Although the forces of Hebei Xingtai led by Zhenzhou City have surrendered, it does not mean that the military operations in Hebei are completely over.

There are still a lot of things to do, after all, it is a big force that once ruled most of Hebei Province, and there are still a lot of family funds that have been looted and accumulated over the years, and all kinds of goods are piled up like a mountain; It is necessary to count and count it slowly, in case someone takes advantage of the chaos to be greedy or destroyed, or take the opportunity to write off the account and float away; and reallocate it to other uses, to subsidize the costs of this unexpectedly expanded and possibly additional war;

Among them, the more useful ones are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of stones of various grains and grasses, and at least nearly 100,000 pieces of various armor and equipment; The former can be used to buy people's hearts and pacify places, and also to maintain the consumption of war; The latter could be used to arm the garrisons and patrols of the third and fourth lines.

On the contrary, those goods are of little use, except for some gold and silver money that can be used as circulation in Huaizhen and raw materials for minting new coins, other precious goods such as silk cloth, silk incense, and other precious goods have been used as war trophies to distribute dividends and rewards to the soldiers layer by layer.

Then there were the civil and military officials who surrendered with Zhang Bangchang, and the number of people of various identities and titles added up to thousands; Although most of the wealth, property and privileges have been deprived, only some of them are left; However, it is also necessary to carry out centralized supervision and screening work for a long time to come, so as to select some active and useful objects among them, and cooperate with the local transformation work in a special capacity.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of local troops of various colors that need to be disarmed and repatriated, and there are all kinds of local armed forces that have emerged during this period, which need to be swept up and suppressed before they can be resettled and redeployed in the next stage;

Of course, the repatriation treatment is not to give some severance pay, so you will be sent to the place to fend for yourself; That is nothing short of a laissez-faire and connivance, a stupid act of potential instability and rebellion against the soil in the future.

Therefore, the main thing is to carry out the preliminary elimination of the old and the weak, and distribute them together with their families to various places in the field and to the tunzhuang, so as to enrich the local households; The remaining able-bodied personnel were escorted and sent in batches to the geographically closed Liaodong Ban and Silla to carry out the transformation (brainwashing) work in the name of retraining and reorganization;

Then, at the appropriate time, it will be assigned to the outlying areas such as Yizhou and northeastern Andong to garrison and serve as a military reclamation force. It is a coercive measure that changes places, cuts off and cuts off past sources and social foundations.

In this process, of course, it will not be smooth sailing, some people are free of all kinds of ideas and demands, and some people will be dissatisfied and hopeful; Therefore, at the instigation and fanning of some well-intentioned people, there were still conflicts and commotions caused by some discontented elements, or in other words, to build momentum and show their own sense of existence, and to ask for and negotiate some better conditions and preferential treatment;

Of course, now that the overall situation in Hebei Province has gone and the general people have decided about it, these mantis arm-like rebellions are just a few noises in some places, not even small episodes, and they have become some achievements that have been easily resolved by the newly established garrison regiments and border battalions in dealing with the aftermath.

However, the Huai army just took advantage of this reason and opportunity to implicate and punish and deal with a number of influential local families who were like fish that had slipped through the net, and the most unfortunate consequence of them was that after breaking up many family members in the unit of adult males, they went to the Yanbian area in northeastern Anbei to contribute to the cause of opening up the frontier land.

Because the area of Hebei Province is too vast, and most of the plains are unobstructed; Therefore, in order to lack the results of governance and transformation in the short term, and there will be no major counterattacks and retrogressions, it is necessary to have at least three full military orders to sit in the period to maintain the most basic military deterrence and external response capabilities;

Therefore, two of the garrison troops were stationed in Zhenzhou and Xiangzhou in the north-south direction, and one main battle army was stationed in the hinterland of Jizhou to standby.

Because of the need for rapid reaction and mobility in the plains, the cavalry force that served as a combined force in these three military orders also had to be further strengthened. As a result, a new round of conscription and horse recruitment has begun to unfold and be carried out in the southern and central parts of Andong.

According to the news sent back so far, thousands of people have come to apply in just over ten days, and most of them have come with their own mounts; According to local feedback, the main reason is that in recent years, most of the territory in Andong has begun to calm down, and many young adults who were trained in the early years have basically no place to use except farming.

And those princes and sub-vassals that have been inherited, because of the protection, supervision and coordination of Huaizhen, there is no need to continue war preparedness and military conflicts, and there is no longer a need to support and maintain too many feudal soldiers, and even to train their own family children for generations; And save all kinds of resources, to improve the quality of daily life or improve the situation under the collar, and even began to pursue Huaidi as the fashion trend and enjoyment of the way.

Therefore, because many people are unwilling to be ordinary and lonely, or to find a new way out and future, or even to fight for a basic preferential conditions for their own families, and other reasons and reasons, they have begun to seek to join the military forces to which Huaizhen belongs.

