"Order: Marquis of Changning, Shuofang County Taishou Yang Chuan, lead the headquarters of 3,000 men and horses, guard Shuofang County, and protect the ten counties of Xinken Liangtian......"

“……”

Coming out of Wei Qing's Chinese army tent, Yang Chuan turned his back to the sky, took a deep breath, and held back three or five breaths before he slowly spit out: "Grass!" ”

An inexplicable anger swept through his heart.

Think about it a few days ago, when he was talking to Dong Zhongshu, a scholar, he also told two 'stories': Zhang Luo proposed marriage, held a banquet, worshiped heaven and earth, and then, when he entered the cave room, there was nothing to do with him?

It just doesn't make sense!

No wonder Wei Qing's mood has been a little low recently, and he has talked to him several times, but every time he wants to talk and stops; It turned out that this big battle basically had nothing to do with him Yang Chuan.

Think about it.

In the heart of the emperor of Weiyang Palace in Chang'an City, this battle of Monan, or rather, the planned 'Second Battle of Dragon City', is completely in the case of the emptiness within the Huns, the 150,000 elites of the Han Dynasty swept Mobei and smashed Dragon City, is it not a one-sided battle to grab people's heads and harvest military merits?

Is he worried that he has too many Yang Chuan's military exploits and can't be rewarded? Or are you afraid that he will steal the limelight of Huo Qu's illness and cover up the light of others? Neither.

In Liu Che's heart, what kind of thing is he Yang Chuan?

Nothing.

Yang Chuan immediately figured out Liu Che's thoughts: jealousy.

It's not that he is afraid of him Yang Chuan, just a Guan Neihou, Shuofang County is too guarded, and Tai Academy sacrificial wine, which is not in the eyes of the emperor at all; Even if he can farm, be good at cooking, and have a clever mind, he has made horseshoes, bilateral stirrups, Takahashi saddles, war horse feed, etc., in the eyes of the eloquent Liu Che, he is just a fart after all.

What made Liu Che jealous was Wei Qing.

Think about it, if this battle is really as Liu Che expected, Yi Zhixie's 100,000 cavalry will go deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains, and eventually become rootless grass and floating water, and sooner or later they will be hunted and killed, and they will not be able to turn over any waves at all; But isn't their lair empty?

So, the 150,000 elites of the Han Dynasty swept through Mobei and completely defeated the Xiongnu, did it become the meaning of the topic?

In this way, isn't Wei Qing the next Han Xin and the next Zhou Yafu?

Yang Chuan hopes that his 'villain's heart' is wrong, and hopes that Liu Che in Weiyang Palace is actually not so small-bellied...... After all, before this battle was fought, the court began to find out and restrict the generals who were fighting outside and on the bloody battlefield, no matter how you thought about it, it was a very difficult thing.

Of course, even so, compared with the 'external submissiveness and internal heavy strikes' of some later dynasties, Liu Che can be regarded as the 'first emperor of the ages'; at least, people are just 'attacking hard externally and carefully calculating internally', which is not too outrageous......

Maybe I'm thinking too much. ’

Originally, I wanted to do something, beat the Huns down in one fell swoop, let Huo Qubing seal the wolf Juxu Mountain in advance, and let the fool sigh for a while, but now it seems that he can only wait for the next real battle of Mobei. ’

"Oh, I've watched too many palace fighting dramas in later generations, and my brain has been washed. ’

Yang Chuan rubbed his cheeks a few times, turned over his horse, and galloped towards the Yulin Army camp.

"Yang Chuan, what's going on?"

Huo Quzhi was commanding the army to open up, and in the faint light of dawn, a bright armor was shining, and the eyes of the two Danfeng were full of excited small flames.

Cao Xiang was a little worried, he hurried over and asked in a low voice: "The big war is imminent, why don't you, the military horse, go to the battlefield, but temporarily replace me with a waste like a military horse?" ”

"My uncle...... Alas! ”

Yang Chuan smiled and said: "The emperor is eloquent, far-sighted, and strategizing thousands of miles away, not only commanding and deploying this peerless war, but at the same time, he is also worried that after the Huns enter Shuofang County, they will destroy millions of acres of newly cultivated land, so they will leave me to guard." ”

Cao Xiang spat on the ground: "Phew! ”

Yang Chuan sat on horseback, looked at Huo Quai, who was busy in the distance, and suddenly said: "Actually, it doesn't matter if I go to Mobei or not, just have you."

Cao Xiang, you only need to remember one thing.

That is, the matter of war, everything is decided by the disease, people are born generals, they are the gods of war, and some talents are not what we can imagine at all; As a military commander, you only need to take care of the logistics and supplies. ”

Yang Chuan turned his horse's head and was about to leave.

Cao Xiang ran over, grabbed the reins with his hand, and said a little anxiously: "Yang Chuan, I'm a waste, I don't understand anything about marching and fighting, logistics and supplies." ”

Yang Chuan stretched out his hand and slapped him, scolding with a smile: "You just pretend!" ”

Cao Xiang had a bitter face and muttered and scolded: "Ben Hou doesn't want military merits, otherwise, I will write to my uncle, leave me in Shuofang County to take care of the family, and you will still be your military commander!" ”

Yang Chuan slapped the head of this goods again and scolded: "Be your military commander, don't drag the back of the disease!" ”

"In this battle, the two of you are destined to go down in history!"

