The land of Hebei, the mountain dances the silver snake, wrapped in silver, and the world is white.

A conscripted Minzhuang was trudging through the snow with difficulty, and they wanted to transport the winter clothes and millet to the Han army's Qishui camp as soon as possible.

There, because of the heavy snowfall, the Han army could only confront the Taishan army in the river. But this confrontation will obviously not last long, and when the water freezes, the foreseeable bloody battle will inevitably break out.

Therefore, taking advantage of this heavy snowfall, the Han army is stepping up the transfer of materials and Dingkou from the rear to accumulate strength.

This Minzhuang came from Wuzhi County, and the leader was the local pavilion chief Zhang Sheng, who was sent by Hanoi to guard the text, and each pavilion sent hundreds of people to support the front.

Zhang Sheng is also a local tycoon, but in recent years, the imperial court has been urging day by day, and even he, the pavilion chief, has been embarrassed this day.

And now, he is going to take more than 100 people to deliver food to Qishui hundreds of miles away in this snowy day. They walked in the cold, and even if there was winter clothes in the car, they didn't dare to take them off to keep warm.

Along the way, Zhang Sheng also saw the dilapidated state of other places, and the closer he got to the north, the more so.

Originally, he thought that it would be like this in Wuzhi County, but who would have thought that this would be the case all the way. Rao is an ignorant and ignorant country man like Zhang Sheng also had an idea in his heart:

"It seems like the world is really in chaos."

The heavy snow came violently, and Zhang Sheng and others wanted to find a place to avoid it, but the Li She along the road was either locked under martial law and did not allow outsiders to enter, or had collapsed in the barren ruins.

Obviously, although Hanoi was not systematically attacked by the Yellow Turbans in Hebei, because of the frequent requisition, a large number of people fled to the countryside.

In order to survive and escape the hunting of the Han family, these people plundered the communities in the countryside one after another. As far as Zhang Sheng can see, the pavilions and houses built along the official roads have all been destroyed and destroyed, and only foxes and rabbits occupy these places, and there are few people.

But there is still something that shows that the Han family still has the ability to rule over Hanoi.

In front of Zhang Sheng and others, there was a tall locust tree. The leaves of the locust tree have withered, but the branches that have grown horizontally are still strong and strong in the wind and snow.

And on the branches, three frozen corpses were hung from locust trees, with a wooden sign around their necks that read:

"Thief, die."

Among the people, only Zhang Sheng is literate, but even if he is illiterate, these people from Wuzhi know that this is not a good place.

So, everyone deliberated and decided to continue their journey in the snowstorm.

Fortunately, they were not far from the Han army camp on the south bank of Qishui, and at noon on this day, they finally arrived at the Qishui camp.

At this time, the Qishui camp has undergone earth-shaking changes, originally there was only the camp wall of Cao Cao's army, but with the follow-up Han army continued to open, the Qishui camp continued to expand.

At this time, the camp stretched for ten miles, and at least four captains were stationed here, with a strength of more than 10,000 people, as well as countless people and subordinates who were busy, all crowded into this camp.

When Zhang Sheng and others were pushing the cart and were about to enter the camp, a biao cavalry rushed out of the galloping road on the left side of the gate and went upstream towards Qishui.

Obviously, the key factor in the defeat of Cao Cao's army was the group of Taishan army thieves who were active on the south bank of Qishui.

With these rangers patrolling, not to mention catching the trail of the opposite side, they can at least patrol the two wings, so as not to repeat the mistakes of Cao Cao's troops.

The effect of these actions is obvious, the traces of those thieves have disappeared at least within a radius of twenty miles, and I think the other side knows that the enemy has retreated to the north shore.

Zhang Sheng and the others avoided the patrol horses who were cruising out, and after some tossing, they entered the camp under the impatient eyes of the military officials of Yuanmen.

It wasn't until they entered the camp that Zhang Sheng and the others knew what the concept of army gathering was.

There are tents everywhere, halberders patrolling everywhere, and the towering arrow towers look down like falcons, and if there is anything wrong, shoot immediately.

Zhang Sheng and the others, led by a warehouse officer, entered the warehouse area in the southwest corner of the camp, where the baggage of the whole army was reserved.

Winter clothes and millet are delivered

After the rice, the warehouse official wrote a note on the bamboo slip with a red pen, and then let Zhang Sheng and the others go.

In fact, the treasury officials did not count the materials transported by Zhang Sheng at all, and any previous means of making fake accounts were useless, not that they had changed their sex, but that they were really busy.

This is not that Zhang Sheng wanted to ask the warehouse official for a bucket of ginger soup to ward off the cold after handing over the materials, but he was coaxed out before he finished speaking.

