Seeing that Zhang Fengyi insisted on using officialdom in the army, Huang Han had no choice but to change his words and asked:

"Why is General Zhang besieged alone? Who is in charge of your crew? Benjue must impeach him. ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "The last general is controlled by the governor of Henan, Lord Xuanmo, and the plan is to encircle Wang Ziyong, Wang Jiayun, Xing Hongniang, Guotianxing, Breaking into the sky, etc. ”

The so-called Mao Hulu soldiers refer to the private armed forces active in the deep mountains and valleys of western Henan, these people are actually mountain people, they are hunting, protecting mines, mining, and trafficking in illicit salt, and anyone can pay money to hire them to kill people.

The living conditions of these people are somewhat similar to those of the Jiannu before making a fortune, and the gourd soldiers have been active in the mountains for a long time, and naturally have the potential of mountain infantry, and their fighting style is brave and tenacious, and their discipline is corrupt and they are good at rape and plunder.

Their weapons and equipment have characteristics, the most eye-catching is the quiver made of animal skin, which looks like a hairy gourd, so it is called the Mao Gourd Soldier, and it is written as "Mao Bing" in the Ming History.

Huang Han said: "From this point of view, none of the people on the four roads have moved, only General Zhang is dedicated to the country and still leads a mere 2,000 people to find the enemy and fight bloodily." ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "Actually, the governor didn't stand still, and the Hou Ye couldn't make it difficult for him. However, the thieves broke into the king, broke into the generals, returned to the old home, and Xue Hongqi's troops concentrated in the old camp and the horse bandits unexpectedly surrounded and killed a Mao soldier, which directly caused the rest of the Mao soldiers to flee into the mountains and refused to come to the plains to fight. ”

The Mao Hulu army was a mountain soldier, and it was impossible to have armor due to poverty, and the disadvantage of not having armor in the mountains turned into an advantage due to the flexibility of action.

When they came to the plains, they encountered the old camp of the Liukou, and of course they were vulnerable, and they were so frightened that they refused to go down the mountain, and it was understandable.

Huang Han persuaded: "The last time I learned to be obedient, in the future, General Zhang must lead the white pole soldiers to fight for the comfort of his subordinates, and we must not pin our hopes on Zuo Liangyu, Deng Xi, Chen Hongfan and others."

If you enter a county town with 2,000 white pole soldiers in advance, I am afraid that Wang Ziyong, Wang Jiayun and other thieves will not be able to give birth to the idea of fighting white pole soldiers. ”

Zhang Fengyi's face was flushed with shame, because she lost half of her command during the field battle, and half of the 1,000 people who retreated to Houjiazhuang were injured, and her vitality was greatly damaged.

If he had entered Houjiazhuang with more than 2,000 people from the beginning, it is estimated that he would not have been beaten so badly.

Liu Kou's virtue Zhang Fengyi knew in his heart that if they found that there were 3,000 men and horses guarding Houjiazhuang when they made a tentative attack, including 2,000 white-pole soldiers, they would not have spent time here to be hard-hearted.

There are many cottages such as Houjiazhuang in Henan, and the Liukou can't bear the huge casualties and have to take Houjiazhuang, the biggest reason is because the white pole soldiers are exposed, so that the Liukou thinks that they have the best chance to eliminate the white pole soldiers and become famous.

Thinking of Pao Ze succumbing to death because of his command mistakes, and remembering that the seven or eight hundred people in Houjiazhuang also lost their lives for this, Zhang Fengyi's tears were in her eyes again.

She said: "The white pole soldiers are soldiers who died on the battlefield, and there is nothing to complain about, but Houjiazhuang killed so many young and middle-aged people, and the last general felt uncomfortable, and he always felt sorry for them." ”

Huang Han comforted: "General Zhang should not blame himself too much, this lord guarantees that Houjiazhuang can be reborn after this battle, and this lord will give them grain and silver as compensation, and will also assist them in replanting potatoes and sweet potatoes to increase grain production, and also report their military merits to strive for the imperial court." ”

Zhang Fengyi knew Huang Han's ability to lead the displaced people to resume production after the disaster, and her mood suddenly improved a lot, and she said sincerely: "The last general will thank Hou Ye for the grace of the two or three thousand surviving villagers in Houjiazhuang." ”

Houjiazhuang's fathers and villagers have suffered heavy losses after fighting side by side with the white pole soldiers, and they must be inseparable from the Liukou.

Huang Han planned to use the ready-made camp and the Houjiazhuang village with a scale similar to Sun Liuzhuang to operate a supply point here, which could be regarded as compensation to Houjiazhuang.

There is a difference between here and Sun Liuzhuang, Houjiazhuang is close to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain at the intersection of Shanxi, Henan and North Zhili, and the transportation is not far from the official road.

There are advantages and disadvantages, in the next few decades, even after the Manchu Qing Dynasty stole the country after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many bandits and rogues in the Taihang Mountains, and they will jump out of the mountains from time to time to attack the cottages and county seats.

The "Red Banner Army" needed to increase the number of troops left behind in order to run this place, and Huang Han planned to arrange two hundred general soldiers plus two general guards to stay behind to guard.

There will be more than 400 wounded white-pole soldiers recuperating here, more than 300 wounded and sick from Houjiazhuang, 7 or 800 homeless people injured, and in a month, there will be more than 1,000 guards who have seen blood and fought face to face.

Don't worry about food shortages, Huang Han will leave 2,000 stone of grain here, and there will be food transported from Tianjin Wei by land and water in the future.

Because after on-the-spot investigation, it is completely possible to send a ship with a displacement of 30 tons into the Weihai River in Tianjin, through the Weihe River and the Zhanghe River to sail directly to Houjiazhuang, and when the river is too shallow and difficult to travel, you can hire people to pull the fiber to sail, even if the speed is not fast, it is more than five times more efficient than land transportation.

Wei River is a tributary of the South Canal of the Haihe River water system, named after Wei Di in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is evolved from the ancient Baigou, Yongji Canal and Yuhe.

It originates in the Taihang Mountains of Shanxi, flows through Weihui Mansion in Henan, Zhangde Mansion in the north and Guangping Mansion in the north and joins the Zhanghe River to call the Zhangwei River, and then flows through the Linqing River in Shandong into the South Canal, and enters the Haihe River in Tianjin.

The predecessor of the Wei River is basically the Yongji Canal of the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty on the basis of Cao Cao's digging of the white ditch and the connection of some natural rivers and the old road of the Yellow River in the early period.

However, due to drought and lack of rain and siltation of rivers in recent years, the maintenance of waterways organized by the government has not been effective, and the current navigation capacity of the whole line has been affected.

After the harvest in autumn this year, Huang Han could have paid one liter of grain a day for taking care of the rice and the fullness, and hired strong laborers near the Weihe, Zhanghe, and Haihe rivers to dredge the rivers, and after the thaw next spring, he should be able to sail ships with a displacement of 50 tons.

When the farming is slack, it can attract too many laborers, and if you are given a liter of grain, it is not a problem to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people to participate in "picking up the river."

The key to success is that a large amount of grain is needed, so Huang Han knows in his heart that there is no need for a large number of long-distance transportation, and there will always be hundreds of thousands of stone grains to spend at the end of the year.

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