Chapter 6 Preparations Before the Sortie
readx;?? The naming method of the ancients illustrates a situation, that is, the current Liaoyang City, which is a little different from later generations, and is located on the north bank of the current Liaohe River. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info.v.om copy this address to browse hp://%77%77%77%2e%62%69%71%69%2e%6d%65/ And the name is not called Liaoyang, but called Xiangping.
Unlike Huaiyin, which is located on the edge of the Huai River, Xiangping City is a large county town that has been developed for quite some time.
In fact, after Xiangping was built by Qin Kai, the speed of development can be said to be the fastest region in western and eastern Liaoning.
Different from Zhang Jiashi's estimate, Xiangping itself has many buildings inherited from the Yan Kingdom. For example, the ironsmithing workshop, and the horse ranch outside the city, etc.
In a sense, in addition to the fact that the population of Xiangping City is really quite sparse, many places can be regarded as everything.
It's just that for Zhang Jiashi, the problem of sparse population is a serious dilemma that he has to face.
However, all this depends on whether the plan can be successfully implemented, and then I will think about it slowly.
And Zhang Jiashi can't ignore one situation now, that is, whether he should advance north or west next.
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The Great Wall of Yan in eastern and western Liaodong almost completely separated the two counties and Donghu.
However, just as happened to Youbeiping County, the Great Wall could not effectively prevent the large-scale Donghu tribe from moving south.
And the role of the Great Wall now is more like an obstacle for Zhang Jiashi. But let him demolish the Great Wall now, firstly, he does not have the strength, secondly, he does not have the courage, and thirdly, doing such meaningless things is not Zhang Jiashi's style.
After Zhang Jiashi asked the troops to settle down in the area of Xiangping, he went to the Great Wall, dozens of kilometers north of Xiangping, to inspect the situation.
In fact, if you combine the countries that built the Great Wall and their national strength, the Yan Great Wall is the Great Wall that costs the most people and money.
And many people ignore this situation, blaming all the ideas of building the Great Wall, especially bad things, on Daqin, don't slander people like that. At that time, Great Qin was just connecting the Great Walls of various countries in northern Xinjiang. If you count the amount of work, maybe it is not as large as the amount of work in one of the countries.
Especially the Liaodong Great Wall at the foot of Zhang Jiashi, looking at other places in this place, it can be said that there is no end in sight.
The starting point and end point of the Great Wall of Qin, from west to east, is the border between Lintao and Liaodong County and Jizi Korea.
This length can be said to be more than the Great Wall of later generations.
Of course, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in later generations only had the eastern end of Shanhaiguan, which was not a problem of the Ming Dynasty, but the Great Wall of Liaoning at that time had already been wiped out in the long river of history and became the dust of history.
Therefore, the length of the Great Wall of Qin is, in a sense, the longest of the Great Wall in all dynasties. But in a sense, it is also the shortest one.
Because in later generations, not to mention the Liaoning section of the Great Wall, which was gradually annihilated due to the problem of governing the region, the Great Wall of Qin, which is located in the north-central part of Shaanxi, also collapsed to a certain extent or was damaged by the Huns before the Three Kingdoms.
Therefore, many places of the Great Wall in later generations were rebuilt to defend against foreign enemies.
And the problem that Zhang Jiashi has to face now is whether to let the troops go north or west, and take the initiative to attack Donghu.
The bulge in the central area of the Great Wall in Liaoning basically divides the direction of Zhang Jiashi's action.
Going north, it is natural to let the troops attack north, along the Songliao Plain, and reach the Jilin region in later generations.
Advancing westward, the goal was changed to an offensive against Donghu in the Inner Mongolia region.
In terms of tactics, Han Xin and Bai Qi were in favor of attacking Donghu in the Inner Mongolia region along the perimeter of the Great Wall.
Because of this, the attacking troops will be able to flee back to their home countries more easily in case of danger, and avoid the danger of total annihilation.
But there is also a problem with this strategically: Inner Mongolia is not the most predominantly populated area of Donghu.
On the contrary, after the defeat by Qin Kai, many remnants of the Donghu people continued to thrive between the Songnen Plain and the white mountains and black waters.
