(Big Chapter Plus Celebration of National Day)

"Fuck your uncle!"

Cao Ba held the horse lance under his left armpit, and the tiger's eyes with a copper bell were big, watching the sharp blade pierce into the left abdomen of an enemy general, but this enemy general was also very fierce, and he also grabbed the lance blade to death, and did not ask Cao Ba to pull the horse lance back from under his abdomen.

A spear, like a poisonous Jiao, came from the side, and another enemy rode a royal horse to kill from the side, holding a spear and stabbing Cao Ba's left chest.

Cao Ba couldn't pull back the horse lance, but he wouldn't abandon the horse lance and fled, pulled out the long knife at his waist, slashed up diagonally like lightning, between the lightning and flint, and slashed at the tail end of the spear blade bitten by a poisonous snake, swinging the spear blade away, his body stood up on the saddle, and the long knife changed momentum, and he cut off the hands of the enemy general with the gun.

The enemy general was also extremely skilled, holding the gun in front of him, driving the tip of the gun with the tail handle to draw a round lone, not only using the barrel of the gun to press down Cao Ba's extremely powerful blade by a few inches, but also the sharp blade of the gun also cut a red light on Cao Ba's right shoulder armor.

In addition to Cao Ba's discarding of the full-hood helmet because he was too breathless, his whole body, including his feet, shins, shoulders, arms, and hands were covered in the armor, while the girder was cold-forged and strong, and the protection was terrifying, and it could only be broken by blunt weapons such as hammers or stabbing with spear blades.

And Cao Ba is strong and powerful, and the enemy's spear skills are amazing, but he can't find a chance to stab him head-on.

In the blink of an eye, Cao Ba and the enemy will fight each other several times, he still suffered the loss of the waist knife is too short, and at the same time grabbed the tail rod of the horse lance and did not let go, it was inconvenient to dodge, and twice was the enemy general's spear and body, but fortunately, it was not damaged at all,

At this time, the enemy general who was pierced through the abdomen by the horse lance finally could not support the fall from the horse, and his hands were released.

Another enemy general did not dare to entangle with Cao Ba, who was holding back the horse lance, and saw that his colleague was no longer alive, so he drove his horse north and fled.

He was shot twice just now, although it was not damaged, but Cao Ba felt breathless, and finally pulled back the horse lance, wanting to fight again heartily, how could the enemy general escape?

The waist knife is still too short, which is only conducive to close defense, and horse battles still need to use horse lances, spears, and halberds to fight happily.

Cao Ba shouted, just drove the horse to chase more than ten steps, but he didn't want the war horse under him to stop suddenly, he almost threw out.

The enemy general saw that there was an opportunity, and while Cao Ba's body was unstable, the spear turned around and stabbed Cao Ba fiercely and accurately; Fortunately, two cavalry behind him arrived in time, and one of them threw the war spear in his hand directly at the enemy general's chest, forcing him to dodge, and at the same time causing the enemy general's spear blade to miss the side of Cao Ba's cheek.

When the enemy general saw that Cao Ba was steady, he didn't dare to fight, so he turned around and fled.

Cao Ba only found out at this time that he still had the strength to kill the enemy, but the war horse under him, without armor, was shot by the enemy more than a dozen arrows in the melee in which he took the lead, and finally couldn't support it at this time, and knelt on the ground with soft hooves and fell down.

"Lead the horse!"

Cao Ba shouted.

"......" The two horsemen drove their horses in front of Cao Ba, and another person chased after him from behind, jumped off the horse and hugged Cao Ba to death, and said bitterly, "Master, you kill slowly, the brothers have finally saved up enough military merits, thinking that they can please a beautiful lady and be warm, if you are cut off the horse by the enemy general, even if the brothers don't have to lose their lives, their good exploits will be in vain......"

"You useless fools, you are jealous that you have killed more enemies than you!" Cao Ba laughed.

"Yes, what the master says is what he says, anyway, to save your dog's life, we can explain to Wen Shuai and Junshang." The three of them said with a hippie smile, anyway, they didn't want Cao Ba to have another chance to chase and defeat the enemy single-handedly, and wait for the cavalry behind to come over and meet together.

