Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 13: Wufang Town (3)
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Outside the town’s house, a large group of people crowded the door, blocking the road.
There are not only the remnants of the imperial army living in Wufang Town who are recovering their wounds, but also many local old and weak women and children. People flock here with different moods.
This is obviously a good thing that Yang Biao and others did. It wasn't that he spread the news while calling everyone to the door of Li Desheng's house, nor would he gather like many people in a short time.
Except for the dozens of remnants of the Forbidden Army, these almost abandoned old and weak living quietly, and suddenly gathered together, there are only so many people, at least several hundred.
At a glance, there are gray heads and cloths all over the head. Women seem to like to wrap their heads with bupahs and go out.
Seeing that Li Desheng was about to speak, Guo Shao stepped forward, clasped his fists and sang to the left and right, and shouted: "You folks..." All of a sudden, he looked at him with all his eyes. Everyone is looking at themselves. Guo Shao hasn't experienced this kind of occasion for a long time, and he feels a little nervous.
He cleared his throat and said: "This time the Khitan people went south to take advantage of the emptiness of the Zhaoyi army’s main force and the official army to attack Jinyang, and strayed and harassed... Thanks to the promotion of General Li, the town general, let me serve as the deputy general to assist Defense.
"After that, when Li Desheng frowned and didn't mean to refute, Guo Shao ignored it.
He continued to say loudly: "A month ago, we came here to recover. The people of Wufang Town provided shelter and clothing, and gave food regardless of the difficulties in the family... Dripping grace, the husband should report to you as a spring; you folks treat people with sincerity, It's so gratifying.
I need it today, brothers, how can we stand by? Dare to live! "People are quiet, there is no noise or applause, just like this dilapidated old town.
But they all listened.
Guo Shao's gaze swept over the remnants of the Forbidden Army, and he shouted: "In the battle of Gaoping, Zhang Yuanhui, the first fierce fighter of the North Han Army, rushed at me and was cut by me on the spot! I have two brothers and were heavily attacked by enemy soldiers. In the siege, you can count on ten kills at one time! The commander of the official family and the front of the palace, Si Zhangdu, has personally praised him, saying, "The commander should be awarded."
" Mentioned the emperor and high-ranking officials in public, Guo Shao held his fist to pay tribute to the north, recognizing the authority of the court means emphasizing his own authority, and went on to say, "Everyone who is stationed in Wufang Town today has different belongings. Should the time be scattered in a rush, or reorganized into an army? If there is a military rank higher than mine, I would like to stand up and give orders to soldiers, and speak now..." "Since there is no such thing, Guo will do his part and take over the right of the skirmish troops stationed in Wufu Town from now on! I have a list of wounded soldiers placed in Wufang Town, and those who remain are still in the position of the Forbidden Army; those who want to run are deserters.
What happened today will be reported to the front office of the palace.
"Guo Shao will not allow others to say, he certainly does not want this only soldier to be reduced again.
The army was silent, and no one was willing to speak out against it.
Guo Shao was very satisfied when he saw this, and immediately incited the people: "I know there are many veterans in the scene. You have served your country for your whole life, and you have been fighting for others; now the barbarians are going to trample on your homes and kill. Ling|Insult your relatives and fight for yourself! The Khitan people of Liao Kingdom burned, killed and plundered. As we all know, if you don’t fight, you will die. Take up your weapons and use your last blood to defend your family! Brothers and sisters, I would have been able to defend the land and the people to death on the battlefield. I feel infinite glory!" Slowly many gray-headed people stood out from the crowd, and someone said: "Old man killed someone in the army.
" "Counting me, I don't have many days to live anyway, I die if I die..." Guo Shao took the opportunity to say: "Since all the folks think that they would be able to take up this role, in order to prepare for the war, I am in Wu The enlistment order issued by the town is reasonable and legal! "He immediately issued the first call-up order to select people who can still fill the army to help defend, and every household in the other households must have people and rations to follow the arrangements for repairs.
It was made clear in front of the whole town that the town’s general Li Desheng did not object on the spot, and everything changed from raw rice to cooked rice.
Li Desheng had to agree to the method proposed by Guo Shao before. He took people to Luzhou to purchase supplies, leaving his servants to help govern the people.
The old men who claim to have been in the army are all at least fifty years old; there are no young people in this place, and young people will not be worthy of being assigned to Wufu Town.
Guo Shao and others can only lower the standard of recruiting soldiers, and pick those who seem to be not in their seventies or eighties, who walk more quickly and have better spirits.
For a long time, there were sixty-eight people.
These veterans also dig out old-fashioned broken copper armor from their homes, which is better than nothing, and some have weapons.
Before the town will leave, he finally gave up his armor, sword and bow, but only one pair.
Being busy until noon, someone came over to greet Guo Shao. He looked back and found that it was Zuo You, a civilian military doctor in the army.
This man has a straight face, a small beard, and a round-neck gown, but he is very thin.
Zuo You said: "I have a suggestion below, is Guo Lang willing to listen to it?" Guo Shao put down the bow and arrow in his hand and hurriedly told him to speak frankly.
Zuo You said: "The top priority is not only to compile soldiers into a roster, but also to formulate military laws and rules as soon as possible so that rewards and punishments have evidence.
