Now, the guard of Yuan County is Yang Sui. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After the outer wall of Xinchengchi was built, according to the documents issued by the Jiedu Embassy, Yang Sui's next plan would also be launched, and he could imagine that with a little guidance, those victims who were transported by sea ship from the north would definitely be willing to settle in Xinchengchi. After all, refugees who have experienced hunger scares first-hand will be happy to live in a place protected by walls, with plenty of food and hope.

In this way, there are also residents in the early stage of Yuanxian Xinchengchi. Yang then hired the refugees to participate in the construction of the new city, and then the displaced people would have wages in their hands. If they use that money to buy a new house, it will also be of great help to the future economic chain.

In the past, Yang Sui was just an ordinary child of a military family. If it weren't for the cultivation of his grandfather, he would never have had the opportunity to take charge of a city alone. Speaking of which, Yang Sui can't be regarded as a pure martial artist among the generals of the Yang Mansion. He was more of a skilled builder. When he first came to Anzhou, Yang Sui assisted in the construction of wharves and shipyards in Cai County. Now, building a new city here alone is a chance that only a grandfather would give him. Just thinking about it a little, Yang Sui felt excited, and he was full of energy.

To the east of the city of Yuan County is an open field, where three wooden fences have now been erected, and the officers below have not reported the total number of people held in it, regardless of their identities and the number of men, women, and children. Yang Sui stood on the arrow tower and looked down, and the crowd should be about 20,000.

The Xuanhuo Army has been hunting the Yue barbarians with small forces. This kind of combat training has never stopped.

If it weren't for the discovery of huge reserves of mines in the south after the capture of Dien Bien, it would have been impossible for the Xuanhuo Army to capture prisoners in battle. After all, the Yue people have no cultural concept, and to put it bluntly, they are just a group of savages. However, Yang Tianhong's order is also clear: even if it is a savage, it is a free miner.

Since then, the Xuanhuo Army has rarely killed people in battle. Instead, they tried to capture the barbarians alive and send them to the mines, where they were to be used as labor forever.

Yang Sui paid attention to the costumes of these people below, the costumes of the Yue barbarians and the Central Plains refugees were completely different, and it was easy to see the difference.

According to the data ascertained by the scout detachment, there are about 300,000 Vietnamese people living in this area. However, as the training scope of the Xuanhuo Army became more and more extensive, and the number of soldiers increased, the Yue people in the surrounding areas of Yuan County were also captured and killed. It's still because of the grandfather's order, which requires a large number of prisoners of war and a large population. Now, the old people among the Yue people will basically be killed, and the able-bodied men will be sent to mine. Young women will be distinguished, and if they are good-looking and have a rough understanding of the Central Plains language, they will be filled into a special training camp in Anzhou, where they will be educated by officials and distributed to soldiers as a reward. Yue children are subject to physical fitness and intelligence, and are centrally managed to receive secondary education. In short, the process of integration between the Yue and Chu people has begun. According to the order of the grandfather, these Yue people will slowly transform into real Chu people in the coming time.

The setting of Yuan County is a disaster for the surrounding Yue people.

Since the county government has been established, it is necessary to clean up the surrounding area. The Xuanhuo Army already has extremely rich experience in this kind of training and operation, and has also formed a complete set of systems. The Yue people in the mountain villages were simply unable to resist and did not pose much of a threat. After a few battles, the casualties of the Xuanhuo Army were very slight, only less than 100 people, but they cleaned up more than 30 Yue villages, seized a large amount of materials, and captured nearly tens of thousands of people.

However, after the victory in the battle, the top brass of the Xuanhuo Army noticed some clues from it. There are various signs that the South Vietnamese barbarians are preparing for a northern invasion of Anzhou. Otherwise, the villages around Yuan County would not have hoarded so much grain and grass. Thinking about it, as soon as Yang Tianhong was in charge of Anzhou, the Yue barbarians had always been pressed and beaten by the Xuanhuo Army, and even big cities like Dien Bian were lost. It would be really strange if the Yue barbarians did not have hatred and revenge.

Yang Sui guessed that the deviation of the period when the Yue people would come to retaliate should not exceed a month.

