Chapter 43: New Town
In ten days, Yang Wenhua became tired of becoming a dog.
Every day, the white angel sleeps hard, and at night when others rest, it is time for Yang Wenhua to start busy.
The main thing is to transport materials from modern times into the Tang Dynasty, just to prevent his subordinates from getting snow blindness, Yang Wenhua carried tens of thousands of pairs of sunglasses into the Tang Dynasty.
For example, in order to sew leather boots for his subordinates, tens of thousands of needles were transported, adhesive tape was carried in order to resist the cold, and necessary medicines were carried in order to allow Sun Simiao to be better treated.
Not to mention thousands of helmets, sapper shovels and body armor, it was these countless little things that made Yang Wenhua not participate in the campaign at all, and he became a porter in the past ten days.
Although Yang Wenhua has minimized his dependence on the outside, if he wants to take care of the lives of nearly 100,000 people, he still has to keep fighting quickly and efficiently, and he always needs a lot of assistance to settle down here for a long time.
After ten days of high-speed marching and taking down five small cities, Yang Wenhua's team at this moment has reached 100,000 people.
Among them, there are 4,000 big-headed ghost troops, 2,000 original caravans, of which 1,000 people are assigned to lead the Hanmin auxiliary army, and Yang Wenhua selects another 1,000 Hanmin elites to supplement it, or maintain the scale of 2,000 and use it as a sharp knife force.
Then Yang Wenhua and Cui Yuan each selected 500 people from the Han people to form a big-headed ghost army as their own personal guards, and they can also be used as emergency forces.
Although it has always been a whole battle, after all, no one knows when support will be needed there.
In addition to these 4,000 descendant troops, there are 10,000 relatively elite Han Min leather armor army with the power of a war, and 20,000 have no combat effectiveness, so they can basically only pick up cheap cloth armies and fight downwind battles.
These cloth soldiers only have a wooden spear as a weapon, and their specialty is to run quickly after the defeat of the enemy, and then tie people up, which is also good to save some physical strength for the regular army.
Many of them are still small dolls, but it is also a happy thing for them to be soldiers, after all, there is no danger, except for a few unlucky people, there are basically no casualties.
And with the increase in the number of people, Yang Wenhua stipulated that only soldiers could eat meat, although the quantity was not much, but the fishy smell could always be seen at every meal.
In addition to the 34,000 soldiers, the rest was 10,000 Goguryeo captives Qingzhuang, which Yang Wenhua specially captured to transport supplies, and each person had a one-and-a-half-pound ration a day, barely able to maintain physical strength.
After all, after there are more people, Yang Wenhua also has to consider saving a little food.
And it's kind enough to keep them fed.
This is still Yang Wenhua's long-term plan to take into account the need for them to work, and Cui Yuan's long-term occupation of Liaodong in the future, so that they can be full.
Instead of using a whip to achieve the same purpose, if there were no two considerations, Yang Wenhua could have saved more food, after all, even if these captives were scrapped, they could be replaced constantly.
Finally, there are tens of thousands of Han people's old and weak women and children, these are the basis for Yang Wenhua's rule of Liaodong after Cui Yuan, and it is also a means to ensure that his Han people's auxiliary army works hard to fight, so they naturally have to take their families with them.
These Han families don't need to do anything, at most, they can just support the ice boat they sit on during the march, although there is no meat, ordinary food can be eaten at will, as long as it is not wasted.
100,000 horses, once the march can be described as mighty, making Yang Wenhua's team look very spectacular, and the momentum on the surface is still very sufficient, at least it can bluff people.
These 100,000 people also made Yang Wenhua's troops drag on for a long time, and in the morning Yang Wenhua took more than 10,000 regular troops and pressed the prisoners to transport supplies and left the city.
By the evening, a small number of regular troops and cloth soldiers, with old and weak women and children, had not yet been able to leave the city gates.
Fortunately, Yang Wenhua knocked down the cities along the way one by one, and the surrounding counties, one because of the winter march is really difficult, but also because there are few people.
Even if they knew that these people behind them didn't have much combat power, they didn't dare to send people to attack, so there was no problem.
After all, even if you can't fight again, there are tens of thousands of people with weapons in their hands, and the hundreds of people in your county town are also here to deliver food.
After ten days of rapid marching and conquest, Yang Wenhua led his troops to Xincheng.
It means that the real test has finally begun.
The cities of Goguryeo are divided into three levels, the first level of the big city is of course the capital, such as the current Pyongyang, as well as the former capital city of the country, and now it is barely a big city.
The second-level middle city, the circumference of the city wall is about 5,000 meters, and the city covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, such as Liaodong City, Gaimu City, and the new city in front of you is also in the second level.
The third level is the small city, also known as the county seat, the general circumference is about 1000 kilometers, and the city covers an area of between 100 and 200 acres.
And the kind of small town in Baishan County, although it is also named a county seat, it cannot be regarded as a city, otherwise Goguryeo will not be a country of a hundred cities, at least a few hundred cities must be added to it.
I also know that the Tang Dynasty was so big, only more than 300 states, more than 1,000 counties, the Central Plains was so rich, there were not 2,000 cities, Goguryeo was not big, and there were so many lofty mountains, how many cities could there be.
Five miles away from Xincheng, Yang Wenhua asked the troops to stop, the big-headed ghost army began to clear the snow with sapper shovels, Goguryeo Minfu was responsible for parking the ice boats on the periphery, and began to set up camps, and the Han Minpi army was responsible for patrolling and preparing meals for the evening.
Yang Wenhua and Cui Yuan, with a small number of entourage, came to the west gate of the new city.
Looking at the city wall in front of him, which was more than 1,000 meters long and very tall, Yang Wenhua showed an appreciative look, this was the capital city selected by Yang Wenhua for Cui Yuan.
Xincheng, that is, Fushun, the coal capital of later generations, here is the most coal mines, iron ore is not a few, and it is also very close to Tieling.
In ancient times, as long as there was food, people, and enough iron tools, the army was as much as it needed.
After turning this place into an industrial city, as long as there is an endless supply of weapons, the Han people who rely on the work here can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops at any time.
Choose the capital here, and after Yang Wenhua drives Goguryeo out of the northeast, as long as Cui Yuan is not too stupid and can firmly control this place, he can ensure that his dynasty is worry-free.
As for food, as long as Yang Wenhua brings in potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, after a few years of promotion, there will be no shortage of meat, do you still need to worry about food?
"What does my brother think of this city? Majestic enough, huh? Tomorrow this city will be in the hands of my brother intact, and my brother will be happy?"