The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 862
Qingzhou, Luoyin City.

This area that used to be in the south of Luoshui, which was surrendered to Hunxie King Hunxie, has now become a huge military fortress.

This time going south, it can indeed be called an all-powerful soldier.

The fourth battalion of military soldiers, the fourth battalion of sharp warriors, the camp of traps, and the yellow angels.

The Xiaoqi, Xiliang, Shanggu, and Bingzhou four cavalry battalions, the most elite troops in the Ming Dynasty, directly belonged to Xu An's trilogy, all joined the sequence of the Southern Expedition, and this part has a total of more than [-] people.

Among the six cavalry battalions, Wu Xiang was still guarding the northern border in the Western Regions and Du Liao, and all others were present.

In addition, during this Southern Expedition, more than [-] original soldiers from Qingzhou were also recruited by Xu An, plus a part of the army stationed troops, the total number of this part was [-].

This time the Southern Expedition, counting Qingzhou soldiers and army troops, actually used a total of [-] soldiers.

There have always been exaggerated claims in wars. Counting the more than [-] people who were recruited to support the logistics, Xu An also played the banner of an army of [-] without blushing.

Compared with the people who claim to have an army of [-] or [-] with only [-] to [-], Xu An's claim of [-] is actually a little less.

At this time in Luoyin City, it has been fully taken over by the Yellow Angels and Teng Xiangwei.

Xu An stood on the city wall and looked at the official road in the distance, but the fog was quite deep, and the distance was still a vast expanse of whiteness.

"The offensive in the south is going well, but the ones in Dongchaoyang and Jian County are a bit tricky."

Jia Xu stood aside, reporting the situation on the front line to Xu An.

Xu You was in charge of the logistics and had no knowledge of the military. At this time, he was still dispatching troops and generals to transport and sow grain.

Yan Zhong was leading the army at this time, and now the commander of the army besieging the two cities of Dongchaoyang and Jian County is Yan Zhong.

"The two cities of Dongchaoyang and Jian County are now high cities and deep pools. The Han court in these two cities seems to be operating with all their strength. The two cities have been under martial law for a long time, and the Tiqi of the Eagle Wolf Guard cannot pass the information out of the city."

"There seems to be a large number of soldiers stationed in these two cities. The general Liu Yan stationed in Dongchaoyang, and the general stationed in Jian County is Li Tong."

Xu An frowned slightly.

"Who are the city guards in Zouping and Qiancheng?"

"The eagle and wolf guards reported to Kong An and Cao Xiu before. Now that there is a martial law everywhere, people are strictly prohibited on the roads. It is difficult for the eagle and wolf guards to pass on the news, so we don't know the situation in Qingzhou for the time being."

The traffic in ancient times was not as good as it is now. As long as the intersections are blocked, even in the plains, it is actually difficult to pass.

In addition, everyone has their own identity at this time, and ordinary people don't travel far at all. The Eagle Wolf Guards can only pretend to be other identities, otherwise, once they go far, they will be suspected.

During the Han Dynasty, a very strict household registration system was implemented, that is, the household registration system.

It is stipulated that all households controlled by the government must be recorded in the household registration according to the name, age, place of origin, identity, appearance, wealth and other items, and the civilians who are officially included in the government household registration are called "registered households Qimin".

Registered household Qimin has an independent identity, and bears the state's taxes, corvee and military service according to the amount of assets.

"Sure enough."

Xu An's eyes moved slightly.

"The defenders of Dongchaoyang, Jian County, and Zouping are all foreign generals, and only Qiancheng is guarded by Cao's generals."

"Qiancheng is not far to the north of Linji, so it is relatively safe."

"These three cities should be abandoned sons. Cao Cao's garrison is just to delay our army's attack speed, let our army first pull out these three cities, and then attack the first line of defense in Jishui. delay."

Jia Xu nodded slightly, he and Xu An's thoughts coincided with each other.

"There is one more thing that must be reported to Duke Ming."

"The Han army in the three cities of Dongchaoyang, Jianxian, and Zouping drove out the people in the city. At the same time, it is reported that the settlements on the front line of Luoshui were all burned down by the Han army."

"The local tyrants have moved south, but the civilians and common people have stayed."

"There are a lot of people who have lost their places of residence, lack of clothes, starving and freezing."

"The front line has given up the siege and temporarily managed these refugees together, but this is only a stopgap measure."

Xu An narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing the murderous look in his pupils.

In just a moment, he already understood Cao Cao's thoughts.

"What a Cao Aman..."

A hypocrite who brought people across the river, massacred the city and brought down his true temperament.

In history, Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian, attacked more than ten cities, and fought in Pengcheng.Qian's soldiers were defeated and tens of thousands died, and Surabaya did not flow.

