"Forget it, forgot! Now I can only ask for blessing from Lu Zu!" Wang Ziwu sighed and asked, "The two soldiers under his command will be stationed in the South Gate. I will send people to you for rewards!" After that, he was about to get up and leave.

Zhou Ping and Chang Zongtian looked at each other and said, "Wang Tongjun, I don't plan to station the army and the city!"

"Don't plan to station the army in the city?" Wang Ziwu widened his eyes: "Then where are you?"

"Outside the south gate!" Zhou Ping replied: "I have seen the terrain in the end. I plan to build a small village outside the city gate to guard these 800 people here!"

"No!" Wang Ziwu shouted loudly, "There is no reason to go outside the city to guard the village!" Speaking of this, he felt that his tone was too stiff. After all, he was asking for the efforts of these guest soldiers now. Moreover, he thought that Zhou Ping and his team stationed outside the city to run away when they saw that the situation was not good. He coughed and explained, "Two, you don't know that there are many people in the square thief now. If the army really arrived, they would definitely surrounded Xiuzhou City, both inside and outside the city."

Zhou Ping heard the other party's meaning and smiled and said, "The army commander, we stationed outside the city not for the convenience of escape, but for the better defense. As the saying goes, "Where to attack and defend, the only way is to defend; only defend but not attack will eventually be a waste." This Xiuzhou City is only five or six miles long. If we wait for these 800 people, what's the difference between waiting for these 800 people if we wait for these 800 people. But if we set up a village outside the city, we can block the city gates, and secondly, we can attack when the thieves are exhausted. Although there are many thieves, they have not been trained after all. There will definitely be many opportunities to take advantage of them."

Wang Ziwu looked at Zhou Ping with a firm look, knowing that it would be difficult for him to convince the other party, so he had to turn his eyes to Chang Zongtian and ask, "What do you mean by Chang Yuhou?"

Chang Zongtian said in a deep voice: "I don't know what I saw with Zhou Jianguan!"

Wang Ziwu looked at Zhou Ping, then at Chang Zongtian. He knew that he could not change their decision, and sighed and said, "I have to do this. I hope Grandpa Lu Zu can bless him to repel the thieves!"

"Grandpa Lu Zu?" When he came out of the door, Zhou Ping murmured to himself in confusion. Chang Zongtian, who was standing beside him, sneered: "Even Chun Yangzi, the official family believes in Taoism. Many people believe in this thing in the world. But how can wars refer to clay puppets in the Taoist temple?"

Zhou Ping then realized that the "Grandpa Lu Zu" mentioned by Wang Ziwu just now was Lu Dongbin, one of the "Eight Immortals". As an atheist, he naturally scoffed at those things, but he didn't expect that Wang Ziwu was a court official. He should not be a fool in the countryside. He believed in these things. Thinking of this, he asked in a low voice: "Chang Yuhou, don't you believe in these things?"

"Of course I don't believe it!" Chang Zongtian rolled his eyes and patted the sword on his waist: "Some family believes in this. The good fortunes earned by his life with one sword and one shot in the battle formation. If this thing is useful, the court will use our Western Army. There are hundreds of Taoist temples in Bianjing alone, and all the Taoist officials in it will be dispatched to pacify Fang La. After sanctioning Fang La, he will also quell the Khitan dogs and the Western thieves, saving the troubles of a certain family." Speaking of this, he looked at Zhou Ping up and down and said, "If you believe in this thing, you would say it long ago. I will take the troops away first, so as not to be with the kind of soft guy who only knows how to pray to Gods and Buddhas all day long, and he will be unlucky when fighting!"

"Of course I don't believe it!" Zhou Ping replied quickly. He didn't expect Chang Zongtian to be so fierce. If this guy really left, he would really have no way to deal with him. After all, the other party was a real Western Army, and he was just a miscellaneous army.

"That's good!" Chang Zongtian nodded: "I don't think it looks like it. At least you know how to set up a village outside the city, attack and defense, and have some courage. If you, as Wang Tongjun said, station thousands of soldiers in the city, and then you will be surrounded by thieves and fight, there will be no place to move, that would be a problem."

Zhou Ping was amused and laughed by Chang Zongtian's praising, and I don't know if he should be humble or what.

"It's been a while since Fang's thief took Hangzhou. I guess it's been the case in the past few days." Chang Zongtian and Zhou Ping climbed up the south gate and pointed to the empty Chengguan under the city and said: "I'll let the civilians demolish all these houses later, so the materials are used to repair the village. By the way, Zhou Jianguan, how do you plan to repair it?"

Zhou Ping looked at the terrain outside the city gate, estimated the terrain, and smiled and said, "I have a ready-made idea, please ask Chang Yuhou to take it out." Speaking of this, Zhou Ping said to Luo Sheer who was following him: "Come the painted tube!"

While talking, Zhou Ping took out a scroll from the paintblock and unfolded it in front of Chang Zongtian. When Chang Zongtian saw it, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide in surprise. After a while, he whispered: "Your picture is so strange. This is the first time in your life that a family has seen it!"