Chen Ping didn't support Zhang Jiashi taking the initiative to attack Donghu, when he heard Zhang Jiashi's plan for the first time, Zhang Jiashi was really shocked to see that Chen Ping would be so shocked.
However, Chen Ping once again issued his role as the mastermind of Zhang Jiashi, and after careful consideration, Chen Ping put forward the opinion that it would be easier to achieve the goal by going north to Zhang Jiashi, who could be said to be bent on going his own way in some respects.
It's just that, just as Han Xin opposed, that is, the northward advance is basically going deep into the enemy's territory, and once there is a dangerous situation, the attacking troops may be wiped out at any time.
Zhang Jiashi is certainly aware of this. That's why he hesitated.
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Looking at the scenery of the Songliao Plain outside the Great Wall, Zhang Jiashi was silent.
He didn't know what he was going to do. Because it's hard to choose.
This time he came to the Great Wall, and did not bring Chen Pingxiao and others, who were handling affairs in the army, and after resting for a day or two, Ruan Weng Thiao and others also began to train the troops.
It can be said that this visit to the Great Wall was an act of Zhang Jiashi arriving with only a few guards.
"You actually knew what to do, but you didn't dare bet. Bai Qi's voice appeared in Zhang Jiashi's mind.
"I really don't dare to gamble, because this time I have to send out all the cavalry troops at hand. If they go north, there is a good chance that none of them will come back. Zhang Jiashi supported the battlements of the Great Wall with his hands and sighed helplessly.
In such an operation, it was impossible to send infantry to fight, and the charioteers, without the cover of infantry, could not penetrate deep into the border of Donghu.
It can be said that this is a battle to break diplomatic relations between 5,000 cavalry under the command of Zhang Jiashi, as well as nearly 10,000 knights from the two counties of Liaoxi and Liaodong.
Zhang Jiashi knew very well that such a battle might cause 15,000 good fighters to be buried between the white mountains and black waters.
In the territory of Donghu in the Inner Mongolia region in the west, as analyzed by Bai Qi and Han Xin and others, the safety factor will be greatly increased. But it doesn't make much sense to do so.
Of course, Bai Qi knew Zhang Jiashi's thoughts, but he knew that the person who really made the decision was Zhang Jiashi and not him.
Although he can control Zhang Jiashi's body, what is the point of doing so for him?
Just as Zhang Jiashi was looking at the Songliao Plain in a daze, several horses kept running from the south.
After a short while, several heralds climbed the city wall and half-knelt in front of Zhang Jiashi: "Report to General Zuo! A decree has arrived in Xianyang! Chen Sima hopes that General Zuo will return to Xiangping immediately!"
Zhang Jiashi glanced at the three heralds, and he nodded......
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Zhang Jiashi never thought that the person in the camp would be a bit of a dusty father-in-law.
Xianyang is thousands of miles away from Liaodong, but Gonggong Xi chased from Xianyang to Xiangping so quickly, I'm afraid, these days, he has almost changed horses without changing people, and he has been riding horses along the way.
And after Father-in-law Xi saw Zhang Jiashi's arrival, his eyes were a little complicated.
He first came into contact with Zhang Jiashi in Wanxian County, although he had already expected that Zhang Jiashi would be a blockbuster. However, he simply couldn't imagine the speed of Zhang Jiashi's rise.
At the beginning of the Great Dynasty Meeting, in just over half a year, Zhang Jiashi became one of the several permanent generals of Great Qin in one fell swoop, and the position was quite prominent General Zuo.
You must know that the permanent general of Daqin is not a weed on the side of the street, just grab a handful, even if it is the arrogance of the Southern Xinjiang Army, it is only the position of a captain of the South China Sea until now.
Daqin's military position is this, a lieutenant or lieutenant colonel may not be considered a high authority, but the number of troops commanded will vary according to the situation. It's like a small county lieutenant, with no more than 500 troops. In the second batch of the Southern Expeditionary Army that year, Ren Huan was also a captain, but the military strength he commanded was the most in Daqin.
Since Tu Sui's death, the state lieutenant of Great Qin has been vacant, not to mention the position of Tai Lieutenant, who has never held a position at all.
