The natural division between Huainan Road and Jingbei Road - Tongbai Mountains,

A ragged procession also trudged through the dreary and indifferent atmosphere, only to see them leading mules, horses, donkeys and oxen loaded with looted supplies, each wrapped in colorful silk and cloth, and even a woman's skirt, hanging from the bodies of some people.

It can be said that, apart from the firearms that are still somewhat crutches or loosely straddled, they are already like the once disciplined and forbidden army.

And at the height of the mountain road and valley road, Liu Guangguo, who used to worship as an official, also frowned again, looking back at his ruined journey, when he used lies and intimidation to mobilize a whole battalion of people and horses, after fleeing from the territory of Yangzhou Liuhe, there were only three or four hundred people left in front of him.

The so-called name and righteousness of the dynasty, as well as the usual internal bribery and favors, quickly collapsed like a mud and sand embankment under the torrent before the sudden return of the general trend of the approaching one.

And the dead soldiers he sent to create chaos and the assassins who waited for the opportunity to strike a decisive blow were mixed in the crowd of those who took the initiative to rebel, and before they even had time to take the opportunity to attack, or squeezed forward to get closer, they were already torn to pieces by the soldiers around and around them, or they were captured alive on the spot; It has become another favorable evidence for the other side to openly advocate the unscrupulous persecution, framing, trapping, and mutilation of heroes and many crimes.

The young lord of Huaizhen is good at demagogic and long-term brainwashing, which can also be seen. Many soldiers who seem to be honest on weekdays, have no opinions and eyes, and only know how to obey orders, even dare to turn their faces and capture and kill on the spot, those generals who question or hesitate.

Even among the teams that rushed out of the station with him, there were many mutinies and infighting along the way, and from time to time there were groups of armed absconding.

Despite this, relying on the military literacy cultivated in the old days, as well as the last bit of hope and expectation for the promise of the country, the local regiments, village soldiers, and volunteers who gathered together along the way; There are also all kinds of rebels and bandits who roam the roads, and they are not opponents at all.

On the contrary, they annexed, drove and coerced many of them, and used them as precursors and cannon fodder, and this team once grew to more than 5,000 people;

Then the next thing was that even Liu Guangguo could no longer fully control it, because he found that his men were rapidly transforming into a rogue who began to rely on wanton and indiscriminate killing and punishment of the people in order to boost and stimulate morale.

It's just that with the banner of the Huai Army that came after them, the momentum they had temporarily created and maintained was once again facing the crisis of collapse;

And Liu Guangguo had to run out overnight with these most basic forces, and the gecko abandoned most of them with a broken tail, and was still indulging in the raging pleasure after occupying the city, many peripheral people and most of the baggage with limited mobility; Only then did he once again narrowly escape from the pursuit of the outposts and rangers of the Huai army who had caught up.

In the end, the belief that can support them to persist until now is that as long as they can pass through the Tongbai Mountains on this side and enter the area controlled by the officials and soldiers who are still interested in the imperial court in the territory of Jingbei Road; They can get a good rest and replenishment, and even accept rewards and entitlements from the imperial court.

According to the promises and guarantees of the other party, if the entire model rear army department can be pulled out to serve the imperial court with the cooperation of the commander Liu Yanqing; Maybe there is a place for them in the ten armies of the arch guards of Guangfu and even among the guards in front of the palace;

And Liu Guangguo, as a key figure in the middle of the planning, will also get the opportunity to stand on his own, and completely bid farewell to everything in the past arranged for Sihaiwei, and stand in the sun with dignity.

And now that things fail, he can only retreat and beg for this,

Although the remaining manpower is only enough for the jurisdiction of a regimental (captain) general, it is a soldier armed according to the standards of Huaidi; Although he didn't have much experience in battle, he was basically quite skilled in training tactical tactics and passwords.

Therefore, he was fully confident in convincing the adults who had lost the means of controlling Huaizhen, the strongest combat power in the North, to use the remnants of the firearms as the basis and team to pull out a new team; With the right training and drills, it may be possible to reforge a good fighter for the imperial court, comparable to the Huaidi army.

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In the midst of a flurry of backlogged documents due to the aftermath, I also received another letter from the mysterious creature.

In the letter, she supported and affirmed my series of measures and corresponding means in Jiangbei; However, I also pointed out more solemnly that although my corresponding plan seems to be good, it is to pull Huaizhen's already somewhat improved financial and economic surplus back into the quagmire and deep pit of army expansion and war readiness.

