Chapter Seventy-Eight: Jizhou Battle Clouds
(Thank you Dameng, Zhao Wuxian 2014, Phantom - Ice Heart, Wolf Star, lisanshao001.) οΌ
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If the upper and lower floors of Ma Han's three sill ships are all manned, they can transport thousands of people across the sea at a time, and 7,000 people have to make fourteen trips back and forth, which takes nearly two months. Although Kong Rong's 10,000 stone rice grain is enough to support immigration to western Liaoning, it is too long to afford to consume.
According to Tai Shi Ci's Jianyì, there were no less than dozens of large passenger ships in Liaodong, and these ships could be chartered to participate in passenger transportation when passing through Liaoshi, and the Yellow Turbans could be moved to Liaoxi in a short period of time.
Ma Han immediately adopted it, and handed it over to Zheng Gao to be responsible for contacting, leasing funds, and finding the white wolf Changtian Yu to solve it.
Since the third day of the fifth lunar month, a continuous migration operation has been carried out in Laizhou Bay on the north shore of Qingzhou. With the return of the Yellow Turbans who were scattered that day, more and more people immigrated to the north to cross to Dingkou, and finally gathered more than 9,000 people, which was beyond Ma Han's expectations.
For the immigrants from western Liaoning, Beihai Kong Rong raised his hands and feet in favor - great! Get rid of all these troublemakers, and the North Sea will be settled! Qingzhou An! Oh, send the plague god, huh? Kong Rong's attitude, of course, Ma Han will not let go of this good opportunity to extort bamboo, not only squeezed out the "immigration fee" of 3,000 stone grain in Beihai County, but also asked Kong Rong to send troops to maintain law and order, provide tents, firewood and other living materials, and even get Wang Xiu to be the commander-in-chief of immigration. Not to mention, Wang Xiu has been a county magistrate for nearly ten years, has rich experience in grassroots work, has a pragmatic attitude, and has taken care of the immigration work of nearly 10,000 people in an orderly manner, and is indeed an internal affairs talent.
Seeing that the entire Beihai County was turning for its own immigration plan, and the opportunity was rare, Ma Han began to be unwilling to accept only such a small number of mouths. Qingzhou Yellow Turbans used to be the most fierce in the late Han Dynasty. At its peak, it numbered 300,000. However, just last year, it took half a year by Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao, brutally suppressed, collected all of them, and was compiled as Qingzhou soldiers. Of course, this repression was not complete, and the yellow turbans were like weeds, a fire that seemed to burn out, and the following spring. The timing is right, and it sprouts in the wind. Otherwise, there would be no siege of the North Sea.
However, at present, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has just been cut off, and there will be no Yellow Turban turmoil for a while, so where is it?
Just as Ma Han was looking for a new source of population, on the ninth day of the fifth month, in the Duchang Prime Minister's Mansion, in an official letter from Kong Rong to the Qingzhou Thorn History. Ma Han learned of an important battle situation: Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao was about to launch a revenge battle against the Montenegrin army. Jizhou, war clouds are thick.
The cause of this war began two months ago. March of the fourth year of Chuping (193). Montenegrin Captain Yu Poison, under the instruction of Zhang Yan, the commander of the Montenegrin Army, united with Tao Sheng, Huang Long, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, Li Damu, Yu Yigen and other leaders of the Liumin Dock Fort, taking advantage of the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan in Longcuo. Attack on Yecheng, Wei County, Jizhou. This Yecheng is Yuan Shao's lair, and he himself was named the Marquis of Ye, his wife and children. Including the families of all the soldiers in the army, they are all in Yecheng.
Yecheng fell, and the officials below Wei County Taishou Li Cheng were killed. Yuan Junjun, who had just won the victory of Longcuo and returned to Bo Luojin, was shaken and urgently returned to help. Hurry up and hurry, and when I finally arrived at Yecheng, what I saw was the tragic situation of the old and weak being slaughtered, the women being humiliated, and the property being looted.
For a time, the army's heart was in mourning, the city was full of vegetarianism, and the resentment was soaring.
