At present, the entire mountain, from the Xixuan Temple, the northern part of Yanshi, Mengjin, and the defense of Mianchi, are all presided over by Wen Bo, if the plan is to start using troops at the end of next year or the year after next to start the Yiguan in the north of Mengjin, whether it is the early stage of the war preparations, or the follow-up command and dispatch of the forward soldiers and horses, the main general will not have a more suitable candidate in addition to Wen Bo.

However, if it is really necessary to use troops from Yiguan to the north, it is far from enough to use only the elite infantry of the two brigades stationed in Mengjin, Mianchi, and Yanshi and Chen Yuanchen's headquarters, with only more than 15,000 elite soldiers and horses, to gnaw at Yiguan, which currently has more than 40,000 elite Mongolian troops stationed in many passes and fortresses.

At that time, a large number of cavalry and infantry elites will have to be drawn from other directions.

When it comes to the coordinated operations of all departments, and at the same time, the operations along the Yiguan line are very likely to be fought for, and the operations will be extremely fierce and complicated, and the preparations for the early war must be sufficient-On the side of the Military Intelligence Staff Office, Han Qian also designated Feng Xuan and Guo Qi to be responsible for the central coordination.

Considering the need to divert the attention of the enemy army and avoid the enemy from detecting their intentions, they concentrated resources on further strengthening the walled cities along the Yiguan River, Han Qian also ordered the transfer of Zhao Ci's cavalry brigade to enter Chengzhou, accept Li Zhihe's moderation, strengthen the attack on the Qinzhou area north of Chengzhou, and reinforce a large number of craftsmen and apprentices to Chuyang and Luoyang, increase the widening and construction of the post road on the north bank of the Rhino River, and make a posture of taking Qinzhou first and then Fengxiang.

In the fourth year of Taihe, Han Qian implemented a new round of local restructuring and changed the state and county system to the prefecture and county system.

Xingzhou changed to Xingyang Mansion, Shangzhou changed to Shangluo Mansion, Huazhou changed to Huatong Mansion, Dengzhou changed to Nanyang Mansion, Junzhou and the southwest area of Dengzhou, dismantled out Xichuan Mansion and Yunyang Mansion, Guangzhou changed to Xinyang Mansion, Caizhou changed to Caizhou Mansion, Ruzhou changed to Ruzhou Mansion, Xuzhou changed to Xuchang Mansion, Chenzhou changed to Chenzhou Mansion, Haozhou changed to Huainan Mansion, Shouzhou changed to Shouchun Prefecture, Chaozhou changed to Chaozhou Mansion, Huozhou changed to Huaiyang Mansion, Chuzhou changed to Chuzhou Mansion, and Donghu, Liyang, Wushou, Tangyi, Shiquan five counties from Chuzhou Mansion, Chaozhou Mansion Division, separate Donghu Mansion, Xuzhou changed to Xuzhou Prefecture, Jingzhao Mansion was changed to Luoyang Mansion, Liangzhou was changed to Hanzhong Mansion, Jinzhou was changed to Jinzhou Mansion, Yingzhou was changed to Yingchuan Mansion, and Caizhou Mansion was added separately in Xiacai area, and Shaanzhou, Lingbao, Mianchi, and Lushi counties on the west wing of Heluo were carved out from Luoyang Mansion and Shaanzhou Mansion was newly established.

After this round of adjustments, Daliang has jurisdiction over 24 prefectures, 126 counties, and 1,0017 townships.

At the beginning of the fourth year of Yu Taihe, he urgently reformed the local system, in addition to the name of the new Shaanzhou Prefecture, so that the next justifiable focus was to strengthen the construction of roads and cities and other infrastructure on the other side of the main entrance of Yiguan, but also to carry out a comprehensive reform of the state soldiers and local power structure.

The latter is of great significance, and it can also conceal the real intention of establishing a new Shaanzhou capital to focus on strengthening infrastructure construction on the other side of the strait.

After the state and county are changed to prefectures and counties, the state soldiers will also be abolished, and the local garrison will be handed over to the reserve brigade directly under the jurisdiction of the military division of the Right Inner Historical Mansion; A separate arrest and patrol department has been set up to take charge of public security affairs such as the arrest of thieves and criminals, and the supervision and criminal prison affairs are independent from the state government and are under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Supervision Office.

