Green smoke curled up, corpses were strewn all over the field, and the dense discharge and crashing sound like frequent summer showers soon returned to the silence of the field.

This head-on collision and encounter battle came and ended quickly, and the other party didn't know what kind of opponent he was going to face, so he hurried to the rescue. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The vanguard troops had not yet set up their driving formations and barbed wire fences, and had already relied on trenches and fortifications to rely on them, and had already relied on several neat rows of multiple diagonal shots to crush the opponent's hasty attack momentum;

Then the cavalry units on flank standby were also outflanked in place, after a burst of immediate volleys and alternate charges; These local armies that rushed out to fight easily threw their weapons and knelt on the ground, and most of them became prisoners who were tied up. The clash before the battle killed only a few hundred, but in the end it captured several times the number of people.

Then, with these captives as a precursor and a guide, he easily divided his troops and took down Xiheyi, Liaoyuanyi, Yuanningzhen, Baidingcheng, etc. within the last twenty or thirty miles, which belonged to several small and medium-sized cities in Xinzhou (now Tongliao City, Jilin Province).

It's just that among these cities and their nearby settlements, they are also sparsely populated and the people have a dish-faced face, and it seems that life is really not good, and most of the foreign Huai troops are only numb and indifferent, and there are almost no decent reactions and emotions. Even in the suburbs, there are only some sparse acres of land that have been cultivated and cultivated.

The so-called Northland Alliance, which is legendary and can easily pull out 100,000 horses many times in history, is so empty and weak in front of us, which can't help but be a little surprising and a little reasonable.

With the start of these captures and strongholds, the pieces of the puzzle about this Northland Alliance have also been perfected step by step. For example, the Northland Alliance is now somewhat in name only, or on the verge of collapse;

Contrary to what we imagined and expected to be united or united, the fact that the Northland Alliance's predecessor was a rather loose organization, with no stable core and dominant pillars; It is not like the Luo clan that occupies the south, which is constrained and maintained by a relatively strict system of clans and vassals, and the corresponding orthodox name and righteousness.

Instead, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Xue clan to defect to the Northern Dynasty and the Luo clan to invade each other, under the leadership of several powerful feudal lords, they seized the geographical risk, and took the initiative to break away from the system of the princes of Anton and stand on their own; Therefore, the leader of this Northland Alliance is more like the general convener and coordinator of the regular alliance meeting, and these powerful Northland powerhouses take turns to serve and take responsibility.

Therefore, the specific terms and covenants are quite simple and sketchy, and each family does what it should do in peacetime, and there is no lack of opposition to each other, and only in the event of an external invasion will the beacon be ignited, and they will work together to fight against the foreign enemy.

However, after the large group of people composed of various feudal clans was lured by Su Yuanjing, they attacked and swept the grassland outside the Saiwai and could not return for a long time, which took away a large number of young and strong, which caused a considerable degree of hollowing out and weakness of the place, but because everyone was like this, it maintained a relative balance and balance;

However, with the passage of time, the local people lost their power of restraint and pressure for a long time, and under the accumulation of various factors, the rebellion of the Tu tribes in various places suddenly broke out, and almost the seven wings of the Northern Alliance, among them, the six more powerful princes were involved, and all kinds of anxiety were too much to take care of;

And only one family was left in Suizhou in the southwest of the generation, but because a few years ago when they wanted to invade Liaoxi to pick up cheap, they were defeated by the Huai army and counterattacked to their own territory, losing a lot of people and goods, so they have been recuperating and have not fully recovered.

Although it was only a few years ago that he relied on the war of attrition and tug-of-war of fortified cities to suppress these rebellious Turkish forces, and then, hoping to divert the contradictions by intervening in the civil strife in the southern Luo Domain, he was defeated and destroyed under the city of Liaodong, and even the news could not be sent.

Immediately after catching up with the plundering and sweeping of the border led by Yelu Dashi, it was actually already a heavy loss, and it was quite exhausted. Many of the alliance princes known as the Forty-Four Families were destroyed or extinct, and were divided and annexed by the neighboring feudal families.

Therefore, the situation of the Northland Alliance is very chaotic now, and the further north it goes, the more so, only some close to the central part are relatively stable, but it is also inevitable to suffer from bandits and exiles everywhere.

Therefore, I have decided to adopt a reserve plan and go deeper into the army in order to obtain more comprehensive information and results.