This also means that a lot of resources and energy were spent in the early years, and the follow-up operation for the purpose of persevering in Andong in terms of manpower and material resources has begun to produce results and gains.

If we add that after the initial consolidation and digestion of Hebei Province in the future, it also means that the basic plate and fundamental place with Huaibei as the core of the three major areas that can complement and support each other have been formed, and most of the advantages in the north have been established.

Even if it is a long-term attrition between the north and the south in the future, or the needs of a protracted national war, there is enough depth and the foundation of the rear buffer.

This is because the farming and warfare system currently operating in Huaizhen is actually more similar to the development idea of general warfare in later generations, that is, under a relatively tightly controlled social system, most of the mobilization capacity and resource production plans related to the war are distributed and compiled layer by layer to everyone in the register, regardless of gender, age and child.

Therefore, once the war machine is launched, it is not so easy to stop before it devours enough lives and resources to sustain itself as nutrients and fuel.

Everything that is being accepted in Zhenzhou and Hengzhou in an orderly manner here, and the troops going south have also come with good news and bad news.

With the cooperation of the local garrison army, the vanguard of the south has successfully taken over many important points along the Yellow River, including Weizhou and Huaizhou, as well as Qiaodu and Yaojin including the north pass of Heyang Bridge, and successfully connected with the remnants of the Shu army located in Baiya City (now Xiaolangdi District of the Yellow River);

At present, the other side only has more than 2,000 tired and sick soldiers left, and the loss of armor and staff or something, and only the uneven sidearms remain; However, the spirit and morale were acceptable, so with the limited help of the garrison army from the Heyang Bridge, the advance and outposts of the Western Army had been repelled several times;

Therefore, when Yue Pengju's Cangzhou army arrived, it easily took over and changed the defense of this key place located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River;

You must know that, in terms of geographical location and mountain and river beauty, Baiya City is located in the narrow sandwich of Wangwu Mountain Mai and Zhongtiao Mountain Range, facing the north bank of the Yellow River with the trend of backing the mountain and waist, and overlooking the throat of the Chongshan Gorge Road, which is the initial governance and garrison after the establishment of Huaizhou;

The Baiya City itself began to be built by Hou Jing, a general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty; It was first named after the refusal to retreat from the famous general Wentai of the Western Wei Dynasty; On the bank of the Yellow River under the city, there is an ancient river Qingdu port (now the south bank of the Yellow River in Jiyuan, Henan), which is the pivotal place that leads from the Heluo area to the Guannei and Hejian areas in ancient times.

Therefore, in the historical events such as the relocation of the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the struggle between the Eastern and Western Weis, the entry of Zhu Rong into Luo by the King of the Jin Dynasty, the entry of Liu Yao of the Zhao Dynasty and the entry of Shi Hu into Luo, etc., it is necessary to control Baiya City and Heqing Ferry before further launching the strategy for the Central Plains.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Junhan, a native of Huazhou, occupied the city to sacrifice his ancestor Li Yuan, and only then did the Li Tang regime that was ready to fight out of the land of Hedong in one fell swoop, and then joined the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains and swept Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and other heroes of the two rivers;

It was not until the peace of the world that the importance was greatly reduced, and then the government moved to the more prosperous Dayi Hanoi County;

During the Kaiyuan period, Pei Yaoqing, the official in charge of logistics and baggage, built the official warehouse Baiya warehouse under Baiya City, and was responsible for the transfer of grain and materials between Chang'an and Luoyang.

Later, Jijin warehouses and salt warehouses were set up, and the materials from the Jianghuai land bypassed the turbulent and changeable flow of the Yellow River in the Sanmenxia section through the step-by-step transfer method of changing ships, reversing warehouses, and reducing loads, and transported them to Chang'an, Xijing, in the Guannai. As a result, the city expanded downwards and became a transshipment hub for land and water transportation.

When it came to the "Anshi Rebellion", Taiwei Li Guangbi rebuilt the upper part of Baiya City here to resist the strategy of the rebel general Shi Siming's department for a long time.

From the west, the hundred-mile gorge road from Hangu Pass and Taolinsai is divided into two routes by the southern foot of Wangwu Mountain; One goes south to Luoyang along Suoluo ditch, and the other goes south to Luoyang along the river clear valley.

So in the end, the good news I got was that these two openings, which might become the breakthrough points of the Western Army, were temporarily blocked by the Cangzhou Army, which arrived first. Although after the early battle damage and the lag along the way, in the end, there were only a few more than 4,000 people stationed in the period; But relying on the firearms and other equipment they carried, they were enough to hold out for some time in the face of the ensuing Western offensive until subsequent reinforcements arrived.

However, the bad news is that the garrison army in Henan has problems and conditions again; Just after a part of the Cangzhou Army entered the North Pass of Heyang Bridge and began to help the local garrison, it was found that soldiers from the south bank had fled one after another through the sandbar in the river.

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