Chapter 1,754 Huatazi Shop

After looking at the map and understanding the mentality of the commander, Su You continued to Huatazipu.

Huatazipu is located at the forefront, separated from Feihu Village in the Liao Kingdom by only a ravine.

And it's a bird's eye view, which is especially important for the Song Dynasty, which is at the lower peak of the terrain.

Huatazipu is not big, but it is located on the top of Damao Mountain. It is a small castle with a radius of twenty steps.

At first it was just a wooden shed, then it became a watchtower, and then it became four watchtowers. Later, city walls and gates were built between the four watchtowers, and it gradually turned into a castle.

Now the castle faces the north of the Liao Kingdom, and the watchtower has been transformed into a nine-story stone tower based on the solid city wall. There are four floors under the city wall and five floors on the wall. It has the style of a European medieval lord's castle.

In fact, this is normal, the uses are similar, the techniques are similar, and what human wisdom can produce at the same stage of civilization development is actually similar.

At most, there is a deviation in the cultural aesthetic style, which is not enough for this castle and does not have these things.

It's not completely absent. For example, at the entrance of Huatazi Shop, there is a "poem" painted crookedly with red paint.

There are many bachelors in the flower tower shop, and behind it is Songshan River.

If Liao Gou wants to go through this, he should first ask Grandpa if he can!

Su You couldn't help laughing out loud, even crying. He asked Zhe Keda: "Which talented person is this masterpiece?"

Zhe Ke was so ashamed that his face turned red, and he lowered his head and said, "I didn't come here last time, and it was determined that Yao Lin did it when he came to inspect. I will have someone wipe it off for him!"

"Don't stop ..." Su Yin quickly stopped: "Poems are used by words, so this is a good poem, I don't believe you ask Liu Xueshi."

Liu Fengshi was also very happy. The old man was already funny. When Su You said this, he nodded repeatedly: "Situ is right, this... poem, expresses his chest and armpits directly, and is full of righteousness. In addition to calling Liao people dogs, it is somewhat inappropriate.

The unexpected surprise of the imperial court..."

Su You said there was nothing wrong with it: "Xueshi Liu did not read it well and did not understand the profound meaning of the poem."

"Yao Laoer wrote clearly that he was criticizing the foreign enemies who wanted to invade the Song Dynasty from here, and did not include the Liao people who were friendly with the Song Dynasty."

"Oh, yes, yes..." Liu Fengshi hurriedly handed over Su You: "After being taught by Situ, this is called treating differently, being polite and polite, but I didn't read carefully."

"Although the rules are rough, you can't use the writing to harm the intention. Well, in this way, it can be regarded as an excellent writing."

Zhe Keda himself was born in Tibet, so he really couldn’t understand this. Now Yao Laoer’s poems were actually reviewed by two imperial scholars, and both of them said they were good...

Or... maybe... I blindfolded Yao Laoer for a while and really wrote a masterpiece?

After entering the village, Su You knew how the "gentleness" of Huatapu came about. On the walls on both sides, there were two blackboards painted with cement and carbon black, and there were actually blackboard newspapers on them.

This thing would never be found in the medieval border castles of later generations.

There were only a hundred new troops stationed here, which was equivalent to a company in later generations. According to the characteristics of flower growers, countless vegetable fields, and even wheat fields and sheep pens were opened outside the castle.

The castle is not entirely at the highest point of Damao Mountain, but is located on a gentle slope below the summit. There is only a small observation post on the top of the mountain and a path leading up to it.

Obviously, this is to solve the water diversion problem of the garrison.

The layout of the fort is very compact, the sergeants all live in small rooms on the wall, and there is even a small school field inside.

The name of the assistant guard here is Pu Shan. When Su You chatted with him, he found out that he was a familiar person from Shaanxi.

But now there is no trace of the Tibetan people in Pu Shan's body. His mother-in-law is a Han peasant girl who was raised in Qinzhou.

Pu Shan also never liked national costumes. He tried every possible means to sneak into the ranks of the New Army just to get more money and food for uniforms issued to the New Army.

Pu Shan was rough and straightforward, and was quite popular among the soldiers in the village, but his education was not high. It was his deputy Liu Yun who created the blackboard newspapers in the city.

Liu Yun is a student of the seventh batch of the Military Academy and graduated from the reconnaissance department. He is the kind of person who likes to use his brain. However, he is not in the village now. I heard that he went to Liao for reconnaissance with five of his men.

This was an opening opened by Zhang Dun when he knew Dingzhou, allowing the frontline troops to directly enter hundreds of miles of Liao territory for reconnaissance. Su You estimated the distance. If Liu Yun really did this, then the two counties of Feihu and Lingqiu of the Liao people would be destroyed.

