Outside Shenzhou City, Zhang Quanyi looked at the account books carefully and nodded frequently.
Logistics and transportation on the grasslands are very different from those in the mainland. This was Zhang Quanyi’s first contact with it and he found it quite interesting.
He was quite talented in money, food and farming, but he was unlucky and entered the wrong profession. He became a martial artist and slowly rose to the top by being more ruthless than others. But as he moved up the ladder, his weakness of poor professional skills was exposed.
, all the way has been wasted until now. The more officials get mixed up, the smaller they get. From being the Inspector of Schools to Situ, to the Governor of the Youguo Army, to Henan Yin all the way to becoming the Governor of Xiazhou, there is no one left.
But Zhang Quanyi has a fighting spirit. Not giving up or admitting defeat are his good qualities.
It had only been a few months since he took office as governor of Shenzhou, but he had already made a thorough grasp of the situation in the four counties of this city. Facing the unfamiliar Tibetan people, he also formulated incentive measures, that is, he was willing to follow the expulsions.
Those who stop to plant pasture and raise cattle, sheep and horses while living on water and grass will be rewarded with silk, farm tools and seeds.
He divided counties and townships into separate areas, regularly checked the number of registered households, and rewarded those who showed significant growth. He scolded those who showed no signs of movement on the spot, showing no mercy at all.
A farmer is selected from each village and the one with the most cattle and sheep is rewarded. The one with the fattest wheat seedlings in the field is also rewarded.
He even has an ambitious plan to spend time in the second half of the year to learn about the mountains and rivers in Liangcheng, Shanwu, Woyang, Shenhe, Xuanhong and other places, and see if he can save one or two ponds for use in the event of a severe drought.
Solve the problem of drinking water for humans and animals every year to prevent livestock from dying in large numbers.
This is a talent! He is also full of enthusiasm and motivation. It is actually not a bad thing to keep him away from the dangerous industry of martial arts. At least he does not have to worry about it. He may live for a few more years. Is Zhu Quanzhong so easy to serve? Lao Zhang does not dare to think so.
"There is a lot of hay and a lack of grain and beans. The foundation of Shenzhou is still too weak." Zhang Quanyi said: "How will Yang Dutou fight this battle?"
"The soldiers are divided into separate groups, bringing cattle, sheep, carts, and horses with them to graze along the way. When they engage in battle, they mount their horses and fight. If they can defeat the enemy at once, they move on to the next place. If not, they spread out to herd and raise them.
After you gain weight, continue the fight." Zhang Quan'en replied.
He actually knew some of the rules of war on the grasslands. But he had never seen them with his own eyes. He had read them from history books.
At that time, the Wuhu went south to conquer each other. After fighting for a while, the horses ran so thin that they had to find a place to graze and gain fat before fighting again. Sometimes they even fought in the morning, but stopped fighting in the afternoon and went their separate ways.
Herding horses.
Feeding food is a good way to quickly restore the physical strength of the war horse and improve its long-term combat capability, but sometimes there is no way to find so much food.
On the prairie, due to factors such as drinking water, supplementing salt, and the growth and decline of pasture, it is impossible to gather everyone, horses, and livestock together, unless it happens to be a place with particularly abundant water and grass, such as Xuanhong Pond.
Yanchi (Daihai), etc.
Yang Yue led Xinquan, Feixiong, Jindao, Heiji and more than 40,000 troops, as well as 80,000 men from various tribes. The troops must be divided into separate groups, otherwise the cattle, sheep and horses in front will eat up all the newly grown pasture.
, the troops behind can only eat sand.
"Wouldn't all the more than 100,000 people go into battle to fight?" Zhang Quanyi asked again.
"No." Zhang Quan'en said: "Just like when fighting in the Central Plains requires conscripts to transport grain and grass, fighting on the grassland also requires people to set up camp, collect water, mow grass, cook, herd, and repair equipment. I guess Yang Dutou still uses flying bears.
