The difficult water (Songhua River) in summer is particularly unpredictable!

One moment the water is still very calm, but the next moment it may be caused by a sudden heavy rain upstream, causing the river to swell, so that the river that has already filled the riverbed will be further lifted and flowing down with a rolling turbid current, flooding large areas of forests and swamps along the coast!

In the past, the river was exceptionally clear even during the summer rainy season, but now the river has become much more turbid because the Goguryeo people in the upper reaches of the river are cutting down forests along both sides of the river to reclaim land for farming.

Although the soil of the black soil is very fertile, it is also very easy to be washed away because of the loose soil, and once there is not enough vegetation to protect it, it is easy to cause a large amount of soil erosion, and in the 21st century, the originally flat black soil has already appeared this serious phenomenon.

Compared with Goguryeo's rough development of the Nanshui Basin, the Xia Kingdom, which developed along the lower reaches of Nanshui and the Tongjiang and Wushui basins, did a very good job in this regard.

Thanks to Wang Ze's emphasis on protecting the environment, from the very beginning of the establishment of bases in Zhenhai, Jiangkou and other places, Wang Ze asked the Agricultural College to carry out strict planning for the land that can be reclaimed in Beji.

This kind of planning is not based on whether the land is flat or whether it is conducive to farming, but whether the reclaimed cultivated land will cause serious ecological damage in the local environment, and there are strict regulations on what land needs to be developed according to the degree of occupation of the entire Beji land.

Under such strict regulations, even in Zhenhai County, where the population is increasing day by day, there is still a large amount of wasteland that has not been cultivated, and Wang Ze would rather have this land barren than let people reclaim it casually in order to have a good ecological environment here.

Although many civil officials, including Lu Wen and Xiao Jing, did not understand this, since Wang Ze had already made such a decision, they would not object, not to mention that the land of Beji was extremely vast, and under such strict regulations, there was also a large amount of land that could be reclaimed for everyone, which also caused the Han people to be extremely evenly distributed in the mixed river, Wushui, and Nanshui basins.

At the same time, the Xia country quickly occupied these lands, but also let the land here have been rapidly developed, at this time the difficult water basin has been enough for nearly 100,000 Xia people to settle, the cultivated land has made the barren and difficult water in previous years become an important grain production area in the Xia country.

From the beginning of spring, a large number of Tatar people continued to attack and harass along the Nanshui coast, but with the protection of Xu Ning's Second Army and cavalry troops, the spring ploughing of the settlements along the Nanshui still completed most of the tasks in time, and also bankrupted Goguryeo's attempt to weaken the spring ploughing of the Xia State.

With the Xia Kingdom, which has large-scale agricultural sowing machinery, its sowing speed is not at all imaginable by the Goguryeo people who are still at the level of small-scale peasant operations, and even some of the Ya people who saw the operation of large-scale seeding machines thought that the Han people of Xia Kingdom were like divine help, and there were many incidents of surrender on the spot.

More than two months have passed now, and a large area of spring wheat has grown into wheat seedlings more than a foot tall along the difficult water coast in summer, and as long as it waits until August and September, there will be a sea of abundant harvests, and that is also the day when the Xia Kingdom and Goguryeo officially went to war.

It's just that the autumn harvest is also a big problem at that time, in the face of the attack of nearly 20,000 indigenous stragglers sent by Goguryeo, there is no difficulty in spring ploughing, but when the autumn harvest comes, how to ensure that these precious grains are not destroyed by the enemy is the most concerned thing for Hu Bingchang and Xu Ning.

In the end, after some discussion, the two simply sent various troops and horses to continue to encircle and suppress the Yan people hidden in the mountains and forests, and they combined cavalry and infantry to divide a large area of mountains and forests into pieces, and then led by wolf teeth, grizzly bears, and poisonous snakes, the army advanced and gradually cleared.

Although this method is rather clumsy, after nearly a month of encirclement and cleanup, the two armies have also jointly eliminated more than 1,000 indigenous soldiers from various departments.

Don't think that the number of 1,000 soldiers is too small, Goguryeo united the savage tribes of the entire Beji land, plus a part of the Nanmurwei people only gathered less than 20,000 people, and now they have been wiped out so many more than 1,000 or nearly 2,000 people at once, which is already one-tenth of all the indigenous armies gathered by Goguryeo.

This has caused a great shock to the various indigenous tribes in the land of Beji, you must know that many of these indigenous tribes are only more than 1,000 people in the entire tribe, and the superior performance of the wolffang, grizzly bear, and viper troops in the jungle warfare has completely broken the confidence of these natives in their own jungle warfare.

It also made many tribes of the Tatar people begin to have a certain fear of the Xia army, no longer have the arrogance at the beginning, and even some tribes began to regret their early defection to the Goguryeo.

