When Wen Bo accepted the surrender, the Youshenwu Army newly organized more than 12,000 soldiers in the western region, of which 2,000 were young and strong men recruited from Luoshan County, and the families of these generals were moved to Le'an and other counties for the first time before the first time.

There are another 3,000 generals, whose families are small in Tangyi when they recovered Huailing, Linhuai, and Shoudong counties, and were accepted by Tangyi as a private household.

There are more than 5,000 of these generals in total, and their families are small, and they are also listed as military households in the Tangyi household register, but they are very different from the military households of the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army.

The implementation of the military government system in Dachu is mainly to ensure the replenishment of soldiers in the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army and to reduce military expenditures as much as possible, and the burden is heavier than that of ordinary homesteaders, but the status is lower than that of ordinary homesteaders, and their children are not allowed to work, do business, or migrate, and are not allowed to marry with households outside the military government, and cannot participate in the imperial examinations and local officials, and the only way to rise is to establish meritorious service.

The military households in Tangyi, or the military households, are assigned into the battalion, in addition to the small family receiving the cultivated land, I also receive a more lucrative military salary than cultivating the field, and the soldiers do not need to prepare their own armor, and they also have the opportunity to obtain various training and study opportunities in the army; Even if he retires from regular service, in addition to a part of the salary, he will also preferentially recommend local work and officials, and his children will have preferential treatment in studying, working and even serving as officials.

In particular, the primary schools run by Huaixi counties have limited resources, and at present they are mainly recruiting children from military families.

Such a big contrast ensures that the middle and lower-level generals of the Tangyi army have stronger cohesion and centripetal force than the generals of the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army.

Han Qian planned that after the more than 5,000 generals were transferred back to Huaixi, they would take a period of family leave to reunite with their families, so that they could participate and truly feel the difference between Tangyi's new policy and tradition.

The military attaché had a shorter vacation, after which he would come to Liyang to participate in training for three to five months.

As long as the situation in Jianghuai does not undergo unexpected bad changes, they may have to wait until the end of the year to carry out new assembly and training.

What is more complicated and troublesome is the other 7,000 generals, whose families are not in Tangyi.

Among these 7,000 generals, a considerable number of them were abandoned on the south bank when they crossed the river and fled north.

Their families were small, and after the Jinling Incident, they were all eliminated from the cantonment military offices in various places and served as official slaves and maids in the prefectures and counties.

When recruiting Liang Boqi's department, the imperial court planned to re-divide this part of the people from the state and county officials, slaves and maids, and organize them into the cantonment military government, but as soon as the military department started to do it, it soon happened that the right Shenwu army was stranded in Canglang City and attacked Liangzhou.

However, the preliminary list has been counted by the Ministry of War, and there are about 4,700 households.

Han Qian planned to be redeemed by Tangyi and move the nearly 5,000 official slaves and maids to Tangyi to return the good name, but this matter still needs Chen Jingzhou to fight with the imperial court with Han Daoming after returning to Jinling.

Tangyi can not have other meritorious rewards this time, and he still needs to pay a certain price, I believe that the imperial court has no need to detain these generals.

For ordinary generals, the main thing is to follow the superior military attachés and generals to follow the flow, and if the imperial court really wants to detain their families, it will not have any other effect except to breed resentment.

And Tangyi currently has such a huge population base, and there is no shortage of four or five thousand soldiers.

The more troublesome is the last remaining 2,000 generals, whose families are neither in Tangyi nor left on the south bank, and a small number of the generals are either exiled and scattered, missing, or starved in the wilderness, and the corpses are gone, but most of the people's families are still under the control of the Shouzhou army.

And this part of the generals is precisely the most elite tooth army lineage around Wen Bo, so after crossing the river and fleeing north, they will be directly placed in Huoqiu and Shouchun, the core of which are controlled by the Shouzhou army.

After the spring of this year, the Anfeng Canal and the Yongyang Canal were built one after another, and the warships of the Tangyi Navy were able to directly enter the Hongzepu and Beiqishui River, which also opened up the waterway passage for the warships of the Navy to enter the Huai River and block the two cities of Shouchun and Huoqiu.

