The Hetao battle was complicated, although the troops led by Xu Zhi successfully intercepted the enemy, but because the terrain was too open, only more than 6,000 enemy troops were eliminated, but the traces of the main force of the Hu people were successfully found later, but the Han army is currently 130,000 in the direction of the fertile field, and a large number of troops are still tired of traveling, which is obviously not the best opportunity to launch a decisive battle.

What Wang Ben should do now is to keep an eye on the main force of the Hu people, and wait for the follow-up supplements to arrive one after another, forming a similar or more than the Hu people in terms of strength, after all, what they want is an encirclement and annihilation battle.

Lu Zhe, who received the above information, was in Yi County, Guangyang County, and he also knew that the Monan War with the Xiongnu and other Hu people would not end in a while, but would be a long process.

Tian Jian's headquarters entrenched in Guangyang County is already a dry bone in the mound, and 100,000 forbidden troops have besieged Tian Jian and his main force in Zhuo County.

Zhuo County is a large county in Guangyang County, after the continuous repair of the Qi State, the original three-zhang high city wall was built to five zhang, and the width of the wall, which was originally only two zhang wide, was also increased to three zhang.

Tian Jian chose Zhuo County as the capital of the new Qi State, because there was no good choice, and there were not other big cities in Guangyang County, but those cities were either ordered to tear down the city walls after Qin unified the world, or they were broken because of local self-attacks.

At present, the number of Qi troops in Zhuo County should be about 130,000, and a city covering an area of 40 li (Qinli) has 130,000 troops and nearly 40,000 residents, so there is no congestion. In addition, Zhuo County has always been the material secondary school base of Qi to Linzi, and the materials have been left in Zhuo County after the Linzi direction was cut off by the Han army, so there is no shortage of materials in Zhuo County.

It is not easy to attack a city that is heavily guarded and lacks supplies, if the defenders are stubborn in resisting, even if they are captured, they will suffer heavy losses, and the reason why the forbidden army is besieging but not fighting is not that Lu Zhe is worried about anything, but that there are other troubles that are bothering him.

In the past, Linzi was besieged but not attacked, because there were signs of an outbreak in the city, and later it really broke out and evolved into a plague, and now Lu Zhe is worried about the outbreak of the plague in Linzi.

The outbreak of the plague in Linzi was not that the Han State did not carry out blockade and prevention, but Lu Zhe waited until the second-line troops arrived before transferring the first-line troops to the northwest. The second-line troops took over the blockade of Linzi and used a huge amount of lime according to the instructions, but many things could not be eliminated by blockade and prevention, and some people from Linzi City escaped from the blockade circle when the defense was changed.

People with diseases or germs came into contact with people in the periphery, and the plague disease first spread to Dong'anping, northeast of Linzi, and then spread to the northeast and south.

By the time the Han Kingdom discovered that the plague had occurred, the plague had already reached Chunyu in Jiaodong County, and by this time the blockade and prevention of Linzi had failed.

Lu Zhe knew very well the horror of the plague, even in the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese ethnic group has not developed a prescription for treating the plague, and once the plague breaks out, it is the beginning of a huge disaster for the Chinese ethnic group, each plague can kill a large number of people, and the people who die under the plague are often millions or ten or twenty million.

When he heard that the plague was spreading, Lu Zhe instantly sweated out, and many officials accompanying him immediately panicked.

There is really no good way to deal with the plague, let alone treat it, what has always been done is to isolate the whole area, and immediately someone built the strictest blockade of the entire Linzi County and Jiaodong County, and any person or animal who wants to cross the blockade will be slaughtered indiscriminately.

Not surprisingly, everyone agreed with that Jianyi, they were just calculating a very simple account, the remaining population of Linzi County and Jiaodong County after a series of turmoil would not exceed 1.2 million, but the population of the entire Central Plains region, including the south, Qindi, etc., was about 25 million.

"If there were any other way, we wouldn't do that." Xiao He said that sentence with a painful face.

Lu Zhe quickly agreed to everyone's proposal, but it was not so easy to implement the blockade of Linzi County and Jiaodong County, and the number of people needed to be mobilized was huge, and it would take a certain amount of time to mobilize troops to implement such a plan temporarily, and it was precisely because they did not lack troops in Qidi, especially not second-line troops used for combat.

At present, the second-line troops of the Han State in the north are more than 1 million, and the second-line troops in Qi are about 500,000, and if necessary, they can even rearm the captured Qi army of nearly one million.

Of course, the comprehensive blockade of Linzi County and Jiaodong County is just in case, in fact, the area where the plague has spread is not so large, Linzi County is Dong'anping, Ju, and Qian, and Jiaodong County is Chunyu, Mi, and Qian. Because there is no cure for the plague now, the Han State naturally cannot send troops deep into the area where the plague has already broken out, so it can only calculate the speed of people's movement in many ways, and then blockade it on the periphery.

