The largest courtyard in the small inner city in the center of Pingding Military City is of course the Pingding Military Envoy Yamen. This is also the safest place in the impregnable Pingding Military City.
The Military Envoy Yamen was originally built very solidly, with high walls and thick door panels. The courtyard was all made of bricks and tiles, which looked solid. If necessary, if the house was demolished, the bricks and tiles obtained could be used to smash people!
During the days when they were besieged by the Jin soldiers, Ji Yiji, the envoy of the Pingding Army, and Qin Hui, the Hedong rebel who lived here, both used their greatest enthusiasm to strengthen the yamen and rebuild it. Determination to become the last fortress of the pacification army - in their opinion, there is probably no one to save this pacification army city.
What's so important about pacifying the military city? To prevent the gold thieves from advancing eastward through Jingxing Road, it is enough to guard Niangzi Pass. There is no need to defend the Pingding Military City.
As for reinforcing Hedong and relieving the siege of Taiyuan...it's simply impossible!
Therefore, Ji Yi and Qin Hui knew very well in their hearts that to pacify the military city was to abandon their sons, and Zhao Kai would not come to rescue them... They were not that silly boy like Yue Fei, who kept shouting about the arrival of King Yun's army every day.
How can it be? King Yun did not care about the gains and losses of pacifying the military city, and he had no large army to send.
Therefore, both Ji Yi and Qin Hui feel that they can only save themselves...find a way to survive by themselves, and they must survive!
The way to survive is to work hard to strengthen the city defenses and resist at all levels until Guanya defends to the death.
As the last fortress, the Military Envoy Yamen must of course be transformed and fortified as much as possible.
First, people dug a trench outside the government office.
Then the excavated soil was used to strengthen the wall, and the wall was widened several times, reaching more than five feet thick! At the same time, the height of the wall was cut down to about five feet, becoming a mound wall that was five feet high and five feet thick.
When the wall became shorter, Taiwei Ji also gave up most of the furniture in the Yamen, dismantled them, took out materials, and then used the wood to build himself a circle of forked wood... which is a fence! The fence is inserted near the outside of the mound wall. At first glance, it looks like a prison cell, but the security of this kind of house is absolutely good.
It is not easy to get over the forked logs that are more than one foot high. If you climb over, you will easily be stabbed to death by a spear. It is not easy to chop wood with an ax, because Taiwei Ji has a lot of furniture, and he is much richer after encircling his residence with railings. So people made many tiger drops and inserted them outside the mound wall.
What is tiger drop?
Just insert a sharpened wooden stake into the base of the city wall, with the sharpened end facing outward. This is called a tiger falling! It’s hard to say whether the tiger can be stabbed to death, but if you don’t pull out these wooden stakes and chop them down, don’t even think about touching the forked logs.
The gate of the military envoy's yamen was also removed... This is what Taiwei Ji meant. The old man came from a serious military background. Although he had never won any battles in his life, he participated in the construction and repair of forts dozens of times, large and small. Military operations, are experts in this area.
So he knew that the door was useless, and the enemy would just hit it with a log and it would be over. So I simply removed the door panels of several large doors of the Junshi Yamen, sawed them and took the materials, and built dozens of Juma, some of which were used to block the door openings and some to seal the roads - most of the roads around the Junshi Yamen were sealed. , leaving only a road for one person and one rider to pass.
All the houses in the Junzhi Yamen were renovated, and all the doors and windows were demolished. Wooden railings were installed on the windows, and the doors were changed into railing doors. Although these doors did not block the wind, they could shoot arrows out and make it easier to deploy defenses. The house has become a hot spot!
Two of the two-story buildings have become firepower points for shooting arrows from a high position!
These days, Lieutenant Ji not only has to think of ways to reform his yamen, but also has to take care of the city's defense and operations. He is so busy that he is almost at a loss for words.
So the old man just formulated a reconstruction plan for the Military Envoy Yamen, and arranged for some craftsmen and civil servants to come to the Yamen for construction. The one who stayed in the yamen as a supervisor every day was the Hedong Rebel Army who recruited Qin Hui.
