Of course, such a brief incident and episode were not enough to affect my itinerary and destination;

No matter what kind of dead soldier and good soldier I am, it is a luxury to want to retreat in front of the shotguns and guns carried by the vehicles and ships around me, as well as the new machine guns (rotary barrel guns) that have just been tested on the battlefield;

It's just that the next set up of the unified adjustment and the Ma unified adjustment, as well as the anti-rebellion meeting, will inevitably be busy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Along the Jishui River that runs parallel to the Yellow River, it is another style after entering the territory of Yunzhou. ，

From the historical origin, because of the low and low-lying terrain, and the embankment has been in disrepair for a long time, it has suffered from the flooding of the Yellow River for hundreds of years.

In addition, there is a vast expanse of water in the territory, and Onozawa, which is rich in fish and shrimp and aquatic products, as a place of cover and hiding, coupled with the collusion with the local big tyrants, has always been a headache for the Northern Dynasties.

But for the same reason, the children of Yunzhou who came out to join the army to make a living because of the difficulty of making a living are also stoic, hard-working, and brave and brave to fight, and they are quite unique among the many feudal towns in the Central Plains of Huaishang.

It was not until the Northern Expedition of the Southern Dynasty that the Great Liang of the Southern Dynasty destroyed almost everything continuously, and after the connection of disasters, famine and military disasters, and the revival and governance of Huaizhen, it completely changed;

Therefore, relying on the rebuilt hydraulic irrigation facilities and the advantages of canal traffic, Yunzhou has not only solved the suffering of drought and flood every once in a while, but also has become an important source of troops and an important military frontier in Huaizhen.

Today, the Jibei Defense Envoy, one of the two sub-military jurisdictions under the jurisdiction of Huaizhen, is set up in Yunchengzhi, the waterway hub in Yunzhou, and Juye County, at the southern end of Onozawa, has become a famous fishing breeding and fishing base, as well as a training camp for inland river vehicles and boats.

Therefore, as the current defense envoy of Jibei, in addition to serving as the four battalions of soldiers under the jurisdiction of the first soldier and horse envoy, he was also responsible for coordination and command during the war, and stationed five garrison battalions and eight garrison regiments in six local counties, as well as four fully staffed water battalions.

In addition, there are still more than a dozen armed cantonment areas belonging to the Jiansheng Army, which can also pull out thousands of young and middle-aged people who have received simple military discipline and queue training when needed. There are also more than 10,000 main combat and auxiliary personnel in total, which can be called the largest Yanbian theater and garrison group under the rule of Huaizhen.

Moreover, because of the various contacts and origins with the Huai Army very early, now among the soldiers from the Huai Army with various northern origins, the proportion of Yunzhou children is also in the first place, and even higher than the so-called Jiangning Runzhou system among the Jiangnan soldiers; It's just that most of them served in the second-line garrison battalions and the Jiansheng Army.

However, with the expansion of Huaizhen's territory and the external movement of the battle line, it is no longer the most important enemy frontier in the west, and even the forces on the other side of the Yellow River in the north have become a relative security buffer zone because of the nominal friendly Zhang Bangchang;

In addition, some resources are invested in the policy of focusing on support, so the people's livelihood and livelihood level in Yunzhou seem to be quite good, and after the share of the pre-loss and self-retention every year, at least more than 10,000 stone of grain surplus and aquatic fish and other miscellaneous income can be handed over;

Because of the local history, the land is full of waterlogging and salinity. Therefore, after Huaizhen took control, it spent a lot of effort to remediate and sort out to improve the local production environment.

Therefore, unlike the rice and wheat fields in other places, which were full of mountains and green like a blanket, after a long period of large-scale manpower and material resources invested in the excavation and replacement of the surface land and the water diversion and washing and cleaning project; These newly cultivated lands have been planted with clumps of alkali-tolerant jujube, apricot, mulberry and pear trees, as well as patches of corn, sorghum and soybeans.

Therefore, when the wind blows, there are large green gauze tents rippling in the various fields with towering green trees, as if I have seen a similar scene; Occasionally, in some sorghum fields along the way, you can also see some traces of messy and shaking;

Then, as a kind of evidence of the local "simple folk customs" and "enthusiastic and unrestrained", it will not be long before men and women with sweat towels in hand will come out in pairs; Sometimes there are singular and plural numbers in rows of three or two, which makes people laugh at it.

