Seeing that the smoke rising from the sky above Xingyang City gradually dissipated, Xiao Yiqing also walked down the city tower and walked towards the palace of Wusu Dashi in the city.

Lu Qingxia covered his veil and followed silently.

The Mongolian army gathered 670,000 elites in Mengzhou, and Zhu Rang also gathered more than 70,000 soldiers and horses in Bianliang and Wuzhi, but Liang Shixiong failed to hold out for more than ten days and half a month, and they could only watch Xingyang fall.

"I don't remember the merits of my father and son for the king, but today my Liang Mansion is full of blood and dyed Xingyang, if the king is sympathetic, he should gather an army to attack Yingxi!"

Xiao Yiqing walked to the palace and climbed the palace steps, but before anyone could say a word, he heard the sad and angry voice of Wuyang Marquis Liang Ren, and there was even a vague intention to coerce Wusu Dashi in his tone.

Just like when they wanted to take Heluo directly into their pockets, Liang Shixiong withdrew from Luoyang, Yanshi and other places at the end of the previous year, Liang Shixiong and Zhu Rang wanted to ensure that the area east of Songshan and Funiu Mountain and west of Yingshui could be returned to Dongliang, and they couldn't wait to move the small clan into Xingyang to settle down.

It is not clear how many people in the Liang family survived, but more than 100 women and children in the Liang Mansion were shot by Chen Kun's order, and none of them were left alive.

This also means that the Liang family, except for Liang Ren, the Marquis of Wuyang, who served as the national messenger of the Eastern Liang Army before the war, was in Mengzhou, including Liang Ren's wife and children, has been wiped out.

Considering Liang Ren's situation at this time, even if his tone of voice was a little offensive, it was not a matter, Xiao Yiqing walked into the hall and saw that all the generals were sitting silently on the side, and Wu Su Dashi also tried his best to comfort Liang Ren in a gentle tone.

Xiao Yiqing shook his head slightly at Wusu Dashi before sitting down behind the long case.

Wu Su Dashi bowed slightly, indicating that he understood what Xiao Yiqing meant.

Lu Qingxia also knew the current situation, the role that the newly built Evening Red Mansion could play was becoming more and more limited, she sat quietly down, saw the small movements between Xiao Yiqing and Wusu Dashi, and also knew that no matter how Liang Ren pleaded, Wusu Dashi would not be able to launch a large-scale offensive against Yingxi in this winter.

Come to think of it, they theoretically gathered 150,000 or more soldiers and horses this winter, but after the Eastern Liang Army lost the most elite Wei Bo elite soldiers, the combat effectiveness will inevitably decline seriously.

The army crossed Yingshui and attacked the Yingxi region east of Funiu Mountain and Songshan Mountain, including Xiacai, Xingyang, Xuzhou, Chenzhou and other places, and the main force of the Liang army that could be directly used in Yingxi operations exceeded 60,000.

Since the Liang army is an internal defense, in addition to mobilizing more soldiers and horses from other places to strengthen the defense of Yingxi in a short period of time, it can also recruit a large number of young and strong men on the spot to join the battalion, and the scale of men and horses available on the west bank of Yingshui will not be much less than them.

There is another key reason, after the autumn, they mainly considered reinforcing Xingyang, and did not prepare many weapons to attack the city and seize the wall.

If they hadn't been more prepared, they had killed Yingshui like this, and the Liang army would have even needed to clear the field at Yingxi's fortified walls to easily defuse their offensive, so that they could gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to enter Yingxi but ultimately returned in vain.

Compared with the urgency of carrying out a retaliatory attack on the Yingxi region, what they need to pay more attention to at this time is to be vigilant against the ambitions of the Liang army against Guanzhong.

