When Guo Ning first arrived in Laizhou, he landed at the port of Haicang Town. Later, he fought successively and always relied on the camp in Haicang Town. This is because Haicang Town is located at the westernmost end of Laizhou. Fighting here can limit the war outside Laizhou as much as possible.
Once the war breaks down, Ye County, the seat of Laizhou, is truly suitable as the center of the military state.
The name of Ye County was first seen in the Warring States Period. Tian Dan won the support of thousands of households in Yeyi for his restoration of Qi. This Yeyi is today's Ye County.
The entire Laizhou is generally flat, except around Ye County, where there are many dangerous mountains and rivers. There are Fushan and Lushan in the northwest of Ye County, Gaowang Mountain and Tianzhu Mountain in the south, Donglai Mountain in the east, and Sanshan Island in the sea to the north. It was used for managing ships and grain storage equipment when the Tang Dynasty invaded Korea during the Zhenguan Period. land.
After Guo Ning took control of Ye County, he used Jing Anmin, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, to manage it accordingly. In Zhuozhou, the people of Jing'an had built up a powerful force from scratch, and they were quite good at governing. Most of the houses that the heroes had annexed were wiped out by Guo Ning's troops, and the rest were honest and honest. Therefore, according to the decree, Like the wind blowing through the grass.
After a few months, the city's atmosphere was very different from the past.
The south gate of the city has obviously been heightened and reinforced. There is a sheep and horse wall built of rammed earth and stone on the outside. The tower and arrow tower on the wall are all newly built. The tower is three stories high and looks very rough, but it has enough military functions. It has its own humble majesty.
The city wall itself has probably not been repaired in decades, and it is inevitably overgrown with grass. The shrubs on the platform are as tall as a person. Several teams of strong men were cutting down miscellaneous trees along the platform base to clear the way for the team carrying gravel behind. Someone was laying ink lines down from the top of the city wall, shouting and giving orders from time to time, presumably to build an additional horse face here.
Because of the large movement, the earthen lumps and rubbish at the top of the wall were in disrepair and rolled down. Below the platform was the city trench. It turned out that someone was widening the trench. The earthen lumps and rubbish all fell on them, stirring up choking dust, so those people were He cursed loudly in the ditch, causing everyone to laugh.
On the high ground to the east of the city, there is also a garrison fort under construction.
The fort rests on the slope and has an irregular shape. The walls are built with gravel and rammed earth slabs. There are turrets at the four corners. There is only one fort gate, facing the gentle south.
The open space between Tunbao and the city is a huge school ground. In the center of the school grounds, there were rows of soldiers holding swords and guns, making assassination gestures as the orders and flags changed, and the shouts of killing resounded around them.
To the north of the school grounds, several groups of cavalry were galloping back and forth, stabbing each other with long wooden poles in their hands.
To the east of the school grounds is a place for archery practice. Some soldiers did not hold bows and arrows in their hands. They just lined up and raised sticks with stones hanging in their hands, pretending to be shooting and aiming.
At this time, there was a knight of medium height and dark complexion leading a few knights. He stopped his horse not far from the school ground and stared at them for a long time. These soldiers maintained their posture, motionless, and did not even glance around randomly.
After all, the cold wind was unbearable, and there were several men standing there, their hands not moving, but their bodies curled up. Immediately, an officer took a wooden stick and hit him all over his head and face: "Stand up straight! Stand up straight! Put your elbows away!"
The knight nodded slightly.
"There is also a school ground in Xiyou Town, which is smaller than here. I heard that there is also one in Zhaoyuan County. There are also some in Haicang Town, Laiyang, Jiaoshui and other places. Many of the soldiers newly recruited by Guo Jiedu in Shandong have already seen it. He has been bloodied and killed people, but for a while, he still has to go through simple training there, and then he is gathered here and trained hard again. This person is known as the evil tiger, and he really deserves his reputation."
While I was sighing, someone from behind shouted: "Master in front, give way! Give way!"
The knight took his followers and retreated to the withered grass beside the road.
In November and December, it was already deep winter.
According to normal circumstances, there will be nothing going on in the fields at this time, and the government offices will not be doing anything at this time. Therefore, there are few travelers on the road, and only merchants returning goods will still be running around.
But the situation in these few months was different from the past. As soon as the knight moved his horse to the side of the road, a long procession passed by.
The crowd was bustling, and most of them looked like they were traveling far away.
At the front of the team were warriors riding war horses with fierce expressions.
Most of the people behind were on foot. Someone pushed a wheelbarrow, put the cage items on the cart, and let the old man sit on the top of the cage; most people didn't have much luggage, so they just used branches as crutches, wrapped their ragged clothes tightly, and slowly carried or carried packages. move forward.
Some people were walking, pointing to Laizhou City ahead, and talking expectantly to others; others were looking sad and sighing. On the other hand, children and teenagers are generally very happy. They gather in groups from a few years old to teenagers, talking and laughing, walking through the crowd.
