"Your Highness, this is the place where Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in history." Ren Yuan, the former Hedong military officer and Li Sizhao's aide, introduced.

"Oh? It's true?" Shao Mingyi was familiar with history books. Of course he knew about this, but he deliberately pretended to be surprised and asked.

Their location at this time was already in Yaozhou, the territory of the Nanzhao Nongdong Jiedushi. During the Tianbao period, many Han people immigrated, but during the Nanzhao era, most of them moved to Lishui and Yongchang towns, and a few moved to Yinsheng Town. Instead, they were tribes that were not known where they got them. Nanzhao also liked to carry out ethnic migrations very much, and often threatened by force to move local indigenous people away and then moved other tribes.

Shao Mingyi, who knew about this, always felt that these tribes were too easy to talk to. His father moved the people of Weibo to Qingtang. I don’t know how many unrest occurred, and Liang Huaijin’s ancestral tomb, who was in charge of the matter, was dug up.

"It's true." Ren Yuan has good abilities, but he cares very much about others' evaluations of himself and likes to fight for things when encountering things. However, Shao Mingyi is relatively easy-going. When it comes to matters that do not touch the principles, he tries to use other people's strengths and ignores their shortcomings, so he is more tolerant of Ren Yuan.

Besides, Ren Yuan was from Sanyuan County, Guanzhong. He added a lot of points in this era when he was born.

"Since he received the order, he was worried and sighed, afraid that the entrusted mandate would not work, which would hurt the wisdom of the late emperor. Therefore, he crossed Lulu in May and went deep into the barren..." Shao Mingyi looked at the villages and farmlands everywhere and sighed: "When Zhuge Liang crossed Lulu, there was still a barren land south of Lushui. Now the development here has achieved some results, and the changes have changed for hundreds of years.

Their location is the ferry crossing across the Lujin Pass.

Lujin Pass is located on the north bank and is located in Tianbao. After the fall of Yaozhou, the Jinsha River became the first line of obstacles to Nanzhao, so the pass city was established in the former place of Wuhou crossing the river.

Shao Mingyi and his party crossed the river on a cowhide raft. After getting ashore, they found that this was a rare and relatively gentle area. According to the scouts, further south, there were Qibu County (now the Yuanmou Riverside) and Moyu County (now the old city of Yuanmou) that were placed in the Zhenguan period. They were all abolished and the governor's office was placed in the guizhou period.

This area is actually a rare Bazi area (mountain plain) in Yunnan in later generations. After Nanzhao controlled this place, the indigenous people had long been scattered, and now the people living here are Wuman and Baiman. Their level of civilization is not low, they are good at planting rice and beans, and their economic strength is not bad.

But now, there seems to be something like that—

Shao Mingyi asked someone to lead a horse, rolled over and rode around, and turned around.

There were still people in the village, but they looked panicked. The eyes looked at them were weird, both hatred and fearful.

Shao Mingyi felt something, and when he saw the corpse that had not been buried, he became even more certain.

"Your Highness, the state is poor, and the Huichuan Governor's Office is doing its best to provide the entire army. Mr. Li went south and had to raise food on the spot..." Ren Yuan also came over and explained.

"I understand." Shao Mingyi nodded.

"Food raising" is a neutral word. In addition to this word, there are many unexplained meanings that anyone who has fought a war knows.

If the common people are willing to hand over the food obediently, there will be no big problem and they will not commit much killing. Otherwise, during the war in the Central Plains, the looted sea of ​​troops will be gone, and they will kill all the people?

But the problem is that there are always people who are unwilling to hand over the food, and they will kill people at this time. Moreover, in order to ensure military supplies, the troops from all over the south will most likely collect food from the dead. The more the better, and it is easy to steal all the food in the hands of the people.

They will not care about the lives of the people, especially the people of the enemy country.

At that time, Xian Yu Zhongtong led 80,000 Tang troops to Erhai Lake to burn, kill and loot, but it made Ge Luofeng, who had just established the country miserable, and even won the war and his territory was also damaged.

Xianyu Zhongtong does not have the ability to transport grain from Jiannan to Erhai Lake, and the Xia army now does not have the ability. Or it is necessary to make the people of Jiannan suffer so much?

This is not Henan, Hebei, with canal support.

It is not the northern grassland, there are military rations that can walk.

This is a mountainous area of ​​two thousand miles, and the road is difficult.

Not only is the destruction of Ya, but there is not much wealth. At least you have to transport food and grass from Qiongzhou and Chengdu, which is even more expensive. I don’t know how many people will be destroyed and their families will be destroyed, which will cause the Jiannan turmoil.

