Dajing Sun and Moon

Chapter 82 Liangzhou Tiger, Xu Fu!

Northwest of Yasukuni, Lingzhou.

Different from today's Suzhou, Lingzhou was a frontier state in the early days. At the beginning of its establishment, it was only a camp. However, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, Qin Daoyuan, the then Zhongshuling, was in charge of building a frontier defense line. It is the basic strategy of today's Dajing military strategy of "internal auxiliary external war".

This line of defense also allowed Lingzhou to form a straight line with border states such as Shuozhou, Liangzhou, Suzhou, and Youzhou, forming a defense system with the Fengsui Fortress as the point and the prefectures and prefectures as the line.

Qin Daoyuan, whose style name is Hongfu, was born in Jiangzhou. He was the former Zhongshuling of Dongjing State and served as Yuanfu in the four dynasties.

According to the official mansion newspaper, Qin Daoyuan was born in a scholarly family since he was a child.

He himself studied from Chen Xichun, a master of Confucianism. After returning from learning Taoism, Fang Zhengming, a virtuous senior high school student who took the seventeenth exam, joined the three yuan of "Jieyuan, Huiyuan, and Zhuangyuan", which caused a sensation in Dongjing.

It is rumored that during the palace examination, Emperor Taizong personally came to invigilate the examination, and proposed in person that "administration of ministers and officials, reporting and supervision, world punishment and prison, frontier military affairs, cabinet governance, foreign countries, clan and vassal kings, loss of finances and taxes, and the ways of Buddha and devils" etc. Nine essentials for governing the country.

As for the details of Qin Daoyuan Ce's examination paper, the world does not know it. Because Emperor Taizong sealed the "Secret Truth Palace" after reading it, and ordered that "non-Dongjing supreme should not personally open it." .

It is worth mentioning that during the ten years when Qin Daoyuan moved to the Ministry of War, he successively built the most complete defense system of the Dongjing Dynasty's "outpost, garrison, fort, building, and city" and the defense system of "roads, cavalry, posts, inns, and battalions". 'The internal army affairs transmission hub channel provided a solid foundation for Dajing to annex Southern Chu, Northern Qi, and conquer Qianyan and other countries.

In the border defense system constructed by Qin Daoyuan, the most important thing is the frontier beacon.

The beacon tower, also known as Gubao, has [-] foot soldiers standing on it, pierce the water source to defend it, and stand on the top of the hill. If an enemy comes, it will use the beacon fire as a message to spread the news everywhere.

The camp is stationed in the garrison camp, with [-] strong soldiers on standby, and excellent equipment, all of which are built by the Tiangong Institute under the jurisdiction of the Dajing Military Department. Comparable to the Forbidden Army.

Moreover, the camp is to dig a mountain wall to set up a dock. While setting up camp and stationing troops, it also collects refugees from neighboring households and often gathers thousands of guards.

And set up warehouses and build forts in places where there are no thieves and horses in the mountains. When the military supplies are needed, they will be transferred to the north. Only the Helan Mountains cannot be harvested. Thousands of people are often guarded, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong.

As for the garrison town, it is a small "military town". Not only are there five hundred elite cavalry generals sitting in the town, but there are also two thousand guards guarding it day and night without interruption.

On the outskirts of the military town, walls were built, moats were poured, and trenches were dug for reinforcement. Inside the city, there were official residences, folk houses, stables and barracks, which seemed to be no different from the inland county. If there was no war, it would be a prosperous county.

Such county towns and military towns can accommodate more than 10 people for small ones and nearly [-] people for large ones.

Before Dongjing Kingdom broke Xiliang Kingdom, the city closest to Dongjing's western defense line was Lingzhou County.

The reason why Lingzhou is mentioned is that the descendants of the former Xiliang King did not live in Liangzhou, the capital of the original Liang Kingdom, but moved to Lingzhou.

There are many horses in Lingzhou, so it is called "The Capital of Herding Horses".

You can live in the water called an island, but this place is on the island of the river, which rises and falls with the water, but has never been submerged, so it is called Lingzhou. Later, a town was set up and a camp was established, a city was built and a mansion was built, so it was called Lingzhou.

When the letter from Xu Sheng, Taikang's second assistant, reached the hands of Xu Fu, the governor of the Liangzhou Army, he was inspecting the barracks at Qinbaguan.

Because Lingzhou is one of the military towns, camps are set up in the fort, and Qinbaguan is the most important of the "Thirteen Fortresses".

Xu Fu, who is over [-] years old and has been in the army for more than ten years, has always been unsmiling, never angry and pretentious, and has not removed his armor when he takes a nap. Only when facing this elder brother, his face softened, and he seemed to be envious. After all, the eldest brother As a father, let alone the person who brought him up with one hand, he was naturally in awe.

According to the letter, the prince will go north to Youyan to meet him.

Only Taikang's top military and political officials knew about the matter of the prince's pacification of the North, and it was not leaked out, but he already knew that his elder brother's special order this time naturally had other deep meanings.

