The armies are not so quick to act.

Because Sima Yue wanted to gather more soldiers and horses, he would wait for the soldiers recruited from Chenliu, Xingyang, Henan and other counties to gather before he marched in a big way.

Someone from Jinguyuan even rushed to Xin'an, saying that an official came to recruit Ding, but they pushed him back, and the little official Nuo Nuo didn't dare to speak.

This is an important reason why yeoman farmers invest in manors and dock forts.

At the time of conscription, Cao Peng, a soldier from all counties, gave priority to recruiting yeoman farmers, because they were easy to manipulate and did not bother.

When there are not enough yeoman farmers, they go to find Haoqiang who have no family or official position.

If it's still not enough, then look for cold and small surnames.

The difficulty ranges from low to high.

No one is a fool, and it is instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If the fight continues, there will only be fewer and fewer homesteaders, and there will be more and more dock forts, and even some manors will try to transform them into dock forts - many manors are in the nature of holiday villas, such as Jingu Garden, Pan Garden, etc., which are relatively easy to break.

Also coming to Xin'an were the stewards of various dock forts and manors.

Shao Xun listened attentively to the cultivation of Jingu Garden, Pan Garden, and Shao Garden, and was relieved after learning that the wheat seedlings were growing well.

The wheat harvest in June will be all pulled to the Golden Valley Garden for processing.

Luoyang has been stable in the past two years, and a small part of the escapees from Jinguyuan have returned one after another, and the water mills in more than 30 districts can handle too much grain. Now he has only barely opened a few, and if he continues to do it, Shao Xun feels that he can take over the business and help others make rice and grind noodles.

Among the four major dock forts, Kinmen Dock is the top priority, and it must be completed this year.

After the beginning of spring, Yanggongwu, Yiquanwu, and Heshuiwu delivered part of the grain "final payment", adding up to 60,000 or 70,000 hu.

The owner of the building, Wang Qi'er, reported that a man named Yang Ming sent a batch of money silk to Jingu Garden.

At the end of last year, I bought grain, livestock, farm tools and daily necessities in Luoyang and sent them to various dock forts.

As soon as the money arrives, it will basically be spent, and you will still be in debt.

Shao Xun didn't panic at all. Joke, how can a big boss not be in debt?

In mid-May, the first batch of Ding Zhuang from Sizhou and Yanzhou arrived in Xin'an, and the auxiliary troops were finally available. It also happened that at this time, the order to march came down.

On May 18, the army marched westward.

They were mainly composed of the left guard of the Chinese army, and except for a few people who remained behind, 15,000 people were dispatched.

The cavalry dispatched 1,500 horsemen, and the old man was taken out.

Since the rebuilding of the Chinese army in April and May last year, the Xiao Cavalry Army has been expanding with difficulty. The main method is to recruit the dead and scattered, and a small number of new recruits, and now they are slowly accumulating to the appearance of 18900 horsemen.

The famous Youzhou Tucai was also rebuilt.

As an armored cavalry that is not subordinate to any army within the Chinese army, there used to be more than 1,000 cavalry, and now some veterans have been gathered, more than 100 recruits have been recruited, and the Luoyang arsenal has scavenged the horse armor, which can only make up more than 400 cavalry, and this time it also followed, accompanying the infantry forward.

Shao Xun is more concerned about this force.

Because this is a force that can greatly threaten the Silver Spear Army, although there are only more than 400 cavalry, but it is really fatal to rush, and the poorly trained Silver Spear Army may not be able to withstand it.

15,000 infantry troops, 2,000 light and heavy cavalry, plus more than 20,000 Ding Zhuangzi, this way adds up to almost 40,000 people, which can be called 100,000 troops to the outside world.

It took the "100,000 army" seven or eight days to cross more than 100 miles of mountain roads, which was very slow.

This northern road is commonly known as "Xin'an Road", and the "Yiyang Road" in the Luoshui River Valley in the south is the key road leading from Tongguan to Luoyang.

Shao Xun and they set off from the ancient city of Qin and Zhao in the west of Xin'an County for more than ten miles - in history, Qin and Zhao met in this alliance, each according to a city, so it was named, also known as "Juli City", because the alliance was beneficial to both sides.

Cross the river valley and enter the mountain road.

When it was, the narrow place only allowed square rails, and countless people, cars and horses lined up to pass, and the efficiency was extremely low.

After walking through the Bandao of the East and West Erkun Mountains, and entering the boundary of Shaanxi County, Hongnong County, the road is only slightly better, but it is still difficult to hesitate in the mountainous area.

In the past, Cao Mengde hated the danger of the south road and opened the north road. But the North Road also has its steep places, which is really difficult to walk.

Luoyang's geographical advantages can be seen. However, every time the foreign troops hit Luoyang, no one volunteered to defend these dangerous places, and no one stuck to the peripheral checkpoints, and in the end, the enemy always swaggered through various dangerous places and entered the city of Luoyang.

At the end of May, the army arrived in Hongnong, and Shao Xun saw Mi Huang after a long absence.

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At the end of May, on the Yiyang Road, horses' hooves were arrayed, banners were hunting, and the army that could not see the end was heading west in the river valley.

In a short time, several scouts with more than a dozen horses galloped to a simple ferry.

Near the ferry, there were three boatmen, two old and two young, who were sitting under a tree and resting. When he saw the messenger, he immediately went into action.

Two teenagers went to untie the ferry tied to the tree, and the old man stepped forward to greet him.

"I'm going to cross the river, quick!" The first scout shouted.

The old man didn't talk nonsense, and came to the riverside pier in three steps and two steps, ready to support the boat.