Cao Xiang turned his head to look at Huo Quai, and said, "What's the matter, you're not here, Ben Hou has no bottom in his heart." ”

Yang Chuan thought for a while, took out a roll of silk silk from his arms, groaned slightly, and said: "This is a route map of the march that I have figured out in the past few days, and when you break through the Dragon City, you can hand over this map to the sick and tell him that once the Dragon City is broken, don't fall in love with the battle, and immediately return to Shuofang County along this retreat route!"

Remember, don't give him ...... until you arrive in Dragon City."

……

Early the next morning, Yang Chuan stepped on the stone city wall of Jilusai, and looked north, but only saw a desert.

Wei Qing is gone; Huo Qu was sick and left; Cao Xiang is gone.

Su Jian, Gongsun He, Zhang Qian, Li Fu, Li Xi and other generals are all gone.

With the opening of tens of thousands of troops, there are only 3,000 Shuofang soldiers left, and they are all some veterans who have picked the leftovers; Looking at the heads with gray temples, Yang Chuan inexplicably remembered the stone gate barrier back then.

That's fine.

Yang Chuan sat down and took out a few things to eat from his bag, but they were nothing more than marinated beef tendon in sauce, cold-cut deer breast, etc.; Then put forward a huge green skin gourd, but it was a few catties of 'Yang's Jiuliangye'.

Angry is angry, do you have to live this life?

In fact, after coming back to his senses and thinking about it carefully, was it his own wish to let him stay in Shuofang County and not go to the Mobei Grassland?

Because, Yang Chuan actually knew very well in his heart that the big battle organized by Liu Che sounded vigorous and coaxing, and it was easy to get people up; But in fact, due to various reasons, the 'Second Dragon City War' that he had just envisioned at the beginning was wrong, but it eventually evolved into the 'Battle of Monan'.

In this battle, Wei Qing, Su Jian, Gongsun He, Li Guang, Li Xi, Lu Bode and other five-way armies, except for Huo Quai, who smashed Longcheng directly and earned a military exploit in the sky, other armies ......

Well, several other armies not only returned in vain, but also, with heavy losses; Among them, the most hateful was Zhao Xin's rebellion, which directly led to the annihilation of Gongsun He's 3,000 elite army, and almost killed Wei Qingkeng in the depths of the grassland.

By the way, Li Guang, the Taishou of Yanmen, got lost many times in this battle and won the nickname of a 'Great Han Elk Marquis'; that unlucky general got lost in the desert, and after turning around in circles for more than ten days, he became a prisoner of the Huns; later, although he managed to escape with a life, there was not one of the more than 20,000 elites under his command.

It can be said that if it weren't for Huo Qu's illness, the Han army would have been defeated in this 'Battle of Monan'.

There are some things that Yang Chuan has repeatedly said to Wei Qing, for example, Zhao Xin will inevitably turn against the water when he goes to Mobei; For example, Yi Zhixian, the madman has a master behind him, and this time it seems to be a random fight, but in fact it may be a trap; And so on, and so on.

Wei Qing attached great importance to Yang Chuan's words, but he didn't seem to take them to heart.

Because, the Hun Zhao Xin still served as a former general according to the original plan, and ninety percent of the three thousand elite cavalry under his command were Huns......

"I can't care so much," Yang Chuan ate a mouthful of meat, drank a sip of wine, and said with a wry smile: "Damn baby, beg Chaotian, as long as Huo Qu is okay." ”

prepared a lot of back-ups, but in the end, they couldn't even go up to the battlefield.

Just think about it, dogs.

That's it!

Things in this world, in fact, can't stand up to pondering, you ponder and ponder, many things will change the taste, and many people will also become without the aura of that layer of historical figures, and it is boring to think about it.

Everything that needs to be done has been done, and if you can't change some historical trajectories, then you can only change yourself!

In the fifth year of Yuanshuo, at the end of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the wine on the city wall of Jilusai slowly tasted, which made Yang Chuan, who was originally very depressed, transparent-

They beat theirs, and we beat ours.

In the final analysis, this bullshit world, after all, is still Liu Che's, one of those top predators, and it has something to do with him, the slave-born Marquis of Changning, but it is not big.

This serious sense of alienation and separation made him feel very uncomfortable; At the same time, it also made him completely lose those unrealistic fantasies.

He beckoned his hand and summoned his father who was not far away: "Uncle Uncle Tangyi, send someone to Luding City, tell Ah Tu and a few of them, take advantage of Yi Zhixie's main force to move south, let them make trouble in the Beihai area, quickly expand their sphere of influence, and don't leave any Hun tribe within a radius of two or three thousand miles from Beihai." ”

The cousin's father said 'um' and strode away.

