Chapter 274: A Lot of Boxed Lunches
It has been more than a year since Huo Bai embarked on the journey, and more than half a year has passed since Yan Shenyou went into battle. After a battle for so long, the nerves of Da Zhou are excited, and there is a sense of honor of the winner, which can be supported, but the other two have begun to weaken.
In Yan Shenyou's words, this is a protracted war, the more the Great Zhou fights, the stronger it gets, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is getting bigger and bigger. With more appropriate policies and good execution, it has achieved a sustainable development. The two neighbors on the opposite side are more miserable, the territory is shrinking, the population is decreasing, but the mouths to feed are not much less.
King Jiyang was slightly better there, because when he was defeated, many soldiers didn't have time to run, they were captured, and they became prisoners of war on the spot, which was something Huo Bai needed to worry about. Ruan Mei was more forced here, and his strength was not damaged too much. At the beginning, he was quite proud, and this is the capital for turning the tables in the future.
I never thought that there would be such a thing as a war, and it is not possible to have fewer people, and the more people there are, the better, especially when the logistics supply is very weak. The land area is less than one-third, and the one-third is still quite fertile, and the problem is quite serious. Agriculture depends on the sky for food, and in the south it can be harvested three times a year, but in the north it is only two crops a year.
The third of the lost place is in the south, and it is three crops in two years, which is considered a granary. After the stalemate, this place fell into the hands of Yan Shenyou, and production resumed, not only did not become a drag, but it was subsidized by military rations. Nguyen Mai's Chen Guo had to make up for these losses from other places, such as raising taxes. Who will let you take money out of your pocket for nothing? The people's hearts, which were originally more inclined to Ruan Mei, were shaken a little. It's just that the time is still short, and it is not obvious yet.
Since the end of last autumn, Ruan Mei has been anxious, and Lu Qiao, as a prime minister, is also quite competent, and he did his best to provide military rations for Ruan Mei. It's a pity that the Qiao woman can't cook without rice, no matter how hard he tries, the food on the land is limited after all, and he has already collected all the grain that can be collected, and many people have begun to eat wild vegetables - the surplus grain in his hand has been requisitioned. What is even more worrying is that the absurd men have gone to military service, which has also caused great damage to production and life. In the land of Chen Guo, after nearly ten years of military rebellion, this battle will be fought for another year, and Chen Guo will be economically dragged down.
Ruan Mei's soldiers, places like the forward battalion can still guarantee three meals a day, two thin and one dry, and in other places, it is good to have three thin meals a day. Ruan Mei also knew that this would not work, and she had to fight Yan Shenyou as soon as possible while the soldiers had not starved to death. His main force was not damaged, and Yan Shenyou's battle line was not monolithic.
In winter, I only hate that the river is cold, slippery to death, and charge forward from the river, if you are not careful, you don't need to cut and kill, you will fall first. When he saw that someone was coming on the other bank, he used the push rod to push the people into the river, and one by one they slipped out and slipped out of the river.
Xi Chong once gave Ruan Mei an idea to find someone to sing some southern tunes, causing Zhou Bing's nostalgia, so that he could take advantage of the situation. Unexpectedly, it is extremely easy to find some northerners in the south, but it is extremely difficult to find southerners in the north. What's worse is that the Chinese army in Shanpu is composed of mountain people, which is not the same concept as ordinary southerners.
In the end, Xi Zhong sighed himself, and took the initiative to say to Ruan Mei: "That, now it's not possible." ”
Then under Ruan Mei's glare, her voice became lower and lower, and the person shrank more and more, gradually shrinking herself into a ball: "This battle can't be fought, really, the emperor is not hungry!" ”
Ruan Mei said angrily: "Then what do you say? ”
Xi Zhong said: "You have too much to eat here, or it's spring, let some go back to farming." When they go back, they can still get some food, and instead of feeding them with their majesty, they have to pay rent and taxes. If you stay, there will be less labor in the fields, and the harvest will not be good, and you will have to consume food. And so on and so forth, and it will only get worse. ”
Ruan Mei said: "No! "There are too few people, so they just add vegetables to the opposite side.
Seat weight: ...... Then why are you asking me why? You really need to streamline it, and boss, I think you're going bankrupt.
Ruan Mei made up her mind: "When the river opens, we will fight with them!" "Ordered to collect ships and start a decisive battle. He also ordered Chang Hui to keep an eye on Li Jin, don't guard it here, Li Jin took advantage of it over there.