Yuan Shao's luck was surprisingly good, his wife and children had already fallen into the hands of the Montenegrin army, but at this time, the Montenegrin army had a traitor - Tao Sheng. Tao Sheng is also a senior general at the Sima level, this person served as Neihuang Xiaoshi in his early years, and naturally has an affinity with Yuan Shao and other famous families, and he thinks that the Black Mountain Army's looting of Yecheng is self-digging. So he fought back, snatched Yuan Shao's family from Yu Poison's hands, and safely escorted them to Qiuqiu and handed them over to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was overjoyed and let him be the general of Jianyi. Tao Sheng's speculation succeeded, and his former Montenegrin comrades will face brutal retaliation from the Jizhou army.
After two months of rest, the heart of the Jizhou army gradually stabilized, and the voice of revenge was very loud. In addition, the Fenwu general Lu Bu led the army to vote, Yuan Shao's strength increased greatly and his confidence soared.
On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Yuan Shao conformed to the will of the army and the people, and officially launched a killing order to the Montenegrin army. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the curtain of the largest war in Jizhou is about to open.
"Look, what can we get out of this?" In the Duchang Post House, Ma Han threw a copy of the official letter he got from Kong Rong to Tai Shici and Guan Hai.
Guan Hai, well, is now also a member of the White Wolf City in Liaoxi, temporarily serving as the fake Sima of the infantry army, and the deputy of Wuchai. However, Ma Han did not intend to let him return to Liaoxi with the ship, on the contrary, before the Beihai Yellow Turban was divided and settled, Guan Hai, the former Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, must be placed under Ma Han's nose.
Tai Shi Ci pondered for a while and said, "Do you want to be involved?" β
Ma Han smiled: "If it's good, it's okay." β
Guan Hai coughed lightly, he was in the battle of Duchang, he was hit by a stray arrow, fortunately, the armor protection was good, and he missed the vital point, after recuperating for a while, with his strong physique, there was no major problem. Guan Hai is the kind of person who only serves by force, Ma Han has suppressed him twice strongly, so that he has to submit, since he is defeated and captured, he can find a good future for himself and his subordinates, what reason is there not to surrender?
Perhaps it was because Ma Han put more pressure on Guan Hai, and his speech was a little restrained: "The yellow turban is young and strong, but there is not much combat power, and although the wolf tooth flying horse of the city guard is strong, there are slightly fewer people and horses." There are no less than tens of thousands of Jizhou troops, and there are more than 100,000 people in the Montenegrin army......"
Ma Han laughed and said: "We don't regard the two as enemies, no matter how many of them are, what do they have to do with me?" β
Don't make the two enemies? Guan Hai was stunned and scratched the back of his head: "Then which side are we on?" β
"We are on our side, or, on the side of what is good for us."
"That's right...... Then we'll have to side with the Montenegrin Army. β
Ma Han and Tai Shi were stunned, and looked at Guan Hai together.
Guan Hai coughed dryly: "Presumably, the city guard and Sima also know that the Montenegrin Army is actually similar to the Yellow Turban Army, and the two armies have many connections, and the Yellow Turban Army has been dispersed, and many have defected to the Montenegrin Army." Well, I have dealings with the Black Mountain Army's Zuo Zhangba and Qing Niujiao, and these two have tens of thousands of Montenegrin soldiers under them, but in fact, most of them are old and weak, and even my subordinates are not as good as soldiers, and desertion is commonplace. As far as I know, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the Montenegrin army, but in fact, except for the hundreds of righteous servants of the various commanders, the rest of the soldiers are vulnerable...... Well, only the Montenegrin Marshal Zhang Yan and his subordinate Sun Qing have a cavalry, among which there are more Hu people and their combat power is strong. β
Ma Han heard the meaning of Guan Hai's words, touched his chin and smacked his mouth: "You mean, the Montenegrin army has 300,000 people, most of them are like your Yellow Turban Army, and they are easy to ...... Well, these soldiers under the Black Mountain Qu Shuai will be easily surrendered? β
Guan Hai Zhengse said: "If there are conditions like those promised by the city guard that day, I can pat my chest and guarantee that these people will definitely follow the city guard to Liaoxi." β
While he was talking, suddenly a report from outside the mansion came from the wolf's tooth flying horse: "Yucheng Guard, our three sill boats have returned, and there are eight large passenger ships......"
Ma Han pushed the case and laughed: "Great, as soon as the ship arrives, the worries will be gone." Then I'll go to Jizhou and meet old friends. (To be continued......)