Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1517 Inline
"Your Highness, this is the place where Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in history." On the south bank of Lushui, Ren Yuan, a former officer in the Hedong army and Li Sizhao's aide, introduced.

"Oh? Really?" Shao Mingyi was familiar with history books, so of course he knew about it, but he deliberately pretended to be surprised and asked.

Their location at this time is already in the territory of Tang Yaozhou, or the jurisdiction of Nanzhao Nongdong Jiedushi. During the Tianbao period, many Han people immigrated, but during the Nanzhao period, most of them moved to Lishui and Yongchang. Go to Yinsheng Town.Instead, there are tribes that I don’t know where they came from—Nanzhao also likes to carry out large-scale migrations of ethnic groups. They always threaten with force to remove the local aborigines, and then move the tribes from other places.

Knowing about this matter, Shao Mingyi always felt that these tribal people were too easy to talk to.His father moved the people of Weibo to Qingtang. I don't know how many turmoil happened. The ancestral grave of Liang Huaijin, who presided over this matter, was dug up.

"It's absolutely true." Ren Huan has good abilities, but he is very concerned about other people's evaluation of him. He likes to argue when encountering things, but Shao Mingyi is relatively easy-going. Their shortcomings, so they are more tolerant of Ren Yuan.

Besides, Ren Huan is from Sanyuan County in Guanzhong, which is a lot of extra points in the age of talking about his birth.

"Since taking the order, Suye has lamented, fearing that the entrustment will not work and hurt the emperor's sagacity, so he crossed Lu in May and went deep into the barren..." Shao Mingyi looked at the villages and farmlands that could be seen everywhere, and said with emotion: "When Zhuge Liang crossed Lu, The south of Lushui is still a barren land. Today, the development here has achieved little results, and the vicissitudes of the sea have changed a lot for hundreds of years."

They are located at the ferry on the other side of Lujin Pass.

Lujin Pass is on the north bank, located in Tianbao.After the fall of Yaozhou, the Jinsha River became the first line of danger to Nanzhao, so the Guancheng was set up in the old place where Marquis Wu crossed the river.

Shao Mingyi and his party crossed the river on a cowhide raft. After landing, they found that this is a rare and relatively flat area.According to the scouts, further south were Qibu County of Mizhou (now along the Yuanmou River) and Moyu County (now the old city of Yuanmou), which were established during the Zhenguan period.

This area is actually a rare Bazi area (mountain plain) in Yunnan in later generations.After Nanzhao took control of this place, the aborigines dispersed long ago, and now the people living here are Wuman and Baiman.Their level of civilization is not low, they are good at growing rice and beans, and their economic strength is not bad.

However, now it seems that there is something——

Shao Mingyi asked someone to bring the horse, turned over and rode on it, and turned around.

There are still people in the village, but their expressions are panicked, and they look at them strangely, with both hatred and fear.

If Shao Mingyi realized something, he would be even more certain when he saw the unburied corpse.

"Your Highness, Yizhou is poor, and the Governor's Office of Huichuan tried its best, but it was unable to supply the entire army. Mr. Li went south, so he had to raise food on the spot..." Ren Huan also came over and explained.

"I understand." Shao Mingyi nodded.

"Raising food" is a neutral word. Anyone who has fought in the war knows how many unexplained meanings there are besides this word.

If the common people are willing to hand over the food obediently, there will be no problem, and there will not be many killings.Otherwise, when the Central Plains went to war, the looting soldiers went away, and they didn't 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, most of the soldiers and horses going south will collect food and grass from the dead. The more the better, it is easy to rob the people of the food in their hands.

They don't care about the life and death of the people, especially if they are the people of the enemy country.

Back then, Xianyu Zhongtong led [-] Tang troops to Erhai Lake, burning, killing and looting, but he made a mess of Ge Luofeng, who had just established a country, so much so that he won the battle and his own territory was ruined all over again.

Xianyu Zhongtong didn't have the ability to transport grain from Jiannan to Erhai Lake, and the current Xia army didn't have the ability either.Or is it necessary to make the people of Jiannan suffer so much if they have this ability?
This is not Henan or Hebei, with canal support.

Nor is it the northern grasslands, where there are military rations that can walk.

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

Kuang Li and Ya are dilapidated, and they don’t have much wealth. At least you have to transfer food and grass from Qiongzhou and Chengdu, and the cost is even higher. I don’t know how many people will be ruined and their families will be ruined, which will cause turmoil in Jiannan.

