Chapter 1045 Preparation and Digestion
Outside the river, the sound of drums and drums moved the ground.
The overwhelming cavalry rushed over with such force that it was almost reminiscent of the battle decades ago.
It was also a winter month, the weather was cold and the ground was freezing, and the sky was covered with heavy snow. The Dongwu boat division sailed northward, fought hard in the snow, and defeated the Sima clan.
But that was all decades ago, and the Wu people today seem to be far inferior to what they were back then.
No, as soon as the grain, grass, gold and silk were unloaded from the ship and prepared to be transported to a nearby military fort in an ox cart, they were discovered by the Xianbei cavalry.
They came roaring, as fast as thunder, shouting and flying arrows as they galloped.
When the servants pulling the carts and the sergeants guarding them saw it, they shouted and ran away. The carts were scattered all over the ground and lined up along the river, which was quite spectacular.
The planks were put down on the ship and the fleeing people were picked up.
Seeing the Xianbei cavalry getting closer and closer, the boatmen simply put away the planks and pushed towards the center of the river to avoid being dismounted and killed by the enemy on the boat.
Shields and baffles were also erected on the outside of the ship. There were constant footsteps behind them, and they didn’t know what they were doing.
"Xilulu!" The first batch of Xianbei cavalry to arrive reined in their horses on the river bank and fired a few arrows at the boat, but they all fell into the sea like mud and had no impact.
The people on the boat did not fight with them, but pushed the boat away and gradually disappeared from sight.
More Xianbei cavalry rushed over, dismounted noisily, and looted gold and silk goods, smiling happily.
When the group of people who arrived first saw it, they were anxious and dismounted to fight for it.
"Boom!" The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and the third group of people arrived.
They seemed to have a sense of responsibility. They whipped the noisy crowd a few times with their riding whips and planned to pack up the food first.
At this moment, deep and dense drumming sounded from the lake on the other side.
In an instant, dozens of small boats rushed out from behind the reeds.
The boatman's skill in maneuvering the boat was superb, and in a few clicks, the boat came sideways.
Each ship carried dozens of soldiers, with the front row holding shields and the back row holding bows and arrows.
In an instant, a dense barrage of bows were fired towards the shore, and the arrows were struck so fast that it was almost impossible to react.
The Xianbei people who were packing their belongings were caught off guard and fell in large numbers.
There are more and more ships, as if they have been waiting there for a long time.
The rain of arrows became more and more intensive, and a layer of white hair seemed to grow on the river bank, fluttering in the cold wind.
With such a dense rain of arrows, it was impossible for anyone to survive.
The few Xianbei cavalry who reacted quickly rolled and crawled, snatched the horses and fled far away, looking here in shock.
The sound of the drums on the boat changed again, and the planks were lowered.
After a while, hundreds of infantrymen came ashore one after another, holding long spears and large shields, and pointing their crossbows into the distance.
There were also some people holding swords and axes, searching the entire battlefield, beheading all the Xianbei people and collecting them.
On the largest boat in the lake, Zhou Guang breathed a sigh of relief, and his timidity disappeared a lot.
It seems that as long as the tactics are used properly, the cavalry can be defeated in areas with dense water networks. There is no need to be so afraid.
As for the vast expanse of land, forget it.
It is good to march along the river, the logistics are safe, and you can rely on the warships to fight against the water...
Around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Jin army fought two small-scale battles near Chaohu Lake.
Once they were lured with gold, silk, food and grass, the boat master ambushed them, beheaded more than 400 people, captured 100 people, and captured 200 horses;
Once the boat division was used to bypass the rear and cut off the bridge, the Xianbei cavalry retreated hastily. They were miserable in the area with dense water nets. Looking around, they could see either a fort, a swamp forest, or a small stream or river lying in front of them, covered by water. After the division intercepted several times, they were scattered all over the place, just like the Huns cavalry who lost their organization in Henan. They starved to death, died of illness, froze to death, and were killed. More than a thousand people were lost, and hundreds more were lost and finally became prisoners.
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Shan Xia and Yan Lin came to Hefei, but did not go north.
