Huang Wan was a little depressed, he knew that the country would not leave him with any good errands. Sure enough, as soon as he entered Yanzhou, Puyang, the county of Dongjun fell.

Yanzhou originally had eight counties, namely Chenliu, Dongjun, Jiyin, Shanyang, Rencheng, Dongping, Jibei and Taishan. But what about now? Mount Tai, Jibei and Dongping have been owned by the enemy, and Dongjun has been dilapidated, only Chenliu, Jiyin, Shanyang and Rencheng are intact.

Therefore, he is a Yanzhou pastor, and he lost half of the state before he took office, and he lost one leg directly under his buttocks, how could he not sway.

However, what Huang Wan can talk about comforting is that Yanzhou Jinghua is still there, and the four counties that are still in Hanting, with a total population of 2.3 million. Among them, Chen Liuhu has 180,000 households and 900,000 mouths; 140,000 households and 650,000 mouths; 110,000 households in Shanyang, 600,000 mouths; There are 30,000 households in the city and 150,000 in the mouth.

It can be seen that in addition to Dongjun, the most elite counties of Chenliu, Jiyin and Shanyang are all in Yanzhou. These are all large counties with 100,000 household registrations, and with these three counties, Yanzhou's strength is still there.

Of course, the occupation of the East County by the Taiping Road still makes the situation not optimistic, and the thieves occupy this Heji area, which has made the Taiping Road on both sides of the river have the basis for confluence. When the Taishan thieves go north again, not only will Lu Zhi in the north be dangerous, but the entire Heshuo will no longer be owned by the Han Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Wan, who is known as the loyal and upright of the Han family, felt that it was necessary to contain or even eliminate the Taishan army on the south bank of the river.

Huang Wan's character is like this, the more others underestimate or even ridicule him, the more he has to do it well. This character can be seen from an incident in his childhood. His ancestor Huang Qiong was in Situ, at that time Sikong was ill, Huang Qiong sent Huang Wan to condole, coinciding with a thief in Jiangxia, because Huang Qiong was from Jiangxia, Sheng Yun sarcastically said: "Jiangxia is a big state, and there are many people", but Huang Wan did not swallow this breath because he was an elder or a third prince, and directly ridiculed back: "Barbarian and cunning Xia, the responsibility lies with Sikong", and then brushed his clothes away.

From here, it can indeed be seen that Jiangxia people like Huang Wan are indeed fierce and cannot tolerate the slightest grievance. Now the same is true for the Taishan army, the more impossible it is, the more he has to do it, so that his ability can be seen.

Now that the Heji area has been lost, no matter how indignant he is, he can't change it, but thinks about what to do next.

The first thing is to gather military strength. Now Huang Wan also has the 800 Liangzhou soldiers in the hands of General Zhou Shen as his Fang Bohu soldiers. What can this force do?

So these days, he has successively given the four counties that are still in the four counties to guard the feathers, so that they have always sealed the Qiu regiment, he also knows that these places are also making trouble with the Yellow Turbans, and he knows that there may not be many troops, so along with the transfer order, there is also a "Letter to the Counties Haoqiang", the most important of which is that the Yellow Turban Army is the enemy of my famous religion, and all Confucian scholars have the responsibility of apologetics, so that they bring their own parts to seal the hills.

When the book arrived, the closest to Yanzhou Mu Xingyuan was Chen Liutaishou Guo Zong, who governed Chen Liuxian in the county. He is a member of the Guo clan of Taiyuan Jiexiu, and also the nephew of the famous Guo Tai, whose family is already friendly with Huang Wan, and is to receive an order to draw a thousand from the tense troops, led by the county thief Cao Changyu Shi to Fengqiu Xingying to listen to the tune.

Yu Shi is the son of Chen Liudong Yu clan, the ancestor is Yu Yan, who was a captain in the Guangwu period, but unfortunately his family was defeated because of being involved in the Ming Emperor period of the great eucalyptus Chu king rebellion, until the Qiang people were in turmoil, and his family was revived again with side affairs, because the children of his family were born to be brave generals, and his ancestor Yu Yan was eight feet long, with ten belts, and the strength to carry the Ding, and his descendants inherited the physical appearance of the ancestors, each of whom could fight. It was only later that his father Yu was beheaded in the second party rebellion set off by Liu Hong, which made the Yu family stumble again.

And this time there was an incident in Taiping Road, and Yu Shi, who shouldered the responsibility of the family's three prosperity, did not leave his stomach, did not leave his hips, supported his relatives, suppressed the yellow scarf, and made his contribution to the thief Cao Chang. At this moment, with this brave general leading the troops to Fengqiu to camp, he will definitely be able to add a tiger general to Huang Wan.

In addition, there is also a heavyweight who appears to run for Huang Wan in various families, and his person is Shen Tupan. What does this man say? It should be a moral master in this world.

He had a filial piety when he was young, and his father died and mourned, and he did not eat wine and meat for more than ten years. Zhang Chong's Cai Yong Cai old man respected him and made a name for him, and later the imperial court failed to conquer it several times. Later, he studied Taixue, and his friend died of illness, and he sent his friend's body back to his hometown thousands of miles away, which can be described as righteous.

