Ning Laohan silently put down the floating net, and then looked at several fishing boats in the distance.

At the beginning of March, Qinzhou was a foggy season, although on the sea, the wind was calm and the waves were calm, and some curling morning light also rose, and the golden sunlight passed through this layer of mist, making the golden light seem to be beating under the fog.

The scenery is beautiful and illusory.

He actually lived on the sea, worried every day, and his life was monotonous, and as a fisherman, he was regarded as the lowest class of occupations in the Song Dynasty.

Qinzhou came to many Han households, which is also inevitable, and the flattest areas in Guangxi are Xiangzhou, Xunzhou, Yulin Prefecture and Qinlian Prefecture. Today, it is mostly swampy and sparsely populated. However, after the polder, it is the best Dapi field. As a result, Wuzhou and Guizhou became the areas with the most immigrants.

More than 10,000 households were arranged in Qinzhou Bay alone.

This made the living conditions of Ning Laohan's family better, and there were many people, and the fish he caught from the sea could be sold at a good price.

But the fishing boats of more than a dozen Han families made him feel threatened.

The new fishermen not only have different ways of catching marine fish, but also have different tools and different boats.

He only controls a single ship, a single sloop, and the cabin has to be inhabited, and the cabin belly is fat. Unlike the Han households, they often set off at the same time with two boats, one is a netting boat, which is responsible for lifting and lowering the nets, and the other is a simmering boat, which supplies fishing materials and food is to store the catch. The boat lasts longer, and the sea reaches farther. And the boat is more narrow and narrow, quite like those boats on inland rivers, such small boats, actually brigs and sails, which makes fishing boats faster. It can also be more flexible in the wind and waves, and escape from danger.

The boat is different, the fishing gear is even more different.

I have been using Qinzhou's ordinary casting nets for thousands of years, stirring the nets, and matching fishing forks, which are all my fishing gear. However, the fishing gear used by these Han households opened their eyes. A kind of large-scale net (also known as big pull net, big Pu net). At least two boats are needed to pull at the same time, and Ning Laohan also saw a large draw net that can only be operated by seven or eight boats at the same time, and a large fishing net with many iron thorns on it (gillnet. There is a pointed iron sheet on it, and the fish feels pain when it touches it, so at the beginning of the net. Desperately squeeze into the middle of the net, which is conducive to the fish not easy to escape from the net, and effective fishing), and some pick nets, plate nets, and a kind of hook, depending on the size of the fish, urgent longitudinal, slow to receive, hook and fishing boat with its upstream and downstream. When he is sleepy, he calmly pulls it up.

Even Ning Laohan witnessed two boats catch a big shark weighing almost 1,000 catties. If nothing else, the price of that shark fin can be sold for a sky-high price.

The fishing methods are different, and these Han boats often do not rush to fish, but observe. Observe the movement of the fish, and if you don't make a move, you will have a huge harvest as soon as you shoot.

For the same sea, each Hanhu ship will harvest at least twice as much, or even three or four times as much.

The net was collected and the harvest was good. There are more than 20 fish, a few yellow croaker, more than a dozen mackerel catfish, a few flat groupers (grouper), and some prawns.

But when people's hearts are not satisfied, when they think of those Han households who came to the net, Ning Laohan is unhappy again.

The younger son jumped with joy, and the eldest son and his wife worked hard to choose the fish and prepare for another net. Ning Laohan frowned, looked at the newly married daughter-in-law who was cooking, took a sip of wine, and thought of everything that happened in Qinzhou, Qinzhou has people, thousands of households, living in Gaotan, slash-and-burn farming, and some large tribal chiefs also use boats to do business with the Jiaozhi people (the Song Dynasty has always had a precaution against Jiaozhi, and did not open a city shipping division, but only set up two or three customs markets in Yongzhou for mutual trading, so there are many tribes in coastal states, especially Qinlian Prefecture, who use small sea boats to smuggle with Jiaozhi). But since the year before before everything has changed, several big tribal chiefs sent their sons to Guizhou to study, and built a few avenues to reach the states and Yushui, what Ning Laohan didn't know was that there was a road through Baohua Mountain, leading to the south bank of Hengzhou, where to build a big wharf. Then, since last year, a large number of Han people have come and started to build embankments, and they have used a strange thing to bombard the rocks, and the rocks have been transported by boats to the periphery of the causeway. So the swamps turned into fertile fields, and villages appeared in deserted places. Including his own chieftain, he actually led the people to participate in the work of building embankments and cultivating land. Do they want to use those causeways to stop the wrath of the mountain gods?

Qinzhou has changed, there are more people, more than double the number of people, Qinzhou has changed, and one embankment after another has appeared, and it has become unrecognizable to him.

