Yun Puzi and the old man in the green robe were in Lei Pingfeng, curious about how Han Qian would clean up the mess, and the third group of more than 500 people who set out from Xuzhou to the east in the next few days, led by Feng Yi, Ji Xiyao and others, also arrived at Maoshan and Donglushan in batches one after another, and joined the Chishan army.

Among this batch of 500 people, only 100 grassroots military attaches were drawn from the state camp.

Xuzhou implements a conscription system, and the military attache team formed on the basis of the children of the family soldiers and the elite scouts and children of the Zuo Division is the foundation of Xuzhou's military equipment.

More than 400 military attaches have been transferred from Xuzhou, and it is impossible to further squeeze Xuzhou's military potential without limit, otherwise the big surname forces around Xuzhou may not continue to maintain their current docile and well-behaved appearance.

Among the 500 people transferred in the third batch, there are nearly 100 craftsmen and craftsmen with their own specialties, and there are also nearly 300 people, whose origins are more complicated.

These people include the displaced people who were lured to Xuzhou by the gold rush, a considerable number of slaves and maids who moved west with the Feng family back then, a small number of Feng clansmen, and some of them are Fanhu Zhai slaves who were forcibly moved down the mountain by the four surnames and moved to Linjiang, Zhongfang and other counties to settle down, and there are also Hakka civilians in Xuzhou.

These people also have a common characteristic, that is, in addition to their rough practice of pen and ink and their ability to write and read simply, in recent years, Xuzhou has built large-scale river embankments, water conservancy projects, passage roads, reclamation of new fields, and construction of tunzhai villages, especially in the process of implementing the land tax reform system and the merger of local and guest registrations, they have participated in it, received a certain amount of training, and in the process, have mastered a certain amount of ability and experience in the leadership of grassroots organizations.

God bless Emperor Dingding Jianghuai, why should he compromise with the family gate valve?

In addition to the fact that a considerable part of the main force of the Jianghuai Army came directly from the family gate lords represented by the Xu family, one of the main reasons was that it did not form a civilian official training and selection system, and if it did not compromise with the family gate lords, the tentacles of the political power established by Da Chu could not be smoothly extended to the prefectures and counties, let alone sink into the grassroots level of the township.

In addition to the premise that they had completely broken the resistance of the Tujia forces by force, Han Qian and his father were able to implement the new policies such as the reform of the land and acres and the merger of the Tuke nationality in Xuzhou, and it was also directly related to the fact that they were able to appoint a group of officials who could go deep into the grassroots to promote the restructuring work - in this, Feng's slaves and maids also contributed a large number of manpower.

Han Qian recruited slaves and maids into the army, and dared to form a grudge with the family lords, his main reliance, in addition to the young and strong slaves and maids who could be organized with old pawns and military attachés, and organized into the Chishan Army, also fell into this.

Only when there are enough grassroots officials who can lead the old and weak women and children to disperse to get food, will they not become an increasingly overwhelmed burden on the Chishan Army, and will not become a meat bag for the Chishan Army to be surrounded by heroes.

In addition to recruiting young and strong soldiers and horses as standing soldiers, the Chishan Army also mobilized the women and young children of Taowuji, who had long been accustomed to semi-militarized management in recent years, to form women's battalions and junior battalions to strengthen the establishment and maintenance of internal order.

All these are necessary conditions to create the necessary conditions for decentralized food production.

It was also the old man in the green robe who said to Yun Puzi that the method of breaking the situation was placed in front of him, but he himself couldn't see through it.

The scattered land for grain is not the Huhang Plain on the south coast of Taihu Lake, nor the Ningxi Plain on the west side of Jinling such as Dangtu and Quarrying, but the Fuyu Mountain (Tianmu Mountain) in the east of Xuanzhou.

When Tu and quarry are located in the heart of the Nanya Forbidden Army and the Shouzhou Army, the Huhang Plain on the south coast of Taihu Lake, the family gate lords headed by Huzhou Thorn Shi Huanghua are extremely powerful, and they are scattered to provide food, how many soldiers and horses should be sent to protect the old and weak women and children scattered out of each team, so as to successfully obtain stable and sufficient food from the local area?

Fuyu Mountain spans the five prefectures of Xuanshe, Hanghu, Qu, stretches one hundred and fifty miles from north to south, stretches three hundred miles from east to west, and then to the west is the Yishan (Yellow Mountain) mountain range of the same scale, and the north is the Jieling Mountain (Yili Mountain) dominated by hilly terrain, the mountain is steep, and its range is more than 100 times larger than the small Maoshan Mountain.

The Chuzhou army was also anxious to expand its troops and control Changzhou and Suzhou in the east for a short time, and did not want to be overly eager to divide its troops to the south and confront the Chishan army, while the Xuanzhou soldiers wanted to beggar-thy-neighbor and hoped to introduce the Chishan army to Huzhou in the east.

Taking advantage of the current situation, Han Qian first established two walled cities at the west and southwest feet of Jieling Mountain, and then organized the old and weak women and children to bypass the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain, but before entering the territory of Huzhou, he went south with two or three hundred or three or five hundred women and children as a team, took the mountain trails and dangerous roads, and walked through mountains and rivers to disperse deep into Fuyu Mountain.

This is another form of taking the mountain as a city.

The premise of this is that after the young and strong slaves and maids are drawn out, the old and weak women and children, who are mainly 1,200 or even 3,500 in each team, must be able to maintain a certain ability to protect themselves after they are separated from the main force of soldiers and horses, and they must maintain a certain degree of self-reliance, the ability to use all favorable conditions to organize production and self-help, and they must also have a fairly strong binding force to avoid excessively fierce confrontation and contradictions with the people of the local villages.

