In Pengcheng, Zhang Duanyang looked at the newly trained refugee army with pride in his heart.
These new armies were not the result of his training alone, but an elite group trained under Longyou's training system to dare to fight.
However, the biggest reason why this new army can have combat effectiveness is Mencius's words, "Those who have perseverance have perseverance."
Zhang Duanyang recruited refugees and allowed them to open up wasteland in the mountains north of Pengcheng. They were granted title deeds and recognized the land they opened up.
In addition, the treatment of the refugee army is much better than when it was a refugee.
Not only can he eat rice every month in the military camp, his monthly salary can also feed his family.
Zhechong Mansion also has an elimination mechanism. If you cannot complete the training mission, you will be sent home by the army. The New Army soldiers who have established a sense of honor are naturally unwilling to lag behind others.
Some keen soldiers have already felt that joining the army is an opportunity for them to change their destiny.
In the era where the player lives, warlords are synonymous with backwardness and barbarism, and military involvement in politics is despised by civilized society.
But in the old days, soldiers were synonymous with progress.
The army is a large organization. If it wants to implement complex tactics, it must carry out literacy education. Especially the new army trained by Longyou Zhechong Prefecture must take literacy courses every day.
In the Tang Dynasty, when the literacy rate was very impressive, ordinary farmers did not have many opportunities to become literate.
Therefore, during a period of our country's development, cadres transferred from the military were the main force of the cadre team and played a huge role in the development of the country.
In many countries that are far inferior to ours, the military can be said to be one of the few progressive forces.
Although the Pengcheng New Army has been training for less than two months, they are refugees who came south from Henan Road. Naturally they know that their current life is not easy, so they train more carefully.
While Zhang Duanyang was still training the new army, he received intelligence from the inner guard players near Luoyang. An Qingxu's main force gave up the siege of Luoyang and did not attack Tongguan. Instead, they headed east along the Bian River, seemingly running towards
Coming from the direction of Pengcheng.
Zhang Duanyang was also very surprised. He originally planned to train the new army for three months before going to fight An Qingxu, but he didn't expect that he would come over on his own initiative?
This professor who has been weak all his life is suddenly filled with great pride. Since you are sure, you should treat him well!
Have friends come from afar!
Zhang Duanyang sent a letter to the inner guard players along the way, asking them to monitor the movements of An Qingxu's army. At the same time, he began to pull the new army up the mountain for simulated training in preparation for intercepting An Qingxu's army coming east.
In Tongguan, after receiving Zhang Xun's notice, Guo Ziyi, who learned that An Qingxu's army had headed east, did not have any happy expression on his face. He looked toward the east with a sad face.
Li Guangbi, who fled back to Tongguan from Xiangzhou, stood behind Guo Ziyi. This old partner asked Guo Ziyi:
"Commander Guo, if the thieves abandoned Tongguan, it would be a blessing to the Tang Dynasty."
Any general with a little knowledge can see that if An Qingxu flows into Jiangdong, it will be a disaster for the Tang Dynasty.
Although Gao Shi, the governor of Huainan, was famous for his poetry, he was not a talented general. It was easy to quell King Yong's rebellion, but it was not easy to stop An Qingxu's army.
If An Qingxu is really allowed to invade Jiangdong and seize Jiangdong, the situation in the world will be even more difficult.
Guo Ziyi was worried, but he had no choice now.
The newly recruited soldiers of the imperial court can only defend the city. If they want to send these people out of the city to fight, they may collapse within a hundred miles.
Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, and the emperor and the court will never let Guo Ziyi leave Tongguan to pursue An Qingxu.
Luoyang was also short of major generals and could only watch An Qingxu heading east.
What worries Guo Ziyi even more is that An Qingxu's retreat does not mean that Tongguan and Luoyang are safe.
You must know that behind An Qingxu there is a father and son of the Shi family!
Although the Hedong soldiers in Shi Siming's hands were not as elite as when An Lushan was in its heyday, they were still well-trained veterans.
Guo Ziyi himself could say to Li Guangbi: "The current plan is to train troops in Tongguan!"
When the news reached Chang'an, the people of Chang'an just cheered that the siege of Tongguan was lifted. However, the food sent to Chang'an became less and less, and the price of rice on the market became higher and higher.
The knowledgeable people in the court were also very worried. The emperor issued several orders in succession, from the canal transport down the river, notifying the banks of the Bian River to be on guard.
Of course, the most important order was to promote Gao Shi, the military governor of Huainan, to the military governor of the four towns in Jiangnan.
The four towns in the south of the Yangtze River refer to the west of Zhejiang (Zhenjiang as the government), the east of Zhejiang (Shaoxing as the government), Xuanshe (Xuancheng as the government), and Huainan (Yangzhou as the government). These are the most elite and wealthy places in the Tang Dynasty, and also
The Jiangnan region collectively known as the Tang Dynasty.
This appointment can be said to be unprecedented. You must know that when An Lushan was favored by the emperor, he was only granted the title of Jiedushi of the Three Towns.
These four towns in the south of the Yangtze River were the most prosperous areas of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court actually handed them over to Gao Shi! You must know that Gao Shi controlled Huainan before. Now with the addition of three towns, it can be said that the imperial court took over the entire Jiangnan area.
It was handed over to Gao Shi.
