Chapter 1535: Conquest of the Empire (31)
Dare to love the handsome man knows Rong Guifei, and it seems that there is some entanglement, but according to the age of the handsome, although I don't know the age of Rong Guifei, but according to the custom that imperial women can get married in twenty-eight years, and then compare the age of the seven princes, Rong Guifei is too young to be a daughter of the handsome!
With this thought in his heart, combined with the fact that the marshal thought that he was treating the Seven Princes as puppets for the safety of the Seven Princes, the young general had some understanding in his heart. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's just this kind of extremely personal thing, the young general doesn't dare to talk casually anymore, who knows if the handsome will be annoyed and angry after touching himself.
There was silence for a while, and the young general found that everyone felt very uncomfortable not talking, so he couldn't help asking: "Dashuai, is our target this time Zhao Hujun?" Speaking of this, the young general couldn't help but look around, as if he was afraid of being heard.
"Zhao Hu, hehe, yes and no."
When Kate said this, her head also shook, as if she was ready to look left and right like a young general, but he was controlled in advance, and then laughed very self-deprecatingly: "Actually, if you say it now, you are not afraid that Zhao Hujun will know the news, why do you say that, first of all, the other party must have received the news of our dispatch of troops at this moment and began to mobilize troops and horses, but because we are strict-mouthed, they can't determine the direction of our breakthrough."
"Of course, when we get to this position, they will definitely be able to determine the direction, but it will take a lot of time, and we will arrive at the eastern grassland of the coastal province tomorrow afternoon, and on this spacious ground most suitable for cavalry combat, our cavalry will not dare to say that they are invincible, but they are also strong."
Seeing that Kate didn't have the tenderness she had just now, the young general couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the handsome man finally returned to normal.
Thinking of this, the young general hurriedly asked with great interest: "Dashuai, although that ground is very suitable for our cavalry to fight, there is no important city of Zhao Hu there, and his subordinates even dare to conclude that there is no people's life on that grassland."
"Because it is said that the people in Zhaohu's territory are arranged according to the rules of living in neighboring cities."
Kate smiled: "Heh, our first step into the coastal province is to gain a firm foothold, that piece of grass is convenient for our cavalry division to rest and fight.
Even if the other side has gathered two divisions and marched towards the eastern steppe, we can get ahead of the steppe and block the enemy's first attack.
If you enter in other directions, on this hilly and wooded terrain, you don't have to think about the cavalry charge first, and it will definitely be divided into several parts by the terrain, and then it will be attacked by the Zhao Hu army, which is dominated by infantry, and I am afraid that even half of the troops will not be able to take back half of the troops. ”
The young general nodded, looking at the cavalry of a division that these marshals had worked so hard to accumulate, the young general could only sigh helplessly.
Most of the coastal provinces are hilly areas with many mountains and trees, and the cavalry should snicker if they can exert half of their strength here, and the only places that can really exert the power of cavalry are the hinterland of the empire and the northern frontier of the empire. If in these places, with the cavalry of one division, the provinces controlled by the marshal would have been several more than a few pieces.
"Actually, the goal this time is not to capture Zhao Hujun's territory." As soon as Kate's words came out, the young general was immediately dumbfounded, it took so much effort to gather so many people and horses, but didn't he completely defeat the other party? Isn't this a fight against a tiger that does not die but suffers? The young general hurriedly dissuaded.
Kate smiled: "This is no way, can the cavalry attack the city?" No, it is very difficult for a single class to capture a city, but with other troops, we will be blocked by the enemy on these mountain roads, and we will be completely annihilated at any time. ”
"Then what are we sending troops for this time?" The teenager asked eagerly.
"Hehe, Zhao Hujun did not place most of the people and important industries in the city like us, and the gathering places and various workshops of Zhao Hujun's people were built around the cities.
"And as long as our cavalry is not blocked by the enemy, we can definitely wipe out the villages outside the city in Zhao Hu's territory, so even if we can't destroy the foundation of Zhao Hu's army, it can also make him lose half his life!"
Speaking of which, the light in Kate's eyes is comparable to the bright moon and starlight! For this, the youngster doesn't have to think about it to know that the big handsome's decision is right.
About an hour or so later, Kate got up and waved her hand: "Okay! Rest almost, continue the march! ”
The troops slowly advanced again.
And after Kate left, the place near his resting place shook a little, and a black shadow wearing a full black robe flashed by, because the front army had left, and the rear army had not followed, so no one found this black shadow at all.
In the territory of Zhao Hujun, as a clarion call for military mobilization sounded, Zhao Hujun, who were scattered to garrison in various places, immediately approached the next level.
