After going out to fight and sleeping in the open for a long time, Guo Shao slept soundly. When he woke up, he found that it was already bright, so he quickly got up and washed up. When he walked out of the bedroom, he called "Doctor Lu" twice but no one answered.

Suddenly he saw a thick bowl and a plate on the table in the main hall. When he went up, he saw a bowl of porridge and a cake and half a plate of pickles in the plate. Guo Shao picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of pickles and tasted it. It felt that the taste was pretty good. It seemed that the salt in the Liao Dynasty ruled the country was very cheap, and the cost of being a mainland pickles was not low, because official salt was very expensive.

Guo Shao ate the food without any pressure, but he was not full, so he had to prepare to go to the military camp to eat two more big cakes. He packed it up and went out, and saw Lu Chengyong waiting there.

Guo Shao said, "Call someone in and wash the dishes. Close the gate of the hospital for Dr. Lu."

"Yes." Lu Chengyong immediately arranged personnel.

A sturdy double-horse carriage leaned against the roadside, and Guo Shao got on the carriage from behind. Because there were two large wooden wheels on both sides, there were only two wheels. They rode several times in front and back and protected Guo Shao's carriage and walked straight north toward the center of the army. There were wooden windows on both sides of the carriage. As long as you sit upright, you can see the wheels turning. The two wheels were indeed very big.

A group of carriages and horses walked through two streets, and Guo Shao suddenly felt that a person on the roadside looked familiar. When he turned around and looked carefully, he saw that the person was the daughter of Doctor Lu whom he met last night. She was sitting on the side of the road, reaching out to rub her feet, and putting a basket on her hand.

"Stop!" Guo Shao slapped the wooden board in front. The groom hurriedly held the horse, and the car walked forward slowly for a while. The carriage leaned forward slightly and finally stopped.

Guo Shao lifted the bamboo curtain from behind and walked down, but saw that the woman had already stood up. He couldn't help but remember the food he found on the table in the morning. The old man, Doctor Lu, probably not know how to cook, so he walked over with kindness and greeted: "Miss Lu, what's wrong with your feet?"

He looked up and down and saw that she was in her twenties, maybe only eighteen, wearing very simple, dark cloth clothes, her hair was tied with a piece of floral cloth, and her body was wrapped tightly. She had no idea of ​​a stunning appearance, but her face was white, and her hair was combed to reveal her forehead.

Unexpectedly, the lady of the Lu family ignored Guo Shao at all. She seemed to have not heard it. She left with her head, but her steps under her feet were a little lame. Seeing this, Guo Shao thought to himself: It was either sprained or worn out, right?

He said again: "Where are you going, take my carriage, and I will take you there."

Lady Lu still ignored it and followed the roadside with a basket without saying a word. Seeing this, Guo Shao thought to himself: Hey, the little girl is quite stubborn! How did I offend her?

Guo Shao suddenly remembered what happened last night. Mrs. Lu said in it that she would not let Guo Shao live in her house. Later, she found out that Guo Shao heard it... It was probably the case. Otherwise, everyone would know each other without any grudges and resentment. There should always be two words to say hello and kind words... Guo Shao invited her to take the bus, and there were also stories of young women in ancient times who did not look at each other's eyes.

But she didn't appreciate it, and Guo Shao had no choice but to worry about it now, so he got on the carriage again. Lady Lu walked slowly on the roadside, as if she didn't know Guo Shao at all, and she didn't even look at her eyes.

The groom drove slowly on the road for a while, and Guo Shao knocked on the wooden board in front and said, "Let's go."

"Bang!" With a horse whip, the carriage accelerated again.

When Guo Shao picked up the bamboo curtain behind him, he saw the Lu family's wife dropping the basket and sitting back on the side of the road.

...When they arrived at the tent of the central army, several generals came to pay their respects. Li Chuyun came in with an unknown soldier. The soldier stepped forward and knelt on one knee and said, "Yesterday, Bei Zhiren was ordered to go to Qigou Pass, trying to cross the river from Fuqiao to the south to contact the people of the Privy Council. Unexpectedly, on the way, they encountered the Liao army's light cavalry, and they were surrounded and blocked and intercepted more than a dozen people. Bei Zhiren fought to the death and had to come back first to report."

Li Chuyun said: "There were suddenly everywhere in the south of Zhuo River, as if Xiao Siwen released it after occupying Gu'an in the east. It seemed that the batch of food that should have arrived in the past few days might not be able to come, and would be attacked by the Liao army's light cavalry on the road."

At this time, another general said, "You have to ask Zhang Guanghan (the left wing of the Longjie Army stationed in Qigou Pass) to send someone to build a corridor. The previous generations guard the city to ensure the smooth flow of the food road."

Guo Shao asked: "How to repair the corridor?"

The general said: "Dig a wide trench on both sides, build a wall of earth and fences, and send troops to guard it."

After hearing this, Guo Shao took out a picture and a ruler, gestured on the picture, shook his head and said, "Build fortifications of fifty or sixty miles? When will we build it? Do we plan to build it for a year or two, or two or three years?"

"The grain chariot team is very long, and when it comes to walking, there are always places where the guards are thin. The ranger attacks will specifically pick the weak ones. If they can't beat them, they will come up and shoot the soldiers. If they can't beat them or run away when they encounter a divine arm. It's really annoying. It can make a large army exhausted to deal with the hardships." Li Chuyun said, "The Liao people have only a few tactics. The continuous attack of light cavalry is their common trick."

