In addition to Jing Zhen, Xi Xunqiao, and Han Chengmeng who served as the provincial envoy of Yongzhou, the governor's office, and the governor of Yongzhou, there was also a team of officials in the first batch of 600 people who went west with Xixunqiao and Han Chengmeng, responsible for the takeover of Zhufu County and the establishment of the provincial government departments.

In addition to a total of 60,000 active soldiers being incorporated into the Longyou Camp Army, the Yongzhou Camp Army, and the Liangzhou Establishment Embassy, Yongzhou Province will also set up six new reserve brigades in the key passes of the defense prefecture, such as Wuguan, Sanguan, Xiaoguan, Pujin Pass, and other places, to receive 30,000 prisoners.

In addition, 40,000 prisoners and 40,000 active soldiers were stationed in the counties of the Fenshui River Valley to rest and recuperate under the command of all brigades, and at the same time to prepare for the subsequent attack on Jinnan and Taiyuan.

Li Zhihe, Li Zhi's father and son did not stay in Yongzhou, nor did they go to the Fenshui River Valley, but waited for the war in Guanzhong to fall behind for a while, and rushed to Luoyang directly by boat with Gao Shao, Kong Xirong, and Feng Yi, who were responsible for transmitting the edict and supervising the initial implementation of the provincial system.

In early June, the weather is hot, but it is pleasant to travel by boat and the river breeze.

Li Zhihe was wearing a green robe, standing on the bow of the boat to look at the magnificent scenery of Tongshan and Xiangshan Sandwiched by the Yu River.

"Lord Gao won't be able to stay for a few days when he goes back to Luoyang this time, right?" Listening to the footsteps behind him, he turned to see Gao Shao coming over and asked.

Gao Shao nodded and said: "Yongzhou Province was established, and then Huainan Province, Henan Province, and Hedong Province will be established one after another, in addition to Wen Bo directly leading the Hedong Economic Envoy, the monarch also wants me and Han Yuanqi to go out of Beijing to serve as the Huainan Economic Envoy and Jinzhou Economic Envoy ......."

There is not much difference from the prediction made a year ago, and the battles in Guanzhong have not paid much price, and the number of people lost in the battles before and after adds up to less than 10,000.

The recovery of Guanzhong not only completely solved the strategic security problem of the western flank of Heluo, but also brought nearly 2 million people in the Guanzhong Plain and the four prefectures of Yongbei into the rule of Daliang, making the total number of soldiers and civilians in Daliang exceed 10 million, and after capturing 70,000 elite prisoners, the total number of soldiers and horses that Daliang could mobilize reached an unprecedented 380,000.

At present, in addition to more than 80,000 troops and horses stationed in Yongzhou Province and Longyou, in addition to the 30,000 garrisons in Huainan (including Nannei Shifu and Nanyang Mansion, Xunyang Mansion and Junzhou Mansion), Daliang can mobilize a total of 270,000 soldiers and horses to fight against the Mongolian army and the Eastern Liang army occupying Hedong, Heshuo and Hehuai.

Daliang is also the first time on the frontal battlefield, the total number of soldiers and horses has reached the same level as the Southern Courtyard Mongolian Army and the Eastern Liang Army, and the morale of the generals and the level of armor and equipment will surpass the Mongolian Army and the Eastern Liang Army.

Li Zhihe also knew that the general trend was already in the hands of Daliang, but he handed over the military power this time, and whether he would go to Luoyang to be idle or take on a new position, it was still inconclusive at this time, and it was not convenient to directly ask Gao Shao about the specific plan for the subsequent use of troops by the Mongolian army in the Southern Courtyard and the Eastern Liang Army.

However, one thing is certain, there is no major change, and there is no major problem in recovering Zelu and other Jinnan areas before the end of this year, but whether it will attack the Eastern Liang Army at the same time, Li Zhihe is not clear.

He is also not very clear about the limits of Luoyang's current military mobilization.

In June, the rivers were surging, starting from Yongzhou City, and stayed in Tongguan County for one night at night, and then went to the mausoleum in the north of Mianchi at dusk the next day.

