Chapter 610: The First Battle on the Border of Liao

After Zhang San gathered a large wave of people's hearts, he immediately began to organize slaves to come and repair the river, because the Yellow River is quite dangerous now, and the dam will burst at any time when the flood season comes, and now Zhang San needs to stabilize the flow direction of the Yellow River to the north, and then build a dam and dredge the river.

Zhang San doesn't want to do any big project back to the river now, compared to the defensive thinking of the Song Dynasty, Zhang San prefers to flow north to provide convenience for his attack on the Liao State, but after the north flow, there is no river here, the river embankment is repaired at will, the dam will burst at any time, and some places twists and turns affect the flow rate and cause blockage, these must be solved.

The nine songs of the Yellow River sound good, but as soon as this song turns, the flow rate will come down, and the water will accumulate there, so the place where the river bends is the most prone to flooding, so Zhang San is not in the mood to retain the beautiful scenery of the nine songs.

Moreover, not only did it take slaves to build rivers and dig canals, but it was also indispensable to build roads and open mines, and the cost of transporting slaves from the south was too great, so Zhang San decided to mobilize half of the population from the south, while the other half Zhang San planned to recruit from Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom nearby.

So a new round of Goryeo Japanese weakening plan officially put on the agenda, the three countries through the Chola War after a lot of money, taste the benefits of sending troops, in the past two years Zhang San in order to save manpower, reduce losses, some islands and slave capture are gradually handed over to the two armies to implement.

All Zhang San needed was to pay his wages according to the effect of their liquidation and the number of slaves captured, so that almost all three countries now have more than 30,000 troops helping Zhang San in various battles.

The staff is worried that this will cultivate a powerful jungle force, and it will be difficult to suppress once the rebellion occurs, Zhang San is not worried about this, the first battle involved by the other party is basically far from the mainland, and the logistics are strangled to death by Zhang San, even if it rebels? It's just a bunch of wild people hiding in the forest.

But keeping these two white-eyed wolves by his side has always been a disaster, so Zhang San asked the General Staff to formulate a plan for the weakening of the Three Kingdoms and eventually include it in the scope of rule, and the labor of the Three Kingdoms is extracted through recruitment.

In the past, the Three Kingdoms were too far away from other territories in the Ryukyus, so the recruitment of workers was generally arranged to the nearest Zhenwei Island and the main island of the Ryukyus, but now Zhang San has the labor needs of various projects in the Qi State and the land east of the Yellow River in Hebei, so these people are naturally given priority.

As for deceiving people to come over to dig rivers and build roads, is there any psychological pressure? Zhang San said that he did not have it at all, he was leading the other party to a better life, and these people would have the opportunity to learn Chinese during the digging of rivers and roads, and then they would have the opportunity to become the Han people they had always envied.

This is an opportunity for them, and the hard work is to let them wash off the label of the inferior ethnic group, prove that they are a useful person to the Han people, and Zhang San also pays them wages, and the copper coins will keep sending them to them, they can send them home, they can spend nearby, and so on.

Zhang San is not short of copper coins now, just spend a little more to mine a little more, as for the food problem of millions of slaves, he can purchase a part of it from the three countries, and then transport a part of it from there.

Moreover, the war lasted for a shorter time than Zhang San expected, and the damage caused was smaller than Zhang San expected, so the grain that Zhang San had worked hard to save in the previous years was not only used as a strategic reserve, but also used the surplus to exchange for miscellaneous grains for these slaves.

Zhang San didn't worry about the war on the front line at all, not to mention the 300,000 army that wiped out Tian Hu to resist the possible invasion of Liao, even if it was enough to fight Liao, and the troops on the front line did not disappoint Zhang San.

A month later, the war report reported that Tian Hu had been captured, Zhang San sent it to Tokyo with a wave of his hand, and then retreated to the east of the Yellow River Hebei.

Of course, these 1 million refugees will not be resettled in Hebei, these people will be transported to Zhenwei Island first, and then they will be transported to Xinyouzhou by the northern route and finally to Xinyouzhou, that is, the American region, where they will establish 20 cities and 1,000 settlements as the first batch of immigrants to develop Xinyouzhou.

However, this route is a bit long, it will take this year and next year to complete, and the preparations for the Liao State will be completed after Zhang San's army retreats to Hedong, and this so-called king of the Southern Yuan does not care at all about the complicated internal affairs of the Great Song Dynasty.

In his eyes, Song Pig is Song Pig, no matter who is in charge, it is Song Pig, taking advantage of their civil strife to grab a hand, and even turn the entire north of the Yellow River into a pasture for the Khitans, that is cool enough.

Therefore, after preparation, 100,000 Liao soldiers began to move south in three routes, 30,000 people on the west route from the ruined Shanxi, targeting Datong Mansion, and the middle road from the west of the Yellow River in Hebei Province to invade, with 50,000 personnel, targeting the Daimyo Mansion, and the east road was 20,000 people immersed from the east of the Yellow River, and the goal was to exterminate the so-called Qi regime.

For a while, the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty was full of beacons, but fortunately, under Zhang San's reminder, the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers had already prepared, so the Liao soldiers did not gain any benefits from going south, and the two sides were tug-of-war near the border for hundreds of miles.

And the 20,000 people who invaded Qi east of the Yellow River, Zhang San had no reservations, and the 20,000 cavalry were ambushed by Zhang San before they crossed the border, and a wave of regiments was wiped out, who said that the plain could not be ambushed, as for the method of ambush is very simple.

It's just an empty city, send hundreds of soldiers to bluff in the city, the Liao soldiers abandoned the city as soon as they came, and the Liao soldiers felt very normal after seeing it, Song Pig fought like this.

Then the 'traitor' opened the city gate, and the scattered baggage in the city was full of copper coins, the carriage with broken axles was full of grain, the carts of cotton cloth were thrown on the side of the road, and there were panicked crowds.

Then it was the time for the musketeers and cavalry to fight in the streets, this was nothing to look at, it was simply a one-sided slaughter, this battle could be described as a net, and more than 10,000 intact war horses were unexpectedly obtained, so when the king of the Southern Courtyard of Liao did not get the news of the East Route Army for a few days, he did not know that his East Route Army was gone.

The king of the Southern Academy thought that the troops were running too happily, and forgot to come back to report for a while, but there was still no news after half a month, and he knew that something had happened to the East Route Army.

In order to find out the situation, the king of the southern courtyard transferred 20,000 people from the middle road to cross the Yellow River to see what was going on, so the same city and the same routine were staged again, but this time the enemy was on guard and only 10,000 cavalry came in.