The war has ended, and Xu Ping's handsome tent has moved to Anyuan Village. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info this is the most open place in the Sandu River Valley, and the village should be rebuilt as the gateway to the north of the Gongwei Fuqiang Village. Moreover, there is a lot of fertile land around Anyuan Village, and it is also necessary to garrison the garrison.

A village in Anyuan, a village in Gangu City, and the entire Sandu River are included, and the accounts are merged into villages, and the households are all in the people.

In the handsome tent, Xu Ping was in the same room with Wang Kai, Chong Shiheng, Gan Zhaoji, Wang Gongchen and others, discussing the aftermath of the First Battle of Sanduchuan, and preparing to report the victory to the imperial court.

Although Xu Ping repeatedly ordered his subordinates to kill indiscriminately, more than 5,000 people were killed in this battle, of course, whether they died in the hands of the Song army, or died in the self-attack and killing of the Fan Luo army. The person with the highest status of the enemy killed in battle was buried by the rewarder, and his official notices, tokens, and other items were to be sent to the imperial court along with the report of victory. More than 32,600 people were captured, and this number is still increasing, because there are still people who have fled to the surrounding mountains, and from time to time there are surrounding people who have been sent to Qinzhou to receive rewards. Among the captives, the highest status is naturally Yuzang Huama, and soon after Wang Shougui will be personally escorted back to Beijing by the horse to congratulate the court on the New Year.

Xu Ping abolished the calculation of merit according to the first rank in the army, but the number of wins is still the most important item in the calculation of battle results. According to the different numbers of captures, rewards will be distributed to the army, and they will be distributed evenly by command. Behead one person five times, capture one person five and a half times, and more than 100,000 pieces will be sent to the soldiers in this month. Commanders and envoys are counted separately and are not included in the awards.

The seizures are being counted, and the specific number is listed in the report to facilitate the Privy Council's calculations. The most valuable of them is more than 20,000 horses, from which seven or eight thousand war horses can be selected to expand the size of the cavalry.

When the two armies faced each other, the assault ability of the heavy cavalry was actually not very useful, and there were too many means of restraint. But at the beginning of the battle, the formations of the two sides were pulled, and the cavalry could use their ability to maneuver quickly and seize the fleeting fighters, which the infantry could not match. Cavalry at the right time at a critical time can often determine the outcome of a battle. The commander's own soldiers also have to play the role of reserves, and the heavy use of cavalry can play a surprising role.

What's more, once the Yellow River is crossed, there are large areas of grassland, desert, and mountainous areas rapidly decreasing. In order to control the battlefield in the Great Plains, the mobility of the army was crucial, and the position of cavalry came to the fore. The most important thing is to cross the Yellow River and penetrate directly into the heart of the party, and Xu Ping must master a large number of cavalry mobile forces in his hands.

Chong Shiheng, who is also in charge of the marshal's mansion, tacitly calculated the reward money that needed to be issued, and said to Xu Ping: "Marshal, after this battle, more than 400,000 yuan of reward money will be issued to the army, I wonder if the imperial court will allocate so much money?" ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Don't worry, the imperial court will definitely not be stingy with this reward, only more will be allocated, and it will not be less." You don't need to worry about the lack of money in the army, I will naturally negotiate with the Zhongshu and the Privy Council. What you need to pay special attention to is that Qinzhou has so much money all of a sudden, and if the materials are insufficient, prices will inevitably rise, and both the military and the people will suffer. ”

Inflation in the border areas is no stranger to people in this era. Especially now that the paper money has been changed, the third division has enough currency in his hands, and there is no pressure of transportation, and he is particularly generous to a few roads along the border. Qin Fenglu here because Xu Ping has been strictly controlling the amount of money put in, and at the same time there is the support of materials produced by Fengxiang Mansion, the inflation is not serious, and the other three roads are not good. Because there are not many wars on the nearby Jingyuan Road, inflation is not serious, and the prices of the two roads in Yanyan and Huanqing are now more than twice as high as before the war.

Chong Shiheng thought for a while and shook his head: "This is a little difficult. After all, the money will be sent, and there are only so many materials, and the price increase is inevitable. We can surprise from Fengxiang Mansion to transport more grain and cloth to ensure that the price of food and clothing in Qinzhou is stable, and the rest is difficult to guarantee. ”

Xu Ping said: "General judgment, it's winter now, regardless of the Han people, they need cotton clothes." I will inform Guo Jian and let Fengxiang Mansion produce more cotton clothes, which will go to Qinzhou. As long as the price of cotton clothes is suppressed and the price of grain is stabilized, the rest will not rise sharply. There are also banks that should also be used, and the reward money should not be found, but should be stored in the bank first, and let the soldiers take it themselves. As soon as he saw that there were signs of price increases in Qinzhou, he asked the bank to limit the amount of money withdrawn each month. Let's take a two-pronged approach and try to keep prices as stable as possible. ”

Chong Shiheng said yes, and now it can only be so. Where is there a war where prices do not skyrocket? You can only control the scale.

