Chapter 134: Strategic Intent

"Clumsy, I've been practicing for more than a year and I'm still so bad, let's go home and farm as soon as possible!" On the outskirts of Yanling County, Jin San was scolding more than 1,000 soldiers in the ninth and tenth buildings.

He was scolded by the soldiers of the sixth and eighth buildings.

Although they participated in the war with the Huns, but that was the result of the "mixing" with the veterans of the previous buildings, if there were no veterans with them, they could not play three percent of the cost, only by the Hun cavalry repeatedly harassed, and finally collapsed.

The seventh building was lucky not to be scolded, because the performance was much better, but compared with the three thousand veterans in the previous five buildings, there is still a gap, especially after the best of them were transferred to the first five buildings to supplement the battle damage, the strength was greatly damaged, and it was not as good as before.

Representatives of the warrior clan of Yingchuan counties have been "forced" to observe the training of the Silver Spear Army.

First, a man drew a long stack of arrows and shot arrows at the head of the dock fort wall.

In an instant, the straw man behind the female wall was full of arrows.

Then another man took out an armor-piercing arrow, and in a unit, he calmly shot the armor hanging on the stake in the distance.

In the end, it was still a building, with direct shooting between the front row and projectile from the back row, covering a large area.

After shooting, he hung his bow on his waist, drew his saber, untied the small round shield on his left arm, and made an array charge.

When the straw men covered in arrows were cut to pieces, everyone was speechless.

Stubborn mouths can't stop these tiger and wolf soldiers, only by facing the reality and adjusting as soon as possible can we maintain the family business.

On the other side, Yu Xun, who rushed back from Luoyang, followed Shao Xun, smiling all over his face and couldn't close his mouth.

Situ Shangshu, please go out of the town outside the domain, the Son of Heaven is overjoyed, and the edict is Yanzhou Mu.

As a result, after more than a year of disbandment, the Yanzhou Mu Shogunate was rebuilt again, but it was not as prosperous as before.

Some people chose to be officials in the court, some people transferred to the Taiwei shogunate, and some people simply crossed south and took refuge in King Langya, and probably only half of them followed Situ to Yanzhou, including more than 30,000 foot rides.

This time, Yu Yu did not choose to leave, but served as the secretary of the Ministry of the Imperial Court, and he could take office next month.

At this time, even if he didn't like Shao Xun before, he had to change his attitude.

He even shamelessly proclaimed that he had long felt that Shao Taibai was handsome and elegant, so he strongly persuaded everyone in the Yu family to marry Taibai and achieve good things.

In this regard, Hu Wufuzhi, the new permanent attendant of the Marquis of Chenjun, was very surprised, obviously it was me......

But Yu Yi has been in the sea for a long time, and the thickness of his skin is not comparable to ordinary people, so he naturally ignores Hu Wufu.

Moreover, as an uncle, he said that when his niece got married in the future, he would give a rich dowry to show the unity of the Yanling Yu family.

Hu Wufu could only be defeated.

Yang Bao, the captain of the Duzhi branch, also stood in the middle of a group of people, with his chest folded and his belly folded, smiling.

As we all know, he officially stood in line, and he stood in line at a critical moment, standing "full of anger", standing so that everyone knew, and Sima Yue wanted to cut him with a thousand knives.

After being kicked out of the forbidden army, he can still be protected by manpower and serve as the captain of the Duzhi school, which shows that this fight is right.

Chen Yan, the captain of the original branch, had a maximum of 8,000 soldiers and horses, after many years of conquest, the shortage could not be replenished, and when the Xiongnu attacked Luoyang, there were only about 5,000 left, and then they lost the battle, and after the war, the soldiers were only 13,400.

After collecting some of the fleeing routs, they barely recovered to two thousand and handed them over to Yang Bao.

Yang Bao also got the permission of Taiwei Wang Yan to recruit 1,000 soldiers from the displaced people who went south to Luoyang, and increased the number of posts to 3,000, which can be regarded as a small army leader.

The Duzhi Lieutenant was born in the Cao Wei period, and the initial name was "Sinong Du Lieutenant", with a rank ratio of 2,000 stones, and he was in charge of the military tuntian and the military rations obtained from the tuntian.

Tuntian was not the same place, so officials including the generals of the Duzhi Zhonglang and the lieutenants of the Duzhi were all sent by the central government to manage the tuntian.

Yang Bao and his predecessor Chen Yan are strictly speaking lieutenants of the Sizhou Branch. After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Tuntian was lost, and more of their tasks became to transport grain.

