I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 255, Bronze Cannon, Liu Yu's Ally

Xi Zhong said: "It must be Lei Gong who will take over the world of the Great Han. The only big man who can fight against Lei Gong has already been split. Now it is Dong Zhuo who suppresses other forces with force. As long as Lei Gong severely injures Dong Zhuo, the world will definitely fall apart, and a torn apart It is impossible for a big man to defeat Lei Gong!"

Although Guo Jia also thought of this, he said helplessly: "It's a pity that we don't have a place in the Tengjia Army, not to mention the aristocratic families, and there are not even poor ones. The Lei Gong who established these systems is very powerful, but I don't care. Optimistic about the future of the Tengjia Army, the administration is too radical, and too many new policies mean that there is no place to learn from, and it is easy to die like the Great Qin established by the first emperor."

"Besides, all the nobles in the world are Lei Gong's opponents. The enemy Lei Gong faces is too powerful. Just like now, the big man attacked the Tengjia Army several times, because the powerful clans in the world have felt the threat of the Tengjia Army and started Take the initiative to attack the Rattan Armor Army."

"But Lei Gong can rely on the common people, but the common people are so ignorant that it is difficult to become a great weapon. However, this system of the Tengjia Army requires more than ten times more talents than the big men. It is a bit like the former Qin Dynasty. Talents The gap will limit the development of the Fujiko Army, although the Fujiko Army is invincible, but I am not optimistic about the future of the Fujiko Army!"

To be honest, Guo Jia went all the way north to Mayi, and encountered too many things that surprised him, but what surprised him the most was that all of Lei Gong's establishment did not have the figures of powerful families, and even the children of poor families Can't see a few.

The officials of the entire Fujika Army are actually soldiers, and they are composed of Li Tian, ​​who was born as a farmer. This is actually a world without aristocrats!Such a world has never been heard or seen, and Guo Jia was a little scared in his heart, and felt that the Tengjia Army would collapse sooner or later if they did this!
But Xi Zhong pointed to Xu Wei, who was harvesting grain not far away, and said: "As a lord, you can help the people harvest grain with peace of mind. Such a monarch is only like the legend of Yao and Shun! We have also seen the Tengjia Army along the way." The officials in the field are helping to harvest in the field, such a situation of unity of one mind can be seen in the big man!
Feng Xiao was also blinded by his own knowledge. Whoever governs the world stipulates that scholars must be scholars, and they must all have Confucian classics. It was managed very well by the Rattan Armor Army! "

Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "The future of the Tengjia Army depends on this battle. If Lei Gong can defeat Huangfusong and take Youzhou, the Tengjia Army will become a flying dragon in the sky. It will be difficult for a big man to stop the Tengjia Army However, if the Tengjia Army is defeated and loses the struvite in Youzhou, the Tengjia Army will definitely have a food crisis. If you take the chance, the Fujiko Army might be able to fight, and it will never recover!"

Guo Jia and the others came to Bingzhou. Although they found that Bingzhou was governed by the Tengjia Army, the government was smooth and the people were harmonious, but they could also perceive the food crisis. The food they ate here was more than twice as expensive as that in Luoyang City.

They thought that the food price of the Fujia Army would be very high. After all, they also knew that the Fujia Army received millions of refugees, and they understood that the price of food was higher, but they did not expect that the price of food here could be regarded as the lowest in the entire Han Dynasty. Yes, a stone of grain only costs more than 100 yuan!

But later they learned that the trading of grain in the Tengjia Army is restricted, and no one can take Bingzhou's grain out of the territory of the Tengjia Army. Anyone who finds out will be severely punished.And the territory that brings grain to the Tengjia Army will be bought by the Tengjia Army at a high price.

If you want to buy food, you can only go to the grain store designated by the Fujia Army, and you need food stamps. Everyone consumes a fixed amount of food every month. Outsiders like them can only eat some high-priced food. Guo Jia In conversion, the food they eat is almost five times the price of the local people. No wonder they feel that the price of food here in the Tengjia Army is more expensive than in Luoyang City!

Guo Jia found that although this system can ensure the stability of the operation of the Tengjia Army's territory, this management system is extremely complicated. The big man can't distribute food according to the population. If such a thing happens, even Luoyang City will A large number of people starved to death, but the powerful and noble families were not affected.

However, the Tengjia Army has maintained this system for more than two years. Under the leadership of the top leaders of the Tengjia Army, there have been no major problems. But so be it!Then he discovered that many of the systems of the Tengjia Army were the same as those of the Tyrant Qin, so he had a premonition that the system of the Tengjia Army would be difficult to maintain.After all, Tyranny has hundreds of years of history, but Lei Gong has nothing!

