Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

Funing County is called a county, but it is actually about the size of a small town.

This place was originally a military town. When Xinzhou was not the land of Dachu, it was the front line bordering the grassland, so although the scale was small, it was actually built very solidly.

Unlike ordinary cities that have four gates, Funing County only has two gates.The tall city walls are square and square, enclosing the entire county, with gates only on the north and south sides, and deep mountains on the east and west sides.

To enter the territory of Qinzhou, one must break through Funing County, otherwise one can only take the mountain path.Of course, it is impossible for the Xirong cavalry to go on mountain roads, so attacking the county town became the only option. ——Of course, they may also give up Funing County and go to other places.That would be the best.

Now the news that the Xirong people entered the Great Chu has spread, and even ordinary people know about it.This is actually done on purpose, because the government does not have so much manpower and material resources to move the people outside the city into the city, but it will not work if they leave it alone.Simply release the news and let the people try to solve it by themselves.

After all, every family has several relatives who live in the city. If they go to each other, it will save a lot of trouble.

So after arriving in Funing County safely, and knowing that they were here to help fight against the Xirong people, the county magistrate of Funing readily handed over the management and control of the county seat.

Ping An arranged the army, and then led the people to start the pre-war preparations.First of all, all the people outside the city who can move in will move in.Although the county seat is not big, it is still possible to live in a crowded place.After all, if we really want to fight a war, the numerical advantage is also very important.When there are not enough troops, ordinary people have to go to the battlefield.

Funing County has an advantage in this regard, because the Xirong people can only attack one city gate, so that the manpower and forces in the city do not need to be dispersed.And the Xirong people could not adopt the strategy of encircling them.

Ping'an first gathered the people on the side of Xinzhou into the city, and then sent troops to cut down the trees in the mountains and collect nearby stones.Because when the war starts, these things will become the enemy's weapons.Of course, there are deep mountains on both sides, and it is impossible to cut down all the trees, but it is best not to leave any stones behind.

These stones were collected and piled up on both sides of the city gate.When the Xirong people came, they closed the city gate tightly and blocked it with stones.Lest the opponent break the door.

In addition, Ping An also ordered the people to collect snow water.For this reason, all the things that can store water in the city were moved out.

Probably there is something to do, so the original panic and fear atmosphere in the city has dissipated a lot.The people in the city seem to have a backbone, and prepare various things that can be used when defending the city according to Ping An's instructions every day.

Logs, hot oil, arrowheads wrapped in oil-soaked cloth...everything imaginable was ready.

In such a tense atmosphere, Ping An spent a new year in Funing City.In order to ease the tension in everyone's hearts, he asked the people from the county government to organize an event, trying to let the people experience all the joys of living in this environment, lest their spirits be stretched for a long time and they will collapse.

Probably because they wanted to check the situation first, so the Xirong people gathered in Xinzhou City for the time being, and did not come this way.But there has been a stalemate there for a while, and Pingan speculates that in the past few days, some Xirong people who are not so united may try to sneak out to get more benefits.

So he ordered the city gate leading to Xinzhou to be closed, and stones were pushed over to block the gate, and then the people were asked to boil the snow water collected before into boiling water and pour it down from the top of the city. It was the middle of the year. When the climate is the coldest, the outside is almost dripping with ice.And hot water is easier to freeze into ice than cold water, so soon after splashing on it, the entire city wall and the city gate will be frozen together.

In this way, it is naturally more difficult for the Xirong people to attack.It is not easy to break through the city gate, but it is even more difficult to climb to the top of the city.After all, the ice surface is very smooth and it is difficult to borrow strength.

After doing all this, the Xirong people came.

Having so much time to prepare, Ping An is already very satisfied.The Xirong people are not good at attacking the city, so it is not a problem if they want to defend here.

At first, there were small groups of three or four.

It's no wonder that even if they want to sneak away, it's impossible for everyone to go together. After all, the generals of the big tribe are not so easy to fool.So we can only pretend to be sick or send out as scouts to cover people's eyes and ears, so naturally very few people come out.

Naturally, three or five people did not dare to go up to Funing County, they rode their horses and wandered around the city, seeing that there was a serious battle here, they had no choice but to leave consciously.Anyway, looting is not the same wherever you go, why bother to gnaw on this hard bone?If my time is wasted here, other people will gain more than me.

The situation seemed to be much better than Ping An thought, so he couldn't help but start to move again.