Seat weight: ...... I feel like I need to run. He tried to persuade Ruan Mei to run away and find a place to live in seclusion. Anyway, troubled times. Or surrender. Normally, a person of Ruan Mei's level, if he is willing to surrender, will probably be crowned a Shun Hou or something. doesn't have the authority and majesty of now, but it can still be done to save one's life and worry about food and clothing.
Ruan Mei glared at him again, glared at Xi Zhong again, and then summoned two personal guards: "Look at him, don't let him run." ”
Xi Zhong felt that he was wronged.
Ruan Mei has already shown affection for him, maybe he gives people the impression that he is too cowardly, or maybe he voted for Ruan Mei's fate, changed someone, and dared to say this, he would have been split into eight petals by Ruan Mei a long time ago. Xi wiped away his tears and continued to shrink in the corner, beginning to wonder how to run. Ruan Mei went to worry about his military rations again, and after thinking about it, the gentry and wealthy families in the territory should have a lot of grain in stock, and they should be able to borrow a little.
Ruan Mei ordered Lu Qiao to get some food from this idea.
Of course, Chen's capital would not be too close to the border, neither close to the Zhou nor the Western Dynasty, and of course, there was also a certain distance from the Hu people in the north. Now, because of Yan Shenyou's large march, the capital of Pseudo-Chen is two hundred miles behind Ruan Mei. Ruan Mei had no way to retreat, and if he retreated, he had no choice but to defend the capital and wait for Yan Shenyou to attack the city.
As soon as the capital is broken, the entire Great Chen Kingdom will be finished. Ruan Mei knew that once he was defeated, those people who still called him His Majesty would have to surrender to Yan Shenyou before the dawn. Get some food early, so that the soldiers can eat enough, come by surprise!
Ruan Mei personally made a plan and looked at the map, hoping to bypass the defensive line in front of the Zhou soldiers and land in a place they did not expect. I just hate this hydrography too much! The river beach is steep and flat, the water flow is fast and slow, there are really not many suitable places for landing, and the next place is more than 100 miles downstream. Behind is the capital, the army can't all go, and enough troops must be left to prevent accidents. After the division of troops, they had to resign themselves to fate.
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What Ruan Mei didn't expect was that he was thinking about dividing the troops here, and Yan Shenyou was also thinking about it. The east and west roads advanced together, and the western route army went smoothly all the way, and the eastern route army first suppressed and then raised. However, the enemy on the eastern front is obviously more ferocious, if the western front solves the king of Jiyang and then goes down the river to help fight Ruan Mei, this is generally undamaged in the Great Zhou, but the record on the eastern front is more ugly.
Yan Shenyou here, a little to the west, there is Li Jin, at present, Li Jin has been tempered and has been able to get started, and he doesn't have to worry about him. What she was more worried about was that if she correctly confronted Ruan Mei, the losses would be relatively large, so it was better to land downstream. For example, at the mouth of the sea, or simply, the warships did not sail over, but went directly a little further north and landed from the coast.
I only hate that there are too few soldiers on the warship. The Great Zhou Naval Division, with more than 20,000 people and hundreds of warships, was originally for loading ships and transporting troops, not for a special trip to fight.
Yan Shenyou thought about it, so he also divided his troops, and let Yan Yuanzhi and Shanpu guard the earth city, but he took Xuanyi and rushed to the lower reaches to meet the military advisor. Divide the naval division ship into two and continue northward to meet Shanpu and Yan Yuanzhi. The other happened to be borrowed by Yan Shenyou as a springboard to cross the river and go north from a place more than 100 miles downstream of Tucheng that was suitable for landing. Xuanyi did not attack the pseudo-Chen Jingcheng, but attacked Ruan Mei's camp. Seeing that she had arrived, Nan'an also cooperated with Zitucheng to cross the river to the north and flank Ruan Mei.
Both sides have developed a strategy, and it depends on who executes it well.
