Chapter 575: Give Up

After entering May, millions of generals, their families, craftsmen, and craftsmen have successively withdrawn into Qintong Mountain through Hengshan, and Huang Shuang and Yan Yuan also led their troops to officially abandon Tongkou, Tianjun, Yandang and other cities in mid-May, and shrink to Hengshan......

Huang Shuangyu rode away, looking at the wheat waves on both sides of the galloping road, his heart was full of regret, as long as they could hold on to Yandangyuan for more than a month, they would be able to have tens of millions of stone of grain requisitioned into the treasury, but in order to obey the overall situation, no matter how much reluctance he had in his heart, he could only give up the land they had built and operated with enthusiasm for several years. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In order to ensure that the evacuation was carried out in an orderly manner and that the Hexi Iron Cavalry and the Liangyong Iron Wolf Army did not dare to pursue at the tail of the tail, Hezhen led the war poultry battalion into the soldiers and horses behind the palace, plus more than 200 light and heavy celestial chariots and 400 heavy crossbows, so that the enemy did not dare to cross the thunder pool lightly by half a step.

For the time being, the Dong clan and the Miao clan did not intend to pay too heavy casualties to fight a decisive battle with the Long Xiang army, and a large number of soldiers and horses only slowly followed the Long Xiang army after withdrawing from the war department, and effortlessly took over one city after another abandoned by the Long Xiang army.

Perhaps the Long Xiang army withdrew too hastily, and abandoned the towns along the Yucheng Ridge and in the depths of the Yandang Plain, not only the walls built of molten iron were intact, but the houses and workshops in the towns were retained, and even some bulky materials such as copper and iron were abandoned in the city.

On the Yandang Plain, the 400,000 army went south in three batches, and several galloping roads extending from Hengshan City to the depths of the Yandang Plain were full of dust.

The ordinary people who have finally settled down in Yandang Plain over the years have mixed feelings in their hearts when they see this scene.

As far as they are concerned, they are naturally more willing to accept the rule of the Long Xiang Army.

In the past few years, they have been displaced to Yandang Plain, not only the Long Xiang army gave them rations to survive the famine, but also the Long Xiang army distributed farm tools, ploughing cattle or camel horses to help them build houses, reclaim wasteland, and grow grain in the Yandang Plain, not to mention that in recent years, the Long Xiang army has built water conservancy in Yandang Plain, built galloping roads extending in all directions, and the reclaimed land was directly distributed to individuals.

Everything they have can be said to have been given by the Long Xiang Army.

Now that the Long Xiang army is leaving, those sect lords who eat people and don't spit out bones are coming, how can they be happy? But they have finally taken root in the Yandang Plain, cultivated and owned their own fields, and how many ordinary people can resolutely give up all this and follow Long Xiang's army to retreat to Qintong Mountain, where there are many mountains and few lands?

Even so, the total number of soldiers and civilians who eventually retreated to the Liquan Governor's Mansion still exceeded two million.

This made Guo Hongju, who stayed in Tongbei Mansion to preside over government affairs, an unusual headache.

In Qintong Mountain, there is a lot of cultivated land in Tongbei, Tongzhong, and Tongnan, but Liquan, which is mountainous and has few fields, has gathered a large number of craftsmen and Hanmen disciples who have entered the Tianji Academy to practice in recent years, and the number is as many as four or five hundred thousand, and they are not engaged in farming.

At this time, it is necessary to ensure that many smelters, mines, and foundries in Liquan can operate efficiently, and the three prefectures of Tongbei, Tongzhong, and Tongnan, even if there is still surplus grain, have also swallowed up the bottomless pit on the side of Liquan, and now there are suddenly two million more mouths to eat, and six or seven million catties of grain are needed every day, how can Guo Hongju not worry?

However, he didn't have a headache for long, and soon the Wind Flame Airship was loaded with grain from Yanjing, and flew into Liquan against the bitter wind to supplement the lack of food.

The Gyeonggi Plain is the largest granary of Yanjing.

However, the capacity of the wind flame airship is limited, and it takes six days for the wind flame airship to make a round trip, plus the necessary maintenance and repair, and twenty wind flame airships can only transport less than one million catties of grain into Liquan on average every day, but fortunately, land transportation has quickly followed, but there will be no famine.

Although Qintong Xiguan controlled the hands of Huayang Sect, with the retreat of the first and second town divisions of Longxiang to the east, they quickly strengthened their control over the three prefectures of Tongbei, Tongnan and Tongzhong, and at the same time, a large number of generals and their families were resettled in Tongzhong and Tongnan to reduce the grain pressure in Liquan.

And Chen Hai has long started to build a plank road between Yuting City and Tongbei Mansion.

The so-called plank road, mainly in the cliff cliff to dig holes, insert stone piles or wooden piles, horizontal paving stone and wood planks, in order to facilitate pedestrians, open to traffic, although the wind and rain, easy to destroy, can not carry the passage of the heavenly machine chariot, and even very easy to infiltrate the enemy scouts to destroy, but it is much easier than digging deep mountain tunnels with rock-breaking chariots, and the cost is much less, and it is also the best choice to strengthen the connection between the Gyeonggi Plain and the hinterland of Qintong Mountain.

This work has been carried out for three months, and 100,000 soldiers have been requisitioned from the soldiers and the people, and the plank road deep in the eastern foothills of Qintong Mountain has been built to nearly 1,000 miles long, and it will be possible for cattle, horses, and camels to transport materials through in two months.