"Do you know how many first-level merits you have won today?" Cao Ba's whole body was soaked with sweat, and when he rested, he was weak, and when he saw that no enemy dared to surround and kill, he sat on the mountain rock with Ma Shuo and asked.

"The whole army has long ceased to count merit by the first level, and the generals and military attachés at all levels calculate the military merit according to the degree of completion of the established combat objectives. One of the horsemen smiled wryly.

"The enemy army is defeated, and after covering and killing it, how can it be called a light enemy rash advance? Anyway, I'm cool today. Cao Ba said disapprerovingly.

After resting, more than 200 cavalry gathered on the left and right, but Cao Ba did not blindly try to be happy, and divided the gathered cavalry into two teams to intercept the follow-up rout along a shallow stream.

He himself climbed a hill surrounded by a dozen horsemen, and saw that thousands of routs were still fleeing to the north on horseback, and he was very sorry, but for the time being, he was really unable to continue the pursuit.

Half an hour later, Li Xiu also led a team of cavalry to gallop from the direction of the Meihe Ancient Road Pass, rendezvous with Cao Ba, and strengthen the interception along the line.

"You killed hard enough, you were caught by tens of thousands of enemy pawns before and after, and you carried it for a day and a night, how many enemy soldiers did you kill?" Cao Ba asked Li Xiu grinningly.

"Shen Peng led his troops to capture Meiling Fort first, but Su Lie's troops suffered too heavy casualties, and all the generals were killed, and they didn't have the strength to count how many enemy soldiers they killed." Li Xiu stood on top of the ridge, saw more Liang soldiers and horses, a team of soldiers and horses interspersed from the rout, more than 20 warships were also on the Fenshui in the west, intercepting those enemy soldiers who wanted to swim across the Fenshui, and exhaled lightly with emotion.

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At dusk, Wen Bo personally rushed to the north of Yicheng County surrounded by more than 1,000 horsemen, and after meeting with Cao Ba, Li Ji and other remnants of soldiers and horses, he entered Xiangling City on the east bank of Fenshui.

So far, except for the enemy generals such as Wusu Dashi, Xiao Yiqing, and Xiao Siqing, who led less than 24,500 remnants of troops to flee along the east bank of Fenshui to the direction of Hongdong and Huoxian in the north, the passage for the rest of the Mongolian army to flee north was completely cut off.

After that, Shen Peng joined forces with Wen Yuan's troops who came over to capture Qinshui City at the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain; Han Bao, Zhu Zhen, Lin Sheng and other troops went west to seize Anyi, Linyi, Puban, Wanrong and other places west of Jiangxian County.

After the Mongolian army completely fled into Huo County, Wen Bo sent troops to take over Fushan, Hongdong, Linfen and other places.

Han Qian was also stopped by many generals, and he waited almost until the preliminary clearance and rectification of the Fenshui River Valley had been carried out before he came to Xiangling in person at the end of October.

In the end, the morale of the Mongolian army completely collapsed, and there was no fighting spirit in the rout, and Wu Su Dashi, Xiao Yiqing and others were also worried about getting out after being entangled by the main force of the Liang army, and fled north without stopping until Huo County.

This made the Liang army almost bloodless to capture the cities of Xiangling, Fushan, Linfen, and Hongdong.

During the thirty or forty years of the Liang and Jin rivalries, Xiangling, a small city built on the verge of Fenshui, was extremely lucky to avoid the devastation of the war, and this time it was also intact.

The stone street has left traces of years of polishing, and the houses along the street are also quite neat, and tens of thousands of people who have been read have let out deafening shouts and cheers.

Han Qian rode on horseback, and Zhao Ting'er and Zhao Ting'er walked in the direction of the county government surrounded by many generals, and they were also immersed in the great joy brought by this hard-won victory, but completely changed the balance of power between the enemy and us.

The preliminary results have been counted, this battle captured nearly 70,000 enemy soldiers, killed more than 30,000 enemy soldiers, counting the Luzhou elite soldiers of Tian Weiye's headquarters annihilated in the early stage, and nearly 2,000 enemy generals above the centurion were killed and captured before and after.