After all, sitting in the city and watching the Xirong people looting in front of my eyes is really not a pleasant thing.And according to what Ping An learned from Deputy General Zhou, these Xirong people not only wanted to plunder food, grass and treasures, they would even take away women and children and become their slaves.As for the elderly and men, most of them were killed.

"There are other possibilities," said Deputy General Zhou. "If eunuch Qi is right, as you expected, if these Xirong people want to capture Xinzhou City, they will most likely drive these captured Dachu people to one place, and wait until they attack." When entering the city, let them be hostages in front, forcing the defenders in the city not to shoot arrows."

Speaking of this, Vice General Zhou's eyes were burning with anger. Obviously, he had seen this situation with his own eyes.

Ping An has also seen this kind of situation in history, driving out foreign people as cannon fodder, standing in front of the real siege team.

If the defenders are thus restrained and dare not shoot arrows, they will naturally gain time and an advantage for their own side.If the other party shoots arrows regardless of the people, then no matter what the outcome of the war is, those who decide afterwards will probably be demoted by the court and scolded by the world.It is also equivalent to cutting off a difficult opponent.

This is a very nasty conspiracy, disgusting and completely helpless.

"So, we have to try to go out and teach these Xirong people a lesson." Pingan said, "Anyway, the place outside is so big, and most of the Xirong people are small teams of three or five people. As long as you are careful not to attract the attention of others, you will be able to see ghosts Get rid of them unconsciously."

And these Xirong people are very greedy, and they often bring everything they have found with them, so as not to be robbed by others.In this way, by solving a small team, a batch of supplies can be collected and some people can be rescued.Very good deal.

However, the Northwest has a sparsely populated area, and it is not convenient to pass on news now. The Xirong people themselves are greedy and do not listen to discipline. When the army finds out that something is wrong, they may have gained a lot.

After listening to Ping An's analysis one by one, everyone felt that this idea was indeed a good one.

In the past, because the cavalry of the Xirong people was strong and they came and went like the wind, only the city wall could stop them a little bit, so everyone stayed in the city for safety reasons and did not go out.Xirong people generally don't come to attack the city, just looting.

As for the fight against the Xirong people, that was a matter for the frontier army. These soldiers who were closer to the interior would not take the initiative to touch this bad luck, lest they cause their own losses.

However, Xirong people rarely broke through to such a deep place before.Most of them are along the Shinshu border.Although Qinzhou used to be a border town, after all, hundreds of years have passed, and the bloodiness has already worn away a lot in the comfortable life.

So the magistrate of Funing County was terrified when he heard Ping An's proposal, and tried his best to block it.On the contrary, Vice General Zhou agrees with this very much.

He was originally serving in Xinzhou, but he was demoted for committing a crime. Fortunately, his superior was able to protect him, but he could only be transferred to Qinzhou to be a Taiping lieutenant.How can you be unhappy now that you have the opportunity to kill the Xirong people?Maybe he made a contribution and can be transferred back at that time.

"No." Xu Wenmei also objected, with a bitter expression, "Master Zhizhou trusts you, so he handed Funing County into your hands. How can you go out and take risks yourself, but instead throw tens of thousands of people in Funing County to death?" Don't care here?"

At a glance, Pingan felt that there was something wrong with his tone, it was too exaggerated.He squinted his eyes at Xu Wenmei for a while, and said, "You don't think you want to go by yourself?"

This is also pre-existing.Xu Wenmei planned to come here to play by herself before, if she wasn't with her, she wouldn't know what she was doing now.

Xu Wenmei coughed twice in embarrassment, and then said righteously, "You have something to do and you can't go out, so I naturally want to share your worries, what's wrong?"

Big mistake, okay?Ping An twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to find an excuse, "You don't know martial arts, so you can't go."

"Let Kai Yang go with me. Take that bomb." Xu Wenmei said with a smile.

He found that Kai Yang was really easy to use.Whenever there is something, calling him out as a shield will definitely be useful.After all, he is good at kung fu, it is very easy to protect a person.

However, Kai Yang was very shameless, and made Xu Wenmei down with a stern face, "I can't leave my lord's side."

He has not forgotten that his master is Zhao Can, and Zhao Can's order to him is to protect Ping'an's safety.There was no big thing before, and it was fine to live in peace, and he would not refuse if Ping An asked him to do something else.But now that war is about to happen, he must stay by Ping An's side.

Otherwise, if his master finds out, he will suffer.