After pondering for a while, he understood what was going on. His elder brother was the second assistant, and his words and deeds would influence the entire Jing Kingdom.

Now that Xiao Dang and Zhang Dang are facing each other, as the leader of the Northland faction, Xu Sheng needs to stay dormant and not take the lead easily. He even takes off his hat and removes his hat to show fear when faced with admonishing officials and impeachment by the imperial censor.

If Xu Sheng contacted the prince Xia Houchun regardless, it would definitely make the situation in Taikang more treacherous, and this was not Xu Sheng's original intention.

But Xu Fu is different, he is just a border guard general, although he has [-] frontier troops in his hands, but because the food and pay are controlled by the court, he can't make a big wave and won't attract attention.

This is also one of the reasons why the generals of Dongjing Anxin Army have the power to control the army, that is, the governor has the power to control the army, but has no power to finance and deploy troops.

Xu Fu murmured, his elder brother's intentions were obvious, the prince must help him to go north, this is a dispute between the country and factions, once Xia Houchun dies and the Xiao party comes to power, then the princelings Xu Sheng and Xu Fu will There will be no future.

Suddenly, he frowned, and the words in the letter, "Prince Xing Dongdu, will meet Qin Rui in Qianqiu Guan" caught his attention.

He muttered to himself: "Is this guy not restless?"

As the general and governor, Xu Fu knows Qin Rui's unfathomable depth better than anyone else. If Xu Fu is the 'Liangzhou Tiger', then Qin Rui is the 'Dongdu Crocodile'.

The tiger is not angry and powerful, shaking the mountains and forests; the crocodile is cruel and indifferent, and is very good at dormant.

He subconsciously looked south and looked far away. Since he became famous for killing generals in the first battle, he has no news and has been dormant in Dongdu for more than ten years.

His eyes were complicated, and there was even a trace of worry. Now the situation in Taikang is complicated. Once there is any turmoil, it is uncertain what kind of storm this East Capital will cause.

Maybe there will be a death roll, trapping Taikang to death in Guanzhong.

After pursing his lips for a while, the governor of Liangzhou, who had been blown by the yellow sand desert for nearly ten years, sighed softly, and after a few letters, he murmured to himself:

"It is said that the tiger father has no dogs and sons. His Majesty has endured for nearly thirty years for Dongjing's thousand-year plan. So what about you, the prince, are you really just an embroidered pillow as the rumors say?"

While thinking about it, he tapped on the table, and the tent door was opened, and a general in the school captain's armor stepped in.

His name is Hua Yuanhua, a Lieutenant General of the Liangzhou Army. He was born in a gambling house since he was a child, so he was addicted to gambling. He was found by Xu Fu by chance, and he was found to be a "courageous and courageous" person. Don't die, the first battle is the battle of fame.

Ten years ago, more than [-] riders in Yunxiao roamed a certain beacon castle in the south of the bandits. Hua Yuanhua, the leader of the scouts at that time, caught this news and led ten riders under his command to hunt down the bandits.

In the end, relying on the strength of not fearing death, after paying the price of eight people killed in battle, one severely disabled, and Hua Yuanhua's ear and arm cut off, he actually wiped out two hundred rangers, and became famous Noisy, ranked among the "Top Ten Captains of Guoyi" of the Liangzhou Army.

After that, this guy actually changed his mind. He stopped going to the gambling house and changed his life to gambling!

His classic saying is: How can a man be free from gambling, but a certain family no longer cares about small gambling in the streets and alleys.

If you want to gamble, you have to gamble your life, betting your life for thousands of people.

If you succeed, you will be named a marquis and worship your minister; if you fail, your body will die and your soul will perish!
You little ruffians, would you like to bet with me?

In the next ten years, this man was promoted from a frontier soldier to a lieutenant general of the Liangzhou army. He was a proper sixth rank, and he was Xu Shifu's right-hand man.

But at the moment he was aggrieved, Xu Fu turned a blind eye.

After holding back for a long time, Hua Yuanhua finally couldn't hold back anymore, "General, why did you dismiss me this time?"

Xu Fu glanced at him with a cold look, "Take your son to sneak attack on the enemy camp, thanks to your thought, if you don't dismiss your post, do you still want the general to reward you?"

Hua Sheng, the eldest son of Hua Yuanhua, is only ten years old.

As a lieutenant general, in order to temper his ten-year-old son, he brought only a few personal guards to attack the enemy camp with thousands of people.

Is there anyone crazier than him in this world?
Hua Yuanhua stagnated, and smiled embarrassingly, "General, you know everything."

After a little consideration, Xu Fu stared at Hua Yuanhua, waved his hands, and said, "I need you to do something today."

Hua Yuanhua suddenly looked solemn, knocked on the ground with one knee, and said in a deep voice: "Please show me the general!"

"Go south to Jinyang to meet the crown prince, and then help him to comfort Youyan!" Xu Fu said in a low voice with a gloomy gaze.

Hua Yuanhua looked up in astonishment.

(End of this chapter)