Sometimes, it's just a choice.

Do you harm the people of your country or the people of your enemy? Li Tangbin chose the latter.

"Send someone to comfort the people. If anyone is hungry and has no food, he will give him some dry food." Shao Mingyi ordered.

"Affect the order." Ren Yuan immediately ordered his followers to handle the matter.

He knew that this was just a show of doing things.

The food they carry is limited, how many people can they help? It is not certain whether they can appreciate it or not. If the King of Yan is willing to act, then he will act with him. A lord who is willing to act is better than a person who is unwilling to act. Ren Yuan is still very satisfied.

"The people who received dry food should restrain their own bodies and not expose them to the wilderness, as they may easily cause plague." Shao Mingyi said again.

Ren Yuan: "..."

It is carved out in the same mold as Shao Sheng! You have to work after eating, it’s really not too good to eat.

"Yes." Ren Yuan sent someone to chase him and give orders.

Shao Mingyi continued to rode his horse forward.

The army was just about to go south. At the end of July and early August, the rice was already harvesting season. Looking at the bare appearance in the field, it seemed that the harvest had been completed - that is, it was just a turn, and now it is mostly in Li Tangbin's army.

Moreover, it seems that there is no hot here in Shuzhong, which makes him feel a little comfortable - relatively speaking.

My father said that it seems to be related to "altitude". The places where Daxia is high in the west and low in the east, and the places where the altitude is high are not so hot even in the south.

Walk south to see if there are cooler places. If Nanzhao is like this, then it is not impossible to be a vassal here, at least it is much more comfortable than the humid and hot areas like the Wuguan.

*******

"Get rich! Get rich!" The soldiers rushed up and opened the large warehouse. The white slugs filled with white slugs (dié) blinded everyone's eyes.

Jibei, the name of cotton in the Tang Dynasty.

Ship, fine wool or fine cotton cloth, is also called "fine wool".

It's actually fine cotton.

This thing has always been valuable in the Central Plains. Its rare things are expensive, and it is several times the price of silk.

A small school arrested officials from the Southern Barbarians. After asking, they learned that at least 150,000 battalions were stored in this large warehouse in Nongdong City (Yao'an). After it was spread, the entire army caused a sensation.

"I didn't expect that the Southern Barbarians actually like to weave this piece." Wang Jiao was also shocked when he heard the report.

Of course, he had some economic knowledge and knew that so many bunkers suddenly poured into the Central Plains, and the prices would plummet, but - it was still very profitable.

In addition to the bunker, there are 60,000 to 70,000 pieces of silkworm, but they do not know the value.

Yang Zhao, who was beside him, turned a deaf ear to the word "Nanman" and said with a flattering smile: "General Wang doesn't know anything. The city of Landong is the former Yaozhou of the Tang Dynasty. After Nanzhao seized this place, he moved away the Han and moved the people from Erhai Lake. These people like to plant good green beans and like to weave cloth. Even the dragon robe of the king of Nanzhao was woven with this material."

"This is because I am ignorant." Wang Jiao said.

In his impression, the Western Regions also liked to plant this kind of thing. Among the gifts paid by the Kingdom of Khotan, there were many white water guides.

It seems that some of them are planted in Dunhuang, and the planting history is long, but the scale is very small, similar to Jibei Garden in the Sinong Temple in Lingzhou.

This kind of thing is growing around Daxia, but Daxia has just planted Jibei in Lingzhou. He suspected that the barbarian weaving technology of the weaving cloth is far superior to Daxia. After all, they have been doing it for hundreds of years.

"All the seized property will be booked and taken care of. Whoever dares to extend his hand without permission will be killed immediately?" Wang Jiao called out to his relatives and asked him to go down and pass the order immediately.

The army has its own laws and the spoils are distributed uniformly, otherwise wouldn’t it be a mess? Who would still want to fight to the death with a heavy burden?

The dear will go and pass the order immediately.

Wang Jiao thought about the next step.

He led his army to capture Nongdong City, beheading 800 people and capturing 3,000 people.

As an important city for communicating with the two capitals, he fought without fierce battle, which made him feel unrealistic. However, considering that the main force of Nanzhao has been destroyed, this is reasonable.

Just look at the captured people. There are a lot of people in their forties and fifties, but they are the ones who can fight, because they have been on the battlefield when they were young and have certain military experience.

There are also many younger people, but most of them are farmers and city people who are temporarily recruited, and their combat effectiveness is hard to describe. Anyway, they are the first ones to disperse.

