Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 617
In Pengcheng, Zhang Duanyang looked at the newly trained refugee army, and his heart was full of pride.

These new troops were not the results of his training alone, but an elite group of brave fighters trained under Longyou's military training system.

However, the biggest reason why this new army can have combat effectiveness is the saying of Mencius, "Those who have permanent property have perseverance."

Zhang Duanyang recruited refugees and allowed them to open up wasteland in the mountains north of Pengcheng, and granted title deeds to the land they opened up, and recognized the land they opened up.

In addition, the treatment of the refugee army is much better than when they were refugees.

Not only can you eat rice every month in the military camp, but your monthly salary can also support a family.

Zhechong Mansion also has an elimination mechanism. If they fail to complete the training tasks, they will be sent home by the army. The soldiers of the new army who have already established a sense of honor are naturally unwilling to lag behind others.

Some keen soldiers have already felt that joining the army is their chance to change their destiny.

In the era where the player lives, warlords are synonymous with backwardness and barbarism, and military intervention in politics is cast aside by civilized society.

But in the old days, soldiers were synonymous with progress.

The army is a large organization, and if it wants to implement complex tactics, it must carry out literacy education, especially the new army trained in Longyou Zhechong Mansion, who have to take literacy courses every day.

In the era when the literacy rate was very impressive in the Tang Dynasty, there were not many opportunities for ordinary farmers to become literate.

Therefore, during a period of our country's development, cadres transferred from the military used to be the main force of the cadre team, and they also played a huge role in the development of the country.

In many countries that are far inferior to ours, the military can be said to be a small number of progressive forces.

Although the training time for the Pengcheng New Army was less than two months, they were refugees from the south of Henan Province. Naturally, they knew that life was hard-won, so they trained more attentively.

While Zhang Duanyang was still training the new army, he received information from the inner guard players near Luoyang that An Qingxu's main force gave up the siege of Luoyang and did not attack Tongguan. Coming from the direction of Pengcheng.

Zhang Duanyang was also very surprised. He was going to fight An Qingxu after training the new army for three months, but he didn't expect him to come here on his own initiative?
This professor, who has been weak all his life, suddenly has great pride. Since you are sure, then you should treat him well!
Have friends come from afar!

Zhang Duanyang sent a letter to the internal guard players along the way, asking them to monitor the movements of An Qingxu's army, and at the same time began to pull the new army up the mountain for a simulated training, preparing to intercept An Qingxu's army coming east.

Tongguan, Guo Ziyi, who was notified by Zhang Xun and learned that An Qingxu's army had gone east, didn't have any happy expression on his face. He looked at the east with a sad face.

Li Guangbi, who fled back to Tongguan from Xiangzhou, stood behind Guo Ziyi, and the old partner asked Guo Ziyi:
"Guo Shuai, it's probably not a blessing from the Tang Dynasty that Bandit An abandoned Tongguan."

Generals with a little knowledge can see that if An Qingxu flows into Jiangdong, it will be a disaster for the Tang court.

Although Huainan Jiedushi Gao Shi was famous for his poems, he was not a general. It was easy to put down Yongwang's rebellion, but it was not easy to stop An Qingxu's army.

If An Qingxu is really allowed to invade Jiangdong and rule Jiangdong separately, the situation in the world will be even more difficult that day.

Guo Ziyi was worried, but he had nothing to do now.

The new soldiers recruited by the imperial court can only defend the city. If they want to send these people out of the city to fight, they will collapse within a hundred miles.

Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, the emperor and the court would never let Guo Ziyi leave Tongguan to pursue An Qingxu.

Luoyang was also short of major generals, so he could only watch An Qingxu go east.

What worries Guo Ziyi even more is that An Qingxu's retreat does not mean that Tongguan and Luoyang are safe.

You must know that there is a historian father and son behind An Qingxu!

Although the Hedong soldiers in Shi Siming's hands are not as elite as when Anlu Mountain was in its heyday, they are also well-trained veterans.

Guo Ziyi himself could say to Li Guangbi: "The current plan is to train troops in Tongguan!"

When the news reached Chang'an, the people of Chang'an just cheered that the siege of Tongguan was relieved, but the grain sent to Chang'an was getting less and less, and the price of rice on the market was getting higher and higher.

The insightful people in the court were also worried, and the emperor issued several orders in succession, from the water transport down the river, and notified the banks of the Bian River to strictly guard against death.

Of course, the most important order was to be promoted to Huainan Jiedushi Gao Shi as Jiedushi of the Four Towns in the South of the Yangtze River.

The four towns in the south of the Yangtze River refer to West Zhejiang (Zhenjiang), East Zhejiang (Shaoxing), Xuanshe (Xuancheng), and Huainan (Yangzhou). The Jiangnan area collectively referred to by the Tang Dynasty.

For this appointment, it can be said that there is no one in the past. It must be known that Anlu Mountain was favored by the emperor back then, and it was only the envoy of the three towns.

These four towns in the south of the Yangtze River are the most prosperous and rich areas in the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court actually handed them over to Gao Shi!You must know that Huainan was controlled by Gao Shi before, but now that three towns have been added, it can be said that the imperial court handed over the entire Jiangnan to Gao Shi.