After the army passed through the platform (Tongliao Pass), which is generally low in the south and high in the north, narrow in the east and wide in the west, along the rising terrain, the streams and lakes connected by trickles suddenly changed the direction of rotation and became thick and galloping; Because since here, it has transitioned from the upper reaches of the Liao River to the so-called mixed Tongjiang (lower reaches of the Songhua River) basin;

This water system is also commonly known as the Duck River by the locals, because of the overwhelming convergence of wild ducks, geese, swans and other water birds at the turn of winter and spring every year.

Unlike the Liao River Valley, which is highly open and difficult to see large forests on the plains, the smell of people here is separated from each other and is relatively dispersed.

Walking along the road away from the river bank, walking in the boundary of Jilin Province or the Songnen Plain, which should be regarded as the later Jilin Province or the Songnen Plain, gives people the deepest impression is that there are large unopened dark green mottled forests, and all kinds of towering Korean pines, oak trees, ash, yellow pineapples and other intermittent periods that have grown for many years.

Then, between the shade of the forest, and along with the river and the water, there are faint patches of large and small pools of water and meadows. As a result, if you strayed away from the main road, it was easy to get stuck in all kinds of mud that lurked under the grass and shrubs.

Only near the inhabited villages can there be some signs of felling and remnants of tree stumps, and most of the houses in the local villages are made of whole logs, filled with mud and covered with straw, and there are also walls made of mounds of earth and horizontal logs outside the village to protect against wild animals and other creatures.

Outside the villages, the seedlings of hardy wheat, barley, oats, rye, soybeans, finches, black beans, corn and potatoes were planted, but because of lack of labour and time, and neglected to take care of them, these seedlings did not grow very well.

According to the local chronicles and information I have in the past, the output of these places may not be as good as that of the Liaohe River basin in the south, but because there are relatively rich pastures in the Nenjiang River basin, and later generations are called the Horqin grassland, so the animal husbandry is more prosperous and reaching.

But now all of this has become a passing cloud because of the war, and the further north you go, the more barren and withered it becomes, leaving only broken or ruined settlements and acres of withered yellow weeds.

meanwhile

News from the rear is still being delivered, including the ongoing work of withdrawing states and merging counties;

Mainly in view of the perennial war, civil strife and other historical reasons and legacy problems, the Liaodi has been divided into 6 consecutive too fragmented state and county system, according to the topography of the removal and classification of eleven larger states and three town defense areas, and then dismantle some redundant cities and checkpoints, only the most basic key points are retained; Some of the underpopulated towns were also merged into larger cities in order to improve overall administrative efficiency and reduce the cost of running the bureaucracy.

In normal times, there would have been some confusion and resistance, but now, it's a different story. Therefore, while changing the administrative system and name, it is also one of the long-term layout methods in disguise to eliminate and remove the traces and influence of the previous rulers.

In this way, with the addition of the five prefectures of western Liaoning and the three prefectures of the peninsula, there will be a pattern of seventeen prefectures, which is almost the same territory as the Huaibei Province under my rule. I have already arranged the candidates for the military in the future, and Han Liangchen is on the road to come; Only his qualifications and prestige can replace me in this newly opened rear.

As for the civil affairs candidate, I chose Yu Yunwen, who was quite effective and capable during his tenure as the first Yingtian ambassador of Huaizhen, so this time he was put in charge of the follow-up affairs of the people's livelihood camp in Liaodong, which can be regarded as making the best use of everything.

Because the war in Liaodi has basically been calmed down, it has entered the truncation of resuming production and recuperation, and the external threat and internal military pressure of the local area have also been greatly reduced; Therefore, the corresponding military deployment should also be adjusted and distributed in more detail.

For example, in western Liaoning, as long as the southern front against Yingzhou in the direction of Xiaoqing River is maintained; On the Eastern Front, for the sake of being connected from six lands, the most basic garrisons were to be maintained as a deterrent to the southeastern domains, and they should continue to play the role of cows who regularly provided financial resources and labor.

The center of gravity of the main military presence was shifted to the northern front, with the rebuilt Dingxiang Army as the support point, the Lianghe and Cangbei town defense areas as the second-line buffer and source of troops, and the Andong garrison army sitting in Liaodong City was the local garrison and maintenance force, and then the five newly formed battalions of the Huai Army stationed in Xincheng as a backup and mobile force.

Therefore, in the end, it was expected that Liaodi would only need to maintain a standard Huai-style new army of 10,000 people, plus about 30,000 traditional troops with less daily consumption and only a small number of firearms. In addition, the garrison regiments formed after the completion of the local resettlement, as well as the half-time construction army and patrol team, were enough to maintain the subsequent situation, and the need for further reduction and transfer of actual garrisons was required.

Of course, the premise of all this is that I have to clean up the tail of the Northern Alliance before I can talk about it.