Although the Xuzhou prisoners did not receive strict military training, they were sent to prison as traitors and prisoners, and they were subjected to strict discipline and control, especially after the bloody suppression of the state prison incident, the 500 prisoners in Xuzhou can be said to be quite obedient.

After Han Qian left Xuzhou and returned to Jinling, Han Daoxun, who was good at managing prison affairs, also took a series of measures to improve the treatment of prisoners, strictly prohibiting prison officials from exploiting and extorting prisoners; In the construction of river embankments, roads, and city walls, in addition to strictly prohibiting the abuse of prisoners, it also put an end to the tradition of using inferior grain for sustenance.

At the same time, he pacified several unjust prisons, which had a great impact, but Han Daoxun first established his reputation among the prisoners.

Even though most of the prisoners were reluctant to be organized into prisoner soldiers and enter the bloody battlefield, Zhao Kuo and Yang Qin came all the way, and there were no prisoners who made trouble or escaped.

In the afternoon, the convicts were arranged, whether it was the artisan battalion or the Xuzhou battalion, whether it was the distribution of weapons for training, or the carrying of materials or climbing to the top of the city to clean up the battlefield, all of them were orderly and very good-looking, and they were not even slightly worse than the slave soldiers who had been trained for a month and a half.

Changing someone else to stand in Han Qian's position, he should be satisfied at this time.

is not yet twenty years old, his father is the assassin of the border state, although he himself is not high, but he has the trust of the three princes almost wholeheartedly, and his status in the Linjiang Marquis Mansion and the Dragon Bird Army is comparable to Shen Yang, Zhang Ping, Chai Jian, Li Chong and even Guo Ke and others have been stepped on by him and can not turn over for the time being.

In addition to Zuo Si, the salt affairs promised by Emperor Tianyou, the construction of the city in the waves, and even the logistics and supply of the left front of the camp in the northwest were almost handed over to him.

In addition to the more than 1,000 workers in the workshop, he directly controlled nearly 1,000 people.

Even when Emperor Tianyou was not yet twenty years old, he may not have such a scene.

However, Han Qian was by no means satisfied, he looked at the turbulent river with apprehension.

The war, especially today's fierce war, may make quite a lot of people forget for the time being, and in two days it will be the New Year's Day, which will be the fourteenth year of God's blessing.

Theoretically, Emperor Tianyou still has more than three years to live, and he will not die until Tianyou is seventeen years old, but the problem is that Han Qian doesn't know if Emperor Tianyou's life will go down according to the established historical trajectory after so many changes.

A butterfly flapping its wings can set off a storm across the ocean.

The "butterfly effect" induced by any small factor is difficult to estimate.

He was trying to change his life at this time, to change the lives of the three princes and a large group of people, so why did he believe that the trajectory of Emperor Tianyou's life would not change?

The world is impermanent, and it would be too dogmatic to think that the situation would still have room for recovery until the seventeenth year of God's blessing.

Maybe it's only been two years, right?

Once the Dragon Bird Army gradually becomes a force, and the prestige of the three princes is high enough, it will set off a heated discussion about the abolition of the heirs in the court, and it is estimated that if the Emperor of Heaven You dies, the Anning Palace will no longer be able to sit still, right?

In addition to foresight, the fierce battle in the early morning also made Han Qian deeply confused.

The Liang army's attack on Canglang City's 400 soldiers and horses, whether it is from the will to fight or personal bravery, is definitely the elite combat power of the Liang army, but there is no slightly decent siege equipment, such combat power is generally used as a mobile force to scout or harass the hinterland of the enemy's territory.

Without capturing the Iron Crocodile Ridge, the Liang army directly used lightly armed elite cavalry to attack the walled city located in the depths of the Chu army's defense line, and even after the defeat, it would face the Chu army from both flanks at any time, and Han Yuanqi, the right-wing master of the Liang army with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses entering Nanyang Basin, made such a tactical arrangement, which made Han Qian a little confused.

Could it be that the elite soldiers and horses of the Liang army are already so numerous that they can be consumed casually?

Han Qian was puzzled, and stood on the riverbank until dark, almost waiting for the transfer of supplies from the six boats to the shore before he returned to Canglang City.

Considering that the fighting on the Western Front might be more fierce and tragic than expected, Han Qian decided to send most of the materials transported from Xuzhou to Jingzikou by Feng Xuan and them.

This time, the materials shipped out of Xuzhou are twice as large as in the past.

In order to dispel the vigilance of the four surnames, Han Qian also wrote back to Jinling, asking Gao Shao to collect the money collected by the money shop in November, deduct the consumption of Jinling, and release the excess more than 4 million yuan to Xuzhou in advance and hand it over to the four surnames as a deposit.

In addition to the 500 prisoners, this is also an important reason why the fleet is much larger than before.

Han Qian did not let them rest on the six ships that unloaded the supplies, but told them to rush to Xiangzhou non-stop, and transport the materials that the defense embassy should allocate to the left front in the next month to Canglang City as soon as possible.