Ning Laohan didn't know whether to be happy or worried about the emergence of these changes.

Suddenly, a loud horn sounded in the distance.

Ning Laohan raised his head in confusion and saw those Han Hu's ships in the distance turning around quickly.

What happened?

Then Ning Laohan saw black dots rising on the other side of the thin morning light.

So what?

Just when he was confused, a Hanhu ship approached and they all knew each other. There are not many fishermen in Qinzhou, and there are not many people in the first place, and there are only a few thousand households in Qinzhou. Most of them live in high and wide lands, slash and burn, often can not meet the demand for food, but Qinzhou has the Qinjiang River, so go up the mountain to hunt, go down to the river to fish, these are all sideline jobs. There are not many people who really go out to sea to fish for a living, only about a hundred households, and since these Han households have come, they often come close to the sea to chat.

Most people are familiar with it.

The owner of the ship, who appears to be Huang Xiaohu, and a lewd boat is fleeing in panic towards the distant coastline to the north.

Huang Xiaohu shouted: "Ning Weng Weng, why are you here too?" ”

"I want to catch more fish......

"It's too far offshore."

Ning Laohan didn't answer, thinking in his heart, aren't you farther offshore?

"Bring your family to my boat."

"My Ship ......"

"Your ship can't be wanted, the Cochin army is coming, and your dhow is too slow to escape."

"What cochin army?"

"The army of the country of Cochin. Look at the boats! ”

"My Ship ......"

"Don't go to your ship, I'll testify and see if I can ask Zheng Xianggong to make some compensation after the war." After Huang Xiaohu finished speaking, he forcibly dragged Ning Laohan's family of five to his boat.

"My Ship ......"

"Why can't you twist it, the ship is gone, it can be remade, but the people are gone. Nothing. Huang Xiaohu said irritably. At this moment, the black dots were expanding, and faint mast sails could be seen. Mr. Huang's wife and eldest daughter-in-law are still packing their luggage.

"I can't ask for luggage either." Huang Xiaohu ignored the unclear teaching of men and women, and forcibly pulled Ning Laohan's wife and daughter-in-law to his boat.

Pulled onto the boat and quickly dropped Ning Laohan's boat. Fleeing to the north, while hoisting the sails, he also took out a few large oars and rowed desperately, and a man took out the horn and continued to blow the loud horn.

After a while, the black shadow that rose turned into a black dot again.

The mist lifts and a new day begins.

Ning Laohan was still a little confused, and asked, "Why did the Jiaozhi people invade?" ”

He's been to Cochin too.

"They don't want you to have a good life, so they invade." Huang Xiaohu wanted to explain, but he couldn't explain clearly for a while, so he couldn't help but say no more.

Another Han companion said, "Huang Huo Chang." It doesn't look good, just from the sea, there are countless enemies, and there are even more land troops on the Yongzhou side. ”

"You have to believe in Zheng Xianggong."

"It would be nice if General Di was here."

"You can't underestimate General Zhang, he is in Tumaochuan. Many times with General Zhang Qi with thousands of troops, broke tens of thousands of iron cavalry in Western Xia, and once it was a battle under the personal command of Yuan Hao, which also allowed General Zhang to defeat him. ”

Speaking of command ability, due to the Song Dynasty's lack of attention to Linzhou Prefecture, they neglected the Battle of Linzhou. Those fierce battles were also the most glorious battles in the Northwest Campaign.

However, the people involved in the command. From Zhang Kang to Zhang Qi, Zhe Jimin, Wang Kai, Gao Jixuan, Wang Ji and other famous generals, if it were not for Zheng Lang, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty might not have given them reuse. What was Di Qing doing at that time, if it weren't for Zheng Lang, he was just a middle-level general who was despised by Han Qi.

Of course, the Jiaozhi people will not pay attention to Zhang Kang.

Huang Xiaohu said, put down the big oar, waved his fist again, and said, "Brothers, if you want to move, you will have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions this time." ”

"Whoa." Several big men on the boat shouted together.

The answer made Ning Laohan a little incomprehensible.

The ship was still flying towards Qinzhou, a little far away, until the sun was in the west, the ship arrived at the port of Qinzhou, but the city of Qinzhou was not in the port, because the port was low-lying, often threatened by flash floods, so the Song Dynasty placed the city of Qinzhou in the county seat of Lingshan set up in the Tang Dynasty.

There is a city at the mouth of the Qinjiang River, but it is not a state city, but a small county seat, Anyuan City.

Originally, there were only simple earthen walls, and there were a small number of Han households living in the city, as well as some familiar barbarian households like Ning Laohan, and there was another Ruhong Village on the west side of the Sihong River, and there was another Ruxi Village at the junction with Sumaozhou. These two villages were not set up to deal with Sumao Prefecture, but to prevent the 100,000 barbarians on the mountain, such as the powerful Gusen Mountain.

