Chapter 153: People from the Xihe River

Gao Pet's Chinese Army Command Post moved to Shatuo Village, which was originally a small town, Li Cheng set up a guard post here, stationed three troops, mainly on alert, but after the second day of the fourth Peng was captured by the Flying Tiger Army, Gao Pet's troops were stationed here, where they could attack and retreat, which was much more convenient than Junzhou in the mountains, at least one day could be saved in time.

This is the remnant of Wudang Mountain, which is surrounded by mountains and hills in the east, and this Shatuo town is in the valley of the Han River. Most of the troops were stationed on the east side of the Han River, which was more convenient for military operations, and only a small number of alert troops were stationed on the west side, one to protect the ferry and the other to prevent accidents. The training of the infantry in the navy is still ongoing, and there are more than 40 large armed boats, each of which can carry more than 30 people, plus 50 or 60 small boats of more than 10 people, which can basically hold more than 1,000 people in two battalions at a time. Large ships have one ballista in the bow and stern, while smaller ships have only one ballista in the bow. But with so many ships, the high pets did not have too many ballistas, so only twenty large ships were equipped with ballistas, and ten small ships. Large ships have a large mast, and a spinnaker can be attached to the mast of the ship, while small boats have a spinnaker.

Although there is a sail setting, it has only been learned for more than 20 days, and there are still too many problems to be able to work well and skillfully, and the power of this ship is still dominated by manpower.

For this quasi-sailor army, Gao Chong spends most of his time on the boat, and Princess Mingzhu and Xi'er also follow behind Gao Chong, which makes people feel very weird, this is a privilege, and the soldiers below all know that Mingzhu is the princess of the prison country in Western Xia. But in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the princess and Xi'er were dressed as boys and became two delicate and high-pet guards.

The princess and Xi'er had only been on the ferry once or twice, so they were very excited to get on the boat, and they were very interested in the basic knowledge of sailors taught by Gao Pet, and they listened very carefully. In fact, Gao Zhong is not a sailor, but he has more theoretical knowledge, and he understands the operating principle of the sail and becomes proficient quickly. But after all, it is a lack of experience, and Gao Zhong still lets the soldiers explore it themselves. Yes, this force is also the prototype of China's powerful navy.

The most important thing for soldiers is to learn to aim and fire arrows and guns on a boat that is shaking in the wind and waves, because they are not taught about navigation in inland rivers, they have no time, just not seasick on the boat, and can stand and shoot arrows.

On this day, a few high pets came down from the top, but there were people waiting by the river.

This is the person of the Xihe Wolf Tooth Army, Zhao Heng's subordinate staff officer. It was also a child of the Gao family, and there were two people waiting by the river, and they came with a team of six people, and the other four were resting in the camp.

Gao Zhong knew that they had come in a hurry, and took them to his tent. They told what had happened.

Wu Jue brother immortal Guan Dajie, a few levels later, the official family gave him the glory of opening the mansion, the opening of the mansion with the three divisions, and the captain, equivalent to the glory of a prime minister, in Luoyang Wuxin Wu Mansion is being built, the government of Wu Mansion allocated money, but that money is not enough at all and some time ago the war, this money has long been used up, originally the war used most of the Yang family and the Yang family to borrow money, so the Wu Mansion has no money, so it is normal to send people to default on the payment of materials.

But the Wu brothers are not only worried about money. Last time, more than 10,000 people in Chengxuan let Gao Pet disarm and do this kind of thing without faith and righteousness, so that the entire Hanzhong people know that everyone despises this brother's way of doing things, although he should be respected for winning the battle, but passers-by give the Wu family and the Wu family army are white eyes, there are many deserters in the army, and they want to go to Yang Zheng's troops, but although Yang Zheng is the sole leader of Hanzhong, he is a subordinate controlled by Wu Jue after all, so he didn't dare to accept it, so he sent these people to Liu Qi in proportion.

