"Madam, take Ah Niu away!"

Seeing the foot trainer enter the house, Huo Jun hurriedly sent the crying baby in his arms to the foot trainer's arms.

The step trainer hugged Xiao Huo Yi with both hands, coaxed the doll, and asked knowingly, "Why didn't Lang Jun hug Ah Niu?" ”

Huo Jun smiled and said, "Ah Niu can't stop crying, crying makes me upset. ”

The foot trainer glanced at Huo Jun and said with a smile: "Lang Jun can govern an army of 10,000 people, but he can't cure a little baby, wouldn't it be a joke to say it." ”

Huo Jun smiled and said, "Men and women have their own strengths. Jun ruled 10,000 people, used to be kind and righteous with sticks, and knew in military law. Mrs. caresses a cow, acts with tenderness and benevolence, touches his heart, this Jun is not as good as Mrs. ”

The foot trainer who coaxed Xiao Huo Yi felt like eating molasses in his heart. She is young, and few people in the clan fear her, and most of them respect her because of Mrs. Huo Jun's identity. It is difficult for her to meddle in the affairs of the clan, and sometimes she inevitably thinks too much in her heart. Now Huo Jun admits that she is inferior, and talking about her strengths makes her heart happy.

The smile on the corner of his mouth was difficult to hide, but the foot trainer seemed to remember something, and asked, "Lang Jun is going to lead the army to go to sea by boat and cross to Liaodong?" ”

"How does Madame know about this?" Huo Jun asked.

Huo Junzhi's family's first priority is not to talk about the content of work to his family. The foot trainer did not know his plans, nor did he know his secrets. If the step trainer asked, Huo Jun often answered vaguely.

After the foot trainer lulled Xiao Huo Yi to sleep, he explained in a low voice: "The concubine doesn't know about Lang Jun, but recently, I saw Lang Jun collecting sea charts, and often called Jiangzuo Shangjia to consult about Liaodong, so I heard about it. ”

As he spoke, the foot trainer said worriedly: "The concubine heard that there are strong winds and waves at sea, and there are often ships that are destroyed and people overturned, since Lang Jun is the general of Jiang Zuo, how can he lead the boat master to cross the sea and give up his life on danger?" ”

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the period of great exploration, crossing the sea by boat was basically dancing on the tip of a knife. For example, Guan Ning, a native of Beihai, returned to the Central Plains from Liaodong, took the route of the Changshan Islands, and crossed the Bohai Strait, but encountered a major storm on the way, except for the ship he was in, all the ships capsized, and none of them were spared.

It is still so difficult to cross the short Bohai Sea, let alone sail two or three thousand miles from Jiangzuo to Liaodong, which can be described as difficult and difficult.

Huo Jun smiled and explained: "Jun does not cross the sea to Liaodong, and now he leads the sailors to the sea to go north to Yuzhou, Qu County, Donghai County to camp (now Lianyungang), and the sea is only a few hundred miles, there is no danger, and there are coasts along the way. When he arrived in Yuzhou, he ordered people to go north to Donglai County and cross the sea to Liaodong by boat. And now in the autumn and winter season, there is little wind and rain, this trip is proper, there is no need to worry. ”

In Qu County, Donghai County, the foot trainer has heard of it. She is a native of Huaiyin, and when she was a child, she heard her mother tell the allusion to Tian Heng's death. Yuzhou is not far from Jiangzuo, and it is close to Qu County, so there should not be much risk.

The step trainer frowned slightly, and said: "Lang Jun has an arrangement, and the concubine is inconvenient to say, everything should be careful." ”

"Hmm!"

The danger of the sea route, even the trainer of that step knew it, how could Huo Jun not know it. It was impossible for him to go to Liaodong by boat. is not only afraid of the wind and waves at sea capsizing the ship, but also worried about Gongsun Kang's brain pumping.

In history, Sun Quan sent 10,000 people to the sea, crossed the ocean to Liaodong, and canonized Gongsun Yuan as the Yan King of Wu of the Great Wei. Gongsun Yuan was afraid of Cao Wei, killed the envoys sent by Sun Quan, and swallowed up those 10,000 people, so angry that Sun Quan was about to cross the sea to attack Liaodong, but fortunately was dissuaded by Lu Xun and others.

At this time, Gongsun Kang is afraid of Cao Cao, and he may send his head and Eryuan's head to Cao Cao together, and he will not even have a place to cry when the time comes.

The foot trainer left the study with Xiao Huo Yi in his arms, where Huo Jun studied the navigation route in the mouth of Jiangzuo Shangjia and the nautical chart he already had.