Xi Zhong said with a smile: "How about we wait and see in Mayi to see whether this battle is won by Huangfu Song or Lei Gong. This battle should not last long, and the temperature in the North should cool down after the autumn harvest." After one month, if the Tengjia army can no longer break through any of the three nodes of Daijun, Juyongguan and Yuyang City, it will snow in Youzhou, and Lei Gong will have to withdraw his troops. As long as Lei Gong withdraws his troops, it will definitely affect The follow-up development of the Rattan Armor Army. Let me first say that I am optimistic that Lei Gong will break through Youzhou's defense line within this month!"

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Huangfu Song is the number one general in the Han Dynasty. He only defends for a month. I don't believe he can't handle Lei Gong's attack for a month!"

Xu Wei is still working hard to harvest the wheat, but he doesn't know that two people not far away are betting on the fate of the Tengjia Army!
With the attention of the entire Fujika Army, the wheat harvest in Bingzhou was twice as fast as in previous years!After the autumn harvest was completed, a large number of young and strong men of the Fujika Army were liberated, and the counties under the control of the Fujika Army began to mobilize soldiers continuously. Under the leadership of Sima, the school lieutenant, they went to various battlefields one after another!

Xu Wei took the heavy cavalry of the Tengjia Army, the Modao Battalion and 1 infantry to the Youzhou battlefield. In order to end this war as soon as possible and let the Tengjia Army completely occupy the entire Youzhou, Xu Wei took him all these years The accumulated 1 catties of black powder also made the old man Niu start to study artillery. Such a large-scale use of black powder will definitely spread. He can only upgrade firearms to create artillery!
And primitive cannons are not too difficult. Making the simplest bronze cannon is even easier than making Modao iron armor. After all, Chinese civilization has a history of thousands of years of playing with bronze!

The only trouble is that this thing is more expensive, a five baht coin looks like 3-4 grams, and casting a bronze cannon that can fire 4 catties of shells consumes about 600 catties of bronze, a cannon is not artificial Bronze worth nearly 15 yuan is consumed, and if other expenses are added, the ex-factory price of each artillery is [-] yuan, which can be regarded as the most expensive weapon of the Tengjia Army.Of course, it is still difficult for these artillery to catch up with this war. When Xu Wei attacks Jizhou, he can use these artillery to knock on the gate of Jizhou city little by little!

On the solid wooden rails in Mayi, wooden rail carriages transported carts of freshly ground wheat flour, and these transport ships meandered towards Youzhou!

In order to support this war, after the end of the autumn harvest, Zhang Baiqi recruited 1 civil servants and started laying the track from Pingcheng County to Handan Mountain with various tools and sleepers, because a large number of people helped this track every day Go forward at 2 miles!

When there are no wooden rails, heavy horse-drawn carts are used to transport these grains and supplies. Hundreds of heavy-duty horse-drawn carts or ox carts form a huge long queue. These are the folks who transport grain to Youzhou.

And when Xu Wei's army passed by these civilian husbands, the civilian husbands all looked at these soldiers who were about to step into the battlefield with envy!
After Xu Wei led the troops to the expedition, the herdsmen in the entire northern grassland were extremely excited. It is such an honor to be able to fight with Lei Gong and Qu Shuai, and to make contributions in front of Qu Shuai!
These herdsmen took out their homes to fight one after another, mounted their war horses, and chased after them with some food. The entire desert mountains and rivers, the rich grasslands, the herdsmen rode horses and galloped to follow Lei Gong's army.

For the herdsmen who have just joined the Tengjia Army, it is too troublesome to work hard to get rich. Their three views are still in the era of the Xianbei people. They like to use their own swords to bring wealth to themselves, and cut off the enemy's head on the battlefield. Prove your bravery, this is already engraved in the blood of the herdsmen!

So now Lei Gong, who is famous on the grassland, is worrying to see his team getting longer and longer. You must know that the larger the army, the greater the consumption of food and grass, and these herdsmen are all newly conquered. To use an old saying It's untamed.

They are good at fighting, but they are also loose. You must know that he is attacking the territory of the big man this time. With the habits of these barbarians, Xu Wei is not surprised that they came to massacre the city. Originally, there were herdsmen in Sun Qing's army There are quite a few, and now adding these more than half of his army, it is difficult for Xu Wei to control them, he does not want his reputation of the Tengjia Army to be ruined by them!
After thinking for a while, Xu Wei found Liu Hu and said, "You take the soldiers from the heavy cavalry battalion to reorganize these herdsmen who have taken refuge in us. During this period, you must let them understand the military regulations and discipline of our Tengjia Army. You must know that Youzhou will be our Tengjia Army in the future." I don’t want herdsmen to massacre the people of Youzhou. Now all your heavy cavalry battalions have become military supervisors. Supervise them and don’t let them make mistakes! Do you understand?”

