Chapter 21: The Battle on the Front
During the feudal era, there was a not-so-good habit of focusing too much on land and ignoring the sea routes.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the productive forces were not developed, which also made the ocean voyage not yet possible, and the discovery of Yizhou was accidental, but there was little energy invested in developing it. The most important thing is that there are not many princes by the sea at present, which makes Fang Yun and Liu Xuan and Shi Xie form an alliance, and Sun Ce and they don't even know about it.
Sun Ce was afraid and didn't expect that Fang Yun would use Dao Wu County to send troops to attack Danyang County. When the two forces of Zhang He and Gao Ran directly attacked Jurong, they mobilized people to defend. Prior to this, Sun Ce's main defensive force against Fang Yun was actually concentrated in the Jiangcheng area.
What made him even more speechless was that the army had just begun to mobilize and had not been dispatched, but as a result, Fang Yunjun had defeated Hushu between Jiangcheng and Moling, completely separating the border army from the rear.
At this moment, the commander of the army guarding the frontier is Zhu Zhi, an old courtier left behind by Sun Jian's generation. Zhu Zhiyun Wen Yunwu, but the force is only a quasi-first-class level, Sun Ce in order to ensure that the front line is foolproof, Deng Xiong, who had just taken refuge in him, was also transferred.
This guy is the first place in the military attache examination, and he is far superior to the second place Zhou Tai in terms of strength and art of war, and he is a truly rare talent. In terms of martial arts, he doesn't even have to be much worse than Sun Ce, he has already discovered, and Sun Ce values him very much.
Not to mention, Zhu Zhi's adopted son, Zhu Ran, also ranked fourth in the military attache examination, and his martial arts are also quite good.
The rear is critical. Attack Kure in the area of the old town. Sun Ce, who had just laid down Wucheng. had to be forced to send people to garrison Wucheng, and he led his troops to quickly return to help. Speaking of which, the main reason for attacking here was that his father was finally named Marquis of Wucheng by the imperial court, and after Sun Jian's death, he Sun Ce also inherited the title of Marquis of Wucheng.
Since it is rare to be a Hou Ye, then his fief naturally has to be taken back, and Wu Cheng was originally under the rule of Wu County, so there is nothing wrong with attacking here first. The subordinates more or less knew Sun Ce's thoughts, so they didn't break it.
Yuan Shu's side was even worse, the army had already begun to attack Chaisang, but he didn't want to be destroyed because Zhongli and Dongcheng were broken, and the Fang army had faint intentions to attack Yinling, but he couldn't think of returning to the army.
His place of governance, Shouchun, is not far from Yinling, and he can arrive in a day by horse, if he doesn't go back, his wife and children are afraid that they will be in deep prison. If there is a three-long and two-short. Even if you get the world, it doesn't seem to make much sense.
He Yuan Shu is almost forty years old. Even if he is reborn, the child will be in his fifties when he becomes an adult. There are many people who die of illness at the age of 50 this year, who can guarantee that they will be able to live to see the day when their children become adults? At that time, if there is a powerful minister or something, and he directly takes away his territory, it will be really depressing.
Moreover, there is no guarantee that it will be a boy, right? He Yuan Shu has lived for forty years, and there is only one Yuan Yao under his knees, and there are several daughters, but he doesn't care about it......
Yuan Shu hated Fang Yun completely, and even swore that if Fang Yun dared to attack Shouchun, he would not let Fang Yun go even if he died. Gambling is angry, but the army is retreating quickly, and it seems that it is impossible to attack Yuzhang County this year.
In fact, he is also concerned about the chaos, Yinling is the original governance office of Jiujiang County, here is a high wall and thick, Gao Shun's army is coming, and he has no siege equipment at all, how can he choose Yinling to start? Yuan Shu is also worthy of the Yuan family, the official history Yuan Shao originally planned to attack Cao Cao, because the youngest son Yuan Shang was sick and stopped attacking, he Yuan Shu also cared about his family, so he decisively withdrew the army.