The blockade of the whole county against Linzi is naturally nothing, but the blockade of Jiaodong County is a big problem.

The transportation of materials from the south to the north of the Han Kingdom has become more and more dependent on the sea route as it is indeed feasible by sea, and no matter which port in the south is loaded from the north, the transportation to the north is now concentrated in Jiaozhou Bay in Jiaodong County.

What now? Because of the plague, ships and manpower from the south were trapped in Jiaozhou Bay in case the plague germs could be brought to the south, and the supplies from the south could no longer be sent to Jiaodong, so that transportation line could be regarded as unusable.

In the Han army in the north, there are nearly two million auxiliary soldiers and civilians, how many materials do you need? In addition, there are more than 10 million Guizhou leaders in the Central Plains and the northern regions waiting to be fed, so that many supplies need to be transported from the south?

There was such an accident, the first thing that was affected was that the Han army in the north may have a shortage of food, before the capacity was restored, the large-scale battle was not to be considered, in addition to the existing materials for the army to deal with emergencies, about the cash-for-work can not be stopped, once the cash-for-work is affected, it will definitely not be a trivial matter.

The reason why the 100,000 forbidden army and 100,000 auxiliary soldiers led by Lu Zhe did not attack the city when the siege equipment was complete was precisely because of this relationship, and at the same time, it was also related to the difficulty of the Han army in the Hetao area to launch a further offensive.

Xiao He was trying to find a way to restore capacity, and what he was thinking about was whether he could find a new natural port in other areas, and Lu Zhe knew that there was another good natural port, but it was much farther from the south than Jiaozhou Bay, not in the Yellow Sea, but in the Bohai Sea.

Modern geography is not consistent with the present, and Lu Zhe is not too sure whether it is a natural port now, he has already sent people to conduct field exploration, and before getting further information, he naturally can't say something unreliable as a king.

Lü Zhe is talking about the modern Kenli area, which has not yet been filled in by the silt brought out by the Yellow River, and is currently an ocean, and as for whether there is a natural port in that area, only God knows.

In fact, even if a new port is found, it will take a while to explore, and exploring a place is not only whether the port is available, but also the coastal route also needs to be reconnoitred on the spot, otherwise the port is available but the surrounding sea is full of reefs, and no matter how suitable the landing site is, it is useless.

There is not much that Xiao He can do now, in addition to using the inland water system, the land transportation that has been reduced in intensity must be re-grasped, but the local infrastructure construction must be basically stopped.

Standing on the outskirts of Zhuo County, Lu Zhe is now holding his two children and watching the city wall from afar, where the banner of the Qi army is planted at the head of the city, and the defenders on the city wall can be seen from a distance.

Behind Lu Zhe was Sima Xin, and of course there were also many warriors and armor warriors who were protecting them layer by layer, and they had been watching Zhuo County in this place for a while.

"Your Majesty, the king's banner has appeared at the head of the city." Sima Xin's voice was not too loud: "It should be Tian Jian who found out that the king was here, so he went to the city." ”

A milky voice suddenly interjected: "Dad, why is there a bird on that flag?" ”

The totem of Qi is not a bird, it is a phoenix pattern, and it is not the totem that Tian inherited from the surname Jiang of the Lu family, the Qi country of the surname Jiang of the Lu family worships the totem of the praying mantis, and the so-called surname Jiang of the Lu family is naturally the family of Jiang Ziya. At that time, it was because Qi Zhuang Gong admired the praying mantis and hoped that the warriors of Qi would be as fearless as the praying mantis, and it turned out to be the totem of the praying mantis.

The Chinese ethnic group has a long history of worshipping totems, what strange totems are everything, what white tigers, Fei Lian (cranes with long antlers), spiders, poisonous snakes, by the way, that is, the former Wu Guocai worshiped dragons. However, a considerable number of countries actually have a soft spot for "birds", probably because the Zhou family made something about phoenix songs, and the worship of birds by the countries is far more than that of other species.

For example, the Qin State chose the Xuanniao, the Chu State worshipped the nine-headed phoenix, the Jin State was a pure phoenix bird, and the Shu State was a sunbird...... All in all, the vast majority of princes during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period used birds as their totems.

Lu Zhe originally meant that the totem chosen by the Han Kingdom would be a dragon, but according to the habits of people in this era, the best plan was to choose a bird for the founding of the country, after all, only the former Wu Kingdom chose the dragon as the totem. And Wu is famous for being messy and untrustworthy, and the monarchs of several generations of Wu have done too many inexplicable things, and the foundation is really not good.

What was the foundation of the Han Kingdom? What kind of kingdom does Lu Zhe want to establish? Since it is a comprehensive selection of bird totems, there is no need for him to take any arbitrary power in such a matter, so in the end, it is the choice of the phoenix that represents the national body, and the military flag is mostly chosen as the Xuanniao. R1152