Three days later, on the fifth day of the second lunar month, Zhou Tian and Wu Liang took some ship operators and 300 newly trained sailors to explore new trade routes in the direction of Jiangnan.

Under the orders of Zhuang Shaoyou, the county began to prepare for war with all its might, and the four docks of the shipyard were running around the clock, as was the forge.

Tai Shi Ci and Qinling's four thousand iron cavalry are doing their best to do the final training, and in another month it will be spring ploughing, and after spring ploughing is the Great War of Goguryeo, time is pressing!

Zhang San was also unwilling to lag behind to train his two thousand leftover infantry, although he was a little depressed, but it was not bad, after all, he was just a lieutenant at the beginning, and then he became a centurion, and then he became a captain, and now he has two thousand men and horses in his hands, which can be regarded as a smooth progress, what is not satisfied!

Li Le seemed to have nothing to do in Wanzi Town, racking his brains to make a suggestion to Zhuang Shaoyou, recruiting three hundred recruits in Wanzi Town to form an infantry battalion of five hundred people, Zhuang Shaoyou agreed without thinking about it.

Soon, it was late February, and the weather this year was much warmer than last year, except for the two deadly snowfalls last year, there was no heavy snow since the beginning of the year.

In late February, the southern Liaoning region has begun to take the lead in thawing, and the entire southern Liaoning and the southeastern Liaoning plain have begun to show traces of spring.

Zhuang Shaoyou discussed with the head of the Administration Department and decided to start the spring ploughing plan in advance!

The whole county suddenly boiled, last year there were only six or seven thousand people, but now the population has exceeded 15,000, and there are more than 3,000 refugees recruited from Qingzhou, the total number has reached nearly 20,000!

In order to avoid trouble, the number of new refugees who moved in after the spring ploughing last year was calculated, and each strong man was given a new field quota, and a woman who could participate in the work was given a half-hectare of new land reclamation quota, which was also a five-year contract period, and half of the income from the field was handed over every year, and the land was owned by the cultivator after five years!

As soon as this year's spring plowing order was promulgated, the whole county immediately mobilized, and all those who had the ability to work went to the southeast Liaoning Plain to reclaim the wasteland!

In his free time last year, Guoyuan sent people to roughly measure the fields in the southeast plain of Liaodong, starting from Longhu in the east of Dahei Mountain in the west to Yinghe in the east of Hongya Town, with all arable fields in about 200,000 hectares!

At present, Zhuang Shaoyou actually controls the land from Longhu Lake to the west bank of the Shahe River, and there are about 50,000 hectares of arable land on this land! Last year, only 6,000 hectares of fertile land in the southwesternmost part of the country were reclaimed, and more than 40,000 hectares of fields were not reclaimed, but this year we plan to reclaim about 10,000 hectares of new fields on the basis of last year, so that the number of new fields in the county will reach 20,000 hectares!

Last year, there were about 1,000 ploughing cattle in the county, and it was tight to use at that time, and it was difficult to deploy them, but this year only 700 ploughing cattle were added, and it was extremely difficult to complete the reclamation of 20,000 hectares of fields.

Not enough Zhuang Shaoyou thought of a way, using the war horse instead of the ploughing ox to plough the field, and the owner of the war horse is responsible for driving the war horse, this plan after the discussion of experts such as Guoyuan, Moshi, Motu, etc., I think it can be tried!

After the all-out experiments of the Mo family and the cavalry battalion, it was barely feasible in the end, but the fields ploughed by the horses were not as uniform as those of the oxen, and the effect was somewhat poor.

But it doesn't matter, quantitative change leads to qualitative change! As long as it can be reclaimed! Anyway, there are few people in the land, and it is not a big deal for the yield per mu to drop some!

As long as the quality of the cultivated fields of the people who provide ploughing cattle is not degraded, and an incentive policy is introduced, all those who apply to use war horses to plough the fields will be helped to plough for free, and those who use ploughing cattle will of course have to pay some price.

From February 25 to March 8, 20,000 hectares of fertile land in the county were really plowed in 12 days!

Zhuang Shaoyou watched the stars every night, and there seemed to be no sign of rain, although he was a little anxious, he was still ruthless, and let the 6,000 army increase the army to 3,000 hectares!

By March 15, all the fields in the county had been reclaimed, and the seeds of spring wheat had been sown, just waiting for the first spring rain!

In this spring ploughing, the county cultivated a total of 9,000 hectares of old fields and 13,500 hectares of new fields, totaling 23,000 hectares, of which 8,000 hectares were military tun fields, and the rest were landlords and ordinary people.

The spring ploughing work has just ended, and Wu Liang's intelligence department has not yet sent back the news, but Gongsun Du has sent the news, and the war in the northern grasslands has begun.

At the beginning of March, the grassland had just thawed, and the grassland departments that had been pressed by the two heavy snows last year immediately began to catch fire.

Yuwen Mohuai, the adult of Xianbei in the east, because he did two businesses with Zhuang Shaoyou, so the food reserves are quite sufficient, although some losses were caused by heavy snow last winter, but the impact is not great, sufficient food and salt make Yuwen Department live much better than other tribes, many small tribes can not survive, so they have to rely on Yuwen Ministry, hoping to get some charity from it, rescue emergency.

Yuwen Mohuai was overjoyed, and those who came did not refuse, as long as they came to take refuge, they were all taken in, and as a result, they touched the hatred of Kebineng in the west, for no other reason, many of the small tribes that were originally attached to Kebineng went to take refuge in Yuwen.

As a result, the two sides had 60,000 cavalry and 50,000 Yuwen Mohuai cavalry, and the two sides launched a series of battles in the northern part of the Youbeiping area.