The latter two Huang Qiong, that is, Huang Wan's grandfather, specialized in the public mansion, but they still did not go. On the contrary, when Huang Qiong was buried in Jiangxia, his people mourned for thousands of miles, which can be described as loyal.

This loyal, filial piety, and righteous person later disappeared between the beams and the dang because of the disaster of the party.

And this time, because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the grandson of the founder was in a hurry, and his people went out of the mountain again.

Relying on his prestige in Chenliu, he successively contacted the Gao family, the Cai family, the Wu family, and the Xia family, and made an appointment to make 500 tribes and 2,000 joint soldiers, and went to Fengqiu together.

The same scene happened in Jiyin County, Taishou was still the white and fat Zhang pet, and because of his swing between the party and the eunuch, no one was willing to promote him, and he was still in this position.

And this time Huang Wan was called, and his people took it as a way to change their lives, so they ordered 1,000 soldiers from Li Qianshuai of the Cheng clan, 1,000 soldiers from Cao Bian Chong, and a total of 2,000 soldiers and horses to Fengqiu, and they were about to make a good impression on Huang Wan.

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Needless to say, Ren Cheng Taishou is the son of Qiao Xuan, the former Taiwei Qiao Xuan, and after the Gong family, he and Huang Wan met in Kyoto when they were young. This time the friend has a call, although the strength is small, but still pick up 500 soldiers, led by the soldier Cao Chang He Xutong, and the country's great heroes Lu Qian, Jing Zhou, together with its 1,000 troops, and force into the sealing mound, leave the account to listen to use.

Finally, Shanyang Taishou, as the old nest of the party, this time it can be said that it is the exercise of the party's camp, Gaoping Zhang's, Wang's, Liu's, Tan's, Xue's, and local tyrants Xi and Changyi Li's, a total of seven departments and 4,000 people drove to Fengqiu.

They are confident that this is the opening of their party's return to the stage of power.

As for their Taishou Liu Hong, who was a party of eunuchs, he reluctantly sent out 200 soldiers, and under the leadership of his soldier Cao Changhou Feng, he drove to Fengqiu in shabby.

But even so, Fengqiu also gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, from which it can be seen that there is a network of children of the Gong clan like Huang Wan.

You must know that the Huang Wan family is from Jiangxia, but the county guards like those in Yanzhou are generally familiar with them, because these people have a background of living in Kyoto. Kyoto is a place that unites local elites and gives them a central character, abandoning their geographical color.

The vision of these children of the Gong clan is no longer limited to their hometown, but they spend most of their lives studying and living in Kyoto, where they mingle with scholars from all over the world and form an international network. And those with only one place of influence, those are all townsmen.

It can also be understood why so many children of township tycoons have to confess a Taixue to go to Beijing, because that is the center of the world, and there is an opportunity to improve the influence of the family.

All in all, even the farthest Ren Chengguo arrived at Fengqiu on June 25. At this moment, Fengqiu has become a large barracks. In fact, it is true, you must know that in later generations, this place is also called Chen Qiaoyi, and the story of a person who covers the sky and the sun is staged here.

And now Huang Wan is setting up camp here, naturally there is a reason.

Fengqiu is at the confluence of Jishui and Pushui, and the supplies along the coast are continuously sent to Fengqiu from these two rivers.

But Huang Wan also has his troubles, the first one is that Shanyang guards Liu Hong to dismantle his platform. He already knew that Liu Hong had gone to the state and said:

"There are less than 20,000 moth thieves, men, women and children, although they are small and have tricks, they are a rabble. Now there are more than 10,000 Fengqiu soldiers, and the number of troops is not single. Its troops are still geographically advantageous, and they are afraid that these soldiers will be slack, and they will not fight to the death. ”

When Huang Wan heard this, he was so angry that he complained to his friend Zhou Shen:

"Although there is the danger of two rivers in this place, but its land is wide and flat, if you want to defend it, it is to guard the river and guard the land, and the land is more than 300 miles on all sides, how can these 10,000 people help. In general, if there is a lot of words, there are few words. ”

And he also knew that the Taishan army on the other side was not an ordinary bandit after all:

"The Moth Thieves of the East County are fierce and powerful, not a rabble. The other side is highly disciplined, while our army is undisciplined, and it is easy to retreat and difficult to advance. ”

Indeed, Huang Wan has a clear understanding of the soldiers and warriors who are now gathered in Fengqiu, that is, these people belong to the four counties, and most of them are powerful tribes, not so much that the opposite side is a rabble, but that they are a rabble.

And he is only 10,000 soldiers now, and he is only roughly the same as the thieves. As far as general military knowledge goes, in an encirclement, the attacker must have a clear superiority in strength and be able to form an encirclement with depth, and then launch an offensive before it is possible to encircle and annihilate the defender.