The three armies of Jin Dao and Hei Jin are the core, and some Tibetan light cavalry guards are recruited to fight in battle, but most of the people still serve these soldiers."
It is said that Xia Jun's routine on the grassland has basically taken shape.
The cavalry army composed of professional warriors serves as the core elite main force that makes the final decision. A large number of Tibetan light cavalry are recruited as cannon fodder, and they are mixed and matched for combat.
Take the Heijian Army as an example. Ten thousand horse-mounted heavy armored infantry are usually paired with thousands or even ten thousand Tibetan light cavalry to march together. When encountering enemy cavalry, the light cavalry will engage first, and they will chase and kill them if they can defeat them.
If the enemy can't be defeated, just retreat and let these heavy armored infantry protect them. They have strong bows and crossbows, and are also capable of frontal combat. The enemy generally does not dare to attack forcefully.
This is actually the idea of building an army in the Later Han Dynasty. They used armored cavalry as the main force on the grassland, with Xianbei included. Herdsmen from the Wuhuan tribe acted as light cavalry, directly attacking the enemy's nomadic lands and capturing their old, weak, women, children, cattle and sheep.
, tried and true.
Therefore, the specific location of a nomadic tribe is a high-level secret. The enemy usually only knows the approximate location, but the grassland is vast, so knowing the approximate location is of little use. The location must be accurate, and it is best to have a leading party. When a tribe is grazing, if they see
When hostile tribes are scouting nearby, they usually have to move immediately. It is very dangerous to expose their position, and it is often over in just one surprise attack.
In later generations, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties relied on a large number of Mongolian leading parties to raid the nomadic lands of the Mongols. The Eight Banners' heavy armored infantry hit them accurately, making Lin Dan Khan keep running away and in great embarrassment.
"Prepare 20,000 grains and beans and send them to Rouzhou in a carriage." Zhang Quanyi ordered: "The state can only get so much for the time being. Yang Du will be sure that he will not blame him, and his second brother will personally escort him."
"Okay." Zhang Quan'en responded immediately.
"Take General Han, the deputy regimental training envoy, with you." Zhang Quanyi ordered again.
The border counties of Shuofang Army usually have the post of regiment training envoy. For example, Sun Jinde, the son of Sun Ba, served as the regiment training envoy of Shanzhou. There is also a regiment training envoy in Shenzhou, Han Congyun, the son of Han Jian who was recently transferred to the governor of Ruzhou.
Zhang Quanyi and Han Jian are both governors, but the difference is huge. On this point, he can still understand clearly. Han Jian served as governor of Huizhou and Shanzhou successively. I heard that he managed the place in an orderly manner, which is very impressive.
The king of Xia appreciates it, and maybe he will be promoted to the top one day.
If Han Congyun had not already had a wife, Zhang Quanyi even planned to marry his daughter to him. However, Wan Lu, the eldest daughter of the most suitable age, was not around. There were even rumors that Wan Lu had already called King Xia her father, so Lao Zhang gave up the idea.
When Lao Zhang was suppressing Caizhou, he heard that Cheng Rui, the governor of Shangzhou, was also good at running the place. After asking around recently, he learned that he had been appointed deputy envoy of the Zhenguo Army and started to govern Caizhou last month, which made him feel very complicated.
The military governor of the national army was Li Tangbin. It seemed that like Gao Renhou, he was rewarded for his military exploits, but perhaps he didn't fight well enough, so he only got the position of commander of a small vassal.
On June 15, Zhang Quan'en and Han Congyun left Liangcheng and headed for Rouzhou with 20,000 grains and beans.
Zhang Quanyi went to Woyang and Shanwuer County to check the local farmland water conservancy situation and was very motivated to work.
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Jining County in Johor has almost become a large cargo distribution center.
The first group of troops has already headed east, and the second group of troops is preparing to set off. Yang Liang, the envoy of the Golden Sword Army, is the commander. Today is their departure date.