You want to call me even if you want to kill me? Are you a cow horse, or am I a cow horse?

Of course, aside from this identity, the people and treasury officials are indeed busy.

At this time, not only was the main force of the Han army gathering at the Qishui camp, but the heroes of Hanoi also brought their own troops to the Qishui camp to serve.

The situation in Nam County could not be clearer than that of the heroes of Hanoi. They knew that these Taishan troops did not only want the lives of the Han army, but also wanted their heroic land. It would be better to kill them.

So this time, they were not forced to join the army, nor were they tied up by shackles and ropes to join the army, but volunteered to bring their own dry food to join the army.

Hanoi Haoqiang was originally an important place for the Han Dynasty, and although it had been requisitioned twice in the previous war, there were still many powerful forces in these heroic and powerful tribes.

After a little training in the Qishui Battalion, they organized three battalion heads. Among them, Hanoi Haojie Han Hao has a battalion of 1,000 people, there are Haojie Yang Chou with 1,000 battalion soldiers, and Hanoi Haojie Hao Meng is also a 1,000-person commander.

Of course, these three people are actually brave generals, and they don't really have the command of these thousand people. Because the supply of these 3,000 people was almost all jointly financed by the various powerful families in Hanoi, in fact, these 3,000 soldiers were still in their hands.

The reason why they chose these three people was to absorb the results of the defeat of Gyeonggi Haoshi in the Battle of Xingyang, and many family members were actually not suitable to lead troops to fight, and it was better to hand them over to the brave heroes than to be defeated and die.

These three generals did not stand in the Qishui camp, but were divided into the upper and lower reaches of Qishui, as the outer defense line of the main force of the Han army.

Han Hao, under the recommendation of his uncle Du Yang, took the new battalion and stationed it at the mouth of the two rivers.

The two estuaries are the confluence of Qishui and Zhanshui. When the water from the north passes through the northern area of Hanoi, it joins the Kishui from the south at the mouth of the two rivers into the east.

So in other words, in fact, the river where the Han army and the Taishan army confronted the western expeditionary army was already the confluence of Qishui and Zhanshui, but the flow of Qishui was larger and the culture was longer, so it was collectively referred to as this.

It is precisely because these two estuaries are the confluence, the river is narrow to wide, and it is often the place where the Taishan military thieves ride and wade on the north bank, so Han Hao's department will be placed here to control the important place of this river.

Yang Chou and Hao Meng served as a river patrol army, patrolling along the west bank of Qishui. There are many wild crossings in the upper and lower reaches of Qishui, and both of them must be inspected to find out the enemy's movements as soon as possible.

These arrangements are simple to say, but in fact they are complicated, and they are very much a test of the shogunate's ability to raise funds.

But fortunately, the grain platform originally set up in Aocang did a very good job.

Under the dispatch of Xun You, Zhong Xuan and others, there was an endless stream of military millet sent to the north, but unfortunately because the road was cut off by the Taishan army, the Han army in Handan further north has not received a grain of millet from the south until now, which is also miserable.

Of course, the greater contributors to the smoothness of the grain route are the grassroots officials and leaders like Zhang Sheng, who braved the wind and snow, suffered from the cold, and were transported by foot in a truckload.

But for these people, the Han army was unwilling to even give a bowl of ginger soup. Maybe what makes them colder than the winter snow is the chill in their hearts.

While the Han army was accumulating strength on the south bank, the Taishan army in Yecheng was also supplying the western expeditionary army on the north bank.

Compared with the Han army, the supply of the Taishan army is much more scientific.

Due to the lack of unification ability of the Han army, when Ao Cangsu was sent to Huai County, Hanoi, the Minzhuang requisitioned from the township pavilions in various counties of Hanoi had to pick up grain there, and then they would directly transport it to the front line.

Although this method of long-distance supply saves the energy of the warehouse officials, it makes the Qianshou miserable, and they have to take too many unjust roads, plus many of their feet are frozen in this cold day, and they all have to urge transportation, so on the supply line, the Qianshou complained.

And the Taishan army adopted

is transported in sections. Cangcao was on the sixty-mile road from Yecheng to the camp on the north bank of Qishui, and made a military station every twenty miles. Then the transportation of each military station only recruited the leaders of the nearby villages, and it was divided into three classes.

For example, after traveling 20 miles during the day, the transfer team from Yecheng stored the supplies at the military station here, and then they rested at the military station for one night, and then returned to Yecheng the next day, at this time they rested for another day, and transported the second wave of supplies the next day.

However, because of the three shifts, the supply line of the Taishan army was non-stop. This is the overall scheduling, and the number cannot be done.

And this scheduling method was proposed by Zhang Chong, and then the army divided the field officials to coordinate the action. Because they often measured the land, these field dividers were the most calculating people in the army.

