Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 210 Cold Blooded
As the military information from various places spread to Sui County one after another, Gao Jingzong remained calm.The area around Sui County is still like a huge construction site, and new changes are taking place every day.

The entire Sui County defense system was decided to focus on the outside of the city.The city wall is the last line of defense.Sui's outermost perimeter is a defensive depth of about three miles thick consisting of trenches, horses and parapets.The second is the second defensive position, which is composed of 48 permanent camps as the hub and densely packed bunkers, trenches, and artillery holes.However, the second line of defense is still six miles away from the city wall.

Between the second defensive position and the city wall, Gao Jingzong did not waste either.Instead, a network of roads was built.On both sides of the wide avenue, houses painted white are neatly arranged. Compared with the common blue-brick and large tile-roofed houses in other parts of the Central Plains, they are quite interesting.

The walls and pillars of these houses are built with red bricks, and the doors and windows are made of wood from the mountains. These are all traditional construction techniques;In Gao Jingzong's plan, if the Yan army can successfully break through the third perimeter and the second defense depth, then he will make the Yan army pay for the fierceness of the city's street fighting.All the houses are two courtyards at the front and back, three facing the street, one on the left and one on the left, and three in the main house.The yard is just a very small patio.

This small courtyard with two entrances costs about tens of thousands of red bricks and tens of thousands of red tiles. According to Gao Jingzong's price of building materials, it is only around 30 yuan.As for the labor force, they are all paid by food, so only the cost of materials needs to be considered.Since there is no shortage of manpower in Sui County, [-] to [-] young and strong people have been busy for a few days, and tens of thousands of houses have been built in just half a month.

This house starts beautifully!The seams of the red brick and cement walls are straight, and the sloping roof with the same red tiles does not attract wind or rain. The inner and outer walls are painted with white lime, which looks clean and bright.Gao Jingzong also used this batch of housing as Beifu welfare housing.However, due to the military rank system adopted at this time.In addition, the former Beifu soldiers had already distributed a large number of houses in Banxian City, Juesheng Town and Dongyang County. These houses will mainly join the Beifu Army soldiers in the future.Especially the battle heroes in the Battle of Fuli City, the Battle of Siwu, and the series of battles in Feng County and Sui County.In addition to the residences distributed in the city by generals at all levels, almost all the fighting heroes of the Beifu soldiers were allocated houses.

At the same time, Gao Jingzong introduced a very cheating policy. This batch of new houses will not be distributed to single soldiers. They must have family members or get married before they can receive new houses.This made the soldiers of the Beifu army very anxious.Many soldiers were so anxious that they didn't need to be guided at all. They cast their eyes on the tens of thousands of women in the city who were looted by the Yan Kingdom.

In just a few days, at least [-] couples of soldiers from the Beifu army got married in a hurry.The training of the soldiers of the Beifu Army has become more active and assiduous.Seeing the smiles on the faces of their parents, wife and children, and looking at their brand new and beautiful house, without any preaching or publicity, they understood: to protect their family and country, the home they want to protect is in Sui County.

Gao Jingzong was secretly happy.Qin awarded fields and titles for military merits, so the Qin division fought without hesitation, and the six countries could not stop it, and the Hu people dared not go south to herd horses.During the Han and Wu Dynasties, sons of good families were selected as soldiers, and they were not granted titles for non-military merit. "Rangers from the middle of Beijing competed to go to the frontier", so there were Wei Qing and Huo Qubing who attacked the Xiongnu for more than [-] miles in the north.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the military system of the government was divided into "teaching fields". The family members lived in peace, and the soldiers were naturally brave and tenacious in combat. Therefore, the powerful grassland empire suddenly collapsed as pointed out by Tang Jun Modao, and Li Shimin became the "Heavenly Khan" sung by herdsmen.

Now the Beifu Army is adopting such a policy of change.Gao Jingzong told the whole army with practical actions that if he fought with Gao Jingzong, he could share the land, house and money, and get everything they wanted.At the same time, it can also change fate.

The soldiers and craftsmen who lived in the new houses all discovered why these uniformly built houses are so strong.It's just a small dock.

The intention of Gao Jingzong to do this is actually very simple. Those who have permanent property have perseverance. Only when the army of Yan State is overwhelmingly overwhelming can they fight desperately to the end with the army of Yan.At the same time, make adequate preparations for future street battles.

In the third year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the third year of Guangshou in the Yan State, on October [-]th, Murong De, the hussar general of the Yan State, led [-] cavalry to Dingtao.

After a day's rest, at dawn the next day, Murong De ordered Murong Jiang to lead [-] troops to launch a tentative attack on Dingtao.Then the defense of Dingtao officially started.

Duguwen, Duguwen, Dugu Wen, Du Guwen, the captain beside Murong Dechong, asked: "This time Murong Jiang attacked Dingtao, do you think the odds are high?"

"This?" Dugu Wen mused while holding a wolf-headed battle axe: "The Beifu army must be extremely uncombat. Fortunately, they also have weaknesses. That is, since the formation of the army, the expansion speed has been too fast, and the equipment and training of the troops have not kept up. , and Gao Jingzong’s self-confidence is too high. Their Beifu army is now plundering Chenliu in the west, Qingji in the east, and Yanzhou in the north. They are trying to bloom on three sides. I don’t know if he really concentrates our forces, we really can’t do anything about him. Soldiers and horses, we don't need to be surrounded on all sides, and we don't need to divide our troops to attack. We just need to go straight to Sui County. It must be said that Gao Jingzong's children can't fly. If you can fight a tough battle, you can't take a detour. I'd like to see, Beifu Army Do you have the guts and courage to fight Dayan's elites?"

Murong De smiled and said: "This plan is very good, but the court seems to want a decisive battle, and if the time is constantly delayed, what if the news leaks to Sui County and they send troops to help?"

Duguwen smiled coldly, and said: "Zhan Jue. Huh, they don't hurt their backs when they stand and talk. People in the rear naturally want to solve it quickly, but is our opponent someone who can solve it quickly? Guo Yang, Wu Wang and Wu Yun, didn’t they all suffer from Gao Jingzong? Now that we have more troops than the other side, we don’t have to worry about food and grass supplies, and we should use our strengths to overcome our weaknesses. Why rush with Gao Jingzong?

Murong Jiang's troops approached the city wall of Dingtao cautiously.

Suddenly, there was a battlefield sound of "dong dong" on the city wall.

At least five or six hundred crossbowmen immediately stood up and fired at the Murong Border Division of the Yan Army on the city wall.

The "咻 咻" densely broke sound, and Murong Jiang saw the dense arrows of locusts.Of the four guards standing in front of Murong Jiang, No.1 pierced through a head, the second nailed a calf, and the third pierced a chest!The fourth one was unharmed, but was scared to pee.

Murong Jiang's troops were out of control at all, turned around and ran back.

Murong De shouted coldly: "Archers shoot!"

Three or four thousand cavalry stepped forward, quickly drew their bows and shot arrows.The archery was more dense than the Beifu army's crossbow arrows and shot towards the defeated troops of Murong Jiang's troops.There were screams of misery and the sound of arrows piercing the flesh one after another.

Murong De shouted loudly: "Retreat without authorization, shoot to kill!"

Three or four thousand Xianbei cavalry rode forward and shouted: "Retreat without authorization, shoot to kill."

Murong Jiang's face was flushed, and he shouted with all his strength: "Going forward is death, retreating is death, fight them!"

"Fight them!"

(End of this chapter)