After the prince Yingdan led the tiger army to capture Songdu Mountain, he advanced into Yanmen County, and the remnants of the Heiyan army fled in three ways, all the way to the Miao clan of Beiliang County, all the way into Yuyang County, and was absorbed by the Yuyang County Governor Zan , only Yan Yuan led the remnants to flee to the vast wasteland north of Yanmen County, and had no intention of surrendering to any clan lord. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And in June, the last stronghold of the Red Mei Sect in Yunmengze was also captured by the combined forces of Jingxiang and Nanxiang, and only the remnant tribe entered the vast wilderness in the south of Yunmengze.

First, Hexi sent troops to capture Hechuan, and then Jingxiang and Nanxiang divided Yunmengze, and in July they suddenly raised troops and fought each other; while Yuyang County Governor Zan was collecting more than 100,000 remnants of the Black Yan Army, and in August he suddenly sent troops to attack a number of important towns in the south of Liaoyang County, igniting the flames of war in the northeastern region of Yanzhou, and the friction between the powerful vassals of other border counties was also becoming increasingly intense.

Everyone knows very well that at this time, Yanjing City is turbulent, whether it is the prince or the British royal family, or they are unable to take care of the place at all, those princely clans and border county strong vassals, thinking of taking advantage of Yanjing's inability to intervene and further expand the territory under their control, this is undoubtedly the best opportunity to get off at this time.

Of course, before the autumn of Emperor Yitian, the frequent wars in the counties, with Hexi's troops being the most rapid and ferocious.

In addition to breaking through the defense line of the Hexiang Army that had been operating in the Hechuan Ridge for many years in only one month, and blocking part of the remnants of the Hexiang Army in the Helan Mountains, the Hexi Army and the Musashi Army also broke out many battles at the junction of Qinchuan and Hechuan.

After experiencing the continuous use of troops, Hexi still had enough ability to completely block the Musashi army, which was not weak in battle, outside Hechuan County, and could not advance half a step westward, so that after the Musashi army entered August, it was forced to abandon the offensive against Hexi, turn the offensive to defense on the south bank of Meishan and Qinshui, and actively build more defensive bases to prevent the Hexi army from taking advantage of the victory to enter Qinchuan County.

The strength of the Hexi Army surprised many people.

In the eyes of many people, even if the Hexi Army is stronger than the Hexiang Army, after capturing the Hechuan Ridge defense line, the Hexi Army should be quite weak.

At this time, as long as the Musashi army is resolute enough, for the Hexi Army, the best result is to engage in a brutal tug-of-war with the Musashi Army in the territory of Hechuan County, and slowly digest the land and population between the Hechuan Ridge and Lake Hechuan in time.

It was not until August that the Musashi Army failed to enter the territory of Tsurukawa County by half a step, but instead switched from offensive to defensive, and many people truly realized the strength of the Hexi Army, and it was able to launch two major wars in such a short period of time.

And the Musashi Army's switch from attack to defense in the northwest of Qinchuan County means that the Hexi Army can free up its hands at this time to solve the remnants of the Hexiang Army that has retreated to Helan Mountain, which means that the mountain gate of Helan Sword Sect will soon be uprooted, which means that the time for Hexi to digest the entire Hechuan County is much shorter than everyone expected.

These things originally had little to do with Chen Hai, although he incorporated Huang Shuang and Le Yi's Heiyan Army to form the Longxiang Battalion, but because he also knew the affairs of Lianshui Mansion, the whole person was tied to the northwest foot of Ganquan Mountain, and what he thought about every day in his heart was to organize the generals and the remnants of the Lianshui Mansion to build water conservancy and reclaim barren tuntian, in order to prepare for the great famine that was very likely to break out after the war.

Although Chen Hai was also controlled by the crown prince Yingdan at this time, thinking that Chen Hai had played a vital role in the rise of the Xiyuan Army, the prince Yingdan would never want to see Chen Hai's disgusting face at this time, so after re-entering the ranks, Chen Hai never had the opportunity to leave Lianshui.

In order to reclaim more fields, in addition to the more than 20,000 generals who were directly transferred to the Tuntian army, he also asked Le Yi, Wang Gongchen, Wang Qi, Zhou Jun, Wu Meng and other troops to use all possible possibilities to build water conservancy, reclaim wasteland, and grow grain near the garrison.

Although when Chen Hai took over Lianshui, there were only 70,000 or 80,000 old and weak women and children within a radius of 300 miles, but Heyang and Jiyang and other places have been completely abandoned by the famine and war that lasted for nearly ten years.

By April and May, there were as many as four or five hundred thousand displaced people gathered in the Lianshui Realm.

The opinion of the ministers of the court was to order Chen Hai to expel the displaced people who had gathered on a large scale to prevent the displaced people from gathering again and causing chaos, and Chen Hai hoped to resettle these displaced people on the spot.

As long as the displaced people have land to cultivate, the prefecture and county will take them back to the people's nationality at that time, and they do not need to worry about causing chaos, and they can also be used to build water conservancy, build roads, and dig minerals, so that the people's livelihood in Heyang can be restored to a certain extent.

Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong supported Chen Hai's proposition, and even bypassed the political hall controlled by Zuo Cheng Rongyan and directly issued an edict to Chen Hai, allowing him to work cheaply in Lianshui, but four or five hundred thousand displaced people and more and more displaced people will pour in in the later period, and the monthly need for tens of millions of catties of relief food is astronomical.