Yuzhang's crisis was resolved, although Wucheng was still in the hands of Sun Ce, Liu Miao was relieved. With enough moments, he was able to quickly deploy troops to strengthen the defense line of Yuzhang County, and cooperate with Pan Lin, Pan Zhang, and Jiang Qin to defend it, which was foolproof.
Yuan Shu did not have a water army, and Jiang Qin was originally recruited by water thieves, plus Pan Lin and Pan Zhang, who had first-class military combat effectiveness, advanced by land and water, and could not stop Yuan Shu's army.
Fang Yun's side was not just a casual move, as the army began to support Liu Xuan, the follow-up troop movements also began. Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong and He Man began to go south to support, and this time Fang Yun could be regarded as having made a bloody investment.
Zhang Liao not only has excellent experience in cavalry command, but also has the ability to fight water because of the fusion of Cheng Pu's martial spirit. In areas with many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, it can also make some achievements; He Man is a talent selected by the Tiger Guard Battalion in the past, and in the official history, he has mixed up the name of 'Intercepting the Sky Yaksha', and now he has reached the level of an innate general. Earlier, he was guarding one side, and now he is also sent with the intention of guarding one side; Needless to say, since there was no enemy in the Northern Theater, after the study of the Military Department, it was decided to transfer him to the south as the commander-in-chief of the Qingxu and Xuzhou Theaters.
To put it simply, he was sent to sit in two states and prime minister the military affairs of the two states. Headquartered in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, Qingzhou guards Wu Anguo and Zang Ba and others, as well as Xuzhou guards Zhang He and others, are all commanded and dispatched by him.
In this way, Fang Yun can be liberated, and he doesn't have to pay attention to Qingxu's battle situation at all times. The most important thing is that if there is any problem, you don't always have to send the situation to Jinyang for his approval, you must know that the transportation at that time is not very developed, and it takes more than ten days to go back and forth, and how many days can there be in a war?
A large amount of supplies were sent over, first of all, there was enough grain and grass for the front-line troops to squander for half a year, and even if they were allowed to eat, they could eat for half a year, so there was no need to worry about food and grass. Moreover, Xuzhou itself also produced output, and it was also one of the important grain producing areas in China at that time, so the food problem was not a problem.
The salt problem is also easy to solve, Qingzhou and Xuzhou are close to the sea, Fang Yun has begun to experiment with salt drying technology, this technology is not very difficult, the key is how to dry salt on a large scale. If it is successful, he will carry out large-scale salt drying to ensure the salt consumption of his own forces, as for other forces, it is not impossible to sell, but the price will naturally not be very low.
When the time comes, the forces of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, who live deep inland. Salt can kill them. Unless they plan to eat highly toxic well salt. Otherwise, you can't afford to pay a lot of money. Buy salt here in Fang Yun.
In fact, Fang Yun was also very suspicious, because Qingzhou was occupied by Yuan Shao at that time, Cao Cao had no way to attack. But he attacked Xuzhou many times, was it really for revenge? A stable grain producing area can't be said, after all, Yanzhou's military tun is not yet full, and it can only be said that there is something in Xuzhou that can make him value, and this thing may be salt!
Otherwise, why bother. Attack Xuzhou, which has no danger to defend and is a place of four wars? His Yanzhou itself is already the land of four wars, plus this Xuzhou, that is not enough for him to be annoyed? No wonder I ended up with a headache......
All kinds of war weapons are also constantly being transported to the Xuzhou area, but in terms of arrows and crossbow arrows, Fang Yun outsourced to merchants in Xuzhou, and the Mi family and the Cao family have contracted this business, and a large number of purchases have made the two of them earn a lot of income. Plus under the leadership of Fang Yun. The two companies also quickly invested in industry and commerce, earning more than several times more money than before. Now the two families can be said to have been completely tied to Fang Yun's chariot.
And Xuzhou has the help of the two of them, and they have completely settled down, not to mention the Chen Deng family who served as the Taishou of Guangling.