The mausoleum is also the starting position of the battle of Yiguan, at this time it is the traffic point of Luoyang through the Yuanqu to the three provinces of Fenshui, and the opening and closing permanent pontoon bridge with greater traffic capacity is being built.

On behalf of Han Qian, Yin Peng rushed to the mausoleum with a team of honorable drivers to wait to greet Li Zhihe, and among the people who greeted him at the dock, there was also Su Hongyu, who moved directly from Liangzhou to Luoyang with his family.

Disembarking and stepping onto the dock, the past turns into my mind.

Seeing his beloved wife and young son standing on the dock, Li Zhihe suddenly thought that it had been four years since he led his troops west to Longyou, and he was almost the age to know the destiny of heaven, and time was really in a hurry.

Li Zhihe, Gao Shao, Kong Xirong, Feng Yi, and Yin Peng stayed overnight in Mianchi, and set off from Mianchi by carriage and horse in the early morning of the next day, and entered Luoyang City in Daliang at dusk.

Han Qian held a banquet in Shangyang Yuan to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Li Zhihe, Li Zhi's father and son, Gao Shao, Kong Xirong, Feng Yi and others.

The scale of the banquet is not large, there is no banquet for the ministers, Han Qian mainly talks about the old relationship with Li Zhihe, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong, etc., in addition to Zhao Ting'er, Su Hongyu, Feng Yi, etc. are all old people, and they also specially invited Chun Shisanniang and Yun Puzi to come over for a banquet.

Seeing Chun Thirteen Niang sitting in the hall, Li Zhihe and Su Hongyu were taken aback.

When she led Liangzhou to surrender to Liang, Chun Shisanniang did not flee west with Lu Qingxia and them, but chose to return to Jinling with Wang Chan'er, Chen De and others for trial.

Later, in Jinling, Chen De was sentenced to be hanged, Wang Chan'er, Xiangwang Yang Lin and others were imprisoned, and the name of Chun Shisanniang did not appear in the official notice of Chu Ting.

Li Zhihe and Su Hongyu never figured out where Chun Shisanniang went, and thought that she was either imprisoned or secretly executed, but they didn't expect her to appear in Luoyang City.

Kong Xirong was also stunned when he saw Chun Thirteen Niang, who was forty-six years old at this time and still had a charming style, and glared at Feng Yi angrily.

Feng Yi laughed and said, "Don't thank me, if it weren't for Yun Laodao's intercession, I wouldn't dare to make an assertion, delete the name of Thirteen Niang from the list of prisoners sent to Jinling, and send her to Luoyang; As for why Yun Laodao must save the life of Thirteen Niang, this will start with Yun Laodao's love history in his early years......"

Chun Shi Niang glanced at Kong Xirong, lowered her head and sat aside, and did not say a word.

"It's been four years since you left Luoyang, but you haven't changed the problem of exposing people's shortcomings, no wonder the king doesn't worry about leaving you in Yongzhou as an envoy." Yun Puzi scolded Feng Yidao with a smile.

"Yongzhou City has experienced war, and I don't know when it will be able to restore the prosperity of the previous dynasty, and let alone stacking myself on such a high position, and being rigid and conformist all day long to show the subordinates, how can I return to Luoyang to enjoy the customs of this warm nephrite?" Feng Yi did not have the slightest greed for such a high position as the provincial envoy, sat lazily behind the long case, and took care of himself to pick up the wine jug and pour wine for the jade cup in front of him.

Li Zhihe and Su Hongyu were all curious about Yun Puzi coming forward to intercede for Chun Thirteen Niang, what had to do with the old things in the early years, but on such a formal occasion today, and there were juniors present, none of them had Feng Yi to ask so openly, thinking that since Chun Thirteenniang had settled in Luoyang, Han Qian couldn't help but let her attend such a banquet, and he had the opportunity to say goodbye to her afterwards.

"Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan, and Yao Xishui are still in prison, and the Supervision Mansion can also use the Daliang Law to convict them," Han Qian motioned for everyone to sit down and talk, and said to Li Zhihe, "The Supervision Office wants to sentence them to life imprisonment or exile, but they can also choose a Taoist temple in Luoyang to spend the rest of their lives, and you can wait for a few days to be free, you can go to the detention prison of the Supervision Mansion and meet them......"