This is also destined to accelerate the process of the elite of the Great Liang to recover Guanzhong, pacify Hedong, Heshuo, and even recover Hehuai.

The only thing that Han Qian was slightly less satisfied with was that in order to ensure his safety and prevent the Mongol army from potentially assassinating the city, Wen Bo expelled the 20,000 people in the city in advance before he came to Xiangling.

After entering the city, the procession of the street to greet each other was purely a jubilant general, so that he could not intuitively observe the attitude of the people of Jinpu and Pu towards the victory of Yiguan.

Of course, this is no longer important.

Han Qian did not want to disturb the people too much, and decided to stop the inspection as far as Xiangling, and did not continue to go north, nor did he intend to rush to the northern part of Hongdong County to inspect the dangerous terrain that was forced and tightened by the Taiyue Mountain and the Luliang Mountain.

Of course, he still couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart, thinking that in the follow-up war, I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to have the opportunity to come to the front line in person.

Of course, although this battle was an extremely crucial victory, the casualties of the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang were not a small number, and according to preliminary statistics, the attrition of various battles had exceeded 50,000.

Such a melee situation mainly relies on the bloody fighting of the generals, and the elite weapons cannot be put into the deep battlefield, and the elite cavalry of the Mengwu clan has a very strong field combat ability in open terrain, and the casualties of the Liang army are indispensable.

"The Hehuai region will be frozen in a few days, and the weather will become colder and colder, which is not conducive to the battle of the generals - and from Xiangling to the east of Naizelu Town, and to the north is Taiyuan, which are all fortified and heroic cities that are difficult for ten thousand armies to overcome. In recent years, the Mongolian army has moved more than 300,000 people to these two places, and they have fled in defeat, and it seems that there are not many remnants of the defeated generals in their hands, but they can still recruit 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers from their young and strong people in Taiyuan, Zezhou, and Luzhou, and we should not engage in fierce battles in these two directions in a short period of time."

In the narrow county hall of Xiangling City, in addition to Feng Yi, Gu Qian, Gao Shao, Wang Zhe and other accompanying generals, Wen Bo surrendered, Feng Xuan, Li Xiu, Su Lie, Feng Zhang, He Liufeng, Zhu Zhen, Cao Ba, Zhao Ci and other dozens of generals who participated in the war also sat behind the long case in three columns and participated in the deliberations.

Han Qian and Zhao Ting'er sat behind the long case, and talked with the generals and ministers about the arrangements for the follow-up defense and other military and political affairs in these two directions.

"In the next step, we will concentrate our efforts on recovering Guanzhong, Xiangling and Qinshui, and will focus on building fortifications for defense, digesting the prisoners, and actively sending small groups of soldiers and horses to infiltrate the southern foot of Luliang Mountain, Taiyue Mountain and Taihang Mountain. When we can control the wider mountainous area, even if there are still a few cities in the Taiyuan Basin, the Shangdang Basin, and a few cities in the hands of the Mongol army, there is actually not much threat......

"The General Staff Office suggests that a new Taiyue camp army be placed at the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, control Qinshui, and be responsible for the defense of the enemy in Zelu, I also think this is extremely necessary-Li Xiu, this time I will trouble you to serve as the commander of the Taiyue camp army, Su Lie will be the deputy commander of the capital, stay in Qinshui with Chen Yuanchen, and assist you in taking charge of the military infiltration and defense ......of Ze and Lu Prefectures."

The commander of the capital plus the town army is the commander of the envoy, which is equivalent to the commander of the soldiers and horses all the way.

Of course, this is also Li Xiu's true deservedness, for the Li family to regain their due glory and status in the world.

Li Xiu became famous as a young man, followed his father Li Yu to Yinhongzhou, and then went out of the mountain to Jinling Rebellion, he was also regarded as a great feats for the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and the Late Red Mansion, but the end was that his brother Li Changfeng died, and the remnants of the Li family also escaped under the protection of Han Qian, and finally exiled to Xia Cai to settle.

From the early Xia Cai defensive battle, the follow-up led his troops to respond to Dancheng, and Kong Xirong organized troops to Shangluo, defended Mengjin, and organized cavalry to participate in the defense of western Henan, Li Xiu made a lot of achievements.