In this way, after the state assassination history, which used to combine local military, political, and judicial powers, was changed to a prefect, in addition to no longer holding the power of local garrisons, it was not allowed to interfere in local supervision and prison affairs, and would focus on the development of civil affairs.

Only in important military towns, the chief officer is given the rank of envoy to concurrently lead local defense, military and political affairs, and judicial affairs.

In the mid-spring of the fourth year of Taihe, after the flood of the Yu River passed, Han Donghu, who served as the envoy of Xingyang Prefecture, organized more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians to unilaterally repair and fill the embankment of the Yu River from the west side.

After the capture of the two cities of Xingyang and Mi County, more than 60,000 households were collected, and more than 60,000 households were evacuated into the mountainous area at the eastern foot of Songshan to escape the war.

In recent years, Xingyang's agricultural production has been almost destroyed, and the livelihood of the vast majority of the people has become a problem, but such a population base has also provided relatively sufficient labor for the restoration of agricultural production in Xingyang, as well as the construction and repair of infrastructure projects such as dams, roads, and cities.

The government and county township departments came forward to organize displaced people and poor households to participate in the construction of infrastructure facilities such as reclamation, embankments, roads, etc., and in the process gave corresponding money and grain, or directly converted into corresponding cultivated acres and houses as remuneration, so as to replace direct relief, which is the model of cash-for-work that Han Qian has consistently implemented since Xuzhou in his early years.

However, this is supported by abundant money.

In addition to the so-called money and grain, in addition to the central direct transfer to the Xingyang local labor funds, the Daliang First Savings Bureau also set up a branch in Xingyang before the end of the year, and the First Savings Bureau took the lead in setting up the Xingyang Prefecture Savings Bureau to jointly raise money and support the local resumption of production in the form of low-interest loans.

For example, every soldier who was conscripted into the army in Xingyang could not only directly get 15 acres of water and dry land, but also borrow up to 20 taels of money from the savings bureau at low interest rates for the purchase of farm tools, seeds, ploughing cattle, rations, and repairing houses.

For a destitute and landless household, as long as there is a Ding Zhuang in the family who can be recruited, the livelihood of the small family can be maintained.

Even if they should not be recruited, if they recruit workers to participate in the construction of infrastructure facilities in the prefecture, county and township divisions, in addition to their own food and lodging guarantees, adult men can also get three catties of japonica rice a day as wages, and sturdy women can earn two catties of japonica rice a day, which can basically solve the food and clothing of their families for a small day.

In addition to the expenses of the Xingyang garrison, including the central allocation and the savings bureau's project loan plan, the budget for water conservancy, roads, cities, and farmland reclamation and construction in the four-year plan of Taihe in Xingyang Prefecture was as high as 300,000 yuan.

Before failing to recover Wuzhi and other places east of the Jialu River, the embankment on the south bank of the Yu River was destined to fail to close the dragon, and the pile of earth and water from the west side alone was also destined to withstand the impact of greater water flow, and the difficulty of repairing the embankment was also quite harsh.

Before starting to repair the embankment, Han Donghu organized the military and civilians to mine a large amount of stone from the eastern foot of Songshan Mountain to strengthen the outer side of the embankment.

In this way, before the flood season of the Yuhe River came in May, the soldiers and civilians of Xingyang used two and a half months to repair the collapsed embankment from west to east for more than five miles, and shorten the breach to the east by less than 1,000 steps.

On the west side of the breach, a stone dam with a length of 50 meters, a height of 4 meters and a base thickness of 10 meters is built with evergreen stone and stone mud to resist the impact of the vortex at the breach.

At such a cost, the effect is naturally extremely obvious.

In the middle of May, the flood season of the new season of the Yu River came, the big water came violently, the remnant embankment east of the breach, was severely and cruelly tested, in the middle of the early June before the middle of the dynasty repaired at the mouth of the Jialu River, the sluice gate connecting the Yu River, together with the remnant embankment on the left and right, was large

The water collapsed, causing more than half of the Yu River to drain directly into the Jialu River and Wuzhi County east of the Jialu River, making the west and south of Bianliang City into a vast ocean.

