Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 870
Eight hundred miles west of Italy.

The Sui people called it the Hetao of Fengzhoutan, Jiuyuan City in Wuyuan County.

The northernmost end of the straight road built by the Qin Dynasty was here. During the Warring States Period, Zhao State built an important military town here to defend against the Huns. After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, Wuyuan County was established.

When Li Shuliang came back from his camp tour, he found that Yun Dingxing was already waiting in front of Yamen, waiting for him, standing there respectfully.He jumped off the horse, smiled and stepped forward to hold Yun Dingxing's arm, "Marquis Yun came so early, why didn't you go in first?"

Yun Dingxing had a humble expression, "If the county king is not here, how dare I enter first."

"Yunhou, why do we have to talk about these empty etiquette?" Li Shuliang said, and he dragged Yun Dingxing into the yamen. He was named the king of Changping County. Chai Shao went north.Lingwu first defeated Liang Shidu, and then Jiuyuan City forced Yun Dingxing to surrender again.

Chai Shao led 8 troops to continue to meet Jieli, while Li Shuliang led [-] troops to stay in Jiuyuan. He was in charge of the military administration of the entire Hetao area, and was responsible for transporting military equipment, food and grass for Chai Shao.

Li Yuan was very annoyed at Yun Dingxing, a guy with both ends of the head.Before, he waited around and refused to join, and later he got enough official titles before joining, but it didn't take long before he fell to Luo Cheng again.This time the army came, Yun Dingxing voted for Tang again, Li Yuan considered that the current situation is not good.

He didn't dare to punish him severely, but just demoted the title of county king that was originally conferred on him to marquis, and relegated him to Fengzhou governor, as the deputy of Fengzhou governor Li Shuliang.

Li Shuliang dragged Yun Dingxing into the yamen, and sat down in his office.

"Marquis Yun, now Prince Chai is commanding the army to attack Hedong, and the logistics and food are all dependent on us, but I have been visiting and inspecting the following days, and the situation is not optimistic."

Fengzhou Beach is a very good place. There are mountains to shield the wind and sand in the north, and the Yellow River water system, which makes the water and grass here rich and beautiful. Since the Zhao Kingdom took control of this place in the Warring States Period, the Han family has been practicing farming here, and has good agriculture. Basically, there are even irrigation channels developed by the Qin and Han dynasties, but since the Sui Dynasty, this place has also suffered a lot.

Yun Dingxing used to be the father of Yang Yong's favored concubine, the deposed prince of the Sui Dynasty, and he was a very flattering person.After Yang Yong was abolished, he personally poisoned all of Yang Yong's sons, including his nephews.By bribing Yu Wenshu, he successfully voted for Yang Guang.

As Yang Yong's father-in-law, Yun Dingxing actually did very well in the Daye Dynasty, served as a general, and later became the Jiedushi of Hetao.

Although he failed to raise troops to fight for the world during the chaos of the Sui Dynasty, he still had tens of thousands of horses in his hands to separate the northern part of the Great Wall.

"Your Majesty, after all, the population of the Hetao area is still relatively small, and there is a mixture of feudal and Han dynasties here, and the folk customs are more sturdy."

After all, he has stayed here for several years, so Yun Dingxing can be regarded as a local snake in Hetao.

He slowly explained the situation here to Li Shuliang. As far back as the Warring States period, Zhao Guo's army, reformed in Hu clothing, riding and shooting, swept across the frontiers in northern Shanxi, opened up territories, and expelled Lin Hu and Lou Fan to the later The south of Hetao and the area of ​​Shuofang are across the Yellow River.He also expelled the Huns to the area north of Wulashan and confronted them across the mountain.

The Zhao State at that time was so proud that they established Yunzhong County on the land they occupied in Inner Mongolia. In order to guard against the counterattack of the Huns in the north of the mountain against Yunzhong County, they built the Great Wall of Zhao along the Wulashan Mountains.

