At the end of February, in Liangzhou, the climate was already warm, and it was raining lightly, Su Hongyu had to scout to report the latest movements of Lu Qingxia and others, pushed open the door of the study, walked behind Li Zhihe, gently hugged his strong waist from behind, and said:

"Madam, they still went to Qinzhou......"

"Alas, they insist on this, and they can only let them go!" Li Zhihe sighed lightly, he didn't feel any surprise, but in fact, Lu Qingxia and the others abandoned more than 200 armors in Chuyang half a month ago, and he expected this.

The Tubo, who were once powerful and even threatened the Central Plains Dynasty and ruled as far east as Song Domain, west and north as Longxi and Guazhou, fell into fragmented civil strife 70 years ago, and the core areas under their control were at war for decades, and the tribes of Song Domain and Longxi also took the opportunity to break away from Tubo control.

At this time, the Song Domain area located in the northwest of Shu State, the Qiang tribes were numerous, and their strength was not very strong, and they had not been infiltrated and controlled by the more powerful Pingxia people in the north for the time being.

If Lu Qingxia and the others really had the heart to gain a foothold in the Song Domain, no matter how difficult it was, they would also bring more than 200 armors to the Song Domain; And with more than 200 elite soldiers, it is not difficult to win a place among the Songbo tribes.

Later, the descendants of the Han garrison soldiers who moved westward in this area, as well as the Shuqiang who served in the interior in the early years, did not even have the opportunity to develop and grow.

However, this is a road destined to be arduous, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others did not choose to take this road, but it is also in line with their consistent style.

Li Zhihe was also determined to put these things behind.

In the past half a month, Liangzhou Yizhi has joined Liang, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have not appeared in the chaos they feared, and they have received this fact much calmer than they expected.

Thinking about it calmly, in addition to the continuous northward transportation of a large amount of grain through Lizhou, and the recuperation of the generals and their families who have experienced months of hunger, perhaps it is that over the years, the generals, military attachés and even low-level soldiers in the army have a sense of identity with Han Qian and the Tangyi army that they have not noticed before, right?

Although this fact is somewhat frustrating, it is also conducive to stabilizing the situation in Liangzhou, and there is no need to worry about being taken advantage of by a strong enemy in the current dangerous situation.

"Husband, do you think it is possible for Han Qian to hold Heluo?" Su Hongyu asked.

The gains and losses of Heluo are not only crucial to the overall situation of the world, but also to the dilapidated Liangzhou where they live.

Although Han Qian didn't ask too much of them at this time, they really wanted to do nothing now, but they calmly accepted the steady stream of grain and straw from Shu State, and regarded it as an opportunity to recuperate and recuperate with peace of mind.

And at this time, they chose to integrate more actively into the Great Liang, and even more actively help Han Qian to contain the Chu army of Xiangfan and the soldiers and horses of the Mengwu people in Guanzhong, if Han Qian could not hold Heluo, then Liangzhou would inevitably become the next target of the Mengwu, and would not give them a chance to breathe.

"Whether Han Qian can hold Heluo, the next battle is very important, and if the Mengwu people enter the flood season of the new season in Yuhe in mid-to-late May, they have not been able to capture Yanshi, Hujiaoguan, Pishan and other northern areas of Luoyang, so that Han Qian will usher in a longer respite, and then the Songnan plank road, Shuanglonggou plank road will be widened, Luoyang City will also build warships and be incorporated into the navy, and the Mengwu people will be difficult to attack Heluo again - of course, the key here is to see whether Jinling will send troops to take back Hehuai," Li Zhihe frowned and said, " But no matter what, I will also ask Deng Tai and Zhang Song to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses into Yunyang, and together with Chai Jian, who is stationed in Fangling, to contain Zhou Bingwu and Zhao Zhen! ”

Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing are currently urging Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian to lead their troops to participate in the Heluo War, and before the Heluo War has a result, it is unrealistic for the Mengwu soldiers and horses to attack Shu or Liangzhou.

