On the ninth day of the fifth month, Han Jian sent 2,000 soldiers and horses to escort the grain and grass westward, this batch of grain and grass is not very large in quantity, and it is also to test the ability of the Xianbei people to break off the western line of the North Guanxi, because after Su Tingxia set off from Kangzhou City to the north, the soldiers and horses of the Xianbei right wing were basically contained, and it was not easy for the Xianbei people to sneak attack this road of grain and grass after they wanted to go around. Because this batch of grain and grass arrived in Kangzhou City with Han Jian's army, it will make Xianbei people think that Han Jian's main Chinese army is also responsible for escorting grain and grass, forming the illusion that grain and grass are in Kangzhou.

Two thousand soldiers and horses escorted the grain and grass, and before they walked out of the two days, they had already encountered a few Xianbei scattered horses. Xianbei people in the border pass activities of the range is very large, but usually are not many soldiers and horses, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, because the Wei Dynasty soldiers and horses of all walks of life to the defensive position, basically shrink in the city does not come out, as long as the Xianbei people's scattered cavalry does not meet a large-scale soldiers and horses, even if the enemy is not able to retreat. This also makes the Xianbei people on the front line of Beiguan arrange a large number of loose horses, these loose horses can not only harass the rear of the Central Plains, but also loot, and even spy on intelligence, and when there is any movement, they can also contact each other to form a whole, turning the pieces into a whole. It can be said that the Xianbei people used the tactics of sending scattered cavalry very successfully, which made the northern roads everywhere constrained, even if the two cities were less than a hundred miles apart, they could not support each other.

Because the Xianbei people did not get much information at the beginning, even if there were scattered cavalry attacking grain and grass, there was no major war. Two thousand soldiers and horses escorted away for five days and arrived at the western defense line of Beiguan, Lin Zhan also attached great importance to this batch of grain and grass, after all, there were many soldiers in the western defense area of Beiguan who had been trapped in the lonely city for a month or two, and if they were not replenished, the entire western defense area might have to collapse. Lin Zhan sent soldiers and horses to respond, and waited for Lin Zhan to receive the grain and grass. Xianbei realized that the number of grain and grass transported this time was not a small number, and Han Jian made a time difference and transported this batch of grain and grass at the same time as Su Tingxia went north again. Moreover, the amount of grain and grass escorted by only 2,000 men and horses reached 100,000 stones, which solved the food crisis in Lin Zhan's department.

Lin Zhan's defense area is not like the east road that Su Tingxia is responsible for, and the whole army is attacking, Lin Zhan's department is based on defense, from Lin Zhan is in charge of the first line of Beiguan, he is building a high wall, taking advantage of the many cities in the Central Plains, and defending on the city wall. The requirements for grain and grass are very high. The Xianbei people are mainly cavalry, and they are often looking forward to sighing in the face of high walls, and the most effective way is to besiege the city and cut off water and food. It is relatively difficult to cut off water, but it is very easy to cut off food, after all, the Central Plains Dynasty was in chaos in the past few years, and there was a shortage of grain and grass. There won't be too much food in the city. And in the past few months, the supply of grain and grass in the imperial court has obviously not been available. This also made Xianbei capture a lot of border fortresses, but what annoyed Xianbei people was that there were too many fortresses, and they did not eradicate these fortresses one by one, and they did not dare to rush in easily, and the failure of the soldiers and horses of the left Khan King was a wake-up call. However, the victory of Beichuan in the first battle was mainly due to the fact that the Xianbei people were taken by surprise, and the defenders in Beichuan City were more than ten times more than ten times the soldiers and horses of the Khan King on the left.

The first batch of grain and grass was successfully dispatched. The Xianbei people felt angry and ruined, and in the next few days, they attacked the defense lines of Beiguan as if they were retaliating. The original plan of the Xianbei people was to cut through the chaos quickly, as long as the army pressed the border, the Central Plains Dynasty would inevitably collapse without a fight, but even the Xianbei people themselves did not expect that the Central Plains Dynasty would only defend the city fortress of Beiguan and not do any other effective resistance, the only one was Su Tingxia, who led the troops to break through, and the number of men and horses was not very large. Now that the war has been in full swing for more than two months, the Xianbei people's original plan cannot be realized, and they can only passively fall into the chaos of a long-term war. However, with the arrival of Han Jian's personal expedition, the situation in the north has changed even more.

It is easy for the Xianbei people to put on the war for a long time, and it is easy to catch fire in the backyard of the Central Plains for a long time, because the Xianbei people on the grassland are mixed ethnic groups, and there are many nomads who have not allied with them, and these people may sneak attack their rear at any time. And the Central Plains Dynasty did not want to drag on the war for a long time, because the Central Plains was already tired after several years of war, and Han Jian also knew very well that with the current grain, grass and people, it would not be able to hold out for more than half a year. But in a short period of time, neither side has the ability to break the other with a stick.

