shujiao listened, he just pondered for a while, and then said to Qu Neng: "The matter is urgent, and what Staff Officer Zhou said is not wrong.

If he can really mobilize the strength of tens of thousands of people inside and outside Zunhua City, it will be a good thing for us. At least now we don't have to worry about sending troops to protect these people outside the city.

However, support is support, and according to the order, all affairs in the Zunhua area are now the responsibility of the official. I now have to devote my mind to dealing with the Houjin army, and I don't have much energy to entangle with the gentry and civil officials in the city.

Therefore, you take care of the points for me, don't let Staff Officer Zhou go overboard, and don't let Houjin attack the city before it is attacked, and the city will be in chaos first. ”

Qu Neng hurriedly agreed, and then asked with some doubts: "Dare to ask Lord Zongzhen, can the bridge outside the city be demolished?" ”

Zhao Shujiao replied without hesitation: "Demolish, why not demolish, except for the Tongyuan Bridge leading to Jizhou in the west, I will demolish everything else."

If the slave soldiers are thin in the city, and some people are frightened and flee to the city, then the hearts of the people in our city will be completely scattered, and what will they guard?

In addition, you must remember that you are the chief of staff of Jizhou Town, and after the materials inside and outside the city are collected and stored, you must be a good student, and don't let people carry them into your pockets, which is the last reliance we rely on to defend the city. With money and food, these soldiers can work hard..."

After sending Qu Neng away, Wednesday Wei immediately took action. Under the sign of the Garrison Department, he soon set up four organs, namely, the headquarters, the general staff, the logistics department, and the gendarmerie, and soon established an organizational structure with seven or eight intern staff officers from the capital and a few hundred households and general flags left to him by Qu Neng.

I took a new position as an officer of the Garrison Division, but I didn't feel much about the trainee staff officer from the capital. But for these hundred households and general banners, they were a little overjoyed with their new titles.

For these middle- and low-level military attachés, in addition to being able to bluff people in front of their own subordinates and ordinary people, they are just as submissive and dare not raise their voices in front of local big families and low-level civil officials.

Although some of them feel aggrieved in their hearts, as long as they think about those colleagues in Liaodong who can't go home, they can put it down in their hearts, at least Zunhua, where they are located, has not heard the sound of war drums for a long time, and they can still eat a mouthful of peaceful rice.

Moreover, since the new emperor ascended the throne, the treatment of the border troops has been significantly improved, and they have not been in arrears of salaries since last year, and the deductions of the officials have also been much reduced. This made the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town less resentful and a little more loyal to the emperor.

However, loyalty does not mean that these officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town are not afraid of death, as the rear of Liaodong, Nurhachi raised troops, and after the defeat of the Ming army in Liaodong, it is natural to transfer people from Jizhou Town.

But after these horses were transferred to Liaodong, they couldn't even recover their bones. The southern soldiers, who are known as the first in Jizhou Town's combat effectiveness, were even more seriously injured, and they couldn't even fight the independent battalion head.

Therefore, when they heard the news that the Houjin army made a detour to Xifengkou and entered the customs, the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town were still a little panicked. The officers and soldiers who were left by Qu Neng to fear Wednesday were even more worried, after all, they did not have an independent battalion to shelter from the wind and rain now, and once the war started, they would inevitably be filled in the most dangerous places, but they might not be able to get any combat achievements.

Therefore, before the arrival of Wednesday, these southern soldiers had already been fluctuating in their hearts, and they had no desire to fight. If it weren't for Wednesday's fearful opening of the mouth, Zhao Shujiao would have planned to send these southern soldiers to the outer fortresses.

Now Wednesday Wei has asked these people over, and a battalion of the garrison department has been set up, and these southern soldiers will not only not be dismantled and used, but can also manage the security work in the inner city. It also meant that they wouldn't be the first to be thrown into battle against the demonic slaves in the storyteller's mouth, which made the military attaches quickly move closer to the Wednesday Guard and the Garrison Division.

To a certain extent, the most supportive of Wednesday's strategy of requisitioning the whole city to go out of the city and defend it to the death are these officers and soldiers of the southern army. If these young men do not go out of the city to fight, then they will be at the forefront, and they are really not ready in the face of this choice of life and death.

The idea of letting the young men of the city come out first to block it immediately won their support. After Wednesday decided on his position, these officers and soldiers, who were still a little listless, suddenly became a little more energetic.

On Wednesday, Wei had just sorted out the organizational structure, and Su Ran, who had finished inspecting the terrain around Zunhua City, had arrived.

Wednesday Wei suddenly put down the affairs in his hand and hurriedly walked out of the lobby to greet the junior of the military academy. The other people who came with him all took the initiative to come by themselves, but only this Su Ran was forced to come to Zunhua because of his pleading.