Whether it is Chencang Road or Fu Luo Road, it twists and turns for hundreds of miles in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and there are steep terrain at both ends that are easy to defend and difficult to attack for both sides to use - they want to threaten the enemy army in Guanzhong with this bit of troops and horses, and it will not have much effect.

In contrast, Kong Xirong already occupied Lantian Pass, which had a northern Wuguan Road in Shangluo, and the soldiers could directly penetrate and infiltrate the Guanzhong Plain in order to contain a large number of enemy troops.

In the same way, they currently occupy the cities of Yunyang, Fangling, and Jingyun in the upper reaches of the Han River, and to the east they can threaten Canglang City and the western region of Xiangzhou, which can better contain the Chu army and create a more favorable situation for the Liang-Chu peace talks.

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The first phase of the Heluo battle came to an end due to the arrival of the flood season, and the defenders also got a rare and brief respite, but by the end of February, the weather in Heluo and other places had also warmed up, and the ice dams blocking the river would soon be completely melted, and in a few days, the flooding of the shallow silt areas on both sides of the mouth of the Yiluo River would reced.

From that moment on, and before the arrival of the summer and autumn flood season in mid-to-late May, the time window for the second phase of the Heluo War will be set.

Standing on the top of the eastern foot of Pishan Mountain, you can see that in the Caowei Lake on the north side of Mengzhou, which is seven or eight miles long, more than 100 warships are being divided into several teams for drills.

After the Heshuo Incident, there was a Liang Army Naval Division, that is, the Youlou Boat Army, which withdrew from the lower reaches of the Huai River to Mizhou.

During the Hehuai War last year, Sima and Xu Mingzhen surrendered to the Eastern Liang, and the local forces and garrisons of Mi, Deng, Lai, and Yi prefectures, which were originally located in the eastern part of the Shandong Peninsula, also surrendered.

Su Ling, the commander of the Youlou Ship Army who retreated to Mizhou, was originally a descendant general appointed by Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, and surrendered his troops and horses in Mizhou, and even after a considerable number of the generals of the Youlou Ship Army surrendered to the enemy without authorization, he still insisted on leading more than 4,000 naval generals to retreat to the island.

However, after the news of the death of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang and the presence of Chan in Han Qian passed, Su Ling was finally coerced by his generals, and the last remaining remnants of the naval division of the Youlou Boat Army were also surrendered to the enemy.

Manpower is poor from time to time, neither Zhu Yu nor Han Qian can prevent this incident from happening.

After the right building boat army surrendered to the enemy, it was almost divided into three parts: one was included in the Xu Si army, one was incorporated into the Eastern Liang Forbidden Army by Zhu Rang, and some of the generals were asked to go by the Mengwu people, and they were all incorporated into the Mengzhou naval army camp at this time to strengthen the control of the middle and upper reaches of the Yu River and the waterways of Weishui, Jingshui, and Beiluo River.

Seeing that the Mengzhou naval army of the Mengwu people was also quite large-scale, Luoyang had not even processed the first batch of timber for shipbuilding, so Han Qian could only order to drive wooden piles into the riverbed between Baimazhai and Longshouzhai in the middle reaches of the Yiluo River

Iron cables blocked the river together to prevent the enemy's warships from driving directly through the Yiluo River and directly interspersed with Yanshi and Luoyang.

Baima Village, Longshou Village is built on the cliff mountain on the north and south sides of Baima Gorge in the middle reaches of the Yiluo River, not only Baima Gorge is only more than 100 zhang wide, it is conducive to blocking the river with iron cable wooden piles and whirlwind cannons, bed crossbows and other combat equipment in the big village on both sides, at the same time, the terrain where the two villages are located is narrow and steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, easy to intercept the enemy's horse infantry and launch an attack in the middle of the river.

However, the White Horse Gorge is more than 50 miles away from the mouth of the Yiluo River.