At present, the Mongolian army is stationed in Guanzhong and Longyou, with Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian and Li Yuanshou, the chief of the Zhuqiang Pingxia Department, mainly soldiers and horses, and there are more than 70,000 foot soldiers, horse infantry, and cavalry, but at this time, the Liang army has Li Zhihe's Liangzhou army, Kong Xirong's Shangluo camp army, and Jing Zhen's Huatong camp army on the south and east sides of Guanzhong and Longyou, and the elite soldiers add up to more than 70,000 people.

At present, Li Zhihe led the Western Expeditionary Army to move very actively in Longyou, and the entire Liangzhou Army was recuperated for nearly a year, and after entering Longyou, it recruited troops and horses, and nearly 30,000 elite troops were used by Han Qian, which directly changed the military contrast between the two sides in Qinling.

If the elite of the Mongolian army and the Eastern Liang army attack Yingxi from the eastern front without any great results, and are forced to withdraw after the spring of next year, if Han Qian immediately launches an offensive against Guanzhong, the elite cavalry of the Mongolian army on the eastern front will go north from the east bank of Yingshui, cross the intercepted and dried up Yu River from near Bianjing, and then go north from the gap between Wangwu Mountain and the southern foot of Taihang Mountain in the north of Mengzhou, and then cross the Yu River through Hejin (Puzhou, Jinzhou), and enter Guanzhong for reinforcements.

However, after the spring of next year, Han Qian transferred all the soldiers and horses he deployed in Yingxi and Heluo to the western front, and it only took half a month.

This time difference will be extremely fatal to the battle situation in Guanzhong.

Another key point is that the strength of the Luoyang Navy is still above their imagination.

If we do not take advantage of the rare ice period of the Yu River in the next two months or so to strengthen the military defense of the areas on both sides of the Wei River, and wait until the spring of next year when the connection between Guanzhong and Hedong is temporarily cut off, even if they gather a large number of reinforcements north of Xiangshan, they will not cross the Yu River, will they not have to watch the tragedy of the loss of Xingyang repeat again?

Their most important task this winter is not to rush to carry out a retaliatory offensive, but to make good use of the next Yuhe River ice period, to strengthen the defensive military force in Guanzhong as much as possible, and at the same time, to strengthen the Eastern Liang Army to strengthen the defensive fortifications on the east bank of Yingshui, instead of blindly thinking about attacks that have no great effect.

Of course, Wu Su Dashi's resentment towards Liang Ren was also very sympathetic, and he was also patiently relieved repeatedly, but he never let go of his mouth to say that he was going to Yingxi.

Perhaps understanding the unshakable will under Wusu Dashi's seemingly talkative bearing, Wuyang Hou Liang Ren left in despair.

After Liang Ren dismissed and left, some haggard Wusu Dashi looked at Xiao Yiqing and asked: "Xingyang has been lost, and the Liang army is extremely sharp, except for the ice of Hehuai, it will not be afraid of the threat of the eastern flank, and then it will be turned to Guanzhong - where does Xiao Qing think it should be calculated today?" ”

Xiao Yiqing pondered for a while, and said to Wusu Dashi: "Please Your Highness retreat left and right ......"

What Xiao Yiqing is going to say next, if Wu Su Dashi does not adopt it, it will have a great negative impact, so he asked for a secret discussion.

Wusu Dashi waved his hand and motioned for the generals to retreat to the outer hall to wait.

"The tribes that have moved into Guanzhong and Hejin have all been withdrawn to Taiyuan, Shangdang and other places to resettle, and Wang Xiaoxian Fengxiang has been awarded the envoy, Wang Yuankui has been awarded the envoy ......of Weinan Jiedu, and Li Yuanshou has been awarded the right section envoy, except for the Marquis of Fengche, the local officials are recommended and appointed by themselves," Xiao Yiqing said solemnly.

Usu Oshi fell into deep thought.

Xiao Yiqing's suggestion can be said to be a big reversal of the previous strategy.

