"Did you hit a mother-in-law?" As soon as Li Dan returned to the Central Army, he heard people talking about it. He didn't understand it for a while. When he saw Zhou Qin, he asked him:
"Are you the mother-in-law or the aunt? Whose family do you belong to? How dare you violate discipline and do this?" The difference between one word is huge. The mother-in-law may be an unmarried woman, while the aunt is definitely married.
Li Dan asked this question because he was afraid that his impulsiveness might lead to some conflict between the army and the people, which would be bad.
But looking at the playful and smiling faces of all the people around him, he suddenly felt relieved and felt that the matter was not serious.
"Hey, don't worry, Sanlang, it's okay!" Wu Mao touched his nose next to him and said:
"It's just that when Zhou Ying was meeting, he took a girl out for a morning walk. They talked to each other for a while, and then the girl got into a fight with Lao Zhou. That's all."
"Who wins and who loses?" Li Dan glanced at the cloth band wrapped around his shoulder.
"Even if it's a tie." Zhou Qin was embarrassed to be surrounded by so many people and whispered: "She hit me with a dart, and I hit her with an axe."
"You've already used an axe, how can it still be a draw?"
"Well, I don't know exactly. It seems like it hit her, not cut her."
"Zhou Yingzheng cherishes this person and refuses to kill him!" someone said, which immediately caused laughter in the room.
"Who said that? It's nothing!" Zhou Qin blushed and said.
"Okay, okay, don't make any noise!" Mr. Ba waved his hand and asked everyone to quiet down, and then said:
"Defense, we just made a guess. It is estimated that the one injured by Zhou Ying is Lou Zishi's concubine, Feng Qiniang, who is known as Jin.
When Judge Wu came back, he said that the reinforcements coming from Guangxin this time were led by this girl."
"Tie Lou has a concubine who can lead troops? This is rare!" Li Dan suddenly thought that Zhou Qin had hurt this bitch, and maybe Lou Zi would raise an army to take revenge.
"The man was injured as soon as he arrived. If it is true, the thieves' morale will definitely be damaged, and they may not be able to launch an attack today. Each village must seize the opportunity to improve the fortifications and actively prepare for war.
I just walked around everywhere, and there are a few key points that need to be adjusted, as well as manpower allocation. Come, let’s go to the sand table to discuss..."
Mao Zaidi waited until Li Dan finished talking about the main things and everyone began to disperse, then he pulled off his sleeves and whispered: "Feng San is back." Then he murmured toward the inner tent.
Li Dan nodded, told him to ask Feng San to wait, and then stopped Zhou Qin who was about to leave, telling him not to leave yet.
Then let Zhang Bo go to Ah Lian to ask for a sewing needle and silk thread.
It turned out that because A Lian refused to go home, Zhang Bo sent her to Xishan and entrusted her to live with a family named Xu. He then sent five kilograms of rice to his home and asked Wu Mao to take time to check the old man's pulse and perform acupuncture once a day.
, I took a pair of herbal medicines, and now the situation has improved a lot.
Zhang Bo heard that he had a chance to see Alian, so he actively accepted the mission and ran there in person. Li Dan then entered the tent to talk to Feng San first.
"How is the situation in Guangxin and Shangrao? Tell me quickly!" Li Dan smiled and pulled up Feng San, who was about to salute, and pressed him on the bamboo stool. He was actually quite anxious to understand the situation.
Feng San never replied, and some people began to whisper whether he might have slipped back to the rebel army, or had an accident along the way. Now that he was safe, Li Dan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, it's hard to explain in words!" Feng San smiled bitterly:
"My subordinates traveled all the way over mountains and ridges, it's nothing. I didn't expect that they didn't believe what I said and even put my subordinates in jail.
If it hadn't been for the one who besieged the city last night who suddenly led some people to break camp and go north, my subordinates would still be in prison at the garrison."
"Oh? Then you saw the county magistrate and the guards?"