This also means that in the next battle, the enemy can control this section of the river with the help of naval warships, and cooperate with its horse infantry to fight on both banks, and the defenders in Gongxian will be divided into two parts by the mighty Yiluo River after the ice is lifted, unless they detour from the pontoon bridge on the west side of Baima Gorge fifty or sixty miles away, or they will no longer be able to cooperate in battle.

As far as the situation is concerned, the upcoming second phase of the war is not in favor of the defenders......

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The capacity of the Songnan plank road is still limited, and large-scale people, horses and weapons and materials cannot be transported for a while.

Since it was decided to set up the capital of Luoyang, in addition to setting up the Nannei Shifu in Donghu, making Zhao Wuji the governor of the Nannei Shifu, Guo Duanduo as Changshi, Zhao Qi as Sima, and Ji Xiyao, Lin Zongjing, Zhao Yiming, Han Chengmeng, Chen Zhiyong, Wen Ruilin, Guo Quan and others in charge of the East Lake and Chaochu Prefectures and communicating and negotiating with Chu Ting, and striving to take the people in the Han Mansion and the secretarial personnel out of Jinling safely, the rest of the personnel of the Establishment Mansion had to move into Luoyang.

Even in Liyang Academy, there are 2,000 teachers and students this time, accompanied by Wang Jun, Zhao Ting'er, Xi Ying, Du Yijun, Du Qiniang, Chen Jitang, Zhao Laoqi, Xi Chang and others who rushed to Luoyang in mid-February.

Zhu Wen established the Liang State, mainly following the old system of the previous dynasty, but it was different.

In the early days of Bianjing, Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province were merged into Zhongshu Menxia Province, and the Privy Council and Yushitai were divided into three powers: government, military and supervision. As the de facto prime minister, the province of Zhongshu was headed by Shizhong, who was in charge of confidential affairs, participated in state affairs, reviewed edicts, signed seals, had the power to control and issue government decrees.

Shangshu Province does not place Shangshu orders, and governs with left and right servants, who are actually deputy ministers, participate in state affairs, and have six ministries and 24 divisions under its jurisdiction, including officials, rites, soldiers, criminals, households, and workers, and are actually responsible for the implementation of the edicts.

During the defensive battle of the Yiluo River, Feng Yu, Guo Rong, Gao Shao, Wen Duqiao, Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Lei Jiuyuan, Zhu Juezhong and others were in Luoyang City, and they were not idle to eat dry rice.

In addition to comprehensively implementing the new system of redeeming land, sorting out the relationship between the generals and soldiers of the old Liang Army and the local relations in more than 50 counties of Heluo, adding new recruiting agencies, promoting the construction of the naval army, strengthening the repair of the walled city and roads in Heluo, and dispatching the existing grain and straw materials in the Heluo area to the greatest extent, they also followed Han Qian's intention to reform the central organization of Luoyang.

It can be said that all aspects of the work are advancing non-stop, and it is also the unremitting efforts of Feng Yi and them, the front-line battlefield food and military supplies are fully supplied, and the morale and morale of the generals are also relatively stable.

Regardless of the fact that they reconciled and compromised with the Chu Ting so that they could concentrate their forces to resist the Mongol army and the Eastern Liang army, or whether Heluo and Tangyi currently only actually occupy more than 90 counties in 15 prefectures and barely have 4 million people, it is inconvenient for the Liang State to continue to claim the dynasty.

And Da Liang's demotion to the status of the country is not only advocated by Zhu Yu in front of him, but also Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Zhu Juezhong, Lei Jiuyuan, Jing Hao, Jing Zhen, Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun and other generals can also be recognized.

In fact, the original proposition of Gu Chen and others was to support Zhu Zhen and declare himself a vassal to the Chu court after he ascended the throne.

Daliang is no longer called the dynasty, but demoted to the country, Han Qian also calls himself the lord of the country, and his generals call him "king", and the central institution in Luoyang will be transformed accordingly, and it must be able to integrate with the Tangyi Mansion.

In the end, the people advocated that the Zhongshu Menxia Province and Shangshu Province should be changed to the Left and Right Internal History Mansion, the Imperial History Observatory should be changed to the Supervision Office, and the Privy Council should be changed to the Military Intelligence Staff Office.

