In the east of the river, the team from Taiyuan to the south flooded the Jinzhong Basin and ran through most of the Fenshui Basin.

"It's... Assassin? ”

Outside the carriage on the fairly paved road, I occasionally saw a few corpses that had been placed on large carts or hung on poles at intersections, beaten like sieves.

"This is the first time."

"Is there only these unseemly tactics left on the Western Army?"

"Or rather, the last wail of the defeated dog."

"Doesn't it have anything to do with the policy that you are carrying out in Hedong and relocating large households?"

Shi Niang, who was sorting out the paperwork beside me, said with a gentle smile

"It is said that many of the great families and wealthy families in the lands that have not yet arrived have begun to flee and flee in a hurry."

"It's okay if you're willing to escape, so you don't have to worry about the follow-up."

I don't think I care.

"All that's left is a little murmur of dying throes."

These assassinations and attacks on individuals have been taking place since I entered the land east of the river; It was only after repeated setbacks and encounters around me that I gradually turned to those secondary goals.

The actual direct damage caused by this kind of thing was not large, and only a dozen generals were killed before and after, and others were injured to varying degrees; However, it is a means that can disgust people and undermine the ruling order under the rule of the occupying forces, and create more tensions and confrontational atmospheres, contradictions and conflicts.

Therefore, the attitudes of the people in the places where they passed along the way were much more complicated than those in other places such as Hebei, Henan, and Pinglu;

They are tormented by the hardships of life and the hardships they have endured into insensitivity and indifference, and they are at a loss; There is also hidden behind the glittering fear and horror, overflowing distrust and resistance; There is also a vague hatred and hostility underneath the surface of deference and humility.

Compared with Hebei Province, which has a large land and a high population retention base, the output of Hedong Province, which is mountainous and relatively poor, and the proportion of the population with relatively concentrated distribution also causes a kind of fierce folk customs under the pressure of perennial survival competition and resources. The huddles and struggles in the form of clans and township parties are much closer and more intense than in other places.

Whoever comes to occupy, conquer, and dominate this region will face the biggest problem directly; Moreover, because of the natural narrowness and danger of geography, the losses suffered during the passage of Fanhu in the early years were much smaller than those of Hebei provinces; Therefore, in the defense of Luodu in the two northern expeditions of the Southern Dynasties, an endless stream of soldiers and young men were provided;

It was precisely because of these contributions and blood transfusions that Zhang Dekun later had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation with a remnant brigade and take most of the northern part of Hedong Province to establish a local separatist regime.

But in any case, under the sweeping front of the Huai army, fifteen of the seventeen state capitals in Hedong Province except Taiyuan Province have been taken, and the corresponding local rectification and clean-up work has also been carried out with the garrison and garrison regiments that continue to be stationed, as well as the armed immigrants who fill in the key points;

Those that once stood in the territory and made the successive government quite headaches and difficult to treat, all kinds of mountain fortresses, walled cities and forts, etc., were not able to play the role as expected in the face of the firearms of the Huai army attacking the city and pulling out the village, but because of geographical barriers and news delays, they were successively divided and could not echo, and were uprooted and conquered one by one, and by the way, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of laborers were also generated;

The remaining two places, Fengzhou and Linzhou, which are close to the northern part of Guannei Province and outside the Saiwai Province, because they are the fundamental places of the local remnants of Jiangmen in Hedong, and seriously resist the large-scale relocation policy brought by the Huai Army, they still rely on the terrain of the northern foot of the Luliang Mountains to continue to resist stubbornly.

However, I also have a big killer weapon in my hands, that is, Yang Keshi, the former Northern Dynasty general who was activated after being captured and returned to Shun, from the ancestral origin, Linzhou can be regarded as his hometown and hometown.

"The ammunition consumption of the armies generally exceeds expectations?"

Then I took over an urgent chapter of official documents from Shi Niang's hand.

"Need to pause and repair and convey ?。。"

Obviously, behind the overall offensive of the successful siege of the city and the village in Hedong, it is at the cost of doubling the loss of ammunition compared with other places, and the supply line from Huaibei to Hebei and then to Hedong has been stretched a little too long, and it has begun to show some problems and accumulated hidden dangers over time.