Sometimes, it's just a choice.

Are you harming the people of your own country, or the people of the enemy country?Li Tangbin chose the latter.

"Send someone to comfort the people. If there are hungry people, some dry food will be rewarded." Shao Mingyi ordered.

"Obey." Ren Huan immediately ordered his followers to handle it.

He knew it was just a show.

The food they carry is limited, how many people can they help?It is not certain whether people will appreciate it or not.King Yan is willing to put on a show, so let's do it with him.It is better to be a protagonist who is willing to put on a show than to be unwilling to pretend at all. Ren Huan is still very satisfied.

"People who have received dry food, let them restrain the unowned corpses, don't expose them to the wilderness, which will easily cause plague." Shao Mingyi said again.

Ren Yuan: "..."

It was carved out of the same mold as Shao Sheng!Having to work after eating is really not a waste of money.

"Yes." Ren Huan sent someone to chase after him and ordered.

Shao Mingyi continued to ride forward.

The time for the army to go south was just right. At the end of July and the beginning of August, the rice harvest season was already approaching.Looking at the bareness of the field, it seems that the harvest has been completed-that is, it has changed hands, and most of them are now in Li Tangbin's army.

Moreover, there seems to be no Sichuan fever here, which makes him feel a little comfortable—relatively speaking.

According to my father, it seems to be related to "altitude".Great summer is high in the west and low in the east, and places with high altitudes, even in the south, are not so hot.

Go further south and see if there is a cooler place.If Nanzhao is like this, then it is not impossible to live here, at least it is much more comfortable than Wuguan's hot and humid area.

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"Get rich! Get rich!" The sergeants swarmed up and opened the big warehouse, and the dié jibe piled up inside blinded everyone's eyes.

Jibei, the name of cotton in the Tang Dynasty.

氎, fine wool cloth or fine cotton cloth, also called "fine silk".

It's actually muslin.

This thing is very valuable in the Central Plains, and the rare thing is the most expensive thing, it is several times the price of silk.

A small school arrested Nanman officials, and after questioning, they learned that there were at least 15 bolts of cloth stored in the warehouse in Nongdong City (Yao'an).

"Unexpectedly, Nanman likes to weave this thing." Wang Jiao was also shocked when he heard the report.

Of course, he has a bit of economic common sense, and knows that the price will plummet if so much cloth floods into the Central Plains at once, but——it’s still very profitable.

In addition to the silk cloth, there are [-] to [-] bolts of silkworm silk, but the value is unknown.

Yang Zhao, who was beside him, turned a deaf ear to the word "Nanman" and said with a flattering smile: "General Wang does not know that Nongdong City is the former Yaozhou of the Tang Dynasty. Come to the common people, these people love to grow jibei, and like to weave cloth. Even the dragon robe of the Nanzhao king is made of this material."

"It's because I'm ignorant." Wang Jiao said.

In his impression, the Western Regions also love to grow this species.Among the tribute gifts from Khotan, there are many Baiji.

There seems to be a part of it planted in Dunhuang, and it has a long history of planting, but the scale is very small, similar to the Jibei Garden at Sinong Temple in Lingzhou.

This kind of thing is being grown around the co-author Daxia, but Daxia only has such a small field in Lingzhou to grow jibei.He suspects that the barbarian's weaving technology has far surpassed Daxia's, after all, they have been doing it for hundreds of years.

"All the seized property will be recorded and put under unified custody. Anyone who dares to stretch out his hand without authorization will be cut without pardon." Wang Jiao called his generals and told him to go down immediately to deliver the order.

The army has its own rules, and the loot is distributed uniformly, otherwise wouldn't it be a mess?Who is willing to fight to the death under the burden of looting?
The general will immediately go to deliver the order.

Wang Jiao thought about what to do next.

He led an army to break through Nongdong City, beheaded 3000 people and captured [-] people.

As an important city connecting the two capitals, it was defeated without a fierce battle, which made him feel unreal.However, considering that the main force of Nanzhao has been destroyed, this is reasonable.

Just look at the captives.There are a lot of old people in their 50s and [-]s, 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 quite a few younger people, but most of them are farmers and city people who have been pulled up temporarily, and their combat effectiveness is hard to describe. Anyway, they were the first to collapse.

Nanban, it is true that the fuel is exhausted, at least in the jurisdiction of Nongdong Jiedushi.