In this way, the Zuo Nei Shi Mansion was incorporated into the functions and powers of the Tongzheng Department of the Tangyi System Establishment, so that Gu Qian and Guo Rong were appointed as the governors of the Zuo Nei Shi Mansion, and Han Qian was responsible for taking charge of the secrets, drafting and issuing edicts, and holding the power of deliberating and refuting the chapters.

The right internal history office was included in the functions and powers of the Tangyi Metropolitan Administration, and the edict proposed by the left internal history office was implemented by the inner internal history office after Han Qian's ruling, and the six departments and twenty-four divisions under the jurisdiction of the original Shangshu Province were downgraded to six divisions and twenty-four grooves under the jurisdiction of the right internal history office, and the right internal history office was headed by Feng Yi and Zhou Daoyuan, the former servant of the Liang Gong Department, as the governor of the right internal history office.

The Military Intelligence Staff Office is in charge of the command and dispatch of military troops and horses, with Gao Shao and Jing Hao as the left and right government supervisors.

The Supervision Office has the power to supervise hundreds of officials, with Yuan Guowei and Zhu Juezhong as the left and right government supervisors.

The governors of the Inner History Mansion, the Military Intelligence Staff Office, and the Supervision Governor, as well as Lei Jiuyuan and Wen Duqiao, all added the title of Governor to discuss national affairs, and generally implemented the group system like Chu Ting at this time.

After Wang Jun, Zhao Ting'er, and Xi Ying arrived in Luoyang, they did not directly participate in the military and political decision-making at the highest level as they did when they were in Donghu, which was also to avoid conflict with the old harem of the Liang State and the tradition of not interfering in politics.

In addition to Xi Ying, who was actually responsible for the guards and operation of the inner court, Zhao Ting'er took Du Qiniang and Xiangyun to be responsible for the construction and development of institutions that Liang Guo did not have in the past, such as the comprehensive university house, the medical hospital, and the pigeon department; Wang Jun went directly to Han Qian's side.

In addition to the command and dispatch of the front-line battlefield, a large number of edicts and letters also need more people to assist Han Qian in handling them.

During the first phase of the battle, Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun's troops suffered high casualties, and they subsequently withdrew to the front line of Yanshi and Baima Gorge to rest, and then they would be responsible for the bottom defense of the entire pocket array.

In the past half month, a new group of grassroots military attaches and veterans have been re-recruited from Huaixi Zhuzhou County, and have rushed to Luoyang to enlist on the Songnan Plank Road, and they have recruited thousands of strong soldiers from Heluo to supplement the consumption of Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun in the previous stage of the war.

Jing Hao served as the right superintendent of the Military Intelligence Staff Office, and his subordinates were led by Su Mu, Shen Peng, Zhao Ci and others, who were also Zhu Yuyan's cronies and the core generals of the old Liang Army, and entered Zhuzhai at the northwest foot of Songshan Mountain as the south of the entire pocket array, preparing for the second phase of the offensive.

The entire pocket array defense line, with the White Horse Gorge and Yanshi City as the base, the Zhuzhai at the northwest foot of Songshan Mountain in the south of the Yiluo River as the top, the eastern ridge of Pishan Mountain as the bottom, and the Tiger Prison Pass and the Xixuan Temple Village at the eastern foot of the Pishan Mountain as the mouth, gathered 50,000 of the most elite soldiers and horses, and let the enemy army advance along the lower reaches of the Yiluo River by land and water, and a little bit of tug-of-war to consume the enemy army, until they could no longer support it, and finally gave up the ambition of capturing Heluo.

Considering that in the next stage, the enemy army will use boats and boats to cross the Yu River to fight, and it is very likely that they will try to open up a new battlefield from a small-scale landing in Mengjin and try to penetrate southward through the relatively stable terrain on the west side of the mountain.

