In March, when there was a drought and little rain in Heluo, the Mengwu soldiers and horses borrowed boats and boats to enter the Yiluo River, and successfully cut the defenders of the eastern part of the Yanshi and Gongxian County, and placed the main offensive on the east bank of the Yiluo River.

In addition to Liang Shixiong leading 20,000 Eastern Liang troops to attack Hugao Pass from the east day and night, more than 40,000 soldiers and horses entered the east bank of the Yiluo River in mid-March, and entered Hugao Pass from the back and abdomen, as well as Su Mu and Shen Peng stationed in Zhuzhai at the northwest foot of Songshan.

The intentions of Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing are very clear, they can't capture Baima Gorge and Yanshi City, the mountains of Bishan and Luoyang, Mengjin and other places are integrated, Han Qian has the convenience of transferring troops on the inner line, but the terrain on the northwest wing of Songshan is steep, as long as they have elite soldiers and horses wedged into Songshan, they can cut off the Yidong Zhuzhai, Gongxian Zhicheng and Tiger Prison Pass from the western flank of Baima Gorge and Yanshi, and as long as they take Yidong Zhuzhai, Gongxian Zhicheng and Tiger Prison Pass, they can connect these areas with Xingyang, thus opening the eastern wing of Heluo, and continue to fight in the Heluo area, and the situation will become favorable to them.

Feng Xuan and Chen Kun guarded the Tiger Pass, only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and there were many injuries and diseases, under the strong pressure of the enemy on both sides, they could only give up the position outside the Guancheng to grab, and shrink the soldiers and horses back into the Guancheng, and defend the city.

When the Eastern Liang army and the Mengwu soldiers and horses entered the outside of the city, they were able to set up whirlwind cannons and other weapons and throw stone bullets all night to smash the Tiger Prison Pass.

When Feng Xuan, Zhou Yi, and Su Lie went north, they were forced to leave large and medium-sized chariots and weapons in Xia Cai and other places, and together with a large number of precision castings, there was no way to transport them through the Songnan plank road at this time.

Idong Zhuzhai, including Gongxian Zhicheng, although still deployed Su Mu, Shen Peng and other troops 20,000 soldiers and horses, but mainly the old Liang army generals, combat effectiveness is not strong, not to mention outside the city and the enemy elite competition, in the attack of nearly twice the enemy army, in mid to late March, even lost a number of villages, lost more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, the main general Su Mu died in battle, Han Qian had to order Shen Peng to lead the remnants to retreat to Gongxian to govern the city to hold on.

The county seat of Gongxian County is located in the center between Baima Gorge and Hugao Pass, and the Yiluo River flows through the northwest of the city, which is the key node on the east bank of the Yiluo River.

The enemy's offensive points on the east bank of the Yiluo River were mainly concentrated in Hugao Pass and Gongxian County, and the attack was even more calm.

In order to alleviate the defensive pressure of the defenders of Gongxian County, Han Qian Wen Bo and Xue Chuan were responsible for the defense of the eastern ridge of Pishan Mountain, and he was stationed in Baima Gorge to supervise the battle, and transferred elite soldiers and horses, including the guard cavalry, from the eastern ridge of Pishan Mountain, Mengjin and other places, all concentrated in Baima Village on the east bank of Baima Gorge, and Han Donghu, Li Mo, Wang Zhang, Huo Li, Shi Ruhai and other generals took turns to lead their troops to attack the camps and positions of the Mengwu army on the east bank along the east bank of the Yiluo River.

In April, Wusu Dashi transferred more than 30,000 former Shu soldiers and horses under Zhao Mengji's command to the east bank of the Yiluo River by waterway, which increased the number of soldiers and horses of the Mengwu and Dongliang armies on both sides of the Yiluo River to more than 100,000, and the war became even more intense.

Han Qian also further dispatched troops, and transferred Cao Ba, Dong Tai, Zhang Guangdeng and other parts from Songnan Plank Road and Shuanglonggou Plank Road to Heluo to participate in the battle, and recruited 20,000 strong men from Heluo to supplement the battalion, and the two sides carried out tug-of-war operations on the east bank of the Yiluo River.

Although there were many times when the arrays on both sides were torn apart and defeated, because both sides set up camps and trenches on both flanks, every time there was a battle, they left a large number of reserve soldiers and horses in the rear and flanks.

It also made the war particularly cruel, bloody and tragic.

Although the Mughals still spared the use of their own elite cavalry, and more often used brave and skilled cavalry to participate in flank battles, in the relatively open area on the east coast, they still caused a large number of casualties to the defenders; Also due to the frequent attacks of the Mengwu cavalry, the morale of Zhao Mengji and other troops who were originally not strong in combat was improved, and the difficulty of the defenders' counterattack was increased.

