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Hundreds of miles away in Songzhou, with the staggering crowd, the Huaidong soldiers and civilians stationed there also ushered in the third batch of prisoners of war who picked up the rear.

Unlike the first and second tests, when there were only more than 1,000 people, this time the preparation measures and experience were much richer; Thus, the number of prisoners sent to this group was 8,000;

They were tied with ropes and dressed in a string of ten, and they were grouped along the road, guarded by a garrison battalion and a regiment's auxiliary cavalry, and finally at least eighty or ninety percent of the size of the first outpost and quarantine camp in Songzhou was retained.

And the remaining more than 10% are mainly due to physical exhaustion and fell on the road or died suddenly on the way, and a few are the result of a whole team being executed by Zhulian because of individual attempts to escape.

Regardless, the rest of the men managed to make it to the area of control alive and successfully joined up with the remaining garrison; This also made Song Gongming, the leader of the team, breathe a heavy sigh, and a stone in his heart initially fell to the ground.

In his field of vision, the barren and withered fields that he saw when he came to the road had undergone a lot of changes, and the acres of land on both sides of the road were full of refurbished Qianmo vertical and horizontal and mud turned out of the deep cultivation traces, and trickling water also appeared in the dry and silted ditches.

This couldn't help but lift his spirits a little, this was obviously the masterpiece of the relocated local Jiansheng Army and the pioneer regiment.

Mainly in order to meet the strategic needs of the Huaidong Formation's all-out expedition, the actual control area and buffer zone of Yanbian in Huaidong Town have also expanded and extended a lot to the west with the army marching down the river.

Since then, the follow-up troops composed of the Jiansheng Army and the garrison battalion have been able to cross the Biyang Mountains and the lower reaches of the Wuzhang River, and naturally occupy the Songzhou, Shanzhou, and Dingzhou, which have been cleared out, as well as the Haozhou and Caozhou subordinate to Henan Province, and most of the areas east of Caoqu and Baigou.

Judging from the big map, it is equivalent to the initial inclusion of most of the former Huaibei Province under the jurisdiction of Huaidong Town. It greatly shortened the distance between the rear and the forward troops.

From a certain point of view, the edge of this expansion distance is also the maximum upper limit that the Huaidong water transport force currently departing from Xuzhou can reach directly, so once something happens, there is enough buffer and room for emergency disposal.

Of course, at the present stage, this occupation is only on the basis of controlling a dozen major towns near roads and rivers, as well as ferries and bridges.

As for the local operation and colonization, it is also centered on these garrison strongholds, and after the initial results are achieved, it will gradually expand to the periphery, extend the corresponding control and influence, and complete the political organization and grassroots layout from point to line and line to surface.

Therefore, the first to be developed and restored were the mountains and forests near these strongholds and towns.

It is mainly based on the labor battalions, pioneer regiments and part of the Jiansheng Army that have been relocated from Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Yunzhou; In addition, from the local mountains and jungles, Wubao villages were further encompassed, and they were forcibly relocated to the nearby hidden population.

And this group of prisoners sent back from the front is undoubtedly a good supplement to the strong labor.

Therefore, after the initial quarantine, they will be dispersed to various labor camps; Under the supervision of the local garrison soldiers and civilians, these mature land and newly grown plants and trees that have been abandoned for many years were cleared and recultivated, and then timber was harvested from the nearby mountains and forests to build temporary residential areas relying on the city walls.

Although it has not yet been able to provide yields and other benefits, the seeds of the first winter wheat have been sown, and some short-growing seedlings have grown in the fields.

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Wang Duanchen only felt bitter in his mouth and sour in his eyes, and his originally energetic appearance suddenly became much older, because the statistics of specific losses had slowly gathered;

There are still more than 200,000 troops on the books, and more than half of this flood has been lost in a blink of an eye, and even more, because there are still many garrison places, and there has been no reply and feedback.

Although they had received the news and taken decisive measures, under the system of the middle army itself being transmitted layer by layer, coupled with the selfishness and stance of those generals, it was inevitable that it would be slow down and bring about various tragic consequences.

The four military orders that had assembled in the north of the city and were preparing to advance west to recapture Michi had already been confirmed to have been destroyed, and in addition, the troops on both sides of the north and Luoshui were also unable to evade and suffered heavy losses along with most of the heavy equipment and equipment.

