Finish the water! This is the upper reaches of Wanshui!

At the end of April, the snowflakes are falling again! In Zhenhai and other places further south, when the warm spring is ushered in again, the upper reaches of Wanshui are still a world of ice and snow.

The winter snowfall has not yet had time to bloom before it is once again covered in a torrent of snow, which makes the already long, almost desperately long winter here look even longer.

The same as the long winter is Jiang Chuan's irritable heart! Now he's in big trouble! It is likely that he will provoke an extremely powerful force, but he has no time to ask Wang Ze for instructions.

What brought a lot of pressure to Jiang Chuan was not the Murwei people who had just been subdued by Jiang Chuan, but a man known as the Turkic envoy, such as the most powerful force today after Jiang Chuan attacked the Muro Wei Department, and actually began to meddle in the situation in the upper reaches of the water!

At the beginning, Jiang Chuan was ordered to set off from Yongding City (Hailan Pao), and followed the water to the river all the way up to subdue the Northern Murwei people, and successfully conquered all the Omurwei people further upstream, connecting the Bomurwei tribes in the upper reaches of the Yahe River and the Shenmo Tanmurwei tribes, and after learning of the military might of the Xia army, they also sent envoys to ask for annexation.

This kind of subordination is not the kind of restraint policy towards the Hu people and foreign races in the later Tang and Song dynasties, but a comprehensive and thorough digestion of the leaders of each tribe to be sent to the counties of the East China Sea for resettlement, and then after all the tribes and tribes are dispersed, they are resettled separately.

At that time, Jiang Chuan was receiving these subordinate Murwei tribesmen and reorganizing them, and at the same time, there were more than ten military Taoist leaders of the Haotian God Sect who were not afraid of difficulties to go deep into the grassroots and continue to teach the truth of the Great Dao to these lost lambs.

At the beginning, because the language of these Muwei people was very different from everyone, even if there were some soldiers from the Black Water Department as translators in the army, there were often a lot of jokes, and at this time, the Taoist leaders were smart and knew what the lambs they wanted to subdue were most eager for.

They immediately sacrificed a powerful killer weapon, and as soon as they turned around, they got a large amount of sugarcane wine from Jiang Chuan!

This kind of sugarcane wine was first brewed in the plantations of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou in Lingnan, and later although Chen Wei usurped the throne and called the emperor Nanchen and Xia Guo had a war, but with Feng Fu and Mrs. Xian in Lingnan, the Xia State and Lingnan's trade was still normal.

Even the dark piles secretly arranged by Wang Ze in Nanchen, after the main forces moved to Jiaozhou and other places, the many plantations they opened are still flourishing and growing, and the longest time of brewing sugarcane wine there has been more than ten years of experience, and the brewed wine is becoming more and more mellow and refreshing.

In addition, with the development of the land around Yizhou, Luhan, and other cities in Nanyang by the Xia Kingdom, a large number of sugarcane plantations and other plantations were also established, resulting in sugarcane wine, although cheap, but also a very important export commodity of the Xia Kingdom.

This time, because Jiang Chuan had a long and cold winter in the upper reaches of Wanshui, he carried a large amount of high-concentration sugarcane wine before departure, which could not only be used to ward off the cold and invigorate the blood, but could even be used as fuel after ignition.

At this time, in order to make the people of Murowei attached as soon as possible, as long as they were religious, they could drink such a wonderful wine, and in the future, they only needed to use a cowhide or ten sheepskins, or some things in the mountains and forests to exchange for such a pot of fine wine.

This time, it's done!

A pot of sweet Nanyang sugarcane wine is in the stomach, all the people of Murowei only remember the goodness of Haotian God, and there is good wine in religion, in less than a month, almost all the Murowei tribes from top to bottom have become loyal believers of Haotian God.

Everything went so smoothly and everything was so perfect!

Even Jiang Chuan felt that if he was faster, he would be able to participate in the battle there before Goguryeo was destroyed by Wang Ze, of course, this would have to wait until he built the Yangwu City in front of him!

Continuing westward along Wanshui from the territory of the Great Murowei tribe, there is a powerful Turkic territory that spans nearly 20,000 li from east to west, although the nearby pastures are still only the territory of the Turkic subordinate Tiele people, but the most important part of the Turkic language race outside the Turkic race, in the eyes of the Murowei people, the Tiele people are no different from the Turks.

This endless grassland is the battlefield where the cavalry can play their best battles.

In the past, there were large forests, wildernesses, and swamps in the upper and lower reaches of Wanshui, so the Turkic and Tiele people, who were very unaccustomed to this environment, never set their sights on here, after all, this place was too remote!

However, if in the future, the Xia Kingdom reclaimed a lot of fields along the water and transformed this place into a rich land, the Turks and Tiele people, who were idle in winter, would definitely not refuse to have another object to plunder around them.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the Xia Kingdom in Wanshui and its downstream places in the future, Jiang Chuan must build a strong city here, which can not only ensure the safety of the interior, but also become an advance base for the further westward expansion of the Xia Kingdom in the future.

After some investigation, Jiang Chuan chose the location on the land between the difficult water (Shilka River) and the Wanshui, which is not only protected by a natural moat, but also some flat sand boats with a load of less than 500 stones in the Xia Kingdom can go all the way up the river along the water.