Eleven camps built by the Eastern Liang army on the east bank of the Jialu River were then washed away.

Zhao Wuji organized the military and civilians to complete the construction of a diversion weir in the Yingshui shoal southwest of Changge as early as mid-April, and scuttled a number of boats and boats loaded with sand and gravel in the upstream channel of the diversion weir, in addition to protecting the diversion weir, but also further reducing the amount of flood water along the Yingshui to the south.

At this time, the Changge diversion weir played its intended role, forcing a large amount of flood water to rush to the opposite bank, through the low-lying area between Bianliang and Yanling, and infiltrating the whirlpool.

It is difficult to accurately estimate the impact of this incident on the banks of the whirlpool, but the floodplain area on the west bank of Yingshui has been greatly reduced in this summer and autumn, and the water level of the Huai River west of Linhuai has also been greatly reduced compared with previous years.

Before the late spring of this year, Lin Haizheng and Yang Qin organized the military and civilians to excavate the main flood canal in the flood belt on the south side of Shouchun, and they also successfully withstood the test -- just vacating fertile land between the new embankment and the old embankment that was more than 60 li long and 78 li to more than 10 li wide added more than 150,000 mu of high-yield grain fields to Shouchun Prefecture.

The four years of Taihe passed in a blink of an eye.

In order to maintain a total of 200,000 troops in eastern Henan, Qilu, and Xusi, Zhu Rang, Xu Mingzhen, and Sima Tan also had to build a large number of walled fortifications west and south of Bianjing, on both sides of the whirlpool, and on the north bank of the Huai River and Hongzepu.

On both sides of the Whirlpool and Surabaya, there were major disasters in the summer and autumn, and the floods flowed wantonly in the Hehuai Plain with a radius of hundreds of miles, and a total of nearly 2 million copper-plated iron coins flowed into the areas controlled by the Eastern Liang Army through various channels, further destroying its fragile commercial economy.

After winter, under the command of Zhao Wuji, Lin Haizheng and others, the Xuzhou Army and the Caizhou Army divided into units to intersperse the eastern Henan region, and the Eastern Liang Army chose to resist in the clear field.

In fact, the blockade of the border areas was also abandoned, and the displaced and disaster victims in eastern Henan took the opportunity to cross the border line and poured into Huainan Prefecture, Shouchun Prefecture, Chenzhou Prefecture, and Xuchang Prefecture.

Before the Huai River thawed in the early spring of the fifth year of Taihe, the people in eastern Henan went south and west to seek a living, as many as 300,000.

In the fourth year of Taihe, the people who fled to Qinling, Funiu Mountain, Caishan, Songshan, Tongbai Mountain and other mountainous areas for the war were further sorted out, plus the people who fled from the eastern Henan region, and the mountain farmers in Lishan and Wangwushan were guided to move to Xingyang Mansion to settle down.

In order to ensure that the development of industry and mining can obtain sufficient surplus labor, Han Qian has not lifted the ban on land restrictions, but asked the prefecture and county to continuously reduce the proportion of low-yield slope land and mountain fields through migration and the construction of water conservancy facilities such as troughs and dams, and increase the proportion of high-yield paddy fields, and asked the prefecture and county to make more efforts in farming technologies such as breeding, seed selection and intercropping rotation.

In the spring of the fifth year of Taihe, a landmark data representing the development of industry and mining industry was presented to Han Qian's desk.

With the further development and expansion of blast furnace smelting technology, the total output of pig iron and refined iron in Taihe exceeded 1 million stone in four years.

In later generations, the output of one million stone steel is just a small steel mill with a technical level of 50,000 tons of steel standards, but it took more than ten years for Han Qian to achieve this goal step by step.

Of course, the discovery of coal and iron deposits in the northern section of Wujianshan has made the most outstanding contribution to achieving this goal, and the annual steel output of Yongyang iron ore accounts for nearly half of the steel output of the whole territory of Daliang.

In order to ensure the supply of money in the territory, and also to further expand the central revenue through coinage, Han Qian also issued an edict in the fourth year of Taihe to carry out a new restructuring of coinage, abolishing the previous square-hole copper coins, adopting a more advanced sand turning method, and recasting copper dollars with copper alloys.