It wasn't until Ning Laohan heard the Jiaozhi invasion that he thought of one thing. The migration of the Song Dynasty was mainly concentrated in the surrounding areas of the Qinjiang River and the Sihong River, and large embankments were built, but in the Ruxizhai area at the junction with Sumaozhou, although the terrain was flat, the Han households were not placed in the past.

Entering the Qinjiang River, there are still a few miles away from the county seat.

Ning Laohan saw a large cloud of beacon smoke rising from the beacon smoke in Anyuan City.

The old man of Fengyanning still remembers vividly, when the New Year's Day came, the county magistrate gathered the people of the county and announced one thing, that is, Fengyantai.

There are three kinds of Fengyantai, one is a small Fengyantai, when a small group of barbarians invades, it will be set off, conveyed to the state city, the people of each village see it fired, and form a village to protect themselves. Zhizhou will recruit native soldiers and prepare to annihilate this barbarian invader.

In desperation, Lingnan has few troops, many areas are not fortified, and often there is not even a city wall. After Nong Zhigao's invasion, the states and counties sent people to build city walls. A large number of Han households immigrated over, and earthen walls were built in each village and village, so that some defensive preparations could be made.

However, in the real battle, it is necessary to use the van soldiers and the native soldiers.

Of course, this is only for a small number of barbarian invasions.

When a large number of barbarians invade, it is necessary to set off medium-sized beacon yantai, once this beacon yantai is ignited, it will be transmitted to Rongzhou or Yongzhou and Yizhou, except for some large villages with tall stone walls that do not move. The rest of the people had to move closer to the county towns to reduce the enemy's damage. Then the official army of the imperial court was requisitioned from Yizhou, Rongzhou, and Yongzhou to suppress it.

The most threatening is the last kind of Fengyantai.

At the time of the invasion of Jiaozhi, the largest beacon Yantai was burned and passed to Guizhou, and the prefectures strictly divided the villages, and there were only a few large villages. For example, Hongzhai, these large villages with a military nature can be qualified to take in the people, and the people in other areas must be transferred to the cities as quickly as possible to the prefectures and counties.

Didn't think of it. Use it so quickly.

The ship had not yet arrived at Anyuan Port, but Ning Laohan had already seen many people on the riverbank with luggage and household utensils. Crying and crying, he fled to Anyuan City.

Huang Xiaohu said in a deep voice: "It's a little bad. ”

"Why?"

"There are now more than 20,000 households in Qinzhou, most of whom are immigrants, who used to live near Lingshan, but now they are mostly concentrated in the downstream areas. Anyuan City is small, and it must accommodate more than 10,000 households. These people carried so much luggage and poultry and livestock, and the city was in chaos. ”

"Huang Huochang, yes, I'm worried about this. In an hour or two at most, the Cochin army will arrive at the city......"

"I don't know if Zheng Xianggong has made arrangements, if it is the original Zhang Zhi County, the enemy comes from the sea, and the first thing to bear is Lianzhou City and Anyuan City. Lianzhou City is a state city, the city walls are tall, and the situation is better than that of Anyuan City, just a civil official presiding over Anyuan City, I am even more worried. ”

This is determined by the topography, and Cochin invades from the sea. The first thing that can harm is these two cities, either they will make a detour through the Leizhou Strait and attack Leizhou City on the east side of the Leizhou Peninsula, the west side of Leizhou is a mountainous area, and they can't cooperate with the army attacking Yongzhou on land. In fact, in history, twenty years later, Jiaozhi invaded the Song Dynasty and attacked these two cities. Because of the high city wall, Lianzhou resisted and did not let the city fall, Qinzhou because it was Anyuan City in front, the city wall was low, unstoppable, and fell first, and when they heard that Anyuan City had fallen, Qinzhou officials were afraid and did not dare to fight again, so they lost the city and fled.

Ning Laohan finally understood, and asked suspiciously, "Are you soldiers?" ”

Huang Xiaohu grinned, showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth, laughed, and said, "Of course, if we are fishermen, why don't we fish in our hometown and migrate to Qinzhou?" This time, you can rest assured. If the Jiaozhi are defeated in this battle, we will withdraw from the sea, and some fishing boats will be handed over to you. But you are watching us fishing every day, wondering, do you understand our fishing methods? Don't be a fisherman who can't even learn how to fish as a soldier. ”

Old Man Ning's face turned red.

In the past few months, I have been living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Another big man also laughed, patted Ning Laohan on the shoulder, and said: "This time, let's be convinced, look at it, you don't know how to farm, you can't do business, and you even use this clumsy fishing net for fishing." Is it still excluded from the immigration plan arranged by Zheng Xianggong? ”

"Can the imperial court defeat the Jiaozhi people?" The young daughter-in-law of the Ning Lao Han family asked curiously.