Yue Ren is not a fool, he should have heard about his grandfather's trip north to Lizhou. Come to think of it, my grandfather is not in Anzhou, and the threat and strength of the Xuanhuo Army are not so strong. However, the situation in Anzhou has been decided, whether Yang Tianhong is present or not, the Jiedu Envoy and the Xuanhuo Army will meticulously and conscientiously implement the plan formulated by Yang Tianhong. After all, this is Yang Tianhong's big rear. It is also the most stable logistics supply base.

To the north of Yuan County is the range of Pingzhou. At present, this place has become a large construction site, and there are projects under construction everywhere, and if the Yue people kill it at this time, it will inevitably cause destruction of the surname. As a result, the defenders of Pingzhou had only one choice left to take the initiative.

A large number of troops continued to march from the direction of Jiping and Pingzhou and assembled in Yuan County.

The surging river is a moat, but it also depends on the strength of both sides. At present, there is no real naval army in Anzhou, and Yang Tong does not have a warship in his hands, but he is training desperately with hundreds of sea ships. is very fair, the Yue barbarians do not have a fleet, and the strength of the two sides is very close. In this way, the river water cannot be regarded as a moat. In the absence of a naval army, the river should actually be said to be a flaw for the defending side, as long as the enemy is willing to take a detour, it can cross the river to attack, and it is also the kind of sneak attack that cannot be prevented.

Yang Tianhong has been vigorously developing the naval army, but the Yue invasion did not give him a chance. Therefore, the rivers and rivers cannot be used for the time being.

Although his grandfather was not in Anzhou, the General Staff Headquarters of the Xuanhuo Legion came up with a set of battle plans that had been repeatedly revised in a short period of time, and at the same time sent a copy to Lizhou, asking Yang Tianhong to decide whether to implement it after review. The purpose of the plan was straightforward, the Xuanhuo Legion had to take the initiative to attack the South Vietnamese barbarians, and the battle goal was set to Hanoi, the capital of the Vietnamese people. In this battle, it was necessary to inflict heavy losses on the barbarian forces of the Yue people, and then rob Hanoi of its resources and population, which could be used to restore the vitality of Binh Chau and another newly established state capital. In addition, through this battle, it is necessary to create a necessary buffer ground with the Tianzhu Kingdom farther south.

Now, the entire engineering operation of Yuan County is modeled on the previous Ji Ping, and this place is used as a fortress. The Xuanhuo Legion's auxiliaries had also opened a road, although it was not so smooth and even a little rudimentary due to the rush of time. However, this road connects Yuan County and the Pingzhou Prefecture capital, and the necessary war materials are being transported back and forth.

This is where the spearhead of the Xuanhuo Legion's southward attack is located. The auxiliaries would send back a steady stream of captured food and prisoners from Yuan County, and they would bring weapons, supplies, arrows and other military supplies from Pingzhou and Jiping to Yuan County. The makeshift road crossed two waterways, and in the meantime it crossed about 80 miles of forested terrain. It has now become a very important line of communication, with a full regiment of soldiers transferred from Anju to guard the road in sections.

Yes, a regiment.

This is the latest formation of the Xuanhuo Legion.

In another world, there are also military formations of armies, divisions, brigades, and regiments. Speaking of which, this kind of establishment did not originate from the Western world, but the Eastern world in ancient times. At that time, there were six armies under the command of the Son of Heaven, each with 12,500 men. There are divisions under the army, brigades under the divisions, and so on.

According to the structure announced by Yang Tianhong within the Xuanhuo Legion, ten new divisions have been set up, with a quota of 20,000 for each division. That's 200,000 people.

This is only a first-class combat force, and it is also the most elite force in the entire Xuanhuo Legion. Below, there are ten other local garrison divisions. The same is 200,000 people. According to Yang Tianhong's plan, these people are the supplementary strength of the first-class division. After leaving the training camp, the recruits are first charged to the garrison division to receive combat training, and then enter different units as appropriate to enrich their combat effectiveness.

The captured grain from the Yuan County side was sent back day and night in the requisitioned wagons, and although there were no notices or anything like that to announce the victory of the expedition, the steady stream of grain brought back spoke for itself. Pingzhou has also become a sea of joy, they are praising the good fighting of the army, and they are happy to have captured a large amount of food.

