Chapter 197: Ou River

'Ruthless! Yang Zilu squinted at Han Jiading, and didn't know how to do it for a while. Han Jiading is undoubtedly capable, at least ruthless! That's not many people who can do that. But it's not easy to control! Is it better to take him in or kill him?

But soon Yang Zilu laughed dumbly, and everyone looked at Yang Zilu suspiciously, not knowing what he was laughing at. Yang Zilu is laughing, he is now facing the defeat of Chu, Jin, and Qi, the old powerhouses, and the king of Wu Wangfucha, who became the overlord in two generations, and wants to cross the Yangtze River after destroying Goujian, it will undoubtedly have to face the Wu State in its heyday. If you are afraid of the east and the west, how can you become a strong country that is no longer bullied?

Yang Zilu looked down at Han Jiading, who was a little helpless because of the sudden laughter he had just haha. Laughing: "You succeeded, you gained my trust!" ”

Yang Zilu appointed Han Jiading as the brigade commander on the spot, and the brigade commander was added by Yang Zilu with reference to the military system formulated by the Qi State Guan Zhong. The first brigade is 2,000 people, and there is a brigade commander. According to the military system of Qi State, there are pawns under the brigade, and ten pawns are a brigade, but Yang Zilu did not follow this military system, but set up two thousand generals under the brigade to strengthen the control of the army. There will be five battalions of 200 men each, and there will be captains.

According to this arrangement, Yang Zilu appointed Hei Xiong, Yu Miao, Yang Tugou, and Han Jiading as brigade commanders, and Chonghu and Hou Xiong were appointed as thousand-person generals.

In terms of the composition of soldiers, except for Han Jiading, the 2,000 people under his command were completely composed of the soldiers of the Sanyi tribe and his clansmen. The three of them are a thousand Han troops or vassal armies, and a thousand three Yi tribes are subdued. The extra 200 or so soldiers were incorporated into the war elephants.

In this way, with the addition of cavalry and Yang Zilu's personal soldiers, the strength of the Han army has reached 8,500 people. Although there are many people, the weapons are not enough in their eyes, and even the Sanyi clan is not equipped with bronze weapons. Moreover, these weapons are varied, and the quality is also uneven, which does not meet Yang Zilu's requirements at all.

Yang Zilu had no choice but to stay in place for three days, not only training soldiers, but also burning wood to smelt bronze, casting 5,000 inferior spearheads to make spears. Because he was in a hurry, Yang Zilu didn't care about the quality or not, so he directly asked people to cut down the bamboo and put a spearhead on the other end of the bamboo.

Although bamboo is not suitable as a spear shaft, because it is too brittle, it can easily be scrapped after a war. But if you use wood to make it, you need to cut the wood round, but Yang Zilu doesn't have the time. Bamboo, on the other hand, is not used, it is simple and fast. In this way, a ragtag army was formed. The army continued to set off, because the strong men of the Sanyi tribe in the front area had already surrendered to Yang Zilu. These tribes themselves were not able to hold on, and they surrendered when they saw the Han army from afar.

However, Yang Zilu did not relent, as long as he sought an official position or above along the way, his immediate family member Yang Zilu would hold a butcher's knife high. Of course, except for Han Jiading's immediate relatives, Yang Zilu will also do it to win people's hearts, but Han Jiading's relatives also moved to Jiukui City as protons. As for the nobles of the Sanyi clan who were killed, some of the doctors objected to this. However, Yang Zilu still ignored it and supported this order.

Yang Zilu did this, on the one hand, to make an example of chickens and monkeys, so that people would know the consequences of going against the Han army. On the other hand, Yang Zilu killed all the previous chieftains, and the nobles at this time paid attention to their relatives. In case there are a few characters like Gou Jian among them, even if Yang Zilu survives the crisis safely, he will have to shed his skin if he does not die. For the safety of himself and the Han Kingdom, Yang Zilu also did this so that he could cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Afterwards, Yang Zilu left 200 people for Ou Li, who were responsible for managing these tribes. At the same time, Kuaima sent an order to Kan Pingtian of the Han State, and asked Kan Pingtian to quickly send officials to take over the management of these tribes.

However, because there were too many recruits, Yang Zilu set up camp after walking forty miles, which can be regarded as half marching and half training. After walking like this for three days, Yang Zilu advanced all the way to the central hinterland of the southern part of the Sanyi tribe. A large river flows from west to east. The river is very wide, and at its widest point it is more than two miles wide, and cannot be crossed by non-boats.

Han Jiading introduced to Yang Zilu: "Lord, the name of this river is Oujiang, which originates from the name of this place!" ”

Yang Zilu looked at this land, and he estimated that he had come to the boundary of Wenzhou. He remembered that Wenzhou was called Ou in ancient times, and Wenzhou also had a famous river called Ou River. Further south, it is estimated that there is not far from the boundary of Fujian. What excites Yang Zilu the most is that this plain can be called the only plain in southern Zhejiang. The most fertile plains in Zhejiang are naturally the area around Huiji and Taihu Lake, which is occupied by Huiji Goujian, and Taihu Lake is occupied by the powerful Wu State.

Now, if you occupy this plain, the Oujiang Plain is not as fertile and large as the Taihu Plain of Wu and the Yue Guoji Plain. But there is one thing that these two countries do not have. That's a stable rear!

But the problem came again, Yang Zilu had not yet ordered a raft to cross the river. A wolf smoke had risen on the opposite side, like a black dragon that went straight into the sky, even if it was four or five hundred miles away.

"It seems that the Sanyi clan on the other side is not unprepared!" Yang Zilu frowned.

"The Lord immediately ordered the raft to be built, otherwise I am afraid it will be too late!" Han Jiading suggested.

"Hmm!" Yang Zilu thought so much when he heard this, and immediately ordered the raft to be built. But the raft had not yet been set up, and a cloud of smoke had spread from the opposite side. Thinking about it with his toes, Yang Zilu also knew that it must be the other party's military vehicle.

There are quite a few military vehicles here, and Yang Zilu took a cursory look at them, and there were actually eighty times, although they were all light military vehicles pulled by two horses. Yang Zilu frowned when he saw this, but did not order to stop building the raft.

However, it is obvious that this time the Sanyi tribe is more skilled, and before the Han army can set up enough rafts, the opposing infantry has already arrived, and more than ten totem banners are waving in the wind on the south bank.

Han Jiading introduced to Yang Zilu on the side what tribes these are, how many people they have, and whether they are good at fighting or not. Hearing this, Yang Zilu's brows furrowed more and more, according to Han Jiading's words, the Sanyi tribe on the other side was not only on the plains, but even the Baiyue people in the mountains came over. The soldiers may be mixed, but the number of troops is definitely more than 10,000. And with the danger of the Oujiang River, it may not be so easy for Yang Zilu to cross the river and defeat them.

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