The Southern Barbarians are indeed exhausted, at least in the jurisdiction of the Nongdong Jiedushi.

"General Yang, you are a local. How do you think you should advance next?" Wang Jiao pulled Yang Zhao down and asked humbly.

Whether there are locals leading the way will definitely have two effects.

As a vanguard attack envoy, he brought more than 10,000 troops across the river. Under the leadership of hundreds of soldiers of the Huichuan Governor's Office led by Yang Zhao, he ran 170 miles through Mozhaguan, Jiapiguan and Qingqupu. He then flew to the rope bridge and advanced at night. The iron cavalry raided Yangbaoguan, killed thousands of thieves, and then crossed the mountains and captured the city of Nongdong.

The whole journey took 370 or 80 miles, and it took less than ten days to fight and walk. Calculated carefully, it was faster than the normal marching, which made people mistakenly think that they were not fighting at the enemy's territory, but on an outing in their territory.

Without anyone leading the way, it is impossible to have this speed.

No one persuades surrender, it cannot be so easy.

No one has given instructions on where to get money, food and supplies, so I am afraid that I will still waste time looking for supplies.

The contributions of the Yang Ganzhen and Yang Zhao brothers are actually quite great.

"General, according to the scouts, the pseudo-Emperor Zheng Renmin had just fled back to Dali and was gathering troops and intending to resist stubbornly. The last general thought that he would not give him a chance to breathe, and he should chase him all the way and defeat him in one battle." Yang Zhao said.

By the way, Zheng Renmin was really unlucky. He crossed the Lu River in mid-July. He thought that the Huichuan Governor's Office would make the Xia people mourn for a long time, but the Yang brothers thought for several days and actually surrendered the city. Then the situation was out of control. The Xia army pioneered the river and followed him all the way. He was so scared that he didn't dare to stay in Nongdong City. After arriving at the city envoy, he rushed to Dali.

But the city envoy he appointed did not win much time. The building was empty and the troops were not good at fighting, so he actually let Wang Jiao defeat him in a battle and was about to pursue him again.

In his life, he had never been so rushing by. He couldn't eat well or sleep well, threw away his armor and was frightened and scared. He didn't even stop to summon officials and organize resistance, and was chased by someone all the way.

In fact, he also understood that Xia Ren did not give him time to react.

It takes time to recruit soldiers and prepare supplies, but what he lacks the most is time.

Sometimes when he was upset, he wanted to ask the Xia General who was chasing him loudly, whether he dared to stop, give me a month to rectify and then fight again?

Now he seems to be able to take a breath, but he is already in the capital. He is chased to the capital, this is a damn!

I chased me for a thousand or two miles, is it still a human?

"How to go? Don't look at us chasing us so fiercely, we are actually full of dangers." Wang Jiao said.

Chasing your butt and fighting hard means that you have given up the wings of the front line.

The Jianchuan Jiedushi of the Southern Barbarians could attack Huichuan Governor's Office from west to east, cutting off the Xia army's retreat.

The Kunming tribes can head from east to west and push the Xia army back - if they are still obedient.

As Tokyo, Shanchan Prefecture has recruited troops to the north and sent them out in one battle, but there are still some left-behind troops, and it is a troublesome to attack from the southeast.

The Yinsheng Jiedushi can attack from south to north.

Wang Jiao is chasing the enemy's belly now. The reason why he has not encountered any trouble is because it comes too fast and the enemy has not yet reacted.

If the relocation lasts for a long time, it may fall into the quagmire and Zheng Renmin can take a breath.

The troops of the governors of border towns such as Yongchang, Lishui, Yinsheng, Jianchuan, etc. will also gather in sequence, and the significance of the surprise attack will be lost at that time - especially Yongchang Town. I heard that the place "cities and cities are facing each other" and has a large population. This time, because it is too far away, no soldiers are sent here.

"If the general is brave enough, he will go straight to Dali." Yang Zhao inspires: "My brother has gone to Xi'er River. You can summon 20,000 tribe soldiers to come to help, or have a chance."

"Where are the other big clans?" Wang Jiao asked, "After this matter, have they not abandoned the Zheng family?"

Wang Jiao was able to fight political wars. He knew that if the Duan, Gao, Dong, Zhao and other major clans could abandon Zheng Renmin, then there would be a great chance of destroying the Southern Barbarians. On the contrary, the war would be delayed for a long time.

"General, if they want to abandon Zheng, they have to make more fire. They must be at the city, right?" Yang Zhao said.
Chapter completed!