Sometimes they ran to the back of the line, where there were heavily armed soldiers walking in formation. Surrounded by soldiers were vehicles carrying grain and supplies, which were closely guarded. As soon as the children came closer, they were immediately scolded and chased away. However, the children were still laughing and laughing, and they were not too scared.
"Ask these people where they come from."
The knight ordered his companions to wait.
The companion immediately rode over and approached the crowd to say a few words. A warrior with a bow and sword came from ahead to ask.
Both parties have certificates issued by the Dinghai Navy Government, so there is no chance of misunderstanding.
That warrior is Dong Jin. He asked a few questions and then ignored him. He rode his horse back directly and said to Zhang Rong: "The black-faced horseman is an official of the imperial court. Well, he is the governor of Ninghai Prefecture. His name is Wugu Lun Rongzu. He has a talisman. , saying that he was invited by Commander Jie."
The governor of Ninghai Prefecture is already a big shot in Shandong. Considering the status of everyone, it is inevitable to feel weak when hearing such an official here. But at this moment, Zhang Rong and others didn't even bother to take a glance. They all said: "Let's hurry up and leave him alone. Pay the order and have a good rest for two days."
It turned out that Zhang Rong and others had been traveling day and night after leaving Changbai Mountain. But on the way, they bumped into Zhang Qian's troops, who were responsible for collecting grain and supplies in Le'an, and had to stop and help.
Le'an City was originally an important town that Wanyan Sala worked hard to manage. It had three to five thousand residents and stored grain and supplies that could last for several years. As a result, when the news of Wanyan Sala's defeat came, the three to five thousand people were immediately dispersed. In order to compete for the reserves, several troops fought with each other, and fighting broke out.
Zhang Qian was leading his men around and rushed to suppress them after hearing the news. Relying on the prestige of the Ding Navy, no one dared to stop the stragglers, so he took control of the food storage and summoned friendly troops and colleagues from all over the country to carry it overnight. Zhang Rong and his party are not large in number, but they have a lot of mules and horses, so they naturally have to help.
But there are too many jars and pots, and the marching speed will inevitably slow down. When the marching speed slowed down, the people on the road heard that there was going to be a war and joined them one after another, making the marching speed even slower.
No matter how majestic the navy is, there will always be unsophisticated thieves along the way who try to take advantage of the chaos. The group was unprepared when they camped at night, and were broken into several times by thieves, causing a series of turmoil. Zhang Rong faced the enemy at night and shouted for orders. As a result, the unhealed wound on his face was torn again, and blood flowed until half of his body was red. He didn't even notice.
A few days later, the brigade passed Shouguang, and Yang An'er's troops had already crossed Muling Pass and gathered the forces of Li Quan, Zhang Lin and other powerful men in Yidu.
When Yang An'er's subordinates passed by Zhang Qian and others, both sides sent envoys to contact each other and promised not to use weapons. However, the two teams were still heavily guarded and stared at each other.
Fortunately, Xiao Mo Le also led the troops to gather at this time. Zhang Qian and others suddenly felt their backs stiffen, and then they breathed a sigh of relief. The group passed through Weizhou and returned to Laizhou.
When they arrived at Haicang Town, Wang Shixian, who was staying here, came out to pick him up. Only then did everyone realize that Guo Ning had gone to Ye County, the administrative seat of Laizhou, a few days ago. Because Haicang Town already had enough people and supplies, Wang Shixian sent special personnel to arrange transportation, and also dispatched a group of medical officers to diagnose and treat people who were weak or sick.
Everyone rested in Haicang Town for two days, and then continued eastward for four days with the people before arriving in Ye County. This journey lasted nearly twenty days, during which time there were countless trivial problems. Even though Zhang Rong and others were all very capable, they felt exhausted.
Wugu Lunrongzu's companions drove their horses back and said angrily: "They are the people Guo Ning brought back from Le'an, Boxing and other places in Yidu Prefecture. The soldiers and horses behind are all with them; they came just now The one who asked was a man named Dong, Alixi."
At this point, he looked at Wugu Lun Rongzu and said: "Ali Xi, a mere Alixi, didn't take the governor seriously! I told you that the master is here, but they didn't come to see him!"
Wugu Lun Rongzu ignored Bandang's nonsense.
He was just an empty governor in Ninghai Prefecture. As the situation became more and more chaotic, he was no longer worth anything.
He immediately stood in the grass and watched the group of soldiers and civilians slowly walk to the city gate. Here at the city gate, there used to be farmers coming in and out. Seeing the arrival of a large group of soldiers and civilians, the soldiers on guard called their superiors to come out for questioning.
The warriors all had badges and talismans. As for the common people, they had probably made a general statistics and the compiled books had been sent to them a long time ago. So both sides took the books and called their names one by one to check.