However, there are many outstanding generals at the first level commanded by the Daliang Brigade, such as Su Lie, Feng Zhang, He Liufeng, Lu Ze, Lin Zongjing, Lin Jiang, Lin Sheng, Dong Tai, Tan Xiuqun, Xiao Dahu, Dou Rong, Wei Xu and other generals, all of whom have followed Han Qian for more than ten years.

And Shen Peng, Zhao Ci, Xue Chuan, Cao Ba, Wen Yuan and other generals have not followed Han Qian for a long time, but they are either old generals of the Liang army, or they are similar to Wen Bo and lead the defenders of Luoshan, and they have already become famous.

However, Han Qian promoted Li Xiu to be the main general of the soldiers and horses all the way at this time, and everyone was also convinced.

Resolutely abandoning the absolutely safe inner line and not taking it, just to fight for a day or two, and risk leading the cavalry through the enemy territory such as Bianliang and Mengzhou, is not a decision that anyone can make.

Shen Peng and Li Xiu were both in Changge at that time, so he advocated taking the inner line, and it was Li Xiu who strongly advocated that Shen Peng borrowed from Mengzhou with him; After rushing to Yuanqu, Li Xiu decisively proposed to lead his troops to directly insert the Meihe Ancient Road to intercept it.

All this shows that Li Xiu has judgment and decisiveness beyond ordinary generals.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of his troops with Shen Peng, and the timely insertion of the Meihe Ancient Road after meeting with Su Lie, Daliang not only intercepted at least 30,000 more routed troops in this battle, but also controlled the key place from the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain into Zelu in one step.

This is extremely important for the subsequent situation of the enemy and the development of the war.

Shen Peng and Su Lie both made great achievements in this battle, but Han Qian's promotion of Li Xiu as the chief general of the Taiyue Xingying Army was also convincing.

Li Xiu and Su Lie walked out of the long case and received the order to thank him.

Jinju was then changed to Pingyang Prefecture, and Feng Yi advocated that seven counties including Linfen, Xiangling, Hongdong, Xiangning, Yuecheng, and Fushan be included. In addition to Feng Zhang's deputy commander for you, Xue Chuan and Lin Sheng also led their troops to stay in Pingyang, and your follow-up focus is to build more walled cities in the north of Hongdong County according to the dangerous terrain, block the passage of the enemy soldiers in Taiyuan to the south, and solve the worries of recovering the pass...... "Han Qian said to Wen Bo again.

"If it weren't for Concubine Shu's strategy, it would have been difficult to win this battle so smoothly, and Wen Bo would be ashamed of the leader." Wimbo said.

The generals in the army were mainly accustomed to using ready-made results, and lacked sufficient interest in understanding the development of the new learning system.

Like Han Qian, he was accustomed to using tricks in his early years, and it was only at this time that Wen Bo had a deeper understanding of what kind of deep foundation there was behind these many tricks.

is also the deeper the understanding, the more peaceful Wen Bo's mind becomes, and it is difficult to have any arrogance.

He knew very well that this great victory depended more on the careful planning of the General Staff Office, the orderly and sufficient supply of materials in Luoyang, the sophisticated armor and weapons, and the strong fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of the whole army.

Now Han Qian gave him three infantry brigades and the corresponding reserve brigade, asking him to build a defensive line in the north of Hongdong County, but as long as there was a steady stream of material support from Luoyang and enough sophisticated weapons available, Wen Bo had absolute trust to block the enemy in Taiyuan in the upper reaches of Fenshui, so that it could not interfere with the subsequent battle to recover Guanzhong.

"I have two wives, both of whom are worth 100,000 elite soldiers." Han Qian took Zhao Ting'er's hand and laughed.

In addition to the Taiyue Camp Army, the Pingyang Camp Army and the Pingyang Mansion, Feng Yi, Gu Qian and others also proposed to separate Yicheng, Quwo, Jiangxian, Yuanqu, Yicheng, Wenxi and other counties to establish a new Jiangzhou Mansion.