"I saw you, first I saw Mr. Guo Xianzun, but he said that I looked like a thief and should not be trusted... I'm in bad luck!" Li Dan couldn't help laughing as he listened to him continue:
"Later, Sun Shoubei came to pick me up in prison and said it was all a misunderstanding. He asked us in detail about the situation here, the number of baggage, carriages and horses, the number of escorts, the chief officer, and what happened on the road.
His subordinates told him in detail how Lingyan Temple defeated the enemy. He was very happy to hear that Fengqiguan was defended. But...,"
He raised his eyes and looked at Li Dan: "He said that there were only 800 official troops and more than a thousand improvised militia groups in Guangxin City, and they were barely able to defend the city and were unable to retreat from the enemy.
There are still more than a thousand thieves outside the city, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to help us."
Li Dan lowered his head to think about it and asked, "Does he know about Shangrao's situation?"
"Shangrao is still surrounded by the Lou bandits, but they are not surrounded to death. Lou Zi's old camp was in the east of the city, and he sent a general named Yin Tuo to occupy Jiyang Mountain, the commanding heights in the north, and confront the officers and soldiers of Fengshan Village.
There have been recent enemy naval activities on Xinjiang and Fengxi, so the waterway to the south has been basically cut off.
According to Sun Shoubei, the enemy navy has transported hundreds of enemies to Longtan Temple on the north bank of the Xinjiang River, blocking the ferry opposite Fenghuang Ferry. Now they can only cross the Lixi River from Xiaban, and then enter Fengning through the waterway at the east gate of Shuizhai.
Jiyang Gate behind the palace.
No matter what, the bandits cannot cut off this road, unless they have a way to remove the water camp!"
"Why, is there still a water camp in Shangrao?"
Feng San patted his forehead and then remembered that Li Dan had never been to Shangrao and didn't know much about Shangrao. He hurriedly got up to find some paper. Li Dan handed him a pencil and introduced him while he was drawing.
Jinsha River originates from Yushan, and is called Raoshui or Raojiang River in Shili Mountain (also called Shangrao River because of its location in the upper reaches). When it reaches here, it merges into Yuya River, Lingxi, Beirao River, Fengxi, and Lixi.
The river surface is widened, so the area below the mouth of Lixi River is called Xinjiang River.
When Li Dan was studying history, he remembered that the place name Shangrao appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, Sun Quan chose a site to build a city on the north bank of the Raoshui River. It was the earliest Shangrao city. The name means "above the Raoshui River".
Shangrao has dangerous mountains and rivers. To the north is the Jiyang Mountain, Chashan, Fenghuang Terrace and other Danxia highlands and peak forests that rely on the remnants of Huaiyu Mountain. To the south is Raoshui and Fengxi, to the east is Beirao River, and to the west is Li
Xihe.
In the Tang Dynasty, the city was about seven miles in circumference. In the former Song Dynasty, floods destroyed the city, and the newly built sub-city was only three miles away. It was basically a military town and fortress. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was rebuilt and added with water fortresses in preparation for war, but it was destroyed again in the former dynasty.
In this dynasty, a twelve-mile-long city was rebuilt, with four gates and protective walls on the east and south sides, two feet wide and eight feet deep.
Xichenghao is very short because the water on the west side forms a natural barrier.
The strongest parts of the city wall are in the west and south directions, two feet six feet high and two feet three feet thick. The weakest part is the north wall, which is two feet four feet high and one foot nine feet thick.
The city is built in the shape of a mountain and water. The city is shaped like a spoon with a round bottom and is slightly oval.
Outside the west city wall are dots of water pools. The wall is also built according to the situation and appears tortuous, winding, and generally arc-shaped. The west gate is at the corner where the arc begins to shrink to the north;
The north wall is built on a high slope but is relatively straight. There is even a Beiguan at the north gate. From the Beiguan, the main road leads directly to the Guangxin Mansion Office. A small part of the north wall is bent to the northeast and then south to form the east wall;
The east wall is curved like a semicircle, with the city gate and the urn at the apex. Dongmenli Street leads directly to the county government office at Sigutou (where the four springs converge), the General's Office, the Central Military Administration, and the training ground. Further to the north is Qianjie Street.