Shan Pu was reluctant to let Yan Shenyou run back and forth, but Yan Shenyou said: "Xuanyi is good at running, and your soldiers can't do it." I also want to meet the governor of the navy in person, and tell him about the division of troops, without my tiger charm military order, you can't divide his soldiers, let alone his ship. ”
Yan Yuanzhi said: "Since Xuanyi is running, the equipment for attacking the camp is insufficient, what are you going to do?" ”
Yan Shenyou smiled: "Don't worry about this, there are all on the ship." These boats are equipped with poles, stone throwers, crossbows, etc., as well as arrows, giant trees, etc., which can be supplemented. ”
Yan Yuanzhi said: "I don't suspect that the water master is not prepared, I just ask you, how do you carry these things?" If you're going to follow the boat, you might as well just wait here. If you want to make a surprise attack, you have to travel lightly. I see that an earthen city has also been erected on the opposite side, and it is not possible to enter it lightly by attacking and killing in the dark. ”
Yan Shenyou said: "In this case, I will go downstream and levy some cars before getting on the ship to transport ordnance." Let's make an appointment to cross the river on the south bank first. ”
Yan Yuanzhi said: "It's okay." ”
So it was agreed that Yan Shenyou would go downstream, and Shan Pu and Yan Yuanzhi would just wait for the sailor's ship to arrive, so they boarded the boat and headed north. Yan Shenyou laid an ambush near Ruan Mei's camp, and when the Ruan army came out of the camp, he took the opportunity to cover up and kill.
Yan Shenyou took Xuanyi and left quietly, in order to prevent being detected by the other side, she also paid attention to marching several miles from the shore. The boat traveled slowly, and within three days, Yan Shenyou met the sailor.
Hai Pingchao, the governor of the Zhou Dynasty's naval army, was a local who had joined the army when Yan Suzhi was still in Guiyi, and Yan Shenyou recognized him. This man is nearly forty years old, with a red face, thick hands and feet, a mustache with a messy canopy, and the official language is very inauthentic. Yan Shenyou is used to staying in Anzhou, but he often hears such non-standard official words, but there is no communication barrier.
Hai Pingchao's name was still given by Yan Suzhi, his original name was a bit of a big export - he was originally a seaside fisherman, because of his excellent water nature, and he was very popular with boats, Yan Suzhi joined the army when he suppressed the pirates, and made meritorious contributions along the way, and happened to be the governor of the navy, and Yan Suzhi changed his name. Seeing that the battles over the years have been fought on land, the naval army of the Great Zhou Dynasty is just an ornament, which makes Hai Pingchao extremely aggrieved. Now that there was finally such an opportunity, the governor of Haidu asked for an order to come in person.
came with him, as well as Yan Shenyou's acquaintance Han Dou. Han Dou did not fight for the list of the early Northern Expedition, a little heartbroken, this reinforcement, he took the initiative to ask for help, Yan Suzhi was worried about his daughter, and ordered him to bring 10,000 people from his headquarters to listen to Yan Shenyou's dispatch.
After seeing Yan Shenyou, after checking the tiger talisman twice, Hai Pingchao reported: "Your Highness, there are 25,000 soldiers in the navy here, and there are 500 warships, including 300 ships. ”
Yan Shenyou stumbled: "So much? It's all brought, right? ”
Hai Pingchao said: "Your Majesty said that victory or defeat is in one move, and if you play the big one, you will hand it over to Your Highness." ”
Yan Shenyou: ...... "Who else can lead the fleet except you?" ”
Hai Pingchao was a little puzzled: "The princess won't let Lao Hai fight this battle?" ”
Yan Shenyou said: "I want to divide the troops!" Because he told his plan.
Hai Pingchao touched the back of his head: "The lieutenant general of the minister can." Pointing to his lieutenant general, let him lead half of the warship upstream, and the rest of Hai Pingchao personally took it, listening to Yan Shenyou's orders. Hai Pingchao also felt that Yan Shenyou was so tossed, fighting, he had such a large fleet rushing up, and had a group fight with Ruan Mei's side, fists to the flesh, beating Ruan Mei down, and working together.
What is such a division of troops?
Han Dou interjected at this time: "We are going to the north shore for a decisive battle, and the sooner we can transport more soldiers and horses to the other side, it is serious." are all crowded together, there are few people rushing in front, and it is easy to be killed by Ruan Mei, and there are many people in the back, and they can't help if they are in a hurry. Isn't it to deliver food to Ruan Mei? ”
Yan Shenyou smiled and said, "Yes, General Han is right," Han Dou has now been promoted to a general, but this general is a little smaller, "Du Du personally brought three hundred ships over to meet King Wu, and your lieutenant general and General Han can stay." You go first, and we will stay behind. When you arrive, rest for a day, and on the next day you cross the river. ”
The tide of the sea was ordered, and someone was ordered to open the boat. Yan Shenyou ordered people to dot his ship from a distance, and gradually distanced himself from the brigade of Haiping Chao.
