On the second day of the ninth lunar month, I was parading around with Xiao Jinjun to release some kind of false signal, and I received a warning signal from Yanbian in the north.

About seven days ago, an enemy army from outside the Saiwai entered Shuozhou, where Kou had just stabilized the North Road of Handyanshan, and broke through the pass from Heihuling in Yanbian to Shihe Town, and successively captured Shuoxian, Mayi, and Baodazhucheng, which were relatively empty.

At this time, the new Datong defense envoy Quan Shuo Governor Shi, Youlang General Quduan, has just led his troops to Jincheng, the seat of Yingzhou, and most of the jurisdictions under his rule have been; At this time, the only troops available to him were two border battalions and their dependents and a garrison battalion stationed in rotation, plus 2,000 Zhuozhou unity soldiers who had surrendered and retained, and 800 local Tuhu archers.

The enemy is the banner of the Tianbao Army, one of the six towns of Yunzhong Dao belonging to the camp of the Western Army, and it is claimed that tens of thousands of people are coming before and after.

As a veteran of the Northern Expedition twice, Qu Duan did not passively defend in Jincheng County or retreat to Yanmen Pass to sit and wait for reinforcements, but left his own strength and a small number of soldiers, dependents and Tudo archers stationed in a bluff to temporarily calm people's hearts.

On the other hand, he personally led the team to sneak north and take the initiative to meet the attack, and as a result, a decisive battle broke out in the area of Longmen Mountain in the northwest of Yingzhou.

First of all, the two thousand Zhuozhou united troops who thought that the strength was weaker, and they took the lead in the mountain pass under the banner of the Huai army, divided into four formations and took turns to meet the enemy according to the terrain, and after several rounds of fierce battles, the flank was broken through and the enemy retreated, and then it became a rout under the pursuit of the enemy, and it retreated to the Hunyuan River a few miles later.

Then, Qu Duan attacked the three battalions of the headquarters with firearms and firearms in ambush between the dry grass on the river, and the Tianbao army was in chaos on the spot and rushed away, and then turned to fight again at the foot of Longmen Mountain, and killed thousands of them in one go.

The remnants of the enemy's Tianbao army retreated to Mayi County, and the defeated unity troops were also regrouped and assembled, and joined in the halfway pursuit, and then killed the enemy and captured hundreds of each of them; Since then, the momentum of this entry into the Western Army has been completely stopped.

By the time reinforcements from Ulju arrived, the Western Army had been defeated in another battle with Quduan, and the remaining cavalry scattered and fled from the Biansai, while the remnants of the infantry were besieged in the county town of Mayi.

At least, when the snow has begun to fall outside the Cypriot side, the rout of these fleeing Western troops is no longer a problem.

Since then, the invasion of the western army, which may have eroded the border areas, has come to an end because of the timely disposal and countermeasures taken by the local garrison; However, this time, while commending the relevant people, the border police also reminded me to some extent that we should step up the construction of the Yanbian garrison force.

At least as a forward springboard and outpost base for the future offensive against the foreign domains, several major prefectures, and even the northwest provinces within the sphere of influence of the Western Army, sufficient long-term preparation and gradual operation are required.

In contrast, it was relatively smooth in the advance of several partial divisions in Hedong. Among them, the Niangzi Pass, the last pass of Jingcheng on the middle road, has been blown up by the engineering explosives transported by the army and announced that it has changed hands;

The Flying Fox on the north road had already broken through the deep gorge and the black wind trench, and attacked the Wutai Mountains and began to sweep away the remnants of the local Hedong Army one by one.

And the biggest progress is the Baicheng (Mengmen) on the South Road. It had already broken through Lingchuan County, one of the four prefectures in the land of Shangdang, but it was also met with the strongest local resistance, and several Hedong armies from Huguan and Gaoping in the north, and even Jincheng, the capital of Zezhou Prefecture in the south, fiercely counterattacked.

Therefore, under the attack of these Hedong troops who wanted to recapture at any cost, the casualties of the vanguard army that turned to the defensive suddenly exceeded the previous strategic process.

However, with the arrival of follow-up reinforcements and several batches of materials delivered through the dangerous road of Baicheng Yangjiban at any cost before the heavy snow closed the mountain and blocked the road, this lightly armed assault vanguard gradually stabilized this place and embedded it in the Shangdang Basin.