In order to protect the value of the copper dollar itself as much as possible, so that it can be more acceptable to the world, the first batch of newly minted "Taihe Tongbao" copper dollars worth ten yuan weighed only 20 grams in terms of weights and measures.

Based on the current copper price or the cost of mining and smelting copper ore and turning sand coinage, Taihe's four-year official money division minted 300,000 copper dollars, which is equivalent to providing 1.5 million yuan of revenue for the central treasury in old money.

It is no wonder that the central power in later generations will do everything possible to hold the coinage power tightly in their hands.

In order to facilitate the huge payment of large quantities of trade, the official money department began to mint gold and silver dollar coins worth 1, 10 tassels, and a full weight of 50 grams.

The official money department also formally implemented the gold and silver composite standard system to prevent greedy for the benefits of coinage, while forgetting the harm of indiscriminate minting to the national capital; At the same time, it also began to crack down on private casting.

In the fifth year of Taihe, Wusu Dashi finally resisted the internal pressure of Mengwu, and awarded Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian as envoys of Weinan and Fengxiang Jiedu, and canonized Li Yuanshou as the king of Longyou County, so as to curb the expansion of the Liang army from the western flank.

Zhu Rang also rushed to the first month of the fifth year of Taihe in Bianliang to officially proclaim the emperor, and the country name was Wei; Xu Mingzhen was awarded the title of Duke of Song, and Sima Tan was awarded the title of Duke of Pei.

In February of the fifth year of Taihe, Huang Xi, Zhang Feng and other generals led the Zuowu Xiang army to the south along the Ganjiang River, and after joining forces with the Right Dragon Bird Army led by Zheng Hui, Liu Yin, who took advantage of the Qingyuan army festival and proclaimed himself the king of Nanping, died of illness and captured the Xingwangfu (Guangzhou) where the Liu family was the foundation.

Chaofeng and other eastern regions surrendered their cities, and the Qingyuan army made the Lingnan prefectures and more than 280,000 households under its jurisdiction all return to Chu Ting.

At this time, the Wuwei military envoy who seized Fujian, and the king of Liang who was crowned the king of Fujian fifteen years ago died of illness for two years, and his son Wang Yanhan succeeded to the throne of Fujian, but he was not on good terms with his brothers and ministers, resulting in tension within the Fujian State and the retreat of the country's military strength.

Shen Yang, Du Chongtao, Yang En, Zhang Chao, Huang Hua and others thought that they could return Fujian to Dachu as the territory in one go.

In addition to sealing Zheng Hui as the prince of Wuxing County, leading the troops to suppress the Xingwang Mansion and further consolidate the rule of the Chu army in Lingnan, in April of the fifth year of Taihe, Jinling sent an edict to the Xingwang Mansion, so that Huang Xi, Zhang Feng and Chenzhou Fan will wash the sound of shooting, wash and shoot Peng, etc., collect grain on the spot, lead the troops from Xingwangfu to the east to attack Zhangzhou, an important town in the south of Fujian, and at the same time make Gu Zhilong lead Yongjia soldiers and horses to attack the northern Fujian region from southern Zhejiang.

After the outbreak of the Chenzhou crisis, as a compromise condition, the two brothers of Xijiasheng and Xijiapeng led the Chenzhou camp, left Chenzhou, and embarked on a long journey to follow Zheng Hui on the expedition to Lingnan.

In addition to the 3,000 brave men who first embarked on the journey, in the six years before and after, the Xi clan also recruited more than 5,000 households from Chenzhou to fight south, and a total of more than 5,000 people died on the Lingnan battlefield.

Even if Xi Shepeng and Xi Shesheng were promoted to senior generals such as deputy commander and Du Yuhou because of their outstanding military achievements, Xiying also had to be named the Marquis of Yang, but the strength of the Chenzhou Xi clan and its subordinate Fanzhai has almost been exhausted.