Liu Hu firmly said: "Understood, my subordinates must give them the military regulations and disciplines of our Tengjia Army every day. If anyone among them dares to violate the military regulations and military disciplines, the subordinates will definitely punish them severely!"

There are about 5 herdsmen who come here with Xu Wei. Liu Hu manages ten supervising troops all at the first level, so there should be no major problems.

In this way, Xu Wei marched all the way through Khantan Mountain and met Duan Peng's reinforcements at this time!

He brought bad news to Xu Wei. Mijia, the Lord of the Xianbei in the east, saw the Tengjia army attacking Youzhou. Maybe he wanted to fish in troubled waters or was worried that his lips and teeth would be cold. He led 3 Xianbei cavalry to harass the Tengjia army continuously. Grain road on the grassland.

Although Duan Peng has 3 cavalry, he should be stronger than the Xianbei people in terms of combat effectiveness, but Duan Peng wants to protect the thousands of miles of transportation lines, and the soldiers are scattered. Facing the harassment and guerrilla warfare of the Xianbei people, he is a bit powerless. Duan Peng Peng wanted to fight the Xianbei people, but Mijia didn't want to. What he wanted was to cut off the food road of the Tengjia army.Duan Peng, who couldn't find Mijia's main force, could only ask Xu Wei for help.

Xu Wei thought for a while and asked Liu Hu to lead 5 cavalry to support Duan Peng, and asked Liu Hu to bring Mijia's head. The territory occupied by Mijia was close to the three eastern provinces, which was the granary of the Celestial Dynasty. Naturally, such a treasure land would not be let go, and now that Mijia is seeking his own death, Xu Wei simply destroyed him first, completely wiped out the Xianbei people on the grassland, and made Xianbei a history!
But what Xu Wei didn't expect was that shortly after Duan Peng asked for help, even Sun Qing began to ask him for help, saying that there were insufficient troops to conquer Juyongguan!It seems that Xu Wei came to support Juyongguan. There are 6 troops in the direction of Yuyang City. He is not worried that Huangfusong can defeat this kind of army.

On the contrary, there are fewer soldiers in the direction of Juyongguan. Originally, there were 3000 soldiers in Juyongguan. Yan Rou brought 1 Youzhou troops, and Gongsun Zan brought more than 1000 white horse followers. Sun Qing only has twice the advantage. It should be difficult to conquer Juyongguan. .

Xu Wei simply brought the army to Juyongguan, and Sun Qing brought people to meet Xu Wei early!
Xu Wei glanced at Juyong not far away and said, "How is the battle going? Is the defenders at Juyongguan resisting fiercely?"

Sun Qing smiled bitterly and said: "Shuai Qu, my subordinates have rarely attacked Juyongguan during this time. The Karasuma people in Shanggu County are like crazy, attacking our Tengjia army everywhere. Most of my army is used to suppress the Karasuma people's rebellion. It's up! Now there are less than 1 soldiers in this camp!"

Xu Wei said solemnly: "It seems that Liu Yu has also begun to mobilize the power of his allies to fight back!"

Liu Yu had a good relationship with the Karasuma people and Xianbei people in Youzhou, especially under the oppression of the Tengjia Army in these years, he became an ally. Now he is attacking Youzhou, especially for the Karasuma people. It is also their homeland, and they don't find it strange that they rebel against Xu Wei. As long as the Tengjia Army does not change the policy of dividing cattle, sheep and pastures, it is impossible for these barbarian leaders to join the Tengjia Army.
Of course, Xu Wei didn't want them to join him. He wanted cattle and sheep, pastures, and their herdsmen. As for these chieftains, Xu Wei felt that hanging them was the best way to resolve the dispute over the grassland!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "You lead your troops to encircle and suppress the entire Karasuma people. You must act in accordance with our policies. You must clearly distinguish who is our enemy and who is our friend. Although our policy cannot get the Karasuma head People like it, but the Karasuma people at the bottom welcome us very much, so we need to win over the Karasuma people at the bottom to explain our policies to them, and they will help us eliminate this small number of Karasuma leader reactionary forces. This important point, the Karasuma people are not difficult to deal with, and Juyongguan will be left to me to conquer!"

(End of this chapter)