For thousands of years, the core of the penal system has been the death penalty, exile, and corporal punishment, and although there have been sentences of deprivation of liberty for forced labor, they have never been the focus of the penal system, and there is no such thing as life imprisonment.

Han Qian implemented a new prison system, and the punishment of Daliang was equal to death and imprisonment, supplemented by exile and corporal punishment, and several prisons were built in some mines and mines that required a large amount of labor and were convenient for centralized supervision, and it was no longer simply a simple exile of those prisoners who could not reach the death penalty to the border areas to enrich the households.

Whether it is Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan, or even Yao Xishui, it is impossible for Han Qian to directly pardon them, taking care of Li Zhihe's affection, and he can imprison them in a Taoist temple for life, which is already the maximum preferential treatment.

"Thank you for your forgiveness." Li Zhihe thanked.

"You and I don't have to be so unfamiliar," Han Qian said, "My father died tragically after being tortured, and I left a blood letter to me before being tortured, so I secretly made a will, to end this cannibalistic and chaotic world, and to return the world to peace, so that the world can be unified again, is the first step, and I need you and Zhuqing to work together to help me ......."

Li Zhihe was slightly stunned, thinking that this might be the first time that Han Qian made it clear that he wanted to dominate the world, sat behind the long case, leaned forward, knelt down on his knees, and said: "Zhihe dares not to serve his life!" ”

"In addition to Wen Bo's direct appointment as the Hedong Economic Envoy, Gao Shao and Han Yuanqi have to go out of Beijing to Donghu and Xuzhou to serve as Henan and Huainan Economic Envoys in the past two days - Jing Hao accompanied Emperor Shizong to fight in the south and north in his early years, and his body left a dark illness, and his age has not yet reached sixty years of energy, so he can't stand it, but he needs to lie down and recuperate for half a year in a year, and he has always had to resign from the dispatch of the Yun Staff Office, so I thought about transferring you and Tian Cheng back to the center to preside over the affairs of the Staff Office." Han Qian said.

Su Hongyu rushed to Luoyang with her family and joined Li Zhihe, and her heart was still somewhat hanging.

After all, they have stood with Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan over the years.

They moved to Luoyang, even if they spent the rest of their lives leisurely with false titles, they were afraid that there would still be people in the court who hated the old things, or regarded them as the hidden danger of the foundation of the Great Liang, and they might be killed from the sky at any time.

Su Hongyu didn't expect that Han Qian would be willing to use Zhihe and an important minister like Tian Cheng to take charge of the staff office, and his uneasy heart could be regarded as really falling back from his throat.

Chun Thirteen Niang knew that Han Qian and they still had to talk about state affairs, she drank a few glasses of wine, so she retired with knowledge and interest, and when she left, she told Su Hongyu that she had opened a Yunchun wine shop in the city at this time, and she had been making wine for the past four or five years.

Su Hongyu also asked to retire first, and went to Yunchun Wine Shop hand in hand with Chun Thirteen Niang to say goodbye.

As soon as Chun Thirteen Niang and Su Hongyu left, the rest were all the generals of Daliang, and Han Qian talked about Daliang's follow-up strategic arrangements.

Although from a traditional point of view, if you want to dominate the world, it is advisable to first go south and then north, but Daliang is not afraid to attack the city in the steep terrain and terrain, and even this is precisely the advantage of the Liang army.

Therefore, in the follow-up strategic choice, he considered giving priority to recovering Jinnan and other Hedong regions.

The Yu River flows into the territory of Jiuyuan through the Hetao Plain on the south side of the Yīn Mountain Range, turns a big bend and goes south along the western foot of Luliang Mountain, twists and turns for 13,400 li, at the northeast foot of Xiyue Huashan, and then flows eastward again after joining Weishui.

The land of thousands of miles east of Luliang Mountain, north of Xiangshan and Wangwu Mountain and west of Taihang Mountain Range, has always been known as the ancient county of Hedong.

The mountains in the east of the river are stacked on top of each other, the hills are undulating, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, in general, it is two mountains and a river, the east and west sides are the mountains and hills that are uplifted and majestic, the middle is a series of bead-type basin subsidence, the plains are distributed among them, and the successive dynasties are easy to defend and difficult to attack the place.