Facing Zhou Wei, who greeted him with a smile on his face, Su Ran shook his head with a roll of paper and said with a bitter smile: "Senior Brother Zhou, I was really brought into the pit by you this time, and the nearest Houjin army is less than a day's distance from Zunhua, do we still have time to build a position outside the city?" ”

Wednesday smiled and said, "Even if there is really something wrong at that time, I will arrange for someone to escort my junior brother out of here."

However, isn't the current situation the best proof of the importance of field fortifications as mentioned by the junior disciples?

If you can guarantee Zunhua City, junior brother, your proposition will naturally outweigh that group of advocates of building fortresses. ”

Su Ran paused slightly, then nodded and said, "This is true, but when will you be able to master the manpower outside the city, so that I can start arranging the construction of fortifications?" Every hour of delay now threatens to ruin all our plans. ”

Wednesday immediately said: "It depends on where you start to build the fortifications, so that I can sort out a clue first." ”

Su Ran walked a few steps quickly, walked into the lobby, spread the drawings in his hand on the table, and then said to Zhou Wei, who followed him: "This is a sketch of the outside of the city that I just drew after walking around the city wall.

In addition to a moat around Zunhua City, there is a Shahe River not far from the southeast corner, and there is a small river in a north-south direction four or five miles to the west, with hills in the north and a gentle slope in the northwest.

The dwellings in the northwest are more soothing, while the dwellings in the southeast are more dense. The east side is less than 2 miles from the city wall, and there are three layers of bastions between two square steps.

If Jiannu wants Bocheng, he must first pack up an open field and come out. Therefore, the northwest and west sides are the most conducive to the construction of slaves to build camps and build fortresses to attack the city wall, followed by the north.

There is a sand river in the south, which makes it difficult to deploy troops. There were two fortresses on the east side that supported each other, and without uprooting them, Jiannu would not be able to attack the city.

Therefore, it is imperative to completely destroy the streets of the city to the northwest and west, and to build passages and fire zones between the houses, so as to turn these houses into small towns that can only be passed through from the inside.

The houses on both sides of the avenue were sealed with their gates closed, leaving only the shooting ports, and all the furniture in these houses was thrown into the streets and alleys as barricades.

In this way, Jiannu had to abandon the cavalry charge and first enter the neighborhood with infantry to clear the attackers. How much Houjin's blood can be consumed in this city two or three miles outside the city depends on the ability of your subordinates, Senior Brother, and the determination of the commander of Jiannu. ”

Wednesday Wei lowered his head and thought for a moment, then replied: "You can rest assured, before the sun goes down, I will make the northwest city and the southeast city corner move..."

At noon on October 27, Huang Taiji took Dai Shan and all the Manchurian nobles and walked into the north gate of Hongshankou Pass on horseback, as if they were just out for an outing.

On both sides of the streets in the city, in addition to the Jurchen armor standing guards, there were hundreds of Ming ** people kneeling on both sides of the road, sticking their heads tightly to the ground, not daring to make a slight movement.

The guards of Hongshankou knelt in the middle of the road, holding a stack of papers in high hands to surrender to the Great Khan of the Later Jin.

Huang Taiji asked people to take the book and glance at it, and then handed it to the guards who followed him. After he comforted the trembling general with a few good words, he said loudly to the Ming people kneeling on both sides of the road: "Ben Khan broke through the pass this time, not to plunder and kill you, but really the son of heaven of the country acted too unjustly.

Last year, the Son of Heaven signed a peace treaty with Dajin, stipulating that the two countries would be friendly and would not raise troops again. However, before the ink dried, the Son of Heaven sent people to harass my military and civilians at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and wrote a book in China to slander my Jurchen background in Jianzhou.

As the saying goes, it is tolerable, but it is intolerable. In the past, our country was loyal and obedient to the border, Ye He and I are the same country, and the Ming Lord sheltered Ye He and me, and there were seven hatreds. I know that I am incompatible in the end, so I sue Tianxing Master. Heaven is straight to my country, and I am given the land east of the river.

After that, Emperor Taizu made peace with the people and rested with the people. The kingdom did not obey, and heaven gave me the land west of the river. Now I am a teacher, those who follow will be touched, and those who are against will be punished. It was Erjun who was good at fighting, and the king of Yur killed Er. The cycle of heavenly fortune is endless, there is the Son of Heaven and is the husband, and there is also the Son of Heaven and the Son of Heaven.

Ruoerguo Tianzi repaired the book to apologize, banned the destruction of evil books, and compensated for the losses of the military and civilians of Heilongjiang. Then I will lead the troops back, and the two countries will be reconciled, and each will live and work in peace and contentment. Otherwise, I should lead the troops under the city and ask the Son of Heaven for the sin. ”