Xu Ping looked at Wang Gongchen and said, "Jun Zhen, there is one thing I haven't had time to discuss with you, so let's talk about it now." The war in the Sandu River Valley is over, and I have ordered Sang Yi to lead the Xuanwu army to the north and enter the land of Sui and Tanglanzhou. Since the Tang Dynasty Lanzhou was not in Tubo, its old city has been abandoned, and it is useless to defend it, so this time the army only occupies the periphery of Lanzhou and captures its eastern gateway. The Sang Yi army marched this time, crossed the Mabi Mountain from the west envoy city, and wanted to seize the ancient city of Kang, the new city of Xishi and the city of Agan, and build the city in Yuzhong County, the old Han Dynasty. If it goes well, the door of Lanzhou will be opened and can be occupied at any time. When the party's army came to attack, it was defended according to the pass. Occupy it, and we will be able to attack, retreat, and defend. However, when the army is stationed, you must ensure that the grain and grass are safe, and in the next month or two, you must prepare enough grain and grass to transport there. Next, Lu Fang's bridge army is temporarily under you, and the road from Qinzhou to the West Envoy City and then to Hanyu Zhongcheng will be repaired. This is a matter of urgency and cannot be delayed. ”

Seeing that Wang Gongchen was a little dazed, Xu Ping asked Wang Kai to take the map and pointed it to him one by one.

Since the Qin Dynasty began to set up counties in Lanzhou, for more than 1,000 years, it has been an area where the Han Dynasty has repeatedly tug-of-war, and the Central Plains Dynasty has abandoned or defended, and the place names are constantly changing. Xu Ping made it a lot of effort for the Shuai Mansion to figure out the evolution of the place name, Wang Gongchen had not had much contact with the military before, and of course he was at a loss for a while.

The location of each dynasty is not a whim, the location is related to the situation at that time, and it is also related to the geographical situation. Xu Ping wanted to clarify the history of place names around Lanzhou, the purpose was to grasp the geographical situation there, which was sometimes much more useful than a map.

The southeast of Lanzhou is a relatively large valley, and it is also the place where the Qin Dynasty first established the county, called Yuzhong. The ancient city of Yuzhong is at the exit from this valley to Lanzhou, between the Yellow River and the mountains, the mountains and rivers are sandwiched, and they are guarded according to the danger. What Sang Yi wanted to occupy was this valley, and at the same time establish a new city on the site of the ancient city of Yuzhong to guard the gateway to Lanzhou.

With the current strength in Xu Ping's hands, if he directly enters and occupies Lanzhou, he will not be able to hold it. There is the intersection of several roads, the northwest leads to the four counties of Hexi, the west leads to Miaochuan and Qingtang, to the north can reach the hinterland of the party, and the east is connected to Huizhou. With more than 50,000 troops in Xu Ping's hands, he also had to defend the vast area of the hinterland of Qinzhou, and there were many passes around Lanzhou. I had to seize the relatively isolated Yuzhong Valley first, open the door to attack Lanzhou, and wait until the troops were sufficient before trying to advance.

Xu Ping pointed to the map and said to Wang Gongchen: "This winter, you have to open several roads like this. From Qinzhou to Weizhou in the Tang Dynasty, and then along the Xianhe Valley Road to the West Envoy City, this is one. From Qinzhou to the north, along the Wating River Valley Road, through Gu Luoyang, Pingxiang to the West Envoy, this is another one. From the Western Envoy City to Yuzhong County, the hometown of the Qin and Han dynasties, this is another one. There is another one, which is from the West Envoy City along the Guanchuan River Valley to Huichuan City. Huichuan is the gateway to Huizhou, and after Liu Jianji occupies it, he also has to build a city and defend it. ”

Looking at the map, it was clear at a glance, Wang Gongchen nodded: "Now Qinzhou has enough money and food, what is lacking is only manpower, and it is not difficult to open these roads." It's just that to ensure that there is no shortage of grain and grass, it is best to let Fengxiang Mansion make more big cars. ”

"Yes. The Xiegu shipbuilding business has stopped the manufacture of most of the boats and distributed them to inland prefectures and counties, where there are sufficient manpower and materials, and it is not difficult to make cars. As for the horses, there are mountains and valleys all over the area, as long as you have money! ”

The cage city of the Deshun army in the east is the eastern envoy city of the Tang Dynasty pastoral supervisor, plus the newly occupied western envoy city of Yuzang Huama, these two cities are connected to the Wei River, which is the pastoral supervisor of the Tang Dynasty who raised a large number of official horses. Of course, the horses of the Tang Dynasty are gone, but their bloodlines are scattered among the horses stocked in the Tibetan Department, and the horses in this area are not only large in number, but also of high quality, which is also the reason why a large number of war horses in the Song Dynasty came from Qinzhou. Now that this horse grazing land has been occupied by Xu Ping, there is no shortage of horses in Qinfeng Road.

Looking at the map, Xu Ping said to everyone: "The reason why we are so smooth this time is that one thing is particularly important, that is, this winter, the party Xiang Hao thieves will invade the area of Yanyan and Linfu Road. The party claims that all the people are soldiers, soldiers are the people, and the people are soldiers. - Hmph, you have been in Qinzhou for nearly a year, so you naturally know that this is just talk, to deceive those who don't understand military affairs. The army is dispatched, and there are thousands of things, how can it be such a child's play? What's more, the party is the commander of the big clans and the chieftains, and it is not the east and the west if they want to go west. They will use troops to the east, at least this winter, it will be impossible to turn around, and until the spring of the following year, we will have no party army on our side. It's a pity that our Qinfeng Road's strength is also limited, and opening the gateways to Lan and Hui is already the limit. Going forward, Lanzhou will face Shangzhuo Luo and the South Supervision Military Division, Huizhou will face the Shangxi Shou Supervision Military Division, and the two Supervision Military Divisions. Therefore, taking advantage of the gap when the party had no time to look west this winter, the Lanzhou direction rushed to build Yuzhong City, and the Huizhou direction rushed to build Huichuan City, preparing to deal with the party's large-scale attack in the coming year. ”