Why Yingzheng arranged it like this, conjectures abound in the government and the opposition, but no one can know what His Majesty sitting in the main hall of Xianyang Palace is thinking.
Because according to Ren Huan's merits and military power, replacing Tu Sui as the national lieutenant is not a matter of talking about it all night, not to mention worshipping as one of the five generals, this kind of delicious and good-looking position.
However, in the end, Ren Huan was only the captain of the South China Sea, temporarily commanding the corps of 500,000 people in southern Xinjiang and the three southern counties.
In this regard, Zhang Jiashi's command of troops may be the least in Great Qin, but in terms of position, Zhang Jiashi's position as General Zuo is much higher than that of Ren Huanhai's lieutenant.
Although the lieutenant is often only one level away from the position of general, but Zhang Jiashi's general Zuo, according to etiquette, except for Meng Tian and Ying Zheng, the entire Great Qin does not need him to salute others first.
It can be seen that Yingzheng's attention to Zhang Jiashi is estimated to be unimaginable to many people.
This is where the complicated feelings of the happy father-in-law lie.
Once upon a time, he and Zhang Jiashi intersected and could be in a relatively equal position, but now, Zhang Jiashi's height is worth looking up to.
He finally smiled, and then said to Zhang Jiashi: "General Zuo, Your Majesty is happy to come this time, and the most important thing is to read the decree to General Zuo. ”
After Grandpa Xi finished speaking, he opened the brocade box he had placed in the hand of an entourage, took out the decree inside, and slowly recited it.
Zhang Jiashi, who was accustomed to ignoring the nonsense in these holy decrees and directly summarizing the key points, heard Yingzheng support his approach and ordered him to attack Donghu at the right time.
In Zhang Jiashi's expectations, Ying Zheng would not have accepted his risky gambling component so straightforwardly. But now, what Zhang Jiashi heard was the direct support given to him by Yingzheng.
He didn't know why this was happening. However, from the edict, Zhang Jiashi was even granted the right to temporarily transfer the county soldiers of the counties north of the river, so that Zhang Jiashi knew that Yingzheng was not worried about him.
He didn't know whether such a thing was good or bad, but Zhang Jiashi knew very well that with Yingzheng's support, he was more sure that he would be able to make Donghu's vitality hurt.
Zhang Jiashi silently knelt on the ground, and then took this letter of trust and support, and he made a decision......
He didn't know what this decision would bring him, but he knew very well that success or failure depended......
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Within a few days, the county guards and county lieutenants of Guangyang, Julu and Qinghe counties received Zhang Jiashi's order to transfer troops, Su Yan wanted to ignore Zhang Jiashi's order, but after knowing that Zhang Jiashi had the right to temporarily transfer county soldiers, it was already Guangyang County, which was semi-directly under Zhang Jiashi's jurisdiction, and there was no room to resist Zhang Jiashi's order.
Su Yan knew very well that if he didn't listen to Zhang Jiashi's orders this time, it was estimated that Zhang Jiashi would use General Zuo's authority to directly remove him from his position as the county guard of Guangyang, and then escort him back to Xianyang.
Therefore, the county soldiers of Guangyang County, a large number of crossbowmen and corresponding equipment logistics, under the transportation of a large number of light chariots, advanced towards Xiangping.
The situation in Julu County and Qinghe County was similar, but the lieutenants of the two counties were not very clear why Zhang Jiashi only mobilized crossbowmen and light charioters. In the case that they couldn't figure it out, they could only follow Zhang Jiashi's transfer order to transfer the light charioters and crossbowmen in the county to Xiangping City in Liaodong.
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Mo Hong, who was supposed to be the son of the Mo family, resigned Zhang Jiashi and appointed him as the head of Liaodong military construction. According to Mo Yan'er, this is not Mo Hong's modesty, but Mo Hong's ability in this regard, which is quite miserable.
As a result, he speechlessly glanced at Mo Hong, who didn't care about looking up at the sky, and Zhang Jiashi chose Mo Hong's younger brother, the current Mo family elder Mo Shu, as the person in charge of the newly built Liaodong military construction.
The corresponding workshops in Xiangping City were incorporated into the Liaodong military construction very early under the operation of Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping.
