In February after the rain, wild flowers are gorgeous and full of vitality.

Although the front of the Jin thieves' army had already reached Huazhou and Xingren Mansion next to Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhao Kai still felt the prosperous and magnificent atmosphere as if the war would not really step into the Kaifeng Prefecture.

Compared with other places in the world, the counties and towns within the Kaifeng Prefecture are obviously much denser. And almost all counties and towns are extremely prosperous.

If we calculate based on population and prosperity, a county under Kaifeng Prefecture is definitely comparable to most prefectures and prefectures in the Song Dynasty.

Most of the cities and towns in Kaifeng Prefecture can match the counties elsewhere.

These county towns and towns have set up defenses. Zhao Kai has sent many bare magistrates, county magistrates, and supervisors to organize the defense there. Because it is related to his own lives, most of the county magistrates and town officials have done a good job!

When Zhao Kai was passing there this time, he found that the outer periphery of several county walls had been cleaned up, and there were no miscellaneous buildings. The outer moats were widened and deepened, and the sheep and horse walls and door guard walls were built.

Several county towns or towns have adopted the method of building outer cities to protect the markets and docks built in contours, and have dug trenches and fences outside the contours, which looks pretty good.

No matter how you use the method to protect the city, a large number of armed civilians are indispensable.

Zhao Kai saw militia guarding the road outside every city. Although their equipment was poor and their training seemed insufficient, they all looked very energetic! They all loved the Song Dynasty very much... It should not be a problem for people to ask for some money to defend their country!

In addition to these county towns and towns, Kaifeng Prefecture also has a large number of palaces, temples and manors of nobles and wealthy families. This is a place of wealth!

The palace temples of the Song Dynasty, especially the palace temples of Kaifeng Prefecture, were all business! Not only did they rely on the Changshengku to absorb deposits and lend money, but they also used the temple palace sites to open markets, grow fruits and vegetables, and engage in real estate leasing, which is to sell real estate products. Some temples that persuaded people to put down their butcher knives actually opened restaurants to sell meat and vegetables!

All temples and palaces occupy a large amount of land, and this is even more true for temples and palaces in Kaifeng Prefecture!

Moreover, these temples, palaces, especially the monks in the temples, were not particularly afraid of the Jin thieves. They all knew that the Northern Dynasties (Liao Kingdom) worshipped Buddhism far better than the Song Dynasty, and the Liao lords of all dynasties were all Buddhist disciples! The Jin people should be similar, and they would not make things difficult for the Sect. However, the Buddhists were all empty after all, and they would definitely be willing to donate the unused money, grain and land to the court to use it as a resource for resisting the Jin Dynasty.

By the way, there are many bronze statues in those temples. Should we take them to Kaifeng Prefecture to bless the officers and soldiers guarding the city?

In addition, there are many manors of nobles and wealthy families in Kaifeng Prefecture. Most of them are inherited by the military leaders who have released their military power by a glass of wine. Some are the manors built by newly formed ministers and nobles in the Northern Song Dynasty for many generations. Although most of the owners of these wealthy families have run away, there must be a lot of accumulation in the manor. It is natural to take it out to the court to defend the manor itself!

Since entering Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhao Kai suddenly felt relaxed when he saw the prosperity around this mountain-top city. He felt that he would be very rich, and if he had money, he would have soldiers, if he had soldiers, he would have country, and if he had country, he could continue to be an official!

"Your Majesty, Kaifeng Mansion has arrived!"

Just as Zhao Kai was thinking about how to scrape a large amount of money at the fastest speed, and then used this money to "buy" the brave men among the royal guards who gathered in Kaifeng Prefecture into the camp imperial guards, and then equip them well, and then use 996. No, it was the 997 standard to strictly train, Yao Pingzhong, who was riding a horse in front and driving for Zhao Kai, suddenly shouted!

Zhao Kai, who was riding a horse, looked up and saw the tall and solid Kaifeng Mansion walls in the distance, emitting a golden aura of wealth in the sun.

Yao Pingzhong said at this time: "Your Majesty, you can reach Xinsong Gate by following this official road. However, the scenery outside the Xinsong Gate is very different from when you left Kaifeng Prefecture in the twelfth lunar month last year!"

Last year's twelfth lunar month? Zhao Kai thought to himself: I left the city from Xinzheng Gate last year, and I have never seen anything outside Xinsong Gate!

Yao Pingzhong said to himself at this time: "The streets outside Xinsong Gate have been demolished, and even the Yichun Garden has been demolished!"

Zhao Kai knew that Yichun Garden was a palace garden outside Kaifeng Prefecture, a Song Dynasty official family, which was a good place!

Just as he thought of this, Yao Pingzhong said again: "Hanfang Garden outside Jingyang Gate in the north of the city and Yujin Garden outside Xunmen in the south of the city were also demolished. Only the Qionglin Garden and Jinming Lake in the west of the city were still left. Moreover, it was renovated. An exterior wall and outer moat were built outside Jinming Lake and Qionglin Lake. The northern section of the exterior wall was constructed along the Bian River, and the eastern section borrowed the southwest section of the Kaifeng Prefecture Outer City.

