For several days, the snow fell and stopped, and in the wilderness outside the stockade, the snow was more than a foot thick.

"Huaiyang has a cold winter, but the snow cover in these days is a foot thick, and it is rare in Huainan," Wang Jun climbed the wall with Han Qian, looking at the white sky outside Anfeng Village, and said, "When my grandfather was alive, he read the classics and annals of the past hundred years, and found that between the river and Huai, in the past forty years, the spring and summer droughts were fierce, and the autumn and winter were ice and snow disasters, which were much more frequent than in the middle of the previous dynasty, and each was doubly fierce, followed by the more and more fierce things about the homeless people and the feudal towns......

Han Qian thought of the concept of the Xiaoice Age mentioned in the dream world, mentioning that the frequent wars of dynasties have a great relationship with the frequent natural disasters caused by climate cycles, but the deeper factor is not this.

Of course, Wang Jun also has feelings about this, and said: "The rivers and rivers have been flooding in the past few years between the Jianghuai and Huai, and looking at the classics of all families, it is indeed much more than the middle and early periods, but in the twenty years since the founding of the Great Chu, it is said that the production of grain, grain and hemp is absolutely insufficient, but it does not exist, and there is even a lot of redundancy, more of a surplus is more than a surplus, and the poor are more than short; However, the world has passed, and the princes and ministers and the clansmen of the family are still drunk and dreaming of death, but there are very few who can wake up and make concessions......"

At this time, there were several scouts who rode back from the north, this was a scout sent out to reconnoiter the movements of the Chaozhou reinforcements stationed in Xujiaji, Han Qian immediately called Tian Cheng to call them to the wall to ask for details.

"The sky is cloudy again, maybe there will be heavy snow tonight, and I am not afraid that the Shouzhou army will dare to besiege it in a hurry."

Feng Xuan, Tian Cheng, and Feng Yi also noticed that a scout had returned, and rushed to the walled wall to listen to the report - Feng Xuan climbed the walled wall to see that the sky had darkened early, and said a word of relief.

Han Qian motioned for the scouts to continue reporting, confirming that when more than 4,000 enemy reinforcements from Chaozhou braved the snow to enter Xujiaji, most of the generals were in a state of distress and the formation was also sluggish. And along the way, there were scouts and horses staring at the enemy troops along this way, and they had already discovered that the enemy reinforcements from Chaozhou rushed over in the snow, and dozens of generals froze to death on the way.

It is certain that these have dealt a great blow to the morale and combat effectiveness of the enemy army.

In a short period of time, they don't have to worry that Xu Mingzhen will be able to organize a large-scale offensive against Anfengzhai.

After hearing this, Feng Yi said quite luckyly: "God still favors us, when we set off until the capture of Anfeng Village, the weather was cold and cold, but there was no wind and snow, and it was much easier to march and attack the village." If this heavy snow had fallen a day earlier, we might not have only suffered thirty or fifty casualties in our attack on Anfengzhai, and perhaps we might not have been able to block the passage on the periphery of Anfengzhai before the enemy could help. And if the heavy snow does not fall for several days in the future, maybe Xu Mingzhen will also learn from our heavy soldiers and horses to walk on the ice at this time, and have gathered enough soldiers, horses, and materials to besiege it - do you think this snow is God helping us? ”

Tian Cheng and Feng Xuan smiled and didn't answer Feng Yi's words.

"What, do you think I'm wrong?" Feng Yi asked.