Because of the barrier of the Taihang mountains, the current transportation force through the Taihang Eight Paths over the mountains and mountains into Hedong mainly depends on a large number of animal power organized in Hebei, and the loss of various cattle, horses and livestock in the process of transportation has just broken through the triple digits;

This can't help but make people nostalgic, always relying on the natural basin of the Yellow River or the Huai River, or the canal water system during the distribution period, to get logistics support and river fire support, and carry out internal and external operations.

Therefore, the channel widening and blasting project for the Taihang Zhucheng has just begun; Although the current level of technology cannot change the overall trend of Shanxi's traffic environment as in later generations, it is still possible to see the expected results by relying on the accumulation of manpower and blasting methods to clear and fill some overly steep areas and key points.

"Okay."

I shook my head slightly and replied on the paperwork

"Let the main battle armies and garrison forces in Hedong draw out one or two base numbers of sub-medicines on the spot."

"Together with several supplementary battalions that arrived subsequently in Hebei,"

"Priority is given to transporting and strengthening the Second and Fifth Armies, the main forces of the southward attack."

At least in the short term, the maintenance of law and order and local repression do not require the consumption and use of too much firearms and equipment, and the demand can be basically met by relying on mixed cold weapons.

"Let's put an end to the fighting and resistance in the Kanto Gateway, Kama Province."

"At least maintain the momentum of overlooking Kannai Road.."

"In addition, they are ordered not to rush into the Kannai Province and continue to maintain the oppression and siege."

"Forcing the enemy forces to come to the rescue is the primary goal and direction."

"Then rely on the topography to give full play to the advantage of firepower, so as to kill and destroy the living forces of the Western Army as much as possible,"

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Jinghu South Road, Gangneung Province,

Once the largest naval base in the southern interior, only the long-abandoned and idle water village remains, as well as a few official ships cruising on the river.

And now, even these official ships responsible for short- and medium-distance transportation between upstream and downstream have been nailed to the broadside with shielding baffles, and crossbows, slap rods, and ramming horns have been installed at the end and bottom, and have temporarily incarnated into some kind of "sailor warship"; On this day, the river was on the lookout for attacks from the water outside the city, on the opposite bank, and upstream.

Because in the territory of the huge Gangneung Prefecture, it can be said that in addition to the Gangneung Castle where the prefecture is located, the eight counties including Zhijiang, Jianli, and Shishou, and the six towns of Chi'an, Yutang, Lotus Pond, and Xiaoling have all fallen into the hands of those Western military feudal towns from the upper reaches.

Or not to mention that Gangneung Province, that is, the states along the river, most of them have fallen under the iron heel of the surging western army, and can only endure or carry out a meager and limited resistance in the painful ravages of these foreign armies going out to plunder.

Although these hastily converted warships are no longer the same, they still have some advantages and advantages in the face of those Western troops who are long on horseback and not accustomed to water on the river. Therefore, when many of the soldiers and civilians in the city began to pick the wall soil and swallow the window paper, this little sailor could still eat the fresh catch.

Fortunately, at this time, it was the height of summer, and those Western troops who obviously came from afar and were not accustomed to the water and soil also had to stop in the summer heat and epidemic, and the situation was temporarily calmed down. Therefore, these temporary warships can end their cruises on the water early and return to their hidden places to escape the heat and enjoy the coolness

However, today is not destined to be a peaceful day, and a fleet of ships that appeared on the river in the dim light of the setting sun once again made Gangneung City suddenly boil; Because this is the first reinforcement and supplies from downstream after the western thief went south.

Although there were only 5,000 men and horses and 10,000 stones and rice from the same ship, the defenders of Gangneung City still saw some hope, and decisively launched a counterattack against the enemy stationed outside the city;

Then in the ruined camp, they found only a few old and sick and abandoned rags; As well as good news and bad news;

The good news is that there may not be many western thieves left in the entire territory of Jiangning;

The bad news is that these western thieves who plundered their wealth and population have already gone south in batches some time ago, but I am afraid that now they are enough to penetrate into Yongzhou, Quanzhou, and Daozhou, which are close to the Wuling Mountains.

(End of chapter)