Whether it was the political hall led by Zuo Cheng Rongyan or the Taiwei Mansion controlled by Taiwei Tu Que, although they couldn't prevent Yanran Palace from directly issuing an edict, it was impossible for them to pull out an extra grain of relief grain for Chen Hai.

This is the power that the Jingjun clan lords grasp in their hands, and Chen Hai has no room to bargain with them, but after feeling the great pressure of grain and grass in April, Chen Hai put the place where the Tianji Academy Palace and the clans in the eastern part of Yanzhou traded gold-level armor and Tianji weapons in Lianshui, and asked all the clans who wanted to buy the armor and weapons of the Tianji Academy Palace to carry grain and a certain amount of cattle, mules and horses to Lianshui to trade.

In this way, a steady stream of grain, grass, farm tools, ploughing horses, mules and horses poured into the ripple water, alleviating the crisis of food shortage, and also allowing the reclamation work to proceed in an orderly manner.

The Jingjun Zongwang did not want to see the hungry people in Heyang and Jiyang counties being attracted to Lianshui, and after June, large-scale disaster relief and reclamation were carried out in various places, but at this time, the hungry people poured into Lianshui as many as one million.

By August, the fields abandoned in the war had basically been recultivated, and more than 170,000 households had been reorganized in Lianshui Prefecture.

One day in mid-August, Chen Hai stood on a newly built embankment in Xiaolianshui in the midst of a torrential rain, watching the murky river pass in front of him.

After the summer, the southern foot of the Tianzhu Mountains in the north has frequent heavy rainfall, so that the rainwater that gathers into the small ripple water and other rivers is extremely tyrannical, and it is easy to recultivate the fields, but after the embankments of the river system have been abandoned for many years, it is not easy to rebuild, and it is not a year to compete.

This is also the most tense moment for Chen Hai this year.

Le Yi and others led their troops not only to keep an eye on the main rivers in Lianshui, but also to keep an eye on the upstream not to burst the embankment, to prevent floods from other places from pouring into Lianshui, and for half a month when the rain was the most tyrannical, Chen Hai also guarded the embankment almost every day.

At this time, more than a dozen horsemen braved the rain and galloped towards the embankment where Chen Hai was standing.

They are all miraculous black cunning horses, traveling through the rainstorm, without the need to use additional rain protection spells, just the air flow driven by the high-speed running of the black cunning horse, blocking the tyrannical raindrops on the periphery, forming a rain barrier that moves forward quickly.

After more than a dozen horses galloped to the bottom of the embankment, Chen Hai saw clearly that it was Han Wendang who accompanied Wu Jinglin, Wu Yunqiao and others.

Wu Jinglin and Wu Yunqiao are the children of the Wu family of Tianshui County, when they participated in the election of the Shenling Mountain Academy, Chen Hai got along well with Wu Jinglin, Wu Yunqiao and other Tianshui County disciples, but they hadn't seen each other for many years, but they didn't expect Wu Jinglin and Wu Yunqiao to suddenly come to Lianshui at this time.

"Brother Jinglin, Senior Sister Yunxiu, I haven't seen you for a long time, how can you have time to come to Lianshui as a guest?" Chen Haifei descended the embankment and asked with a smile.

Wu Jinglin and Wu Yunqiao saw that Chen Hai's cultivation was unfathomable, but at this time, they were like ordinary people, only using crude clothes to block the splashing of heavy rain, and even the rain continued to fall from their foreheads, cheeks, and plackets, thinking that no wonder no one had been able to see through him all these years.

Thinking of these things over the years, Wu Jinglin didn't plan to make any detours with Chen Hai, believing that the left and right were also Chen Hai's most descendant guards, and would not leak out what they said today, and stepped forward and saluted: "The demon barbarians have made frequent changes in the north in recent years, and the clans of Tianshui County are deeply threatened, and they feel that their strength is weak, so they want to ask the court to send an elite army to assist the local forces of Tianshui County to prevent the invasion of the demon barbarians." Yun Qiao's father personally went to Yanjing to ask for help, and the adults of Yanjing were quite moved, but which elite army to send to Tianshui County to garrison, but he was a little hesitant, Yun Qiao and I rushed to Lianshui, just to ask Chen Hou what suggestions?"

The influence of the Ying clan and the Jingjun clan on the border county is getting weaker and weaker, even if they want to meddle in the military and political affairs of the border county, they are becoming more and more ostracized, and the Wu clan of Tianshui County and other clan lords take the initiative to invite the Beijing camp army to settle in Tianshui, which is naturally not only as simple as preventing the southern invasion of the demons, but also to prevent Hexi from sending troops to seize Tianshui County.

And Wu Jinglin ran over to ask for advice, but in fact he wanted to persuade him to lead the Longxiang battalion of the Su Guard Army into Tianshui County, so as to deter Hexi from using troops against Tianshui casually.

"Brother Jinglin, if you come over to me and ask me for advice, aren't you afraid that I still have the old feelings of Hexi in my heart, and I will pit you?" Chen Hai also asked straightforwardly.

"If Chen Hou pits us, the Wu family will also admit it. Wu Jinglin said.

Seeing the smile on the corner of Wu Jinglin's eyebrows, Chen Hai suddenly understood what Wu's plan was, and said: "I'm afraid that you and I can't decide some things......