The follow-up grain and grass continued to be transported north, with Connecticut as the final destination, and the logistics supply line was also thousands of miles long. A bright supply line is from Luoyang to Kangzhou, this line is also a line that Han Jian wants to put out for the Xianbei people, as for the secret allocation of grain and grass, it is between Beichuan City and Shangzhou, because Shangzhou is located in the second line of Beiguan, Xianbei people did not notice it for the time being, in fact, Han Jian has put the hoarding of grain and grass in Shangzhou, because Shangzhou is in a dangerous position, transporting grain from Shangzhou, and the grain and grass can be transported to any Beiguan in a short period of three days.

In the blink of an eye, in the middle of May, Han Jian's Chinese army was still stationed in the city of Kangzhou to complete the army, as the war intensified, Su Tingxia's men and horses in the north were still fighting with the men and horses of the Khan King on the right side of Xianbei, Su Tingxia hoped to get Han Jian's support from behind, but Han Jian obviously did not want to focus on the eastern front of Beiguan. Because the Wei Dynasty now still has a territory outside the Beiguan, that is, the Bohai State, after Su Tingxia destroyed the Bohai State, the Bohai State has been under the rule of the Wei Dynasty, and in the past year or two, a large number of people from the Central Plains have moved to the past, and these people are also ordinary people north of the Yellow River who have suffered from war. The original inhabitants of the Bohai Kingdom were basically relocated to Kannan. Because of the existence of the Bohai State, the Xianbei people's war on the North Guandong Front, even if there is a cavalry of the right Khan, there is still not much progress, and the Northern Guandong Line itself is also a dangerous terrain, even if some passes are captured, and the Xianbei people have opened a gap to the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Xianbei people still dare not act rashly, because even if these passes are taken, some mountains and rivers in the east are easy to be strangled by the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains Dynasty, so that the Xianbei people have no return.

On May 16, Han Jian was promoted to the account, and for Han Jian, he had been reorganizing the army in Connecticut for nearly ten days, and he should continue to go north. If his army is delayed in entering the battlefield, the Xianbei people will also suspect that his soldiers and horses are paper tigers, and they will open a breakthrough from him.

Of the generals who came to the account promotion meeting that day, there were very few people who could be counted. All the generals under the command of the Eastern Prince's Mansion who were somewhat famous on the battlefield were basically sent to the north to follow Su Tingxia and Lin Zhan, and Han Jian not only had no soldiers. Not even to him. In this way, Han Jian would rather be stationed in Connecticut as a cover.

"Your Majesty, I wonder if our army is going north, west, or east?" One of the generals asked the question that everyone in the room wanted to ask. Since Han Jian led his troops north, his movements were unknown, which not only made the Xianbei people confused, but even Han Jian's officers and soldiers were confused. Although Han Jian said that he wanted to drive the expedition himself. They knew who it was, but they didn't know where to start. There are now more than 2,000 miles of fighting along the Beiguan line, because this encounter is not a short exchange of troops and horses in the area. It was a large-scale offensive and defensive battle, and Han Jian's appearance was tantamount to giving up support from other regions.

To the west, they rescued Lin Zhan, and to the north, they assisted Su Tingxia. As for the eastward expansion, it is to fill the vacancy. After all, the easternmost line of Beiguan is the border with the Bohai State, which has been occupied by the Xianbei people, and there are still a few passes where there are defenders of the imperial court, but the easternmost line of the back is not an area fought for by the two sides, and Han Jian has no help in the past. So the biggest question is whether Han Jian wants to rescue Su Tingxia or Lin Zhan, both sides must not be lost, and now Su Tingxia has been beaten by the Xianbei people because of the lack of soldiers and horses, how to say that Han Jian should also rescue Su Tingxia.

Han Jian didn't answer right away. Instead, let the generals present discuss it on their own. This is a pain for the generals and strategists below, you must know that Han Jian's mind was the most difficult to guess in the past. Now that Han Jian is no longer the king of the east but the emperor, the emperor's mind is even more difficult to understand. They don't have generals who have too much right to speak, and it is easy to break the ban when they talk casually on this occasion, if Han Jian is in a bad mood and uses anyone's inappropriate remarks to open the knife, it is equivalent to sticking his head over and letting Han Jian cut it off.