And now that the forces of the two sides are equal, if the Han soldiers attack rashly, they will repeat the mistakes of Chen Zan of Dongping Kingdom. Huang Wan had studied Chen Zhan's battle example, so he naturally had to learn a lesson and decided to switch to the defensive.

On the one hand, it is necessary to prepare for the armed forces, and on the other hand, it is necessary to raise military salaries.

Yes, Huang Wan, the Yanzhou pastor, has neither soldiers nor money, and now he has soldiers, but he is even more short of money. More than 10,000 people eat horses and chew, and the daily cost is huge.

Originally, Huang Wan went out of Beijing with the festival and brought one million money allocated by the state, but what is this money enough for?

Fortunately, the cities of Jishui have always had grain, especially in Fengqiu, there are a large number of corn warehouses, and he counted them as soon as he entered the city, and there were 300,000 stones of corn. In addition, he has already asked Liu Hong to send the Su of Aocang and send it to Fengqiu along the Jishui. With this water, Huang Wan can be said to have no risk of running out of food.

It was also relying on the 300,000 stone grains and the endless supply of millet in Aocang behind the material standard, Huang Wan used it to pay for the subordinates, buy salt vegetables, add armor, hire brave and battalion porters, and use millet to exchange for fleets. It can be said that corn is really used as money.

In this way, half of the 300,000 stone millet was used in a blink of an eye, but the millet of Aocang, which was originally said to be transported, disappeared for half a day. This is not good, the army is unstable without food, once the camp is closed and there is no food, the 10,000-strong army will immediately disperse. Therefore, in a hurry, Huang Wan sent twelve letters and urged him, but Ao Cang kept delaying until June 28, when Ao Cang dragged out 100,000 stone millet, just enough for 10,000 troops to eat October. It's just rations, and as for the cost of money, foot money, and armor, don't think about it. Let's wait for the next batch of millet to arrive.

Huang Wan was really a little frustrated by this, and he wrote in his personal book:

"There are many thieves in Yanzhou. But he has no soldiers and no money, and he has no money in his mouth, but he has no benefits in his hands. Who knows, if there are more thieves, you need more soldiers, and if you have more soldiers, you need more pay. At present, the grain stock is only 200,000 stones, and the daily consumption is innumerable, and the use is less than two months. And the soldiers and horses of the various departments resisted the constraints, and only ate the rice of the official family, and did not want to spend a grain of millet on their own families. In the long run, I am afraid that Chen Jun's lessons are not far away. If it's not the minister's strength, why don't you succeed! ”

Huang Wan's resistance to the troops and horses complained about in Bozi was the third point of his headache.

As the soldiers and horses of the counties arrived one after another, clashes often broke out in the Fengqiu camp, and the soldiers of the various departments were not satisfied with the big tent, and often went into the city to drink and make trouble, and often fought in groups of three or five people.

Especially because when the party was in power, the people of all parties actually had very deep grievances. There are often things like why you don't save me, why you sell me, and so on.

In the past few days, several armed fights have broken out among the party members in Shanyang. Especially the Zhang family in Dongping, because the former family advocated thrift and did not want to die, they harmed countless people in the Shanyang Party, and these families, such as the Xue family and other clans, were simply deeply enmity with the Zhang family.

They have already found the clansmen who fled back then, but the bones have long been gone, but there are still mountain liao farming in the Xue family's wall, and only one batch was killed, and the rest of them continued to be captured as slaves.

And who is responsible for all this? It's you, Dongping Zhang.

It was these two who did the most murderous work.

The Shanyang soldiers are fighting in the house, but the other families are fine. They are generally mainly county soldiers, supplemented by powerful soldiers. No matter how effective the county soldier is, he still has the order he should have.

In this way, the entire Fengqiu camp was in chaos.

It is also because of the above difficulties that Huang Wan has lowered the goal of this time from destroying the Taishan army to containment. For this reason, he took out the "sitting and fighting" that Chen Zan wrote on the day of his death.

He decided to stand on the banks of Pushui.

The specific deployment is as follows:

Chen left 2,000 troops to defend against the thieves in Yan County. There are 2,000 soldiers in Jiyin County, and they are the successors of Chen Liubing. The Shanyang national soldiers protruded to Lihu and lined up on the north bank of Pushui. And the soldiers of the city and the state of Ren lined up on the south bank of it, thinking that it was a response.

The overall strategy is to use Pushui as the Great Wall and block the Taiping Road to the west and south.

This strategy was very mature by him and the party elders in the shogunate:

First, according to the defense line of Pushui, he thought that he was sitting on the battle, digging a ditch and picking a ditch, and building a small stone five feet high and one foot thick. This is all over the north bank of Pushui, which is both a teaching field and a soldier. Train troops during the day, watch at night, and prevent thieves from crossing at night. And once there is a police, the nearby Zhuqi can be copied or ambushed, it can be said that the iron wall is encircled, and the Taishan army is firmly trapped in the Heji area.

Just when he was triumphant and felt that he was sure of victory, the war in the north of the river broke out again, once again affecting the situation in the world.