"This is what I have figured out by myself. How do you look at the painting?" Zhou Ping smiled and pointed to the plan, sectional view, and elevation view on the drawing scroll. This drawing that can correctly reflect the size, shape and projection of the building is the basic skill of a college student in the later years. With this drawing, you can not only clearly express the shape of the building, but also clearly indicate the project quantity, the manpower, material resources, and time required. This is undoubtedly an eye-opening for a military man in the Song Dynasty.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Chang Zongtian praised three times, and his eyes looked at Zhou Ping became respectful: "When a certain family was in the Western Army, they did the most to cover the civilians and build cities and villages. The terrain there was rugged, water sources were lacking, and the army was unable to move. If you repaired the village in advance and occupied a dangerous place for water sources, then you would be in an invincible place. But what you fear most was that you were not sure about the calculations. You had to repair it in advance for fifteen days, but you had arrived.

The location of the civil servants was not enough, and it had not been repaired in twenty days. The Western thieves forced them up, but the army had no city to support them. If one is not good, the entire army would be wiped out, and the soldiers and civil servants would be gone. With your drawing, how many people should be used for a village, how much time and how much materials should be used, even a fool could figure it out." Speaking of this, Chang Zongtian shook his head and sighed: "If I had this thing in the early years, how many people would have been killed!"

"Then why not bring more civilians?" Luo Sheer, who was standing beside him, said in his mouth.

Chang Zongtian rolled his eyes and sneered: "You are stupid! Where do you bring more food and drinks to the people? Do you pull it out?"

"You-!" Luo Sheer's face turned red immediately, and Zhou Ping coughed, "Sheer, the west is not like the Central Plains, with dense population and rich household registration. The terrain over there is rugged and there are very few people. Every grain of food and grass must be transported from people to carry horses. One more person in front and ten people will be served by him."

"Well, Zhou Jian is a sensible person!" Chang Zongtian raised his thumbs up: "It's much better than those big headscarves. He knows the difficulties of fighting and will not act randomly. He doesn't take our martial arts life seriously! It seems that the king's chief did not choose the wrong person!"

"Chang Yuhou praised it!" Zhou Ping smiled slightly: "I am in the army and there are many things that are worse than Yuhou. Please give me some more tips!"

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Speaking of this, Chang Zongtian had a little more smile on his face, and his black face looked a lot more touching. He pointed to the drawing and asked, "Zhou Jianye, the style of this city is very strange. I have never seen it before. I hope the city will explain it." It turned out that the shape of the village was different from the appearance of most cities at that time. At the bottom was the South Gate of Xiuzhou, which stretched out three sharp corners to the outside. The village gate was at the root of the sharp corners, showing an irregular polygon.

"It seems that this kind of fortification in the Song Dynasty has not yet appeared." Zhou Ping thought to himself, but smiled on his face: "This is what I saw from an ancient book, so I took it out. Please ask Mr. Yu to mention it."

"I dare not take it!" After seeing Zhou Ping's new drawing method, Chang Zongtian's attitude changed drastically: "I see that these sharp corners have a bit of a horse's face."

"This Chang Zongtian is indeed fighting an old battle in the west!" Zhou Ping praised in his heart: "You can see the key points at a glance." It turns out that in ancient times, the focus of the battle between the offensive and defensive sides was the city gate, because the city gate was the most convenient transportation route inside and outside the city. Only by controlling the city gate can the attacking side continuously put troops into the city, and at the same time, it also cut off the possibility of the defender's counterattack through the city gate. Therefore, various defensive fortifications such as the urn city, horse face, watchtower, sheep and horse wall are generally set up near the city gate. The advantage of Zhou Ping's city is that if the enemy wants to attack the village gate, it must be trapped under the firepower on both sides of the sharp corners, and the village gate will be well protected.

"Yu Hou is indeed a discerning person!" Zhou Ping stretched out his hand and stroked it on the drawings: "If the bandits attack the camp, they will definitely come to the gate of the village. At that time, tens of thousands of crossbows on both sides will be launched at the same time, and even if there are many people coming, it will be difficult for him to come and go!"

"Yes, yes! That's exactly what it means!" Chang Zongtian rubbed his hands and asked, "What if Fang Zhe besieged the sharp corner?"

"That sharp corner is so big that there are ten thousand people in Fangzhe, and only a dozen of them can be used. Even if they capture the sharp corner, there is a tower behind them. Then, with a block of refusal and dozens of powerful crossbows, even the gods will be shot to death!" At this point, Zhou Ping paused: "It's just that this kind of camp requires more personnel than ordinary people!"

"What's the matter!" Chang Zongtian smiled and said, "Behind it is Xiuzhou City, which can mobilize tens of thousands of civilians at any time. Are you still afraid that the King of Dutong will not give you it? Don't worry about materials or anything. If it really doesn't work, you can demolish the house inside."

"Tear down the house?" Zhou Ping was startled to say to Chang Zongtian: "Isn't that good?"
Chapter completed!