In order to better block a possible attack from the west, Jiang Chuan not only had to build a main city that could be further expanded in the future, but also built a relatively small castle on the north and south banks of Wanshui. LeTV

The main city has a length and width of 800 paces, and if it is to be expanded in the future, it can be expanded outward by at least two or three hundred steps, while the two small castles that are mainly garrisoned are 100 steps long and wide, which can be used to garrison troops in peacetime and thousands of soldiers in wartime.

After the three cities are all built, if the nomadic forces want to plunder downstream along the water, even if they can bypass these three castles, they will have to bear the threat of being cut off at any time, after all, the brigade has a huge amount of water, and only along the river can it be guaranteed water.

There are a lot of troubles in building the city in winter, especially when the city wall is cold and cannot be built, Jiang Chuan can only survey the terrain first, and then excavate the earthwork to collect the materials for building the city, and other things have to wait until the spring to build.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Chuan was carrying out these activities, he suddenly received an alarm that a large number of cavalry suddenly came from the west, less than ten miles away from the city, and more importantly, the hostility of this huge cavalry was obvious, even if the number of people could not be seen because of the distance, but according to the size of the team, there were tens of thousands of war horses.

This cavalry is marching fast!

By the time the horses could see clearly, they were taken aback, and the number of this huge cavalry force would definitely not be less than 20,000 horsemen.

There were 20,000 cavalry who didn't know whether it was the Turks or the Tiele people who rushed to kill them, and more importantly, these cavalry were all riding two horses, which meant that the physical strength of these cavalry horses was very good, and as long as they still had the physical strength, they had the conditions to attack themselves directly.

Seeing the more than 20,000 cavalry rolling in his face, Jiang Chuan knew that he was a little careless, and no one would have imagined that the Hu people, who didn't know where they belonged in the west, would take advantage of this opportunity to fight, obviously wanting to take away this grassland with abundant water and grass.

Although most of the soldiers under Jiang Chuan's command are infantry, this does not mean that the infantry is inferior to the cavalry, especially the heavy infantry once it forms a formation, it will be a nightmare for all cavalry!

But at this time, the more than 20,000 infantry troops under Jiang Chuan's command were all busy with the construction of the city, and the 20,000 people were scattered within a radius of more than ten miles, and they naturally could not gather together for a while, and the infantry who could not form a military formation was the most vulnerable, and it was a good thing to be able to save their lives, let alone repel the cavalry of these Hu people.

What to do? What to do!

At this moment, Jiang Chuan was anxious!

At the critical moment, it turned out to be Li Hongyu, a cavalry general who had been cooperating with Jiang Chuan in the Wanshui Valley, miraculously appeared, and she led more than 8,000 cavalry under her command to gather these infantry troops for Jiang Chuan to try her best to buy time!

As the only two officers at or above the rank of lieutenant in the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea, Li Hongyu had always obeyed orders under Ji Xiang.

It was not until Wang Ze ordered Hu Bingchang to send a cavalry to assist the two armies in the battle in order to let Jiang Chuan and Xu Ning's troops better attack the Wanshui and Nanshui basins, and Li Hongyu began to garrison Yongding City (Hailan Pao) in the upper reaches of the water.

When Jiang Chuan was ordered to further attack the Murowei people along the water, Li Hongyu also led more than 2,000 cavalry under his command to follow and set off, and it can be said that they have been fighting together for several years.

When starting from Yongding City (Hailan Pao), the cavalry under Li Hongyu was only 2,000 people, Jiang Chuan thought that most of the enemies he faced afterwards had a certain cavalry strength, in order to strengthen Li Hongyu's cavalry, Jiang Chuan assigned all the exploration horses under his command to Li Hongyu.

The number of Li Hongyu's cavalry increased to nearly 5,000 people, and at that time, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, it was a quota of one horse and three horses, anyway, the Xia Kingdom had millions of war horses, and there was no shortage of horses, so that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry could also be greatly strengthened.

In addition, Jiang Chuan also tried every means to enhance the strength of Li Hongyu's subordinates, and after successively conquering the Northern Murro Wei people, the Great Murro Wei people, as well as the Bomuro Wei and the Deep Late Tanmuro Wei to take refuge.

Jiang Chuan selected young people ranging from 1,000 to 500 people from each tribe as cavalry, after all, with the constraints of his family and the brainwashing of the leaders of the Haotian God Sect, these young people are still relatively reliable forces, so Jiang Chuan finally expanded the number of this cavalry to 8,000 people.

Although the cavalry under Li Hongyu expanded with the support of Jiang Chuan, the internal members were too chaotic, not only did they bring together the Murwei people of various tribes, but even the cavalry of the Han people came from different teams, and she had to train this cavalry from mixed sources into a whole.

When this cavalry with more than 20,000 people attacked, Li Hongyu was training nearby, although she was not confident in her victory with 8,000 to 20,000 cavalry, but she still led this cavalry to meet it with an order, and she had to buy time for Jiang Chuan to integrate those scattered infantry troops.

Although Jiang Chuan was very worried about the safety of Li Hongyu and the others, he knew that this was not the time to be verbose, so he urgently gathered all the infantry troops, as long as the infantry troops were assembled and ready for battle, they did not have to be afraid of anyone.

Because they are the First Army, the original Tiger Battalion, although the title of the Tiger Battalion is no longer used, but the infantry of the First Army has always been proud of the glory of their ancestors, how can they be willing to let Li Hongyu go to the top alone?

Just when Jiang Chuan and the infantry of the First Army were worried about Li Hongyu's cavalry, they didn't expect that the cavalry that was originally fierce would stop only two arrows away from Li Hongyu.