This is also to make him officially admit that the Mughul did not go further south in a short period of time

In order to seize Heluo, Yingxi, and march into Jianghuai, in addition to shrinking the directly administered areas back to Hedong, Heshuo, and Yanyun, and strengthening the deep cultivation and cultivation of these three places, it is also necessary to divide the Weihe Plain and Longyou into three feudal towns and hand them over to Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, and Li Yuanshou in exchange for their determination to defend the feudal screen.

The Liang army's combat strength is extremely strong, but in order to capture the isolated city of Xingyang, there are nearly 20,000 elites before and after, which shows that the Liang army is not strong enough to be invincible.

At this time, the most important thing is that Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, and Li Yuanshou can have the determination to stay in the Weihe Plain and fight to the death in Longyou, so that they can ensure that Guanzhong does not fall into the hands of Han Qian at a small cost.

As for withdrawing the people of the tribes from the Hejin and Heyang areas at the same time, it was also to alleviate the contradiction between the southward tribes fighting for land as much as possible, so that Tian Weiye and Zhao Mengji could better attract local forces and contain the expansion of the Liang army from the north and east.

Doing these things will curb the rapid expansion of the Liang army.

The most critical reason why Liang Neng and Shu Chu were able to negotiate peace talks, and Shu Chu was able to allow Liang to dump commerce and trade into their country to make huge profits on relatively broad terms, was that their previous attack on Hehuai was very strong, which made Shu Chu deeply feel the direct threat they would face after Heluo was not guaranteed.

Now that they have switched from offensive to defensive, they can even send people into Shu Chu to publicize the tragic defeat they suffered in Xingyang, weakening Shu Chu's vigilance against them, and correspondingly, Shu and Chu will naturally increase their vigilance against the Liang army that is close at hand.

At this time, the Liang army was in the middle of the world, surrounded by strong domains or powers, and there were only five million Dingkou, even if Han Qian had the talent to defy the sky, it was no longer possible to turn his hands into clouds and turn his hands into rain.

Of course, to make these changes, it is necessary for Wusu Dashi to withstand the internal pressure of Mengwu, and at the same time, it is also necessary to communicate with Zhu Rang, Xu Mingzhen, Sima Tan and others, and no more fatal strategic mistakes.

Thinking that if Zhu Rang and Liang Shixiong had followed his advice and built a weir road between Xingyang and Wuzhi at any cost, how could they have fallen into the embarrassing situation that they had only 130,000 reinforcements on the periphery, but they had to sit and watch Xingyang fall into an isolated city and finally be captured by the Liang army?

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"Xiao Yiqing is really not simple......"

Han Qian stood outside the window, looking at the heavy snow outside Lingyun Pavilion.

At this time, the Yu River and the streams in the Hehuai area were already frozen, and the expected retaliatory attack of the enemy army against Yingxi did not take place.

The Eastern Liang army forcibly evacuated the people between the whirlpools to the east of the whirlpool, formed a buffer zone between the Yingshui and the whirlpool, and built walled cities in Weishi counties south of Bianliang and Wuzhi and on both sides of the whirlpool; The more than 20,000 cavalry of the Mongolian army also withdrew to Puzhou through the Yiguan between Wangwu Mountain and Lishan after the Yu River was frozen.

Although Wusu Dashi wanted to divide the Weihe Plain and the Longyou region into three feudal towns, and the matter insisted by Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, and Li Yuanshou had not yet been officially implemented, Wusu Dashi had clearly ordered to stop the plan of the Mengwu tribes to move south to Guanzhong, and to use the millions of acres of fertile official fields sorted out on both sides of the Wei River to recruit the elite of the displaced people to be cultivated as cantonment soldiers, so as to enhance the military strength of Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian on both sides of the Wei River.

In addition, Xiao Yiqing's other strategies dedicated to the defense beam of the Wusu Dashi were also explored from the inside at this time, and the most core main content was also presented to Han Qian's desk.

Liang and Chu made peace, although the Great Liang was a vassal to the Chu court and paid nearly one million tributes every year, the trade between the two sides was not cut off and the enclave of Xuzhou was retained.