This statement may be a bit illusory or exaggerated, but the steady stream of food sent back has greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Pingzhou, and coupled with the method of cash-for-work, it has also given more money and food to the victims who moved to Pingzhou. The army has fulfilled its responsibility to protect the local area during the war, and a kind of cohesion is slowly sublimating in Anju.

Food is also an extremely important strategic commodity. What's more, Qingling Jade Liquid needs grain to brew. The seizure of a large amount from the hands of the South Vietnamese barbarians was also equivalent to the seizure of money in disguise.

Cao Hui, who stayed in Anzhou to be in charge of civil affairs, no longer believed in the Chu court. He has now become a die-hard supporter of Yang Tianhong, personally praising Yang Tianhong's wisdom among the people, and sending countless people to spread the news of the stability and safety of Pingzhou and Anzhou, all of which are all due to Yang Tianhong. In this way, the people also agree that the newly established Pingzhou can have the current situation, which is indeed because of Yang Tianhong's efforts.

Speaking of which, Anzhou did cause turmoil because of the invasion of the Vietnamese. Moreover, the time for Anzhou to be included in the territory of Chu State is not long, and the people here are all immigrants, so they really have no sense of belonging to the imperial court. If it weren't for Yang Tianhong leading the army south, exterminating the barbarians, and countless living people, Anzhou would have been finished long ago. As a result, Yang Tianhong's prestige among the people of Anzhou is getting higher and higher, even if he is now far away in Lizhou, the people of Anzhou have also been implanted with a sense of trust and worship for Yang Tianhong.

The fighting in the south of Yuan County has been in full swing.

Yang Sui's troops have been attacking the Yue villages built on the surrounding mountains for nearly two months.

Yang Hua is the commander of the newly formed Seventh Division of the Xuanhuo Legion, and is leading 20,000 Xuanhuo officers and soldiers to attack and plunder.

In addition, Cao Hui also sent a group of officials who had just passed the assessment from the Anzhou Civil Affairs School into Yuan County to stabilize the local people. The 8,000 engineering auxiliaries who drove from Pingzhou, as well as the 20,000 Yue barbarians who were captured, were constantly reinforcing the walls of Yuanxian County.

Many things are divided in an orderly manner, and there are smooth ones, and naturally there are unsmooth ones.

The signs of the Yue barbarian attack on Pingzhou have been very obvious. They built a granary in advance on a mountain ridge more than 60 miles away from Yuan County. If it weren't for the sharp eyeliner of the Xuanhuo Army scouts, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to find here. The Yue people stationed a full 10,000 defenders here. In addition to its strong military strength, this granary is still built on the mountainside, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. When Yang Sui learned the news and arrived with his army, he immediately felt bitter when he saw the terrain -- there were not too many trees in the mountains, but there were many huge rocks. In order to facilitate transportation, the Yue barbarians only opened a narrow road, which connected to the granary halfway up the mountain.

The location here is very secluded. Under normal circumstances, it is really hard to detect. Come to think of it, there are also many people with military vision among the Vietnamese people. Being able to secretly store military rations here in advance can also be regarded as a way to attack Yuan County from the side.

Yang Sui's original battle plan was to take advantage of his unpreparedness to attack and occupy it, but the Yue barbarian defenders here were completely different from the Yue people who had been annihilated before. When the defenders of the granary found out that there was an attack from the Xuanhuo Army at the foot of the mountain, they only panicked a little and began to be on full alert. Judging from that posture, these Yue barbarians are obviously much more elite than the defenders of ordinary Yue villages, and they are more like professional Yue soldiers.

The reason for this is not surprising. Yang Sui remembered that his grandfather said earlier: human beings always learn war in war. Although the Yue people are barbarians, they also know how to learn from opponents who are more powerful than themselves. The offensive and defensive battles in Anzhou have been fought back and forth for several years, and the Xuanhuo Legion has repeatedly compressed the Vietnamese residential areas, captured Dien Bian, and killed countless people...... It would be really strange if the Yue Ren Barbarian King could still sit still in the face of this situation. Come to think of it, the Yue people and barbarians have also conducted special training for the situation of the Xuanhuo Army. Now, we are also receiving support from other sources.