For example, Chen Min, who had been in turmoil before, once went to the top: "The rice grains in the south have accumulated for decades, and they will want to be corrupted, and they will not be transported to Jizhongzhou, so they will save the trouble." ”

From there, the imperial court took Min as the Hefei branch, and moved to Guangling to transfer the southern grain into Beijing.

In the Zhangchang Rebellion, "Min Please He led the troops" to break the thieves, and finally exterminated Shi Bing and sealed the clouds.

In other words, the soldiers under Captain Duzhi have actually become "transporting troops".

Yang Bao's main task now is to be responsible for transporting the money, grain, silk and various tributes from other places back to Luoyang to complete the "last mile".

"The prince is here." Someone whispered.

Yang Bao and the others immediately retracted their voices and stood silently.

When Shao Xun's figure appeared, they all bowed and saluted, "See the prince." ”

"No need to be polite." Shao Xun smiled and waved his hand, greeted everyone gently, and when he saw Yang Bao, he pulled it over and asked with a smile, "Have you all recruited soldiers?" ”

Yang Bao is here to recruit soldiers. The general newcomers still can't look down on it, mainly to collect the defeated troops, as well as the generation of the displaced people who dare to fight, in order to enrich the troop transport establishment, better transfer money and grain, and save the need to always borrow people from local counties and counties - the work of transporting grain is now becoming more and more unsafe, and the transport of troops is often pulled to Luoyang to fight, and ordinary people are really incompetent.

"Not yet fundraised." Yang Bao replied: "Shi Le, Wang Mikou Yanzhou, Cao Yun is not smooth. In April and May, money and grain from other states will enter Beijing, which may not be good. I don't know ...... prince."

"Come over here and talk." Shao Xun beckoned and came to a secluded place.

Yang Bao followed and said in a low voice: "Junhou, Caoyun still has to be guaranteed, otherwise Luoyang may fall into famine, which will be detrimental to the great cause of Junhou." ”

Shao Xun bowed slightly and said, "Tell me your opinion." ”

Yang Bao was not stage frightened, and said directly: "Does the prince know about Qian Xuan's killing of Chen Feng?" ”

Shao Xun shook his head.

Yang Bao then told what he had learned during this time.

Qian Xuan rebelled in Guangling, killed Chen Feng, the captain of the Du Branch, took the military rations hoarded in the Pavilion, and then burned the Pavilion, calling himself the General of Pingxi and the Governor of Eight Prefectures.

Qian Xuan's behavior of burning the pavilion and killing the lieutenants of the branch was very bad, because he didn't know how long it would take for the rebellion to be quelled, how long it would take for the grain in the pavilion to be filled, and how long it would take for the Cao Yun to recover from Guangling.

"Figure." Shao Xun stretched out his hand and said.

Tang Jian immediately presented a copy of the map.

Shao Xun spread it out and looked at it carefully.

Chen Feng, the lieutenant of the Guangling Du Branch, was responsible for the transportation of the eastern line, that is, the money and grain of the Jiangdong counties were first transported to Guangling (now Yangzhou) on the north bank of the Yangtze River using the Dongwu water system, and then went north through Hangou to collect the money and grain of the Jiangbei counties to Huaiyin, and then collected the money and grain of the counties in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, and continued to be transported north to Xiapi.

Xiapi is the seat of the governor of Xuzhou, and it is also a hub for water and land transshipment.

Generally speaking, most of the money and grain were stationed in Xiapi and Pengcheng in preparation for war in the south. If necessary, it can be connected to the Yellow River through the chasm and Heshui and transported into Beijing, or westward into the Bianqu and transported to Junyi (now Kaifeng).

In addition to the Eastern Front, there was also the Western Front.

The lieutenant of the Hefei branch is responsible for collecting the money and grain taxes in the nearby area, and transporting it to Xuchang through Huaishui and Vortex - there is also a branch line on the way, which can be connected to the Suiyang Canal (dug by Cao Cao) and transported to Junyi.

It can be seen that Junyi County is also a water and land transshipment hub in Henan, which is very critical.

This county belongs to Yanzhou Chenliuguo, located at the junction of Chenliu and Xingyang, if anyone wants to cut off Caoyun, it is right to attack here.

"In the past, Wei Wu was based on Henan and fought in all directions, and the water system extending in all directions was indispensable." After reading it, Shao Xun returned the map to Tang Jian and said with emotion: "Whether it is to transfer troops or transport grain, it is very convenient. ”

Traveling by boat is much faster and less labor-saving than walking on two legs.