Xu Wenmei twitched the corners of her mouth, "I didn't let you talk."

Kai Yang closed his mouth.

Pingan smiled smugly, "So you stay here and defend the city with everyone, and I go out to deal with the Xirong people." Without waiting for everyone's objection, he said quickly, "That's the decision! Choose the manpower, we will leave later."

"Yes." Deputy General Zhou agreed, and then asked, "How many people shall we bring?"

"Let's bring 50 people." Ping An said after considering the safety issue.Even if the Xirong people's relatively large team has more than a dozen people, it will be three or four to fight one, and they will never lose.

To take these people out, he will try his best to ensure the safety of everyone.

Because the city gate has been blocked, Ping An and the others can only take the path on the mountain.In this way, the horse cannot be brought.After all, the mountain road is rugged and steep, and horses can't walk up it at all.Instead, the bomb was brought. In addition, the crossbow and armor improved by the bow and arrow factory were brought.

——Anyway, no one cares about the distance, so Ping An justly let the research institute, which is still only in its infancy, produce these things.The newly smelted iron in Qinzhou is used, the quality is better, and the armor made is lighter and thinner, which is convenient for use at this time.

Armor and bows and crossbows are issued to everyone to take with them, and bombs are carried in boxes in turn.

Because Ping'an moved all the villages in Funing County in time, there were people from Xirong who came and wandered around at first, but then they disappeared altogether.So they walked out very smoothly, and touched in the direction of Xinzhou.

All the people encountered along the way were small teams of three or five people.Because of the relatively large gap in strength, Ping An decided to play the opponent's horse.The 50 of them had no horses and only walked on their feet. They didn't know when they would go.If it can be matched with a horse, it will be much easier.

So he simply made a trap and waited for the Xirong people to get in.

Probably because they have never encountered resistance, Xirong people are really easy to deceive, and they can be fooled every time. After a few days of work, everyone can basically fight with each other.When it was near Xinzhou, the basic standard equipment for one person and one horse was complete.

With horses, action is quicker and easier.Ping An even distributed the bombs to everyone, and everyone immediately brought a few, so it was easy.

Then they began to sweep along the vicinity of Xinzhou City, hiding when they encountered a large number of troops, and taking them down if there were few people.Slowly, it also consumed a lot of Xirong people's strength.At least a few hundred people were lost.

As for the rescued people, Ping An asked them to gather in the same place and gave them some weapons. It would not be so easy for the Xirong people to rob if there were too many people.

It's just that as the small group of troops sent out did not return for a long time, the people of Xirong gradually realized that something was wrong.Start sending people out to investigate.

Ping An and the others caught a few groups of spies, and they knew they were exposed.

Deputy General Zhou said, "My lord, shall we go back now?" It would be a good idea to quickly withdraw to the county seat before being found by the Xirong people.By the way, those who were rescued can be brought back, which is a great achievement.

Pingan frowned and looked at the bomb he had placed on his horse.Because the operation was so smooth, these things have not been used until now.Do you want to take it back intact?Such a waste.

He thought for a while, and said, "Let's do the last big one."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone asked, "What do you do?"

"Let's go to Xinzhou City to have a look first." Ping An said.It is said that there are at least 2 horses in Xinzhou City.In fact, there are only this number of Xirong people outside the city. After all, the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, and it is thanks to the blessing of all the people that they can gather so many people.Ping An plans to unite with the troops in the city to make a big one.

First, though, he had to find a way to connect with the people in the city.

Xinzhou City has been completely surrounded by Xirong people, and it is not so easy to get in.However, isn't there a Kaiyang beside Ping'an?He couldn't get in during the day, and at night, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to avoid the Xirong people's defense line?

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Of the three messengers sent by Feng Yutang, one went to Xinzhou, so the governor of the Northwest was somewhat prepared so that he would not be caught off guard by Xi Rong.The other went to Qinzhou, which also made Pingan prepare early, and personally led people to the vicinity of Xinzhou to disrupt the situation.However, the third person was not so lucky and smooth.

He managed to find the Xinzhou Army, but what he found was only the remnants of the defeated army.These people ran away in embarrassment, and the messenger stopped several groups of people in a row, and finally figured out what happened: Beidi people appeared on the ground of Xirong!

Beidi actually came from the same origin as the Changhe tribe that made Dachu very vigilant.Later, for unknown reasons, it split into two tribes, which are now the Beidi and Changhe tribes.Although they used to be a family, the relationship between them is much worse than that of other countries.Don't look at Da Chu and the Changhe tribe fighting to death, but if you want to say that the Changhe tribe is most afraid of Beidi.