"Don't worry, our family Zheng Xianggong is the god of heaven, sent to bless our Great Song Dynasty and the stars of the earth, what is a small Jiaozhi!" Another big man said disdainfully. At this time, the number of troops in the two provinces was too small, and it is not known how many troops were dispatched from Jiaozhi, but judging from the number of ships, at least one or two thousand troops were dispatched from the sea alone. One or two of the soldiers still had some faint worry in their hearts.

The ship soon arrived at Anyuan Port.

The people were fleeing into the city, and in the distance they saw many servants in two rows, forming the people in a procession, and squeezing them into the city. What I am most afraid of in this situation is chaos, Guangzhou City is a chaotic word, no one organizes it, and the people squeeze into the city together. As a result, all of them were stuck at the city gate, and not only did not many people retreat to the city in time, but blocked the city gate together. Coupled with the extortion of the soldiers, the rate of influx of the people into the city slowed down, and finally the people had to be forcibly expelled from the city. As a result, many people were killed by Nong Zhigao, or surrendered, and became Nong Zhigao's slaves.

Of course, if you don't organize well, it's a mistake.

There were officials who wanted to maintain order, and although there were many people who came, they were heading towards the city in an orderly manner.

Ning Laohan didn't know all this, but Huang Xiaohu nodded secretly, it has really changed, just this one, don't think that Zhang Zhixian is just a civil official, a small civil official from the same Jinshi, and he has done a good job. No matter what, as long as Anyuan City is not lost, after this battle, a lot of credit will be recorded.

Huang Xiaohu turned around and said to Ning Laohan, "You guys go into the city." ”

As he spoke, he took out his military badge and came to the front of the officer, and took the initiative to cooperate with the organization of the officer.

Gradually, there were fewer people, and all this was caused by the original proper arrangement. When the last beacon is lit, the chiefs and heads of the elders of each village must take the lead and lead the people to flee to the walled city. Therefore, seeing the arrival of the Jiaozhi ship, it was transmitted from the sea with a horn, and the beacon was lit at the first time, giving Qinlian Erzhou more than four hours to evacuate. Eight or nine hours, no matter how slow the speed is, you can walk thirty or forty miles. Unless the 100,000 people who followed Liu Bei when he went south were all crowded on one road, he could only march more than ten miles a day. Of course, there are tens of thousands of people in the states now, but they are scattered along the roads and there is no congestion.

More than 40 miles of land is enough for the people of any area to rush to the nearest walled city to protect themselves. Or those barbarians in the remote mountains, they don't have time to escape, but the cochin people will be interested in those barbarians in the mountains?

The warships of Cochin reappeared in sight, and only a few civilians were left on the way, and seeing the arrival of the huge fleet, they finally put down their luggage, as well as their poultry and livestock, and fled to the city. In the end, it got out of control, and they were blocked at the gate of the city together, fortunately there were not many people, and under the forced pull of the officials, they finally poured into the city one by one. Huang Xiaohu took a few of his subordinates and entered the city with the officials. The city gate was relatively thin, and several teams of soldiers brought dirt bags and forcibly blocked the city gate.

Huang Xiaohu came to the city, looked at an official wearing a big red official in surprise, opened his mouth wide, and asked, "Zhou An's envoy?" ”

"It's the old man."

"Why are you here?"

"The old man is frivolous, and he also wants to learn from someone."

A general on the side was happy, he knew who someone Zhou Xin was referring to.

Huang Xiaohu said in surprise again: "Zhao Zhizhou." ”

Zhao Xun patted his hand affectionately and said, "I am not mistaken, you are that Huang Xiaohu, well, you did a good job this time, let the people be evacuated in time, and dozens of you have made great contributions." ”

"Don't dare to be." Huang Xiaohu said shyly. But in his heart, he was thinking, no wonder the city gate was orderly, it turned out that these two officials came to Anyuan City in person, and his heart also settled down a little, and then he looked up into the distance, in addition to the fleet approaching Anyuan City, there was a line of black dots, divided into two batches, and that batch sailed in the direction of Lianzhou. The Jiaozhi people have a good appetite and want to swallow two states.

In just a few moments, a large number of enemy ships sailed into the Qinjiang River, and the figures of the Jiaozhi soldiers on board could be clearly seen.

In March of the second year of He, Guihai, Jiaozhi mobilized 60,000 troops, in fact, plus barbarians, with a number of nearly 100,000 soldiers, invaded Liangguang in two batches by land and water. After only two years of peace, the curtain began on a larger war in Lingnan. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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