"Why don't you chase after the victory?" In Yang Lian's study, Liu Chengyou asked. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info When Guo Wei's army came, he was extremely frightened, hiding in the house and refusing to come out, now Guo Wei has withdrawn from the army, and the loss of troops is not small, Liu Chengyou was excited, but found that Yang Lian did not pursue, so he ran to ask in a hurry.

Before Liu Chengyou came in, Yang Lian was in the study, and there was a map on the desk in front of him, which was densely marked with small fonts. Although Guo Wei had retreated, it was only a temporary retreat, once Guo Wei repelled the Khitans and stabilized the situation, he went east into the mountains. The eastern counties are an inevitable trend, otherwise he would have to move the capital.

After the sixteen states of Youyun have fallen to the Khitans, there is no barrier in the north, in other words, all parts of Hebei are vulnerable to attacks by the Khitans, such as this time. Therefore, it is almost impossible to move the capital to Hebei, such as Yecheng. As for Guanzhong, after experiencing the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong was tired and sparsely populated, and it was not a place to set the capital. The essence of Hedong was controlled by Liu Chong, and it was even more impossible for Guo Wei to move the capital to Hedong.

Therefore, Guo Wei could only continue to use Kaifeng as the national capital, but the Tang Dynasty actually occupied the mountain. Several places in the east, plus the occupation of Huainan and part of the Huaibei region, are a huge threat to the Central Plains, which is almost a flat river. Guo Wei will definitely attack the mountain. East.

Yang Lian plans to use Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Qizhou to rely on the Yellow River and the mountains. Thousands of miles of hills to the east, creating a line of defense. While strengthening the defense, we should actively train our troops, restore the economy, and develop the boiled salt of the land of Qilu.

In a short period of time, at least in a year, Guo Wei should not launch a large-scale attack, the Khitan people and Liu Chong's southward movement will greatly consume Guo Wei's strength. In the east, there may not be no possibility of competing with Guo Wei - for now, Liu Chengyou is still a banner, and it is impossible for Yang Lian to throw him away. The eastern parts are still the land of the Han Dynasty, and in the future to recover the Central Plains, Liu Chengyou is still a powerful weapon.

When Yang Lian was planning, Liu Chengyou came in with dissatisfaction, Yang Lian raised his eyebrows slightly, to be honest, he was very dissatisfied with Liu Chengyou, at the beginning, Yang Lian once expected Liu Chengyou to order the Han ministers in the name of the Son of Heaven, especially when he faced the chasing soldiers, but Liu Chengyou was frightened and did not dare to go out to scold Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin and others, so that he was passive everywhere. Yang Lian took a defensive position, but there was no way.

In the battle of Rencheng, the men and horses of the original Taining Jiedu envoy were almost wiped out, and even Murong Yanchao was killed. Yang Lian's subordinates were also beaten to a seven-seven-eighty-eight, 5,000 new troops, and in the end there were 3,000 people killed in the battle, and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured, and the remaining about 1,300 people were all lightly wounded, and they only needed to recuperate for a period of time to recover.

The top priority, in addition to restoring production in Yanzhou, more needs to recruit soldiers, Yang Lian is not unwilling to enter the army, but he is powerless, but where does Liu Chengyou care about this, as soon as he came in, he asked with a face.

Yang Lian straightened up, threw the brush on the desk, the ink fell on the map, stained black, Yang Lian glanced at Liu Chengyou coldly, and said, "Pursuit? What to pursue? Now in Rencheng City, do you know how many soldiers and horses there are and how much food there is? ”

Liu Chengyou was asked by Yang Lian, he didn't know how to answer, his lips squirmed a few times, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and saw Yang Lian's eyes sharp, like a blade, he couldn't help but take two steps back, and said: "I, I just think that since Guo Wei has withdrawn from the army, the army will definitely be panicked, and if he takes advantage of the victory to pursue, Guo Wei will be defeated." ”

Yang Lian laughed twice and said, "What kind of person is Guo Wei, how can he win Kaifeng just by relying on the battle of Rencheng?" ”

Liu Chengyou hesitated for a moment and said, "General Lin has already led his troops to support. ”

"That army only has more than 3,000 people, and it is a naval division, so it can't attack the city at all." Yang Lian shook his head.