What Yan Shenyou never expected was that she was caught off guard when she thought about beating Ruan Mei, who had already sent someone to cross the river and was meeting Hai Pingchao. A third of Chen Bing's soldiers had already crossed the river, and Hai Pingchao saw it from afar, so he ordered someone to release arrows and sent another signal. Then he drove the boat forward, and when he arrived, he found that he was standing on the deck of the building ship, the building ship was too high, and he couldn't really see Chen Bing on the small boat below!
Haiping was damp and ordered: "Hit me!" "I'm so aggrieved, I want to cut people with my own hands!
The Zhou army's sailors were large and well-equipped, and there was no serious sailor there in Pseudo-Chen, and the ships were all ordinary troop transport ships, most of which were requisitioned civilian ships. Although the boat is a little slower, the boat rubbing it is a life that capsits into the water. Seeing such a behemoth, Chen Bing on the north shore began to flee. If you can't eat enough, and then you go forward to die, it will be stupid. Those who have already gone to the south bank are also dumbfounded, and they are happy that Zhou Bing didn't find them, fantasizing about defeating the soldiers and having a full meal, what kind of situation is this?!
The worst in the river was directly knocked into the water. The water of such a large river is so deep that the proportion of water in the northern soldiers is still small. Even if you know how to water, it is very easy to be beaten to the bottom of the ship around the moving big ship.
Yan Shenyou saw that signal from a distance, and said, "This is really a coincidence!" I'm afraid that Chen Bing crossed the river and was discovered, Lao Hai is really lucky! "Order Xuanyi to get off the boat and personally lead the team to support. The speed of the land march is relatively fast, and galloping aid is the best.
Xuanyi couldn't wait for this, they had been on the ship for three days, and the worst one had vomited out all the bitter bile. got off the boat, got on the horse, and was a good man.
Hurrying all the way, before the fight was finished, Hai Pingchao shouted in a hurry: "This is all in the water, how can you cut off your head?" "If you don't have a head, you can't count it as a war feat!
Seeing Yan Shenyou coming, he hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness, there are puppet soldiers who have fled forward!" ”
Yan Shenyou led his troops to the south to chase after him, chased him for fifty miles in one go, and also stopped and surrendered two or three thousand people. Yan Shenyou interrogated the prisoners, knowing that the number of people who had crossed the river was roughly seven or eight thousand, and he was afraid that the scattered soldiers would be in chaos, so he urgently ordered people to know about the passes everywhere, strictly defend them, and carefully check them. On the one hand, he ordered someone to interrogate Ye Chen and asked him to think of recruiting these people.
Hai Pingchao felt very unpleasant, and smacked his lips: "Just these little sampans? ”
Yan Shenyou smiled and asked, "Don't look down?" It's nothing to see them, just don't have anything else when you cross the river later. ”
Hai Pingchao patted his chest and packed the ticket: "Don't worry." ”
Yan Shenyou said: "You take it away, I'll wait for Han Dou them here." ”
After meeting with Han Dou, Yan Shenyou slowly moved westward.
Ruan Mei heard that the strange soldiers were hit by the blind cat of the Zhou State Water Division, and those who had already crossed south could not be chased back, but there were thousands of people who died in the river, and the remaining defeated soldiers came back with their heads bowed, and there were many deserters on the way. When a battle is won, there are usually no deserters, and there are individual phenomena, and once the battle is lost, the number of deserters gradually increases. This time the encounter was particularly magical, and no one knew that Zhou Jun would come over before! Many superstitious soldiers felt that this battle could not be fought, and took advantage of the chaos to run away.
When Ruan Mei heard that the Zhou army's sailors were coming, she guessed that this was to cross the river, considering the strength of the Zhou's navy divisions. Ruan Mei decisively decided: "Cross the river now!" "But there is no ship! The ships that were recruited in advance were all downstream, and now they have been beaten into rotten planks and floating in the water by the tide of the sea.
The temporary requisition of boats has caused a lot of trouble along the coast. Such a big movement, Shanpu and Yan Yuanzhi on the other side naturally heard it, and lined up along the coast, waiting for Ruan Mei to come over. Not long after, Yan Shenyou's messenger arrived again, explaining the previous battle. Yan Yuanzhi personally deployed the defense and ordered people to cooperate with the search for the pseudo-Chen rout.
Shanpu was preparing to cross the river, for example, giving a wooden plank to each soldier, and if he fell into the water, he could swim with him. Ruan Mei on the other side was also preparing, and forcibly crossed the river before the sea level tide arrived. When the tide of the sea level arrived, the two sides of the strait were fighting lively, and there was no fancy, and there was no surprise attack - each side knew that it was to cross the river and attack.