At first, the Yuwen Department was able to have a slight upper hand because it had a comfortable winter experience, the war horses lost less fat, and their morale was strong.

But then hesitated to betray the Murong clan, which also belonged to the eastern Xianbei, which led to the defeat of Yuwen Mohuai and heavy losses.

Not enough Kebi can not take much advantage, both sides lost, and finally Yuwen Mohuai paid a certain price in exchange for Ke Bineng to withdraw the army, and the eastern Xianbei Murong clan defected and went west to Ke Bineng.

The vitality of the Yubun Department is greatly damaged, and the ability to control the various tribes below is weakened.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, Qiu Liju, the lord of the Wuhuan tribe who had been oppressed by Xianbei, took advantage of the internal friction of Xianbei and led 50,000 troops to plunder the three counties of Liaodong, Changli and Xuansu.

The Han Dynasty has a total of three lieutenant battalions in Youzhou, stationed in Changping, Yanguo Xianbei Lieutenant, Yanguo Jixian Wuhuan Lieutenant and Dongyi Lieutenant stationed in Xiangping, directly under the imperial court general, rank 2,000 stones, and the county guard and the state thorn history of the same level, under the court regular army of 10,000 people, in addition, since the end of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court's control over Xianbei and Wuhuan has declined, so the soldiers and horses of the captains in the frontier have increased, plus the private soldiers of these captains, the number can reach tens of thousands!

For example, there are 10,000 regular soldiers and 5,000 private soldiers, a total of 15,000; There are 10,000 regular soldiers and 3,000 private soldiers, for a total of 13,000 people.

And the captain of Dongyi is more special, and he was concurrently served by Gongsun Du, that is to say, Gongsun Du controlled the military and political power of Liaodong County, so he was regarded as a local emperor, and the imperial court and the Youzhou Thorn History Department turned a blind eye to this, no way, except for Gongsun Du, others could not stop the continuous invasion of so many foreign races, and there were already three Liaodong Taishou dead in office before Gongsun Du.

Gongsun Du has 10,000 iron cavalry of Captain Dongyi, 10,000 county soldiers, and 10,000 garrisons in the following counties, these soldiers have been completely controlled by Gongsun Du, no different from his own private soldiers, and can also apply to the imperial court every year for military pay and equipment, the only requirement is to hold Liaodong, and can not stand on their own.

The garrison of Captain Dongyi included the four counties of Liaodong, Xuansu, Lelang, and Daifang in the four counties of Han, while Changli County was guarded by Captain Xianbei.

It is not enough that now this system of separation between the central army and the local army has existed in name only, and all the border armies are controlled by the local warlord clans.

For example, Gongsun Du, the captain of Dongyi who guarded the four counties of the Han Dynasty, if Xuansu County, which had a bad relationship with him, asked him for help, he would definitely be too lazy to take care of it, and Lelang County and Daifang County were too far away to march inconveniently, so he could only firmly hold the fertile land of the Liaohe Plain and dare not act rashly.

Now with Zhuang Shaoyou's cooperation, it is much more flexible strategically.

In mid-March, as soon as the spring ploughing of the Liaohe Plain ended, Wuhuan's army of 50,000 attacked, and Qiu Liju, the king of Wuhuan, and his righteous son Badun led troops to plunder on both sides of the Great Liaoshui.

Xuansu County Taishou Gongsun Shu retreated in the city and did not dare to fight, but there was no way, he only had more than 10,000 people in his hands, and the elite 3,000 cavalry was also dehaired by Gongsun Du last year, and his strength was insufficient.

The entire Xuansu County was devastated, and the already sparse population fled to Liaodong County one after another.

On March 12, Gongsun Du led 13,000 iron cavalry and Badun to conduct a tentative engagement near Liaoyang on the east bank of the Great Liao River.

He led his troops to retreat to the north of Liaoyang, and the two sides confronted each other across the small Liaoshui, stalemate, and each went to move reinforcements.

On March 16, Zhuang Shaoyou, who had just finished spring ploughing, received a summons from Gongsun Du Kuaima, and Gongsun Du and Wuhuan confronted each other in the Liaohe Plain.

Gongsun Du guessed that Goguryeo would come in a big way this year to avenge last year's revenge, and the Xi'an Ping garrison was only 3,000, and Gongsun Du felt inappropriate at the beginning of the year, so he sent an additional 2,000 elites to support.

In peacetime, the 5,000 defenders of Xi'an Ping are enough to deal with it, but this year's situation may be different from previous years, if Goguryeo storms Xi'an Ping at any cost, it will definitely not be able to hold it!

So please Zhuang Shaoyou send troops as soon as possible to Xi'an Ping on the west bank of Mazishui!

After Zhuang Shaoyou received the summons from Gongsun Du, his expression was very solemn, and his judgment on the situation in Liaodong this spring was basically the same as that of Gongsun Du.

It's just that I didn't expect that last year's conspiracy to raze against razing did not play a good role, but instead played a counterproductive role, so that Wuhuan could rest assured that he could free up his hands to attack Liaodong, and the pressure on Gongsun Du increased greatly, although there was no problem in holding Liaodong, but there was no spare strength to help him attack Goguryeo, which was very different from last year's strategic plan.

Although Gongsun Du assigned Beifeng and Xi'an Ping to his command, Beifeng itself only had 1,000 defenders of Gongsun Yan, which did not play much role.

Although the defenders of Xi'an Ping have 5,000, they are beyond their reach, at least they can mobilize the army there only if they get Da Anping.

At this time, it was only mid-March, half a month earlier than the expected start of the war in April, and the four-masted warship that Zhou Tian and Wu Liang had explored to the south had not yet returned, and the second four-masted warship in the dock had not yet been completed, and there were only two four-masted warships and four three-masted warships in hand, a total of six.