The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 750 Taiping Orphans in the Battle of Qingzhou
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While talking, a burst of hurried footsteps outside the house interrupted Xu You's speech.

The wooden door was opened by the guards guarding the courtyard, and what caught the eye was a robe with a fragrance as the background and embroidered with two beasts, eagle and wolf.

The one who walked into the house was none other than Liu Pi, the current commander of the Eagle Wolf Guard.

Liu Pi is the only person who can directly enter the place where Xu An is without the transmission.

Liu Pi walked into the house, saw Yan Zhong and Xu You, first saluted Yan Zhong, then walked around the table and chairs to Xu An's side, bent down, and opened the letter The letter and an unopened letter were presented to Xu An, and at the same time, he whispered something to Xu An.

Every time Liu Pi said a word, Xu An's face also slowed down a bit, but he suddenly frowned again.

Liu Pi didn't stay long, and after reporting a few words, he bowed to Xu An, and then walked out of the house neatly.

The Yellow Turban Army has maintained excellent military discipline since Xu An was in the Taihang Mountains. In today's Ming court, the easiest way to distinguish whether they are from a school or from the army is to look at their walking demeanor.

Those who are not in a hurry, and who walk steadily are mostly from the school, while those who move cleanly and without sloppiness must be from the army.

Liu Pi was born in the army, so he naturally has such a habit.

Xu You was about to leave, but when he saw Liu Pi coming in, he sat down again.

Liu Pi came to look for Xu An in person, and interrupted the conversation on such an occasion, so it proves that this information should be quite important.

Now the situation in the Western Regions, the Northern Territory, and the Southern Border is fairly stable, and there will not be any major disturbances. Even if there is a disturbance, it will definitely be a huge disturbance. Liu Pi will not look normal, so the only possible situation It is in the east, most of which are changes in the Han and Wei courts in the Central Plains.

So Xu You stayed. Although he was the government order of Zhongshufu, he was not content to be just the government order of Zhongshufu.

Yan Zhong cannot always be the chief assistant of the cabinet. The chief assistant of the cabinet will eventually be replaced by someone. Now, the only people who can fight for the position of chief assistant of the cabinet are him and Jia Xu. He wants to stay here and wait for the following , to see if you can make an initial statement.

Xu An opened the envelope again, Xu You's guess was correct.

It is true that something happened in the Central Plains.

Although the drought has only affected the Sanfu area of ​​Zhongzhou, the locust plague is not just raging in Zhongzhou.

In March of this year, when Taipingdao was founded, the Han army under the leadership of Yuan Shu and Zhu Zhi swore to the Northern Expedition, and Tian Feng was also ordered to take over the command in the face of danger.

Yuan Shao ordered Ta Dun to personally lead Wuhuan [-] cavalry to the south to aid Qingzhou, and Ju Yi led the camp with [-] cavalry, and Luzhao Youzhou cavalry with [-] cavalry to go south to aid Qingzhou. They were led by Jiang Yiqu and sent to Qingzhou. There were [-] riders, all of which were handed over to Tian Feng for control. Wei Ting almost invested his money.

After Tian Feng entered Qingzhou, he cleaned up the mess left by Yuan Tan, prepared the city defenses in various places, gathered the army again, and started training.

Most of the old and weak soldiers in Qingzhou were eliminated and demoted to auxiliary soldiers.There are only more than [-] Qingzhou soldiers left, of which [-] are cavalry.

After the defeat in the first battle, those who escaped or scattered, after Zang Ba collected the remnants of the army, only [-] remained from the original [-] army.

The total force that Tian Feng can mobilize is only [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, making a total of [-] troops.

Counting the auxiliary soldiers, civilian husbands, and Tian Feng as suspicious soldiers, it is claimed that there are [-] troops stationed in Qingzhou.

However, the Han court was determined to fight this battle. Even if there were [-] troops, they would still not change their mind about the Northern Expedition.

In late March, the Battle of Qingzhou officially broke out.

The Han army divided into two groups, and marched towards Qingzhou from the east and west routes at the same time.

