Chapter 780: All the way north
Han Jian has read the list, and the official gentry of Beichuan City are also considered to be "giving face", in order to protect his family from being served by Han Jian this time, he is very enthusiastic about donating money, food and materials. In addition, the hundreds of thousands of stone grains obtained from the raid of the family were enough for the northern soldiers to use it for another month or two.
Han Jian put down the list and said to the people present: "Now that there are soldiers, horses, grain and grass, the most important part of the war is in Beiguan, the king of the left Khan temporarily retreated, if he sends troops to attack again, it will not be easy to win a big victory." When Han Jian said this, some people already understood what Han Jian meant, now the imperial court is fighting on the north and south, and there are soldiers and horses in Jiangdu in Yuzhou, and now Jiangdu soldiers and horses are under the city of Yuzhou, if the news of Han Jian's absence in Yuzhou spreads, it will inevitably affect the military morale of Jiang Jianshi, and Yuzhou, which is guarded by Hou Huang Shilang in the south of the town, will also launch a counterattack, at this time Han Jian has to choose whether to continue to lead the troops north or solve the problem of Yuzhou first, obviously Han Jian chose to continue to the north and ignore the war in Yuzhou.
Simply making some strategic arrangements, Han Jian also let these generals who had been on the front line of the battlefield for a day and a night go back to rest. At present, the most urgent thing is to straighten out military affairs and prepare for the immediate dispatch of troops to the north. Although Beichuan City is important, it is not the front line of the battle against the Xianbei people after all, and Han Jian can't sit in Beichuan to watch the drama if he wants to drive the expedition in person, which has no substantive effect on the battle situation.
After a war is over, it will take a few days to recuperate, and the situation in the north is still very bad for a few days. Several confrontations between Lin Zhan's troops and Xianbei soldiers and horses south of Beiguan ended in the defeat of Lin Zhan's troops. The Xianbei cavalry opened several breakthroughs from the North Pass, and was gradually encroaching on the rest of the key passes of the North Pass, and the Xianbei people seemed to be prepared to completely destroy the North Pass defense line before raising troops to the south. As for Su Tingxia's troops, they were obviously more powerful than Lin Zhan's troops, although Su Tingxia only had more than 10,000 horses, but his soldiers and horses were known for their looting and unreasonableness. is more like a thief's soldiers and horses, not only can the people of the Central Plains hate it, but even the Xianbei people are afraid of this style of work. And the Xianbei people obviously also have a fresh memory of Su Tingxia's sweep of the Bohai Kingdom, but wherever Su Tingxia passed, not only the local people fled, but even the Xianbei people avoided fighting without fighting. It seemed that he deliberately wanted to avoid the edge of Su Tingxia's department, but Su Tingxia still seized several opportunities, won some small battles on the front line, and gained a firm foothold on the North Kanto Front.
On April 16, Han Jian finally re-sent his troops, this time from Beichuan City, to go directly to the front line of Beiguan to help. Han Jian only brought 10,000 soldiers and horses with him from Luoyang, but when Han Jian continued to go north from Beichuan City, the number of soldiers and horses was 40,000 or 50,000. No one knew where Han Jian came from to make up so many soldiers and horses. Before Jiangdu 50,000 soldiers and horses were recruited and sent north, the world knew that the soldiers and horses finally went to Yuzhou, and now Han Jian can still have 50,000 soldiers and horses, which adds a bargaining chip to stabilize the northern defense line.
Only Han Jian knew that his so-called 50,000 soldiers and horses were actually just groundless. In addition to the 10,000 Luoyang garrison soldiers and horses who went north with him this time, there were also many people, and Hebei was displaced everywhere after the war. In order to save the local people from the pain of fleeing, Han Jian simply recruited the local ordinary people to join this huge war. Disaster relief and war go hand in hand. The people were temporarily settled, and the strong men among the poor people in the north were also temporarily transferred, although they would not be of much use on the formal battlefield, but they were still enough to fill the faΓ§ade. Sure enough, after Han Jian rectified a 50,000-strong army of soldiers and horses, not only the morale of the northern soldiers was greatly boosted, but even the Xianbei people also felt the pressure brought by the "royal conquest" from Han Jian. Han Jian set off for only two days. The Xianbei people had already deliberately avoided engaging Han Jian's main Chinese army.
The nearest journey from Beichuan City to Beiguan takes almost six or seven days, but after all, Han Jian is not a lightly armed soldier and horse, which contains heavy cavalry and too many ordinary "people's husbands" accompanying the army, and his actions are not fast. And on April 20, four days after departing from Beichuan. However, the soldiers and horses could only be temporarily stationed in Sangju because "the road ahead is impassable".