The trade ties with Shu were more open, and it was more convenient to transport commercial goods to Qianyang, Nanzhao and other places, as well as to Lingnan Prefectures through Zheng.

In addition to the sustainable development of the industrial and mining industries in Huaixi, Nanyang Basin and Heluo, the trade corridor also imported more than 20,000 head of animal power, nearly 2,000 war horses, 600,000 stone salt, 2,300,000 catties of copper, gold and silver precious metals, 100,000,000 barrels of tung oil, dyes, paper, tea and other materials for Daliang every year, and also brought a net inflow of more than 30,000 people, mainly young and middle-aged people.

In addition to the population, due to the foreign trade of the Great Liang, except for the part directly under the jurisdiction of the Chishan Society, the other parts are still mainly controlled by a number of more than forty merchants, who have a close relationship with the center, and can basically guarantee that all profits from the expansion of production will be deposited in the First Savings Bureau of the Great Liang.

This model, coupled with the corresponding taxes, also basically guaranteed a considerable part of the materials imported from the outside, and Han Qian was able to transfer it to the military, but only part of it was transferred to the debt to the First Savings Bureau of Daliang.

It is also because of this that Daliang can so quickly turn from defense to attack against the enemy, while at the same time ensuring the sustainable development of agriculture, industry and mining in the territory, and supporting the continuous enrichment and solidification of the new research system without harming the people.

If Xiao Yiqing's plan succeeds, the relationship between Daliang and Chu Shu will become increasingly tense, trade will be more restricted, and the loss of materials and population imports will be enough for them to eat a pot.

"The secret spies of the Military Intelligence Staff Department in Taiyuan and Yunzhou have secretly spread the news that Xiao Yiqing was bribed by Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, and Li Yuanshou to propose the sealing of the fertile land in Guanzhong, and to delay the feudal feuds of Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, Li Yuanshou and others by the Mengwu people as much as possible," Feng Yu, Gao Shao, and Han Yuanqi stood behind Han Qian and suggested, "And since the Eastern Liang Army forced the people on the west bank of the whirlpool to move eastward, then on the west side of the embankment, Changge Xiushui weir and Fenyu River water into the whirlpool, the people were not harmed much. At the same time, it can also make the anti-fortress built by the Eastern Liang army west of the vortex and the south of Bianjing flood into the flood and work in vain......"

Liang Shixiong initially opened a gap of dozens of zhang on the south bank of the Yu River, but with the flood over the years, the gap between Xingyang and Wuzhi has widened to several miles long.

Before they captured Wuzhi and Bianliang, they could not close the gap and return the Yu River to its original course, but by building a stone weir on the west side of the broken embankment and forcing the gap to expand to the east, in fact, it would be able to achieve the goal of making more of the Yu River flow to the territory of Wuzhi and to the southwest of Bianliang in summer and autumn, and could reduce the flooded area of eastern Xingyang, Xinzheng County and northern Changge to a limited extent.

At the same time, in the territory of Changge, the shallow silt on the east bank is selected to build a diversion weir to further achieve the goal of directing a part of the flood water to the vortex.

In the future, if we have the ability to build a weir that completely cuts off the upper reaches of the Shaying River, we will be able to completely divert the water of the Yu River into the vortex.

It's just that the dam is too difficult to build to completely block the flood peaks that come from upstream in summer and autumn; The diversion weir is more realistic, after all, it only diverts part of the floodwater, and at the same time, the weir will slope to the southeast, and the intensity of the impact of the flood peak in summer and autumn will be greatly weakened.

Times have changed, and Han Qian nodded and agreed that Zhu Si would implement the plan he had suspended before, which could be regarded as good.

"Since the Mugwu people intend to send people to infiltrate Chu Shu to spread the news that they have been seriously injured, so as to stimulate Chu Shu's vigilance against us, we should also temporarily restrain one or two in the next military operations, and convey to Chu and Shu that our strength is insufficient, just to ensure

The eastern flank of Heluo was safe, so he had to exchange tens of thousands of elite soldiers for casualties in exchange for news of Xingyang, and maintain the peace agreement with Chu Shu from being destroyed. Feng Yi said.