"Xuzhou and Tangyi grow cotton weaving, but not only these can provide a lot of taxes for Tangyi, in fact, for ordinary generals, there are cotton wool filled with winter clothes, marching and fighting in such a snowy weather, I don't know how much better than the Ge Ma military uniform filled with grass wool," Wang Jun said, "Feng Yi, you have been wearing winter clothes since you were a child, you have to be picky about whether the clothes are gorgeous or not, whether they are close to the body, pay attention to whether the bead ring jade is exquisite, naturally I can't recognize the difference between cotton wool and grass wool, and I don't know how much a dog skin is worth on a cold day. will all come down to the destiny of heaven. This is the only point, if the Shouzhou Army had not had the consciousness of intercepting my surprise attack at the beginning of the period regardless of casualties, it was inevitable that the situation at this time would have been formed, and there was no fluke as you said. ”

"Take off Feng Yi's fox fur and find a straw linen coat for him to change into, and he will be able to understand the truth here," Tian Cheng smiled and saluted Wang Jun again, "But I don't want my wife to be so knowledgeable." ”

"She has Han Qian's ears all day long, and of course her knowledge is different," Feng Yi pursed his lips and diverted the topic, "The most important thing at the moment is to discuss how to fight next." Although the heavy snow delayed the speed of the Shouzhou army, after all, it was their inner line, no matter how slow the speed was, there would only be more and more soldiers, horses, and materials coming over, and we would not increase the number of people and horses here, but the materials would only become less and less. If the extremely happy sniper battle a few days ago could have two or three more times and eat the tens of thousands of elites of the Shouzhou army, there would be no pressure. ”

"You are insatiable, Xu Mingzhen really wants to be so stupid, Emperor Tianyou has already eliminated him, and it is not our turn to clean it up," Han Qian looked at Wang Jun with a smile and asked, "As far as you can see, where is our biggest problem now?" ”

Han Qian and Wang Jun are newly married Yan'er, the two have been inseparable for the past few days, and he also intends to ask Wang Jun to express her ideas in everyone and cultivate her prestige, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan and others also looked at Wang Jun.

"According to what the concubine saw, the speed of advancing towards Huaiyang Mountain was hindered by the heavy snow, which was much slower than expected. Heavy snow and cold are great obstacles, but they are another advantage. The ability of our generals to keep out the cold is far stronger than that of the Shouzhou army, and it is also stronger than the cottage forces of the villagers in Huaiyang Mountain who want to resist the entry of our army. As long as we can have the determination to overcome the obstacle of heavy snow and severe cold, we will find that under the same bad situation, our generals have a greater advantage than the enemy," Wang Jun said, "If we want to wait for the heavy snow weather to pass before acting, in addition to the advantage gap with the enemy will be greatly reduced, our main force will be entangled by the main force of the Shouzhou Army on the northern front, and the advance of the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain will be seriously slowed down." ”

Tian Cheng and Feng Xuan glanced at each other, and they both felt that Wang Jun was right, the heavy snow stopped the Shouzhou army on the periphery, which was actually a rare opportunity for their main force to directly advance into Huaiyang Mountain and occupy and subdue many cottages.

If there are not enough soldiers and horses, the surrender of the cottage will be slowed down, and the people and materials that can be requisitioned from the cottage will be limited, which is actually a negative circle that is not conducive to them.

"There are pros and cons to heavy snowy weather," Han Qian nodded, and said with his hands in his sleeve, "On the plus side, it is to delay the assembly of Shouzhou soldiers, horses and materials, in just three or five days, it is impossible for the Shouzhou army to besiege Anfengzhai; More optimistic, Xu Mingzhen may not be able to launch a decent offensive against Anfeng Village within half a month, let alone send troops and horses to climb the mountains of the dangerous mausoleum on the west side and go around into Huaiyang Mountain from the dangerous path. However, on the downside, in addition to slowing down the speed of our transfer of materials and men to the Huaiyang army, more importantly, the heavy snow weather has also seriously slowed down our efficiency in mobilizing slaves and poor people in the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain, which is the most important thing - so next, everyone should not think about being comfortable, tomorrow morning, you will each personally bring a team of men and horses into the mountain, and I will also follow you into the mountain. Anfeng Village only needs to leave one or two people in charge. Who is left to sit in Anfeng Village, what is responsible for the other people entering the mountain, how to choose several routes, you discuss a plan overnight......"