Although this was not the entire strength of the commander, there were still a few disgruntled troops who were able to survive on the city walls; and a number of men and horses in the front and rear to straighten out the grain routes, but what was lost in this great flood was the part of the army that could be the most combat-effective;

To make matters worse, because of the varying efficiency of the various armies, although some of them were more or less evacuated, most of the baggage was inevitably left in the camp, and then flooded and washed away.

This further exacerbates the pressure and dilemma of the mid-lane marshal in terms of daily supply and logistics. Although he has blocked the news and the source in Yanling, if the follow-up is not handled properly, then this unprecedented tragic loss will continue to evolve into a huge disaster like a comprehensive rout like the first Northern Expedition.

This is also the most terrible consequence and outcome for his life or future, no matter what the reason, the pressured prison country can no longer tolerate and shield a defeated general who always falls short in the face of the final victory;

For this war of annihilation of the country, which was pinned on high hopes, both the dynasty and himself had already paid too much, and he really couldn't accept the consequences and outcome of that defeat.

Therefore, as long as there is a glimmer of chance to save the situation, he feels that he has paid any price and unscrupulous means.

At this time, the other side finally regained contact, and also got a "good news" that the Huaidong army from the north of the city had successfully attacked the imperial city.

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The opening activities in Hanjia City are still continuing in an orderly manner.

Nowadays, the layout of Cangcheng is just divided into four major areas by the cross street facing the east, west, north and south gates.

Except for the northwest area, which is responsible for the daily administration and garrison barracks, and is connected to the waterway wharf and transshipment area outside the north gate; The northeast and southeast areas close to the imperial city and the southwest area backed by the east city are all horizontal storage areas.

Among them, dozens of storage communities are arranged according to the number of sexagenary branches; Therefore, through the search of the office in the northwest area, it was found that there were a lot of messy and scattered cases everywhere, and the documents and books related to Hanjiacang City were all from the storage and transportation records more than ten years ago to the transfer documents half a month ago.

Obviously, it was ignored and forgotten by the northern soldiers who were responsible for setting fires, but for our army, it was like a treasure.

With this batch of documents and archives, the next opening actions can be referred to according to the map, and it is no longer a blind search.

"I've found food."

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I heard this report.

Although it is only a warehouse called Chen Bingsan, the preliminary estimate is that there are about 550,000 catties of millet, which is more than 6,000 stones in a larger unit of measurement, but it is also a small supplement. Especially in the present situation, grain can be much more useful than any treasure of gold and silver.

Then, in the 16th, 17th, and 21st warehouses of Chenbing, it was also found to varying degrees that other kinds of grain crops such as coarsely milled rice, hulled wheat, soybeans, and red beans had been taken, and although a considerable part had been taken, the remaining quantity was still considerable.

For my soldiers, this also means that instead of nibbling on the hard compressed rations, they can finally have a bowl of hot rice porridge or a few mixed bean rice balls sprinkled with seaweed, fish floss, and dried shrimp.

After all, although the Central Plains has probably been promoting potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other plants for hundreds of years since the Taixing period; However, due to the great inertia of traditional eating habits, chestnut rice (millet) and rice and wheat have always firmly occupied the forefront of the staple foods preferred by the majority of people in the Central Plains.

And those imported melons, vegetables and jicama are usually regarded as the planting crops used by the humble people or the low-level families for disaster relief, and they are never very eye-catching by the mainstream and the upper class.

Therefore, this preference and social orientation are also reflected in these records of the correspondence and storage of Jiacang City. Chestnut rice alone accounts for at least a quarter of the grain category, followed by rice and wheat, and finally various legumes, and only a small proportion of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are popular in the south.

As the so-called "dry land, millet can be stored for 9 years, rice for 5 years, and in the humid and warm land, millet can be stored for 5 years, and rice can be stored for 3 years." ("New Tang Dynasty Books, Food and Goods").

Seeing this, I suddenly remembered a public case in the future,

After the liberation, the archaeological community once conducted an archaeology on a Hanjiacang city in the early seventies, and the result was that a whole cellar of chestnut rice was found, and the grain and grain bran were distinct; Although half of them are carbonized, some of the millet can still germinate after being unearthed, and grow ears of rice from it.

It can be seen that the effectiveness and effectiveness of its storage methods are much more powerful than myths such as oil-paper bags on the side of German sewers.