He is from Taiyuan and is a boatman in Fenshui. After coming to Yunzhongwu, I got a good errand and ferried on Luoshui to facilitate people coming and going.

But it won't last long.

He subconsciously looked not far to the west, a pontoon bridge has spanned the north and south banks, and gradually became the main way for the people of Yunzhongwu to go to the north bank of Luoshui - with the increasing number of fort people, the dock fort has gradually not been satisfied with farming on the south bank of Luoyang, the east and west sides of the canal valley water, and began to expand to the north bank, and many fields sown in spring this year are on the north bank.

The scouts quickly boarded the ferry, while the others led their horses to the pontoon on the west side.

After a while, a dull bell rang in the dock in the clouds.

The people, who were busy in the fields, immediately packed up their belongings and retreated to the south bank.

Some people even wanted to run home, take their belongings and leave, but they were soon beaten and scolded by Zhuang Tou, and they followed the large army and left.

A few other village leaders organized more than 100 strong people, armed with spears and rifles, to occupy a high ground, intending to hold back for a while, if any enemy army did rush to attack.

The people who have experienced the troubled times have long since faded away from their innocence, and they all understand the cruelty of this world very well.

In order to make it easier to plough the fields, some people now build shacks in the fields, and live in them when the farm is busy - if you live in the dock fort, the fields are better to talk about, but if you are a little farther away, it is more troublesome, and you don't know how many more walks you have to walk every day.

There must have been belongings in the shack, such as bedding, cooking utensils, and so on. For these burgers, it is actually a very important property, and it is normal to want to take it with them.

However, the military situation is urgent, and there is no room for carelessness, and maybe he will be hunted and killed because he has taken something and is too late to escape.

Sure enough, when the last group of civilians withdrew to the south bank and the people who were left behind withdrew to the pontoon bridge, the figure of the cavalry had appeared in the distance.

Zhuang Tou picked up an axe, cut off the bamboo buttons connected to the pontoons, and released a few boats to the south bank. At this point, the pontoon bridge has been broken by a third. If the enemy wants to cross the river by pontoon, it is already impossible - in an emergency, it can even set fire to the pontoon.

The cavalry is getting closer.

Turbulent herds of horses crossed the post road, trampled through the farmland, and headed west.

Zhuang Tou saw blood dripping from his heart.

Wait another three months, and the millet on the north bank will be harvested, which will be trampled by the cavalry, but I don't know how many grains of rice I can harvest.

"Xianbei people!" Because Jin San led the team to accompany the expedition, the fourth building of the Silver Spear Army originally stationed in Jingu Garden drove to the Yunzhong Dock to defend it, and the owner of the building, Wang Qi'er, climbed a tree and looked at the opposite bank.

Boundless men and horses, marching west along the river valley.

Someone was in a hurry.

Someone stopped, pointed at the fort with a whip, and burst into laughter from time to time.

If you think about it on your toes, you know that these people must be judging the embarrassed retreat up and down the Dock Fort.

Yes, there are many of them, they can fight if they want, and they can leave when they want, and they are chic and comfortable. Even if you want to get revenge, you don't even have the right to eat dust behind their butts.

The Xianbei people who burned and looted in Yuzhou now don't take the clumsy and weak Central Plains people in their eyes at all.

Once upon a time, they also looked at the big countries of the Central Plains with an attitude of looking up.

During the Later Han Dynasty, Xianbei repeatedly committed offenses. The imperial court organized a mixed army of armored cavalry and sword and shield infantry, and requisitioned light cavalry from the tribes attached to the border, and conquered the steppe several times, establishing supreme prestige.

Even after the hundred-year chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty and the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Xianbei people could only look up to the Central Plains and put away their various careful thoughts.

However, with the melee of the kings in the past ten years, Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan have been continuously lured south, and gradually let these grassland men see the inside of the Central Plains clearly.

Especially when they mounted their horses, took up their bows and knives, and defeated the Central Plains army again and again, there was nothing to look up to.

Some people may not be able to turn the corner, and they are still accustomed to being respectful to the Central Plains - although this does not prevent them from burning, killing and looting in the interior.

Some people are really inflated, thinking that the Central Plains will become their ranch sooner or later.

But sadly, things may well be going the way they imagined.

Some people would rather continue to be drunk and dream of death after crossing to the south, "looking up at the vastness of the universe and looking down on the prosperity of categories", "wandering in the eyes", and "extremely audio-visual entertainment", rather than staying in the north and protecting their wives and children, driving away the enemy, and rebuilding their homes like a man.

After lingering for a while, the Xianbei people rode away.

Wang Qi'er led the soldiers of the fourth building to set up defenses along the river to prevent small groups of rangers from crossing the river and burning and looting.

It lasted until late in the evening, when it was withdrawn to the dock fort.

It was at this time that the troops of the right guard of the Luoyang Central Army appeared.

The same is about 15,000 foot soldiers, plus more than 20,000 peasant soldiers, driving large carts and small carts, looking like a hurried march overnight.

Zhang Fang is dead, and the situation is very good.

The army has been gathered, and it is necessary to speed up the march and attack the storm quickly. If Sima Hao is given time, maybe he will re-stabilize the turbulent military spirit, and it will be difficult to fight at that time.

Therefore, Pei Kuo, the general of the right guard, decided to march overnight to not give the western thieves a chance to breathe.

Sima You, the king of Runan, also accompanied the army, and saw this dock fort of considerable scale at a glance.

He found a few generals of the forbidden army and asked if they could levy food in the fort, but everyone was hesitant and dissuaded.

Sima You knew in his heart that this dock fort had a bit of a background, and secretly wrote it down.