Taihe three years

Seeing that the situation in Heluo was stable and the strength of the Liang army was prosperous, Di Xiying was worried that there would be Yi people on the side of Xuzhou, so he wrote a letter requesting that the last 2,000 descendants, mainly women and children, and the side tribesmen be moved to Jiangdong to settle down, as a sign of naturalization and loyalty to the Chu court.

At the same time, the Chenzhou Fan Battalion no longer retains an independent establishment in front of Zheng Hui's account, and is completely integrated into the Right Dragon Bird Army, and its soldiers and families have also moved to Tanzhou and other places, and they are organized into military households.

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In a flash, it is the cold winter of Taihe for five years.

It is located at the western foot of Pishan between Mianchi and Mengjin, covered with vast snowfall.

The mountain at the western foot of the mountain is steep and steep, as if it is like a huge triangle, embedded between the Lishan Mountain and the Wangwu Mountain on the north bank. The Yu River also forms a large bay that flows from the southwest to the northeast first, and then turns to the southeast in the south of the Yuanqu.

The water of the Yu River is sandwiched between the cliff cliffs, twists and turns, the flow is turbulent, and it has been completely frozen at this time.

Shaofeng is more than 400 zhang high, the terrain near the Yu River in the northwest is relatively flat, and in the early years, the Liang army built a sentry fort here with the peak ridge at the west foot of the mountain.

In the second year of Taihe, the Mianchi garrison expanded the sentry fort to Lingshangzhai, and guarded a trail leading to the hinterland of Mianchi County at the southern foot of Bishan on the west flank of Shaofeng, so as to prevent the enemy army on the north bank from going south. In the second and third years of Taihe, the generals of both sides surrounded the Lingshang Village, there were several fierce battles, the Lingshang Village was repaired and expanded several times, and a solid military fortress has been formed in the fourth year of Taihe.

Taking the opportunity of the new establishment of the Shaanzhou Mansion and the management of the pond, the local government widened the path from the tomb to the pond in the fourth year of Taihe, which is more than 40 miles long, into a standard post road.

The mausoleum is directly opposite the Mashou Village in the south of Yuanqu County, the north of Mashou Village is the entrance of Yiguan, and the north is fifty miles north along the ditch sandwiched between Lishan and Wangwu Mountain, then it is the Yuanqu City to which Puzhou belongs.

The first battle in the north took place in Mashou Village.

After the restructuring of the prefecture and county, Wen Bo served as the envoy of the Shaanzhou government, and led the two infantry brigades of Xue Chuan and Su Lie to move to the western foot of Pishan and Hangu Pass, Lingbao, Mianchi and other places.

After the capture of Xingyang City, the defense line on the eastern flank of Heluo advanced to Xingyang, and the Mengzhou Water Camp also suffered heavy losses, and Mengjin, Gongxian, and Yanshi became relatively safe.

These three counties were under the jurisdiction of Luoyang Prefecture, and at this time, the defense of these three counties was included in the Luoyang garrison, and Wen Bo's headquarters were moved westward, and everything seemed logical.

In the capture of Mashou Village, Wen Bo did not come to the front in person at the beginning, but Su Lie commanded the troops and horses to cross the river through the tomb to attack.

No matter from which point of view, this is just a conventional invasion attack launched by the Liang army on the north bank of the Yu River after the Yu River was frozen.

Such an offensive also took place in Xingyang, Hugao Pass, and Lingbao and Tongguan on the westerly flank, and even Chen Yuanchen's subordinates, who had infiltrated Lishan and Wangwu Mountain, also launched attacks on the defenders in the mountains further north this winter.

Tian Weiye didn't pay too much attention to it, he thought that the city wall of Mashou Village was dangerous, the weapons were complete, and the surrounding terrain was extremely narrow, which was not conducive to the development of the Liang army, and there were 2,000 elite defenders in the village.

And in the ditch to the south of the wall, there are several fortifications, and between the Mashou Village, there is a post road that has been continuously built and perfected since the Qin and Han dynasties, even if there is any abnormality, the reinforcement is also fast.

At this time, Tian Weiye was even more worried that the soldiers and horses of the Liang army entering Lishan and Wangwushan would try to disperse the troops and horses in small forces this winter, cross Lishan and Wangwushan, pass through the blockade line they established in the northern mountains of Lishan and Wangwushan, and attack and harass Anyi, Jiangxian, Yangcheng, Qinshui, Quwo and other places, causing serious damage.