No matter how the situation in the Central Plains develops, even if Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang did not open his mouth to promise, Han Qian wants to plan to take the two cities of Shouchun and Huoqiu from Xu Mingzhen, so that Huaixi will be completely complete, and will not let the Shouzhou army continue to have a chance to wedge the south bank of the Huai River, so that Huaixi is like a stalk in the throat.

Of course, even if there is a promise from Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, even if Xu Mingzhen will give up Huoqiu, Shouchun and other cities out of consideration of actual military pressure, and fully shrink to the north bank of the Huai River, it does not mean that Xu Mingzhen will agree to release the elite family members of Wen Boya's army to Tangyi.

Therefore, the next thing to do, the Tangyi Navy still has to form a sandwich trend from Beiqishui River and Linhuai and other places to Shouchun, Huoqiu, Fengtai and other cities; The main force of the infantry battalion will be assembled in the south of Shouchun, Huoqiu, Fengtai and other cities.

Maintaining military pressure on the Huoqiu, Shouchun, and Fengtai garrisons also had the advantage of ensuring that Xu Mingzhen would not fall into the arms of the Weizhou rebels.

After Emperor Zhu Yu's Xuanjiadu elite met with Caizhou's soldiers and horses, and showed their hideous fangs in Bianjing or Luoyang and other places, Xu Mingzhen must have thought that the elite of Xuanjiadu could enter Caizhou, and it must be Tangyi secretly cooperating, and then he also wanted to join the Weizhou rebels, no longer under the orders of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, and would face a north-south attack.

And only when Xu Mingzhen rejoins the arms of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, then the ownership of the three remnants of Huoqiu, Shouchun, and Fengtai can be resolved through consultation, and it may become a reality.

Han Qian asked Wen Bo to serve as Gao Shao's deputy in the Military Intelligence Staff Department, and work with Xi Fa, Wang Zhe and others to plan and promote the encirclement of Huoqiu and the subsequent withdrawal of the Right Shenwu Army and the crossing of the Liang Army, and also asked him to familiarize himself with the generals of the Tangyi Army, and at the same time have a deeper understanding of the combat methods of the Tangyi Army.

On the Wen clan's side, the children of the younger generation have been officially enrolled in the Liyang Academy, and like Chen Qiao and other families and even the young children of the Han family, even if they have a good or even deep family foundation, they must first study for two years in the new school, and then select the best ones.

The basis of Han Qian's new policy lies in Xinxue.

From the first ten years ago, the first batch of 500 craftsmen and children concentrated on school, to the Jinling Incident after Han Qian returned to Xuzhou to officially promote the establishment of primary schools in the county and township divisions, and in Qianyang, Chenzhong two places to set up craftsmen, craftsmen, martial arts three types of intermediate schools, and so on the basis of the three types of intermediate schools, the establishment of a more advanced comprehensive Liyang school, the development of new learning, in Tangyi is in the same line.

Wen is afraid that his children can enter a new school, how can he refuse?

They also knew very well in their hearts that the new school not only laid the current foundation for Tangyi to train a large number of qualified military attachés, craftsmen and officials, but as far as the army was concerned, the martial arts academy was different from the traditional military attache training system of Jiangmen, and it also broke the previous tradition of subordinate military attachés being dependent, subordinate to higher-level military attachés, and the children of Jiangmen holding together internally and standing on their own feet, strengthening the ties and friendship between middle and low-level generals in Zhuzhen and brigades, and promoting the formation of Tangyi military attache groups.

Han Qian also plans to transfer all the balances of Tan Yuliang's department to Tangyi this time, strengthen the training of middle and lower-level military attachés, and promote integration, and at the same time will arrange for a group of Xuzhou veterans to retire from active duty and enter the local reserve sequence, on the one hand, to control the scale of active soldiers and horses, to save military expenditure, and on the other hand, to ensure that Xuzhou's military potential that can be mobilized is not reduced.

