Chapter 111 Who is the great merit?
The largest courtyard in the small inner city in the center of Pingding Military City is of course the Pingding Military Envoy's Office. This is also the safest place in the solid Pingding Military City.
The military envoy's yamen was originally built very strong, with high walls and thick door panels. The yard was full of bricks and tile houses, which looked solid. If necessary, the house could be cut off and the bricks and tiles you get could be smashed!
During the days when they were besieged by the Jin soldiers, the old Grand Marshal Ji Yiji of the Pingding Army and the Hedong Yijun who lived here recruited Qin Hui, both of whom expressed their greatest enthusiasm to strengthen the yamen and had the determination to transform it into the last fortress of the Pingding Army. In their opinion, most of the Pingding Army had no one to rescue this Pingding Army.
What's the point of pacifying the military city? Just block the Jin thieves from advancing east through Jingxing Road and guarding Niangzi Pass. There is no need to protect pacifying the military city.
As for reinforcements to Hedong and relieving the siege of Taiyuan... it is simply impossible!
So Ji Yi and Qin Hui knew very well that if they were to pacify the military city, they would be abandoned, and Zhao Kai would not come to rescue him... They were not the stupid boy Yue Fei, and they would yell every day that Prince Yun's army would arrive.
How is it possible? Prince Yun neither cared about the gains and losses of pacifying the military city, nor had a large army to send.
Therefore, Ji Yi and Qin Hui both felt that they could only save themselves... They found a way to survive, and they had to survive!
The way to survive is to work hard to strengthen the city defense and make layers of resistance until the yamen is closed and guarded.
As the last fortress, the military envoys should of course be transformed and deployed as much as possible.
First, someone dug a circle of trench outside the yamen.
Then the excavated soil was used to strengthen the wall, widening the wall several times, reaching more than five feet thick! At the same time, the height of the wall was cut to about five feet, forming a mound wall that was five feet thick and five feet thick.
While the wall became shorter, Old Taiwei Ji put aside most of the furniture in the yamen, dismantled them and collected materials, and used these wood to create a circle of fork-row wood for himself... It is a fence! The fence is inserted near the outside of the mound wall, which looks like a cell at first glance, but the safety of this kind of house is absolutely good.
It is not easy to pass the forks that are more than ten feet tall, and it is easy to be stabbed to death by a spear after climbing over. It is not easy to cut wood with an axe, because Old Taiwei Ji has a lot of furniture, and he is much richer after circling his home with railings. So he created many tigers and inserted them outside the wall of the mound.
What is a tiger falling?
It is like a sharpened wooden stake that penetrates under the wall, and the sharpened one is outward. This is called a tiger falling! It is hard to say whether the tiger can be killed, but if you don’t pull out these wooden stakes, don’t try to move the forks and scatter the wood.
The military envoy's door was also unloaded... This is what Grandmaster Ji meant. The old man was a serious man. Although he had never won any battles in his life, he participated in dozens of military operations to build cities and forts in all sizes. He is an expert in this regard.
So he knew that the door was useless, and he could just hit the log by the enemy. So he simply unloaded several door panels of the military envoy's yamen, sawed and retrieved materials, and built dozens of horse-resisting horses, some used to block door holes, and some used to block roads - most of the roads around the military envoy's yamen were sealed, leaving only roads for one person to ride through.
The houses in the military envoy's yamen have been renovated, and all the doors and windows have been removed. The windows have been equipped with wooden railings, and the doors have been renovated into railing doors. Although this kind of door does not block the wind, it can shoot arrows outwards, making it easier to defend. The houses have become firepower points!
Two of the two-story buildings have become firepower points that can shoot arrows from a high place!
These days, Old Taiwei Ji not only had to find a way to transform his yamen, but also had to inquire about the defense and combat in the whole city, and he was so busy that he was almost flying.
So the old man only formulated the reconstruction plan for the military envoy's yamen, and arranged for some craftsmen and civilians to come to the yamen to construct. And the Hedong Yijun recruited Qin Hui every day.
Under Qin Hui's supervision, more than a thousand civilians started work day and night, and they were busy until now, they were basically completed.