In the Confucian Temple, there is the Grain Hall of Guangxin Prefecture in the south of the street. The official grain that is disembarked from the boat in the moat outside the gate enters the East Weng City, enters the east gate, and then is transferred to the Grain Hall for delivery;
Continue south to the tributary of the Beirao River to join the south wall; most of the south wall was built along the tributary of the Beirao River, using it as a natural moat.
Nanmen Street is also the most prosperous. It connects to Canghang Street in the east, Nanmen City in the west, and Fuya in the north. The pier outside the gate is made of stone. In peacetime, there is a forest of bollards and thousands of sailboats are moored. It is a spectacular sight.
After Emperor Taizong Jingnan ascended the throne, he thought about the difficulty of conquering Shangrao and decided to confer the title of Prince Fengning on his younger brother Zun Wang's fifth son. However, the palace was built in Shangrao. This was the only prince in this dynasty whose fiefdom and palace were not in the same city.
King Fengning is a two-character king named after the city, that is, the prince of the county. He is below the prince and above the prince of the county.
The first generation of King Fengning was a gentle gentleman and did not want to disturb the people, so he chose the south Hubei area outside the city and the east side of Longtan Lake to build his palace.
The local officials reciprocated the favor and "kindly" built a ring of walls outside the palace wall. Then they turned along the east bank of Nanhu Lake to the south and connected to the northwest corner of the old city wall at both ends. The widest part was 40 feet and the narrowest was 20 feet.
of Jiacheng.
The newly opened city gate is called Fengqing Gate, which is also known as North Point Gate among the people.
In this way, Shangrao City as a whole looks like it has a handle and becomes a long-handled spoon. At present, the entire city wall of Shangrao is 24 miles long, of which the main city accounts for half (the sandwich city accounts for the other half).
The reason why Lou Zishi placed the old camp in the east was because the terrain here was open and suitable for a battlefield, and it also blocked the connection between Shangrao and Zhejiang.
The disadvantage is that the terrain here is not just flat, but also low and gentle. From the high point of the platform, the opponent can clearly understand his command and dispatch.
The highlands in the north sent their men to Lizhai to cut off the connection with Dexing.
However, judging from the fact that Fengshan Fort on Beishan Mountain was not captured, it was either because the officers and soldiers took advantage of the terrain, or because the enemy forces on the northern route did not use their full strength?
There is a moat in the south of the city, and the Nanmen Port (pier) is 200 steps away. The place is narrow and it is impossible to arrange troops, so the rebels only have water troops stationed and guarding the pontoon.
The west is full of swamps, and lakes are not suitable for use as battlefields, so we only need to put hundreds of people in Longtan Temple and let them patrol at the same time to cut off external traffic in the south and west directions.
Although the main city is only six miles away from Guangxin County and faces each other across the Zhu River, the enemy occupied Longtan Temple, which is close to the west gate and can penetrate deep into the west, so this road is unsafe.
So Sun Shoubei said that he would no longer use the Fenghuang Ferry in the south, but cross the river from Xiaban. Feng San had been committing crimes in the past and knew these two fertile cities well.
He told Li Dan that the Chixi River made a bend here in Xiaban. The reason was that every time it overflowed in previous years, the floods flooded the low-lying western part of Shangrao, forming countless pools of water.
However, because the terrain on the left bank is relatively high, the water flow washed many times and formed a stable river channel under the cliff. At the same time, many reed ponds and shoals were silted out on the right bank.
An official in the Tang Dynasty opened Longtan Lake specifically for flood discharge and water storage, and it also became an important source of urban water supply.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to prepare for the invasion, the Xinjiang Navy was established. To facilitate its training, a water camp was established in Shangrao. Longtan Lake became a school ground, and the high terrain was a barracks for soldiers and generals.
The water camp of the previous dynasty was abandoned, and Longtan Lake once again became a tourist attraction for scribes.