In addition, the imperial court also ordered Jiangxi (government Nanchang), Eyue (government Wuhan), Fujian (government Fuzhou), Hunan (government Changsha) to start recruiting soldiers, and all newly recruited soldiers gathered in Yangzhou. In order to suppress the navy, all of them were handed over to Gao Shi for control.

You must know that even during the most violent period of the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court did not recruit troops to fight in the Central Plains in the four southeast provinces. This time, the Tang Dynasty can be said to have spent a lot of money.

Jingzhou City has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, but during the Tang Dynasty, Jingzhou was regarded as the rear of the imperial court.

However, because of Jingzhou's important status, the imperial court also set up Jingzhou troops to garrison Jingzhou.

The Jingzhou Army is mainly a naval division, with a staff of 5000 and [-] naval divisions. It is an important force guarding the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the person in charge of the Jingzhou Army was a middle-aged man. This man from Jingzhao, who defected to the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu Envoy after the Anshi Rebellion, was highly regarded by the Shannan Jiedu Envoy in less than three years and was appointed as the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu Mansion. Judge, envoy of Jingzhou army.

At this time, this slightly cultured middle-aged man was putting on his armor and preparing to order troops.

"Brother Taichong!"

A man dressed as a Confucian scholar rushed into the room, only to see the middle-aged man in armor and asked:
"Brother Taichong is going on an expedition?"

The middle-aged man smiled wryly and said: "I promised brother Runlian that the picture of five bulls will not be finished until I return from the expedition."

Unexpectedly, the Confucian scholar laughed and said, "Brother Taichong, I have also received an order from the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion. The Jiedu Envoy appointed me to be the envoy of grain and grass transfer for the Jingzhou army. I will go south to Yangzhou with you."

The middle-aged man grabbed the Confucian scholar and said, "Great! With brother Runlian helping me prepare food and grass, Han Huang will surely make great achievements in Yangzhou!"

The person Han Huang called Brother Runlian was Xu Jie, the magistrate of Jingkou County. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Zhide, and he was also one of the seventeen players who rushed from Longyou to Chang'an for the exam.

Runlian was the name Xu Jie gave himself. After the imperial examination, Xu Jie himself was originally from Hubei, so when he was selecting officials in the Ministry of Officials, he chose Jingkou County, where no one wanted to go, to be the county magistrate.

Jingkou, the county seat of Jingzhou, now belongs to the South East Road of Datang Mountain.

Jingzhou, which was a strategic location during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, lost its important strategic position after the end of the North-South confrontation, but it is still the water and land hub in the central and southern part of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Shannan Dongdao has very little say in Datang.

The ruling group of the Tang Dynasty is the Guanlong nobles, and the foundation is naturally Guanzhong.

The common people of Luoyang, which arose during the Wu and Zhou Dynasties, also raised the status of Henan Province in the Tang Dynasty. The people in Guanzhong and Gyeonggi were the first class, similar to the residents of today's first-tier cities, and they also enjoyed huge advantages in the imperial examinations. tilt.

Jiangnan is rich and prosperous. As finances become more and more dependent on Jiangnan, the status of Jiangnan gentry has also risen, and foreign officials also choose to go to Jiangnan with a pleasant climate. Jiangnan is considered the second-class person in Datang.

In places like Shannan Dongdao, the summer is sweltering, and there are still barbarians in the Jingchu area at this time. It is a small transparent area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, and there is no sense of existence in the imperial examinations.

The former Jingzhou Scholars Group has long been wiped out in the troubled times. Xu Jie chose to come to Jingzhou to be an official, and the imperial court specially awarded him a county magistrate of Zhong County.

And this middle-aged man in armor is named Han Huang. He was originally from Jingzhao, but he failed in the imperial examinations many times. He served as the magistrate of the Jingzhou army and guarded the strategically important Jingzhou.

Han Huang dispatched troops at the school site, and then led the soldiers to board the navy ship, preparing to go down the Yangtze River to support Yangzhou.

Han Huang also knew Xu Jie's ability, so he entrusted him with all the affairs of the Jingzhou Army's logistics and transshipment, and Xu Jie also made all the preparations, and the rewards and punishments were clearly defined. Watching at the pier.

Gao Shi received the envoy of the four towns from the imperial court, and after hastily held the inauguration ceremony in the Huainan Jiedu mansion, he also quickly ordered the mobilization of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River.

An Qingxu marched eastward all the way. When there was not enough food and grass, he attacked the cities along the Bian River. After robbing the food, he continued eastward.

From the information sent along the way, An Qingxu's goal is also obvious, which is Pengcheng, the Jianghuai gateway!
At this time, Gao Shi couldn't care about spring plowing anymore, and a large number of young and strong people were drawn from the fields to the army. Yuan Zai, the Jiangnan salt and iron envoy, even used the Jianghuai water network to transport a large amount of materials to Pengcheng.

And the court soon received a new news that Shi Siming had gone south!
(End of this chapter)