There are many infantrymen stationed inside and outside Tucheng in Rouzhou. The main force is 5,500 infantry and cavalry from the Xinquan Army, and there are thousands of native Tuanmen from Guanbei.
To the west of Rouzhou, Shengzhou has gathered a large number of troops. The main force is thousands of soldiers brought by the Yang family from Linzhou.
"Where is Yang Du's head?" Yang Liang casually tied the hemp rope on the carriage tightly and asked.
"Returning to the army, we should be arriving in Daning soon." The voice of the speaker was loud and powerful. It was Liu Han, the former coach of the Shaanzhou Academy and now the capital of the Golden Sword Army, Yuhou.
Daning is in today's Wanquan District of Zhangjiakou, actually not far away, just over 200 miles away. Yang Yue personally led the Fei Xiong Army with 16,000 riders and 30,000 people from the Hexi Tibetan tribe. They rushed all the way and aimed directly at Shi Wei, the black chariot.
This is called the Southern Line.
Yang Liang led the Golden Sword Army with 10,000 horse-mounted infantry, plus 20,000 Longyou and Tibetan tribes, and took the northern route, attacking the old land of Huaihuang Town of the Later Wei Dynasty (near present-day Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou), where some Yinshan Tatars and dependents lived.
Li Keyong's mixed tribe is called the center line.
Xia Sanmu, the commander of the Heiji Army, led 10,000 horse-mounted infantry and 30,000 Fan cavalry from the tribes of the six major patrols. They took the northern route and attacked Ruyuan in a roundabout way.
Ruyuan is the source of Rushui. In the later Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen Taihe established Yuyi Town, which was the seventh town outside the six towns. The town was located in Dushikou Fortress, on the east bank of Gushui, more than 60 meters north of present-day Chicheng County.
inside.
Yuyi Town was used to suppress the Hu people in Ruyuan, as you can tell from the name. Today, Shi Wei, who is attached to Li Keyong, lives in this land, and some miscellaneous Hu people are ridiculed.
The three-pronged army, with more than 100,000 people, is vast and majestic. It will inevitably arouse Li Keyong's dissatisfaction, and even have to pass through his territory. The consequences are hard to say.
Yang Liang actually has his own opinions on this.
He believed that Zhu Quanzhong was already a dead dog. Under this situation, the towns in Hebei and Henan were afraid that they would have to repeat the old story of how they jointly dealt with the imperial court, that is, all kinds of alliances, double-faced people, and all kinds of incompetence.
Contributing force. In this case, should we overly stimulate Li Keyong and make him decide to become an enemy of Xia Jun?
Li Ke used to help the Yinshan Tatars to deal with the Qibi tribe in Rouzhou. You sent people to fight back, which was correct at the time. But time passed and the Liang people lost one hundred thousand elites in Xuzhou. The situation in the Central Plains changed drastically. It was wrong to do so at this time.
Not a problem?
However, there has been no order to cancel the combat plan so far, which means that everything continues. Yang Liang is a warrior, so he naturally has to carry out orders unconditionally, so he can only put away his doubts and lead his army.
At three o'clock in the morning, the endless carriage drove away from Jining County, Johor. The carriage was loaded with all kinds of supplies and food. It is impossible for people to eat meat all the time, especially for Central Plains sergeants, millet and wheat are also necessary, so they carried it with the army.
One batch.
The Longyou Fan people drove cattle, sheep, horses and camels, walking on both sides of the carriage. Looking from a distance, they almost filled the entire valley.
Three thousand Tubo Qingqi from the Shanzhou Anren Army served as the vanguard and set off before dawn.
"Let's go! There is no turning back when the bow is fired. This time we go out, we have to kill hard." Yang Liang waved his hand, and his own soldiers brought a rare yellow gelding. After turning over and riding it, he galloped on the grassland.
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Deputy envoy Zhang Guiba made a brief pre-war mobilization. The 10,000 soldiers put their weapons and stomachs on the pack horses without any nonsense, then mounted their horses and set off in batches.