Chapter 364 Preparation

Hu Keji was furious when he heard this. He stepped forward and was about to scold him, but was pulled by Hu Li on the side. He finally stopped him. After a while, Hu Keji suppressed his anger and asked, "If the Mingzhou soldiers arrived before the reinforcements, what should you do?"

Gao Fengtian sneered: "What's wrong with telling you this? Naturally, if you can fight, you can fight. If you can't fight, you will leave the city and don't leave."

Hu Keji could no longer hold back and pushed Hu Li away, shouting, "Then how should the more than 10,000 villagers around Linhai City be resettled?" It turned out that Hu Li, his distant nephew, came naturally to seek refuge in this troubled times to support a good master and maintain the prosperity of the family. Naturally, he only followed the leader of the judge Gao in front of him. However, Hu Keji's intentions were different. He had also heard of what Zhao Yingong did when he was in Yuezhou. If the Mingzhou army invaded, the local fishermen and people would suffer from the suffering of life. Therefore, his purpose of coming to see Gao Fengtian was mainly to protect the safety of the whole country. Therefore, when he heard Gao Fengtian's idea of ​​abandoning the city and leaving, he was naturally furious.

"I have experienced hundreds of battles, and there are neither soldiers nor foreign aid in this city. How can I defend it? If you want a certain family to defend the city, you must come up with some solutions. Otherwise, you will be trapped in the lonely city, wouldn't you be a fool?"

Hu Keji heard something loose in Gao Fengtian's words, and forced himself to suppress his anger and said: "This Linhai city is intact. If there is a shortage of people, Shangguan will tell you a number. Even if a certain family recruits armored soldiers, there is no way. Besides, Taizhou is like other prefectures and counties, and they are under the rule of Xianggong Lu. How can reinforcements be favored? In the future, there will be reinforcements. Shangguan Zhujie will be in this Linhai city." Hu Li, who was on the side, also saw that Gao Fengtian was retreating and advancing to find out Hu Keji's reality. He naturally would not break Gao Fengtian, and he also pretended to beg.

Gao Fengtian pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Well, what you said is a bit reasonable. It's just that the two armies are fighting, and the orders must be unified. If you want me to stay in this regard, you will naturally have to obey our military orders and kill them in the army.

The fifty-three forbidden things can’t be neglected.”

Hu Keji smiled and said, "A family can pay attention to it. Even if the two villages fight for water sources and land, they must first make an agreement on laws. Moreover, the two armies are fighting. Shangguan is worried. If any kid dares not obey the military order, you don't have to do anything, the family will cut off his head first."

Gao Fengtian nodded and immediately ordered Wang Daocheng, Yu Zhiheng and several guards to call him, and then, as planned in advance, sent three people to Hangzhou to inform Zhao Yingong about the possible sending troops to Taizhou. Gao Fengtian considered that the sea risks were difficult to detect and the possibility of encountering Mingzhou navy patrol, so he asked the three of them to take a fastboat and set off one hour apart. In this way, the three of them did not know that there were two companions who sent messages. Even if a ship was robbed by the Mingzhou army, the other party could not know that there were two ships. As long as the luck was not bad, the three ships were intercepted by the enemy or it was still difficult to encounter them, there would always be people rushing to Hangzhou.

After handling the delivery of the letter, Gao Fengtian asked the idle people in the house to leave, and only he and Hu Keji, Wang Daocheng, and the three of them were left in the house. He spread the map in his arms on several tables, pointing to the green block marking Taizhou, saying: "This Taizhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the terrain is steep. If the Mingzhou soldiers come from land, it will take time. There is no need to be afraid of him. I am afraid that he will drive directly from the sea to Lingjiang River. The soldiers are facing the Linhai City. There is no soldiers or food in this city, and the soldiers and people have no desire to rely on it. If the soldiers suddenly become generals, it is probably the end of collapse. The only way to do this is to guard Jiaojiang River and defend the enemy outside the city is a perfect strategy."

Hu Keji had never seen such a fine map. Fortunately, he dealt with merchants all day long and knew a few words. He finally found the location of Jiaojiang Ferry along Gao Fengtian's finger on the map. As the leader of the fishermen, he was very familiar with the water conditions in the surrounding areas. When he heard the name of Jiaojiang Ferry, he agreed: "Yes, the water surface of this place is narrow. If a fortress is set up on both sides of the strait, the river surface can be controlled, and if the sea tide flows back into the river, the ship can rush straight to the city of Linhai from here."

"If Zhao Yingong came from this waterway, he would definitely send someone to investigate first. You can ask the strong fishermen to patrol the river these days. If there are suspicious ships, let them take them down to investigate. Also, you will transport all the fish paste in the village to the city, and prepare bamboo and wood to make wooden rafts. The more the better, and transport it to the Jiaojiang Ferry." Gao Fengtian frowned and thought, while giving Hu Keji a few things.

