Chapter 114: Liu Jingzhou joins forces with Cao Mengde
At the end of the Jiangxia War, "Chenhe Ten Daily" reported it vigorously, with headlines on the front page.
The reactions of all parties were different, Wang Mastiff got the battle report, but he shook his head helplessly and said: "Jingsheng, you have the wrong personality of this person, look at my Yuzhang County, how can I compare to you Jingzhou, but there is nothing to do!" And the point is, you're underestimating this person! ”
Lu Kang of Lujiang County took the newspaper handed over by Lu Jun, read the description of the entire war eight times, and confirmed that he had memorized it before putting it down.
"I don't know when to pick up my Lujiang."
Lu Jun said: "Father rest assured, Yang Chenhe has his own business dealings with my Lu family, and he is very kind, he should not come to take Lujiang, look at Yuzhang County, Yang Xi is not moving." ”
Lu Kang said: "So you are Lu Jun, he is the overlord of the Yangtze River!" ”
Lu Jun didn't understand.
Lu Kang shook his head and said: "On the surface, this son never took the initiative to raise troops, and every time he raised troops, there was an impeccable reason for bystanders. But step by step, it is forcing others to the point where they have to do it, what is the reason, even the father can't figure it out, let alone you. ”
Lu Jun is an honest man with no ability, but he also has no ambitions and ideas.
This is the legendary ordinary person.
The name of the overlord of the Yangtze River has been rumored, and after this battle, there is no resistance on the Yangtze River.
Yang Xi ordered Bajin to continue to lead the Julang fleet to serve, and after some post-impact repairs, the Julang fleet cruised between Wuchang Port and Dongting Lake in Changsha County.
So far, on the Yangtze River, no one has said a word, including Liu Biao.
After Zhang Xian returned to Changsha, he was also honest, and he no longer dared to mention the matter of raising troops to others, but after this battle, his health was much worse.
After Yang Xi learned the news, he thought, isn't Zhang Zhongjing going to accept the position of Changsha Taishou earlier than in the record? That's even more perfect.
At the end of the year, Dong Maru sent back the news that the Chenhe Islands already had a population of 200,000 at this time, and the land on the island was being reclaimed, plus the staff of Donglai Port, the industrial population had reached 30,000, and the grain brought last time could only last until March.
On the side of Wei Gua's army, the number of new recruits has increased by 5,000, and it is currently being trained, so it is not useful.
Yang Xi calculated himself, and he had tens of thousands of armor.
Twelve huge ships, 12,000 people. A squad of battleships, six thousand people. One hundred and twenty ships on the Chenhe River, six thousand people. In addition, the newly trained 5,000 people of the Chenhe Islands made a total of 29,000 water troops.
Calculate Cai Kao, Mao Luan, Tai Shici, Zu Lang, Huazi, Qin Fang, and Zhou Tai two thousand five each, and here it is another 17,005.
After a month of training, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, and even Cai Yong and others finally accepted their fate and integrated into the collective.
At this time, the more than 10,000 captives had completed their training, but more than 2,000 people chose to stay in the army, so Yang Xi ordered Huang Zhong to also lead a battalion by himself.
In this way, it reached 20,000 people, the strength of eight battalions.
At the end of the year, Yang Xi went to check the production of sewing machines, and he was quite satisfied, and now more than 400 units have been rolled off the production line.
Let's go and see how the cement and rails are being built, which is not bad.
Although the production of cement is very large, it is still in short supply, and the amount of canals and bridges used in various places is too large.
To Yang Xi's relief, the railroad track is almost finished, and in another month, it should be ready for use.
At that time, the coal from the coal mountain and the products of the steel plant can be quickly transported below, so there is no need to be so troublesome, saving I don't know how much manpower and material resources.
In the Chenhe control area, everything is developing in an orderly manner, and Yang Xi's family also has news that makes Yang Xi happy, that is, Cai Yan is finally happy.
Then this is really happy for Yang Xi, not to mention the child, Yang Xi proves that he is still fully capable.