As far as the overall situation is concerned, Daliang has only taken the two basins of Jinzhou and Hejin in the lower reaches of the Fenshui River Valley, and then Han Qian plans to attack Jinnan first, even if he occupies most of the Shangdang Basin in Zezhou and Luzhou, and then two roads, all the way from Luzhou to the north, all the way from the Fenshui River Valley to the north, to attack Taiyuan, and to capture Taiyuan, you can go north to recover Xinzhou and march to Yunzhou.

In other words, all the way north directly with the Mongolian army.

As long as the Mongol army is expelled from Hedong, or the elite of the Mongol people is exhausted, and the terrain of Taihang Mountain is captured from the western flank, and then condescendingly to recover Heshuo in the east and Hehuai in the south, it will become relatively easy, there will not be so many tug-of-war to fight, and the people in Hehuai, Heshuo and other places will be able to suffer less from the war.

Li Zhihe nodded, Han Qian's follow-up strategic choice was actually the same as his previous decision to enter the Fenshui River Valley from Yiguan and then recover Guanzhong.

It can even be said that even if the battle of Yiguan did not reap such fruitful results, as long as the Liang army's troops could be nailed to the north foot of Wangwu Mountain, restricting the Mongol army from Hedong to reinforce Guanzhong, it would be destined to be no difficulty in recovering Guanzhong.

Therefore, after the great victory of Yiguan, Zhao Mengji rated

The Mengzhou army surrendered, perhaps the outside world thought that it took them less than half a year to recover Guanzhong, which was a miracle, but Li Zhihe was not surprised at all.

The general trend has been achieved, and if these generals have to delay for three or five years to recover Guanzhong, they will be regarded as incompetent.

The reason is the same, as long as they can drive the Mongol army out of Hedong, and even capture the important town of Yunzhou at the northwest foot of the Yanshan Mountains, forcing the remnants of the Mongol army to retreat to the vicinity of Yanshan, this will fundamentally weaken the confidence and will to fight the stubborn resistance of the Eastern Liang army.

Although the traditional strategic choice is to recover the Hehuai region first, in that case, it is destined to fight a tug-of-war with the enemy in the lower reaches of the Yu River and Heshuo to the north, and even last for many years.

During this period, the Mongolian army in Taiyuan and Jinnan may have recovered its vitality.

If Li Zhihe made a decision, he would also choose to go north first and then south.

In particular, nearly 100,000 of the prisoners surrendered by Daliang in the past two years came from Taiyuan, Jinnan and other places.

Not to mention Tian Weiye's elite soldiers in Luzhou, the Chengde army led by Wang Yuankui, in the southern invasion of the Muguls, the follow-up replenishment of soldiers are mainly from Taiyuan, Jinnan, Xinzhou and other regions.

After the war in Guanzhong was settled, the 40,000 prisoners of the Chengde Army they captured were not very high among the veterans who were really born in Dingzhou.

Only by conquering Taiyuan, Jinnan, Xinzhou and other places can these prisoners be truly transformed into elite soldiers.

Of course, even if the north is strategically the first, it does not mean that there will be peace with the Eastern Liang Army for a period of time.

It can only be said that the deployment of military resources and troops will focus on the northern front, and the eastern front will mainly consolidate the existing defense line and will not engage in major battles, but if there is an opportunity, it will advance to the east of Yingshui, and strive to push the defense line to the coast of the vortex in the next two years.

The Nannei Shifu was abolished, and Chaozhou Mansion, Shouchun Mansion, Xinyang Mansion, Haozhou Mansion, and Chufang Mansion were merged into the newly established Huainan Province, and the main task at present was to maintain the status quo with Chu Ting.

In addition to Gao Shao and Yang Qin as the envoys and envoys, Lin Haizheng will lead the Huainan marching camp and army capital with the deputy envoy of the strategy, and the main force of the infantry brigade, the naval brigade, and the reserve brigade will be composed of 30,000 horses and horses to garrison Huainan.