"Xiao Siwen..." Guo Shao pondered for a moment and said, "This man started to take action just after he arrived in Gu'an. It seems that we don't have to be polite. We can start to compete with him now. We don't need to build corridor defense, but use cavalry against cavalry, maneuver against maneuver, and cavalry hunting."

He said while referring to the picture: "The southwest is Qigou Pass, and we can go out to divide the cavalry into two groups; the main force goes south along the Zhuo River from the east, disperse and then moves towards Qigou Pass to encircle it, and clear the wandering Liao cavalry..."

Li Chuyun said: "The key is that Gu'an is too close to the east. Once we scatter and encircle, we may be counterattacked by Gu'an reinforcements. After dispersing, we will be unable to become enemies with the Liao cavalry."

Guo Shao said: "The Liao army's large-scale troops come from the east. We can retreat from the north to Zhuozhou and the south to Qigou Pass. It is difficult for the enemy to surround our cavalry to death. As soon as the Xiao Siwen's large-scale troops arrive, we will run away; as soon as they retreat, we will continue to encircle and suppress the cavalry on the southern plains of Zhuozhou."

After hearing this, everyone thought it was feasible. Li Chuyun said again: "There is also a large army led by the Khitan Lord on the North Road, which is about 180 miles away, and it is also very threatening. You must always pay attention to their movements."

After hearing this, Zuo You said, "Once the Khitan army heads south, we don't have to do anything. It's the main thing to do when we go back to the city to defend the city."

Guo Shao pondered: "Therefore, the food road cannot be cut off. We must hoard more food. Once we are surrounded, the more food it will be, the longer it will be able to defend... If the Khitan master's army goes south, it may mainly ignore us, but will stare at the main force of the Great Zhou in the south of the Jima River."

The crowd discussed for a while and there was no need to be too troublesome at the moment. Guo Shao immediately ordered Qi Tingxun, Yang Biao and others to stay in Zhuozhou to monitor the movements of the main forces of the Liao army in the north; he also summoned cavalry generals to prepare and decided to send cavalry early the next morning.

He ordered Luo Yanhuan to go west and encircle the north of Qigou Pass. He ordered more than a thousand cavalry to prepare... He ordered nearly two thousand war horses, but only more than 1,200 knights. The Hujie Army was scarce and could not equip one person with two horses. However, since it was a mobile combat, the war horses were inevitably damaged, so he had to give some reserve horses to supplement the loss of horses.

He would go out before dawn in the morning, and Guo Shao spent the night in the military camp that night. He was thinking about fighting with Xiao Siwen, so he ignored other things.

...After night, Doctor Lu saw that Guo Shao had not come back, and couldn't help but mutter in the main hall: "Did the general hear those words last night and think that our Lu family is not hospitable and does not welcome him?"

In front of my father, Lady Lu said, "It's better if you don't come! You're not a good person at first sight. You're either a traitor or a thief if you don't have anything to do."

"Shut up!" Doctor Lu said immediately, "Why are you suddenly so mean in your words?"

Lady Lu lowered her head and said, "It was, I was right."

"If he doesn't want to live in our house, he must say it." Doctor Lu took out the gold jewelry in his arms and played with it for a while. "The general is from a wealthy family, and he knows etiquette... There are guards living next door, so I will ask what's going on."

Old Man Lu went there and when he came back, he saw the young lady still grinding the medicinal materials with wood in the main hall. He said, "I will do my job tomorrow during the day, and I will be able to close the courtyard."

The young lady said, "Dad, is your General Guo?"

Old Man Lu said: "It is said that he will go to war tomorrow morning, and he may come back in a few days or one day."

"Where to go to fight?" the young lady asked curiously.

Old Man Lu said, "I don't know much. After asking my father, the general said a few words, saying that Xiao Siwen, the king of the Southern Court, was here and might fight Xiao Siwen. I hope the Great Zhou army won and did not let the Liao people take Zhuozhou back... General Guo was sick and was about to go to war, alas."

So the little lady put away the things in her hand and went to fetch water to serve the old man.

The next morning, before dawn, the little lady was awakened by the sound of horse hooves. She wore a sleek shirt and had her hair loose, so she quietly walked out of the main hall with a wooden bench, climbed up to the stool and looked out by the wall.

I saw torches on the street and a large number of horse soldiers rushed by. Although the little lady was very wary of the tall man, she couldn't help but be curious about what he did.

There were too many cavalrymen on the road, and they kept passing through the main road in front of the door. They saw the iron armor shining in the torch, jingling loudly, but they couldn't see clearly. But at this moment, they suddenly saw a general riding a horse in front of the Lu family. And when the general walked past the Lu family door, he turned his head to look here and immediately found the Lu family lady with half of his head exposed on the wall.

Who is Guo Shao, the general? Miss Lu accidentally fell off the stool without paying attention. She groaned in pain and hurriedly rubbed her back with her hands.

Her face suddenly turned red, and she thought of the embarrassment when she met again... He actually found herself peeking on the wall. She sat on the ground for a while, and thought: The sound of horse hooves is so loud, I am just looking at the cavalry, not just going to see him.
Chapter completed!