After many things were discussed, the reception banquet was dispersed until late at night, and everyone went back, Chen Jingzhou also had to stay in the guest house for a day, and then return to Jinling tomorrow to resume the decree, and then Feng Yu would need to accompany him back to Jinling to inform the core figures of the Han Mansion about Liang Jun's crossing.

In fact, when Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang used troops in Bianjing or Luoyang, it would be difficult to conceal the matter of crossing the border, and it would inevitably cause a gust of discussion at that time, and Chen Jingzhou and the Han Fuzhong would need to deal with it in the court; They were even needed to push for the Chu-Liang Peace Conference, so that the imperial court formally agreed that a part of the Liang army would continue to be transferred to Cai Ying and other places through Liangzhou and Xiangbei.

Han Qian still couldn't rest, it could also be said that his brain couldn't rest at this time, sitting in the study drinking tea and reading the official letter.

"Zhu Yu seems to be sick, maybe he was injured in the first battle of Hejin?" Xi Ying watched Wang Jun busy in the outer wing, opened Han Qian's hand that was about to come and put his arm around her waist, and discussed things with him seriously.

Han Qian fell into deep thought, Zhu Yu's health was not good, and he also saw it in his eyes, when he met Guishan in the early years, it could even be said that he was like two people, so that he was obviously hidden in Shen Peng and Jing Zhen's entourage, Guo Rong, Wang Zhe and even Wen Bo could not recognize it.

Zhu Yu is both civil and military, when the Liang State was first founded, he led the troops to fight outside, and the Xuanjia was the elite combat power he created, and he himself often took the lead in his early years, charging into the front, and won the support of middle and lower-level generals.

Before the Battle of Hejin, the situation was extremely unfavorable to the Liang army in Guanzhong, and in order to boost morale and win this battle, Zhu Yu was likely to disregard his own safety and be at the forefront to supervise the battle. On the extremely chaotic battlefield, it is not unimaginable that Zhu Yu was injured.

Although Zhu Yu in addition to Yunhe princess, the concubines also gave birth to three sons and two daughters for him, he secretly left Guanzhong this time, but secretly stayed at the age of eighteen, and took his eldest son Luo Wang Zhu Zhen with him during the Northern Expedition to the Jin Kingdom in Yongzhou - in addition, there are two sons and two daughters who are still young, and Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun and others were besieged in Bianjing by the traitorous state.

However, if something really went wrong with Zhu Yu's body, Han Qian really couldn't imagine what the situation in Hehuai would become, and Zhu Zhen, the king of Liangluo, couldn't see the ability to turn the tide at present.

Of course, he couldn't worry too much at this time.

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In the summer of the seventh year of Yanyou, there was still a severe drought in the Hehuai area, and due to disasters and wars, a large number of displaced people were drowned in the wild.

After the Heshuo Incident, although Caizhou had 14,500 soldiers and horses, the people were panicked on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were restrained by the Xiangbei Army and the main force in the south that expanded in all directions after retreating to the north of the Huai River, and even invaded the Shouzhou Army in the east of Caizhou, so that they did not dare to leave Caizhou for more than a year and a half to reinforce the Liang army trapped in Bianjing.

Throughout August, the rainy season in the Jianghuai region has not gone, and floods are still frequent in various places, but the severe drought in the Hehuai region has not been alleviated in the slightest.

After recovering for a while, more than 20,000 soldiers and horses from Caizhou finally fought out of Caizhou before the end of August, and advanced along the hills at the eastern foot of Funiu Mountain, through Yinzhai in the east of Ruzhou and Changge in the north of Xuzhou, to Xinzheng County in the south of Xingzhou (Zhengzhou).

Most of Xingzhou, including Xinzheng and Xingyang counties, is currently occupied and controlled by Weizhou rebels.

Xingzhou is located between Huaizhou, Weizhou, Bianjing, Luoyang (Henan Province) and Xuzhou, located in the west wing of the Hehuai Plain, the strategic location is extremely important, and it is also the core node of the Weizhou rebels bypassing Bianjing and connecting with Weizhou, Huaizhou and Henan Province.