The defense along the Yingshui line from Xingyang to Xia Cai, as well as the Yingxi Prefecture, Nanyang Prefecture, Yunyang Prefecture, and Junzhou Prefecture, were placed in the newly established Henan Province, with Han Yuanqi and Guo Rong as the envoys and envoys, and Zhao Wuji as the deputy envoy and commander of the Henan marching army, and the main force of the infantry brigade, the naval brigade, the cavalry brigade, and the reserve brigade totaling 50,000 horses and horses were stationed in Henan.

This also means that in addition to the necessary garrison troops and horses in Luoyang, Daliang can invest 160,000 to 180,000 troops on the northern front battlefield by the end of the year.

In addition to the current Pingyang marching army and Taiyue marching army, Han Qian also planned to form the first central marching army headed by Kong Xirong and the soldiers and horses who were transferred from the Guanzhong battlefield to Hejin at this time, headed by Han Donghu, with Xingyang and Mengzhou soldiers and horses as the mainstay.

That is to say, in addition to the Pingyang marching army, which is mainly stationed in Pingyang Mansion and keeping an eye on the enemy army in Taiyuan, after the completion of the preparatory work for the preliminary battle, Daliang will be able to mobilize up to three marching camps, including a total of 60,000 elite soldiers, 60,000 reserve brigades and baggage auxiliaries, to attack the two states of Zelu from two main directions.

The Mongol army could not easily give up occupying the two states of Zelu in the Jinnan Basin, Taihang Bashan, there are three paths connected with the Jinnan Basin, the Mongol army lost Jinnan, or the Jinnan Basin fell into the hands of the Great Liang, in addition to the Liang soldiers and horses can attack Taiyuan in one more direction, but also through the Taihang Dynasty, Baicheng, and Pukou to contact Mengzhou, threatening the Weizhou and Weibo areas controlled by the Eastern Liang Army.

At present, the Eastern Liang army is mainly connected with the Mongol army in southern Jin through Baicheng in Weizhou and the Mongol army in Heshuo through the Weibo area, and if the Great Liang soldiers and horses capture Jinnan and extend the troops to the territory of Weibo in the south of Heshuo, the connection between the Mongol army and the Eastern Liang army can be severed, and it will fall into a situation of fighting separately.

The Mongolian army defending Jinnan may be more cautious, and there will be no more tragic situations such as camping outside the city and the fog encountering a surprise attack, and may rely on the danger of Zelu City and resist stubbornly, but the question is, does the Mongolian army, which is clumsy in defending the city, have the qualifications to fight a war of attrition with the soldiers and horses of Daliang in Jinnan?

Even if the Mongol army could barely hold a few cities, it would lose control of the wider countryside and mountains.

In the early stage of the war, even in order to better digest the captives from Zelu and Luzhou, the Great Liang should first fight for control of the rural areas outside the city, and then directly establish local power from the township level to form a pattern of surrounding the city with wild land.

In addition to the collection and transportation of grain and other materials, the difficulties in the traditional siege warfare into enemy territory are not enough to control the peripheral areas, and it is easy to be attacked on the flanks by enemy reinforcements.

However, if the Liang can firmly control the peripheral areas of Zelu and other places in the early stage, it will directly resolve the two important dilemmas of entering the enemy's territory to besiege the city.

Thinking in this way, the strategic arrangement for attacking Jinnan in the entire autumn and winter will become clear.

Li Zhihe saw that Han Qian did not ask Kong Xirong to go directly to Hejin and enter the work of forming the first central marching army, but slowly walked back to Luoyang with them to get together, guessing that Han Qian might use Kong Xirong as the main general to attack Jinnan, and he did not hide his personal interests at the moment, and directly gave his opinions on the war in Jinnan.

"Zhihe, you and Wen Bo can be said to be the spear and shield of my beam, if I hadn't made up my mind to ask you to stay in Luoyang to help me take care of the military and politics, I would have wanted to send you to Mengzhou!" Han Qian laughed.

Li Zhihe didn't think that his views were really unique, or he didn't think that he could think of what others didn't think - Han Qian's single-handedly created Liang Xiongshi, its advantages and combat characteristics, probably no one knows better than Han Qian himself, in more layers, he and Tian Cheng, who is about to be transferred to Luoyang, can only be a qualified executor.

This is probably a kind of sadness that as a general, he has to be contemporaries of Han Qian, right?

There is never the possibility of becoming a famous general.