In order not to affect the reclamation of Wuhu, he only brought two thousand sailors and two thousand infantry to Hefei. After hearing that the river north of Hefei sometimes froze for several days and sometimes thawed for several days, he decisively gave up the idea of going north.
The water application north of Hefei has almost become a default buffer zone for both parties.
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Almost immediately before Shan Ya arrived in Hefei, Zhang Shuo also came to the north of Shaopi for inspection.
Starting from the late autumn of last year, batch after batch of servants and criminals arrived here.
Except for a few days of rest during the Winter Solstice and Zhengdan, everyone was clearing ditches and leveling fields.
Several rebellions occurred during this period, but they were quickly put down by the Silver Spear Center Camp, which was just in time for the newly sent sergeants to get some exercise.
Nearly a thousand people died of illness in this unit last year, which was the largest loss since the formation of the army. Now they have all been replaced. However, the deputy, captain, and even the superintendent and building leader of this batch of Forbidden Army recruits are not martial arts students, but Soldiers from the north.
The Shaofu successively sent over 1,300 tenants, most of whom were former Langling field soldiers.
Nearly 6,000 people, men, women, old and young, cleared farmland at the foot of Bagong Mountain, cut wood and stone, and built houses on the mountain.
The entire mountainous area and a large uninhabited area nearby were designated as Huainan Garden and Tianjiayuan.
Spring planting will begin next month.
Millet seeds have been prepared and farm tools are complete. However, there is still some shortage of plowing cattle and plowing horses, so we can only make do with what we have.
The sergeants of the Zuyue Department also started farming in Xiacai County in Huaibei.
Zhang Shuo really didn't dare to let these people stay in Huainan.
As time went by, seeing that there was no hope of fighting back to Xuzhou, some people fled every three days. If they continued, they might not be able to escape at all.
There was no other way, so Zhang Shuo sent a letter to select a group of orphans and widows from the family members of Liu Han's Imperial Army who had been suppressed during the rebellion and sent them to Cai Cai to reassure everyone.
If you can't feel at ease and still want to go back to find your original wife and children, then you have no choice but to transfer them all away from Huaishang.
But in this way, Huainan's military strength will be very thin.
It is impossible for the Fu soldiers and Hu soldiers to stay here for a long time. Now Shouchun only has one part of the Yinqianzhong camp, and the others have gone home to reunite. Even they cannot stay here for long and will leave after the year.
No one knows who will take over at that time.
After returning from the inspection, Zhang Shuo got the news that the Xianbei cavalry had begun to shrink, and he immediately sneered.
That General of Zhenbei, Da Xi Heruo, was so arrogant that he thought he could roam freely in areas with dense water networks. He was simply overthinking it.
However, we still need to appease these people, don't let them lose morale, and wait until the defense team comes over first.
On the 20th of the first lunar month, he went to Dongxi Erxi Shishan again.
After hard work since the beginning of autumn, the walls on both mountains have been reinforced. A water fort was also built on the river at the foot of the mountain. Yang Bao, the commander of the naval army, each sent a thousand men to two places to stay behind.
With these two water villages here, Shouchun as a whole will be much safer.
Until the rivers in Henan were frozen, the navy was rushing to transport supplies to Shouchun.
In fact, the Huai River has almost no ice this year, but the Jin navy has not come, so the transportation is very smooth, and more than one million dendrobium, grains and beans have been sent to various places in Shouchun.
It was a pity that the imperial court did not send a large group of infantry to go south before the Chinese New Year to support him in attacking Lujiang. Instead, it sent Xianbei cavalry who were paid to fight.
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After entering the third year of Kaiping (329), everything gradually became clear.
Around the Spring Society in February, the atmosphere between Liang and Jin became increasingly tense. Although there was no major fight, small-scale frictions on the border began to increase.
Shao Xun, who was still stationed in Guangchengze, raised the issue at the right time and asked the important officials in the court to discuss: In the Southern Expedition, should we attack Jin first or Chengdu?
During this period, he speeded up and arranged a series of affairs.
Huan Wen has now become the public enemy of the children of Duke Liang. He and Princess Jingfu will get married in March.
Shao Xun didn't care about his children's affairs.