Yang Chuan drank wine in the city for a while, and then he got up, leaned over to look at Dongfang Shuo, Sima Qian, and Zhang Tang who were busy in the urn city, and asked with a smile: "Are you almost done?" ”

Dongfang Shuo raised his head and replied with a smile: "It'll be right away." ”

Yang Chuan nodded: "Come to the Benhou tent later, and invite you to dinner......"

……

In the evening, Yang Chuan led Sima Qian, Dongfang Shuo, Tangyi's father, Sister Leopard, and two sand sculptures to leave Jilusai.

Relying on favorable terrain, strong city defenses, and some 'back hands' left by Yang Chuan, 3,000 county soldiers were enough to resist the attack of 20,000 or 30,000 Hun cavalry.

However, just in case, he still left Zhang Tang behind.

As for himself, he returned directly to Shuofang City.

"Order, use all the livestock, Han plow, along the periphery of the tuntian day and night to plough the land, the Han plough to the deepest, at least one foot seven inches deeper!"

"All the sluice gates in the upper reaches of the river are fully open, and the diversion canals are running at full capacity, irrigating as much water as possible into the newly cultivated farmland!"

"In some areas where it is impossible to plough deeply and irrigate, we urgently build strong military villages, and organize manpower to patrol and defend day and night!"

“……”

Since he was asked to guard Shuofang County, he would turn the entire Shuofang into a huge mud pond, so that the Hun cavalry would not be able to move an inch as soon as they came in, and completely lose their mobile and flexible advantages, which was the first decree implemented by Yang Chuan after returning to Shuofang City.

As soon as this order came out, there were many complaints.

The harvest of hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat has ended, but other crops, vegetables and vegetables in the tuntian still need a large number of people to take care of them.

Yang Chuan ignored it.

When is this, the cavalry of the Huns will come as soon as they say, where can they take care of this?

However, when a large area of land around Tuntian was deeply cultivated and irrigated, everyone quickly understood that Taishou's move was simply a stroke of genius.

Because, when the deep ploughed sandy soil is filled with the water of the great river, it shows a terrible soaking effect, and under the exposure of the summer sun, the surface soil will quickly appear a layer of dry soil with white flowers; However, when the horse's hooves stepped into it, there was a 'poof', and most of the horse's body would sink into it, and after a few struggles, it would disappear.

This method of 'artificial swamp' to ward off the enemy has been used by some generals in later generations, and it has been quite effective.

After solving the defense problem of Tuntian, Yang Chuan gave another strange order: "All the roads leading from Shuofang County to other counties will be deeply cultivated and irrigated!" ”

"Cut off all the passages, tear down all the bridges."

"Mobilize manpower to plough all the roads leading from Shuofang City to the land of the ten counties, and widen them to about six zhang!"

Well, deep ploughing and irrigation around the tuntian is to protect the million acres of tuntian, and what does it mean to plough your own road again?

At this moment, even Dongfang Shuo couldn't stand it, and couldn't help but advise: "Marquis Changning, deepen the road from Shuofang City to the ten counties under his rule, if there is a place that is attacked and harassed by the Huns, our reinforcements will not be able to arrive quickly." ”

Yang Chuan buried his head in looking at a map, turned a deaf ear to Dongfang Shuo's words, and casually instructed a few half-sized children around him: "Let Amu organize craftsmen to make a batch of frame carts that carry limestone, sand, and clay; It is best to use the kind of wheelbarrow that can be pushed by one person, and it must be made of local materials along the way, and the construction progress must not be delayed. ”

"In addition, if we try to find a way to use ropeway transportation or rail transportation, we must significantly reduce the number of people employed."

"What we lack most in Shuofang County now is the population, so in this regard, you use your brains more and think of more ways, once the construction starts, you must complete the construction of the roadbed in the shortest possible time."

"By the way, do you want to design a machine that rams the roadbed?"

Several half-sized children's eyes lit up, slapped their heads vigorously, and began to discuss gossip: "You can use the lever to pry to ram the roadbed!" ”

"No, that's too slow."

"Or a stone pulled by an animal, like a mill on a tuntian?"

“……”

Yang Chuan listened, nodded slightly, sketched a few strokes on a piece of mulberry linen paper, and said with a smile: "How about looking at this stone stone that is pushing behind?" ”

Several half-sized children cheered in unison: "Oops, this is good!" ”

Yang Chuan straightened up, gently beat his old waist, and yawned loudly: "Okay, okay, you guys will go to work, I have to squint for a while; I haven't slept much for three or four days, and I'm sleepy......"

After a few half-sized children bowed down to salute, they went out in a hurry.

Only then did Yang Chuan see Dongfang Shuo and Sima Qian: "What's the matter?" ”

Sima Qian was still pondering the words, and Dongfang Shuo asked quickly: "Marquis Changning, seeing that the Hun cavalry is about to attack in a big way, we don't want to find a way to resist the enemy, why do we start to build roads?" ”

Yang Chuan smiled warmly: "Isn't this the Huns still coming in?" Take advantage of your free time to get the infrastructure of our Shuofang County ......"

(End of chapter)