In this battle, nearly half of the core generals of Tangyi gathered here, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Kong Xirong and even Tan Xiuqun, Han Donghu, Dou Rong, He Liufeng, Su Lie and others, any one of them can stay in Anfeng Village to stand alone.

And Han Qian's fundamental intention in organizing this raid was not in Anfeng Village, but in Huaiyang Mountain.

Tangyi's troops were limited, and in order to seize the rare opportunity to open up a second base area in Huaiyang Mountain and open up a battlefield behind enemy lines, he even did not hesitate to give up Wujian Mountain, which had been in operation for nearly a year, and put Kong Xirong in office

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The main forces of the guerrilla infantry army of the Ministry were all transferred.

If you want to open up a second base area in Huaiyang and open up a battlefield behind enemy lines, you must first be able to gain a foothold on the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain.

If you want to gain a foothold on the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain, you must first solve the problem of people.

After Kong Xirong led the main force of the guerrilla infantry army to come over and rendezvous, the strength of the Tangyi soldiers in Anfengzhai and Wujinling reached 7,000 men, but in extreme cases, Xu Mingzhen was able to organize several times or even ten times their number of men and horses to attack the nest while maintaining other defensive lines.

You can't expect that as soon as the army moves here, the large and small cottages in Huaiyang Mountain will look at the wind and surrender, honestly and obediently offer food to others, and loyally help them fight against the Shouzhou army.

There is nothing so cheap in the world.

If things are really so simple, it is impossible for Xu Mingzhen to fail to successfully move out the mountain people in Huaiyang Mountain on a large scale over the years, supplementing the shortage of people in Shouhuo and other places.

A careful study of the wars in Huaixi in the past hundred years will show that these wars were mainly fought in different feudal towns and even within the Huainan feudal towns in the early stage, and the military confrontation that lasted for 20 years after the founding of the Liang and Chu dynasties in the recent stage.

In the Huaixi region, there was no large-scale movement of displaced people to dismember and destroy the local social structure.

As a result, even if the mountain people who retreated to the Huaiyang Mountains fled to the households, in terms of the overall social composition, they were still the large mountain households who owned the vast majority of the cultivated land and mountain forests, and enslaved the low-level villagers and slaves who had a low status and a worrying living condition.

Due to the limited land that can be cultivated in the Huaiyang Mountains, it is even more closed, and this kind of situation is even worse than that of the plains outside the mountains.

The entire social structure, and even the tendency of Xiang Chenxu and other prefectures to rule the countryside and degenerate.

Xu Mingzhen used to think about being a "loyal minister" of Da Chu, and he easily did not dare to stand on the opposite side of the clan lords, and he was also hesitant about the wealthy people in Huaiyang Mountain, and he never had the determination to severely suppress it.

As a result, his intention to move the mountain people out of Huaiyang Mountain for resettlement was naturally difficult to realize, and he could only get a small amount of taxes every year, symbolically maintaining his rule over Huaiyang Mountain.

Of course, it is useless to just suppress the wealthy and large households, without uniting the poor and slaves at the bottom.

What Han Qian and the others have to do this time is to mobilize the low-level poor people, slaves and maids who account for the largest number of people in Huaiyang Mountain, but have the most humble status and the most worrying living conditions, and stand up to attack and suppress the dominant wealthy people in Huaiyang Mountain.

There will definitely be no lack of gore in the whole process.

In order to seize the pass of Shenjiaji, which entered Wujin Ridge through the Nan Weishui River Valley, while the main force of troops and horses surrounded Anfeng Village, Han Qian led more than 100 elites to sneak to Wujin Ridge as soon as possible, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the soldiers guarding the village, and unarmed more than 200 cottage soldiers, so that a fierce offensive and defensive battle did not break out to seize the village.

However, there are mountain roads connecting large and small river valley plains and low mountains on the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain, and the news transmission is also fast, and large and small cottages are vigilant.

And the resistance of poor villagers and slaves against the oppressed wealthy people and big families is not something that can be easily instigated by a few words of enthusiasm.