Liu Chengyou saw that Yang Lian was unwilling, so he suddenly knelt down, and he was under the eaves and had to bow his head. Now that his hope of recovering the country is all on Yang Lian, he has to ask Yang Lian to help him, "Brother Yang, Guo Wei is a thief, take away my country, and ask Brother Yang to help, if Guo Wei is driven away and the Han country is restored, I am willing to take out half of the land and share it with Brother Yang." ”

Yang Lian also needed to stabilize Liu Chengyou, he took a step forward, helped Liu Chengyou up, and said, "Chengyou, you get up and talk again." Although Guo Wei has withdrawn his troops now, there are still tens of thousands of troops, and in a short period of time, he will not be able to attack the Central Plains at all. You can rest assured that the Han Kingdom will definitely be recovered, but it will take time. “

As soon as Yang Lian's words fell, Chen Tie hurriedly walked in and said, "Yang Jiedu, Xuzhou is lost!" ”

Yang Lian gasped, Xuzhou is an important part of the south from Yanzhou, leaving is a battleground for soldiers, Xuzhou is lost, Yang Lian can not go south directly through the canal, but has to go around to Mizhou, in order to reach Haizhou, which is more time-consuming and laborious. Moreover, Xuzhou fell into the hands of the Zhou State, which meant that he could attack Haizhou at any time and cut off the mountain. The connection between the east and the two Huai, once Guo Wei acted so, the mountain. The eastern part of the country is in a situation of isolation and helplessness.

"Where's Li Jinquan?" Yang Lian asked briefly.

Liu Chengyou also seemed to realize how important the loss of Xuzhou was to Yang Lian, his face changed, and he didn't know what to say.

"Li Jinquan has already broken through at night, has already gone south, and has arrived in Chuzhou." Chen Tie said that the loss of Xuzhou was two days ago, and two days were enough time for Li Jinquan to escape for his life.

Yang Lian frowned, pacing in the study, the loss of Xuzhou was beyond Yang Lian's expectations, although Li Jinquan's troops were not sufficient, but Yang Lian's troops were also similar to him, the difference was the sudden appearance of Lin Renzhao's strange army, but, in the same way, Wang Yanchao's troops attacking Xuzhou were not as sufficient as Guo Wei, and in theory, Li Jinquan could hold Xuzhou.

Fortunately, Yang Lian made arrangements in advance and sent Fu Yanqing back to Jinling.

No matter how much you think about it now, it won't help, Xuzhou has been lost, this is an ironclad fact, Yang Lian doesn't have many troops now, and he can't recover Xuzhou at all. So for the time being, Yang Lian can only accept this opinion.

Yang Lian asked Liu Chengyou to go out first, and asked Chen Tie to call Lin Renzhao, and the three of them discussed in the study. All over the east, and in the name of the Han Dynasty, and among them, it is inseparable from the support of the Tang Dynasty. Now that Guo Wei has led his troops north to resist the Khitan, he must take advantage of this time to seize the time to build defense facilities and recruit soldiers. Li Jing, the son of the Tang Dynasty, will support the approach, but his support will inevitably be insufficient, mainly because of insufficient financial support.

Now Yang Lian is making salt in Yuzhou, the output is amazing, and the financial resources have also increased greatly, but if he wants to build a defense line, he is still stretched. On the one hand, the only way to do this is to increase the salt production in Yuzhou, sell it to the Khitan as soon as possible, and seize the wealth of the Khitan, but on the other hand, it is still to use the method of cash-for-work to gather people's husbands, build water conservancy, and build defense facilities.

Lin Renzhao also agreed, and in addition, he also proposed that since the Khitans went south, the river. The northern parts of the country will inevitably be ravaged, and many people will inevitably flee south, so he proposed that the sailors enter Liangshanbo and set up a contact point on the south bank of the Yellow River to welcome the people into the mountain. In the east, there are enough people to restore the mountain. The East Timor's economy has great benefits.

Yang Lian nodded, if there is sufficient manpower, the land can be reclaimed in time, and various constructions will also have labor. Without further ado, after the three of them discussed it, they immediately set to work. Lin Renzhao led the sailors into Liangshanbo to station, he found a rather large island in Liangshanbo, the mountains above are dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, immediately stationed, sent troops to build a large camp, and began to hoard grain.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, the Tang army set up more than a dozen contact points, each of which had more than a dozen small boats, ready to pick up people to cross the river at any time.

At this time, it was already the middle of April, the weather was warmer, the water potential of the Yellow River was gradually rising, and the water in Liangshanbo became more. He asked Lin Renzhao to build Liangshanbo well, and this place may be a turning point in the war in the future.

As Guo Wei went north, Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin and others also gave up Yunzhou and went with Guo Wei, the son of heaven, to resist the Khitans. The two sides confronted each other in Jizhou, Jingzhou, and Dezhou, and a big war was about to begin. In order to ensure Guo Wei's heart to resist the Khitan, Yang Lian wrote two letters, telling him that after all, he was an outsider, and he Yang Lian would never take advantage of the fire to rob at this time.

The news kept coming, and Guo Wei fought several battles with the Khitans, each with its own victories and defeats. The Khitans relied on the large number of war horses, they adopted a policy of uproar, sent a small force of cavalry to cross the defense of the Zhou army, burned and looted along the way, killed people when they met, and burned villages when they saw them, so as to feed the war and stir up the river. In all parts of the north, the people are struggling to make a living.