Even if Xiao Yiqing's strategy succeeded, it would bring great trouble to Da Liang, but in Feng Yi's eyes, the situation they faced was always much more optimistic than when Han Qian Gangchan succeeded to the throne of the country.

At present, Feng Yi still hopes that Daliang can recuperate for two or three more years, so that the national strength can be further recuperated and improved.

Although Daliang currently has 5.17 million registered households, which is only equivalent to Shudi, the increase in the scale of young and strong men in Daliang is much higher than that of Shudi.

This is also directly related to the large-scale promotion of new medicine.

Jianghuai and Sichuan Shu can be said to be rich lands, and there have been few famines in Zhuzhou and counties in the past two years, but even in the so-called prosperous era in the early period of the former dynasty, the new population has grown up smoothly and become adults, and even only four or five percent.

This also means that nearly fifty or sixty percent of the newborn population will die due to various epidemics and accidents before they reach adulthood.

However, Han Qian has been systematically developing the public medical and health care and epidemic prevention system in Xuzhou very early, and the mortality rate of the newborn population has long dropped significantly to less than 10%. The premature mortality rate in Huaixi has also been greatly reduced in recent years.

Public health, township-level medical and public health systems in places such as Heluo and Yingxi have only just begun to be established, but Feng believes that immediate efficiency will soon be achieved. After all, they directly imported a large number of experienced doctors to Heluo, Yingxi and other places to promote considerable matters.

This also means that with the same population base, the annual increase in Ding Zhuang in Daliang is two to three times that of other regions, and then counting the part of the extension of adult life expectancy, the net scale of new Ding Zhuang in Daliang every year at this time will not be slightly lower than that of the Chu State and the area controlled by the Mengwu people.

In this case, even if everyone has a rare opportunity to recuperate, even if the construction and new learning of the beam stagnate and no longer develop, with the extension of time, the beam will not be at a disadvantage.

Han Qian walked to the map hanging on the wall of the west chamber and stared at the terrain of Heluo and Guanshan.

Wang Yuankui lived in Yongzhou and Wang Xiaoxian lived in Fengzhou and Qizhou, in addition to Xiongzhen and dangerous places to defend, the cavalry of the Mengwu people came from Yanlin and other prefectures in the north to reinforce quickly, and it was difficult to directly capture it suddenly.

To really fight, there are two options.

The first is to send all the cavalry to Chengzhou, and Li Zhihe's western expeditionary army to rendezvous, defeat the Pingxia Department, and capture Qinzhou, but according to Qinzhou, through Longshan, into the territory of Fengxiang, down along the Weishui, one by one to recover Sanguan, Chencang, Fengxian, Hanxing, Qinchuan, Fufeng and other passes west of Yongzhou, and finally with the Shangluo army, Huatong army two lines of soldiers and horses north to resist the enemy's aid, and encircle Yongzhou to conquer it.

This is also the most secure tactic, but the key is to transfer the four cavalry brigades of Li Xiu, Cao Ba, Zhao Ci, and Zhu Zhen to Chengzhou, how to solve the supply problem?

Even if the war horses can eat forage in the summer and autumn, the additional 20,000 soldiers and auxiliaries will increase the material consumption of nearly 20,000 stone every month, which will already exceed the supply capacity of the two prefectures of Chengwu with a total population of only 1230,000.

Songshan and Funiu Mountain intersect Ruyang, Songyang County, mainly the terrain of the hills, Songshan plank road construction has been extremely expensive, the two wings of the cow ridge road from the deep cliff steep wall, to further widen, the difficulty is much greater.

Even if you go further at any cost, it will not be a year or two to compete.

Again, the Mengwu people can also send a large number of cavalry to Longyou to reinforce Li Yuanshou.

In addition to that, there is a more risky strategic option.