They have long struggled under the obscenity of the wealthy people, and have long been accustomed to obedience, accustomed to accepting slavery and oppression, and have become insensitive.

What's more, the wealthy families themselves have a prosperous reproduction of their clan children, and they even have a township armed force ranging from thirty to fifty to three or five hundred.

This is not the same thing as the Jinling Incident, when a large number of slaves and maids were in a state of semi-abandonment and severe famine due to severe food shortages.

What the Tangyi soldiers could do was to first use force to capture some of the cottages, use military means to directly suppress the wealthy people, and then open warehouses to release grain and divide the fields equally, so as to mobilize the poor villagers and slaves.

After that, it was possible to recruit strong men from slaves and maids and the poor to supplement the shortage of troops, and also to make up for the shortage of war materials from the capture.

They raided in this time, carrying more than one million catties of grain, arrows, cloth and other materials, which seemed to be a lot, but 7,000 generals, more than 6,000 military horses, and war horses consumed as much as 100,000 catties of grain and horse feed every day.

If they can't be replenished on the spot in time, the supplies they carry themselves will only last ** days.

Of course, Anfeng Village is the most important land and water point in Chaoxi, the power of the township tyrant clan is large, and the material reserves are sufficient, just to collect the granary of more than a dozen township tyrant clans, and more than 20,000 stones of grain and grain will be collected.

A large amount of food, supplies, and nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians who surrendered had to brave the snow to be sent to Shenjiaji, 30 miles to the south, and the advance into the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain was much slower.

Now the Shouzhou army cannot be besieged because of the large army, but for the Tangyi soldiers, it is a rare time window, and they must race against time to advance to the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain.

At this time, if we don't overcome the difficulties, don't strive for this rare window time, take more than thirty or fifty cottages to mobilize the poor at the bottom, and wait until the main force of the Shouzhou Army comes up, and a large number of soldiers and horses are pinned down on the periphery for defense, and the advance of the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain will not be faster.

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In order to seize the rare opportunity created by the heavy snowy weather, accelerate the advance to the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain, and discuss the result of one night, that is, Liutiancheng, Han Donghu, and Su Lie led two battalions of foot soldiers and a battalion of cavalry to stay in Anfeng Village.

Regardless of the weather the next day, the other soldiers and horses had to cross the Wujin Ridge and enter the depths of the Huaiyang Mountain, with Kong Xirong, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, and Tan Xiuqun each leading one or two battalions of troops to advance along the valley of the main tributary of the upper reaches of the Nanqishui River to the hinterland of the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain.

In particular, Kong Xirong's department, which had entered the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain first and had only won two cottages so far, had to overcome difficulties and brave the snow to climb over the mountains as quickly as possible, and interspersed from the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain to the upper valley of the Longtan River.

As a tributary of the upper reaches of Chaohu Lake and the Nanqishui River, the Longtan River originates from the south wing of the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain, and flows into Chaohu Lake from west to east from the north of Lujiang County.

It can also be said that Chaozhou soldiers and horses, from the southwest of Chaozhou City into the eastern slope of Huaiyang Mountain's main passage.

Controlling the valley pass in the upper reaches of the Longtan River, you can condescendingly peek at the soldiers and horses stationed in Chaozhou on the north side of the defense line of the Lujiang River of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, and keep them out of the eastern slope.

However, if the Shouzhou army did not want the warships of the Tangyi Navy to establish a connection with the Huaiyang Mountains through these rivers, it would have to pay a greater price to cut off several major waterways such as the Nanqishui River and the Longtan River at the same time.

Of course, only by controlling the valley pass in the upper reaches of the Longtan River can the Tangyi soldiers completely control the vast hinterland on the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain, so that they can hope to completely reverse the offensive and defensive situation in Huaixi in a short period of six months to a year.

In the end, Han Qian did not go directly to the mountain, but stayed with Wang Jun in Shenjiaji.