When the people got the news, they went south one after another, and a considerable part of the people rushed to the mountain. East, was picked up by Yang Lian, the young and strong labor force was sent to Yanzhou, most of the women and children were sent to Qingzhou, in early May, Yang Lian received more than 500 households, a total of more than 2,000 people. It's not a lot, but it's a good start.

In the name of Liu Chengyou, Yang Lian took away the land of the rich and unkind local tyrants and distributed it to the people. Most of this land has already been planted, and as long as it is carefully cultivated and waiting for the autumn harvest. This time, the land allocated by Yang Lian to the people was far inferior to the land allocated in Haichu and Haichu Prefectures, with only about fifteen acres per household, and even if it worked hard for a year, it could only barely feed itself. Yang Lian naturally made sense to do this, now that he lacks soldiers and horses, once the people are given enough land, they will not have to worry about food and clothing, and they will naturally not join the army.

But now the government has only enough land to feed them, forcing them to take up other occupations in order to increase their income. In order to encourage joining the army, Yang Lian gave very generous conditions, and every household who joined the army could get 20 acres of land. Although it is not Yongye Field, as long as you are a soldier for a day, you can plant it for a day, although it is taken back by the government after retiring, but the government is buying it with money, and the people do not suffer, and the crops planted in the season, the harvest still belongs to the people.

In order to encourage the people to reclaim the famine, Yang Lian also took out salt as a reward, anyway, his salt is tens of thousands, so he doesn't have to worry about insufficient salt.

Time slipped away quickly, and with the rebellion of the Khitans in Hebei, until June, Yang Lian took in more than 6,000 displaced people, nearly 25,000 people. The families with many men were placed in Yanzhou, and the others were scattered all over the place, familiar with water, Yang Lian let them enlist in the army, and Lin Renzhao trained them fiercely, to create a water division in the shortest possible time.

At this time, Guo Rong had arrived in Jinling, in order to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty, he visited Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, Sun Sheng, the prime minister and others, and during this period of time in Jinling, he noticed some clues, and there were party disputes within the Tang Dynasty, and this was something he could use.

Li Jingsui wrote a letter to Yang Lian and sent someone to send it to Rencheng quickly, Yang Lian received the letter, thought carefully for a while, and finally made a decision, he let Lin Renzhao and Chen Tie stay in Yanzhou, continue to collect displaced people, expand the water division, and build a new army. He took Liu Chengyou all the way south, and when he passed through Haizhou, Yang Lian went to Yuzhou to inspect, and when he saw the order, he was relieved.

When passing through Chuzhou again, Yang Lian entered the city and asked Lu Duoxun to prepare food and find a way to send it to Yanzhou. In addition, he explained a few things, and then hurriedly went south to Jinling.

At this time, Jinling City was already quarrelling, and the Yanwang party led by Sun Sheng naturally did not want Yang Lian to achieve results in the north, so in the face of Guo Rong's request for peace, they were very active, and encouraged some courtiers to write a letter, saying that now around the Tang Dynasty, there are many wars, and the war with Wu Yueguo in Changzhou has become hot, and many soldiers have died. Moreover, in these battles, the food consumption is very large, and the treasury is already extremely empty, if the war continues, I am afraid that the soldiers will have no food to eat.

This is indeed a problem, and Scrooge Li Jing is indeed a little reluctant. What worries him even more is that Yang Lian won in the north and captured the mountain. All over the east, as long as time passes, these places will have the surname Li. However, the war in Changzhou in the south was somewhat unfavorable, Qian Wenfeng got the true biography of his father, and led the troops very well, although the war in Changzhou seemed to be stalemate, but in fact, Changzhou soldiers and horses attacked several times, and did not take advantage, but were trapped in Changzhou City.

Changzhou was in danger, Zhou Ye, Chai Kehong and others all wrote to the book, willing to lead the troops to the battle, Li Jing and Li Jingsui discussed for two days, and then decided that Zhou Ye would lead the forbidden army with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Chai Kehong would lead 5,000 soldiers and horses from Runzhou to support Changzhou. In this way, there are only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jinling, which is enough to hold Jinling City.

Zhou Ye and Chai Kehong went south to support Changzhou, and two days later, Yang Lian arrived in Jinling.

Yang Lian rushed to Jinling, the first time was to go to the palace of the king of Qi, first to understand what happened in Jinling recently, understand, this is good to make a decision, Li Jing, the king of Qi, saw Yang Lian come back suddenly, was also taken aback, and when he understood Yang Lian's thoughts, he told Yang Lian about Jinling one by one.

Yang Lian didn't expect that the war in Changzhou would be so stalemate, and now Datang is using troops everywhere, which is a great test of manpower and material resources. Originally, Li Jingsui thought that Yang Lian was here to seek the support of the Son of Heaven and recover the Central Plains in one go, but when he knew that Yang Lian planned to negotiate peace with Zhou Guo, he couldn't help but be taken aback. In fact, this is not only his thoughts, but also the thoughts of the Son of Heaven, but Li Jing's mood is obviously more hesitant. (To be continued.) )