The East Route Army, led by General Zhu Zhi, led Sun Ce, Ling Cao, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and other generals, attacked Beihai State in Qingzhou via Langya State in Xuzhou, and captured the eastern part of Qingzhou.

There are a total of [-] soldiers, of which [-] are elite Danyang soldiers, known as the [-] army.

The West Route Army, led by the former general Yuan Shu, led Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other generals, attacked Pingyuan County and Jinan State in Qingzhou via the Jibei State in Yanzhou, and captured the western part of Qingzhou.

There are a total of [-] soldiers, and the [-] Youzhou cavalry under Liu Bei's command are also in the sequence of the West Route Army, known as an army of [-].

In fact, the total number of the two armies of the Han army is only [-], but they claim to have an army of [-].

Sun Jian did not participate in the Northern Expedition, but stationed troops in Puyang, Dongjun, guarding the Luoyang area and the Wei army on the north bank of the Yellow River to prevent the Wei army from suddenly going south to cross the river.

Judging from the overall number of people, the Han army's military strength is superior, and its combat strength should be higher, but it is not the case.

Only the [-] Youzhou cavalry led by Liu Bei were formed into the cavalry of the Han army, while the Wei army had [-] cavalry troops, which far exceeded the cavalry of the Han army, and even had [-] heavy cavalry. Equipped cavalry, these six hundred heavy cavalry are not the light vests in the original arsenal, but the improved heavy vests.

With the new type of riding gear, the heavy cavalry can equip more equipment, and their combat power has risen to an extremely high level.

Yuan Shao armed a total of [-] heavy armored cavalry, who had been organized as "tiger and leopard cavalry" before, and were led by Jiang Yiqu. After all, Jiang Yiqu had experience in commanding armored cavalry before.

However, the Han army is not without advantages. Although the Han army is not as rich and powerful as the Wei army, the Han army has just won a new victory, its morale is like a rainbow, and its fighting spirit is high. The two generals, Lu Zhao and Lu Zhao, can be transferred.

Before the Battle of Qingzhou was about to break out, Gongsun Du ordered the entire army to withdraw to Liaodong under Xu An's order. Liaodong had a large number of sea ships that had already been built. Soon after, all the people left behind in Yingzhou were transported back to Liaodong. .

Later, Gongsundu, who was supported by Qianbo from Taiping Road, began to expand to the Korean Peninsula according to the plan, so Yingzhou returned to Qingzhou's sphere of influence again.

After several ups and downs in the battle of Qingzhou, the morale of the Han army was like a rainbow.

The Han army on the East Road still captured the southern part of Beihai Kingdom in Qingzhou, and the Han Army on the West Road also invaded Jinan Guozhong.

But without Yuan Tan, the commander who failed to succeed but failed, the commander of the Wei army was replaced by Tian Feng, and the results of the two armies stopped here.

Under the leadership of Tian Feng, the Wei army in Qingzhou finally withstood several waves of attacks from the Han army, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

Zhu Zhi wants to expand the results of the battle, continue to attack, command the army to attack Pingshou, and wants to include the central part of Beihai Kingdom in one go.

However, during the battle, Tian Feng suddenly dispatched tiger and leopard cavalry, and at the same time sent cavalry to outflank, almost wiped out the Eastern Army led by Zhu Zhi. In the end, Sun Ce led the Danyang soldiers to fight desperately. At the cost of more than half the casualties, this It was only then that the army was stabilized without a rout.

Then Zhu Zhi commanded the Han army on the East Road to withdraw southward and arrived at Yingling City, and temporarily lost the ability to attack.

After the Han army from the West Road invaded Jinan, they did not dare to act rashly. There are still many Wei troops in the Yellow River in the north. Once they go too deep into Qingzhou, the rear road may be cut off. In this way, the whole army fell into Qingzhou, and finally It was completely wiped out by the Wei army.

At this time, Tian Feng didn't have much offensive ability.

Although the Qingzhou soldiers have undergone reorganization, the reorganization time is not long. There is more than enough defense, but not enough offense.

The two sides fought fiercely for more than four months, and the situation in Qingzhou fell into a stalemate in July.

Originally, everyone in the Han court thought that the situation would be overwhelming, but the reality was that they were slapped heavily.

