There is no military plan, it is set in stone!

After coming to Fenyi County, Zhao Han obtained more detailed information.

The core elite of the prefect Tian Younian comes from the official kiln craftsmen of Binjiang Town. Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, those who are soldiers will definitely go home, and they can get twice the result with half the effort by going straight there.

Zhu Yuanzhang built Nanjing City that year, and the inner layer of city bricks was white, all of which were produced in Binjiang Town.

This kind of white city bricks, all made of kaolin, is also known as "white mud bricks" and "white tiles", which is stronger than ordinary cyan city bricks. Yuan Zhoutong, who supervised the construction of this brick, sentenced Sui Yun, and won Zhu Yuanzhang's great praise, and was promoted from the sixth grade to the third grade.

Binjiang Town has an official kiln, which was made a mess by the officials, and a few years ago the kiln workers made trouble, and the prefect Tian Younian personally appeased and settled.

He recruited 500 kiln workers as soldiers, eliminated the bandits in Wugong Mountain, and went to eliminate the rebels in Pingxiang County. Hearing that there was a giant in Luling County in the south, he immediately expanded the township brave army, and now there are 3,000 troops.

Those 500 kiln workers are elite soldiers who have been trained for two years!

On the evening of the day he met Song Yingxing, Zhao Han personally led the troops to set off and handed over the task of defending the city to Fei Ruhe.

Due to the too much movement of the requisitioned ships, Zhao Han led his troops across the Wannian Bridge and marched at night along the south bank of the Yuan River. After traveling forty miles in one night, he arrived at Binjiang Town in the early morning and launched an attack without rest.

Before the townspeople could react, they saw 3,000 soldiers passing through the town and rushing to the potters' settlement in the west outside the town.

"Surrender or kill!"

A team of ten people scattered and rushed into various houses, and then escorted the potter's family out.

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Xiong Yaozu's ancestors have been potters for generations, and his household registration belongs to the craftsman's registration. The official kiln has long been gone, and they all work for the private kiln for a living, and they can still get by although the life is hard.

Just five years ago, the then prefect suddenly had a convulsion, saying that he wanted to add a circle to the city.

Xiong Yao, a potter household, was drafted to serve and brought his own dry food to the government to burn city bricks.

According to the rules, although the servants did not receive salaries, the government had to pay rations. But the rations were also withheld by the officials, and the potters couldn't survive, so they simply killed the officials (kiln officials) and rebelled.

After making trouble like this for half a year, the prefect was promoted with silver, and the new prefect Tian Younian took office.

Xiong Yao admired Tian Zhifu very much, and dared to come alone to surrender, and in the end only killed two rebels.

Xiong Yao was recruited by the prefect as a village warrior, and he was paid two buckets of food and military salaries every month. And every five days, he is very close to the city, and he has time to go back and forth, and three of them can work by himself to make money.

Governor Tian's military training is very strong, and he said that the monthly salary is two fights, and he has never deducted it. ran to Pingxiang County to suppress thieves, and there was still a salary to get, Xiong Yao even hoped to fight every day.

This year's life is much better, and the family has also purchased New Year's goods.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Xiong Yao has been tired for a year and wants to sleep lazily this year.

Suddenly, he heard a commotion outside, and before he could get dressed, a group of soldiers rushed in.

"Surrender or kill!"

His wife and children were all arrested, Xiong Yao had just put on his pants, and he didn't dare to resist at all when he cared about the lives of his family.

Taken to the open space outside to gather, Xiong Yao found that many people had been arrested, women, children and old people were standing together, and Qing Zhuang was asked to stand on the other side.

What's the situation?

No one knows what's going on, they're all waiting for the New Year, and that's it.

"All the soldiers stand up, don't force me to interrogate!"

Xiong Yao looked left and right, saw that everyone was hesitating, and then looked at his wife and children, who were being pointed at with spears.

In desperation, someone stood up, and Xiong Yao also stood up.

Zhao Han said: "Count the number of people. ”

The flag commander quickly counted and quickly reported: "The general town, a total of 436 people!" ”

There must be more than that, Tian Younian recruited potters as soldiers, only 500 people were recruited in the early days, and more than 300 were recruited one after another.

After some interrogation, it became clear that some people left their wives and children and ran away, while others lived farther away.

Zhao Han hurriedly ordered the arrest of people, and in another potter settlement, more than 100 households were arrested one after another, many of whom were just ordinary potters.

Finally, Zhao Han asked, "Who has practiced the bow?" Raise your hands. ”

"I've practiced." Xiong Yao raised his hand.

At this moment, a small boat docked in Binjiang Town.

After the official got off the boat, he ran wildly and shouted: "Fuzun gathers troops, Fuzun gathers troops." Be sure to rush to the military camp outside the city before noon on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year! The government gathers troops, and the government gathers troops ......"

The official ran so fast that the townspeople didn't stop him, and the sentries didn't react, and in the blink of an eye, they had run out of the town.

"Mansion Gathering...... Mother, anti-thief! ”

The official was so frightened that he turned around and ran, and returned to the town in a puff of smoke, where he was caught by several sentinels.

The goods were dragged in front of Zhao Han, and he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted: "The general spares his life, the general spares his life!" ”

Zhao Han smiled and asked, "Governor Tian wants to gather troops?" ”

The official hurriedly replied: "The county seat of Fenyi is gone, and the Fuzun will gather troops on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year." ”

"Governor Tian is sympathetic to the soldiers, but he still has to wait until the New Year," Zhao Han complained and asked again, "How many people are guarding the city in the city?" ”

The official sent a bamboo tube to pour beans and said, "Fuzun heard that Fenyi County was ...... occupied, last night gathered hundreds of troops to defend the city. ”

The situation is already very clear, Tian Younian is very nervous, and he does not treat Zhao Han as an ordinary thief.