The speed of the siege of the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain is not a decisive factor, but the more important thing is the speed and effect of mobilizing and mobilizing the poor people and slaves at the bottom in the cottages that have been militarily captured and controlled by the division of troops.

Otherwise, there would be dozens of thirty or fifty casualties for every cottage they conquered, and they would have to divide their troops to garrison, and when they combined, they would soon be able to dilute the only more than 7,000 horses they had at this time.

And north and west of Anfeng Village, every day passes, the Shouzhou Army

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and the strength of the army gathered was one point stronger.

Only by quickly and effectively mobilizing the low-level poor and slaves can not only supplement the lack of troops, but also quickly expand the Tangyi army, and also control the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain at a deeper level.

Shen Jiaji is a big village in Wujinling, but there are only more than 1,000 people.

The nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians captured in the capture of Anfeng Village are almost equal to the population of a prosperous state city.

This is mainly because Anfeng Village is located in the key point of water and land transportation, commerce, shipping and craftsman industry are relatively developed, and the nearby terrain is flat, water conservancy is developed, agriculture is developed, land annexation is also serious, a group of township tyrants would rather gather people to live in Anfeng, than live in Gaocheng, twenty or thirty miles away.

Anfeng Village itself accommodates nearly 10,000 daily residents, comparable to a prosperous county seat, Tangyi soldiers raided again, and the nearby households also thought that Anfeng Village, which was guarded by elite soldiers and horses, could be safer, and they all dragged their children and daughters to flee into it, and finally made Han Qian directly capture so many soldiers and civilians in Anfeng Village.

Due to the rush of time, the preliminary treatment of nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Anfeng Village was relatively rude.

Whether he wanted to or not, he directly used force to force him to leave his hometown and gather in Shenjiaji in the windy and snowy weather.

In the early stage, more than 4,000 young and strong men were requisitioned, and then under the supervision of the elite infantry of the two battalions, they braved the severe cold weather to build fortifications on the river beaches and slopes.

Han Qian knew very well in his heart that if he could mobilize this group of young and strong men, it would be a great supplement to their overstretched forces at this time.

However, the early time was too hasty, and they had to be forced to leave Anfeng Village immediately and move to the narrower Wujinling River Valley, which was inevitably rude, and it was difficult to take it back for their own use.

Even if they are forcibly incorporated into the battalion, in addition to increasing consumption, it seems that the soldiers are stronger and stronger, and it does not have much effect on the improvement of the overall combat effectiveness.

Han Qian now had his hands free, and first sorted out these people.

In addition to the low-level poor and slaves and maids being divided separately, Han Qian also divided the middle- and upper-class wealthy households who surrendered in Anfengzhai and the village tycoons who owned slaves and maids and a large number of fields according to the criteria of clan proximity, inheritance rights, and the number of land, slaves and maids.

For those who serve the master's family closely and are more loyal, as well as the households who were coerced by the Anning Palace to cross the river to Gaocheng County for resettlement the year before last, Han Qian also divided them separately and treated them differently, so as to weaken the resistance that may breed within them as much as possible.

At present, it is only the poor at the lowest level and the slaves and maids who have been sold or enslaved for generations to perform heavy manual labor and live in extremely poor conditions.

Divided, these people are not particularly numerous, plus the women and children account for about one-third of the surrendered soldiers and civilians in Anfengzhai, but Han Qian knows that after these people are brought over, they can most firmly integrate with the Tangyi soldiers.

Han Qian set up a separate camp in Shenjiaji.

Although so many people poured into Shen Jiaji at once, and the villages distributed along the river valley suddenly became crowded, Han Qian still wanted to find a way to arrange these people and their families into warm tents or houses to provide sufficient food and clothing.

In addition to the relatively relaxed work, Han Qian also organized them to complain and tragic life experiences, and in the process, excavate the bloody crimes committed by Anfeng Village and the nearby clansmen, and then find out for public trial and execution.

After three or five rounds, the blood and courage of these people, who seemed to have become insensitive and would only accept their tragic fate in obedience, was quickly activated.