At this time, blocking the eastward route of the Liang army in Guanzhong, occupying and digesting the Heluo region, where the Liang Emperor Zhu Yu had the deepest influence, and expanding from Xingzhou to the southwestern regions such as Xuzhou and Ruzhou, were the main combat tasks of the Weizhou rebels on the Western Front.

At this time, Xu Mingzhen, who had expanded his sphere of influence to the southern region of Xuzhou but was facing great military pressure from the Tangyi army in the south, naturally chose to sit on the sidelines, but Liang Shixiong, who personally led the governor of Henan Prefecture, could not sit back and watch the Caizhou soldiers and horses enter the hinterland of Xingzhou to induce a series of chain reactions, and ordered him to lead the eldest son of the Xingzhou assassin Shi, Liang Ren, the Marquis of Wuyang, to gather 20,000 elites in the south of Xinzheng County to intercept the Caizhou army.

The two armies met in early September at the Nanxi Plain in Xinzheng County, and the two sides set up positions on both sides of the Muxi River, which was extremely shallow due to the drought and could not reach the chest of water, with hundreds of scout cavalry galloping across the vast field.

Before the war, Emperor Zhu Yucai of Liang officially erected the dragon flag, and he himself appeared in front of the neat array surrounded by more than 100 ironclad guards.

Although a total of 5,000 elites of the Xuanjia Army entered Caizhou under the cover of Tangyi, the main force going north this time was still the Caizhou soldiers and horses with low morale and panic, and they could not boost their morale before the war, and it was still unknown if they wanted to defeat the elite of Weizhou on the other side of the river in one fell swoop.

Although Caizhou Jiedu made Han Jian initially not support the usurpation plot and killed Han Yuanqi, after Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang succeeded to the throne, he sent a large number of generals and officials to help Han Yuanqi control the situation in Caizhou.

Even though a large number of Caizhou generals were transferred out of Caizhou to fight in the same year, most of the men and horses were trapped in Bianjing together with Han Yuanqi at this time, but the soldiers and generals who stayed in Caizhou still supported Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang.

Zhu Yu's appearance immediately aroused a sea of welcome on the south bank of the Mixi River, and the war drums sounded, with three teams of elite cavalry of the Xuanjia Army leading the way, they directly waded through the water, established a beachhead on the north bank, and suppressed the enemy army to the north, so as to leave room for the 5,000 Caizhou Army infantry soldiers who were fighting in the vanguard, so as to facilitate more generals to enter the north bank and attack the Weizhou rebel positions on the north bank.

The battle of Xinzheng lasted two days and one night, but most of the time was wasted on the battle for the river beach on the north bank.

After the Caizhou army gained a firm foothold on the river beach on the north bank and built several pontoon bridges, at this time, more than 2,000 elite cavalry of the Xuanjia Army went around the dense forest of the upper reaches of the Xihe River to attack the enemy's flank, and the battle was in full swing.

From this moment to the complete rout of the enemy army, it did not take an hour, and the next thing was mainly to chase the dead and chase the defeat.

After Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang entered Xinzheng City, he immediately stopped the pursuit of the rout.

After all, before the war, a group of Mengwu cavalry crossed the river from Huaizhou to the south and entered the territory of Xingzhou to supervise the battle, and they could be inserted to the south at any time.

And the distance for the enemy to flee into the city was short.

These are limited to the Liang army's expansion of the results in the pursuit of defeat and defeat,

However, this battle is of extraordinary significance to the Central Plains war situation, which has been stalemate for more than a year, as if thunder exploded in the sky above the land of Hehuai.

After the Heshuo Incident, the situation in Hehuai deteriorated overnight, mainly because the main force of the Liang army led by Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang was cut off by the Weizhou rebels in Luzhou in collusion with the Mughu.

Even if Zhu Yu finally succeeded in leading part of the main force of the Liang army to retreat into Guanzhong through the Fenshui River Valley, the key areas such as Hangu Pass, Luoyang, Xingyang, and Yanshi, which occupied the northern foot of Funiu Mountain, from Guanzhong to the east, were all preemptively controlled by the Weizhou rebels or the Mughal people, which still made the Liang subjects see little hope.

