Ren Zhong's arms were bare, and he held the mallet tightly in both hands. He stood opposite another worker. The mallet in his hand swung in a large circle, and then fell heavily into the two plywood in front of him.

The two of them cooperated in a tacit understanding, one after another, turning the loose loess into a solid wall one by one.

Here, it used to be an important border town that made the Liao people daunted, and the Tianmen Village that made the Liao people insurmountable and sighing, but now, only the ruins are left.

When the Liao people withdrew across the Juma River, Tianmen Village was completely burned down by fire. Even the city wall was completely destroyed by them.

After the Song Army took over, it had to be rebuilt.

Tianmenzhai is located at a strategic point. By guarding this place, we can guard the main route for the Liao people to invade the south. Most importantly, we can also control the upper, middle and lower bridges on the Juma River.

When the Liao people occupied these lands on the south bank, they euphemistically claimed to promote trade between the two sides and make exchanges between the two sides more convenient. Therefore, they built a permanent wooden bridge and two pontoon bridges on the Juma River. The three bridges were separated from each other.

Fifty miles.

Tianmen Village happens to be guarding the middle of them.

The importance of status is evident.

Ren Zhong is already in his early thirties. He used to be a member of the border army. In the battle seven years ago, his Guangxin Army was defeated by the Liao Army and the entire army collapsed. Their leader Qin Kuan also

He was beheaded by the then coach Cui Ang in the name of missing a military plane.

Ren Zhong still remembered that when some of their defeated troops fled back to Damingfu City with great difficulty, what they saw was their general's head, hanging high on the city wall.

They were so frightened that they no longer dared to enter the city, nor did they dare to identify themselves as border soldiers, so they simply fled.

They remained anonymous until Cui Ang left and Ma Xing took office, and they ushered in the day of success.

After Ma Xing took office as the pacifier, the first thing he did was to recruit the former border army officers and soldiers.

As long as he is willing to return to the team, he will immediately receive a settlement allowance of fifty guan.

Ren Zhong returned to the army at that time. At that time, he had just married his mother-in-law, was a widow, and had a son. His husband was also a member of the frontier army, but unfortunately he died in the battle.

The widow had a child and had difficulty making ends meet, while Ren Zhong was also alone, so he lived together in one place.

But it was really difficult in Hebei at that time.

It is really difficult to support a family with just one effort.

So after Ren Zhong heard about this incident, he joined the army again.

Not only for the fifty guan, but also for the new pacifier's promise to give veterans like them a stipend of monthly military pay.

This money is enough for the family to survive.

And that fifty dollars can still buy more than ten acres of land.

In Hebei, which had just experienced great chaos, land was not expensive.

Ma Xing spent a lot of money to recruit these veterans because he listened to Wang Jun's advice.

Ma Xing, who was transferred from the Shaanxi Road pacification envoy to the Hebei Road pacification envoy, really took over a mess. Although some forbidden troops were transferred from various places and the Xiang soldiers reorganized the Hebei road army, over the years, the soldiers from all over the Song Dynasty

The Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army are all in terrible condition. Even the Fourth Army is vulnerable, let alone the armies in other places.

In order to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the army, Wang Jun came up with this idea.

When King Jing was in Hebei, the total number of troops on the roadside was more than 100,000. Among them, the most elite troops, like the Guangrui Army, numbered six or seven, totaling about 30,000 to 40,000 people.

Although these people later left and collapsed, there must be quite a few scattered among the people.

The implementation of this policy did recruit many frontier soldiers to return to the army, and their return also laid a solid foundation for Ma Xing to reorganize the Hebei Road New Army.

But what Ma Xing and Wang Jun didn't expect was that there was another person competing with them for these border troops scattered all over the place.

This person is Qin Min.

When King Jing of Bianliang rebelled, he relied on these border troops who had rushed over from Hebei.

After this incident, Ma Xing once cursed Qin Min because Qin Min buried the last elite of the Hebei frontier army in the capital.

It's a pity that after the scolding, Ma Xing was also very sad.

What can be done?