Now that the military movements are frequent, and the ships in Xiangzhou City are also limited, Han Qian does not send his own ships, and he does not know how many days it will take to delay before the next month's grain can arrive.

As the night deepened, a horse's hoofs sounded outside Canglang City.

Han Qian didn't sleep either, and was summoning Tian Cheng, Zhao Kuo, Zhao Wuji, Xi Ying, Yang Qin, Xi Chang, Guo Nuer, and Xi Fa'er, and other eight new team leaders of the Xuzhou battalion into the big tent to discuss some problems that had been exposed in the new reorganization of the Xuzhou battalion for only half a day.

The sound of horses' hooves, but there were only a few horses, Han Qian didn't particularly care, and after a while, he saw Fan Dahei coming in to report on the battle in Iron Crocodile Ridge.

The Iron Crocodile Ridge side fought from noon until dark, and it was almost when more than 1,500 generals from the Fourth Capital arrived at the northern foot of the Iron Crocodile Ridge by boat that the Liang army withdrew.

The elite two battalions transferred by Li Zhihe from Jingzikou took a boat out of Jingzikou at a very fast speed, and they had already arrived at Iron Crocodile Mountain before the battle.

Li Zhihe has a lot of elites in his hands, and he occupies the convenience of the terrain, but the Liang army attacked quite resolutely today, attacking several waves during the day, almost losing thousands of people, and Li Zhihe's troops also suffered 600 casualties.

For this reason, Li Zhihe had to seconded a battalion of 500 soldiers from the Fourth Capital to temporarily stay in the Iron Crocodile Ridge to strengthen the defense, waiting for the other two battalions of elite soldiers and horses from the First Capital to come from Jingzikou, and then let Gao Chengyuan's soldiers and horses go to Jingzikou in batches to meet Gao Chengyuan.

According to the situation of the Liang army's strong attack on Canglang City and Iron Crocodile Ridge today, Li Zhihe hoped to urge the fifth general led by Guo Liang to accelerate the westward advance, and it was best to enter Canglang City to wait and see the development of the situation, in case there was a change.

"The Liang army's attack on the left flank is a little unexpectedly strong?" Tian Cheng smacked his lips and sighed to Han Qian.

Han Qian nodded and said, "Judging from the intensity of the war that broke out today, the Liang army's desire to control the Danjiang waterway is so strong that it exceeds our previous expectations—the soldiers and horses of the Liang army entering the Nanyang Basin this year may have ambitions to expand their territory!" ”

In the past, the Liang army entered the Nanyang Basin, mainly to disturb the attack, and then withdrew, after all, the cities north of the Han River have been deserted, and the population is barren, so they will send heavy troops to control this area, and the supply will be quite difficult.

However, this does not mean that the Liang army did not have the ambition to incorporate the Nanyang Basin into the territory.

Although the Liang State has also suffered from internal and external troubles in recent years, Zhu Yu, the second son of Emperor Liang who was named King Yong and General of Shenglong, has appeased the displaced people in Luoyang and other places in recent years, established new prefectures and counties, built water conservancy, hoarded and cultivated, and achieved great results, which made the national strength of the Liang army rise in the past two years.

If the Liang State intends to occupy the Nanyang Basin for a long time, the significance of the Danjiang Waterway to the Liang army will become more prominent.

Han Qian instructed Tian Cheng to send several spies to infiltrate the hinterland of the enemy-controlled area in disguise to reconnoiter the movements of the Liang army, and he took a boat to Xiangzhou City at night to meet the three princes and Shen Yang.

In addition to the nearly 6,000 main forces of the Dragon Bird Army, Han Qian hoped that the Third Prince and Shen Yang could fight for more troops with Du Chongtao and make up for the left front.

As for the second general led by Zhou Shu, Han Qian still hoped that they would continue to stay east of Xiangzhou City.

To be honest, Han Qian was a little afraid to let the second capital, which was absolutely controlled by the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion and the Late Red Mansion, get too close to him at this time. It's cool to "admonish" others by yourself, but it would be too unpleasant to let others "admonish" them.

Han Qian still didn't take Zhao Wuji with him on this trip, but secretly ordered him to keep an eye on Zhao Kuo.

Han Qian has always not trusted Zhao Kuo enough, especially after the marriage between Fan Dahei and Zhang Qian's daughter, he has a stronger vigilance against the older generation of domestic soldiers around his father.

However, Zhao Kuo was a close confidant of his father, and he commanded the jailers in Xuzhou and escorted 500 prisoners to Xiangzhou, so Han Qian could not do without him as the commander of the Xuzhou battalion for the time being.

However, even if in addition to using Xi Chang and Guo Nu'er to divide Zhao Kuo's power, in addition to the Xuzhou battalion accepting Tiancheng's control in Canglang City, the ten team leaders of the Xuzhou battalion were all filled by the elite scouts of the Zuo Division, and the chief and the chief of the Wu below also chose more Xi clansmen, but Han Qian still gave Zhao Wuji extra orders to help him keep an eye on Zhao Kuo more, so that he could leave with confidence.