In this process, there was a previous surrender that came to the fore, and that was to lead the move.

This gentleman had previously ambushed the Taishan army with Liu Bei in the Han army's broken engagement, and was later defeated and captured. Later, during the Battle of Xingyang, Yu Ban, the left captain of the Central Protection Army, released and recruited these prisoners of war in order to concentrate his forces.

Yu Ban agreed with these gentlemen that after the war, the Taishan army really won a big victory. The people who were lurking in Siye returned to the Taishan army without saying a word, fulfilling their promise to Yu Ban.

Han people have a cup of Turannuo, and Wuyue is light, which is honest!

Because of the success of coordinating this military dispatch, he was recommended to enter the military academy and received a higher level of training.

Of course, more important than cultivation is that the top brass of the Taishan Army obviously maintained a certain level of trust in the lead. This may be even more important for the trick of descending people.

From Yecheng to the camp on the north bank of Qishui, sixty miles, and two military stations in the middle, a steady stream of millet, clothing, salt, and sauce were sent to the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army on the front line, maintaining their physical fitness and fighting spirit.

But this kind of high-consumption supply, the Taishan army could not last long, because Yecheng's supplies were not abundant.

Although the Taishan army sent hundreds of thousands of stone military rations from Aocang and captured 60,000 stones from Yecheng, they also consumed a lot of loose grain along the way, and also transferred a large number of millet to the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans of the Lieren, where there was already no food.

In addition, Yecheng was used as the last line of defense against the Yellow Turban in Hebei before, and the countryside was ruined in the middle of the tragic battle.

Therefore, this kind of high-intensity supply cannot be carried by the Han army, nor can the Taishan army.

In other words, the great battle between the Henan Han Army and the Taishan Army was after this heavy snowfall.

But no one expected that this heavy snow would fall for five days at once, and it directly froze Qishui.

At this moment, Qishui is no longer an obstacle for the Thai and Han armies, and has directly become a battlefield.

Light and 6th year, November 6th.

The messenger who came from Shangdang carried the military order from Handan to Lu Zhi and delivered it to Zhang Wen, the general of Zhendong.

Lu Zhi had also received a decree from Luoyang before, ordering him to attack the Taishan thieves with the Han army of Henan in the direction of Chaoge. Lu Zhi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent messengers from Shangdang to Chaoge, and set a time for the attack with Zhang Wen.

But because of this heavy snowfall, the Taihang Mountain was closed by heavy snow, and the messenger was trapped, and the letter was not delivered until now. But it is precisely because of this heavy snow that Hebei and Henan can also set a time for attacking.

That is, on the second day of the heavy snow melting, the north and south attacked the Taishan thief and destroyed the thief together.

When Zhang Wen received this letter, he was very hesitant because he had a bad premonition about this battle.

This was only from the military report he received from Zhu Jun two days ago.

Before, Zhu Jun's army, which crossed the river from Henan Juan County to attack Hanoi, has not been able to arrive until now. Therefore, Zhang Wen issued a document urging his speedy army to go north and join forces with him in Chaoge.

Zhu Jun also has a force of more than 10,000 people in the six counties of Yuzhou, which is a decisive force, and the reason why Zhang Wen has been refraining from attacking before is to wait for this reinforcement.

Then two days ago, Zhang Wen received Zhu Jun's military report, and then he was shocked.

At this moment, Zhu Jun's army was not on the north bank of the river at all, and they turned back to Xingyang directly.

Zhu Jun said

When the army was preparing to cross the river in Juan County, the commander of the Sixth Regiment led by the Yuan clan of Runan directly approached Zhu Jun and said that Xingyang was empty, and their most important thing was to guard the safety of the east of Gyeonggi and was unwilling to cross the river. qs

Zhu Jun said it directly in the military newspaper, and he was helpless. Because these six regiments of ministers are in the same spirit, they directly set him up as an empty commander. Zhu Jun said that the so-called guarding Xingyang by these Yuzhou families is false, and it is true that they are unwilling to go to Hebei.

They are all Henan soldiers, and they were guarding Xiangzi at the beginning of the army, and they never thought of leaving their hometown. Even Zhu Jun also said that this operation, which was close to forcing the army, was carried out by the Yuan clan in Runan, and its meaning was difficult to understand.

In short, Zhu Jun said that don't think about Henan's follow-up heroic troops, they won't go north.

In this case, how can Zhang Wen not have a shadow in his heart, and how can he dare to let go of the Taishan army to attack? But now he can't help it, because of the news of the arrival of the messenger from the north, the emperor's confidant in the army also knows that this combined attack is ready to be struck.

God, bless Yanhan through this calamity.