Along the open undulating plains,

After conquering nearly four states one after another, and after the fall of twenty-nine walled cities and towns, I have gone further than planned, but this does not mean much, (because of the large number of feudal divisions, Anton's state division is much smaller than that of the interior.) Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info)

Because of the scarcity of population along the route and the decay of the towns and towns, it was already difficult to obtain supplies and other assistance from the local authorities at the beginning of these towns; Not even a symbolic hostage can be gathered.

Because the local powerful or wealthy people who have some strength and fame have either ceased to exist, or have long since fled; There are only a bunch of civilians and poor families and feudal slaves who are left in their homeland or have nowhere to go, and it is also a great burden and burden to organize them to restore order.

On the one hand, this is due to the rebellion of the Turkish tribes, and on the other hand, it is the tragic consequences caused by the passage of the foreign army by Yelu Dashi. As a result, small groups of feudal armies and Andong auxiliaries were left behind to maintain the basic order of the places along the route.

Although my army of 50,000 has shrunk by half, and only a relatively capable 20,000-odd headquarters remains, the corresponding consumption has been slowly but resolutely increasing day by day as the distance between the rear grain stations has lengthened and the area of occupation has been maintained.

Although these places are full of rich and original ecological resources described in primary school textbooks, "beating roe deer, scooping fish, and pheasants flying into the rice pot", it is really a good place to hunt and experience wild survival; But for a large army of people to eat horses and other daily consumption, there is little meaning.

Of course, the capture and occupation of these places by armed marches is not without gain; In addition to the various professional teams accompanying the army, the geography and hydrology of exploration, the various animal and plant specimens and environmental assessments, and the collection of most of the properties and resources; The rest of the harvest is a little bit special.

Because they are all women, women who are suitable for childbearing in their teens to thirties and forties are the type who are willing to go with you as long as they give a bite to eat;

Because the man who is the support of life or the breadwinner of the family is either dead or fleeing, or is captured and used as cannon fodder for passing armies, or goes out to beg for a living and disappears; Some of them were forced to sell themselves out of order to make a living, and wanted to do business with the Huaizhen army and those feudal armies passing by.

Then, because the Huai army was relatively disciplined and fair in business, he simply followed the army's plan to do long-term business. So the army simply came forward collectively and bought them all out at the cost of very little food on Weibo.

So along the way, thousands of people were sent to the rear, and according to the plan, they were first sent to the women's battalion for a period of time, and then distributed to those meritorious soldiers or veterans with sufficient service qualifications according to the situation, so as to solve the problems of marriage and family.

After my army followed the winding road and passed through the vast forests and meadows of Xiangzhou again, we officially arrived at Huaide Town, a small town on the banks of the flowing river.

According to the geographical map mastered by the Dadu Protector in the Luo Fan era, on the other side of the wide river is the central and northern important towns of Andong, the boundary of Huanglong Mansion, yes, it is the Huanglong Mansion in the allusion of "Straight to Huanglong"; During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was the last capital of the Buyeo Kingdom, and the earliest "Helong (Helong) City" (now Nong'an County, Changchun City, Jilin Province) was first seen in the history books.

The Mingtong River, which originally ran north-south, suddenly turned into a zigzag curve here, and instead flowed towards the east, thus surrounding and separating a large area of fertile land from narrow to wide in the middle between the north and south regions.

Therefore, it is also one of the essence areas of the hinterland of the Songnen Plain, where the long-term regional economic center and important town are located, and was once called the "small river east" by comparing the Hedong Road at the bend of the Yellow River.

The name of Huanglong Mansion is because the big river surrounded by the north and south is in the same color as the Yellow Dragon in spring and summer; Therefore, after the establishment of the Bohai Dashi regime, this place was used as one of the founding capitals of the five capitals, fifteen prefectures, and sixty-two prefectures, and was named Fuyu Mansion, also known as Huanglong Mansion in Beijing; Then it was later conquered by the Tang Dynasty Andong Protectorate, and it was inherited in the name of Huanglong Mansion.

Because it is located at the intersection of the western grassland and the eastern hills on the Songnen Great Plain, it controls the throat of the two banks of the Songhua River and the north-south traffic, so it has always been a key point of transportation and a battleground for soldiers in the ancient history of Northeast China.