The first thing Zhang Jiashi asked Mo Shu to do was not to study the relatively simple wet papermaking technology in later generations, nor to let the other party ponder movable type printing.
What Zhang Jiashi has to do is to miniaturize Sinan's thing.
As a result, Zhang Jiashi saw a compass carved with small seals in the north and south respectively placed in the colorless glassware that was not very transparent.
Zhang Jiashi reluctantly picked up this thing that did have a compass function, and remembered a sentence, that is, only the unexpected, but not the impossible.
Unlike Mo Hong, the eldest brother of martial arts, Mo Shu, who is slightly younger, is more interested in the various skills of the Mo family. In other words, he was an inventor maniac of the Qin Dynasty.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought of the combination of glass and magnet.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi will not let go of another invention that is extremely valuable for military use, that is, the telescope.
However, after Zhang Jiashi got the original telescope secretly made by Mo Shu, he found that this telescope was quite unsatisfactory, and the current glass technology was not as perfect as that of later generations, and impurities affected the efficiency of the telescope.
"It seems that the telescope has little hope until the impurities in the colorless glass are removed. ”
Zhang Jiashi helplessly played with the bronze pipe in his hand and sighed silently.
Zhang Jiashi then looked at Mo Shu and gave the other party an instruction, that is, in the next few days, he would produce a certain amount of this small Sinan as much as possible.
Mo Shu nodded and made a guarantee to Zhang Jiashi.
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As for Mo Hong, who was eliminated by Zhang Jiashi and sent out the person in charge of the army, Zhang Jiashi hesitated again and again, but still asked the other party to cooperate with Chen Ping to train a secret organization similar to the Great Qin Shangjun Camp.
Chen Ping didn't really want to play his strengths in this area, but Chen Ping, who glanced at Zhang Jiashi, still nodded.
As a result, Xuanniao, a spy organization known as the most useful in history, slowly developed in the stumbles of Chen Ping and Mo Hong.
The reason why it is said to be stumbling is because the previous few groups of members of the Xuanniao Organization with a small number of people are not so much the special talents that Zhang Jiashi hoped for, but also very professional killers and assassins......
As a result, Zhang Jiashi had to change his strategy, asking Chen Ping to find the corresponding talents again and recruit them to Xuanniao as a professor.
However, at this time, it was already the time when the chaotic times at the end of Qin were coming.
At that time, Zhang Jiashi, who led his subordinates to fight in the troubled times, did not expect that when the Xuanniao played a role, it was no longer necessary to use it within Daqin.
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The various lieutenants and officers under Zhang Jiashi's command were training quite hard.
The knight troops were on the Liaohe Plain, constantly practicing long-range sprinting and mobile shooting.
For some reason, people constantly fell off their horses and were trampled to death or seriously injured by their colleagues behind.
Zhang Jiashi looked at the non-war damage reports that were available every day, and his heart was dripping blood.
It's not that he doesn't want to take out the double pedals and Takahashi saddle right now, so that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry will be higher in a short period of time.
However, Bai Qi said a sentence that made it very difficult for Zhang Jiashi to choose:
"I have only one opinion, that is, until you are sure to solve the Huns, this kind of gadget of yours is not suitable for taking it out. ”
Bai Qi's words hit Zhang Jiashi's pulse, because as Bai Qi said, once the Takahashi saddle with double horses and horses appeared, he had to solve the difficulty and casualties of the Huns, which was not a problem at all at all.
Although it is said that the equipment of the Huns is relatively backward, once the other party also popularizes such equipment, he will suffer a greater loss at that time.
The lessons of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can be said to be very profound.
Zhang Jiashi, who clenched his fists so hard that even his palms were bloodied, took a deep breath alone in the camp tent and gave up his idea.
Because, if he makes this thing now, it is estimated that more people will die by then.
He could only silently watch the flickering light of the oil lamp in the tent, and he felt that he had become a hypocritical politician, giving up what he had insisted on for the best good......
And Bai Qi said a sentence: "This ...... That's the way you're going. Sooner or later, you have to have that awareness. ”
Zhang Jiashi was silent, and finally swept all the things on the low table to the ground......
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