Under Qin Hui's supervision, more than a thousand civilians started working day and night, and they have been basically completed until today.
So Qin Hui is sitting in the lobby of the Yamen, looking at the sturdy railings, and he is really dumbfounded... Why is it so like being in prison?
No, it’s not like, this is going to jail!
Qin Hui thought to himself: Now that I am sitting in a circle, am I just a prisoner?
Could it be that after working hard for most of my life, I will eventually become a prisoner of the Jin people?
Thinking of being a prisoner, Qin Hui burst into tears of sadness. At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of cheers and cheers!
How is this going? Qin Hui immediately became nervous. Could it be that the golden thieves had broken through the Pingding Army City? Is this officer going to be a prisoner soon?
Just as he was thinking of this, the voice of Old Lieutenant Ji Yiji came from outside... The old man's voice sounded a bit strange, and suddenly became loud and powerful.
Needless to say, it must be bad!
Qin Hui quickly stood up and ran towards the lobby door with three steps and two steps... He couldn't get out! The gate turned into a fence gate, and I don’t know how to open it? It seemed that the wooden poles of the fence could be removed, but Qin Hui didn't know how to do it, so he had to grab the two wooden poles with both hands, and then looked at Ji Yi helplessly from inside.
This scene is a bit like a prison visit...
"Qin Zhaofu is so happy!"
Qin Hui didn't know why, but he suddenly thought that saying "great joy" to the prisoner in the prison was not a good thing!
"What, what's the big joy?" Qin Hui asked.
"The golden thief has retreated!" Mr. Ji almost burst into tears when he spoke!
The golden thief has retreated!
This kind of thing really only happens in dreams!
"Has the peace negotiation been completed?" Qin Hui opened his mouth and asked.
Ji Yi shook his head, "It doesn't seem like that... The golden thief retreated in a hurry and even played tricks. Last night, the lights in the golden camp were brightly lit, and the golden drums would play loudly from time to time, as if they were going to attack us at night. Yue Fei and his men stayed on guard in the city all night without sleeping a wink. Today at dawn, they found that the Jin people's camp had been deserted, so they sent someone to report to me.
I just went to the top of the city to take a look and found that the gold thief had indeed left. Moreover, to the east of the military city, there was still a lot of smoke and dust on the official road beside the water... There must be a large army coming! "
"Army?" Qin Hui was stunned, "Could it be..."
"His Royal Highness King Yun's army must have arrived, so the golden thief retreated," Ji Yilao burst into tears, "I didn't expect that young man Yue Fei to say it!"
In fact, Yue Fei himself didn't believe it. He shouted this every day just to boost the morale of the army. He didn't expect that there would really be a mad king who would risk his life to save the Pingding army... I don't know what he wanted?
"Infinite Heavenly Lord, Bodhisattva bless you..." Qin Hui was so excited that he didn't know he should thank the god.
Outside the fence, Ji Yi saw Qin Hui anxious to worship the gods, and quickly said to him: "Qin Zhaofu... It seems that the two of us finally saved the pacification military city for the country, and we also killed more than ten thousand gold thieves." Remain!"
"What? There are more than ten thousand?" Qin Hui's eyes widened, "Then how powerful is Yue Fei?"
Ji Yi was a little embarrassed after hearing this question, and laughed a few times and said: "Qin Zhaofu... it's normal to pay more for merit. And Yue Fei is just a brave man, and it is I and Qin who make the final decision in pacifying the military city." Caress!"
Ah, I understand... This is about taking credit!
The Pingding Army won this battle anyway. If they didn't kill ten thousand enemies, they could kill hundreds or even thousands, right? That is also a great achievement!
Whoever gets this great merit will be able to be promoted directly to the third government office and become a Taiwei, and a civil servant will be able to become a commander-in-chief even if he does not become a Yuanshu!
This credit cannot be given away!
Qin Hui's mind immediately moved, and he nodded heavily and said: "Yes, yes, Yue Fei doesn't even have an official position. It would be good to give him an official position this time. The great merit belongs to Lieutenant Ji!"
Ji Yi also smiled and said: "If there was no Qin Zhaofu to supervise the battle, how could Ji make such a contribution to the country?"
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