(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to the brothers)

Han Daoming: They didn't arrive in Luoyang until the end of August.

Han Qian was not in Luoyang at this time, and was inspecting the military situation and the construction of customs defense at Tiger Prison Pass.

Han Daoming is also old in the end, he has stayed in Jinling to intrigue with people all these years, and the consumption of spirit is also very great, at this time, when he first arrived in Luoyang, his spirit may not be as good as the old man, so he thought about taking a breath first, recuperating for a while, and reuniting with Han Daochang, Han Duan, Han Jianji and other children who arrived in Luoyang a month in advance and arrived in Luoyang in mid-May; Han Jun, his wife and children, as well as some of the Han clan who remained in Xuanzhou, also arrived in Luoyang after a long journey in mid-August after being released from imprisonment in Xuanzhou.

Feng Yi, Yin Peng, Lu Ze and others received Han Qian's order to rush directly to the Tiger Prison Pass to rendezvous.

Yin Peng didn't have time to settle down in his family, so he rushed to the Tiger Prison with Feng Yi and Lu Ze.

After crossing the White Horse Gorge, you can still see the traces left by the fierce battle in Heluo before late May, including the ditches that were destroyed in advance.

At this time, there was frost and fog in the morning and dusk in the mid-autumn season in the north, and the east bank of the Yiluo River was still a muddy and muddy place, and from time to time you could see broken arrow shafts and even the iron blades of armor, and no one picked them up, and in just four or five months, they were covered with rust.

At present, Mengzhou on the north bank and Xingyang east of Hugao Pass are still stationed in Zhao Mengji and Liang Shixiong, with a total of more than 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses.

The area on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yiluo River and the northern foot of Songshan Mountain and along the Bishan Mountain extending to the two wings are currently part of the war defense and buffer zone, and the civilians have been evacuated to the west and south of the Baima Gorge.

In addition to going out of the White Horse Gorge to Gongxian to govern the city, and then from Gongxian to the post road leading to the Tiger Prison Pass on the northwest slope of Songshan Mountain, due to the people and horses coming and going, the repair is better, the fields on both sides are overgrown with half-human artemisia grass, the village is dilapidated, there are broken walls that are burned down or collapsed by floods everywhere, in just two or three years, it is hard to imagine that once the most prosperous place in Daliang except Bianjing has become a barren.

The stark contrast between the two sides of the White Horse Gorge also makes people more deeply appreciate the significance of the battle of the Yiluo River Estuary.

In the past four months, in addition to the Xixuan Temple on the west bank of the Yiluo River and at the foot of the Bishan Mountain, the pass city that has been repaired along the river defense line is the Tiger Prison Pass.

In addition to the old Guancheng repaired and renovated, the east and west sides rammed earth to build an outer city wall, although the terrain is not extremely dangerous, but the Guancheng to the east and west sides of the widening of more than 2,000 steps, the formation of a larger defensive space.

Songnan plank road until early August

The last iron girder bridge was erected for heavy-duty carriages to pass, and the advantage of transportation capacity has not yet been brought into play, that is to say, Heluo has actually been in a situation of extreme shortage of materials and food before, and it has not been completely alleviated so far.

Limited materials, naturally have to be used on the blade, Yin Peng and their cavalry came in from the outer city wall in the west, and saw that the Tiger Prison Pass, in addition to the city wall and the barracks of the internal and external garrisons, the command office has been repaired and expanded, the houses on both sides of the streets and alleys inside and outside the Guancheng - the Tiger Prison Pass is entrenched on the land pass from Bianjing to Guanzhong on the south bank of the Yu River, even outside the Guancheng in the early years, the post road near the Guancheng is full of street shops and courtyards - it is still dilapidated.

There were burn marks everywhere, collapsed houses everywhere, the rammed earth remnants still had dark blood stains, and there were stone bullets thrown by the whirlwind cannons or bricks and clods from the city walls that had collapsed, and several marching routes had been cleared.

At this time, they had not had time to repair, but they were hastily wrapped in the outer city walls, and there were not many households in the Tiger Prison Pass at this time.

There is only one temple appearance, in the war has also become dilapidated in the building complex, Yin Peng saw a brand new Futu stone pagoda erected, they stood outside the remnant temple, across a remnant wall, to see that the tower body more than ten steps away is more than three zhang high, the whole is carved with a white sè with jade luster in the Songshan Mountain.

Yin Peng was very strange, Han Qian and no one around him worshiped the Buddha and rituals, and the Tiger Prison was still in ruins, how could he spend so much effort to repair this pagoda first?

