This is the first time Liu Yu has officially led troops to the expedition since joining the army.

In the past, he used to use wild roads, not so formal. As the first expedition since the new emperor ascended the throne, the new emperor should have personally gone out of the city to practice for Liu Yu, but because this trip was an internal war, everything was mainly low-key. Even the Imperial Forest Army went out of the city in batches.

The soldiers and horses mobilized were transferred from the South Chang'an Battalion to the right army, from the Imperial Forest Army to the left army, plus 4,000 female troops to the middle army. This is all the troops led by Liu Yu. The logistics are mainly in charge of the South Chang'an Battalion, and the marching and arming of all roads highlight the fast and slow rhythm of the front, and the rush is urgent, and the slowdown after entering the rebel area is slow.

This counterinsurgency was basically based on infantry, after all, the cavalry of the Dashun Dynasty was now gathered at the northern border pass to prepare for a battle with the Turks. And the cavalry that Liu Yu could call was less than 500 cavalry.

The rebellion has spread to most areas south of central Guanzhong, bringing disaster relief efforts to a standstill in southern Guanzhong, with many displaced people abandoning their homes and migrating north to escape the war. Many refugees also joined the rebellion.

Among the rebels, the more prestigious ones were Fucheng, which was located in the area of Huicheng in the east, and Lu Jiu, which was relatively far south. Its subordinates were relatively disciplined, and they only dealt with the government and wealthy households in terms of open robbery, and they also distributed food to expand the army in the face of disaster victims. Because the rebels of the Fucheng family were relatively far north, they were the first to be cleared after the Dongshui camp went south, and in the two battles with the Fucheng rebels, the Fucheng rebels basically ended in a rout, but because the imperial court ordered that the rebels should not be treated with brutal killing, the Dongshui camp army did not pursue. The Fucheng rebels have dispersed to six or seven surrounding counties. According to the city.

As for the southern Continental Ninety-One series. Because of the severity of the drought, there was a shortage of food, and the northward development was blocked by the new army recruited by Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu. Although the Forces nouvelles are not yet fully equipped and use most of the locally trained forces, they are also much more advanced than the rebels. The local rebels did not dare to fight when they encountered the new army, and dodging and dodging was basically guerrilla warfare. There are rebels everywhere, and not only Fucheng and Lujiu, but also local drought and displaced people. It has added a lot of difficulty to the counterinsurgency of the imperial court.

In the Dashun Dynasty, the apprentices in Guanzhong were the most fertile, raising a population of two or three million. Although the drought in many areas was very light, because of the spread of this rebellion, the entire Guanzhong land was in a state of chaos. The farther south the army went, the worse it became. Therefore, this counterinsurgency was carried out together with disaster relief, and the subsequent grain and grass also had to arrive in the disaster area.

Because of the problem of the displaced people, the speed of the march of the army was not very fast. Originally, it was planned to arrive in the hard-hit area in two days, but it turned out to be in the afternoon of the third day. The Chinese army passed through the central city of Guanzhong. Outside the city of Lucheng, the army was also stationed at night for the first time, and Liu Yu also had to summarize the news from all sides to determine the most important strategic issues. Now that the rebels are mixed up, the question of which way to clear the rebellion first, or how to put down the rebellion, is in front of him.

For the civil war, Liu Yu still wanted to focus on Fu as much as possible. Most of the rebels were victims who could not survive, and as long as they had something to eat, there was no need for them to continue to fight against the imperial court. But now Liu Yu not only has to face some hungry people who can't survive to rebel, but also has to face those rebel bandits with political goals, and there are even people from the Huai Wang family who are secretly obstructing and providing support to these rebels in terms of weapons and equipment. After all, iron weapons are still few in the people, and they can't always use a kitchen knife to kill the enemy, and chopping wood as a soldier is not suitable for fighting with the regular army. The weapons used by the rebels are basically discarded weapons from local regimental training warehouses, and some even directly use agricultural tools such as iron pestles and shovels as weapons, and they do not need to be more advanced.

Many county towns were closed after the rebels were attacked, so even in the hardest-hit areas, many cities remained under the absolute jurisdiction of the imperial court. At present, there are only two directions for the development of the local rebellion, one is to continue to the north, to advance in the direction of the north of the central part of Guanzhong, and this road is full of difficulties. First, it is close to Chang'an City, which is close to the feet of the Son of Heaven, and the strength of the local regimental training is also fully prepared, and the blows they face are even more severe, and they cannot enter many county seats. The second is to develop to the south, that is, the land of Hanzhong, this road is also full of thorns, after all, there is a natural barrier between Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and some dangerous passes and key passes are not something that some ordinary rebel peasant armies can break.

Now the county towns that can be looted have basically been looted by the rebels, and now the rebels continue to expand their scale in order to survive, and pay more attention to the landlords' estates under the high walls outside the county seats. Therefore, the rebellion at this time was more of a confrontation between the landlord and the homeless people, and in these manors there were weapons and food, as well as people and wealth, which was a treasure of feng shui that ordinary people could not think of before, like a paradise. Now that they have an organization and a leader, they are even more unscrupulous, and they will starve to death anyway, so it is better to fight to the death with these landlord classes who are high up on weekdays.

Some landlords' estates were breached, either through the main entrance or through the surrounding high walls, in short, these victims also had their own methods. After the forcible attack, the people inside were slaughtered, and most of the women were not spared the insults of the beasts. This is also related to the hatred of the two classes in normal times. However, in some areas, the methods used were relatively mild, and many landlords, in order not to suffer a catastrophe, took the initiative to provide grain to help the local rebellion, which on the one hand could help them develop and strengthen the strength of the rebellion, and also set conditions for mutual non-aggression, so that the connivance of the other side to the rebellion also made the rebellion develop very rapidly.

In fact, Liu Yu is most concerned about the situation of the Nanyang gan originally planted in the local area, judging from the vigorous development of the imperial court, many places have only planted this kind of crop, and now there are about two months before the harvest season. Obviously, the victims did not think that the imperial court was promoting any good things, and the seedlings of Nanyang sweet were not a delicious product, so they were supposed to be encouraged by the imperial court to plant some useless grass in the disaster year. This made Liu Yu very distressed when he saw Nanyang Gan abandoned in the ground.

If there is a war with King Huai, these are the most suitable military rations! (To be continued......)