After Taizu Longxing, Shangrao became the place where the Northern Expeditionary Army trained and prepared for war. So Shuiying was revived and even built a circle of camps along the mountain wall. Unexpectedly, it has now become Shangrao's acropolis.
"But..., why can't the three thousand naval forces come out of Longtankou to drive away the thieves' fleet on the water?" Li Dan was puzzled.
"It's not that I can't, it's that I can't do it." Feng San spread his hands: "The big ship is parked at the South Gate Pier. It was either destroyed or captured. There are only two or thirty sampans left in the village for practice."
"Oh!" Li Dan understood. The officers and soldiers must not have expected that the bandits would pounce so quickly and violently, so that the Shuiying boats were still parked on the riverside with great arrogance.
After they seized the pontoon bridge, they then seized the pier, so now only sampans are available in the water camp. Even if there are ten people on each sampan, this amount of troops is not enough to fill the gap in people's teeth.
"Shangrao originally had a camp of 3,700 soldiers, as well as the palace guards.
After the siege, 1,200 soldiers from Guangxin were recruited from the guard station. Guards from large households in the city, servants and young men were recruited, and a regiment of 3,500 people was established.
So defending the city is not a big problem, but attacking is very difficult," Feng San said.
Li Dan nodded. According to regulations, a county prince can have one guard, with about 1,200 people, and one guard for each thousand households. This team is equivalent to the family's own servants, and they receive the salary of the prince.
"Nearly ten thousand people are defending the city, not including the water fortress. It seems that we can still hold it for a while. Tell us about the situation in Guangxin." He said.
Guangxin and Shangrao are across the river, located between Huangling, Songling and Xiabanpo. It is just a small county town with a circumference of five miles, but now it is the focus of everyone's attention.
Guangxin Prefecture was named after it, but time passed by, and now it has been reduced to its younger brother, and Shangrao has become the seat of government.
Guangxin, Shuizhai, and the main city of Shangrao are like three fulcrums, giving Lou Zishi a headache. Feng San told Li Dan that if Fengqiguan and Guangxin County cannot be captured, Lou Zishi will be unable to conquer Shangrao. .
"When I was here, he claimed to have an army of 100,000, but in fact he only had less than 20,000 at his disposal. He must have suffered losses and consumption now, and his number should be less than 20,000!"
"If you double it, surround it. We have five thousand here, and Guangxin still has a thousand people left, so he only has fourteen or five thousand in his hands." Li Dan nodded:
"If we can manage to defeat the enemy at Fengqiguan and Guangxin, the Lou thieves will be frightened and retreat!" Then he turned to Feng San:
"I originally wanted you to rest, but the war is urgent, so it's better to go on the road. You go to Zhao Xianfu and ask him to have two detectives as companions to investigate the enemy situation in Shangrao and the situation in Lou Zishi's army.
If possible, it is best to check the layout of the enemy camp in Guangxin and the enemy's defense situation at Longtan Temple."
"Defense wants to kill them?"
"It's not time yet, make some preparations for the future." Li Dan patted his arm solemnly: "Send people to follow you, you have to teach them well, they will all be your subordinates from now on!"
Feng San was surprised for a moment and then knelt down: "Sir, this subordinate has only joined us a few days ago, can you believe me?"
"You have a good sleep and set out in the evening. I believe in myself and my own eyes." Li Dan pulled him up:
"There is gold at my knees. From now on, you don't have to kneel to me, just cross your hands and talk. I know you are suffering in your heart, and you are not convinced when you see others living their lives.
But one must rely on ability and loyalty to achieve success, not on crooked ways, cleverness, or calculations.
These are my words to you. As long as you remember them, I will guarantee your wealth!"
Then he looked at Feng San, who was crying: "I'll give you a new name.
In the past, your surname Feng had a great tree general Feng Yi. I think you will be called Feng Shen from now on. See if you can catch up with the wealth he earned for himself, and leave a legend for your surname Feng in the future!"