Both armies held their breath for a long time, Shanpu suffered Ruan Mei's loss, Ruan Mei suffered Shanpu's daughter-in-law's loss, and they all wanted to get back to the field. Shanpu occupies a favorable location, he just needs to guard it. There is still a lot of material left for the construction of the city, and the bamboo is broken into pieces, sharpened and inserted into the ground, which is a common trap for mountain people. There are also crossbowmen, before Chen Bing goes ashore, don't be too easy with long-range strikes!
Finally, after losing more than 10,000 people, Chen Bing began to have people land on the front that stretched for six or seven miles. was first inserted by the bamboo, and then the crossbowmen seized the last opportunity to kill a bunch of people. Then, you have to face the strange battle formation of the mountain people. Some of them had swords, some had spears, and some had shields...... One by one, the Chen soldiers who rushed ashore were divided into small groups of battle groups.
In this battle, from morning to night, torches were lit on both sides of the strait.
At this time, the tide has arrived!
Lao Hai looked at the south bank that had already been in a mess, and then looked at the north bank of the river that continued to go down like dumplings, and ordered: "Drive over, crash!" "Quite a simple and brutal way of playing. After hitting the south bank, he took the initiative to hit the north side. Anyway, there is no way to take a behemoth like a building ship.
Ruan Mei on the north shore was supervising the battle, and when she saw the building boat coming over in the sky, she sighed in her heart, and then looked at his soldiers, and sure enough, she had no heart to fight. Ruan Mei immediately made a decision, ordered a temporary restraint, and ordered the stone throwers in the camp to be moved. He lit the large wooden block that had been poured on the fire and threw it into the boat.
Haiping was cold and took his loss, and hurriedly ordered to put out the fire. Thanks to the ship, be careful of the candle flame, and deal with this is considered experience, so it does not cause too much loss.
Ruan Mei took the opportunity to collect her troops, and at this moment, she suddenly heard the familiar sound of horses' hooves, Ruan Mei thought that she was hallucinating, and raised her eyes to look. There was no figure in sight for a while, until there was chaos from the east, and Chen Bing ran to the west camp without his life. Ruan Mei realized that something was wrong - damn it! I sent someone to copy the back road but didn't copy it, but asked the opponent to copy the back road.
Yan Shenyou has never known how to be polite to the enemy, so when he raised the flag, he led the army to cover it up. At the same time, a signal firework is released. On the flag of Hai Pingchao, the sailors who were watching saw it and hurriedly reported to Hai Pingchao. Hai Pingchao ordered the boat to dock, Zhou Bing, and began to cross the river!
Ruan Mei calmed down, and hurriedly reined in the team, but ordered to resist. Immediately divide the troops, and continue to attack the building ship on the opposite side, and it is impossible to win the flank and Xuanyi's hard fight, so you have to do some roadblocks and set up a rejection horse. Ruan Mei is trying to survive with a broken tail, and he doesn't care about the troops who are already entangled with Xuanyi, exchanging space and human life for time.
In the end, Ruan Mei collected more than 20,000 remnants of the headquarters, quickly withdrew to his capital, and set a fire before leaving, burning the grain, grass, and armor that could not be taken away, so that Yan Shenyou had no time to chase and kill him, so he had to pack up the prisoners first, and then organize people to put out the fire.
Shan Pu was covered with sweat, Chen Bing may have been too deep into the play, obviously Ruan Mei had already run away, and the abandoned pawn was still thinking about rushing forward. It took a lot of men and horses for Shanpu to defeat these strange soldiers. Yan Yuanzhi was to the east of him, where the Chen soldiers on the opposite bank had been defeated by Yan Shenyou, and Yan Yuanzhi encountered very little resistance to crossing the river, arriving earlier than Shanpu. When I arrived, I helped put out the fire.
With Yan Yuanzhi's help, Yan Shenyou's work became much easier. It was difficult to stop the forage when it burned, and only a third of it was saved, or because Ruan Mei was in a hurry and didn't have time to get on the full order. All in all, the harvest is still good.
Several people gathered, and Shanpu also said hello to Han Dou: "Han Lang is also here." ”
Yan Shenyou said: "Let them clean up the battlefield, give some food to the prisoners of war, and don't release them, and make a book." If you are familiar with the geography here, please ask Mr. Dou for inquiry. The army camped on the spot to rest, and three days later marched westward, took Chang Hui, and joined forces with the Taifu to attack Ruan Mei. ”
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