That is, to cross the Yu River directly from Mengjin and attack Yuanqu County, and to fight from the Yiguan between Lishan and Wangwu Mountain to the north, and insert the main force of soldiers and horses like a sharp blade directly into the heart of the Fenshui River Valley currently occupied by Mengwu.

At present, Chen Yuanchen and other generals have led elite soldiers and horses to infiltrate the Lishan and Wangwu Mountains on both flanks of Yiguan, which is an advantage for them to take advantage of the northward movement of Yiguan.

If you can open up this strategic route, you can attack Fenzhou and Taiyuan Fu along the Fenshui River to the north, and you can attack Hejin by advancing west along the Fenshui River, and reach the west bank of the Yu River (the Yu River is the Yellow River, which flows from the north to the south from the west and north of Xiangshan), and the Shangdang Basin that occupies Ze and Lu Prefectures can be attacked in the east.

However, the enemy army was also well aware of the importance of this strategic route, in addition to Tian Weiye leading his troops to defend Puzhou, Yuanqu and other places in the early stage, after the end of the Xingyang War, Wusu Dashi even sent more than 20,000 elite cavalry through Yiguan to the north to strengthen the defense of the northern section of Yiguan.

In addition, because Yiguan is located at the junction of the enemy's three strategic areas, once the soldiers and horses of Daliang go north through this road, enemy reinforcements will continue to converge from the northeast, east and west.

There is Jiangshan in the north of Yiguan Mountain, Lishan in the east, Wangwu Mountain in the west, there are also peaks and ridges in the middle of the road, almost every section of the road has the strategic point that the enemy army is firmly controlled at present, the soldiers and horses want to attack all the way from this road, the difficulty is definitely not slightly lower than the direct attack on Yongzhou City.

Of course, choosing to go north from Yiguan, from a purely tactical level, there are also a lot of advantages to take advantage of the Liang's soldiers and horses.

In addition to Chen Yuanchen and other elites who have infiltrated Lishan and Wangwushan, which have taken root in the two wings, the core point is the convenience of supply.

The main entrance of Yiguan is Yuanqusai, which is facing the Yanghu Village on the west side of Mengjin County, as long as the Ganqusai is captured, the materials can be transported from Mengjin and Mianchi nearby.

Convenient and direct supply transportation means saving, which means that the consumption of grain can be minimized, which means that the consumption of national capital can be minimized, and soldiers and horses do not need to worry about the possibility of being cut off by the enemy.

The most difficult thing to overcome in peripheral operations is that in addition to the safety of grain routes, the transportation consumption is extremely terrifying.

Generally speaking, an army of 50,000 may only need 500,000 stone grains for a year, but in order to ensure that these 500,000 stone grains are transported to the front-line camp, the transportation consumption on the way may be as high as millions of stone grains.

There are many valley roads and mountain gorges along the road, and the terrain is also rugged, which is actually more conducive to the greater role of sophisticated crossbows.

It is difficult to intersperse valley roads and mountain gorges in a roundabout way, so in the past, the cavalry in which the Muguls had the advantage was greatly restricted.

If there is a war of attrition and tug-of-war with the Mughurs around the Yiguan Pass, it will be able to consume the vitality of the Muguls even more.

Another advantage is that if the Mengwu people really seal the vassal Wang Yuankui in Weinan next year, and they organize troops and horses to attack Yiguan, Wang Yuankui will most likely be more reluctant to attack Huazhou and Tongguan from the western flank in order to preserve his strength and strengthen his control over the Weinan region......

"The next one, between Mianchi and Mengjin, build more fortifications along the south bank of the river, and at the same time, Chen Yuanchen and other soldiers and horses who have entered Lishan and Wangwu Mountain should gather and extend on both sides of Yiguan," Han Qian took out a charcoal pen, directly circled Yiguan from the map, and said, "Since Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing are doing everything possible to prevent us from counterattacking the attack, then when the time is ripe next year, we can consider inserting it into the heart ......of Hedong from this way."