Back then, if Qin Min and the thousands of border troops had not gone to help King Jing rebel, but had come to Hebei Road to look for him, would he have accepted him?

Asking himself, Ma Xing felt that he didn't know how to do it.

Because Cui Ang was very popular in front of the emperor at that time, and the emperor was using him to attack those who dared to challenge him, so he would not offend Cui Ang because of Qin Min.

I will accept those thousands of border troops, but I will definitely not accept Qin Min.

Not arresting him would be my greatest kindness to him.

Of course, from his own perspective, Ma Xing felt that Qin Min was wrong.

Later, after Qin Min defected to the Liao Kingdom and became the commander of the Liao Shan Army, Ma Xing became extremely drunk.

The Song Dynasty created one powerful enemy after another for itself.

There is Xiao Ding in the northwest, and now there is Qin Min in the north.

They were all invincible generals of the Song Dynasty, and they all once made the people of Liao feared.

But now, they have all become enemies of the Song Dynasty.

The border troops of the Song Dynasty trembled when they heard their names.

How could this happen?

There must be something wrong with Da Song.

Ma Xing thought about it, but he never dared to think or admit that something was wrong with their emperor.

Therefore, his conclusion could only be that treacherous ministers were in power and deceived Sheng Cong.

These treacherous ministers include not only Cui Ang but also Xia Jie.

Ren Zhong was sweating like rain.

As a frontier soldier, he naturally knew about the glorious past of Tianmen Village. He also admired the soldiers who fought here and wanted to compete with them to see who could kill more Liao people.

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It is a pity that all these have become the moon in the mirror and the flowers in the water.

Now, he is already a battalion general, with five hundred soldiers under his command. These soldiers were all trained by him one by one, and they are no worse than those brothers back then.

But now they had to put down their swords and guns and pick up the gavel to build the city wall.

Because all nearby residents were coerced by the Liao people and retreated to the north bank of the Juma River, the number of newly recruited corvees was far from enough, and the construction of the city wall was very slow, which made the superiors very dissatisfied.

An order came down, and these soldiers must also join in. Every three days, they must help repair the city wall where they are stationed for one day.

In fact, in order to make the big shots more satisfied, the generals at the top did not work one day out of three, but were on the city wall every day.

Because the superiors are sending people to inspect the progress of the city wall construction every day.

Those who make fast progress will be praised, and those who make slow progress will be reprimanded.

And this news was also heard after Ren Zhong, as the camp general, complained to the camp general that his soldiers should not be allowed to give up patrols and training in order to build the city wall.

There is nothing anyone can do!

Ren Zhong didn't understand why the superiors were so anxious to build these walls?

These fortresses, including Tianmen Village, were all for defense against the Liao people.

Didn’t the Song Dynasty just sign a peace agreement with the Liao people?

Didn’t the Liao people just evacuate?

Why is there such a rush to build it?

Isn’t it possible to cultivate slowly?

Ren Zhong couldn't understand that his position dictated that he could only obey orders.

He has always been a battalion general who is considerate of his subordinates, except on the training ground and when performing missions, so he naturally does things like building city walls.

Every time he repaired a section, he would poke it with the tip of a knife. From now on, this place would be his station. Maybe the Liao people would attack again. It would be good for him to build it stronger.

On the plains of Hebei, the greatest asset of the Song Dynasty against the Liao people was the city wall.

Maybe, this is what the big shots at the top are worried about?

After all, there is only one enemy on the Hebei Road, and that is the Liao people.

Ren Zhong misses the frontier army very much.

A command, a team of 3,000 people, six battle camps, including one cavalry battalion and five infantry battalions. After the infantry formed a military formation, they dared to press against the Liao cavalry. And the 500 cavalry were scattered on both wings,

Advance and retreat suddenly.

Can this still be done now?

Ren Zhong doesn't know.

He felt that the soldiers under his command could do it, but there was a question mark as to whether the soldiers in other battalions could do it.

Moreover, it seems that the current generals in charge of the army are not as powerful as the frontline generals in the past.
To be continued...