After the end of January, Dong Caishuai's expeditionary fleet finally returned, so the newspapers took the headlines again.
One by one, the exciting news of Chenhe people kept pouring out.
As soon as Dong Cai entered Yang Xi's office, he chatted about the details of this trip, and he was very excited.
Yang Xi picked up Dong Cai's transaction data and began to plan another thing.
During this trip, almost 500 tons of cotton seeds were repatriated.
This is a huge number, Yang Xi distributed these seeds to the counties, and ordered the county agriculture ministers to arrange them.
Yang Xi wants to send out this batch of seeds, and all the cotton obtained will be recycled by the Chenhe factory at a suitable price.
Farmers can also use it themselves instead of selling cotton to the Chenhe factory, and Yang Xi will spread the technology of making quilts and cotton clothes when the time comes.
In this way, those dry lands that cannot be irrigated are estimated to become treasures again, and a large number of people will buy and develop them.
In this way, there will be people who will make a living from it, and some cotton farmers will be born.
Yang Xi is vigorously developing production, and Liu Biao is not idle.
He decided not to use force against Yang Xi anymore, because the Chenhe District was already strong enough.
And his most important enemy, Yuan Shu, also occupied his Nanyang County, which was a big county, and Liu Biao must take it back to Jingzhou.
So Liu Biao developed production on the one hand, and also dispatched troops on the other hand, and connected Cao Cao in the north, preparing to give Yuan Shu a fatal blow, drive Yuan Shu out of Nanyang, and then clean up the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.
In September last year, Cao Cao led his army to attack the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and defeated all the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in the Jibei area.
The Yellow Turban surrendered, Cao Cao captured more than 300,000 soldiers, more than 100,000 men and women, and then selected the elite of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to form an army, called "Qingzhou Soldiers".
Since then, Cao Cao's strength has been greatly enhanced.
At the same time, the imperial court heard that Liu Dai had died in battle, and Jingzhao Yin Jinshang was the assassin of Yanzhou.
Cao Cao confronted Jin Shang on the way, and Jin Shang fled to Yuan Shu. So Cao Cao completely occupied Yanzhou.
Liu Biao had already colluded with Cao Cao and was ready to flank Yuan Shu.
After the New Year, Yuan Shu collected the remnants of the Black Mountain Army and the Southern Xiongnu Yu Fuluo as his own help and prepared to attack Cao Cao.
Liu Biao immediately entered Nanyang to cut off Yuan Shu's grain road.
Cao Cao also took the opportunity to attack Yuan Shu.
Yang Xi analyzed the following form, this Yuan Shu was attacked by Cao Cao and Liu Biao, and ran to Jiujiang County, that is, to the north and east of Lujiang County of Lu Kang, most of which bordered Lujiang County.
Sooner or later, Yuan Shu will kill him and face him face to face, and when the time comes, he will have to face Liu Biao for revenge, and Yuan Shu will definitely treat himself as a fat sheep, which is very bad.
Fortunately, although Yuan Shu was strong, he was defeated by Cao Cao, and Nanyang County was taken by Liu Biao, and his vitality was greatly damaged, and he was temporarily unable to go south.
He expelled Chen Yu, the assassin of Yangzhou, and called himself the assassin of Yangzhou, and the imperial court controlled by Li Dao and others worshiped Yuan Shu as the general of the left, the fake festival, and the Marquis of Yang Zhai, which actually recognized his position as the assassin of Yangzhou.
But in fact, what he can control as a Yangzhou assassin is only Jiujiang County.
Yuzhang County is behind Yang Xi, and he can't enter Poyang Lake unless he defeats Yang Xi.
Lujiang County is in the hands of Lu Kang.
He prepared to pack his troops and horses, packed his bags and expanded east and south.
Cao Cao and Liu Biao can't beat it, can these small shrimps in Yangzhou still jump very high.
In fact, he succeeded in history, but now with Yang Xi, he is not necessarily.