In addition, the imperial court also ordered Jiangxi (governed in Nanchang), Eyue (governed in Wuhan), Fujian (governed in Fuzhou), and Hunan (governed in Changsha) to start recruiting soldiers. All newly recruited soldiers were gathered in Yangzhou, and the court named them
In order to suppress the navy, all were handed over to Gao Shijie.
You must know that even during the period when the Anshi Rebellion was at its worst, the imperial court did not recruit troops from the four southeastern provinces to fight in the Central Plains. This time, the Tang Dynasty could be said to have spent a lot of money.
Jingzhou City has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, but during this period of the Tang Dynasty, Jingzhou was regarded as the rear area of the imperial court.
However, because of the important status of Jingzhou, the imperial court also stationed the Jingzhou Army in Jingzhou.
The Jingzhou Army is mainly a naval force with a strength of 5,000 men and 200 boat divisions. It is an important force guarding the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
At this time, the person in charge of the Jingzhou Army was a middle-aged man. This native of Jingzhao, who defected to the Shannan Eastern Province Jiedu Envoy after the Anshi Rebellion, gained the respect of the Shannan Eastern Province Jiedu Envoy in less than three years and was appointed as the governor of Shannan Eastern Province.
Judge, Jingzhou army envoy.
At this time, this middle-aged man with a slight sense of culture was putting on his armor and preparing to order troops.
"Brother Taichong!"
A man dressed as a Confucian scholar rushed into the room, only to see a middle-aged man in armor and asked:
"Brother Taichong is going on an expedition?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, "I promised Brother Runlian that I would have to wait until I come back from the expedition to complete the painting of the Five Oxen."
Unexpectedly, the Confucian scholar laughed and said: "Brother Taichong, I also received an order from the Jiedushi Envoy. The Jiedushi envoy appointed me as the military food and grass transport envoy to Jingzhou, and I will go south to Yangzhou with you."
The middle-aged man grabbed the Confucian scholar and said, "Great! With Brother Runlian helping me prepare food and grass, Han Huang will definitely be able to make great achievements when he goes to Yangzhou!"
The person whom Han Huang called Brother Runlian was Xu Jie, now the magistrate of Jingkou County. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Zhide and was one of the seventeen players who rushed from Longyou to Chang'an to take the exam.
Runlian is the nickname Xu Jie gave himself. After the imperial examination, Xu Jie himself was originally from Hubei, so when he was selecting officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he chose Jingkou County, which no one wanted to go to, to be the magistrate.
Jingkou is the county seat of Jingzhou and now belongs to the South East Road of Datang Mountain.
Jingzhou, which was a strategic location during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, lost its important strategic position after the confrontation between the north and the south, but it is still a land and water hub in the central and southern part of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Shannan Dongdao had very little say within Datang.
The ruling group of the Tang Dynasty was the Guanlong aristocracy, and its foundation was naturally Guanzhong.
The rise of the Luoyang common people during the Wu Zhou Dynasty also elevated the status of Henan Province in the Tang Dynasty. The people of Guanzhong and Gyeonggi were the first class. Similar to the residents of today's first-tier cities, they also enjoyed huge advantages in the imperial examinations.
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Jiangnan was prosperous. As finance became more and more dependent on Jiangnan, the status of Jiangnan nobles also increased. Foreign officials also preferred to go to Jiangnan with a pleasant climate. Jiangnan was considered the second class in the Tang Dynasty.
In places like Shannan East Road, the summers are sultry, and there are still barbarians remaining in the Jingchu area at this time. It is a small and transparent area of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no sense of presence in the imperial examinations.
The former scholar group in Jingzhou had long been wiped out in the troubled times. Xu Jie chose to serve as an official in Jingzhou, and the court even awarded him the title of magistrate of Zhongxian County.
The armored middle-aged man was named Han Huang. He was originally from Jingzhao, but he failed in the imperial examinations many times. During the Anshi Rebellion, he fled to Shannan East Road. However, he was favored by Lu Jiong, the military governor of Shannan East Road, and was appointed as military governor.
He served as the magistrate of the government and later served as the military envoy of Jingzhou to guard the strategic location of Jingzhou.
Han Huang ordered his troops at the school field, and then led the soldiers to board the navy ship, preparing to sail down the Yangtze River to support Yangzhou.
Han Huang also knew Xu Jie's ability, and handed over all the logistics and transportation of the Jingzhou Army to him. Xu Jie also made all preparations, with clear rewards and punishments. The morale of the Jingzhou Army was like a rainbow, and thousands of sails sailed south on the Yangtze River, attracting the people of Jingzhou.
Watching at the pier.
Gao Shi, the Jiedushi Envoy of the Four Towns, received the invitation from the imperial court. After hastily holding an inauguration ceremony at the Jiedushi Envoy's Mansion in Huainan, he also quickly ordered the mobilization of the four towns in Jiangnan.
An Qingxu marched eastward. When he ran out of food and grass, he attacked the cities along the Bian River. After plundering the food, he continued eastward.
From the intelligence coming along the way, An Qingxu's target was also very obvious, which was Pengcheng, the gateway to Jianghuai!
At this time, Gao Shi could no longer take care of spring plowing, and a large number of young men were drawn from the fields to join the army. Yuan Zai, the salt and iron envoy from the south of the Yangtze River, used the Jianghuai water network to transport massive supplies to Pengcheng.
The court soon received new news that Shi Siming had gone south!