The cavalry equipped with new-style riding equipment not only greatly improved the ability of the cavalry to charge into battle, but also greatly improved the accuracy of riding and shooting, as well as the range of riding bows.

Wuhuan's cavalry army and Wei army's cavalry army used cavalry and shooting to cause heavy casualties to the Han army's East Route Army. Without Sun Ce's rear, the East Route Army may have been completely wiped out by this time.

And those men and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and the heavy armored knights like canned food refreshed everyone's perception.

Those heavy cavalry can penetrate several battalions with ease, it is like destroying the dead.

Most of the Eastern Han Army led by Zhu Zhi were elites from previous battles, but facing the charge of the tiger and leopard cavalry, they broke through six formations in an instant. If it weren't for the Danyang soldiers led by Sun Ce to block the charge of the heavy cavalry , I am afraid that the situation in Qingzhou has reversed now.

"Tiger and leopard cavalry...heavy cavalry..."

Although he had already heard of the tiger and leopard cavalry in Wei Junzhong, Xu An still felt a little ironic when he saw the three words of tiger and leopard cavalry again.

Originally, the King of Wei should be Cao Cao, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was also established by Cao Cao, but now they have all become Yuan Shao's title and army.

Although Cao Cao has now become Yanzhou Mu, the generals and counselors who originally belonged to him have basically fallen into other hands.

Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu and others went to Liu Chong's side, but Xu Chu and others went to Sun Jian's tent.

The five good generals were originally Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Jin, Zhang Ying, and Xu Huang, but now Zhang Liao and Xu Huang are in the Taiping Road, Zhang He died, and Le Jin and Yu Jin followed Cao Cao.

But Xu Chu was abducted by Sun Jian, and even the tiger guards were gone, but Dian Wei still belonged to Cao Cao's army, and now he seems to have been promoted to a school lieutenant.

In the changed timeline, Cao Cao is definitely the one who has been plucked the most.

However, the Sun family has received a wave of epic-level strengthening, and Liu Bei has also strengthened a lot, at least it is much better than not even having a base in history.

The Qingzhou battlefield should not have fallen into a stalemate, because after the war broke out, Sun Jian was able to dispatch part of his troops to Qingzhou to rush to help.

However, the plague of locusts affected Yanzhou, and even spread to the land of Yuzhou. Of course, the Luoyang area was not avoided.

Because of the impact of the locust plague, both Yuan Shao and Sun Jian fell into the same situation - lack of food.

The lack of food in Wei Ting was not serious, because there were not many people in the Luoyang area, and it was located in the rich land of Qingji, and it was supported by powerful families in Jizhou.

However, the Han court has reached a stalemate. Because of years of military use, the Han court's food reserves have almost bottomed out. This time, for the northern expedition to Qingzhou, it has been several months of raising military food, and it was only made up of pieces. Supplies for the Northern Expedition.

But this time the locust plague directly destroyed half of Yanzhou and a small half of Yuzhou's fields. Food prices in various places soared, and the reserves were completely insufficient. They could only barely support the army and could not help the civilians at all.

As a result, a large number of farmers in Yan and Henan lost their land, had to sell themselves into slavery, and declared bankruptcy.

However, the Han court was helpless about all this. Liu Xie had more than enough energy to deal with this situation. At this moment, although Liu Xie was young, he also understood one thing.

It seems that those powerful families and him are not really standing together...

Xu An didn't care what Liu Xie thought.

The Battle of Pingshou is really valuable for reference. Originally Xu An was still considering whether to cultivate a heavy cavalry unit, but this time the Battle of Pingshou, the heavy cavalry showed their majesty.

A heavily armed heavy cavalry can indeed affect a large-scale battle of [-] people, and can play a decisive role. The horror of heavy cavalry was fully revealed in the Battle of Pingshou.

The Ming court now needs to form a new army, a real heavy cavalry.

Just thinking about the need to form a new army gave Xu An a headache.

The city defense of the outer city of Chang'an was the responsibility of the local garrison, while the city defense of the inner city was still in charge of military pawns and sharp soldiers.