In addition, Li Shumi also asked someone to connect the walls of Jin Mingchi and Qionglinyuan together, turning them into an inner wall and digging a ditch outside the inner wall. If you include the outer wall of Baojin Tower and Baojin Tower itself, it will be like the four walls and two trenches in the inside and outside, which is very solid!”

Zhao Kai nodded and thought to himself: Li Gang has left me and the school beauties a place to raft and play. He is indeed a loyal minister!

If you really can't save him this time, you have to give him a nice posthumous title, just call him Wenzhong, and he will be Li Wenzhong from now on!

When Zhao Kai was thinking about preparing a beautiful posthumous title for Li Gang for emergency needs, the knights in front of him suddenly stopped moving forward.

It turned out that Zhao Kai and his group had already arrived outside the Xinsong Gate, something was wrong. Where is the Xinsong Gate? Why is it missing?

Zhao Kai, who had just strangled the war horse, looked up and was stunned. The Xinsong Gate is gone!

Kaifeng Mansion is his home! He went home from afar and was about to enter the door, but found that the door was gone... It was not that the door panel was gone but that there was a hole left, but a wall appeared where it was supposed to be the door!

Yao Pingzhong then spoke and explained: "Your Majesty, I forgot to tell you that the door guard walls have been built outside the city gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and the door cannot be seen from outside."

It turned out that the door was still there, but there was a wall outside the door... This is actually a very common temporary fortification for defending the city. A Song Dynasty castle in a wartime state should have such a door guard wall.

The left and right sides of this gate guard wall are not only used to protect the city gate from attacks by enemy equipment outside the city, but also to cover the soldiers who are on their own to attack counterattack. The Song army rarely defends the city, but is only capable of both offense and defense.

To be both offensive and defensive, the soldiers defending the city must have a way out to fight back.

Therefore, many open and secret doors were often opened in the castles of the Song Dynasty. In order to ensure the suddenness of the counterattack, protective walls were built outside these open and secret doors to cover the opening and closing of the city gates.

In addition to protecting the door wall, Zhao Kai also found a long sheep and horse wall outside the Xinsong Gate. The function of the sheep and horse wall is to cover the base of the wall, and also to cover the defenders who are out to fight back or defend.

The Sheep and Horse Wall is said to be one, but in fact it has opened many holes, which is also to facilitate the defenders to counterattack.

These holes are usually sealed with a snatcher, and the snatcher will only be removed when the defenders need to pass.

In addition to every hole that resists the blockade, there is a simple wooden bridge mounted across the moat. These wooden bridges are of course for the convenience of the defenders launching counterattacks through the moat.

It is obvious that the idea of ​​defending the city under the leadership of Li Gang and Yuwen Cuizhong attaches great importance to the offense.

After all, Kaifeng Prefecture has a huge city, with a large number of defenders and residents, and the daily consumption is amazing!

If you only defend but not attack, and finally block the road to counterattack, then there will be only a dead end!

However, if you want to truly defend the big city of Kaifeng Prefecture, these preparations alone are not enough... It still requires money, a lot of money!

Thinking of the money, Zhao Kai followed Liang Fangping, the eunuch who returned to Kaifeng Prefecture, and said, "Official Liang, go and inform me and let Yuwen Cuizhong go out of the city to welcome him!"

The reason why Zhao Kai called Yuwen Cuizhong to pick him up was not only to ask about the situation of Kaifeng city defense, but also to discuss with him how to make money and real estate in Kaifeng Prefecture. Before, he had already promised 20,000 small yards to go out in order to arouse the military's motives!

In addition, Zhao Kai also wanted to ask about Qionglinyuan and Jin Mingchi... He also wanted to go there to play with the school beauties sisters!

Liang Fangping, who had already changed into the eunuch's uniform and was carrying a whisk, replied: "Here, let's go and pass on your oral order!"

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Huhe Town, Jin soldiers and the Central Army camp of the Eastern Army.

On the same day Zhao Kai returned to Kaifeng Prefecture, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi were seeing off their little brother Wanyan Alu.

Wanyan Alu's health finally recovered, but his brothers didn't want him to continue charging, but wanted him to do something bigger and go back to Huining to ask for reinforcements!

As far as the war has come, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi dare not expect to win easily.

Moreover, they should have felt that the troops were insufficient. Their troops were concentrated a lot. However, after they had a few head-on encounters with "Gao Qiu" and found that they had to divide their troops and occupied some castles.

However, this division of troops was not enough.

Therefore, they hoped to concentrate their troops on the battlefields of Hebei, Jingdong and Jingjin to ensure that the Jin Dynasty could fight fiercely with the Song Dynasty in the above-mentioned areas.

If possible, it is best to bring all the 100,000 troops under Wanyan Zonghan to the battlefield on the Eastern Front... and fight to the death with the Song army!
Chapter completed!