Shipping materials is also much faster than carriage and horse transportation, and the cost is extremely low.

The speed and low cost of troop and food transportation often means that you have a large number of extra troops.

In fact, it's not just Cao Cao.

Zhu Wen started with Bianliang, and later captured Xuzhou and other places, mastered the three Cao Yun routes of the Tang Dynasty in Henan, and used the canals extending in all directions to conquer the east and west, and the prestige of more than 100,000 Bianliang forbidden troops resounded throughout the north and south of the river.

Cao Cao's lair is in Xuchang.

Zhu Wen's lair is in Junyi.

This location is not without reason.

Water transportation has always been the best mode of transportation. Even Shao Xun was in Liang County, using Guangchengze Lake, Rushui and Yingshui to transport supplies.

Wife Cao and wife Zhu have set up a nest on the side of the canal, and my fiefdom of Lao Shao, Chen County, is actually between the river and Huai, Chen County is on the edge of the Suiyang Canal, which can go straight to Junyi to the north, enter the Yellow River, and enter the Huai River through Yingshui in the south, and reach Shouchun.

Wonderful! Yuzhou is such a great place, I love it.

A real man dares to start with Henan, refuses to obey, orders the Quartet, exercises the authority of the world, and wins the world's stunning wife.

"Tang Jian." Shao Xun suddenly shouted.

"The servant is here."

"You say, are the Huns planning to cut off Luoyang's Cao Yun?" Shao Xun asked.

Tang Jian didn't expect that the prince didn't ask him to do anything, but asked for a plan, and after holding it for a long time, he said: "The servant thinks, whether it is or not, you must always be careful, Luoyang can't afford to delay." ”

"May wheat harvest ......" Shao Xun said: "But last year's war, Heluo wheat seedlings were seriously damaged, and I am afraid that I will not be able to harvest much this year." The grain storage in Taicang in Dongyangmen can probably only last until then. With the new wheat harvest in May, it will probably last for a few months. But if money and grain from other states can't be sent in, Luoyang will inevitably run out of grain around the New Year. After the New Year, there will even be a great hunger and cannibalism. At that time, the Xiongnu attacked, and they collapsed without a fight. ”

Tang Jian was silent.

At the beginning, he followed the army of the king of Chengdu to march south to Luoyang, and in the end he was able to win, but wasn't it because Luoyang lacked food?

As long as the Cao Yun is cut off, Luoyang will not be able to sustain itself, unless it reduces the production of craftsmen, sergeants, officials and ministers, etc.-especially the Luoyang Forbidden Army, which consumes huge grain, but if there is no forbidden army, how can Luoyang be defended?

"To help others is to help yourself." Shao Xun sighed and said, "I can't tolerate Luoyang Caoyun being cut off. If I didn't come to Yuzhou, I didn't know that the Huns wanted to do this, which was my mistake. Yang Bao! ”

"The servant is here."

"Who taught you those things you just said? I don't believe you understand that. Shao Xun said.

Are you kidding! Who is Yang Bao, others don't know, can he still not know?

He can be the general of the palace, if there is no Zuo Changshi of the East China Sea Palace, Liu Qia, the lieutenant of the kingdom, to help him say Xiang, and at the same time he is an old man in the East China Sea, it is absolutely impossible.

At his level, he couldn't say these words.

"Junhou Mingjian, this is the king of the Duzhi Shangshu sent people to teach, and the servant also asked the subordinate Wei Jun." Yang Bao sneered.

"Wang Shangshu? Wei Jun? Shao Xun looked at him suspiciously.

"Wang Shangshu is the son of Taiwei." Yang Bao said: "Wei Jun is a native of Dong'a, living in Guanzhong, and was a small official at the beginning. After the defeat of the king of Hejian, he was exiled in Henan, and a while ago he was introduced by someone and came to the servant's tent to listen to it. He had also served as a lieutenant of the Duzhi branch in Chang'an before. ”

"Wang Xuan actually became the secretary of the Duzhi Shangshu? So fast? Shao Xun was a little surprised, but also a little relieved.

Wang Yan's son should be the secretary of the book, is it strange? It doesn't seem strange that the two of them were born because of raising food......

"Call Wei Jun here, I want to see how talented he is." Shao Xun said.

"No." Yang Bao responded.

"Give orders to Li Chong and Chen Yougen......" Shao Xun called the scribe again and asked him to write an order for the transfer of troops.