In the south of Haozhou City, dust is flying in a few miles.

"Hey! Hey..." Not far away, two big men in short hair were carrying a thick and strong wooden pound, shouting while ramming the earth rhythmically. The strong man carrying a load gritted his teeth and walked quickly, while wiping his sweat with the dirty cloth surrounding his neck.

The tent was open, and the Haozhou city tower was looming in the distance with yellow dust. Guo Shao was standing in front of a wooden frame, drawing with a brush! The drawing was really ugly, but he seemed to be very serious. While asking the scouts in detail, he added lines to the paper. He was drawing a very thick-trough city diagram.

At this time, several more military generals made a fortune. He finally threw his brush into the inkstone and turned around and said, "Build six camps, each of which requires double-layer defense. A secret whistle must be installed around fifty miles and a cavalry must be sent out."

"Here."

Guo Shao also said: "We just arrived in Shouzhou, and our troops were only 20,000. We neither besieged nor attacked the city. We should occupy the place first, and beware of enemy soldiers' sneak attacks."

A general reported: "There is a sank land in the northwest of the city, and thousands of Tang soldiers refused to guard it. Not only did they build fences and fortifications, but they also dug up the Huai River and built a moat! There is a water village in the north of the city, and more than 200 warships were gathered."

Another general reported: "Hundreds of Tang army warships were found in Sizhou downstream."

"Send someone to monitor it from all sides and ignore it for the time being." Guo Shao immediately ordered.

After a while, a military general was brought into the tent by several personal soldiers. The military general held his fists and saluted: "The last general Qi Shuang, the military academy of the right wing, was ordered by Gao Huaide, the commander of the commander of the Xiangdu, to come to see Marshal Guo."

Guo Shao immediately smiled kindly, asked Gao Huaide's situation first, and even asked him if he was in good health. He was just as concerned as an old friend... They were all led by Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin! Guo Shao didn't get along with these two people, but he learned a lot from their words and deeds; especially Zhao Kuangyin, who was considered an opponent by Guo Shao in his heart, did not prevent him from learning from his opponent.

But the capital school Qi Shuang did not come to contact the feelings between the generals. He quickly talked about the important matter: "When General Li Jixun was appointed as the right wing, he was defeated in the southwest of Tushan. The general personally led his troops to participate in this battle. First, when General Li heard that Shouzhou City was broken, he was eager to attack, and then he was trapped in an ambush. When the defeated army returned to the Zhou army camp, the food and grass were burned by surprise. The general thought that Chai Kehong had long expected General Li's movements and was well prepared."

Guo Shao nodded, picked up a pen from the inkstone, and wrote in a broken booklet: Insight into the opponent's intentions, predict the enemy's initiative, make good use of strategies, and be good at capturing the opponent's general's psychology.

"You keep talking."

Qi Stork said: "Our army was defeated because it was an ambush. At that time, the troops advanced rapidly and did not check the traps under their feet and around them at all. Suddenly, the smoke of gunpowder filled the smoke and the soldiers separated. In panic, they encountered several elite soldiers in Chai Kehong as the leader, so they were defeated. Later, I saw that they were only a few elite troops, and the others were chasing them in chaos. The team was not very powerful. We were just caught off guard!"

Guo Shao wrote and painted the booklet again, and recorded the matter roughly and his own opinions. Then he handed it over to Zuo You, Yang Biao and other generals to inspect it.

All the generals thought that Guo Shao's words were reasonable. Li Chuyun said: "Chai Kehong is smart and good at using clever tricks. He only relies on one person's wisdom, but is not good at controlling too many people."

Guo Shao and others discussed it for a while, then asked with a smile: "What do you think I have strengths and weaknesses?"

Yang Biao said: "Brother is good at seizing fighter jets and hitting it with one blow!"

Zuo You pondered and said, "It is good to occupy the righteousness and boost morale. I think the lord proposed to end the civil war and fight for the people of the world. The ancients said that using the kingly way to fight against unrighteousness is this way."

Wang Zhang laughed and said, "I'm not talking about Marshal Guo. Then Li Chongjin said everywhere that Marshal Guo was kind-hearted and could not lead troops. I really think that the lord was sometimes too kind... Just like in the battle to break through Shouzhou City, I'm afraid that the only one who can not massacre the city is the only one who can do it... "

Li Chuyun said: "The most important thing is that our Great Zhou army is obviously more brave and good at fighting than the Southern Tang soldiers."

"I'll talk about myself." Guo Shao said.

Everyone calmed down and listened attentively.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao just said calmly: "I am good at shooting arrows."

"Haha..." Everyone was stunned at first, and burst into laughter.

Guo Shao did not leave Qi Shuang, the military general in the right wing, and sent someone to send him away. The generals also dispersed and went to stare at their camps to build.

Haozhou City has not been surrounded, and there are a large number of Southern Tang troops outside the city and on the river. Guo Shao has not visited him everywhere for the time being. He stayed honestly in the Central Army camp, thinking about Chai Kehong and other things.

His fingers gently knocked on the chopping board a few times, thinking to himself: I just said that Chai Kehong was not good at controlling most of his people, and he didn't seem to be very good at it.