However, at this time, there were people on the nearby boat who suddenly sang a variant version of "The Song of the Guerrillas", and then it spread into a chorus of voices heard from far and near.

"We're all sharpshooters,

Kill an enemy with every bullet.

We're all flying troops,

Even if the mountains are high and the water is deep.

In that dense woods,

Everywhere there are camps for comrades,

On that high hill,

There are countless of our good brothers.

。。。。。。。

We grew up here,

Every inch of land is our own,

Whoever wants to take it by force,

We'll fight him to the end! ”

Well, at this moment, I almost thought I had been transported to another era. If it weren't for the fact that the people walking on the shore were still those who pushed a wheelbarrow with farm tools, wore short clothes, and wore a bun in the dress of the ancients of this era.

After my fleet of vehicles and boats passed through the fortress community in Leize County, the southwesternmost part of Yunzhou, and entered the lower reaches of Jishui called Wuzhang River, the style of painting along the way suddenly changed again.

As the traces of the Yellow Flood Area and the poison of the war, it is still quite distinct and tenacious to maintain a sense of existence. And a considerable part of them are still the hands and masterpieces left by Huaizhen when they used these places as a buffer zone against the enemy.

It belongs to the rule of Linpu County, Puzhou, and the thief arrester sent by Huai Town is responsible for all affairs; Therefore, the so-called three-zone system is still implemented, which divides the subordinate areas into the main cities and their suburbs under direct management. Green zones that are managed and performed with limited functionality by delegating personnel due to their proximity to both sides of the road; and the white districts, which are temporarily self-governing and maintain the status quo because of their remoteness, and only regularly send people to levy the most basic taxes and levies.

Just like the appearance and pattern of Huaizhen when it first started, whether it is walking on the road or appearing in the fields on both sides of the riverbank, the power is a busy scene, and there is basically no soil and room for idlers.

And the farther we go west, the more frequent and uninterrupted the desolation and withering scene appears, and all kinds of devastation marks are like the scars accumulated on the earth that have been plagued by sorrow, which is shocking and deeply touching.

At the beginning, I was in a hurry on the way back from the class because I was like an arrow, and I didn't watch and experience it carefully, but now I finally have a more intuitive experience of coming back, the tragic results of the intertwining of human wars and the great power of nature.

Then, at the end of the last passable Cao River in Shanzhou, I saw the nearest Yellow Plain, which was a quagmire full of dead silence, and although the water had receded one after another, there was no other trace of life except for a few sparse weeds like leprosy.

It was this great water of the Yellow River, which almost changed the Battle of Luodu and the Second Northern Expedition, and even the general trend of the world, directly in the hinterland of the Central Plains in Henan, creating a particularly wide no-man's land.

Of course, the follow-up formation and spread of this uninhabited area is more or less due to the fact that Huaizhen is expanding westward, further weaving the population of the places that can be found, and concentrating them for management.

Here, I once again left the ship and drove ashore to Wuyuan Town, the westernmost military stronghold of Huai Town, located in Wanting County, Caozhou, to inspect and offer condolences.

Originally just an ordinary post station developed, the little-known larger town, because of the higher terrain and survived relatively intact in the flood, now after the flood receded, it replaced the original site of the collapsed county seat, and became the top of the tentacles of the Huai army in the western Henan region.

Now there is a main battalion and a regiment of chasseurs stationed in the garrison, with thousands of people in charge of households; In addition to some cultivated fields, it is about 3,000 stone of grain and 8,000 yuan of other expenses per month.

However, their main task was not to prepare for the enemy, but to maintain local tranquility and patrol the roads, so as to ensure that the roads and commercial activities that passed through the garrisons in the Yellow Flood Zone and the Metropolitan Road were in constant contact and communication were in normal use and basically unimpeded.

Strategically speaking, it is located between several silted waters left behind by the receding water, firmly guarding this relatively narrow and winding dry hard ground that is more conducive to traffic.

Moreover, according to the various sources collected by the officers and men of the local garrison, when they sailed through these waters, they stumbled upon the remains of buildings in former villages and castles that had been submerged under water or accumulated in the mud and sand. (To be continued.) )