Shangzhou is less than 200 miles away from the front line, since the war with the Xianbei people, Shangzhou has been repeatedly attacked by the Xianbei cavalry, now there are not many soldiers and civilians left in the city, and the soldiers and horses stationed in the city have also from the initial more than 2,000 people, to now even less than 500 people, some were requisitioned to the first line of Beiguan to guard, but more are to join the ranks of deserters, especially after the outbreak of the war in Yuzhou, the city along the Beiguan felt powerless, and the speed of the soldiers and horses was very fast.
After Han Jian was stationed in Shangzhou, he roughly asked about the situation from the mouth of Li Heqi, the Taishou of Shangzhou, and learned that the situation on the front line of Beiguan was very bad now, the local defenders fled and scattered, and the soldiers and horses who could really fight with the Xianbei people were almost zero, even if the only remaining soldiers and horses could only rely on the city wall to do the final battle of the trapped beasts. On the contrary, some people in the local area have already organized ordinary soldiers and civilians to "defend the homeland and defend the country", and they have all raised banners, some of them are under the banner of occupying the mountain as the king, some are simply trying to restore the previous dynasty, and some simply claim to be the royal orthodoxy of the Wei Dynasty. Han Jian sighed in his heart, if Yang Rui knew that there were grass cowards in the north who claimed to be her relatives, I don't know what she would think.
"Your Majesty, the most famous bandit of the Shangzhou generation is named Han Qi'er, and he ...... is a female thief, he claims to be the descendant of Prince Yan Ning, and now his prestige is very high among ordinary people, and even some soldiers in the city who are interested in fighting with the Xianbei people, some have fled the city to follow her......"
Li Heqi was a little lacking in confidence when he said this, and it seemed as if someone in the local area was helping to drive out the Hulu together, but the problem was that these people were obviously a group of grass bandits, and he, the Taishou, obviously had the sin of putting down the local rebellion. Moreover, this so-called descendant of Prince Yan Ning is actually surnamed Han, which also makes Han Jian feel that he is in the same clan as him. It's as if he, the emperor, is also related to Prince Yan Ning.
Han Jian put down the official document in his hand and said with a sneer: "Then I have to have a good meeting with this female mountain king!" After Han Jian finished speaking, Li Heqi next to him had a very strange face, so Han Jian could also deduce that this Shangzhou Taishou had suffered the losses of these bandits, and now the north is the time to unite with the outside world, even if Han Jian wants to quell the local bandits, he should wait until he drives out the Xianbei people, but Han Jian seems to have the intention to calm down the local disasters first and then fight with the Xianbei people, so he will first practice swords with the local bandits.
After Li Heqi left, Han Jian asked the people in the intelligence system to check the situation of the local bandits in detail. It turned out that in the past two years, because the north experienced the sweep of the Xianbei people and Su Tingxia's "looting", there were immigrants from the Bohai State who moved inward, in fact, the situation in the north was very complicated, and there was no way to place the people under the displacement, and the local gentry refused to work with the court to quell the local disasters in order to protect their own interests. Let local bandits run rampant. This time the Xianbei people went south again, just in the first two or three months of the year, there were dozens of bandits who came out under the banner to "do the way for heaven", the people were to be fluent and have no fixed place, after these people sheltered, many people joined in, after all, ordinary people are ultimately seeking a way to live, even if they know that it is a dead end, as long as they can slow down for a while, they have to follow. As for the generation in Sangju, there are two or three bandits that are relatively strong. Among them, Han Qi'er's soldiers and horses are the strongest, claiming to have 20,000 soldiers and horses, but under a detailed investigation, there should be thousands of soldiers and horses, and many of them have surrendered to the imperial court. The main reason is that Han Qi'er herself has not done anything harmful to the local people, nor has she robbed places like ordinary grass cowards, just like Li Heqi said, although Han Qier is a grass coward, her prestige among ordinary people is still very strong. Even some righteous people in the local defenders felt that it was unlucky to fight with the Xianbei people, and they joined their subordinates to fight the Xianbei people to the death.
Han Jian has read the detailed report. There is a lot of helplessness in his heart, you must know that the most untiring knot in his heart is "Prince Yan Ning", after all, his cheap father in this world, Han Qi, is a member of Prince Yan Ning's system, but this Han Qier still has the same surname as him, which makes him quite annoyed.