The garrison in the hinterland of Zhao Hu's army, when it was assembled to the formation of the wing, automatically stopped assembling and began to advance towards the Haiquan border.
However, the remaining wings dispersed and entered the nearby important cities to garrison them, and the security of the people was also handed over to the temporary guard team formed by the Shangmin and Shi clans.
Except for patrols made up of locals on the streets, the people of these places do not feel the atmosphere of war at all, and life continues.
And the garrisons on the border of Zhao Hu's army, especially those in the area adjacent to Haiquan Province, immediately marched in a certain direction after quickly gathering into a wing, and then assembled while marching, and finally two brigades appeared.
The villages and towns scattered all over the countryside, under the command of the Shangmin and the scholars, packed up their belongings and moved to the nearby city, and when the villagers and townspeople left, the originally noisy place was immediately deserted and silent. Everything that could be removed was removed.
Slaves who worked in the area were also reorganized and armed. Seventy or eighty percent of these slaves were prisoners of war captured by Zhao Hujun, and their military quality was much better than that of ordinary people, and they were equipped with weapons and formation, and soon one by one armed slave brigades were formed, and then under the leadership of those airborne captains, they followed the footsteps of Zhao Hujun and rushed to a certain direction.
As for the fear that the slaves would riot? This is something that Bai worries about.
Everything is afraid of comparison, think about the treatment of slaves now, think about the experience of being a soldier in the past, think about Zhao Hujun's very clear requirements for rank promotion, and then think about the fact that capable people in other places will not be promoted and will be embezzled by others, from these comparisons, it can be found that the treatment of civilians in other places is not even as good as the treatment of slaves on Zhao Hujun's side, since this is the case, idiots also know how to choose.
Zhou Xiang is such a slave who knows how to choose.
He was arrested at the age of seventeen, and he did not admit that he was a prisoner of war, because he had never even used a knife, how could he be a prisoner of war?
However, everyone scoffs at this question, now Zhao Hujun only has slaves and no prisoners of war, in this case, what do you still tell if you are a prisoner of war? Do you want to get out of slavery by doing so? Daydreaming!
Zhou Xiang's idea is really like this, but unfortunately it is not recognized.
Originally, according to his cleverness, it was easy to get a Sanmin when Zhao Hujun arrived. It's a pity that the master he was waiting for was nervously clamoring to break the house and resist the enemy, and a small tyrant with only thirty or forty people in his whole family, including the porter, actually took the initiative to attack Zhao Hujun, who was formed by a large brigade passing in front of the door.
The result can be imagined, this little tyrant was destroyed in an instant, and Zhou Xiang, who had not yet reacted to what was happening, became a slave.
Hearing that he had become a slave, Zhou Xiang could already imagine what his future life would be like, and at that time, while considering himself unlucky, he also began to plan how to escape from the slave camp.
But the next life surprised Zhou Xiang.
On the day he entered the slave camp, he began to register his identity and name, and then received the allotments, Zhou Xiang, like many people, looked at the things in his hands in a daze, a set of toiletries, three sets of clothes, and these things were actually brand new! I got a new dress when I was a servant, and now I have three sets of slaves?!
When the first meal of the slave camp was served, everyone was surprised again, the meal was actually coarse grains, dried vegetables, and green vegetable soup, and there was an unlimited amount of enough!
Knowing this, Zhou Xiang and the others immediately thought that they were in heaven, and it was not surprising that in these years, the longing for heaven was so simple. Because even the staple food of the local tyrant's family has long been replaced with coarse grains.
What was left after a big war in the era of warlord melee? The hungry are so hungry that they can't scream loudly, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and there is an extreme shortage of food!
It's very simple, warlords only pursue victory in warfare, so when the war is fierce, they will even pull all the men within their control into the troops, and after a big battle, how many strong men died on both sides will not be said, and more than half of the farmland on the losing side will definitely be wasted.
Some frenzied losers, in order to take revenge on the winners, will even burn all the grain and farmland to the ground. In this way, it is no wonder that there is no shortage of food.
Therefore, although the empire has not been divided by warlords for a long time, the strong men of the empire have lost at least 10 percent, and the grain production has been so low that even the existing population can not be satisfied, let alone increase production.
So in these years, everyone has lived without a meal, and now when they encounter full food, they don't eat it with an open belly.
Zhou Xiang, who was so round that he couldn't walk at all, thought like everyone else that if he could keep eating like this, he would be a slave.
You must know that even the original petty officers can't have a full stomach, let alone small soldiers. As for whether it will be disgusted with the lack of oil and water? Please, the landlord's family has no surplus grain these days, who dares to ask so much?