"The military master really saw thousands of miles clearly, and he knew things like gods, and we came all the way, and we almost didn't encounter any decent resistance......"

Lin rushed to the Vultures Sea City, listened to Hu Yanzhuo's report on the siege of the city, and introduced the detailed situation here, and couldn't help but laugh heartily.

"Hehe, the grassland people are like this, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, surrendering to the strong, and fearing the strong. But that's fine, as long as we stay strong, they should be loyal enough! ”

Lin Chong said that they were naturally the Western Xia prisoners of war brought from Xingqing Mansion and the young people in the city.

Lin Chong planned to leave a small half of them here to help the Liangshan army herd horses and cattle, and then move 20,000 households of Han people from the Central Plains from Jingdong Hebei to here.

Coupled with the surrender of the Tibetan tribes, the yellow-headed Uighur tribes, and the more than 10,000 "Han Nu" who were willing to join the Liangshan army, and left 15,000 cavalry for Huyanzhuo, I think we can ensure that this place is safe.

Speaking of which, it is indeed a bit risky to leave this large number of people in the Hetao grassland, which is thousands of miles away from the base camp of Liangshanbo.

However, Lin Chong thought about it and still felt that this risk was worth taking, and it must be taken.

Because this place is so good, there is a saying in later generations, called the Yellow River Jiuqu is only rich in one set, or the Yellow River is only rich in all harms, and it is said here.

The so-called Hetao, in fact, refers to the Yellow River Hetao refers to the Yellow River "several" bend and its surrounding basins, like a sleeve to wrap the local area, so called the Hetao, is the richest in the Yellow River Basin, but also the most abundant section of aquatic grass.

However, in a broad sense, the Hetao is divided into the front set (now Hohhot to Baotou area) and the back set (now Bayannur to Urad Qianqi area), but in the narrow sense, the Hetao grassland is only the back set, that is, the place that the Liangshan army now occupies.

It is surrounded by water on all sides, the water network is dense, the water and grass are abundant, and the back side is also the Wolf Mountain (Yinshan Mountain Range) to shelter it from the cold north wind, the climate is quite pleasant, it is one of the best horse breeding places in China.

Laying down this treasure land, Lin Chong was of course reluctant to give up.

And the important thing is that since Liang Shanjun is determined to compete with Zhao Song and Jurchen for the world, he must have the bearing and courage to compete for the world.

In the original historical time and space, the Jurchens successively destroyed the Liao and Northern Song Dynasty, the two major powers of the world, how unstoppable was their might?

But in the final analysis, the ontological nation of the Jin country, the total number of Jurchen warriors who rose to the tiger water will not exceed 10,000!

In the battle for the founding of the Jurchen state, after the battle of Chuhedian, Yan Agu fought with all his might, but there were only 3,700 warriors, while the army of the Liao State came to destroy them was 100,000.

As a result, the Jurchens relied on this fearless spirit and defeated the 100,000 army of the Liao State with only 3,700 warriors.

In the subsequent battle of Jin to destroy Liao, the Jurchens also used less than 10,000 Jurchens to unify 20,000 or 30,000 mature Jurchens and Bohai people, enslaved and drove hundreds of thousands of Khitan and Xi people, and the Han people surrendered troops for their use, and successively destroyed Liao and Northern Song Dynasty.

The Jurchens can rule hundreds of thousands of millions of people with less than 10,000 people,

Counting up, Lin Chong is going to leave 10,000 Han army veterans to Hu Yanzhuo here, and 5,000 Khitan and Xi mercenaries, plus 10,000 Han people who will definitely be loyal to him, and nearly 50,000 Tubo and yellow-headed Uighur tribesmen who should be loyal to him, and there will be 20,000 or 30,000 Han militia in the future, so it is not a problem to hold this territory at all.

Even with this force alone, once the world changes, it will not be a problem for them to go south to threaten the hometown of the Western Army, or to attack the Qiantao Plain occupied by the Liao State in the east.

Since you want to compete for the world, you must be so domineering and confident!

Of course, details determine success or failure, and Lin Chong is not blindly confident.

After telling Yanzhuo about his plan, Lin Chong asked, "I'm going to keep you here, is there any difficulty?" Can you dare to make a military order? ”

Hu Yanzhuo became excited, he naturally knew that the strength of the Liangshan Army now had the ability to compete for the world, and it was very likely that he would eventually win the world.

Moreover, Lin Chong has not only hinted to the heavy generals in the army, Du Bao, Li Tianyan, Guan Sheng, and himself, that after the world is decided, he will follow the story of Chai Jin, and choose a few good places outside the inherent territory of China as a feudal country for meritorious ministers!

According to everyone's understanding, this is similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty, in fact, the princes of the country, both the army and the people and the finances of the semi-independent kingdom, the worst is also the treatment of the prince in the former Tang Dynasty, although he does not care about the soldiers, nor does he care about the money, but at least he can manage the people, and he also has the right to eat.

That's already good, too.

Think about it, I can be crowned a king by a martial artist, reach the apex of a human minister, and be able to pass on wealth to my descendants, what is not satisfied?

Hu Yanzhuo's voice trembled slightly: "The military lord trusts him, and the last general will be conscientious, dreaming of sleeping at night, and he will not dare to slack off, and he will definitely guard this place for the military master!" If anything goes wrong, please behead me, and the last general is willing to make a military order! ”

Lin Chong nodded, he still believed in Hu Yanzhuo's ability to lead and train troops, after all, he was a person who could train an ironclad chain horse.

Moreover, after joining the Liangshan Army, he learned many of the training and management methods of the modern army of Lin Chong's self-liberation and liberation army, which can be said to be the existence of the same era.

"I am relieved of your ability to train and lead troops, but the experience of managing civil affairs is definitely insufficient, you first treat this place as a large military camp, and then we will send a civil affairs officer."

Lin Chong thought for a while and asked: "It's just that I'm here to ask you, if the imperial court suddenly turns against us, the Western Army comes to attack, or the Western Army recruits Western thieves to attack, what should you do?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo thought for a while: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, so naturally they will send troops to repel it." ”

"Then what if the Liao State attacks from the east again at this time?"

"Divide the troops and refuse."

"This can't be done, of course the combat effectiveness of the Liangshan Army is no problem, but I'm afraid that there will be internal problems. If the internal mercenaries and the Western Thieves and prisoners of war are born with different intentions under external pressure and infiltration, you will fight in front and be stabbed in the back......"

Lin Chong thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "So your most important job here is to find a way to completely subdue people's hearts and strictly prevent secret spies!" If there is really an invasion by a foreign enemy, you must remember that the Liao State is currently difficult to defend itself, and even if it is an attack, it is only tentative.

The most likely is for the secret of gunpowder weapons, then we must be stronger, the Liao people dare to stretch out their hands to cut off their hands, dare to send troops to eat them all, so that they dare not be lucky!

And the Western Army's side, the greatest possibility is to deliberately create friction by the hands of the Western thieves and prisoners of war, we do not take a defensive attitude towards this, even if we are provoked, we will never easily start the war, if the Western Army comes to attack, it should also be defensive and counterattack-oriented, if you can not fight as much as possible, the first time to send a messenger to spy Liangshan to report the news! ”

Hu Yanzhuo didn't quite understand why he was so restrained by the Western Army, but he didn't ask much, just asked: "If the Western Army sends troops to cut off the traffic......

At this time, Hu Yanzhuo's nephew, Hu Yantong, who used to be a commander under the command of the Western Military Division, suddenly thought: "Military master, I have thought of a way, we can use carrier pigeons!" ”