"The grass people will send someone to make arrangements now." Hu Keji heard Gao Fengtian's orders one by one. Although he didn't fully understand what the other party wanted, he finally had some things to do now. Instead, he was not as anxious as the Mingzhou army was about to invade, so he quickly sang a fat look to Gao Fengtian, and turned around and went in a hurry.

When Hu Keji walked out the door, Gao Fengtian carefully looked at the map, and his face became more and more gloomy. Wang Daocheng, who was standing beside him, did not know why, and he did not dare to speak. He just sat aside with his eyes and nose. After a while, Gao Fengtian's face gradually became normal. He said to Yu Zhiheng: "Yu Dutou, now you should also know the news about the Mingzhou soldiers. If you don't want to trek into this muddy water, I will not be in a difficult situation. You can go to Wenzhou for a while. I can write a letter. After all the things are finished, you can go to Hangzhou Lu's house to ask for a meeting. The husband will definitely treat you well, but those soldiers must stay."

Yu Zhiheng smiled bitterly and said, "What did Judge Gao say? If you are alone, this time of war, it will be even more unsafe on the road. Compared to this, it is safer to stay in this city." He was not without thoughts. But when he saw Hu Keji's actions before, he knew that he could not have a second intention. After all, Judge Gao received the support of Hu Keji in a short time. If there was something wrong with him, it would be almost impossible for him to rush out of Taizhou with more than a hundred soldiers.

Gao Fengtian nodded and smiled and said, "That's good. Since that's the case, we will be a family. There is something else in the warehouse in Linhai City. Yu Dutou, please tell me."

Yu Zhiheng lowered his head and thought for a while, and smiled bitterly: "There is nothing left in this city, there are only more than a hundred pairs of leather armor and thousands of stones of grain. To be honest, one of the important reasons why the surrounding forces did not come to attack the state prefecture is that there is no oil or water in this city." Speaking of this, Yu Zhiheng slapped his head and added: "There are more than a hundred big carts, but there are not even a few mules in the city. What's the use of those big carts?"

When Gao Fengtian heard this, a thought flashed through his mind, but it passed by in a flash. It seemed as if someone was shouting in the distance, but he heard it vaguely, but he couldn't hear it clearly. He simply stood up and said, "You take me to the warehouse to see the vehicles, maybe it will come in handy."

The group came to the treasury and opened it and saw a musty smell coming to her face. Gao Fengtian couldn't help but cover his nose. Yu Zhiheng, who was beside him, smiled awkwardly: "Judge Gao, let's wait a moment, and it will be better after ventilation. The treasury has been emptied long ago and has not been opened for a long time, so it looks like this."

Gao Fengtian waited outside the door for a while before walking in. Someone had already held a torch on the side to light the light. He saw that the treasury was full of wheels and body, and a thick layer of gray had already accumulated on it. Gao Fengtian walked up and squatted down, brushed away the dust, and knocked it carefully for a few times. He found that the materials used for these vehicles were good. He used all the wood, even if it was loaded with earth and stones, and used to block the gap when defending the city. Gao Fengtian stood up and was about to open an order, but suddenly a past event that he had read in the book in the past flashed through his mind, and he ordered excitedly: "Yu Dutou, take off all these wheels and have food, and I will send them to Jiaojiangdu tomorrow to listen to it."

"I will obey the order!" Yu Zhiheng raised his head, his eyes full of confusion.

The next day, at the Jiaojiang Ferry Crossing, Hu Keji did not brag. In just half a day, many fishermen transported the wooden rafts and bamboo rafts here to listen to them. There were piles everywhere on both sides of the straits. Hu Li also asked the people in the city to transport grain and vehicles and pile them on the shore. Even when Gao Fengtian came, many of the men who looked like bandits also left their swords, guns, and sticks and ran here. They looked at the grain piled up on the shore curiously and greedily to see if they could get any benefits from it.

Seeing that there were more and more materials, Gao Fengtian immediately divided the fishermen and the people into an array, began to cut off some of the wood on the shore, then sharpened and burned the two ends, and then transported them to the river with a small boat and penetrated them into the water, about three feet away from the water surface. In this way, the fishing boats with shallow draughts used by fishermen will naturally pass without any obstacles, but if the water-draught is deep, the water-drafted large ship will be knocked to the bottom of the boat by the underwater wooden stakes and sunk. Then, Gao Fengtian asked the fishermen to break the bamboo into bamboo strips and weave them into ropes, then removed the outer ring of the wheels, revealing the spokes inside, sharpening the spokes, and then connected the wheels with bamboo ropes and put them aside to listen.

Hu Keji saw Gao Fengtian's command as if he was determined and prepared many equipment he had never thought of before. He felt admiration for him in his heart, found a loophole, and came to him and said, "Judge Gao, we have prepared so many equipment. Even if Zhao Yingong has thousands of skills, he can also suffer a great loss. We will definitely be able to defend Linhai City."

Gao Fengtian looked at the rude man in front of him and didn't know how to answer for a while. After a while, he forced a smile and said, "Yes, this Linhai City can definitely be defended."
Chapter completed!