Han Qian will be Li Xiu, Li Mo, and Wang

The three men and 200 military attachés were transferred from Shangluo to Mengjin, so that Li Xiu also led the Mengjin County Order, recruited a total of 10,000 village warriors from the local government and the Liang generals who had healed their wounds and reorganized into the battalion, and newly organized two brigades of soldiers to organize a defensive line between the northern part of Mengjin and the Bishan Mountain in the northwest of the Yan Division.

Zhu Zhen finally calmly accepted the fact that his father Zhu Yu had cediced the position of lord of the Great Liang State to Han Qian, and his only request was to continue to lead troops in Shangluo and avenge his father.

Han Qian agreed to Zhu Zhen's request, and on the basis of the remnants of the original Yongzhou, in addition to transferring more than 2,000 wounded and sick soldiers to Xichuan City through Wuguan to rest and recuperate, he merged the veterans of the Longque Army under Li Qi's command under his command, and formed a new heavy infantry brigade to serve under Kong Xirong together with the four generals Cao Ba, Han Bao, Lin Sheng, and Wen Yuan, and continued to contain the enemy forces in Guanzhong from the direction of Shangluo and Lantian.

Kong Xirong is in the direction of Shangluo and Lantian, and it is enough to have the elite of the three brigades of Zhu Zhen, Han Bao, and Lin Sheng, and at present, Wen Yuan's department and some reserve troops and horses are mainly deployed in Xichuan and Jingzikou to guard against Zhao Zhen's right-wing army - and in the future, Li Zhihe can even contain some enemy troops in Guanzhong from Chencang, Fu Luo and other roads.

It was also after Wang Jun and Zhao Ting'er rushed to Luoyang that the news that Li Zhihe accepted the canonization and led the military and civilians of Liangzhou to merge into the Liang State reached Luoyang.

Luoyang has not established a pigeon nest for the time being, and has not hatched the first batch of carrier pigeons, and can not use the characteristics of long-distance homing of carrier pigeons for rapid communication.

The messenger from Liangzhou crossed the mountains at the southeast foot of the Qinling Mountains, arrived at Jingzikou, took the Wuguan Road to Huayang, and then took the Shuanglonggou Plank Road to reach the big tent at the eastern foot of the Piling Mountains.

And when Wang Jun entered the big tent of Pishan Dongling and officially assisted Han Qian in handling military and political affairs, although Han Qian did not ask for it when he rushed to Zhao'an in Liangzhou with Feng Yi, Li Zhihe still followed the rules, and his son Li Zhi and Chai Jian's second son Chai Zhi and others rushed to Luoyang and arrived at the big tent of Pishan Dongling to see Han Qian.

In the world, Li Zhihe was considered to be married late, his eldest son Li Zhi is only seventeen years old this year, two years younger than Chai Jian's second son Chai Zhi, and after such a big change in the past year, Li Zhi, Chai Zhi and others have also become more mature than their peers.

Since Li Zhihe and Chai Jian insisted on sending their sons Li Zhi and Chai Zhi to Luoyang as hostages, Feng Yi and the others originally advocated giving them a false title and living in the pavilion to support them, while Han Qian thought that the Luoyang Comprehensive School was about to be put into operation, so Li Zhi, Chai Zhi and others were allowed to enter the hall first to contact the new school.

Li Zhihe's acceptance of the annexation and canonization did not surprise Han Qian, and Han Qian didn't even think that Li Zhihe might refuse him.

Of course, if Li Zhihe was held hostage by Lu Qingxia and others and refused to accept their conditions, Han Qian would also be prepared to make the Heluo war more difficult and tragic, and he must be mentally prepared to let Kong Xirong lead an elite army from the west bank of the Danjiang River and the north bank of the Han River into Liangzhou.

At that time, he will not hesitate to return Liangzhou to join forces with the Shu army, and also exterminate the already weakened Liangzhou rebels, so that the Shu army can play a greater role in diversion.

The current situation is of course better than imagined, not only can Li Zhihe send troops from Liangzhou to contain the enemy army west of Yongzhou - even if Liangzhou does not send troops, it will make the enemy army dare not ignore the defense on the west side, and at the same time, Han Qian does not have to worry about Zhao Zhen still daring to threaten Gwangju and Dengzhou from Fancheng and Suiyang.