In fact, since the middle and late dynasties of the former dynasty, all forces in the Central Plains have suppressed Buddhism and Taoism out of the need for their own interests.

Seeing that Yin Peng, Feng Yi, and Lu Ze were all holding the reins, they looked at the stone tower hesitantly, and Huo Xiao, who greeted them outside the gate of Xicheng Pass, introduced: "In the battle of Heluo, there were 10,089 generals who were killed and seriously injured before and after the Tiger Prison Pass, and a total of 31,047 soldiers were killed and seriously injured on the two wings of the entire Yiluo River Estuary during the two battles. When the Tiger Prison was rebuilt, the king ordered the construction of the martyr's stone pagoda in the Bailin Temple, in addition to inscribed the heroism of the war, but also to engrave the names of these 31,047 generals on it, for the world to pay tribute to the ......"

The military system of the former dynasty collapsed in the middle of the period, and the recruitment system in the middle and late periods was in power, and before and after the founding of Chu, Liang, Jin, and Shu, due to the significant reduction of Dingkou in the territory, this led to not only the reduction of the soldiers who could be requisitioned, but also the scale of taxes that could be levied was also greatly reduced.

Under this military system, the fighting spirit of the generals who fought bravely and won many military exploits was rewarded with meritorious service, but the economic exploitation of ordinary soldiers and the suppression of social and political status can be said to have reached an extreme.

However, on the cruel and ruthless battlefield, the soldiers who died in battle, even if they had military merits, were due to the traditional military system with the first-class merit system

It will definitely fall into the pocket of his colleagues in Paoze, and his family will not be able to pay compensation for the loss of his life, but because of his death in battle, his children will have to be added to the battalion because of the rule of "brother dies and brother dies, father dies and son succeeds" - therefore, in practice, once a certain soldier family has a child who dies on the battlefield, the situation is the most miserable.

Yin Peng looked at the newly built martyr's stone pagoda in the remnant temple, and secretly thought about the military system that Han Qian had marched in these years, and the military system practiced in the middle and late stages of the previous dynasty, and the military system practiced in the late period and the founding of Liang Chu for more than 20 years.

Walk into the inner city, which is the old gate of the Tiger Prison Pass.

The buildings on both sides of the long street are much more complete than the outside, but when you enter from the gate, you can still see that in addition to the buildings inside the gate, they have been smashed and collapsed by stone bullets, and there are also traces left after the fierce street battles.

At present, the main general of the Tiger Prison Pass is Chen Kun, and at the same time, the defense areas north of the White Horse Gorge, east of the Yiluo River, and the northern foot of Songshan are all under the command of Chen Kun.

However, when I walked into the government office where the tooth tent was located, I saw that in addition to Chen Kun, Shen Peng and other generals who defended the Tiger Prison Pass and other gates, in addition to Han Yuanqi, Guo Qi, Feng Xuan, Han Donghu and other generals who served Han Qian from Luoyang, Wen Bo, Li Mo, Xue Chuan and others who were responsible for guarding the palace along the mountain were also gathered in the yahall.

Led by Han Qian, everyone was discussing something around a long table-shaped sand table in the yahall.

Seeing this scene, and thinking of Zhao Wuji and Li Xiu's two infantry brigades and three cavalry brigades advancing along the west bank of Yingshui to Xuzhou in the north, Yin Peng couldn't help but think in shock, could it be that Han Qian was going to launch an attack on Xingyang and other cities located east of Hugao Pass, north of Xuzhou, Xinzheng and other cities at this time, and at this time Liang Shixiong led his troops to entrench themselves, right?

That's too hasty, isn't it?

Yin Peng accompanied Feng Yi, Lu Ze and everyone to salute, and when they saw Han Donghu and Huo Li taking the initiative to give up a gap, they walked to the long table sand table that was about a foot long and more than five feet wide.

"You have worked hard all the way, I waited for you to come over earlier to share the heavy military burden, and I didn't ask you to stay in Luoyang for two more days," Han Qian gestured to Yin Peng and asked, "Won't you be too tired?" ”

"Thank you for your concern, Weichen and Jiaxiao came all the way by carriage, very comfortable, not tired." Yin Peng said.

"I don't have so many rules here, don't say be cautious, Wang Jun is going to the medical camp now, I must be very happy to see you coming," Han Qian smiled, pointed to the sand table and said, "Liang Chu has negotiated peace, the Mughal people and the Eastern Liang army don't see any signs of launching a winter offensive at present, but we can't be idle, I think about the recent transfer of an elite from Bishan Mountain, directly inserted into the Xiangshan on the north bank to take root, you also help the staff officer ......"