In that case, the addition of thirty or forty post stations and transit warehouses in the depths of the eastern foothills of Qintong Mountain can ensure the transfer of materials between the two places by only the most traditional means, and at the same time, it can also rely on these post stations and transit warehouses to settle hundreds of thousands of people in some river valleys, basins and dams deep in the eastern foothills of Qintong Mountain, and cultivate more grain fields, plant more medicine mountains, and open up more mines......

Juntian's division of the feudal policy not only aroused the idea of the sect lord, but the children of the poor families in the world were eagerly watching the progress of the situation.

The Xiyuan Army and millions of people from the Six Lords withdrew from Gyeonggi and entered Jiyang County, where they wantonly encroached on mountains, forests, lakes and cultivated land.

After all, after Jiyang County experienced the rebellion of the Black Yan Army, the population once declined to more than four million people, although it has recovered in recent years, but it is still only forty percent before the war, there is a large amount of land that is barren and uncultivated, and the sect lord wants to occupy the past.

However, there are millions of people in the six valves, and there are many people who do not work as cultivators, not only to forcibly occupy the ripe fields that have been cultivated, but also to forcibly conscript the peasants who work these fields into slavery.

And to ensure the supply of the coalition forces gathered in Lichuan County, the prince Yingdan not only levied and extorted tyranny in Lichuan County, but the counties also increased taxes one after another, which made him angry for a while.

Under the high pressure of the lords, ordinary people are like ants, and there is no room for struggle and resistance, but the rangers and martial arts who are from poor families and dare to be traitors are full of yearning for the Juntian division policy carried out by the Longxiang army in Gyeonggi and Qintong Mountain.

Especially after Xie Jueyuan came out of the mountain, he was entrusted by Chen Hai to serve as the big sacrificial wine of the Tianji Academy, since then, in addition to the Tianji puppet technique, military arts, and martial arts, the Tianji Academy Palace has added three subjects, such as Xuanfa, sword cultivation, and alchemy, and the children of the poor can take the entrance examination to enter the palace to practice.

When the lords realized this problem and began to send elite disciples to completely block all the dangerous mountain roads to Gyeonggi, the Tianji Academy Palace requisitioned a large number of disciples from the Guining Army, the Shinjuku Guard, and the Sword Cultivation Camp, and the scale of disciples returned to its peak.

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After capturing Yanjing City, Chen Hai ordered Yao Wenjin to lead his troops to take Qinglongyu with a thunderous force, and then ordered Yao Wenjin to lead the 400,000 elites of the third town division of the Longxiang Army to garrison Qinglongyu.

In order to block the coalition of the lords led by the prince Yingdan, and enter Gyeonggi from Qinglongyu, Chen Hai not only invited Helan Jianzun Huang Qiwei to Qinglongyu to take charge, but also deployed the Qiantian Xuanji Array, which was the first defense of heaven and earth, together with eight super rifled crossbows, in Qinglongyu.

In addition, Chen Hai also strengthened the Third Town Division of the Longxiang Army at the rate of 20,000 new soldiers, 20 Tianji chariots, 40 heavy bore crossbows, and one super rifled crossbow per month.

Le Yi and Han Jian led the fourth town division of the Longxiang Army and stationed in Tiechengling, although they failed to attack Wusheng Pass for a while and a half, but they also blocked Wei Ziya and Yu Zonghu from leading the remnants of the Su Guard Army to attack the Jingbei area.

In early June, Chen Hai, surrounded by the Huwei battalion, rushed to Tiechengling and personally presided over the battle against Wushengguan.

At this time, the first and second divisions of the Longxiang Army had withdrawn to Qintong Mountain, completing the defense of Hengshan from Liquan, Tongzhong Mansion against Qintong Xiguan, and Tongnan Mansion against Qinchuan Tea Horse Ancient Road.

The sound of hooves is bursting, the car is driving, the renovated Tiecheng Ridge has been in sight, from the Tiecheng Ridge to the north thirty miles, the southernmost Yannan Sai of Wusheng Pass is also waving the flag, the soldiers and horses are like.

Wei Ziya and the others naturally didn't believe that Chen Hai would let them go, and they had already made preparations in Yannansai, waiting for the Long Xiang army to attack in a big way.

Le Yi followed Chen Hai to the main peak of Tiechengling, squinted his eyes and looked north, knowing that only by taking down the Wusheng Guannan Sansai controlled by the remnants of the Su Guard Army could the gap in the alliance of the lords attacking the Gyeonggi Plain from the north be sealed, and Chen Hai's strategic intention could be regarded as preliminarily completed.

At this moment, Ning Chan'er was like a wisp of smoke, disappearing in the mountains between Qintong Mountain and Yan Mountain, constricting her breath, and flying away to the north at great speed between the mountains and ravines.

Although Tie Kun said that he obeyed Chen Haiyan's words, this time Chen Hai wanted the Tieya Department to abandon Yaoshan and move to the direction of Shouyang Mountain as a whole, so as to pose a strong military pressure on the northern part of Liangyong Prefecture and the Iron Wolf Army, and it would be more convenient for the Blood Demon Tribulation to avoid the south in time when the Great Tribulation of Blood Demon came.

At this time, even if Tie Kun still obeyed Chen Haiyan, there would inevitably be great controversy and opposition within the Iron Cliff Ministry.

Chen Hai could only ask Ning Chan'er to take the risk of this trip to ensure that the Iron Cliff Department could act according to his plan......