Liu Qi is responsible for the defense of Sichuan, he does not belong to Wu Jue's moderation, but Wu Jue's official is now bigger than Liu Qi, and Wu Jue hangs the title of Sichuan and Shaanxi to appease the envoy, some relationship, because Liu Qi is also a little close to Gao Pet, so the Wu brothers also look at Liu Qi differently, this time Liu Qi helped a lot, and this victory is also his share, but when distributing the spoils, it is only to make up for his original establishment and ordnance, and there is no more horse, Liu Qi and Yang Zheng talked about the practice of the Wu Jie brothers, and the blood was three liters good to vomit. People are stingy, and they are not stingy to this extent, everyone carries the sedan chair, can he go a long way as a lonely person? Even the direct subordinate generals Yao Zhong and Wang Yan (this is another Wang Yan with the same name and surname as the master of Gao Pet) talked about the Wu family brothers, and they also shook their heads and thought about sometimes changing the court, although this is very taboo, but after a person loses face, he is betrayed and separated.

These are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, so Liu Qi thanked him for allocating a team of 500 people from his own army to Yang Zheng, Yang Zheng suffered a lot of losses this time, what made Yang Zheng angry was that this time there were so many prisoners, and the Wu brothers kept them all, and the 20,000 horses were not given to Yang Hu, only some broken equipment was given to him. But most of the people who died the most this time were the children of the Yang family, the people of Lao Luoyang. The Yang family and the people of Luoyang have given him so much support, and it is not only the hearts of his Yang family that he has hurt by doing this, but also those middle-level officers have seen through it.

Why did so many soldiers surrender to Western Xia and Dajin in the middle of the year, that is, after the Fuping War, Zhang Jun and Wu Jue joined forces to kill Qu Duan, which chilled the hearts of the people below.

There are many rumors about the Wu family. These two staff officers talked about individual matters, and said that Wu Jue was naturally related to the Wu family, one was the transaction between the two places, and the other was the horse transaction, the Wu family was now short of money, and the three thousand horses naturally could not be handed over. But Wu Jue also did not agree to sell to Liu Qi and Yang Zheng, and did not let him cross the border, which was a headache, and Yang Lao and his son had to smuggle less and more every time. , but the risk of smuggling is very high, and the Wu family wants to eradicate and weaken the power of the Yang family in the local area, and it is really difficult to do it if it is serious. The scale of Xihe's current food shortage is a bit large, and the smuggling of Yang Lao's father and son can only slightly improve the environment of Xihe, and there is no other way for Gao Shilu Erbu, Qian Jishen and Zhao Heng to come to the ministry.

The second thing is that there was a skirmish between the two armies on the border between Chengzhou and Wu Jue, although there were no dead people, this incident often happened and it was not very likely to cause a war at that time, and Gao Zhong had instructed when he left not to clash with the Song army. Ask what to do about this. The others are some technical things, they write a book, dense, and a series of problems such as the opening of copper mines in Jiancheng.

Gao Pet arranged and answered these things one by one.

For the food supply and the trade of military horses, Gao Chong wrote a letter to sell to Liu Qi. Let Zhao Heng open up the passage between Chengzhou, Hezhou and Yinnan, there is already a road there, but the road is relatively narrow and difficult to walk, which is not suitable for the brigade to pass. Let them repair the road and establish checkpoints and warning points to prevent accidents, and contact Liu Qi is to transfer grain directly from Sichuan, trade military horses and green salt, and go to Nannan, Qingchuan to Lizhou (Guangyuan), which is Liu Qi's mansion.

As for the conflict, let the princess write a diplomatic note and ask them to bring it to Wu Jue and give a warning. At the same time, the second uncle Gao Shilu was expanded on the basis of the first regiment of the Jiancheng sub-district into a two-regiment system of the Jiancheng Independent First Division (brigade-level unit), an infantry regiment, and a cavalry regiment, stationed in Xihe County and Li County, and the second regiment of the Jiancheng sub-district was expanded into the Jiancheng Independent Second Division. Responsible for the defense of the fortified city.

In addition, the deal between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia was caused by Gao Chong, and he exerted pressure on Wu Jue from the official family.