Then, young and strong men will be assigned to the auxiliary battalions, and grassroots military attaches will be arranged for training, activists will be selected to be trained in literacy classes, and sturdy women will be assigned to the battalions and juvenile battalions to assist Shen Jiaji's internal security management.

Middle- and upper-class wealthy households with no bad deeds were still treated as prisoners of war, and mainly arranged for the construction of houses, fence walls, and reclamation of slope terraces inside and outside the Shenjia Village and in the front section of the river valley.

At such a critical moment, some manpower was also freed up to reclaim the slope terraces, and it was also the poor people, slaves and maids who were recruited as auxiliary soldiers to see hope - that is, even if they were blocked in the Huaiyang Mountains, they would soon get land and housing.

In contrast, the more than 40 households and 300 low-level poor people, slaves and maids in Shen Jiaji had better mobilize, in addition to allocating 15 acres of ration fields and a set of narrow yards to each household, and then distributing 100 catties of rations, a set of winter clothes, and two catties of salt to each person according to the population, and they were eager to sell their lives to the Tangyi soldiers.

In addition to children and the sickly elderly, others, including more than 400 prisoners of war, rushed to the depths of the mountains and forests to cut down trees, dig mines, and carry out heavy labor reform.

Perhaps every day there are people who cannot bear such heavy physical labor, exhausted or frozen to death, but this is a cruel and bloody war.

During the Jinling Incident, Wang Jun was not particularly free by Han Qian's side, but he also witnessed the formation and operation of the women's camp and the juvenile camp, and also assisted Han Qian in compiling a series of various teaching materials to guide the soldiers to work in the mountainous area at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain.

Now she is also very handy with this part of the matter, with Wang Ji, Huo Li, Xiangyun and other maids who have not been able to turn the corner in their thoughts, and follow Han Qian to go around.

For the many large and small cottages on the northeast slope of Huaiyang Mountain, Han Qian also asked Feng Xuan, Tan Xiuqun, and Kong Xirong to treat them differently.

Located in Pingyi and in the valley of the main tributaries of the upper reaches of the Nanqishui River and the Longtan River, they must resolutely and directly control the village, and completely mobilize the poor and slaves at the bottom.

For those who deviated from the core area they wanted to control, they could trade with them with military horses, cloth, and salt, buy food and other materials that they were in short supply, and send generals to persuade them to change slaves and maids to hire, so as to reduce the rent and interest of the poor at the bottom. Of course, those cottages and villages that firmly refuse will be ignored for the time being.

When they enter the mountainous area, more places need to be walked by the soldiers, and the more than 6,000 military horses in their hands are somewhat redundant, and they have to consume a huge amount of bean millet to feed every day.

In addition to exchanging these military horses and cloth salt with remote cottages for food, the low-level poor and slaves who actively enlisted in the army were also directly distributed by military horses as necessary cultivation materials......

On the sixth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yanyou, which was also the twentieth day after the enemy aid from Chaozhou rushed to Anfeng Village, Kong Xirong led his troops into Jinxi Village in the upper reaches of the Longtan River and controlled the pass along the Longtan River into the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain.

Feng Xuan, Tan Xiuqun, Zhao Wuji and others divided the road and occupied and captured a total of 47 cottages along the upper tributaries of the Nanqishui River.

In addition to accumulating nearly 1,000 casualties, the soldiers and horses of all roads divided their troops to control these cottages also diluted nearly 2,000 elite soldiers and horses.

Feng Xuan, Tan Xiuqun, Zhao Wuji, Dou Rong, and Han Donghu had only one or two hundred guards and horses left in their hands, and they were temporarily unable to continue to advance to the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain, so they could only lead the few remaining guards to retreat to Shen Jiaji first.

Retreat to Shenjiaji, on the basis of the guards and horses, add auxiliaries, and quickly set up a new five-foot military camp to strengthen the defense of the northern front and meet the counterattack of the Shouzhou army that will come up at any time......

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