At this time, Han Qian could order that the 5,000 soldiers who surrendered in Deng Jun and the two states should be transferred to Heluo through the Shuanglonggou plank road - although there were indeed more than 10,000 soldiers in the two states of Deng Jun, but adhering to the principle of "leaving the surplus in the household to cultivate and not recruit all the people" in Tangyi, the actual only more than 5,000 soldiers were recruited into the camp with normal recruitment.

This part of the soldiers, was used by Emperor Tianyou in the early years to strengthen Deng Jun's defense line against Liang, peacetime cultivation and guarding the field, training during the slack season, and entering the tunzhai to participate in the defense in wartime, all of which have a fairly strong training foundation, which can be directly used as a recruitment to supplement the casualties of Feng Xuan, Zhou Yi, Su Lie, Xue Chuan and other units in the first phase of the Heluo War.

In addition, Lin Jiang and a number of other generals of the Chishan Society and the Tangyi Navy were ordered to be transferred to Luoyang to be responsible for the construction of the Yique Lake Water Camp and the early recruitment and training of the Luoyang Navy including a combat brigade and a Zhouqiao Brigade.

That is to say, the next stage of the war that is about to break out, the situation is unfavorable to Heluo, but after the first stage of the war, the scale and combat effectiveness of Heluo's soldiers and horses have not been reduced, and have even been strengthened.

Although there is no way to send enough large-scale supplies in a short period of time, doctors and a large number of wound medicine are enough to ensure that the army is sufficient.

The old Liang army only set up a special medical officer at the capital level, who was responsible for taking a few apprentices to be responsible for the medical treatment of the generals, which was barely enough during the non-wartime camp, but during the war, hundreds of soldiers were injured and injured every day for treatment, and there were three or five thousand soldiers and horses, and at most it could reach three or four percent of the injuries and illnesses.

Not to mention ensuring adequate medication.

In the past few years in Huaixi and Xuzhou, first of all, with the support and promotion of Han Qian, the medical school has trained doctors to study and research on the basis of dissecting the human body - this can be said to be a big taboo, but fortunately, in these years, the war has been continuous, and the dissection of the enemy's corpse has been carried out, and the internal controversy is still a little smaller - the level of surgical trauma treatment has already exceeded that of the current world.

Artificial large-scale cultivation of medicinal materials has become a scale in Xuzhou, Donghu, Huaiyang and other places, including the mandala introduced to China in the early years of the previous dynasty, as well as the cultivation and research and trial of drugs with anesthetic effects such as aconitum, Aracea, sheep's heel, aconite, etc., which is the focus of Han Qian's emphasis, which ensures the supply of surgical trauma drugs during large-scale wars.

Another point is the scale of the military doctors, before the Hehuai War, the Tangyi army was already able to achieve the level of a 100-person team assigned to a full-time doctor.

At present, Han Qian wants to keep enough soldiers and horses on the southern front as a deterrent, but as long as war does not break out on the southern front, medical and other auxiliary personnel can be transferred from Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Yang Qin, Tan Yuliang and other departments on a large scale to strengthen Han Yuanqi, Jing Zhen, Su Mu, Chen Kun, Shen Peng and other units of the old Liang army, and improve the ability of fortification construction, armor repair, injury and illness treatment, as well as military intelligence reconnaissance, transmission, general mobilization, training and other aspects.

The generals and commanders and military attachés at all levels of the old Liang Army will not be adjusted, but a large number of combat staff, engineers, physicians and other auxiliary personnel will not only improve the combat effectiveness of the old Liang Army, but also a kind of integration that will not be rejected by the generals of the old Liang Army.

At present, Han Qian is mainly worried about the progress of the Jinling Peace Conference.

In any case, the southern front may still have the strength to win a short-term large-scale war, but the north and south fronts are in a long-term and tragic tug-of-war at the same time, which is too difficult for the big beam at this time.