For Da Chu, this is a happy event.

Because the Changhe tribe had to be vigilant against Beidi, so they didn't have much energy to invade Dachu.At most, every autumn symbolically come to make a grass valley. ——The reason why it is called symbolic is because the river basin where the Changhe Tribe is located is abundant in water, even if it is affected by a severe drought, it is rarely affected.

Just like this year, with such a severe drought, it was the Xirong people, not the Changhe tribe, that Da Chu was on guard against.The reason why Zhao Can went to Hebei was because he was worried that the Changhe Tribe would jump out and disrupt the situation when Da Chu was fighting Xi Rong.

The Beidi people have been suppressed by the Changhe Tribe, and they have no means of doppelganger, and they have no intention of provoking Da Chu at all.So although there is still a border between the two countries, Beidi is much more honest than the Xirong and Changhe tribes.

Over time, such a brave and warlike nation was almost forgotten by the Chu people.

As a result, now, Beidi people joined hands with Xirong, not only came to the border of Xirong, but also dispersed the Xinzhou Army that was going to support the Qizhou Army!

Although the person who sent the letter already knew that the people of Xirong had already prepared for it and was designing Dachu's cognition, they did not expect that Xirong would actually do such a thing to lure wolves into the house.But...on second thought, it doesn't seem so strange.After all, there is nothing worth looting on the grassland, especially after another disaster this year.So when Beidi people came, the unlucky one was also Da Chu.

They've been connected for a long time!This war is a conspiracy from beginning to end!

Then think about the Qizhou Army who is still resisting the Xirong Army and waiting for the Xinzhou Army to come to help. What can wait is not reinforcements, but a more ferocious enemy.As for the Zhuozhou Army, which has gone deep alone, I am afraid that the situation will not be much better than here.

The person who sent the letter was named Qi Yuan, who was trained by Feng Yutang. He was very good at spying on news and analyzing intelligence. After thinking everything through, his heart sank.He is still not sure whether the Changhe tribe in the north is honest. If they also join in, then—for Da Chu, the most difficult time has just arrived.

Qi Yuan is also a resolute person, knowing that it will be useless to find any Xinzhou Army and Qizhou Army now.The news must be sent out immediately to let the people of Beidi know of the appearance of the people in Dachu!

So he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped towards the border.

How to mix with the fleeing Xinzhou army along the way, and avoid the pursuit and killing of the Beidi army is not mentioned.Qi Yuan even took the opportunity to gather a part of the Xinzhou Army to follow him. ——Speaking of which, although the ancient wars were very cruel, because only cold weapons could be used, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and it was actually very difficult to kill many people.

After all, even if a group of people stand there and slash you with knives, it won't take long before your hands will be sore, let alone the other party will run away and resist?

Moreover, the ancient population was the root of everything, so unless there was a deep hatred between the two clans, they would not kill the captives.After all, if you put these people in your own country and raise them for a few years or more, they will become your own people.The food products produced are also owned by themselves.

Therefore, although the Xinzhou Army was dispersed by the Beidi cavalry, of the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, only a few thousand actually died. Some of the others were captured by the Beidi people, and the other part scattered and fled.

And these are the elite troops of Da Chu, and they are not too bad after all. Although they were ambushed and dispersed by the Beidi people, most of them are still sensible.Fortunately, the border of Dachu is too long, as long as it is not in the direction of the grassland, Suibin can walk back no matter what.

So Qi Yuan gathered more and more people along the way, and when he reached the territory of Da Chu, there were already thousands of people!But here at the border, more people were found.After all, when everyone fled, they subconsciously gathered here.

As a result, tens of thousands of people escaped in the end!

But by this time, these people are naturally no longer under Qi Yuan's control. ——He is just a little-known relative of the Imperial City Division.Those generals who also escaped and gathered up the remnants along the way took over the management.

Knowing that the Xirong people had entered the country, nearly ten thousand people marched all the way to Xinzhou, not only to inform the news, but also to rush to help.After all, they lost the battle, and they must use another war to wash away their shame, otherwise, when the war is over, there will be no good fruit to eat.

And their luck was also very good. When they arrived, Ping An had already wiped out the small army near Xinzhou, which aroused the idea of ​​the Xirong people, so they were discussing with everyone to make a big one and then stop.