No one at the scene responded, Han Jian sighed, it was also the result of his always being arbitrary and arbitrary, more people are used to obeying orders rather than taking the initiative to express their opinions. The meeting that was supposed to arrange the next march route was also ended early and returned to the sleeping tent. Although the army was stationed in the city, Kangzhou was also a little dilapidated after the baptism of the soldiers and horses of the right Khan, and the original soldiers and civilians in the city fled and only left an empty city, even if they were stationed in the city, they could only camp in the open space. It's like a border city, Han Jian also feels the hardship of the border people in the city these days, he has to bear heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and he can't even protect his home in the event of a war, if the trouble of Xianbei can't be eradicated, the people in the north will be like this for a long time. Even if a group of people flee to other places, there will still be people who can't survive elsewhere and move here, and the cycle repeats.

Han Jian really didn't have much to do about how to eradicate the Xianbei problem, since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty had been fighting with various ethnic minorities on the border, and especially the grassland peoples in the north coveted the Central Plains. At the moment, the Xianbei people are taking the initiative to fight, and it is good if they can drag it on, and they don't even dare to say that they can drive the Xianbei people out of the country, and if they want to eradicate it, even with his advanced thinking, it is useless.

"See Your Majesty." Just as Han Jian was thinking alone in the tent, a voice came. Han Jian was slightly surprised, you must know that although his cultivation is not high, it is very difficult for others to enter the camp without him checking it. He was thinking about things, and when he saw that the person who came was Song Suqing, he was a little relieved, Song Suqing's breath was very familiar to him, and he would not be on guard, so he didn't check.

Han Jian nodded and asked Song Suqing to come to him, and Song Suqing was very obedient and poured tea for Han Jian. Han Jian couldn't help but smile, Song Suqing was originally ambitious, she was responsible for building weapons in the Song family from the beginning, and after arriving in Luoyang, she was arranged by Han Jian to replace Lin Xiaoshu to coordinate logistics affairs, in the eyes of outsiders, she is also a strong and unyielding woman, only by her side will she show a weak and gentle side. Han Jian asked: "The grain and grass in Shangzhou is the top priority of the war in the north, if the deployment is not good, you can use the left army to escort it, and you must ensure that the road between Shangzhou and Beichuan is smooth." ”

Song Suqing nodded slightly, she is obviously inferior to Lin Xiaoshu in terms of her ability to manage the family, she has encountered too many problems since she took over the logistics, and every time she has to come forward to solve them in person, this is where she feels guilty. You must know that Lin Xiaoshu is in charge of these, not only does he not need Han Jian to take action, but Lin Xiaoshu still has time to share Han Jian's worries. Regarding how to mobilize people to cooperate with the mobilization of grain, grass and logistics materials, as a daughter, she does not have the prestige and courage to give orders like Lin Xiaoshu, even if Han Jian gives her such power, she does not dare to appoint it easily.

Han Jian drank tea and sighed: "Su Qing, you still have to be more dignified." It's not that the officers and men in the army are afraid of you, it's that they obey your orders, and without prestige, there will be no this. You don't have to be a high-ranking general, and when it comes to grain and grass, you are respected, who dares to disobey? ”

While he was talking, the curtain was lifted, but it was Fa Yi who also brought tea. Fa also saw that Song Suqing was also there, and he wanted to quit the account, after all, Song Suqing had a lot of things to do, and she was the most free time on weekdays, and Han Jian would discuss a few words with her when he couldn't think about something. Now that Song Suqing is rare, she wants to be an adult and doesn't bother.

"But the master is here." Han Jian said with a smile, stood up and greeted him, "Since the master is here, why bother leaving?" ”

Fa Yi glanced at Song Suqing, how to say that she was not very comfortable with the other women on Han Jian's side, and she didn't know how to communicate. Song Suqing is even more respectful of the law, if she is replaced by Lin Xiaoshu and other women, or in terms of mentality, she can be regarded as equal to the law, but Song Suqing herself has an inferiority complex and a little cowardice, whether it is to see Han Jian or Han Jian's aunts, or even those subordinates with a little status in the Dongwang Mansion, she does not dare to deal with it head-on. Her personality is also the reason why she is not suitable to replace Lin Xiaoshu, but Han Jian prefers to be "nepotism" in logistics, after all, he doesn't want his subordinates to have two hearts with him, Lin Xiaoshu can't take responsibility, and Song Suqing's ability can be worthy of a big responsibility. It's just that Han Jian can't change Song Suqing's character.

"Is there something wrong with the master?" Han Jian took the tea and took a sip, it was the familiar taste of soothing tea. Whenever he couldn't sleep, Fa Yi would personally make tea, and Han Jian was used to drinking it along the way.

Fa Yi's face was slightly embarrassed, and in the face of Song Suqing, she was also called "master" by Han Jian, which made her feel embarrassed. It was Song Suqing, who came up respectfully and saluted, as if facing his elders. (To be continued......)