Xia Bucai wrote the ‘Four Slashing Order’ and asked Guo Lang to look over.
"The rebels are cut; those who run away before the battle are cut; those who leave without permission are cut; those who take advantage of the chaos to avenge their personal revenge and bully the people are cut.
Simple and rude, it also covers the foreseeable problems. The last one is even more faint with long-term concerns. Guo Shao immediately glanced at Zuo You twice, and now changed his slogan to "Mr. Zuo": "Why don't Mr. Zuo take this four? Read the Zhan Ling several times in public to know the whole army by Xiao Xiao?" Zuo You saw him so happy, and immediately said: "Lead the order below.
"In the afternoon, Guo Shao entrusted Zuo You to register his soldiers.
Then began to organize. Twenty-eight recovered wounded soldiers of the imperial army were independently organized into a team; the seventy old and weak soldiers were organized into a capital, called the township soldier.
He served as the military envoy by himself, Yang Biao served as the deputy soldier and horse envoy and ten generals of the Forbidden Army, Luo Mengzi as the long line (deputy post of the squad); he also promoted three generals among the ten generals.
Although the sparrow is small and well-equipped, it has directly formed an organization... and even let Zuo You be named as a marching counsellor, and the staff team is considered to be established, although there is only one person.
By the end of the evening, Guo Shao was discussing matters with the people around him. Four people were present, and Zuo You also began to participate in the discussions.
A second levy was agreed, so that every citizen would contribute ironware to the forge in the town.
Yang Biao is in charge of training soldiers, Guo Shao prepares materials and weapons, Zuo You and Luo Mengzi supervise the construction of fortifications.
...... Wufang Town originally had a rammed city wall, but it was in disrepair for a long time, and many collapsed and dilapidated. Now the levy is just digging and repairing the dilapidated place; the soil is taken directly from the soil outside the wall and the trench is dug. Tamp up the clay.
Yang Biao’s suggestion is to add a deep trench to a wall, use sharpened bamboo in the trench to increase defense, and to nail a wooden stake outside the trench.
Manpower and materials are very scarce, and this can only be achieved.
The place is backed by a mountain to the north, and there are woods and bamboo groves on the mountain. Choose one to two feet of hard bamboo, and one sharpened end is a spear.
There is no iron gun that is sharp and durable, but it is also useful. It is lighter and longer than solid wood. It can be used by infantry temporarily against cavalry; if it is not durable, one person can prepare a few, which can be used for those who help defending.
The armor of the temporarily formed weak old soldiers was incomplete, and most of the armors turned out by the old soldiers were rusty and damaged.
So they used wooden blocks and bamboo slices to drill the hollows and make simple armors that were not fully supplemented by scale armor. The protection was not very good, but it was better than nothing.
Two days later, I learned that Li Desheng came back with two cars in person. Perhaps he was uneasy in Luzhou, but after all he was afraid of Li Yun's accountability? When Guo Shao heard the news and went out, he immediately understood that this servant was definitely a miser. He got some broken copper and iron on the neck of the knife holder. Fortunately, there were a lot of coarse grains in the two mule carts... Property must be more than just buying such a thing.
Guo Shao was inconvenient to care about with him, and he generously accepted the food.
Since Li Desheng’s wife and children were sent to Luzhou, there were no female relatives at home. Guo Shao and others have moved to the relatively spacious Li family as their residence.
Li Desheng returned to his home, only to see debris everywhere, which was completely changed.
In the past two days, Guo Shao has re-turned the topography of Wufang Town several times, welcoming Li Desheng back to Li Desheng, and continued to discuss tactics with the people in the house: "Wufang Town is high on one side and vulnerable to enemies on three sides. The wall is nearly two miles long.
We have only a hundred soldiers, and most of them are old and weak. If they stand fast, they will not have enough strength. We know that the Khitans are good at field battles, so they can't go out of the city. We have no cavalry and long-range bows and arrows, and we will lose the battle.
I can only try to lure the enemy into the city, use the fortification terrain to prevent the enemy from deploying, and wipe out the enemy by means of walls and alleys. Therefore, I asked the civil servants to also build walls to block the roads on the two central roads.
"...Six or seven days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Wufu Town is basically ready, but the surroundings are still deadly quiet, no different from countless days.
The soldiers were a little worried that the Qidan soldiers would not come.
It is strange to think that it is a good thing for the enemy to not come, but now people are looking forward to a fight.
Because everyone has been busy for many days, smashing pots and irons to build fortifications, and trained to wait for it. If it is not useful, wouldn't it be a waste of work? As for what is the best result, people don't seem to think about it.
The soldiers are gearing up, and even the village soldiers are not accepting the old, and are looking forward to it. There are also hundreds of civilians who work at the city gate every day.
Guo Shao set up outposts on all sides and one mile away, and sent people around day and night as scouts.
There are also people on duty on the wall every day, so it can be said that everything is ready.
"Why aren't the Khitan soldiers coming?" The old man standing on guard outside the door also muttered.
Guo Shao allowed them to talk about it. Of course, he would not say "It's better not to come" to avoid discouraging everyone's active fighting spirit.
In the offensive and defensive situation, the defensive side naturally has the advantage, but at the cost of giving up the initiative; it is up to others to fight or not, and you can't help yourself to what extent.