In this way, as long as they can hold on to the spring of the next year, they can make the Huai army gathered in Hebei use this as a springboard to comprehensively attack Hedong Road (most of present-day Shanxi Province); Since then, the southward can cut off the throat of Guanluo for more than 200 miles from Tongguan to Baiya City in Huaizhou, and go north to advance the Taiyuan and Jinzhong basins surrounded by mountains.

Correspondingly, the Western Army, which was originally frustrated by Hebei and Henan, went south from the Shangluo and Lushi fronts in Shannan Dongdao;

One of the men and horses invaded the Nanyang Basin, broke through Xiling, Neixiang, and Zhenping, and fought a series of battles with the highly favored Guannei military headquarters outside Nanyang City, and suffered thousands of casualties before retreating;

The other southbound men and horses successively swept Dengzhou, Junzhou, Fangzhou, Tangzhou, Suizhou, as well as Guanghua Army, Junping Army, Anguan Army and other important towns, and went straight to Fancheng on the north bank of the Han River

Seeing that it has only been more than half a month, I don't know how many times I have defended Xiangyang, and it is imminent again.

But all this has nothing to do with me too much, and Wang Duanchen and his party who have retreated to where they have retreated have to worry about and correspond;

As the Beiping Metropolitan Governor's Office, which owns half of the northern land and needs time to slowly digest it, what needs to be guarded against is the western army that already owns most of the Nanyang Basin;

Especially when they had a complete traditional defensive line in the Southern Dynasties, the Xiangyang-Hanshui line was blocked, they turned to break through Fangcheng in the east and the Miyang area in the southeast; It even broke into the western part of Huainan Province and the southern part of Henan Province, adjacent to the Xinyang Army, the Queshan Army, and the Yunchang Mansion, which were relatively weak and even the fringe areas of the three sides.

However, the main problem now is that winter is approaching, and those Western armies who have come from afar have reached a limit in terms of maintaining relatively long logistical supply lines, as well as replenishing soldiers, food and equipment.

After all, as the turning and turning point of their army from afar, Guannai Dao was actually like a barren white land, and they could not get any food and supplies. Therefore, according to the traditional pattern of the Northern Dynasties, they would switch to the mode of dividing troops and sentry food on the spot in the newly occupied Shannan Zhudao, so as to rest the morale of their troops and even go out to loot places to accumulate military funds and materials for the next year's war.

But this will also be an opportunity for the Huai army to launch counterattacks and local offensives in winter, mainly with highly mobile chasseurs and cavalry infantry, to disrupt the preparations and rest progress of the Western Army on the ground.

In addition, it was on the parade that my staff team presented a copy of the latest version of "Preliminary Military Rank and Rank".

After I approve the publication, both the military and the local government will be divided into three parallel categories: ministry, rank, and rank;

The simplest ministry is the actual position and official position, which determines the corresponding rights and responsibilities; In addition to the normal fixed establishment and term of office, the specially appointed and additional duties and titles are called dispatches, and they are also one of the reference criteria for determining various service allowances, post allowances, and special rations.

Rank/military rank determines the rank of ministry in the corresponding system, and the class with the command in the army; and the priority of submission or substitution in the corresponding cases, as well as the basic level of salary, salary, and daily welfare.

The last level is above the most basic five categories and eleventh class household registration order, representing a certain generalized social status and honorary status, which is more similar to the existence of honors and loose officials, and also has corresponding privileges and conveniences in social interactions and public places.

In addition, there is also a system of Jilu officials that continue to maintain the status quo but are only used as honorary titles, and will not be added in the future.

Since then, the relatively complicated and scattered civil and military officials, honors, ministries, dispatches, juelu, and food towns, as well as the special school inspectors and meritorious nicknames, have been temporarily integrated into relatively simple things.

Among them, the ministry is tentatively set at 29 levels starting from the lowest agricultural officials and tun chiefs, and the official ranks are at the bottom starting from the ninth rank to the third rank, and the ranks are unified into 52 classes with reference to the previous civil and military officials and meritorious service system.

Of course, I can also create some more avant-garde structures and titles to reflect more of what is different; For example, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, chiefs, political commissars, instructors, instructors, commanders and fighters, and even generals, captains, and soldiers at the top, middle and lower levels.

However, in terms of today's level of productivity and social development, most of them are of no use except for brushing up on a bit of cross-era forcing and a sense of advanced fashion that most people cannot understand, and then greatly increasing the management cost and relearning the difficulty of application.

The main purpose of this is to further distinguish itself from the Southern Dynasty Liang in terms of political system and reputation.

It is also an important step and stage in the establishment of a new regime.

(End of chapter)