The reason why the situation in Hehuai did not completely collapse was due to Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun leading their troops in time to keep Bianjing City from falling into the hands of the rebels.

However, there were several fierce battles in the battle for Bianjing, and Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun, and Lei Jiuyuan, Jing Hao and others who stayed in Bianjing, their troops also suffered extremely heavy losses, and then they were unable to launch a counterattack except for the siege of Bianjing City and waiting for reinforcements.

In this situation, the reactions of the states and counties between the river and the Huai are mixed.

Powerful feudal forces such as Xu Mingzhen and Sima Tan either gathered troops to protect themselves, or took the opportunity to expand their territory.

They waited for the victory between Bianjing and the Weizhou rebels before deciding which one to sell to, or they may not have the intention of taking the opportunity to establish themselves as kings.

But one thing is for sure, they won't be easily involved in the chaos of battle.

However, most of the weak prefectures, counties and local forces close to the rebel-controlled areas were forced to surrender to the rebels and aid in the abuse. The vast majority of those who are far away from the rebels and beyond the reach of the rebels for the time being remain neutral and wait and see the development of the situation.

At the worst of the situation, apart from Guanzhong, the core area of Liang rule between the Hehuai and Huai provinces, which had a total of 35 states, and outside of Bianjing, only Caizhou and Mizhou in the southeast corner openly denounced the Wei rebels.

It's just that Caizhou and Mizhou are surrounded by tigers and wolves, and they can't afford to send reinforcements to Bianjing.

In addition to the 12 prefectures of Xingzhou, Heluo (Henan Prefecture), Weizhou, Huaizhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, Bozhou, Qizhou, Zizhou, Yunzhou, Chengzhou, and Qingzhou, which were occupied by rebels or Mughal people, in addition to Bianjing, Caizhou, and Mizhou, which openly denounced the rebels or confronted the rebels, nearly 20 prefectures in the central, southern, and southeastern regions faced such a chaotic situation in the Hehuai region, or remained silent, or waited to see the situation, or secretly recruited troops, or took the opportunity to expand.

Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang appeared in the south of Xingzhou, and led the elite of Caizhou soldiers and Xuanjia Army to kill the elite of Weizhou rebels who had been rampant in Hehuai for more than a year, and no one could control the elite of the Weizhou rebels, beheaded more than 10,000, occupied Xinzheng City, and threatened Xingyang, Yanshi and other places, not only the Weizhou rebels on the western front were in turmoil, even the rebels besieging Bianjing were forced to shrink to the core of the two wings, fearing that they would be attacked inside.

For those local forces such as prefectures, counties, and feudal towns that are still on the sidelines and neutral, how can the inner turmoil be small at this time?

Like the prefectures and counties in the north of Ruzhou and Xuzhou, they had previously ignored the passage of Caizhou soldiers from the territory to the north, but after the battle of the Muxi River, they received Zhu Yu's order from a group of Xuanjia cavalry, and in just a few days, the county officials entered Xinzheng City with six or seven thousand Ding Zhuang and hundreds of thousands of stone grains, see Zhu Yu.

Xu Mingzhen also withdrew from the southern part of Xuzhou, the eastern part of Caizhou and the western part of Songzhou very honestly, shrunk his forces to Yingzhou and Qianzhou, and then sent his son Xu Jin to Xinzheng to see Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, crying about the hardships of the past two years and his concern and longing for Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang.

Different from the large areas of valleys and river valleys in the hinterland, the Funiu Mountain between Guanzhong and Heluo is reckless, with deep peaks and dangerous valleys.

This area, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has been next to the Gyeonggi region of the Central Dynasty, whether there is an easy passage from Huazhou to Caizhou in the mountains, how can Xu Mingzhen not know in his heart?

Of course, the Liang army in Guanzhong is not unable to open up a plank road connecting Huazhou and Caizhou in Funiu Mountain, and the Shu capital of that year was also opened up from the skyscraper and the dangerous peaks and ravines, and the Tangyi army was also born in the Huaiyang Mountains to cause the Huazhu Peak plank road, but from Shangluo County controlled by the Liang army in Guanzhong to the western region of Caizhou, more than 400 miles of dangerous plank road, how difficult will it be to build?