Although Guo Shao is currently the chief of the Infantry Division, he actually controls only the left wing of the Hujie Army, with only about 20,000 troops, but the scope of the spread is no longer within sight. Guo Shao said that he has no way to know how the generals of this era control their subordinates... Perhaps only a general like Gao Huaide knows that his father will teach his son various skills; but the general will definitely not have the time to teach outsiders step by step.

If you want to do well in all walks of life, you have some skills and insights, and rely on the experience of your predecessors and your own experience. No matter how talented a person is, he cannot be born to do something.

Guo Shao thought about it and decided to think of a way to change the status quo.

Using the command soldiers, the commands established a simple command system. Guo Shao found someone to carve eighty-eight wooden seals, and then selected hundreds of "under soldiers" who were eliminated by the elite regular army from the lower camp to form the command soldiers.

These soldiers were equivalent to those who were stationed in the military farm. They usually had no military pay. After being told that they were formally organized by the Hujie Army, and they were treated the same as the soldiers of the various army. Many people were willing to join. However, Guo Shao personally took the generals to review these soldiers. He did not require bravery and strong. As long as he was smart, he would say a few words to them to retell, and as long as he immediately made the general idea clear, he would be qualified.

Then each person issued three signs and inserted them on his back to distinguish the combat soldiers.

After getting ready, Guo Shao summoned dozens of military generals in the left wing to the Central Army to discuss matters. He took down the wooden seal and let them see it. There were two seals in total.

The first type is twelve, each of which is six of the military generals and the central army. Each one has only one character, "Zhong, brave, martial, trust, righteousness, victory", which is sent to the military chief. The second type is sent to the commander, with two characters engraved on it, such as "Zhongjia", "Zhongyi", "Zhongbing" and so on.

Guo Shao said: "On the eve of every battle, you will draw lots. You will catch whatever you catch. You must not disclose your seal or ask others for inquiries. If you are in an emergency, you cannot draw lots, then the words you caught last time are based on."

"Each department reports military information and the central army issues military orders and stamps it with seals. If the words do not match, the military orders will be invalidated, so they can be ignored."

"Of course, the first word of the commander, Zhongwang and Xinyisheng, may be different from the word "Military and Military Commissioner" after drawing lots. Remember how many times the military newspapers were posted that day, and write numbers every time to prevent military orders and military newspapers from being lost halfway."

Guo Shao appointed Zuo You as the marching counselor on the spot, responsible for writing and receiving military orders; he also ordered Qin Shitou as the commander of the messenger, responsible for commanding the messenger, and organized dozens of people under him into the messenger team to feed military pay; Luo Mengzi still led 300 personal troops.

Qin Shitou was the old soldier who led his troops to escape when he was attacking Shouzhou and was almost ordered by Li Chongjin to rectify the law on the spot. Later, Guo Shao pleaded for mercy and survived... He made a brave contribution when siege. Half of the people survived were exempted from being punished. His son was originally Dutou, but he was burned to death by fierce tinder. Qin Shitou was directly appointed Dutou by Guo Shao. Later, he had been following Guo Shao and was loyal, so Guo Shao now trusted him very much.

It is said that after screening and eliminating the Iron Cavalry, they were all brave men. However, some of the people Guo Shao was going to eliminate were reorganized into the imperial guard system, and he didn't seem to care about who they were in his hands.

No matter what, even the soldiers eliminated by the imperial guards are still more useful than those of the 70-year-old men in Wuqi Town. Therefore, Guo Shao did not dislike him at all, and he would take him away as long as he was a soldier.

...Guo Shao took out a batch of flags embroidered with tiger patterns that he brought to "show" last time, and asked people to embroider the numbers of each army, and then sent them to everyone for use.

The tiger flags were floating everywhere in several camps built for a while. Although they were a bit inconsistent, they were still domineering. It seemed that the tiger had become the symbol of the tiger army... The tiger army had nothing to do with the tiger, because it was not called the Hujie Army before, but it was changed after the Zhou Dynasty was established. Just like the Iron Cavalry Army used to be called Xiaodi Army, it was just a different name, and the people were still the same group of people.

Not long after, Gao Huaide led his right wing to Haozhou.

Gao Huaide found that Guo Shao had to repair the camp and fortifications. He was very easy to deal with and directly stationed the army into the built camp.

Tens of thousands of powerful people transferred from Shouzhou, and the soldiers from the township arrived in Haozhou. For a time, more and more people outside Haozhou were. Guo Shao ordered the construction of two siege fortifications.

The Tang army did not move, and the Zhou army did not make any noise. The soldiers worked all day long, preparing various equipment.

In mid-October, the emperor led the elite troops of the inner palace, the East and West squads, and the Crane Control Army to visit Haozhou. He found a Tang army stationed on the northwest river beach, and immediately ordered the commander of the East and West squads Qi Tingyi to attack the Tang army.

Qi Tingyi was called "Qi Tu". He really rode the camels across the moat outside the fortifications of the Southern Tang Army. Then the troops blocked the killings, defeated the fortifications outside the Southern Tang City, and captured 3,000 people.

Chai Rong was overjoyed and promoted Qi Tuo to the Zuoxiang Capital School of the Hujie Army, filling the vacancy in the Zuoxiang Capital School.
Chapter completed!