Now that Huaizhen has laid a big enough plate, many new places urgently need to recuperate, further digest and explore the potential, and it is really not appropriate to blindly expand the scope of reclamation and operation;

As far as she is concerned, because of the vast number of new development sites in the Andong area, there is already a shortage and shortage of manpower for agricultural land reclamation; Women and the elderly have to be mobilized, and even affect the normal operation of nursery schools, children's camps, and work-study places this year.

In some minor civil workshops, there is also a shortage of female workers and a shortage of work; These negative impacts are not temporary, but have potential and progressive implications for future planning and development, and are chronic costs that need to be repaid slowly.

Now, I want to ****** the strategy of encroaching on Huainan Road, which was originally carried out steadily and step by step, to the key strategy of rapidly establishing the Jiangbei defense line and the large rear. This will undoubtedly dig out a large piece of Huaizhen's originally full resource budget, but I am afraid that I don't know how many departments and fields that have been affected, and I will have to jump and scold my mother.

Moreover, because of the open break with the imperial court, the direct or indirect losses caused to the commercial interests of the north and south sea and land, as well as the tightening of the import of various resources and the chronic damage of unsalable production, are also difficult to estimate.

Then, in some newly occupied areas and subordinate spheres of influence, there were continuing situations of varying degrees of turmoil and unrest, which needed to be extinguished, suppressed, and smoothed out one by one in order of priority, so as to reduce and restore output as much as possible.

And the only good news is that the agricultural officer Cao, together with the Agricultural Institute of the Joint School, has developed a manual harvester with human and animal power, and has mass-produced a batch of finished products, and the tail of the summer harvest has begun to be practiced and applied.

Such a big "surprise" couldn't help but make me swallow a few more mouthfuls of ice cheese immediately to suppress the shock;

Well, at least I haven't gotten a steam harvester yet, it's so big that it can only be used for irrigation of farmland, water conservancy and water transportation for the time being. As for the railway locomotive or something, the accumulation of technology is still much worse, and it is a matter of lifetime consideration.

Although this thing looks like a trolley-like iron frame, plus an array of gears, it embodies a large number of achievements in Huaidong's industrialization and its large-scale popularization crystallization; For example, one of the gears or bearings, it seems that the structure is very simple, as long as there is a pattern can be polished by hand by a blacksmith master, but the corresponding material strength and processing accuracy, if you want to achieve practical popularization and large-scale production, you can only rely on metaphysics and probability.

After all, this thing is used as an agricultural production tool, directly used in a field full of muddy water, which requires simplicity, durability, and at the same time, it can also be cheap and easy to maintain versatility; This requires the technical accumulation of corresponding primary steel production capacity and material technology, such as the steel production capacity of blast furnace smelting, the forging means of large-scale hydraulic machinery, the steam-driven cutting lathe, etc., as the technical pre-and basic conditions of the corresponding accessories; In the end, it is possible to combine them into a suitable machine.

You must know that this thing played a very important and indispensable role in modern society before the establishment of New China and the complete realization of agricultural mechanization; Because the production efficiency of this thing is several times to more than ten times that of the traditional manual harvesting facing the loess with its back to the sky, that is to say, this thing, as long as two skilled hands who have been trained to operate, can easily catch up with the results of several families and the whole family going into battle together.

As a result, a large amount of manpower and material resources saved from every household can be adjusted and invested in other fields to create more value and gain.

Of course, this thing also has its own limitations, and it is most suitable for use in plains, and the effect of fragmented terraces and hilly land is greatly reduced. Therefore, it is most suitable for large-scale collective agricultural production, and it is also one of the most suitable agricultural new technologies to be promoted under the rule of Huaizhen.

In the next step, they plan to transform this thing into a hand-pushed seeding and rice transplanting machine, as well as the research and development and improvement projects of hand-cranked and animal-powered, water-powered, steam-driven threshing, hulling, grinding and other agricultural machinery;

However, the regular budget and supernumerary indicators in the hands of my sister Luo Lu have been used up, and the next thing can only be out of the private small treasury in my back house.

For example, I temporarily embezzled the funds I had prepared for the renovation and expansion of my back house.

Well, I'll just have to sign a mark on it, and then draw a ciphertext symbol that represents the priority level.

then covered his brain that was numb from the cold after swallowing too much ice drink, and sighed why other travelers in other places can rely on a little plate and pattern to maintain a daily life of spending days and drinking and singing every night; And I obviously have several provinces in later generations and millions of household registrations under my rule, but I always have to pay out of my own pocket to post the business I am running.

Is it because my discipline and lower limit are obviously not low enough?

(End of chapter)