This is something that ordinary exile armies will never be able to do.

The extremely large contingent of women and children in the Displaced People's Army is a sloppy grassroots organization, and it is a pure homeless people, who can only follow the main force of soldiers and horses to wander around, and do not dare to disperse at all.

And every place it goes, in addition to causing serious damage to local production like a swarm of locusts, it is also easy to be taken advantage of by a small group of elite soldiers and horses because it is too bloated and huge.

But the Red Mountain Army is different.

In addition to the transfer of a group of civil officials from Xuzhou, and the women and children who were assigned to each team had a leader, there were also members of the women's battalion and the juvenile battalion in Taowuji, ranging from ten to thirty or forty, to ensure that the women and children scattered into the mountains of each team could maintain a certain degree of self-protection and organizational ability, and could also maintain close contact with the main force of soldiers and horses, rather than a group of scattered sand that would get out of control or be thrown out at any time.

At present, women and children are mainly scattered into the northern foothills of Fuyu Mountain, which belong to Huzhou and Xuanzhou respectively, Han Qian led the main force of the Chishan Army to stay outside the mountain, mainly staring at the main force of the Huzhou soldiers and Xuanzhou soldiers, attracting the attention of the local state soldiers, so that they do not dare to divide their troops into the mountains to suppress, so as to resolve the biggest threat faced by the old and weak women and children.

At the same time, more than 1,000 elite squads were dispatched in advance to form dozens of elite squads to go deep into the depths of Fuyu Mountain to warn and suppress some stubborn forces in the mountain, and to assist the women and children scattered into the mountain to gain a foothold in the mountain.

In the depths of Fuyu Mountain, although there is very little arable land and the grain that can be requisitioned is extremely limited, in the summer and autumn seasons, the vast mountains and forests located in the land of abundant rain and warm climate can find a source of food to satisfy hunger, but it is not enough to have enough in the plain areas that have been fully exploited for more than 1,000 years.

Just like in the mountains near Jingxiang, tens of thousands of cottagers hid in the deep mountains and old forests to escape the war.

More importantly, the old and weak women and children were dispersed to the Fuyu Mountain, and after the pressure of the main force of the Chishan Army was greatly reduced, the scope of activities became wider and more flexible, and they could free up their hands to go to farther places and regions to raise grain and transport it into the mountains to supplement the shortage of food for women and children.

Because the area of grain collection has become extremely wide, it is no longer limited to one county, or even one state, but to collect grain and grass from the five prefectures of Huhang, Xuan, and Qu around Fuyu Mountain.

In this way, the food pressure on each place will be greatly reduced, and the resistance will be greatly weakened, and there may not even be no possibility of peaceful trade!

Han Qian sent elite soldiers and horses to buy 35,000 stone grain from a county at a reasonable grain price, and even if he couldn't take out the goods for the time being, the possibility of being rejected by Yue Yang or directly in the name of the Chishan Army was far lower than the purchase of 200,000 or 300,000 stone grain from a county and the direct draining of a county's grain stockpile.

The premise of all this is that we should be able to break away from the family gate and be able to penetrate into the grassroots organization of nearly 300,000 old, weak, women, and children to the extent that one or two hundred people can form a team.

Purely from the convenience of communicating with Yueyang and Xuzhou, it may be better for Han Qian to let the Chishan army and women and children enter the Jiuhua Mountains and Yishan Mountains between Chizhou and Shezhou.

The Jiuhua Mountains stretch to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and extend into the Dongting Lake Plain in the southwest.

However, Han Qian avoided this area, in addition to not wanting to contain the soldiers and horses of Anning Palace for the Chuzhou army, there was also the fact that after the Chishan army sucked up, the population of Jinling City and the surrounding area was still as high as 700,000, in addition to the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Nanya Forbidden Army and the Nandu Shouzhou Army.

If he scattered the old and weak women and children into Jiuhua Mountain and Yishan Mountain, and led the main force of the Chishan Army to stay in the southwest of Jinling, he would only compress the remaining large number of people into Jinling City, not to mention leave more space for Jinling City to continue to evacuate the hungry people to the periphery.

No matter what others think of him, his core goal this time is to evacuate the crowded people who have entered the famine at this time in Jinling, and break the siege strategy of the Chuzhou army.

The preparations in the early stage were relatively slow, but in order to prevent the Chuzhou army and the Xuanhu soldiers from reacting, when they really organized the scattered transfer of women and children by leaps, the speed was extremely fast, and in almost five days, more than 200,000 women and children were evacuated directly from the extended hilly area at the southern foot of Maoshan Mountain to the mountainous area at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain.

After that, the Chishan Army was stationed at the northern and middle feet of Maoshan Mountain, expanding to the first capital of 9,000 people, and it was also the most elite combat force of the Chishan Army.

Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, could not believe such a fact, and hurriedly led more than 100 cavalry to the main camp of Canglongbei, the first capital of the former Chishan Army, at the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain.

Looking at the wolf-like and empty defense village under the ridge, Xinchang Marquis Li Pu wanted to cry without tears, and his back was cold: Han Qian, this grandson, withdrew all the men and horses, leaving not a single soldier left!

Not a single soldier of the Chishan Army remained, all of them shrank to the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain, a hundred miles away, and it was even possible to shrink from the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain to the east of Langxi County......