Fa Yi originally sent tea to Han Jian, and he could enter the study. Only then did he realize that Han Jian was sighing at a pile of battle reports alone, Fa Yi came over and respectfully served the tea, Han Jian smiled heartily, and was about to say something, Fa Yi said: "Rest early." β
Han Jian sighed: "What are you resting for." Can't sleep. Looking at these things, not only do we have to take care of military affairs, but we also have a good life in the local area, and everything seems to be impossible to handle without me. Even Lao Lin and Lao Su handed over the matter to me to deal with, but they were upset, and there were still some blind people who wanted to do it against the court! β
Fa Yi reacted for a moment, only to realize that the "Lao Lin" and "Lao Su" in Han Jian's mouth were the two commanders who were now guarding the north, Lin Zhan and Su Tingxia. Han Jian is not the kind of person who likes to complain, he basically doesn't bother the women around him if he has something to do on weekdays, although Fa Yi doesn't like to study what people are sophisticated, but she still feels that Han Jian's temper today is a little abnormal.
Han Jian also seemed to feel that he was complaining, in fact, he didn't want to worry about the women around him, but maybe it was Fa Yi's own stable personality, plus Fa Yi had investigated intelligence for Yang Rui for many years, and he was no stranger to the affairs of the court, so he would talk more in front of Fa Yi.
Han Jian got up and said, "Rest too, there are still many things to deal with tomorrow." β
Fa Yi was slightly stunned and said, "That cup of tea?" β
Han Jian smiled and picked up the tea on the table, only to realize that the tea was still hot, and he didn't notice it at all because he wasn't attentive when he took it just now. Although it is not winter at this time, the night in the Shangzhou generation is still very cold, about the law is afraid that he will be cold at night, and personally boiled water for him to make tea, you must know that there are no other female dependents in the entire Shangzhou Taishou Mansion, and even the dinner at night is to eat dry food with the army, which has not appeared in the previous cities where they were stationed.
Han Jian was about to go back to the room with Fa Yi, but a guard came in and said that Da Xiliu had arrived from Luoyang. Han Jian didn't want to go back to the room first, but wanted to see Da Nishiliu first. He originally wanted to leave Da Nishiliu in Luoyang to be responsible for the coordination of intelligence, but after he arrived in the north, he really found that there was no one around him who could coordinate intelligence, which made him very tired, so he simply transferred Da Nishiyanagi, originally he even wanted to transfer Xiao Nishiliu together, but thinking that Da Nishiliu wanted his sister to get out of the matter earlier, he also respected Da Nishiliu, and simply recruited his sister to come alone.
Fa Yi was originally going to retire, but Han Jian asked her to stay, just let her go behind the screen next to her, no matter how she said it, she was not an outsider, Han Jian also wanted to have one more confidant and caring person to help him refer to some things, although the female generation was not recognized by the current people, but Han Jian did not have so many prejudices, and Fa Yi was in a peaceful state of mind and would not have so many utilitarian hearts, and the judgments he made would also be of great help to him.
Daxi Liu came in the dust, she only walked for six days this way, and then walked Han Jian's Zhongjun for more than ten days, in addition to resting in the middle, she also had to deal with some intelligence matters along the way, which also made her walk for a few days to describe the obvious weight loss, Han Jian couldn't help but sigh, how to say it is also a little distressed, after all, he is tired of running around for his business, and no matter how strong Daxi Liu is, she is a woman after all.
"See Your Majesty." Onishiyanagi not only clasped his fists and saluted, but simply knelt and kowtowed.
After Han Jian ascended the throne, he didn't see Onishiyanagi much, but Onishiyanagi didn't stick to etiquette in the past. Maybe there are some things that have a subtle influence on Onishiyanagi that makes her more respectful today.
"Get up and talk!" Han Jian said.
Only then did Onishiyanagi get up, but she kept her head down, as if she was entangled in something. Han Jian frowned and said, "But something?" β
Onishiliu was slightly stunned, and her expression was a little sad, as if something tragic had happened around her. But Han Jian knew that she had no relatives and no reason, and if she wanted to say that the people close to her, except for Xiao Xiliu, there was only Mrs. Luo, the godmother who once raised her. Although Mrs. Luo's whereabouts were unknown for a while, Han Jian had recently received a letter from Mrs. Luo, knowing that this woman was not dead yet, and was preparing to return to Luoyang to resume her life. Since Mrs. Luo is fine, then the only one who has something to do is Xiao Xiliu.
Da Xiliu hesitated for a moment before saying, "The minister is fine." β
Han Jian said: "If you have something, just say it." But what's going on with your sister? β
Da Xiliu said: "When the minister left Luoyang, my sister was seriously ill, and I didn't see it well after inviting a doctor. β
Han Jian nodded, to say that Xiao Xiliu's fate was more bumpy than her sister, when the big and small Xiliu went to assassinate the king of Xiliu together, Xiao Xiliu was seriously injured and almost died, and then Xiao Xiliu's illness continued, and it was also related to the root of the injury this time.
Han Jian said: "If your sister has something, just go to the imperial doctor, with your current position, don't you even want to have this convenience?" This makes people spread the word, let the imperial doctor diagnose and treat your sister, and you can also be relieved for the time being. (To be continued......)