If Huan Wen can't even bear the pressure, then he will be the Prince Consort for the rest of his life until he dies. However, Fu Bao was very protective of his future husband and scolded all those people bloody.
This may not be a good thing or a bad thing, it all depends on his destiny.
The eldest son Jin Dao was fully qualified for the post of Zuo Feilong's guard chief, and all matters were clear. Shao Xun transferred him to the Shaofu and served as the second Shaofu young supervisor, responsible for the final sprint of engraving and printing.
The ink prepared so far is already relatively good, but Shao Xun is still a little dissatisfied and asked the Shaofu to improve it.
Give them one to two years. If it still doesn't work, then use the current defective products without further delay.
The second son, Shao Gui, was still stationed in Zuoguoyuan, but he also held the post of Shaoqing of Taipu Temple.
He still held the post of minister in the Shanyu Mansion, deeply promoted horse farming in Dai Kingdom, and urged the pastoral officials of Taipu Temple to continue to select and breed excellent horses suitable for horse farming.
The third son Xu managed Sangziyuan in an orderly manner, his household registration increased, and his property output increased significantly.
Of course, this is not necessarily his credit, it is more likely the ability of the staff of Prince Zhao's Palace, but it is also good to know how to use people.
Shao Xun will examine which official in Prince Zhao's Mansion is so capable, and then transfer them away to see if Sanlang can stabilize this situation.
After arranging all this, he began to focus on the military...
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"When will you let me go?" In Guangcheng Palace in the early morning, Mrs. Wang leaned her face against Shao Xun's chest and asked softly.
The weather in early February is still a bit cold, especially in the mountains.
The two of them were lying on the same quilt, which was quite comfortable to be honest.
Not only because of the warmth, Wang also felt a kind of psychological relaxation.
She was extremely powerful and majestic in Pingcheng, but for some reason, her nerves were tense.
Everyone seems to think that he wants to rebel.
Seeing those tribal adults, I guessed his heart: Do you think I am no different from the Qi family? Do you think I'm in Jieji Sichen? Do you feel humiliated? Are you waiting for Shi Yijian to grow up?
This feeling of uneasiness could never be dismissed. Even after Liu Lugu's forces were defeated, many people looked at her with fear, but she still could not completely relax.
But when she left her old home, where she had been operating for many years, and came to the unfamiliar Guangchengze, she suddenly relaxed.
Especially when she says a few soft words at night and lets a man hold her to sleep, the feeling of peace of mind is indescribable.
The biggest risk here is actually that this man always wants to make her belly bigger.
In the two or three months since she came to Guangchengze, she might have spent the night with him more times than Queen Yu. This was her only worry.
"You're in such a hurry to leave?" Shao Xun hugged the woman hard and said, "Liu Lugu has just been dealt with. Your brother is in charge of Shengle and cleaning up the remnants. There is still a Chanyu Mansion in Pingcheng. What are you worried about?"
"I want to go back to see my daughter." Wang said softly: "Our daughter."
"Does she look like me or you now?" Shao Xun became interested and asked.
"I looked like you when I was a child, and now I look like me." Mrs. Wang chuckled and said, "It's better to be like her mother. From now on, she will be the most beautiful skylark on the grassland."
Shao Xun laughed and said: "Bring her to Luoyang, I want to hug the good girl."
"Only three years old after the New Year, too young." Wang moved up, hugged Shao Xun's neck tightly with both hands, and slid her huge body against his chest.
"What a young body." Shao Xun sighed in his heart.
I have been sleeping with Mrs. Wang for several years and have given birth to two children, but the woman in front of me is only twenty-four years old.
What an inexhaustible legacy Tuoba Yulu left him.
"Leave after you're pregnant with the child." Shao Xun patted her butt, causing ripples to appear.
Wang didn't speak.
"Huh?" Shao Xun is not used to it. In the past, this woman always begged.
"What do you think the Xianbei nobles think of me?" Wang said suddenly.
"They are pretending to be stupid." Shao Xun said: "The first person who doesn't want to pretend to be stupid will be killed and will stop for a while."