Most of the hundreds of guards are around the city, and the Chinese New Year will definitely cause a lot of complaints.

Zhao Han walked up to Xiong Yao: "Are you an archer?" ”

"Yes." Xiong Yao said.

Zhao Han asked, "How many potters practice bows?" ”

"There are only about a hundred." Xiong Yao said.

"What about the other archers?" Zhao Han asked again.

Xiong Yao said: "Scattered in various townships. ”

Some townships are relatively far away, and the gathering of troops on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is also to take into account the round-trip journey, and it is already very awesome to complete the assembly in five days.

This prefect Tian has been in the field for many years, and it is difficult to say whether he is good at fighting, but there must be a set of military training.

Zhao Han didn't ask about the military again, but took his personal guards to check the kiln.

The officers under his command organized the prisoners, packed up their belongings, and prepared to take them away. Regardless of whether they had been soldiers or not, they all had to be brought back to Ji'an, and Zhao Han's territory also had kaolin, and there was a shortage of many potters to use it to fire porcelain.

When he came to a private kiln, the boss and the steward ran away, Zhao Han picked up the porcelain to check and found that the quality of the product was not very good.

You can see the advantages and disadvantages at a glance, and it can't be compared with the porcelain in Jingdezhen at all.

"Where does this thing sell?" Zhao Han asked.

A private kiln manager who didn't have time to run away said: "Some businessmen came to buy it, loaded it on a ship and shipped it to Fujian and Guangzhou, and I heard that it was going to be sold overseas." ”

It turned out to be an export product, and presumably these inferior porcelain could be sold at a good price when shipped to Europe.

Zhao Han continued to walk forward for dozens of steps, pointed to a cave where grass had grown, and said, "Why is this abandoned?" ”

The steward hurriedly ran into the cave and took out a white city brick: "The remnants of Emperor Taizu's construction of Nanjing City have been piled up there for more than two hundred years, and no official government dares to use them." ”

"How many of these bricks are left?" Zhao Han asked.

The steward replied, "There are fifty or sixty brick kilns in the vicinity, and the caves are full of bricks. I didn't dare to throw it away, I didn't dare to use it, so I kept piling it up. ”

This kind of white city brick has been burned to porcelain, and it is extremely strong for building the city, and Zhao Han decided to take it in the year of construction.

The 3,000 sergeants took turns to sleep, and at noon they found the big households in the town to open a warehouse to get grain, and rested until the next day (the Chinese New Year's Eve), and Zhao Han finally took nearly 4,000 potters and their families and left Binjiang Town with a swagger.

"It's time to go back to the county for the New Year!"

Zhao Han made the soldiers shout, everyone laughed and sang, and the potters frowned.

After walking a few miles, Zhao Han suddenly divided his troops into the mountains.

He asked 500 soldiers to escort the potters and their families to the county seat of Fenyi, and he led 2,500 soldiers on a detour.

The three potters who had the most family members and had served as soldiers were left by Zhao Han as guides.

In the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhao Han spent time in the mountains.

At noon, he ate wheat cakes and pickles, Zhao Han hugged his fists all the way, walked in front of the soldiers, and kept saying: "Happy New Year, Happy New Year!" ”

"Happy New Year in the town!" The soldiers responded.

Running to the mountains during the Chinese New Year, it is inevitable that some soldiers will be resentful in their hearts. But Zhao Han greeted the New Year one by one, and shouted thousands of Happy New Year's greetings, which immediately made the soldiers feel warm.

During the day, they did not dare to march, so they found dry branches and withered grass to cover them, and then spread quilts on them to sleep.

The cold wind blows at night, and those with a cold and fever have to keep up. Along the way, there is the edge of Wugong Mountain, which belongs to the hilly terrain, and after the snow melts to the feet and necks, it is already very convenient to march.

Xiong Yao was one of the three guides, and none of them dared to mess around.

Zhao Han said that once the army is defeated this time, they will kill all their families in the county seat!

"General, the front is Yuegongling, and the prefect's training ground is located at the foot of the mountain." Xiong Yao pointed ahead and said.

Walking all the way day and night, and stopping and stopping, when Zhao Han arrived at the ambush location, it was only on the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the Tian Governor's Mansion had not yet finished gathering troops.

Send a sentry to pretend to be a woodcutter to go down the mountain, go to the city to sell firewood and come back.

Zhao Han initially got the military information, the defenders of Yuanzhou Mansion City had thousands of troops, but the school field and military camp under the Yuegong Ridge were empty, and all Tian Younian's soldiers ate and lived in the city.

Zhao Han could only continue to stay in the mountains to rest, and by the way, make torches for night attacks.

The soldiers removed the leggings and put them in their arms to dry. Before the action, he helped the wooden stick to make torches, and when he left Binjiang Town, he also got a lot of vegetable oil, which was also used to make ignitions.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the spies came back to report.

There were many ships outside the city, which were loading grain, which was the military rations sent by the Tian Governor's Mansion.

Judging by the number of ships, it was certainly not enough for three thousand soldiers to take on ships. Most of the supplies were by water, and the soldiers followed along the river, and even if they were ambushed, the grain ships could escape immediately.

Moreover, the barracks under the Yuegong Ridge have begun to live in soldiers.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the spies reported again.

There are far more than 3,000 soldiers in the barracks, maybe five or six thousand, and I don't know where the prefect will recruit so many villagers.

Zhao Han now has two options, one is to set up an ambush halfway by the river, and the other is to directly attack his military camp at night.