Chapter 283: Take Yongji Canal

Meng Hai led the most elite cavalry of Taohuazhai all the way to kill, and the rest of the Hu people either surrendered on their knees or risked their lives to break through, and some of the desperate Hu people simply plunged into the southern wilderness forest, and then were chopped into minced meat by the swarming bandits.

Of course, there are many Hu people in Yongjiqu, and some of these tribes are very ferocious, such as the Tunguska, they are standard barbarians outside the Guan, not only vulgar, but also brutal, in the face of the army of Shangjun County, they are powerless to resist, so they have to try their best to break through.

Although these Hu people are ferocious, it is difficult to say whether they can escape from Youzhou and return to Guanwai alive. Now that Liu Yu is restrained by the Wudou Mi Sect, he can no longer help the Hu people in Yongjiqu, and he can't even stop Su Yi from chasing and killing these Hu people, the people of Youzhou hate these Hu people, and they can't eat their flesh and drink their blood, not to mention that Su Yi wants to send troops to chase and kill them, even the people along the way will not let go of these Hu people.

It was only at this time that the Hu of Yongji Canal knew what it was to be targeted. They began to regret that they had not left a way out on weekdays, so that they were so passive now, but unfortunately it was too late, and Su Yi sent a cavalry to chase them down. At the same time, village forces in various parts of Youzhou also began to encircle and suppress these deserters of the Hu tribe.

From the outbreak of the war to the end of the war, the Hu people of Yongjiqu never waited for reinforcements from Shangrao County.

The news that Su Yi sent troops to Yongjiqu had already leaked, and Yuwentai was hesitant about it, lost the opportunity, and cheapened him in vain.

Yongji Canal is of great strategic significance to Su Yi, and if Taohuazhai wants to break through the shackles of the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, it must occupy a certain amount of power in the periphery of the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, and at the same time, it must also have land that can solve the grain reserves.

The water and soil here are fertile, the geographical location is peculiar, which is just conducive to Su Yi cultivating grain and mulberry hemp, and Taohuazhai has taken in many people who have fled. Don't worry about having no labor to cultivate grain, taking the Yongji Canal not only eliminates the hidden danger of the Hu people, but also solves the problem of the inability to produce grain by itself, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

At the same time, Su Yi successfully won the Yongji Canal. He also established his prestige in Shangjun County, which was of great benefit to him in controlling Shangjun County in the future.

Su Yi sent Meng Hai to pursue the remnants of the Hu people, and he took the rest of the men to clean up the battlefield, and the battle was very fruitful.

The land of Yongji Canal is fertile, and the Hu people living here are much more comfortable and comfortable than the Hu people outside the Guan, there are countless cattle and sheep, and there are countless kinds of dried meat and spirits, in addition, Su Yi also seized a large number of arrowheads. Many of them are still hunting arrows, and the hunting arrows of the Hu people are different from the arrows made by the Han people, and they are extremely lethal.

In addition, a lot of beef tendons were seized to make bowstrings, and there were also many horn bows made of cow bones.

What really excited Su Yi was that 2,000 horses were seized in Yongji Canal, of which as many as 100 were high-quality horses in captivity. These Hu tribes had less than fifty or sixty horses, and most had more than two hundred horses in captivity. Su Yi's biggest gain is these war horses.

Zhang Huan carefully looked at these horses, he had dealt with the Hu people. I have a little understanding of the art of horses, and I can see that more than a dozen of these war horses are rare Dawan good horses, but it is a pity that Su Yi did not bring Yan Qi with him when he came to Shangjun.

Yan Qi is a master of horse taming, although he has repeatedly planned to escape from the cottage, but he has never succeeded, but fortunately, this person is greedy for life and death. Under Zhang Hongsheng's coercion and temptation, he was quite conscientious in domesticating horses for the cottage.

What does two thousand horses mean? It means that Peach Blossom Village can have an extra cavalry! Lu Feng is a master of training cavalry, plus Su Yi secretly refining stirrups and horseshoes, with these two thousand war horses, the strength of Taohuazhai has undoubtedly improved to a higher level.

The 2,000 war horses that were captured by Su Yi were not distributed to the powerful forces of Shangjun County. However, other equipment such as leather armor and Hu Gong were specially selected by him to reward the many heroes who participated in the battle.

In addition, there are a large number of scimitars, these weapons are much sharper than ordinary iron swords, for the many powerful forces in Shangjun County, equipping the Zhuang Ke guards with these weapons, the combat effectiveness of the subordinates can also be improved a lot.

Su Yi gave half of the captured cattle, sheep and spirits to many powerful forces, and let Li Goudan transport the rest back to Taohuazhai.

Although the peach blossom village plundered a lot of grain, but in recent times the past merchants in the mountain range have almost disappeared, the bandits want to open meat have to go to the depths of the mountain to hunt, this is likely to encounter the rogue or other cottage thieves sneak attack, not long ago there was a team of archers down the mountain hunting, so far has not returned, Scar sent people down the mountain many times, have not been able to find their traces.

This team of archers was trained by He Yuan, and they were loyal to the cottage, Su Yi didn't believe that they would go down the mountain and defect, as for the reason all along, most of them were surrounded and suppressed by other forces in the mountain range.

Su Yi left a team of sword and shield soldiers to guard the Yongji Canal, and at the same time asked Gao Heihu to take some Zhuang Hakka Ding to stay and clean up the corpses.

As soon as the Yongji Canal was cleared, Su Yi would ask people to come over to build fortifications, and at the same time arrange for people to come over to cultivate food. The geographical advantage of Yongji Canal is peculiar, if the South Wilderness Forest is a military danger leading to the vertical and horizontal mountain range, then as long as Yongji Canal is good at use, it is a rare and valuable strategic place.

At that time, with the Southern Barren Forest as a barrier, other bandit forces in the mountain range will not easily cross the vertical and horizontal mountains and launch an attack on the Yongji Canal, and the South Barren Forest is also an important transportation channel for the Yongji Canal and Taohuazhai.

Peach Blossom Village has raised a lot of soldiers and horses, and the daily expenses are very huge, which cannot solve the problem of food output, even if Su Yi has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses now, it will not be long before there will be a large-scale rout, and even because of the lack of food, these unruly bandits will mutiny.

Unless Su Yi is willing to spend a lot of money to buy food from others, just if there is chaos today, grain is an important strategic reserve, and ordinary people will never sell grain to him easily, and even Cheng Wenyuan and Wang Biao, who have always been good friends with him, will not sell a large amount of grain to him, maybe they can also catch the hidden danger of Su Yi's lack of food, so as to control Taohuazhai.

In troubled times, as long as you have food, you can raise an army and attract countless displaced people to vote.

The army that can fight again will eventually collapse because of the lack of food.

Sui Mo Yu culture and that's the case, he took the Xiaoguo army was the strongest combat force in the world at that time, but in the end, because of the lack of food, he was ashamed of not fighting, of course, in that battle, the reason why the Xiaoguo army would lose, to a certain extent, was because of Yu culture and improper command, but the most fundamental reason was the lack of food in the army. (To be continued.) )