In addition, the counties of Puban, Linyi, Anyi, Wanrong, Gaoliang, and Jishan in the lower reaches of Fenshui were classified as Hejin Prefecture, but the defense affairs of Hejin Prefecture were included in the military sequence of Huatong Prefecture, and they were under the unified control and command of Jing Zhen.

At present, Han Bao and Wen Yuan are stationed in Puban and other cities to spy on the enemy troops in Pujindu and Tongzhou in Hexi.

In addition, Han Qian also left six disabled reserve brigades along the Fenshui to rest and garrison to strengthen the defense capability of the entire upper and lower reaches of the Fenshui River Valley, and other soldiers and horses will be withdrawn to Luoyang one after another to recuperate, to prevent the resumption of fighting in western Henan, Huatong, Shangluo and other places, and to prepare for the war in the coming year......

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Han Qian did not stay in Xiangling for too long, and returned to Luoyang with Zhao Ting'er in early November, surrounded by many attendants and generals, but Feng Yu still stayed behind to handle the follow-up matters on behalf of the Younei Shifu.

To the south of Huo County, west of Qinshui and east of Pujin, the lower reaches of Fenshui River Valley is the most essence of the entire Hedong Ancient County, with 25 counties having tens of millions of acres of cultivated land and more than 1.5 million households.

In addition, there is also a Hedong salt pond with an annual output of millions of stone pond salt in Anyi County.

In order to prepare for this battle, the Mongolian army hoarded 560,000 stone of grain and other materials in Jiangxian, Quwo and other cities, all of which were trophies, and also captured more than 80,000 large animals of various types, including superior war horses; There were also 20,000 southward migrants from the Mongwu who settled in Jinju (Binh Duong Province) and were also taken into custody as prisoners of war.

The 25 counties are divided into the three prefectures of Pingyang, Jiangzhou, and Hejin, and in addition to Wen Bo, who is also the envoy of the Pingyang Prefecture and the leading military administration, the military, government, criminal, and prison supervisors of the 25 counties of the two prefectures should be appointed in place as soon as possible to take charge of local affairs.

It lasted nearly a year before and after the Yiguan Dynasty, but most of the time the battle took place in the deep gorge valley and the Yuanqu basin south of Jiangxian County, and the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang went out of the pass on the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain and entered the Fenshui River Valley to fight for a short time.

The damage caused by the war to local farming and production was very limited, and Feng Yi stayed to ensure that more than 1.5 million Jin people could be integrated into the rule of Daliang as quickly as possible, and that the spring plowing and autumn harvest of tens of millions of acres of cultivated land would not be delayed.

At present, it is also the best opportunity to comprehensively implement many new systems in the Fenshui River Valley, and it is necessary to set up township departments as carefully as possible, control the countryside, and take advantage of the disintegration of local forces to completely suppress them and prevent them from having a chance to take the lead.

Another key thing is to organize the production of salt ponds.

At present, Xuzhou produces 300,000 Shijing salt annually in Wuchuan, but it is far from being enough for the use of the Liang people's army, and after two years of Taihe, Daliang imports salt more than 600,000 stone every year through the Chuhuai East Salt Field, and it is increasing year by year.

Subsequently, the salt consumption in the Fenshui River Valley and Guanzhong was counted, and at least 1.2 million stone was used for cultivation in Daliang a year, and if it was mainly imported from the Huaidong salt field, it would cost at least 2 million silver dollars per year.

Organize salt farmers in Anyi as soon as possible and resume the production of salt in Hedong Chi, which will save Daliang almost 100,000 or 200,000 silver dollars in salt purchase expenses every month.

Han Qian also determined the mode of resuming the production of salt in Hedong Chi before returning to Luoyang, and funded by the First Savings Bureau of Daliang and the two local savings bureaus of Luoyang and Donghu, recruited salt farmers in Anyi to form a salt trading company for production.

The salt produced by the salt trading company is resold by the salt merchants to Zhuzhou Prefecture after the tax administration department levies a special tax on each stone pond salt.

In this way, it saves the center to spend huge manpower and material resources to organize the production, transportation and marketing of pool salt, and avoids the central organization being too large and redundant.