Speaking of familiarity with the coastal jungles in the lower reaches of the difficult waters, can these tribes living in the upper reaches of the difficult waters be stronger than the Black Water Division, which used to live in the local area? The three jungle combat units of the high style have a large number of soldiers from the Black Water Division, and they are already extremely good at jungle warfare, and coupled with the full armament of various excellent jungle combat weapons in the Xia Kingdom, they are even more victorious. Dancing God eBook

After this encirclement and suppression, the number of indigenous tribes who came to attack the territory of the Xia Kingdom was greatly reduced, but Hu Bingchang still did not relax, in order to ensure the deterrence of the Yan people, he decided to continue to send cavalry to patrol the front line with Hecheng as the core.

To the southwest of Hecheng, a distance of fifty miles from Hecheng, a cavalry of nearly 100 men patrolled along a tributary that flowed into the water, and the horseshoe trampled on the dirt floor with a popping sound, because the thick fallen leaves and the soft earth cut the sound of the horses' hooves.

"Captain, this horse should be a good horse from Whale Island!" A young cavalryman looked at the tall BMW under Xu Zheng's crotch and couldn't help but say with envy, the war horses of these cavalry are actually not bad, they are all Khitan horses that Wang Ze bought from the Khitan people at a large price in the past.

The Khitan horse is a horse breed raised by the Khitan people in the upper reaches of Liaoshui, much taller than the Mongolian horses of later generations, with good physical strength, uniform endurance, and is not very picky about food, it can be regarded as a very good war horse, whether it is the Northern Qi or the South Chen, they like this kind of practical, rough feeding good horse.

But there is a saying in China that 'people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away', and the same is true of war horses.

Although the war horses of these cavalry are good, they can be compared with the war horses that Xu Zheng is riding, and they suddenly can't bear to look at it, Xu Zheng's war horse is almost a zhang long, and the head part of the horse is more than eight feet high, nearly two feet higher than their war horse, and the muscles all over the body show a feeling of explosive power.

At the beginning, when everyone first saw this war horse, they all thought that such a war horse was just a look, everyone had seen a lot of tall horses, and some of the horses raised by many people in the land of Beji were even taller, but the horses were only strong and had good endurance, but they were not good as war horses.

Unexpectedly, in the subsequent competition, Xu Zheng rode a war horse, and actually left these cavalry a lot of distances, and the soldiers who had suffered a loss had to be convinced, it was really a rare good horse.

For the envy of these cavalrymen around him, Xu Zheng was also quite proud: "Yes, this BMW is a batch of BMW specially selected by His Majesty from the Whale Island Horse Farm this year, and it is said that it is the third generation of sweaty BMW bred in Jeju Island Horse Farm. ”

"Amazing, it's the heir of a BMW on Jeju Island! I heard that the BMWs there are all good horses bred by sweating and blood! An elderly cavalryman next to Xu Zheng was surprised, his family had spent time on Jeju Island in the past and knew that the horse farms there were the best breeders.

Over the years, the reputation of the Jeju Island Breeding Base has been completely established, and as more and more good horses have been bred here, many excellent BMWs have been sent to horse farms all over the East China Sea as horse breeds for systematic breeding to improve the quality of local horses.

Among them, Taizhou, Whale Island, and Sakhalin Island are the mainstays, and among the three places, especially because Whale Island has the most horse farms, accounting for more than half of the number of war horses in the entire East China Sea, Wang Ze has sent the most horse breeds to Whale Island, so that the third-generation BMW cultivated there is also the most.

Up to now, Whale Island uses the excellent genes of various war horses searched from all over the world to carry out purposeful breeding and crossbreeding, and breeds a batch of BMW known as Whale Island Dragon Foal, which is based on sweat and blood BMW, Persian BMW, plus some Khitan good horses for breeding.

The bred war horses have a beautiful shape, extremely fast running speed, and good endurance, and they are called Whale Island Dragon Horses and live up to this name, although after all, these war horses are still because the time is too short, and they can't equip a large number of troops for the time being.

"If only these horses could be equipped with a large number of troops," said a thin cavalryman, "then we can all have such horses!" ”

The other cavalrymen didn't speak, although everyone had a deep affection for their horses, but if they could have better horses, they still wanted to get one, and it had nothing to do with anything else!

Xu Zheng looked at everyone's longing eyes and smiled: "You don't have to be envious, I heard that the local ranch on Whale Island has also bred a new breed of horse, although it is not as good as my war horse, but it is much better than the Khitan horse in other aspects!"

Although this kind of horse is based on the Khitan horse as the mother, but the father is improved by the sweat and blood BMW, Persian BMW and other excellent horse breeds, and it is also a full seven or eight feet tall, and it is not inferior to the Whale Island Dragon Pony in any way, and more importantly, this war horse is not as squeamish as the Dragon Foal, as long as it is regularly recuperated, it can be fed roughage and soybean cake at ordinary times! ”

Xu Zheng's words made the soldiers look forward to the future, and a young cavalryman sighed: "I really want to see what this war horse looks like earlier!" ”

"Let's all live!" Just when the cavalry was looking forward to it, Xu Zheng, who was walking at the front of the team, waved his hand violently to stop the cavalry team that was trotting forward!