Huo Junxin has had the idea of opening up the navigation route in Liaodong for a long time, and he built a keel ship last year to use it for water warfare, and he also wanted to use the keel ship to open up a sea route from Jiangzuo to Liaodong.

As for why they want to open up the Liaodong Sea Road, the reason is both simple and not simple. The simplicity lies in the fact that Liaodong has the necessary strategic resources of Jiangzuo, the war horse; It is not simple that Huo Jun wants to open a horse farm in the Jianghuai area.

Well!

Horses can be raised in the Jianghuai region, and war horses can be raised in a large area, and the war horses are also excellent.

How did Huo Jun know that Jianghuai could raise horses? Without it, only on Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the past dynasties, only Zhu Yuanzhang won with the southern expedition to the north. As everyone knows, in addition to the fact that the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River surpassed that of the north, and the reason for the chaos within the northern Great Yuan. It is also important to note that Zhu Yuanzhang was different from other southern regimes, and he inherited the legacy of the Yuan Dynasty, namely the Luzhou Racecourse.

After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Mongols settled in the Central Plains and were gradually assimilated by the Han people, not raising war horses, but began to cultivate and breed like the Han people. Accustomed to farming, it can bring wealth, but it also makes the Mongols lose their proud war horses.

In times of civil war, there was a shortage of war horses in the Mongol army. For example, when Kublai Khan and Ali Buge competed for power, Kublai Khan's army occupying the Central Plains lacked horses, and as a last resort, Kublai Khan spent money to buy tens of thousands of war horses to supplement the army.

After the pacification of the Southern Song Dynasty, the south often rebelled, and the Yuan Dynasty suppressed the rebellion in the south. Kublai Khan decided to open a horse farm in the Jiangnan area, searched hard, and finally chose Luzhou around the Dabie Mountains as a horse farm.

Luzhou, that is, the area of Hefei, Shucheng and Anhui in the Han Dynasty, almost coincides with the Jiangbei counties where Huo Jun is located. Zhu Yuanzhang raised troops in Huaixi, close to the Luzhou Horse Farm of the Yuan Dynasty.

This is also the fundamental reason why Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other Huaixi military groups under Zhu Yuanzhang are good at cavalry warfare, that is, they may have been in contact with horses since childhood, and they are no strangers to cavalry.

The things of later generations can be used as a reference, and the mountainous areas of Dabie Mountain in the north of the Yangtze River can be used as a place for raising horses, and Huo Jun let Shiren try it a long time ago. Several mares and stallions in the army have successfully given birth to young horses and have recently grown vigorously. Therefore, Huo Jun made up his mind to open up the Liaodong Sea Road and open a horse farm in Jiangbei.

Jiangzuo had cavalry, even if it was not as prosperous as the north, but through the Liaodong war horses, he could be self-sufficient, and narrowed the gap with Cao's army in the field.

After all, an army that lacks war horses, and fights against an enemy army with plenty of war horses, even if you can win the opponent, you can't defeat the opponent. The enemy has war horses that come and go like the wind, how can he win. is as strong as Yue Fei's ability to defeat the Jin army repeatedly, and he also relies on the strength of the cavalry under his account.

For the development strategy of the Jianghuai Horse Farm, Huo Jun must personally go out and sit in the army.

Of course, Chang Feng also needs to be rescued!

Thinking about the chart, Huo Jun picked up the letter sent by Liu Bei. In his letter, it was said that after Chang Feng rebelled, he learned that Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban went north to conquer him, and Chang Feng sent a letter of help to Jingkou, hoping that Liu Bei could lead the army north to rescue him.

How can it be so easy to rescue Chang Xuan, who is in Donghai County, in Xuzhou, north of the Huai River. As long as Liu Bei had the ability to raise troops to the Huai River, he would have already gone north to attack Hefei and Shouchun, so why should he retreat to the south of the Yangtze River now.

If you take the ditch into the Huai River, except in autumn, the water level drops, silt blockage and a series of problems. Moreover, Xiahou Yuan had already taken precautions, and ordered Licheng to guard Wu Dun and Langya Xiang Zang Batun to prevent the enemy from going north.

In order to prevent the generals of Mount Tai from repeating, Cao Cao directly incorporated the Donghai County of Changfeng into Zang Ba's Langya State, so as to appease Zang Ba, and then use Zang Ba to appease the hearts of the generals of Mount Tai.

After a little silence, Huo Jun replied to Liu Bei, saying that Ming Changfeng could be saved, and he would go to Jingkou in a few days to meet Liu Bei.

"Someone, send this letter to Jingkou."

"No!"

There are two more chapters in the evening

(End of chapter)