Military pawns and sharp soldiers are mainly engaged in foreign wars, so naturally they cannot serve as the imperial army for a long time, and the establishment of a new army is imminent.

"correct."

Xu An raised his eyebrows slightly, and opened the unopened letter.

At the same time, he also remembered a new army that Jia Xu was asked to supervise a long time ago.

At that time, Taiping Road only occupied Bingzhou, and its influence was not great. At that time, the Yellow Turban Army did not have military pay, because the finances could not afford it. Of course, they already had military pay now.

At that time, after joining the army, the family could be exempted from certain taxes to subsidize the family's loss after temporarily losing a man, so that they could maintain their livelihoods. Military service is also a kind of obligation.

At that time, the Scarf Army did not have much pension for the families of the war dead.

Therefore, Jia Xu remonstrated that he could follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in setting up a Jianzhang battalion and set up a battalion to recruit orphans of fallen soldiers.

Raising the orphans of the soldiers and collecting them into a battalion can not only appease the hearts of the generals, but also stabilize the emotions of the family members. It can also get an extra strong soldier and kill three birds with one stone. Xu An also agreed to this matter and handed it over to It was given to Jia Xu to supervise.

Taipingwei was established at the end of the first year of Yonghan (189), and actually officially formed an army in the first year of Chuping (190).

It has been five years since the Taipingwei was established.

"Where is Taipingwei now?"

After all, Xu You was not the person in charge, but Xu An still asked Xu You tentatively.

"Taipingwei used to be training in Shangdang County, but after our army liberated Zhongzhou, the Taipingwei's station was moved to the south of Chang'an City."

Although Xu You was not in charge of the military and government, he knew the troops around Chang'an City very well.

Moreover, because of the particularity of the Taipingwei, its logistics is directly in charge of the household department, not the army logistics department under the Chinese Army Mansion, so Xu You is very clear about the situation of the Taipingwei.

"The Taiping Guard is now divided into the Youth Camp and the Youth Camp. The Youth Camp has more than [-] people, and the Youth Camp has more than [-] people. There are more than [-] people in total."

"More than four thousand people..."

Xu An's eyes narrowed slightly, this is undoubtedly an extremely heavy number.

The Yellow Turban Army has been fighting for many years, and countless soldiers died on the battlefield. The blank steles in the Taiping Temple have already been engraved, and many more steles have been made later, and the inscription has started again.

The teenagers of the Taipingwei are all orphans of the Yellow Turban Army martyrs. They naturally have an unforgettable hatred for the Han court. Let them guard the inner city, and it is naturally possible to eliminate the existence of traitors.

Moreover, guarding the inner city of Chang'an City and staying away from the battlefield can be regarded as giving some explanation to those soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who died.

Xu An put his hands on the desk, leaned on it with his elbows, and rubbed his temples on both sides with his palms.

The biggest problem now is balance.

The famine this time has dealt too heavy a blow to the economy of the Yellow Turban Army. With the land tax, service money, and house raids that Taiping Road now collects, the gold, silver and copper mines in various places are barely maintaining the situation.

The current economic situation in Taipingdao is no longer able to support large-scale foreign military use, so it can only maintain the fragile balance between the Central Plains and Mobei.

Xu An looked at the silk book in his hand, and his expression suddenly became complicated.

After a long silence, Xu An finally broke the silence.

"Tell Lu Bu that after he leads the army to the north, the central Xianbei can suffer some defeats. As long as Qianman is kept alive, the strength of the central Xianbei will not suffer a heavy blow..."

Xu You's pupils shrank slightly, and he was a little curious for a moment where the silk letter Xu An received came from.

The Yellow Turban Army always used "Yellow Sky Paper" to transmit information, and the news sent back by the Eagle Guards was also recorded on Yellow Sky Paper, but what Xu An held in his hand was a silk scroll.

Could it be...

　Starting point broken chapter class, outstanding students come to report.

　　Everyone can guess why this letter is so important that Liu Pi personally delivered it.

　　By the way, the foreshadowing of this chapter has been buried a long time ago. Because of my update, many book lovers may have forgotten it, and the author is responsible.

　　
　
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