"Actually, the tribes in Mobei no longer come to Pingcheng to pay tribute." Wang said: "There are also tribes in Dongmugen Mountain who scolded me privately and left without saying goodbye."
"If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come." Shao Xun said shamelessly: "Didn't you just conquer the tribes of Shuofang, Kujiesha and Beiyishan? I saw more people than left."< br>
"It will fall apart one day." Wang suddenly felt a little emotional and said: "The grassland is full of unruly wolves. Even if I raise a few faces to play with, they will not despise me so much. On the contrary, they will remain Respect. But what kind of prestige does a woman who comes and goes when she is called upon do? If Shi Yiqian had not been there, Dai Guo would have been gone. In the end, I am afraid that only the Wuhuan and Liang people would not have left. .”
Shao Xun was silent for a while and said: "In a few days, I will recruit some government soldiers and subordinates in Luonan who are willing to gain fame, and go to Hongcheng south of Shengle to set up a military town. I will recruit every year, and I will count as many as I recruit. To some extent, Hongcheng Town will be more stable with the presence of Wuzhou, Gaoliu and Hongcheng towns.”
"You still don't understand." Wang said: "They won't fight back now, but they can leave."
"Then what do you want?" Shao Xun asked.
"I want to be your queen, can you give it to me?" Wang suddenly laughed, her tone seemed to be a joke.
"You don't want the heroine Dai Guo?" Shao Xun seemed to say in a joking tone.
"Sooner or later, Dai Guo will be in trouble. How many years can I still be in power?" Wang said.
"Oh?" Shao Xun smiled and said, "The first thing Shi Yiqian did when he took office was to kill his mother."
Wang was stunned and speechless.
There was a moment when I wanted to shed tears.
She didn't know why things had come to this point.
At the beginning, it seemed that she was seeking reinforcements for Shi Yiqian to restore the country, and at that time she was running for this son sincerely.
But gradually, Shi Yiqian didn't understand her, and she gradually alienated her son, only using him as a sign.
Now, she was actually on guard against her son, who seemed to hate her extremely.
There must be someone or something that contributed to this change.
The once kind mother has fallen and cannot go back because she is a little addicted and a little greedy.
"I'm pregnant." After a long time, Wang said.
"Really?" Shao Xun asked with joy.
"How can I not get pregnant after being used like this by you every day?" Wang said feebly: "If I go back with a big belly, it wouldn't be surprising if Xianbei nobles made trouble and launched a palace coup."
"Then go to Liangcheng and cover your eyes and ears for a while." Shao Xun said: "Liangcheng is safe. The more 'Liangcheng' there are, the safer you are."
Wang didn't really want to talk.
"I will allocate 50,000 more bolts of silk to you." Shao Xun said again: "You can use it to give rewards to the tribesmen who fought in Huainan, and give more pensions to those who died in the war. For those who are not stable, you plan to Give me a list. Dai is a vassal of Daliang, and I can still recruit soldiers and horses from the vassal country. You should be prepared to let them come to Henan before autumn. If they don't come, report them immediately and suppress them. "< br>
"I've done this again and again. It's strange that they can recognize me." Wang finally said something.
"If it's a boy this time, let's enthrone another county prince. As long as they don't dare to rebel now, it will be difficult in the future." Shao Xun hugged the woman tightly and said softly: "When there are all our children on the grassland, how can you still Are you afraid of those ministers? ”
"What do you want these soldiers for?" Wang hugged Shao Xun and asked softly in his arms.
"Fight Xiangyang." Shao Xun said: "Tao Kan and Le Kai have been fighting each other for so many years. Nanyang has been impoverished. I don't believe Xiangyang can last long."
"You stay with me these few days since I'm pregnant. Just walk around here and take a look." Wang said again.
"Aren't you in a hurry to go back?" Shao Xun asked with a smile.
Wang shook her head and said: "I am a woman, and there will always be times when I am weak. If you accompany me, I will be satisfied. Only after I return can I be ruthless enough to kill people."
"Okay." Shao Xun agreed.
Only by stabilizing the north can he have enough time to attack the south.
Moreover, although the focus is on attacking Jiangnan, the digestion of the north will not stop. This is also a long-term national policy.
(End of chapter)