Not to mention the north of Funiu Mountain, which is the Heluo area controlled by the Weizhou rebels.

Emperor Zhu Yuzhen of Liang wants to do his best to build such a large-scale plank road in Funiu Mountain, and other forces may be slack, but how can they hide the eyes of the rebels in Weizhou?

Not to mention building a plank road, even if a dozen or twenty people pass through this rugged and dangerous mountain, they may collide with the scouts of the Weizhou rebels.

For Xu Mingzhen, who was always keeping an eye on the development of the situation in Guanzhong, he could also think with his toes that the only possibility was that the elite of the Xuanjia Army used the cover of the Chu army to pass through the Qinling Mountains, from Liangzhou and the territory of Chu, and enter Caizhou.

Xu Mingzhen could even directly affirm that it was Han Qian, the grandson, who secretly helped the elite of the Xuanjia Army return to Caizhou.

Xu Mingzhen didn't know what secret discussion between Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang and Han Qianda was, and at this moment he could only choose to bow down to Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang again.

Otherwise, what could he do?

After the summer, Han Qian completed the military assembly in the south, and the Tangyi Navy built new shipyards and naval bases in Huangchuan, Linhuai, Wabu Lake in the east and west of Shoudong, and Liangang Lake in the north of Gaocheng, and the Tangyi Navy added more than 6,000 troops to the four capitals.

As long as necessary, the Tangyi naval army could enter the Huai River at any time, meet the Zuolou boat army, which was already inferior in the size of the warships, expel it from the Huai River waterway, and then cut off the communication between the three cities of Shouchun, Fengtai, and Huoqiu and the north bank.

In addition, the Tangyi army also gathered 50,000 cavalry and infantry soldiers in the south of Shouchun, Fengtai and Huoqiu, and the distance between them was so short that it only took half a day, and these 50,000 soldiers and horses could directly advance to the city of Sancheng.

Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang appeared in the north of the Shouzhou army at this time to gather the soldiers and horses of King Qin, and the states in the south of Bianjing, such as Xu Ru, Song Bo Chen, etc., echoed one after another, offering people and food, and for a time there was a great tendency to overwhelm the rebels in the western flank.

Although Xu Mingzhen knew that when the Mengwu people reacted and mobilized more soldiers and horses from Huaizhou to cross the Yellow River to the south to Xingzhou, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang might not have a good time, but at the same time, he knew in his heart that if he did not give in at this time, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang and the Tangyi army would most likely join forces to attack the Shouzhou army as soon as possible.

Under the attack of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang and the Tangyi army, how can the Shouzhou army gain a foothold in the Qianying area where most people's minds are still oriented towards Liang Ting?

Although after Zhu Yu usurped the throne, his father Zhu Wen soon died in the palace, so that Zhu Yu could not get rid of the suspicion of killing his father, and once made the generals of Liang State extremely jealous, which is also a basis for the rebellion of Weizhou to become a momentum, but less than two years after the Heshuo Rebellion, there were endless wars and disasters between Hehuai, and the people were not able to make a living, and the local township tycoons were also in danger and were in danger of overturning at any time, which made many people think of Zhu Yu's good coming.

Of course, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang would not hold him accountable for not aiding Bianjing and supporting the army to wait and see, but issued an order to set up the Chenzhou Jiedu Embassy, which governed the four prefectures of Yingqiao and Chen Bo, so that Xu Mingzhen was reappointed as the envoy of Chenzhou Jiedu, and urged him to send troops from Chenzhou to attack the rebels in the south of Bianjing and open the communication between Bianjing and the south of Liang.

At the same time, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang ordered Xu Mingzhen to withdraw his troops and horses from the three cities of Fengtai, Shouchun, and Huoqiu on the south bank of the Huai River, and handed them over to the Tangyi army to take over, and used this as a bargaining chip to negotiate peace with the state of Chu......