Within the reconnaissance range.

Thinking of this, Su You asked, "Has Lieutenant Liu ever entered Lingqiu City?"

Pu Shan said carelessly: "Where is Liu Xiucai? I often go to Lingqiu to do business with Feihu."

"Buy or sell?"

"Ah, this was the scholar's idea. He asked me to pretend to be a camel, carrying a piece of cloth and a burning knife, and go to two counties to do business."

"The Liao people allow you to enter the country in a big way? Aren't they all in the market for exchange?"

"Those are the rules here. They are not allowed to cross the barbed wire fence. They are not so strict over there."

"I have a way to burn knives. It's easy to pass the customs. The camels are willing to partner with me."

After speaking, he added: "The Emperor's uncle of the Liao Kingdom changed the regulations and no trade or entry is allowed, so the market is better this year."

Su You was confused when he heard this: "What do you mean? That's the opposite, right?"

"I'm not saying the opposite. After changing the articles of association, all the legitimate routes on the surface have been cut off. We who are smuggling goods, can't the market be better? Liu Xiucai said, when will we go to Yuzhou to take a look..."

"You dare!" Su You immediately stopped him. Yuzhou is located at the intersection of Hengshan Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and Yanshan Mountain. In terms of latitude, it is already the same as Xijin Prefecture, and the distance to the Great Wall is already more than half.

"Leave these things to the serious businessmen! You are not allowed to run so far, or you will be spoiled by the bachelor!"

Su You was an easy-going person. If this easy-going were to be divided into different levels, he would treat children and the elderly first, then the poor people, and then the middle- and lower-class sergeants.

Pu Shan, a veteran from Shaanxi Province, was very familiar with Su You's style, so he was not very afraid of him. He just smiled and said, "I heard Yixi Weishe and won't go there in the future."

Su You didn't listen to him at all, and said to Liu Fengshi: "Liu Gong, on the way here, I saw many horses without fire marks. They must be horses pretending to be merchants. This does not meet the regulations. Military horses must be given up."

If they are all marked, then they have to be disposed of."

Liu Fengshi came from a family of scholars, so he didn't know how to deal with these twists and turns. Only then did he realize that if the horses were not marked with fire marks and brought under management, these lawless murderers would not dare to go anywhere.

This time it was Pu Shan's turn to be dumbfounded: "This..."

"What is this?!" Su You waved his hand: "Hurry up and soak the soybeans in the kitchen. Don't waste the sheep's blood in the belly. I'll come back and teach you how to deal with it. Let's go to the peak lookout post."

Arriving at Wangshao, the geography of the mountains and rivers ahead is very clear.

The border between Song and Liao was bounded by Taihang on the left and Yanshan on the right. A river in the middle was the only passage.

That is the Yingshui River, which flows from the southern foot of Hengshan Mountain further north. It passes through Lingqiu County in the Liao Kingdom, passes through the entrance of the Great Wall, enters the Feihu Road, flows out from the gap between Taihang and Yanshan, and turns at the foot of Damao Mountain.

, enters the Tanghe small plain on the side of Taihang Mountain, passes through Tangxian, Dingzhou, Puyin and Raoyang, and merges into the Hutuo River.

Su You used a telescope to look at the towering mountains opposite and several valley mouths. The Liao people also built many military forts, which were within sight, and there were three of them so large that they could form a town.

Pu Shan introduced from the side: "That is the entrance to Feihu Road. The Liao people built Feihu Village in the east, Yingyang Village in the west, and Maitreya Village in the north."

"In the past, these three villages were guarded by tens of thousands of people. They were the biggest threat to my true path."

Su You carefully looked at the three villages with his binoculars: "How many people are there on the opposite side now?"

Pu Shan said: "There was a big transfer on the opposite side last month. The exact number of people is not clear yet. Liu Xiucai went to do this."

"When does he come back?"

"Uh... It stands to reason that I should have come back yesterday."

Su You put down the telescope: "Yelu Hongji hit him so hard..."

Pu Shan said: "Yes, the soldiers are a little confused now and think that the Song Dynasty should take this opportunity to regain the south of the Great Wall to ensure our military's geographical advantage."

Su You smiled and said: "The word "recover" is used well. Tell the soldiers, fight early and fight late. Fight sooner or later. It's just a kind of fighting method, but the Military Aircraft Department has considerations."

"If you like commanding the military so much, then you should first be admitted to the Command Department of the Royal Military Academy, and then come up with a military action plan. Just talking is useless."
Chapter completed!