Even though the defenders were able to break up and defeat these soldiers and horses from time to time, the Mughal cavalry fiercely charged out from the flank, and were often forced to shrink and retreat because they could not expand the results of the battle, so that they could not effectively kill the enemy.

Speaking of which, the armor and weapons of the old Liang army were consumed too much in the previous war, but the elite weapons of the Tangyi army could not be transported in time, and it was useless for Han Qian to be anxious - in March, there was a gentle drizzle on Songshan from time to time, which limited the capacity of the Songnan plank road even more, and even every day there were transporters who accidentally fell off the cliff with mules and horses.

From late March to mid-April, the casualties on both sides were equal, and considering that most of the enemy forces were still in an unfavorable situation to attack the Hujiao Pass and other pass walls, the enemy still had the upper hand on the whole.

The scale of soldiers and horses that the enemy can call on is still far above the defenders, not only the enemy's Mengzhou battalion is constantly pumping elite generals from Wang Yuankui and Tian Weiye nearby, and sending them to the east bank of the Yiluo River in turn, and the Eastern Liang army is even more worried about the unfavorable terrain to the east of Hugao Pass, and more soldiers and horses are worried about the unfavorable terrain to launch an offensive.

Although Han Qian also had a large number of strong soldiers in the Heluo area who could be recruited and mobilized to supplement the shortage of troops, these were all untrained new soldiers, who were incorporated into the battalion on a large scale to replace the war dead and sick, and barely ensure that the soldiers of all departments were full, but the overall combat effectiveness was constantly declining.

Seeing the tragic battle on the tug-of-war east of Baima Gorge, Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan, Zhu Juezhong and others even suggested that Han Qian shrink his soldiers and horses back to the west of Baima Gorge, hoping that Shen Peng, Feng Xuan, and Chen Kun could defend Tiger Pass and Gongxian County until the flood came.

Even if one of the cities in the Tiger Prison Pass and Gongxian County is lost, it is better than the elite being damaged; Leaving these elite generals behind is the capital for a comeback.

Save people and lose land, or save land and lose people, Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan and others have the right to trade-off, otherwise they would not have abandoned Bianjing in the first place.

Han Qian knew that the failure of the Tiger Prison Pass and Gongxian to govern the city would make the situation on the eastern flank of Heluo extremely ugly, and the elite of the Tangyi army had not yet reached the point when it was necessary to withdraw from the city.

The tug-of-war went on until the end of April, and the Yuhe flood did not come in advance, but heavy rain fell in Luodong and Luonan areas, so that the water potential of Yichuan and other streams and rivers originating from the northern foot of Funiu Mountain and the western foot of Songshan Mountain rose sharply, and the areas of Yanshi, Baima Gorge, Gongxian, and Hugaoguan were even more obscene and rainy for several days.

Before the second phase of the war, Han Qian deliberately destroyed the embankment of the river ditch on the east bank of the Yiluo River, so that when the flood season came, the flood would make the area more muddy and increase the degree of waterlogging.

This action played a huge role at this time, the rainfall at the western foot of the Songshan Mountain washed out of the valley, the ditch was destroyed, and it could not be channeled into the Yiluo River and the Yu River in time, and it rushed across the area on the east bank of the Yiluo River, flooding a piece.

At this time, the enemy had to suspend the attack on Hujiao Pass and Gongxian on the eastern front, and Han Qian also took the opportunity to shrink some of his soldiers and horses from the tug-of-war battlefield east of Baima Gorge back to the camp west of Baima Gorge to rest.

Feng Xuan, Chen Kun, Shen Peng, and others also seized this rare respite opportunity in the two cities to treat the wounded and sick, organize military and civilian wooden fences, earth and stone repairs to fill the gaps smashed by the whirlwind cannons, and dig internal trenches in the city.

Seeing the heavy rain for several days, the drainage ditches were damaged by the defenders, and the waterlogging was serious, the enemy had to shift the focus of the battle to the western front and strengthen the attack on Mengjin, Hanguguan, Taolinsai and other places from the upper reaches of the Yu River.

Although this line is mainly defended by the generals of the old Liang army, the previous three months of the Heluo battle were not on the western front, at least the east of Tongguan to the west of the Yanshi did not suffer a decent attack, and the generals of the old Liang army defending this area got a better rest.

Han Qian had previously transferred Li Ji's troops to Mengjin, and at the same time, he set up Bishan on the south bank of the Yu River, restricting the Mengwu cavalry from entering the battle, and hastily shifting the focus of the battle, so that the enemy army could not effectively break through the Pishan defense line on the western front in the next month.

In the middle of May, as the water potential in the upper reaches of the Yu River gradually strengthened, and the rainfall in Guanzhong, Hehuai and Hedong increased, the waterlogging on the east bank of the Yiluo River did not show signs of subsiding, but became stronger and more serious.