At this time, Tian Weiye still deployed the main troops and horses on the northern front.

At that time, the Yu River was frozen for three feet, and the chariots and horses crossed the river on the ice and snow.

Su Lie led his troops to cross the river to the north, but left aside Mashou Village, and the three thousand elites went directly around to the northeast of Ma Shou Village, seven or eight miles northeast, and stationed in the slope valley on the southeast flank of Yaowuling.

Although the Yu River was frozen for three feet at this time, the Mongolian army could completely bypass the Yaowuling slope valley and cross the Yuhe River ice surface more than four or five miles wide from the south to aid Mashou Village, but this slope valley was the only way for the Yuanqu garrison to reinforce Mashou Village from the land.

That is to say, when the Liang army has a firm foothold in the southeast slope valley of Yaowuling, and after the Yu River thaws, the soldiers, horses, and weapons on the south bank of it can still be transported by boat, and a steady stream of them will land in the southeast slope valley of Yaowuling.

At that time, the Liang army went west to attack Mashou Village, but the Yuanqu garrison was isolated from Mashou Village and could not be reinforced.

The terrain around Mashou Village is narrow, it is a must to defend the south entrance of the Yi Pass, as long as the Ma Shou Village is held, the Liang army on the south bank will not be able to send a large number of soldiers and horses to the Yi Pass.

Tian Weiye naturally did not allow Ma Shou Zhai to fall into the crisis of losing his position, and when he learned of this situation, he immediately rushed to Yuanqu City to sit in the town, and dispatched troops and horses to attack Yaowuling, hoping to repel Su Lie's troops and open up contact with Ma Shou Zhai.

At this time, the mobilization orders of Luoyang, Xiaozhou, Huatong, Xingyang, and Shangluo were officially issued, and the six main infantry brigades and garrison brigades of Han Bao, Li Qi, Lin Sheng, He Liufeng, Wen Yuan, and Huo Li continued to drive to the territory of Mianchi County.

The 1st Garrison Brigade led by Huo Li set out from Yanshi, the closest distance, and arrived at the mausoleum two days later.

At this time, Tian Weiye gathered 8,000 soldiers and horses and had just arrived in Yaowuling.

Considering that the south of Michi is the capital of Liang State, and the elite soldiers and horses are gathering very quickly, Tian Weiye did not dare to divide a group of soldiers and horses to go around the river and ice to the west of Yaowuling to attack, but concentrated the northeast side of the soldiers and horses to attack Yaowuling.

There have been no major battles in the past two years, and many armor and ordnance stations under the jurisdiction of the Military Intelligence Staff Office, as well as the war crossbows and shield vehicles, were first equipped with Su Lie and Xue Chuan.

In front of the Yaowuling Slope Valley, although there were more than 300 steps of open offensive passage, 30 spring-arm bed crossbows and 30 individual spring-arm crossbows stood on top of the chariots, lined up, and 20 spring-arm scorpion cannons were placed behind them.

Tian Weiye can fight evil battles, and his generals are all born in bitter cold places such as Zelu, and they have long been accustomed to bloody things on the battlefield all year round, and they can be said to be the elite of a hundred battles, but the armor they wear, and even the big shield they hold in their hands, can't prevent individual soldiers from springing crossbows, let alone resist the shooting of bed crossbows, killing and wounding two or three hundred people, and then shrinking into the depression below, no one is willing to go to this death trap anymore.

The Mongol army also built a large number of shield carts with fine iron, but under the attack of a small group of infiltrating soldiers and horses between the two wings of the mountains, by the time Tian Weiye transferred these shield carts to Yaowuling, Xue Chuan had already led his troops to complete the encirclement of Mashou Village, and successfully blocked the defenders who intended to counterattack out of the village in the village, and set up seven or eight whirlwind cannons in the narrow open space on the south side of the village.

At this time, Wen Bo, Jing Hao, Guo Zong and others entered the tomb to supervise the battle, and Huo Li led 3,000 reinforcements from the First Garrison Brigade to Yaowuling and joined Su Lie......