After dealing with the affairs of Xuzhou, Fang Yun personally came to the vicinity of the future Tianjin Port, where a port has been initially developed, as long as it is maintained in the later stage and expanded, it can become a good port.
This time, Yu Xing's troops who went south landed here, followed by Huo Jun and Gan Ning, two generals who were poached by him. One of the purposes of Fang Yun's coming this time was also to show his importance to the two generals.
With the disembarkation of the two generals, Huo Jun himself was not very accustomed to life at sea, and his face turned a little pale after swaying along the way. But Gan Ning was originally begging for a life on the water, and he was not afraid of the sea, but he was radiant and full of interest in the sea along the way. Obviously, he is the type of conqueror of the sea.
"Two generals, you've had a bumpy journey! I have ordered a place to be prepared, so that you two can have a good rest for a day, and tomorrow we will have a feast together. You can rest assured, as long as you are loyal, then I will also give a piece of sincerity. Fang Yun personally stepped forward to greet the two, and under the flattery of the two, he said solemnly to the two.
"You live up to me, I live up to you." Huo Jun has already gone into the wilderness, and he has already made up his mind to go north this time. But seeing Fang Yun come to greet him in person, he suddenly felt the feeling of the death of a confidant.
"Haha, I didn't expect to be greeted by the general in person, Gan someone's life is worth it! In the future, but there is a sending, Gan will not obey his fate! Gan Ning was also arrogant, patting his chest and swearing.
After some politeness, Fang Yun also knew that they were afraid that they would be very tired after a bumpy journey, so he arranged a place for them to rest. People who are not used to sitting on a sea boat need to rest after a bumpy journey, and they can't eat anything at this time, let alone drink, which is a torture for them at this stage.
After a night's rest, especially after drinking some of the decoction prepared by Fang Yun, Huo Jun was also refreshed when he woke up the next day. The fatigue along the way seemed to be swept away in one night, and Fang Yun was even more grateful.
Gan Ning was the same, and only then did he realize that the rumors of Fang Fang's Yunwu Dao medical skills were unique, but I was afraid that it was not groundless. Such a lord is not bad, he is not afraid of any serious illness, and when he thinks of the critical moment, he will help diagnose and treat it, and then a small life can be saved. In these years, the level of medical care is only outrageous, otherwise how could there be more people in their fifties who would have died of illness.
The dinner was also mainly based on medicinal food, and I heard that Fang Yun specially composed recipes to make them, and gave them solid foundations. Hearing this, the two of them suddenly became even more excited, and the guests and hosts were suitable for one night, and they drank happily.
Subsequently, Huo Jun was appointed as a general to guard the Tiger Prison Pass. Zhou Cang, the former tiger prison guard, was finally relieved, returned to Jinyang for a period of retraining, and then went to Xuzhou to wait for dispatch.
Gan Ning had to stay in Tianjin Port, just because there was a naval army formed by Fang Yun earlier, and due to the lack of suitable generals, it was only training ship skills for the time being, and did not practice the method of naval warfare.
Gan Ning can come, that is naturally the best result, at least the main thing is there. When Gan Ning heard that Fang Yun was going to build a real navy, and even Fang Yun showed him the world map, seeing that there was still so much land overseas, Gan Ning immediately patted his chest and promised to train the navy properly.
After a while, the three parties went their separate ways, but Fang Yun stayed in Tianjin Port for a while.
Most of the materials going to Xuzhou are transported to Tianjin Port through the Yellow River in Jinyang, and then shipped to Xuzhou in a unified manner.
On top of that, there is still a group of people to set off, and that is the troops that are about to go to Yizhou Island! (To be continued......)
PS: Yuan Shu is not to be worried, only Sun Ce needs to pay attention. Ganning was annexed, and Yizhou Island was about to begin to be developed.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that another science fiction article "The Other Side of the Door" was opened, which is not at the starting point, and if you are interested, you can search for it on Baidu. Of course, if I'm not interested, then I didn't say it.
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