After both sides paid nearly 40,000 casualties, the second battle of Heluo came to an end.

In the two battles before and after, in addition to Su Mu, the senior generals of the New Liang Army, Dong Tai, who was the first to launch an uprising with Tan Yuliang in Sizhou, and a total of four brigade-level generals died on the battlefield.

Although Han Qian had always opposed the charging of high-ranking generals, on the tug-of-war battlefield, the Mughal cavalry was very good at interspersing with small groups of elite soldiers and horses, causing great damage to the defenders.

Even if it is the elite of the Tangyi army, at this time, there is a lack of light chariots that can more effectively limit the impact of the enemy's cavalry and bed crossbows and other weapons that can more effectively limit the impact of the enemy's cavalry.

In early March, Xu Mingzhen once again joined forces with Sima Tan to attack Xiacai, Linhao and other places, opening up a second battlefield outside Heluo, and also withdrew troops to the coast of the whirlpool in mid-May.

On the Eastern Front, Gao Bao, who had been attached to Han Qian in his early years, successively served as the Chinese county commander and the Sima of the Tangyi Naval Army, was the highest-ranking general who died in the Eastern Front battlefield because his ship accidentally ran aground in the shallow lake when he fought with the enemy's Zuolou Ship Army Naval Division.

Including the containment battles near Tongguan, Huazhou, and Lantian Pass, the Xinliang army fought for three months from late February to mid-May, and more than 36,000 soldiers were killed on the battlefield.

The number of enemy casualties in direct battle is slightly higher, but it is also limited.

Of course, when it comes to the treatment of injuries and diseases, the level of the New Liang Army is much higher than that of the enemy army, which also determines that the final casualties of the enemy army are higher than those of the New Liang Army.

However, regardless of the casualties, both sides have not been able to completely annihilate each other's elite soldiers and horses, and there will be enough elite reinforcements into the camp in the future, and the scale of the soldiers and horses on both sides will not drop too much.

Of course, Han Qian firmly believed that the situation was more favorable to them.

After three months of renovation and widening, the Songnan plank road and Shuanglonggou plank road were renovated and widened, and by the end of May, the transportation capacity was more than twice as high as before; Later, when the iron girder bridges were erected one after another, the heavy-duty carriages could pass directly between Cai Ru and Heluo, and the bottleneck in transportation capacity could be further solved.

At present, in the Heluo area, grain and cloth are not particularly scarce, and 10,000 or 20,000 stone of salt per month can be replenished even if it is transported by camels and mules and horses over the mountains and mountains.

However, if the construction of the Heluo area, especially the casting of war weapons, is to be raised to a fairly high level in the winter, it is still far from enough to simply transfer a group of engineers.

Heluo can catch up with this year's initial restoration of a certain scale of armaments, armor casting, it is quite good, but want to use hydraulic equipment on a large scale in the casting of armor and armor to greatly improve efficiency, the parts of hydraulic equipment, the weapons used to strengthen the Heluo defenders in the early stage, armor and the fine iron castings used in the construction of warships, and even soap, linoleum cloth, cane sugar, tung oil, etc., need to be transported from East Lake, Huaiyang and other places in the early stage.

Compared with the tradition, in the past ten years, the Institute of Engineering has not only developed more kinds of hydraulic equipment in Xuzhou and Huaixi, but also far more complex and refined its structure than the world imagined.

Most of the hydraulic equipment, mostly precision castings, Heluo can not be produced for the time being, but these precision castings are often four or five hundred catties, go over the mountains and mountains by land, and it is simply not feasible to use manpower or mules and horses to transport them, and two or three thousand pounds of large casting parts, but also need heavy-duty carriages to transport, which depends on the perfection of the land post road.

The first batch of elite soldiers and horses such as Feng Xuan, Xue Chuan, and Zhou Yi were transferred north to participate in the war, and their bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, and various light chariots that had been used to curb the impact of cavalry on the battlefield were temporarily abandoned in Xuzhou and Xia Cai, and they were not transported to the front line of Bishan until mid to early May, and they could not play a role on the Heluo battlefield.

However, Han Qian believed that with the further widening of the Songnan plank road, the combat effectiveness of the Heluo soldiers and horses would inevitably be further improved before the winter, and then the enemy army could be given a little color.

Han Daochang, Han Duan, Qin Wen, and Han Jianji led the first batch of more than 300 people from the Chishan Society and the secret secretary who had been released from Jinling and evacuated before, and arrived in Luoyang in mid-May.

At this time, Luoyang City was still in ruins.