Although Cao Cao in this life has undergone considerable changes, he still shows his true colors as a hero.

"He really has a heart like a rock."

In the eyes of Cao Cao, those foreign generals and soldiers are nothing more than consumables.

The reason why these people were left behind was also Cao Cao's strategy.

Although it has always been preached that the Tao of Taiping does all kinds of evil, Cao Cao knows very well that Xu An will never do anything to ordinary people.

Not only will Xu An not do anything to ordinary people, but he will also help them.

He left so many people behind, burned their houses, trampled on their farmland, and took away all their food, in order to make these people a burden to the Ming army and make it difficult for Xu An.

I have to say that Cao Cao was right.

Now Xu An really felt extremely difficult.

If the Ming army was unwilling to resettle these common people, then Cao Cao would blame Xu An for all of this.

If they were left alone, these people would either starve to death in Qingzhou or freeze to death in Qingzhou.

If the Ming army accepted these people, then the hundreds of thousands of people left behind would undoubtedly consume a lot of military food and grass, which would be a huge burden.

And not only that, there is a huge hidden danger.

It is that there are tens of thousands of these people, and there must be a lot of embroidered emissaries mixed in. It will take a lot of manpower and material resources to check and eliminate the ratio, and it may not be successful.

If these tens of thousands of people were to be resettled, the Ming army would need to allocate part of its troops to supervise them.

If those embroidered messengers caused riots among the crowd at a critical moment, they might even bring huge losses and troubles to the Ming army.

These people certainly cannot stay in the south of the Yellow River. If they are to be resettled, they must be resettled in the north of the Yellow River.

And even if they were resettled in Hebei, heating would still be a big problem. These people didn't have any winter clothes at all, and their winter clothes were basically taken away.

If this is really done, the Ming army must divide its troops to resettle the people, and the corresponding front-line troops will inevitably weaken, and the speed of attack will not be guaranteed.

In this way, a lot of time will be wasted, and Cao Cao's strategy will be able to work successfully, further delaying time.

"It seems that Cao Cao is determined to prolong the time, first until winter, and then all the way until next spring."

Xu An knew exactly what Cao Cao was thinking.

"Struggling to death, Han Ting is still not giving up, and can't see the real gap between us."

Compared with the original time and space, the current Han court is much stronger.

The Han court really surprised Xu An.

Sun Jian and Yuan Shu lived in harmony, Yuan Shao became emperor on his own, and Cao Cao became a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

Different from the puppet emperor in the original time and space, the young emperor who was brought out of Luoyang City by Lu Zhi desperately also had his own ideas, and strongly implemented reforms, which revitalized the Han court.

It's just that all this is in vain after all.

Painting a tiger is not an anti-dog.

"Let Yan Gong take care of the resettlement of the refugees temporarily, and hand it over to the wolf guard assistant, and order Zhao Ji to go south. After Zhao Ji arrives in Qingzhou, this matter will be handed over to the wolf guard to supervise the matter."

At the beginning, there were millions of Yellow Turban soldiers in the four prefectures traveling thousands of miles, and the wolf guards handled them properly, but now there are only a few hundred thousand people, it's just a small test.

"The grain stocks in Jizhou and Qingzhou are enough anyway, just to replace old grain with new grain."

Under absolute strength, any conspiracy is just a joke.

After a year of recuperation, there is no shortage of food in Qingzhou and Jizhou.

In this era, the fertile land in the world is actually concentrated in the big states of the Central Plains such as Jizhou and Qingzhou. The degree of development here is far ahead of other border states and counties, and the grain it produces is unimaginable by those border states.

Without aristocratic families exploiting it, farmers directly hand over taxes to the state.

In just one year, the grain and grass income from Jizhou and Qingzhou Pingyuan counties filled the army granary, which was seven or eight times more grain than the original Wei State received in a year.

The reason why it took nearly two years to finally go south after the Battle of Prosperous Sun was because Xu An considered various factors.

In fact, food, grass and soldiers are completely enough, and they can go south at the end of the first year.

However, just because of caution, Xu An chose to completely stabilize the whole of Hebei, conquer the four kingdoms of Liaodong, and completely solve his worries before going south to the Han court.

Although the reform of the Han court was indeed beyond expectations, no matter how the reform of the Han court was, it would be futile after all.

The foundation of the establishment of the Han court lies in the aristocratic family, and the Liu family is actually the largest family in the world.

If you really want to change the law, if you really want to reform, then what kind of law is being changed, and what kind of reform is being reformed?

He can't change his own law, change his own life?

No amount of reformation can change its essence.

The fact that the essence remains unchanged also means that the imitation of the Ming Dynasty's reform by the Han court is actually a dead end.

In this world, there are really only people who are so ignorant that when they are about to perish, they are still hurting their own money bags and their own interests.

