Chapter 70: An Shihuan defeated Liu Rengong twice

Time flies, and the time soon came to October. Although the cold wind was howling, the hearts of the peasants were burning. Because of this year's autumn harvest, Li Cunhuan did not let those businessmen take the opportunity to suppress grain prices (Note 1). Instead, according to this year's grain production survey, the grain price is set at a minimum price of 20 cents per bucket.

(Note 1: The two-tax law changed the rent-yong system, and all taxes were changed to collect money, which were summer tax and autumn tax.) The intention was good, but because it needed to be exchanged for money, the merchants took the opportunity to suppress it, and the peasants had to sell the grain cheaply, and finally it became a waste of money. ）

At the same time, Li Cunhuan also established a parity warehouse to purchase grain at a unified price of 20 yuan, and those who are willing to come here to sell can sell here. However, Li Cunhuan also has a rule that he will not buy old grain for more than three years, and at the same time, once someone is found to have mixed sand, mud and other things in the grain, he will immediately pull it out and beat 30 military sticks. After the thirty military sticks came down, I am afraid that I don't want to work in the fields within a month, but it has made many hooligans restrain the crooked thoughts in their hearts.

However, Li Cunhuan also prevented the officials from making trouble, saying that it was more than three years of old grain, or planting mud and sand to extort money and grain from the peasants. Li Cunhuan sent his own soldiers to supervise it, and at the same time invited local people with high moral integrity and civilian backgrounds to supervise and ensure the interests of the peasants.

Li Cunhuan's hand made many businessmen suffer losses, and their teeth itched with hatred for Li Cunhuan. However, more than ninety percent of the people in Danzhou, that is, all the farmers, have become the group of people who support Li Cunhuan the most. Because Li Cunhuan and the others can buy a horse and a half of linen cloth to make clothes this year, they can eat a bowl of full rice in the winter of this year, and they can buy a few catties of pork in the upcoming Spring Festival, so that they can have the most beautiful New Year in their history.

However, it seems that Li Cunhuan's peaceful life has also come to an end, and after the autumn harvest, Liu Rengong, who is unwilling to be quiet, was appointed as the assassin of Ulzhou. And Ulju is also the most suitable offensive springboard for Hedong against Lu Long.

Li Kuangshou was not an idiot, and immediately sent the general An Shihuan to Xinzhou, and appointed An Shihuan as the defense envoy of Xinzhou and Wuzhou. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Liu Rengong to mobilize men and horses to attack, with a total of 6,000 men and horses. Liu Yanlang, a general under Liu Rengong, led the forward.

An Shihuan was not to be outdone, on the one hand, he sent people to report in the direction of Youzhou, and on the other hand, he mobilized the elite cavalry of Xinzhou and Wuzhou, totaling 4,000 Youzhou iron cavalry. An Shihuan personally led the Youzhou Iron Cavalry to launch a fierce attack on Liu Yanlang. Because Liu Yanlang was defeated by An Shihuan, he couldn't even take care of the soldiers and horses, and fled back to Ulzhou overnight under the protection of his own soldiers. Liu Rengong, who was halfway through, also hurriedly retreated back to Ulzhou because the striker was broken.

This battle made An Shihuan exhale and raise his eyebrows, last year he attacked Chengde, but was defeated by Liu Rengong and Wang Rong and Wang Cun, and almost lost Yingzhou. Today, he defeated Liu Yanlang, forced Liu Rengong back, and beheaded more than 300 levels. However, An Shihuan was broken, and sent someone to Youzhou overnight to deliver the good news to Li Kuangshou.

However, Liu Rengong didn't seem to be willing to forget it, borrowed 3,000 troops from Shi Shanyou in the direction of Yunzhou, and in late October, sent troops again, once again totaling 8,000 Ma Bu troops, and the momentum was even more powerful than the last time.

However, in the end, he was defeated by An Shihuan, and was chased by An Shihuan to the city of Ulzhou. In the end, Shi Shanyou sent troops to support Ulzhou, and An Shihuan led his troops back to Xinzhou with great ambition.

However, Li Cunhuan always felt unsteady when he heard these news, An Shihuan knew that although he had some talent, he definitely did not have Liu Rengong's courage, and Liu Rengong would not be so miserable even if he was defeated. Although Li Cunhuan was puzzled, he could only step up the training of soldiers, and fortunately, after the autumn harvest, the need for labor in each household was not so strong.

Li Cunhuan immediately mobilized all the soldiers and horses for winter military training, with a total of 8,000 regiments of soldiers, 3,000 loyal and filial piety troops, 1,500 black-clothed troops, 1,000 Danzhou soldiers, 500 broken troops, and 300 captured generals.

In this military training, Li Cunhuan did not let go of Duan Ziyao, who was guarding in the mine, and was transferred over to participate in the training.

This time, Li Cunhuan's military training mainly emphasized discipline, and the rapid march was the secondary. In terms of discipline, Li Cunhuan arranged for his own soldiers to go to the grassroots level and publicize the discipline of making up songs every night. At the same time, half of the training time during the day was spent practicing formation, and Li Cunhuan did not teach them any advanced formations, so he simply lined up. Through the simplest things, come to cast the will of the soldiers to obey orders.

For this reason, Li Cunhuan deliberately stood in front of the spear phalanx of the loyal and filial piety army and ordered the loyal and filial piety army to advance. However, when the spear was not far from Li Cunhuan, the soldier either stayed for a moment or detained. The whole phalanx became messy.

Li Cunhuan also did not care that the loyal and filial piety army was his descendant, and asked people to beat this battalion of loyal and filial piety soldiers in public with 30 military sticks each.

The next time, Li Cunhuan once again stood in front of the phalanx of spears and gave the order to advance, and all the soldiers moved forward mechanically, causing the spears to almost stab Li Cunhuan. The harmful Sha Eucalyptus broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, but Li Cunhuan didn't think about it, but laughed happily, and said to the people around him: "I finally have an iron army!" ”

With the example of the loyal and filial army in front, the other troops who were originally a little lazy also reined in. Officers at all levels, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, have made great efforts to emphasize this discipline. This is because Li Cunhuan said soon after this military training that after this military training, military exercises will be held to determine the ability of officers based on the quality of the troops. If the officer is incompetent, he is demoted on the spot, and if he is talented, he is promoted on the spot. Whether it was out of the desire for promotion or to keep the black gauze hat on his head, all the officers worked hard and trained in strict accordance with the training methods taught by Li Cunhuan.

Once something is done wrong, the punches and kicks are relatively easy, and the barracks don't know how many military sticks are broken every day. For a while, the military camp became a cornucopia in Lang Zhong's eyes. The gold sore medicine sold here every day is ten or eight times more than usual.

Only then did Li Cunhuan discover another shortcoming of his army, that is, the lack of military doctors. In fact, there were already military doctors in the Spring and Autumn Period, and in the Tang Dynasty, the military doctor became an officer, a school inspector, and he had several medical craftsmen under him, who were responsible for treating the wounded and sick soldiers with him.

However, Li Cunhuan has never paid much attention to it, and now he finds that he is not enough to start, and he needs those You Fang Langzhong to come and help. couldn't help but let Li Cunhuan reflect on his own shortcomings. Immediately, Li Cunhuan ordered to recruit 50 medical craftsmen and 100 apprentices, of course, the salary was not bad, otherwise how to recruit people.

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