The Taiwei Palace and Ziwei Palace left over from the previous dynasty were repaired once when Zhu Yu sat in Heluo to rebuild Luoyang City in the early years, and they were all in ruins at this time; When Liang Shixiong led the remnants to retreat from Luoyang, although he was not able to destroy the inner and outer city walls in a hurry, he set fire to Luoyang City for three days and three nights before extinguishing it.

The old Liang army was only fully stationed in Luoyang City in mid-November last year, and since then it has experienced so many twists and turns, and it has not had time to start comprehensive repair and construction.

At present, Ziwei Palace is the palace city of the Sui Dynasty, and the Taiwei Palace on the south side is the imperial city of the Sui Dynasty again, although the two palaces only remain at this time, but because the Jianhe River passes through the Ziwei City, and the Luohe River passes between the Taiwei Palace and the main city, the water area at the intersection of the Jianhe River and the Luohe River is wide, Han Qian decided to build the water camp Dazhai and the shipyard on the site of the Yique Gate of the South Gate of the Taiwei Palace in early February, and the scale was only beginning to be seen at this time.

However, even the shipyard infrastructure has only just formed a scale, and for the time being, even the first real warship has not yet been completely built, and more than 20 fishing boats have only been requisitioned for training.

Zhu Yu sat in Heluo and rebuilt Luoyang City, in fact, it was only the southern city of Luoyang City, the original Sui capital, which was less than half of the area compared to the peak of the previous dynasty, but at this time there were traces of arson everywhere.

Zhu Yu entered Luoyang City in November last year and turned Shangyang Garden, which is next to the Henan Prefecture Government Office, into a palace.

After Han Qian handed over the front-line battle to Wen Bo and Chen Kun, he led Han Yuanqi, Feng Xuan, and Han Donghu to return to Luoyang City.

Han Daochang, who was sixty years old at the time, his temples were also frost white, sitting in the spacious hall of Shangyang Yuan, he was also full of emotion for a while, who could have thought that in just over ten years, the former prodigal son shook and was already the lord of the country.

Han Qian was wearing a python dragon robe, sitting behind the imperial case, his strong and brave posture revealed a convincing majesty, and quietly listened to Han Daochang and Qin Wen talk in detail about the situation in Jinling City at this time, and some details were difficult to cover in letters.

After hearing this, Han Qian did not comment on the situation in Jinling City at this time, and said to Han Daochang and Qin Wen: "I have succeeded the lord of the country, although I have successively established the Left and Right Internal History Mansion, the Supervision Office and the Military Intelligence Staff Office to take charge of the military and political affairs of the thirteen states of Daliang, but it is only the general framework that has been built, but there are still too many things to do to get on the right track in all aspects......

Regardless of the middle and late period of the former dynasty or Liang, Chu, Jin, Shu and other countries, the revenue and expenditure of the central income are extremely important, in addition to the central financial power divided by the household department, the degree of support, the transfer of three departments, the inner court also set up the internal government bureau and Shaofu Temple, Taifu Temple Zhangshan Ze Zhili, as well as the palace treasure money valley gold brocade and coinage and other things.

In addition, the inner court mostly uses eunuchs, which forms a gap and opposition between the inner and outer courts.

In just three or four months, he mainly considered how to stabilize the situation in Heluo as soon as possible, and did not think too deeply about the institutional restructuring of the entire national level.

No matter how the central institution is restructured, Han Qian is not worried that his personal authority will be weakened, but judging from the experience of later generations, the new central organ restructuring should eliminate the estrangement and antagonism between the inner and outer courts as much as possible.

He advocated vigorously developing industry and commerce and vigorously promoting civilian education, which was destined to find a more delicate balance between centralization and equality.

At present, the Great Liang said that the country is not called the dynasty, and Han Qian also took advantage of the situation to cancel the Shaofu Temple, Taifu Temple and other parts to strengthen the power of the inner court, Han Qian decided to buy a new official money department in the right Inner History Mansion to take charge of the coinage and be responsible for the management of the domestic government and the private gold bank, money shop and other institutions with financial rudimentary functions.

The former Xuzhou Official Money Bureau was completely changed to the First Savings Bureau, which is similar to the structure and function of a bank.

Han Qian hoped that the second uncle, Han Daochang, would be in charge of the Guanqian Division and the First Savings Bureau of Daliang, which also took into account the tradition of using the people in the clan to stabilize power.

Although Han Daochang did not directly add the title of governor of political participation, he was satisfied.

Han Daochang, who has been deeply integrated into Tangyi in recent years, naturally knows the importance of the Guanqian Division and the First Savings Bureau of Daliang, and he has focused on this field all these years.

And as an elder of the clan, even if he does not add the title of governor of political participation, no one in Heluo will think that his status is lower than Feng Yi, Gu Qian and others.

The most important thing now is to help Han Qian stabilize the situation in Heluo, capture Guanzhong, and lay the foundation for Daliang to dominate the world......