Therefore, Qin Hui was sitting in the lobby of the yamen. Looking at the sturdy railings, it was a bit funny... Why is it so like going to jail?
No, it's not like, it's in jail!
Qin Hui thought to himself: I am sitting in the circle now, isn’t it just a word for prison?
Could it be that the official has worked hard for most of his life to become a prisoner of the Jin people in the end?
Thinking of becoming a prisoner, Qin Hui's sad tears were about to fall. At this moment, he suddenly heard the noise of cheering and noisy!
What's going on? Qin Hui became nervous immediately. Could it be that the Jin thieves had broken the pacified military city? Is this official going to be imprisoned immediately?
Just as he thought of this, the voice of the old Grand Marshal Ji came from outside... The old man's voice sounded a little strange, and suddenly became bright and powerful.
Needless to say, something bad must be done!
Qin Hui quickly stood up and ran to the lobby gate in three steps...I can't get out! The gate turned into a fence gate, and I don't know how to open it? It seems that the wooden poles of the fence could be removed, but Qin Hui couldn't do it, so he had to grab the two wooden poles with both hands, and then looked at Ji Yi outside from the inside.
This scene is a bit like a prison visit...
"Qin Zhaofu, I'm so happy!"
Qin Hui didn't know what, but suddenly realized that it was not a good thing to say "great happiness" to the prison in the prison!
"What, what's the joy?" Qin Hui asked.
"The Jin thieves retreated!" Mr. Ji's tears were almost falling as he spoke!
The Jin thieves retreated!
This kind of thing is really only happening in dreams!
"Has the peace talks been settled?" Qin Hui asked.
Ji Yi shook his head, "It seems that it's not... The Golden Thieves retreated in a hurry and played tricks. Last night, the lights in the Golden Camp were brightly lit, and the golden drums were made from time to time, as if they were going to attack us at night. Yue Fei led his people to guard the city all night but didn't close his eyes. Today, after dawn, he found that the Golden People's Camp had already left the camp, so he asked me to report it.
I just went to the top of the city to see that the gold thief had indeed left. And to the east of the military city, there was still smoke and dust on the official road beside the Mianman Water... There must be a large army coming!"
"The army?" Qin Hui was stunned, "Is it..."
"It must be that His Highness Yun's army has arrived, so the Jin thieves retreated," Ji Yi Lao burst into tears, "I didn't expect that Yue Fei's young man would tell you!"
Actually, Yue Fei himself didn't believe it. He yelled this every day just to encourage the morale of the army. Unexpectedly, a crazy king would sacrifice his life to save the Pingding Army... I don't know what he was trying to do?
"Immortal Heavenly Lord, Bodhisattva bless..." Qin Hui was so excited that he didn't know that he should thank the god.
Outside the fence, Ji Yi saw Qin Hui in a hurry to worship the gods, and hurriedly said to him: "Qin Zhaofu... It seems that we both finally saved the Pingding Military City for the country, and killed more than 10,000 Jin thieves!"
"What? There are more than ten thousand?" Qin Hui widened his eyes, "Why is Yue Fei that powerful?"
Ji Yi was a little embarrassed when he heard this question and laughed dryly, "Qin Zhaofu... It's normal to report more merits. Moreover, Yue Fei is just a brave man, and I and Qin Zhaofu are the ones who decide to pacify the army city!"
Ah, I understand... This is a matter of competing for credit!
No matter what, the Pingding Army won the battle, and there were no more than 10,000 enemies, but hundreds or thousands of them, right? That was also a great achievement!
Anyone who wants to get this great merit can be promoted to the third yamen to become the Grand Marshal, and even if the civil officials cannot become Yuanshu, they can become the general of the ranks!
This credit cannot be given up!
Qin Hui's thoughts immediately moved, and he said with a heavy emphasis: "Yes, yes, Yue Fei doesn't even have an official position. It would be great if he could give him an official this time. The great merit was from Taiwei Ji!"
Ji Yi also smiled and said, "If Qin Zhaofu had not supervised the battle in front of the battle, how could Ji make such contributions to the country?"
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Chapter completed!