After the rise of the Donghu, Xianbei, Zhan, Sushen, Goguryeo, Khitan, and Mohe ethnic groups in history, they all occupied this place one after another. During the reign of Goguryeo, in order to resist the conquest of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of buildings were built in the western border, and an intermittent "Great Wall of a Thousand Miles" was built, and the northernmost source of it began here.

Since Li Ji destroyed Goguryeo and annexed its land, Xue Rengui opened the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and Li Guangbi opened up the northern territory to set up a small capital governor's mansion, this land has intermittently spent nearly 600 years of ups and downs under the rule of the Tang people.

In another time and space, the second emperor of Huiqin, who was captured by the Jin people, was imprisoned here for a long time, and he was born with shame such as the laundry .avi, and it became the last pursuit of Yue Wumu's life and the resentment of his deathbed.

Because of the large fertile fields and the advantages of irrigation near the water, compared with the large barbarian forests that are difficult to open in the Shuinan region, the rather broken urban settlements that are separated, or the Nenjiang River basin where the grassland of Shuibei is continuous, the area of Huanglongfu on the other bank can be said to be densely populated, densely packed with villages, and the cities facing each other are expected to be rich.

In this long strip of east-west territory, there are three prefectures and five counties of Wei, Ning and Xin under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty's lower capital governor's mansion, so from my side, the south and north of the Yangtze River are completely different scenery and search.

It is said that the water level and color of the river are surprising between the four seasons, and it is said that the water in spring is still green and yellow, and it is said that it only changes from yellowing to a thoroughly turbid dark yellow during the flood season when the meltwater from the upper reaches of the river collects in the summer.

Although the water surface does not look very wide compared to the Huai River and Jishui, according to the on-site exploration, it is deep enough and the rapids are dense, and in the absence of enough ferry tools, it can already constitute a dangerous obstacle in a certain sense.

As an area with an early and long history of human activities, there are still many historical allusions and relics here, such as a certain Goguryeo king during the Northern and Southern Dynasties who was driven here to take refuge by the Yan Kingdom of the Murong clan, and drowned his family while crossing the river; The royal family of the ancient Buyeo Kingdom was destroyed by foreign forces several times, and it was able to make a comeback by taking refuge here several times.

There was also the last royal family of the Bohai State who raised the banner of rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, and here he was beheaded by his desperate followers and dedicated to the crusading army sent by the Andong Protectorate.

At the end of the Anshi Rebellion hundreds of years ago, the remnants of the defeated Fanyang rebels, after disturbing and destroying most of the Bohai Kingdom in the raging war, were also desperate to lay down their arms and accept the fate they deserved in the face of the surging river on the north bank of Huanglong Mansion overnight.

Of course, I can also lead my troops along the river to continue westward, directly bypassing this area of Huanglongfu and turning north, but it doesn't make much sense to do so; Unless I want to be a springboard and a base for advancement, follow the route from which the Yelu Dashi Department came, pass through the valley corridor of the upper Hulan River, and attack directly to the Sewai steppe / Mongolian plateau;

This is also a fairly old migration route, allowing the indigenous peoples of the Northeast to maintain a certain historical channel of communication with the people of the steppe for a long time.

In that year, the exiles of the Khitan Eight Divisions, who were broken and ruined under Li Guangbi's troops, broke into the land of Andong from here, and merged with the barbarians scattered in the mountains and forests to intermarry, and became the black Khitan of the so-called fishing and hunting people.

The remnants of the last Bohai clan in history also traveled out of the grassland from here and became one of the many foreign vassals of the Tang Dynasty.

Not long ago, most of the remnants of the border army of the Northern Dynasty led by Yelu Dashi also returned to this area to enter the realm of Anton.

However, if we really want to do this, it is very easy to expose the rear supply lines of our army to the enemy's threat, and the hostile forces from the other side of the river will be attacked and cut off the rear route, and fall into a difficult situation.

Therefore, all kinds of ideas of the subordinate subordinates began to appear in front of me, along with some calls from the army to return home.

At this time, the Niu Gao Division, who went downstream along the river to reconnoiter and find the ferry, reported that the dust and smoke were billowing on the opposite bank and that something was being burned, and some corpses were thrown into the river.