"General Yang, you are a local, how do you think you should march in?" Wang Jiao pulled Yang Zhao to sit down and humbly asked for advice.

Whether there are locals leading the way, the effect is definitely different.

As a vanguard envoy, he crossed the river with more than 170 soldiers and horses. Under the leadership of hundreds of soldiers in Huichuan Dudufu under the leadership of Yang Zhao, he ran for [-] miles through Mozha Pavilion, Jiapi Pavilion, and Qingqupu. Flying over the rope bridge, marching at night, iron cavalry raided Yangbao Pavilion, killed thousands of thieves, and then crossed the mountains to break through Nongdong City.

The whole journey was three hundred and seventy-eight miles, and it took less than ten days to fight and go.After careful calculation, it was faster than normal marching, which almost made people mistakenly think that they were not fighting in the enemy's territory, but outing in their own territory.

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

No one persuaded him to surrender, it couldn't be so easy.

No one has pointed out where there is money, food and supplies. I am afraid that I am still wasting time looking for supplies.

The contributions of brothers Yang Qianzhen and Yang Zhao are actually not small.

"General, according to the news from the scouts, the false emperor Zheng Renmin has just fled back to Dali, and he is gathering troops, intending to resist. The general thought, don't give him a chance to breathe, he should chase all the way, and defeat him in one battle." Yang Zhao said.

In other words, Zheng Renmin is really unlucky.Crossing Lushui in mid-July, I thought that Huichuan Dudufu would make Xia people suffer for a long time, but after thinking about it for a few days, the Yang brothers actually surrendered the whole city.Then the situation became unmanageable. Xia Jun's vanguard crossed the river and chased him all the way. He was so scared that he didn't dare to stay in Nongdong City. After hastily appointing the city envoy, he rushed to Dali.

But the envoy he appointed did not buy much time.The buildings are empty, and the soldiers and horses are not good at fighting. Wang Jiao was able to defeat him in a single battle, and he was about to pursue him again.

In his entire life, he had never traveled so fast.I couldn't eat well, I couldn't sleep well, I lost my helmet and armor all the way, I was frightened, and I didn't even have time to stop to gather officials and organize resistance, and I was chased all the way by my ass.

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

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

Sometimes when he gets annoyed, he wants to question the Xia general who is chasing him loudly, dare to stop, give me a month to rectify, and then fight again?

Now he seems to be finally able to catch his breath, but he is already in the capital.Being chased to the capital city, what a damn!
After chasing me for one or two thousand miles, are you still human?

"How do we go? Don't look at us chasing so fiercely, but there are dangers everywhere." Wang Jiao said.

Chasing after your ass means you give up the flanks of the battle line.

The Jianchuan Jiedu envoy of Nanban can attack Huichuan Dudufu from west to east and cut off the Xia army's retreat.

The Kunming tribe can march from east to west, with the Xia army on its back—if they are still obedient.

Shanchan Mansion, as Tokyo, even if it recruited troops to the north and sent them away in the First World War, there were still some troops left behind. It would be troublesome for them to attack from the southeast.

Yinsheng Jiedushi can attack from south to north.

Wang Jiao is now chasing in the enemy's belly. The reason why he hasn't encountered any trouble is because he came too fast and the enemy hasn't reacted yet.

If it is delayed for a long time, it is possible to fall into the quagmire, and Zheng Renmin can breathe a sigh of relief.

Soldiers and horses from border towns such as Yongchang, Lishui, Yinsheng, and Jianchuan will also gather one after another, and the meaning of surprise raids will be lost at that time—especially Yongchang Town, where I heard that "cities face each other", There is a large population, but this time because it was too far away, no troops were sent here.

"General, if you are brave enough, go straight to Dali." Yang Zhao urged, "My brother has already gone to Xi'er River, so we can call [-] tribal soldiers to come to help, or there may be a chance."

"Where are the other big clans?" Wang Jiao asked, "The matter has come to this, haven't they abandoned the Zheng family?"

Wang Jiao knew how to fight political battles. He knew that if Duan, Gao, Dong, Zhao and other big families could abandon Zheng Renmin, then there would be a great chance of destroying the Nanman.Otherwise, the war will be delayed for a long time.

"General, if you want them to abandon the Zheng family, you have to add more fire, you have to come to the city, right?" Yang Zhao said.

"That's right." Wang Jiao patted the table and said, "Tomorrow, we will send troops to Mi Dang to kill Xi'er River."

(End of this chapter)