The first strong attack arranged by Yang Sui was only about 300 steps away from the periphery of the granary halfway up the mountain, and he was forced down by the overwhelming rolling stones. The Yue barbarians occupied favorable terrain, and there were no mortars and other artifacts in this era, so Yang Sui saw that a strong attack could not be achieved, so he quickly organized a second one. However, this time, it was still a dense pile of rolling stones, which caused great casualties, and it was impossible to attack it at all.

Seeing that the strong attack could not be achieved, Yang Sui could only try his best to lure out the Yue defenders and annihilate them. But no matter what they did, the defenders stationed in the granaries by the Vietnamese people just stood still. Yang Sui was very helpless, and the war was so deadlocked.

The more people are merely the more people, and the vanguard troops have suffered such great losses. Yang Sui felt embarrassed, even in the stalemate stage, he was ashamed to ask for reinforcements from Pingzhou. However, Yang Sui, who had lost nearly 1,000 men but gained nothing, and could not lure the enemy army down, saw that the war had reached a stalemate, but it was a little difficult to ride a tiger for a while.

Just when Yang Sui was embarrassed and anxious, which caused his thinking to fall into confusion, the marching Sima made a suggestion -- scouts should be sent to carefully check the rest of this mountain forest, and whether there was a road that could go up the mountain?

After hearing this, Yang Sui felt that it made sense.

In the following time, the Xuanhuo scouts quickly found a rugged path leading to the back mountain. According to the description, the trail is actually not easy to walk, the back mountain is still a rocky environment, and the width of the trail is only less than two meters. Along the way, the Yue people also set up several checkpoints. It's really difficult to break in from this direction.

Yang Suiyi, who gradually regained his composure, gritted his teeth and ordered: "First detour a group of elite troops to the back mountain, still attack the enemy from the front, and wait for the enemy to be distracted by the frontal attraction before killing!"

The marching Sima opened his mouth and swallowed back the words that had come to his lips. He felt that this was still not a good way to go, and that it would cost a lot of casualties.

Of course, Yang Sui knew that it would be costly, but under the premise that he could not set fire to the mountain and could not cut off the water source of the enemy troops on the mountain in a short time, that was already the only way.

Yang Sui had less than one regiment of troops, only about 4,000 soldiers left, and about 1,000 troops were divided into troops for people to take on a detour, and after two days of stalemate, Yang Sui led his troops to attack the front.

The Yue barbarians guarding the granary were still defensive in the early stage, and successfully repelled several attacks by the Xuanhuo Army. Later, he found that the number of enemy troops under the mountain was somewhat less, and guessed that the Xuanhuo army was going to attack from the back mountain.

The troops who made a detour back to the back mountain found that the number of defenders on the trail had decreased, and thought that they were attracted by Yang Sui in the front direction. So, first, more than 100 people were sent to touch it, and after solving two levels, they launched a general attack. Unexpectedly, when the fourth level was killed, a large number of Yue troops suddenly appeared, and for a while the Xuanhuo Army was caught off guard, and more than 1,000 people who went up, including the leading generals, only about 300 people fled back to the bottom of the mountain.

After solving the Xuanhuo army that came over from the back mountain, the Yue barbarians pretended to be unfavorable in defense, and let the troops led by Yang Sui attack less than fifty steps away from the granary fence. Just when Yang Sui thought that the enemy army had been exhausted, there was no rolling stone, and he would definitely be able to attack this time, the fence above the road was directly knocked over by the thick rolling stone, and then crushed down all the way by the bloody wind and rain. The Xuanhuo Army, which was in a low position, was suddenly in chaos, and the Yue defenders also took the opportunity to open the gate of the camp and launched a powerful counter-charge.

This time, Yang Sui paid an unprecedented price for his mistakes. The troops of the entire 5,000 soldiers were killed and scattered all over the field, and when the defeated army fled back to Yuan County, there were less than 1,000 people left.

Fiasco, fiasco like never before. (To be continued.) )