At the same time, castles for garrison troops and defenses were built on the mountain passes connecting the north of the mountain. The largest mountain pass was Hademengou in later generations. Zhao Guo built a large castle in the south of this mountain pass, namely Jiuyuan City, and Heavy troops were stationed in the city, making it the military center of Zhao State in its northwest.

Since then, in all dynasties, basically this place has been a battleground for the Han family.

During the Qin Dynasty, Qin Zhidao was repaired all the way to Jiuyuan City.

Qin Shihuang sent Meng Tian to lead an army of 30 to attack the Xiongnu. After recovering Hetao, 34 counties were built along the Yellow River, and a new county was established in this vast Hetao area, named Wuyuan County. Zhongjun, which also became one of Qin's 36 counties.

However, because it is too close to the frontier, especially the unique terrain of the Hetao area, where there is abundant water and grass, but to the south is the vast Ordos Loess Plateau, which makes the Hetao area like a Han enclave. When the grassland tribes are strong, It is often occupied by them, and even repeatedly invaded.

"I also know these things. After Sui established the state, he recovered the land of Hetao, established Fengzhou, Lingzhou, etc., and later handed over the land of Qiantao and Dingxiang in the east to Qimin Khan." Li Shuliang needed Yun Dingxing's cooperation required Fengzhou's money and food to supply Chai Shao's troops.

In the Hetao area of ​​Fengzhou, the land on the north bank of the Yellow River is the most affluent, but on the south bank of the Yellow River there are stretches of continuous deserts. Although there are several ancient roads that can pass through Guanzhong, Shuofang and other places, the roads are difficult, and it is even more difficult to transport grain and grass.

Li Shuliang's plan is to build ships in Fengzhou, and then rely on the relatively gentle water surface of the Hetao, use ships to transport grain and grass to Jinhekou on the other side of the Shengzhou River, and then switch to land transportation by horses and horses.Even with a fleet, the fleet can be directly sent to Lingzhou in the future, and the grain and grass from Guan and Long can be transferred from there.

But all of these require the cooperation of Yun Dingxing.

After all, Yun Dingxing has been here for several years, and he brought tens of thousands of people to join him, so he still has great appeal to these generals, not to mention that the local powerful households have a good relationship with him.

He, Li Shuliang, has been alone in the river, and if he wants to do good things, he has to rely on him.

When Chai Shao left, he gave Li Shuliang two tasks.

One is to reorganize Yun Dingxing's soldiers and horses, and reorganize all of them into the 5 Tang army led by him, and form four armies, with a total of [-] horses and [-] troops each.

The second thing is to raise food and grass in the Hetao area to build ordnance transfers for the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

The reorganization of soldiers and horses has almost been completed, and Yun Dingxing is still very cooperative.

With [-] troops, Li Shuliang dispatched one army to be stationed in Lingwu City, Lingzhou, and another army to be stationed at Guozihe, Shengzhou, which returned to Tang Dynasty. Then there were two remaining armies, one in Fengzhou and the other in Fengzhou. Located in Huyan Valley in the middle of Hetao.

Everything is going smooth.

Only the collection and transportation of grain encountered some troubles.

"Temporary shipbuilding takes time and requires craftsmen. I'm afraid it won't be able to catch up. However, Fengzhou is hundreds of miles away from the Yellow River, so there are many fishermen and fishing boats here. You can send people to recruit these fishermen and fishing boats immediately. Let them Assist in the transportation of food and weapons to the east, and at the same time recruit craftsmen and peasants, let them start logging and building ships."

Li Shuliang was very satisfied with his reaction.

"In this way, there will be Marquis Lao Yun. When Chai Fuma invades Taiyuan, we don't have to work hard to transport food and grass from here, and he can supply it on the spot."

Li Shuliang smiled and said, "Your Majesty's merits will be given to the imperial court. After this battle, I believe His Majesty will call you back to Beijing and grant you the title of prince and minister."

(End of this chapter)