In the face of the catastrophe of extinction, it is still ridiculous to think that he will be safe and sound.

"Since Cao Cao made a move, it's not my style not to fight back."

"He regards the three cities of Dongchaoyang, Jian County, and Zouping as so important, and wants to use them as nails to the rear of our army, so that our army will be restrained and time-consuming."

"This time, let them see the gap and defeat their morale in one fell swoop."

"Ling, Zhang Liao and He Man lead a battalion of military soldiers and a battalion of sharp soldiers each. Four thousand Qingzhou soldiers are assigned to thirty catapults at the same time, and they are ordered to attack Dongchaoyang and Jian County respectively."

"Order Zhang Yang and Ma Teng to lead the Bingzhou and Shanggu battalions to the west of Jian County to cover the flanks in case the Linji Han army sends troops to support them."

"promise."

Jia Xu bowed and agreed.

In terms of strategy, he can give advice and guide the trend.

But the grasp of the battlefield situation and the prediction of the direction of the war.

There is no one in this world who can compare to Xu An.

All of this is Xu An's experience gained from countless bloody battles.

Lu Bu established Xianbei in the north, Gongsun Du was powerful in Liaodong, and Guo Tai conquered the Western Regions. His achievements seem to be extremely outstanding.

But their merits and prestige in the army are actually not half of Xu An's combined.

Taiping Dao can develop and grow to the present state, largely because of Xu An.

"How's the situation in the South?"

Xu An did not continue the topic of Dong Chaoyang.

Yan Zhong sits in the east, and Yan Zhong has two battalions of military soldiers, tens of thousands of soldiers and two thousand cavalry from the Xiliang battalion under Yan Zhong's command.

It was the south, which made Xu An feel that something was wrong.

The war in the South was indeed going well.

Xu Huang's journey was like a broken bamboo, and Zhu'a had already been captured, cutting off the way for the Yanzhou army to come to help.

The military forts along Zhu'a and Licheng were also removed, and they are now attacking Licheng.

"General Xu Huang reported that the outer gully has been filled and a gap has been opened in the city wall. Licheng should be breached within two days."

"Duke Ming is worried about problems with General Xu Huang?"

Jia Xu saw the flash of worry in Xu An's eyes.

"General Xu Huang is a prudent man, quite like Zhou Yafu. You can rest assured that he is in charge of the southern war."

"I'm not worried about Xu Huang."

Xu An shook his head, Xu Huang was naturally not worried.

He was worried about Qu Yi, and Qu Yi recommended himself as a pioneer.

Xu An knew very well why Qu Yi wanted to be a pioneer. He must have seen Gongsun Du's performance, and Qu Yi really cared about what he said before.

Qu Yi's ability is beyond doubt, as the number one general under Yuan Shao's command.

Although Gao Lan, Han Meng, Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and others are powerful, they are not comparable to Qu Yi.

Gongsun Zan was also considered a famous general in the North, but he never took advantage of Qu Yi's men.

It's just that Qu Yi is eager to strive for success now, and he is worried that Qu Yi may lose his calm judgment because of this.

"The war in the south is really too smooth. Since the Han court has the ability to build cities like Dongchaoyang and Jian County, and let the refugees slow down our army, there is no reason not to do so in the south."

"To be honest, the situation in the south feels a little bit wrong."

Although he didn't know what was going on in the south, Xu An instinctively felt something was wrong.

Sometimes it is too smooth, but it is abnormal.

"There's something wrong with it."

Jia Xu frowned slightly, now that Xu An mentioned it, he also discovered this problem.

"I wish that such an important place as Ahhe Licheng, Xu Huang was about to take down all of them in just over ten days..."

Xu An narrowed his eyes slightly, he felt as if he had grasped something, but it was not real and difficult to express.

What the Han army wants to do is really elusive.

Could it be that some kind of trap was set up to eat up the southern army?

But this is basically impossible. Let's not talk about whether the Han army can win, but Luoyin is very close to Licheng. If you send cavalry, you can reach Licheng for support in half a day.

So what is the problem?
The various cities in Qingzhou emerged in Xu An's mind one by one, and they were connected together, and the surrounding mountains, rivers and rivers were also displayed one by one.

After countless battles, Xu An only needs to look at things like a map a few times before he can remember them in his mind.

Zhu A, Li Cheng, Tai County, and Dongping Mausoleum passed through Xu An's mind.

Xu An's pupils suddenly dilated, and he thought of the most likely thing to happen.

Xu An suddenly turned his head and said urgently to Jia Xu who was beside him.

"Immediately summon the three cavalry troops of Tengxiangwei, Taipingwei, and Xiaoqiying, as well as the military pawn battalion in the city, and follow me to the south!"

　I can't be decadent anymore, tomorrow must be [-] words, otherwise it will be too tortured.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)